Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pete Domenici

Jack Lew (President Bill Clinton's budget director) and I just made the deal, ... ... The budget bill has been agreed to.

Sven Eriksson

I talked to the Swedish coach before the draw and we agreed we did not want to meet at this World Cup. But overall we are happy with the draw, its not easy but it could have been worse.

Sergey Lavrov

There is no collectively discussed and agreed strategy of what we all will be doing in the Security Council if the issue is there.

Taye Diggs

When I agreed to do the show, I thought it was a brilliant premise, ... but it turned out to be a fixer-upper. By the end, I was beat down. It takes a lot of energy fixing and upping.

Gordon Johndroe

We support the resolution, we voted for it and we helped draft it. We were willing to work with the U.N. to draft a resolution that could be agreed to.

Caroll Spinney

I was asked to be on 'The Colbert Report' last year as Big Bird and Oscar. But when we got there, we discovered they wanted both characters on at the same time. Stephen Colbert didn't know one man plays them both. We called Joey Mazzarino, our head writer, who's a very good puppeteer as well. He agreed to zip over and do Oscar.

Javier Solana

I think we can say that the parties have agreed on the document on police.

Tim Clark

I think we've agreed that anyone who shoots 80 has to shave his head. There might be a couple of withdrawals from Augusta this year.

Chrissy Lamun

I think both of us have agreed that we probably wouldn't have made it as far in our careers without knowing each other. She'll help me in the gym whenever I need help and she knows how I work and I know how she works, so we've kind of gotten to that point in our careers together.

Barney Frank

I would say this: What I'm basically saying here is the federal government cannot and should not be the nanny of the states in everything here.

Dan Sharp

It basically reaffirmed the City Commission's ruling that we are the legitimate electric provider for Boulder Ridge.

James Sullivan

It basically proves what we suspected for a long time -- that kids will reach whatever expectation you set for them.

Michael Miller

It basically looks like the worst is over.

Fred Taylor

It basically doubles the property value of the county.

Jeff Liggins

It basically comes from a lot of hard work and dedication, and some good coaching. It's been our dream since we were kids to get to state.

Andy Palmer

It basically comes down to us defending and rebounding and not letting them have second opportunities. That's been the key for us. When we rebound, we usually have ... success.

Peter Banko

It basically caused him to have a minor heart attack.

J. Lewis

It basically came down to us not doing a very good job of getting off the field early on,

William Daley

I think it is important that China be in the WTO. But they must come in a commercially-meaningful way. And that means that their market has to be open for U.S. products to be sold into.? They should live by the rules the rest of the world lives by.

Li Jian

Hitler used the Olympics to show his people that his government had legitimacy. The Chinese government wants a similar result: that countries recognize that China is a great and powerful country.

Tim Adams

I think it's important for us to get a better sense of China overall,

O. Henry

We think China is a growing regional power and we want to partner with them to manage their gradual rise.

Zhou Xiaochuan

I think it's very clear that China is introducing a new exchange rate mechanism. It is not a one-time adjustment.

Chong Quan

In 2005, foreign investment into China maintained sound momentum and the quality of foreign investment improved.

Ping Chew

If you look at what most other money going into China is earning, it is not that inefficient. If you don't invest in U.S. bonds, what do you invest in?

Shi Yinhong

In the future, China will provide more international public goods in many areas.

Phil Crane

In telecommunications, China represents the largest potential market in the world,

John Hammond

Katie's a really nice person. It's unfortunate she had a conflict of interest.

Dave Mitchell

I think it is a conflict to a lot of people. As far as perception goes it is a real problem.

Patrick Dougherty

There are six different things that conflict, ... And some of them are in the same paragraph.

Bernd Pischetsrieder

There is no conflict between Porsche and Volkswagen. The idea that Porsche could, or would, prevent us from doing something that we think is the right thing to do, is simply not on.

Pat Walsh

The figure of 183,000 is (the commission's) upper-bound estimate of total conflict-related mortality.

Milan Kundera

He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

Alexei Malashenko

The Chechen conflict is spilling into neighboring republics, escalating the process of destabilization.

Alan Doss

The greatest danger now is that expectations are too high. The euphoria of the end of the conflict will soon be forgotten.

Mahatma Gandhi

Nothing in the Shastras, which is capable of being reasoned, can stand if it is in conflict with reason.

David Stanley

He didn't go over to that guy's house for a confrontation, he just wanted to know what was going on.

Jerry Shuster

He (O'Connor) can't be indiscriminate. He can't tear down a house here and tear down a house there, because then it looks like it's more for show. But if they can do three, even though they need 30 taken down, if those three are strategic, it's a tremendous plus.

Mike Moore

We take it from the house and turn it into what you see here.

Robert Hoehn

I think by the end of next week they'll be cheaper. We'll get through some House legislation yet.

Ruth Rendell

I was a child, and in 1942, I was evacuated to the Cotswolds with my mother, who was a teacher - she went with her school. I lived in one house in the village, and my mother was in the vicarage.

Robert Sweeney

I was just sitting there watching t.v., and it sounded like the whole house shook.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks and extremists this side of the giggle house.

Tori Amos

I like cosy, intimate houses.

Robert Novak

If Communism goes, I've still got the U.S. House of Representatives.

Zydrunas Ilgauskas

I think it's going to be a little different for him because he's going to play the same team so many times. But we're going to see an even better side of him because he's going to be able to adjust.

George Clooney

I think it's important to be on the right side of history.

John Stevens

We're on the wrong side of being close.

Carl Jung

Mine. I'm on my side.

Vincent Van Gogh

We are surrounded by poetry on all sides...

Salman Rushdie

It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.

Winona Ryder

I don't hang out with agents and producers and I'm not into the business side at all.

Samuel Johnson

Friendship is seldom lasting but between equals, or where the superiority on one side is reduced by some equivalent advantage on the other.

Robert Jordan

Some said Delana was sucessful as a mediator because both sides would agree just to make her stop staring at them.

Richard Wright

Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there. We black and they white. They got things and we ain't. They do things and we can't. It's just like livin' in jail.

Richard Avedon

I've worked out of a series of no's. No to exquisite light, no to apparent compositions, no to the seduction of poses or narrative. And all these no's force me to the yes. I have a white background. I have the person I'm interested in and the thing that happens between us.

William Sharp

The desire of love, Joy:The desire of life, Peace:The desire of the soul, Heaven:The desire of God ... a flame-white secret forever.

William Falconer

The admirals of his majesty's fleet are classed into three squadrons, viz. the red, the white, and the blue.

Sandra Cisneros

'Hispanic' is English for a person of Latino origin who wants to be accepted by the white status quo. 'Latino' is the word we have always used for ourselves.

Vladimir Nabokov

To know that no one before you has seen an organ you are examining, to trace relationships that have occurred to no one before, to immerse yourself in the wondrous crystalline world of the microscope, where silence reigns, circumscribed by its own horizon, a blindingly white arena — all this is so enticing that I cannot describe it.

Xavier Becerra

Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans.

Wynonna Judd

I literally went from the outhouse to the White House.

William O. Douglas

Racial discrimination against a white is as unconstitutional as race discrimination against a black.