Ferguson's Quotes

#1. I grew up here, and it's always been a very diverse community. So for people to come out and say that there's some long-standing anger or there's a history of racial tension is absolutely ridiculous. There's not a black-white divide in Ferguson. - Author: James Knowles III

#2. There's something I believe wholeheartedly: Cynicism is the true refuge of the pseudo-intellectual, .. Cynicism is easy. Joy is an extremely advanced spiritual and intellectual tenet. - Author: Craig Ferguson

#3. Here in California, we passed a law against texting while driving. But there's no law preventing you from writing a letter while driving. - Author: Craig Ferguson

#4. How do we bring glory to God? The Bible's short answer is: by growing more and more like Jesus Christ. - Author: Sinclair B. Ferguson

#5. I'm crazy. I know I'm crazy 'cause Desmond Tutu told me, and he's very clever. He said, 'You must free yourself, be more of who you are. Be more crazy.' And I'm going to. - Author: Craig Ferguson

#6. As early as 1975 she had come up with a wonderful line about the Labour Party: They've got the usual Socialist disease - they've run out of other people's money. - Author: Niall Ferguson

#7. There will be some things I do well and things I do wrong. But I keep coming. Playing with heart. That's going to help me continue to grow. - Author: D'Brickashaw Ferguson

#8. Myths grow all the time. If I was to listen to the number of times I've thrown teacups then we've gone through some crockery in this place. It's completely exaggerated, but I don't like people arguing back with me. - Author: Alex Ferguson

#9. In Stalin's Russia racial persecution was often disguised as class warfare. More than 1.5 million members of ethnic minorities died as a result of forced resettlement. - Author: Niall Ferguson

#10. An inability to encourage someone else is usually rooted in an absorption
with self that is blind to the needs or gifts of others, or a pride that cannot bring itself to praise God's grace in them. - Author: Sinclair B. Ferguson

#11. Mark Zuckerberg was named Time's Person of the Year. I'm sorry if you don't recognize the name. A magazine is something people used to read. - Author: Craig Ferguson

#12. Italian women are some of the most beautiful in the world. This is why the Vatican is in Italy. If a man can walk across Italy and retain his celibacy, he's got what it takes to be a priest - or an interior decorator. - Author: Craig Ferguson

#13. By the power of Steven Wright's Beard! - Author: Craig Ferguson

#14. I know that's not the right accent, but I can't do the right accent. It's either the wrong accent or another Octomom joke. - Author: Craig Ferguson

#15. Today, banking assets (that is, loans) in the world's major economies are equivalent to around 150 per cent of those countries' combined GDP. - Author: Niall Ferguson

#16. It's all about the triumph of intellect and romance over brute force and cynicism. - Author: Craig Ferguson

#17. In general, I have felt more at home in the U.S. than I ever felt in England. - Author: Niall Ferguson

#18. For the first time in history, Congress has 100 women in it. Congratulations. Welcome to modern times, America. It's great having 100 women in Congress. Unless you're in line for the congressional bathroom. - Author: Craig Ferguson

#19. I'm no f****** talking to you. He's a f****** great player. Yous are f******* idiots. - Author: Alex Ferguson

#20. I refuse to accept that Western civilization is like some hopeless old version of Microsoft DOS, doomed to freeze, then crash. I still cling to the hope that the United States is the Mac to Europe's PC, and that if one part of the West can successfully update and reboot itself, it's America. - Author: Niall Ferguson

#21. ...I don't feel anything but rage for the person who gave me a secret I didn't want. - Author: Alane Ferguson

#22. Forgive me, I must start by pointing out that three years after our horrific financial crisis caused by financial fraud, not a single financial executive has gone to jail, and that's wrong, - Author: Charles Ferguson

#23. This story is true. Of course, there are many lies therein and most of it did not happen, but it's all true.
In that sense it is deeply religious, perhaps even biblical. - Author: Craig Ferguson

#24. One of the main arguments that I make in my new book, 'The Great Degeneration,' is that the rule of law in the U.S. is becoming the rule of lawyers. - Author: Niall Ferguson

#25. We must resist the temptation to romanticize history's losers. - Author: Niall Ferguson

#26. There can be no understanding without that sympathy which puts us, through the imagination, and (another's) situation. - Author: Niall Ferguson

