Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael R. Bloomberg

Today, as we recite the names of those we lost, our hearts turn as well toward London, our sister city, remembering those she has just lost as well, ... And to Americans suffering in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, our deepest sympathies go out to you this day.

Jim Beaver

'Life's That Way' was an extraordinarily difficult book to write, because it wasn't written as a book. It was written as a journal of events that were happening as I wrote it, without the space or time either to digest or analyze those events and without the hindsight and peace that writing in the aftermath would have provided.

Charlize Theron

I'm proud to continue supporting Global Green's smart climate solutions by riding to the Emmys in a fuel-efficient hybrid. In the aftermath of Katrina, we especially need to do everything we can to conserve gas and other energy resources such as driving fuel-efficient cars.

John Warner

The aftermath of the elections is fraught with uncertainty. We should prepare the American people for as many eventualities as could possibly happen.

Steven Wood

Consumer optimism climbed higher in December after soaring in November. This followed huge back-to-back declines in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and the associated surge in energy prices.

Michael Klawitter

It's still the aftermath of the jobs data, which came as a bit of a shock. For the dollar, now the focus is on wage inflation and inflation in general.

Richard Engel

Syrians need to prepare for the aftermath if the Assad regime falls. Atrocities that could be considered war crimes have been committed in this country, and Syrians should rightly demand that the perpetrators be held accountable.

Dianne Thompson

It was kind of like (Hurricane) Camille all over again. The aftermath is worse than the storm because you have no electricity or water or anything.

Michael Lincoln

I've had experience dealing with the aftermath of hurricanes,

Mark Foulkes

Kenny Laag was super on that mound, but Andy Reid was the man. He got ahead of a lot of hitters. He took charge out there. It was a big start for a senior, and he really stepped up and shined.

Jeff Cook

James has always been a guitar hero, ... And I've always felt he was a little ahead of his time.

Todd Genke

Jake did a phenomenal job. Got ahead of hitters, made them hit his pitches and our defense played very well behind him ? typical early-season game where pitchers are dominant. We were very fortunate to get this win.

Todd Fairbourne

Jackie threw one heck of a game. She hit her spot 90-95 percent of the time and pitched ahead of the count.

Kim Clijsters

I think it's a compliment but, you know, I've got a tough match ahead of me, ... I'm not really thinking too much about being the favorite because I know what I have to do out there to win my matches.

Jay Wright

I think it changed the game. I think he was way ahead of his time. He caught the country by surprise the year he went to the Final Four. I think even after years he had all that success going to the Final Four, I think that it still took all of us a long time to catch up.

Joe Maddon

He just threw a lot of pitches. They will wear you out. You have to get ahead of these guys and make them swing the bats early because they will pitch count you. They are very capable of that. They have several very good hitters in that lineup.

Rod Carew

He knew the game, he was half a step ahead of everyone else during a game, ... He was always prepared.

Stephen Cohen

He is the only president after John F. Kennedy to be ahead of his government on India.

Floyd Reese

Kevin has been extremely durable just year after year. Kevin is one of those guys who understands what winning is and knows how to win and can help everybody along that way.

Bill Parcells

Kick would be a term of endearment, really. It wouldn't be kick with the idea of hurting them, just kind of move them along a little faster. ... Some are happy to be here, you know?

Mitch Layne

Kelsey had been further along on her quilt than anyone else.

Lesley Garrett

Just walking along Shaftesbury Avenue gave me such a buzz - it still does - and communicating with an audience through music is still the biggest thrill in the world.

John C. McGinley

Kanan is a big road through the Santa Monica Mountains. Between mid-March and mid-April, when you get over to the western side of the mountains, it's populated by Spanish broom - this beautiful, yellow, flowering weed that smells the way I imagine it smells along the Yellow Brick Road.

Charles Schumer

Just when you think our campaign system couldn't possibly get any worse, along comes the discovery of this new loophole, ... Section 527 is the largest, most disturbing, pernicious loophole in a system rife with backdoor ways to influence government.

Rick Rubin

He is one of the few people who can get on a stage in an arena in front of any audience anywhere in the world and and play original songs for hours (that) everyone would be familiar with and sing along to. The list of people whose music has this power could be counted on one hand, tops.

Hasim Rahman

He knows when he fights me, along with the whipping comes a little trash-talking. I know one thing he won't be faking it November 12th.

Jason Dean

He jumped right in and helped us. Of course, we were doing everything; traffic patrol and trying to keep a high presence in the area when the power was out, he, along with all the men and women of the department did a real good job and I'm pleased with everybody. Being the new guy I thought he handled himself very well during the hurricane because there was a lot of hours worked and not a lot of sleep.

Peter Schultz

Jaco signed a three-year deal with NEC and it's unlikely they'll release him.

