Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shatner

I've never been without a dog. I've made trips across the country with a dog.

William Whitelaw

Harold Wilson is going around the country stirring up apathy.

William John Wills

This country is undergoing great changes for the better.

Valerie June

I'm not really into alternative country - I'm into Patsy Cline, who lived down the street from where I lived, and old Dolly Parton records, Kitty Wells and that old stuff. I like country music. I also like Eric Church, who has a great new sound but also holds onto that old sound.

Yayoi Kusama

The country of Britain is wonderful because of its royalty.

Bryan Whitman

The overall level of (Afghan and NATO) security forces in the country is growing.

Charles Stross

The paucity of near-future U.S. scifi is about the country becoming pessimistic, not being able to see the future clearly. There's a trend in U.S. scifi towards militarism and far-future stuff.

Bart Chilton

The thing is: in order to reach an agreement, to reach that balance, sometimes it is sort of like that old Rhinestone Cowboy lyric, 'There'll be a load of compromisin' on the road to my horizon.' For those of you who were too young, or don't recall the song, made famous by country singer Glen Campbell, it is your loss.

Ben Elliot

I've always been fascinated by India and its color and vibrancy. I worked in Madhya Pradesh in the Kanha National Game reserve before university, and it is probably the most intoxicating country I have ever visited.

Vivek Wadhwa

Writing a book is usually a full-time job that takes years. I didn't have years. So I decided to crowdsource content for the book.

Becky G

When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.

Bethany Mota

I decided to launch a fragrance because Aeropostale approached me about creating one, and it's something that I kind of always wanted to do but didn't think it would actually happen. So when I heard I had the opportunity to create my own perfume, I got super excited.

Vidya Balan

Promotions can be seen in two ways - either you hate them, and they're a burden, and you are getting through with it, or you can enjoy them. I decided early on that I was going to enjoy them. I did 43 interviews in a day for 'Kahaani.'

Walter Jon Williams

It's hard to generalize, because they're all different. When I started, I decided to take as much advantage as I could of the freedom offered by the SF field.

Carly Fiorina

People have decided that career politicians may be part of the problem, not part of the solution.

Preity Zinta

Yes, you have to be brave enough to take steps that your heart is telling you to take. Because when I decided to go into cricket, not one person told me I was making the right move. At that time, nobody thought the IPL would become so big. I was nervous at that time, because suddenly I was in an uncomfortable spot.

Malcolm Gladwell

We used to say poor people had lousy genes. Then we decided that wasn't OK, but we transferred the prejudice to upbringing. We said, 'You were neglected as a child, so you'll never make it.' That's just as pernicious.

Dominika Cibulkova

I've always loved playing tennis. When I was 12, my parents decided that I should try to do it seriously. My father started to travel with me, and as a family, we tried to make it work.

Leslie Manigat

We are not going to be sore losers but we are human beings. The right of a second round of elections is inscribed in the election rules.

Jeremy Warren

When you're outspent and you don't have the resources of your opponents, ... you have to run every day like the next day is Election Day.

Matthias Platzeck

We're not going to have four years of election campaigning. On the contrary, we'll limit that to the last few months before the election in 2009.

Reuven Hazan

We are having an election that ideologically is probably the most important that we've ever had.

Barack Obama

If you've got a business - you didn't build that.

Tom Smith

We're not giving any opinion with regard to what's going on there. We don't know if replacements are permanent or temporary. We don't look into that until after the election occurs, if the election is challenged.

Scott Plotkin

We actually won the election but I took no joy in seeing the governor humiliated. Let's start anew. We're not looking for another fight.

Victoria Sublette

There are three meetings until the election, and it would take that long, at least, to go into the public and solicit people interested in the position. The more reasonable thing to do is to let the election fill that spot.

Vladimir Ryzhkov

Today, there are a lot of opposition members of parliament who are not only ready for elections, they're pushing for them,

Mark Metzger

We still have the land issues to resolve and a lot of work to do. I think one of the things we need to do is to mend fences with people about the boundaries.

Mark Davis

Typically, we do not have fences on our property. Usually, responsibility for maintenance of these fences is that of the property owner.

Jim Cummings

I take the work seriously. Which is why I always swing for the fences whenever I voice a character. But that said, I don't take myself all that seriously.

Alan Young

Harper wants to mend fences with Bush. I think it's a mistake for the country, and I regret that it's happening after so much work has been done.

Ron Williams

We've gone from 280-foot fences at Island Grove to 320-foot fences on the new fields. That's going to take a pretty good jack to get one out of there.

Jose Vidro

If they really cared. They'd move the fences in.

Duncan Hunter

A number of people who have supported me on the border fence in the U.S. have observed the fences in Israel and their effectiveness.

Joy Stonier

A lot of people put signs on their fences on his last day.

Pam Shoemaker

Docking and fences don't go into your yard waste. We can't pick it up. We can't put pressure-treated wood into the mulch.

Bruce Anderson

The patterns we are seeing are similar to those witnessed in the last campaign, but the past is not always a reliable predictor of the future.

Victoria Osteen

Don't fall into the trap of putting yourself last on the list or not even putting yourself on the list. That's not balance; it's not even healthy.

