Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Koenig

Just saying it was approved by the board and accountants wasn't going to cut it.

John Thompson

The only thing that has been approved so far is the subdivision of the land.

Mark Simpson

It is a four-year project to develop a turf pitch yet we still do not know whether council will ever approve a turf pitch at our home base at Russell Square.

Sam Bodman

Last night I approved a company's request for loan from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve,

Jean Medina

We expect to resolve any issues and concerns so that the court can approve our disclosure statement next week and we can continue moving toward exit from bankruptcy.

Bill Walker

We maintain a campus where we would hope that people could express themselves. Obviously, any kind of physical situation like this we do not approve of.

Linda Malec

I am extremely concerned about the recent application, approved by current directors, to convert to a mutual savings bank. And I'm even more concerned about the lack of communication from board members and executive management to members.

Alan Greenspan

If you're going to move to private accounts, which I approve of, I think you have to do it in a cautious, gradual way.

David Stern

In my mind, there's been an enormous investment made and it's the beginning of a process that's quite extensive. As far as we understand it, the Nets are planning to be in Brooklyn in the next three years or so, but we don't control that process. All we do is get to receive their reports and ultimately approve the move.

Mike Mayer

I also remember when I ran the assembly and packing and we were working with Nintendo. I remember assembling and packing those interactive units and the product that went in there as well. The product just started to fly off the shelves as people realized the incredible experience they could have with the games.

Dag Hammarskjold

has no impact on most of the people outside the General Assembly and this building.

Drew Houston

One of the great things about moving to Silicon Valley is that you're surrounded by all these people who've done it before. This place is an assembly line that takes a couple of twenty-somethings and walks you through everything you need to learn.

Ashu Kakkar

Going forward, quarterly results and assembly elections will dictate the direction.

Dennis Campbell

I think the day is all about starting with a new coach, a new era, a new time period. I'm ready to move on. What we want is more of those banners sitting up there (pointing to banners in the Assembly Hall). If he can bring that to us, that will be all we need.

Sergei Yastrzhembsky

I think visits to Chechen territory of lords and other delegations from the parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe should naturally be stopped.

Michael Griffin

I will be visiting Stennis and the Michoud Assembly Facility soon to talk with our people.

Robert Murphy

I will sit down with Student Assembly and get things the way they should be (before Thursday's meeting).

Edward Kennedy

Hopefully, this dramatic and historic step toward peace will be embraced by the (Protestant) unionist community and become a new dawn for the peace process, so that the all-important restoration of the Northern Ireland Assembly can take place as soon as possible.

Dwane Casey

Kevin did a masterful job of rebounding. We have to have somebody to help out on the boards in the paint.

Dave Newton

Kenneth didn't have a lot of numbers offensively, but his presence on the boards was felt out there and I think defensively he made some contributions as well. So did Will before he fouled out. He was playing some pretty good defense and scrambling around out there, causing some havoc.

Tyson Cottet

Joey had 14 boards for us, and didn't have any fouls, which was nice. Brandon was 7-for-11 from the field. He did a great job for us.

Billy Donovan

I thought we played well on the defensive end to only be down at 11 at the half with the way we shot the ball. As well as we played defensively in the first half, we didn't do the things we needed to on the boards and on defense in the second half.

Sue Semrau

I thought Christie played with great tempo tonight. She had four offensive boards in the first half. She played like a dominant post player.

Pat Flaherty

I think you've got to try to limit their touches as much possible which is difficult with their size. You have to try to keep them off the boards and out of the paint as much as possible, which is easier said than done.

David Greenfield

I just think it gives the younger professionals who are definitely a vibrant part of the community here a voice on a lot of the decision-making processes on a variety of boards that are out there.

Pat Clatchey

I love that kid because he gets it done on both ends of the floor. Dino is just a real hard worker. He gives a great effort defensively and on the boards every night and his offense is really coming along.

Dan Gandin

I'm really happy with what I'm seeing with my guys. They're hitting the boards hard, and moving the ball. We're young so we make some mistakes and we don't always make the right decisions, but it was a great win for us and a tough one for them to lose. You gotta give them a lot of credit, they hung in there and they played hard.

Sandy Poferl

Knowing where our budget sits, knowing where our enrollment sits, I wasn't really pleased with the number he threw out for his salary.

Susan Cole

Kids need to learn financial lessons early when they have their parents as a safety net. If you're just learning about saving and budgeting when your first car payment is due, you could be in trouble.

George H. W. Bush

Joel Kaplan is a man of great talent, intellect and experience who possesses a deep knowledge of policy and budget processes.

Gerald Curtis

Handling the budget is a big part of the job, but you have to realize that 70 or 80 percent of the budget is mandated by the state; you can change very little of it. But you do have to look at cuts.

Brett Hall

His voice is strong. He's engaged in everything and wants to discuss what's happening right now with the budget and other bills.

Ozhan Bahrambeygui

I think it's important for kids to budget their time. I'm a big proponent of kids doing multiple sports. I like to think we put an emphasis on balance.

Tom DeLay

There is no fat left to cut in the federal budget.

Steve Utkus

We're pretty confident it will be maintained or continued. Unlike other Bush tax provisions, it actually raises tax revenue under the budget rules because participants are paying taxes today.

Tom Daschle

to convey our serious concerns about the deteriorating condition of the federal budget and the nation's economy.

