Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yotam Ottolenghi

Orange blossom water would make a magical addition to your store cupboard.

Yanis Varoufakis

Even though I resigned as Papandreou's adviser early in 2006 and turned into his government's staunchest critic during his mishandling of the post-2009 Greek implosion, my public interventions in the debate on Greece and Europe have carried no whiff of Marxism.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry.

Thomas Wolfe

Publishing is a very mysterious business. It is hard to predict what kind of sale or reception a book will have, and advertising seems to do very little good.

Tina Brown

Movie stars today are as greedy for additional kids as bankers are for bonuses. It's the new badge of authenticity.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

There must be such a thing as a child with average ability, but you can't find a parent who will admit that it is his child.

Thomas Keller

Then, as the day progresses, depending on how the product is coming in - for instance, the fish man will fax us and say black bass is great - throughout the day, we'll also make judgment calls and adapt to what's available.

Thomas Hardy

A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

Imelda May

I love punk rock, The Clash, The Ramones, The Cramps. I love where it all came from, and music for my ears now, it has to have that same electricity, adrenaline and danger.

Jeff Raikes

The $500 million, to be spent over a year to buy ads and expand its sales force, is the largest business-oriented marketing campaign ever for the company.

Tom Siebel

The ads are provocative. The public agency could not do this, ... We're trying to get a message from people who have done (meth), teenager to teenager.

Karen Hechler

The ads are particularly interesting. People don't realize the tremendous amount of history in advertising.

Maurice Ptito

The ads are maybe not the best thing to discourage people (from smoking). If I have an addiction, why would I like look at something that reminds me I'm going to die?

Thomas Siebel

The ads are disturbing. They're gripping. They're attention getting. This is a disturbing subject This is difficult to sugarcoat, OK, this is about disease and degradation.

Jeff Scott

The ads are compelling and make a statement about how valiant these human beings are. These stories are ones of hope and triumph over potential tragedy.

Todd Harris

Virtually every penny was spent to fight against the governor's reforms. It's very clear by watching those ads and reading the press releases that the ads were targeting the governor and his initiatives.

Stephen Quinn

Midyear last year, we really woke up to this and shifted our strategy. For years, we were quite focused on ourselves. The ads were set in the store environment and featured our associates. For a certain segment of the population, that was effective advertising.

Mitt Romney

I think when a campaign is dishonest in the ads they run about another candidate, it diminishes the campaign, it diminishes the candidate, and it diminishes the presidency.

Kevin Marsh

The 7.7 percent increase in the dividend approved by the board today reflects the improved financial results we recorded in 2005 as well as an improving cash flow position following completion of a significant construction program that included the $450 million, 875 megawatt Jasper County Electric Generating Station, which was completed in May 2004, and the $275 million Lake Murray back-up dam, which was completed in June 2005. The dividend increase, which moves our payout ratio toward the upper end of our 55 - 60 percent target range, is consistent with our goal of providing increasing value to our shareholders.

Ed Murphy

The approved final plan for the project contemplates on-lot sewer systems.

Lisa Lange

We know that the public would like us to avoid using the approved bonds and we will continue to look at options to see if that is possible.

Abdel Rahman

We have turned over a complete security plan to the Americans, ... President Clinton himself approved it and was happy with it.

Hector Barreto

We've done a lot to expedite our response in these areas, and over the last six months we have approved more disaster loan dollars in a shorter time frame than in any other disaster response in the agency's history.

Pauline Neville-Jones

I was certainly never conscious of 'playing the woman.' I would not have approved of that. It is not a winning tactic. I operated in the world as I found it, and it was a man's world.

O. J. Simpson

My biggest passion in life is shoes. My mom, I would wear hers as a kid. I am in on the creative meetings and designing and drawings. And I approve everything that you see.

Shirley Thompson

Who knows what will happen if we go back to referendum in two years. The taxpayers could say they want to just approve one (portion of the package).

