180000 famous quotes part 55 – 54001 to 55000

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180000 famous quotes part 55 – 54001 to 55000

54001. I will work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to preserve the Social Security promise that provides secure retirement benefits for all, especially those who are most at risk such as widows, orphans, and people with disabilities when the need arises. – Chaka Fattah

54002. The President’s proposed privatization plan would jeopardize that security by cutting guaranteed benefits for future retirees and endangering the benefits of current retirees, people with disabilities, and children who have lost a parent. – Chaka Fattah

54003. The Republican Party is in charge. They’ve been charge of the Congress and spending for 10 years. – Chaka Fattah

54004. The threat of terrorism is not stronger than the will of the American people. – Chaka Fattah

54005. There are no problems that exist in the District that have been solved elsewhere in the country. Whatever problems exist in this city exist other places. – Chaka Fattah

54006. There’s not an appropriations bill in the last 10 years that the-that Democrats passed in the Congress. We haven’t spent any money of your taxes in the last decade. – Chaka Fattah

54007. This program that the Republican majority has taken us toward as a country is leading us to fiscal bankruptcy. – Chaka Fattah

54008. When Bill Clinton was in town, he sent over a balanced budget. – Chaka Fattah

54009. Without Social Security, poverty rates for African American seniors would more than double. – Chaka Fattah

54010. While Social Security faces some long-term challenges, the system is not in crisis. – Chaka Fattah

54011. We have major fiscal problems on our hand. – Chaka Fattah

54012. Bush has never sent over a balanced budget. – Chaka Fattah

54013. The Americans are optimistic by their nature. And they are hopeful. – Chaka Fattah

54014. Because when we think about the real facts: 44 million Americans without health insurance, millions without jobs, a 50-year high on mortgage foreclosures, an historic high the third year in a row on personal bankruptcies. – Chaka Fattah

54015. Now, so, if you want to blame someone for wasteful spending, the Republicans are in the majority. – Chaka Fattah

54016. But if they want to really think about the fiscal future of this country, then think about how we have moved from hundreds of billions of surpluses to hundreds of billions of deficits. – Chaka Fattah

54017. But the point you need to know is that no president at war cut taxes $1.5 trillion, like Bush did. – Chaka Fattah

54018. Currently, more than 4.7 million African Americans receive Social Security benefits, and nearly 8 million people with disabilities depend on Social Security for their daily sustenance. – Chaka Fattah

54019. Democracy derailed is democracy denied. – Chaka Fattah

54020. I don’t know what this definition of affirmative action is for some. – Chaka Fattah

54021. Now we are raising the debt limit 3 times, up to $8 trillion, so that our children and our grandchildren will have to pay for the cost of our expenditures. – Chaka Fattah

54022. African American children can’t be educationally disadvantaged for 12 years and then experience a miracle cure when it comes time for admission into college. – Chaka Fattah

54023. Perhaps they were right in putting love into books… Perhaps it could not live anywhere else. – William Faulkner

54024. The best job that was ever offered to me was to become a landlord in a brothel. In my opinion it’s the perfect milieu for an artist to work in. – William Faulkner

54025. The artist doesn’t have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don’t have the time to read reviews. – William Faulkner

54026. The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. – William Faulkner

54027. Pointless… like giving caviar to an elephant. – William Faulkner

54028. Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it… the basest of all things is to be afraid. – William Faulkner

54029. My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky. – William Faulkner

54030. Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders. – William Faulkner

54031. The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it. – William Faulkner

54032. Man will not merely endure; he will prevail. – William Faulkner

54033. The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey. – William Faulkner

54034. Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantly is having to accept it. – William Faulkner

54035. The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next. – William Faulkner

54036. The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. – William Faulkner

54037. The past is never dead. It’s not even past. – William Faulkner

54038. Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That’s how he finds that he can bear anything. – William Faulkner

54039. The scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day a sunset dies. – William Faulkner

54040. An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why. – William Faulkner

54041. Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life. – William Faulkner

54042. This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them. – William Faulkner

54043. To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi. – William Faulkner

54044. Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets. – William Faulkner

54045. Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest. – William Faulkner

54046. We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid. – William Faulkner

54047. Well, between Scotch and nothin’, I suppose I’d take Scotch. It’s the nearest thing to good moonshine I can find. – William Faulkner

54048. The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering. – William Faulkner

54049. Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder. – William Faulkner

54050. You should approach Joyce’s Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith. – William Faulkner

54051. To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow. – William Faulkner

54052. A gentleman can live through anything. – William Faulkner

54053. A man’s moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream. – William Faulkner

54054. A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once. – William Faulkner

54055. A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid. – William Faulkner

54056. All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible. – William Faulkner

54057. Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. – William Faulkner

54058. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. – William Faulkner

54059. Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency to get the book written. – William Faulkner

54060. Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other. – William Faulkner

54061. If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The “Ode on a Grecian Urn” is worth any number of old ladies. – William Faulkner

54062. Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain. – William Faulkner

54063. It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work. – William Faulkner

54064. I believe that man will not merely endure. He will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. – William Faulkner

54065. I decline to accept the end of man. – William Faulkner

54066. I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth. – William Faulkner

54067. I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from. – William Faulkner

54068. I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it. – William Faulkner

54069. I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better. – William Faulkner

54070. I’m bad and I’m going to hell, and I don’t care. I’d rather be in hell than anywhere where you are. – William Faulkner

54071. I’m inclined to think that a military background wouldn’t hurt anyone. – William Faulkner

54072. If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoevski, all of us. – William Faulkner

54073. If I were reincarnated, I’d want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything. – William Faulkner

54074. It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: He made the books and he died. – William Faulkner

54075. Given a choice between grief and nothing, I’d choose grief. – William Faulkner

54076. There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it’s the risk, the gamble. In any event it’s a thing I need. – William Faulkner

54077. Every citizen is king under a citizen king. – Charles Simon Favart

54078. So much of a professional athlete’s success depends upon not necessarily the play itself but how he deals with… always saying how you deal with good, is just as important as how you deal with bad. – Brett Favre

54079. With each game I play, each season I play, everyone would agree with me, I’m running out of chances. – Brett Favre

54080. Well I would say that we’re regular people first of all and we’re normal and it’s obvious by some of the things that have happened just because our name is famous we’re not immune to tragedy. – Brett Favre

54081. And having a strong family, you know we’ve lost some members of our family and had some setbacks, but I think a good family and kids all those things I thought at one time… you got to be kidding me… Those things are so important they enable you to go on. – Brett Favre

54082. It’s fun leading this offense. I don’t think we’ve hit our peak. – Brett Favre

54083. It’s not so much about killing an animal, it’s being at peace and you don’t have to worry about all the other things that go on. That’s a couple of hours a week that you get to escape but it’s nice to do that. – Brett Favre

54084. Life deals you a lot lessons, some people learn from it, some people don’t. – Brett Favre

54085. You’re never guaranteed about next year. People ask what you think of next season, you have to seize the opportunities when they’re in front of you. – Brett Favre

54086. Obviously talent gets you to a certain point, but it’s what you do with it, how you handle. – Brett Favre

54087. Just, you never know what the next day is going to bring. That goes for football, goes for off the field, and I gave up a long time ago trying to predict the future and trying to deal with things I couldn’t deal with. – Brett Favre

54088. Sometimes you get caught up in what’s going on around you. The reality is that you are just a regular person. At some point, the career will be over, the bright lights turn off. That can come back to haunt you if you’re not just a regular guy. – Brett Favre

54089. That’s kind of how I approach life and football; why dwell on something that’s hasn’t happened. – Brett Favre

54090. The party now is having my kids laugh and my wife laugh and my teammates. I want them to see me have fun and put it in a different way. – Brett Favre

54091. It’s been six years since I have had a drink and I have two girls, and my priorities are a lot different now and I just can’t believe I was that guy. And I would not go back, I would not trade the way I am now for anything. – Brett Favre

54092. Well family is obviously the most important. There was a time when I thought football was the most important. – Brett Favre

54093. Well even before she was diagnosed with the cancer, I would have said that she was a lot tougher than me and most guys would probably say that about their wives and it’s probably true in most cases. – Brett Favre

54094. The town, the team, it’s a family. That has helped. For some people who have had to deal with some of the problems I have had to deal with don’t have football as an out. – Brett Favre

54095. I really believe this team has a lot of potential – whether it’s this year or in years to come, I don’t know. – Brett Favre

54096. But when you lose a family member or something tragic happens, that stays with you forever. You never get over it. Knowing that you have to deal with that for the rest of your life… Football is important, but not as important as you once thought it was. – Brett Favre

54097. God, he deals you blows that at sometimes you think you can’t handle and in the last year there have been things that we thought we couldn’t handle but we’ve dealt with it up until this point. – Brett Favre

54098. I can’t believe I survived, not only my life, but I am still playing football ’cause half of those eight or nine years I don’t even remember. – Brett Favre

54099. I consider adversity being good sometimes you know. – Brett Favre

54100. I consider myself more of a loner now and I think when you get older, especially in this game, and just talking with other players who have come and gone, I see what they were saying when I was a young guy in the locker room. – Brett Favre

54101. I don’t really care what’s going on I just care about getting my job done the best that I can possibly do and deal with the other things in my life that take a lot of time and a lot of thought. – Brett Favre

54102. My wife, she still gives me a hard time, and says I hunt too much or I like to play golf too much. And she’s probably right, but it sure beats some of the things I used to do. – Brett Favre

54103. As you get older, you look at things differently. – Brett Favre

54104. I know it’s not a one man team win or lose. – Brett Favre

54105. Because after my first year I had a lot of success, took everybody by storm, came back the next year thought it was easy and didn’t have near the season I had the previous year. It was kind of a wake-up call. And so, life goes on. – Brett Favre

54106. I, most talented players don’t always succeed. Some don’t even make the team. It’s more what’s inside. – Brett Favre

54107. I’m not perfect. – Brett Favre

54108. If I can change than anyone can change. I promise you that. – Brett Favre

54109. In this case, I realize that, unlike when I was 22 years old, I realize now that football will not go on forever, it is a small part of your life. – Brett Favre

54110. I’m pretty boring really. – Brett Favre

54111. I’m thankful for all the things that this job has given me and my family. But probably the thing that I am most proud of throughout my career is that, not only myself, but my family and the people around me have just been regular people, which we are. – Brett Favre

54112. Initially, I know that I handled it worse than she did and I think partly because I’ve always been… every bit of adversity I’ve faced up until the last year and a half is adversity I brought upon myself – or the opposing teams have given me. – Brett Favre

54113. It’s a difficult job to do, but that is why we do it. Only so many people can do it. But it, it enables you to… for a brief period of time to kind of get away. You have to go back and deal with, but it’s a good escape. – Brett Favre

54114. I don’t worry anymore about where’s the big hangout Tuesday night, Friday. Couldn’t tell you and no one comes to me for advice anymore in those areas anymore, so real boring I would say. – Brett Favre

54115. I find that people… very few people think that what they’re doing is bad, and usually the people who think what they’re doing is bad it has more to do with guilt. – Jon Favreau

54116. I was the worst extra, I was ‘that’ guy. I was the guy on the phone trying to get the Oscar for best extra – for best background performance. – Jon Favreau

54117. I’ve cut myself out… I’ve cut scenes out that I was in and that’s when you realize that you’ve got to make the best movie you can. – Jon Favreau

54118. The irony is that the more unapologetically sexist men are in movies, the more women tend to be attracted to them in person. – Jon Favreau

54119. I don’t think I’m egotistical as much as I’m taking responsibility for what I’m putting out there. – Jon Favreau

54120. Acting is the most fun. I like to do it and it’s great that I can still do that, but you know, you don’t really have a lot of control over things, so it’s real hit or miss. – Jon Favreau

54121. I’m shy. I can go on a trip for days and not go because I won’t sit on a toilet seat on a plane. I’m certainly not going to go on somebody’s lawn. Could you imagine, in a cocktail dress? – Farrah Fawcett

54122. My number one goal is to love, support and be there for my son. – Farrah Fawcett

54123. God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I’ve ever met. – Farrah Fawcett

54124. When you do bad things, bad things happen to you. – Farrah Fawcett

54125. Have I been wiretapped? Yes. But who they said wiretapped me was incorrect. – Farrah Fawcett

54126. God made man stronger but not necessarily more intelligent. He gave women intuition and femininity. And, used properly, that combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I’ve ever met. – Farrah Fawcett

54127. I am proud of what I have got and I need an audience. – Farrah Fawcett

54128. It’s still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed. – Farrah Fawcett

54129. There is little doubt that the majority of Mr. Mill’s supporters in 1865 did not know what his political opinions were, and that they voted for him simply on his reputation as a great thinker. – Millicent Fawcett

54130. What is true of Mr. Mill’s influence on the women’s-suffrage question is true also of the other political movements in which he took an active interest. – Millicent Fawcett

54131. It is almost impossible to imagine that any one could be so insensible to the high morality of Mr. Mill’s character as to suggest to him any course of conduct that was not entirely upright and consistent. – Millicent Fawcett

54132. The first organised opposition by women to women’s suffrage in England dates from 1889, when a number of ladies led by Mrs Ward appealed against the proposed extension of the Parliamentary suffrage to women. – Millicent Fawcett

54133. What he has done for women is final: he gave to their service the best powers of his mind and the best years of his life. His death consecrates the gift: it can never lessen its value. – Millicent Fawcett

54134. A large part of the present anxiety to improve the education of girls and women is also due to the conviction that the political disabilities of women will not be maintained. – Millicent Fawcett

