Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlo Panunzi

Anyhow, it is not a very important business and mainly active in Europe.

Anthony Marra

A novel can grant humanity even to those who act inhumanely, and by making men and women of monsters, it can offer not only a ground-level view of a particular conflict, but a descent into the substratum of human nature capable of the incomprehensible.

Paul Aussaresses

As for torture, it was tolerated if not actively encouraged, ... He (the emissary) knew exactly what went on during the night.

Joyce Bickers

As always, there are things to work on, but I am seeing the players incorporating things we work on in practice into the matches, whereas before they would work on it in practice, but never attempt in an actual game. These players are growing with each play and getting stronger and stronger and more confident.

Joyce Banda

As a democratic society, Malawi has a moral obligation to ensure that each and every injustice, whether through acts of commission or omission, is met with deliberate and tangible action.

Jodhi May

As an actor, I think it's really important to be as anonymous as possible. It's your job to convince people that you are somebody else, and so any recognition I'd get away from the screen - well, it's not something I actively seek. To be honest with you, I'm surprised anybody does.

John Alexander

The big reason people are still buying the racks is that there are certain items that you just don't put through the electric dryer. Another is that in the winter the rack can act as a humidifier if you place wet clothes on the top and allow them to dry until the next day.

Lloyd Jones

A whole series of tests will occur. The Fish and Wildlife Service is coordinating with the Department of Agriculture, with surveillance activities through the fall to collect samples from birds taken during banding to hunter- harvested birds. It will be a very comprehensive testing program.

Ben Bernanke

At some point in the future, the committee may decide to take no action at one or more meetings in the interest of allowing more time to receive information relevant to the outlook.

Bruce Nissen

We're heading into a crisis. It's got to be a critical question for public policy.

Brenda Allen

This was a crisis for me. It was a sad time.

Bruce Katz

The response to the housing crisis has been incoherent and fiscally wasteful.

Tim Collins

There's obviously a blip here due to the crisis atmosphere, and once things settle down, things may go back to normal,

Francois Heisbourg

When a government starts losing the trust of the people in the heat of a crisis, anything can go wrong. And this is what happened in Madrid.

Adam Duritz

I'm really good in a crisis, because I don't panic.

Mahmudur Rahman

The crisis of diesel should not be seen as scanty stock.

Andrew Wigglesworth

The crisis is not over. The only thing that has happened is some moderation in the rate of increase of our premiums, but we still have issues in terms of recruitment and retention of physicians.

Myron Scholes

The experience of the '90s, whether it's the '94 peso crisis or the '97 crisis in Asia, the '98 crisis, even the 2001 crisis, is that we recovered pretty readily. There wasn't great consequence.

Henry Harris

The temperature reached as high as 2,500 degrees Kelvin during the tests. High temperatures mean high acceleration.

Rebecca Kane

Sophomore year was a total 180 degrees from my freshman year. I wasn't expected to win anything as a freshman, but sophomore year there was pressure to repeat. I like that kind of pressure.

Dasha Zhukova

Russian women like to be feminine. Even if it's minus-10 degrees and snowing, a Russian woman will still be in her stilettos.

Buzz Peterson

I've been surprised to a degree by how well he's doing. But when you look at his work habits and see what a gym rat he is, you're not surprised. Jack works on all kinds of stuff. He has a friend in the gym rebounding for him all the time.

Daniel Walsh

This is not a 'whodunit' case. It is for you to determine his degree of guilt.

Steve Maviglio

There is a reasonable degree of flexibility. Where there is a will there is a way.

Diane Neal

My older sister has all her degrees in theater, and I couldnt stand the theater geeks!

Ben Jonson

Freedom doth with degree dispense.

Tom Beekman

At this point in time it is not our intent to stop the project. This project has legs. The degree to which those legs can run is dependent upon whether or not we can reach a local agreement.

Allan Meltzer

The name that's on the economy is Greenspan. If you want to step back and say Gore's responsible, it's hard to make that connection.

Mark Knold

After operating in the mid-3 percent employment growth range for the first half of 2005, the Utah economy unexpectedly jumped upward during last year's third quarter.

Maureen Allyn

Realistically, they've done a lot already. The economy may be sleepy, but you don't need to hit it with everything you've got.

Mark Milner

The risks are going up nationally, but they're mitigated by a strong labor market and strong economy.

Ralph Solveen

This is really a very positive surprise but unfortunately it has nothing to do with the economy. It's only a statistical effect because many people who used to be registered as unemployed are no longer included in the numbers.

