Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Zahler

As a species, the cheetahs are still in dire straits in Iran, so it is extremely encouraging to see an apparently healthy family in their native habitat.

Kevin Bankston

As best we can tell, the NSA program is apparently the biggest fishing expedition ever devised, scanning millions of ordinary Americans' calls and e-mails for suspicious patterns.

Arlen Specter

The more I see of this, the more it becomes apparent that there is no solid reason for that secrecy, ... It is in the context of public disclosure and media attention that we really figure out what is going on.

Dennis George

Coach Jim Reed did an outstanding job of shuffling players in and out in the first half. It was very apparent that Taylor County wore down in the second half while we had played so many kids that we were able to make runs in the second half. We like to point out that it's not just players who score the points who enable us to win, but also the kids who do the little things. But we do like the kids who can score as well.

Tom Vinger

Apparently they were not bad enough to put him out of service.

Fred Eckhard

Apparently they are nowhere near Freetown. We can no longer confirm it out of New York. The information is just not good.

Fred Eckhard

Apparently they are nowhere near Freetown, ... We can no longer confirm it out of New York. The information is just not good.

Patrick Lawler

are the result of many factors, including low mortgage interest rates and the apparent impact of speculative investing.

Robert Blackburn

Approximately 2.5 to 3 hours later I received another telephone call from the Nursing Staff stating that they had noticed change of mental status with the patient. Apparently he was having difficulty walking. He was unable to swallow his pills and actually kind of spit the antibiotics out. They felt that the patient was having significant changes.

E. B. White

As long as this economic environment stays intact, the market can grind its way North. You pay a lot of attention to valuation and you have to keep your eye on the long term. If you have funds that you need in the short term, I think you probably need to take some money off the table.

Katsuya Okada

(Prime Minister Junichiro) Koizumi's Liberal Democratic Party focused on a single issue of pros and cons regarding postal privatization--and the voters' attention was diverted to it.

Marjorie Kaplan

Personal attention is most important. When you introduce a new concept ... there are students who don't understand the concept and need extra work.

Michael Wallace

People who invest in these companies should not pay attention to quarter-to-quarter numbers, ... They should look at the yearly numbers. You need to take a long term approach.

John Ashcroft

People who interfere with the exercise of constitutionally protected rights should be the focus of attention by prosecutorial authorities,

Kathleen Patterson

People, up to now, haven't been paying attention to water. It hasn't been a big issue for a while.

Billy Gillispie

People thought P.J. didn't play all that well at our place, but he's where all your attention always goes (defensively). I wish it was not at our expense, but I'm really happy to see a guy bounce back after what happened at the end of that game. I guess I'm not that happy. But I was glad for him.

Flip Saunders

Our division was closed with 20-something games to go. The conference was closed with 10 or 12 games to go, so everyone turned their attention toward out west and the chase that was happening out there.

Rick Adelman

Our energy level tonight was up. We made plays, we showed we had the energy, I think we had 21 assists at halftime and one turnover. Our offense was efficient tonight. We haven't been playing well these last seven games and our offense was the thing hurting us the most. Guys were trying to do everything on their own and we need to get back to trusting our teammates and passing the ball. We weren't paying much attention to detail in these last seven games, but we were better tonight.

Bill Muir

As European markets move farther east, Ukraine becomes cost-competitive with our most competitive places.

Rig Veda

A scholar always treads on the path of righteousness and as result becomes successful.

Roger Launius

As a person excited by the prospect of returning to the Moon, I am thrilled that the United States is finally intent on moving beyond Earth orbit, ... Like everyone, I am curious to see how this plays out over the next few months as project definition becomes more solid. The devil will be in the details.

William Donahue

a unique animal. I see daily operations as a democracy, however at a fire situation, it becomes autocratic.

Michael Young

At some point, ... affordability becomes a negative factor on demand.

Iain Grant

A young person may be exposed to a loud noise and cause permanent damage, but a younger ear will compensate and so the effect of that damage is not noticed. As you get older, you lose hearing and the damage becomes more apparent.

Don Mays

A young child will open up a drawer on a dresser like this to try to climb up to reach something at the top. Or they might open up all the drawers, in which case a dresser like this becomes very unstable.

John Cairns

Banks, by law, are required to know their customers. What becomes difficult from the banks' point of view is being suspect of a situation that may or may not prove to be something wrong.

Ernest Hemingway

A writer's problem does not change. It is always how to write truly and having found out what is true to project it in such a way that it becomes part of the experience of the person who reads it.

Wayne Pace

I like the position we're in within the context of the overall industry,

Christine Quinn

When I was running for speaker, people would go out of their way to point out why I wasn't going to win: 'You're a woman, you're too liberal, you're gay, you're from the West Side of Manhattan,' which in that context was an insult.

Richard Ferlauto

Disclosure is necessary but insufficient to restrain pay.

