Famous Quotes & Sayings

Keith Andrews

Despite our agreement on Monday, we felt it was essential to add a factor that safeguarded the employees' pension scheme. This was rejected by the trade union which prevented them from endorsing or accepting the rest of the offer.

Alando Tucker

They are accepting it. We know what we have and we just have to work from there.

Bobby Miller

The word adult is misleading. It's a word used to describe one who is legally responsible for his or her actions. That's it. It doesn't in anyway confer or guarantee that a person, while gladly accepting the perks afforded adults, will accept any responsibility.

George Eliot

. . . the rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families . . .

Kirk Hanson

There wouldn't even be a question if this school had done this based on the color of their skin. Once the school started accepting tuition money they became a business. Simple as that.

Jerry Bernstein

This is a significant, significant issue in this case. It is critical that the jury is instructed that the simple accepting of a comp is not a crime.

Donna Pitre

This is the first program offering assistance to Hurricane Rita evacuees. This is a big thing. We will start accepting applications Feb. 1.

Robert G. Allen

This is the classic long-term/short-term tradeoff. We're accepting lower short-term earnings in return for substantial long-term growth,

Alan Gould

A law that was passed on Aug. 29 indicates we must hold a public hearing prior to accepting unanticipated money if it exceeds $5,000, ... We made the application on June 13 and I went back to see if you (selectmen) had voted at that time to approve and expend the funds but I couldnt find that in the minutes.

Mason Tvert

Once there is no state law, the city ordinance is what the cities and towns would go by and other places ... would have every right to keep punishing adult marijuana users if they chose to.

Brian Carpenter

And the help they will need in their advanced years will fall mostly on the shoulders of their adult children.

Steven Forester

The state can no more impose a special tax on adult entertainment than it could impose a special tax on theaters showing 'gay cowboy' movies.

David Day

The social aspect is always there. And a refreshing adult beverage after a fun sports event is always an enjoyable time.

Tracy Smith

The students really enjoyed the response from the adult day care center. I think that's when it really hit us that these little things really are affecting other people.

Marshall Cohen

The surge in men's apparel sales came from some of the most unexpected places, such as young men buying a suit. Teens and young adult men have finally 'discovered the suit.' When exploring that further, NPD found that young men never owned a suit, never wore a suit and never saw their father in a suit - yet, they have migrated towards dressing up to be 'cool.' We are seeing a shift in the younger generation reaching their image through grooming and dressing up.

John Battelle

I've been a Mac guy for almost my entire adult life. I wrote my first college papers on a typewriter, but by the end of my freshman year - almost 20 years ago - I was on an IBM PC. Then, in 1984, I found the Mac, and I never looked back.

John Friend

Adult Swim is a phenomenon with young adult viewers who identify with the edgy, irreverent tone of the shows and the block. Clearly, lots of Adult Swim fans are avid gamers, and we look forward to working with Midway to make games the fans will love.

Rachel Hunter

Adult gorillas being poached for their meat-baby gorillas stolen for the pet trade. I have just spent a week in West Africa seeing this for myself. I am horrified. I am desperate. But I am determined to do something about it and I'm in it for the long-haul. But I can't do it on my own.

Peter Capaldi

I wouldn't be here if it were not for the grant system that paid for me to go to art school - because my parents couldn't have afforded it.

Stephen Kenny

It appears to me that Saddam Hussein will be afforded a trial that represents a fairer system of justice than what David Hicks will receive.

Jeff Martin

Our family fund is not designated right now to a specific area. We started it four years ago because we really like Gilroy and want to help it in anyway we can.

C.C. Sabathia

Anyway we can get in is fine. I just want to get in, period. We all know what we have to do.

Brian Snider

We decided to raise money for the American Red Cross. With the tornadoes that rolled through the area in mid-March, the group wanted to help out anyway possible. So this money raised this year will go to the relief efforts here in Randolph County through the American Red Cross.

