Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tim Long

Despite the likelihood of a conservative outlook, we believe better momentum in the company's growth areas could start to change the 'lack of growth' sentiment that has weighed on the stock.

Patrick Leahy

a flexible plan that includes pulling our troops back from the densely populated areas where they are suffering the worst casualties and to bring them home.

Chad Anderson

Rural areas are not an attractive market for a lot of the big companies.

Alfred Blumstein

Rural areas are lagging because they are the last front in the 1980s crime wave that started with crack in the big cities and put guns in the hands of kids in gangs and outside gangs.

Paul Ferley

Pressures are particularly evident in the West where housing prices in local markets such as Riverside-San Bernardino (outside of Los Angeles) and Las Vegas are rising rapidly with an attendant marked deterioration in affordability. Rising prices in those areas seem more the result of speculative pressures and thus indicative of local housing market bubbles. There is the definite risk in these markets that prices will eventually need to correct sharply lower.

Jeffrey Kagan

SBC is facing pressure from at least two areas -- competition and the economy. Contrary to what many people might think, competitors are making a real dent in SBC's business.

Scott Morris

Quite honestly, when we first began the survey, the financial applications seemed to be the ones people most wanted. As you can see, however, things have changed quite a bit. Common areas now seem to be Internet publication, design, and multimedia. These types of trends have not always been so.

Pat Boss

Quincy clearly feels, because of its proximity between the potato-growing areas and the apple-growing areas, it is a great area to consolidate a lot of freight here from both the tree fruit, the potato and the vegetable industries.

Gary Compton

There will be school tomorrow, but there are some areas we can?t do bus pickups. Some areas, if we had to drive to now, would be pretty shaky.

Earl Wilson

I've been around, and I see what other cities are doing, and I think, 'Why not us, we're a proud people,'

Ed Dumas

This is not a radical group of hard-line, right-wing people making unrealistic demands. It's a reasonable group of officials that are seeking some rational solutions to immigration problems that our cities and our communities face.

Aravind Adiga

I grew up, as many Indians do, in an archipelago of tongues. My maternal grandfather, who was a surgeon in the city of Madras, was fluent in at least four languages and used each of them daily.

Ben Nicholson

I feel most strongly about Jerusalem, because architects ultimately have to address that city.

Jane Jacobs

The point of cities is multiplicity of choice.

James Weldon Johnson

Americans are immensely popular in Paris; and this is not due solely to the fact that they spend lots of money there, for they spend just as much or more in London, and in the latter city they are merely tolerated because they do spend.

James Weldon Johnson

Amsterdam was a great surprise to me. I had always thought of Venice as the city of canals; it had never entered my mind that I should find similar conditions in a Dutch town.

Benjamin Disraeli

Certainly Manchester is the most wonderful city of modem times.

Alan Garner

I loathe crowds. I especially dont like cities. A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.

Jay Reiss

During rehearsals, to keep things lively, I'd sometimes make up something a little dirty - or very dirty. A lot of us have improv backgrounds, and everyone would crack up. People would say, 'I wish we had taped this.' I think the sentences are the kind of thing that lends itself to the dark side of humor.

Simon Winchester

A Crack in the Edge of the World

Tony Smith

It was tough day with a lot of delays and the gymnasts were losing some momentum. On the last rotation only five hit their routines. I know Nathan can do much better and hopefully he can show what he's been doing in training. He's got the potential to crack the top-five here.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Some feel as though the world is their oyster; others feel as though they were the oyster itself, plucked from the ocean, cracked open, and robbed of all that is precious to them.

Charlotte Observer

Cracks would have been a (warning) flag for us,

Kobe Bryant

You guys can go in there anytime. Crack open a book. Expand your imagination and read and learn because that is truly the key to success. The more you know, the more power you gain.

Steve Schwartz

The result of the cracking is to relax the interior and exterior field to a less twisted state. This has very little impact on the star itself, other than the fact that it will take time to twist up the field again.

