Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rafael Ramirez

Of the 32 (companies), we have agreed with 30. We believe this was a mistake on the part of Total and Eni.

Frederick Jones

They agreed that we have made substantial progress in our bilateral negotiations over the past year, that we are close to completing them, and that we need to continue to work hard to complete them as soon as possible.

Ronnie Mamba

We have received this and have agreed to inform our members so that this order can be complied with throughout the areas where our members are striking.

Rick Watson

And who wouldn't want to play Juliet. There is also some interaction with the audience. I would never have agreed to do a play with only three actors if I didn't really love it. And the play itself is a draw ? it has a large following.

Robert Sarver

At the time we bought the team (June 30, 2004), we agreed to a new three-year contract with Bryan. Dating back to last summer, I assured Bryan of my intention to extend his contract. I'm disappointed with Bryan's decision but I wish him well.

Paul Jury

was about the only thing we ever agreed on.

Dennis Murphy

We tried to find a place in Great Falls, but Belgrade didn't want to play there and we agreed on Cascade. We were very pleased with the Cascade gym. In fact, they may see a few more challenge games played here.

Michael Petrillo

The deal was done on a handshake. They've been friends for over 30 years and they both agreed on everything.

Allan Ramsay

The deal was agreed 13 months ago, and huge arrangements have been made to put it in place.

Kris Alexander

As far as track meets, it's by far the best meet in the state.

Charles Bofferding

As engineers, we have a different perspective. If a company really wants to get its product to be the best in all areas, then it must listen to all sides. A union is the best vehicle to carry the engineers' perspective.

Jeff Bingaman

As best as I can determine, the process is going to be fair, ... explained in some detail the various steps that they were taking to ensure that the bids were appropriately considered and the factors that needed to be given the greatest importance were in fact going to be given the greatest importance.

Gerald Grinstein

As Delta continues its transformation to become a more customer-focused airline, we are incorporating the best of Song into the best of Delta, ... Our new Song service will set the standard in transcontinental travel, making Delta the first choice for customers on these routes.

Steve Fleming

As a father, I did a poor job at dealing with my son. The Special Olympics taught me how to deal with my son, and now he is my best friend. We do everything together.

J. M. G. Le Clezio

A writer is not a prophet, is not a philosopher; he's just someone who is witness to what is around him. And so writing is a way to... it's the best way to testify, to be a witness.

Russell Baker

A solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems than you have to.

John Longo

That's where we lost it, but we really, really grinded to get the score we did. I knew we would need our best day of the year to advance.

John Longo

That's where we lost it, but we really, really grinded to get the score we did, ... I knew we would need our best day of the year to advance.

Terry Vaughn

As an athlete, you've got to understand there's no loyalty in sports. I understand that and it doesn't bother me,

Anne Stevens

As a leader in both hybrid vehicles and in vehicles capable of operating on ethanol-based fuels, Ford is the ideal company to bring both technologies together for the first time.

Bernie Williams

As long as we've got his presence there, that's the most important thing, because being the D.H. doesn't bother him,

Dennis Miller

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Matthew Scully

An environmentalist can oppose factory farming because it's reckless stewardship. A conservative can oppose factory farming because it is destructive to small farmers and to the decent ethic of husbandry those farmers live by. A religious person can oppose factory farming because it is degrading to both man and animal - an offense to God.

Lord Byron

An old man / With an old soul, and both extremely blind.

Rosa Gerra

An officer who speaks Spanish can't always be everywhere. It was a hit-or-miss thing. This way they know there will be someone there every Monday. It's got all the right ingredients of an excellent program. It's a win-win for both parties.

Tom Sexton

An obvious key who came to us this year tremendously more mature ? and that's a really big point for him ? is Addison Beaver. His speed is real key for us, great shot with both feet and can play any position.

Ted Sarandos

The star of 'Narcos' and the director and creator of 'Narcos' are both Brazilian superstars. So Brazil has received 'Narcos' particularly well as it's been well-received around the world.

Jack Ablin

Right now, the transparency we had with (former Chairman Alan) Greenspan is gone. We're trying to get some semblance of which way the Fed is going to go.

