Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Skrainka

I think investors should take a step back and look at the big picture. I think the (Fed) is doing its job and investors should do theirs -- avoid those companies that do not have a track record of growth.

Franz Beckenbauer

He could avoid constant criticism that he is never here,

Stephen Colbert

Use the word 'zeitgeist' as often as possible. Ideally, you want to find words that sound familiar but people don't really know their definitions: 'zeitgeist,' 'bildungsroman,' 'doppelganger' - better yet, anything Latin. But avoid 'paradigm.' It's so 1994. If you say the word 'paradigm,' everybody knows you're a poser.

Shyam Selvadurai

For me, growing up, I felt like there was something fatally and tragically flawed in my nature and that it was my duty to try to avoid falling for that vice.

Hector Jimenez

What we were not able to avoid today, just like yesterday, was volatility. We have to see how investors receive the information (about Iraq and the budget negotiations).

Haley Barbour

What we want to avoid are gigantic trailer parks, for lack of a better word,

Aidan White

Here is a Government desperate to avoid the spotlight of public concern over deeply embarrassing revelations of corruption in high places.

Clint Hurdle

Having a winning record at home or avoiding finishing last weren't motivating factors for us. When you are 27 games under .500, can we really expect to be better at home?

Chris Mickelsen

Having a survey without bias is clearly the goal here. Surveys are tricky. You can load a question and I'd like to really avoid that. We'll make the questions as neutral as possible.

Hiroichi Nishi

Key U.S. monthly jobs data, due later in the day, a three-day weekend and concerns that the Tokyo market has gone too far too fast are expected to encourage investors to take profits.

Paul Spiegelman

I would support a recall of the mayor. I'm really troubled when a man talks about sunshine and hatches deals in back rooms. I'm very concerned that the process is being manipulated by some very wealthy people.

Robin Cook

It accentuates our grave concern about the increased risk of nuclear and missile proliferation in South Asia, and of escalating tension in that region.

Joe Donnelly

I talk about it. It's a concern to a lot of people.

Kelly Kisio

I think it'll be fine and I know there's some concern on a lot of people's part but if you watch around the league, the guys who play, and play a lot, get better. It might be tough for a year or so but once those guys get playing, they'll become good hockey players.

Kelly Williams

I always felt his game was ready (for the NBA). I was concerned about the off-the-court issues and mentally.

Neil Rodman

He was a great kid. He was always concerned of what people thought of him and he went out of his way to make sure people liked him. He was very caring.

Greg Aiello

He wants to share with them his perspective on what has happened and where they go from here. He wants to have a dialogue with them and hear their concerns and suggestions about how things can be better next year.

Craig Patrick

He didn't make the trip because in the third period last night he was having a recurrence of an irregular heartbeat. Obviously, we're concerned about it, so we left him at home.

Nong Manh

It is not that there is more corruption than before, it is that they are being uncovered and we need to punish them.

George Marek

Hypocracy defined: A modern form of government by hypocrisy.

Vladimir Putin

I'm sure corruption in Chechnya is minimal.

Tony Leon

If you vote ANC, you get failed delivery and corruption. Voting for a third party is the same as voting ANC. And if you don't vote, you get the government you deserve.

Nick Lampson

If you put the work that I have done and the support that I've been given ... to the legacy of theft, corruption and neglect that Tom DeLay seems to have earned for himself, I think he saw the handwriting on the wall, that it was something he couldn't win, and made the decision to get out.

Leah Rush

In the last couple years, federal investigations on public corruption laws are sometimes how these things are discovered.

David Nussbaum

In an environment where the rule of law is still to be fully established, ensuring that there's no corruption is an extremely difficult thing to do.

Francisco Flores

you can't fight crime if you don't fight corruption and impunity.

Olusegun Obasanjo

The givers of most of the corruption in Africa are from outside Africa.

Chelsea Clinton

I was always deeply aware that I was living in history.

Morris Gleitzman

I wrote stories as a kid just for myself. One day, some of the kids in my class found some of my stories in my bag, and I was deeply embarrassed until I realised they enjoyed reading them.

Gary Bauer

I was deeply disappointed in Governor Bush's answer.

Chuck Gillingham

I thought she was extraordinarily courageous. At all times, she felt deeply about the victim in our case.

Busta Rhymes

I think a lot of people say that because they're not learning of the history of the music deeply enough.

Byron Hurt

It goes to show how deeply embedded homophobia and sexism are.

David Beatty

I think that's deeply disturbing. They've just got to do better.

Patrick Byrne

He was father to us all and he will be deeply missed.

