Famous Quotes & Sayings

Adger Ross

We want to try and prevent this from happening again. We love our city and want it safe.

John Payne

We want to see the city come back, and we're willing to listen to proposals and ideas. We want to work with local and state officials to get the city back on its feet.

Carl Peterson

The other suggestion was to play in Kansas City at noon Sunday, ... We don't expect any hurricanes here. That was considered, but the league made its decision. It creates some real problems for us with travel, and with trying to squeeze a Thursday, Friday and Saturday practice all into Thursday. But we have to do what the league orders us to do.

Al Naomi

The point is to eliminate that storm-surge threat with one of these plans. The philosophy of what we do during a hurricane would change. We could spend more time protecting our homes and less time trying to get out of the city in these desperate evacuations.

Mike Birbiglia

There are comedians who focus on everything that is external. They focus on politics and the news, what's going on in that city and that night.

William Moore

Where I'm from, the small city that I'm from, everyone thought I could come up here and play as a true freshman. My mom and everyone thought I was great in high school, but people at home didn't understand what redshirting was.

Maple Leaf

When you step on the ice, when you get in your car, when you're out in public, every time you step out your front door (players are) so scrutinized. I know that better than anybody. It's not easy to live in this city and it doesn't matter whether you're winning or losing.

Steve White

We're not going to overlook our other opponents. We're worrying about winning the city championship. Still, we are thinking about STVM. They're in the back of my mind.

Cory Booker

We have to have a mayor and a council who will take City Hall and fight that fight.

Dewey Potter

We're going to respond to the council in writing, retrace the history of the project in that response and then the council will decide whether it wants to proceed or not.

Dan Senor

We're hopeful that the deadline will be met. The Governing Council has given us every indication that it will.

Tecumseh

As we intend to hold our council at the Huron village, that is near the British, we may probably make them a visit. Should they offer us any presents of goods, we will not take them; but should they offer us powder and the tomahawk, we will take the powder and refuse the tomahawk.

Aaron Neumann

It's a simple ordinance that the council can pass that defines what a 'high-risk' loan is and then provides counseling to those who qualify, as a way to end the many foreclosures and bankruptcies that devastate already fragile communities.

Vernon Brown

This is a major policy shift and I think as a council we need to look at that policy change.

Ali Al

It is the duty of the Security Council now to take a decision to immediately lift sanctions on Libya, which has cooperated fully with the court to end this case,

John Lindsay

It relies on that same council to make decisions that would promote integration and that may not be the desires of some of the other districts.

John McKenna

It really was the council putting in the effort that made me think how sensible this all was,

Hans Blix

I told the council that we hope we will have been through the main part of the document -- which is about 3,000 pages -- by Friday.

Charles Spurgeon

The petitions of Moses discomfited the enemy more than the fighting of Joshua. Yet both were needed. No, in the soul's conflict, force and fervor, decision and devotion, valour and vehemence, must join their forces, and all will be well.

Al Pacino

Sometimes you're fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.

Chris Christie

I was appointed United States attorney on September 10, 2001. And I spent the next seven years of my career fighting terrorism and putting terrorists in jail.

Chogyam Trungpa

In your cocoon, occasionally you shout complaints, such as, "Leave me alone!" "Bug off!" "I want to be who I am!"... which comes from fighting against your environment... You can raise your head and just take a little peek out of the cocoon... The environment is friendly. It is called "Planet Earth.

Chinua Achebe

He who fights for a ne'er-do-well has nothing to show for it except a head covered in earth and grime.

Chinua Achebe

When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight.

Chief Joseph

When an Indian fights, he only shoots to kill.

China Mieville

Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on.

Eddie Izzard

I use a Bruce Lee technique: 'The way of no way.' He had the idea that he would learn everything, so that whoever he had to fight, he could improvise anything. The best way of starting a gig is just to not think of anything - to clear your mind, not in an empty Zen state, but more just to go on and see where you go.

Charles Dickens

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

Eddie Kaye Thomas

Being born on Halloween, there's always a party. It's a convenient birthday because you don't really have to organize a party.

Audrina Patridge

I love Halloween and dressing up. I usually have at least three costumes.

Dee Snider

Halloween is huge in my house and we really get into the "spirits" of things.

William Shakespeare

By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes.

Alan Stern

It's strictly coincidental that Pluto of course was named for the god of the underworld and we're describing these Halloween moons

Chanel Iman

I used to dress up as a model for Halloween, like every year.

Charles M. Schulz

There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people... Religion, Politics, and The Great Pumpkin.

Bill Maher

Halloween is a day when we all get to fool people into thinking we're someone else. Or as Mitt Romney calls it, campaigning.

Ed Koch

I'm not an author, but before I became mayor, I wasn't a mayor.

Ed Skyler

The remarks were offensive and the mayor is satisfied that the chaplain has resigned.

George Griffin

there's a sense Jan will stand up to the mayor when she disagrees.

Mark Begich

As mayor of Anchorage, with 43 percent of the state's population, we have worked on a variety of projects from road projects to renewable energy to a variety of things.

John Hickenlooper

The most important thing a mayor does is hire talented people to run the city.

Rep. Ayres

This is something the mayor has been working on for two years.

Kwame Kilpatrick

You're the one who was just voted the third-worst mayor for Time magazine, not Hendrix,

Greg Nickels

The people of Seattle know I'm a mayor willing to make tough decisions.

Stu Loeser

As the mayor has said ...he's going to do what it takes to get the school money we are owed from Albany.