Famous Quotes & Sayings

Toni Atkins

I think the City Council authorized the manager to do this and that this is the right way to go, ... We need someone to represent the interests of the city with expertise on such issues.

Bob Ross

We train one-quarter of the commercial pilots in the United States, so when we heard about this tragedy we knew the odds were good one of pilots would be involved. It turns out maybe some that were not authorized to fly were also pilots.

Jim Pollard

What I'm authorized to say now is we expect the death toll to be higher than anything we've ever seen before.

Yan Xiaohong

To curb the use of pirated common software, we have urged the computer producers to load authorized software before they are sold on the Chinese market.

Jack Evans

It is not possible for the city to spend more than $535 million because the council has authorized the city to borrow that,

Virginia Kice

We have to be able to prove the employer knowingly hired someone who is not authorized to work.

Saddam Hussein

I do not respond to this so-called court, with all due respect to its people, and I retain my constitutional right as the president of Iraq . Neither do I recognize the body that has designated and authorized you, nor the aggression, because all that has been built on false basis is false.

Saddam Hussein

I do not recognize the body that has authorized you and I don't recognize this aggression.

Jose Pertierra

INS and, to a large extent, Juan Miguel, would like to see the issue framed differently: Who is legally authorized to speak on behalf of Elian?

Michael Geoghegan

It can be anything from corporate commercial stuff to somebody sharing their most personal thoughts.

James Hansen

He wanted it to be a scholarly book, ... I think if I had been a commercial writer, he would not have paid much attention. He's not interested in feature stories about him.

Seth Shostak

NASA's Office of Commercial Exploration has been concerned about protecting the landing zones where humans first walked on the Moon, and one of my colleagues, ecologist Margaret Race, has been part of their deliberations.

Patrick Miller

It is a distinct honor to be selected as an International Truck and Engine Corporation Diamond Supplier. International has a reputation for holding all of their suppliers to a high standard. Our selection from such an exceptional group is a true mark of distinction for Mayflower Vehicle Systems and the Commercial Vehicle Group.

Robert Stallard

We expect to see the commercial systems division posting improved results going forward, whilst the Government Systems divisions continues to defy skeptics.

Leif Johansson

There is a growing interest in the market to reduce fuel consumption. We now have a technology that is interesting from a commercial viewpoint . . . for a hybrid market for heavy vehicles.

John DeVilbiss

There is no good explanation. It's uncharacteristic with a driver with a commercial driver's license. Information like this, it's unfathomable.

Lee Brumbaugh

Today his commercial work is probably his most interesting. Today his commercial work is considered urban industrial documentary. It foreshadows Walker Evans's documentary work of the 1930s.

Edmund Burke

It is in the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere

Richie Sambora

Jon produced it. He did a very nice job, actually, ... Fly Me To The Moon.

Jim Gibbs

Jim was a jokester, a great guy and a private pilot. He took flying seriously, that was his passion.

Richard Branson

It already has been through the rigors of flying around the world.

Jim Gibbs

He could be quite a jokester, but he took flying seriously. That was his passion.

Rob Schimmoeller

Greg did a nice job getting the fly ball.

Ken Hamlin

Guys are out there flying around and having fun. It's showing. It's showing up big, and once you're out there and you can be reckless and go out and play ball, big plays are going to happen.

Chris Pratt

Gummi tarantulas and spiders are flying off the shelves, ... abduct your tastebuds.

Taylor Jacobs

He's a guy that when, everyone else is getting tired or saying 'We don't feel like going out there today,' he really motivates us. When he's out at practice, he's flying around any time he gets a chance. He's really detail-oriented.

Dave Everson

He's always flying around, making some nice hits, and the other kids have responded to that.

Ken Hill

Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing.

John Fisher

I was like, 'You're kidding me. How could I be leading, not peddling a good portion of the course?'

Charles Warren

I was like, 'Wow,' something's going on here, ... Something good is about to happen.

Shacoi Berry

I was kind of tired and I didn't warm up that good before the first match. I got a much better warm-up in before this last match and I wrestled a lot better.

Robert Crandall

I was looking for somebody who could operate effectively and had good personal chemistry.

Ramon Hernandez

I was looking for a fastball. I got it on the good part of the bat. It went where no one could get it.

Brandon Perkins

I was in the right place at the right time. The other side did a good job of containing, and (the quarterback) couldn't go anywhere. I just had to go get him.

Ben Sheets

I was in pretty good shape. I don't know how you could prevent it. It seems like it could happen at any time.

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's too good a guy to have something like this (stroke) happen.

Jeff Foxworthy

I was like, 'Have you all heard me talk?' ... You know, nobody's making Seinfeld live in Indiana.

Dorothy Smith

I was in on the meeting with the developers. I heard their presentation, and I liked what they said.

