Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dan Mclaughlin

Nelson said today he'll do everything possible, including new specific legislation, to block Interior Secretary Gale Norton from carrying out the oil industry's agenda over the wishes of the people of Florida and many other coastal states.

Susan Faludi

One of the things I have found in reporting on this book is that men do not feel listened to, ... That's part of their anger towards feminism, they feel like everybody else's agenda is more important than theirs.

Jean Charest

It is a very important choice we are making together. It's either an agenda for separation or an agenda for affirmation,

Ray Sullivan

It is a positive agenda for the future, not a reaction to the past.

Greg Baxter

I think there was an expectation created more by Government than anyone that media reform was on the agenda and would be dealt with.

Erin O'Connor

I think there is some resistance when people talk about ethical fashion, and a tendency to panic that if you're bringing a moral agenda and highlighting the origins of the garments, you can't incorporate style. But there's no reason why style and conscience can't co-exist.

Richard Schaffer

I think Steve made a very conscious decision that he wanted to get his agenda approved and the only way he could get a fair hearing was electing a Democratic legislature.

Stephen Hess

Last year, he came out with a very robust agenda in the State of the Union.

Stephen Harris

People love to see a wild animal in their garden. They're not really a pest. It's a myth promulgated because of a political agenda by the hunting people.

John W. Thompson

While there have been terrific advances in the state of technology around heuristics, behavior blocking, and things like that, technology is only a part of the approach to solving the problem with the more important aspect involving putting the right process in place.

Marge Piercy

If what we change does not change us we are playing with blocks.

Mark Zuckerberg

AI systems will enable doctors to diagnose diseases and treat people better, so blocking that progress is probably one of the worst things you can do for making the world better.

Terry Pratchett

There's no such thing as writer's block. That was invented by people in California who couldn't write.

Michael Biehn

I am much more involved in the filmmaking experience on Mag Seven. I'm much more involved in story elements, casting decisions, the writing of the show, the blocking of the scenes.

Michelangelo

The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but only a hand obedient to the mind can penetrate to this image.

Michelangelo

The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.

Michelangelo

Can't you see the angel imprisoned in the block of stone trying to get out? I am trying to free him

Michael Madsen

I've never been able to read for anything, and every time I have, I've never gotten the part. And I don't know why that is. I just can't. Reading or auditioning for something... It's like it's this mental block in my brain, and I just can't do it. But when people ask you to do stuff without making you go through that, it's a much more pleasant experience.

If I lived back in the wild west days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster, I'd carry a soldering iron. That way, if some smart-aleck cowboy said something like "Hey, look. He's carrying a soldering iron!" and started laughing, and everybody else started laughing, I could just say, "That's right, it's a soldering iron. The soldering iron of justice." Then everybody would get real quiet and ashamed, because they had made fun of the soldering iron of justice, and I could probably hit them up for a free drink.

Ian Macdonald

Investigations revealed the vessel was carrying 143 tonnes of Patagonian toothfish,

Jay Inslee

The need to help spread democracy and the ability to do that will be much greater if we break this addiction to oil, which gives the oil princes and sultans the power in the Mideast.

Jay Leno

It was reported in the paper that President Bush received a 'warm reception' from the Daytona 500 drivers. Well sure, the drivers had never met anyone who was sponsored by more oil companies than they were.

Jay Leno

In his first speech as Speaker, Boehner thanked his loved ones - tobacco lobbyists, the oil companies, the CEOs.

Janelle Monae

It's hard for me to be serious. I can't really rub oil on me and go all the way with it [laughs]. I hear some screams and I laugh to myself. I always get a kick out of it. I'm three feet tall, basically.

Jane McGonigal

A dramatic decrease in oil availability is not at all far-fetched.

Christina Romer

Climate change and dependence on foreign oil are problems that won't go away on their own. Tabling plans to deal with them doesn't make it easier for companies to plan and invest; it makes it harder.

Gordon Brown

I am not going to make decisions based on barricades and blockades, nor am I going to make decisions based on the short-term volatility of the oil price.

Herman Cain

If the world market believed that we were serious about energy independence and we were going to utilize all of our own existing resources, the speculators would stop speculating up they start speculating down as we get our own oil out of the ground.

Jeremy Grantham

Modern agriculture has been accurately described as a way of turning oil into food. As the price of oil continues to rise, so will the price of food.

Les Brown

People couldn't get down here. They couldn't find it, so they'd go a different way and go somewhere else.

Carol Schatz

People couldn't get down here. Some stayed and went on walking tours.

Kim Clijsters

People come up to me here and say, 'This is your year,'  ... but I know it's not easy. You always have to focus.

Annie Golden

People come up to me all the time. If I'm with friends or in a crowd, I'm fine, but if I'm by myself, I get afraid because people are nuts.

Martin Berson

People come to yoga to find themselves. Stretching releases tension, but there?s also a meditative, spiritual aspect. ..You are going to get physical benefits, and that?s fine. But if you have the right teacher, you?re going to get all the other stuff, too.

Steve Farmer

People come to visit here, and they really like the place.

Bob Richards

People come to see the stars, and then they walk away with two or three new favorites.

Mari Dietz

People come back year after year to see what we're wearing.

John McGee

People feel more comfortable with that. They know everybody.

Richard Branson

To stand still today is to go backwards...and quickly...!

Bob Gilder

I think I made more putts today than I've made all year,

Carolyn Heilbrun

Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions.

Mark Hall

We are not here to get to tomorrow. We are here for today, to bloom today. We were made to Thrive!

Potter Stewart

I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material but I know it when I see it.

Oral Roberts

Something GOOD is going to happen to you today.

Mary Oliver

Today again I am hardly myself. It happens over and over.

Neil Simon

Don't listen to those who say, you taking too big a chance. Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor, and it would surely be rubbed out by today.

Shel Silverstein

So I'm all of love that could make it today.