#27. I'm going to tell you the story about the geese which fly 5,000 miles from Canada to France. They fly in V-formation but the second ones don't fly. They're the subs for the first ones. And then the second ones take over - so it's teamwork. - Author: Alex Ferguson

#28. Dolphin's dancing
on the wave's
leaping, playing
having fun
in the sun - Author: Melissa Ferguson

#29. He's fiery, he's competitive, ... I think it was an unfair booking, and Wayne reacts like this against injustice. - Author: Alex Ferguson

#30. Tokyo Heist is a fast-paced, exotic reading adventure, a story where The da Vinci Code meets the wildly popular manga genre! Author Diana Renn infuses protagonist Violet with plenty of chikara (power) and Renn's fresh, spot-on author's voice is irresistible. I couldn't put it down! - Author: Alane Ferguson

#31. I tell my audiences today that I served 10 years in Nashville! That's a joke, of course; I was grateful for the work. Bob Ferguson, who produced Connie Smith, Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton, started calling me in. - Author: Johnny Gimble

#32. 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. - Author: Sarah Ferguson

#33. I think this industry can be tough on everyone. You have to surround yourself with supportive people and know when to put your foot down and do what's best for you and your family. The first few years in the music industry can be a steep learning curve, and I've definitely developed a thicker skin! - Author: Rebecca Ferguson

#34. I think there's definitely a dance album or at least single in me somewhere. I would want to work with a really cool Ibiza DJ, though. - Author: Rebecca Ferguson

#35. Thus the motivation, energy and drive for holiness are all found in the reality and power of God's grace in Christ. And so if I am to make any progress in sanctification, the place where I must always begin is the gospel of the mercy of God to me in Christ Jesus. - Author: Sinclair B. Ferguson

#36. When he's at the top of his game, there's not a team in the world that can handle Giggs' speed and penetration - Author: Alex Ferguson

#37. I think that's what I love about jazz is that you can do what you want, and you're allowed to mess up. - Author: Rebecca Ferguson

#38. It's a great day for America, everybody! It's Monday, woo. - Author: Craig Ferguson

#39. Bush's memoir is 512 pages. To be fair, 200 of those pages are just games and puzzles. - Author: Craig Ferguson

#40. I think if I produced a show I would not want to be part of that production. That's not ... I'm not ... I mean, I couldn't even sell Boy Scout chocolate bars when I was a kid! - Author: Jesse Tyler Ferguson

#41. Women's bodies are amazing; what our bodies can do is incredible, so it's sad that we get distracted - all this stuff about being skinny, be this, be that - they're all distractions. - Author: Rebecca Ferguson

#42. There's this culture where we celebrate people snapping back into shape a week after the birth, but I don't want to be one of those people - I just want to enjoy Arabella. - Author: Rebecca Ferguson

#43. A lot of people in their 30's get nostalgic for their teen years. Then they get jobs in TV, become bitter and jaded and prematurely old. Then they turn their nostalgia into great television. - Author: Craig Ferguson

#44. There is a scene in the movie where Astrid and Hiccup fly on Toothless's back toward the island of Berk. The animation is intensely real, from the waves on the sea to wisps of wind blowing in the characters' hair. The feeling I get watching that scene is why I fly - just for that feeling. - Author: Craig Ferguson

#45. Every year there's a jury at the Cannes Film Festival. Getting on the jury is very competitive in France. Not because the French love cinema, but because they love to judge. - Author: Craig Ferguson

#46. Here's a tip for all you aspiring young comics: Don't beat up the customers. It is very difficult to get laughs from an audience when you've actually drawn blood from one of their number. It kills the mood. - Author: Craig Ferguson

#47. It's great to see countries like China and India lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty by essentially copying Western ways of doing things. - Author: Niall Ferguson

#48. I don't think there's anything Craig Ferguson could say that would make me laugh. Ad-libbing is not the same as entertainment. - Author: Andy Kindler

#49. He will know from and early age that failure is not disgrace. It's just a pitch that you missed, and you'd better get ready for the next one. The next one might be the shot heard round the world. My son and I are Americans, we prepare for glory by failing until we don't. - Author: Craig Ferguson

#50. The real social contract, (Edmund Burke) argued, was not Rousseau's social contract between the noble savage and the General Will, but a "partnership" between the present generation and future generations. - Author: Niall Ferguson

