Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Johannessen

Our agency will pay for this if we have to. It's too critical to get caught up in a question of who ultimately is going to pay for it.

Mark Dayton

Apparently the primary qualification necessary to lead the nation's disaster relief agency was to have been a major supporter of the president's 2000 election campaign,

Robb Hankins

Any nonprofit organization (in Stark County) was eligible to apply. In many cases, it's the local church or the elementary school or the social service agency that's doing arts projects. We just didn't know about it.

Andy Jackson

The skill of the agency, photographer and ourselves combine to create a fantastic image and happy client. Quotes from manufacturers already state that they see CGI as a major part of the solution for future photography. If an agency decides not to embrace this, they run the risk of being left behind by their competitors.

Ion Sancho

The secretary of state's office has been a very difficult agency to work with the past couple of years. This gives the governor an opportunity to really step forward and select someone who has expertise in the area of elections.

Alex Roland

The shuttle could never do what the agency tried to make it do, and so they traded off safety. I don't blame the managers; they were presented with an impossible job.

Chris Taylor

I've never asked for anything. I've never gotten a raise in my seven years. So you always think that they'll come back and want to keep you just because what I've done. I've always stayed here, never gone the free agency route and never asked for a raise. Hopefully they'll take care of me now.

David Dye

A few short years ago, those numbers would have been laughed at as impossible goals. Our agency is constantly examining its strategies and looking at outcomes to determine how we can help the mining industry drive fatality, injury and illness rates down to zero.

Tom Courtney

The one thing it said was under no circumstance would any government agency be allowed to keep the fingerprints on file,

Tim Hudson

Any time I have an outing similar to that, I always look forward to getting back out there, putting it behind me and making better pitches, ... It's a big game, obviously -- the biggest game of the year. I'm glad they have confidence in me to go out there and try to get us back to Atlanta.

Billy Godwin

Any good coach has to have the team behind them.

Vladimir Rushailo

As far as the tent camp is concerned, we have seen it all before and know who stands behind this.

Dominik Hasek

A shutout like that shouldn't even count. It was a great effort from my team. (Montreal) didn't get anything. The last two shots, the 11th and 12th, they were with one minute left and behind the blue line so what can I say. It was probably the easiest shutout I have had.

Scott Simms

As far as we're concerned, that's behind us and we're moving forward.

Shane Jabaar

A scan revealed he sustained an injury to one of the medial tendons of his left hamstring behind the knee.

Alice McDermott

As a writer, you have to put yourself in service to the character, get behind their eyes by delineating the world where the character develops. You have to listen to the character and see him inside his certain world to know what conclusions he would draw.

William Patterson

As a Black gay man I would not want to have relations with a brother who was secretly going behind my back and then going back to his wife, knocking her up and possibly infecting them and putting them at risk, ... You are not doing yourself any good and particularly not doing the gay and Black community as a whole any good by you living a double life. It's all about loving each other and being responsible because that's how we're going to end this.

Heather Brown

As a freshman it's different, but I think I've gotten used to it. I know I have to be smart. I have to know where I am in the lineup and what's coming next. One thing that's comforting is that I always know that my team is behind me and they have my back. That's probably been the best thing about the experience so far.

Aburizal Bakrie

The colleagues of the CGI raised questions on the transparency of the compensation fund program and the sustainability of its implementation,

Jim Hunter

A new pavement, combined with a new tire, that shorter run is a safe way to do it.

Steve Alic

Any report of a test score of 6 is incorrect. The people who run the combine told me emphatically that it was incorrect. They said it couldn't be more wrong. I know the report is wrong and know the scores are confidential.

Connie Mack

An outfield composed of Cobb, Speaker and Ruth, even with Ruth, lacks the combined power of DiMaggio, Musial and Ted Williams.

Robert McGee

As home prices level off, so will the growth of equity that has supported consumer spending in the past. The impact from higher interest rates on home equity loans and adjustable rate mortgages will combine with stubbornly high energy prices to squeeze discretionary spending.