Norm Coleman

I am deeply troubled about your emphatic denials ....

Rod Keogh

Josh was desperate to play last Saturday and should be okay and Leigh is moving much more freely than he was.

Seth Payne

Ideally, you're desperate every week, ... It's hard to get a win in this league no matter how good you are, so whether you're 0-3 or 3-0, that next win is tough to come by.

Chris Connolly

He needs to train well, but it is probably doubtful to be honest. We'll give him every opportunity, he is desperate to play. It is probably less than 50-50.

Trent Reznor

Jumping through any hoop or taking advantage of any desperate situation that comes up just to sell a product is harmful. It is.

John Kirkwood

Patients with this disease face a desperate situation for which we really lack any promising approaches,

Melanie Morgan

I knew at that point, I was in desperate trouble, and I knew I was sick and needed help. And I still didn't want to stop.

Paul Fronstin

These are a sign of how desperate we've become.

Mary Schuyler

And it wouldn't be a Desperate Housewives game if you couldn't try to steal a neighbor's husband, too.

Trent Hunter

We're not giving up in here. We've raised our level of intensity and we have to be desperate every shift. And we've been able to do that.

Sondhi Limthongkul

He is very arrogant, insulting other people and running the government as a one-man show. He is worse than a tyrant.

Sean McCormack

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

Najib Razak

We can transform the government and the economy, as well as democracy, in Malaysia.

P. J. O'Rourke

Guns are the ultimate bulwark against government misbehavior.

Umar Juoro

He runs things day by day. You can't run government like that.

Wazhma Mojaddidi

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

Ernest Wamba

It comes at a time when the government pretends it wants dialogue, but instead it is killing people indiscriminately.

Jim Murphy

I think the government ought to stay out of other people's business.

James Tien

I think the government could do much better.

Casey Hampton

I was joking with Hines about that. I was like, 'Man, this is kind of like a consolation prize. With the MVP, it doesn't really matter what people think of you on other teams, it's about what your teammates think of you, and obviously our teammates think very highly of us.

Megan Smith

I was lucky that science fair was mandatory at my high school in inner-city Buffalo.

Courtney LaVere

I was looking for Mel (D'Amico) with the high passes so she could score.

Chris Mennis

I wouldn't be surprised if that $2.10 is the high for the week.

Chad Kroeger

I wrote this song when I was high on magic mushrooms,

Clark Yingst

I suspect 'Well we're in a directionless market' is likely to persist until we get a better read on how much higher rates will go.

Doug Elliott

It already seemed highly likely. It now seems a near certainty.

Katharine McPhee

I actually studied in college, for the three semesters that I stayed in school, I don't recommend that, but I studied theater, and in high school I was involved in the drama department.

Jackson Wheeler

He was a big-time recruit out of high school, so a lot of people liked what they saw in him.

Mike Mower

We've been very public in our support of this.

Russell Baker

Live by publicity, you'll probably die by publicity.

Robert Winston

I do not know of any credible evidence that suggests Dr. Zavos can clone a human being. This seems to be yet another one of his claims to get publicity.

Robert Peel

No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.

Zachary Quinto

Even the former Attorney General of the United States Eric Holder has come out to say that he believed that [Edward] Snowden performed a public service, and I couldn't agree more.

Gary Peck

If I were the public officials, I would look at this ruling very carefully.

Bryan Kennedy

I like talking to the public and straightening them out.

George Bancroft

The public is wiser than the wisest critic.

Mahatma Gandhi

Journalism has a distinct place in familiarizing and expressing public opinion.

Riccardo Muti

I'm not shy in the spotlight. I might seem austere and even arrogant, but far from it, I'm actually shy.

Sarah McLachlan

I didn't get hugely famous really quick. It was a slow, gradual process, so I was able to sort of grow into myself and figure out who I was and what I wanted without the glaring spotlight on me telling me who I was.

Vincent Cassel

I always had the sense of being in the spotlight, being on stage, being looked at.

Harvey Fierstein

I just don't like politics. My rule is if I can put a spotlight on something, I'll do that.

NeNe Leakes

I have arrived, and the spotlight is on me, honey!

Nelson Mandela

It is your duty to examine the conduct of public figures and to place them in the spotlight - that is your duty.

Kirsten Dunst

I don't live in the spotlight, and I don't live my life in front of the paparazzi. I live very comfortably and quietly as possible.

Marion Cotillard

It's pretty refreshing to be in a situation where the spotlight is on someone else.

April Bowlby

I wanted to be a ballerina so badly. You can be seen and take over the spotlight without speaking. I had a fear of speaking in public back then.