Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlo Panunzi

Anyhow, it is not a very important business and mainly active in Europe.

Paul Aussaresses

As for torture, it was tolerated if not actively encouraged, ... He (the emissary) knew exactly what went on during the night.

Jodhi May

As an actor, I think it's really important to be as anonymous as possible. It's your job to convince people that you are somebody else, and so any recognition I'd get away from the screen - well, it's not something I actively seek. To be honest with you, I'm surprised anybody does.

Jon Austin

Northwest does not want a strike and we remain actively engaged at the negotiating table. At the same time, however, we have the responsibility to make orderly and timely provisions to minimize confusion and disruptions should a strike occur. We want to keep our passengers fully informed and to assist them with alternative travel arrangements.

Donald Rumsfeld

actively lying about civilian casualties taking place in their country.

Barclays Capital

a number of proposals contained in the draft policy would actively discourage foreign direct investment and the associated financing.

Henry Ward Beecher

Any law that takes hold of a man's daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of the community are actively in favor of it. The laws that are the most operative are the laws which protect life.

Richard Boucher

The situation in Liberia is of major concern to us. We have been actively discussing how we can best support international efforts to help Liberia return to peace and the rule of law.

Eric Brewer

The site that we had been looking at did not work out. We never got to the point of moving forward on an actual approval process. We are still actively looking for sites in Citrus County but do not have any specific plans at this time.

Ben Howland

That was about 20 minutes into practice. He did not practice the rest of the time. Has some swelling there. We'll see how it feels. ... I would expect it would take a lot to keep him out of the game.

Robert Vincent

People are very sad. Our people called and gave because they knew it would be there for generations. We just never expected this.

Mark Potok

People expect that these kinds of incidents won't happen in schools and universities.

Christine Benz

People had come to expect the world of them. (They're) a little disappointed.

John Hughs

Oil is on everyone's mind. We're expecting a fall in inventories, but instead we get a rise,

Rick Dempsey

Anything that could go wrong went wrong after the first two months. You don't expect some of the things to slap you in the face that did this year.

Shlomo Yosef

The situation is still serious, but it's stable. All the parameters ... are as expected following this type of surgery. Part of the treatment of the prime minister, in order to preserve low pressure in the skull, is sedation and respiration for at least the next 24 hours.

Tom Peterson

These matches are really important. We can't be losing and expect to have a high seed. We want to host a first-round tournament match.

Clint Hurdle

The second year is when you expect a full recovery.

Richard Fisher

As a member of the FOMC (Federal Open Market Committee), I will never vote to monetize fiscal profligacy,

Richard Fox

It would be nice if there were a policy response in the form of a tighter fiscal policy.

Dennis Rosa

This really is a continuation of the process, ... This is a very smart fiscal move.

Carlos Asilis

We could talk about sunspots, we could talk about fiscal year-end effects, but whatever the explanation may be, history is on the side of the fourth quarter being a good one.

Michael Jaffe

We think revenues will increase by 6 percent in fiscal year 2006.

Robert H. Connelly

There's no fiscal restraint right now. Nobody is even thinking about it.

Steve Brice

From a local perspective they're saving a lot of money at the moment and their fiscal surplus was 15 percent last year and is going to be 14 percent this year.

Pete Sepp

From our standpoint, this is not a top fiscal issue.

Alan Greenspan

I find it utterly inconceivable, frankly, that we can have the type of potential fiscal outlook, which now confronts us over the next 15 to 20 years which, unless addressed, will not have a significant impact on long-term interest rates,

Dan Hampton

It was a perfect storm of talent, personalities, direction, goals and dominance.

Ron Wilson

We're 3-0 and scored 15 goals since we picked up Thornton. It's kind of nice, the things you were hoping would happen with the trade have.

Charley Juris

Especially considering that the Bruins scored 11 goals on Robinson the previous week.

Chris Carter

Even though he let in six goals, Jacob measured up to the task. He did a great job spotting shots.

Tim Rooney

(East Central) has a lot of talent. They are really offensive-minded and they can score a lot of goals.

Don Robertson

We all have a role and part to play and by each of us living the 'dream', we will ultimately reach the goals set by Dr. King. It takes everyone doing their part and taking a stand.

Jason Tapp

At the half, we were in it. They just ran away with it after making some goals over penalties. It just wasn't there.

Rob Siris

We did a lot of things well (against West Orange). We kept Jacob Simon (23 goals and 23 assists) in check.

Cristy McKinney

We did a little better in the second half than we did in the first. We had to set new goals at halftime. At least we didn't give up 60 points in the second half.

Tom Cail

A very nice guy, very nice. Oswaldo had a lot of friends in here after he started meeting all of us.

Samuel Johnson

Read your own compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

Wade Blaufuss

Progress has been slow but there has been progress. Negotiators are meeting around the clock.

Wade Blaufuss

Progress has been slow but there has been progress. ... Negotiators are meeting around the clock.

