Famous Quotes & Sayings

George W. Bush

Today, the Senate took an important step forward in cutting the deficit. I commend Senate leadership and the other senators who supported this spending-reduction legislation,

William Shakespeare

Who is Silvia? What is she, / That all our swains commend her? / Holy, fair, and wise is she.

Debbie Davis

I'm so impressed with the research that went into this book. I know Joel is a solid reporter -- after all, he did great work for us in the late 1980s -- but I want to commend him for a truly fine work of journalism.

Joel Davis

I'm so impressed with the research that went into this book, ... I know Joel is a solid reporter -- after all, he did great work for us in the late 1980s -- but I want to commend him for a truly fine work of journalism.

Aaron Miles

He was put in a situation where he's had an opportunity to play a lot, and his confidence is growing. I commend him for it. This is a tough league. You've got to be mentally prepared, physically prepared. You have to be tough. He's playing all that for the most part, it seems like.

Thomas Christie

I?d like to commend the commission for envisioning a metro jail. It makes sense. Unfortunately for every municipality here, it?s all about the money.

Gary Graham

We were in every match today. We were pretty steady for the day. Our serving let us down in one game in the Evansville Reitz match. Overall, I would like to commend Kaelin Tuell. She played the back row for us and did a good job. Kara Dieterlen helped us with a couple of service runs and she's starting to show elements of leadership, which we've been looking for. I thought Kelsie McKee did a pretty good job at the net.

Alveda King

If Uncle Martin were here today, he would surely commend us for giving honor where honor is due.

Dwight Brunoehler

Our protocols already meet or exceed the current European standards and regulations. We commend the European Commission on their forward thinking and proactive approach. This is exactly what the industry needs to secure a stricter set of worldwide guidelines.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Some of our finest work comes through service to others.

Melaney Arnold

The $50,000 fine is the highest that can be levied in a death-related case.

Janet Reno

The American people should be so proud of the U.S. Navy. These are fine young people and they were brave, and what those who were injured wanted to do was to get back and support their shipmates,

Tim Whitehead

That was a very hard fought series a lot of respect for how they played. They left it all out on the ice, and fortunately so did we. We found a way to be one goal better each night. It was a fine line, but we got it done.

Zach Thomas

That was a steal. To get a Pro Bowl-caliber quarterback, really a franchise quarterback, it can't get no better than that for a second-round pick, now. Come on. I was excited. Hopefully, his health will be fine and we've got a lot of talent around him.

Rick Wakeman

There's a fine line between angry and grumpy. Angry isn't nice, but grumpy is funny.

Jeff Bzdelik

We had open looks, we just didn't make them. It's a fine line between winning and losing.

Joe Hamilton

You are always on a fine line with kicks, the timing has to be perfectly right. There, it just wasn't and that was the difference.

Burt III

Whole Foods is looked at as one of the finest retailers worldwide.

Yousuf Karsh

If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.

Todd Rundgren

It's hard for me to say that what I'm doing isn't even really music, because deep inside of me, what I want to do is much greater than music.

Idina Menzel

I'm not great at multi-tasking, so when I do one thing... I like to do it 100%.

Idina Menzel

I don't think I ever really knew the right words to 'Hava Nagilah,' which isn't great for a Jewish singer.

Ian Frazier

I was friends with Russians who said I should see Russia. I went there in '93 and it was so exciting, and I went to Siberia and had a great time.

Ian Mckellen

Bolton School has a great tradition in the liberal arts.

Ismail Kadare

In antiquity, there were three regions in southern Europe: Greece, Rome, and Ilyria. Albanian is the only survivor of the Ilyrian languages. That is why it has always intrigued the great linguists of the past.

Gaines Adams

I want to be a great player. I don't want to play for the money. I don't want to play for fame. I'd just as soon no one knew who I was. I want to play football because it's football.

Gad Elmaleh

There were two things I used to do to seduce girls: jokes and music. Since I'm not a great pianist, jokes were my thing.

Lorenzo Romar

We have always been impressed with Stanford. They are a solid team and never give you a game.

Don Cooper

We can see what they look like and give them a little experience. Yeah, we've been impressed with all of those kids.

Sass Jordan

You keep surprising me, Rex. I'm really impressed again! ... Bulletproof.

James Brockway

I'm so impressed with the Nevada kids. They're tireless workers and that's a rare treat. It's wonderful.

David Patterson

I'm impressed with one or two of the newcomers.

Janet Miller

I'm impressed with how well it's gone. It works very well as a different way of getting to MPs.

Drew Lewis

I'm impressed with how knowledgeable he is in not only football, but in life.

Debra Burlingame

I was very satisfied. I was impressed with what Dr. Rice had to say.

