Famous Quotes & Sayings

Russ Blackburn

It could just be the alignment of the stars.

Martin Jacques

Labour was always aligned with the U.S. during the Cold War, but the ignominious implosion of communism reinforced the belief that no alternative to the prevailing common sense was possible.

Adam Schlesinger

We take the concept of corporate responsibility seriously and think it deserves more than lip service. For Audubon Condominium at Feather Sound we chose to align with the Make-A-Wish-Foundation because they do such a remarkable job in making wishes come true for children with life-threatening medical conditions.

Jack Messman

to ensure that our costs are more closely aligned with our business strategy.

Ruth Kelly

It is not satisfactory that there are so many data sources. I will see if it's possible to align List 99 with the Sex Offenders Register and indeed with the other data sources.

Melissa Eisenstat

Investors should view both the DOJ's and Microsoft's remedy proposals as the two end points in the spectrum of possible outcomes. However, given Judge Jackson's negative stance toward Microsoft throughout the entire legal proceeding, we suspect that the remedy judgment will more closely align with the government's proposal than Microsoft's version.

Kevin Turner

In those huge games, she's always there. She can do it when everyone knows her, when coaches align their defenses to try to stop her. That's what makes her such a special kid.

Robert Zagunis

If you wind up with a company that is so closely aligned with one individual, like it or not, the virtues of that company are tied to the virtues of that individual. You're usually much better off with CEOs who are under the radar and just work at doing a very nice job for shareholders.

John Casey

In order to build those in some sort of modular fashion, we have to have extremely tight dimensional control, where we align sonar spheres and components to within 1/32nd of an inch to the ship's centerline before the ship's centerline even exists, so we can bring components together from three separate facilities,

Jason Statham

I was like, 'Well, we'd think he'd be useless around kids,' ... But I think he finds himself more comfortable around children than he realizes.

Kerry Nelson

Kids at the children's shelter are coming out there and getting a lot of one-on-one because there are so few children out there. The reading program out there is really helping these kids a lot.

Anthony Robbins

Kids are the alltimechampions of questioning. What could you gain by imitatingthe innocence and curiosity of children who are completely determined to get ananswer?

Britt Ekland

I would teach U.K. parents how to stop their children throwing litter. London is a beautiful city but its streets are disgusting.

John Romano

Keeping an elderly couple in their home for another 10 to 15 years makes good financial sense. If they stay in their home, their cost to the town is minimal compared to the family with four children that would replace them.

Thomas Kinkade

Keep yourself surrounded by a family that loves you. My children have never told me they dislike one of my paintings.

Reese Witherspoon

I talked to several of her children and they were so encouraging and supportive. I just hope I've done her memory justice.

Pam Saylor

He just kind of fit in, personality wise. He was funny, happy. Chandler was the kind of kid that the children always wanted around. He just was kind of the life of the party.

Tony Buzan

All children are much more intelligent than they are told they are or the school thinks they are; they just have different intelligences.

William Korman

I take no issue with why she chose not to work here. But to then insult me by saying I'm not a real lawyer - that's offensive.

Gil Brandt

He chose not to come because he had a paper due the following Monday. The guy has pretty good study habits.

Andrew Morton

Her legacy and testament are the words in her book. I am very proud she chose me to tell her story, ... There is no point in pretending any more.

Kathryn Flicker

He showed no pity. He showed no compassion. He showed no mercy. He deserves none for what he chose to do.

Lanny Breuer

I think it's extraordinarily unfair that in the last minute the government has chosen to intervene.

Hani Durzy

We are extremely gratified that the Supreme Court has chosen to review this case.

John O'Hurley

I am excited that I have been chosen as the host of such a television institution.

Richard Sands

He felt that Canandaigua, you know, 'The Chosen Spot,' that's what it means in Algonquin Indian, should have more cultural arts.

Joe Sparico

I guess she just chose me to lean on. I'm just glad she's happy and home now.

Brooks Robinson

I talked to my dad about doing commercials for Flawless. I worked up a couple treatments and presented him with an overall concept of what it would look like.

Doug Summers

I think it (a steak house) is a restaurant concept that is not as well represented in the area.

Ben Jordan

We are going to need a new concept in order to pay for all the roads we will need.

Dave Pirner

Here in New Orleans, what a lot of the musical families do - and this is a romantic concept on my part - is they teach their kids to tap dance first. Then after tap dance, you learn piano, and after piano, you get to pick between all the instruments that are out there.

John Spencer

Having been involved with the space tourism movement and industry since the beginning?in the early 1980s?I have seen the evolution of a concept from start to entering into a phase where several very smart billionaires are investing millions of their own dollars into it and the government and media takes it seriously. Space enterprise and tourism is real and growing.

Bill Guerin

We've given (the owners) well-thought-out proposals and ( Gary Bettman is) not willing to negotiate. What we've gotten back is just ridiculous. We presented a proposal with hundreds of pages of fine details. What we got back is six concepts and the longest one may have been 230 words and some were 30 words. You know what that is? That's no effort. (Bettman) is not being serious.

