Famous Quotes & Sayings

Karen Holbrook

As a member of the NCAA, fully supporting its values, Ohio State works diligently to follow that organization's highest standards and adheres strictly to NCAA bylaws. In this matter we have acted forthrightly in compliance with NCAA rules and in the best interests of the athletics program and the university.

Dennis Hastert

Ralph is a man of courage and a man of great conviction. For more than 23 years he has acted in the best interest of his constituents back home and has always put country before politics,

Joe Crawford

Once we got down five, we acted like we were down 15.

Jane Badler

Acting was truly all that I ever wanted to do. I've always acted in plays and sang and played music, and you get to a certain age and think there's nothing else that you'd rather do.

Thad Cochran

The Senate has acted to provide the funds necessary to continue federal relief efforts. The Senate will likely adopt other emergency appropriations measures as needed to meet future needs as reliable estimates are developed.

Charles Ruff

The Supreme Court acted appropriately today rejecting Mr. Starr's attempt to bypass the traditional appeals process on the subject of attorney-client privilege, ... Contrary to Mr. Starr's claims, the governmental attorney-client privilege is not a 'new' privilege. It is well established that confidentiality is the cornerstone of all attorney-client communications.

Robin Cook

The tests do nothing to enhance Pakistan's security environment. They further escalate tension and heighten concerns about an arms race in South Asia.... In carrying out these further tests, Pakistan has acted in flagrant disregard of international opinion.... The international community is united in its insistence that Pakistan should refrain from further tests.

Peter Sarsgaard

I've never acted with someone who I knew so well before I started,

Jonathan Loynes

The MPC has acted early and aggressively. The soft landing scenario is still on track.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

As an actress, it appeals to me because I love the idea of playing those in-between moments, the sort of behavioral stuff that one might not normally see.

Kurt Opsahl

The California Court of Appeals has a long history of protecting freedom of the press. We're hopeful they'll continue to do so.

Larry Johannessen

Appeals are not a waste of time; the student just needs to have a really good argument. About 50 percent actually change their grade.

Jay Sekulow

The Supreme Court got it right in determining that the appeals court went too far by declaring the parental notification law in New Hampshire unconstitutional. Parents have a critical role to play in the health and well being of their children, especially when considering an abortion.

Chris Roberson

I've been a huge fan of virtually every incarnation and spin-off of the 'Star Trek' franchise (don't get me started on 'Voyager,' though), but there's something about the purity of the original series that really appeals to me.

Joel Robuchon

Southeast Asia food uses many different types of spices which are quite new to me, like the curry leaves which I saw at the Kreta Ayer wet market in Chinatown. With such spices used in cooking, this usually imparts a strong aroma to Southeast Asian food, which appeals to the senses.

Nathan Barankin

The state has won preliminary rounds to clear up the sale of the bonds but appeals are pending.

Christopher Faulkner

This is a way that we can engage the good will of a generation that considers both music and the Internet to be integral parts of their lives. These young men and women probably aren't reached through traditional appeals for help, but an online auction of events they love is a perfect way to give them the opportunity to help the children of the world.

Amir Salem

This is a political verdict that will be annulled by the appeals court. This verdict will go into the dustbin of history.

Rick Garcia

The bottom line is they are just attempting to build a right-wing voter base in the state of Illinois, which traditionally has been moderate.

Carl Icahn

a weak attempt to silence growing investor criticism.

Tatyana Paramonova

Banks that understood the difference have attempted to save their position on the market and raise the capital.

John Eade

Price will probably end up hooking up with two family members who are unhappy with the board's performance, and will most likely attempt to recommend new directors on the board.

David Fish

People get awfully nervous when they hear a member of Congress talk about regulating the Internet. This is an attempt to fix a hypothetical problem that doesn't exist.

Connie Kelliher

People feel if it happened in Wichita this time ... they could be next. They see it as an attempt to dismantle the work force, and they are not going to stand for it.

Sgt. Griffin

Officers attempted to keep him from going into the house. At that time a single shot was fired and he was shot in the head.

Leatrice Eiseman

After querying designers and compiling our statistical analysis, we know what direction people are leaning in this season. And with retailers more and more in tune to what their customers need, there is a deliberate attempt to get certain colors into stores.

John Thorn

The National League was born the following year, as an attempt to exert the control of capital over labor.

Jennifer Egan

I write totally spontaneously. I actually write fiction by hand - that always seems to startle people. I think the reason I do that is to bypass the thinking part of me and get to the more unconscious part, which is where all the good ideas seem to be.

Mark Hyman

Lifestyle change and changes in diet work faster, better and more cheaply than any medication and are as effective or more effective than gastric bypass without any side effects or long-term complications.