#51. There's just a feeling you get from certain things you do in life that just kind of feel pure and independent of what's actually, physically, going on. - Author: Craig Ferguson

#52. Everest in his slippers. That's what he was like. - Author: Alex Ferguson

#53. That's here on CBS, where the 'C' stands for 'Classy' and the 'BS' speaks for itself. - Author: Craig Ferguson

#54. The Danes are causing a bit of trouble. The kingdom of Denmark claimed the North Pole as their own. Hey, you can't just reach out and take something if you want it, Denmark. That's Russia's job. - Author: Craig Ferguson

#55. Well, football is a hard game; there's no denying it. It's a game that can bring out the worst in you, at times. - Author: Alex Ferguson

#56. Japan. So successful was the Japanese 'welfare superpower' that by the 1970s life expectancy in Japan had become the longest in the world. But that, combined with a falling birth rate, has produced the world's oldest society, with more than 21 per cent of the population already over the age of 65. - Author: Niall Ferguson

#57. I don't know now if I'm funny. I just keep talking and hope that I hit something that's funny. - Author: Craig Ferguson

#58. It's very interesting to know what people are doing while you're working on late-night television. - Author: Craig Ferguson

#59. Well he's only 20. Without question, he's the best youngest player I've seen in my time ... If he keeps developing and matures ? goodness knows what he will become. At the moment he's a breathe of fresh air.
(on Wayne Rooney) - Author: Alex Ferguson

#60. Ocean's 13 is all about cool people having a good time, and who doesn't want to see that? Well you, apparantly, 'cause you're watching me. - Author: Craig Ferguson

#61. Sarah Palin is speaking out about the oil spill. She said, I'm not kidding, we should ask the Dutch for help with the spill because the Dutch have the world's best dikes. So let me get this straight. It is OK to cover lesbians in oil but you just can't let them get married. - Author: Craig Ferguson

#62. We historians are increasingly using experimental psychology to understand the way we act. It is becoming very clear that our ability to evaluate risk is hedged by all sorts of cognitive biases. It's a miracle that we get anything right. - Author: Niall Ferguson

#63. Democrats are calling Christine O'Donnell 'the Sarah Palin of the East.' Really? She's a loud, emotionally unstable woman from Delaware. That's not Sarah Palin, that's Joe Biden. - Author: Craig Ferguson

#64. It's a sad world we live in when a human being leaves so little of a mark that no one even realizes it when he's gone. - Author: Alane Ferguson

#65. Oprah's quitting in 2011. Now we know why the Mayans ended their calendar in 2012 - Author: Craig Ferguson

#66. Like most athletes, I like to go home and relax. I try not to bring the game home with me. I might play some video games that are, let's just say, for mature audiences only. And I might get some flak for this, but I like to watch 'Seinfeld.' Sometimes, laughter is the best medicine. - Author: Nick Ferguson

#67. The term Big Brother is from George Orwell's book 1984 - where everyone's watched over by a network of cameras called Big Brother. I've never understood why Orwell chose that phrase for somebody watching you all the time. Isn't that more like Creepy Uncle? - Author: Craig Ferguson

#68. Mr Warty's face swelled up like a puffer fish - all his whiskers standing straight out like poison spikes. - Author: Ferguson Fartworthy

#69. We best defend the Lord's glory by speaking first TO Him about unbelieving men rather than speaking first ABOUT Him to unbelieving men. - Author: Sinclair B. Ferguson

#70. When journalists and politicians speak of a dwindling middle class that's under economic assault and a poor community that's getting bigger, they're talking about Ferguson. Independent of the racial demographics and dynamics of Ferguson, Missouri, there's a 'Ferguson' near you. - Author: Jesse Jackson

#71. Even though it's warm here in L.A., people still have to wear layers - at least until their plastic surgery heals. - Author: Craig Ferguson

#72. It's a book. It's mine. And it's done. - Author: Craig Ferguson

#73. Some S&Ls bet their depositors' money on highly dubious projects. Many simply stole it, as if deregulation meant that the law no longer applied to them. - Author: Niall Ferguson

#74. Ferguson's out of order. He has lost all sense of reality. He is going out looking for a confrontation, then asking the person he is confronting to apologise. He's pushed the cork in a bit far this time. - Author: Arsene Wenger