Michael Chertoff

You can be assured that before a deal is approved we put safeguards in place, assurances in place, that make everybody comfortable that we are where we need to be from a national security viewpoint.

Gabriel Mann

Whenever somebody hates you too much it usually means they have deeper feelings for you because nobody bothers to hate you unless they actually feel something.

Don Rickles

My father was an insurance man and a small-time gambler. He was a good man, but he had an eye for the racehorses, and I saw how it used to bother my mother. I've never gambled a dime. Never, in all those years in Vegas.

Brittany Howard

Contacts would bother me. I'm just not that used to them. I think glasses are a great accessory.

Craig Conroy

That was the difference tonight. We had some opportunities, some chances to score, but it just didn't go in for us. The bottom line is we're going to score goals. We just have to work hard and keep moving forward and not let this bother us.

Eleanor Norton

We have trivialized this park, residents make too little use of it, and tourists don't know where it is, ... Neither the city or the federal government has bothered to make maximum use of it. The problem is that it had no plan and it's in a state of great deterioration.

Joseph Garcia

We came out lethargic in the first half. Audra (Major's) back was bothering her like it did before Christmas, and the guards really had to step it up.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

I always find the first thing that really bothers me when I start a screenplay is, I have to find a different form. You can't follow the form of the novel. It's a different thing completely. It's impossible. You just somehow have to find a structure for the whole thing. You have to crack that.

David Eckstein

We had our chances. I think his hamstring was bothering him. There was a play when he didn't run to cover first base. There may be something there.

Bruce Bowen

We had opportunities, ... We just made a couple mental mistakes down the stretch? That?s what bothers us the most.

Scott Chasin

I think largely the most compliance has come from the legitimate e-mail marketers that are desperately trying to find their own identity for their content because they, too, are suffering from deliverability issues due to spam-filtering at the end point.

O. Henry

We are in full compliance with the law, guidelines and contracts.

David Boyd

I was trying to be in compliance to not divulge information involving the allegations until the process is complete. When it's over, I'll be glad to say my side.

Dai Junliang

Though some local governments have published their own regional administrative maps before, quite a number of regional borderlines are vague and the place names are not in compliance with government standards.

Brad Smith

We are putting our most valuable intellectual property on the table, so we can put technical compliance issues to rest and move forward with a serious discussion about the substance of this case.

Chuck Allen

We are pleased that leading technologies such as JobFlash's unique and widely used telephone application system are now exposed and leveraged through integration using HR-XML's open standards, ... More and more, HR decision-makers are making compliance with open standards part of the criteria they use when procuring HR solutions.

Rijkman Groenink

Further improving our compliance is the highest priority of the bank.

Mary Osako

to enhance the user experience and compliance with our terms of service.

Tom Chapin

Historically, the federal government has required mattress manufacturers to self-declare compliance to these local standards. Bourdon's is the first manufacturer to seek and receive third-party certification for its products for these three requirements.

David Kay

And never - not in a single case - was the explanation, 'I was pressured to do this.' The explanation was very often, 'The limited data we had led one to reasonably conclude this. I now see that there's another explanation for it.'

Richard Engel

Many senior government officials, CIA, FBI, counter terrorism officials - when they look back at the decade, they effectively conclude that the United States overreacted after 9/11.

Justin Harmon

We're waiting to conclude our investigation and considering what legal recourse may be appropriate.

Keith Curle

We have had discussions with Ryan. Hope-fully we can conclude discussions in a positive fashion in the next few days.

Steven Rogel

While we still prefer to conclude a negotiated transaction with Willamette, their refusal to discuss a combination has forced us to take our offer directly to Willamette shareholders.

Fred Thompson

It is consistent to conclude this was a money-related event,

Tom Kloza

It is difficult to look forward to the first 100 or 200 days of 2006 and not conclude that the year will be reminiscent of 2005 with powerful and pronounced updrafts on prices.

Tony Juniper

We are not taking an ideological view ... We have analysed the pros and cons ... and we have concluded that (nuclear power) is the wrong answer.

