Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Dye

There are tens of thousands of abandoned mines and quarries scattered across the American landscape, and some are more visible than others.

H. Hunt

There are so many stray and abandoned cats,

Bill Clinton

We told you this would happen if the Democrats abandoned their faith.

Britt Beemer

I think at least a third of consumers that previously bought her products will abandon the brand. A number higher than that means the brand is dead.

Martin Rees

It is mistaken to claim that global problems will be solved more quickly if only researchers would abandon their quest to understand the universe and knuckle down to work on an agenda of public or political concerns. These are not 'either/or' options - indeed, there is a positive symbiosis between them.

Larry Silverstein

It is inexcusable that the Port Authority abruptly abandoned the talks (Tuesday) night without a plan to move forward. We are not sure where this leaves us now.

Charles de Secondat

Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.

Javier Solana

I welcome the commitment by North Korea to abandon all nuclear weapons and existing nuclear programs and to return at an early date to the Non-Proliferation Treaty and to IAEA safeguards,

Jeffrey Brown

I was always most interested in drawing - most of my childhood drawings are black-and-white line work. And when I kind of abandoned comics, through college and art school, I was doing a lot of painting. But once I started doing comics again, everything else just fell by the wayside.

Kiran Ahluwalia

My CD collection has a lot of world music - lots of Indian, African, Portuguese, Greek, Italian music. Because of my husband, a lot of jazz, too.

Robert Crumb

I don't do album covers or CD covers for groups or musicians I don't like or have no interest in.

Robert Winston

Nearly all inventions are not recognised for their positive side either when they're made. So, for example, scientists didn't go out to design a CD machine: they designed a laser. But we got all sorts of things from a laser which we never remotely imagined, and we're still finding things for a laser to do.

Sandra Bernhard

I am always hoping to do another CD. This atmosphere has been difficult.

Zach Braff

Actually when I gave out the script, I gave it with a CD of all the music I wanted to put in the movie, and again, we never thought we'd get all that music.

Mark Russinovich

I know this is the last copy-protected CD I will buy,

Mick Taylor

It's frustrating actually, the time involved in getting something released these days. My new CD has actually been finished for a year. It's only now that it's being released

Henry Rollins

Technically speaking, there is no music whatsoever on a CD. Lots of information, but no music.

Laura Baca

It's been a lot of fun. It's been amazing. We just got through a U.S. tour with Social Distortion where we were selling 80 CDs per night, which is a lot. It was crazy.

Ralph Preston

Gold is telling us that not everyone is convinced inflation is in check.

John Naughton

We're pretty much convinced it's not a rogue shark or a shark out there -- one shark that's doing all the damage.

David Clohessy

We suspect there are many more. We're convinced it's just a matter of time before it happens again.

Nick Spano

I think we need a strong New Yorker to head the ticket, ... hasn't convinced me he is the right person.

R. Robinson

I weed out the obvious ones that no one will convince me to show. My first rule is that it has to be a film you would want to see again.

Kevin Keegan

I will be here as long as it takes. I might have to convince a few cynics, but I've never fallen out of love with football.

Joseph Joubert

We may convince others by our arguments; but we can only persuade them by their own

Ron Gardenhire

He was restarting his life out there. He was thinking about getting married again. We were trying to convince him to come back and put the uniform on again, and we were getting close.

Richard Byyny

I don't feel it's necessary to convince people of anything. I'll just tell people the truth.

Rick Carlisle

He's had this problem in his elbow for over a month and it's not healing. We're going to hold him out for a while until he's really right. It will be at least a week, with a possibility that it could be significantly longer. We're not going to go on like this, having him in and out of the lineup, thinking he's going to be able to play then not being able to go. It's too tough on everybody.

John Gibbons

It could be his forearm, and it could be his elbow. We don't know. He has had that elbow reconstructed in the past, so he knows his body.

Jeff Adrien

I don't even really remember what happened. I just put my elbow back and I guess I hit him. It wasn't intentional. I was just playing hard.

Rod Thorn

He had a knee operation when he was in high school. He's never missed a game with the knee problem in the N.B.A.; never missed a practice or game. The only thing he's ever missed any games for in the N.B.A. was for an elbow operation.

