Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

Bob DuPuy

It is our contractual right to seek mediation as a tool to convince the parties to fulfill their obligations as set forth in the contract that was agreed to more than a year ago.

Richard Curreri

It is on this basis that we have requested the leadership of the TWU direct its membership to immediately return to work, and they have agreed to take such actions.

Condoleezza Rice

I think that we will not get hung up on this statement (by Pyongyang), ... We will stick to the text of the Beijing (agreement) and I believe we can make progress if everybody sticks to what we agreed to.

Ernie Bertrand

I was worried about the amount of rain we might get. Mr. Cooley (EBHS Principal) and I got in touch with Pickering and they agreed to play Thursday.

Geoff Brown

I think we'll feed them and they'll feed us, ... When you can see the neon sign of the bank, the restaurant or whatever, the businesses are there, that's great. It's a great partnership.

Peter Mirsky

I think what they've created is the fastest growing company in the media space focused on interactivity. In a nutshell, you had the Internet bust, valuations go bust, but clearly there is value to the businesses that can be done on the Internet.

Tom Perkins

It gives the city a mechanism to more quickly and more effectively stop businesses that are masquerading as legitimate businesses,

Kim Elliott

It gives businesses guidance on how to take the next steps.

Jane Jankowski

Remember that if this is a deal that we end up finalizing, that this company will want to maximize the use of the Toll Road. They will be eager to have local businesses involved.

Paul Anderson

Our major businesses contributed to the improved results in 2005. I expect the company to continue on a positive trajectory with an equally strong performance in 2006.

Arnie Berman

In the midst of the mania there were a whole lot of companies that went public that were just pure plays on the willingness of businesses to throw money at new projects, ... Now that a lot of these companies have had difficult times, it makes sense that there would be consolidation.

Harvey Rosenfield

California motorists, homeowners and businesses can expect to pay hundreds or thousands of dollars more every year for insurance if the insurance industry is able to trick the voters into passing their initiatives.

Craig Benson

California has set up regional collection offices around the world, staffed by California employees, specifically for out of state California businesses to collect the money and bring it back to California.

Sarah Vowell

In the U.S.A., we want to sing along with the chorus and ignore the verses, ignore the blues. . . No one is going to hold up a cigarette lighter in a stadium to the tune of "mourn together, suffer together." City on a hill, though -- that has a backbeat we can dance to. And that's why the citizens of the United States not only elected and reelected Ronald Reagan; that's why we ARE Ronald Reagan.

William Howard Taft

The City that knows how.

Walt Whitman

This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me

Saint Augustine

Every city is a living body.

Will Oldham

Cities are made for enemies to destroy.

Zaha Hadid

I find industrial cities exciting. I like their toughness.

Winston Churchill

Lenin was sent into Russia by the Germans in the same way that you might send a phial containing a culture of typhoid or cholera to be poured into the water supply of a great city, and it worked with amazing accuracy.

William Hazlitt

The number of objects we see from living in a large city amuses the mind like a perpetual raree-show, without supplying it with any ideas.

Zinedine Zidane

A Mediterranean city is really my culture.

Lee Mendelson

We thought we had destroyed Peanuts . It just didn't work. And the network didn't like it. It was too slow; we had used kids' voices and that jazz music.

Karl Turner

I will never get over this. This has just about destroyed me.

Jose Serrano

They killed children. They killed innocent people and destroyed poor people's houses, ... It's the world's most discredited guerrilla movement.

Philip Hoffman

The movie is about knowing that somebody has lost his soul out there, somebody has destroyed a part of himself. ... The minute he saw Perry Smith, the outcome was inevitable that two men would die -- one literally and the other figuratively.

Rusty Ladd

Salazar destroyed that little girl's body, just destroyed it.

John Park

It was a nice getaway, just like a little cabin. A lot of my members are distraught because they made something for everybody and some yahoo goes in and destroyed it for everybody.

Yossi Sarid

This government, that destroyed 1,500 homes and lives, but doesn't want to destroy 40 former synagogues we can only say, 'Can you possible destroy, and then look away?

John Chaney

We ran into the rifleman. They put it all together, and they just destroyed us. Everybody had a gun but us.

Peter Hain

Even though I was a (Chelsea) fan, a fanatic, you actually wanted to see him do it -- you clapped him as he destroyed your team.

Michel Houellebecq

I think poetry is the only domain where a writer you like can truly be said to influence you, because you read and reread a poem so many times that it simply drills itself into your head.

Gene Krebs

Polling indicates that 90 percent of the electorate opposes eminent domain for economic development. And that's without pushing. If you push, it goes to 98 percent.

Aaron Allston

If you hack the Vatican server, have you tampered in God's domain?

Jonathan Spira

Knowledge sharing and collaboration are a key foundation of research and development.