Adam Sadowsky

Keep your eyes open. Make mistakes - because you will anyway - and remember that small stuff stinks but that it's also essential.

Chris Hoffman

We are still very dry and people do need to call before they burn anyway and make sure they do contain these fires when they are burning.

David Victor

What is really happening is every nation is going off and doing what they would have done anyway under the umbrella of Kyoto, but operating unilaterally.

June Daugherty

Twice I asked her if she was ready to go back. She said, 'No,' but I put her back in anyway and she responded.

Patrik Elias

You guys know it always takes me a couple months before I get it going anyway in a season. I should be ready for the playoffs.

Lembit Opik

We all miss Paddy's story. It was always the same one, but we laughed anyway because he was the leader,

Kathy Johnson

People describe our show as high energy and dynamic. Our music is very uplifting.

Helen Fielding

I've only done some work on (the screenplay), and I find it very difficult, actually. Because you can really get away with murder in a book. You write 'round so many things, you can describe people, you can explain things. A screenplay is actually very short. It is only, like, 110 pages long and it's very spread out and every line has to do so many jobs, so I found it really hard.

Smush Parker

This is disappointing. There are not words to describe it other than disappointing.

Tom Campbell

This is the first time we have ever won league, and it's a good thing there are so many lifeguards here because I felt like I was going to need CPR. Words can't describe how I feel right now.

Dondi McGowan

This is overwhelming. Words really can't describe it.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

The way you describe it, it wouldn't make any sense, ... We want to reform the system that is good for everybody. ... We are not trying to silence anyone.

Oliver Luck

Dynamo is a word to describe someone who never fatigues, never gives up. The new name is symbolic of Houston as an energetic, hard-working, risk-taking kind of town.

Maya Angelou

To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.

Marino Marini

To describe and explain my ideas is to lose them.

Donald Trump

I shake hands very gladly politically. I don't think you could be a politician if you didn't shake hands.

Devin Ratray

After film school, I embarked on trying to promote independent films. But after a while, I realized I was breaking my back doing six-day-a-week shoots, 14-hour days, and no guarantee of distribution.

Demi Moore

The truth is you can have a great marriage, but there are still no guarantees.

John Bunting

We've seen some strange things happen at the end. This time around doesn't guarantee anything in the future, but this time around we didn't have any strange things happen.

Kathy Johnson

There's not even a guarantee that they're going to get to take it, and when they go to court, the results might not be back yet. I think the majority of them who are taking the tests, are taking them because they're tired. They want to walk out of there with a GED.

Judy Batusich

We just want to guarantee that that money is always going to be there for our seniors.

Alexander Lukashenko

Who can guarantee that he [Alexander Milinkevich, a Belarussian opposition presidential candidate] is the most promising candidate capable of competing with the incumbent president?

Anthony Albanese

You can guarantee that mining uranium will lead to nuclear waste. You can't guarantee that uranium mining will not lead to nuclear weapons.

Tom Hanks

If I was to direct Ron Howard, I guarantee you, I would put him through a living hell every day. I would demand so much of him. We wouldn't quit until he leaves the set crying. Weeping! Spent!

Mason Cooley

Sincerity guarantees nothing but itself.

Jorge Zamora

I want to work legally here; that would give my son more. If I have the chance, I want to be legal. It would be much easier.

Joseph Seamon

O God, give me words to make my dream-children live.

Aristotle

... the science we are after is not about mathematicals either none of them, you see, is separable.

Aristotle

... a science must deal with a subject and its properties.

Richard Wright

There's one word for it -- carnage. It's horrible.

Geraldo Rivera

What four-letter word do they have in mind? ... Hero?

Rae Tyson

We just thought we should get the word out there in the meantime.

Plato

And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?

Source Unknown

Never use big words where a diminutive one will suffice.

Philippe Petit

On one day of the week, I relax - which is not true, I work furiously on other things. 'Relax' is not a word to me.