Dan Clark

It has been my experience that what perplexes and frustrates many people are the higher-level concepts of object-oriented programming

Daniel Peris

The Internet as a tool means all the leading retailers are going to be on the Internet in the next couple of years. The pure selling concept over the Internet has proven not to work and the pure plays are gong to be surpassed by traditional retailers.

Russell Sheldon

The Fed has identified consumer confidence as the most important concept right now. They are extremely worried that the problems in the stock market and the weakness in the manufacturing sector will lead to pessimism and lower spending.

Bill Thompson

Harrah's is a good corporate citizen, but they have priorities,

John Battelle

Good first drafts and speedy responses to consumer dialog will always trump lawyered corporate speak.

Kevin Brown

There is a kind of revolution going on, on the corporate desktop.

Ethan Harris

I think we know corporate profit growth can't stay at the rate we've seen in recent quarters. They (employers) have been squeezing the work force pretty aggressively, squeezing productivity out of workers and holding the line on wages. It's a matter of how much corporate profits slow down.

Jody Kielbasa

I think they want to become good corporate citizens.

Dave Grannan

IBM Lotus Notes and Domino represent a significant part of the corporate email landscape.

Andy Schultheiss

Representative Cuellar has voted repeatedly to let corporate polluters off the hook.

Shukla Bose

I'm not a trained academic. Neither am I a veteran social worker. I was 26 years in the corporate world, trying to make organizations profitable. And then in 2003 I started Parikrma Humanity Foundation from my kitchen table.

Craig Barrett

I know we've seen relatively strong announcements of GDP growth in the U.S., but as far as I can tell, that hasn't translated into corporate profitability or corporate IT investment growth, ... I wish I had something better to tell you.

Graeme Souness

Kieron says he feels better now than at any time and that's encouraging. He has been extremely determined and shown strength of character, considering all the stories about him. It must have been, and is, a worrying time for him until he gets games under his belt. He deserves credit.

Byron Scott

Kirk (Snyder) deserves a shot. Kirk works his butt off every day. He's still out here. Matter of fact, do you see J.R.? (Smith had left.) That pretty much tells it. It's work ethic -- he has to work harder.

Bobby Engram

(Jackson) is always going to be the primary guy, and he deserves that because he makes a lot of plays. I'm just trying to do my part and help us win some games.

Ryan Freel

I think it's a great signing. He has all the respect of the players and I think he's done a heck of a job since he's been here and I think he deserves this position.

Franco Carraro

Italy has been seeded because it deserves to be.

Phil Garner

He deserves that. Not only does he deserve it, that's the right thing for us to do in that situation. And that's what we've done.

Robert Baker

He deserves it. It's Christmas, he should be with his kids.

Bill Self

He deserves it. If you're going to tie for the championship, you at least would have to get one guy up there, you would think.

Jim Johnson

Hollis had a great preseason and he deserves it. He earned it. This is a great game for him.

John Windham

To even make the state tournament was a feather in our hats.

Emily Dickinson

Hope is a thing with feathers

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

PORTUGUESE, n.pl. A species of geese indigenous to Portugal. They are mostly without feathers and imperfectly edible, even when stuffed with garlic.

George Herbert

Let not him that feares feathers come among wild-foule.

William Shakespeare

I am not that feather to shake offMy friend when he must need me.

Greg Jackson

Kids who come here, I see them grow. My philosophy is not winning and losing. When I see a kid like Tracey, it puts this job in perspective.

Travis Moyer

Jordan did a very nice job out there. He pitched excellent. He only made one mistake.

Scott Rice

Joey's a talented kid. He did a nice job on his routes.

Matt McKay

Joe did an outstanding job on Biggs. We didn't want him shooting 3s.

Galen Hall

Joe did a miraculous job keeping that squad from not splitting offensively and defensively.

John Caudwell

Journalists like to say I started off sweeping the pottery floors. But it was just a short-lived part time job doing that after I left school.

Garrett Gravesen

Jobs can wait, but the lives of these kids cannot. And because no one else was doing anything else about it.

Glen Smith

He viewed it as a job that had to be done.

Allard Baird

He comes into Spring Training where it's his job to lose.

Richelle Mead

I brought my lips down to hers, and it was like everything that had ever happened to me had simply been a warm-up for this moment, that this was where my life truly began.

Sarah Palin

The GOP needs to live the planks of its platform, not just offer lip service.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

All women are lips, nothing but lips.

Rick Riordan

Apollo?” I guessed… He put a finger to his lips. “I’m incognito. Call me Fred.” A god named Fred?

Helen Fisher

You can really get poked in the back and not feel it very much, but just a feather around your lips and you really do feel it,

Jon Huertas

Once I saw Tamala Jones in person, I was like, 'I gotta put my lips on her!'

Walter McManus

This is like putting lipstick on a pig. They're a higher-cost producer than most of their competition. To be the low-price leader, you really need to be the low-cost producer as well.

Fred Bentley

This is not just putting lipstick on the big chicken.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Do thou snatch treasures from my lips, and I'll take kingdoms back from thine.

