Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daryl Hall

I'd like to see more crossover between white and black music. That's something I've been advocating for years.

Ed Gillespie

His long record in the Senate is one of advocating policies that would weaken our national security.

Ron Kind

If you are advocating a spending increase or a tax cut somewhere, you have got to find an offset to pay for it to maintain that balance.

Tony Blair

Deportation is a decision taken by the home secretary under statute, ... The new grounds will include fostering hatred, advocating violence to further a person's beliefs, or justifying or validating such violence.

Aamir Khan

I've been advocating it as far back as 1994-95.

Eric Schneider

Advocating obnoxiously is not a crime. You will hear that Kevin was very passionate about animal rights - treating animals with kindness and respect and without unnecessary cruelty. Kevin is being persecuted for these very beliefs.

Jenny Manley

These are the staff members that will be writing the next spending bill for Katrina Relief. These staff members will be advocating and lobbying for the relief funds.

Richard Haass

The upper hand is with those who are pushing regime change rather than those who are advocating more diplomacy.

Patricia Wright

There are very few people advocating for the poor in this state or in the country. Poor people have no voice.

Susanna Moore

'The Big Girls' has always seemed to me to be a story about different kinds of families - a divorced mother with a child; a father with his child and his girlfriend; a mother of three children, suffering from postpartum depression; and the rigid artificial families maintained by women in prison - all potentially perilous.

Strobe Talbott

Here is one optimist's reason for believing unity will prevail ... within the next hundred years ... nationhood as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority.A phrase briefly fashionable in the mid-20th century -- 'citizen of the world' -- will have assumed real meaning by the end of the 21st.All countries are basically social arrangements, accommodations to changing circumstances. No matter how permanent and even sacred they may seem at any one time, in fact they are all artificial and temporary.

Susanne Bier

I think the good thing about Dogme is that it forces you into an extreme sense of reality because there's no artificial light and no set design and all of those icings on the cake that you usually have on a movie.

Paul Dolan

There is no artificial cutoff on signing long-term deals.

Joe Cocker

I like to use effects, but a lot of the time I just can't deal with these tracks with all these artificial sounds.

Pat Campbell

The field turf product in the Dome is only a month old, and what makes it different is that it's the closest thing to natural grass that you can get in an artificial surface. And it's the preferred surface of the NFL.

Mike Clarke

You ... would be able to distinguish natural from artificial radiation.

Sal Palladino

The Earth has a very low tolerance for this greedy egotistical corporate robotic human behavior. The Earth senses its artificial ingredients and will use its immune system to combat it.

Tae Satoya

The course out there has artificial snow and is stiff, which may prove to be of my advantage.

Publilius Syrus

The judge is condemned when the criminal is acquitted

Dag Hammarskjold

The myths have always condemned those who ''looked back.'' Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.

David Horowitz

Terrorists and totalitarian radicals are lionized as fighters for social justice. Israelis and Americans are condemned as Nazis.

Ike Nwaelele

He's a good player so I just tried to get a hand up and contain him and not let him get to the lane.

Rasoul Wilson

He's a great quarterback, and we can't stop him. We were out to contain him.

Kevin Davis

He's a great player. He can be in the mid-20s and you think you've done a great job on him. He's just so smooth around the basket. I thought we had enough guys come through on the back side and give him enough trouble all night that eventually it wears on him. You're not going to stop him. You just hope you can contain him.

Kyler Hall

He's definitely a talent. He's an exciting player. If you don't contain him, he can definitely hurt you.

Kathy Jacobitz

I think it's because there are so many products that contain acetaminophen.

Enrique Pena Nieto

There is no evidence that terrorists use Mexico to cross into the United States. There have been comments to that regard, but not one of those statements has contained hard evidence.

Bill Warren

Law enforcement is in total control of the situation. It is a hostage situation. It's contained to one room of the hotel. Our guests and employees have been evacuated from the immediate area.

Dondi McGowan

Patrick is a key. You can't stop that kid, but if we can contain him, then I think we'll be in pretty good shape. He's a 6-5 guard. He does everything. He's impressive.

Dana Rohrabacher

In times of emergency, it is responsible to increase the power of our government, yet we recognize that these powers should contain sunset provisions.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Remember, remember always that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists

Rhonda Honegger

They descended on us like angels. We don't know how they found out about us, but that is how everything has happened in every step of this playground. Things just fell into place.

John Anderson

The SWAT team descended on that vehicle in a pretty significant way, ... I think they would have fought it out if there had been less of a presence, but I think they realized it would be fruitless.

Todd Musburger

Doctors refer to the left anterior descending artery as the widow maker. It was about 90 percent blocked. He needed to get this done much sooner than later. I talked to him today and he was in good spirits. He'll be fine.

Gary Gibson

We've got a living dinosaur here. All the modern games of football and rugby must have descended from this game - and others like it.

Yajur Veda

Herbs (medicines),while descending down from heaven to earth proclaimed those who eat us, are never destroyed.

Jonathan Spira

Knowledge sharing and collaboration are a key foundation of research and development.

Sakie Yokota

I survived this hardship for 20 years until I found out she had been abducted by North Korea.

Al Borges

He did a wonderful job considering he found out less than an hour before the game. We tried to keep it as low maintenance as we could.

Randy Monroe

He can score, and he found ways to score tonight.

Joanne Rowling

>in Divintation< Lavender: >squealing< Oooo! Professor look! I found an unknown planet! Professor Trelawny: That is Uranus my dear. Ron: Can I have a look at Ur anus too Lavender?

Roz Foster

What we found was more than what we anticipated.

