Famous Quotes & Sayings

Linda Shelton

We want them to grow up and have a solid psychological and physiological basis for success. I love to move more than life, and want to empower girls and women to feel the joy of movement.

John Connell

We are seeing certain markets where housing costs and rents are going up on a monthly basis because of limited inventory, especially in developing Eastern European markets and major centers such as London, Paris and Moscow.

Terence Gabriel

We are probably going to see another 75 basis points.

Mike Street

We are pleased to have concluded the basis and substance of a deal with Gate Gourmet. The key to unlocking this dispute now lies firmly in the hands of Gate Gourmet and the Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU). They must sort out their differences for the good of our customers and the employees of Gate Gourmet.

Wu Bangguo

There are both solid basis and immense potentials for cooperation between China and Morocco. Enhancing cooperation in various fields will definitely bring tangible benefits to the people of the two countries and play an important role in facilitating world peace, stability and development.

David Brown

We still think that the bigger 50 basis points move is the odds on favorite judging by the current strength of the euro,

Scott Snyder

We still see more value in the Asia-Pacific region than in the U.S. market, where people are still panicking over inflation. On a 15- to 20-year basis for a country like Japan, which has had years of market turmoil, there is certainly still room to run.

David Sobel

Where the basis of the request comes from is that the government itself has revealed nothing about these initiatives. The objective here is to move beyond unnamed DOT sources to really make public on an official basis some of the details.

Hiram Rhodes Revels

We are in the midst of an exciting canvass... I am working very hard in politics as well as in other matters. We are determined that Mississippi shall be settled on a basis of justice and political and legal equality.

Aldous Huxley

The only completely consistent people are the dead.

Maurice Cheeks

We're in that phase. It's been 50 games. We should have some consistency by now. But we're not there. We just haven't put it together. That's why we have the record we have.

Alan Turing

We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.

Lon Kruger

We're searching a little for more consistency on defense and rebounding.

Carl Petersen

We're right in the corner, with Minnesota, South Dakota and Iowa. It would be nice to have some sort of consistency in how these are handled.

Henry Mason

We're looking for him to develop a level of consistency where we can count on him for whatever it is, try to define his role and see how far he can take it. He has some good tools and now he has his opportunity to take a step forward and we're hoping he can do that.

Avery Johnson

We're not going to win a championship because some guy comes in and plays like Michael Jordan, ... We're going to win as a team. We're going to win when Dirk Nowitzki continues to move forward and Josh Howard and Erick Dampier and Jason Terry give the consistency I'm looking for.

Arthur Conan Doyle

We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception.

Natalie Gulbis

What makes Annika Sorenstam so great is her consistency, and I've worked on that.

Maajid Nawaz

I realised that the idea of enforcing sharia is not consistent with Islam as it's been practised from the beginning. In other words, Islam has always been secular, and I had been totally ignorant of the fact.

Joseph P. Bradley

The perfection of style consists in the use of the exact speech necessary to convey the sense in the fewest words consistent with perspicuity, at the same time having regard to appropriateness and harmony of expression. Its greater excellencies are directness, accuracy, appropriateness and perspicuity.

Bobby Labonte

We are pretty good. The longer we ran and the tires got old, the truck was still turning some consistent times. I think we are going to race very well. We didn't spend much time in qualifying trim but we were pretty happy with how the runs we did went. I am looking forward to qualifying and then tomorrow's race.

Adam Luchterhand

We started the game well and then things fell apart. Losing (Greg) Marty to foul trouble hurt because he was our one consistent scorer.

Jerome Bettis

We are a tough-minded, physical, hard-nosed team, and I think we reflect our coach's character. That's why we're consistent year in and year out.

John Hall

We strive to go that extra mile by providing a consistent product including good service provided by our team. We create fans, not just customers.

Robert Rohanna

We still need to work on putting three good rounds together. We played really good the first round; the second was bad, and the third wasn't that good. We need three consistent rounds.

Richie Williams

We still need to be more consistent on offense. But at least the road monkey is off our back. This gives us some momentum and a lot of confidence.

Nayvadius Cash

I wouldn't say I'm underrated, but more reserved. Only time will tell, but I've been good so far in being consistent and making hit after hit writing for myself and other artists, from rap to R&B, and being able to make those different records.

M. Night Shyamalan

Being insecure - I'm a master, a virtuoso - they can be handing me the keys to the kingdom and all I can think is, I hope I don't drop the key.

Ken Warwick

Why should you take a drop in money?