Alain Perrin

I speak to the chairman all the time because he's close to the team,

Allen Sinai

It would have been useful to have had a nomination of a successor prior to Jackson Hole because, in a way, Jackson Hole is a farewell to Chairman Greenspan.

Evan Osnos

Political prodigies are rare in a nation that grooms top leaders through decades of Communist Party road-testing and pageantry. And because Chairman Mao's cult of personality led the country into extremism, the Party spent the next three decades engineering its politicians to be as indistinguishable as possible.

John Twomey

None of these numbers here are outside the realm of the policy forecasts that the Fed chairman was talking about yesterday, and the market's kind of saying that.

Wayne Angell

No one should interpret the remarks as being a prelude for the Federal Reserve raising the Fed funds rate at the December or February meeting. That's not going to happen. If that was going to happen, the chairman wouldn't have made a speech to puncture the exuberance.

Sen Freedman

Given the circumstances and given the experience CL&P has had in dealing with storms, I don't think they did as well as everyone expected. He's the chairman of the committee. I can't force a hearing, but I hope others request a hearing. Even if the utility company performed the way it should have, the public should be informed about how.

Muqtada al Sadr

I don't want the chair of the government because it will be controlled by the U.S. and I don't want to be controlled by the U.S.

Cliff Manlove

I don't want it to sound as if this is all my idea. I'm just the chairman of this board. Do you want us to delay this and study it further?

Gary Ruskin

So the question is who else is going to know. We are concerned about the invasion of privacy related to corporate advertisers knowing your position.

Kent Willis

School administrators are so concerned about discipline in school that they neglect the fundamental rights of students. Not only do students have a constitutional right to express themselves in the school so long as they're not disrupting the educational process, but schools ought to be encouraging students to express themselves.

Lara Rhame

This is not a 'ripping off the Band-Aid' kind of situation, where you know how much the pain will be and that you'll be fine afterwards. We don't know how well the economy has healed. The Fed remains very concerned ... that they might overshoot and give the economy such a shock they'll have to cut rates again.

Robert E. Lee

At present, I am not concerned with results. God's will ought to be our aim, and I am quite contented that His designs should be accomplished and not mine.

Stockwell Day

We are very concerned obviously with developments in Haiti.

Dave Bonnot

We were concerned that he seemed to be listening more to them (developers) then his constituents and us. He did say Mountain Springs was a great place to put a subdivision.

Richard Pound

We were concerned something might be going on in Italy.

Tom Padjen

We were concerned especially with homecoming week and everything. Defensively, we played a great game.

Michael Roth

We're looking at several things. We're concerned with the retaining wall, its stability from a water quality perspective, and their drainage controls, which are insufficient.

Harry Redknapp

I've not discussed it with Milan yet. I don't know where it's at yet. But if someone's going to come in and we are going to be able to improve the playing squad, which we need to do, it's got to be good for the football club.

Sarah Williams

We met with them and discussed the purchase - if not the outright purchase of the whole property, then for parts of it.

Don Madden

Two years ago we discussed with the state about providing water to Dillon State Park.

The Archives

has not been discussed in any meeting I've been in. And I would estimate I've been in at least 100 meetings.

Gary Bettman

We discussed a variety of options and I don't want to focus on any one because it would seriously be misconstrued and be potentially inflammatory,

Saundra Hess

We had discussed in practice that we have to over come obstacles. When we get in trouble we can't have the letdowns.

Harold Evans

Once we get further into the irrigation season and start using more water, we'll get all of it flushed out.

Asafa Powell

Actually, I wanted to get it over with. Further on in the season, I'll try, for the record.

Richard Ford

A promise was made by the Iraqi side to provide us with further information that we have requested.

Simon Clarke

Perhaps it will work in Dublin, but in the further out places it will be near impossible.

Sven Friebe

Rates are going to rise, and we see potential for further upside in the euro.

Michael Fitzpatrick

The storm may lead to further evacuations. If the storm moves into the Gulf it will lead to a suspension of repairs and there may even be a contraction in production. We're taking no chances.

