Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Walters

I think it's a great fit. (Kirk's) been really good with Department 56 and Byers' Choice.

James McDonough

I think it really puts the department on very solid footing to do its missions and do it in a streamlined and effective manner. This is a very healthy and very positive realignment.

Jerry Moran

I always assumed the Department of Agriculture was the farmer and rancher's friend.

Jenny Manley

He sees a discussion about moving FEMA from under the jurisdiction of the Department of Homeland Security as an excellent starting point in efforts to make the federal government more responsive in emergencies.

Joel Klatt

I think it's important to most of us because of exactly what it provides to the whole program. Obviously, the whole department gets a little national respect. Hopefully, we go down there and put together a solid effort and get recognized on a national stage where we feel we belong.

Laura Blackann

He has not been subpoenaed nor has he been contacted by the Justice Department or the FBI.

Michael Duffy

He loved his fire department and all the men in it,

Jerry Woods

Really just taking a look at each department individually and making sure it is up to the standards that we expect out of any one of our homes.

Tasia Scolinos

O.P.R. routinely looks into issues of this kind. They will not be making a determination on the lawfulness of the N.S.A. program, but rather will determine whether the department lawyers complied with their professional obligations.

Jim Clarke

Going back to the farm and isolating the virus will let us determine whether we have a concern.

Joe Barker

What is a threat to national security and who determines what is a threat to national security?

Alexei Miller

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

Jeanne Shaheen

I think we need to get the measurements that Congress has mandated from the White House on how we're going to determine progress in Afghanistan.

Ron Averill

We have to be excited about the opportunities we have tomorrow. We have a lot of guys who are looking at winning matches on the back side and that's really what is going to determine the team championship. It's on the shoulders of the guys on the back side.

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.

Donald Powell

Rebuilding should not become an exercise in centralized planning. If federal bureaucrats determine the path of rebuilding, local insight and initiative will be overrun and local needs overlooked.

Donn Walker

Our policy is to let each resort determine its own smoking policy.

Tomas Vokoun

You can't stop 40 or 45 shots a night and expect to win. Detroit has five Hall of Fame players on the team. You can't give them 45 shots.

Karen Pagoda

They had to go from Shanghai to Narita, then Narita to Detroit, then Detroit to Albany.

Charles Barkley

This is the most wide open I've ever seen the NBA playoffs. The only thing that would surprise me is if San Antonio and Detroit aren't in the Finals. Anything else wouldn't surprise me.

Larry Alexander

The mood in Comerica Park, downtown Detroit and around the region during All-Star Week was electrifying, and our residents were welcoming, happy and proud of metro Detroit as their hometown.

David Healy

Detroit will slap on big incentives, and we'll be back to normal.

Rick Carlisle

Detroit played great. They really hurt us on the boards. We didn't play a good game and they had a lot to do with it.

David Gardner

Detroit is our weakest market and upstate is second, ... We try to operate at a 95 percent occupancy level and we haven't seen that for a number of years in upstate

Greg Aiello

Detroit is doing a great job pulling all the elements together. It's our version of the Winter Olympics, and it is a Winter Olympics year.

P. J. O'Rourke

Detroit is beautiful - though you probably have to be a child of the industrial Midwest, like me, to see it.

Ray Arvidson

I wouldn't be surprised as we move uphill that we find a section of the rock, in fact, that was modified in a shallow open-water environment. We haven't found the smoking-gun evidence for that yet.

Jack Boatwright

There are still places where you can see evidence of the 1906 earthquake. You just have to know where to look.

Ken Tower

What would make me more optimistic is if there was evidence that money on the sidelines is being put to work. But I'm not convinced.

Michael Shermer

Having a Nobel Prize or being a famous scientist will get you a week to a week and a half, metaphorically speaking, of a hearing for your new idea, but after that, it's going to tank if you don't have the evidence and support for it.

David Scott

He's a liar, in the view of the commissioner, except when it comes to his evidence about what he and Mr. Pelletier did together.

Mark Schneider

It is actually one of the really strong pieces of evidence in the report that we should be celebrating.

William Brennan

There is a lack of evidence in this case.

Kamal

There is no evidence to support this, ... This is just an unlikely assumption. If that were the case, then there would have been gunmen with the suicide bombers. There were no gunmen.

Amy Johnson

There is no evidence that there will be a shortage of flu vaccines this year. We do not expect to ration the vaccine or limit it to those at high risk of complications from flu because there should be enough for everyone.

Lucy Caldwell

Getting the factual information out there is important and that is what we are doing.