Jamie Dimon

No one can forecast the economy with certainty.

John Silvia

An economy in neutral has started to move forward.

Sonia Gandhi

An economy growing at 7 percent per year, can and must find the resources ... to improve the lives of its millions of poor.

Jarrod Kerr

Employment is likely to be much weaker going forward and the jobless rate will keep rising as the economy cools. Interest rates are on hold.

John Snow

While this will elevate spending levels for '06, primarily because that's when the major effects will hit, we're going to stay on track with the president's deficit-reduction program,

John Snow

While this will elevate spending levels for '06 - primarily because that's when the major effects will hit - we're going to stay on track with the president's deficit-reduction program,

Pearl Bailey

We look into mirrors but we only see the effects of our times on us -- not our effects on others.

Anne Enright

It is very hard to trace the effect of words on a life.

Scott Ransom

We know in the past that there are effects that have hurt our surveys.

Davis III

I was right back to work the middle of the day Monday, in the gym, and practiced yesterday with no lingering effects from last week. And that's a major step for me, that I'm feeling better, I'm stronger.

Brian Archer

I think, in general, most people go to the pump and they see what the price is. They don't really understand how much the weather really effects our energy consumption and our energy supply.

Wendy Wright

Is this safe for women, when in fact there have been no studies done on the long-term effects on women who take the morning-after pill, and there are no studies that have been done on multiple use -- if a woman uses it more than once.

Brian Gorman

This would be unprecedented and, needless to say, would have tremendous effects on fishermen. But we don't see around this, is what we're saying. No flexibility.

Ann Widdecombe

As far as I'm concerned, William has been an excellent leader. He's a staying leader.

Karen Peterson

People think prices are going to go down and the statistics keep telling us they're not. They need to buy. We have an excellent inventory, excellent interest rates. What are they waiting for?

Brian Leonard

People that really know the game know we have an excellent team.

Michael DeBakey

After reviewing all facts, I am pleased to say that the operation is needed, that it shall provide excellent results,

Jerome Meyer

After five years of excellent financial performance, we are extremely disappointed with these results,

Diane Feinstein

strength, experience, leadership and judgment to be an excellent president.

Travis Paquet

It was an excellent game. It was 8-8 at the end of the first and 18-14 at the half.

Scott Simons

the road to excellent service is paved with gold.

Larry Coker

The protection was excellent and I saw some good things. Things are starting to come around the way we want to see them.

Mike Leavitt

Schools are fundamentally local creatures, and they need, while there is a national interest, and we need a national obsession with improvement of schools, it must not become a federal agenda.

Masayuki Senda

There is a possibility the Fed may raise rates three more times to 4.5 percent before pausing, to keep inflation under control.

Robert Kiyosaki

Every time the Fed implements 'quantitative easing,' a.k.a. printing more money, two things go up: taxes and inflation. When taxes and inflation go up, more jobs are lost.

Eric Barden

There's increasing recognition that the Fed is not quite done.

Alexander Hamilton

It will be well to advert to the proportion between the objects that will require a federal provision in respect to revenue; and those which will require a state provision. We shall discover that the former are altogether unlimited; and that the latter are circumscribed within very moderate bounds.

Charles Blood

When the time comes for the Fed to have these meetings over the next six months, the situation will look different and they will actually keep raising rates.

Eric Stern

But we're not a federal lobbying group. Our work is electoral.

Stephen Bernstein

But at least we have the federal judge saying he should be released.

Pat Ryan

But, as usual, our offense fed off our defense, and we were able to pull away late.

Tony Blair

The standard of living and prosperity of the Iraqi people would be infinitely greater were Saddam not there,

Jane Siberry

'The Taxi Ride,' from my second album, is one people want to hear a lot. I'm consciously trying to walk on the sunny side of the street, to really lift myself into a place of greater positivity, and that's a sad song.

Martin Rees

The Swedish engineer who invented the zip fastener made a greater intellectual leap than many scientists do in a lifetime.

John Lawlor

The sum of the parts is greater than the whole.

Louis Reigel

After 9/11 there were some of these sites. It was much greater after the tsunami, and it's even greater after Katrina,

David Williams

Once you understand your inventory, then you can start integrating at a greater level.

Rod Graves

The risk is probably no greater or no worse than it is for a lot of other players, but the spotlight is always heavier on the quarterbacks. It's just the risk that we're involved with. You hope you're making the right choice.