Sam Stovall

We might have a little further to go on the downside,

Edward Murphy

We won't go any further with the VA until this process comes to some sort of conclusion.

Chris Foster

As things get refined, we'll seek further input.

Lajos Egri

No, you don't have to start your play with a premise. You can start with a character or an incident, or even a simple thought. This thought or incident grows, and the story slowly unfolds itself. You have time to find your premise in the mass of your material later. The important thing is to find it.

Wayne Minnaar

There have been no reported incidents so far, but we are monitoring the situation as usual.

Harvey Rosenthal

There's no question we can find random incidents that are really terrible and tragic. But, for the most part, these are the exceptions.

Larry Wachtel

If it's just one,' that's the whole premise. That this is not the first in a series, this one isolated incident and then we're on to better things. This is a miscalculation.

Brian Doyle

The incident was resolved before anything was moved.

O. J. Simpson

I don't know how often I can discuss one incident in my entire life, but I'll continue to do that.

Tyler Baskfield

This is a very rare incident to happen. Mountain lions tend to be very elusive. Typically mountain lions don't want any part of people.

Tyler Baskfield

This is a very rare incident to happen.

David Warren

We're thankful this has been without incident so far,

Dan Shechtman

Select a subject that interests you and make an effort to become an expert in that field. I promise you, if you make the effort, and you become an expert, you will have a wonderful career.

Mo Ibrahim

Young people, all too often, find their interests overlooked and their voices ignored.

Jim Newberry

Many of the interests the students have are similar to the interests of the community.

Mario Cuomo

Scott Stringer has a record of standing up to special interests and getting results for the people of Manhattan. I know a real reformer when I see one and Scott Stringer is the real deal.

Max Mathurin

Now that the president has been elected, the political interests at stake during the legislative vote are huge.

David Miliband

Al Qaeda has no place in Pakistan. It's a threat to Pakistan. And there should be a convergence of interests between the Pakistani state and the West on security issues, but also on wider economic and social issues.

Martha Stewart

This is what truly interests us, why we all come to work every day ... our passion is and always should be to make life better,

Guillermo Ortiz

Parent banks' stakeholders are not necessarily the same as those of their subsidiaries. Moreover, their interests may diverge, especially during a crisis.

Clint Eastwood

There has to be something in every role that interests you.

Lorna Luft

It was at one of the parties at our house that The Rat Pack got started.

Phil Klay

War is complicated and intense, and it takes time and thoughts to understand what it was.

Jane Smith

You have to know where to look, it just takes a little practice.

Paul Tagliabue

But it really doesn't matter. If it takes 2 1/2 (months), fine. If it takes 5 1/2 (months), that's fine, too.

Willis McGahee

My body's good, I keep getting up so I can't complain, ... If that's what it takes to win, that's what we're going to do.

Paul Gray

We have to re-evaluate it. It takes time, but they need to look at it again.

Eric Duncan

It still takes some getting used to. You walk around here and you see some pretty big names.

Karel Amaranth

It really takes a village. We're all responsible for all children.

Randy Pausch

Smelling a crayon takes you right back to childhood. When I need to go back in time, I put it under my nose and take another hit.

Orlando Bloom

It takes obstacles to learn, grow, be better.

Anne Rice

I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul.

Samuel Alito

A judge can't have any preferred outcome in any particular case. The judge's only obligation - and it's a solemn obligation - is to the rule of law.

Shawn Ashmore

There are rumors, rumors, rumors. I'm always the last one to know about these things, literally.

Jennifer Capriati

I didn't even, like, look at it. It was close. I was just going to do what the umpire said,

Ty Cobb

The best recommendation for an umpire in the old days was: "He licked somebody in the Three-I League. He ought to do.

Michael Coleman

I never thought I would say this, but I can't wait until we get the (regular) umpires back. We still have to play ball.

Chris Christie

I can guarantee you this, that more pension and benefit reforms which I will consider arbitration reform to be one of them, are things that when they come to my desk, they will be signed.