Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlo Panunzi

Anyhow, it is not a very important business and mainly active in Europe.

Paul Aussaresses

As for torture, it was tolerated if not actively encouraged, ... He (the emissary) knew exactly what went on during the night.

Jodhi May

As an actor, I think it's really important to be as anonymous as possible. It's your job to convince people that you are somebody else, and so any recognition I'd get away from the screen - well, it's not something I actively seek. To be honest with you, I'm surprised anybody does.

Eric Brewer

The site that we had been looking at did not work out. We never got to the point of moving forward on an actual approval process. We are still actively looking for sites in Citrus County but do not have any specific plans at this time.

Ram Hernandez

The official statement I can give you, the only statement I can give you is that Naomi Fuentes is a person of interest in an active criminal investigation.

Gordon Brown

They also encourage children and young people, whatever their own circumstances, to take an active and exemplary part in the life of their local communities, particularly in helping the more vulnerable.

Tom Quay

The whole purpose when we started (back in 1959) was to mix active duty military and community people together in a golf tournament. That is sort of the continuing goal.

Adam Schoenfeld

The whole integration of policy management and Active Directory - that's where you tie in the user to the network service.

Jennifer Mayfield

The vice president maintains an active schedule which requires regular travel throughout the United States and at times that involves a hotel stay. There are certainly guidelines prepared for our volunteers assisting on the ground.

Lloyd Jones

A whole series of tests will occur. The Fish and Wildlife Service is coordinating with the Department of Agriculture, with surveillance activities through the fall to collect samples from birds taken during banding to hunter- harvested birds. It will be a very comprehensive testing program.

Peter Yesawich

Age-appropriate activities and attractions are very important to this group of family travelers.

Michael Schneider

Activity is the mother's milk of the securities industry and activities of all sorts was very strong for these reporting periods.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

When you put money directly to a problem, it makes a good headline. It makes a good campaign slogan. You get to claim that you've engaged in these activities within an election cycle. But certain investments take longer than an election cycle.

Yasser Arafat

complete and immediate cessation of all military activities ... especially suicide attacks.

John Sleeman

While we are pleased with the preliminary information on our third quarter and are confident about continued growth in the fourth quarter we have revised our previous guidance due to increased competitive price activities in the Canadian beer market and their estimated impacts on our prospects for the remainder of the year,

Paul Browne

While undercover officers may be used to infiltrate an organization plotting violence, neither undercover nor plainclothes officers are used to interfere with free speech or other activities protected by the First Amendment.

Janette Epp

While the main focus is on the meal and that is the big draw, I do think that some people come just for the activities that are held. There certainly is plenty to do without a meal ticket.

Doug Price

We wanted people to see that the commission is working together to do community activities and hope for more activities like it that will bring people from all over to see Robertson County.

Stephanie Shain

A university campus is a community just as any other. If the community has a problem with free roaming cats, they have a responsibility to deal with it over the long term.

Elizabeth McCracken

I work in my office on the campus of the University of Texas. It's the sort of place described as 'book-lined', but it's recently tipped over into 'fire-hazard' territory.

Stanley Cohen

My Ph.D. thesis concerned the metabolic mechanism by which the end product of nitrogen metabolism in the earthworm is switched from ammonia to urea during starvation. I remember spending my nights collecting over 5,000 worms from the University campus green.

Helen Lahrman

I felt right at home as soon as I got on campus and met the coach.

Elizabeth Heskett

I decided to move off campus because it's cheaper than living on campus.

Michael Beals

I can't think of another campus that is as spread out as we are. There are others that have a river down the middle of them. But we are more far-flung, and that's something we have to deal with.

Nichole Kluk

I couldn't find a reason not to like it. The campus is really pretty, and it's not too far away.

Adam Marcoux

Have they thought about putting maps on the campus itself? I know they do it for orientation.

Bradley Wilson

There is enough power on this campus to make this a successful publication.