Richard Daley

I'm not the last of the old bosses. I'm the first of the new leaders.

Nas

Hip-hop lasted and survived all these years that you have to give it credit. Even though it's not up to people's expectations anymore, its still here, and that's says a lot.

Cynthia Ozick

In an essay, you have the outcome in your pocket before you set out on your journey, and very rarely do you make an intellectual or psychological discovery. But when you write fiction, you don't know where you are going - sometimes down to the last paragraph - and that is the pleasure of it.

Andy Williams

We played 90 minutes of hard-fought soccer, which we didn't do for one minute last week.

Nigel Newton

We have made a number of big purchases in the last six months. We're in a position to do so.

Jim Rogers

We did very well with the last legislative session and I think we will do very well in the next session so long as we can prove our case.

Kenichiro Sasae

We are not necessarily satisfied, ... working up to the last minute.

Dina Merrill

It's really so depressing to be still listed in the Social Register after all the acting I've done.

Frank Gaffney

listed ISNA as one of 25 American Muslim organizations that 'finance terrorism and perpetuate violence.'

Leonard Ambrose

This was a property listed with 'For Sale' signs outside.

Roy Johnson

I think it should never have been listed in the first place,

Michael Foster

I don't want my son to be listed as a statistic, I lost a son, and they're losing a son.

Lamar Odom

If this were football, I would be listed as probable.

Terry Taylor

It listed to the left. You could kind of feel it pull to the left.

David Magnus

Identifying the roles of different contributors is important. What does it mean that someone is listed as an author?

Sam Wright

This is big today to have Sylacauga listed with the 99 other cities, ... Sylacauga is the only one in the state, which I think is just extraordinary.

Will Chase

'Miss Saigon' taught me what it means to help carry a big show, and it had some of the most gorgeous songs wrote.

David Wenham

My representation overseas can't stand me doing theatre because it takes me out of action. But it's what I want to do. If it means passing up other possibilities, them's the breaks.

David Foster

With Celine Dion, we were selling 25 million records a pop. 'Pop' stands for 'popular.' It means we're plugging into the masses.

Dev Hynes

'Chamalkay' is an old Guyanese slang word. It means a 'young mischievous girl.' It's not derogatory, but it isn't over complimentary, either. It was probably a word I just Googled one day, and the song kind of played into the feel of that.

Peter O'Toole

I'm Irish. That means I'm Catholic. But, truth is, now I'm a retired Christian.

Timur Bekmambetov

If I've seen the movie, it means it's an influence on my own filmmaking. Every movie has a reflection in 'Night Watch.'

Gerard Hoeppner

When a ride stops, it really means that our safety systems are working.

Lauren Oliver

I try to write characters that are as real, emotionally and psychologically, as I can make them; I feel the same way about setting. This often means that I'm drawing from my experiences and observations.

Margaret D. Nadauld

Standing as a witness in all things means being kind in all things, being the first to say hello, being the first to smile, being the first to make the stranger feel a part of things, being helpful, thinking of others' feelings, being inclusive.

William Shakespeare

Happy are those who hear their detractions and can put them to mending.

Dick Durbin

We do not want to end the Patriot Act. We want to mend the Patriot Act.

Jonathan Safran Foer

But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.

Aldous Huxley

Ending is better than mending.

Sam Allardyce

El Hadji is on the mend and it is possible he could play at Newcastle.

William Penn

Those who would mend the world must first mend themselves.

Phil Palmer

The paving work will be done by Nielsen Construction as a sub-contractor and not by the primary contractors.

Eric Fischl

My primary thing is to make a painting, not necessarily to make a painting to sell for gazillions of dollars, but just to make a painting.

James Wallace

Before you can play basketball, you need to make the grades. That's my primary concern.

Bonnie MacPherson

It can't be someone's primary residence. That's very much intact.

David Gerke

The primary word is ?fun'; it's about fun.

Phil Wold

They need to let us know what their primary source is and if they have a backup.

Richard Giannini

The one thing that has been a primary priority has been facilities. That's the vision that we've got to continue. We've made tremendous upgrades since the year 2000.

John Boyega

I've been acting since I was 5 years old, from primary school to secondary school, did training at drama school, which was the big thing for me because they trained me, put me out into the industry.

Peter Mills

the shape of this primary is not yet firmed up.

Mark McKinnon

Voters are looking for credibility and are wary of polish. At the end of the day, it doesn't really matter which candidate can more deftly read a teleprompter.

Lindsey Graham

We're going to need those voters in the fall.

Bill Nye

We need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.

Jack Germond

Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting.

Christina Romer

Honest talk about the deficit is risky. Voters are more enthusiastic about the abstract notion of deficit reduction than about the painful details of accomplishing it.

Jeb Bush

Immigration is a gateway basically. It's a check-off point for Latino voters.

Jeb Bush

Candidates are making lasting impressions on voters, not just primary voters, in how they campaign.

Jesse Jackson

At least the politicians are accountable to the voters.

Carly Fiorina

The most effective way to beat Hillary Clinton is to remind voters of Hillary Clinton's behavior.