Jeffrey Toobin

There is no legal requirement of any public disclosure of a justice's health. And justices are very cagey and very limited in what they disclose.

Evan Osnos

Disclosure and transparency are the currency of the Internet, and they are at odds with authoritarianism.

Gavin Patterson

After years of hype, delays, skepticism and then disappointment, it is a welcome relief to say that WCDMA has finally come of age. Preliminary figures show that end-2005 there were 44.42 million WCDMA subscribers worldwide, an increase of 163.62% over the 16.85 million subs registered as of Dec. 31, 2004.

Syamsir Siregar

The terrorists want to get money by kidnapping influential figures and this could include businessmen and politicians.

Jim Owens

I've never been able to figure out his motivation. We're just going to let him do what he does.

Randy Couture

The most important thing that I've figured out is that things work out the way they're supposed to. We try to have all this control and fashion things the way we want, but everything happens for a reason, and in the end it works out the way it's supposed to.

Tom Davies

Now it's our job to figure out why, and to make sure we are better prepared for the future.

Maurice Cheeks

Sometimes, I'm a little soft-spoken, and sometimes I yell a little bit. They have to figure out when I'm going to yell, when I'm not going to yell. I think there's a happy medium. I have to find out the little things about players' personalities, and they have to find out about mine as well.

Wayne Howell

Sometimes, the guys have to figure it out for themselves. They know our offense. They know our defense. They just had to work it out.

John Gibbons

Roy has missed nine starts so far. You figure he's good for at least four wins. Where are we with four more wins?

Jim Mora

Right now, we figure he'll be good to go Sunday night. When you're Mike Vick and your team needs you, the guy shows up - he's a great one.

Jane D. Hull

Safety on our highways has improved significantly, with the help of the Legislature and the media.

Charlene Li

Some of the power has shifted from companies to people. Using social media tools (blogs, wikis, tagging, etc.) more individuals are creating semi-spontaneous 'groundswells' of opinions to which companies and other institutions are realizing they must respond. From marketing to consumers organizations are being pulled into engaging with individuals.

Billy Connolly

Outgrew the media... The negativity felt like a disease.

Elif Safak

Words are heavy in Turkey, and every writer, every poet and every journalist knows that, because of a word, because of a sentence, because of a tweet or even a retweet, you can be sued, you can be demonized by the media and you can even land in prison.

Edward Ruscha

I don't do social media of any kind. If I did, I may as well join Scientology.

Eduardo Galeano

To narrate is to give oneself: it seems obvious that literature, as an effort to communicate fully, will continue to be blocked so long as misery and illiteracy exist, and so long as the possessors of power continue to carry on with impunity their policy of collective imbecilization through the mass media.

Bobby Miller

Even though the media has dubbed me America's most controversial writer, occasionally my words find an open mind and I end up with a new friend, and at least on that day, I win.

Bernie Sanders

Sometimes the media says, well, this state had an election, it's the end of the campaign. It is not. We have dozens of more states to go. We're feeling good about the future.

Bernie Sanders

To be honest with you, I worry about concentration of ownership in media, where you have a handful of media conglomerates largely controlling what we see, hear and read.

Dave Bowman

As of now, no response from the public or business.

Dan Stessel

Some (drivers) have opted to switch to public transportation, and we're working to welcome them to the system.

Jim Bailey

public safety reasons and for your own safety.

Tom Bailey

We have a responsibility to the public to do the right thing, ... We've got 14-year-olds that read the newspaper.

Sharon Stone

My personal style and public style are very different. When I go out, I play dress up.

Ben Schott

The radio's pretty much always on, and I also listen to some American podcasts, such as for 'National Public Radio' and 'Newsweek'.

Darryl Strawberry

didn't want to make a public thing out of it.

Bob Elliott

We want a more comprehensive look at public safety.

Alicia Munnell

With public employees, the day of reckoning is more in the distance.

Robert Richardson

Any organization of reasonable size is going to be attacked.

Frank Lautenberg

This is a reasonable standard we know will save lives.

I. Stone

You want a reasonable standard so you can receive and send help.

Benjamin Disraeli

There are so many plans, so many schemes, and so many reasons why there should be neither plans nor schemes.

Charles Darwin

We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.

Diana Wynne Jones

Nobody gets praised for the right reasons.

Brendon Burchard

Optimists are happier in life for a reason.

Aristotle

If something's bound to happen, it will happen.. Right time, right person, and for the best reason.

Kris Draper

Cujo is the reason we won the game,

John Jones

We're going to try to use solid technique.

Rory Bruer

I think it's a good, solid start for us,

Doug Mirabelli

He's been solid for us all year, and we need him now more than ever.

Clint Chamberlin

The JV got after it and had a solid outing.

David Ritchie

All this means. . . we have a really solid footing.

Mike Donahue

Once again, we had a solid third period.

J. J. Johnson

We are solid up front. It has just taken some time to feel comfortable in our system.