Greg Gibson

Ramon has had some offers for colleges and every meet that he does well in is another feather in his hat. We're proud of him.

Steve Morgan

I've worked on my punting the most this summer, ... I'm trying to get my steps down because punting is all about rhythm. In college I've had to learn to kick it one way in one situation, then kick it another in a different situation. This year I'm definitely more comfortable with my punting.

Matt Young

The whole idea of designing a vessel like a sub in my first year of college really interested me.

Jason Blum

I love Hitchcock movies. I took a Hitchcock class in college, so I saw all his movies. I wrote papers on his movies.

bell hooks

We live in a world with serious class complexes. It is one thing to be a college student with loan debts and another thing to be just dirt poor for your entire life. The challenge is to come up with more complex understandings of where we are, more global awareness of what connects Americans with what is happening with suffering and oppressed people all around the world.

Derrick Bell

I live to harass white folks.

Daniel Goleman

As a freshman in college, I was having a lot of trouble adjusting. I took a meditation class to handle anxiety. It really helped. Then as a grad student at Harvard, I was awarded a pre-doctoral traveling fellowship to India, where my focus was on the ancient systems of psychology and meditation practices of Asia.

Courtney Ward

We're just trying to go to college and get somewhere.

Bret Easton Ellis

I went to college in Vermont, and then stayed in the East Coast.

Jim Burns

As dry as it was, I don't think it will hurt anything.

John Swenson

Once the ground gets saturated, we get slides. We're just trying to dry out and get ready for the next one.

Ron Bamberger

There will not be a dry eye. I think the stars are lining up.

John Brill

You take a turn and you think it's the river, and all of a sudden you're on dry land and you have to back-paddle.

Irish Proverb

We do not know the value of water until we go dry

S. E. Hinton

We just kind of go through dry spells occasionally, and we would give up a few quick points here and there. You want to get older as the season goes on, but occasionally we still show how young we are.

Steve Adelsperger

You go to the guy who's hot, and we're going to keep going to the well until it's dry. And he wasn't dry tonight.

Carol Carter

You get started on a project, and more comes up. You find lead paint or dry rot. It happens. We're not just going to throw our hands up in the middle of it.

Ben Holmes

There's nothing out there in tech. It's so dry that it's not funny.

Billy Davis

We made the enquiry and now we've made the move. Maybe, with the appearances he's made for Celtic, the opportunities may lie elsewhere and we're hoping something can be done.

Jennifer Lawless

What we do need to do though is look at what's working in public and chartered schools and start engaging different kinds of experts to integrate that policy into the public school system.

Jenji Kohan

Mainly, I'm doing my thing, and I hope people like it. I don't say, 'I'm going to write something radical and hope it reverberates throughout society.' The goal is to write a solid, entertaining, engaging show.

Richard Castellini

It is a little juvenile, but it is a fun way of engaging in the brand.

Wade Pogany

It's about engaging students with technology and using technology as a tool to teach.

Bob Uecker

The MRI scan looked like I had swallowed a cantaloupe. It was an abdominal aortic aneurysm. I was shocked because, except for the back pain, I felt good.

Gore Vidal

This is not at all bad, except as prose.

Eugenie Clark

I want to be remembered as a nice person who didn't hurt people - except my ex-husbands, maybe.

Charles Osgood

There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule.

Larry Bell

We ran really well, ... We worked them really hard Monday, looking ahead, except for one kid who wasn't there, and it's pretty obvious who it was. She had her legs today, and that was a big part of it.

Hootie Johnson

An invitation to become a member of Augusta National is very special and would never be tied to anything except personal relationships within this club.

David Todd

Everything has gone off pretty well, except for the weather.

Len Wolman

Everything you see is new except the structure of the rooms.

Brody Jenner

I feel like girls are always fighting guys off at bars, always. Usually girls don't really have to do anything except be there. And if alcohol is involved, you're gonna get hit on. No matter what.

Richard Gordon

Of the 300 houses in the area, only three are left that are not covered.

