Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matt Mackowiak

As a former county commissioner, the senator understands, probably better than anyone, how this proposal could affect county government. He hears them loud and clear.

Lorenzo Codogno

As always, protectionism doesn't work. The past resistance to change has resulted in the Italian banking system being still affected by fragmentation, with plenty of small-scale players.

Paul Haggis

As a filmmaker, it's a great thing to feel you've really affected them, one way or another. I'd much rather have that than have someone say, 'Nice film, man.' That's a stake through your heart.

Kelly Preston

As a mom, I am going through a very painful experience and my child is going through a very traumatic and painful experience. So I didn't want to say anything that could affect him later in life.

David Orton

Profitability for the quarter was affected by the lower revenue and a reduction in average selling prices for the company's board products.

Duncan Hunter

Prior to September 11, 2001, illegal immigration was considered a regional issue without national implications. We quickly learned on that day, however, that this is a national issue, affecting each and every American, not just those living in border communities like San Diego County,

Richard Hatch

Programmers and marketing people know how to get into your subconscious-they spend millions of dollars researching colors, shapes, designs, symbols, that affect your preferences, and they can make you feel warm, trusting, like buying. They can manipulate you.

Richard Hatch

Programmers and marketing people know how to get into your subconscious - they spend millions of dollars researching colors, shapes, designs, symbols, that affect your preferences, and they can make you feel warm, trusting, like buying. They can manipulate you.

Mark Hansen

Probably the most important thing in developing an emergency plan for the agricultural operation is to include the family and employees in the process. By helping to develop the plan, the other family members and employees take more ownership in making the plan work and in helping think of ways to protect the business. After all, everyone is affected if an emergency or disaster causes a disruption in operations, even if it's only for a week or two.

Brad Blew

Anytime Ozark and Farmington get together it's going to be a battle and it was tonight. I thought we had some great shots early but they didn't fall and it didn't look like we were going to get anything going. But we had a nice run in the third and were able to hang on. We're lucky to get out of here with a win.

Lee Stempniak

Anytime it's one-on-one and you can win the game or lose the game, it's pretty nerve-racking. Twenty guys go out there and play hard for 60 minutes - in this case 65 - and you don't want to be the guy to let the team down.

Grant Wistrom

Anytime I took the field when I played at Nebraska, I felt like I was going to win the football game.

Reggie McNeal

Anytime I throw the ball, I know he's going to make a play for me. He just runs right by them and once he gets by them they won't catch up with him.

Reggie McNeal

Anytime I throw the ball I know he's going to make a play for me, ... He just runs right by them and once he gets by them they won't catch up with him.

Reggie McNeal

Anytime I throw the ball, I know he's going to make a play for me, ... He just runs right by them and once he gets by them they won't catch up with him.

Mike Shula

Anytime it happens to any of your players it empties your stomach. Hopefully he'll make a speedy recovery. He had an impact on every game, even when he doesn't touch the ball a lot. He can open things up for the other guys.

James Davis

Anytime it gets over $2.50, it gets hard to cope,

Marty Barnes

Anytime I really got upset I'd write the number 57 on the board in big letters. Or I'd use it for motivation after games where we played well.

John Hawkes

As an actor, you don't often get a chance to know exactly the impact of what the audience is seeing, even though you can ask where the frame is. A move that feels tiny can be huge, and vice versa.

H. Hunt

As a striker you automatically follow everything in because you don't know if it's going to come off the bar, the post or the goalkeeper. That would normally have been my reaction but I just thought it was going to bounce into the roof of the net. I was convinced. People ask me why I didn't just knock it in but I thought it was a goal. It was an automatic reaction.

Soichi Noguchi

As a rookie astronaut, I could not ask for more. We had three spacewalks, two bonus extension days in space and one great crew.

Soichi Noguchi

As a rookie astronaut, I could not ask for more, ... We had three spacewalks, two bonus extension days in space and one great crew.

Zoran Djindjic

As a U.N. member state, we are obliged to fully cooperate with The Hague tribunal and have asked all state bodies for full cooperation.

Bob Margolis

As a councilman, they asked me to intervene and I did. My job is to protect the neighborhood.

Patricia Sullivan

As a female it never crossed my mind to feel uncomfortable around Professor Schaffer. I would often stay after class to ask personal questions,

Dave Foreman

As a musician I guess the only thing I would ask from a listener is to put the CD in, close your eyes and forget about all the peripherals. I guess that's a dream that may not happen in my lifetime, but I listen to music from all sorts of people and I think there is an open-minded individual who will be able to listen to music of all types.

