Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clay Shirky

I am not somebody who believes everyone is equally talented; talent remains unequally distributed.

Edward Young

By night an atheist half believes in a God.

Jason Miller

The political thing to do would have been to sign this bill. Gov. Sanford always does what he believes to be in the best interest of all South Carolina regardless of any political fallout.

Chris Schultz

The police department believes it will be difficult to enforce.

Richard P. Feynman

People often think I'm a faker, but I'm usually honest, in a certain way - in such a way that often nobody believes me!

Cheech Marin

Every kid that goes to Catholic school believes he's going to be a priest one day.

Tom Bennett

My dad has done a bit of research on our family tree, and we can trace it quite far back. My dad believes he has traced us back to being a great-great-great-great-great-great cousin of Wellington.

Tagg Romney

At the core of my dad is, he has a very strong faith. He believes very firmly in loving God.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Freedom believes in education - the salvation of slavery is ignorance.

Warren Giles

I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.

Wesley Clark

When Bill Clinton ran in '92, and I listened to him, and I had of course known of his record from Arkansas, I found him extraordinarily inspirational, and I voted Democratic.

Abraham Lincoln

I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.

Chris Carter

I've got funny things. David Duchovny had to have a cast made of his face to do an old person's make-up, and I've got that cast of his face in my house. I've got something from the pilot, the original implant that was in Billy Miles' head. I've got a sign from 'The Erlenmeyer Flask.' But my house isn't a museum to 'The X-Files!'

Elizabeth Warren

I don't want to go to Washington to be a co-sponsor of some bland little bill nobody cares about. I don't want to go to Washington to get my name on something that makes small change at the margin.

Phil Gramm

The point that we're making is, if we're trying to raise the price of cigarettes to discourage smoking cigarettes that's one thing, but if we're raising taxes for tens of billions of dollars for spending, then why not give part of it back?

Tom DeLay

The outlook is not very good, ... Even if the bill is passed, it wouldn't stop these shootings.

David Pratt

Educate yourself, take the time to find out what is in a bill and how it will effect everything, and not just how it effects you in the short term, but what the long term consequences of a bill, law or legislations will have an everyone and every community, altimetry effecting you!

Chris Ware

There seems to be such a laziness in - and I hate to use this phrase - the modern world. Everything is pumped out so quickly so that you can read it while passing by, like billboards or those flashcards before movie shows.

Nancy Gibbs

The path of progress cuts through the four-way intersection of the moral, medical, religious and political - and whichever way you turn, you are likely to run over someone's deeply held beliefs.

Patrick Murphy

Whether it's threats to Medicare, cuts in education spending, or Internet privacy, the ramifications got young people out to vote and should be enough to keep them involved in our political system.

Norman Foster

Anything that reduces fuel consumption and cuts down on greenhouse gasses is good news.

Virginia Postrel

Habituation is indeed a fact of human psychology. That's one reason we like novelty, including different cuts of jeans.

Karl Malone

Look at this, scabs and cuts all over me, I get these every night, every game. They can't tell you that you're not at risk, and you can't tell me there's one guy in the N.B.A. who hasn't thought about it.

Alan Williams

We still have a few more cuts to make before next weekend and that is going to be hard. If you get to this point you're obviously a skilled player but we only have so much room. We'll use these games to see how the players react to a more intense situation than they're used to.

Brad Bevis

We had some good performances but we had some disappointments in some areas. We have some nicks and cuts in some places and we are young. But we're running varsity. It's not middle school or freshman meets, it's varsity. So these guys have to pick it up and get the job done.

Lincoln Chafee

On the issues that I care deeply about - the environment, Roe vs. Wade, the war in Iraq, with no weapons of mass destruction, the tax cuts that are now leading to deficits, I've got some deep issues with the president.

Peter Jackson

The theatrical versions are the definitive versions. I regard the extended cuts as being a novelty for the fans that really want to see the extra material.

Fritz Hollings

I'm truly worried about the country's direction. I can tell you this categorically, we've got the weakest president and the weakest governor in the history of my 50 years of public service.

Tom Savini

Tell everyone to vote: Tom Savini for Governor on 'The Walking Dead'!

Randy Thomasson

The only real option to be the people's governor - the only option for the people's governor - is to use the veto pen. We're looking for action. We need a veto.

Fred Silva

We still have the problem that governors like to do stuff.

Andrew Grossman

This nation's health-care problems are, in no small part, about Wal-Mart. Should governors take up Scott's offer for him to visit their states, we are sure he will hear just that.

Arlo Guthrie

I thought I would be governor of Massachusetts. I stood on a pile of my old albums and said, 'I'm the only one with a record to stand on.'