Lynn Forres

We have appropriated about $90 billion. And I don't see that the homeowners are getting it to be able to prepare to put their houses back.

Chris Proulx

What are they getting for houses in Portland? $250,000? Why?

Gary Gambardella

They traded their houses for the big house.

Brad Little

Your keeping the rich rich and the poor poor,

Miley Cyrus

I am not very good at keeping secrets at all! If you want your secret kept do not tell me!

Marlinda Martinez

Losing weight is usually at the top of everyone's resolution list, and keeping it off is the challenge.

George Orwell

If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.

Frank Warren

Trade your secrets and become who you are.

George Bernard Shaw

The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.

Brad Ranson

I think we got the cobwebs out in the second quarter. At first, we were a little nervous. I thought the key was the second quarter, getting up by a big 10 points and just keeping the lead throughout the game.

Richard Gephardt

Real security means keeping Medicare and Social Security strong and getting a Medicare prescription drug program. So those are some of the things that I'm going to talk about.

Paul Buckley

Clearly, Coretta Scott King was a mover and shaker, and much of what people understand about Dr. (Martin Luther) King and keeping his memory alive, we owe to her.

Mary Roach

I've been writing full-time since about 1984 - mostly magazine features and columns.

John Carr

You mostly come to these things to support other musicians,

Ernie Els

Ernie told her there was no need to wait, as he thought she was ready to turn pro, ... He spoke mostly to Michelle, but also had a word with her dad, whom he told the same thing.

Hermann Maier

The training is going very, very well. I think I've got just the right formula. At the present time, I'm working mostly on the thighs.

Sigmar Polke

Light is a metaphoric thing. There is green light and red light. Then there is black light, which is mostly danger.

Brett Favre

There was a time when all I cared about was the next game, the next party, the next tee time.

Argus Hamilton

President Obama hosted a state dinner for British Prime Minister David Cameron. The president and the British are getting along a lot better lately. They love to compare notes on ways the Tea Party's always trying to overthrow their rule in America.

Barbara Jordan

We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds.

Barbara Jordan

We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future.

Bashar al-Assad

The place where the interests of all parties come together is the international community, along with its resolutions.

Bashar al-Assad

If you are going to be a mediator or arbitrator you have to be in the middle between the two sides; you cannot take sides only with one party.

Barbara Stanwyck

[On a dull party:] It was a fête worse than death.

Benito Mussolini

State ownership! It leads only to absurd and monstrous conclusions; state ownership means state monopoly, concentrated in the hands of one party and its adherents, and that state brings only ruin and bankruptcy to all.

Jamie Foxx

You guys have so much energy. I threw a party in Toronto and there were, like, 4,000 people who couldn't get in.

Michael White

People train for this all year like the Olympics.

Sarah Davis

People think, 'It's a winter hike, I don't have to take as much water,' but they do.

Richard M. Nixon

People see me and they think, "He's risen from the dead.

Jon Jansen

People say this stuff like they just thought of it, ... Everyone thinks they're so clever. I'm like, 'Heard that two weeks ago. Where ya been?'

Johnathon Schaech

People recognize me on the street for all kinds of different things that I've done. 'That Thing You Do' remains to be my favorite film in which I played my favorite character. That role is the one that I'm most recognized for.

Karlos Dansby

People really dont know or they really aint watching, ... Got to give them something to see.

Howard Dvorkin

People spend what's there. If it's not there, they're not going to spend it.

Kevin Spacey

People sometimes have to be reminded, I'm not Frank Underwood. I'm an actor named Kevin Spacey.

Brian Rolston

People sleeping over for tickets. It's just something you don't see. I haven't seen it in my career, really.

Eliot Ness

Unquestionably, it was going to be highly dangerous. Yet I felt it was quite natural to jump at the task. After all, if you don't like action and excitement, you don't go into police work. And, what the hell, I figured, nobody lives forever!

