Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lucius Thomas

The bottom line is, if the service pay works, the constable with 15 years' service won't be too worried about promotion because it will put him above the young man who is promoted to sergeant.

Carrie Graf

Our aim was to try to keep our head above water. Unfortunately, our head was under water. But we went blue in the face, we came up for air and we're going OK now. We've learned to swim.

Lin Wood

Despite their threats and assertions to the contrary, the AJC, its attorneys and its employees are not above the law and the authority of the court,

Matthew Parry

Despite our belief that crude prices will slowly trend down over the remainder of the year, further escalation in the U.N.-Iran standoff could quite conceivably send oil to a new record above $70.

Martin Charnin

'Annie' was a comic strip with an awful lot of information in it. It had more information in the balloons above the characters than practically any other comic strip that was around. The strip told tales instead of jokes.

Ameen Rihani

An idealist is ahead of his time only in the sense that he is articulate. The same is true of a nation. For even primitive people, even effete races have a message for those above or below them. The heritage of the Ideal, however small can not be exhausted.

Josh Bernoff

Any strategy that gets a message to rise above the clutter is terrific from the advertiser's perspective. Even if it's not much of a secret, it's still a pretty good marketing idea.

Bible Bible

The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low.

Giovanni Bisignani

The story for January was freight which is starting to show a definite strengthening trend following the disappointing 3.2% growth of 2005. This is the first time in a year we have seen two consecutive months of freight traffic growth above 5% which points to a resurgent world economy.

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.

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.

Jon Gruden

The schedule doesn't get any easier, ... Our job is to do everything we can to help him. His job is obviously to make plays and move this football team and help us score and win games, and eliminate turnovers, negative plays, sacks. Those are areas that must be cleaned up in a hurry. And he'll be the quarterback this week again. Hopefully he can do that.

Achim Steiner

We are talking about a network of marine protected areas that is defined from both an ecological and eco-system perspective as well as from the perspective of the users.

Anja Beer

There are no areas where no NGOs are going but there are vast areas where very few NGOs are going.

Maggie Lynch

We have just completed a system safety audit. We are looking at all aspects of the operation and working to make improvements in the areas where we identify a need.

Krishna Sitaula

We have instructed all our supporters and cadres to go the polling stations in their areas and do whatever they can to stop voting.

Paul Horne

We've staked out as our business model to operate in those areas of the IT industry where research can make a difference, which is pretty nice for the research team.

Tom Foley

I've been here. All these players that are here, I've been here since the beginning, I've seen them come up. My heart and soul is with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. I want to be here.

Bobby Wallace

I've been offered a better job coaching the 0-14 1976 Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Thomas Francis Meagher

The glory of the old Irish nation, which in our hour will grow young and strong again. Should we fail, the country will not be worth more than it is now. The sword of famine is less sparing than the bayonet of the soldier.

Shia LaBeouf

That's one thing I never had to do on a Mike Bay set is sit around and pontificate about the next scene; there's no time for it. You're already in the next scene.

Perry Plumart

Commercial fishermen took millions of these crabs out of the Delaware Bay with no regard to the consequences to the ecosystem.

Jim Tracy

I don't want Jason Bay to do anything other than be the player he's been here for the last two years.

John Hughs

I grew up here using the bay and beach to go fishing, and push boats (canoes) off the shore.

Mitch Kapor

'Silicon Valley' has come to mean the Bay Area, not just down the Peninsula.

Leila Janah

I love adventure. When I'm not working or on the road, you can find me in my favorite spots around the Mission neighborhood of S.F., kitesurfing in the Bay or dancing.

Javier Solana

Once these conditions are fulfilled, the European Union will stand ready to continue to support the Palestinian economic development and democratic state building.

George Morris

These conditions are life-threatening and dangerous to the horses and the riders.

Bill Green

It was a horrible time. Dirt drifted up and covered barbed-wire fences. Conditions were much worse than they are today because we have learned a lot about soil conservation in 70 years.

Ryler DeHeart

The seeding and conditions don't matter. We're going to go in there and dominate.

Salim Altaf

No one can predict the weather. It is difficult in such weather conditions to prepare the exact type of pitch you want for a Test.

Janica Kostelic

I was really surprised...but this is one of the nicest slopes for slalom and it seems the more difficult the conditions the better I do.

Daniela Hantuchova

I was really struggling with the wind today. I couldn't really figure out which way it was blowing. The conditions were very tough and Vera just dealt with it much better.

Anders Paerson

She mastered skiing before we went all out on the downhill track. And she never takes any risks in training. If the conditions are bad, like poor visibility, she'll just stop ski practice.

Jim Shires

We need a lot of consistent moisture. Conditions in the forest are ripe to explode.

Joe Dumars

Who are we going to get that, if something does happen to Chauncey, is going to lead us to a championship? You're up the creek without a paddle anyway.

Steve Wirt

The larger fires we have now will give us smaller fires in the future. We could easily have a 10,000-acre fire right now, had we not had the Helen Creek fire in 1994.

Jerry Buendel

We've conclusively linked Dee Creek Farm's raw milk with the E. coli 0157 H7 outbreak that occurred in the Vancouver and Portland area.

Shay Doron

Crystal obviously is our No. 1 option. Everything goes through her. She spreads the game, especially for the guards and the other post players because she draws so much attention.

Dorothy Hodgkin

I was captured for life by chemistry and by crystals.

Jack Palance

Billy Crystal... I crap bigger than him.

Michael Gove

Well I've been crystal clear that we should not have schools which are set up by extremists whether they're Christian fundamentalists, Islamic fundamentalists or any other sort of outrageous and beyond the pale organization.

Jim Gillespie

I don't think we have any intentions of slowing down. I don't have a crystal ball, but the pace that we have set for ourselves the last 10 years -- my goal is to keep that going.

Robin Oakley

were very much trying to present themselves as reluctant warriors. They were very much reacting to demonstrations of public opinion.

Ryan Evanochko

That was just the shot that presented itself. I tried to take my time and find an opening.

Doug Anderson

I think we need to put it in a referendum and present it to the people,

Warren Harding

America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration.

Shannon Davis

They put together a scholarship and presented it to me,

Bob Metzler

It would take something pretty serious for that to come about.

Jane Austen

An annuity is a very serious business.

Douglas Kennedy

I want to be a popular novelist who's also serious, or a serious novelist who's also very accessible.

Donald Wuerl

There are serious problems that have to do with the environment, that have to do with the way in which we live and consume.

Vijay Mallya

Any serious airline has to look at a worldwide network.

George Washington

Let your countenance be pleasant, but in serious matters, let it be somewhat grave.

Eminem

It's not a contest, and I ain't on no conquest for no mate.

Buddy Bell

I don't know how serious it is. Hopefully, it is not the kind that will keep him out two or three weeks. We have to be careful.

Bill Cosby

I didn't know how serious it is to a female that you lift the lid.

Bartolo Colon

More than puzzled, I'm ticked off. I had two outs and I couldn't get the third one.

Manny Pacquiao

If he wants a rematch, I will give him a rematch. There should be a third fight.