Mike Pechner

A tide like that prevents the normal drainage from all the creeks and streams that normally drain into the bay. It's like a dam. You combine a 7-foot tide with 15- to 20-foot seas, and you can see why people are worried. Luckily, it's not a commute morning.

Ken Kendrick

As owners of this great franchise, we understand our responsibility of giving back to the community, be it here locally, or any place in need throughout this nation, ... We are proud of the leadership that our players demonstrated with their donation, and are honored to match that generous amount. We take comfort in knowing that all of our efforts from this week, which combined fans, players, and front office, will have a positive impact on such a devastating situation.

Anja Paerson

Any kind of combined is cool. I think the super combined is pretty good because it's just a one-run slalom and it gives the speed skiers a better chance. I think the super-combined is something that will stay. For me, it's better than the normal combined with the two-run slalom.

Gary Marsh

The show is able to combine outrageous physical comedy with the heart and humanity that characterizes all really wonderful sitcoms that have been successful.

Brad Nisbet

The sweet spot continues to be midrange products. A lot of the features and functionality once only in the high end has migrated its way down to lower segments of market. That combined with the fact that many midrange products offer multiple tiers of storage is driving the growth.

Mike Shula

Offense is what creates excitement. Defense just wins games.

Tom Rosenstiel

Normally, the press imposes a sports template and tends to create a winner,

Lauren Spillers

Defense creates offense. We create turnovers and steals and that gives us easy chances.

Michael Strauss

An efficient and effective guest worker program should be created in order to stop the incentive for illegal immigration into the U.S..

Chucky Atkins

The second quarter was the difference. Our second unit gave us great energy to open the second quarter. When this team gets in sync quick and we're locking down on defense, it creates a lot more opportunities on the other end for us.

Alan Young

Something has to be done in the short term, because we have created a panic in our community.

Perry Farrell

Punk rock was exciting because you could get your ass kicked for looking like a punk. Punks were atrocious. They created mayhem. Now you just throw on a plaid-that's not style.

Perhaps, if I am very lucky, the feeble efforts of my lifetime will someday be noticed, and maybe, in some small way, they will be acknowledged as the greatest works of genius ever created by Man

LaVar Arrington

I've slowed everything down, ... I slowed how I view things. I slowed how I react to things. Not just in football, but in life. I used to create something in my mind and make myself go 100 miles an hour towards whatever that was.

Malcolm-Jamal Warner

I've met men who have been married 19, 20 years, and all of a sudden the wife decides one day she needs to find herself.

Chevy Chase

The wireless industry needs to think about what to do about wireless vice before government decides for us,

Kam Kuwata

That's why they have elections, and if she decides to file (paperwork to run), so be it.

Ron Meyer

Students using vouchers will now be welcomed back into Florida public schools. It decides with finality that the voucher program is unconstitutional.

Gene Taylor

It's a matter of if he decides to go or not.

Albert Einstein

It is the theory that decides what we can observe.

Jess Glynne

When the world decides to stop being greedy... there will be a harvest for the world! Amen.

Lauren Bacall

When a person who is very ill decides to treat it like a slight virus, you play that game. If you make a big scene, I think it is yourself you are doing it for, not the person who's ill.

Douglas Feith

What the UN inspectors can do is demonstrate to the world, help the Iraqi government demonstrate to the world that the Iraqis are cooperatively disarming if that is in fact what the Iraqi government decides to do.

John Harwood

As dismayed as Americans are with the influence of the special interests that finance election campaigns, they've been reluctant to embrace the alternative: taxpayer-financed elections.

Tara Wall

African-Americans understand that now is an opportunity to embrace compassionate conservative policies that will move us forward and empower the victims of Hurricane Katrina to recover and rebuild their lives in a greater way.

The Grimm

Some people embrace it. To me, it's not worth enough to risk my private life being public.

