Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jed Connelly

August was very good for us, but we lost some momentum in the last few days due to Hurricane Katrina.

James Kennedy

August is rerun season, so we've seen this episode before...and it has the same ending: nothing is imminent.

Edward MacMahon

Your honor ... he was given a slide show. In August of 2001, Tenet was given a presentation called 'Islamic Extremist' or 'Islamic Fundamentalist Learns to Fly.

Newt Gingrich

When I visit Tibet next August I hope he and the Dalai Lama will be there to greet me,

William Gray

Even though the U.S. has experienced six major hurricane strikes since August 2004, in terms of the number of U.S. major hurricane strikes during the last 11 years (nine of 43, versus one of three for the century-long average) we have been, from this perspective, somewhat fortunate,

Steven Wood

While this will not force the Fed's hand at this week's meeting, an August tightening remains a real possibility.

Zalmay Khalilzad

At this point the determination is to meet the August 15 deadline.

Ian Shepherdson

We think Mr. Greenspan is willing to give the data a chance; it will take bad data to force an August rate hike,

Ned Riley

Today's sharp selloff shows that there were more bears on vacation in August than we thought, and they've come back nasty.

Jimmy Stewart

So much of what we have taken for granted has been ripped from us,

Michael Chambers

This grant is another validation of our technology,

David Warren

All applications are looked at on their merit. I don't have a problem with them making applications. Whether they get granted or not is a whole other issue.

Darren Sinnaeve

In the second half, we played real hard, pressed hard, got up in their faces. In the first half, we relied on 3-point shooting. We had one 2-pointe and seven 3s. Granted it was a zone defense, but we did a lot of standing around.

Mahatma Gandhi

I have had the hardihood to say that Swaraj could not be granted even by God.

Rick Sandlin

We were hollering '3,' and when I got over to the corner, he said he didn't hear it, and I probably should've called timeout and made sure he understood that. I think I took it a little too much for granted for this young man to know what to do, being down three with 18 seconds or so.

Adam Rayner

If somebody knew every time they did something it was going to be a hit there would never be any failures. Sadly, that's not how it works. You take nothing for granted.

Jeff Benedict

We got the official grant information from the state last week.

Keith Tkachuk

We have to. I think teams took us for granted and we jumped on teams early. We just have to keep doing the same no matter who's in the lineup.

John Schneider

Some people thrive on creating chaos and then operating through it, though usually that's presented as a female trait.

Bruce Beresford

I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them.

Paul Bell

Toward the end of the year, sales will revive with the release of the new Windows Vista operating system.

Renee Fleming

Very few opera singers in history have been able to cross into popular music.

Nina Hagen

I'm Opera Singer. I can sing Brecht, Weil.

Paul Takemoto

If they operate within the parameters that we set out, yes, they will be safe.

George H. W. Bush

How do you feel the operations are going?

George Allen

I think if you're going to operate a motorcycle, two wheel vehicle or three wheel vehicle you out to be insured just like I'm insured.

Carlisle Floyd

If I felt that one of my operas did not come off I would certainly say so.

Greg Smith

Victory Park has been a sore spot for a long time, and we have made that one of our priorities,

Andy Stanley

The sermon begins in the parking lot.

Peter Rohde

But it was really only a walk in the park for him.

Jeff Ross

South Park called...they want their everything back.

Joseph Lowery

I was here when Rosa Parks started and I just wanted to be here when she departed,

Nelson Mandela

which made us realize that this is an international phenomenon that we celebrate. Rosa Parks is worldwide.

Russell Brand

Life is not a theme park, and if it is, the theme is death.

Steve Frank

Parker comforted them. He was quiet and gentle. He was what they needed.

Maribeth Smith

If you want to park on the west side of downtown, come down on the west side. If you want to park east, park east, don't rely on Meridian.

Archibald MacLeish

Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never quite gets there. Summer is drawn blinds in Louisiana, long winds in Wyoming, shade of elms and maples in New England.

Barbara Kingsolver

When I look out the window, I exhale a prayer of thanks for the color green, for my children's safety, for the simple acts of faith like planting a garden that helped see us through another spring, another summer. And I inhale some kind of promise to protect my kids' hopes and good intentions we began with in this country. Freedom of speech, the protection of diversity - these are the most important ingredients of American civil life and my own survival. If I ever took them for granted, I don't know.

Busy Philipps

I have the same pet peeve as Anderson Cooper, which is bare feet in public. I hate it. It so grosses me out, especially in New York. Oh my God, New York in the summer with people and their feet in their sandals and their flip-flops, like get it away!

Alan Lightman

I go live in Maine for the summer. Without computer, and without the telephone service we are mercifully without the faxes and e-mails. So it's really about two and a half months that I'll feel like I can recover some silence in my life...which is so hard to find.

Ajay Naidu

Acting school was summer camp, and I needed concentration camp. I had so many different ideas swirling between culture and how to tie things together.

Jami Gertz

Midwest kids got to summer camp. There is something very special about being away from your parents for the first time, sleeping under the stars, hiking and canoeing.

Bruce Dern

From nine on I was forced to camp every summer. Not a volunteer. I played with the wrong kids so they made me go to camp to straighten me out.

Edmund Clarence Stedman

The weary August days are long; The locusts sing a plaintive song, The cattle miss their master's call When they see the sunset shadows fall.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I carried it (a revolver) religiously and during the summer I asked a friend, a man who had been one of Franklin's bodyguards in New York State, to give me some practice in target shooting so that if the need arose I would know how to use the gun.

Scotty McCreery

For me, the best vacation is just relaxing on the couch!

Jay Chiat

In the '20s they were telling us wed all have our own private plane and take vacations to the moon.

Freddy Adu

I don't know French at all. I took some lessons when I was younger but all I know are the numbers. I've been told basically everyone in Monaco speaks English because of it being a huge vacation spot so I'm excited about that. I might not need to learn French after all.

Warren Buffett

During inflation, Goodwill is the gift that keeps on giving.

Walter Annenberg

Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound.

Mark Twain

Make your vocation your vacation. That is the secret to success.

P. J. O'Rourke

Everybody in 15th century Spain was wrong about where China was and as a result, Columbus discovered Caribbean vacations.

Ed Helms

You take a vacation to a place like Thailand and you're ready for the excitement of something new and foreign. But when you're working 14-hour days, all you want is something familiar to ground you. And there's just nothing there.