Laurie Metcalf

You know, if a TV show dropped into my lap out of the blue, I would have a hard time turning it down because there just isn't the money in theater that there is on TV.

Gavin Grant

We have to have a strong ACC Tournament. We were supposed to be like a 3 seed (in the NCAA), but I am pretty sure we are going to drop down from there. I think we have to go into the ACC Tournament like we did last year, knowing we had to win to get in. We have to win games. We don't want to be an eighth or ninth seed.

Ahmad Khatami

We want our rights and nothing more, and we will resist until our last drop of blood.

Matt Lanter

I honestly try not to eat a whole lot of fast food, so it wouldn't kill me to drop it all together.

Steve Stinson

Whether they are talented or not they know what has been done before and they expect to win. These guys find a way to win. Part of that is the tradition of Flower Mound. They are going to do what it takes to make sure they are not the ones to drop the ball.

Guillermo Cole

We're monitoring the situation. We have an inspector dropping by every day.

Katie Aselton

I love profanity, but I think if it's used too much, it just sounds a little trashy. I think it's more effective when it's dropped intelligently. I like intelligent profanity.

Antonio Villaraigosa

If you wave a flag, make it an American Flag.

Platen

Where the flag of truth waves unfurled, there you will find superstition waiting in ambush.

Hilary Clinton

Where's the goddamn f***ing flag? I want the goddamn f***ing flag up every f***ing morning at f***ing sunrise.

Ron Carey

would not have raised any flags for me.

Sue Jones

It's just completely nuts. We have banners and flags and hats just kind of decked out all over the place.

Joyce Kesse

It sends up a red flag to me as well.

Tom Taylor

They don't want to wave red flags and become targets.

Pat Wilson

It's not scripted. We set the stage, prep the track, then throw the green flag and they go to town.

Mike McCartney

For a guy like A.J., there are no red flags there. What more can they learn about him?

Abdullah Gul

We want to start negotiations, and we are working for this but within the framework of the realities,

Ray Krauss

The other two are protection of biodiversity and preservation of the local ranching economy. We have a guiding framework that's helping managers plan for their individual parcels with all those goals in mind.

Marissa Moss

Amelia shows that it's not what happens in life that counts, but rather how you frame it, how you talk about it.

Bruce Josten

They have got a lot to do in a compressed time frame and a lot to resolve between the chambers.

Catherine Colonna

This is a meeting in the framework of our consultations about Iraq.

Lindy Ruff

It's the same time frame as J.P., the two-month range. We're looking at the same operation and the same length of recovery.

Josh Paul

It starts to wear on you by the end of the day. You start to get to know the person by sorting through their things, but then, it's just wooden framework left.

Eduardo Ermita

There is no time frame for the resumption

Ernie Els

I totally don't think about it anymore. I'm in a different frame of mind. It's been a long vacation, that's how I look at it. It's history. I've got other things that I'm thinking about and working on at the moment.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

The future is green energy, sustainability, renewable energy.

Gerard Hopkins

Where no storms come, / Where the green swell is in the havens dumb, / And out of the swing of the sea.

Ann Jones

We want people to keep everything green and clean.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

A great acacia, with its slender trunk And overpoise of multitudinous leaves. (In which a hundred fields might spill their dew And intense verdure, yet find room enough) Stood reconciling all the place with green.

Bob Hope

For the first time, you can actually see the losers turn green

Bjorn Lomborg

We need to invest dramatically in green energy, making solar panels so cheap that everybody wants them. Nobody wanted to buy a computer in 1950, but once they got cheap, everyone bought them.

John Beilein

(At) Canisius and at Richmond, we had shooting centers, but we never had anything like this. He may take some shots that look crazy, but he's got a green light.

Bill Conine

All our vehicles are white with a green logo. They're pretty recognizable.

Bruce Steinberg

They've already been working together. Summers sits in on the meetings Rubin has with Greenspan much of the time.

Charles Dickens

It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.

Charles Dickens

For who can wonder that man should feel a vague belief in tales of disembodied spirits wandering through those places which they once dearly affected, when he himself, scarcely less separated from his old world than they, is for ever lingering upon past emotions and bygone times, and hovering, the ghost of his former self, about the places and people that warmed his heart of old?

Charles Dickens

every idiot who goes about with a 'Merry Christmas' on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.

Charles Dickens

I know that she deserves the best and purest love the heart of man can offer," said Mrs. Maylie; "I know that the devotion and affection of her nature require no ordinary return, but one that shall be deep and lasting.

