Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Kinkade

We always expected that Beebe would reap the benefits of his many contacts with special interests in Arkansas. He's raised a lot of money but spent an inordinate amount of money doing that, so we're quite comfortable with where we are right now.

Kerry Healey

The press always causes a certain amount of hesitance for people who are considering entering public life. So simply encouraging women to enter politics, on any level, not just on the state level, is extremely important.

Jason Ritter

I spend a fair amount of time on my computer, but I don't hack into anything. I have to open the manual and follow instructions.

Robert Sweeney

We needed a tremendous amount of manpower to get the water and the hose up to extinguish the fire,

Donald Sutherland

You have a little bit of talent, a certain amount of good fortune and a lot of hard work in pursuit of whatever truth you can find in it, and if you are really lucky, a terrific partner and I have that and those four things worked out for me.

Thomas Dolby

The hardware manufacturers, game designers, cable companies and computer companies and, in fact, film studios are going to ensure that this thing marches on. They know that they are going to make an enormous amount of money from it.

Thomas Gibson

In a way, as an actor, you do all the preparation and then you want to forget it and just play the scene. As a director, you can't forget it because somebody will remind you that you forgot something. But you can know your plan well enough that you still have a certain amount of freedom.

Tao Lin

I feel 'proud' whenever I feel that I've worked on something for a certain amount of time with a certain amount of attention. I'm not sure if I think in terms of 'pride' though.

Tom Stoppard

I'm not a theoretician about playwriting, but I have a strong sense that plays have to be pitched - the scene, the line, the word - at the exact point where the audience has just the right amount of information. It's like Occam's razor.

David Viscott

When you respond to an unreasonable person by getting emotional, you give them victory. How do you manage unreasonable people? You dismiss them. Like shadows

Audrey Tautou

I think that when you create something or at least try to create something, you slither between excitement and pleasure and you understand this huge emotional frustration. You did one feat, then you go back one.

Audre Lorde

Sadomasochism is an institutionalized celebration of dominant/subordinate relationships. And, it prepares us either to accept subordination or to enforce dominance. Even in play, to affirm that the exertion of power over powerlessness is erotic, is empowering, is to set the emotional and social stage for the continuation of that relationship, politically, socially, and economically.

Arthur Penn

Good actors go to emotional places where nobody else wants to go.

Antony Starr

When you can't fix all your problems with your fists and the problems aren't solely physical, and you've got to deal with the emotional complexities of life and people, it's a really interesting development.

Diana Ossana

Emotional truths can sometimes be conveyed more effectively, more compellingly, through fiction.

Alain de Botton

Rather than teasing the buyers, we may blame the society in which they lived for setting up a situation where the purchase of ornate cabinets felt psychologically necessary and rewarding, where respect was dependent on baroque displays. Rather than a tale of greed, the history of luxury could more accurately be read as a record of emotional trauma. It is the legacy of those who have felt pressured by the disdain of others to add an extraordinary amount to their bare selves in order to signal that they too may lay a claim to love.

Bill James

Serial murders are just the worst stories. It can take an emotional toll on you.

Kevin Spacey

Lester goes through not only a spiritual and emotional reawakening, but he gets pumped up, ... I had to work with a trainer for about four months and then every day on the set, twice a day.

Michael Morse

made an enormous mistake in my life: I took steroids while in the minor leagues.

Norman Ornstein

Let's face it. When you're the governor of New York and even mentioned as a presidential candidate, you're going to be under an enormous microscope.

Octavia E. Butler

I don't write about good and evil with this enormous dichotomy. I write about people. I write about people doing the kinds of things that people do.

Gary Strickler

We're graduating Gabe, and that's an enormous number of points to lose off a team, and we don't have his equivalent in junior high or in the freshman or sophomore classes.

Howard Rubenstein

The Post has enormous respect for the Asian-American community.

Liza Minnelli

I was given an enormous amount of love by my parents.

Peter Hill

We have no hesitation at all in writing about those things. The readers are massively concerned. We get so many letters. We get massive, massive response to these issues, an enormous response.

Larry Birns

Rice has an enormous task to repair the present disarray in which we find U.S.-Latin American relations.

Donald Yacktman

Philip Morris still generates enormous amounts of cash, ... We're not giving up yet.

David Icke

You don't fight for peace. You Peace for Peace.

David Icke

If you're fighting the system, then you're still caught in it. It's not about fighting the system; it's about ceasing to hold it together. Non-cooperation. We cannot be imprisoned without our cooperation. Their power is in our acquiescence.