Proverbs

There are no greater promisers than those who have nothing to give.

Rick Costa

The process is oftentimes too mysterious, and the public has a right to know. We're hoping that there will be a greater understanding of the process.

Dr. Ratard

No such outbreak occurred because of Hurricane Katrina.

Stacy Stewart

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

Mark Goodman

It was the (strangest) hurricane we've seen in a long time.

E. B. White

Even if there's no damage, it's going to take at least two weeks for refineries to come back. It's at least as serious as Hurricane Ivan, which we had last year. And it took six months to get production back to normal in that case.

Michael Chertoff

We are going to be very prepared for Hurricane Wilma.

Michael Fish

Reports of a hurricane are unfounded.

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.

Rick Perry

Between Katrina and our preparations for this, people understand this isn't something you're going to play around with,

I. Stone

Many scenarios had been run prior to Katrina years ago, and with that type of storm, the scenarios should have been taken seriously.

Mary Fetchet

Katrina should be enough to wake people up.

Richard Cobb

On the supply side, we are about the same as after Katrina and before Rita.

Diane Swonk

Once they got the uncertainty of Katrina out of the way they just got back to their boilerplate statement,

John Franklin

It's not so much Katrina as a phenomenon as it's Katrina as a metaphor for what our society has become. It reflects; it's a mirror of what we've become - super-extraordinarily complacent.

David Vitter

We'll only victimize the victims of Katrina all over again.

David Packard

Management by Walking Around

Peter Drucker

Management by objectives works if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.

Peter Drucker

Management by objectives works if you first think through your objectives. Ninety percent of the time you haven't.

Lawrence Miller

Management offered a strategic update with no real surprises.

Horace

Anger is short-lived madness.

Palle Pedersen

In Iowa, we have a 32,000-an-acre plant population, spray, and harvest. There is no in-season management. It's all in the seeds.

Sam Bhavnani

It's an uphill battle, but they seem poised to be able to do it. And the reason I say that is they have a strong management team in place.

Jeff Siegel

Our traffic management is substantial and works quite well.

Rodney Lovell

A 'work around' simply means your system doesn't work.

Kelly Clarkson

Thank you so much. You have no idea how much this means to me.

Carlos Delgado

This is pretty special. It's exciting, just because you know you're playing meaningful games.

Brett Ratner

I love everything black, because black is cool. When something crosses over, people are like, "Oh, this is a crossover." First of all, there is no urban anymore. Pop culture is black. White kids are dressing like black kids. It's all crossed the lines now. The way I understand it is, everything black is cool. When it crosses over to white, that means it's going from cool to uncool. That's what crossover is.

Brett Ratner

'Vacation' means titillating my taste buds.

Archibald Cox

What can you or I do? Alone, almost nothing. Yet one person - you alone - can make the difference. . . . The failure of just one person to join, to participate, to do whatever he or she can - your failure or my failure - may mean that there is just one too few to win the fight for sanity, and so leave the world on the road to destruction. Each of us, all of us, must do what we can.

Aretha Franklin

R-E-S-P-E-C-T, find out what it means to me.

Augustus

At the age of nineteen, on my own initiative and at my own expense, I raised an army by means of which I restored liberty to the republic, which had been oppressed by the tyranny of a faction. For which service the senate, with complimentary resolutions, enrolled me in its order...

Art Garfunkel

Rodgers and Hammerstein didn't mean anything to me. I just wanted to have a hit, I just wanted to be like those people on the radio. It was all of a case of the present tense with no projecting into the future, particularly.

Sarah Dessen

Stop it. Seriously. This isn't funny.' 'You're right.' A pause. 'It's pathetic.

Robert Krueger

We have prospects now who can take all of the space.

Paul Sereno

I didn't have very rosy prospects in school,

Mike Edwards

We've dodged a bullet. It's not as severe as it has been in the past.

Jim Veltman

After you win, you think to yourself, 'Is it time to get out?' But I don't feel like I want to.

Charlie Skelton

The story is timeless and can be done in any era.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Rob Allison

Now it's time to really find out what we're going to do and how we're going to do it.

Curtis Sliwa

Now I'm going to have to do a lot of rope-a-dope, never go the same way at the same time to the same places,

Bill Cowher

This is not the time to relax. They've had their off time. You can't do that. It's around the corner.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

Benjamin Disraeli

Though I sit down now, thetime will come whenyou will hear me.

Brian Andreas

The clock is a conspiracy & a crime against humanity and I would not own one except I miss appointments without it.