Gary Gait

He just gets fired up and thrives on that challenge.

Sheila Hyland

In this business, it's the rule, not the exception, that you'll probably get fired once in your career.

Dan Hammerschmidt

Caleb's done a great job all spring. His release has improved, his passing has improved. He knows the offense and he's fired up to get back out there and get going.

Mo Elleithee

Can someone tell me where to send the thank-you note? The president fired up our base.

Natalie Gulbis

I have not seen players be this fired up about something in the five years I've been out here.

Andre Lo

I'm sure they're all fired up. I think we're ready. The kids are all ready to go, and we don't have any serious injuries, just some nicks.

Gary Sheffield

I know these guys are out of it and trying to be spoilers, ... I was just trying to get the team as fired up as you can. When a team is out of it, you try to take the wind out of them. But they showed their resiliency.

Dale Jarrett

I'm fired up about this. I don't understand it.

Jeremiah Craft

You could tell he was fired up. We're all proud of him, we knew he could do the job.

Robert Scheer

We talk about a free press. These people hide, they make a lot of money off the media. They hide behind the slogans of free press, and then they can come out with crap like that. It's just garbage. It's insulting to the readers.

Roseanne Barr

Facts and data, rather than opinion, are the two cornerstones of problem solving, and yet they are consistently withheld from the people by American media. We must have facts and data in order to recognize where there is a problem!

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Persisting social crisis, the emergence of a charismatic personality, and the exploitation of mass media to obtain public confidence would be the steppingstones in the piecemeal transformation of the United States into a highly controlled society.

Sandra Cisneros

This is the age of fear and so many of us feel afraid to speak out about what has happened to our lives in the wake of 9/11. Television promotes the world as a scary place for the United States and this justifies peeling away every element of privacy we had before. The media is monopolized so we don't even hear a lot of dissent about this new era.

Zoe Saldana

I never like to get political, but when you have the ability, through your media, to influence a large mass of people, I would want to be a part of the evolving cycle of progress vs. keeping things the way that they are.

Tim Henman

Our media is possibly the worst in the world.

Mark Twain

If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.

Leon Wieseltier

Incorruptibility by money is the old story, ... Now it's incorruptibility by media.

Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

The corporations and the media don't need power; they already have it.

Don Lynn

It's not a one-shot deal. It's an ongoing situation.

Bruce Ross

This has been an ongoing story for us.

Loyiso Pulumani

This has been an ongoing problem in our province.

Doug Bachert

This has been an ongoing pattern with him for years, decades. This is not going to stop.

Alex Wright

This is part of an ongoing operation taking place throughout the metro.

Tiffany Townsend

An investigation is ongoing about the accident, and we're still trying to find out what happened.

Joe Tiberi

Those talks are ongoing today and they are progressing well.

Efraim Levy

If they don't get their sales up, it's not going to be enough. There is going to be ongoing restructuring.

Craig Johnson

We perceive this to be an ongoing threat that will be there for many years to come.

Jim Baker

He said he wouldn't sell out to the special interests, and it's my opinion that he has,

Umberto Eco

It is obvious that the newspaper produces the opinion of the readers.

Jim Rogers

Acknowledge the complexity of the world and resist the impression that you easily understand it. People are too quick to accept conventional wisdom, because it sounds basically true and it tends to be reinforced by both their peers and opinion leaders, many of whome have never looked at whether the facts support the received wisdom. It's a basic fact of life that many things "everybody knows" turn out to be wrong.

Luther Burbank

All my work has come about through a change in my earlier opinion of religion.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Power is founded upon opinion.

Emmanuil Kaidanov

It's nice, but it is the opinion of those people who take the poll.

Lonnie Donegan

My original opinion still stands. I don't think he should have put it out.

Joey Logano

If you don't really know someone, everyone forms an opinion. That's part of life.

Moby

It's almost like a sign of mental illness to base your self-worth on the opinions of complete strangers, you know?

William S. Burroughs

Scientology is a model control system, a state in fact with its own courts, police, rewards and penalties.

Robert Peel

The police are the public and the public are the police

Walter Mosley

The police and I have a deal. I don't talk to them and they don't listen to me.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

I know L.A. well, but it's a police state.

Khaled Hosseini

You have extreme poverty and high crime and you have to admit that the governance of the Kabul regime has been poor and has been losing its popular legitimacy. You have a corrupt police force, not to mention homelessness, joblessness. The problems are huge.

John Knight

It's running a lot smoother than what it was at the old police station.

Moby

I'm not sure how healthy it is to shoot police helicopters with bazookas.