Charles Dickens

Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead, Right Reverends and Wrong Reverends of every order. Dead, men and women, born with Heavenly compassion in your hearts. And dying thus around us every day.

Charles Dickens

The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.

Charles Dickens

it is a principle of his that no man who was not a true gentleman at heart, ever was, since the world began, a true gentleman in manner. He says, no varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.

Charles Dickens

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it!

Charles Dickens

There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.

Brian Clarke

For a lot of us, Miami is a place where there's potential to really stand out in your field, as opposed to places like D.C. and Atlanta, where you would be just be one of many.

Chris Massaro

Our thoughts and prayers are with the student-athletes and people in the Miami area.

Bella Thorne

Maria Canals-Barrera is Cuban and from Miami and I'm part Cuban and from Miami, so needless to say she became a quick friend.

Desi Arnaz

In 1934 there were very few Cubans in Miami.

Nina Jacobson

Only audiences decide what's a franchise. Only audiences decide what's a hit. I have always been mindful of not wanting to be the Miami Heat of movies.

Nicolas Sarkozy

The French like burgers, Madonna and Miami Vice.

Luol Deng

As good as Miami is, we'd rather go to Miami.

Aaron Carter

I have my own studio down in Miami.

Nick Leaders

Nobody really remembers the Missouri game. Everyone thinks about Miami (Ohio).

Alan Greenspan

In an economy that already has lost some momentum, one must remain alert to the possibility that greater caution and weakening asset values in financial markets could signal or precipitate an excessive softening in household and business spending.

Richard Herring

We have seen a lot of momentum buying,

Ben Gordon

When we go down to Miami, we've got to keep the snowball going. We've got momentum going. We've got confidence. So we've got to keep it up.

Ben Gordon

When we go down there, we've got to keep the snowball rolling. We have momentum right now. We have confidence. So we need to keep that up.

Debbie Casto

We've got a very aggressive, trapping style of defense. And we get a lot of turnovers out of it. We've been able to get momentum with turnovers and score in transition.

Earl Weaver

Momentum is only as good as tomorrow's starting pitcher.

Dave Tippett

We feel the momentum is on our side now.

Michael Holmes

They (Mullins) had that momentum. I just had to do what I had to do to win.

Liz Flooks

They had the momentum, but I thought we got the momentum back at the start of the second half.

David Rockefeller

It is true that I am often startled and even angered and repulsed by the strange directions and provocative content of new forms that seem to pop up every few months.

Alan Trammell

Losing gets old. It's just been a heck of a month, to be honest with you.

Gary Griffin

Whether it takes two months or two weeks whatever,

Mike Gonzales

With the Web site, we wanted to make registration for programs easier. Each month more and more people are using the web site to register for youth events.

Barbra Streisand

I'm a terrible lip-syncer anyway because I have to be in the moment, and I can't lip-sync to something I recorded three months before.

Sherry Cooper

About six months ago, there was really no concern, and I think it makes sense to be concerned.

Dick Cheney

It's been several months since we had a solid report on his presence. ... We just don't know,

Brian Hill

A lot of teams with our record a month ago would have packed it in and just played their way through the remaining games.

David Wright

A lot of people have done it for a month or, in my case, a lot of people have done it for a year and a half. But when we start doing it year after year, then you have that argument.

Satya Pradhuman

The point is, we're not out of the woods yet,

Michael Vickers

The point is to stop it (illegal immigration), and if we have to do it ourselves, we're going to do everything we can to stop it.

Craig Martin

The point is to get it right, not necessarily to get it done early.

Father Thomas

The point is that we are not at a place yet where we can say one way or the other.

Livan Hernandez

The point is, it's now or never. You try to make the playoffs.

Jan Egeland

The point here is it could have been avoided. It didn't have to reach these proportions.

Jim Clarke

We are at the point where we have succeeded in accomplishing what we wanted to do.

Tom Renney

We have to get to the point where he thinks he could play, and I don't think we're at that point.

Michael Ondaatje

You're getting everyone's point of view at the same time, which, for me, is the perfect state for a novel: a cubist state, the cubist novel.

Phil Wold

They need to let us know what their primary source is and if they have a backup.

John Boyega

I've been acting since I was 5 years old, from primary school to secondary school, did training at drama school, which was the big thing for me because they trained me, put me out into the industry.

Richard Giannini

The one thing that has been a primary priority has been facilities. That's the vision that we've got to continue. We've made tremendous upgrades since the year 2000.