Dave Musgrove

Jack the Ripper remains an iconic figure today, and perhaps is seen as the forerunner of the serial killers that society has had to deal with since.

Richard D. James

I would say the Borg presented us with a great deal of imagination.

Tom Renney

Just something we have to deal with internally as a team when it comes to penalties.

Lee Mazzilli

Joe is the master in terms of dealing with people. But that has come with experience. He has a way about him now he may not have had before.

Larry Dixon

I think it's a little different when you're in the middle of the points deal for the championship going into Pomona with everything going on,

Garrett Jones

He dealt with the entire process better than most would. But you can tell that he's just so glad to be back to playing again. He always wants to be out there on the field hitting. He's smiling more and just having fun.

Joe Torre

He deals with the stress and pressure very well,

Steve Atkins

He deals with it well, and it makes things run that much more smoothly. He's also very forthright. He knows how he feels and tells you how he feels and that makes the process of governance that much easier.

Jerry Sloan

Guys played a lot harder. They played a lot more determined to try to win, rather than the way we have been.

Mewelde Moore

He's a classy, determined individual. Those are the characteristics you love to see in a head coach.

Nick Cave

I was determined not to spend inordinate amounts of time on something I felt would fundamentally never get made.

Jay Weatherill

We've been very patient over the years but this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reset the rules for the River Murray and we're determined not to squander that opportunity.

Alexei Miller

Today in fact we have determined the time frame and the scale. We are talking about large scale deliveries (of gas).

Linda Pinney

I thought, 'This is crazy; I have ADHD,' ... I was determined that this was a problem that needed to be solved.

Cherie Blair

I think, when I was a young lawyer starting out, I was so determined to prove that I was as good as the men and that I could be given the same opportunities as the men, and it wouldn't make any difference at all that I was a woman. But actually, looking back on it now, I did do things that I wouldn't recommend to other women at all.

George Foreman

I have determined that the severity and magnitude of this event necessitates the need for supplementary federal assistance,

Nick Lidstrom

He has been talking about the playoffs since training camp. He has been real determined to get back playing playoff hockey.

Kelvin Stokes

Katy is an expansion team, but they look tough. We've got to go in and be physical. If we go in and start slow, it could be a long night.

Haim Saban

guide the ongoing strategic expansion of this company, which will have a unique position in Europe.

Jim Boeheim

I think we should expand. I think we're ready for this. The game needs an expansion of the tournament.

Milt Stegall

We may need Birmingham, an expansion team from the U.S., to come help. That's how much help we need right now. It's going to be difficult.

Paul Tagliabue

I guess the sense I have, if we ever get around to considering expansion within the NFL, that San Antonio would be on anyone's short list.

Wade Duty

I'm not sure this is the right tool for the situation. If you're not supporting the industry that you have, why would you think the state would support an expansion of that industry?

Troy Dayak

I'm happy with his overall performance. On an expansion team it's very valuable to have his kind of experience.

David Gilmore

The message from Fed officials is clear: You don't take a record expansion and shut it off with two months of data. There is no risk of a hard landing.

Gary Murphy

These funds will help with the expansion of our facilities so that we can better serve the rice growers in the area.

Robert Plant

All I can say is that it's amazing what you can accomplish when you're young and foolish.

William Blake

If others had not been foolish, we should be so.

Matt Lawton

I made a terrible and foolish mistake that I will regret for the rest of my life.

Charles Saint-Evremond

The foolish moments of the head are often the most wonderful times of the heart.

Robert Burns

Oh wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, And foolish notion

Italian Proverb

It's foolish sheep that makes the wolf its confessor

Bill Gerstenmaier

At this point, ... it's so uncertain, there are so many variables out there, I think it's foolish for us to try to speculate on a particular launch date.

Alfred de Vigny

Hope is the biggest of our foolish things.

T. D. Jakes

Being angry is human. Staying angry is foolish.

Richard Pasch

Right now what we're forecasting is for it to become a tropical storm and move into the northern Gulf of Mexico.

Richard Gephardt

inexorably tied to Persian Gulf oil and old energy.

Peter Beutel

This is all about Tropical Storm Rita ... obviously, the last thing that this market needs is for a hurricane to hit the western gulf where it didn't hit last time.

Larry Wall

These two storms took the most destructive path over the Gulf that they could.

Roger Allen

After the last hurricane hit the Gulf of Mexico, it took six months for the oil platform to get back up and running.

Tony Nunan

The situation is unclear because output is still down in the Gulf of Mexico and U.S. refineries are having problems.

Bill Zollars

Many of the local programs funded by United Way will play an important role in helping hurricane victims who fled the Gulf Coast, and have at least temporarily relocated here.

Sophie B. Hawkins

I am so proud to be partnering with Waterkeepers, who are the voice for the Gulf Coast's waters.

