Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin Cothran

This is an attempt to religiously sterilize the teaching of history in our schools.

George E. Pataki

They endured life-threatening ... conditions and executed an extremely difficult and dangerous rescue mission ... It took courage and heroism for people to conclude that they would make the effort and attempt that rescue mission.

Alejandro Toledo

They are dressing up the results without listening to the will of the people, ... I want them to know if they attempt to twist the will of the people that I will be the first to go to the streets at the front of the line, to defend the rights of the nation.

Angelo Bitsis

There was no resistance, no attempt to flee or anything like that. It was a very, I hate to use the word, it was a very routine investigation and arrest. Just so happens that he's someone who is of some prominence and so everyone is making a big deal of it.

Pip Coburn

This is yet another failed attempt to jam everything into one device. The way I see it, they don't really know what they want it to be.

David Gregory

There's been an attempt to put reporters on the spot and question the motivation of reporters. It is irritating, and I for one think it's an attempt by the White House to change the focus from what is a legitimate question to what the talking point is. It's an effort to cast the media as out for red meat.

Ben Kingsley

There's always a part of me that's migrating. That's so much part of my attempt to portray all these different men. The sense of being displaced from my home, homeland and language is a very real part of my working life.

Bud Shark

It's a very basic studio setup, so we don't attempt to do very elaborate projects. Everything (including the press) packs up into a closet so it is out of the weather and out of John's way when he is there.

Netta Meltzer

It's a beautiful program, and I'm so fortunate to get so much help. I've been told by a lot of parents that if it wasn't for this program, their children would have nothing. We have to remember them. We have to make a special attempt to remember them because they are the special young people of North Bergen.

Ali LeRoi

We were just trying to cast a great kid that kind of embodied the idea of the character. A young kid who kind of felt put upon, who wasn't too cocky and who was a little unsure of himself.

Brian Harris

She passed our way and we are proud to have loved her. She cast a light that made our path the easier to tread.

Mark Roman

Sometimes do I think it was unjust? Yeah, but I can think about it all I want - it (isn't) going to change what's going on this year. I'm trying to put all that stuff as far away from my mind as I can possibly get it and just move on and try to prosper in this new year.

Rodney Garner

That's not going to help market their children at all. We fast forward through most of that (fancy production) stuff and get to the meat of it: Can they run? Can they change directions? Do they have feet?

Jim Albaugh

That's not going to change just because Secretary Rumsfeld might move on, any more than tomorrow we might decide we're going to throw away our computers and start writing letters again.

Lee Rainie

That's just a reflection of a change in the online population. The typical user is no longer a young, white man, highly educated with lots of money. The Internet population is now more like America.

Irina Slutskaya

That's life and you can't change anything, you know. We can't decide. If this is the rules, we can't do something. She's pretty young. I think the next Olympics will be for her.

William Cox

You're probably going to have to wait six months before you see a change as far as growing hair.

Richard Long

You wouldn't change the song yet, because all of the regulatory outcomes are yet to come.

Ty Eustice

You still can't forget about losing. That's got to be more in the front of my head, it's got to drive me more than getting third. Something's gotta change on bottom. I don't know what it is, but it's not for lack of effort because I was dead tired after that match.

Tracey Gold

Your life can change on a flip of a coin. The choices you make are crucial. We feel somehow we're safe. But things can change in a flash.

Debby Padgett

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

Sarah Fay

It takes someone incredibly strong to lead that effort in that organization. If you want people to fall in line, you have to get someone at the helm who is highly credible. And I think she is.

Gary Overton

It takes a large group of people to make everything work. It takes a lot of work and a lot of effort to put on a tournament like this. It's fine-tuned to minute.

Bernie Bickerstaff

It was just a really good team effort and a very significant game.

Lee Snyder

It was just a pretty good solid effort for us throughout the game.

James Marshall

It was just an outstanding effort from the whole squad of 23 players, they all turned up to play.

Barry Hyman

The war effort seems to be going extremely well, much better than people thought it would.

Joseph Allen

They did nothing after the effort that was made last March.

Pat Riley

They are one of, if not the best, effort teams in the league. We were very fortunate to win the game. We had to play that kind of game, defense-oriented and tough.

Reggie Evans

If you do your normal routine, you tend just to focus on that. You're not really thinking about (the test).

Pete Carroll

It has never been a focus of our program to look at the end of the rainbow kind of thing.

Rod Barnes

I think our kids are working hard. My focus is to make sure we move forward and get better.

Mike Commodore

I think our focus is very good on the road. We don't have any distractions. We stick to our systems, we keep it simple. I think that's why. Maybe it's something else, I don't know, but when it comes right down to it, it's our focus.

