Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lenny Goldberg

Various companies have sought refundable credits, and those have been rejected as essentially corporate welfare or handouts based not on economics but solely based on special pleadings.

Justin Hawkins

There's no way that a fan of The Darkness, based on what we did on the last record, is not going to love this record even more than the first one.

John Galbraith

The traveler to the United States will do well to prepare himself for the class-consciousness of the natives. This differs from the already familiar English version in being more extreme and based more firmly on the conviction that the class to which the speaker belongs is inherently superior to all others.

Walt Jocketty

We signed him with that purpose in mind, based on his past career. It provides more depth to our rotation, more depth to our pitching staff, and that has been the priority of our off-season plan.

Harvey Pekar

I kept on buying records and listening to them. Finally, I was able to hear the relationship between the jazz improvisers' solos and the underlying structure that it's based on, the chord progression. That was pretty easy to do in the swing era, y'know, when jazz was, like, pop music, you know. It had made the charts and everything like that.

Shek Borkowski

Well, that is pretty subjective. It's not like they have seen us play or anything. The ranking is based on last year's championships in the Women's Premier Soccer League (WPSL) and the Women's Open Cup.

Alix Smith

What I find most satisfying about photography is the way in which it allows me to document 'reality' while at the same time creating my own version thereof; in other words, the reality I present is a reality based upon what I choose to include in the frame and what I choose to leave out.

Michael Woods

What I felt from George is a sense of confidence - he will know the numbers well, talk to people in laymen's terms about those numbers and win people over based on those numbers,

Liane Moriarty

Friends and family do not believe you write fiction. They truly believe that every word you write is either autobiographical or based on them. I once had a character say that she never wanted to be invited to another children's birthday party, and I never received another children's birthday party invitation ever again.

Jason Gibson

We decided to go in another direction at quarterback. He's (Leak) a big, strong kid and he's got a big-time arm.

Olga Pomar

We don't think the residents of Cramer Hill should be forced out of their homes and that their homes should be taken by eminent domain. They had already selected the developer and decided on the proposal they would use before they had objectively evaluated the neighborhood and heard from the public.

Nancy Allen

Since it happened in our area, and it?s the Oxford Lions, we thought we?d step up. We decided last Thursday at our meeting. We wanted to get it out and do it quick.

Sanath Jayasuriya

I thought about it long and hard and decided that's it. It's a very emotional moment, but I guess every good thing has to come to an end.

Jakaya Kikwete

We promise to respect people of all creeds: those who are Christians, Muslims as well as those who have decided not to follow any religion.

Ed Rendell

I think national issues play into gubernatorial races less than, obviously, in Senate and Congressional races. Much less. They tend to be more decided by personality, leadership qualities and by state or local issues. They still have some effect, no question about it, but not as much as Senate and Congressional races.

Horacio Gutierrez

Transparency is vitally important in what can be a very opaque process in Brussels. We've decided to open this up so people can understand the issues.

Paul Scott

While we have some promising signs, we need to see the proposal still. We're pleased that Mills has decided to step away from direct involvement of the project.

Tommy Bailey

We wanted to jump on them early, especially with the weather the way it was. Five innings makes an official game, so that is why we needed to get the early lead. But then, we decided to just put the weather out of our minds.

Joby Scroggs

We knew going in that they were going to zero in on Kevin, who still had 115 yards in the game. Now, we've got another weapon - teams have to prepare even harder.

C.C. Sabathia

I knew I hadn't pitched out of the stretch, but I wasn't thinking about a no-hitter.

Michael Oster

I knew I didn't want to do that forever. I was 26 years old and needed something different, an unusual challenge. So I moved to Western Europe.

Chris Hernandez

I knew I didn't have much time, that I had to take a step and let it go.

Deirdre O'Kane

I knew I couldn't do what Eddie Izzard does, so I just tried to write some stories that were based, or partly based, on my own experiences.

Cilla Black

I knew I could do anything I wanted to do and go anywhere I wanted to go and not have to worry if I could afford it.

Chuck Darby

I knew he was special from the first day when he took over the huddle. The huddle, that?s the linebacker?s house.

Elliott Ambrose

I knew he was going to get some time, but man. That's a long time.

Michael Feinstein

I knew her for over 20 years and we worked together over 200 times.