Don Allison

The whole sport is odd, but within the sport it's even an odd kind of race because of the fact that it seems so difficult. Those who do it seem to love it and embrace it. Others kind of look askance on it.

Eric Maskin

Most policy makers embrace a religious-like belief that the market can and should solve every problem.

Blaise Pascal

By thought I embrace the universe.

John Barrie

We're an institution that never has really embraced its history. We hope that everyone, whether it's students, faculty or alumni, will come away from this with a sense that this is an institution with a pretty profound history.

Rodney Lovell

Embrace the negative, for within its crusty shell lies a pearl waiting to be discovered.

Adoniram Judson

Embrace every opportunity of exercising kind feelings and doing good to others, especially to the household of faith.

Alan Pardew

A fantastic strike. He'll do well to hit another one in his career.

Rusty Petrea

Now my passion is different. Now my passion is guiding this fantastic thing known as the First Tee.

Dougray Scott

It was very hot, very rugged and quite inaccessible. But I had a fantastic time. The work is the thing that motivates me.

Richard Miller

It was an outstanding show. She's a great show person, and she did a superb job. There was really something for everybody. I looked around and could just see smiles on everyone's faces. It was a fantastic show and everyone had a really great evening.

Graeme Souness

I understand that on Monday, our final offer was rejected, so I think that one is finished, unfortunately. We have made a fantastic offer for the player and really, there is a limit on how much you can spend on one player.

Andy Ball

The women had a fantastic season and will do even better in 2006!

Mike Babcock

The way they are playing, why wouldn't you play them. They were fantastic (against Chicago).

Ciaran Hinds

That's why Tennessee Williams was a great writer. Poetically, dramatically, it was fantastic stuff. And with the landscape, the losers in life populating it. His short stories have got rhythm, something musical about them.

Gary Maurer

We're having some fantastic meals. They sure know how to cook.

Douglas Coupland

The thing about the future is that it never feels the way we thought it would.

Virgil

Perhaps the remembrance of these things will prove a source of future pleasure.

Burt Rutan

There will be a new industry, and we are just now in the beginning. I will predict that in twelve or fifteen years there will be tens of thousands, maybe even hundreds of thousands of people, that fly and see that black sky.

Baltasar Gracian

It is a great deed to leave nothing for tomorrow.

Edgar Mitchell

Eventually we must leave Earth-at least a certain number of our progeny must as our sun approaches the end of its solar life cycle. But just as terrestrial explorers have always led the way for settlers, this will also happen extraterrestrially. Earth is our cradle, not our final destiny.

Aristotle

The shape of the heaven is of necessity spherical; for that is the shape most appropriate to its substance and also by nature primary.

David J. C. MacKay

In a climate where people don't understand the numbers, newspapers, campaigners, companies, and politicians can get away with murder

Sid Ryan

Every day that they put this legislation off to the future is more time to negotiate.

Paolo Bacigalupi

I think that, when I think about the future that 'The Water Knife' represents, it's one where there's a lack of oversight, planning and organization.

Kelsey Grabiak

No, she was happy for us. She was really excited.

John Schuerholz

The most important thing about that is that when we did that deal, he was happy about it.

Robby Davis

We're happy with the jump we had. We've got work to do, but we're moving in the right direction.

Gary Cole

We're happy to see them. We hope they're here for a long time.

Rene Portland

We're happy to be here (at least) one more night.

Hines Ward

We're happy to be going to the Super Bowl, but we want to win. We plan to go there and win the whole thing.

Jud Honaker

We're happy to be able to help, and we wish them the best.

Randy Nelson

We're happy they're willing to sponsor us since we couldn't get sponsorship here.

Baruch Spinoza

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

Randa Haines

As a director, you're looking for ways to tell the story with the whole image and not primarily dialogue.

Bob Shimp

The mystique of the American West is what runs this place. That image of the West still strikes people, people from all over the world.

Peter Davis

I suited the music to particular images on the film.