Ben Cohen

We know once the people there see how this money is spent, they will come to conclude on their own that it's right.

Ezra Taft Benson

If you are a single parent, make friends with others in similar situations and develop friendships with married couples. Counsel with your priesthood leaders. Let them know of your needs and wants. Single parenthood is understood by the Lord.

Chuck Grassley

You shouldn't have counseling at the end of life. You ought to have counseling 20 years before you're going to die. You ought to plan these things out. And I don't have any problem with things like living wills. But they ought to be done within the family.

Jeanette Woods

I wish we were being able to put counselors in the schools rather than policemen.

Carla Martin

I was unable to get counsel at all. This is an adversarial proceeding, but I am not represented.

Sharon Kesselring

I still have a mental health professional there, and she indicates there are still dealing with family issues and providing the counseling needed. There will be another mental health professional from another part of the state that will be providing respite to that person, too.

Bill Duffy

We'll get legal counsel to deal with (the lawsuit). That's par for the course.

David Katz

Those of us who engage in lifestyle counseling might be inclined to pat ourselves on the back over these findings.

Bradley Hunter

I would counsel people not to think that the sky is falling.

Benjamin Franklin

Good counsel failing men can give, for why? He that's aground knows where the shoal doth lie

Evan G. Galbraith

The State Department desperately needs to be vigorously harnessed. It has too big a role to play in the formulation of foreign policy, and foreign policy is too important to be left up to foreign service officers.

Judie Brown

The police department was handed this on a silver platter and did nothing. That's how I feel.

Nicolas Roeg

Marketing is such a key issue; in fact, the marketing department is often involved in the approval of scripts now.

Lisa Ray

We have talked to the Georgia Department of Agriculture, and they said supplies are not a problem in Georgia at this time,

Allen Benson

We have a letter from the director of the U.S. Geological Survey to the Energy Department supporting the site recommendation. It supports going ahead.

Mayor Rockingham

We have a fine police department but manpower is not up to full complement.

Nancy Chambers

We have been working with the Mississippi Department of Transportation on this and they are the ones who are actually doing it,

Phil Padgett

We're working on it, a lot of DNA testing in that department too, I'll be honest with you. It's not gonna be as strong as it has been in the past, but it can still be respectable and that's our goal: to make sure it never hurts us.

H. Hart

Usually the Public Works Department does one, the parks department and water resources does theirs. It's a value that (county supervisors) will see it all in one place.

Bill Evans

We have a mandate ... to protect ... the treaties, to ensure that they're there and that we don't give up any of our rights from the treaties,

Bill Richardson

We have worked with refiners to help them with transportation, with numerous other logistical initiatives so that they can get more product into the market, ... I will be meeting next week with refiners, with petroleum executives, with many others -- heating oil suppliers, to ensure that we get this product reserve into the market.

Marquis de Lafayette

The more I see, hear, and think in Europe, the more I wish for every measure that can ensure to the United States dignity, power, and public confidence.

Craig Fields

We have the necessity of government intervention to ensure the free exchange of ideas.

Steven Galson

will lead to greater improvements in regulatory and drug development science and in how we evaluate and ensure the safety and efficacy of the products we regulate.

Scott Baker

We need something better than peaker plants to ensure energy. I think we can do better.

Don Brown

We are not prepared to make that prediction quite yet. We are still working with our network teams, investment planners and technology vendors to ensure speedy deployment of a high-quality television service.

David Bradley

We fought hard to ensure that this provision was retained in order to protect the rights of carriers, and I'm extremely pleased that at the end of the day we were successful in having this section transferred to the HTA.

Ehud Olmert

I will very much try to ensure the formation process is calm.

Ronda Rousey

Judo was one of those sports where they give you guidelines but then try to tell you to develop your own style.

Karen Johnson

Those are things we've been moving toward for years. Kids won't see big changes. We've been meeting guidelines and those nutritional standards for a long time.

Chris Foster

If an application is declined, it is usually because the application was done incorrectly or the guidelines and standards were not read.

