Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stan Gregory

Historically, flooding hasn't been a problem for fish because they have had complex stream habitats, abundant riparian forests and extensive flood plains.

Diane Swonk

Retailers ordered extremely conservatively for the holiday season. The shelves aren't overly abundant with goods, and controlling inventories has finally made it into broad retailers, not just Wal-Mart. That's important because it means a lot of the early promotions we've seen have brought the consumers in, but has left less on the shelves with less selection.

Neil Anderson

Our nation's increasing standard of living would certainly be reduced without the safe, abundant and affordable domestic food supply produced by America's farmers and ranchers.

Frances Beinecke

Our nation has abundant clean energy resources, and tapping them will generate jobs, make the air safer to breathe, and tackle climate change - the greatest environmental crisis of our time.

Al Frost

It has changed a lot. They were not as abundant as they are now. I think what happened is everybody realized, if you are going to be competitive at the varsity level, you have to do what they are doing. If they have a little kids program, then we have to have one, too. It is kind of one of those survival things.

David Emerson

Canada's competitive business costs are complemented by one of the highest standards of living in the world, a highly skilled workforce, access to abundant natural resources, and its position as a gateway to the North American market.

Stan Gregory

In Mack Creek, there were tons of fry in the stream the year after the 1996 flood. They were four times as abundant as anything we'd ever seen before.

George Foreman

We still have crack cocaine coming into Paris, and we believe some of the same sources (in Dallas and Houston) are being used, but there is an abundant supply of crack cocaine.

Pam Dixon

This is a very old-fashioned book sale sheltered under that glorious tree. Each category has a table, or two or three, so browsing is easy. We always have abundant selections of books on gardening and garden design, cooking, art, the decorative arts, design, film and photography.

Bill Richardson

just pick up the phone, start the preliminary talks at the U.N. in New York at a low level to set up broader talks.

Kate Warne

I think it may just be broader concern rather than a focus on what's happening to interest rates. Many of these sectors haven't done well and it's not clear what will turn them around, ... It's a little surprising the financial services are down. Although, they would be mixed on (Greenspan's) message, I would expect them to be a little more a positive.

Jeff Phillips

He wanted someone on the broadcast who would give Clemson a face it didn't particularly have at that time, and it still really doesn't. At least the university is starting to move in the right way.

David Rosenberg

Has the roof collapsed? You get trends like this at the tail-end of the Fed rate-hiking cycle, and what follows next is either a soft or hard landing in the broad economy.

George Pierce Baker

Out of the past come the standards for judging the present; standards in turn to be shaped by the practice of present-day dramatists into broader standards for the next generation.

Jeff Bezos

This was our fastest sequential growth as a public company, and we are grateful that so many customers chose Amazon.com for such a broad range of products,

Tracy Lefteroff

What you are seeing is a shift away from e-commerce and back to the plumbing of the Internet. The telecom sector and software are doing quite well as are DSL, broadband and fiber optics. Most of them are retooling to enter the fiber optic age.

Rob Gould

What we want our customers to understand is that there is something broader than just Baltimore, Maryland that's driving all these costs.

Charles Golvin

Having wireless broadband would help some of these disaster situations. But it's not the panacea.

Dax Maier

I was just a little scared because, one, what if I miss it; two, what if I slip, I might fall into the river. And so I just kept on looking up and got directions, and then next thing you know I was on the gondola and they brought us down.

Chadd Moore

James brought him to me. I saw he wasn't paying no attention, so I just took a chance and stole the ball.

Kathleen Blanco

Katrina and Rita brought our people and our economy to its knees.

Jane Meyer

Just say we brought more of a pink flavor to the visitor's locker rooms.

Stephen Nichols

Joseph got so close, and it was a great match and pretty even. He brought it home and wrestled smart.

Keith Johnson

John brought it out front and I crashed the net. I was yelling for the puck and he got it over to me.

E. Hicks

John has brought a new level of professionalism to the Texas Rangers over the last four years. During his tenure the organization has improved on the field at the major league level while enhancing the minor league system.

Matt Williams

John has been brought in to learn about international preparation and at this stage it is just part of his development. But we would be looking for him to be knocking on the door of international selection in the near future.

