Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anytime I see something screech across a room and latch onto someone's neck, and the guy screams and tries to get it off, I have to laugh, because what is that thing.

Tom Udall

As a member of the U.S. House Law Enforcement Task Force, I join with local citizens across New Mexico toward the goal of reducing crime,

M.I.A.

As an artist, you want to play around with mediums and see if you can get the point across in different way.

Gideon Argov

The business and industry environment during the quarter was generally favorable. Our sales results reflected stable trends across our product lines and a modest ramp in demand for fluid handling equipment through the quarter and into December.

Todd Braisted

The British needed a stable, local supply of wood and that was just across the river in Bergen County. Ships were broken up for firewood and it was extremely difficult to get wood from Long Island.

Charles Powell

The British are definitely comparing notes on Moroccan cells across Europe, in Italy, France and the UK. The current thinking is that the people who did this may have trained in the same camps as the people who committed the Madrid bombings. The techniques are very similar.

Diane Rath

The brightest news for the year is significant job growth across every industry sector. When employers add jobs as they did throughout 2005, more opportunities are available for Texans in the workforce.

Brian Bauer

The breakthrough across all products is being able to reach new heights in gain while maintaining strong noise and distortion fundamentals.

Kofi Annan

The breakdown of health and education services, the obstruction of humanitarian assistance, the displacement of whole populations and a high infection rate among soldiers -- as in other groups which move back and forth across the continent: all these ensure that the epidemic spreads ever further and faster.

Salim Khan

Of course we would aid them, ... But there are soldiers here, there are rules. We can have no contact with them. We know only what we can see.

Jim McGreevey

Any plan to stimulate the country's sagging economy can't succeed unless the states are part of the economic recovery, ... And yet the stimulus package offered by the president fails to provide a single dollar in aid to the states.

Bruno Seraphim

The most important thing is a possible aid package from the International Monetary Fund.

Shaukat Aziz

So this will be aid going in both directions,

George Edwards

So they're faced with tremendous difficulty. Most of our students are on financial aid and it just makes it real difficult for them to attend,

Bruce Caplin

So that would be at most $500, while the average Perkins loan is $2,000. When you do the math, the net loss to students (in federal aid each year) would be at least $1,500.

M. Wolfe

Practicing general fire safety and preparing and practicing emergency exit plans are essential to aid in preventing fires and fire fatalities.

Liya Kebede

President Obama has made maternal health one of the core priorities of U.S. international aid funding.

Richard Cohen

Saturday morning at 12 o'clock, you're going to have a very dangerous situation. Then it's going to be a good thing the First Aid building is going to be there, because there are going to be accidents.

Paul Reid

The boys are looking very sharp in training and it looks like we've put the game behind us which is what you need to do after a disappointing performance. We're looking forward to Saturday to rectify the loss.

Bubba Davis

The big thing about the win is that we fell behind 12-2 early and came back. Especially with these kids, it was very, very big that we hung in and did what we had to do to win.

Michael Peters

People think that a brand is a logo. But it's everything behind the brand down to the employees. It's how the consumer thinks about a company.

Cari Yturri

Our service department parks vehicles behind our building and at times we are just packed.

Elgin Perry

Our defense let us down. We just got ourselves in a hole that we shouldn't have been in. We couldn't stop (Britton) on the perimeter. I don't know even know what to say. They had that guy out there on the perimeter and he got about three buckets out there with threes on us. We just couldn't come from behind it.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.

Mike Killary

People on the boat waited and saw the whale breach behind them, and they returned to port without incident.

Mark Everson

People entered into these deals often at the behest of lawyers and accountants peddling flaky tax products, ... We're offering taxpayers a quick, quiet and cost-effective way to put these deals behind them.

Phillip E. Johnson

People behind me and in front of me are pushing me, ... All three of us respect each other and we've been running hard.

Mark Harmon

As an actor, you don't always know where a role is going, and part of the fun of playing this guy is that it changes and he continues to challenge me.

Eric Brown

Do you wish to challenge the legality of the extradition warrant issued for you by the governor?

Mark Frauenfelder

Coming up with a way to fix mistakes challenges your creativity and your critical thinking skills and your resourcefulness. Often you end up with something better than what you planned on in the first place.

Larry Walker

It was an ugly night, ugly swings, ... Tonight, like every night, was a big challenge for me. Fortunately, if he threw 100 pitches, that was the worst pitch he threw all night, and fortunately it was to me.

Sheryl Crow

It was a challenge in more than one way. Not only was I not working, I was in a foreign country where I didn't speak the language, and I'm with somebody who's new to me, and I experienced a lot of vulnerability ... (it) was a challenge to my ego, and in the end, was kind of exciting.