Andy Kopplin

The burden of suggesting good ideas, you get asked to contribute to the implementation.

Matt Johnson

As brothers go, I'd say that if we weren't twins, then we were pretty much damn near close.

Denis McDonough

As a husband, father and public servant, I'm thankful for the counsel and wisdom of my older brothers - Bill, who was a priest, and Kevin, who is a priest.

Jeffrey Thomas

I've never actually participated in role-playing games myself, except on one occasion when a coworker of mine came to my house and introduced my two brothers and me to a single game of 'Dungeons & Dragons.'

J. M. Roberts

I've always thought it would be so fun to have brothers and sisters to fight with,

Abu Sabaya

The Muslims are our brothers . . . I am not saying we have no contact with them.

Drew Goddard

The movies I respond to are by guys like the Coen brothers and Edgar Wright, where it's hard to fit them into any one box.

Brown Johnson

I used to run around singing my life to myself. I'd be singing 'I'm going to fall down,' singing about what I was having for lunch, about how mean my brothers were.

Tom Maurer

I used to work in Gary Indiana. I was a life guard, the brothers and the sister would all come down to the pool but the grease from hair goes everywhere and they can't swim.

Kate Bronfenbrenner

This is sponsored by the Rockefeller Brothers Foundation, which is not a subversive group.

David Thornburg

Any teacher that can be replaced by technology deserves to be.

Jaromir Jagr

Sometimes, things are very bad, but you keep fighting. I'm happy for him. He deserves it.

Sean Callow

Disaster had been priced into the peso, but they dodged the bullet. It's been a pretty remarkable turnaround. Arroyo deserves some of the credit.

Todd Harris

We felt something this serious deserves a very serious forum.

Jessie Cave

Getting a role in 'Harry Potter' was like winning the lottery. But no one deserves an acting job.

Bryan Gilmore

Give him a glowing article. He deserves that.

Ron Zook

If a guy is working his tail off, he deserves to be in there.

Maureen Cooney

If someone is truly intimidated, they're not going to recommend it to their friends. One good turn deserves another.

Patrick Reilly

He truly would have won the race if I hadn't been there, so I was like, 'He deserves to win it.'

Richard Fuller

Spaceship Earth: The problem for the passengers is that there is no manual to identify all the parts, and no instructions on how to operate the spaceship.

John Breaux

San Francisco sits on an earthquake fault, ... So do you say: Move 'em all out of there?

Christine Gregoire

The viaduct is our levees, ... The earthquake is our hurricane.

Barbara Kingsolver

A careless way of sauntering across the earth and breaking open its treasures, a terrible dependency on sucking out the world's best juices for ourselves-these may also be our enemies. The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.

Brian Jacques

You love young ones and babes, I know this. The young will always befriend and admire you...all the young ones of the earth belong to you in friendship. Be good to them. —Breeze, to Sunflash the Mace

Jane Hamilton

Life on earth, filled with uncertainty and change, seemed far more difficult than what lay beyond the grave.

Jan Schakowsky

There is a lot that happens around the world we cannot control. We cannot stop earthquakes, we cannot prevent droughts, and we cannot prevent all conflict, but when we know where the hungry, the homeless and the sick exist, then we can help.

Al Capone

I would rather be rich affluent and greedy and go to hell when I die, than live in poverty on this earth.

John Cross

We are here on Earth for just a short time, whether you're 16 years old or 80,

Miles D. White

People come to a company like Abbott sometimes and think, 'It's so big, I can't make a difference.' I think just the opposite. I think everybody can make a difference.

Julian Lee

The tendency (is) once prices start to rise, for everybody to open the tap a little bit.

David Chokachi

After about two weeks, you realize everybody's human, and everybody puts their pants on the same way.

Spanish Proverb

A friend to everybody is a friend to nobody

LeBron James

After a great win like that, you don't want everyone to scatter. I wanted to get everybody together and let them know that we are all in.

Bud Boudreaux

After Frances, everybody around here was seasoned veterans. If a third hurricane had hit us, we would have restored power within three days. And after a fourth one, we would have snapped fingers and the lights would come on.

Bruce Moore

After everybody had taken pictures and gone I went up and put my hand on his shoulder, kind of looking at him in the eye, and I realized he's a hero to me,

Theodore Roosevelt

The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice.

Greg Spires

The most important thing is that we're playing together and everybody is gelling, everybody likes each other, ... Everybody wants to win, and when you're winning, everybody's happy.