Andrew Flintoff

A lot of the lads have a bat for the nets, a bat for facing the bowling machine and a separate bat for the match. I'll just crack on with a bat until it breaks - then crack on with another one.

T. S. Eliot

Words strain, crack, and sometime break, under the burden.

John Ashcroft

perhaps the largest group of crime victims in our history.

Steve Parker

This is an extremely serious crime where the victims have been threatened with extreme violence.

Edward Garnier

This Government has tied our police up in so much red tape that instead of being on the streets dealing with crime they now spend half their time at their desks.

Gerhard Schroeder

This crime deeply shocked all of Germany and united it in sadness and sympathy,

Jim Carlin

This crime can be solved here in Calhoun County. There's a lot of people that know what happened.

Jeff Hawkins

This could be a crime of opportunity where someone saw it, hot-wired it and drove it off,

Brad Pitt

Crime is just unvarnished capitalism, after all.

Asa Butterfield

Don't do piracy. Piracy is a crime.

Bill James

Crime cases tend to be fascinating until you figure out what happened.

John Boehner

Putting all the pieces in place takes a long, long time. You've got to do the planning up front before you lay it out on the table.

Connor Franta

Public speaking is scary, I think. I've gotten way better at it. If I have to do a speech and be like, 'I'm a YouTuber,' then that's easy, but if I have to get up there and pretend I know something in front of adults, it's never fine. In front of adults, it's like, 'Ahhhh they're going to judge me.'

Marshawn Lynch

The Seahawks, their front office gets in the media; they talk a lot.

Elizabeth Morgan

I've seen a sprinkling of it over the years, but it's out front this year.

Diana Ross

I've spent a lot of time on makeup in my life because I'm always in front of the mirror, getting ready for shows and performances.

Wayne Chism

I've played in front of him (Pearl) before. The second half I was able to get my head together and play well (in front of Pearl).

Lincoln Kennedy

It was very embarrassing. You're in front of, what, 60 million people? Worldwide TV? We had to get a quick score on the board. You can't get a goose egg.

Chris McDonald

It was a little tough tonight. Every time we would get in front of (Jones), they would lob it over or he would have good position.

John Fernandes

These were nothing more than a front for distributing marijuana.

Charles DeMore

Street gangs pose a growing public safety threat to communities throughout this area. The violence, sophistication, and scope of these organizations have reached intolerable levels.

Al Capone

I am like any other man. All I do is supply a demand.

Russell Simmons

Gangsta rappers, they call them. Not nearly as gangsta as the things that inspire them.. you know, a gangsta government that we operate under.

Nas

Some people say I'm conscious, some say I'm a gangsta rapper - it's just me doing me. I'm stomping in my own lane. I'm doing what I do.

Greg Owen

If we're going to be involved in leadership work, we not only have to teach, we have to learn. And we need to work vigorously to remove the reasons that gangs exist.

Ice Cube

Gangsta to us didn't have anything to do with Al Capone and stuff like that. It's just about living your life the way you want to live it. And you're not going to let nothing stop you.

Mitt Romney

What's up, gangstas? It's the M-I-Double-Tizzle.

Steve Shoff

We shut down their two big guns but we couldn't mark them all.

Warren Zevon

Send lawyers, guns and money, the shit has hit the fan.

Stephanie Williams

Right now I am just going to stick to my guns and stay put.

Jim Cavanaugh

They were throwing everything at us. Their guns sounded like cannons and our guns sounded like pop guns.

David Senior

When the D.A. and A.G. show up with badges and guns and say whatever, they can intimidate a lot of people and that's their game.

Steve Oestreicher

Now it's in the hands of the Legislature. We're going to see what they're going to do with it.

Rob Andrew

This is an unfortunate setback, and is in the hands of the medics, who will continually monitor the situation.

Brandon Sanderson

The sudden and abrupt removal of my all-consuming goal ... well, it was like I was a donut, and somebody had sucked all the jelly out of me. But I could stuff new jelly in there. It would just get my hands a little sticky in the process.

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Times is a paper which is seldom found in any hands but those of the highly educated.