Kim Stanley Robinson

The minimum that most minimalists want leaves in place just the institutions who protect their interests. That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.

Kim Stanley Robinson

That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.

Maria Edgeworth

Confidence is the best proof of love.

Peter Greenaway

Too many proofs spoil the truth.

Agnes Repplier

Wit is a thing capable of proof.

Karen Osborne

This is identification at the polls, not proof of citizenship.

Andrew Wiles

Fermat said he had a proof.

Rick Rubin

For me the Beatles are proof of the existence of God.

Marlene Dietrich

Tenderness is greater proof of love than the most passionate of vows.

Mariska Hargitay

Life begins at 40, and I'm living proof.

Mason Cooley

The suburbs: signs of life, but no proofs.

Justin Gray

I take tough shots all season. I do take a lot of them. You end up making some.

Keith Bogans

We've got to make the shots when they double-team Yao. That's what it comes down to.

Rafael Benitez

Today, every time we shot it was a goal.

Russ Crist

We made the shots to win the game. They just had enough time to get one off.

Omar Minaya

He has a real shot to make this club. He's not here for show. He's here to make the club.

David Aebischer

He faked the shot and I pretty much went for it.

Sammy Mejia

He made a tough shot at a big time.

William S. Burroughs

If I knew how much you loved me, I would’ve shot you sooner.

Andrew Johnson

I know it sounds cliche, but I tried to take it one shot at a time. I really just tried to stay in the moment.

Justin Gray

I take tough shots all season. I do take a lot of them. You end up making some.

Keith Bogans

We've got to make the shots when they double-team Yao. That's what it comes down to.

Russ Crist

We made the shots to win the game. They just had enough time to get one off.

William S. Burroughs

If I knew how much you loved me, I would’ve shot you sooner.

Alan Nicholl

They had taken 20 shots but they hadn't scored so we were right in it.

Mark Richard

We're getting closer. At least we didn't give up 52 shots this time.

Kareem Rodriguez

The shots that usually go down weren't going down. It was one shot and out for us.

Tom Tupa

I've taken shots for it. It hasn't worked. That's disappointing.

Hines Ward

We thought we could take some shots in the air. We're an experienced team and we took our chances.

Jim Glassman

He does speak more like a professor. He's a straight shooter.

Sarah Palin

Stand up, speak out, and be bold. Screw political correctness. Never let them tell you to sit down and shut up.

Sandra Cisneros

Don't be afraid to say what you don't know, and speak for what you do know. Say, "I can't speak for all Latinas, but I can speak for me and tell you very, very honestly."

Milan Kundera

Speak truth to power.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

You can't hear God speak to someone else, you can hear him only when you are being addressed.

Emmeline Pankhurst

[To the heckler who said, 'If you were my wife I'd poison you':] No, you wouldn't. I'd do it myself.

Darian Townes

It's my first time to see him in person. I'm going to take some of what he speaks about and try to put it in my game.

David McFarren

It's upsetting for me. I can't speak for everyone else, but I know it's upsetting for me.

Seth Vining

That speaks well of the team. But we still have a lot of work to do.

Don Brunell

What we suggest is that they look at ones already in place to see if they are necessary.

Mark Ellis

I just feel good. I didn't think anything of it until (Mark) Kotsay said, 'If you get a chance, keep running.

Robert Harrison

I'll be here every year until I die.

Charlotte Rampling

I haven't got ambitions. Actually, I'm determined not to die until I get very old. I want to be a great-great-great-grandmother.

Ozzie Guillen

If not then he'll have to wait until Monday.

Carol Davis

If I was the council, I wouldn't want to wait until July. It's been too long.

Rita Ora

I never knew how small L.A. was until I started to work here.

J. Horton

I'm not going to do anything until it's at least two-thirds full.

Josh Trank

I'm a believer that you shouldn't really talk about the drawing until you're done with the drawing.

E. O. Wilson

It's not a sport until it's in the Olympics.

Devin Brown

There are so many different ways you can do that.

Tom Daschle

I think it's important for us to try to find ways to work together,

Nathan Rosane

In U.S. ways so that when we leave, we don't have to come back.

Phil Savage

There are other ways to get up there to get him.

Andrew Jones

It's really sad, but in a lot of ways it was time.

Warren McCormick

Not at all. But there are ways to do it properly." ()

Andy Reid

Offensively, we've got a ways to go now. We need to get back on track.

Mike Stoops

More and more we need to find ways to get them on the field. They are very athletic, and I think they can contribute.

Emma Roberts

There's not a lot of original ways to get attention in the press.