Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Kennedy

As a Scot, representing a Scottish constituency for almost the past 25 years, I do not harbour an overweening ambition to pronounce on each and every matter exclusively English.

Gilberto Gil

The builder has tried really hard to incorporate open space, ... The part of the project that faces the church is almost a park.

Ed Ratledge

People use it for everything from trying to build a road, deciding on a prison almost any kind of public purpose like that.

Ken Whisenhunt

(Our) thinking was since they (Colts) had all of their time outs, taking knees would give the ball back to them. Besides, how often does Jerome fumble the ball? Almost never. It was just a crazy thing.

Greg Wilkinson

Our estimation is that he's under about 30 feet of snow right now which is going to make it almost impossible to find him with poles or regular things that you would use in an avalanche type of situation.

Chris Cooper

Our decline rate is almost double that of the national rate. We've got 150 construction projects per year, mostly for capacity and safety.

Brian Hoffman

Our eyes almost popped out of our head.

Alan Greenspan

Our analysis of economic developments almost surely will need to deal in greater detail with balance sheet considerations than was the case in the earlier decades of the postwar period,

G. H. Hardy

People seem to want to hug New Orleans right now, and this is one way they can do it. It's almost like a patriotism toward the city.

Hilary Clinton

A new analysis released today by a number of prominent legal scholars concludes that the Senate bill would be even worse than the current law, because it would effectively wipe out protections that states like Missouri have already passed,

Philip Plait

Any random set of numbers, when played with as Hoagland did, will yield many coincidental mathematical relationships, ... His mathematical analysis is so full of holes, flaws, and misdirection that it is completely worthless.

Robert Rubin

The Bureau of Economic Analysis has estimated that in 1995 Americans spent roughly $300 billion on financial services ... Even if increased competition were to lead to savings of just one percent, that's $3 billion

Ed Bangs

Our analysis was very detailed on what habitat is suitable to be occupied.

Anthony Chan

Our analysis suggests the pace of consumer spending is likely to slow in the near-term future,

John Lampe

Our analysis suggests that there are significant safety issues with a substantial segment of Ford Explorers,

Gary Karr

Our analysis shows there have not been any significant price increases at all and pretty big savings. We have done a much wider monitoring and have not found any large changes in drug prices except where there was a data error.

Thomas McSweeny

Our analysis shows that ... you could make a 20-fold increase in safety in the center fuel tank on the 747 (with JP-5). That's worth going after.

Yves Bot

People say that the two youths were pushed into the transformer station. I can say that the analysis that I saw excludes this. Now we have to show it.

Kevin McCarthy

Reagan was president and had Democrats control the House and Senate, and they reformed the tax code. Clinton was president, and he had Newt Gingrich and Bob Dole; they reformed welfare and balanced the budget.

Mike Stock

Our defense got a little loose and we tightened things up the last couple days at practice. It was a nice defensive effort. It was a team effort. Nice balance on offense and good defense.

Andy Reid

Offensively, I have to do a better job on my side of getting this thing a bit more balanced up with the run-pass ratio, ... I'll go back to the drawing board and work on that and see if we can't do a better job offensively.

Marsha Sharp

The more balance you can have in the Big 12 and the less they can pick on people, the better off you are.

John Faso

Apparently, Eliot Spitzer's idea of geographical balance is having a running mate on the other side of Central Park. Two Manhattan liberals - who live within a couple of miles of each other - cannot possibly understand the concerns of families in other parts of the state, or even other parts of the city, for that matter.

Dave Phillips

The team showed a lot of heart tonight. We're 11-2 in dual meets, so I think that gave us a lot of confidence coming into the tournament. We're a very balanced team and they all gave their best, so I'm very proud.

Ed McClanahan

The teams are pretty evenly matched. What it came down to is they got more balanced scoring and they got the shots they needed in the fourth quarter to pull away from us and get the win.

Thomas Masters

The system is unmatched, ... There is something wrong with the balance and fairness.

Ian McGeechan

The three games have a nice balance to them,

Xiao Yang

As of July 1, 2006, all the second-instance trials of death sentence cases shall be heard in open court.

