Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Franck

The boys approached me and asked if they could do it. The seniors grew up with him. It was a nice thing to do.

Gianfranco Fini

As of today, the organizers of the conference had asked for entry visas for six Iraqi political exponents notorious for positions which are radical, extremist and not unequivocally hostile to terrorism,

Joseph Tate

As lawyers, we recognize that a person's recollection of events will not always match those of other people, particularly when they are asked to testify months after the events occurred.

Hale Irwin

As long as I have a chance, that's all I've ever asked of myself.

Joseph Bridges

As Matt indicated, we essentially looked at the comments and asked which were complete and which were substantive.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

RANK, n. Relative elevation in the scale of human worth.He held at court a rank so high That other noblemen asked why."Because," 'twas answered, "others lack His skill to scratch the royal back." --Aramis Jukes

Geoffrey Nice

Proof will include truth, but it will not present the full picture. We have a limitless field of evidence from the wars, but we are not inquiring like scientists; we are asked to extract from it.

Bob Long

Pro asked us questions like 'Who are your competitors?' and forced us to look at all the crevices of our business,

James Humphrey

Probably if you had asked me 30 seconds after I finished it, I could tell you.

Lynn Sadler

The breeding population there is no bigger than that of the federally endangered mountain lion of Florida - the Florida panther,

Les Poore

Our defense made them shoot not as well as they like. We're a little longer than most teams and a lot of it came down to the boards. I thought we dominated the boards and that's no secret we're a bigger team.

Paul Reid

Our defense is playing outstanding right now. They may be bigger than us, but I think we're quicker. We'll need to use our speed.

Matt Alexander

Our conference gets us ready for the tourney. We're one of the littler schools in the conference, so playing all these bigger schools helps us out even more.

Kathy Lindsey

After the first four minutes, we settled down and played very well. They're a much bigger team, so we took our chances by making them shoot more from the outside, and it worked for the most part.

Barksdale Thompson

Once we get our goals going, then we start to get rolling. We know that Jacksonville has come back from bigger leads than 2-0, but we felt like, once we took that lead into the first half, we were good to go.

Brian Long

Once we get in division (play), every day is bigger than the last day. Every game matters.

Ashley Bell

(Defense) is what we rely on. We know we're not the fastest team, we know we're not the tallest team. So with teams bigger than us, we have to get our defense together.

Randy Rice

Defense is what keeps us in games. We're just scrappy. We have to lead the state in floor burns. We don't have the biggest kids in the world. But they're athletes. They're quicker than most of the bigger post players we've played and they're quick enough to contest every shot.

David Powell

The wording was that monetary policy is still stimulative, which implies further rate hikes down the line. And this morning, when capacity utilization was released, that definitely augured well for another rate hike.

Ali Naimi

These are turbulent times for oil markets. Prices are under pressure because the petroleum industries infrastructure is stretched thin. Most of the spare capacity of the 1980s and 1990s has disappeared, resulting in a system that has a much smaller margin for error.

Paul Ryan

This is an unambiguously positive outcome for Qantas. This increases confidence in a return to strong earnings momentum in 2006-07 as slowing capacity growth by rival carriers, robust demand and ongoing cost savings more than offset the residual fuel cost headwind.

Jonathan Witz

This is the first time people are going to see the new covered roof up there (on the Phoenix Plaza). Our event is important for selling this new venue. We are proud of the lineup. We think it is going to draw capacity crowds because it is so big and it is free.

Gerard Burg

This is really much more important than OPEC supply as their spare capacity is largely heavy and sour and the real shortage is capacity to upgrade such fuels anyway.

Jerry Paul

This issue of capacity has been around for years.

Kevin Norrish

The U.S. refinery system has been showing signs of severe tightness. The shut-in of refining capacity from Katrina is then not so much a straw, but rather a large log on top of an already fully laden camel.

Don Kirkman

You want growth - it is a clear indicator of economic health. But you don't want growth that is so rapid that it outstrips your capacity and your infrastructure.

Dennis Dykes

The real focus is going to be on whether it's spent effectively. Obviously they (the government) feel that they have the capacity to do so.

Fauzi Ichsan

Premature rate cuts could trigger inflationary expectations that could reduce, if not reverse, the capital inflows.

Malcolm Hoenlein

The very fact that this kind of climate can exist in the capital of the United States is unacceptable.

Kenny Tang

The risk of a further slump of Hong Kong stocks is not great, as there is no evidence there are capital outflows in the region. Strong support remains at the mid-February low of 15,241.

Sailesh Jha

The risk is that the baht depreciates because capital flows to Thailand may slow, particularly to the stock market. We're having a problem related to how elections are going to pan out.

Jason Smith

This is not a tax sale. The (financial) river is wide and deep. Morning Star Management continues to do huge capital improvements in these buildings.