Annette Lee

It was a challenge because we wanted to be sensitive to their own personal issues without exploiting them in any way.

Guus Hiddink

It was a huge challenge because we had not that much time to prepare.

Eric Schmitt

These companies suffer from a lack of distribution. The challenge is who is going to introduce these companies to users.

Nitin Gupta

These devices do a lot, but the message gets muddled. What are they for? The big challenge is to create a reason to watch video on a tiny screen.

Ayn Rand

I dont work with collectives. I don't consult, i don't co-operate, I don't collaborate.

Carey Pinkowski

The creation of this series will generate collective interest and excitement at a level that has not existed between our great events in the past. The result of these marathons partnering together is increased visibility, exposure, and growth for the sport of marathon running on a national and international scale.

Ken Paulson

USA TODAY is pleased to recognize the achievements of some of the nation's finest teachers, ... Their collective work inspiring and educating the next generation is a testament to their remarkable creativity, passion and commitment.

Stanislav Grof

Ancient eschatological texts are actually maps of the inner territories of the psyche that seem to transcend race and culture and originate in the collective unconscious.

Gerry Adams

My own view is that we should seek to go back into the talks at the earliest possible opportunity. But that is not a decision for me alone. We are a collective leadership. We will consult.

Carlos Queiroz

Manchester will not take part in speculation to promote individual or collective interests.

Jordan Foreman

That says it all. The way we play on the defensive end. If you want to go back to November, it was nonexistent compared to what we do now. We're such a much better team. We're more of a collective unit. We play for each other. We've grown and gotten to know each other throughout the year.

Richard Browne

I would like to see this resolved so we're all under the same umbrella. No matter what, we'll continue to work together, but I still think we need to have some collective voice.

Marc Fleury

We are throwing our collective hats in the ring - no pun intended - to be the super company for independent open source development.

Dennis Quaid

I've spent about a year of my life here between the four movies I've filmed. I can't imagine how devastated people must feel.

Scott Thompson

We have a really great team and we are excited about this opportunity to help people who have been devastated by Katrina,

Ken Hitchcock

Even as disappointed and devastated as I was at the outcome, saying those things was wrong. There is no excuse.

James Shuler

I am totally devastated with the way things went down. You play hard the whole game, we hung in there and the guys gave it their all.

James Shuler

I am totally devastated with the way things went down. Sometimes things happen like that.

Rio Ferdinand

I was shocked and devastated when I heard the verdict.

Ruben Patterson

I think we were all devastated and hurt. It could have been worse. He could not be here today. We went out and played for him. I know he watched the game. It was a good win.

Andy Reid

He takes a lot of responsibility on his shoulders and he was devastated by the loss.

Barbara Young

The cancellation opened up a lot of eyes in the town and the out-of-towners. It devastated us as much as the people that come.

Larry Garza

As for me, I'm single, and it hurts me 'cause he's not here and he won't be able to see his grandchildren grow up. He was always proud of his three sons finishing college, growing up and providing for themselves.

Lori Nelson

As a company, we're more focused on finishing Red Rock Resort than any of our future projects.

Joe Krabbenhoft

Ray finished it off with those free throws like I knew he would. I'm just glad I could help the team's goal of sending Ray out on a good note at home.

John Oliver

People really have come for a dialogue when they go to a stand-up show in the U.K. They say, 'I understand that you have now finished your little comedy monologue; now I have something to say regarding what I've just heard.

Tom Chicantek

Cody had a nice overall season, finishing with a 17-11 record.

Wally Buono

The teams that finished at the low end of the totem pole, they'll get the impact players. If you're picking where we are, they're going to be gone.

Luis Aragones

The three teams are complicated. They've finished second so they must be. All three are dangerous.

Linda Cardellini

After I finished 'E.R.', I wanted to concentrate on re-examining what kind of actress I am and taking time for real-life things.

Nikki Fennern

The most important thing was getting three runs in the first. With this team, if we start well, we will finish well.

Chris Coleman

There's no other place it could be. It's how people around the globe know St. Paul.

Anna Kendrick

I stole a little snow globe from the set of the first 'Pitch Perfect' that I don't think ever made it on-screen, so it's not like fans would be tickled by that information, but I still have it.

Anthony Horowitz

My generation has left the globe in a mess.

Trafalgar Square

As soon as the result is known, there will be an immediate announcement.

Keith Ayoob

People want a quick fix, ... They want immediate results.