Gary Williams

Osteoporosis in men is extremely unrecognized. Too many fail to realize that 20 percent of osteoporosis cases in this country are men.

Stan Twardy

Any case that goes to a jury, you don't know what is going to happen until they come back.

Yotam Ottolenghi

A quick shallow fry is a great way to transform leftovers, and no more so than in the case of risotto.

Alan Greenspan

Administrative protection in the form of antidumping suits and countervailing duties is a case in point,

Karlyn Bowman

After 9/11, people thought Bush's responses were just right and his ratings soared. It's just not clear that that's the case here. The views about this president are pretty hard right now, so I don't think we'll see a significant change. They're pro or opposed to him. The country is deeply divided.

Jaya Arjuna

Actually, there have 788 graft cases in North Sumatra reported by people to the KPK, but the commission has decided that only 163 of them should be followed up on. It really does mean there is a huge graft problem in North Sumatra.

John Campbell

Actually, the firearm's identification in this case has been examined by a number of experts before, by a number of experts selected by Congress, a number of independent experts. Nothing new has been developed.

Mike Canales

A couple of times we did get out of the huddle late. We definitely have to push our tempo and get off the line of scrimmage. A couple of times we had the wrong personnel and the wrong guy in there. It was also the case of it being the first game. That happens in the first game.

Rasheed Wallace

As long as we got the win. We gotta deal with that other (stuff) every night. But we fought through it and got the W.

Randy White

Dealing with something like that is tough on anybody. I knew she really wanted to perform well. That was one of her incentives.

Robert Hill

dealing with illegal people movement, fishing breaches, transnational crime.

Tony Ridder

Dealing with a drummer isn't that much different from dealing with someone from IT.

Joanne Dobson

Detective fiction is an extremely moral genre, dealing with the strongest violation of the moral contract,

John Evans

The size of the property and the magnitude of what we're dealing with is amazing. But we're planning a community, not dealing with a plot of land.

W. S. Gilbert

The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the mood's of people, and his tact in dealing with them.

John Riggins

The story really is, in a way, Joel -- doing what he did while dealing with this illness,

Stu Pollard

The story is about a popular local radio talk-show host and how his life crumbles as he tries to deal with an obsessive fan, troubles in his marriage and at the same time develop a romantic interest with a woman who has her own issues.

Derek Bok

What we are doing in educating students is trying to prepare them to live more fulfilling lives for the decades after they graduate. And trying to provide a better, richer, fairer, more decent society for the generations after.

Juan Felipe Herrera

My grandmother and my mom and my aunt Aurelia, my grandmother Juanita, my mom Lucia - we lived on the outskirts of a barrio in Mexico City called Tepito, and Tepito for many, many decades was the largest barrio in Mexico and perhaps even Latin America.

Jim Lee

I think there's a responsibility of the publisher, of the company, to make sure the staple books that have been around for decades come out in a timely manner.

Money Magazine

The remedy is to have the five major domestic U.S. manufacturers disgorge the illegal profits that they've made over the decades that we allege that they engaged in these illegal, anticompetitive activities,

Michael Rubin

To have a result like this after two decades is extraordinary.

Paul Stamets

My team and I have discovered, over decades of study, that mushroom mycelium is a rich resource of new antimicrobial compounds, which work in concert, helping protecting the mushrooms - and us - from microbial pathogens.

Frank Tipler

By the last decades of the 21st century, church worship will still take the form of reading passages of traditional texts - the Bible, the Koran, the Rig Veda - but physicist-priests will preside over the ceremonies.

Arlen Specter

When you have a decision which has been in effect for decades and people have come to rely upon it,

Stephen Lewis

When people are dying by the thousands every day, unnecessarily, when we've had this horrendous pandemic unfold for two decades while the world stands by and watches - you'll do anything in your power to move the process.

James Marsters

Details in the mcguffins had to be worked out, but it was there. It was a good idea. I'm not going to tell you, because I didn't think of it.

Ben Goldacre

Transparency and detail are everything in science.

Raquel Turnbow

Every tenth of a point is important. It's going to take good form, having perfect execution, amplitude, striking the landings. Every detail matters.

