Famous Quotes & Sayings

Colleen Kelley

An increase of 8 cents a mile, while better than leaving the reimbursement rate untouched, falls far short of what needs to be done to help people who must travel to perform the duties of their jobs.

Charles Langley

We've seen our gas prices go up more than 25 cents since the first of the year. This is the fastest increase ever in the 10 years we've done the survey during this time of year.

Larry Brown

Two cents really isn't a big deal, it's the principle of it.

Stephen Moore

For those who are counting, that's a steep four-and-a-half-fold increase in 16 years. When state and local gas levies are included, motorists in many states now pay 40 to 50 cents a gallon. It's hard to say where all the money has gone. Clearly, the nation's roads aren't four and a half times better today than they were 15 years ago. In fact, it seems that there are more watermelon-sized potholes nowadays than ever.

Tom Aldrich

The court decides whether it (a claim) gets paid and if it's five cents on the dollar, or something like that. It depends on how they reorganize the company.

Tiny Tim

I remember in '37 when trolley cars were so big in New York. It was five cents for a ride... There used to be open-air buses, and you could go up a spiral staircase and sit up on top. Those were great, great days.

Charles Langley

The only consolation is that prices in North County tend to run about 3 cents cheaper (than the rest of the county).

Daniel Handler

Having an aura of menace is like having a pet weasel, because you rarely meet someone who has one, and when you do, it makes you want to hide under the coffee table.

David Norman

You got to wake up and smell the coffee, because it's going to hit, and these gas prices are going to go up, and up, and up, and up.

Sting

I don't drink coffee I take tea my dear I like my toast done on one side ...

Tim Ferriss

World barista champions use the AeroPress to make coffee on the folding tray tables of airplanes.

Spike Jonze

I like naps. I don't drink coffee.

Shirley Henderson

When I'm doing theatre, I feel like my life's on hold. Even though you might go out for a coffee, or go and see a film, your brain is still there, pulling you back to it.

Shelley Long

If brains were money, you'd need to take out a loan to buy a cup of coffee.

Robbie Williams

I'm off everything apart from the fags and the coffee. I don't know if it's worked. It works up until you take your first drink.

Michelle Obama

You see, even though back then Barack was a senator and a presidential candidate, to me, he was still the guy who'd picked me up for our dates in a car that was so rusted out, I could actually see the pavement going by through a hole in the passenger side door. He was the guy whose proudest possession was a coffee table he'd found in a dumpster, and whose only pair of decent shoes was half a size too small.

Jeff Nobers

Once we get the permits, it's about 120 days to get the store built, stocked and open.

Brendan Shanahan

The old days of having a two- or three-goal lead and just being able to lock on are over. You're just going to have to keep on playing.

Sherri Coale

After 30 days of practice and three wins now, it was not something I expected. I was very surprised there was a lack of poise from particularly my point guards.

Plaxico Burress

Some days you get the pretty lady. Some days you get the beast.

Michelle Monaghan

Some days I really love being a mom, and some days I don't! It's crazy - I'm tired of packing lunches!

Lora Ho

The sequential decline is mainly due to three fewer working days in February.

Ronnie Belliard

I started feeling a pinch in my right side a few days ago but figured I would just play through it,

Eric Zorn

I've been retired for about four days now.

Ali Omar

I've been trying to vote since 10 a.m.. They say I'm not registered to vote, but four days ago, I went to the police station to register and they said I could vote with my ID card. Today when I tried to vote, they said I couldn't.

Brian Giorgis

Once we got it going in December ? the Idaho win was huge ? we thought we were good.

Jesse Moore

December 20th was the last time we had any appreciable rain. We had about a quarter-inch over the area. That wasn't enough to help that much.

Paul Dergarabedian

November and December are pound-for-pound just as important as the summer, ... You see about 20 percent of the gross for the year in about seven or eight weeks. And this year looks to me to be a strong finish to a year that has really had its ups and downs.

Kevin Honea

We had a similar motorcycle fatality in that exact same spot on December 4. The tire tracks for the two were only about a foot apart. It is a negotiable, well-marked curve, however.

Kurt Kawafuchi

What it shows at the end of December is the economy is very strong.

Robbie Deans

He's had a really good preparation from December 1, he's ready for it and he's shown that from the occasions he's hit the ground.

Paul Johnson

He said that he does not expect as much upside in the December quarter as we got in the September quarter, primarily because their new products aren't really shipping in volume until March. I think the sales force interpreted that as meaning that maybe the quarter is at risk.

Sam Adams

You always want to start fast because it gives you a great opportunity, ... Most importantly in November and December you want to win. But you want to give yourself that opportunity to get into the playoffs, and that happens early on in the season.

James Walker

Will you love me in December as you do in May, Will you love me in the good old fashioned way? When my hair has all turned gray, Will you kiss me then and say, That you love me in December as you do in May?

Dr. Ratard

No such outbreak occurred because of Hurricane Katrina.

Stacy Stewart

Some people thought the hurricane season was over. It's not.

Michael Chertoff

We are going to be very prepared for Hurricane Wilma.

Richard Wright

It looked like a tsunami with hurricane winds.

