Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Byrne

I ride my bike almost every day here in New York. It's getting safer to do so, but I do have to be fairly alert when riding on the streets as opposed to riding on the Hudson River bike path or similar protected lanes.

Donna Norris

The AMBER Alert to me is bittersweet. It's wonderful to bring children home where they belong, but what if we had the AMBER Alert when Amber went missing?

Ayatollah Khamenei

The alert and decisive nation and government of Iran... will not pay attention to these threats.

Craig Martin

The anxiety, increased stress levels and road rage that can be caused by getting lost are unnecessary distractions on today's busy roads when motorists need to be alert and able to concentrate.

Salahuddin Haider

The army has been put on alert and can be deployed within minutes if there is any trouble.

Jim Colborn

You are always alert to if there is an exception, and my mind is open. In the case of Zach, I don't really think it is at this point.

Octavio Paz

In each verse, a decision awaits us, and we can't choose to close our eyes and let instinct work on its own. Poetic instinct consists of an alert tension.

Captain Zagala

We continue to be on red alert We are still awaiting the assessment of our commanders.

Kofi Annan

It is essential that we remain alert to this hazard to avoid an increase in skin cancers, cataracts and other health threats,

Bill Bruford

Plus I am being hounded by all the fabulous new drummers, Bill Stewart at the head of the pack.

Michele Waslin

We know that the construction sector is dependent on immigrant workers in some cases. These bills would be very important both to employers who want a legal, stable work force and to the immigrants who are working in construction already.

Kevin Brady

With the way energy costs are rising, people are a lot more concerned with what their bills are going to look like -- electric and gas.

Lisa Roberts

Most of them don't have insurance, ... They've managed to pay all their bills for the month and have struggled from one paycheck to the next. They're doing things that society tells them to do, but it's not working out.

Liz Stubbs

Mostly what I do to pay the bills is a lot of writing for corporate training films and producing those,

Seth Payne

Most are Bills fans and Texans fans. They told me they were cheering for the Texans but I think I heard a few cheers for the Bills.

Richard Hastings

Will the anticipation of more expensive bills hurt holiday sales? I don't think so. I think consumer spending will see more of a marginal change rather than a substantial change, primarily at the lower-income level.

Samuel Simon

Most residential consumers don't spend a lot of time scrutinizing their bills and they don't want to change. The carriers know this.

Mike Peterson

The problem is that they go out and run up their credit card bills again, ... So now they are burdened by a first mortgage, a second mortgage and on top of that more credit card debt.

X. J. Kennedy

To me, a poem that's in rhyme and meter is the difference between watching a film in full color and watching a film in black and white. Not that a few black and white films aren't wonderful. So are certain successful pieces of free verse.

Yann Martel

I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists.

Imelda May

I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.

Idris Elba

Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.

Gad Elmaleh

When you succeed, at a certain point, you want to challenge yourself. Otherwise, you become boring. You become a has-been. It's not very interesting. I don't want to be this guy who has only succeeded in France. I could say, 'O.K., that's it; merci.' But I'm not interested in that.

Gail Carriger

I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk.

Gilbert Hernandez

I grew up being really insecure and dumped on, over-feeling certain things in a negative way. So I thought I had something to prove.

Donald Trump

Owning great landmarks such as the Empire State Building or Trump Tower or the General Motors Building or the Plaza Hotel - there are certain just spectacular landmarks - it's an honor; it's really an honor.

Zadie Smith

Books are not brands. Some people are very willing to see themselves as a brand, but you can't be a certain type of writer to a certain type of person all the time. It will kill you.

Lisa Holden

Police departments should have a zero-tolerance policy toward domestic violence. Officers and other violators should be treated as criminals just as they would in any other situation.

Efraim Zuroff

His passing will hopefully remind people there are Nazi war criminals who can and should be prosecuted.

David Shuster

Many conspiracies are not criminal, even conspiracies that involve slamming somebody.

Ralph Brown

We have some criminals out there. That's why we have lights and security people at Wal-Mart.

Bernhard Goetz

I would, without any hesitation, shoot a violent criminal again.

Bernhard Schlink

So I was still guilty. And if I was not guilty because one cannot be guilty of betraying a criminal, then I was guilty of having loved a criminal.

Billy Sunday

Sinners cannot find God for the same reason that criminals cannot find a policeman: They aren't looking!

Andy Yu

Working together, we will show the criminals that there will be no safe haven for their crimes.

Alan Dershowitz

I tell my students, if you ever become comfortable with your role as criminal defense lawyer, it's time to quit. It should be a constant source of discomfort, because you're dealing with incredible moral ambiguity, and you've been cast into a role which is not enviable.

Patrick Buchanan

Who are beneficiaries of the Court's protection? Members of various minorities including criminals, atheists, homosexuals, flag burners, illegal immigrants (including terrorists), convicts, and pornographers

Greg Pettis

We get the flags a week (before the event).

Robert Martinez

On her first throw, she threw over 140 feet. It was a throw that could have won the whole thing, and then I saw the red flag go up. She scratched on the third throw, and I think that kind of rattled her.