Greg Beratlis

I would've liked to have heard something out of his mouth. Yes, anything. A plea for his life or just his opinion on what went on over the last two years,

Randy Harris

I would say it would be higher because we haven't heard from (several) other counties. As for how much higher, I wouldn't venture a guess.

Mark Mandel

John is never at a loss for words. But when he heard the news, he was speechless.

Billy Donovan

I think in this tournament, they've been able to inspire a lot of different people, people that maybe are really, really in need. I heard Jim talk about some stories of some people and the letters he's gotten. To me, that's what his team has been all about.

George Thorogood

I take it that some of you people have heard this song before.

Felicity Huffman

I actually haven't heard the phrase 'overnight success,' but I know that most of the world doesn't know who I am.

Oprah Winfrey

I also heard I was helping you find a house because I wanted you near me.

Amilcar Arroyo

I was lucky I met her. But if not, I knew I had to marry somebody else.

Mariangee Bogado

I was looking at the scoreboard a lot. I knew I had the no-hitter, but I think it's all mental. I was just thinking about getting everyone out.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Know thyself""? If I knew myself I'd run away

H. Hunt

I think it could have been better, though. We started out and could have done better than what we did. We knew (we could press).

Tamba Hali

I think in the back of his mind, he knew we were coming. He still had to do his job, but he knew we were coming.

Joan Bonvicini

It all started with our practices. We knew that we just had to be tougher.

Matt Thornton

He wanted to make sure he knew I can compete, for me to pitch like he knows I can, like I know I can.

J. Taylor

He didn't know what was going on, he just knew something was going on.

Daron Wildermuth

He can shoot it. We knew he'd get some points. We just tried to limit him.

Donald Ray Pollock

I would try to write my own story about some East Coast suburbanite having an affair or something like that. So I did that for maybe two years or so, and it just wasn't working for me at all.

Jennifer Baker

I would say maybe there are more mistakes.

Doyle Davidson

I talked with him maybe three times, I don't remember what about.

Joel Klein

I think it could take a year, maybe a little more than a year,

Kyle Waters

I think in the past year, he wrote maybe one check.

Sarah Brightman

I always felt older than my years, maybe because I was married to someone older.

Tom Woods

He was a decent, law-abiding man. Maybe he was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Dayton Moore

He can play first, and maybe a little outfield. But he's really a third baseman. I don't think you want to move him around.

Sam Hunt

Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.

Christopher Traulsen

I think the odds are good. I would be surprised if he didn't (beat the S&P).

John Wilson

There are no secrets. We know what they like to do, they know what we like to do. We play them three times, and the odds are that we win at least one of those.

Robert Cormier

A writer must take risks, defy the odds, be a bit obsessed and a little mad.

Roger Martin

You need to be uncomfortable and apprehensive: True strategy is about placing bets and making hard choices. The objective is not to eliminate risk but to increase the odds of success.

William J. Clinton

Volunteering is an act of heroism on a grand scale. And it matters profoundly. It does more than help people beat the odds; it changes the odds.

Walter Becker

I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Capitalism’s grow-or-die imperative stands radically at odds with ecology’s imperative of interdependence and limit. The two imperatives can no longer coexist with each other; nor can any society founded on the myth that they can be reconciled hope to survive. Either we will establish an ecological society or society will go under for everyone, irrespective of his or her status.

Robin McKinley

Never assume. Never make plans. Keep doing the press-ups and deep knee bends: you'll need all your strength and flexibility when your life suddenly implodes. Maybe it won't — some people do lead enchanted lives — but odds are that it will. Some time.

Warren Farrell

In brief, our genetic heritage is at odds with our genetic future. For the first time in human history, the qualities it takes to survive as a species are compatible with the qualities it takes to love.

Rick Hoffman

I've always said that it's like being the winner of three separate lottery tickets - getting a pilot, getting the pilot picked up, and having a show that actually lasts.

Will Wright

Yes... well, I used to have a pilot's license.

Willard Scott

I've produced more pilots than United Airlines, and they've all been disasters. Every audition I ever took in my life I lost.

Will Arnett

This pilot, by far, was the best I ever read - and I hope that insults every other pilot I worked on.

John Remington

They can't survive a strike by the pilots for more than 24 hours.

Paul Scheuring

I've interfaced with a lot of other creators of serialized shows, and I've really been blown away by the fact that they create a big spectacle, at the beginning, in the pilot, and they don't ultimately know where they're going. That's terrifying to me, and creatively disingenuous.

Mr. T

To be a bodyguard is to be a kamikaze pilot. Dedicated.

Mr. T

I am the best bodyguard, because I'll take a bullet, I'll take a stab wound, I'll take a hit upside the head; I'm like a kamikaze pilot.

Kathryn Bigelow

I did a pilot for Anything But Love in 1988 that didn't sell.

