Every writer, by the way he uses the language, reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacities, his bias…Avoid the elaborate,… — William Strunk, Jr Copy Share Image
It’s not cool. I think being a wealthy member of the establishment is the antithesis of cool. Being a countercultural revolutionary is… — Sean Parker Copy Share Image
As luck would have (it was) in God's hands. It was me...The billionaire (part) was a stretch but I thought the almighty… — Drew Waters Copy Share Image
The greatest threat facing America today is the disastrous fiscal policies of our own government, marked by shameless deficit spending and Federal… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
In the zero-sum budget game, every dollar spent on this problem [illegal immigration] must be taken from somewhere else…No, we should not… — Leon Panetta Copy Share Image
To my son Hugh, in return for the care and sorrow he has caused me all the days of his life, for… — Hallie Erminie Rives Copy Share Image
You may consider me presumptuous, gentlemen, but I claim to be a citizen of the United States, with all the qualifications of… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
What's a domestic partnership? Domestic partnership is not even a marriage, and there's a contract that involves, potentially, sexual and financial commitments… — Max Kellerman Copy Share Image
The traditions of Hollywood are grand and great and are going to survive forever, in a way. But they're not going to… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
If I want to pursue the art of painting - or music or writing or sculpture - it requires only my time… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
When will we get done with the fool idea that the way to make a party grow is to scare away everybody… — John W. Davis Copy Share Image
The experts spent a great deal of time and study working out a formula which would be fair to every State and… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I care about our young people, and I wish them great success, because they are our Hope for the Future, and some… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
If I've operated on 8,000 brain tumours, if 7,999 patients were satisfied, if I'd done the right thing, if I have funded… — Charles Teo Copy Share Image
As boom- and bust-prone as high finance always has been and remains, the greatest systemic risk to our economy is not Wall… — Tony Blankley Copy Share Image
IBM isn't investing billions of dollars every year into research and development - and winning more patents than our top 10 competitors… — Samuel J. Palmisano Copy Share Image
As costs mount, in lives and dollars, it is natural to second guess, but one lesson I hope we have learned is… — John Spratt Copy Share Image
The seasons don't matter to most of us anymore except as spectacles. In my county and in many places around this part… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
When we took on the name The Drifters, we became the new Drifters, and signed a contract to be put on salary,… — Ben E. King Copy Share Image
Money is tighter now, with the advertising dollar spread a lot more thinly across a whole range of media because of the… — Grant Bowler Copy Share Image
Here's what I can tell the American people: 95 percent of you will get a tax cut. And if you make less… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I didn’t say, You are such a stuffy asshole. And he didn’t say, If you ever burn one of my quarter-of-a-million dollar… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
To be sure, debates will linger about whether Medicare is too large or too small. Debates remain about the allocation of Medicare… — Michael Johns Copy Share Image
I saw the end of the general magazine business at the end of the '70s, and I knew I had to move… — Lawrence Schiller Copy Share Image
Law Number XXXVI: The thickness of the proposal required to win a multimillion dollar contract is about one millimeter per million dollars.… — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
I'd like the people teaching my kids to be good enough that they could get a job at the company I work… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
As southeast Texas's only Member of the House Transportation Committee, I'm especially proud of being able to help bring hundreds of millions… — Nick Lampson Copy Share Image
I think being a wealthy member of the establishment is the antithesis of cool. Being a countercultural revolutionary is cool. So to… — Sean Parker Copy Share Image
Demographics show that we are entering a battle between young and old. I call it the 'Age War.' The young want to… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
America has hundreds of billions of dollars of losses on a yearly basis - hundreds of billions with China on trade and… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
This Congress has promised all manner of border security and port security to the tune of billions of dollars... yet we have… — Solomon Ortiz Copy Share Image
Here is what the practical impact of Citizens United means. What Citizens United means is that corporations call hundreds of millions of… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
It's responsible for the sloppiness and imprecision of the War on Terror, for example. It's responsible for taking people's tax dollars and… — Timothy Hallinan Copy Share Image
A dollar put into a book and a book mastered might change the whole course of a boy's life. It might easily… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
Back in the day, in '91 or so, I tried to interview Fugazi for Rolling Stone, which the band felt stood for… — Michael Azerrad Copy Share Image
The Nigerians have been very instrumental in preserving stability in Sierra Leone. They have done this at considerable cost in dollars and… — Ed Royce Copy Share Image
Billions of dollars of grant money [over $50 billion] are flowing into the pockets of those on the man-made global warming bandwagon.… — James Spann Copy Share Image
Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Nobody in TV makes as much money as Robert Redford, who likes to make movies for several million dollars only on the… — David Brinkley Copy Share Image
I think a trillion dollars of student loans and a massive skills gap are precisely what happens to a society that actively… — Mike Rowe Copy Share Image