Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joan Didion

The shock of it was that this time, she had a lot of strength, ... Her husband and I assumed she'd overcome it.

Kim Cattrall

I always assumed that, like my mother before me, one day I would have children. When I was 5, my fantasy was to have a hundred dogs and a hundred kids.

Loretta Swit

M*A*S*H offered real characters and everybody identified with them because they had such soul. The humor was intelligent and it always assumed that you had an intellect.

James dyer

We had assumed or hoped for today to be so much more than yesterday. Isn't it strange how we do nothing and expect different outcomes.

Marcus Williams

Some people assumed I would go from 12 to 20, that is what I was hearing.

Michael McCoy

I assumed the patient was dead or injured beyond resuscitation," ()

Tom Lantos

Our neighbor Canada has 2,200 troops serving in Afghanistan. Canada has also assumed responsibility for the Provincial Reconstruction Team in Kandahar, which was originally established by our own military.

Rebecca MacKinnon

The early idealists and companies and governments have all assumed that the Internet will bring freedom. Yet China proves that this is not the case.

Chris Rupkey

The curve should be flattening if the Fed is assumed to be still tightening.

Michael Mahoney

Applications are the only place where you can get the type of growth to justify a premium multiple for Oracle's stock. Going forward, Oracle will get 10 percent growth out of the database side at best.

Albert Lin

Right now the industry is all about data traffic.

Norihiro Fujito

The scenario of a double-dip recession in the United States has receded in recent weeks but the industrial production data show that Japan is looking very vulnerable should that view prove too optimistic,

John Canavan

It was a little stronger than expected, but the sentiment data really hasn't been a major issue here. We're really still reacting to the payroll data.

Ken Goldstein

These data suggest the post-holiday labor market will remain relatively soft -- probably delivering a little less than 200,000 new jobs a month on average.

Steven Wood

These data suggest that a manufacturing turnaround has not yet arrived.

Steven Wood

These data provide some encouraging news for the factory sector, as unwanted inventories are being worked off and shipments have bounced.

Julie Gerberding

These data indicate that the magnitude of the problem is larger than we once thought,

Steven Wood

These data indicate that the economy is slowing quickly and may now actually be in recession.

Joey Skaggs

As a news story, I'm just a subject, not a person. My early performances were provocative, so I was stereotypically portrayed as a counter-cultural figure by the mainstream media.

Keith Newman

Defensively, I think we've got to get off to a better start than what we have. I think we've got to go out there and set the tone early in the game.

Cilla Black

There's a whole generation out there who don't know that I was a pop singer in the early days.

Jake Shields

I've only seen two of his fights, and it was hard to get a feel for him because he had his man on the ground most of the time. I'm going to have to feel him out early on and see what he's got.

Brian Jones

The September report was taken too early to get the full effect.

Billy Steed

The worst part was (our play) late in the second quarter and early in the third quarter. We weren't scoring, and they were hitting threes, and that's not a good combination.

E. O. Wilson

The wind was whipping, and it was raining hard early on.

David Satcher

The window of opportunity for effective interventions opens early and rarely, if ever, closes,

W. S. Gilbert

The wickets will be similar to what the players will face early in the season at the SCG,

Jon Bolin

Randy puts more effort into his game than any player I've worked with. Sometimes he even goes a little overboard with (weightlifting).

Debby Padgett

Our efforts are coordinated, and we are working toward a fabulous event in 2007. Not only for 2007, but beyond.

David Brock

These are all parts of an effort by the administration to manipulate information.

Jane Hirshfield

I see poetry as a path toward new understanding and transformation, and so I've looked at specific poems I love, and at poetry's gestures in the broadest sense, in an effort to feel and learn what they offer from the inside.

Rob Stutzman

that they're supporting efforts that have a long-standing positive influence on the state.

John Tortorella

That's not saying he doesn't have the ability, but he gets everything out of himself every night. And when he's not going, it's not working for him, you know the effort is going to be there.

Pete Hoffman

That's not really the effort I was looking for today. This group's been able to get up for some big games, but today they just didn't get up for it.

Toby Bickel

We've struggled the last half of the season off and on. I was pleased with our effort and our execution, for the most part.

Bob Punter

We want to come out and play like it's 26-24 and we're playing a huge game down the road. We need to have 32 minutes of good, solid effort and focus.

Kate Fleetwood

The Forest of Arden, where I grew up, is where As You Like It is set. It was idyllic.

Bill Nye

If you just take a single human and put him or her in the forest he or she might not do very well without some sort of education which he got or she got from some tribe.

Freddy Mella

There has been so much forest lost all over the country, and it takes years for trees to grow back. This is why so many rivers are drying up as well, everything suffers with the loss of our forests.

Dan Hampton

It was a perfect storm of talent, personalities, direction, goals and dominance.

Ron Wilson

We're 3-0 and scored 15 goals since we picked up Thornton. It's kind of nice, the things you were hoping would happen with the trade have.