J. Taylor

If all the steel is heading to the Gulf for rebuilding because of (Hurricane) Katrina, it could increase our costs.

Vinny Testaverde

Knowing his past history ... I was very concerned.

Jaclyn Smith

Kmart's as much a part of my history as 'Charlie's Angels.' Twenty-five years! It's not just a celebrity brand.

Tony Judt

You don't have to be Jewish to understand the history of Europe in the 20th century, but it helps.

Harry S Truman

The only thing new in this world is the history that you don't know

Dani Shapiro

I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.

Lindsey Graham

What would you like history to say about you when it is all said and done,

Alec Reid

history will prove that this is the end of the IRA.

Alison Weir

History was a hobby for about, oh, 20 years before I got into print.

Don Rittner

History is an intricate web of of timing, people, circumstances, and serendipity.

Timothy Conder

The magnitude of the hurricane season last year has people a little skittish.

Michael Leavitt

The big lesson I learned from Hurricane Katrina is that we have to be thinking about the unthinkable, ... because sometimes the unthinkable happens.

Richard Wright

It looked like a tsunami with hurricane winds.

Stacy Stewart

They better take this hurricane dead-serious or they're going to be dead.

Naomi Shihab Nye

Because sometimes I live in a hurricane of words and not one of them can save me.

Lawrence Eagles

The market has coped very well with the hurricane situation on the surface, particularly on the refinery side,

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.

David Beasley

Unfortunately, it looks like Hurricane Bertha is making a major turn for the worse,

Terry Pratchett

It was the living who ignored the strange and wonderful, because life was too full of the boring and mundane.

Clive Sinclair

Hinde Esther Kreitman is a forgotten literary foremother, her works largely lost, ignored and out of print.

Dennis Poust

Now it can't be ignored and the Legislature needs to negotiate it.

Nick Cave

They all have their share of thoughts about what needs to be done. So we just ignored them.

Efraim Zuroff

totally ignored by the Israeli establishment for decades.

Gerry Reno

The residents here, they kind of see their rights as property owners being totally ignored in the process.

Michael Scott

And in their rush to create wonders, they have ignored the wonders all around them, ignored the mysteries, the beauty.

Neil Diamond

Worse than bad reviews is to be ignored.

Theodore Roosevelt

Malefactors of great wealth have arrogantly ignored the public welfare.

John Tortorella

It better not be hard. We have to maintain it.

Saku Koivu

He's a strong man, tough to maintain down low.

William McDonough

we (the Fed) will do what we have to do to maintain price stability.

Barry Hyman

I think we're going to go down to the wire whether or not it's a half-percentage point (increase). If you want to maintain market stability, a quarter percentage point could keep the market at bay.

David Pringle

It is not enough to preserve open space. We need to maintain it.

David Heyman

It is its own universe. But we try to maintain a real normalcy about it.

Joe McCormick

We maintain that our rates are competitive and reasonable and appropriate for the risk in Texas." ()

Randy McClure

We made some adjustments and put more pressure on the ball. The big thing was to maintain what we were doing and we did." ()

Jeff Garcia

I am going to do everything that I can to maintain my physical strength, maintain my physical conditioning. I'll even sit on my butt and throw the football, just so I can keep that motion intact.

Carmelo Anthony

(Karl) just told us management had to make a decision.

Donald McDonald

We've been trying to get applications out, but everything has been rejected because of his record. I would go with him to talk with some of these managers to just be a support for him.

Marc Savard

I'd like to be back here, but that's up to management. We'll see what happens.

Jill Paton Walsh

If you want to express yourself, you need the services of a lover or a psychiatrist; if you want to express a book, you might conceivably manage it.

Harold Vogel

In reality, that was going to be very messy from an antitrust standpoint and meet a lot of resistance from the top management at Hasbro. That was a whole different story,

Santigold

I pick up inspiration from everywhere and it all manages to keep stored in my brain somewhere.

Johnny Damon

I know how to manage little injuries. I can get through this.

Cyrus Broacha

I have no idea how women manage their hair. Seriously.

Woody Williams

I'm sure it was a relief for my teammates and management,

Simon Clark

We're obviously disappointed in that this is a massive shift in terms of restrictions on smoking in public places. However, it could have been a whole lot worse.

Marketing Manager

It is, however, quite rare to have a player have two massive wins within such a short space of time.

Adi Kishore

Installation is potentially a massive sinkhole for all the players in this space,

Maisie Williams

I'm used to being a small part of a massive production.

Graeme Smith

This is massive for him. Life's all about opportunities and he's had a really tough year being up and down but through performances he's worked his way back into the squad.

Judy White

This has been so very massive and different from any other we've had.

Wayne Shepperd

That's the first time massive die-offs have been reported in Colorado.