Ivan Lathouders

This is of limited impact for KBC. The main thing is that it will free up some capital but in the grand scheme of KBC, it won't be very much.

Keith Bellows

The University of Wisconsin is big, but there's a small-town feel here in the state's capital (you can't get away from the cheese, but you can go ice fishing on any winter's day),

Lon Carter

This early in the year that's phenomenal. I mean that is really quite amazing. Another highlight of the day for us ... I can't remember when Capital has won all three throwing events in a track meet. And I've been coaching a long time.

Ed Rohling

Alex's extensive experience in the investment industry and capital markets further strengthens the diversity of our board.

Anna Wintour

Previous first ladies seemed to feel the need to wear a sort of uniform, whereas Michelle Obama likes fashion and is very comfortable in fashion. She's happy to mix high and low, and she loves emerging designers. That will do nothing but good for our industry.

Bill Rocco

Most people don't need an emerging market fund, I don't think. That doesn't mean many don't.

Phil Kendall

There were two key trends in the global wireless market in 2005. First, emerging markets contributed phenomenal levels of subscriber growth. In particular, Russia, India and Indonesia saw major growth in new users in 2005, up 40-50 percent over 2004 levels.

Mac McArthur

These prospective locations are farther from homes than the locations in the past. We're very sensitive to that concern.

Carl Icahn

I have never called Dick Parsons a moron. I don't think Dick Parsons is a moron. Nothing could be farther from the truth.

David Hill

We have some people here who think it goes back farther than that, but 33 years is all we can document.

Jeff Matthews

For the most part, what we're seeing is folks are ... selling their houses down in Montgomery County, moving farther west and making that commute down (Interstate) 70.

Johnny Walker

I am kind of excited, but I don't want just that. I want to go farther than that.

Andre Roy

I had to do something. (Neil) said, 'Your guys are running our guys.' I told him, in the playoffs, that's the way it'll be. You better stop whining and get used to it. The farther you go in the playoffs, the rougher it gets.

Winston Churchill

The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.

Grady Sizemore

Throughout the at-bat, I just kept going farther and farther, ... I wanted to see how much they would let me have before they stopped me. They never did, and I told Skins, 'I can take this.'

Bobby Frasor

We had expectations of making it farther than people thought we ever could have made it. We even said we could win the whole thing -- that's how good we were playing. It just wasn't in the cards.

H. Hunt

If we're financing our program ourselves, then we know our money's going to our program.

Luis Carriles

Listen well to that, ... I didn't say they were financing me. I said they were financing those operations, that's it.

Dick Vermeil

Normally, when you win a football game and you really feel good about it flying home, you look at tapes and it's not quite as good as you thought it was,

Grant Fairley

Speech recognition software is the stealth solution flying under the radar today that will revolutionize all our tomorrows.

Glenn Tilton

It would not be the end of United if we were to do so, ... We would be flying the next morning.

Joe Crede

We were flying last night and I didn't get to see much of it.

John Power

We fly over 120,000 passengers a year. This was very, very unfortunate.

Tobin Gorey

There's still money flying into the commodities markets in general. I think the market is still bullish.

Debbie Stabenow

Global warming creates volatility. I feel it when I'm flying. The storms are more volatile. We are paying the price in more hurricanes and tornadoes.

Christopher Walken

I don't like flying at the best of times. And as I get older, I like it less and less. I don't much like driving, either. I prefer to be driven. And, when I'm in London, I don't even like walking on the street. I can never get used to looking the right way when I cross the street.

D. J. MacHale

It wasn't that I didn't trust Mark's flying, it was just that, okay, I didn't trust Mark's flying.

Dick Vermeil

Normally, when you win a football game and you really feel good about it flying home, you look at tapes and it's not quite as good as you thought it was,

Grant Fairley

Speech recognition software is the stealth solution flying under the radar today that will revolutionize all our tomorrows.

Glenn Tilton

It would not be the end of United if we were to do so, ... We would be flying the next morning.

Joe Crede

We were flying last night and I didn't get to see much of it.

Tobin Gorey

There's still money flying into the commodities markets in general. I think the market is still bullish.

Debbie Stabenow

Global warming creates volatility. I feel it when I'm flying. The storms are more volatile. We are paying the price in more hurricanes and tornadoes.

Christopher Walken

I don't like flying at the best of times. And as I get older, I like it less and less. I don't much like driving, either. I prefer to be driven. And, when I'm in London, I don't even like walking on the street. I can never get used to looking the right way when I cross the street.

D. J. MacHale

It wasn't that I didn't trust Mark's flying, it was just that, okay, I didn't trust Mark's flying.

Albert Ellis

Many psychoanalysts refused to let me speak at their meetings. They were exceptionally vigorous because I had previously been an analyst and they were very angry at my flying the coop.

Kate Winslet

I think heartbreak is something that you learn to live with as opposed to learn to forget.