54135. If, however, the success of a politician is to be measured by the degree in which he is able personally to influence the course of politics, and attach to himself a school of political thought, then Mr. Mill, in the best meaning of the words, has succeeded. – Millicent Fawcett

54136. Just as radical heirs apparent are said to lay aside all inconvenient revolutionary opinions when they come to the throne, it was believed that Mr. Mill in Parliament would be an entirely different person from Mr. Mill in his study. – Millicent Fawcett

54137. The assertion of failure coming from such persons does not mean that Mr. Mill failed to promote the practical success of those objects the advocacy of which forms the chief feature of his political writings. – Millicent Fawcett

54138. One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it’s such a nice change from being young. – William Feather

54139. Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it. – William Feather

54140. Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age. – William Feather

54141. Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it. – William Feather

54142. Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim. – William Feather

54143. One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure. – William Feather

54144. Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren’t enjoying today’s sunshine. – William Feather

54145. One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person. – William Feather

54146. One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute. – William Feather

54147. Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers. – William Feather

54148. No man is a failure who is enjoying life. – William Feather

54149. Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke. – William Feather

54150. Many of our prayers were not answered, and for this we are now grateful. – William Feather

54151. Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. – William Feather

54152. Women lie about their age; men lie about their income. – William Feather

54153. Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right. – William Feather

54154. When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children. – William Feather

54155. When ordering lunch, the big executives are just as indecisive as the rest of us. – William Feather

54156. Temporary success can be achieved in spite of lack of other fundamental qualities, but no advancements can be maintained without hard work. – William Feather

54157. Wealth flows from energy and ideas. – William Feather

54158. We always admire the other person more after we’ve tried to do his job. – William Feather

54159. The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation’s proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations. – William Feather

54160. The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes. – William Feather

54161. The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can. – William Feather

54162. The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men – the man he is and the man he wants to be. – William Feather

54163. The best sermon is preached by the minister who has a sermon to preach and not by the man who has to preach a sermon. – William Feather

54164. That they may have a little peace, even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally. – William Feather

54165. The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability. – William Feather

54166. Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend. – William Feather

54167. Few of us get anything without working for it. – William Feather

54168. Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can. – William Feather

54169. Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you. – William Feather

54170. Beware of the person who can’t be bothered by details. – William Feather

54171. Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious. – William Feather

54172. Don’t let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand. – William Feather

54173. Business is always interfering with pleasure – but it makes other pleasures possible. – William Feather

54174. He isn’t a real boss until he has trained subordinates to shoulder most of his responsibilities. – William Feather

54175. Every social injustice is not only cruel, but it is economic waste. – William Feather

54176. If people really liked to work, we’d still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs. – William Feather

54177. If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us. – William Feather

54178. Any man who makes a speech more than six times a year is bound to repeat himself, not because he has little to say, but because he wants applause and the old stuff gets it. – William Feather

54179. If you’re naturally kind, you attract a lot of people you don’t like. – William Feather

54180. A budget tells us what we can’t afford, but it doesn’t keep us from buying it. – William Feather

54181. A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations. – William Feather

54182. An idea isn’t worth much until a man is found who has the energy and ability to make it work. – William Feather

54183. An invitation to a wedding invokes more trouble than a summons to a police court. – William Feather

54184. Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it. – William Feather

54185. Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles. – William Feather

54186. I can’t think why mothers love them. All babies do is leak at both ends. – Douglas Feaver

54187. He’d believe anything provided it’s not in Holy Scripture. – Douglas Feaver

54188. His mouth is for export and his head has no entrance. – Douglas Feaver

54189. I have learnt to be even more patient. – Roger Federer

54190. I can’t stay No. 1 for fifty years, you know. We’ll see what happens. – Roger Federer

54191. But so far I have the feeling that the chances are there to repeat last year’s season. – Roger Federer

54192. Early in my career, I struggled with consistency, but I couldn’t get more consistent than this year. – Roger Federer

54193. There are probably already too many people on the planet. – Nina Fedoroff

54194. We wouldn’t think of going to our doctor and saying ‘Treat me the way doctors treated people in the 19th Century’, and yet that’s what we’re demanding in food production. – Nina Fedoroff

54195. We need to continue to decrease the growth rate of the global population; the planet can’t support many more people. – Nina Fedoroff

54196. No taxation without respiration. – Tom Feeney

54197. Two things Florida can teach the other 49 states: how to make a good margarita and how to deal with the aftermath of a hurricane. – Tom Feeney

54198. Just because you have teenagers in a movie doesn’t make it a teen movie. – Brendan Fehr

54199. I never liked group work in school. – Brendan Fehr

54200. I love hockey, and I don’t love it for any other reason than when I get out there and play, I enjoy it. – Brendan Fehr

54201. I do have a lucky pair of underwear. – Brendan Fehr

54202. The best roles have risks… and those are the parts I’m interested in. – Brendan Fehr

54203. I did my military service from 1989 – 92 and I was never shot at or had to fire on anybody. I was very lucky. I was more involved in intelligence and counter-intelligence. – Oded Fehr

54204. The things I learned from the army – and I think it was a lesson for life – was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility. – Oded Fehr

54205. I think if you play a character that is fearless, then it’s boring. I think that’s what was so incredible about Harrison Ford, is that he always seemed like he was never going to survive it, he’s always scared, and yet he always does survive it somehow. – Oded Fehr

54206. I never got hurt when I was in Morocco doing all the horse riding and my own stunts. But on the last day on the last shot I slid off my horse and landed on my bottom. I did not get hurt but it was very embarrassing. – Oded Fehr

54207. I am not thinking that because people say I am great that I really am great. I am just doing a job, just like everybody else. The only difference is that a lot more people see what I do. – Oded Fehr

54208. I think I value things more correctly. I hope I look at my life in a way that makes sense. – Oded Fehr

54209. Jesus died to forgive our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them? – Jules Feiffer

54210. Artists can color the sky red because they know it’s blue. Those of us who aren’t artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we’re stupid. – Jules Feiffer

54211. Getting out of bed in the morning is an act of false confidence. – Jules Feiffer

54212. I grew up to have my father’s looks, my father’s speech patterns, my father’s posture, my father’s opinions, and my mother’s contempt for my father. – Jules Feiffer

54213. Maturity is only a short break in adolescence. – Jules Feiffer

54214. The first thing they were told was how to hone their talent. Then they were told how to market their talent, discipline their talent and type their talent. And then they were told they might as well forget about talent. – Esther B. Fein

54215. It may be a penny for your thoughts, but it is now a quarter for your voice. – Esther B. Fein

54216. If the United Nations is a country unto itself, then the commodity it exports most is words. – Esther B. Fein

54217. I don’t want to hear again from the attorney general or anyone on this floor that this government has shown it can be trusted to use the power we give it with restraint and care. – Russ Feingold

54218. What is the harm of doing the right thing? What is the harm of doing our job as legislators and making sure we do not stick the entire bankruptcy community with these provisions that do not make any sense? – Russ Feingold

54219. If a trip is worth taking, members of Congress should be prepared to justify paying for it out of their office accounts. – Russ Feingold

54220. It is not only all right but necessary to stand up to George Bush. – Russ Feingold

54221. The administration has a disturbing pattern of behavior when it comes to budgeting not only for the ongoing operations in Iraq and Afghanistan but also for military requirements not directly related to these conflicts. – Russ Feingold

54222. This has not been a legislative process worthy of the Senate. Members of the Judiciary Committee, as I just said, were implored to save their amendments for the floor. Then, when we got here, we were told no amendments could be accepted. – Russ Feingold

54223. Unfair trade agreements, passed by both Republicans and Democrats, have sent millions of jobs to other countries. We need to stop this hemorrhaging and find ways for American workers to compete in the new market. – Russ Feingold

54224. We should not use special budget procedures to jam through legislation to drill in the Arctic Refuge. This topic is too important to the public to address it in such a back-door manner. We should be having a full, open discussion of the issue during an energy debate. – Russ Feingold

54225. Health care for all Americans is the most pressing domestic issue today. It’s far past time for the President and Congress to deliver health care to everyone. – Russ Feingold

54226. Global warming is real. It is happening today. It is being charted by our satellites. It is being charted by our scientists. It is being charted by those of us in this body, and I think the real key is if we are ready to admit that fact and take the action to make the necessary conversion. – Diane Feinstein

54227. I basically believe the medical insurance industry should be nonprofit, not profit-making. There is no way a health reform plan will work when it is implemented by an industry that seeks to return money to shareholders instead of using that money to provide health care. – Diane Feinstein

54228. Let me say this: I believe closing Guantanamo is in our Nation’s national security interest. Guantanamo is used not only by al-Qaida, but also by other nations, governments, and individuals – people good and bad – as a symbol of America’s abuse of Muslims, and it is fanning the flames of anti-Americanism around the world. – Diane Feinstein

54229. Our climate is changing. The Earth’s climate has, in fact, warmed by 1.1 to 1.6 degrees Fahrenheit since the industrial revolution. People look at this and say: Oh, that is not very much. In fact, it is very much, and it changes the dynamic. It impacts species. It kills some. It diminishes the carbon sink of the ocean. It does a number of things. – Diane Feinstein

54230. The criteria for serving one’s country should be competence, courage and willingness to serve. When we deny people the chance to serve because of their sexual orientation, we deprive them of their rights of citizenship, and we deprive our armed forces the service of willing and capable Americans. – Diane Feinstein

54231. The time has come to repeal ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.’ It is the right thing to do. Every American should have the opportunity to serve their country, regardless of race, sex, creed, or sexual orientation. – Diane Feinstein

54232. Today we have a health insurance industry where the first and foremost goal is to maximize profits for shareholders and CEOs, not to cover patients who have fallen ill or to compensate doctors and hospitals for their services. It is an industry that is increasingly concentrated and where Americans are paying more to receive less. – Diane Feinstein

54233. We have a chance to wind down and expedite the removal of 96 percent of the world’s nuclear weapons. What an achievement it would be, if at the end of the next administration, we could say that the nuclear arsenals of both Russia and the United States had been reduced to the barest minimums. – Diane Feinstein

54234. It is my belief that tax credits only go to people who are making money, and they generally keep it. – Diane Feinstein

54235. ‘No Child Left Behind’ requires states and school districts to ensure that all students are learning and are reaching their highest potential. Special education students should not be left out of these accountability mechanisms. – Dianne Feinstein

54236. Banning guns addresses a fundamental right of all Americans to feel safe. – Dianne Feinstein

54237. For the life of me, I don’t understand what honest motive there is in putting this in front of this body to philosophically debate marriage on a constitutional amendment that is not going to happen, and which is enormously divisive in all of our communities. – Dianne Feinstein

54238. Instead of starting a new nuclear arms race, now is the time to reclaim our Nation’s position of leadership on nuclear nonproliferation efforts. – Dianne Feinstein

54239. Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want. – Dianne Feinstein

54240. Ports are the gaping hole in America’s homeland security. – Dianne Feinstein

54241. Rogue internet pharmacies continue to pose a serious threat to the health and safety of Americans. Simply put, a few unethical physicians and pharmacists have become drug suppliers to a nation. – Dianne Feinstein

54242. Survival is nothing more than recovery. – Dianne Feinstein

54243. It is my hope that the number of stem cell lines available for federally-funded research will be expanded so that the government can continue to participate in this vital research and provide hope to the millions of Americans with diseases that might be cured. – Dianne Feinstein

54244. You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play it better than anyone else. – Dianne Feinstein

54245. Toughness doesn’t have to come in a pinstripe suit. – Dianne Feinstein

54246. Well, that day is gone, and it will not occur again. – Dianne Feinstein

54247. Women have begun to see that if I go through that doorway, I take everybody through it. – Dianne Feinstein

54248. Winning may not be everything, but losing has little to recommend it. – Dianne Feinstein

54249. He’s a world-famous name to people who care about his music, but there are many people who have never heard of George Gershwin and those numbers increase. – Michael Feinstein

54250. The Gershwin legacy is extraordinary because George Gershwin died in 1937, but his music is as fresh and vital today as when he originally created it. – Michael Feinstein

54251. Never settle with words what you can accomplish with a flamethrower. – Bruce Feirstein

54252. The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. – Bruce Feirstein

54253. One of the key issues will be personal honour vs. the good of the many, and unforeseen consequences. – Raymond E. Feist

54254. If I leave my computer, I’m probably not going to get back for hours. If I take a few minutes to answer questions and go web surfing, then guilt kicks in and I get back to work. – Raymond E. Feist

54255. Often I’ll try things that just won’t happen the way I’d like them to, so hearing that they’re not working saves me some wear and tear the next time around. – Raymond E. Feist

54256. There were two things going on: 1) I had already established in my own mind where I wanted to go with the next series, and having James around as a Grey Eminence would have complicated matters. He had had an amazing life and it was time to bid him good-bye. – Raymond E. Feist

54257. The issue of the Betrayal was so central to that, I felt the need to comment upon it. My choices were to ignore the games and put them “outside” of continuity or to integrate them. I chose the latter. – Raymond E. Feist

54258. There’s always going to be comparisons, and that’s unavoidable. There are people out there who feel I hit my peak with Magician and have gone downhill since. – Raymond E. Feist

54259. Writing is hard work; it’s also the best job I’ve ever had. – Raymond E. Feist

54260. One likes to think one grows as a writer as one ages, else all you get is an “old” young writer. Beyond that is the changing landscape of the universe and the stories I choose to tell. – Raymond E. Feist