Curtis Crews

Originally we started with only meeting once a month but we realized that it was taking too long, so we went to meeting twice a month. Once we get the new members on the committee, we should be able to get moving on it.

Frank Maguire

The take-away from the meeting is we're on the right track,

Kansas City

After a disappointing January, we are meeting our expectations.

Sue Parks

Right now we just want to get a meet under our belts. This will give us some output upon what we need to work on, as well as realize where we are at this point of the season.

Michael Bingham

The whole project was a result of wanting to meet one of my heroes. It's not often you get to meet and really spend time with your heroes.

C. S. Lewis

Where, except in the present, can the eternal be met?

Robert Galvan

We met the trainers and after a while, we were singing together.

Sheila E.

Don't forget, I was a musician long before I ever met Prince. That's a big difference between me and those other women he's worked with. We operate on the same plane, as equals.

Paul Boyce

We could've met a nobody next but that would've been no use to anyone.

Barney Oliver

Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.

Seth Lloyd

I would suggest, merely as a metaphor here, but also as the basis for a scientific program to investigate the computational capacity of the universe, that this is also a reasonable explanation for why the universe is complex.

Scott Snyder

- If I tell you, will you let met go? - You bet, partner. [...] - You promised! - Nope. I said "you bet." You did ... and you lost.

Mike Tyson

Sarah Palin met the wombshifter! Old Sarah and the wombshifter.

John von Neumann

All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.

Brian Carlwell

My visit was good, and I just wanted to get the recruiting over with.

Terry Gough

I don't know what it is. Recruiting is crazy.

Marc Shaiman

I wouldn't have been able to live with myself if someone else did it. It's a very sweet valentine to musicals, but (it) sends them up at the same time.

Mickey Blake

I've worked here since I was a kid. I've always been part of the business.

Gloria Naylor

Lord keep her safe since you can't keep her sane.

Corita Kent

Earnestness and sincerity are synonymous.

Maurice Denis

All that is necessary to paint well is to be sincere.

Isla Fisher

You know, I didn't get to go to university because I've been acting since I was a kid.

Gerard Way

Since we're in an arena, ... We'll do it arena-rock style!

Janice Johnson

Since Wal-Mart and H-E-B is all out of water we had to come to Bastrop to get the things that we need. We need water, flashlights and snacks and stuff.

Jack Fultz

Since this is our first year of doing this, we're kind of winging it as we go.

Emily Williams

Since they are freshman, they don't know a lot about JSU.

Bai Ling

I'm one of the best actresses. One day I will win an Oscar.

Ayrton Senna

You either commit yourself as a professional racing driver that's designed to win races or you come second or you come third or fifth and am not design to come third, fourth or fifth, I race to win.

Benito Mussolini

Tomorrow, the Tripartite Pact will become an instrument of just peace between the peoples. Italians! Once more arise and be worthy of this historical hour! We shall win.

Brian Boitano

I have to consider my greatest accomplishments winning the Olympics because everything that Ive done after that is really because of the Olympics.

Brian Blessed

Ninety nine per cent of the time, for anyone who wins or makes money, it makes them happy.

Jamie Foxx

I never planned to win an Oscar. When I auditioned for 'Ray,' I was just thinking about what a great project it would be.

Carroll Shelby

Horsepower sells cars, torque wins races

Al Franken

When you win an election, what you really win is a chance to go to work for working families who need a voice in Minnesota.

Charles R. Swindoll

Consistency: It's the jewel worth wearing; It's the anchor worth weighing; It's the thread worth weaving; It's a battle worth winning.

Brett Ratner

When I was 13, Eddie Murphy was to me what Chris Tucker was to 13-year-olds when I made 'Rush Hour.' And 'Rush Hour' really came out of the fact that I grew up watching 'Beverly Hills Cop' and '48 Hrs.'

Brett Ratner

I got a Super 8 camera when I was eight years old, and I just wanted to tell stories - I love telling stories.

Brandon Sanderson

People can do great things. However, there are some things they just CAN'T do. I, for instance, have not been able to transform myself into a Popsicle, despite years of effort.

Ayn Rand

He, too, stood looking at her for a moment--and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after an absence, but the look of someone who had thought of her every day of that year. She could not be certain, it was only an instant, so brief that just as she caught it, he was turning...

Benjamin Cardozo

The repetition of a catchword can hold analysis in fetters for fifty years or more.

Benjamin Cardozo

More truly characteristic of dissent is a dignity, an elevation, of mood and thought and phrase. Deep conviction and warm feeling are saying their last say with knowledge that the cause is lost. The voice of the majority may be that of force triumphant, content with the plaudits of the hour, and recking little of the morrow. The dissenter speaks to the future, and his voice is pitched to a key that will carry through the years.

Benito Mussolini

If I advance; follow me. If I retreat; kill me. If I die; avenge me! It is better to live one day as a lion than one-hundred years as a sheep!

Brad Paisley

Willie Nelson, out there 200 days a year, calls his band family. And it is.

Brad Pitt

I've been in these tabloids for 14 years now, and at some point you just become a Zen master of it all