Gerhard Schroeder

You are playing on fears that run contrary to our interests,

Suzanne Somers

Contrary to what everyone thinks, I am not a fanatic. I do work out when I'm not on the road, three times a week for 40 minutes.

Stephen Harper

I am waiting to hear somebody in the Prime Minister's Office put out some information that is contrary to what we're reading in the papers now,

Merle Haggard

That I'm a contrary old son of a bitch, I guess,

Ralph Lauren

All the kinds of things ... contrary to what the look is, ... I could do a high heel with a jumpsuit, or I might do a gown with a desert boot. So it's, again, the contradiction.

William Shakespeare

Our wills and fates do so contrary runThat our devices still are overthrown;Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own.

Stuart Scott

I'm blind in my left eye. Contrary to what people say, it is not a glass eye, so I have to protect my eyes at all cost.

Wallace Shawn

Contrary to the popular misconception, the actor is not necessarily a specialist in imitating or portraying what he knows about other people. On the contrary, the actor may simply be a person who's more willing than others to reveal some truths about himself.

Sir Campbell

We need full disclosure by our government. If, in fact, people are being moved from a jurisdiction where torture is illegal to a jurisdiction where torture is permissible, that seems to me to be wholly contrary to international law.

Mark Walters

Off the court they are always together. But on the court, they are always telling each other to shut up.

Gina Castelli

Off the court, it seemed like they were together, like they got along. But on the court it was a different mentality.

Steve Walsh

After seeing all the evidence and all the pictures, there was no doubt that this was something that had to be done. To recommend the court impose the death sentence for Dwight T. Eagling.

Ron Hebert

The name of the game is finding the court and we did that tonight.

Patrick Lang

The state agrees with Storms that his sentence may be impacted by the Ohio Supreme Court's decision in State v. Foster. The state has no objection to having Storms returned to the trial court for re-sentencing.

Garrett Williamson

The sixth man. They've been there for us all year. We wanted them to run on the court with us but they couldn't, so we took it to them.

Roger Toussaint

The struggle and defiance and unfortunately sacrifice will be required and will occur and judges need to understand that, the courts need to understand that and the lawmakers need to understand that.

John Brittain

The table's already set for us. If the court grants the government's motion to dismiss, than it would be over unless the state appeals.

Kevin Keegan

The tide is very much in our court now.

Ani Difranco

Privilege is a headache, that you don't know that you don't have.

Dean Heller

Serving in the United States Senate has been the greatest privilege of my life.

Ali Partovi

Coding is a privilege, but that privilege is not available to most Americans.

Michael Kimmel

Privilege is invisible to those who have it.

Cecelia Ahern

We don't realize what a privilege it is to grow old with someone.

Sarah Palin

I had the privilege of living most of my life in a small town.

Tori Amos

Being able to still make records is a privilege. I don't take it casually.

Zheng Jingping

So there must be trade surplus in the processing trade.

Martin Eggleston

The whole process was done very wrong, very unfairly.

Mark Williams

The process is working. It's not working perfectly, but it is working better than it was on Jan. 1.

John Anderson

The FAA has not conducted this process in a very transparent manner. What little we know we've had to get off the grapevine.

Scott Graham

The process is for what you want to see, not what you don't want to see.

Bob Poser

You can tell that he's processing everything when you're talking. You can see that his wheels are churning.

Nathan Moss

I'm still in the process of making up my mind.

Carl Rogers

Life, at its best, is a flowing, changing process in which nothing is fixed.

Selig Harrison

I think he'll be smoking out what the first steps of a denuclearization process could be,

Ariel Sharon

Once in a while such reports are published, ... I'm not rejecting anyone.

Soren Kierkegaard

Irony is a qualification of subjectivity.

Jess Walter

I'm a writer, and the subject is less important than the act of writing itself.

Mahatma Gandhi

No nation keeps another in subjection without herself turning into a subject nation.

Laura Miller

It's very, very troubling, and very subjective and very unfair,

Nigel Barker

If I am to judge others, I should be subject to be judged. You make your bed, you must lie in it.

Henry Bonilla

We may not be able to control the Supreme Court... but we can control the money.

Dave Bush

On the whole, not very good. I think today kind of typified it,

Rhonda Smith

It was very tough. And even today it's still tough.

Sharan Burrow

The work is there today and it will be there tomorrow for independent contractors.

Carine Roitfeld

Today there is too much retouching, and I don't like it, except on me.

Jared Diamond

Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural selection in driving it.

Diane Ackerman

The well of nature is full today. Time to go outside and take a drink.

Dennis Ritchie

It's true that compared with the scene when Unix started, today the ecological niches are fairly full, and fresh new OS ideas are harder to come by, or at least to propagate.

Eike Batista

I can tell you that today 99% of my investments are in Brazil and will remain here.

Deepak Chopra

Today, I behold all the abundance that surrounds me.