Kofi Annan

I was very impressed with what MSF is trying to do in Niger.

Isamu Akasaki

In the late 1960s, red and the low green LEDs and the infrared semiconductor lasers had already been developed, but there was no prospect of practical blue light emitters, even in the '70s.

Naji Sabri

the outstanding problems which were left on the Iran-Iraq ware of the 1980s and later on.

F. Sionil Jose

Professional societies are sooner or later fractured by the ego of their leaders. Everyone wants to be president, chairman, CEO; no one wants to be a mere follower.

Bryan Kelly

That was huge. It really deflates a team when you score late in the half.

Dave Thompson

We wanted to have this done already. Better late then never.

Paul McManus

We have been working on that a lot lately in practice.

Al Gillen

Users say their movement to Microsoft's latest operating systems will proceed on their schedule, not on Microsoft's schedule.

William Shakespeare

to early seen unknown...and known to late

John Travolta

I would love to do that, ... We're planning on doing that in the near future, perhaps later this year.

Phil Hare

Today is really all about Lane. I told a reporter today he has been like my brother.

David Sedaris

But I'm a humorist. I'm not a reporter, I never pretended to be a reporter.

Phil Bronstein

We stand by our reporters and the reporting they did.

Robert Redford

If you talk about an issue, what comes back is a description of what you're wearing. Reporters only want to know how tall you are and if your teeth are capped.

Floyd Abrams

Reporters should keep their word to their sources.

Dwayne Andreas

I never knew what a reporter looked like.

Jay Gibbons

We see reporters that we have never seen before,

Jan Johnson

The sports reporters got everything all worked up.

Judith Miller

Because I had become part of the story. I had actually become part of the news, and that's something no New York Times reporter wants to do.

Mike Daly

We've done our research and we think that it's OK.

Mike Bradley

Heretofore it's not had all that research and those developments under one roof and under one coordinated organizational structure.

Rosemarie Truglio

We took a long time and did a lot of research and preparation. We wanted to make sure we did this right.

John Noh

We take all research like this very seriously.

Jennifer Gray

He did research on the Internet. He stalked the house. He stalked my brother. He's cold, he's calculating and he took out his competition.

Chet Atkins

Copying one person is stealing. Copying ten is research.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

But I'm a historian. I wasn't interested in just being a producer, I was interested in doing research and presenting that research to a general public

David Horowitz

Never before in the history of the modern research university have entire departments and fields been devoted to purely ideological pursuits.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I'm a high-functioning sociopath, do your research.

Brian Butterfield

That was a tremendous play. Troy has been solid at third base.

Doug Mirabelli

He's been solid for us all year, and we need him now more than ever.

Rory Bruer

I think it's a good, solid start for us,

Lawrence Lau

He may have been transferring waste without a solid waste permit.

Tim Brewer

We've got a pretty solid team all-around. We like to get up and down the court.

Nate Moore

We're a solid staff all the way around. It's just one of those days.

Mike Bender

We worked a lot on his tempo and staying solid at the top, not hinging too much,

Josh Pais

My process is I try to learn my lines so they're so solid I don't have to think about them or how I'm going to say them.

Jim Schmidt

I think it was more nerve-racking for me than for Ellie. She put together 11 real solid dives.

Mike Leinbach

I'm here to tell you that it really is truly better.

H. Hunt

We are now well and truly in the post-Maui era.

Herbie Hancock

I was trying to make something truly collaborative,

Barbara Green

Those who complained truly feel that they are discriminated against, they truly feel that way.

August Wilson

I think it is an extraordinary honor, and it is truly a capstone of my career. I am overwhelmed.

Dianna Agron

Without love we are not truly living.

Marianne Williamson

When we are truly aware of our spiritual glory, a varicose vein or two is not that big a deal.

Carrie Fisher

I am truly a product of Hollywood in-breeding. When two celebrities mate, someone like me is the result.

Craig Bruce

In order for a man to be truly evil, he must be a woman.

Imelda May

My parents never told me to get a real job. They always said, 'Go for it! If this is what you want to do, work hard.' They were always very supportive.

Ian Mckellen

I got better as an actor, and still I'm getting better. That's only been possible because there's always been work.

Gale Harold

I'm more interested in the quality of the work than its medium.

Gaines Adams

Every day I went to work at Tampa, I gave it my all.

Donald Trump

I always look at it that I work with my employees as opposed to them working for me.

William Quigley

I never wanted to be someone who's asking someone to put my work in their gallery. I wanted to be asked.

Walead Beshty

My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.

Zubin Mehta

The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable.

Wynton Marsalis

I generally work right up to when I have to do something - I'm always doing a lot.