Famous Quotes & Sayings

Teller

I'm more apt to cry at something beautiful than at something sad.

Tony Crescenzi

His testimony is apt to be consistent with the notion that the Fed is still in a tightening mode and inflation is rearing its head,

Wayne Ayers

We're nowhere close to the Japanese example. When you have real deflation as they have in Japan, consumers expect prices to be lower, and they defer purchases, which makes the spiral worse. That's not an apt description of what the American consumer has been doing.

Eddie Kramer

I think 'caretaking' is a very apt description, ... I feel like we've nurtured them along. It must be 10 years ago that the Hendrix family got the rights back and in so doing we have been literally caretaking all the wonderful music that Jimi left us.

Jordana Brewster

I went to an all-girls school and then I started working when I was fifteen, so I'm not very socially apt when it comes to dating.

Frank Hadden

I will be speaking to my fellow coaches when we gather for the first time on Sunday night. We have a number of candidates and we will be assessing leadership qualities and their aptitude for the job over the next few weeks.

Rick Peterson

He has the aptitude to learn that. He understands he has the weapons it takes to flip a line-up three times and not become predictable.

Bob Wagner

Other schools would have offered him. Once BYU got in the picture, other people wanted to trip him. Especially with the neighbor island kids, if UH doesn't get out, then the other schools are less apt to come out.

Wayne Angell

The Federal Reserve engages in a series of rate hikes at the tail end of an expansion when inflation is accelerating. What the Federal Reserve has done today is they made that less likely and thereby this expansion is more apt to go on as long as the year 2000.

Mandy Hotchkiss

I was just totally overwhelmed. Their whole island has been totally wiped out.

William Wordsworth

Not in Utopia, -- subterranean fields, --Or some secreted island, Heaven knows whereBut in the very world, which is the worldOf all of us, -- the place where in the endWe find our happiness, or not at all

Richard Pryor

Hawaii is the best form of comfort for me. When I die, I want to be cremated, and I want half my ashes spread in the Pacific around the island, the rest on the property.

William Dampier

The island Mayo is generally barren, being dry, as I said; and the best of it is but a very indifferent soil.

Zora Neale Hurston

For four hundred years the blacks of Haiti had yearned for peace. for three hundred years the island was spoken of as a paradise of riches and pleasures, but that was in reference to the whites to whom the spirit of the land gave welcome. Haiti has meant split blood and tears for blacks.

Rebecca Solnit

In the bare room under the old library on the hill in the town at the tip of the small peninsula on the cold island so far from everything else, I lived among strangers and birds.

Rick Riordan

So, you wrecked Alcatraz Island, made Mount St. Helens explode, and displaced half a million people, but at least you're safe." "Yep, that pretty much covers it.

Samantha Barks

I grew up on a tiny little island.

Sadako Ogata

I once said that it was unacceptable for Japan to remain "an isolated prosperous island." At one time, it might have been all right for Japan to avoid sending any citizens to dangerous areas [even as part of international efforts] and just wish for its own people's happiness. That time is gone.

Paul Otellini

I think it is going to be less than people expected. But it's probably not as poor as looking only at retail would indicate.

Fisher DeBerry

Going into Washington we probably know less about this team than any,

Frank Badillo

There is more of a risk this season that people will be less able to make payments on these offers.

Billy Hunter

When he told me that he was guaranteeing us no less $500,000 and up to a million, I said, 'Cool,'

Joe Hopkins

What you saw was the lesser of two beatings.

Dave McAlindin

It has always been our philosophy that less is better.

Vance Walberg

He's first-team all-league. I put a lot on him. He's got experience, leadership. He's just very well-balanced. He's meant a lot to this team. Without him, we'd win a lot less games.

Karel Poborsky

I do not see any reason why I should be less prepared than in a top-flight team.

Charles Coles

He is more than just a teacher. We're able to talk to him about things we can't say to teachers, because he is more like us and less like them.

Chris Browning

we feel it is very important to reach out and do what we can for our neighbors who have not been similarly blessed.

Ruben Blades

But, when I was about thirteen, I began to sort of sing in my neighborhood.

Wynton Marsalis

Even in these times, there are still neighbors that will turn their backs on neighbors.

Robert Erspamer

If the neighbor hadn't called, it would have been a different story.

Tamara Brown

If you do it to me and my neighbors on Knight's Key, ... you are setting a precedent to do it in your neighborhood.

Steve Kinney

I'm not going to have any neighbors for a while.

Scott Edwards

It's going to be a quiet March. The neighbors (on the beach) should be happy.

Leah Busque

When it comes down to it, @Taskrabbit is about neighbors connecting with neighbors

Karl Kraus

Love thy neighbor as thyself. Because each of us is his own neighbor.

Mike Casey

I did what they wanted, and they offered it, so I think I have it coming,

Bebe Neuwirth

In New York I was always offered the hot, sexy roles. But in L.A. I was offered the plain, dowdy roles. It says a lot about the difference between the coasts.

Lori White

If Qwest offered voluntary overtime, I think they'd find enough people to take it,

Phil Pergola

They're putting turf in and that's what made this work. And, from what I understand, they offered us the use of their facility.

Andy Wachowski

After Bound, we were offered a lot of lesbian thrillers.

Peter Mandelson

offered all sorts of positive, well-meaning, in my view misguided, justifications for a stance that is ... backward-looking, inward-looking, protectionist.

George Bernard Shaw

I've been offered titles, but I think they get one into disreputable company.

Brett Gardner

We have had a lot of requests about our Y2K status, but no one has offered in any way to give us a hand.

Kelli O'Hara

When I've done TV and film, when it's offered to me, I loved doing it, and I would do it again, but the ins and outs of auditioning is - that's time away from my kids.

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.

Jason Phillips

He catches everything in the outfield, and he throws people out. He's good. Real good.

Ron Messick

Lauren's so big as a player. A lot of schools are starting to take notice.

Mark Zupan

Students from his schools come out with real-world seasoning.

Mike Babineaux

They will be monitoring the schools throughout the week. They go in and use a form, similar to the one the state uses when it does its walk through.

Kevin McKenzie

All my experiences with Lonoke schools have been great.

Elaine Hanratty

I've seen different schools and interacted with different disciplines.

Sherry Sturner

Every year, the schools were taking another week out of our summers. It was hot. So I said, 'You know what? I've had enough.

Rick Page

Right now I don't think my 5A schools would go to the Valley. But they could put us with Laredo.

Anne Anderson

Situations in low-rated schools like Jasper are very frustrating,

Anthony Hamilton

It was very important for me to touch on things that haven't changed, like schools. I'm in Cleveland, Ohio. My lady's from Ohio, and the schools are being torn down, and they turned them into high-rise condos.

Pat Quinn

Clearly, I've had a wonderful trip in this business,

Keith Williams

(The friend) got tripped up on his own story right there on the witness stand.

Colleen Nave

That's the first triple play I've ever seen. It was very exciting.

Ron Vanover

Every trip is unique; every trip has a story.

Vic Tayback

Too many actors get on an ego trip and won't do commercials, so they sit around for 20 years between jobs.

Manal Fakhoury

See, we even got a triple A from the mayor.

Gary Fuller

To take that $187 million, more than triple our five-year average, is very significant,

Cliff Hite

I always tell the quarterback, we don't want you to make a big tackle, just get in his way, trip him, do whatever you have to do to get in his way.

Tim Adams

Our findings on this trip will be an important input,