Sakie Yokota

I survived this hardship for 20 years until I found out she had been abducted by North Korea.

Aaron Boone

He's a good dude. I found that out right away. Obviously, he's going to be a good player, and he knows how to act, too. I want to be there to help him out. But I don't want to overkill him with Johnny Veteran stuff. We're all men here and we're all teammates here. Plus, I like him.

Justin Scott

He's a very good player, a very good player. I found out he couldn't go right, so toward the end of the game I tried to make him go right. We tried to go around screens and help a lot.

Kyle Lowry

He shot horrible -- not horrible, but not as well -- last night, and we still found a way to win. This is what this team is made of. If everything is not going our way, we still are going to find a way to get the win.

Jan Roberts

He's a wonderful person. He's a positive role model for all these kids. He found his passion and worked for it.

Navtej Sarna

There is need for genuine dialogue. The solution has to be found by the people of Nepal through a peaceful but political settlement. We are ready to help in any way we can.

David Chang

I think we were lucky on that one and found it pretty quickly. If you had a large infestation, you probably couldn't get rid of it.

Geoffrey Russell

I think it started a little slow, but I think then it found its pace.

Janet Reno

We're not here to generate controversy. We're here to do what's right and to make sure that the voice of the American people that has spoken is heard fairly,

Bobby Burton

We'll generate between 35 to 40 million individual page use.

Sean McCormack

has talked about the need for reform in Uzbekistan. Very basically, the Uzbekistan government needs to trust its people." ()

Wazhma Mojaddidi

He said what he said because he thought he was telling the government what they wanted to hear.

Jim Pugh

This was not unexpected. Madison is a government town.

William J. Brennan

Debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust and wide-open and that...may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials.

Woodrow Wilson

The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.

Woodrow Wilson

The trouble with the theory [of limited and divided government] is that government is not a machine, but a living thing. This is where the living and breathing constitution comes from. It is modified by its environment, necessitated by its tasks, shaped to its functions by the sheer pressure of life.

Woodrow Wilson

The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.

Woodrow Wilson

Liberty is its own reward.

William Weld

So government acts as a safeguard of our property.

Dan Svirbly

His year didn't end the way we hoped it would. He got down here for the second time and won a match again, he just couldn't quite get to the podium.

Diane Williams

I prefer open space, ... We always hoped that it would stay that way.

Tim Gramling

I hoped after today, I'd have a better idea of how long this would take, but now I couldn't even guess. There's just so much to do. I'd say cleanup will be going on probably for several months.

Ian Shepherdson

This is as upbeat a testimony as could reasonably have been hoped for.

Steve Bruce

We are upset Emile has got another ban. He has an impeccable record and we hoped it would have been taken into account.

Rashid Johnson

What I really hoped to do with my work was to at least be able to define my relationship to race.

Bill Royer

We had hoped to win it, but we rebounded from some tough matches and had three kids on the podium.

Pat Smith

We had hoped to get more done, but there were so many obstacles.

Alan Curbishley

He is a local ref and perhaps it is something we have to look at.

E. B. White

Its important to do things locally as well, ... impeach.

Brian Sullivan

At the local level, to be able to say that you're doing better than you were, or you're not, is pretty important.

Larry Rogers

Ninety-five percent (of the workers) will be from the local area.

Nathan Moss

I got to thinking of the school system, especially our local school here.

David Dunn

Since Sept. 11, the local police, our role has changed, ... Before, we were worrying about burglaries, thefts.

Mike Adams

Occasionally, you'll find a little tool. It all tells a story. I can show you some rocks that they used as a local source of materials.

Rand Paul

Marriage has always been a state and local issue.

Ricardo Garcia

We want to keep that money here, and we want to use local people.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Thrift is a great revenue.

Lawrence Lessig

What you want to do is to get a kind of revenue that right now you don't get at all,

Warren Buffett

I'll bring my tax returns; you bring yours. I'll meet you anytime anywhere.

Wesley Snipes

I was never charged with tax evasion. I've never been a tax protester.

Robert Orben

Did you ever get to wondering if taxation without representation might have been cheaper?

Lyndon B. Johnson

In 1790, the nation which had fought a revolution against taxation without representation discovered that some of its citizens weren't much happier about taxation with representation.

Jim Ramstad

As American taxpayers know too well, the tax code is incredibly complex and compliance is all to expensive.

David R. Ellis

No, in Lethal Weapon I was a taxi cab driver that Mel jumps in front of the taxi and pulls me out of the car and steals the taxi. Then I did some other indie driving for some of the car sequences.

Alan Sugar

I don't like paying 50 per cent of tax.

Robert James

The taxpayers have spoken. They want a change.

Charles Adams

We can't live without taxes, but we sure would like to have good ones.