Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aileen Carroll

Half of this will go to the South Asia earthquake matching fund; the remaining will go to the two appeals we have now received, one from the United Nations and one from the Red Cross movement,

Jim Cullinan

It clearly reveals one important thing that the government is trying to do, which is avoid the Court of Appeals in every possible way.

Richard Engel

I think the Chinese model is one that appeals more and more in the developing world. People see that an authoritarian state can hold onto power, can hold on to stability and can drive the economy forward.

Jonathan Turley

Life on the appeals court tends to move at a leisurely and comfortable pace.

John Tanner

We may have gotten good jurors who had no opinion and could give these men a fair trail but we were on thin ice with the appeals court if we went forward with this case.

Janet Reno

In accordance with the Court of Appeals ruling we will take every step necessary to ensure that Elian does not leave the country while the Court of Appeals injunction is place,

Spencer Waller

I had expected there to be some more hearings. I would have expected him to entertain witnesses, but not engage in the full-fledged discovery that Microsoft wanted. That would have given them a little victory, and to the extent where if the court of appeals disagrees with him, it would be on the merits, not the process.

David Roberts

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Gerald Treece

The trial court has already said it's a good-faith mistake. I think the Court of Appeals is not going to get involved in this. I think everybody realizes Harris County got hoodwinked as much as the defense did with Park Dietz's testimony.

Adam Gacs

I was interested in German studies, and The University of Tennessee had an attractive program and a good professor. It is an opportunity for me to practice English and study German.

Gus Sauter

I wouldn't say mid caps are a screaming buy, but they are somewhat attractive on a relative basis.

Bob Gainey

I wouldn't say desperation was our situation tonight early in the game, it was more I think a really clear and attractive pursuit of the goals that we want, and that's the way we played in the opening 20 minutes.

Edwin Eisendrath

Just yesterday he diverted another $1.1 billion from pensions to pay for his election-year budget. He continues to reward contributors and his lobbyist friends in ways that give Illinois a bad reputation and have attracted the investigations of the U.S. attorney. Every where I go, people say it's time for a change.

Ray Brooks

Joe sees a reflection of his wife in Pauline. That was his first instinct which attracted him, and it remains the underlying reason for his affection.

Robert Hess

I take this as the last nail in (Brownsville's) coffin. We have no industry, now we have no hospital. What do we have to attract people?

Chris Konieczka

I think it has an attraction: the Mardi Gras, Bourbon Street, the fun area, it's warmer than Madison. But now it's got the attraction of a city in dire need, a physical manifestation of a way we can help out.

David Forst

He was a huge boost for our offense. When he came over here, we said at the time of the trade that having that option was attractive because we knew we'd be able to keep him beyond this year. Jay's a professional. He fit in great with the clubhouse. He's another great veteran our young guys can learn from.

Bobby Baldwin

Having a good residential environment is going to be just one more thing to attract visitors.

John Stevens

I would totally disagree with that comment. I don't think we're ever considered as a soft hockey team. We've had this conversation before, our guys that are expected to score, need to score.

Shah Rukh Khan

I think the way the audience takes the Indian film-star is a little different from the way the audience takes the Western star there. We are considered like demi-gods here, and the reason is not because we are better or good, but because there is no other mode of entertainment in India.

Susanna Moore

On its 2015 list, the Fish and Wildlife Service included the 'ea, or hawksbill turtle, as well as the green turtle, Ridley sea turtle, leatherback turtle and loggerhead turtle. Four mammals are considered endangered: the Hawaiian hoary bat; the kohola, or humpback whale; the sperm whale; and the endemic Hawaiian monk seal.

Sugata Mitra

I don't even want to guess at what computer literacy might do to children, except to say that if cyberspace is considered a place, then there are people who are already in it and people who are not in it.

Jon Fleischman

Here's a state that Democrats have long considered an easy win. Not this time.

Paul DePodesta

He's a guy I've been interested in sitting down with for a while, ... We considered him for farm director position last year and he is a potential rising star in the game.