Ruckett

Before everyone stands a image of what he ought to be. So long as he is not that his peace is not complete.

Halle Berry

It's scary to be that vulnerable on film, ... This movie was all about shedding inhibitions for most of the cast, really, you know, saying things and presenting images that were risky because you never know how people are going to take them.

Bruce Jackson

War is big and there are only so many reporters and only so many places for their words and images to appear. Choices are made constantly.

Sammy Cahn

I had no particular image of Chicago in mind when I wrote 'My Kind of Town.' All I wanted to do was write a song in praise of Chicago, and that's what I did.

Nate Lowman

I make images from things I find serendipitously. I don't know what it is, but I know it when I see it. It could be from a newspaper, on the street. It could be something I fell over.

Daria Werbowy

I guess a lot of people don't realise, but I'm always playing a character when I'm working. When you're always having people's images projected on you, who 'Daria' is as a person sort of disappears.

Steven Tyler

The things that come to those who wait, may be the things left by those who were there first.

Gerard Kennedy

This is a serious problem that should not be left unchecked,

Brad Johnson

The only player left was Matt Birk, ... He was a rookie in '98. Now he's hurt.

Carol Ann Duffy

What will you do now with the gift of your left life?

Grover Norquist

The only whiners left by next week will be the registered bigots.

David Moorcroft

Essentially, what she left on the table at the TSX, they're making up for it here.

Steven Aftergood

FOIA is one of the most vital tools we have left and it's urgent that it be protected. It's under stress in this climate, but it's not broken.

Sarah Kendall

Did he have weapons with him when he left the house?

Gary Smith

Corporations left and right are dumping their obligations and promises.

Kevin Keane

People shouldn't overreact. It's a very small number of products and not major brands.

Subir Raha

The Syrian acquisition is a major breakthrough for us.

Pat Gelsinger

This is not a minor retooling. This is a major leap.

Zhou Jixiang

That's why we need to stretch to other major cities. We've only started the work with Shandong Province.

Mike Wallace

You say this, 'I would never have been a Major League-caliber player without steroids.' Right,

Mat Sprague

Considering where the program has come from, it's a major accomplishment.

Laura Garcia

Don't know. Don't know anything about Toronto. It's a major city, isn't it?

Joel Blackmon

Don't get me wrong, we wouldn't turn down a major record deal.

James Thurber

And unless there is a major stumbling or bombshell, I think he will be confirmed.

Gerry Adams

strenuous efforts, taken initiatives and stretched ourselves and our constituency to the limit.

Jim Gabella

Right now we're not playing very well. We're not putting anything together offensively. We can do one of two things ? we can feel sorry for ourselves or we can come back out (today) and work.

Claude Julien

We're putting ourselves in that situation. Over 82 games, once in a while, you like to find ways to make it easier.

Rick Adelman

We've put ourselves in playoff position now, we're right there. There are expectations, and this is good, but there's no time to relax.

Jean Fontaine

Lynx-eyes to our neighbors, and moles to ourselves

Jim Waggoner

We're setting ourselves up for some kind of rally.

Carl Edwards

I got a trick up my sleeve for when we really need it so we'll just get ourselves in position, and we're going to be alright, guys.

Dick Whittington

If we recycle the trees, we give ourselves a present.

Randy Foye

If we're going to make this program go, it had to start with us. We took it upon ourselves that we've got to do this.

Phil Keoghan

I like to have fun with them. I like to toy with them a little bit. we're making television, after all. Right?

James Boswell

He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.

John Atkinson

If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.

Josefa Iloilo

I will, from this day strive to forge togetherness out of our differences.

Brian Koslow

One way to evaluate your own reputation is to think about what would be said of you at your eulogy.

Samuel Smiles

The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.

Paul Celan

Reality is not simply there, it must be searched and won.

Robert Frank

I always say that I don't want to be sentimental, that the photographs shouldn't be sentimental, and yet, I am conscious of my sentimentality.