Jim Arthaud

(The county) being 50 percent federally owned already, we're opposed. This is the third time it has come up now, and we opposed it every time.

Rand Paul

In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.

Nick Faldo

One thing America hasn't had is good partnership.

Christina Richmond

Partners are getting more and more savvy in services because they have to.

Arthur Henderson

The nations must be organized internationally and induced to enter into partnership, subordinating in some measure national sovereignty to worldwide institutions and obligations.

Reg Alcock

We view the public service as our partners in this,

Wally Buono

A very tricky situation. Some of the salaries are at the point of being out of whack, really out of proportion.

Pat Robertson

a vote (on the Supreme Court) that reflects his point of view.

Wendy Murphy

At what point does it really matter. This is such a strong case. The statement to the police is going to kill him, and I don't know if you need much more than that.

Greg Beals

At times, we've pressed to the point where it's tough. When you're not winning, it makes it even tougher to have fun.

Wayne Fischer

At some point in time you must ask, 'how much is enough?

Chris Horner

At some point in the future, there may be a market, but it's not like that's anything we've really factored into our planning.

Ray Giacoletti

Offensively, I'd say he's more of a point guard. Defensively, I'd say he's better off guarding a two.

Sarah Brown

No one wants to look like they are spackled. The point is to make your skin look better than it is.

Sarah Brown

No one wants to look like they are spackled, ... The point is to make your skin look better than it is.

Ralph Alvarez

This is our way to provide them the taste that they crave.

David Livingstone

Providence seems to call me to the regions beyond

George Washington

Providence has at all times been my only dependence, for all other resources seemed to have failed us.

Steve Monks

He's quicker to the ball. He provided a big spark off the bench.

Josh Duncan

It is huge. Another win provides more motivation. We'll keep going.

William Cowper

Tis Providence alone secures In every change both mine and yours.

Mike Drake

I want to start seeing some of the results and know the provider is up to speed.

Bob Beauprez

It's something we can do an do quickly to provide some relief,

Michael Burgess

When Medicare was first enacted in 1965, it provided coverage for hospitalization, doctor visits and surgeries, but there was no coverage for prescription medications.

Duane Gubler

Singapore probably underscores the need for regional controls.

Timothy Simons

After school, I was planning to jump from regional theater to regional theater.

Joschka Fischer

The situation in Iraq is dangerous but the regional situation is also very complicated and precarious.

Benigno Aquino III

I remove a lot of the pressure from myself by saying I'm not competing with my parents. They are the persons who taught me my ideology. They actively practiced what they preached. They're the exemplars and the role models. So how does one compete with a mentor?

Eric Walters

I wrote my first 30 books as a teacher. I would read to my classes, and they'd give me feedback. I was trying to role model.

Carroll Quigley

In fact, violence as a symbol of our growing irrationality has had an increasing role in activity for its own sake, when no possible justification could be made that the activity was seeking to resolve a problem.

Charles Barkley

I'm not paid to be a role model, parents should be role models.

Asa Butterfield

For every role you get, there are five roles that you don't.

Ben Foster

The roles I'm interested in or have been interested in, you know, it's going to get down to conflict. Drama is conflict - conflict of interests.

Donna Mills

You know, when they called me about the role, I thought Knots Landing was a show about a houseboat with Andy Griffith!

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

It's always the script first choosing roles. [Then] whoever else is attached. I never like to be the first person attached, because I don't really trust what's going on, unless there's a really good director.

Anthony Hopkins

I don't have any [favourite role]. I'm just a working actor.

Mike Torres

The service may be a little slow for a little while it stabilizes.

Tim Chapman

This is going to be a social services disaster.

Les Garland

We want the Web site to be a storefront, as a service to our viewers.

Ron Kaufman

How can you learn more? By admiring what you've done right? Or by studying what you've done wrong?

Ron Kaufman

Always do what you can do instead of worrying about what you can't.

Ron Kaufman

Preparation clears a pathway for success.

Ron Kaufman

A scattered effort is a poor effort.

Tony Hsieh

Customer service shouldn't just be A department, it should be the entire company.

Steve Jobs

The customer is the final inspector.

William Shakespeare

The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on.

Daniela Ruah

I've met real female NCIS agents who were smaller than I am. They were very petite.

Dean Koontz

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.

Samuel Liles

We're a small congregation, but we're not going to let this turn us around.

Gordon B. Hinckley

The smallest gesture can mean to much to those who may need a little lift in their lives.

Ricky Gutierrez

There is already mold, ... There was one small window broken.

Andrew Rannells

I'm 6'2 and not a small person.

Slavoj Zizek

Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures.

Lance Henriksen

When I do a horror or a fantasy film it all boils down to something in the script that surprises me. It could be a big thing or a small moment. If it's there I'll do it.