Silvio Berlusconi

He expressed his own personal position which in many ways can be considered well-founded,

Samuel Butler

He ne'er considered it, as loath To look a gift-horse in the mouth

Seabo Gaeganelwe

Parliament considered national interest and in as much as people raise their objections, no one will intimidate or deny the people in the town the right to vote.

Gwen Stefani

L.A.M.B. is a fashion line that -- fingers crossed -- will just get more and more sophisticated, ... What's different than what's out there is the way I put things together. And, if you look inside the pants, you'll find secret details in there.

Tobias Crabtree

What you're seeing is a crossroads here between Wall Street analysts focused on the next quarter and long-term investors focused on the next three to five years.

Tim Wiese

I thought this can't be happening. We had how many chances? Everything was played at their goal, then comes one cross and we let (Boubacar) head in unmarked.

Whoopi Goldberg

I think actually there's another young lady who would like to do it and so I've got my fingers crossed for her. I think it's Ellen. I think she would be good.

Elliott Sadler

I think it's up to the drivers. We don't know where the line is until somebody crosses it. Until somebody gets called in for a pass-through penalty, nobody really knows where the line is. I'm sure we're going to push the envelope come (today).

James Tate

I was just sitting on my bed in a dormitory room, and I started writing. The thing that was magic about it was that once you put down one word, you could cross it out. I figured that out right away. I put down 'mountain,' and then I'd go, 'No - 'valley.' That's better.'

Andre Miller

I was just trying to make a play. I was trying to set him up to cross over and he did and I got the steal.

Kellie Pickler

'Things that Never Cross a Man's Mind' is probably one of my favorite upbeat tempo songs because it is just a sassy song, and it's a fun song.

Roy Hunn

He was just a soft-spoken, wonderful American. Every day or night, he'd go out on his walks. (But) it's dangerous to cross on a green light, much less a red one.

James Gomez

He definitely keeps the crowd involved in the game and I think that makes a difference on why people want to be out here.

Marat Safin

I think the crowd should get a video cassette of this match because it was a classic,

Glenn Wilson

I think the crowd really got into it when they saw Jeff take that hit. It really livened people up. Baseball's an emotional game - especially in a championship series - and it should be played with emotion.

Shaun Alexander

I think the crowd did a great job at the end.

Steve Mullin

We just have to go out, concentrate on ourselves and play off the emotion that crowd brings.

Ron Steele

I think that kind of got us jump-started a little bit. It got the crowd in the game and got us more focused and intense. I think that was a good move by Coach.

Derek Jeter

He doesn't know what the crowd is going to do in Boston. He does not know.

Brian Durocher

We can get 300-400 people here in Walter Brown. Knowing the bounces, playing in our own rink and the crowd noise from the fans help everybody play better.

Walt Whitman

Seasons pursuing each other the indescribable crowd is gathered, it is the fourth of Seventh-month, (what salutes of cannon and small arms!

John Bonamego

I thought we did a pretty decent job. Those were really good numbers.

Cliff Reed

I thought we competed, I thought we played decent on the defensive end. Only when we scrambled did we give up a lot of easy opportunities.

Adam Luchterhand

We made two mental lapses where we gave them open shots in the corner. From there, we just got cold. We got some decent shots and just weren't able to get them to fall.

Felipe Alou

He had a pretty decent sinkerball and a good slider ? and good hitting. He can hit, by the way. Some people might besurprised.

Alan Vest

He has been a decent player in the past...but things have not worked out here.

Michael Mann

I relate more to the fact that 80-inch plasma has just started to become ubiquitous and in people's homes the fairly decent 5.1 sound system and the big screen isn't that out of reach.

Randy Pope

I'm not saying we're a great team by far, but usually if you have a pretty decent program going, sometimes when the top don't get it done the bottom's gotta pick it up. That happens every so often.

John Whisenant

The good thing is they come back in decent shape.

Bob Edwards

You can't find a decent place to live around here, and finding work isn't easy either.

Bill Gates

The mainstream is always under attack.

Daniel Anderson

This is not a niche product. The technology will become mainstream quickly.