Peter Bondra

To me, it's like we're already in the playoffs. Every game is important for our position. We can't relax at all.

Maggie Mermin

The risk is not zero. But it's low.

William Schmitt

This is probably one (company) where that risk is the greatest.

Brian Tracy

The future belongs to the risk-takers, not the comfort-seekers .

Lou Jiwei

There is a lot of risk in the tech sector.

Dana Delany

Television is more of a business. You can't take as many risks, because there's so many channels now, and the advertising's dropping.

Brennan Manning

Without exposure to potential failure, there is no risk.

Brennan Manning

Craving clarity, we attempt to eliminate the risk of trusting God.

Brenda Blethyn

At the risk of sounding naff, it is having hope fulfilled

Bill Hybels

God delights in pouring his favor on obedient risk takers.

Joey Gathright

A situation like that, you just don't think about anything ... you just go get it. They were scoring runs ... we wanted to get out of that inning any way you can. You just go until the wall stops you.

Ron Gardenhire

Offensively, we didn't do too much. But we scored the runs when we had to.

Kevin Millwood

No, run support is not going to be a problem.

John Woo

I usually put the actors and the stuntmen in a real explosion, in real gunfire. They run scared, really scared,

Sergio Kindle

Some schools want me as linebacker and some want me to play running back. I'll play wherever they put me.

Justin Blalock

Something's got to give. We feel like we can run whenever we want.

Rosevelt Colvin

Once you stop the run you get teams in third-and-long, you can tee off because you know the quarterback is going to be back there.

Tristan Davis

Sometimes when I see a running back, I'm like, that could have been my touchdown.

Marcus Williams

See, he is the one running, not me.

Brian Tracy

Your ability to set and achieve goals is perhaps the most important skill you can ever develop.

Brian Jacques

Any weapon is a good weapon as long as ye can use it with honor and skill.

Diane Cilento

I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill.

Daniel Goleman

There is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse.

Daniel Goleman

Empathy represents the foundation skill for all the social competencies important for work.

Artur Davis

Mitt Romney, happens to have the exact skill set that the next president's going to require.

Brittany Daniel

If you've been told all your life that you're good-looking, people just flock around you and you never really have to try or have to learn an interesting craft, skill or hobby - or even have depth.

Brian Van Holt

Meryl Streep's got talent, she's got skills. I'm sure she wants to be on 'Cougar Town,' right?

Eckhart Tolle

To make money, to gather knowledge, to learn a new skill, to explore new territory, even to get from A to B - for all these things you need time. For almost everything you need time, except for one thing: to embrace the present moment.

Fadel Gheit

And there is no near-term solution for any of these things.

Craig Brown

This is not the right solution to the problem.

Michael Vickers

Essentially what we have is a two-country solution to a 60-country problem.

James Wolfensohn

HIPC is not a solution to poverty. HIPC is one step.

Jaroslaw Kaczynski

Angela Merkel is the best solution for Poland.

Margaret Atwood

We are very short on organs, and the pig solution is probably a lot better than the human clone solution - though maybe not for the pigs.

Paul Wolfowitz

To stay back from an intervention is not always a good solution.

Claude LeBas

We need to work out a solution here.

Mario Garcia

Automatically in the state of Arizona, if you're over 80,000 pounds, you get fined,

Don Stewart

Are we in violation of any state statutes?

Steve Kendall

The thought was the state was going to do something.

Mike McCurry

there will be steps that the United States will take." ()

Tiffany Fisher

It was very frustrating. (Heritage Christian) was better defensively than any of the teams we've played. They were a lot quicker. They were just better. That's why they're state champions.

Robert Hansen

The state is already telling us what to teach

Steve Mottinger

These are things the state wants you to forget.

Mark Johnson

This isn't about us wanting something now. This is about what we want our state to be 50 or 100 years from now. If we wait another 50 to 100 years, it'll be gone.

Kyle Miller

This is really for the state of Texas.