Richelle Mead

..Sage is convinced one extraneous calorie will make her go from super skinny to just regular skinny. Tragedy.

Reinhold Niebuhr

The history of mankind is a perennial tragedy; for the highest ideals which the individual may project are ideals which he can never realize in social and collective terms.

William Manchester

It was his [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] relationship with the administration In Washington which became poisoned by his egomania. Link upon link the bond between events on the battlefield and his own ruin was forged, and, as is essential in genuine tragedy, the gods used the victim himself to forge the links.

William McDonough

Modern culture appears to have adopted a strategy of tragedy. If we come here and say, I didn't intend to cause global warning, it's not part of my plan, then we realize it's part of our defacto plan because it's the thing that's happening because we have no other plan.

Virginia Woolf

Tragedies come in the hungry hours.

Woody Allen

When I was young, I wanted to be a dramatic writer, a writer of tragedy. Nothing would've pleased me more than if I could have written like Eugene O'Neil or Tennessee Williams.

Sara Zarr

It's like a Venn diagram of tragedy.

Robin Gibb

I sometimes wonder if the tragedies my family has suffered are a kind of karmic price for all the fame and fortune the Bee Gees have had.

Saul Alinsky

Human beings do not like to look squarely into the face of tragedy. Gloom is unpopular.

Matt McGorry

I was a personal trainer for about a decade. I competed in powerlifting, and I did a bodybuilding competition. I was heavily entrenched in the personal training world.

Corey Brewer

We told him to get some training wheels.

Richelle Mead

Adrian shook his head, still smiling. "I've said over and over, I'd do anything for you. I just keep hoping it'll be something like, 'Adrian, let's go hot tubbing' or 'Adrian, take me out for fondue.'" "Well, sometimes we have to--did you say fondue?" Sometimes it was impossible to follow Adrian's train of thought. "Why in the world would I ever say that?" He shrugged. "I like fondue.

Ryan Lochte

I took my weight training to a new level.

Ryan Lochte

I have a lot of endurance and I have a good background right now in my training and it's time to get ready.

Troy Polamalu

The barefoot component of my training is about strengthening the toes.

Samuel Smiles

There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences.

Sarah Steelman

I'm an economist by training. And I know that what works is a permanent increase in buying power.

Sanjay Gupta

When I was training, those were some of the most indelible experiences I've ever had, in my life. It is so raw. It is so human. It is so candid.

Ryan Reynolds

When I exhale, I just turn right into Louie Anderson.

Wayne Gretzky

A lot of times, I can turn and pass without even looking.

Ronald Reagan

The time has come to turn to God and reassert our trust in Him.

Peter Plagens

I like touch. I like to make twists and turns -- but I don't want (my paintings) to be too elegant.

Chuck Viane

Immediately after Halloween, whatever it is, people's mind-set turns to movies,

Charlotte Evans

It's doing very well. But, it's the first year, and we'll just have to wait and see how everything turns out.

Meg Mallon

It turns out I've had this for a very long time,

Nikki Sixx

I had to find the courage to turn my life around.

Nicole Polizzi

What I'd like is to turn out like Jessica Simpson, with her whole brand

Stephen Pope

He's been the most beleaguered of any archbishop in the United States. It's like a battlefield promotion.

H. Hunt

I don't know of it being in this county, but I do know it's in the western United States.

F. Lee Bailey

I can get a firestorm going anywhere in the United States by saying 'O.J.'

Rose Kennedy

There can be no really pervasive system of oppression, such as that in the United States, without the consent of the oppressed

Robert Reich

Most Americans are on a downward escalator. Median wage in the United States, adjusted for inflation, keeps on dropping.

Robert Torricelli

The day that I was elected to the United States Senate remains among the most cherished of my life.

Robert M. Gates

The United States has been a global power since late in the 19th century.

Sanford I. Weill

The whole financial industry is consolidating in the United States.

Virginia Foxx

In the face of terrorism, a united front is one of the strongest weapons.

Rose Kennedy

There can be no really pervasive system of oppression, such as that in the United States, without the consent of the oppressed

Robert Reich

Most Americans are on a downward escalator. Median wage in the United States, adjusted for inflation, keeps on dropping.

Robert Torricelli

The day that I was elected to the United States Senate remains among the most cherished of my life.

Robert M. Gates

The United States has been a global power since late in the 19th century.

Sanford I. Weill

The whole financial industry is consolidating in the United States.

Robert Payne

The United States is dangerously close to being a plutocracy. A third of the private wealth is owned by less than 5 percent of the population.

Wesley Clark

This is kind of hard to articulate, but in broad outline, the United States is going to do what the United States has to do.

Zora Neale Hurston

It is a curious thing to be a woman in the Caribbean after you have been a woman in these United States.

Zhu Rongji

Although China and United States are competitors, China and the United States are indeed partners in trade