David Brin

In the end, the work of diplomats continues even while others fight. So, it's not necessarily true that everyone needs to march.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

During the time I was in office we have seen the beginning of the elimination of the fire season completely and are having fires all year round. I think we have seen the major problem of the destruction of land and property and lives that is a major problem because we don't have the resources for that many fires and we don't have the resources and the manpower to fight those fires throughout the year.

Benazir Bhutto

The next few months are critical to Pakistan's future direction as a democratic state committed to promoting peace, fighting terrorism and working for social justice.

Barry Alvarez

We hadn't lost morale. But when you fight for four quarters, it's tough to always bounce back. The offense kept us in the game the last two weeks and to get out with a win feels really good.

Barney Frank

It is because the fight against the harshest aspects of unrestricted capitalism is therefore a political problem and not an intellectual one that community action remains so essential.

Barney Frank

Whenever people are being intellectually dishonest in debate, it is an implicit concession they have lost the fight

Audre Lorde

You know how fighting fish do it? They blow bubbles and in each one of those bubbles is an egg and they float the egg up to the surface. They keep this whole heavy nest of eggs floating, and they're constantly repairing it. It's as if they live in both elements.

David Icke

I don't think I would use a gun, but who knows what a person would do in certain circumstances? My instincts are that I don't see the point of using violence to oppose violence, but many people would and the Brotherhood know that. For this reason they want an unarmed population. Adolph Hitler introduced gun laws shortly before he began to transport people to his concentration camps.

David Icke

Getting hold of illegal weapons is so easy that gun laws would not stop anyone who really wanted to kill. The gun used by Martin Bryant in Port Arthur was stolen and he had no licence. Gun laws would not have stopped that, but the reason such laws are being introduced all over the world is to prevent the population from defending themselves when the order goes out to round up those who are challenging the Agenda.

David Brooks

The gun becomes this psychological totem, this thing of who I am. And it's almost as if using the gun is going to be the thing that's going to be my expression of how I make a difference in the world.

Ben Webster

If you try all different styles that are in vogue, I think you con yourself. Me, I just stick by my guns; I don't want to play out of another man's bag.

Benicio Del Toro

I've always played the guy with the gun and the knife. That's how many actors start out, playing the bad guy.

Barney Ross

I'd get a shell, they weighed about 80 pounds I think, but when I was 19 or 20 that was nothing. I'd take a shell and a bag of powder, I'd put it in the hoist and then I would send it up to the gun.

Dick Cavett

I know what it feels like to be a gun lover.

Dick Cavett

There are online forms you can fill out to send to your lawmakers, demanding that nothing - nothing at all or in any way - be done about any guns whatever, anywhere.

Dick Cavett

Nobody is going to try to confiscate guns, although some Web sites know better: President Obama, they are certain, wants to.

David Remnick

I actually have great hopes for the future.

Baroness Orczy

even the worst moments and the weariest journeys must come to an end ...

Arnold Bennett

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

Louis Lupin

We always hope we can resolve things short of litigation.

Felipe Alou

We always have big rallies when they walk him. I hope they don't stop walking him.

Amy Hill

We always get a lot of last-minute registrations. Hopefully we are on target to reach our goal.

Alain de Botton

We will cease to be angry once we cease to be so hopeful.

Charles R. Swindoll

Hope is like an anchor. Our hope in Christ stabilizes us in the storms of life, but unlike an anchor, it does not hold us back.

Blaise Pascal

Without the knowledge of our wretchedness, the knowledge of God creates pride. With it, the knowledge of God creates despair. The knowledge of Christ offers a third way, because in him we find both God and our wretchedness.

Kevin Love

To me, throwback means I'm a smart player. I know how to play the game. I'm very skilled. I do a lot of things that other people don't do.

Taron Egerton

Of course, everyone would like to play a superhero, but this is by no means me saying I would like to go play Cyclops.

Timothy Noah

When a conservative praises a liberal as 'morally serious,' he means that person is less liberal than most.

Antonio de Mendoza

Liberty means responsibility. That's why most men dread it.

Tim Finchem

To be a former PGA Tour player typically means you're about 75 years old. They just don't stop.

Daniel Barber

I'm not afraid of special effects, but I see them very much as a means to an end.

Maria Sharapova

When I do that, it means I'm not going to miss the ball.

Tracey Emin

My work rarely comes up in secondary market, so it means that my prices stay low.

David Hopkins

More people means there is more of an opportunity for crime,

Elizabeth Kenny

I have a message to give to the world, and I shall not be thwarted.

Benjamin Disraeli

No, it is better not. She will only ask me to take a message to Albert.