54261. Neal had a couple of good ideas and they fit nicely, so that’s the way I decided to go. – Raymond E. Feist

54262. In the end, my reasons for moving down the timeline and introducing a new cast have more to do with keeping myself entertained, on the assumption that if I get bored, my readers are going to be even more bored. – Raymond E. Feist

54263. I’m a huge fan of Cabernet and Bordeaux, and am passionate about Pinot Noir and Burgundies. – Raymond E. Feist

54264. Also, it’s risky to try to duplicate earlier success. Magician had a certain charm to it, mostly due to my choice of lead characters, that I would be hard put to duplicate. – Raymond E. Feist

54265. You can only have one first born child. You may love all your children deeply and with passion, but there is something unique about the first born. – Raymond E. Feist

54266. Jigsaw Lady is the working title of a science fiction novel I’ve had in my head for darn near 15 years. I think I’ll start work on it next year (in all my spare time) but I’d like to get it finished some day. – Raymond E. Feist

54267. Peace, of course, is different from divorce; indeed, in essential respects, divorce is the opposite of peace. – Douglas Feith

54268. It was known in the mid 90s already that Saddam Hussein was a dangerous tyrant that he had already launched aggressions against Iran, he had invaded Kuwait. – Douglas Feith

54269. Europe is a collection of free countries. – Douglas Feith

54270. I don’t think that anybody should be ruling in or ruling out anything while we are conducting diplomacy. – Douglas Feith

54271. I had done a lot of reading, relative for a kid, about World War Two, and I thought about Chamberlain a lot. – Douglas Feith

54272. I think the disarmament of Iraq is inevitable. – Douglas Feith

54273. I’m concerned about getting Iraq on its feet. – Douglas Feith

54274. If you live in Israel and you see the way life is there and then you go abroad and see the way Israel is reported on, the way that Israel gets reported on night after night is simply pictures of bombings or military actions. – Douglas Feith

54275. I’m not concerned about weapons of mass destruction. – Douglas Feith

54276. There are a lot of things that need to be done to improve communications. – Douglas Feith

54277. The United States has some people in Europe with whom we disagree on this matter and a large number of people in Europe, including governments in Europe, with whom we agree. – Douglas Feith

54278. The purpose of the UN mechanism, this inspection mechanism, is not to engage in a cat and mouse game with Saddam Hussein and try to find weapons that the Iraqi government is working on concealing. – Douglas Feith

54279. If all goes well, the Iraqis are going to have a country that’s going to have a representative government and will be at peace with its neighbors and in the region. – Douglas Feith

54280. What the UN inspectors can do is demonstrate to the world, help the Iraqi government demonstrate to the world that the Iraqis are cooperatively disarming if that is in fact what the Iraqi government decides to do. – Douglas Feith

54281. Our concept is not that America should operate alone or by itself in world affairs or in military affairs. – Douglas Feith

54282. No, the United States does not target civilians. – Douglas Feith

54283. Well we are hoping that the power of the community of free nations is such that our sovereignty our rights are not going to be challenged by anybody who’s going try to undermine the freedom, the openness of our societies and our security. – Douglas Feith

54284. We know that there are various activities important to the insurgents in Iraq that are occurring in Syria. – Douglas Feith

54285. We have a substantial number of countries that have pledged and provided all kinds of support for the United States in the event that war becomes necessary in Iraq. – Douglas Feith

54286. We are a country that has many friends, many allies, when we operate in the world, we operate with friends and allies that’s been true for decades and if we wind up going to war in Iraq it will be true in Iraq. – Douglas Feith

54287. Though public pronouncements of Israeli officials emphasize peace and mutuality, unilateralism actually drives Israeli actions. – Douglas Feith

54288. They have involved co-operation between the Iraqi intelligence and al-Qaeda operatives on training and combined operations regarding bomb making and chemical and biological weapons. – Douglas Feith

54289. There have been linkages between the Iraqi government and al-Qaeda going back more or less a decade. – Douglas Feith

54290. The key to making the inspections work is the Iraqi government making the crucial decision that because of the international pressure Iraq has to disarm itself. – Douglas Feith

54291. As an actor, you’re pretty much a hired gun. You are reading other people’s words off of a page and doing what they want you to do. – Corey Feldman

54292. It was a great experience for a kid, because it was a bunch of kids playing on pirate ships and water slides, so looking back on it, it was the fondest experience of my childhood. – Corey Feldman

54293. It’s funny; I actually made poorer decisions when I sobered up then when I was screwed up. – Corey Feldman

54294. My acting career began at age three and my parents got me into it. I was in a McDonald’s commercial. – Corey Feldman

54295. Oh, I see people everywhere. Some are celebs, but most of my friends are just regular people. The thing is, even celebs are normal people too. Just people. – Corey Feldman

54296. People do not realize this, but my drug addiction was actually a short span of time. It was only for two years. – Corey Feldman

54297. The people that become the biggest jokes are people who do not change. They stay the way they were in the past. Look at Michael Jackson, he never evolved. – Corey Feldman

54298. You have to stay updated on trends, social things and pop culture, you need to stay with the times and keep evolving. – Corey Feldman

54299. I’m more than an actor. I’m an icon, an industry. – Corey Feldman

54300. I met my wife by breaking two of my rules: never date a girl seriously that you meet at a nightclub and never date a fan. – Corey Feldman

54301. I won’t eat anything that has intelligent life, but I’d gladly eat a network executive or a politician. – Marty Feldman

54302. Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act. – Marty Feldman

54303. The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with. – Marty Feldman

54304. Money can’t buy poverty. – Marty Feldman

54305. I’ve been living with the minor second all my life and I finally found a way to handle it. – Morton Feldman

54306. Any professional knows that the flute and the piano is a boring combination. All you’ve got to arrive at is a kind of typical gestural crap, right? You might agree, though you wouldn’t call it gestural crap. – Morton Feldman

54307. For me it’s the instrument. If I want to think of a flute and the state of the arts I hear a vibrato; I don’t know what a flute is unless the person plays it for me. – Morton Feldman

54308. I never feel that my music is sparse or minimalist; the way fat people never really think they’re fat. I certainly don’t consider myself minimalist at all. – Morton Feldman

54309. I was once married to a woman who could eat anything and tell you what was in it: the most complicated recipes. Her memory of taste – now that’s what I call memory! – Morton Feldman

54310. The most interesting aspect for me, composing exclusively with patterns, is that there is not one organizational procedure more advantageous than another, perhaps because no one pattern ever takes precedence over the others. – Morton Feldman

54311. If you think you might have secret information listening to me, you’re lost. – Morton Feldman

54312. Music is essentially built upon primitive memory structures. – Morton Feldman

54313. No one has the Houdini school of composition. – Morton Feldman

54314. Since music has never had a Rembrandt, we have remained nothing more than musicians. – Morton Feldman

54315. I want to give my compliments to Australia. Ever since your government paid a few million dollars for a Jackson Pollack painting, I figure that it must be a marvellous country. – Morton Feldman

54316. I’d like to meet a lovely man who shares my interests. On the other hand, I possibly will not. It’s part of the hand you’re dealt. It’s a challenge-and I’m not atypical. – Barbara Feldon

54317. I’ve always supported myself. I like the sense of knowing exactly where I stand financially, but there is a side of me that longs for a knight in shining armor. – Barbara Feldon

54318. I’m not saying that there’s anything better than mated bliss at its best, but I’m saying that living alone is as good in its own way. But we haven’t quite given ourselves permission to recognize that. – Barbara Feldon

54319. Inflation is lower and more stable and the real business cycle fluctuations are more modest. – Martin Feldstein

54320. But then in April of 1985 the dollar began a sharp decline. The dollar’s trade weighted value fell 23 percent in just 12 months and by a total of 37 percent by the beginning of 1988. – Martin Feldstein

54321. Domestic inflation reflects domestic monetary policy. – Martin Feldstein

54322. Even if the dollar does decline during the coming months, the delays in the response of exports and imports to the more competitive dollar will mean that the increase in aggregate demand from this source may not happen for a year or more. – Martin Feldstein

54323. First, I think the science of monetary economics has clearly gotten better. – Martin Feldstein

54324. Homeowners who refinanced their mortgages took out cash and reduced their monthly payments at the same time. Much of the cash obtained by refinancing was spent on consumer durables, home improvements and the like. – Martin Feldstein

54325. I think that over the last few decades, we have seen better economic outcomes than in the past. – Martin Feldstein

54326. If the Federal Reserve pursues a strong dollar at home while the dollar becomes more competitive in global markets, we can achieve both price stability and a more balanced path of economic growth. – Martin Feldstein

54327. But because we in the United States finance our current account deficit by borrowing in our own currency, we can move to a more competitive dollar without the adverse effects that followed currency declines in other countries. – Martin Feldstein

54328. Increased government spending can provide a temporary stimulus to demand and output but in the longer run higher levels of government spending crowd out private investment or require higher taxes that weaken growth by reducing incentives to save, invest, innovate, and work. – Martin Feldstein

54329. And finally, no matter how good the science gets, there are problems that inevitably depend on judgement, on art, on a feel for financial markets. – Martin Feldstein

54330. My theme this evening is that America needs a competitive dollar. – Martin Feldstein

54331. So just as I want pilots on the planes that I fly, when it comes to monetary policy, I want to think that there is someone with sound judgement at the controls. – Martin Feldstein

54332. The good news is that a competitive dollar in the global market and a strong dollar at home are compatible in both the long run and during the transition to a more competitive dollar. – Martin Feldstein

54333. The more competitive value of the dollar turned around the trade deficit. – Martin Feldstein

54334. The only way that we can reduce our financial dependence on the inflow of funds from the rest of the world is to reduce our trade deficit. – Martin Feldstein

54335. The price of imported oil in the US doubled between summer 2003 and summer 2005, reducing consumers’ purchasing power by more than 1 per cent of gross domestic product. – Martin Feldstein

54336. Thirty years ago, many economists argued that inflation was a kind of minor inconvenience and that the cost of reducing inflation was too high a price to pay. No one would make those arguments today. – Martin Feldstein

54337. To finance this trade deficit, the U.S. has to borrow from the rest of the world or sell American assets like stocks, businesses, and real estate to the rest of the world. – Martin Feldstein

54338. In short, both experience and economic theory imply that the US could now t to a more competitive dollar without experiencing either increased inflation or decreased economic growth. – Martin Feldstein

54339. An increase in the relative price of products from the low wage manufacturers in Asia and Latin America will also make those products less attractive to American consumers. – Martin Feldstein

54340. Although economists have studied the sensitivity of import and export volumes to changes in the exchange rate, there is still much uncertainty about just how much the dollar must change to bring about any given reduction in our trade deficit. – Martin Feldstein

54341. After all, an overvalued dollar gives us the ability to buy foreign goods at lower prices. And the existing volume of exports brings more yen and euros than they would if the dollar were more competitive. – Martin Feldstein

54342. A second reason why science cannot replace judgement is the behavior of financial markets. – Martin Feldstein

54343. A rise in the level of saving can reduce aggregate activity temporarily but only a sustained high level of saving makes it possible to have the sustained high level of business investment that contributes to the long-run growth of output. – Martin Feldstein

54344. We pay some price when necessary to bring down inflation but that price is temporary and is not large relative to the permanent gain from reduced inflation. – Martin Feldstein

54345. Unless the trade deficit shrinks, the combination of the trade deficit and the interest and dividend payments to foreigners will grow ever more rapidly. – Martin Feldstein

54346. We are particularly poor at the open economy issues. – Martin Feldstein

54347. But the primary reason for wanting the dollar to become more competitive in the near future is that we may need an increase in exports this year and in 2007 to sustain the economy’s current pace of expansion. – Martin Feldstein

54348. The poor man is he who, having much, craves for more. – Marcus Minucius Felix

54349. When I pick up the ball and it feels nice and light and small I know I’m going to have a good day. But if I picked it up and it’s big and heavy, I know I’m liable to get into a little trouble. – Bob Feller

54350. Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday’s success or put its failures behind and start over again. That’s the way life is, with a new game every day, and that’s the way baseball is. – Bob Feller

54351. I don’t think baseball owes colored people anything. I don’t think colored people owe baseball anything, either. – Bob Feller

54352. I would rather beat the Yankees regularly than pitch a no hit game. – Bob Feller

54353. I’m no hero. Heroes don’t come back. Survivors return home. Heroes never come home. If anyone thinks I’m a hero, I’m not. – Bob Feller

54354. If you believe your catcher is intelligent and you know that he has considerable experience, it is a good thing to leave the game almost entirely in his hands. – Bob Feller

54355. Nowadays, they have more trouble packing hair dryers than baseball equipment. – Bob Feller

54356. Ted Williams was the greatest hitter I ever saw, but DiMaggio was the greatest all around player. – Bob Feller

54357. The difference between relief pitching when I did it today is simple, there is too much of it. It’s one of those cases where more is not necessarily better. – Bob Feller

54358. Where the ball went was up to heaven. Sometimes I threw the ball clean up into the stands. – Bob Feller

54359. Sympathy is something that shouldn’t be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them. – Bob Feller

54360. God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again. – Federico Fellini

54361. No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite. – Federico Fellini

54362. All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster’s autobiography. – Federico Fellini

54363. Censorship is advertising paid by the government. – Federico Fellini

54364. Cinema is an old whore, like circus and variety, who knows how to give many kinds of pleasure. Besides, you can’t teach old fleas new dogs. – Federico Fellini

54365. Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me. – Federico Fellini

54366. A different language is a different vision of life. – Federico Fellini

54367. Fate is written in the face. – Federico Fellini

54368. Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real. – Federico Fellini