Barbara Kingsolver

she's never forgotten, either, how a mystery caught in the hand could lose its grace

Barbara Kingsolver

The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brain and in your hands, wherever you go.

Jan Morris

Venice is a cheek-by-jowl, back-of-the-hand, under-the-counter, higgledy-piggledy, anecdotal city, and she is rich in piquant wrinkled things, like an assortment of bric-a-brac in the house of a wayward connoisseur, or parasites on an oyster-shell.

Burt Ward

We found that just by the way we stood, affected women dramatically, and if you look at our show, you'll see that we always stood with our legs open our fists on hips and our bat bulges forward, which had a profound effect on women!

Cesar Chavez

Non-violence has suffered its biggest defeat in the hands of people who most want to talk about it.

Steve Burton

So we were doing this scene, and the kids get 20 minutes a day, um, so, all I had to do was pick him up out of the incubator and take him out, and that was the whole shot.

Joel Kaplan

Nowadays, it's the kids who have the power. When they don't do the work and get lower grades, they scream and yell. Parents side with the kids who pressure teachers to lower standards.

O. Henry

I wanted to be on the winning side (on the record), but to it was truly unbelievable to have the season we had. The kids just stepped up and played well.

Mary Pope Osborne

Sometimes when I go out on the road, I feel almost embarrassed or dismayed because I can't be the image of what kids want me to be. So I just try to be myself, and usually that works out OK.

Luke Jensen

Tennis for me is the same whether I'm playing in a tournament or instructing, ... I just have a passion for the sport and love the game. That's what I tell all the kids I work with about life. Just find something you love to do and be passionate about it and it won't seem like work.'

Ennis Proctor

Sometimes these kids that are well-rounded don't get enough credit. We want to recognize the true scholar-athlete.

Jane Lowe

Sometimes it's not visible, but the kids all know.

Chris Lasoya

Seeing how the kids react, smiling and all, that makes it all worth it. I let the kids shoot me sometimes and they'll be talking about that for years.

Bruce Graham

Pulling kids from line really shakes a lot of people up, ... It is important to keep teachers accountable.

Rob Neyland

That's where the rubber meets the road in this - the lasting impact.

Atharva Veda

See yourselves in all; See all in yourselves; that is the road to lasting peace and joy.

John Sherman Cooper

Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn't care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy.

Michael Redd

I've thought of guys, whether they were here last year or not, and doing something special for them.

Shane Olivea

This is probably the worst performance we've all played, together, in the last two years.

Brooks Bollinger

This is so tough, ... People on the outside don't realize how tough it is to get to the playoffs. Last year, we were one victory away from a championship game.

Alexander Lukashenko

The West will not spare any expenses, ... the last thing that we need.

Ron Ellis

The weather report last night said that the snow was going to be south of us.

Rob King

The weather is always tough. I mean it just snowed last week so you can never predict what's going to happen.

Kay Yow

Offensively, we never got it going. We didn't play well on the inside. We didn't play well on the outside ... (FSU) played very well defensively.

Jason Leffler

We did not come here to run outside of the top 10,

Tom Richardson

Even though it was an outside chance, that could have been me on the shuttle. It's kind of scary.

David Rossi

At this point in the semester our students would have already been suspended outside of school 700 days.

Hayley Wickenheiser

We are a pro team in every sense of the word outside of being paid like pro players.

Joe Hale

We wanted an urban look with an outside that was simple and symmetrical.

Mike Parks

We just had one today outside a restaurant.

Thom Mayne

I've been such an outsider my whole life.

Mark Bruener

I would say he's one of the more underrated outside linebackers in a long time,

Vanna Bonta

What appears to us solid is ultimately both a particle and a wavelength, and on that realm everything behaves as both a particle and a wave.

Elaine Chao

The attacks on Sept. 11 really sent a shock wave through our economy, and the full reverberation of that is not yet known,

Chester W. Nimitz

If you're not making waves, you're not under weigh.

David Byrne

I wave to the double-decker buses from my bike, but the passengers never wave back. Why? Am I not an attraction?