Michael Bay

It's such a massive story to tell, it would have taken nine hours,

Matt Williams

It's a massive task for us, but it's not something that we're running away from.

S. Hughes

I would take a pause and see how it goes. I think the big move has been made already.

Dale Shull

I wrestle him and he's a lot stronger. Then the same moves I try to put on him I put on the other guys, and it's a lot easier.

Bob Peck

I think it is the right time for me to move on,

Emeka Okafor

I think I stepped on somebody's foot. I'm not in too much pain, but I really can't move (the ankle).

Marty Barnes

I also haven't moved anything on my desk. Nothing has been touched.

Corey Kline

He can't show any moves until the semifinals.

John Woodring

He's done, so we have to move on.

Stone Gossard

I think when you put a new record out, everyone has a song or two that they feel people will be moved by so much that radio will be forced to play it.

Dan Evans

We just have to get the president to move it up on his priority list.

David Sanderson

We're prepared to sit down and talk, I'm not quite sure they're ready to talk yet.

Roland Mesnier

In the White House, you have to be prepared for any eventuality.

Dilip Shanghvi

I like to win without fighting. But if I can't, then I'm prepared to fight.

James Rogan

I'm prepared to win and I'm prepared to lose, but I'm not prepared to sell out my principles,

Bill Cowher

I'm prepared to latch on to his coattails and ride him for a long time.

Lonnie Bartley

I had to go into the season prepared not to have her. So we had a plan.

Herbert Smith

I'm very surprised and very shocked. We were prepared to go to trial.

John Cummings

In general, they're probably pretty prepared right now,

Scott Rogers

You've got to be prepared for them at any time.

Bob Curran

He did shoot around with us. He seems to be fine.

Tony Oller

Let's be honest, Netflix has stepped up its game up. It seems to have a lot more of an assortment of stuff.

Leslie Moonves

God, it seemed like we had shot somebody.

Mark Kantor

He said he was getting a new job. Everything seemed to be going fantastic.

Mike Sherman

He seems to understand that this is a big year for him. And I think he wants to do something about that.

Rick Comley

He seems to be right on top of things and very alert. We've always had trouble with him.

Robyn Robichaux

He seemed like his usual self, ... Same as he always was.

Kevin Burton

He's had team success, but it seems like he's always come up a little short.

Hans Blix

I think it seems ... they are making an effort.

Sam Wyche

I was in serious cabin-fever trouble being out of football,

Paul Busse

It can be taken as seriously as you want or as whimsically as you want.

Debra Brown

Had he been in the vehicle, he would have been seriously injured.

George Williams

He's got serious speed. He still has a lot of development to work on. I think he can get down in the 46's.

Robert Hall

He's a threat to society, he's a menace. We have a very serious situation here.

Michael Ballack

I am in serious negotiations with Chelsea. Nothing is signed yet, but I know what I want.

Cal Cochran

If you're serious about it, you have to put in your time. Do more than just show up for the all-star game.

Roberta Baskin

If you want to be serious about it, there has to be some enforcement mechanism.

Brian Billick

I'm told that it's not serious and it's typical.

Wayne Dyer

Any success that I've had in my life has been in spite of my education rather than because of it.

Pope Francis

Wretched are those who are vindictive and spiteful.

Joyce Carol Oates

Yet I will make you all love me and I will punish myself to spite your love.

Bette Midler

I love nature, in spite of what it did to me.

Paul Mooney

Sometimes, what you do you have no control over because it's predestined. It's gonna happen in spite of you. There's nothing you can do about it.

Brad Childress

If a daily, 'How you doing, Terrell?' is antagonistic or spiteful then I must be on the wrong planet.

Dallas Willard

Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.

John Eisenhower

I was a lieutenant in World War II.

Al Spalding

No human mind may measure the blessings conferred by the game of base ball on the soldiers of the Civil War. It had its earliest evolution when soldiers, North and South, were striving to forget their foes by cultivating, through this grand game, fraternal friendships with comrades in arms.

Dito Montiel

I have friends who have had PTSD, and you can get it from other things than war.

Robert E. Lee

Sir, if you ever presume again to speak disrespectfully of General Grant in my presence, either you or I will sever his connection with this university.

Richard Perle

Even now, the irony that so non-intellectual a man should choose to engage the Soviet Union on the battlefield of ideas has eluded most commentators and historians.

Richard Paul Evans

. . .and every native has a story of winter – stories that usually begin, You call this a storm? And grow in the telling like battle tales shared by graying war veterans. It’s a peculiar character flaw to those of us from cold climates that we feel superior to those who have the sense to live elsewhere.

Richard Holbrooke

The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.

Townsend Harris

If war should break out between England and Japan, the latter would suffer much more than the former.

Townsend Harris

In time of war steamships and improved arms are the most important things.