David Ortiz

I just try to shut everything down and just focus on what I want to do at the plate in those situations. Most of the time I try to not do too much because I get in trouble when I try to do too much. It happens to everybody.

Lindsay McCargar

I just don't think our focus was there (on the game).

Cindy Sheehan

I put myself out there, and I'm willing to take it. But I think the focus has been on the messenger and not the message.

Charlie Bell

By keeping our focus on our customers, McDonald's competitive position is strengthening, ... McDonald's U.S. performance for the month and quarter was particularly impressive considering the hurricanes and heavy rains.

Larry Silverstein

Clearly, there are some issues that need to be resolved. But for today, my focus, like that of all New Yorkers, is on getting the Freedom Tower underway.

Amy Poehler

Prince Harry this week toured the Jersey Shore with New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. It was the first meeting between the Prince, of the House of Windsor, and the Governor, of the House of Pancake.

Mary Leakey

I'd rather be in a tent than in a house.

Patti Page

When there's friction in the house, the only answer is good manners.

George Herbert

An old friend is a new house.

George Herbert

After the house is finisht, leave it.

Isabel Paterson

One genius is about all a house will hold.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The scaffolding must be removed once the house is built.

Harry Belafonte

Colin Powell's committed to come into the house of the master. When Colin Powell dares to suggest something other than what the master wants to hear, he will be turned back out to pasture.

Harold MacMillan

You can hardly say boo to a goose in the House of Commons now without cries of "Ungentlemanly," "Not fair" and all the rest.

Tony Blair

You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of the time that's healthy and indeed even creative. But it's where - it's really when news organisations are used as kind of instruments of politics that it gets tricky.

Ayn Rand

Since time immemorial and pre-industrial, 'greed' has been the accusation hurled at the rich by the concrete-bound illiterates who were unable to conceive of the source of wealth or of the motivation of those who produce it.

Tom Hardy

Every time you need protein, get yourself a boiled egg in. But your main meals would be chicken, or hummus, or white fish. You can lose about a pound a day. But you can do this stuff over a period of time, and you can have your happy days. It's about motivation and it has to be something that's realistic for you to keep up.

John Wooden

The individual who is mistake-free is also probably sitting around doing nothing. And that is a very big mistake.

Michael Hansmeyer

[There are] unseen objects that await us, if we as architects begin to think about designing not the object, but a process to generate objects.

William Graham Sumner

Hunger, love, vanity, and fear. There are four great motives of human action.

Zig Ziglar

Once a need is satisfied, it is no longer a motivator. Satisfaction does not increase motivation

Zig Ziglar

A positive attitude and personal motivation allow you to remain excited about what you are doing - no matter how difficult the challenges may be day to day.

Zig Ziglar

The past is your LESSON. The present is your GIFT. The future is your MOTIVATION.

Zig Ziglar

Why we are here is important, but to know where we are going is imperative. It's not what you've got, it's what you use, that makes a difference in how your life turns out.

Tom Izzo

There's no question he's pressing right now and I kind of feel for him.

Ann Gard

They're so crispy. You're talking a long time ago here.

David Mamet

Hitchcock denigrated American films, saying they were all 'pictures of people talking' - as, indeed, most of them are.

Herbie Hancock

To my wife, I'm not Herbie Hancock the musician. I'm her husband. When I'm talking to a neighbor, I'm a neighbor. When I vote, I'm a citizen.

Linda Chavez

Their prejudice allowed white Southerners to look the other way when blacks were denied their most basic human rights, and it encouraged the worst of them to engage in unspeakable acts of cruelty and violence.

Kevin Hart

I love soft-cotton white T-shirts.

Kelly Osbourne

It's funny that all these goths paint their faces with such white make-up and that is the actual colour of my skin, I am that pale!

Lennox Lewis

There is just one rule about boxing: never bet on the white guy.

Karl Popper

no matter how many instances of white swans we may have observed, this does not justify the conclusion that all swans are white.

Paul Lynde

My kitchen is not a place to live in. I made it white so I can tell instantly if it's not clean-and I like it clean enough to be able to eat off the floors-or the tables,for that matter.

George MacDonald

Joy cannot unfold the deepest truths. Cometh white-robed Sorrow, stooping and wan, and flingeth wide the door she must not enter.

John Crowe Ransom

Would you ascend to Heaven and bodiless dwell? Or take your bodies honorless to Hell? In Heaven you have heard no marriage is, No white flesh tinder to your lecheries

Joel Osteen

For a while... to be an evangelical meant you were a white Republican, and you were against this and against that. I don't want to be put into that mold, because then people judge you before they even listen... I don't want to divide the very people I am trying to reach.