Troy Glaus

J.P. has brought in pitchers and hitters to help out and that's just what we're going to try and do. We're going to try to put this team back to the level it's been before and the level it deserves to be.

Paul Ballew

I wouldn't say it was driven by the March results, but our reading about where consumers are at.

Jean Claude

I would say that consumers are not pushing enough,

Bill Hardekopf

There are so many different options for consumers that didn't exist 20 years ago.

Ron Glaz

What we will see is that consumers will rely on multiple processes. Retail printing will grow in the short term, but at some point it will level off and decline.

Kyle Hall

What we wanted to do is solve the issues for the consumers of where their pictures are going.

Wayne Martin

Historically, any time of serious domestic economic struggle has had negative effects on the entertainment industry, as consumers re-prioritize the expenditure of their discretionary income.

Raul Vazquez

It is a digital holiday. Consumers are really responding to all things electronic.

Mark Savage

I think the lesson for consumers is?read the contract.

Gray Davis

There is no easy solution, ... But, if I have to use the power of eminent domain to prevent generators from driving consumers into the dark and utilities into bankruptcy, then that's what I'll do.

Tony Raines

Knowing how we ran early in the race and how I think we could have run, I was disappointed. But at the same time, I went there knowing I was going to race for a finish. I didn't race anybody.

Helen Brown

I would say that Cosmo was always a feminist magazine; it was before the movement really took shape. The early feminist movement felt I put a lot of emphasis on beauty, which was true.

Mike Ledsome

Katie was ready to go (Thursday). She got into a groove early and started hitting her spots and pitching stronger as the games progressed.

Rich Brands

Just looking at their results, I think it will be a pretty even match. We want to come out and not make any mistakes early on. We want to try and exploit some of the free kicks and throw-in stuff we've been working on.

Ben Gordon

Just like Tuesday (against Dallas) we struggled early and in the second half we were able to make a run. It was just a little to late.

Frank Warren

Joe is never going to be ready for that (November date) so we'll try to rearrange it for next year. It is frustrating for Joe but these things happen in boxing. It is a great shame. We'll do the fight early next year, maybe February.

Charles Woodson

I think it is what it is -- we come out and we play well early in the game and then just let it slip away late in the game. It is second team, third team. What we're looking at is when our starters are in there, we're doing a good job.

Kevin Merkle

I think it is too early to form a long-lasting opinion. It is good to get some feedback first.

Paul Roos

I think in the past three years we've had a number of young guys who have got in early in the pre-season and played all throughout the season. Probably the main focus for tomorrow is to see how they go.

Matt Grow

Just like everyone, we are growing. And we are growing extremely fast.

Stan Ross

Kaiser does a great job with communicating to his defense, really showing experience. Kyle sees the outside shot extremely well and has come in from day one and competed for time.

Ron Niekamp

Jordan is a big concern, but they have a lot of other guys who have stepped up as well. They play extremely hard and are a very disciplined team.

Georgi Parvanov

I think it is also extremely important to revive Bulgaria's relations with Russia, Ukraine and other strategic partners.

Chris Gratton

It can be extremely frustrating. It's tough to start out like that.

Richard Harmon

I take laser tag incredibly seriously. I am an extremely competitive person - most likely a little over the top at times, but that's just who I am.

Mario Cuomo

He was agonizingly long, ... but don't make the mistake thinking that is a fatal error. I've known him as a governor for a long time and I think he's extremely talented. He has the strength of being able to focus. He has a single ambition, and he has always had this ambition, and it is to someday be president of the United States.

Rich Phillips

He was a fine young man. I'm extremely proud to say I'm his uncle.

Jacques Rogge

He is sleeping extremely well and I am sleeping extremely well.

M. Wolfe

Kenny Smith and I started working on a grant after Ivan. We finally got it and now we are ready for the worst. We never lost water after Ivan, but it got close. It made me real nervous.

Bobby Perry

I wouldn't say it was a slump. It just was not a good period. I knew I could still do this. It was just a matter of time, even though I was wondering when that time was finally going to come again.

Chris Hill

Kelvin seems a lot more energized now. He finally got his legs back.