54369. Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you’ve made is worth the misery of having to review it. – Federico Fellini

54370. I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise? – Federico Fellini

54371. It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive. – Federico Fellini

54372. It’s easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman. – Federico Fellini

54373. Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets. – Federico Fellini

54374. Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be. – Federico Fellini

54375. Experience is what you get while looking for something else. – Federico Fellini

54376. The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world. – Federico Fellini

54377. There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life. – Federico Fellini

54378. You exist only in what you do. – Federico Fellini

54379. A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself. – Federico Fellini

54380. A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together. – Federico Fellini

54381. I’m the guy they used to call Deep Throat. – W. Mark Felt

54382. The Bureau doesn’t have any secret files. – W. Mark Felt

54383. I never leaked information to Woodward and Bernstein or anyone else! – W. Mark Felt

54384. I haven’t leaked anything to anybody. They are wrong! – W. Mark Felt

54385. I have to do this my way. – W. Mark Felt

54386. I think there are problems with compact disc copy protection that can’t be resolved. – Edward Felten

54387. Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves. – Owen Feltham

54388. Meditation is the soul’s perspective glass. – Owen Feltham

54389. Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them. – Owen Feltham

54390. There is no one subsists by himself alone. – Owen Feltham

54391. Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment. – Owen Feltham

54392. There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man. – Owen Feltham

54393. The utter helplessness of a conquered people is perhaps the most tragic feature of a civil war or any other sort of war. – Rebecca Latimer Felton

54394. My mother is looking forward to it even more than me! I’ll be showing her the bright lights of New York. – Tom Felton

54395. I used to have some fish, some nice little carp, but they got too big for the tank. I don’t have any pets now. – Tom Felton

54396. I went to see every angler on the bank to see how they were doing, to try to give them a few tips or whatever. But yeah, we had a lot of fun. It was definitely a good time and we’re definitely going to do it again next year. – Tom Felton

54397. I’d have to just say that working with other people, it’s a different world from school. – Tom Felton

54398. I’d like to know about some of the things that they teach down there, like building a lake. If I ever wanted to build a lake, I’d like to know how to do it. – Tom Felton

54399. I’m generally more and more in my comfort zone in the wild. – Tom Felton

54400. I’m obsessed with shopping. I’ll get these urges to buy, like to shop for stuff on the Internet. I search for all kinds of weird gizmos I could get. – Tom Felton

54401. If you’re put on a set with a lot of people, it’s just nice to see everyone working together. – Tom Felton

54402. It’s shocking to say, but the cinema is quite a while away from me, and I haven’t got a car yet. – Tom Felton

54403. I plan to go to college in Southampton, a fishery studies college. Again, my brother was down there about two years ago and he said it was great, so I’m looking forward to that. – Tom Felton

54404. My favorite holiday spot has to be New York, on the St. Lawrence River. Without a doubt that area there is perfect for me. Very, very spacious. It’s nice. – Tom Felton

54405. I used to have all the Goosebumps books as a kid too. – Tom Felton

54406. No, I don’t suppose I’m so much a collector sort of person. – Tom Felton

54407. Nothing’s really changed since the Harry Potter films came along. – Tom Felton

54408. The actual course is called fishery studies, and you study general aquatics and fishery management. – Tom Felton

54409. The only time I can really relax is up a tree or somewhere outside. I love being outside. – Tom Felton

54410. There are a couple of carp fishing books I’ve been reading. I’m very interested in that line of books, because I think they write very well, carp anglers, about the general environment. – Tom Felton

54411. We went with the St. Lawrence Experience, which is run by Joe Babbitt, who is a close friend now. We went out there for 10 days and we had the best week of our lives, and we’ve been going back since. We’ve been back three times now. – Tom Felton

54412. Well, my closest friends are still the ones that I went to school with, but it’s nice to go to work, at the studios, and have people there that you’re willing to talk to and have a good conversation with. – Tom Felton

54413. Yeah, we held a junior carp tournament on the St. Lawrence River in New York last August. I hosted that along with a couple of other people. – Tom Felton

54414. Yes I still enjoy playing him. He’s the best person to play isn’t he? – Tom Felton

54415. You can finish school as soon as you finish the GCSE’s. – Tom Felton

54416. You see another side of Draco when he’s with his dad. When Draco is with his dad, he doesn’t say anything. He keeps his mouth shut. He’s sort of bullied by his dad, so he acts very different. – Tom Felton

54417. My favorite country is America. I love going there! I go in the local lake near where I work on Sundays. It’s called Berry Hill. – Tom Felton

54418. Also, I just think of Draco and he gets me in the right mood. He just keeps getting worse and worse. – Tom Felton

54419. I want to take a few years out, maybe make a couple of more films or whatever. – Tom Felton

54420. I like to fish. Fishing is always a way of relaxing. – Tom Felton

54421. A nice pop star would do you nice on one of those deserted islands. – Tom Felton

54422. As soon as I get my car I think I’ll be going to the cinema more. Since I don’t go very often, there are no films that are a must see at the moment. I usually wait till they come out on DVD. – Tom Felton

54423. Everyone plays their own crucial part towards the film. – Tom Felton

54424. I don’t go to the cinema much. – Tom Felton

54425. I like geography. I like to know where places are. – Tom Felton

54426. I like physics. I think it is the best science out of all three of them, because generally it’s more useful. You learn about speed and velocity and time, and that’s all clever stuff. – Tom Felton

54427. I like the dueling club scene, where Daniel and I fight with our wands. I thought it was a brilliant scene to shoot. I think the end product looked really good. – Tom Felton

54428. It goes back to all of us wanting to be in Hollywood. We’re all dying to win an Oscar. – Jerry Della Femina

54429. I honestly believe that advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on. – Jerry Della Femina

54430. A lot of its readers are of an age where they forget to cancel. – Jerry Della Femina

54431. There is a great deal of advertising that is much better than the product. When that happens, all that the good advertising will do is put you out of business faster. – Jerry Della Femina

54432. That’s great advertising when you can turn Chicago into a city you’d want to spend more than three hours in. – Jerry Della Femina

54433. Thank you for making me nouveau riche. – Jerry Della Femina

54434. Hopefully I’ll be the first Mexican-American going into Hillbilly Heaven. – Freddy Fender

54435. Whenever I run into prejudice. I smile and feel sorry for them, and I say to myself, There’s one more argument for birth control. – Freddy Fender

54436. Wasted Days and Wasted Nights, it’s about days very wrongly invested in a love affair. – Freddy Fender

54437. They wanted to start recording rock ‘n roll, and thought I had the right voice. – Freddy Fender

54438. In my mind and in my heart, I feel okay. I cannot complain that I haven’t lived long enough, but I’d like to live longer. – Freddy Fender

54439. I’m one year away from 70 and I’ve had a good run. I really believe I’m okay. – Freddy Fender

54440. I’m a romantic, and we romantics are more sensitive to the way people feel. We love more, and we hurt more. When we’re hurt, we hurt for a long time. – Freddy Fender

54441. I was separated from my wife at the time. A lot of people think I wrote it about prison. – Freddy Fender

54442. I was dreaming I was on the Sullivan Show. – Freddy Fender

54443. My sister and I were born in San Francisco. When our parents died, we came down here to live with relatives. – Freddy Fender

54444. I wonder if I could make an electric bass. – Leo Fender

54445. If something is easy to repair, it is easy to construct. – Leo Fender

54446. Let there be bass. – Leo Fender

54447. The design of each element should be thought out in order to be easy to make and easy to repair. – Leo Fender

54448. Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others. – Francois Fenelon

54449. There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true. – Francois Fenelon

54450. A good historian is timeless; although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect. – Francois Fenelon

54451. All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation. – Francois Fenelon

54452. All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers. – Francois Fenelon

54453. Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves. – Francois Fenelon

54454. Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half. – Francois Fenelon

54455. Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind. – Francois Fenelon

54456. Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure. – Francois Fenelon

54457. Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies. – Francois Fenelon

54458. Little opportunities should be improved. – Francois Fenelon

54459. If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate. – Francois Fenelon

54460. A basic tenet of a healthy democracy is open dialogue and transparency. – Peter Fenn

54461. President Barack Obama has it right – there is a lot to change about Washington. The problem is, not much will get changed unless we confront the runaway filibuster in the U.S. Senate. – Peter Fenn

54462. In the first 50 years of the filibuster, it was used only 35 times. But the last Congress alone had 112 cloture motions filed, plus threats of more. This is the tyranny of the minority. – Peter Fenn

54463. You say a line and you wait for them to laugh, then you say another line and you wait… It felt weird to me. But it’s interesting and the energy is almost like theatre, I suppose, with all the people there. – Sherilyn Fenn

54464. The difference between working with a man and a woman… is immense. – Sherilyn Fenn

54465. There is something at work that’s bigger than us. It’s about having a trust in life and being at peace that things are happening the way they should. You do what you do as well as you can do it, and then you don’t worry or agonize about the outcome. – Sherilyn Fenn

54466. Twin Peaks was special because it was so groundbreaking. In the early ’90s it really changed television a lot. A bunch of weird shows, like Northern Exposure, came on after that. – Sherilyn Fenn

54467. We all have sadness in our life and things that we can draw upon. – Sherilyn Fenn

54468. When I read the script, I was like, Hello, woman in a box. I had to explore that to the end. – Sherilyn Fenn

54469. Women do feel like they’re in a box. Society, Hollywood, some men-they want to wrap women up in a neat little package. – Sherilyn Fenn

54470. Now I know why guys like to hug girls. You guys just want to cop a feel. I can’t believe that I’ve fallen for it all these years! – Sherilyn Fenn

54471. I really loved Twin Peaks. When I saw the two-hour pilot, they screened it in the big theatre. I said, I don’t know what is going to happen. I’m in this and I don’t understand it. This is never going to sell. Who’s going to watch this thing? – Sherilyn Fenn

54472. I’m contemplating moving to London for a period of time. I’ve been in Los Angeles for 15 years and I’m really tired of it. I’m continually uninspired by what’s being sent to me. Even by huge films that they’re doing there. They’re just awful. – Sherilyn Fenn

54473. I was told once that I didn’t play the Hollywood game, and that’s why I wasn’t a big star. What they meant when was that I don’t go to parties, and when I go to an audition and I don’t like the script, they know it. – Sherilyn Fenn

54474. I was a brat. It was crazy, I was very picky. In other words, I didn’t take advantage of what was happening. – Sherilyn Fenn

54475. Jessica Lange in Frances… was dramatic and passionate and one of the strongest performances I’ve seen a woman do. – Sherilyn Fenn

54476. I loved working on Of Mice and Men. It was a wonderful group of people. John Malkovich is to me one of the best actors around right now-and a lot of fun to work with. – Sherilyn Fenn

54477. I say what I feel. I try to be tactful, but I can’t not say what I feel. I have a really big problem with that. – Sherilyn Fenn

54478. I think there’s an anxiety in life where we automatically tend to look to the next thing or we’re complaining about the past. Worrying is not going to make it happen or not happen. – Sherilyn Fenn

54479. In a perfect world, I could be doing some bigger films and balance that with some independent films because they seem to be the most challenging and unique. – Sherilyn Fenn

54480. It’s completely different to work with a woman that is my age, maybe younger. – Sherilyn Fenn

54481. My mother’s been married many, many times and grew up believing in love like that. It’s remarkable. – Sherilyn Fenn

54482. Harrison Ford… I love him. He’s a man’s man. – Sherilyn Fenn

54483. I’ve always been drawn to Marilyn Monroe, but certain aspects of her story may be too sad to tell. – Sherilyn Fenn

54484. I can sing, but my voice is untrained. I’d like to do a musical someday. – Sherilyn Fenn

54485. I don’t think I could ever do a network sitcom because the humor is often based on some trite circumstance. I don’t want to be a part of a show where it’s mostly about coming up with the jokes. – Sherilyn Fenn

54486. Generally, Hollywood makes the same stories over and over. I’ve never wanted to do the same thing twice. If a script doesn’t surprise me in some way, I simply can’t commit to the project. – Sherilyn Fenn

54487. Bleaching my hair for Two Moon Junction… my hair was fried and I looked like an idiot. – Sherilyn Fenn

54488. At the very least, my tastes are out of the ordinary. – Sherilyn Fenn

54489. I love to dance. But I don’t like being up in front of tons of people. I didn’t have the desire to be performing in front of a lot of people. So it wasn’t something I ever seriously considered. – Sherilyn Fenn

54490. It’s not sometimes realistic to think that something magical can happen, but I think I look for the magic. – Sherilyn Fenn

54491. I don’t want my body to look like a man’s. I just want to tone my body. – Sherilyn Fenn

54492. I don’t flirt and I don’t play the people that I’m meeting with. – Sherilyn Fenn

54493. The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint. – James Fenton

54494. Imitation, if it is not forgery, is a fine thing. It stems from a generous impulse, and a realistic sense of what can and cannot be done. – James Fenton

54495. One does not become a guru by accident. – James Fenton

54496. If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there’s something wrong with American politics. – Edna Ferber

54497. Any garment which is cut to fit you is much more becoming, even if it is not so splendid as a garment which has been cut to fit somebody not of your stature. – Edna Ferber

54498. Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight. – Edna Ferber

54499. Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little. – Edna Ferber

54500. Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way. – Edna Ferber

54501. Life can’t defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer’s lover until death. – Edna Ferber

54502. Christmas isn’t a season. It’s a feeling. – Edna Ferber

54503. Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle. – Edna Ferber

54504. A woman can look both moral and exciting… if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle. – Edna Ferber