Phil Goff

What would have to be demonstrated, and hasn't been demonstrated, is that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction and there is a direct, likely and immediate threat that such weapons would be employed,

Vijay Bakaya

Our requirement is for 35,000 tents because winter is approaching and there is an immediate need for shelters.

Roger Clemens

I know my immediate plans are I'll go back to Florida.

Jo Koy

I'm never going to leave the stage. I love the instant, immediate reaction. It's my home.

Kofi Annan

It is the plight of the Iraqi people which is now my most immediate concern.

Jeff Lenard

People price shop. There is no loyalty. They will leave you for a penny a gallon.

Alice McDermott

The thing that fiction can do is look from the inside out rather than from the outside in. Even memoir leaves me somewhat frustrated. I think now we need a poet to uncover what isn't on the surface.

Kevin Reilly

Put a show in its time period, leave it in its time period, start it on time.

Fred Droes

It would be unacceptable to leave it there if it didn't work. We would come down and take it out or modify it.

Kevin Towers

The way I look at it, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to leave (the offer) out there for other teams to beat.

Barry White

Leave me alone. I'm fine.

Rob Allyn

Don't worry, you can leave that to me. All I need you to do is get me there.

Nicole Parker

Even after (the seniors) leave we'll get better and better,

Gerard Way

We like to kidnap them in a van, and leave them somewhere dangerous. SURPRISE!

Albert Brooks

If we had 3 million exhibitionists and only one voyeur, nobody could make any money.

Mike Burkett

So many millions of people don't feel like their vote has any meaning. There is no reason why younger people can't be a unified force.

Ian Livingstone

We have spent tens of millions of pounds on it and we will spend more tens of millions of pounds.

Etel Adnan

There are not millions of deaths. It happens millions of times that someone dies.

Larry Sabato

He could have made millions in the private sector.

Nandan Nilekani

I'm in politics to make the lives of millions of Indians better.

Beau Greely

This is two millions in a row. He'll stay here for the Breeders' Cup.

Warren Ellis

If it's accessible by hundreds of millions of people, then it's as mainstream as it gets.

Malala Yousafzai

I have learned so much from Nelson Mandela, and he has been my leader. He is a perpetual inspiration for me and millions of others around the world.

Brian Perkins

All truth is very ordinary.

Orson Scott Card

[T]he politically correct are above the rules of ordinary civility, once they have identified you as an unbeliever in their religion.

Thomas Merton

Let us come alive to the splendor that is all around us and see the beauty in ordinary things.

Tanith Lee

No one is ever ordinary.

Marilynne Robinson

Ordinary things have always seemed numinous to me

Paula Cole

And she is your holy Mary. And I am so ordinary.

Nick Cave

Certainly being proficient in an instrument does have its problems. Because the better you get, the more you just start sounding like an ordinary guitarist. There are certainly guitarists that transcend that and do really find their sound and all that sort of stuff.

Martin Scorsese

I just wanted to be an ordinary parish priest.

Mason Cooley

Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy.

Dalai Lama

A truly peaceful mind is very sensitive, very aware.

Kim Harrison

Inside Junior’s it was peaceful. I can change that, I thought dryly,

Publilius Syrus

They pass peaceful lives who ignore mine and thine.

Langston Hughes

Everything there is but lovin' leaves a rust on your old soul

Akhmad Kadyrov

I have to say that elections, even in the most peaceful region, always make the hardest time for regional state institutions, including security structures.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled.

Michael White

People train for this all year like the Olympics.

Matt Smith

People think snow is the sole reason we go out, and it's a total misnomer.

Jennifer Lee

People think of fortune cookies as being Chinese, but in essence, they are fundamentally American.

Lauri Ward

People think it's going to make the room look bigger, but it's going to make it look worse.

Sarah Davis

People think, 'It's a winter hike, I don't have to take as much water,' but they do.

Craig Newmark

Our sites are run by the people who use them. We just pretty much provide the infrastructure.

Jack Gillis

Our sense is that people don't have enough put away for a rainy day.

Lee Miller

Other people tend to value you the way you value yourself,

Terry Tamminen

It would be much stronger if it was a law.

Kathy Emerson

The work is very exciting. In fact, we've remarked how much stronger the work is now than what it used to be.

Andrew Harrington

Zinc is a lot stronger in terms of supply characteristics than the other metals.

Baruch Spinoza

Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.

Azar Nafisi

The more we die, the stronger we will become

Benjamin Disraeli

To achieve what you want, you have to be stronger than those around you

Jane Austen

She was stronger alone…

Bellamy Young

The more I resist anything, the stronger it gets.

Edgar Allan Poe

Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.