John Lilly

Here's a guy who is obviously not the ideal size, but we've found out a lot about his heart. I think that is something you always get when you get somebody from Madison County.

Aaron Boone

He's a good dude. I found that out right away. Obviously, he's going to be a good player, and he knows how to act, too. I want to be there to help him out. But I don't want to overkill him with Johnny Veteran stuff. We're all men here and we're all teammates here. Plus, I like him.

Doug Risebrough

He's a guy that you know has played at a higher level before and maybe just hasn't found the right fit.

Nora Ephron

Joan is very funny. I'm always telling her she's a fraud: Everyone thinks she's fragile and humorless, when we all know she's wildly funny and the last surviving member of the Donner party.

Larry Robinson

I thought defensively we were in much better position. We're a little fragile in our own zone sometimes and guys will get running around a little bit. I thought our positioning was much better.

Dwane Casey

The first half was a carry-over from last night. ... We've got to get over that and regroup. We're fragile right now.

Mike Frauenheim

It's a matter of inches from us celebrating right now. That's what it all comes down to, a play here or there. That's how fragile the line of victory is.

Source Unknown

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

Jim Butcher

We're all so damned fragile.

John Sacchi

We need to keep taking small steps to improve. Our kids are young and fragile and we need to keep their spirits up and keep them moving in the right direction.

James Wolfensohn

Time is short, and optimism is a fragile commodity, ... miss this opportunity for change, we will regret it for the next decade.

Darcy Tucker

We gave up that first goal, and bang, it seems like we lost our confidence. Our psyche is fragile right now. We need to be mentally tougher.

Jeff Sessions

I would suggest we'd better spend our time investigating how a top-secret program such as this, a program fully shared with congressional leaders, was breached and provided to the media and revealed throughout the world.

Hwang Suk

I take full responsibility for the papers and offer you my apology.

Joseph Smith

I take full responsibility for the crimes. . . . I knew I was wrong, but I couldn't stop.

Colin McRae

He was a great guy and full of laughs and great spirit,

Paul Cabana

Guys were joking saying Savy is back so now you'll be ready to go. I kind of laughed and said, 'Oh, you guys are full of it.' They were right.

Bob Harman

There are so many issues and the system is full of holes. It's a mess. Every year the state tries to put a number on something that's nebulous and none of these numbers are ever accurate.

Kate Bush

I had an incredibly full life with my imagination: I used to have all sorts of trolls and things; I had a wonderful world around my toys and invented people. I don't mean I had imaginary friends; I just had this big imagination thing going on. I didn't need any imaginary friends, because I had so much other stuff going on.

Todd Christensen

He said he woke up and the room was full of smoke.

Bill Durham

He said he had listened to some clips of my song and, if I wanted to get airplay, to send him a full CD.

Mike Darnell

I swear, it must (have been) 13 hours a day, ... And I still do. It's on all the time. I was sort of hypnotized by it as a kid, I think. I just loved it.

Roger Bedford

I think it's an outrage that these hours would be billed on a state holiday,

Brian Mehler

The purpose is to pay them for their work. They worked 20 hours per week -- it's like a part-time job.

Felix Bloch

It is indeed my profession to speak to students and I do this every week for several hours in the lecture rooms of Stanford University.

John Tracy

Well, you should be, ... You've been saying 'Yes' for three hours straight.

Maxwell Anderson

He spent hours and hours sifting through different sites.

Mark Tyndale

I don't know what hours he likes to go, but whatever hours he comes up with, I'm willing to work for him.

Michael McKinney

I could sit and talk to them for three hours if I have the time,

William Bolar

He loves for it as I do. We can talk on the phone for hours about it.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

H. Hart

I would try to put more people on the road without doing any more hiring.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

MC Hammer

I think it is a shock to people to find out that MC Hammer is a super geek.

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

H. Hunt

He used to laugh. He'd get people to do it and not tell them what was going to happen.

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

Wayne Knight

Small towns are the worst for getting recognised.

Steve Zahn

I lived in Minnesota in a small town.

Vince Vaughn

Please don't take a turn to negative town.

Jim Carey

If you have this information, you can see where the town is going in the future.

Jacob Zuma

Jan van Riebeeck's arrival in Cape Town was the beginning of all South Africa's problems.

Ewan McGregor

I certainly have no plans to leave London. It's a great town.

Leon Krier

Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there must always be something new and better.

Amanda Walker

With no students, the town is pretty quiet.

Charles Bukowski

I broke that town in half like a wooden match.

John Eisenhower

I was a lieutenant in World War II.

Al Spalding

No human mind may measure the blessings conferred by the game of base ball on the soldiers of the Civil War. It had its earliest evolution when soldiers, North and South, were striving to forget their foes by cultivating, through this grand game, fraternal friendships with comrades in arms.

Dito Montiel

I have friends who have had PTSD, and you can get it from other things than war.

Robert E. Lee

Sir, if you ever presume again to speak disrespectfully of General Grant in my presence, either you or I will sever his connection with this university.

Richard Perle

Even now, the irony that so non-intellectual a man should choose to engage the Soviet Union on the battlefield of ideas has eluded most commentators and historians.

Richard Paul Evans

. . .and every native has a story of winter – stories that usually begin, You call this a storm? And grow in the telling like battle tales shared by graying war veterans. It’s a peculiar character flaw to those of us from cold climates that we feel superior to those who have the sense to live elsewhere.

Richard Holbrooke

The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.

Townsend Harris

If war should break out between England and Japan, the latter would suffer much more than the former.

Townsend Harris

In time of war steamships and improved arms are the most important things.