Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Mislak

Jon is a gifted athlete who likes to take the big shots. He is popular among his teammates, has a sharp wit and a great sense of humor. His versatility is a great strength and causes match-up problems for other teams.

Stephen Gengaro

Halliburton's product and services, down at the operating level, are among the best in the business. He leaves it in a better position than when he began his career there.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

HALF, n. One of two equal parts into which a thing may be divided, or considered as divided. In the fourteenth century a heated discussion arose among theologists and philosophers as to whether Omniscience could part an object into three halves; and the pious Father Aldrovinus publicly prayed in the cathedral at Rouen that God would demonstrate the affirmative of the proposition in some signal and unmistakable way, and particularly (if it should please Him) upon the body of that hardy blasphemer, Manutius Procinus, who maintained the negative. Procinus, however, was spared to die of the bite of a viper.

Marc Basnight

Ham was a great senator and a great North Carolinian, but first and foremost he was a great American. He was the most special among us and he will be missed - God gave us the greatest when he gave us Ham.

George Ryan

Our capital system is haunted by the demon of error: error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die. What effect was race having? What effect was poverty having?

Trevor Noah

If you look at it, the history of comedy has always been strongest among the nations who have been persecuted the most.

Tim Crawford

There are still signs that Scotland is faring better than the U.K. as a whole, with pessimism among businesses less widespread and new order levels rising.

Drew Gilpin Faust

The seductiveness of war derives in part from its location on this boundary of the human, the inhuman, and the superhuman. It requires us to confront the relationship among the noble, the horrible, and the infinite; the animal, the spiritual, and the divine.

Unknown

Here's to health, peace and prosperity. May the flower of love never be nipped by the frost of disappointment, nor shadow of grief fall among your family and friends.

Lisa Jennings

God puts the right people together. We want clothes in decent shape and suitcases and backpacks to carry stuff around in, canned goods, bottled water. Our goal is to leave Sunday for Jackson, Mississippi...We chose that because no emergency workers have showed up, but we're hoping for three vans full.

Garrett Gomez

He's got phenomenal speed. If he can keep that bottled up and enjoy himself, he's ten times better.

Tom Brennan

Our 600 employees in Maine can breathe a sign of relief that this referendum is not going forward. We were always hopeful that the effort to impose a crippling new tax on Maine's bottled water companies would not gain sufficient public support.

Deborah Conrad

If all the chemicals in secondhand smoke were bottled up and sprayed in somebody's face, I'm sure that it would be an assault.

Stephen Kay

For those consumers who want fluoride in their drinking water and want to choose bottled water, those brands are out there.

Marcia Adler

If you are going to be traveling, make sure all your immunizations are current, drink only bottled water and I wouldn't eat poultry in Asia.

Ben Thatcher

I have never bottled anything in my life and I'm not going to start now,

Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

I hate plastic bottles. Just think about it before you buy one. We pay more for a gallon of water than we do for a gallon of gas. I think people will realize that water quality standards in most municipalities are as good or better for the stuff coming out of the tap than bottled water companies. You'll save money and save the environment, too.

Bill Evans

The only thing different I know of is they shipped us a big shipment of bottled water; maybe, for the holiday weekend. I wouldn't be surprised if by the end of next week we're out of bottled water.

Hilary Rosen

I think it's a great thing when companies experiment with different models.

Charles Gallagher

What we wanted to do was make succession-planning a process for these companies rather than an event they have to deal with.

Eric Shepcaro

What we find in these statistics is somewhat alarming, that four years after 9-11, a third of companies surveyed still lack these plans. We find that (many) companies that have these plans don't practice them.

Salar Kamangar

I think the next set of media companies are going to be created on the web and that YouTube is going to be a big part of that.

Bill Xia

I think the government is getting increasingly desperate. They're pushing the domestic media and outside companies to openly collaborate with them. They're summoning all their potential partners.

David Sze

I think that the most important thing we look for in partners is that they can help build companies and, you know, we have the - we have the opportunity to do that at different stages.

Chuck D.

There is a distinct possibility you will see more very large tech companies paying a dividend. It's a reflection of the continued maturation of these companies,

David Lowe

There is no difficulty with that concept, but not all companies have received the same level of profit.

Rebecca MacKinnon

There is no country on Earth where Internet and telecommunications companies do not face at least some pressure from governments to do things that would potentially infringe on users' rights to free expression and privacy.

Jane Harman

He's a likable fellow who has helped restore some bipartisanship to the committee.

Jewish Proverb

The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

John Hernandez

That kind of disturbs me. The money was not the point of this whole thing; it was the way he treated his fellow man, with no compassion.