Mitch Frazier

There is not the hurricane protection here that there once was. It is significantly compromised. The hurricane level protection we have had here prior to Hurricane Katrina will not be able to return. It will be years, not months.

Mike Trevino

We've got another 800 (adjusters) or so standing by waiting to work Hurricane Rita.

William Jefferson

This year we were $50 million short of what we thought we needed for hurricane protection,

Marcos Basaglia

The special of the day was low volume. The market was practically tied to Nasdaq.

Garry Beers

It was unanimous and foot-dragging. It's a pretty sobering prospect to go on international television and pull your pants down as low as we did. We trusted our instincts, we trusted ourselves.

Art Spinella

It would have to be an entry-level model, like the Hyundai Excel. It would take low price and some style, though low price triumphs over style any time.

Lee Kuan Yew

If you are going to lower me into the grave, and I feel something is wrong, I will get up.

Jim Puckett

When you're a cash-strapped school system, you're going to go to the lowest bidder. The lowest bidders are the ones who are going to export.

Vance Wilson

Down the middle to most people, but maybe a low strike to him because he's 6-foot-12.

Joe Arbona

Even at low speeds, trains with that much weight can take as much as a half-mile to stop.

Brian Stewart

You have to have reliability, you have to have low cost, and you have to have safety. Those three things are what this product does.

Richard King

I am not stopped by low funds, physical exhaustion, mental exhaustion, or temptations to stop and work on some other production that would be more financially rewarding.

Argus Hamilton

The Columbus Day Parade was held Monday in New York. Columbus was the world's first Democrat. He left not knowing where he was going, arrived not knowing where he was, went home not knowing where he had been, and he did it all on government money.

Darrell Waltrip

We usually couldn't do it on Sunday. We had to wait until Monday because were about ready to kill each other.

Holly Hatton

We're going to be racing Monday and Tuesday to regroup. We have to get past this big letdown this weekend.

Tommy Cooper

I went to the doctors the other day and I said, 'have you got anything for wind?' So he gave me a kite.

Tom Brady

I knew I became a professional when I stop paying attention to what time it was.

Tina Brown

The cloud that descended on Black Rock on Monday was not for the past but the future. How much will this debacle chill the pursuit of other risky investigations?

Victoria Osteen

The pressure you are facing is not going to break you. It's going to make you.

Victoria Abril

The director took my face in his hands and asked me to show him my teeth, as with a horse. This happened on a Wednesday, and by the following Monday I was shooting.

Shawn Amos

When Woodstock ended on Monday morning, over 600 acres of garbage was left behind on Max Yasgur's farm. It took over 400 volunteers and $100,000 to remove it all.

John Allen

As pope, he has to be the pastor of everyone.

Art Buchwald

We seem to be going through a period of nostalgia, and everyone seems to think yesterday was better than today. I don't think it was, and I would advise you not to wait ten years before admitting today was great. If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time.

Aziz Ansari

To be honest, I tend to romanticize the past, and though I appreciate all the conveniences of modern life, sometimes I yearn for simpler times.

C. S. Lewis

Most of all, perhaps, we need an intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has anything magical about it, but we cannot study the future.

Bryant H. McGill

Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.

Celia Green

Society expresses its sympathy for the geniuses of the past to distract attention from the fact that it has no intention of being sympathetic to the geniuses of the present.

Bram Fischer

I can no longer serve justice in the way I have attempted to do during the past 30 years - I can do it only in the way I have now chosen.

Bobby Scott

The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.

Bobby Fischer

I don't like to dwell on the past. I'm interested in Fischerandom now, I am working on a new clock, I'm trying to make chess a more exciting game today. I am not interested in sitting in my rocking chair thinking what I did 10, 20 or 30 years ago.

Carnie Wilson

Going from 300 pounds to 150 pounds was the biggest change of my whole life.

Baltasar Gracian

An ounce of prudence is worth a pound of cleverness.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Sugar Ray Robinson was probably the greatest pound-for-pound fighter of all time.

Josh Young

I lost 100 pounds and embraced theater and music as what I was going to make for the rest of my life.

James Thurber

A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.

David Nail

Now just the thought of eating ice cream puts pounds on me.

David Cameron

We spend billions of pounds on welfare, yet millions are trapped on welfare. It's not worth their while going into work.

David Lee Roth

An ounce of image is worth a pound of performance

Amy Martin

The response has been overwhelming. I don't know any other word,

Scott Baker

It can be more than that. It's not unusual for all of the staff to work on responses

Charles Howard

Once we started doing those three things, we got going.

Andrew Walpole

There would not be any replacements for Vaughan as we have already got three newcomers.

Jamie Redknapp

Gareth Bale literally has three lungs

Douglas Coupland

There are three things we cry for in life: things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent.

D. J. MacHale

Mark: When did you learn to drive? Courtney: About three seconds ago.

Tom Lehrer

On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away.

Robert Burns

To make three guineas do the work of five.

Sinead O'Connor

I've been married three times, really I should only have been married once.

Margaret Fuller

The critic ... should be not merely a poet, not merely a philosopher, not merely an observer, but tempered of all three.