Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thalia

It was very hard for me to put my life on paper. It was a very intimate process, very psychological, but at the same time liberating. It was like cleaning the closet, like cleaning the house... It was very refreshing.

Kathy Emery

We are ready. We are all in here now cleaning and getting everything set up.

Patrick Lynch

We are on the eve of a historic opportunity and a last opportunity for us to make those that have created the problem contribute to cleaning it up,

Martin Mull

What's the point of cleaning up your act if you don't have an act?

Peter Cunningham

The guys did a great job cleaning it back up and getting us back to green.

Marc Violette

The people of New York have waited long enough to reclaim the historic Hudson. The time has long past for General Electric to put its significant resources into cleaning up their toxic mess.

Mary McMahon

When the hot water hits the leaves they expand, so the larger the infuser the better. Ease of cleaning is also important.

Eileen collins

Looks like I might have some cleaning up to do when I get home.

Tom Aldrich

Many of these remaining process locations likely will require demolition in order to meet the expected cleaning criteria.

Stewart Tucker

We had no electricity, water or services. One of us would volunteer each week to pick up the garbage and take it away to some nearby Bedouins who would offload the trash if they couldn't keep it.

Eric Clapton

When you're onstage with an electric band going through a massive P.A. system, it's very artificial. You can't really hear your own voice as it comes out of your mouth.

Pedro Reyes

The role of TV at the core of the family is that of an electric nanny.

Mark McKinnon

A few words about Sarah Palin: She is one of the most fascinating women I have ever met. She crackles with energy like a live electrical wire and on first meeting gets about three inches from your face.

Patti Smith

I'm a human being, I'm a friend, I'm a mom, I'm a writer, and I'm an artist. I do play electric guitar and all of that, but in the end, I'm just a person.

Preneet Kaur

The electricity tariff in Punjab is highest in north India, and it should be decreased.

David Sibley

We get to Jackson and the hurricane comes there, and it was so wide that the electricity went off so we had to stay in a hotel with no electricity,

Paul Parker

Though we had a good sales tax year, it's not enough to offset electric and fuel bills. We don't want to raise property taxes. We're looking at other growth to pay these bills.

Andrew Kenny

We don't have enough electricity because we don't have enough power stations.

Abraham Lincoln

Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false... In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.

Evangeline Lilly

In every one of the 'Squickerwonker' books, we will explore a new Squickerwonker character and their vice and how their vice generally leads to their undoing.

Deborah Eisenberg

I'm not used to interviews. People don't generally interview waitresses.

Nikki Reed

What is important is to treat everyone like an individual and learning not to generalize autism. With autism, people make assumptions, but it's very broad, and everyone's so different. You have to treat each person as an individual.

Ethan Zuckerman

People generally pay attention to what they already know about and what they care about.

David Suzuki

Scientists generally are really chicken about getting involved in some kind of dispute. As a broadcaster, I find it very difficult to urge them, if it is a controversial subject. They don't want to have science being portrayed badly.

Glenn Beck

We just put General Motors in the hands of people who can't even run our own government.

Susan Isaacs

I have such admiration for Whoopi Goldberg as an actress and a general smart person.

Victor Grignard

Whereas, generally speaking, zinc reacts suitably only with the first members of the alkyl iodides, with magnesium it is possible to use bromides, iodides, and in many cases, chlorides.

Virginia Henley

I love to read history books, which is where I get my ideas. I also read historical romance for pleasure.

Nicolas Berggruen

I was living in Paris, which is a very beautiful, very wonderful place, but a tight place as a city, a tight place culturally. Its people are very brilliant, thoughtful, the place functions, but it's a historical place in some ways, like a big museum.

Lauren Willig

I never sat down and said, 'I'm going to write historical fiction with strong romantic elements.' It was just the way the stories went.

Kevin Spacey

President Obama will go down as having passed some of the most historic bills in the history of this country.

Nancy Horan

If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have rolled my eyes.

William Gibson

I don't think nostalgia is a healthy modality. But nostalgia and a sense of history are not the same thing. Nostalgia is a dysfunction of the historical impulse, or a corruption of the historical impulse.

Eric Lander

We're living through a historic revolution in biology.

David Shulman

We're at the stage of the market where it seems to be detaching from historical fundamentals.

Minna Antrim

That one woman is capable of loving another is an historical truth; but never yet lived one who could not listen to her own praises at the expense of her adored friend.

Ivern Ball

The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Samuel Butler

And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.

Terry McGowan

We preached all week don't look past these guys. Once we got behind, we started pressing. We weren't relaxed.

Stacey Phillips

We did what it took to win. Everyone is a little worn out from the past weekend, but we still pulled through for the win.

Alan Cohen

Revisit your past only to recognize how far you have come.

