Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Wirt

He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.

Dan Ravicher

The patent office's decision has no preclusive effect on a court, and there are indeed cases where the patent office made a decision in a re-examination supporting a patent and a court later looked at the same exact issue, disagreed with the PTO, and found the patent invalid.

David Kay

And like I say, I think we've got other cases other than Iraq. I do not think the problem of global proliferation of weapons technology of mass destruction is going to go away, and that's why I think it is an urgent issue.

Fatou Bensouda

We say that the ICC is targeting Africans, but all of the victims in our cases in Africa are African victims.

John Hopkins

What we have shown here is the vast majority of those cases are preventable,

Mike Birbiglia

You don't really see sleepwalking in films that often. It's weird; I feel like in popular culture we have the perception of sitcom, arms-in-front-of-your-body sleepwalking, and then maybe Olive Oil and Popeye when she sleepwalks through the construction site. But it's all very cartoonish, in some cases literally.

Linda Boyd

We did the march in 1995 and it was wonderful, but we see that our people are still in the same position we were in 10 years ago - and in some cases worse off. So while a march is important, we'd like to see a movement.

Hashemi Rafsanjani

We don't have a mandate to discuss the nuclear issue with the Americans ... but if the talks on Iraq go in the right direction, there might be a possibility for that issue. There have been many cases where big and wide-ranging decisions had small beginnings.

Bob Beamon

When you can't read or write at 14 or 15, in most cases you're headed for trouble, and trouble was finding me.

Peter Sis

My father documented on film for the last time what Tibet looked like before the world got there.

William Jarvis

Physicians, nurses ... have been documented repeatedly to not wash their hands properly, ... At best, it is 40 percent of the time that we recommend that they should wash their hands (that they really do).

John Lewis

The documented incidences of voter fraud are very rare, yet throughout the country, forces have mobilized in over 30 states to stop it. These efforts are very partisan.

William Schulz

We have documented the use of torture and mistreatment, widespread throughout the world. We have documented that the U.S. government is a leading purveyor and practitioner of the odious human rights violation.

Sally Smith

What are our choices? ... We can yo-yo diet, which has been documented as unhealthy, or we can try to be as healthy as we can, regardless of our weight.

Francis Borrego

There is nothing documented in the last five years.

S. Hughes

By the time you're 50, most people have something wrong, ... The vast majority of these retirements are documented and justified - by and large, they come with the nature of the work.

Peter Watkins

I think it's safe to say that it's Southwest. I think it's well documented that he likes Southwest, Tex-Mex.

Mark Fuhrman

I think you have to look at these cold cases. If they're done properly, if the homicides are done properly, and everything's documented properly, you have a lot of concrete statements from those people that they would be able to look at them and refresh their memory.

Elizabeth Warren

Even families with health insurance are quite vulnerable to a severe economic reversal if someone gets sick.

Richard Baxter

We planned this performance for families to go to in the afternoon, prior to the Super Bowl. So the day isn't all sports.

Tamsin Greig

Families are families. We've all got them, more or less, and we all know what it's like to be bullied by another generation.

Macaulay Culkin

Oh wow, you know what's wrong with all these families on TV? All these kids say stuff no kid would say. Stuff grown-ups want them to say. Man, I'd make a really realistic family. Where kids get spankings. On TV parents say, 'Oh, you shouldn't do that ever again. Now you can have ice cream.' Forget it.

Victoria Osteen

One thing is certain: our families are important. Don't get so stressed out and so preoccupied that we neglect one of the greatest things that God has given us, and that's our families.

Bill Owens

Families are the tie that reminds us of yesterday, provide strength and support today, and give us hope for tomorrow. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, or well-managed, can provide what our families provide.

Gordon Miller

We are giving the families all the support we can.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

I've heard about brothers making films, but I've never heard about whole families making films like this. We didn't intend to do it; it wasn't something that we planned - it just gradually happened.

James Donahue

We have two families that have intersected in time and the tragedy is horrendous and there's nothing we can do about it. It's just very, very sad.

William Shatner

With three kids, it was always very, very tight, and it was always a scramble for what was my next job. So I learned never to go into debt because I don't want those monthly payments to preoccupy my thoughts.

Brad Grey

I learned no detail was too small. It was all about the details.

Denis Lavant

It's something that I learned even before I started acting: the movement, the dance of the body, is very important, and it comes before words.

Desiree Rogers

This ability to mix people together is something I learned early on.

Sophia Amoruso

I can be pretty reactive, and I've learned over time to be less reactive: to stop and think before I make decisions.

Tommy Caldwell

Through climbing, I've learned to find goals and work toward them. That's just the way I love to live.

Trip Adler

The original idea was to make it easy to publish content on the Web and find an audience. What we learned from publishers is that the thing they want the most is more readers and more revenue.

Michael R. Bloomberg

We have learned that our city's strength is unbreakable,

Pam Brown

We have learned not to be overconfident when it comes to requesting any type of taxation. However, West Vincent has a proven track record with how transferable development rights are used.

Elizabeth Warren

Homeowners refinance their loans when interest rates go down. Businesses refinance their loans.

Michael Lewis

We probably won't need a rate rise now until September,

Leon Black

Different industries have different risks and growth rates and volatility.

Ali Babacan

Turkey does not have an official exchange rate target.

David Fischman

The rate of success is high, under the appropriate circumstances.

Glenn Thomas

We'll probably have to look at some rate increases.

Day One

We get rated down by homeowners associations because we have no slums.

Yoshihiko Noda

There's a tendency for the yen to strengthen because it's rated highly, but I don't think that accurately reflects Japan's economic performance.

Alan Watts

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

Vivienne Westwood

I am in my own head most of the time.

Zubin Mehta

New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.

Zubin Mehta

I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.

Yakov Smirnoff

When you like something, you find time to do it.

Evangeline Lilly

I'm a bit delusional, but every time I do a job, I think I'm retired.

Donatella Versace

At that time of the supermodels, celebrities didn't want to be in fashion; they thought they were more intellectual and interesting than anyone in fashion.

David Bailey

I could develop a picture by the time I was 12.

David Byrne

I've got nothing to say most of the time.

Brittany Howard

The first time I learned how to play, my guitar was out of tune. I didn't know it; I just started writing songs.