Joseph Volpe

I think it's an opportunity for him to really take the time now, that he has the time, to look at all of his medical needs.

John Olerud

I didn't need seven years of medical school to know what was next.

Fred Gordon

He had a variety of other medical problems, so part of the problem is we've been sorting through those medical issues.

Yumi Oshima

Part of the problem is her parents live in Taiwan and she only has the Rutgers Medical Insurance. They can't transport her back to Taiwan because she is in such serious condition.

Paul Morgan

I'm making enough for the prosthetics and making a statement about the medical establishment, ... ... Yeah, I'm trying to make a little profit too.

Stephen Dick

All the workers will undergo medical examination before repatriation to their families.

Miles White

This acquisition complements our strategy in medical products.

Dr. Shannon

We'll keep him medically sedated as long as possible.

Michael Moore

The No. 1 cause of bankruptcies is medical bills.

Pete Carroll

He shocks me every day with something. He's done some things, remarkable things, with the ball.

Bobby Cox

He's been outstanding from day one, ... He's done a remarkable job.

David Brainerd

It is remarkable that God began this work among the Indians at a time when I had the least hope, and to my apprehension the least rational prospect of success.

Gail Sheehy

We see it in the body, that if you just give the body enough rest and comfort, it has remarkable self-healing capacities. Well, so does the spirit.

Larry Marshall

She has truly been remarkable in every respect.

Phil Jackson

That was something to behold. That was at another level. I've seen some remarkable things before, but I've never seen anything like that.

John Banville

I thought it was remarkable on his part to be so generous.

Isaac Asimov

It is remarkable, Hardin, how the religion of science has grabbed hold.

Tom Patton

We have come off a really remarkable year.

Laurie Levenson

It is my understanding that they have walled her off from day one and that she has had no decision-making responsibility in the case.

Richard P. Feynman

It is our responsibility to leave the people of the future a free hand.

Richard P. Feynman

Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

Richelle Mead

You understand your responsibilities better than guardians twice your age. You'll do what you have to do to succeed.

Russell Crowe

If there's anything about someone's life that's important enough to make a movie about it, I have to take responsibility to get all of it right. It's a huge responsibility.

Ron Chernow

Mutual funds have historically offered safety and diversification. And they spare you the responsibility of picking individual stocks.

Umberto Eco

Political satire is a serious thing. In democratic newspapers throughout the world there are daily cartoons that often are not even funny, as is the case especially in many English-language newspapers. Instead, they contain a political message, and the artist takes full responsibility.

Travis Barker

There's a lot more responsibility at home, so a tour is like the opposite for me. It's like a breath of fresh air.

William J. Clinton

I think that the responsibility that the Democrats had may rest more in resisting any efforts by Republicans in the Congress, or by me when I was President, to put some standards and tighten up a little on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Paul Busse

It can be taken as seriously as you want or as whimsically as you want.

Debra Brown

Had he been in the vehicle, he would have been seriously injured.

Jim Gillespie

We're not going to be taken seriously if we speak or we may not have a voice at all,

Gary Collins

She told me she was thinking seriously about it.

Chris Sienko

I think we see her as a 3. We're pretty sound at the 1-2 positions.

Elvis Costello

I didn't want it to sound like a pastiche of Andersen,

Jay Siegel

I don't know where that sound comes from,

Robert Crais

It's easy to sound good. All you do is leave in the parts where you act tough and forget the parts where you get shoved around.

Richard Ayoade

With a live performance, you feel nervous because there's a sense it could do well or badly based on how well you are performing, whereas the only variable with a film premiere is technical, which invariably you have very little control over, whether the sound is good, whether the acoustics of the room are good.

Ron Chernow

That strategy of buy and hold, which is the sound and sensible one for the individual, can have very dangerous and perverse effects for the market as a whole.

Reynolds Price

The sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives.

Raymond Chandler

She was the music heard faintly on the edge of sound.

William J. Clinton

Without question, bicycling is an efficient, economical and environmentally sound form of transportation and recreation. Bicycling is a great activity for families, recreational riders and commuters. Hillary, Chelsea and I have bicycles....

Ryan Miller

From the coaches on down, especially Jim Corsi whose been a great supporter, a true friend who really cares about his players and allowed me the chance to develop.

Whitney Cummings

A true friend will go with the instagram filter that flatters you.

Richard M. Nixon

You find out who your true friends are not when you are on top of the world, but when the world is on top of you.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

There's a part of me that will always believe that Angel is Buffy's true love. That there will be a piece of her heart that will always be with him for the rest of her life.

Samuel Richardson

Virtue only is the true beauty.

Robert South

A true friend is the gift of God, and He only who made hearts can unite them.

Robert Pattinson

I see love as an evolution of true friendship.

Robin McKinley

[Gonturan] is a true friend, but a friend with thoughts of her own, and the thoughts of others are dangerous.

Wilmer Valderrama

If you loved once, and if you cared once, you never really stop. And if you build a true foundation, a true friendship, that never really goes away.