Today Quotes

Everything the Beats stood for was the opposite of the dominant culture today.

Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.

In Hollywood today, it's cool for guys to wear nail polish and earrings in their lips and tongues. I don't get it.

This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money.

Let us make future generations remember us as proud ancestors just as, today, we remember our forefathers.

New ideas should confront old ideas. We must refer to the example of Europe. People have fought to make Europe what it is today. Freedom is not something that is served up on a plate.

Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920's and 1930's when those who should have known better persuaded themselves that they were not their brother's keeper.

Twenty-five million veterans are living among us today. These men and women selflessly set aside their civilian lives to put on the uniform and serve us.

I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare.

If you really want to be competitive in today's market you have to be in movies that make money.

Today more than 20,000 communities participate in the National Flood Insurance Program. More than 90 insurance companies sell and service flood service insurance. There are more than four million policies covering the total of $800 billion.

Well, I quit smoking three weeks ago and I had a hard day today not smoking.

I think they are paying a lot more attention to news now, by the way, in part because of national-security issues. A lot of young people have friends or family in the military today.

There can be no assumption that today's majority is "right" and the Amish and others like them are "wrong." A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no rights or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different.

Much of the messy advertising you see on television today is the product of committees. Committees can criticize advertisements, but they should never be allowed to create them.

Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed.

The whole format of entertainment that I did seems to be fading away. The music business of today is completely different when you see the videos and the music.

A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the Peace Corps as it reached its 45th anniversary on March 1, 2006.

I just did something on a show on UPN called "Girlfriends" that will be on television in February. I am actually a much better actor today than I was in 1996, believe it or not.

I'm trying to do the best I can. I'm not concerned with tomorrow, but with what goes on today.

All those people whose faces decorate the shopping bags of Barnes and Noble, with a few exceptions, would never get published today.

Today in America, we are trying to prepare students for a high tech world of constant change, but we are doing so by putting them through a school system designed in the early 20th Century that has not seen substantial change in 30 years.

Although there has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity, the hermeneutic question today seems to us a new one.

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed.

My earlier poems were sadder than my poems are today, perhaps because I wrote them in confusion or when I was unhappy. But I am not a melancholy person, quite the contrary, no one enjoys laughing more than I do.

Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.

Too many kids today are playing major league ball and don't belong there.

I served at a time when we had a strong economy, when we had deficits that we would die for today. I was able to propose a balanced budget, not over ten years, but over five years. I'm proud of that record.