#75. I think the scores for Olympic gymnastics are affected by what countries the judge and the gymnast are from. That's wrong. That type of political pandering isn't meant for gymnastic Olympic events. It's meant for the Supreme Court. - Author: Craig Ferguson

#76. it was said to be 'hardly in the power of liquor to affect Dr Webster's understanding or his limbs'. Yet no one was more sober when it came to calculations of life expectancy. - Author: Niall Ferguson

#77. You know, I think there's a good rule of thumb here: Don't take nutritional advice from other species. - Author: Craig Ferguson

#78. It 's the time of year when Canadians mate. - Author: Craig Ferguson

#79. I am the Saudi Arabia of unhappiness. I have so many reserves of misery that you wouldn't understand. I actually think that's part of why I connect with Canadians. I think they understand grinding misery underneath. - Author: Craig Ferguson

#80. Saudia Arabia takes in half a trillion dollars every year in oil revenue, and the country has a population smaller than New York state, but when your system of government is an eleventh century monarchy, someone's going to end up poor, and it's not gonna be the guy whose first name is King. - Author: Craig Ferguson

#81. the Bank's proper role in a crisis as the 'lender of last resort', to lend freely, albeit at a penalty rate, to combat liquidity crises.42 - Author: Niall Ferguson

#82. They've been practicing racism so long, it's perfect. - Author: Darnell Lamont Walker

#83. I've got a running machine which I try and use, but it's just finding the time. Don't get me wrong, I love cake and ice cream; I'm the kind of girl that, if I want something, I'll have it. - Author: Rebecca Ferguson

#84. 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. - Author: Sarah Ferguson

#85. I absolutely love Nicole Scherzinger. She's worked really hard to get to where she is and really knows her stuff. - Author: Rebecca Ferguson

#86. My greatest challenge is not what's happening at the moment, my greatest challenge was knocking Liverpool right off their f*****g perch. And you can print that. - Author: Alex Ferguson

#87. If you're frightened of leprechauns, the best thing to do is to get yourself a little leprechaun outfit and see how big they are. And then you'll go, 'Well I see. That's like bein' frightened of a hampster.' - Author: Craig Ferguson

#88. I always bring my Jiffy Esteam steamer to get the wrinkles out of our clothes. It's powerful enough to press a suit. - Author: Jesse Tyler Ferguson

#89. Don't tell me that you have a Reformed Church in the tradition of Calvin until you have the preaching of the Word every day of the week, devote Wednesday's to prayer and have the church gather together for prayer. - Author: Sinclair B. Ferguson

#90. The pace of the game demanded a referee who was fit. It is an indictment of our game. You see referees abroad who are as fit as butcher's dogs. We have some who are fit. He wasn't fit. - Author: Alex Ferguson

#91. Change is the law of God's mind and resistance to it is the source of all pain. - Author: Craig Ferguson

#92. There's a full-court press to put down an uprising around Ferguson, but no preparation for lifting up the people there. - Author: Jesse Jackson

#93. Sarah Palin. Remember Sarah Palin? She is adorable. She is back on the campaign trail. Really. She's going to campaign in the Senate runoff in Georgia. As soon as she finds out where Georgia is. - Author: Craig Ferguson

#94. It's a great day for Sarah Palin. She was hired as a commentator for Fox News. She signed a multi-year contract, which means she'll probably quit after a year. - Author: Craig Ferguson

#95. HD doesn't mean anything to me. It's a technical thing. It's like demographics. A lot of people know about it. - Author: Craig Ferguson

#96. Distinguish between power and control, delegate, be decisive - and always remember people's first names. - Author: Alex Ferguson

#97. I used to psych myself up before the show and now I do the complete opposite: I psych myself down. It's 12:30 at night, you don't want some guy yelling at you. You want some guy just talking to you. - Author: Craig Ferguson

#98. It's the beauty and curse of doing a daily show. Some days you've got nothing to talk about and other days Dick Cheney shoots his lawyer in the face and everyone is happy. - Author: Craig Ferguson

#99. The whole point about historians is that we are really communing with the dead. It's very restful - because you read. There's some sociopathic problem that makes me prefer it to human interaction. - Author: Niall Ferguson

#100. You know when you're a kid and you think, 'Oh no, I've got double math, this is never gonna end,' but then it ends, and it's like it never happened? That's like life. - Author: Craig Ferguson