Jody Conradt

I think that is pure speculation if we would have won with Tiffany in the game. But I do know that we are very dependent on her energy.

David Margolick

He takes hundreds of recent law graduates at their most vulnerable, dependent state and guides them, soothes them, suffers with them, flatters them, advises them, exhorts them, humors them and holds their hands over the last hurdle before they enter the practice of law.

John Bennett

He needs to feel like he can still drive, and I think it's pretty important to him not to be dependent on someone to drive him around all the time.

Jim Paine

I?m not totally dependent on the BlackBerry. I still do heavy e-mail work at night from a laptop.

Dan Lipinski

The high prices also highlight the fact that the U.S. is too heavily dependent on fossil fuels that we import from unstable parts of the world. To protect our national security, we must become more energy secure.

Bruce Silverglade

The guidelines are dependent on enforcement, which makes them inherently weak.

Per Petterson

The important discovery I made very early is that my novels had to be written without any given plan or outline. I can't do it in any other way. But then they are dependent on the sentences, my intuition, and, as I have experienced many times, the subconscious.

Rex Norman

This is a forest ecosystem that has lived with very frequent fire. The ecosystem here has developed and is dependent on that. There is no ecosystem replacement for it.

Reghan Cloudman

It's all dependent on the weather. It can happen at any time of the year, and we're just realizing that now.

Pat Hanlon

I wouldn't say disappointing. I think surprising is the right word. And that includes sales to the general public, not just the waiting list members.

Andrew Miller

It can't be right that ministers be given such wide and general powers.

Roland Hemond

There are so many demands, on general managers especially. Doug listens well to the scouts and player-development people. People are loyal to him because he's loyal to them.

William Hazlitt

His sayings are generally like women's letters; all the pith is in the postscript

Bill Donald

I think it's going to be important, if we can get markets open in the same general are of the world. It will help instill trust in the product we were used to before the ban.

Richard Hughes

I think it's going to be a great adjunctive therapy. Patients generally like the robot. Many think of it as similar to a video game.

George Savile

It is a general Mistake to to think the Men we like are good for every thing, and those we do not, good for nothing

M. Wolfe

I am impressed that the stock market generally speaking hasn't been taking it worse than it has,

Rick Dinse

He is an individual that during our investigation, generally speaking, he never volunteered a lot of information,

Mike Kelly

I think we do what the governor is talking about. I think we're all on the same page.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I am going to run for governor of the state of California,

Jim McGrath

He did tell his son, the governor of Texas, that he was tired of him getting all the attention.

Margita Thompson

Our of respect for the will of the people, the governor will veto (the bill).

John Sherman Cooper

I must say, to be very honest about it, that I held in my mind during the life of the Commission, that there had been three shots and that a separate shot struck Governor Connally.

Toba Beta

I know there is only one Governor Of Deities.

E. P. Thompson

I know the governor supports the use of most supplements and vitamins that are safe. But there needs to be differentiation between supplements that are harmful and those that aren't.

Bible Bible

And next unto them repaired Melatiah the Gibeonite, and Jadon the Meronothite, the men of Gibeon, and of Mizpah, unto the throne of the governor on this side the river.

Dan Leistikow

It's not for the governor to pick a number out of the air.

Mike Mower

We've been very public in our support of this.

Robert Winston

I do not know of any credible evidence that suggests Dr. Zavos can clone a human being. This seems to be yet another one of his claims to get publicity.

Robert Peel

No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.

Gary Peck

If I were the public officials, I would look at this ruling very carefully.

Mahatma Gandhi

Creation of effective public opinion depends on the cultivation of true courage, born of truthfulness and nonviolence.

John Straayer

It's unusual, but he's getting publicity for his campaign.

Frank Mitchell

I want the public to know I'm still in it.

William Daley

They've got observers. This has been done in an open, public way.

Alex Honnold

I've gotten over my shyness from many years of doing public events.

Sergei Bubka

His statements are really crazy, we are really shocked.

David Wojciechowski

He?s going to play. It?s the state championship game.

E. O. Wilson

I was completely surprised at his statement (to resign).

Kate Saunders

It is not unprecedented that the two will be in the United States at the same time.

Quinnetta Claytor

We can do it, we can win state championships.

Will Durant

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

Willy Brandt

Peace, like freedom, is no original state which existed from the start; we shall have to make it, in the truest sense of the word.

Steve Lyle

Other states have called us, and are taking a look at it.

Taro Aso

international responsibilities and the state of reconstruction work.

Michael Morris

I'm trying to get to a comprehensive, system approach.

Ben Agosto

The new system allows for some of that unpredictability.

Farid Abdulkadir

It's the first time this system has been used.

Myles Munroe

External circumstances will not change until internal belief systems change.

David Garrett

This is a system that we take for granted,

Chuck Wilson

We have all new duct work and a new heating and ventilation system in there, so we won't be using the old system,

Ryan Lynch

I think this will show the university that we are a responsible community.

H. Judd

This is the only university I've been to that doesn't have campus-wide recycling. In a way it's embarrassing.

Ben Barnes

I actually went to university.

Frantz Fanon

Introducing someone as a "Negro poet with a University degree" or again, quite simply, the expression, "a great black poet." These ready-made phrases, which seem in a common-sense way to fill a need-or have a hidden subtlety, a permanent rub.

Lars Mikkelsen

I was in the military, and then I went to university to study biology.