Mark Shrader

Jon has had that potential all year. He's finally started to shoot that way here at the end of the year.

Savas Kyriacou

I think it's a day that Toronto has finally lost its innocence. It was a tragic loss and tragic day.

Nick Licari

I think it made me realize that I just need to get back and just play the way that I was playing before and just work hard every shift. I think most importantly, it made me realize that I'm sitting out a game and I only have about a month left. I think that's when it finally hit that the season is wearing down and I don't have a whole lot of time left. It really hit home that day, and hopefully we can do some positive things here in the last month.

Kenny Chesney

I think it is important for this record to finally get out to remind people I'm not in tabloids for a living. It comes with the territory right now and I understand it, but I'm looking forward to getting back to the music, because that's what is most important and what got me here in the first place.

Paul Ryan

It also tells the American people that we're finally getting serious about saving the Social Security surplus for Social Security benefits.

Stephen J. Cannell

I finally get to the place where the book has matured in my mind and I can hardly wait to start writing it. Then I just sit down and I start. I hit the go button. I have an outline, which is 70 pages, but I don't look at it. I never have to look at it.

Antonia Thomas

I'd love to see a Nirvana biopic. I loved them when I was younger. I really like jazz music, so I'd like to see a Billie Holiday biopic - she was a fascinating woman.

John Woo

He will be spending the holidays with the troops.

Richard Baxter

Tomorrow is always the sluggard's working day; today is his holiday

Vinnie Jones

I'm lucky in that I travel a lot for work. I also manage several holidays a year. I'm not someone who sits in the sun or goes sightseeing, though. If I go away, it will be for fishing or something like that.

William James

What do believers in the Absolute mean by saving that their belief affords them comfort? They mean that since in the Absolute finite evil is ‘overruled’ already, we may, therefore, whenever we wish, treat the temporal as if it were potentially the eternal, be sure that we can trust its outcome, and, without sin, dismiss our fear and drop the worry of our finite responsibility. In short, they mean that we have a right ever and anon to take a moral holiday, to let the world wag in its own way, feeling that its issues are in better hands than ours and are none of our business.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Some holiday traditions are sacred. In our house one such tradition is the annual Christmas classic cinema celebration.

Ric Flair

We used to wrestle every night, 385 times a year. For ten years. 365 days. Never had any holidays off, ever. Holidays were always two-day venues. Two event venues. Afternoon and night.

Tucker Carlson

I was very disappointed, very disappointed when President [George W.] Bush proclaimed Kwanzaa as a national holiday. Prior to that, Bill Clinton did the same thing.

Vera Farmiga

Do I observe holy days and holidays? Yeah, the ritual is very important to me. It's part of being Ukrainian Catholic. So every holy day we're baking pierogis and not eating meat.

Anthony Curtis

I think it makes sense. The only thing left that's new might just be old. If you've already got an old place, you wouldn't want to tear it down and start from scratch if you didn't have to.

D. H. Lawrence

He liked to watch his fellow-clerks at work. The man was the work and the work was the man, one thing, for the time being. It was different with the girls. The real woman never seemed to be there at the task, but as if left out, waiting.

Mike Dunne

He left voluntarily. He said it was time to move on.

Rene Bradley

He left Michigan when he was 17 years old. He worked on a sheep ranch in Wyoming for a while before moving on.

David Broder

He left his editor, our editor, blindsided for two years and he went out and talked disparagingly about the significance of the investigation without disclosing his role in it.

Lord Byron

He left a Corsair's name to other times, / Linked with one virtue, and a thousand crimes.

Trevor Rabin

I was in Hiroshima with my assistant, and I said to him, 'You know, I've done close to a thousand shows with Yes. I think I'm done. I don't think I can do another one.' I went back to L.A. and left the band and got into film.

Mark Lamoreaux

There is more left in the car. That's the encouraging part. I've had a perfect car. This one isn't there yet, but it's pretty good.

Ani Difranco

we thought we left possession behindbut truth is i was yours and you were mine

Kelly Rowland

I'm in love with wigs. I get them custom-made, and I have my hairstylist shape them to my head. I can go from short to long in less than a minute!