Katie Cook

You don't know how much detail people want you to go into, though,

Patty Shea

There's really nothing to worry about, it's not really the outcome or anything like that. It's really about what's going on the field, and some of the things that I'm really happy about is they're playing the game at a more sophisticated level. It's the details that are going to make the difference.

Nicholas Burns

The United States has said that we find the Russian proposal to be interesting. And it might be a good way to proceed for negotiation. We've never said that we accept, you know, every detail on that proposal.

Ronde Barber

We've put a big emphasis on detail this year, and it's paying off. Guys know exactly what they're supposed to do. There is no doubt about what your job is.

Roger Toussaint

We thank riders for their patience and forbearance. We will be providing various details regarding the outcome of this strike in the next several days.

Pete Carroll

We've been talking, and we had a more significant discussion (Wednesday). That is why I am willing to say something in a general sense. There are no details to give. We're in great shape, and things worked out really nice.

John Nelson

Saturday, Sunday and Monday, because it's a holiday, are going to be much lighter usage days, and many of the units that went off-line earlier in the week will be back up over the weekend,

Thomas Cromwell

It was about 30 minutes earlier and gave us an idea of what we were getting into,

Nicholas Heymann

The stock is over-discounted because of massive issues with credibility. They told us they'd be OK earlier this week.

Lou Brock

I've been here since March 2. My wife wants us to stay until the end of the month, but I've told her we've got to go home a week earlier than that.

Chris Dodd

I understand how you may be forced into a situation earlier than you'd like where you might not have everything you want, but it's now going into the third year,

Dave Carroll

The work rate was spot on - which just makes our earlier displays so disappointing.

Lara Rhame

This is a solid (GDP) release and should support the dollar's gains from earlier this morning,

Allison Daly

That's my first buzzer beater. We called that play earlier and it was wide open. I kind of had a feeling we'd come back to it.

Antawn Jamison

That one felt good and earlier those that didn't feel good went in.

Kathleen Camilli

The stock market could be on track for a recovery. The stock market is one of the key leading economic indicators and it tends to turn up about six months before the official end of recession. So, if in fact it stays up now, it would be signaling that the recession could be over sometime next June.

Mike Greene

This is huge for the town. We will now use this Internet utility for economic development and distinguish ourselves.

Wang Ziqiang

This is not because of foreign pressure. This is about the country's economic development.

Harvey Pitt

This is not an economic problem, it's a physical catastrophe,

Sean Comey

This is not a lot to reassure the consumer. The only upside to high prices is that it should ensure a steady supply because there is an economic incentive to produce and ship it.

Mir Nasir

The miserable power situation must improve to help sustain our economic growth.

Thein Sein

To have internal peace and stability and economic development, it is important to have good relations with the political parties that we have in our country. That is why we have had engagement with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.

David Gilmore

What we do know is somewhat reassuring, even if there are significant gaps in his international economic policy resume.

Al Goldman

Fluctuation is normal after a run-up. The economic news is not good and it's not going to be good for a while, but we are in recovery mode.

Tony Blair

The standard of living and prosperity of the Iraqi people would be infinitely greater were Saddam not there,

Jane Siberry

'The Taxi Ride,' from my second album, is one people want to hear a lot. I'm consciously trying to walk on the sunny side of the street, to really lift myself into a place of greater positivity, and that's a sad song.

Martin Rees

The Swedish engineer who invented the zip fastener made a greater intellectual leap than many scientists do in a lifetime.

John Lawlor

The sum of the parts is greater than the whole.

Louis Reigel

After 9/11 there were some of these sites. It was much greater after the tsunami, and it's even greater after Katrina,

David Williams

Once you understand your inventory, then you can start integrating at a greater level.

Francesco Cossiga

Perhaps, my dear, young Mr. Gates, before putting your new products on the market with so much publicity you should have them tested for longer and with greater care.

John Curtis

The Rockies, by all estimates, will play a much greater role in natural-gas production over the next 25 years.

Rod Graves

The risk is probably no greater or no worse than it is for a lot of other players, but the spotlight is always heavier on the quarterbacks. It's just the risk that we're involved with. You hope you're making the right choice.

Ryan Murphy

I love crispy, cool sheets.