Abraham Foxman

There is enough leeway in these guidelines to permit proselytizing.

Gary Arthur

Guidelines simply aren't enough to keep us safe.

Douglas Hurd

History provides no precise guidelines.

Lenny Klompus

Nobody has the kind of infrastructure and guidelines and policies that we do.

James Sensenbrenner

that the Levi guidelines had been tossed into the wastebasket.

Randy Moss

I mean, how can a guy go out there and really let everything, like I've always said, I like to play, within those white lines, I let myself go. I like to be free. That's why I have my time to just go and just erupt. And with all the rules and the guidelines we've got to follow, man, the league is, they're taking away the fun.

Colin O'Donoghue

When I was younger, I was hopefully going to do animation and special effects.

Frank Lampard

I have made lots of mistakes on and off the pitch, and you can only learn from them. If I can get that across, then hopefully I am doing something right.

Arsene Wenger

I am still hopeful we can go through the season unbeaten - a frightening thought.

Steve Jaksa

That would be nice. Obviously that would be tough to do but hopefully someone can step up like J.T. did this weekend.

Mark Zuckerberg

I think Facebook is an online directory for colleges... If I want to get information about you, I just go to TheFacebook, type in your name, and it hopefully pulls up all the information I'd care to know about you.

Ray Winstone

On every job you do, you've got to raise your game. My ambition is to just get better and better every job you do - you should never stop trying to get better. You have to teach yourself new things - I don't think you necessarily learn them from other people because you have your own style of doing things, but hopefully you get better.

Greg Zipadelli

We'll race the way that got us here, and hopefully we can lead some laps, win some races and not make mistakes,

Allan Bristow

Well probably get it up to 18 players. We've got some young players (already on the roster), and hopefully they'll shine and show their potential that they belong.

Brian Barwick

We have the opportunity, if we want, to get the person in place hopefully before the finals.

William Lashner

I write novels with a lawyer as the hero, no matter how oxymoronic that might sound.

Dennis Franchione

The only ranking that really matters to us is how we feel about this class, and we feel like we have another good, solid class.

Adrian Moss

The past means nothing. It really doesn't matter until you get out there and play.

Simon Cowell

The past is the past, no matter how successful it's been. For me, it's only tomorrow that's interesting.

Nick Jonas

The one mentality I've always tried to have is that no matter what stage in your career that you are in as a musician or a performer or a songwriter or whatever, there's always more to learn.

C. S. Lewis

Everything except God has some natural superior; everything except unformed matter has some natural inferior.

Cecelia Ahern

Stop and take your time to notice things and make those things you notice matter.

Bill Bryson

In three minutes, 98 percent of all the matter there is or will ever be has been produced. We have a universe

Bertrand Russell

Orthodoxy is the grave of intelligence, no matter what orthodoxy it may be.

Bob Combs

We reviewed it. We don't see it being used in our tournaments.

Stephane Dujarric

Her status may be reviewed after her rebuttal is received.

Michael Kirby

that are continually being developed, reviewed and prioritized.

Margaret Moggio

I would like to be sure this has been reviewed by the G.L.E.N. Committee. We want to save as much as possible.

Tom Moody

It wasn't a tactic and . . . it's something we've reviewed and we won't be going down that track again.

Roman Jakobson

From a strictly articulatory point of view there is no succession of sounds.

Paul DePodesta

I don't think we know that yet. We're not under any kind of strict time constraint.

Chloe Grace Moretz

Everyone around me is so strict about keeping me grounded.

Agnes Obel

I wish my parents had been more strict and made me learn more instruments.

Robert Budi Hartono

I always assign auditors to strictly supervise the businesses.

Arron Afflalo

When you're on the court, it's strictly about that.

Ronnie Arnold

That's strictly the principal's decision. He doesn't have to give a reason.

Tom Coughlin

There was no fight. Were there discussions? There were discussions all week. I talk to a lot of guys, but that's strictly player-coach.

Nancy Hague

I'm not a competitor. I do it strictly for me.