Quotes about famously (16 Quotes)



    Some parts of the administration have been slower to reach this point than others. In the midst of the May attacks, Vice President Dick Cheney famously said that the insurgency was in its last throes. ... Insurgencies tend to go on five, six, eight, 10, 12 years. Coalition forces, foreign forces are not going to repress that insurgency. We're going to create an environment that the Iraqi people and the Iraqi security forces can win against that insurgency.





    I say unto you, what he hath done famously he did it
    to that end; though soft-conscienc'd men can be content to say it
    was for his country, he did it to please his mother and to be
    partly proud, which he is, even to the altitude of his virtue.

    Meryl Streep once testified famously before Congress, saying that she was there to represent the uninformed. Now, that sums it up pretty well when it comes to these celebrity issues.


    There's such friendship with us, ... We get along famously. It doesn't seem real. I'm sure there's been a point in my life that I've been happier, but it probably involved drugs or women ... I feel like a stupid kid who's just had his first orgasm. I love playing with my band guys.

    The Voice which is a union shop has an internal culture thats famously feisty and fractious. When the company recently announced it was cutting writers pay, senior editor Robert Christgau wrote a letter posted on a popular media Web site vowing, We at the Voice are not taking this lying down. ... Many believe this is an attempt by management to render the paper more salable.

    The British mountaineer George Mallory was once famously asked why he was trying to climb Mount Everest and his famous reply was 'because it is there.' That's a compelling argument when you are a mountaineer. But for an 850 million rover mission you better have a better reason than that.


    This is a big job with a lot of different moving pieces. Ed Murrow once famously said that there's no cash register that rings when a mind is changed. But I think over the long haul we can begin to shape a better perception in the Middle East.

    I don't believe that had any impact at all, ... Tiger was famously 'anti' the technology, media and telecom sectors -- and the tech sector was marked down today, while the traditional sectors were marked up.


    A famously wise old man in a village was once asked how he came by his wisdom. 'I got it from my good judgment,' he answered. And where did his good judgment come from 'I got it from my bad judgment.'



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