Ron Davis

The vote they're taking in Middletown has no influence on us whatsoever, other than that we are fellow unions.

Tom Lehrer

It makes a fellow proud to be a soldier

Kin Hubbard

When a fellow says, 'It ain't the money but the principle of the thing,' it's the money.

Jose Antonio Vargas

As you watch 'Documented' on CNN, I ask you, my fellow Americans: What do you want to do with me? What do you want to do with us? How do you define American?

Charles M. Schwab

A man will succeed in anything about which he has real enthusiasm, in which he is genuinely interested, provided that he will take more thought about his job than the men working with him. The fellow who sits still and does what he is told will never be told to do big things.

Jean Fontaine

This fellow did not see further than his own nose.

Scott Skiles

Just to run down and double-team Shaq all over the place, it normally doesn't pay off.

Mo Johnston

He said he was sorry. End of story. I'm not worried about that. He buckled down in the second half. Normally in the past, he would be sent off.

Bill Ward

I think it's just going back to a more normal level.

Cindy Winstead

We're not your normal organization. We have no funding, it's just me.

Tyne Daly

I went into the family business. To me, it was the norm and not the exception.

Robyn Hitchcock

Using the word weird implies that there is a norm.

Virginie LeDoyen

I'm pretty normal looking.

Roselyn Sanchez

I had such a great upbringing in Puerto Rico, and it was just a very normal life.

Roger Mudd

For decades, the journalistic norm had been that the private lives of public officials remained private unless that life impinged on public performance.

Jennifer Flavin

I have had no plastic surgery on my face. Can I leave it at that?

Pierce Brosnan

I have not had any plastic surgery in any shape or form. No implants. And my hair is not dyed.

Glen Taylor

I do not see that as a possibility. As I stand here, I just don't see a possibility that makes sense.

Fred Miller

He has that persona. He stands in there. He's poised.

Mike Lynch

I really didn't think we'd be able to be standing here. I never really thought I'd be able to do something like this.

Johnny Christ

If I ever wanted a gnome, I guess Id just stand out on my lawn for a while.

Charisma Carpenter

You can't stand her, but you can't stop watching.

Maggie Lynch

It's pretty standard throughout the country. And we don't give them to families, like they do in New York.

John D. MacDonald

A nonreader is somebody standing there in a blindfold.

Frank Lloyd Wright

We boast the highest standard of living when it's only the biggest.

Joan Claybrook

These standards are written for Detroit, by Detroit.

Venus Williams

I'm this overachiever type, I'll just work and work and I'll just do it over and over and over again.

Zach Duke

I'm not unhappy or anything. It's a business. It's kind of a rite-of-passage type of thing.

Rebel Wilson

I never thought I'd be the type of girl who'd be doing, like, fashion shoots.

Derek Theler

I'm actually a Type 1 diabetic, so growing up, I had to eat pretty healthy.

Man Ray

You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.

Louise Brown

I like many types of music and probably too many to mention here.

Alex Rodriguez

You usually don't see this type of celebration when the Yankees win a division,

Eric Hoffer

Totalitarianism spells simplification: an enormous reduction in the variety of aims, motives, interests, human types, and, above all, in the categories and units of power.

Karin Slaughter

I could type in a closet and be fine. It's just a matter of cocooning myself. Just me and the story.

Rick Riordan

The metal blade hit her shoulder and passed cleanthrough her body as if she were made of water. HISSS!

William McDonough

We are proposing buildings that, like trees, are net energy exporters, produce more energy than they consume, accrue and store solar energy, and purify their own waste, water and release it slowly in a purer form.

Rebecca Stead

If you took every tear cried by everyone on earth on one single day and put them in a container, how big would that container need to be? Could you fill a water tower? Three water towers? It's one of those unknowable things. There has to be an answer, but we'll never know what it is.

Wangari Maathai

In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.

Saint Basil

If, therefore, there is any grace in the water, it is not from the nature of water but from the Spirit's presence there.

William Tyndale

There is no work better than to please God; to pour water, to wash dishes, to be a cobbler, or an apostle, all are one; to wash dishes and to preach are all one, as touching the deed, to please God.

Will Rogers

The public perceives there are problems with the water system, and with the efficiency of the system. We need some leadership and to provide expertise in the area of efficiency.

W. C. Fields

Say anything that you like about me except that I drink water.

Zora Neale Hurston

I am her friend, and her tongue is in my mouth. I can speak her sentiments for her, though Ethel Waters can do very well indeed in speaking for herself.