Chad Lavalais

If it was illegal the ref should have thrown a flag then and there, but being that I haven't really established myself in this league and he has, they're going to protect the quarterback and I understand that. They lost the game and we won. That's all that matters.

Dawn Hudson

When he was our president, he wanted us to show our patriotism. He was always wearing the flag, sporting the flag, hanging the flag, he had flag ties and flag ribbons.

Allen Sinai

Greenspan is giving individuals ample warning that they need to take that into account. He's throwing out a yellow flag of caution.

John Batiste

He tended to surround himself with those that support his agenda. He was involved with the selection of flag officers to an unprecedented level.

Kurt Woerner

I can't imagine someone walking onto that site and not having red flags go up. Someone missed this big time.

Craig Ross

Four successive national anthems -- it was just an unbelievable sight. To have the New Zealand flag raised four times ... very moving, very emotional, and just great for our sport.

Melissa Foraker

I thought it was just random mail that is sent to everybody. I didn't think I was a special person.

Carlos Casillas

We got this in the mail today. It's a little late.

Steve Graves

We receive faxes and you see them in the voice mail folder. It's as simple as double-clicking on them, just like an e-mail message.

Tammy Cox

I would send him the burritos by mail but I can't find a way to do it and keep them fresh.

Diane von Furstenberg

I communicate mostly via e-mail and receive hundreds of e-mails a day.

Chris Alexander

E-mail importance is defined by the receiver, not the sender.

Chris Abani

If I dont get at least one e-mail every ten minutes, I feel unloved. Even junk mail makes me feel seen. Sad, I know. Sigh.

Audrey Meadows

Fan mail is one thing, but fans you meet in person are a different matter entirely.

Bernie Bickerstaff

When we come to Miami, we need to just mail it in. We don't even need to stop.

David Holland

One of the quickest ways to get rid of the lease payment is to get rid of your car.

Bill Vaughan

We deserve this payment by all stretches of how one would calculate it.

Ryan Holmes

Payfirma has revolutionized the payment process, consolidating mobile, e-commerce and in-store payments under a single solution, much like HootSuite did for social media.

Allen Fishbein

There could be a series of payment shocks.

Ezra Taft Benson

Gods' payment is the best payment.

Ashley Ellott

The down payment is $400,000 for the car.

Lee Iacocca

I learned that monthly payments are the cornerstone of everything in the automobile business.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

Profit is the payment you get when you take advantage of change.

Gene Wolfe

When a gift is deserved, it is not a gift but a payment.

Bethenny Frankel

I have always been a business person.

Camille Paglia

I am a very reclusive, private person.

Alan Sugar

I like to be a very fair person.

Cheri Huber

A person who is without fear cannot be controlled.

Beyonce Knowles

If you are with the right person, it brings out the best version of you.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I've been broody since I was 12, but I can't just get anyone pregnant. It has got to be the right person.

Caitlin Moran

If you're not a confident person, pretend to be one.

Cass McCombs

You can't just explain a joke. Either it isn't funny, or the person just totally missed the punchline.

Bob Phillips

The person who knows everything has the most to learn.

Bobbi Brown

Whether you are a stay-at-home mum, or on the red carpet, or in Afghanistan, the better you feel, the better you do your job.

Bernadette Peters

I don't smoke, I don't drink much, I don't eat red meat. I stay out of the sun.

Arsene Wenger

The background looks like a lot of red cards.

Arsene Wenger

Of the nine red cards this season we probably deserved half of them.

Roy Blunt

I'd be a lot more excited about eliminating earmarks if we reduced all of the spending by whatever the earmarks used to be, but nobody's, apparently, going to talk about doing that.

Madonna Ciccone

When I went to Africa, I was reduced to floods of tears every day.

Rain Bojangles

It is better to be redundant than remiss.

Dave Johnston

We are not trying to criminalise more people, we are trying to reduce the supply and demand.

Mitt Romney

I'd rather see the tax for innovation reduced rather than expanded.

Gaines Adams

I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son.

George Allen

It's time for an American comeback... where leaders in Washington listen to 'we the people.'

Zadie Smith

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are.

Zadie Smith

Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.

Vivienne Westwood

I am in my own head most of the time.

Zubin Mehta

New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.

Zubin Mehta

I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.

Yakov Smirnoff

When you like something, you find time to do it.

Evangeline Lilly

I'm a bit delusional, but every time I do a job, I think I'm retired.

Phil Castellini

We're using every nook and cranny we've got.

Jon Johansen

Basically, if I have no intention of using a service then I won't bother reverse-engineering it.

Alan Chambers

One of the many evils this world has to offer is the sin of homosexuality. Satan, the enemy is using people to further his agenda to destroy the Kingdom of God and as many souls as he can.

Bernard Meltzer

Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.

Lucy Liu

When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt.

Aerin Lauder

I think every woman should be using a foundation, whether it's liquid or compact.

George Wald

The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one.

Tom Jenkinson

This current round of gigs, I'm just doing it using pure electronics.

Ban Ki-moon

We are using resources as if we had two planets, not one. There can be no 'plan B' because there is no 'planet B.'