Stephen Harper

Mr. Speaker, I am sure the picture of the hon. member of the NDP [Svend Robinson] is posted in much more wonderful places than just police stations.

Joseph Biden

No. 1, on the police training, we've wasted 17 months,

Frank Serpico

The problem is that the atmosphere does not yet exist in which honest police officers can act without fear of ridicule or reprisal from fellow officers.

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.

Moby

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

David Dreier

We know it may not be the single most popular thing, but it's the right thing to do.

Michael Moore

You know he's [George W. Bush] there illegally. You know he was not elected either by the popular vote or by the vote in Florida.

Janie Allen

Murals were very popular then and the idea was pretty well received.

Sam Martin

He was a very popular young man. The students are taking it hard.

Bob Beatty

She's ahead, she's popular -- she's not completely unbeatable.

Mike Smith

Some of the more popular schools could be filled.

Vance Havner

Popularity has slain more prophets of God than persecution ever did.

Kathleen Hanna

Popularity is totally overrated.

Shigeki Maruyama

The LPGA is very popular in Japan, ... She will be a big star.

Andy Grove

There's a tendency at the senior and middle-manager level to be too big-picturish and too superficial. There is a phrase, "The devil is in the details." One can formulate brilliant global strategies whose executability is zero. It's only through familiarity with details - the capability of the individuals who have to execute, the marketplace, the timing - that a good strategy emerges. I like to work from details to big pictures.

Alistair Cooke

I hasten to say to snobs from the Surrey pine-and-sand country that no invention since the corn plaster or the electric toothbrush has brought greater balm to the extremities of the senior golfer than the golfmobile, a word that will have to do for want of a better.

Alveda King

My daddy, Rev. A. D. King, my granddaddy, Martin Luther King, Senior - we are a family of faith, hope and love.

Allyson Felix

It was all kind of a whirlwind at the beginning. I didn't really realize that I had a special gift from God. It was probably towards the end of high school in my senior year when things really started to come together and I realized that I had more potential and that I could do this as a career and that the Olympics were a possibility.

William Shakespeare

This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid; Regent of love-rhymes, lord of folded arms, The anointed sovereign of sighs and groans, Liege of all loiterers and malcontents.

Stephen Harper

When Ralph Goodale tried to tax Income Trusts they showed us where they stood, they showed us their attitude towards raiding Seniors hard earned assets and a Conservative government will never allow either of these parties to get away with that.

Sigourney Weaver

Never burn bridges. Today's junior jerk, tomorrow's senior partner.

Todd Rundgren

You would have thought that as you got older the voice would tend to deteriorate in some ways, but I always look at somebody like Tony Bennett, who is my senior, and still can hit those high notes and still can belt it out as good as he ever did. So it must be something about the voice that's unlike the rest of the muscles in your body.

Michael Bond

I worked on 'Blue Peter' and 'Tonight' and lots of TV plays, filmed people like Rudolf Nureyev and Ted Heath, and ended up a senior cameraman with my own crew. I'd had my first short story published in 1947, and when my writing really started to take off I decided to go freelance, and eventually left the BBC in 1965.

Gregory Peck

Ramon, whatever happens, it's strictly between you and me and the horse.

Nancy Hague

I'm not a competitor. I do it strictly for me.

Steve Lekwa

And it will be strictly enforced. There will be a lot of unhappiness about it.

Gene Miller

The students are coming, and we're going to have to do something to accommodate the growth.

Sathya Baba

The teachers of tomorrow are the students of today.

MaryEllen Elia

We have a way to go with our 12th-grade students.

Ray Romano

I would get my student loans, get money, register and never really go. It was a system I thought would somehow pan out.

Terence Lewis

I was, am and always will be a student…, the day I stop learning, is the day I die.

Louis Garrel

I like being surrounded by students and intellectuals.

Willie Smith

If the students see it as something they can put to use, then they are interested.

John Boyles

I have a vision for the way students can be represented.

Richard Skaggs

Some of the students were still out of control.