Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dave Anderson

As an alternative I'd like to propose that we consider an ordinance that states specifically how many car spaces per residential spot. You should base that upon some mathematical formula of the living area, bedroom area or occupancy load of the house.

Pete Best

Oh, I don't really know to this day. I was told they wanted a better drummer, I was anti-social, they didn't like my hair, but it is still very much a gray area and the reasons don't hold water.

John Gifford

North Port has an extra unique area here.

David McGrew

Northeast Ohio is a great place to live and work. I will use the power of the congressional seat to recruit and bring jobs to Ohio. I have passion for this area because of what it has meant to me.

Rob Watson

Normally, we would be looking for tax cuts. This time, I was looking for more spending. I think the economy needed it; the area needed it.

Kathy Deck

Demand is strong. We are continuing to see this spectacular growth in the area and it is not slowing down.

Bob Cortelyou

Delta is responding to strong passenger demand for convenient service to some of the country's most popular summer leisure markets like Anchorage, Bangor and Traverse City. Interest in visiting the breathtaking glaciers of Alaska, the Acadia National Park and Bar Harbor area of Bangor and the beaches and hiking and biking trails of Traverse City increases in the summer months and we are pleased to be offering our customers throughout the country easy one-stop connection opportunities through our hubs.

Michael Hugos

Define the value that your Web site can deliver to you and your customers, in the area of increased sales, decreased customer service costs, and advertising.

Jay Davis

Decks are one area of a house that seem to get overloaded. It seems like you have a big space, but if it's not attached to the home properly, there's the potential for it to come down.

Jeffrey R. Immelt

As one of America's largest exporters, GE remains committed to producing more products in the United States, which is our home and largest market.

Bob Gainey

Our team was stumbling and bumbling and we didn't have a player really who was committed to doing what they needed to do.

Terry Garcia

Salmon are in serious trouble. Regardless of the final outcome of this case, we remain steadfastly committed to our goal of recovery of these species.

P. Herbert

It would be a failure if we don't come up with something and do something, ... The governor and I are committed to taking the information received here (at the summit) and putting together some sort of transportation initiative.

Tim Richards

It was a long match, ... Jerome played well as a team. Wood River committed a lot of unforced errors.

Anthony Zinni

I sense everyone is committed to get out of this terrible situation. I think in the next few days we can start on my mission and the implementation of the plan that we've brought.

Jim Doyle

The ripples of Hurricane Katrina will touch every state and I remain committed to do all that we can to help minimize the devastation ... and restore hope,

Christopher Hill

The United States is very much committed to this diplomatic process. We want it to work and we want full participation in it and we want it to succeed.

David Gill

We hope to make one or two very big signings this summer - and we are already committed to that.

Alan Horowitz

I've always been a confident person, and this just helped.

Jenny Condon

Sarah's probably our most confident player. She doesn't get rattled in any situation. She's the kind of player who thrives in a pressure situation. She's been great for us in that leadership role.

Bastien Ripoll

It was very very hard (but) it's great to win a race that worked perfectly. It was exactly what we expected. We were very confident during the warm up and we knew it was our chance.

Robert McCann

This is a solid deal for us at Merrill Lynch , and we are confident about the long-term benefits. We will definitely consider other acquisitions like this when they become available.

Ken Schrader

You've just got to be confident or you wouldn't be here at this level.

Lindy Ruff

We really feel we've got a hidden gem if we can get him back to that level that he was at the end of '03-04. I'm confident that we can get him there.

Daniel Gibson

We're a confident group of guys. We definitely think that we can go all the way.

Bill Simmons

Even though a decision has been made, the war is not over. Some of those jobs we are confident will stay here.

Rene Mirandilla

We wanted to see how confident we are and how we measure up in the state playoffs. We're quite tested, and I think we're ready.

Ken Cantrell

The water is not draining off the landfill like it should.

Jenna Morasca

As caretakers, we feel drained when caring for another, and in order to take care of someone else, we need to take care of ourselves at the same time.

Dave Jones

Are we tired? Yes. But we've played the same number of games as them. When they got their noses in front it increased their energy levels and seemed to drain ours.

Doug Williams

I think the slow draining in the Sammamish watershed had everything to do with the record rainfall we saw in those weeks.

Harold Pinter

I think the world is going down the drain if we're not very careful,

John Shevlin

How else are you going to win if you can't recover from a loss, especially at 4-1? The season's not down the drain - not even close.

Tim Evans

In the short run, it means more oil drained from the market into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

Jeffrey Sharon

They're like little ostriches. They used to go for $10,000 a pair. They're worth nothing now. I'd give them away today if somebody wouldn't eat them. (People) drain their oil and they eat them, and the oil they use in cosmetics.

Atharva Veda

WORDS can confer strength; they can drain it off; Words can gain friends; they can turn them into enemies; words can elevate or lower the individual. One must learn the habit of making one's words sweet, soft, and pleasant.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled.

Michael White

People train for this all year like the Olympics.

Sarah Davis

People think, 'It's a winter hike, I don't have to take as much water,' but they do.

Dave Chanley

Other people stepped up, and we got enough production to win.

Ben Gordon

Other people may be surprised, but I always thought I should go No. 1.

Patrick Taylor

Other people could come up with different models.

Richard M. Nixon

People see me and they think, "He's risen from the dead.

Nick Kamberis

People scoff at that, but they're legit. We sent his tape out and all 122 are on there.

Sarah Waters

People say, 'You're like Dickens', but I'm not like Dickens. Zadie Smith is a Dickensian writer because she's writing about society now, just as Dickens was writing about his society.

Brian Swanson

There wasn't enough pollution for a wholesale cleanup.

Cameron Crowe

I try and direct environmentally . So that people don't feel like everything is going to depend on what happens when someone says, 'Action'. So that they can literally be swimming in the warm water and at some point the race begins, and at some point the race ends, but it is about being free to swim.

Brie Larson

I'm so used to swimming with the piranhas. And they're really not that bad.

Bruce Lee

If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you.

Amanda Beard

Id go to swim practice, put my face in the water, and I didnt have to talk to anybody. Swimming was like my escape, but it was also like this huge prison because I felt like I had to swim up to peoples standards.

Andy Serkis

When I played Gollum in 'Lord of the Rings,' if I was climbing up the side of a mountain, which I physically did, you know, I was on every single occasion swimming through streams, all of that, that wasn't captured. That was filmed on 35 millimeter, and for certain of those shots, it was rotoscoped and painted over.

Thomas Cahill

In becoming an Irishman, Patrick wedded his world to theirs, his faith to their life…Patrick found a way of swimming down to the depths of the Irish psyche and warming and transforming Irish imagination – making it more humane and more noble while keeping it Irish.

Michael Phelps

I try to separate my personal life from swimming.

Seth Godin

We've greatly exaggerated the risk of sinking, without celebrating the value of swimming.

Marilyn French

She drowned in words that could not teach her how to swim.