People told me, when I was coming through the ranks, that a mark of a great actor is one who deals with the period of unemployment as well as they deal with the period of employment.
~By Claudia Black ~
Tony Blair faced a massive defection from his own party ranks during voting around the intervention in Iraq. For our present purpose, the point is not that he survived the defection, but that he had to face it.
~By Stockwell Day ~
I know I'm not going to sing like Aretha Franklin or Elvis Presley or any of those people.
~By George Thorogood ~
When I drank, I had a very different attitude towards my playing. It was sloppier but I kind of liked it that way. It was like the alcohol was telling my mind what to do.
~By Mick Mars ~
McVeigh's lawyer got him the death penalty, which, quite frankly, I could have done.
~By Jon Stewart ~
You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.
~By Robert Frost ~
Under the Geneva Convention, for example, a POW is required only to provide name, rank, and serial number and cannot receive any benefits for cooperating.
~By John Yoo ~
All men will commence in their present rank and promotion will be open to all men alike, without any distinctions or qualifications, political or otherwise.
~By John Amery ~
If their were more Franklin operations it could help the cause much more than right wing activity.
~By Tom Metzger ~
The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.
~By W. H. Auden ~
I rank myself no higher in the scheme of things than a policeman - whose utility would disappear if there were no criminals.
~By Lord Salisbury ~
The one thing you can't do when you're highly ranked is relax.
~By William Floyd ~
I had a lousy marriage and I drank too much.
~By Pat Travers ~
Frankly I've never really subscribed to these adjectives tagging me as an 'icon', 'superstar', etc. I've always thought of myself as an actor doing his job to the best of his ability.
~By Amitabh Bachchan ~
Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.
~By Joseph Heller ~
And frankly, when I made that record, hit songs were not what I was trying to achieve.
~By Duncan Sheik ~
I joined Tommy Dorsey at the Paramount Theater in New York as a singer. I replaced Frank Sinatra.
~By Ken Curtis ~
My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.
~By Barack Obama ~
And, quite frankly, I fully expected to be charged with murder, because they weren't charging anybody. I did it in terms of, I felt like I was throwing down the gauntlet saying look, this is what happened. There's a family out there that needed to know what happened.
~By Patty Hearst ~
The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality.
~By Tammy Baldwin ~
The Earth reminded us of a Christmas tree ornament hanging in the blackness of space. As we got farther and farther away it diminished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful marble you can imagine.
~By James Irwin ~
If you choose to be Frankenstein with Botox and plastic surgery, you've bought your own private mask.
~By Frances Conroy ~
I didn't just want to be Frank's daughter who sang Boots. I take my music very seriously and studied very hard. It's not a joke to me.
~By Nancy Sinatra ~
I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
~By Henry A. Kissinger ~
I can no more think of my own life without thinking of wine and wines and where they grew for me and why I drank them when I did and why I picked the grapes and where I opened the oldest procurable bottles, and all that, than I can remember living before I breathed.
~By M. F. K. Fisher ~
I want to keep audiences off balance, so they don't know who I am or how to take me. If I duck and weave, as Frank Bruno might say, I'll have a longer shelf life.
~By Robert Carlyle ~
Money is a strange thing. It ranks with love as our greatest source of joy, and with death as our greatest source of anxiety.
~By Joe Moore ~
The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution as one of the most important developments in economic history.
~By Larry Summers ~
It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.
~By Mary A. Ward ~
Marines are very good at fighting... And if Gen. Franks wants fighters on the ground and he puts Marines in, he'll have what he wants.
~By Peter Pace ~
What will happen to sex after liberation? Frankly, I don't know. It is a great mystery to all of us.
~By Nora Ephron ~
I always see things that I can improve. But frankly with Stripes, I'm surprised at how effective it is, even today, and how vibrant that movie is and how juicy the performances all are.
~By Ivan Reitman ~
We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic.
~By David Russell ~
Frankly, my politics are pretty left of left.
~By Chris Cooper ~
I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.
~By Georg Trakl ~
As far as film goes, I enjoy all Hollywood films and all Horror films like The Bride of Frankenstein, which also might be my favorite. I like 60's and 70's Italian and Spanish Horror films.
~By Johnny Ramone ~
It's hard for women to talk about these things, and for the doctors to really talk about it too, and to even have the knowledge of what's going on. That's why I'm doing this and urging women to speak out and talk to their doctors frankly.
~By Cybill Shepherd ~
And let us be frank, the security threats that emanate from our ports come from foreign cargo.
~By Dana Rohrabacher ~
Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.
~By Napoleon Bonaparte ~
Rank does not intimidate hardware. Neither does the lack of rank.
~By Norman Ralph Augustine ~
The fact that the price of gasoline has declined some in recent weeks must not allow Americans to be lulled into a false sense of security. Energy independence must rank along with border security as the top priorities of the United States.
~By Virgil Goode ~
Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.
~By Desiderius Erasmus ~
I am convinced that our movement will be more demoralized and weakened by blind and uncritical admiration than by frank admission of past mistakes.
~By Marie Louise ~
Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.
~By Mike Ditka ~
I think that we have a responsibility to make certain that we are fiscally responsible in order to assure, frankly, future generations don't have to pay our bills.
~By Carol Moseley Braun ~
There are a number of steps that we can take to reinvigorate and rebuild the economic and the physical infrastructure of our country and then to rebuild us, frankly, on a spiritual level.
~By Carol Moseley Braun ~
I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.
~By Karl Lagerfeld ~
The groups, though, were my inspiration way back then. I liked Frankie Lyman and the Teenagers.
