Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Icahn

a weak attempt to silence growing investor criticism.

Tatyana Paramonova

Banks that understood the difference have attempted to save their position on the market and raise the capital.

Christopher Bond

Protectionism is the use of scare tactics, the use of unsound scientific information in an attempt to protect our market. In this case I believe that sound science dictates that it is time to open the border.

Kara Swisher

Canceling my landline phone account, cutting off service to my home for good, and rendering the telephones that had long sat on tables in every room as useless as my closeted bread machine, I took the final step in a lifelong attempt to free myself from the wires that tethered me.

Ted Cruz

If I am elected president, every militant on the face of the planet will know, if you go and join ISIS, if you wage jihad on the United States of America, if you attempt to murder innocent Americans you are signing your death warrant.

Gilbert Newton Lewis

In the snobbery of science, each branch attempts to rise in the social scale by imitating the methods of the next higher science and by ignoring the methods and phenomena of the sciences beneath.

Walt Sanchez

We did a good job coming out of the gate, and held them to four field goal attempts in the first quarter.

Donald Anderson

We felt we had been badly let down by Historic Scotland. They were concerned about catering for visitors to the castle and some health-and-safety issues, but suggestions were made to resolve these and with a bit of goodwill and better joint working it could have happened. At the time, I don't think there was a meaningful attempt to do so but we need to ensure that these concerts happen next year.

Teresa Tomlinson

We do see this as an attempt to hang him and put the screws to him.

Ken Bacon

These men should be freed. They should not have been captured in the first place. And to the extent they're still there, that's regrettable.

Joan Ark

I do remember that TV Guide did a quote that the three of us can be compared to Earth, Wind and Fire. Michele was the Earth, I was the Wind and Donna was the Fire. I think that really captured it.

Bill Pascrell

In the years since 9/11, more terrorists have been created through this President's policies than were captured or killed. There weren't any terrorists in Iraq in 2003, but there are now.

Regan Berkley

In general, elk numbers and composition in Unit 48 exceed our objectives. This year's estimate represents a significant increase in elk numbers over the past several years. Potential causes for this increase include fluctuations in winter weather conditions over the past few years and possible changes in seasonal migration patterns from Units 43 and 44 to Unit 48. We are currently plotting the locations of cows with radio collars to see how they have moved between where they were captured in the summer and where they are now.

Drew Pearson

The last of the sniper teams dispatched by Robert Kennedy in 1963 to assassinate Fidel Castro were captured in Havana.

Lori Garver

The Mars Pathfinder (landing in 1997) caught everyone's attention. Hubble photos have just captured the public imagination and had maybe more magazine covers than even John Glenn.

Kughalo Mulatonu

They had also captured three of our leaders in a raid last month. We do not know if they are dead or alive.

Bill Callahan

You get into moods - like, if somebody does something to you, then you're angry for maybe 30 seconds, or maybe 30 years. I was always interested in capturing those awful, unflattering things that everybody goes through - those hot moments, captured in ice.

Dino De Laurentiis

These scenes deal with what happened before Hannibal Lecter was captured for the first time.

John Hutton

Is it his remit to have a functioning IT system? Yes. What will that new IT system be? I don't know. Sir David Henshaw is looking at designing a new IT system.

Mike DeWine

We are here to honor David for his unrelenting service and for his willingness to fight for us ... and all the ideals we all hold so dear,

Willie Randolph

I guess I'm a show-me guy, I want to see that David can keep making the adjustments.

Kurt Melton

I think David (Bendall) did a nice job defensively on him.

Steve Evans

We received an initial fee for David going on loan and a second for the final deal.

Michael Barnett

Having just turned 23, and with over 250 games under his belt, we look forward to the experience of helping David take his game to another level for us.

Larry Brown

I'd like to put Stu Jackson and David Stern and some of those guys in that same situation and see how they would have reacted. He helped get things under control.

Tamar Jacoby

In spirit, the whole idea of the reform is for people like David Mendez, who are in essence hard-working Americans with roots in this country, so they can get on the right side of the law.

Terri Smith

David is a very explosive, elusive-type player. He can do many different things, including returning punts and kickoffs.