54505. A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects. – Edna Ferber

54506. A closed mind is a dying mind. – Edna Ferber

54507. Big doesn’t necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren’t better than violets. – Edna Ferber

54508. Most professional players are their own biggest critics. Some of the things you read in the papers that strike you as bang out of order will already have been thought by the players themselves. – Rio Ferdinand

54509. I didn’t expect to be dropped by England. – Rio Ferdinand

54510. You want to come home from a tournament with a winner’s medal. That’s not the fans or the media putting us under pressure, that’s the pressure we put ourselves under. – Rio Ferdinand

54511. You are always flattered when big clubs are interested in you. – Rio Ferdinand

54512. There is a huge responsibility on all of us to get England through. It would be one of the biggest disasters in sports history if we blew it and we must make sure it does not happen. – Rio Ferdinand

54513. There is a hangover from a defeat like Denmark – ask any player about when they’ve had a bad game, it’s still in there somewhere in the back of your mind. – Rio Ferdinand

54514. People think we don’t give a toss about the game, but when I walked out of Windsor Park that night I felt lower than a snake’s belly. The reality is still there. – Rio Ferdinand

54515. No matter how much money you have or what kind of cocoon you live in, the reality is that you have lost a game of football and let England’s fans down. We are bothered. – Rio Ferdinand

54516. If any player has a bad game it’s there in the back of your mind in the next game. There’s always a hangover. It is like a wounded animal in a way, as you want to get out there as quick as possible and rectify it. – Rio Ferdinand

54517. I’ve heard people say it looks as if I don’t care and I’ve certainly read that, but the way I play is natural. I don’t think I can change it. I know I’m working as hard as the next man, even if it doesn’t always look that way. – Rio Ferdinand

54518. I set myself high standards on the pitch and I know I have not always lived up to them this season. – Rio Ferdinand

54519. I want a new contract. I’m happy at United and I see my future here. – Rio Ferdinand

54520. Four years ago maybe we thought we were inferior to Brazil, subconsciously we didn’t see ourselves beating them. Now we believe in ourselves, we can be on the pitch with any team in the world and think we can win. – Rio Ferdinand

54521. If we had a starting XI that no one could argue about it wouldn’t say a lot for English football. We’d probably be on a downward spiral. It’s good that people have different ideas about who should play. – Rio Ferdinand

54522. Let justice be done, though the world perish. – Ferdinand I

54523. How shall a man escape from that which is written; How shall he flee from his destiny? – Ferdowsi

54524. Now when the two armies met, many and fierce were the combats waged between them, and blows were given and received, and swords flashed and showers of arrows descended on all sides. – Ferdowsi

54525. Helmet was joined to helmet, and spear to spear, and jewels, baggage, and elephants without number went with them, and you would have said it was a host that none could understand. – Ferdowsi

54526. And the blood of brave men was shed like unto the shedding of rain from a black cloud. – Ferdowsi

54527. And now may the blessing of God rest upon all men. I have told unto them the Epic of Kings, and the Epic of Kings is come to a close, and the tale of their deeds is ended. – Ferdowsi

54528. In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many. – Adam Ferguson

54529. Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived from an obscure and distant origin. They arise before the date of philosophy, from the instincts, not the speculations of men. – Adam Ferguson

54530. Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate. – Adam Ferguson

54531. The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities. – Adam Ferguson

54532. The history of mankind is confined within a limited period, and from every quarter brings an intimation that human affairs have had a beginning. – Adam Ferguson

54533. Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design. – Adam Ferguson

54534. If we can play like that every week we’ll get some level of consistency. – Alex Ferguson

54535. You can’t applaud a referee. – Alex Ferguson

54536. When I stopped drinking, it was only because I thought if I don’t stop, I’m going to die. – Craig Ferguson

54537. When I went out on tour as Bing Hitler I would hook up with Lenny and we’d get drunk together. He was always very supportive. He was a big star and a lot of what he said to me had power and impact. Apart from that, I just like him. – Craig Ferguson

54538. I am reasonably happy. I didn’t find Jesus or anything like that. Part of it is that I just feel that I could go home. I did not feel like that for a long time, but I could go back now. – Craig Ferguson

54539. I got sober. I stopped killing myself with alcohol. I began to think: ‘Wait a minute – if I can stop doing this, what are the possibilities?’ And slowly it dawned on me that it was maybe worth the risk. – Craig Ferguson

54540. They were singing, Gillette, the best a man can get, with a lot of guys hugging their fathers and sailing and riding bikes. I suddenly felt a long way from the best a man could get and I thought it would be nice to get from there to the best. – Craig Ferguson

54541. If English was good enough for Jesus Christ, then it’s good enough for Texas. – Ma Ferguson

54542. The brain’s calculations do not require our conscious effort, only our attention and our openness to let the information through. Although the brain absorbs universes of information, little is admitted into normal consciousness. – Marilyn Ferguson

54543. Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future. – Marilyn Ferguson

54544. The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. – Marilyn Ferguson

54545. Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing. – Marilyn Ferguson

54546. Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives. – Marilyn Ferguson

54547. No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal. – Marilyn Ferguson

54548. Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them. – Marilyn Ferguson

54549. Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom. – Marilyn Ferguson

54550. Change is always happening. That’s one of the wonderful things about jazz music. – Maynard Ferguson

54551. The day of the great jazz improviser who doesn’t know how to read music is over. – Maynard Ferguson

54552. Although the war in which you fought took place more than half-a-century ago, your courage, your sacrifice and your patriotism reaches through the decades and inspires us today. – Mike Ferguson

54553. The growing tide of anti-Semitism shocks the conscious of everyone who values freedom, and the ugly, hateful acts particularly stain the character of democracies where liberty and religious freedom are supposed to be respected. – Mike Ferguson

54554. Very few pilots even know how to read Morse code anymore. But if a pilot could read Morse code, he could tell which beacon he was approaching by the code that was flashing from it. – Mike Ferguson

54555. The pace of technological change in recent years has been both impressive and positive for consumers. – Mike Ferguson

54556. Pope John Paul II not only was a powerful spiritual leader for Catholics but also a world leader of extraordinary consequence during the last quarter-century. – Mike Ferguson

54557. America’s doctors, nurses and medical researchers are the best in the world, but our health care system is broken. – Mike Ferguson

54558. Only in Washington would death be considered a taxable event. – Mike Ferguson

54559. As a kid, there are some things you looked forward to. You looked forward to Charlie Brown during Halloween and you looked forward to Monday Night Football. – Nick Ferguson

54560. I expected to get drafted. I knew that I wouldn’t get drafted on that first day due to the fact that not a lot of people had the opportunity to see me play much. – Nick Ferguson

54561. It’s always great when a defense is able to create turnovers and score. That’s something we missed last year. We’d get some turnovers, but we never scored points. – Nick Ferguson

54562. Here is a place God Almighty can not drive us from. – Patrick Ferguson

54563. I wanted to work; it’s not right for a princess of the royal house to be commercial, so Andrew and I decided to make the divorce official so I could go off and get a job. – Sarah Ferguson

54564. The queen and I always got on well, still do; I uphold everything Her Majesty represents, has given up her life for. It’s her duty. For her country, she’s selfless to the grave. – Sarah Ferguson

54565. It was dreadful. They tried to put the little redhead in a cage. – Sarah Ferguson

54566. I didn’t want a divorce but had to because of circumstance. – Sarah Ferguson

54567. I wish we’d never got divorced. He and I both wish we’d never got divorced, but we did. I wish I could go back and be the bride again, but I can’t. – Sarah Ferguson

54568. When Andrew went with the girls, we were talking all morning and he was saying, ‘It’s okay. Just remember we had such a good day. Our wedding was so perfect.’ Because we’re such a unit together. He made me feel very part of the day on April the 29th. – Sarah Ferguson

54569. I felt that I ostracized myself by my behavior, by the past, by living with all the regrets of my mistakes, that I sort of wore a hair shirt and beat myself up most of the day thinking and regretting why did I make such a mistake? Why have I made so many mistakes? – Sarah Ferguson

54570. He’s by best friend and the father of my children. He’s a great ex. – Sarah Ferguson

54571. Diana was one of the quickest wits I knew; nobody made me laugh like her. – Sarah Ferguson

54572. I left my marriage knowing I’d have to work. I have. – Sarah Ferguson

54573. I really miss Diana. I loved her so much. – Sarah Ferguson

54574. The future of publishing lies with the small and medium-sized presses, because the big publishers in New York are all part of huge conglomerates. – Lawrence Ferlinghetti

54575. No, I didn’t become disenchanted. I just couldn’t paint like them. – Lawrence Ferlinghetti

54576. Well, I didn’t know how to draw very well back then, in the ’40s and ’50s. – Lawrence Ferlinghetti

54577. We were just a one-room bookstore; we didn’t have any money for lawyers. – Lawrence Ferlinghetti

54578. We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace. – Lawrence Ferlinghetti

54579. They were looking for a stable, but we didn’t have one. In fact, we weren’t very stable ourselves. – Lawrence Ferlinghetti

54580. These are international criminals, and the spineless Democrats are doing nothing about it. – Lawrence Ferlinghetti

54581. The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read a poem. – Lawrence Ferlinghetti

54582. Southern California, where the American Dream came too true. – Lawrence Ferlinghetti

54583. I am waiting for them to prove that God is really American. – Lawrence Ferlinghetti

54584. I think if there’s a great depression there might be some hope. – Lawrence Ferlinghetti

54585. I’d ban all automobiles from the central part of the city. You see, the automobile was just a passing fad. It’s got to go. It’s got to go a long way from here. – Lawrence Ferlinghetti

54586. I’m reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century. – Lawrence Ferlinghetti

54587. It’s much easier to consume the visual image than to read something. – Lawrence Ferlinghetti

54588. It’s the story of an American who wants to become a dictator and goes to Europe with a sidekick to interview various Fascists to find out how the Nazis and Mussolini got into power. – Lawrence Ferlinghetti

54589. The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all “bottom line” editors; everything depends on the money. – Lawrence Ferlinghetti

54590. Don’t patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his books at a chain bookstore, I feel like telling him he’s stabbing the independent bookstores in the back. – Lawrence Ferlinghetti

54591. Everything the Beats stood for was the opposite of the dominant culture today. – Lawrence Ferlinghetti

54592. Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making. – Lawrence Ferlinghetti

54593. Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they’d been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do. – Lawrence Ferlinghetti

54594. And the Blue Angels are coming back to scare the local population. I remember seeing old Vietnamese women ducking under the benches in Washington Square; they thought they were back in the war. – Lawrence Ferlinghetti

54595. Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately. – Lawrence Ferlinghetti

54596. I have found a very great number of exceedingly beautiful theorems. – Pierre de Fermat

54597. I will share all of this with you whenever you wish. – Pierre de Fermat

54598. I am more exempt and more distant than any man in the world. – Pierre de Fermat

54599. And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown it that the ancients did not know everything. – Pierre de Fermat

54600. But it is impossible to divide a cube into two cubes, or a fourth power into fourth powers, or generally any power beyond the square into like powers; of this I have found a remarkable demonstration. This margin is too narrow to contain it. – Pierre de Fermat

54601. It is impossible for any number which is a power greater than the second to be written as a sum of two like powers. I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain. – Pierre de Fermat

54602. There’s two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you’ve made a discovery. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you’ve made a discovery. – Enrico Fermi

54603. Before I came here I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture I am still confused. But on a higher level. – Enrico Fermi

54604. If I could remember the names of all these particles, I’d be a botanist. – Enrico Fermi

54605. Ignorance is never better than knowledge. – Enrico Fermi

54606. It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge. – Enrico Fermi

54607. The fundamental point in fabricating a chain reacting machine is of course to see to it that each fission produces a certain number of neutrons and some of these neutrons will again produce fission. – Enrico Fermi

54608. There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you’ve made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you’ve made a discovery. – Enrico Fermi

54609. By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow. – Brian Ferneyhough

54610. Actually, most things I say in public lead more or less directly to my own compositional practice, so I should be careful about generalizing lest they come back to haunt me. – Brian Ferneyhough

54611. As a necessary prerequisite to the creation of new forms of expression one might, I suppose, argue that current sensibilities respond uniquely to the notion of exhaustion as exhaustion, although that does de facto seem rather limiting. – Brian Ferneyhough

54612. When I speak of “cycles,” I am referring to lengthy intervals of relative homogeneity, if not in the resolving of problems, than at least with respect to the consistency of their capacity to productively irritate. – Brian Ferneyhough

54613. So: we’re all tired. Now what? Manuscripts written in Club Med? – Brian Ferneyhough

54614. Sometimes one can be so closely involved with things that the larger context is lost to view. – Brian Ferneyhough

54615. The idea of ‘machine assemblage’ is, especially, very alien to my sensibility, since it suggests a relative indifference of the strata to one another during the process of construction. – Brian Ferneyhough

54616. Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply. – Brian Ferneyhough

54617. With respect to the respective French and German traditions you are no doubt correct, although I am reluctant to see individual achievement reduced to archetypes. – Brian Ferneyhough

54618. Why, in such a case, should the performer essay any sort of considered approach at all? – Brian Ferneyhough

54619. When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance as a composition teacher would benefit from a certain cool distance to certain tendencies I had been observing for several years with increasing disquiet. – Brian Ferneyhough

54620. What makes a specific quality or quantity of innovation retain its intense newness over the years? – Brian Ferneyhough

54621. This was possible only by dint of extended periods of frequently quite painful reflection and digestion. – Brian Ferneyhough