Heidi Klum

Maybe he listened to what we'd been telling him.

Bob Davidson

One of the things we try to do (is) have people that try to listen, ... As our people sat and listened to her story - we realized (her) situation.

Don Harrison

I reviewed the budget, went to the workshops and listened to people, ... I have a problem with the budget.

Carly Simon

But when we listened to the radio, it was Bill Haley and the Comets or the Everly Brothers.

Doug Mosier

All are being processed and will be removed to their native countries.

Vandana Shiva

When the wilderness movement emerged, it emerged separate from the issue of social inequality and the economic problems of survival. It was a preservationist ecology movement created by an occupying culture. Clearly, a wilderness movement started by Native Americans would not have had the same roots.

Jared Diamond

It invites a search for ultimate causes: why were Europeans, rather than Africans or Native Americans, the ones to end up with guns, the nastiest germs, and steel?

Christopher Moore

I wanted a trumpet concerto that reflected Native American music because, well, there aren't any. I looked around for one but couldn't find anything. So it's a wide-open field.

D. H. Lawrence

Not that the Red Indian will ever possess the broad lands of America. At least I presume not. But his ghost will.

Danny Glover

The Second Amendment comes from the right to protect themselves from slave revolts, and from uprisings by Native Americans. A revolt from people who were stolen from their land or revolt from people whose land was stolen from, that's what the genesis of the Second Amendment is.

Ambrose Bierce

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.

Thomas Jefferson

I am convinced that those societies (such as the Native American peoples) which live without government enjoy in their general mass an infinitely greater degree of happiness than those who live under the European governments. Among the former, public opinion is in the place of law, & restrains morals as powerfully as laws ever did anywhere. Among the latter, under pretence of governing they have divided their nations into two classes, wolves & sheep. I do not exaggerate.

Rick Renzi

Arizona faces unique healthcare challenges including uncompensated care for illegal immigrants, and the large number of Native Americans who live in remote and isolated areas of the state.

Sonny Rollins

What I can say is that for may years jazz musicians had to go to Europe, for instance, to be respected and to be sort of treated not in a discriminatory way. I don't think there is anything controversial about me saying that. This is just a fact.

Walt Harris

Our special teams is the most respected part of our team.

David Ishii

Really? I don't remember. Seventeen under? That's pretty good.

Kim Devlin

Well that's seven more votes than we expected.

Richelle Nice

We were in there for seven months. We wanted to see it through to the end.

S. Truett Cathy

If it takes seven days to make a living, you ought to be doing something else.

Tom Evans

Get transported back to the seventies !

Shaun White

I was sponsored when I was about seven by Burton Snowboards.

Michael Ian Black

The Atkins' diet is where you eat bacon for six or seven months...and the end result is that you lose weight. Because you're dead.

Miguel de Cervantes

I am almost frightened out of my seven senses.

Teri Garr

Seventy-five percent of MS sufferers are women

Ayn Rand

The sky is like a black sieve pierced by silver drops that tremble, ready to burst through.

Jandy Nelson

Someone might as well roll up the whole sky, pack it away for good.

Ayumi Hamasaki

No matter how far apart we are, don't forget that we're still under the same sky, both traveling to the place we once dreamed of.

Demi Lovato

The sky is the limit... for some people aim higher nothing is impossible.

Bret Easton Ellis

Look how black the sky is, the writer said. I made it that way.

Bob Dylan

Through the mad mystic hammering of the wild ripping hail The sky cracked its poems in naked wonder

Ben Harper

I really feel like the sky is the limit with the Innocent Criminals today.

Aldo Leopold

Hemispheric solidarity is new among statesmen, but not among the feathered navies of the sky.

Aldo Leopold

On motionless wing they emerge from the lifting mists, sweep a final arc of sky, and settle in clangorous descending spirals to their feeding grounds. A new day has begun on the crane marsh.

Patrick Smith

That play took a lot out of us.

Ron Hill

See? We've watched; we took that little insurance. You didn't like it, but we took it back away.

David Pyper

It was a little disappointing that it took that long.

Alice Temperley

If you took some of the behavior that you see in the fashion world and put it anywhere else, it would just be embarrassing.

Julie Taylor

We got shots, but we took them too quick. We didn't take our time.

Romain Massaro

Everything was very different then. But when Owen took over the team, I really had a much better year.

Neil Callaway

Basically, we took him just because he's a big kid.

Bob Kendrick

He took it a whole lot better than I did; I'm still mad.

Tom Daschle

He took charge, and it made a big difference,