Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joel Gurin

Internet phone service was the first technology that worked after Hurricane Katrina. But Internet phone service won't work in a power outage and neither will a cordless phone.

John Williams

If you've got to have a hurricane, this is the kind of hurricane you want to have.

Max Mayfield

I just don't see any reason why this will not become a very, very powerful hurricane before it's all over.

Rebecca Watson

Before hurricane Katrina we were already in a tight supply,

David Wang

In 1969, Hurricane Camille produced a 44-foot wave by an oil rig near the storm's center,

Ross Gelbspan

The hurricane that struck Louisiana yesterday was nicknamed Katrina by the National Weather Service,

Mike Bush

The hurricane scattered all our customers, as well as our 45 employees, throughout nine different states.

Timothy Conder

The magnitude of the hurricane season last year has people a little skittish.

Michael Leavitt

The big lesson I learned from Hurricane Katrina is that we have to be thinking about the unthinkable, ... because sometimes the unthinkable happens.

Mychal Williams

Kendra stepped up and played a solid game, nearly getting a double-double.

Thomas Powell

What you do is not nearly as important as who you are.

Paul Gillmor

To date, every American citizen has nearly $27,000 in public debt riding on our backs.

O. J. Simpson

I will not go near the kindergarten turtle

Fletcher Smith

He was nowhere near the scene of the incident. But unfortunately the vehicle is registered under his name.

Dave Harackiewicz

He was near the end of his shift, too.

Bobby Cox

I don't know what Wilson was thinking, there was nobody near him. He tried to tell me, but I couldn't quite understand what he was saying.

Jan LaRue

He has always ranked near the top for us.

Dan Anderson

In the state of Nevada there is nobody near her, nobody. She is a real competitor.

David Briggs

I think the oil prices (being) off helps.

Chris Perkins

What most people need to understand is that oil is not going to be around forever, and we need to start thinking ahead. The sun is going to be here for as long as we are.

Sarah Palin

Up here in Alaska we're sitting on billions of barrels of oil. We're sitting on hundreds of trillions of cubic feet of natural gas onshore and offshore. And it seems to be only the Republicans who understand that companies should be competing for the right to tap those resources, and get that energy source flowing into these hungry markets so that we will be less reliant on foreign sources of energy. In a volatile world, relying on foreign regimes that are not friendly to Americans, asking them to ramp up resource production for our benefit, that's nonsensical.

Rodrigo Rato

Oil prices have certainly become a threat for the world economy.

Robert Rauschenberg

A pair of socks is no less suitable to make a painting with than wood, nails, turpentine, oil and fabric.

Vladimir Zhirinovsky

I didn't sign any contracts, and I didn't see any oil.

Walter Benjamin

Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.

Veerappa Moily

Those who know me would tell you, 'Moily can't be cowed down.' I have plans to enhance domestic oil and gas production.

Veerappa Moily

Petrol price is a deregulated commodity, price of which is decided by our oil marketing companies based on input cost and other parameters.

Richard Hatch

It's rare to get a really truly wonderfully written, acted and produced sci-fi show, period.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.

Del Harris

We'll find out, won't we? It has produced 60 wins. But we all know that's not the ultimate goal.

Margaret Williams

I think that the smoker has just as much rights as the non-smoker.

William Perry

The rivalry is huge between South Carolina and Clemson. It's major bragging rights; one of the most intense things I've been a part of.

Robert E. Lee

I have fought against the people of the North because I believed they were seeking to wrest from the South dearest rights. But I have never cherished toward them bitter or vindictive feelings. And have never seen the day when I did not pray for them.

Ryan Miller

Mutual respect among everyone for one another and for one another's rights is an absolute prerequisite for peace.

Romeo Dallaire

Now is the time to take up the cause of the advancement of human rights for all and the moment is yours to grasp.

Reinhold Niebuhr

While it is possible for intelligence to increase the range of benevolent impulse, and thus prompt a human being to consider the needs and rights of other than those to whom he is bound by organic and physical relationship, there are definite limits in the capacity of ordinary mortals which makes it impossible for them to grant to others what they claim for themselves.

William J. Brennan

The Bill of Rights never gets off the page and into the lives of most Americans.

William Jennings Bryan

The government being the peoples business, it necessarily follows that its operations should be at all times open to the public view. Publicity is therefore as essential to honest administration as freedom of speech is to representative government. Equal rights to all and special privileges to none is the maxim which should control in all departments of government.

William Jennings Bryan

As long as there are human rights to be defended; as long as there are great interests to be guarded; as long as the welfare of nations is a matter for discussion, so long will public speaking have its place.

Van Morrison

Into the Music was about the first album where I felt, 'I'm starting here'...the Wavelength thing, I didn't really feel that was me.

Jim Hooper

Eventually, the waves get big enough and the Jell-O fails.

Neil Young

Every wave is new until it breaks.

P. G. Wodehouse

I shuddered from stem to stern, as stout barks do when buffeted by the waves.

Paul Wesley

When I was 18 I was just absorbing everything around me: whatever happens, happens. I was so naive and willing to ride whatever wave life threw at me.

Shia LaBeouf

I didn't jump onto anyone else's coattail and ride their wave.

Elaine Chao

The attacks on Sept. 11 really sent a shock wave through our economy, and the full reverberation of that is not yet known,

Joel Parkinson

I guess you're only as good as the waves.

Chester W. Nimitz

If you're not making waves, you're not under weigh.