54622. The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics. – Brian Ferneyhough

54623. Hence my obstinate emphasis on stylistic continuity from work to work rather than specific sibling relationships between the individual work and other members of its stylistic ‘family’ in the world outside. – Brian Ferneyhough

54624. The past nine years in San Diego have represented such a period of questioning. – Brian Ferneyhough

54625. Other composers have taken this particular technique much further than I in the meantime, with the result that the Law of Diminishing Returns has begun to apply. – Brian Ferneyhough

54626. There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation. – Brian Ferneyhough

54627. I would not say that I was, these days, a ‘student’ of philosophy, although in my youth I was quite deeply involved with certain aspects of the British pragmatists. – Brian Ferneyhough

54628. Certainly being in California has encouraged a sustained commitment to rethinking the nature, purposes, and relevance of the contemporary arts, specifically music, for a society which by and large seems to manage quite well without them. – Brian Ferneyhough

54629. Composers dialogue – and obsessively, bitterly argue – with other composers, often over the span of several centuries. – Brian Ferneyhough

54630. I am certainly not arguing for the de facto autonomy of the individual work, even though there is much to be said for making the attempt to see it in that light as one facet of the reception process. – Brian Ferneyhough

54631. I don’t see ‘lines of force’ as being destructive, except to the extent that they are exclusively traceable through observance of the path of distorted material left in their wake. – Brian Ferneyhough

54632. I suppose that the scope and implications of such forces have rendered my personal accounting ritual pretty much obsolete. That’s how things sometimes go. – Brian Ferneyhough

54633. Naturally enough, I couldn’t have foreseen the vast sea change which has come upon that scene as a result of German reunification and associated events. – Brian Ferneyhough

54634. I’m perplexed, though, by your application of the term ‘negative’ to my figural imagery. – Brian Ferneyhough

54635. If nothing is at risk, nothing is established. – Brian Ferneyhough

54636. In my own recent String Trio I attempt to superimpose two quite different sets of formal strategies, both of which, ultimately, refer back to historical precedent. – Brian Ferneyhough

54637. My own position is, that it is largely up to the work itself to suggest the nature of these referential points without dimensions in and through the processes by which the distance between them is maintained. – Brian Ferneyhough

54638. I frequently compose out the entire metric structure of a piece in modified cyclic form, where each cyclic revolution undergoes some form of ‘variation’ much as if measure lengths were concrete musical ‘material.’ – Brian Ferneyhough

54639. It is still true that it is easier to compose a poem in the form of a manual for adjusting a VCR than it is to write a piece using just tuning as a symphony. – Brian Ferneyhough

54640. If the work of art is to continue pursuing the vision of both being in and of the world but nevertheless in some fashion being more than just one more object to the mounting clutter, this is the specific point, I think, where this must be assured. – Brian Ferneyhough

54641. In my model, important interference phenomena arise when individual strata come into contact. These chaotic fluctuations are, I suppose, what my music is really ‘about.’ – Brian Ferneyhough

54642. In any case, the fewer boundaries that exist hindering free movement between all forms of articulate human cognition, the better. – Brian Ferneyhough

54643. I was raised a Catholic and when you’re raised a Catholic they don’t teach you to think for yourself. You’re taught not to think too deeply about things. – Abel Ferrara

54644. But each time I seemed to be climbing into a roller coaster and finding myself coming through the downhill run with that sort of dazed feeling that we all know. – Enzo Ferrari

54645. Aerodynamics are for people who can’t build engines. – Enzo Ferrari

54646. The client is not always right. – Enzo Ferrari

54647. Boulez seemed to me to be a guy who wrote laws. Like a company lawyer. – Luc Ferrari

54648. So the ideology was that: use sounds as instruments, as sounds on tape, without the causality. It was no longer a clarinet or a spring or a piano, but a sound with a form, a development, a life of its own. – Luc Ferrari

54649. You turned on the radio and heard all kinds of things. – Luc Ferrari

54650. With the piano I’m completely in control of the gestural situation-not that I’m going to play the piece myself, but I know what’s difficult, what’s impossible. – Luc Ferrari

54651. Whereas Schaeffer and Henry were working like samplers, their idea was to capture those sounds which couldn’t be serially calibrated because they were too complex in character. – Luc Ferrari

54652. When the Domaine Musical started up, I wasn’t part of it. They were the major players in contemporary music at that time, braodcasting old and new composers’ work. And I wasn’t one of them. – Luc Ferrari

54653. Well, first I studied piano. I wasn’t very satisfied because I though my teachers were dumb… and repressive. – Luc Ferrari

54654. Electronic music used pure sounds, completely calibrated. You had to think digitally, as it were, in a way that allowed you to extend serial ideas into other parameters through technology. – Luc Ferrari

54655. I was born in Paris, and I haven’t moved, except until now – I live in the suburbs and I hate it. – Luc Ferrari

54656. I wanted to play piano, and that slid quickly into writing – it wasn’t enough to play other people’s notes: I had to write notes too. – Luc Ferrari

54657. I think I came across Cecil Taylor a bit later, in 65 or 66. That really impressed me – Cecil Taylor is an amazing character… Both his music and the way he approaches the instrument are astonishing. – Luc Ferrari

54658. I probably went to musique concrete concerts – though not the very first ones – at the beginning of the 50s. – Luc Ferrari

54659. I have problems with machines which aren’t gestural. – Luc Ferrari

54660. My sisters were going out with artists and poets, and eventually it was the creative world which attracted me. – Luc Ferrari

54661. And I have to tell you as a grandmother, I worry about the fact that my grandchildren are going to be paying for all the spending, including military spending, that has gone on and the tax cuts that have come through. – Geraldine Ferraro

54662. You people married to Italian men, you know what it’s like. – Geraldine Ferraro

54663. The polls indicated that I was feisty, that I was tough, that I had a sense of humor, but they weren’t quite sure if they liked me and they didn’t know whether or not that I was sensitive. – Geraldine Ferraro

54664. People who live through transplants or disasters like Sept. 11 are survivors. – Geraldine Ferraro

54665. President Reagan’s one-liners were terrific. – Geraldine Ferraro

54666. My desk drawer is filled with all kinds of prayers. – Geraldine Ferraro

54667. See that’s a goal that I think it’s very good in the debate to find out who the person is. – Geraldine Ferraro

54668. The bottom line as far as I was concerned was presenting to the public who Gerry Ferraro was. – Geraldine Ferraro

54669. The public is entitled to know whether or not I am married to Jack The Ripper. – Geraldine Ferraro

54670. Vice president – it has such a nice ring to it! – Geraldine Ferraro

54671. We had prepared, my staff had prepared for me a whole dossier on virtually – on George Bush on his votes on his records, what he had done over the past number of years in public service. – Geraldine Ferraro

54672. We were so shocked by how fast that war went that President Bush did not have a plan, a peace plan. – Geraldine Ferraro

54673. You don’t have to have fought in a war to love peace. – Geraldine Ferraro

54674. I didn’t look very sensitive and they didn’t know me very well. – Geraldine Ferraro

54675. If you think somebody cares about you and believes your life is worth saving, how can you give up? – Geraldine Ferraro

54676. What are my sources of strength? My husband and my three kids, my health-care team, and my religion. – Geraldine Ferraro

54677. I didn’t serve on a committee that dealt with foreign policy. – Geraldine Ferraro

54678. But I do think its necessary to have debates. – Geraldine Ferraro

54679. But I made one mistake which I would never repeat as a member of Congress when I was in Washington, and that was when I was elected I didn’t go on trips because I was so afraid of having someone accuse me of taking junkets. – Geraldine Ferraro

54680. If you ask me a question, don’t tell me what the question is in advance, ’cause I’d rather not know. – Geraldine Ferraro

54681. I do believe in the power of prayer. – Geraldine Ferraro

54682. And it was, it was not beating George Bush, believe it or not, the bottom line as far as I was concerned was introducing to the public who Gerry Ferraro was. – Geraldine Ferraro

54683. I don’t consider myself a survivor; that’s someone who has gone through something terrible. – Geraldine Ferraro

54684. I don’t like to practice ahead of time what I’m going to say. – Geraldine Ferraro

54685. I enjoyed debate on the floor but it’s not really debate in the same way. – Geraldine Ferraro

54686. I have been extremely lucky; I am a person who is currently living with a cancer that is under control. – Geraldine Ferraro

54687. I readily admit I was not an expert on foreign policy but I was knowledgeable and I didn’t need a man who was the Vice President of the United States and my opponent turning around and putting me down. – Geraldine Ferraro

54688. I was a trial lawyer when I was elected to Congress. – Geraldine Ferraro

54689. I’d call it a new version of voodoo economics, but I’m afraid that would give witch doctors a bad name. – Geraldine Ferraro

54690. I’m a happy camper because by doing this I have an opportunity to be on the cutting edge of research. – Geraldine Ferraro

54691. For one thing, one of the wonderful things that we now have is instead of the huge budget surpluses that President Clinton left us with, we now have these huge deficits that we’re going to be facing into the future. – Geraldine Ferraro

54692. Saturday Night Live is such a comedy boot camp in a way, because you get to work with so many different people who come in to host the show and you get thrown into so many situations and learn how to think on your feet, so filmmaking actually feels slow, in a good way. – Will Ferrell

54693. A lot of people have gotten into comedy because of certain influences in their lives or events that were painful, and I really have wracked my brain to figure it out. I pretty much have had a normal childhood. Maybe it was too normal. – Will Ferrell

54694. All you have in comedy, in general, is just going with your instincts. You can only hope that other people think that what you think is funny is funny. I don’t have an answer but I just try to plough straight ahead. – Will Ferrell

54695. I have only been funny about seventy four per cent of the time. Yes I think that is right. Seventy-four per cent of the time. – Will Ferrell

54696. I think a lot of the instincts you have doing comedy are really the same for doing drama, in that it’s essentially about listening. The way I approach comedy, is you have to commit to everything as if it’s a dramatic role, meaning you play it straight. – Will Ferrell

54697. James Caan told me at the end of filming ‘Elf’ that he had been waiting through the whole film for me to be funny – and I never was. – Will Ferrell

54698. Often times I’m confronted with a quote that I don’t remember saying. So, on one hand it’s very flattering, it is just so surreal. – Will Ferrell

54699. Every musician liked Peggy Lee, but not the general public. – Mel Ferrer

54700. We were given clear concrete tools. The course did a great job demystifying the art of fiction writing and fostering confidence. The instructor brought complex concepts down to earth. I will miss coming here every week. – Miguel Ferrer

54701. Am I Latin? Am I American? What the hell am I? I love my culture and I’m very proud of my culture. – America Ferrera

54702. I’m the first one in line to go watch “Spider-Man,” but there’s definitely something in me that makes me want to go to a movie and see something that makes me feel good about life. – America Ferrera

54703. Computer: a million morons working at the speed of light. – David Ferrier

54704. To be a champion you must act like one, act like a champion. – Lou Ferrigno

54705. You are going to have bad days and have good days. – Lou Ferrigno

54706. The attitude is very important. Because, your behavior radiates how you feel. – Lou Ferrigno

54707. It’s funny how sometimes how the public some people think I was born like this. That I maybe I sleep and I do big muscle, but its a lot of work to look like this and to be in this kind of condition. – Lou Ferrigno

54708. If you are going to try and hide something, sooner or later people are going to find out. – Lou Ferrigno

54709. I never think about losing. – Lou Ferrigno

54710. I know right a way there’s a person that’s very insecure; that he’s trying to out do me. And, ah, like I was saying before, if you give one-hundred percent of your best, and you may have fault, but there is nothing you can do, because you gave one-hundred percent. – Lou Ferrigno

54711. And Mary J. Blige, she’s got all these fur coats and hats and stuff. She’s good; I like her. – Bryan Ferry

54712. But I do like to have peace and quiet for a good hour. – Bryan Ferry

54713. But I don’t write so much now, because they’re too painful. – Bryan Ferry

54714. But I was feeling quite down at the time. I was living in L.A., which was kind of weird for me. – Bryan Ferry

54715. But when I started writing songs, I stopped painting completely, and the only art things I do are connected to the career, like album sleeves and, to some extent, posters and things like that. – Bryan Ferry

54716. All those rappers, they’re the only glamorous people working in music now. They dress up in these chains of gold, cars, girls and this and that, high-heeled shoes. – Bryan Ferry

54717. Performing was terrifying. – Bryan Ferry

54718. You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed? – Bryan Ferry

54719. Women! I have no idea. I don’t know anything about women at all. They’re a complete mystery to me. – Bryan Ferry

54720. The quality of the writing, really. Simple as that. Beautiful words. It’s very nice as a singer to do great songs, which have wonderful lyrics and strong feelings underneath the song. – Bryan Ferry

54721. Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off. – Bryan Ferry

54722. When I stopped touring in the early ’80s for a few years, it was a mistake looking back. I lost touch with my audience in a way and I think that was a bad career move. – Bryan Ferry

54723. I suppose young people think football is glamorous – soccer – it’s big money and the stars of it, they look good and have a great big house and a huge Ferrari. – Bryan Ferry

54724. But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing. – Bryan Ferry

54725. I can never predict what’s going to happen. – Bryan Ferry

54726. I didn’t really want to give up music. – Bryan Ferry

54727. I don’t do interviews at all when I’m on tour, so this time, on a day off, I’ll do that kind of thing a little bit. I don’t do big promotion schedules, not when I’m touring. – Bryan Ferry