Thomas E. Mann

Incumbents are safe, but party majorities are not. This fosters symbolic votes, message politics and little serious legislating in Congress.

Brian Eno

Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.

DeLaShaun Dean

Most of the time, the messages don't have anything to do with football.

Tom McClintock

sends a powerful message that it is the official policy of this state not to recognize or respect this nation's immigration laws." ()

Mark Phelan

Ultimately, the responsibility rests with the drivers, and they seemed to respond to the message we were putting out.

David Koresh

I am more willing to come out when I get my message from my commander.

Megan Challender

We want people to understand our message is one of peace and not one of hate.

Arthur Rock

You know, a lot of people are just interested in, in building a company so they can make money and get out.

Arnold Bennett

Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.

Denise Levertov

Don't eat those nice green dollars your wife gives you for breakfast.

Denis Waitley

Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

Dennis Miller

I like money. It's fun to fold and stack and smell and look at. It's just plain fun to count money, and I often do it in a loud falsetto while wearing nothing but a captain's hat and a coin changer.

Al Bernstein

A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

Al Franken

The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.

Billie Jean King

People say, "Do you know how much a million dollars is?" I don't have a clue. How many Big Macs will it buy me?

Tiger Woods

When I had the record and the money title, it's very misleading,

Marc Shaiman

I wouldn't have been able to live with myself if someone else did it. It's a very sweet valentine to musicals, but (it) sends them up at the same time.

Ricky Williams

We talk about life, we talk about our philosophies. He always sends me books. It's a different kind of relationship.

John Updike

Young or old, a writer sends a book into the world, not himself.

Rachel Leon

In my experience, I would say it's rare, if not unprecedented. I think it sends a strong message.

Andrew McDonald

I mean, when somebody like my grandmother sends me e-mail, I know that it's arrived,

Jason Chaffetz

Federal spending is atrocious.

Bobby Scott

If we increase spending, we have got to raise taxes or any combination.

Elizabeth Hurley

Spending time outdoors makes you feel great.

Craig Benson

I don't think anyone's pushing for spending limits in the campaign.

Jack Morgan

If they end up spending 4 or 5 weeks there, it won't surprise me.

William J. H. Boetcker

You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.

Leon Wieseltier

I was not interested in spending 10 years in the culture wars.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

know that there has to be a spending limit.

Alan Watts

What would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life?

Alanis Morissette

How about not equating death with stopping?

Isaiah Tucker

We're going down there and going down to win and we're not stopping until we do that.

Enrico Colantoni

You know what, I'm a big, big fan of 'Heroes,' but the day they told me that the end of the world was coming, and that day didn't come, I stopped watching.

Joe Spraggins

We're just trying to get them all up because we want to stop another problem.

Lonnie Bunch

My first task for tomorrow is to stop smiling.

Alastair Reynolds

One of the big breakthroughs I had as a writer was when I stopped agonising over every word.

Barbara Warren

She wouldn't be around if she hadn't stopped smoking,

Kevin Nursick

Vehicles are being stopped and inspected as they should be.

Bob Goldstein

We're not here to stop development or impede it in any way,

David Twohy

When you do a studio picture, all the paperwork and legal stuff is already taken care of!

David Riesman

Why, I ask, isn't it possible that advertising as a whole is a fantastic fraud, presenting an image of America taken seriously by no one, least of all by the advertising men who create it?

David Riesman

A spurious democracy has influenced both our research methods (I am sometimes tempted to define "validity" as part of the context of an experiment demanding so little in the way of esoteric gift that any number can play at it, provided they have taken a certain number of courses) and our research subjects (it would be deemed snobbish to investigate only the best people).

David Icke

The Hindu faith and the information for its sacred books, the Vedas, were taken to the Indian subcontinent by the Aryans from the Caucasus Mountains, one of the centers for extraterrestrials/inner terrestrials and their offspring.

David Hockney

I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles.

David Hockney

But the moment you use an ordinary camera, you are not seeing the picture, remember, meaning, you had to remember what you've taken. Now you could see it of course, with a digital thing, but remember in 1982 you couldn't.

David Hume

Luxury is a word of uncertain signification, and may be taken in a good as in a bad sense

David Hume

I say then, that belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain. This variety of terms, which may seem so unphilosophical, is intended only to express that act of the mind, which renders realities, or what is taken for such, more present to us than fictions, causes them to weigh more in the thought, and gives them a superior influence on the passions and imagination.

Benazir Bhutto

It is one thing being able to contest an election and to give the people hope that I can be the next prime minister. It is a totally different situation where the people of Pakistan are told that the results are already taken and the leader of your choice is banned.