Paul Otellini

I think it is going to be less than people expected. But it's probably not as poor as looking only at retail would indicate.

David Healy

Hertz has become kind of a noncore operation for them, a much less important outlet.

Fisher DeBerry

Going into Washington we probably know less about this team than any,

Sir Donaldson

I think it's less likely that it will come this winter.

Emilio Gonzalez

It didn't get much of the cocoa out, and much less of the soot out.

Frank Badillo

There is more of a risk this season that people will be less able to make payments on these offers.

Billy Hunter

When he told me that he was guaranteeing us no less $500,000 and up to a million, I said, 'Cool,'

Joe Hopkins

What you saw was the lesser of two beatings.

Angus T. Jones

Jake from 'Two and a Half Men' means nothing. He is a non-existent character.

Janet Weiss

Just really be yourself, and if being yourself means you play two snare drums and nothing else, then play two snare drums and nothing else! Really figure out who you are and how you want your drums to feel because it's a very emotional instrument.

Craig Williams

I think it means a lot to the stable

James McCartney

I always feel honored to meet people who ever met my mum. It means a lot to me.

Andrew Strauss

He is very laid-back person, but there is a steely side to him and that means he has the respect of the players

Dani Shapiro

I'm a full-time writer, which means I have the entire day to get my work done. But that can also be bad, because that means I have the entire day to get in my way.

Jerry Jeff Walker

'Gonzo' means taking an unknown thing to an unknown place for a known purpose. But sometimes we're lost in an unknown place for no known purpose.

Chris Higginbottom

Going to the state tournament means lot for our team, the school and the community. I think it's been six years since they've been, and to go in my first year here, there's just nothing sweeter.

Larry Mize

He's a stud. But really, it means a lot to me that he'd do that.

Sabrina Harris

We ordered it, and it took a year to get here.

Nancy Marchand

I was a very shy, overly big, kind of creepy-looking kid.

Tom Bennett

I have the sort of temperament where I try not to over think things, I don't get flustered and I don't panic. I'm not overly neurotic.

Jon Alterman

People were overly optimistic. And now people are overly pessimistic.

Tomika Ferguson

I was overly excited. I did not know how to act, and I could not stop smiling until I got to Arkansas.

Charles Sturcken

We don't give this out to the public, but we're not overly concerned.

Ted Ake

I don't want to get overly bearish. But we're getting a ton of supply, and not just Treasuries.

Bob Bartlett

The reaction to Rita was overly positive, and we're now getting a better sense of what is shut in,

Wayne Andrews

We're not overly concerned. I wouldn't have even done my own house.

Ranbir Kapoor

Promotions are the worst part of making a movie. We are actors and not salesmen. Still, you have to go to so many places to try and sell the movie.

Michael Beyard

The retailers want to be on the street now.

David Cook

It's time for big-box retailers to start to do the right things by their employees.

S. Walker

We're not going to do that. I think the retailers would go nuts.

Todd Jones

The teen retailers and some of the specialty retailers were the clear-cut winners.

Shahrukh Khan

I work like a retailer. I sell my services, take my money and keep it in the bank.

Glen Mason

Just when you think you've seen it all, here comes something else in football,

Ronnie Arnold

Just when you think you've seen it all.

Joe White

He didn't put them anyplace that they could be seen by children.

John DeLuca

There are so many other things for us to talk about that it just hasn't come up, ... We'll say 'How's it going?' and that's about it. By the end of the day, we've usually seen each other's work, anyway.

Naveen Chopra

What we've seen today is shocking. Ultimately it's down to how we keep strengthening our system to make it more stringent.

Tony Plath

What we've seen is a lot of pent-up demand.

Frank Solich

He's got composure. He's seen it all. He's responded to it all.

Dave Leitao

He's having not only a career, but particularly this season, a year for the ages. I've watched it, I've studied it on film and now I've seen it in person.

J. R. R. Tolkien

He should not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall.

Zora Neale Hurston

She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.

Jeff Jackson

Accessibility has been tough, and it has slowed getting parcels on the shelves for students.

Jessie Ware

Good music shouldn't have a shelf life.