54728. I don’t think I’ve ever played the Olympia before, but I’m not totally sure. – Bryan Ferry

54729. I had beautiful bikes and I was really into it. I just thought it was really glamorous. – Bryan Ferry

54730. I like L.A., but I shouldn’t live there. – Bryan Ferry

54731. I like the fact that music is more abstract. – Bryan Ferry

54732. I like the name Atomic Kitten. It’s so great. – Bryan Ferry

54733. Words can be very powerful. I find them very difficult. – Bryan Ferry

54734. I met John Lennon and he was with his wife in Tokyo. I met him there. – Bryan Ferry

54735. Oh yes, much, because music is just something that comes to you. You don’t question it. – Bryan Ferry

54736. I’d love to follow the Tour de France one day. It’s a really exciting spectacle. I’ve only seen it once as it was coming into Paris and that was very exciting for me. I have memories of that. – Bryan Ferry

54737. I’ve had quite a few moments I’ve liked, so it’s good enough. – Bryan Ferry

54738. It’s not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of. – Bryan Ferry

54739. It’s nice to know that there are several different avenues I could pursue. – Bryan Ferry

54740. I mean, there are so many of his songs that I like that I could easily do that one day. – Bryan Ferry

54741. In New York, you couldn’t wish for a nicer audience, or in L.A., Chicago, Boston. But when you get into secondary markets, they don’t have a clue. – Bryan Ferry

54742. I’m not really sure what it was, the best moment. You always hope it’s to come. – Bryan Ferry

54743. It’s fabulous when you do that, when you discover somebody who you like, when you kind of feel those feelings, even though he articulates them better. – Bryan Ferry

54744. I should add that it is open to debate whether what we call the writing of history these days is truly scientific. – Lion Feuchtwanger

54745. Like the philosopher, the author views his task as one of establishing a clear connection between life and history, and of making the past bear fruit for the present and future. – Lion Feuchtwanger

54746. There’s only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, but there’s no road leading from the ridiculous to the sublime. – Lion Feuchtwanger

54747. What is a historian, anyway? It is someone who uses facts to record the development of humanity. – Lion Feuchtwanger

54748. I have always made an effort to render every detail of my reality with the greatest accuracy; but I have never paid attention to whether my presentation of historical facts was an exact one. – Lion Feuchtwanger

54749. From depicting the past, so goes the suspicion, it is a short step to glorifying the past. – Lion Feuchtwanger

54750. Ever since my youth it has disturbed me that of the literary works that survived their own epoch, so many dealt with historical rather than contemporary subjects. – Lion Feuchtwanger

54751. Both the historian and the novelist view history as the struggle of a tiny minority, able and determined to make judgments, which is up against a vast and densely packed majority of the blind, who are led by their instincts and unable to think for themselves. – Lion Feuchtwanger

54752. Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers about radio transmission. – Lion Feuchtwanger

54753. An author who sets about to depict events of the past that have run their course is suspected of wishing to avoid the problems of the present day, of being, in other words, a reactionary. – Lion Feuchtwanger

54754. An action doesn’t have to be wrong just because it is not logical. It doesn’t have to be right just because it has its logic. – Lion Feuchtwanger

54755. After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and up-to-date as in the contemporary ones. – Lion Feuchtwanger

54756. If someone gives you so-called good advice, do the opposite; you can be sure it will be the right thing nine out of 10 times. – Anselm Feuerbach

54757. Theology is anthropology. – Anselm Feuerbach

54758. A Harvard Medical School study has determined that rectal thermometers are still the best way to tell a baby’s temperature. Plus, it really teaches the baby who’s boss. – Tina Fey

54759. An interim government was set up in Afghanistan. It included two women, one of whom was Minister of Women’s Affairs. Man, who’d she have to show here ankles to to get that job? – Tina Fey

54760. I am constantly amazed by Tina Fey. And I am Tina Fey. – Tina Fey

54761. I think if you ask any of us here, we all dreamed of ending up on Saturday Night Live. I remember thinking, ‘I’ll just keep doing this as long as I can get away with it.’ – Tina Fey

54762. I was the editor of the school newspaper and in drama club and choir, so I was not a popular girl in the traditional sense, but I think I was known for being relatively scathing. – Tina Fey

54763. If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the stairs. If you want to make comedy writers laugh, you push an actual old lady down the stairs. – Tina Fey

54764. Somewhere around the fifth or seventh grade I figured out that I could ingratiate myself to people by making them laugh. Essentially, I was just trying to make them like me. But after a while it became part of my identity. – Tina Fey

54765. Yeah, it’s tough being smart and sexy, too. I have to say, I’m really not that attractive. Until I met my husband, I could not get a date. I promise you it’s true. My husband Jeff Richmond saw a diamond in the rough and took me in. – Tina Fey

54766. Most of the time you’re too busy to think about it. But every now and then you say, ‘I work at “Saturday Night Live,” and that is so cool. – Tina Fey

54767. The only principle that does not inhibit progress is: anything goes. – Paul Feyerabend

54768. Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled. – Richard P. Feynman

54769. It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are. If it doesn’t agree with experiment, it’s wrong. – Richard P. Feynman

54770. For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. – Richard P. Feynman

54771. If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize. – Richard P. Feynman

54772. I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there. – Richard P. Feynman

54773. I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy. – Richard P. Feynman

54774. It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn’t get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man. – Richard P. Feynman

54775. Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man’s struggle for good and evil seems inadequate. – Richard P. Feynman

54776. The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool. – Richard P. Feynman

54777. The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another. – Richard P. Feynman

54778. There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It’s a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you ‘play’ with them! – Richard P. Feynman

54779. We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on. – Richard P. Feynman

54780. Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars – mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more? – Richard P. Feynman

54781. Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry. – Richard P. Feynman

54782. By philosophy the mind of man comes to itself, and from henceforth rests on itself without foreign aid, and is completely master of itself, as the dancer of his feet, or the boxer of his hands. – Johann Gottlieb Fichte

54783. What sort of philosophy one chooses depends on what sort of person one is. – Johann Gottlieb Fichte

54784. To those who do not love God, all things must work together immediately for pain and torment, until, by means of the tribulation, they are led to salvation at last. – Johann Gottlieb Fichte

54785. Only one man ever understood me, and he didn’t understand me. – Johann Gottlieb Fichte

54786. Humanity may endure the loss of everything; all its possessions may be turned away without infringing its true dignity – all but the possibility of improvement. – Johann Gottlieb Fichte

54787. He who is firm in will molds the world to himself. – Johann Gottlieb Fichte

54788. Full surely there is a blessedness beyond the grave for those who have already entered on it here, and in no other form than that wherein they know it here, at any moment. – Johann Gottlieb Fichte

54789. By mere burial man arrives not at bliss; and in the future life, throughout its whole infinite range, they will seek for happiness as vainly as they sought it here, who seek it in aught else than that which so closely surrounds them here – the Infinite. – Johann Gottlieb Fichte

54790. A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not. – Johann Gottlieb Fichte

54791. God is not the mere dead conception to which we have thus given utterance, but he is in himself pure Life. – Johann Gottlieb Fichte

54792. Saturn seems to have impressed the seal of melancholy on me from the beginning. – Marsilio Ficino

54793. Who can wonder at the attractiveness… of the bar, for our ambitious young men, when the highest bribes of society are at the feet of the successful orator? – Marsilio Ficino

54794. You are running to seek your friend. Let your feet run, but your mind need not. – Marsilio Ficino

54795. Artists in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love. – Marsilio Ficino

54796. Books that distribute things… with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again. – Marsilio Ficino

54797. There is a wonder in reading Braille that the sighted will never know: to touch words and have them touch you back. – Jim Fiebig

54798. When someone demands blind obedience, you’d be a fool not to peek. – Jim Fiebig

54799. No one should be allowed to play the violin until he has mastered it. – Jim Fiebig

54800. Might does not make right, it only makes history. – Jim Fiebig

54801. If life were just, we would be born old and achieve youth about the time we’d saved enough to enjoy it. – Jim Fiebig

54802. If life begins at 40, what is it that ends at 39? – Jim Fiebig

54803. Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone. – Jim Fiebig

54804. If you have never been amazed by the very fact that you exist, you are squandering the greatest fact of all. – Jim Fiebig

54805. The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers. – Edgar R. Fiedler

54806. For economist the real world is often a special case. – Edgar R. Fiedler

54807. He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass. – Edgar R. Fiedler

54808. If you have to forecast, forecast often. – Edgar R. Fiedler

54809. Ask five economists and you’ll get five different answers – six if one went to Harvard. – Edgar R. Fiedler

54810. It’s so wrong when I pick up a new edition of Huckleberry Finn and I look at the last page and it doesn’t say, Yours truly, at the end. – Leslie Fiedler

54811. The black situation has changed. They finally realized they’re Americans. – Leslie Fiedler

54812. Saul Bellow never took my advice when he was my friend. – Leslie Fiedler

54813. Raymond Carver is good. I think he’ll be appreciated more and more. He’s an easy writer to imitate. – Leslie Fiedler

54814. One more recent novelist to come along is Cormac McCarthy. Him, I like. – Leslie Fiedler

54815. Of the female black authors, I really like Morrison’s early books a lot. But she’s really become so much a clone of Faulkner. He did it better. – Leslie Fiedler

54816. My assignment is what every writer’s assignment is: tell the truth of his own time. – Leslie Fiedler

54817. Kafka is still unrecognized. He thought he was a comic writer. – Leslie Fiedler

54818. It’s funny to be a critic. – Leslie Fiedler

54819. The middlebrow, I hate. – Leslie Fiedler

54820. Jane Austen is at the end of the line that begins with Samuel Richardson, which takes wonder and magic out of the novel, treats not the past but the present. – Leslie Fiedler

54821. The novel doesn’t come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along. – Leslie Fiedler

54822. The novel is always pop art, and the novel is always dying. That’s the only way it stays alive. It does really die. I’ve been thinking about that a lot. – Leslie Fiedler

54823. The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That’s what makes it different from both high art and folk art. – Leslie Fiedler

54824. The reason Saul Bellow doesn’t talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading. – Leslie Fiedler

54825. There are things in American culture that want to wipe the class distinction. Blue jeans. Ready-made clothes. Coca-Cola. – Leslie Fiedler

54826. What I really dream of is that somebody would blow everything I’ve done out of the water in a beautiful way, which would clear the way for something better to come along. – Leslie Fiedler

54827. When all of us are forgotten, people will still be remembering Stephen King. – Leslie Fiedler

54828. When I was 12 years old, someone took me to see Martha Graham. It was nothing like what I thought of as serious dancing and even then I knew I was having a great experience. It was as if somebody was moving through space like no one ever did before. – Leslie Fiedler

54829. When somebody asks me what I do, I don’t think I’d say critic. I say writer. – Leslie Fiedler

54830. If there’s one thing I can’t stand, it’s somebody doing something because I pushed them in that direction. – Leslie Fiedler

54831. Foucault was the one person I met in France that I could talk to. He was a mensch. You know whether you agree with him or not because you know what he is saying. – Leslie Fiedler

54832. Writers always know whether you like them or not. – Leslie Fiedler

54833. I gave up writing blurbs because you make one friend and 200 enemies. – Leslie Fiedler

54834. I’ve had a tough time with Pynchon. I liked him very much when I first read him. I liked him less with each book. He got denser and more complex in a way that didn’t really pay off. – Leslie Fiedler

54835. Anybody in the next centuries wanting to know what it was like to be a poet in the middle of the 20th century should read Kaddish. – Leslie Fiedler

54836. Cooper wrote a novel which is absolutely indistinguishable from Austen, completely from a female point of view, completely English, no sense that he was an American. – Leslie Fiedler

54837. Critics? How do they happen? I know how it happened to me. I would send a poem or story to a magazine and they would say this doesn’t suit our needs precisely but on the other hand you sound interesting. Would you be interested in doing a review? – Leslie Fiedler

54838. DeLillo never seems committed to me to what he is writing. Very nice surfaces, but he’s got nothing underneath. – Leslie Fiedler

54839. Faulkner sat in our living room and read from Light in August. That was incredible. – Leslie Fiedler

54840. Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had really wanted to know. – Leslie Fiedler

54841. Hemingway seems to be in a funny position. People nowadays can’t identify with him closely as a member of their own generation, and he isn’t yet historical. – Leslie Fiedler

54842. Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein. – Leslie Fiedler

54843. All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn’t read it the way you read history or science. – Leslie Fiedler

54844. I admire Ginsberg as a poet, despite the fact that he seems not to know when he is being good and when he is bad. But he will last, or at least those poems will last. – Leslie Fiedler

54845. I have, I admit, a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis. – Leslie Fiedler

54846. I like that people who are not experts can not only understand but get engaged by my work. I like that Joe Paterno can read me. Bill Bradley. – Leslie Fiedler

54847. I liked Camille Paglia. I liked her even better when I heard her talk. – Leslie Fiedler

54848. I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love. – Leslie Fiedler

54849. I love it now that a large minority of people who are handicapped prefer to call themselves crippled. This is all part of the game, like queer theory. – Leslie Fiedler

54850. I never met anybody in my life who says, I want to be a critic. People want to be a fireman, poet, novelist. – Leslie Fiedler

54851. I think Henry Miller has had huge influence not because he wrote about sex, but because the memoir or the nonfiction novel has become such a monumental force in American publishing, if not in literature. – Leslie Fiedler

54852. I think the pattern of my essays is, A funny thing happened to me on my way through Finnegans Wake. – Leslie Fiedler

54853. I used to be fond of Indian arm wrestling. – Leslie Fiedler

54854. I’ve been writing about James Fenimore Cooper. He was not a writer. Here was a man who was 30 years old and had never put anything more than his signature on paper. – Leslie Fiedler