Charley Juris

Especially considering that the Bruins scored 11 goals on Robinson the previous week.

Chris Carter

Even though he let in six goals, Jacob measured up to the task. He did a great job spotting shots.

Tim Rooney

(East Central) has a lot of talent. They are really offensive-minded and they can score a lot of goals.

Don Robertson

We all have a role and part to play and by each of us living the 'dream', we will ultimately reach the goals set by Dr. King. It takes everyone doing their part and taking a stand.

Jason Tapp

At the half, we were in it. They just ran away with it after making some goals over penalties. It just wasn't there.

Rob Siris

We did a lot of things well (against West Orange). We kept Jacob Simon (23 goals and 23 assists) in check.

Cristy McKinney

We did a little better in the second half than we did in the first. We had to set new goals at halftime. At least we didn't give up 60 points in the second half.

David Packard

Management by Walking Around

Peter Drucker

Management by objectives works if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.

Peter Drucker

Management by objectives works if you first think through your objectives. Ninety percent of the time you haven't.

Lawrence Miller

Management offered a strategic update with no real surprises.

Horace

Anger is short-lived madness.

Palle Pedersen

In Iowa, we have a 32,000-an-acre plant population, spray, and harvest. There is no in-season management. It's all in the seeds.

Sam Bhavnani

It's an uphill battle, but they seem poised to be able to do it. And the reason I say that is they have a strong management team in place.

Jeff Siegel

Our traffic management is substantial and works quite well.

C. S. Lewis

Where, except in the present, can the eternal be met?

Robert Galvan

We met the trainers and after a while, we were singing together.

Sheila E.

Don't forget, I was a musician long before I ever met Prince. That's a big difference between me and those other women he's worked with. We operate on the same plane, as equals.

Paul Boyce

We could've met a nobody next but that would've been no use to anyone.

Barney Oliver

Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.

Seth Lloyd

I would suggest, merely as a metaphor here, but also as the basis for a scientific program to investigate the computational capacity of the universe, that this is also a reasonable explanation for why the universe is complex.

Scott Snyder

- If I tell you, will you let met go? - You bet, partner. [...] - You promised! - Nope. I said "you bet." You did ... and you lost.

Mike Tyson

Sarah Palin met the wombshifter! Old Sarah and the wombshifter.

John von Neumann

All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled.

Michael White

People train for this all year like the Olympics.

Matt Smith

People think snow is the sole reason we go out, and it's a total misnomer.

Jennifer Lee

People think of fortune cookies as being Chinese, but in essence, they are fundamentally American.

Lauri Ward

People think it's going to make the room look bigger, but it's going to make it look worse.

Sarah Davis

People think, 'It's a winter hike, I don't have to take as much water,' but they do.

Craig Newmark

Our sites are run by the people who use them. We just pretty much provide the infrastructure.

Jack Gillis

Our sense is that people don't have enough put away for a rainy day.

Lee Miller

Other people tend to value you the way you value yourself,

and City

the sort of person who'd back Proposition 14.

Paul Stoddart

And we were only seeing, at best, the sort of mid-30s.

Bruce Sevy

We all kind of get to go to Italy. Sometimes you just need a break, and that's sort of what this play is about.

Before Veeder

When it did, it really hurt, and that's when I started getting trouble. It was like $280,000 we lost. I sort of got stupid.

Robert Manne

You have short-term winners and losers, and that's the toughest thing to sort out.

Pat Gillick

more of a staying-in-touch, passing-through sort of thing.

Thom Browne

I always like playing with some sort of typical convention or idea and turning it over.

Ray Stevenson

I feel like I don't exist. It's like I'm some sort of an alias.

Jay Frank

We have one person in custody. They are still trying to sort things out.

Jeremy Trill

Things are going very well. I am surprised how well it's going.

Frank Sacks

This is really groundbreaking. We were very surprised by this data.

Dan Garton

Do they like what we're doing? No. Are they surprised by it? No.

Steve Smith

We weren't surprised by any of them. We were just surprised by so many of them. In my recollection, that's the most anomalies that's ever come up.

Dana Cody

We are disappointed but not surprised with the judge's ruling.

Janet Reno

I was surprised that there were so many

Jim Noonan

I was surprised that one didn't go in too.

Tom Poti

I was surprised I had that much time.

George Whalin

I would be very surprised if Kmart doesn't completely go away in the two to three years, or become something completely different,

C. S. Lewis

The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

Louis MacNeice

I do not envy any animal, though I envy many of their capacities.

Edgar Allan Poe

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Edgar Allan Poe

To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.

John Dryden

And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm

David Mitchell

There's been very little writing about speech impediments, even though it's this huge psychological barrier.

Anu Garg

Hindi is my mother tongue. Even though I do not get to use it as often, it's still a part of me.

Katie Jacobs

Even though they are competitors, we really wanted to do the right thing by the users and give them other choices.

Mike Eaves

Even though we've slipped a little bit, we understand that at the end of the year is when it truly matters.