Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anytime I see something screech across a room and latch onto someone's neck, and the guy screams and tries to get it off, I have to laugh, because what is that thing.

Sometimes, when I drive across the desert in the middle of the night, with no other cars around, I start imagining: What if there were no civilization out there? No cities, no factories, no people? And then I think: No people or factories? Then who made this car? And this highway? And I get so confused I have to stick my head out the window into the driving rain---unless there's lightning, because I could get struck on the head by a bolt.

Dennis Smith

saw some people in distress across the river near the Mexican bank, and that was reported up through Border Patrol channels and relayed to Mexican officials.

Mary McDowell

This is an opportunity to take mobility for business from the office and extend it across the business. But it's not as simple as just handing an employee a device. You need to show how it's used.

Susan Hayward

This is an opportunity for the community of South Dakota to take part in planning the future of the State Fair and this beautiful property. I truly hope to see people from across the state take part in this open meeting.

Charles Lyons

This is the first time that we did not meet our Annual Yearly Progress for students across the board, ... We're very pleased with (the performance of the majority of students), but we think the failing schools are more representative of where these students came from before they came here. We don't think its fair to label this school as failing.

Greg Gilchrist

This is the first grade I I've ever won, and it's a great feeling, ... People need to realize he shipped across the (country) six times now, not to count a 14-hour van ride to Phoenix and back. To keep putting on these kind of performances, it just takes a special horse to do that. I think he is recognized by the right people.

Michele Cimino

This is not going to be a long, drawn out event over a couple of weeks with this system moving across our state. Instead, it is going to continue the track that pulls it to the west over the next 24 hours. Then Rita is expected to gain some strength. I think at a Category 2 is expected by the time it does make landfall in the Keys.

Margaret Smith

This is not unique to Volusia, ... It appears in a number of counties across the state.

Adam Carolla

I've never really broken this down before, but, in movies, you almost have no connection to fans. And if you do TV, you're kind of connected, but they know you as the TV name not your real name. If you do radio, there's more of a bond there. And then if you do a podcast it's like you're literally inside of your fans.

Keke Palmer

Urban Outfitters - I love it. It's almost like Forever 21, but for, like, the 24- to 25-year-old girl, getting a little bit older.

Tom Shales

The original and very basic 'Law & Order' series has always seemed to me to be 100-percent exposition, with no filler, no pesky nuances and almost no background about the series' continuing characters - just the hard nuts and bolts of pure storytelling.

Carl Haub

The recent collapse of fertility in Russia has been almost completely economic. When people are uncertain about the future, they don't have children.

Jake Delhomme

We had to come into the NFL almost through the back door.

Robert Reischauer

To a startling degree, the political capital and momentum that he had at the start of 2005 have been dissipated almost entirely. The administration is reactive and in a defensive posture, really. You have a Congress that is splintering and rebellious. ... Republicans are in a survival mode.

Joe Ely

T.J. was crazy for the blues. We were in a band together back in the eighth grade, and T.J. would listen to Jimmy Reed almost nonstop. He got his drum style from that old country blues and then later applied it to Western swing.

Stephen Lenz

This was the first time we faced a gimmick defense all season. Last season we would see it almost every other game, but I'm proud of the way the girls stepped up and handled it.

Jim Calhoun

This was a year that if you relaxed, you were going to get beat. Here's Marquette picked 12th, and they have a bye. It gives you a sense of just how strong this league is. It's almost impossible to imagine that a couple of years ago. The diversity and depth of players make it almost impossible to predict.

Lisa Pierce

One of the reasons there is reluctance among business users is that they have higher priorities.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

I count Joseph Smith among those whose testimony of Christ helped me to develop my own testimony of the Savior. Before I recognized the tutoring of the Spirit testifying to me that Joseph Smith was a prophet of God, my youthful heart felt that he was a friend of God and would therefore, quite naturally, also be a friend of mine.

Stuart Rothenberg

President Bush's poll numbers are already pretty bad, and there has been some concern among people about the long vacation while there is a perception that things aren't going so well. I hate to say it, but some of the role a leader plays after a disaster is public relations.

Paul Atkins

Investors for whom this level of oversight is important already can select from among registered advisers, ... If SEC registration were perceived to be uniformly desirable, the market -- meaning investors -- would eventually lead all hedge-fund advisers to register.

John Root

In my time, the philosophy among the board members was 'Just have a good fair,'

Russian Proverb

If you live among wolves you have to howl like a wolf.

Wendy Seltzer

In this case, it seemed the video's circulation online was driving more people to watch SNL on television, (and likely encouraging them to watch it live so they could have the first crack at talking about new episodes with friends) -- attracting viewers especially among the young, connected demographic advertisers want to reach.

Francisco Soberon

In the Soviet Union, errors led to popular discontent among other reasons due to the bad performance of the economy.

John Hanning Speke

In the following pages I have endeavoured to describe all that appeared to me most important and interesting among the events and the scenes that came under my notice during my sojourn in the interior of Africa.

Trent Yawney

The teams that skate the best are not going to necessarily win all the time, but it makes it a lot easier.

Neil Schwartz

The teams that are doing the best are the ones that are winning -- the Steelers, the Giants, the Colts. But Eagles sales are still good because of their tremendous following.

Graeme Smith

The teams are matched up pretty well. If anything, we need to pick it up a step in our ruthlessness on the field. We need to finish things off. We may just get a bit tense, and that comes down to inexperience, playing the best team in the world. I think 1-0 down is disappointing, but it hasn't hurt us and in a lot of ways, I'm very positive about us. As captain, I feel we're very close to hitting the mark ...and we're going to come back hard in Sydney.

Kim Brown

The team performed great. It's probably one of our best showings ever at the district meet. They really shined in their moment.

Paul Hewitt

The talent is definitely stretched a little thinner. In terms of the concentration of top 100, top 200 players -- it is spread out a little more. You think about going all the way back to Princeton, N.J., where you had the best 200 players in the country. Then, you went to two camps and now we're at three camps. I guess it's not all bad, because now you give more kids an opportunity to be seen. And we tend to lose sight that the game is supposed to be about opportunities for kids to get an education or be seen and do something better with their lives, as opposed to making it sane for college coaches.

Scott Baird

The system has been drilled into our heads. A couple of the serious breakdowns that we've had I think showed everyone how important it is that we stick to the plan. It's going to be the teams that stick to their systems and play the best defensive hockey that are going to come home with banners in the post-season.

Alan Gould

The third quarter was Paramount's best quarter in years.

Matt Roush

The Sopranos' will finally win the best drama Emmy it has deserved for so long. This year nothing comes close.

Sherri Coale

The thing that's truly been remarkable is that there hasn't been a swoon. She's been consistent with her scoring, consistent with her rebounding, she's taken care of the basketball, and she's played at her best when the lights are the brightest.

I think there should be something in science called the "reindeer effect." I don't know what it would be, but I think it'd be good to hear someone say, "Gentlemen, what we have here is a terrifying example of the reindeer effect.