~By Eddie Floyd ~
We had some very distinguished fans: I know one chancellor of a major university who used to schedule his meetings around Star Trek. We were thrilled to discover that Frank Sinatra was a big fan.
~By Patrick Stewart ~
Among my activities was membership in the Boy Scouts; I rose each year through the ranks, eventually achieving the rank of Eagle Scout and undertaking leadership roles in the organization.
~By Frederick Reines ~
When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'
~By Joe Biden ~
Your wrinkles either show that you're nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you're always smiling.
~By Carlos Santana ~
The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
~By Anthony Burgess ~
If they have covered your face with latex, you have to control yourself mentally so you won't think. If you start thinking, you will succumb to panic. I had a bit of a cold, and frankly I didn't have a good time.
~By Meg Tilly ~
There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.
~By John James Ingalls ~
I couldn't join a party that, frankly, tolerates members who are bigots for one thing, homophobes, racists.
~By Ron Reagan ~
To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness.
~By Timothy Radcliffe ~
Elections are about choosing sides, but inaugurations are about closing ranks.
~By Ted Kulongoski ~
Now, a lot of what we are doing right now, quite frankly, is because of what happened on Christmas. Many of the things were kind of in the works. We were already planning, for example, the purchase and deployment of advanced imaging technology. You call them body scanners. We call them AITs (Advanced Imaging Technologies).
~By Janet Napolitano ~
A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
~By Mark Twain ~
As far as me knowing if Frank was a genius - in those days, I thought Einstein was the only genius around.
~By Jimmy Carl Black ~
Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.
~By Victoria Secunda ~
Before I begin talking about the threats we face, the vulnerabilities that we have, and frankly the courage of the men and women in uniform that stand in harm's way on behalf of a very grateful Nation, let me first honor the sacrifices of September 11.
~By Zach Wamp ~
If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.
~By Ted Rall ~
To be able to pretend to be something that I'm frankly not is very liberating and exciting.
~By Hugh Laurie ~
My mother was against me being an actress - until I introduced her to Frank Sinatra.
~By Angie Dickinson ~
Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair.
~By Annie Dillard ~
Frankly, I was surprised at how generous the Japanese press has been to the idea of a foreigner running Sony.
~By Howard Stringer ~
I would love to expose multiple younger generations to Frank's music. It's not an easy task because It's not ever going to be plastered all over the radio for the masses.
~By Dweezil Zappa ~
I was so delirious that I drank a glass of water, thought it wine and got glorious drunk.
~By Will M. Cook ~
I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness.
~By Georg Brandes ~
Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind.
~By Jean Rostand ~
And frankly, being a woman I think gives me a slightly different take on a lot of the issues and on a lot of the solutions to the problems we face.
~By Carol Moseley Braun ~
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
~By Alexandre Dumas ~
The history of the Franks becomes, therefore, the history of the Netherlands.
~By John Lothrop Motley ~
Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
I don't want to write formula. I don't want to crank these books out like sausages. Every book is different, which takes a hell of a lot of ingenuity on my part.
~By Sue Grafton ~
Some of my other heroes around that time were, oddly enough, Frank Sinatra, Nat Cole and people like that - I was always more inclined to listen to ballads.
~By William Bell ~
Even though the National Guard and Army Reserve see combat today, it rankles me that people assume it was some kind of waltz in the park back then.
~By Larry David ~
He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.
~By Emily Dickinson ~
You know, there are people making a lot of money in this country who can actually afford their own health care. We are in a situation where we got a safety net in place in this country for people who frankly don't need one. We got to focus on making sure we got a safety net for those who actually need it.
~By Eric Cantor ~
Archbishop - A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
A manager should stay as far away as possible from his players. I don't know if I said ten words to Frank Robinson while he played for me.
~By Earl Weaver ~
Benjamin Franklin said there were only two things certain in life: death and taxes. But I'd like to add a third certainty: trash. And while some in this room might want to discuss reducing taxes, I want to talk about reducing trash.
~By Ruth Ann Minner ~
In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
It was not until I had graduated from college that I made a professional commitment to it. Frankly, I didn't think it wise. I was my own interior parental force, and it's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.
~By Twyla Tharp ~
Frank was the BOSS and was not open to anything that was not from his head. There were no arguments about music because if you did, he would show you where the door was. Period.
~By Jimmy Carl Black ~
It is remarkable how many misconceptions there are here about life in the developing world and I think that that knowledge gap has done a lot to contribute to the imbalance quite frankly.
~By Emma Thompson ~
People are quite shocked when you remind them that Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra never wrote a song that they recorded in their lives, as far as I know.
~By Robert Wyatt ~
It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
~By Mignon McLaughlin ~
Good questions outrank easy answers.
~By Paul Samuelson ~
In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principal.
~By Jacques Barzun ~
I think we need to just be very clear about what we're trying to do in Afghanistan. Frankly, we're not trying to create the perfect democracy. We're never going to create some ideal society. We are simply there for our own national security.
~By David Cameron ~
In the '50s Morris Louis and I were not known, David Smith and Helen Frankenthaler were not much known.
~By Kenneth Noland ~
You have stripped from me the rank and privileges of the professorship and the doctoral degree which I earned, and you have set me at the level of the lowest criminal.
~By Kurt Huber ~
I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.
~By Lauren Bacall ~
Gen. Tommy Franks told me the war was being compromised as specialized personnel and equipment were being shifted from Afghanistan to prepare for the war in Iraq - a war more than a year away.
~By Bob Graham ~
Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money.
~By Earl Wilson ~
I drank a lot when I was a teenager and I don't drink any more, because that's when I thought, you know, I'm gonna end up a car wreck.
~By Kristin Davis ~
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