Brandon Roy

I know exactly why he did it. Because he felt like Appleby tried to elbow him.

Mike Ruddock

I have noted that for use of the elbow there have been two or three different sentences. That is something that needs to be considered.

Todd Dodge

That kid is playing with a torn ligament in his elbow and is playing with tremendous pain. He's just a warrior. It's an injury that would keep a lot of people from playing. But it's nothing he was going to injury any further.

Tony Dungy

It's more the elbow than the shoulder. We're not sure exactly what it is, but it's not an injury to be taken lightly.

When you're riding in a time machine way far into the future, don't stick your elbow out the window, or it'll turn into a fossil.

Stewart Hall

On any Saturday morning trip out of the house one would be hard pressed not to have noticed rapidly rising home prices, the spike in gasoline costs, and less enticing financing for vehicles.

Joe Carnahan

Regardless of the medium, be it television or feature or documentary, I'm not gonna distinguish and worry about my particular canon, whatever that means.

Shaun Connolly

If you get a feature no one wants, it tends to get spit out by the organism.

Andrew Lebow

The markets can't go up every day. Profit taking is one of the features of trading.

Will Young

It's just a great feature when you have five or six people living in a house.

Zhang Yuanyuan

The young people are rather interested in watching the American feature films. But over time they found that the nature of all these films is kind of alike. They would like to see more variety of these American movies.

Stuart Cohen

The testing that we have done on systems has not revealed any problems before, so the nature of the noncompliance is likely to be very minimal. It's probably not a feature of the operating system that is used by the application.

John Thomas

That's much more than we had anticipated. We think the Home Depot feature could be even more successful than the Wal-Mart one.

Kevin Moriarty

While there were some notable feature film productions... number and value of incoming international productions has decreased since 2003.

Elisha Cuthbert

You can make a feature that makes millions but only so many people see it. With a hit TV show, every week you'll have 16 million - 20 million people watching you.

Simon Clark

We're obviously disappointed in that this is a massive shift in terms of restrictions on smoking in public places. However, it could have been a whole lot worse.

Marketing Manager

It is, however, quite rare to have a player have two massive wins within such a short space of time.

Richard P. Feynman

All mass is interaction.

Salman Rushdie

My love for Dan Brown knows no bounds. It literally has no mass.

Will Rogers

If the other fellow sells cheaper than you, it is called dumping. 'Course, if you sell cheaper than him, that's mass production.

Walter Jon Williams

The mass-market paperback, for one, is too expensive.

Robert Goulet

And of course coming from Massachusetts, Rocky Marciano was my favorite.

Galileo Galilei

The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.

Nancy Pelosi

I come to this debate, Mr. Speaker, as one at the end of 10 years in office on the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, where stopping the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction was one of my top priorities. I applaud the President on focusing on this issue and on taking the lead to disarm Saddam Hussein. ... Others have talked about this threat that is posed by Saddam Hussein. Yes, he has chemical weapons, he has biological weapons, he is trying to get nuclear weapons.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

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.

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

Gale Norton

I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving.

Gary Sheffield

I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always tell the truth. That should count for something, right?

Mark Messier

Well, my transition into being a captain was easy.

Gavin Bryars

Similarly you can make a transition from one set of instruments to another imperceptibly.

Doug Freeman

It's a little gut-wrenching for me for us to have to make this decision, but at least we were able to transition into something new.

Brit Hume

It's perfectly possible for somebody to make the transition from politics to journalism.

Ann Brashares

There was a moment in between, a moment flung free in the midst of the transition, when he made contact. That was the moment she would dwell on.

Victoria Pratt

I can't say that I've made the transition to movies.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The transition from libertine to prig was so complete.

Jeremy Rifkin

Using less of the Earth’s resources more efficiently and productively in a circular economy and making the transition from carbon-based fuels to renewable energies are defining features of the emerging economic paradigm. In the new era, we each become a node in the nervous system of the biosphere.

Greg Buckner

The playoffs, that's just the way that it is. You're not going to get too many transition (baskets).