Famous Quotes & Sayings

Virginia Postrel

In post-Vietnam, post-Watergate America, skeptical voters demand full disclosure of everything from candidates' finances to their medical records, and spin-savvy accounts of backstage machinations dominate political coverage.

Chris Hansen

The Patriot Act does not require that nuns' bank accounts be frozen. The Patriot Act has a lot of problems, but that's not one of them.

Gordon B. Hinckley

It is difficult for me to understand the tragic accounts of troubled marriages that come to me.

Charles Vest

For much of this decade, both Congressional and administration budget projections showed a decline in science and technology accounts of between 20 and 30 percent in real dollars. The real impact to date has been far less severe.

Cliff Stearns

My legislation, the Simple Savings Tax Relief Act of 2005, simply eliminates the taxation of interest earned in savings accounts, such as passbook savings accounts or bank certificates of deposit.

Aydin Tuncer

When AOL announces a rate hike, it's leveraging its customer base. They have the multiple e-mail accounts and user lists, which makes it difficult for people to switch services.

Kate Atkinson

But I, you know, if I could choose a period to go back to, I think I would like to live through the Blitz. 'Cause you do read so many accounts of people saying they're living their lives at such an intense pitch that it was a completely different way of living.

Nikola Tesla

The newspapers of the twenty-first century will give a mere 'stick' in the back pages to accounts of crime or political controversies, but will headline on the front pages the proclamation of a new scientific hypothesis.

Jeremy Jackson

We're not going to continue to sit back and watch them under perform, ... We're going to take action, terminate those accounts and bring the money back to the passive index fund until we find somebody who is capable enough to manage the monies for us.

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.

William John Wills

Our journey so far has been very satisfactory: we are most fortunate as regards the season, for there has been more rain this winter than has been known for the last four or five years.

Emma Roberts

I really like Gwyneth Paltrow a lot, as far as her career, because I think she's done a lot of small movies but she's also done great, big movies, and she's a really great actress.

Richard Hamilton

The peak of an NBA player is 29, 30? So we're still young. We can go as far as we want to go.

Anita Leveke

The past two seasons have been great successes as far as overall improvement in times and getting kids qualified for state.

Bruce Braley

Being a farmer is a great qualification to have to serve in the United States Congress.

Benicio Del Toro

As far back as I can remember, these are the first movies, the Universal horror movies where I knew the title of the film and I also knew the names of the actors in those films.

Darell Hammond

We're taking sports too far and starting kids too early.

Judith Butler

Life has to be protected. It is precarious. I would even go so far as to say that precarious life is, in a way, a Jewish value for me.

Donald Trump

I'm worth far too much money. I don't need anybody's money.

Paul Shaffer

Writing never had the immediate gratification I was looking for.

Terrie Williams

We're working to meet immediate and possibly long-term needs for 1,000 or more evacuees, and still provide the necessary services to the people here in Clarksville we're already serving and will need to serve.

Lee Bermejo

Generally, when it comes to covers, I try and add elements that may not take your immediate attention but really become important the more you look at them.

Sergei Ivanov

We are also ready for an immediate start to official talks with the United States on SALT 3.

Jeffrey Nelson

We have no immediate plans to run that service. What runs on our network are our services.

David Smith

The immediate plan for the next 18 to 24 months is to reach out to Philadelphia and surrounding areas, especially Harrisburg.

Colin Boyes

The immediate monetary impact is one thing, but now people are saying we will be paying for this for months and years to come.

James Head

We homeowners need help. We need immediate relief.

Vijay Bakaya

Our requirement is for 35,000 tents because winter is approaching and there is an immediate need for shelters.

William Peter Blatty

Bantam Press. And they commissioned me to write it. And when that was completed, they sold it to Harper and Row. And then I put it out to every movie studio in town. And they all turned it down.

Emily Robison

I think soldiers are not just one homogenous group, just like Americans aren't. They all have different feelings about the war.

William Shakespeare

That in the captains but a choleric word Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.

Veronica Saffo

Those are the same vests our soldiers are being issued.

Buffalo Bill

The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.

Cal Thomas

Radical Islamists are serious about killing in pursuit of their extreme objectives. Releasing their soldiers can only embolden them to take more Americans hostage. The deal for Sgt. Bergdahl may well turn out to have been a bargain with the devil.

Kurt Vonnegut

He didn't look like a soldier at all. He looked like a filthy flamingo.

Frederic Bastiat

When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.

Denzel Washington

When I did A Soldier's Story, I was very young and green and thought I knew everything-now I know I know everything!