54855. Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are in this gray area between memoir and novel. – Leslie Fiedler

54856. Here we have a baby. It is composed of a bald head and a pair of lungs. – Eugene Field

54857. Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other. – Eugene Field

54858. He played the King as though under momentary apprehension that someone else was about to play the ace. – Eugene Field

54859. Democracy no longer works for the poor if politicians treat them as a separate race. – Frank Field

54860. A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment. – Marshall Field

54861. Give the lady what she wants! – Marshall Field

54862. Good will is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy. – Marshall Field

54863. Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy. – Marshall Field

54864. Right or wrong, the customer is always right. – Marshall Field

54865. Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it. – Rachel Field

54866. There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed. – Rachel Field

54867. I’ve seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted. – Rachel Field

54868. I used to think I had ambition… but now I’m not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They’re easily confused. – Rachel Field

54869. One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends. – Rachel Field

54870. There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don’t have anything to do with my nose. – Sally Field

54871. I’m so vigorous, and I so take it for granted, because I’ve always been a real physical person. – Sally Field

54872. I’ve never had my heart broken. – Sally Field

54873. If I hadn’t fought back, I might have been Gidget forever. – Sally Field

54874. It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else’s eyes. – Sally Field

54875. Last year I was diagnosed with osteoporosis. – Sally Field

54876. You lose your habitual behavior, which allowed you to sort of zone out. You have to be here, you have to be now, you have to be present. – Sally Field

54877. My last son is leaving to go to college; my grandchildren are being born. My mother is living with me. – Sally Field

54878. There was really a snobbery from people in film – they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy. – Sally Field

54879. When you’re old, you are more certain of who you are, and that may be a good thing or a bad thing. – Sally Field

54880. I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person. It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else’s eyes. – Sally Field

54881. I was just lucky enough to grow up in a time when they actually had drama departments in schools. – Sally Field

54882. My agent said, ‘You aren’t good enough for movies.’ I said, ‘You’re fired.’ – Sally Field

54883. I can’t deny the fact that you like me! You like me! – Sally Field

54884. I would take plays and I would cut out all the other dialogue and make long monologues because I felt the other kids weren’t taking it as seriously as I did. – Sally Field

54885. But there isn’t any second half of myself waiting to plug in and make me whole. It’s there. I’m already whole. – Sally Field

54886. I came from a real working-class show business family. – Sally Field

54887. I have never been beautiful in cliche terms. – Sally Field

54888. I haven’t had an orthodox career, and I’ve wanted more than anything to have your respect. The first time I didn’t feel it, but this time I feel it, and I can’t deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me! – Sally Field

54889. I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work. – Sally Field

54890. I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That’s like fighting with ghosts. – Sally Field

54891. I really have no ulterior motive in taking on certain roles. I have no larger issue that I really want to show people. I’m an actor, that’s all. I just do what I do. – Sally Field

54892. I think that’s very sad, that I haven’t allowed my heart to be broken. I have broken a few. – Sally Field

54893. I think the first thing I did was several scenes from Romeo and Juliet. – Sally Field

54894. But I was losing so much bone density that I would have been in grave danger. And I mean grave danger. If I had let it go just a few more years I could have broken my hip or spine just picking up my granddaughter. – Sally Field

54895. Change is never easy. – Sally Field

54896. The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but a stepping-stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till our political contests will become a war of the poor against the rich. – Stephen J. Field

54897. When the judges shall be obliged to go armed, it will be time for the courts to be closed. – Stephen J. Field

54898. The last eight years have created a lot of deep-seated hostility. People take political decisions very personally, and today there is a constant, ongoing attack, with one side or the other being maligned. – Fred F. Fielding

54899. Morgan, Lewis is a very large firm now, but it was not quite as big then. It was exciting for an associate in those days, because you got good and varied assignments and terrific training. – Fred F. Fielding

54900. The Nixon years were trying. They honed my judgment for everything I did later on. The experience also illustrated for me the importance of training young lawyers properly. – Fred F. Fielding

54901. Soon after I returned to private practice, former Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger called me one day. – Fred F. Fielding

54902. One regret I have is that I did not learn more about what was happening very early, so that I could have tried to stop people from engaging in illegal activities. – Fred F. Fielding

54903. It is hard for people outside the White House to understand the constant daily problems and issues that come up that require the president’s attention, but he can not let himself get too personally involved. – Fred F. Fielding

54904. It became evident to me that there was a very serious political element at work. I know that the term impeachment was bandied about. I do not believe, however, that the word was used with the ferocity it was more recently or that it was in the Nixon years. – Fred F. Fielding

54905. I’m still friendly with Dean. He still calls me on the phone from time to time. John Dean was fired and later ended up spending some time in prison for his role in Watergate. – Fred F. Fielding

54906. Dean had just come from seeing his lawyer. That was the first time that I found out that he had consulted a lawyer. He wanted to tell me what he thought was going on, but he was writing it down as if my house was bugged. He acted like everything was bugged. – Fred F. Fielding

54907. But look, you did not have to be well versed in politics to know that some stupid things were going on. It is the counsel’s job to stop them, and instead the coverup was created. – Fred F. Fielding

54908. This drama between Dean and Ehrlichman took place while I was trying to give the contents to the FBI. – Fred F. Fielding

54909. It was frightening because it was the first time I had gotten a sense of how serious the problem was. It became clear from his notes that he felt the president himself was involved. – Fred F. Fielding

54910. It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, another falls to pieces. – Helen Fielding

54911. Dieting on New Year’s Day isn’t a good idea as you can’t eat rationally but really need to be free to consume whatever is necessary, moment by moment, in order to ease your hangover. I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second. – Helen Fielding

54912. There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear. – Henry Fielding

54913. The world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are. – Henry Fielding

54914. The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts. – Henry Fielding

54915. The devil take me, if I think anything but love to be the object of love. – Henry Fielding

54916. The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim. – Henry Fielding

54917. There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman. – Henry Fielding

54918. Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others. – Henry Fielding

54919. Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are. – Henry Fielding

54920. One fool at least in every married couple. – Henry Fielding

54921. Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of. – Henry Fielding

54922. There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love. – Henry Fielding

54923. We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions. – Henry Fielding

54924. What’s vice today may be virtue, tomorrow. – Henry Fielding

54925. When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief. – Henry Fielding

54926. When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough, I’ve done my duty, and I’ve done no more. – Henry Fielding

54927. When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on. – Henry Fielding

54928. Where the law ends tyranny begins. – Henry Fielding

54929. Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy. – Henry Fielding

54930. Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not. – Henry Fielding

54931. All nature wears one universal grin. – Henry Fielding

54932. Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation. – Henry Fielding

54933. Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be. – Henry Fielding

54934. Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason. – Henry Fielding

54935. Conscience – the only incorruptible thing about us. – Henry Fielding

54936. A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World! – Henry Fielding

54937. A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not. – Henry Fielding

54938. A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool. – Henry Fielding

54939. A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart. – Henry Fielding

54940. Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not. – Henry Fielding

54941. Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. – Henry Fielding

54942. Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue. – Henry Fielding

54943. Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation. – Henry Fielding

54944. He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the later. – Henry Fielding

54945. I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species. – Henry Fielding

54946. If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil. – Henry Fielding

54947. It is not death, but dying, which is terrible. – Henry Fielding

54948. Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. – Henry Fielding

54949. LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites. – Henry Fielding

54950. Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil. – Henry Fielding

54951. Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it. – Henry Fielding

54952. Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor. – Henry Fielding

54953. Flattery in courtship is the highest insolence, for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than you deserve, it is watching an opportunity to take from you what you really have. – Sarah Fielding

54954. The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination. – Sarah Fielding

54955. Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in our lives. – Sarah Fielding

54956. The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey. – Sarah Fielding

54957. I fancied I had some constancy of mind because I could bear my own sufferings, but found through the sufferings of others I could be weakened like a child. – Sarah Fielding

54958. If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader. – Sarah Fielding

54959. I was condemned to be beheaded, or burnt, as the king pleased; and he was graciously pleased, from the great remains of his love, to choose the mildest sentence. – Sarah Fielding

54960. You do not have to be superhuman to do what you believe in. – Debbi Fields

54961. Good enough never is. – Debbi Fields

54962. I use nothing but the best ingredients. My cookies are always baked fresh. I price cookies so that you cannot make them at home for any less. And I still give cookies away. – Debbi Fields

54963. I’ve never felt like I was in the cookie business. I’ve always been in a feel good feeling business. My job is to sell joy. My job is to sell happiness. My job is to sell an experience. – Debbi Fields

54964. If you’re going to be at a job environment, you should love it. You shouldn’t do it just for money. You should do it because you love it. And the money comes naturally. – Debbi Fields

54965. Number one, I absolutely love making chocolate chip cookies. I mean, it’s fun. It’s exciting. Beyond the fact that I love making them, I love eating them. – Debbi Fields

54966. Love is the reason you were born. – Dorothy Fields

54967. My father assigned me to keep his scrapbooks. At first I was interested in reading only his rave notices, but I got interested in reading what the critics were saying about whether the play was good or not. – Dorothy Fields

54968. No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you. – Dorothy Fields

54969. The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother. – Dorothy Fields

54970. The songwriter mustn’t fall in love with his own song. If it doesn’t belong, he can’t push it into a show. Let him save it; maybe it’ll fit in another show. – Dorothy Fields

54971. Write what you feel. Write because of that need for expression. – Dorothy Fields

54972. There aren’t more lady songwriters for the same reason that there aren’t more lady doctors or lady accountants or lady lawyers; not enough women have the time for careers. – Dorothy Fields

54973. We’ve accumulated a lot of things over the years and many things from our grandmother. Hopefully it’ll be all right. I really don’t want to cry, but I can’t help it. – Dorothy Fields

54974. Keep it in tune with the times, but don’t write with the specific purpose of trying to create a hit. If you’re doing it strictly to make money, you’re crazy. There are easier ways to make money. – Dorothy Fields

54975. A song just doesn’t come on. I’ve always had to tease it out, squeeze it out. – Dorothy Fields

54976. If you don’t have a story that will hold the audience, you won’t have a successful show. – Dorothy Fields

54977. I don’t care how good a song is – if it holds back the storyline, stalls the plot, your audience will reject it. – Dorothy Fields

54978. I do not think men have more talent. There are a great many women in the arts; novelists, painters, sculptors, poets-but the proportion is far lower in the field of song writing. – Dorothy Fields

54979. I began to be impressed by what made a good book-how you needed to have a sensible story, a plot that developed, with a beginning, a middle, and an end that would tie everything together. – Dorothy Fields

54980. Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music publisher? – Dorothy Fields

54981. A song must move the story ahead. A song must take the place of dialogue. If a song halts the show, pushes it back, stalls it, the audience won’t buy it; they’ll be unhappy. – Dorothy Fields

54982. A rhyme doesn’t make a song. – Dorothy Fields

54983. A songwriter should have friends who are similarly interested; should move about in the milieu of work he has chosen for himself. – Dorothy Fields

54984. In a show or a movie, one must work with many people. Many women just don’t have the time for it. – Dorothy Fields

54985. A farmer travelling with his load Picked up a horseshoe on the road, And nailed if fast to his barn door, That luck might down upon him pour; That every blessing known in life Might crown his homestead and his wife, And never any kind of harm Descend upon his growing farm. – James Thomas Fields

54986. Oh, to be home again, home again, home again! Under the apple-boughs, down by the mill! – James Thomas Fields

54987. The Academy Awards ceremony is designed to be without irony, but Chris Rock supplied it anyway with filmed movie-theater interviews with black men and women who had never heard of the movies nominated for Best Picture. – Suzanne Fields

54988. Many of the Europeans who want Israel to go away don’t even know why they do. Nearly a third of those interviewed concede they have no idea what the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is all about. It’s enough to know that Israelis are Jews. – Suzanne Fields

54989. Most of the debate over the cultures of death and life is about process. The debate focuses on the technology available to determine how we prolong life and how and when we end it. – Suzanne Fields

54990. Sometimes the ignorant are among the most educated. – Suzanne Fields

54991. We’ve become more tolerant because we’re tired of the debate. – Suzanne Fields

54992. Stupidity fuses notoriety and celebrity. – Suzanne Fields

54993. That’s what Major League Baseball’s steroid scandal was all about, the hidden harm in competitive sports that sends the wrong message to the young. – Suzanne Fields

54994. Many critics of the Palestinians, especially those in Congress, think the current calm is merely the eye of the storm. That’s why the House of Representatives approved a foreign aid package last week that forbade the direct financial assistance to the Palestinian Authority . – Suzanne Fields

54995. The death of Pope John Paul II led many of different faiths and of no faith to acknowledge their debt to the Roman Catholic Church for holding on to absolutes that the rest of us can measure ourselves against. – Suzanne Fields

54996. The lopsided attitudes of college professors pose a serious challenge to learning because students are so susceptible to becoming lopsided sheep. – Suzanne Fields

54997. The old studios that mass-produced dreams are gone with the wind, just like the old downtown theaters that were the temples of the dreams. – Suzanne Fields

54998. There are enough Poles in Chicago to make up one of the largest cities in Poland. – Suzanne Fields

54999. There’s more than a few remnants left in German welfare policy today. Many Germans eagerly condemn Hitler’s fascism but won’t examine the other reasons why the Third Reich succeeded for a season. – Suzanne Fields

55000. You still can’t find Israel on a map of the Middle East in a Palestinian schoolbook. – Suzanne Fields