Peter Mills

the shape of this primary is not yet firmed up.

Eric Fischl

My primary thing is to make a painting, not necessarily to make a painting to sell for gazillions of dollars, but just to make a painting.

David Gerke

The primary word is ?fun'; it's about fun.

James Wallace

Before you can play basketball, you need to make the grades. That's my primary concern.

Bonnie MacPherson

It can't be someone's primary residence. That's very much intact.

Phil Palmer

The paving work will be done by Nielsen Construction as a sub-contractor and not by the primary contractors.

Brian Hill

AMA sanctions races in only one place at a time.

Kate Ziegler

They're so ridiculously fast, ... I don't even take out my races that fast. They're tough records.

Roger Penske

As far as me personally, I guess I'm going to come to the races for as long as I can.

Robby Gordon

You run those types of races all year long, you find yourself sitting here right in the thick of the Chase.

Jim Gibson

Ever since the recall in the 1990s, the races have been pretty nasty.

Dan Ware

As soon as the temperature comes up tomorrow (Monday), as soon as the wind comes up - bam, we're off to the races again.

Jenson Button

We want to be winning races and so just being on the podium is disappointing.

Vedran Pavlek

She's taking a little break. It's just too many races for her right now, at the end of the season.

Bobby Hamilton

I don't think you can do it with 10 races to go in trucks because we only run 25 races,

Nick Flynn

The only strategy I know of is to write every day, which I don't always do, because sometimes I just can't, for various reasons that seem out of my control.

Lydia Leonard

You have to accept that when you don't get the part, it's to do with all sorts of reasons completely beyond your control, unless you know it's because you weren't prepared.

Steve Pugliese

It seems pretty shallow, the reasons we've been given.

Clint Hurdle

They know Fuentes is closing. They have their reasons for what they do.

Herb Thomas

There's a lot of reasons not to reinvent the wheel here.

Penelope Cruz

There are roles I have said no to, but for different reasons. And, I never talk about those because I feel it's disrespectful to say, 'Oh, I said no to this project or that other project.' I'd rather talk about the ones that I said yes to and the reasons why.

Christopher Chute

It would solve a big bottleneck. One of the reasons video has always been cumbersome . . . is it requires so much storage space.

John Miner

When it was put there in 1982, there were very specific reasons why,

Kurt Barnard

One of the reasons why stores did not do better than they did is because there were not enough new designs, not enough new fashions.

Ato Boldon

Myself, Marion Jones and Michael Johnson all got married on the same day because it was the only point on the athletics' schedule we could fit in. October 3, 1998.

Aaron Sorkin

The downside to series television is that the schedule is ferocious. It constantly feels like you have a midterm due that you haven't started yet.

Mark Few

When it all shakes out and these teams play on, it's going to be the toughest non-conference schedule in the country.

Nathan Fennell

We're going to play a rougher schedule this year than we have for many years.

Bryan Ferry

I don't do interviews at all when I'm on tour, so this time, on a day off, I'll do that kind of thing a little bit. I don't do big promotion schedules, not when I'm touring.

Larry Coker

It is what it is. Again, it's not my preference, but we take the schedule as it comes.

Jeremy Foley

The years that we do have the flexibility, we want to schedule them.

Bob Hunter

It's a very tight schedule and it's a very tight budget.

Phil Garner

I've long said the schedule is the most favorable,

John Crowley

I had very clever producers, who scheduled it brilliantly, but scheduling it was a nightmare.

Bob Bowlsby

We've done some sportsmanship initiatives and we've done some collaborative officiating things with the MAC, and one of the things we're doing is some scheduling stuff,

Melindo Persi

We just didn't need them in terms of scheduling and enrollment.

Billy Donovan

We're right back to where we were before the season started.

Chris Bolt

Third place is very satisfying. We've had some tough seasons and to have the seniors go out like this is awesome.

Joe Blodgett

For a lot of individuals it would've been over. She was not going to end her season on the bench.

Petter Solberg

It's too bad. I didn't want to end the season like this, but that's just how it is sometimes,

Eric Schmidt

It's only one game. There's a long season ahead, and our section is pretty balanced.

Dan Haren

You don't want to go into the season on any kind of a streak.

Randy Rice

This is the oddest season I've ever been through. Not because of the co-op. But it's been one thing after another.

Jason Giambi

This is what we play the whole season for,

Keenan McCardell

There's a sense of urgency. The season starts to get shorter and shorter. We have got to come with it.

Charles Dickens

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Charles Caleb Colton

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.