Terry Teachout

A play is not a play until it's performed, and unless it's a one-person play that is acted, directed and designed by the author, many other people will be deeply involved in the complicated process that leads to its performance.

Nancy Healey

The seniors know that this is their last year and last chance. They want to go as deep into the tournament as we can.

Sometimes I think you have to march right in and demand your rights,even if you don't know what your rights are, or who the person is you're talking to. Then on the way out, slam the door. - Deep Thoughts (Saturday Night Live)

Mike Skelton

It was the opening three minutes that put us in too deep a hole.

Jacques Chirac

I share the pain of those families who have lost a loved one, and I offer my deepest condolences and sympathy,

Randy Jackson

They all hate each other deep down, but they aren't going to say it on camera.

Mark Kinsella

Albion will be mentally strong because of what happened last year. They had some big games at the back of last season and they dug in deep - they'll do it again. They have the players that have done it before and players whose second nature is to fight and battle.

Rhonda Faehn

A little shaky. It was really, really rough. We started out with such a deep hole. We had mistakes that were uncharacteristic.

Robert Morse

You're shut out. How would someone get in and help you?, ... It's all gated in. Once you get in deep here, I think it's too dangerous.

Tristram Stuart

As human pastoralists discovered 8,000 years ago, raising animals can be an efficient way of harnessing otherwise unusable resources such as grass.

Tammis Groft

Sometimes he would go back to sites that had already been excavated, and he would use his own methodical methods and discover great new things that people had just really overlooked.

Mary E. Pearson

I've discovered I love the vast landscape a series offers. I tend to write long anyway, so, it turns out, series gives me the perfect vehicle for writing 'large' stories.

Archimedes

Eureka! (I have found it!)

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

The very discovery of the New world was the by-product of a dietary quest.

Elizabeth Holmes

Too often you see someone fall, break a rib, go in to the doctor and discover a tumor.

Thomas Friedman

John Kennedy led us on a journey to discover the moon. Obama needs to lead us on a journey to rediscover, rebuild and reinvent our own backyard.

John Lasseter

I can't tell you, as a parent, how it feels when the doctor tells you your child has diabetes. First off, you don't really know much about it. Then you discover there is no cure.

Will Rogers

Wrigley was the first man to discover that American jaws must wag; so why not give them something to wag against.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Injuries happen when your mind is beyond your body, largely when you think you're King Kong and lift weights heavier than the body can handle.

Calvin Coolidge

If a painting of a tree was only the exact representation of the original, so that it looked just like the tree, there would be no reason for making it; we might as well look at the tree itself. But the painting, if it is of the right sort, gives something that neither a photograph nor a view of the tree conveys. It emphasizes something of character, quality, individuality. We are not lost in looking at thorns and defects; we catch a vision of the grandeur and beauty of a king of the forest.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

Actually, King Abdullah, under his supervision and guidance, has established a dialogue in Saudi Arabia whereby all the population, whether Shiite or Sunnis from north, south, west or east, they can get together and exchange their views.

Janis Ian

I think all of us thought that by the '70s, at the latest the '80s, all the world's problems would be solved and everyone would be getting along fine. And instead we saw that Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated that year, Robert F. Kennedy died. We saw that it was going to be a lot more difficult than I think we had thought.

Bobby Scott

In fact, the Harvard study data indicates that 70 percent of African American children attend schools that are predominately African American, about the same level as in 1968 when Dr. King died.

Bobby Fischer

He is the so-called father of the modern school of chess; before him, the King was considered a weak piece and players set out to attack the King directly. Steinitz claimed that the King was well able to take care of itself, and ought not to be attacked until one had some other positional advantage. He understood more about the use of squares than Morphy and contributed a great deal more to chess theory.

Brigham Young

The Constitution and laws of the United States resemble a theocracy more closely than any government now on the earth, or that ever has been, so far as we know, except the government of the children of Israel to the time when they elected a king.

Brother Lawrence

We can do little things for God; I turn the cake that is frying on the pan for love of him, and that done, if there is nothing else to call me, I prostrate myself in worship before him, who has given me grace to work; afterwards I rise happier than a king.

Cory Doctorow

Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.

Maxim Gorky

Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.