Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bruce Russell

A man who's got a very nice tractor would rather perhaps have it inside with a blanket on it and perhaps put his wife outside.

Dakota Fanning

I have always wanted to act ever since I was a little girl. I would put a blanket under my shirt and pretend that I was pregnant. Then, I would go through childbirth.

David Blunkett

I'm in favour of a sensible development of response units and their deployment in any circumstance where there may be a risk to the officers themselves or the neighbourhood they're in. I'm not in favour of a blanket arming of the police.

Al Goldman

A wet blanket was provided by the Palm offering.

Zell Miller

Now is the time. This is our time. Call and write our senators and organize and tell your friends to do the same. Cover this process in a blanket of prayer. ... This is our chance to be doers of the word and not hearers only.

Jeff Neary

It was very surreal, it was very traditional. We were bringing offerings, and I had a blanket in my hands, offering it to Chief Julio.

Mike Robinson

This was a shift from a person selling on the street on a blanket to being in a more closed environment. It suggests that it requires a little more work on their part. It's good that we are forcing them further underground.

Edgar Mitchell

I am very, very incredulous about what I see. I can't throw caveats in. I don't make blanket statements.

Philip Mangano

Don't give them just a blanket and a bowl of soup. Give them housing and services, and eventually that person goes out and gets a job.

Gideon Gono

We are a guilty party from a technical point of view, ... All we can do is to plead mitigatory circumstances to our arrears situation and pray that the jury will see for itself how genuine our efforts at self correction are.

Peter Power

We're not going to say anything tonight, under no circumstances.

Bertrand Russell

Happiness, as is evident, depends partly upon external circumstances and partly upon oneself.

Tony Wagner

We're sorry about the circumstances, ... but we're glad to have a young man and a football player of his caliber.

Greg Craig

When we have received assurances that Juan Miguel will be able to take custody of his son, but under circumstances that require him to remain in this country for a period of time, we will also be seeking permission for a support group of Elian's classmates, teachers and doctors to come to the United States to help smooth the transition,

Simon Brown

We're still reviewing the circumstances surrounding the shooting. Most of the investigation is complete. At this point, we're largely in the evaluation stage of the review.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Let us resolve to be happy regardless of our circumstance.

Edward Gorey

More is happening out there than we are aware of. It is possibly due to some unknown direful circumstance.

Pat Kennedy

We're experiencing some of the same financial circumstances some of our districts are.

Madhur Bhandarkar

I like reading a lot. Jeffrey Archer and Robert Ludlum are my favourite authors. I love making realistic cinema, so I read non-fiction more.

Noel Redding

My personal favourite is Jeff Beck. All the others are wonderful as well.

Carol Vorderman

Change is one of my favourite words.

Ma Jian

I am completely in favour of dialogue and engagement. But it must be a true, open dialogue.

Tony Benn

At the end of my life, I was told to vote for it for pensioners; I' m not in favour of means tests for pensioners or anybody.

Virat Kohli

As a kid, even I knew everything about my favourite cricketers. I used to know everything possible. Now I see kids knowing about me. It feels good.

Aravind Adiga

Any good society survives on a circulation of favours.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour.

David Miliband

My favourite poem is called 'Roots and Wings' - it's a very moving poem about how if you've got real roots you can fly.

Christyne Nicholas

A lot of the stereotypes went away after Sept. 11 of us being rude and unwelcoming. For the first time, our police officers and our firefighters were a tourist attraction.

Don James

It puts officers in a situation where they have to think about protecting people or violating policy.

Chris Rankin

Officers immediately went to the school and everything was fine.

Charles Ramsey

There was a convoy of delegates that got trapped by the crowds, and the officers were trying to get them out,

Laura Hudson

What's taking place in our state is that the officers are placed on trial, not the defendants.

Linwood Norman

But we are, too. We're putting 50 more police officers on the streets.

Ron Moran

But the reality is that we don't live in Mr. Rogers' neighborhood anymore. The reality is that our officers should be armed.

Jay Wright

Getting on the bus, police officers know everybody. People walking down the street know all the players' names. It is fun, but it is a challenge.

Robert Patton

I wouldn't use the word embarrassed. The officers performed admirably, so I'm proud of them.

Tasneem Ahmed

We are awaiting New Delhi's response on it.

Kurt Vonnegut

Humor is an almost physiological response to fear.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Response, when asked how he came upon his theorems.

William Levada

It's not surprising that there's been no response

Rob Gorman

I've never seen a response like this. I'm really amazed.

Robert Menendez

You would have thought we had a picture-perfect response to Katrina,

Jesse Cole

We did not get any response with that either.

Bill Daly

The responses we are getting in-market have been very strong, virtually without exception.

Mike Williams

The response has been phenomenal. We are totally in awe, and proud.

Theresa Wise

This is a fantastically sensible idea. With the convergence of telecom and broadcasters through interactive television, there is a real need for a single regulator.

Michael Adams

It was a tough call, but a sensible one.

Charles Kennedy

Ours is a stable country. Ours is a sensible country. And ours is a fundamentally decent country.

Matthias Platzeck

Arbitration is a sensible suggestion which it is worth discussing.

Georg Greve

There could be something that addresses this if we can find a sensible way to put it.

Albert Camus

Still, obviously, one can't be sensible all the time.

Paul Ashworth

It is quite sensible for them to sit back and see where they are.

John Henry Newman

It is God himself who can be discovered in the beauty of sensible things.

Gustav Mahler

I live like a Hottentot. I cannot exchange one sensible word with anyone.