Bob Dylan

Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there's no fitting into it now.

Billy Corgan

Rock in the mainstream culture has lost a lot of its mojo.

James Blake

At some stage in the process, most mainstream pop records are being manipulated and possibly completely rebuilt on a computer, with a visual program.

Preston Manning

What used to be considered conservative values... are increasingly becoming more mainstream values.

Steve Albini

I'm not really interested in participating in mainstream culture. Participating in the mainstream music business is, to me, like getting involved in a racket. There's no way you can get involved in a racket and not someway be filthied by it.

Eric Church

I'm going to do everything I can to keep from being mainstream.

Shane Smith

Most of the time, when the mainstream media reports on something, it never tells the whole story.

Annie Dillard

poetry has been able to function quite directly as human interpretation of the raw, loose universe. It is a mixture, if you will, of journalism and metaphysics, or of science and religion.

Stephen Vincent Benet

The blog is also a way to continue to register what I see and hear in a day - no matter what the form. In fact, my blog is a complete mixture of forms.

John Wilkinson

If we all work together, we'll have a sustaining mixture for all of us to have.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

MC Hammer

I think it is a shock to people to find out that MC Hammer is a super geek.

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

H. Hunt

He used to laugh. He'd get people to do it and not tell them what was going to happen.

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

Gale Norton

I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving.

Gary Sheffield

I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always tell the truth. That should count for something, right?

Robert C. Solomon

Love can be understood only "from the inside," as a language can be understood only by someone who speaks it, as a world can be understood only by someone who lives in it.

Salma Hayek

If a man lets all of my dogs sleep in the bed with us, then that is the most romantic thing. You must love my dogs in order to love me. A man who is nice to my animals and doesn't shoo them away - well, that's the height of romance.

Andre Holland

I'm the old-school, letter-writing romantic. I know it's out of style, and not a lot of women go for that these days, but that's what I go for.

Henry Rollins

Everyone who knows me knows that I'm a hopeless romantic who listens to love ballads and doo-wop songs all the time.

Helen Fisher

Psychologists maintain that the dizzy feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to-at best-three years

James Joyce

Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.

Larry Graham

I found a piece of paradise to call my own, and life is worth living again, for to love you, to me, is to live.

Ludwig van Beethoven

ever thine, ever mine, ever ours

Neville Marriner

If we perform the romantic repertoire we need more musicians.

Warren Buffett

Take the high road; it's far less crowded.

Wellington Mara

I'm not taking that. Go ahead, it's here, just take it.

Cedric Bozeman

I'm just taking it day to day. It's tough to handle.

Nancy Grace

The reality is, when you're representing someone that's guilty, you're in the position of taking that position.

Nathan Bedford Forrest

Never stand and take a charge... charge them too.

Phil McGraw

Take the high road, there's a lot less traffic up there.

Abraham Torres

I've been up there a long time. I just don't see the justification for what is taking place.

Thierry Fremaux

This is a year of renewal. It is a year of taking risks.

Bob Krabbe

This is devastating. It's unfortunate it's taking place.

Sasha Roiz

I have this tendency to play these horrible, horrible characters.

Donald Rumsfeld

It tends to be speculative, ... It is not actionable. It is not verifiable.

Katherine Center

Beauty comes from tenderness.

Edith Hamilton

A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait.

Chris Jordan

My ideas tend to arise out of nowhere when I'm not intentionally trying to think of something.

Laurie Helgoe

I am very troubled by the tendency to define introverts by what they lack. Introversion is a preference, not a fallback plan.

John Updike

A seventeenth-century house tends to be short on frills like hallways and closets; you must improvise.

Dan Shechtman

Israel, in general, should learn from other nations. We have a tendency to teach the world. In many cases, we should learn from the world, because they make advances.

Emily Mortimer

I'm always drawn to the thing I think I can't possibly do, because I tend to be better when I think I can't possibly do something than I am when I'm pretty sure I can do something.

David Clark

It's unfair to the students, because they don't know what they can do to get themselves expelled.

Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.