Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ken Bacon

He just said that if you looked down several months out into the future and you reach a point in August or September or October where we might want to deploy ground troops, what is the type of planning timeframe that would be necessary in order to position NATO to do that,

Steve Spurrier

He is real sensitive to some of his colleagues in college, when a lot of people are saying he's going to get this job or that job. He doesn't want to be out there in August talking about that.

Stephen Flynn

What we have failed to realize is the terrorists showed us on 9/11 that we are vulnerable. And Katrina showed us here in late August and September that we are still a very vulnerable society--and the most vulnerable part of the population ends up without the lifeboat.

Chuck LaMar

Having said that, we saw him play the latter part of August and thought he had had enough. He had already gone from Double-A to Triple-A and we thought it was time for him to go home and get ready to play winter ball if he wanted to, or if not, get ready for spring training.

Nigel Gault

It is possible that the hurricanes that hit in August and September had a bigger impact on measured GDP growth in the fourth quarter than in the third. ... The hurricanes probably dragged on investment, too.

Michael Darda

I thought the jobs report was more robust than the headline number would suggest, with the June and July upward revisions to payrolls countering the August miss.

Fred Hoiberg

I think we knew that when I got released back in August that there was a possibility that I was going to play this year. Now it's kind of becoming a reality.

Carol Riley

I think that August reunions are steadily trending downhill because people are busy. We go all the way through to Thanksgiving weekend.

Carey Perloff

I think August felt totally at home here, ... He loved Steven's work.

Terry Tucker

It's billed as a big downhill course. But there are a few places where there's a serious incline.

Ian Heinisch

I've just got to keep my game on. I'm on fire now, I can't go downhill at all. I've got to stay where I'm at and keep working.

J. C. Watts

No, it's like downhill skiing! Nobody is dragging their ass to come on this one.

Janica Kostelic

It's kind of stupid what they did because it was obvious we couldn't ski downhill in the morning and they needed one racer to crash. It was not enough that two of the forerunners crashed.

David Gergen

For a two-term president after the November elections in the middle of your second term, things start going downhill and you really do start quacking like a duck.

Sean McDonnell

They're a good football team. They played well. They played downhill from the get-go, and we didn't respond. We had a punt blocked, and we had another thrown over our heads.

Corey Koskie

It was really frustrating. Not so much that (the games) were so close. We started out (the trip) so good and it went downhill so fast.

Charles III

It was very cold. Fortunately I had that downhill par 5. If there's a hole you want to tee off on when you're real cold, it's that one.

Harvey Pekar

Things improved a little bit in the '80s; there was kind of a revival of alternative comics, but then they went downhill in the '90s.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Andrew Shue

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

H. Hart

I would try to put more people on the road without doing any more hiring.

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.

Rick Schmidt

He didn't want people to know where he was staying.

John Mehr

We're just steadily working on it. But we have nothing new.

Mike Burke

There are a lot of changes. What we are trying to do is make sure that we are steadily progressing.

Gary Evans

We have steadily grown, as we do it all for the most part.

Robin Williams

[when asked about what he was most thankful about]: Being alive. After heart surgery, you dig that part. Breath, family and friends are just amazing. Just to have a second shot is pretty great!

William Arthur Ward

Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.” —

William Tecumseh Sherman

If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

Tony Snow

If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down.

Willie Nelson

When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.

Joseph Auslander

Dear Lord; we beg but one boon more: Peace in the hearts of all men living, peace in the whole world this Thanksgiving.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Thanksgiving is the holiday that encompasses all others. All of them, from Martin Luther King Day to Arbor Day to Christmas to Valentine's Day, are in one way or another about being thankful.

Henry David Thoreau

O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it, for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Almighty God, who hast given us this good land for our heritage; We humbly beseech Thee that we may always prove ourselves a people mindful of Thy favor and glad to do Thy will.