Peter T. King

The party has to be rebuilt on all levels. In a way, maybe it's to be expected when you've had a governor in office for 12 years and he and his people are stepping down.

Liz Boyd

Today, the governor has no intention of suspending the sales tax. It would be an option, under a variety of circumstances.

Jennifer Granholm

Today, the governor has no intention of suspending the sales tax, ... It would be an option, under a variety of circumstances.

Ludwig von Mises

Those who satisfy the wants of a smaller number of people only collect fewer votes-dollars-than those who satisfy the wants of more people.

Ludwig von Mises

Capitalism gave the world what it needed, a higher standard of living for a steadily increasing number of people.

Kelly Jones

We're not sure what the (staff) numbers would be.

Bob Groves

We've had hundreds of people waiting at stations but we just don't have enough room. We're doing everything we can ... but the numbers are just quite heavy.

Robert Kiyosaki

Did you know that lack of information is the number one barrier to wealth?

Jeff Edwards

Use the numbers we have and let the principals work it out.

William Shakespeare

I am ill at these numbers.

Jon Purnell

The problem is getting sufficient numbers of students in the program.

Patrick Moynihan

We have a system that's been in place for 70 years. It works, ... but get the numbers right.

Lawrence Lessig

What you want to do is to get a kind of revenue that right now you don't get at all,

Martin Pyykkonen

In terms of prudence, you would like to see other revenue streams.

Gene Upshaw

I won't do it, though, without revenue sharing.

Phil Harrison

Our revenue streams are going to become more complex. We can also see a much more vital revenue stream from in-game advertising.

Martin Pyykkonen

It confirms what I've been thinking about revenue deceleration.

Clint Stretch

But that's not where the revenue comes from,

Huey Long

Basically, all of our revenue sources are gone, ... I can't think of one that wasn't wiped out.

Vicki Taylor

If it's a revenue generator, we should look at it.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Thrift is a great revenue.

Franz Kafka

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

L. E. Modesitt, Jr.

If I recall correctly, I think I signed my first contract with Tor in 1983.

Janice Miller

Where do I sign up? I can't wait.

Gloria Steinem

I always wanted to put a sign up on the road to Yale saying, 'Beware: Deconstruction Ahead.'

Kareena Kapoor Khan

I never really do much research before signing a film. It is just the script and character that I concentrate on.

Jayne Middlemiss

You know what you are signing up for when you become involved,

Bob Newman

We had all the signs out for 'Save the Armory,' but that's all set away now. It's really very encouraging and it hasn't always been that way.

Kelly Chesney

Voters need to read the petitions. Don't sign anything unless you know what it says.

Tim Hevly

We have not signed him and there's no announcement pending.

Barack Obama

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we've got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

Zubin Mehta

I'm very much tied to the state of Israel, but I am against their policy of settlements in Palestine.

Nguyen Van Thieu

But the United States did not keep its word. Is an American's word reliable these days?

David F. Houston

We are investigating the circumstances under which the statements were made.

Mark Bowman

We have wrestled better, but everyone is very tough in the state tournament.

Rodney Stark

Wherever you've got a state church, you have empty churches.

Andrea Morgan

We don?t have that kind of state support.

Heather Wilson

New Mexico is one of the top energy-producing states in the nation.

Paul Mills

We are part of the United States now, but we don't want to be submerged and lost.

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.

Bill Owens

If you ask me to compromise on principle, I will get out the veto pen.

Hassan Nasrallah

The U.N. Security Council did not to condemn the Qana massacre, due to the U.S. veto.

Barry O'Farrell

Bigotry should never be sanctioned, whether intentionally or unintentionally.

Teresa Heinz

I've always worked on bipartisans, whether it's on healthcare, drug reform, et cetera. All my work is bipartisan, because what I'm - as nonpartisan actually, because I look for solutions. I'm very practical.

T. Boone Pickens

I don't care whether you use natural gas, ethanol, the battery. You can use anything, just so it's American.

Simon Sinek

Whether individuals or organisations, we follow those who lead not because we have to, but because we want to. We follow those who lead not for them, but for ourselves.

Trip Adler

We actually determine whether the book is read and make payments to the publisher based on that.

Karlie Kloss

Whether running, biking, swimming, or dancing, I just like to always be on the move.

Kevin Smith

It's kind of debatable whether or not the advertisement model is effective. Like whether Nielsen works.

Lucy Hawking

I wonder whether being a scientist's daughter makes you so conflicted about free will and fate.

Vanessa Hudgens

You have a choice whether you want to be happy or not. I choose to be happy.