Alan Cohen

View the past as your enemy, and it will be an albatross. View it as your friend, and it will give you wings.

Alan Cohen

You change the past when you change the way you see it.

Pearl Jam

Where have they been the past 10 years?

Dick Cheney

I have argued in the past, and would again, if we had been able to pre-empt the attacks of 9/11 would we have done it? And I think absolutely. We have to be prepared now to take the kind of bold action that's being contemplated with respect to Iraq in order to ensure that we don't get hit with a devastating attack when the terrorists' organization gets married up with a rogue state that's willing to provide it with the kinds of deadly capabilities that Saddam Hussein has developed and used over the years.

Yuvraj Singh

People who don't know me, how will they know what I am really like? They will only see me on the field, only see me in an advertisement. People who know what kind of a guy I am will tell you I'm a very open person.

Yoko Ono

Most people like to hear sounds they are used to.

Yoko Ono

Many people do remember their births, but they deny it.

Willie Aames

I think there are people that have very addictive personalities.

William Shatner

I like making people laugh. It comes off and shines in everything I do.

Wentworth Miller

They told me at the end of that test that they wanted me to be a part of this project. I walked out and had a moment of clarity where I thought, not many people will ever have this moment.

William Clay Ford, Sr.

I think sports are a wonderful diversion. People can relate to sports very easily. It's a quick study.

William Sleator

Stories develop from things I read and also from my own experiences and experiences of people I know.

Will Poulter

I need to try and get away from that brat role, or people are going to think I'm a natural brat.

Larry Gibson

We have all the resources we need at this time.

Anne Schwartz

We have tremendous resources expended to look for these boys.

Rusty Schweickart

All of us know today the value of communications satellites, weather satellites, resources satellites, etc.

Norm Zada

We don't have the resources to sue everybody.

Dorothea Shannon

We've got some time and we have to use that time and our resources wisely.

David Taylor

We're getting a lot of good, technological resources we can use.

Laura Linney

History's a resource.

Peter Drucker

Managers are the basic and scarcest resource of any business enterprise.

Alain Ducasse

The planets resources are rare; we must consume more ethically and equitably.

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.

Jan Karon

Publishing is, by its nature, about deadlines, and deadlines are toxic.

Douglas Brinkley

I witnessed him rescuing up to 40 people. He was up to his waist in toxic muck.

Angela King

We want to get the things that are toxic or flammable out of the house.

Nicholas Sparks

You know how gossip is. It's the toxic waste of small town

James Macdonald

A rebellion against God, even as believers, is fueled by the toxic fumes of unbelief.

Fred Thompson

Superfund was passed with the good intention of cleaning up America's toxic waste sites

Jimmy Carter

The Superfund legislation set up a system of insurance premiums collected from the chemical industry to clean up toxic wastes. This new program may prove to be as far-reaching and important as any accomplishment of my administration. The reduction of the threat to America's health and safety from thousands of toxic-waste sites will continue to be an urgent but bitterly fought issue-another example for the conflict between the public welfare and the profits of a few private despoilers of our nation's environment.

James Patterson

Have you been playing in toxic waste lately?

James Patterson

Fang: "Have you guys been playing in the toxic waste again? Been bitten by a radioactive spider? Struck by lightning? Drink a super-soldier serum?

Darah Huffman

We've waited a year for this game. Look at that ... I'm still shaking.

Byron Dorgan

This is non-negotiable at this point. You waited too long.

E. B. White

I would have waited for the nationwide search.

Byron Dorgan

I think this is nonnegotiable, ... You've waited too long.

Craig Biggio

It's indescribable, I've waited so long for this to happen,

Marcus Williams

I waited it out, but I was tired.

Sheila Newman

I'm probably the person who has waited the longest.

Neal Schon

We waited around for about a year and a half.

Felipe Alou

We waited a long time, so if we wait another day or two or three, it's OK.

Carine Roitfeld

When you go to a show, Americans in New York are very proper, much more so than the French. Everything is perfect. Their hair, the nails, everything. The look. Everything is perfection.

Tamara Tunie

I'm Irish on St. Patrick's Day. I'm Italian on Columbus Day. I'm a New Yorker every day.

Frederick Pollock

I have not heard that even the New York abortion has done very much in the States where it has been enacted.

Michael Kors

I am the oldest young designer in New York City.

Ringo Starr

When they come here, the English make a choice: New York or L.A. L.A. suited me better, I just feel comfortable here.

Ira Glass

Honestly, like, I'm a superfan of the 'New York Times,' but I know nothing about how they put it together, and I really don't care.

Elsa Peretti

I like Yorkshire Tea - very strong and English.

Louis Hinnant

You know, we're going to go down to New York and try to make some noise.

Thomas Wolfe

One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.