Famous Quotes & Sayings

Donald Watkins

I think the president has it correct. We are addicted to foreign energy sources, almost to the point where we are captives. Our nation grapples with going 8,000 miles away to try to protect our energy sources.

George Abbott

I think it's the right model. That has to be part of the continuum of services. The aim is not to keep people addicted to their addictions in the long term. It's trying to get them into a social setting where we have an opportunity to . . . address their addictions issues.

Francis Clines

It is "lifestyle" journalism the way Chaucer first invented it, and the Times, onto a good thing, is uninhibitedly publishing articles on the passing of a cuckolded poet, a rock promoter strangely addicted to collecting orangutans and an Italian writer striving "to avoid becoming a bore.

Dyan Cannon

I was addicted to marijuana. I would have to have a puff off a joint before every take. I'd run out to the bathroom and come back.

Rick McCallum

He loves his wife so much that he thinks he is doing something to protect and save her, ... But what he's really doing is he's getting addicted to power. The more power he gets the more he wants and then once you do that, there's nothing left because you're willing to sacrifice everything. At the end of the day, Anakin sacrifices his family. He does fulfill his destiny after another 25 years and lets his son live and basically dies redeeming himself. But he goes through a lot of s--- and causes a lot of pain to people for a long time.

David Wilkerson

Our ministry also supports orphanages in the U.S. and overseas, thousands of poor children in Latin America, drug centers for addicted men, and a drug center in Israel.

Mary Lambert

If people can find something that they love about themselves after going to one of my shows, then I am so addicted to that feeling. It's the most gratifying thing on earth.

Jonathan Bishop

I personally don't see the Internet as what the people are being addicted to. I see it as the social experiences that are offered by the Internet that people are addicted to.

Kim Beason

If you can keep those concepts of play and competition, the behaviors are somewhat addictive. You can be addicted to fantasy sports just like you can be addicted to on-line betting - and I think there are probably several people out there who are like that.

Mark Ellis

I was almost positive it would be a one-year deal, so I was a little surprised yesterday. I'm happy.

Keisha Brown

Jacob has always been very big for us on defense but offensively he sometimes needs to shoot the ball more. There are times when he'll pass up wide-open shots and give them to Caleb (Simons) or Pat (Theisen). He's almost too unselfish.

Ian Rankin

Jack Harvey wrote thrillers, which are very different beasts to crime novels: lavish, almost pornographic descriptions of weaponry; sex scenes; world travel. These things were closed to me in the kind of crime novels I was writing.

Danielle Pletka

Katrina has changed many things but I don't think it will change Iraq policy. There is almost no elasticity in that policy.

Katie Gearlds

Just toughness. To have four games in four days with some players playing almost 40 minutes ... their will to get it done impressed me. We've got to come ready to play, that's for sure.

Gary Williams

Just to get that thing to six at halftime took a lot of effort. I've seen that before. You're almost in a trap in a situation, where their best scorer (Grier) doesn't play, they lose a game probably everybody in Minnesota thought they should have won. ... Good teams come back after a situation like that, and we happened to be the next game.

Jeff Bagwell

Just to get out here, get back on the field, I felt like it was a little bit of a trial camp today. I felt like I almost had to try and prove something, but yet I've got to sit back and say, 'No, I don't, I just have to get ready for April 1.

Jesse Stone

Kansas City, I would say, did more for jazz music, black music, than any other influence at all. Almost all their joints that they had there, they used black bands. Most musicians who amounted to anything, they would flock to Kansas City because that's the place where jobs were plentiful.

Patrick McGurn

Just within the last six months, these policies have spread pretty quickly. It's almost a proxy now for boardroom accountability.

Mark Rodgers

It appears, at the end of the day, there are fossil fuel interests trying to stop a renewable energy project.

Lee Humphrey

He was big for us tonight. He's been around for five years; he knows how to prepare for games. He knows the right mindset to have, and he stays focused. Tonight he gave us great energy off the bench.

Siobhan Davies

What we do now is to be valued - but we need to do more, so that it's more exciting to other people, and therefore that excitement shines back on us and we're able to have the energy to do more, to widen our creativity.

Scott Fetzer

Having them out there kind of sets the pace for the rest of the team. Their energy kind of spreads out, and other kids feed off it.

James Neal

He said he was feeling good but was having a hard time getting his energy back.

Patrick Fitzgerald

He's got energy and talent and enthusiasm and he will be a terrific inspector general for them. I think that's just a great move on the city's part.

Jon Cooper

He seems pretty into the school with new ideas and energy for the future, and so are we - so that is great.

Ross Gittell

Historically, spikes in energy prices are followed by a recession. The possibility (of a recession) is there; the probability is less than 50 percent, but it's there.

Willie Randolph

His stuff is good. Hey, we're 9-2 and he's a part of our team and as long as we're doing well I don't feel I should waste a lot of energy talking about him.

Virginia Woolf

Humor is the first gift to perish in a foreign language.

Lamar S. Smith

I am disappointed that the Senate would increase the number of foreign high-tech workers without including any safeguards for American workers.

Thomas Russo

He has had on occasion specific investments in foreign stocks, but this is different. He doesn't sound like he's making one-off purchases.

Denis MacShane

He never used the phrase 'ethical foreign policy'; instead, he said there should be an 'ethical dimension' to foreign policy.

Vladimir Putin

We should find other platforms, other forums for that [foreign policy], and there are plenty of them, including, for example, the UN and the Security Council.

Napoleon Bonaparte

International incidents should not govern foreign policy, but foreign policy, incidents

Tim Maluga

I generally don't respond to the e-mails I get from foreign players. They're looking for a full-ride and we just don't have that to often. I think that picking foreign players is a lazy way of recruiting.

Phil Klay

In State of the Union addresses, I always look at the foreign policy and military parts first, which are generally pretty minimal.

Enrique Pena Nieto

I plan to open Mexico's energy sector to national and foreign private investment.

Tim Winship

I think it's pretty much inarguable that the value of frequent-flyer miles is on the decline.

James Logan

I'd just say make sure you go 10 miles per hour, then 40.

Torii Hunter

He was throwing gas. He was throwing 96, 97 miles an hour.

William Least Heat-Moon

I can't say, over the miles, that I had learned what I had wanted to know because I hadn't known what I wanted to know. But I did learn what I didn't know I wanted to know.

James Osborne

I ran about 60 miles a week over the summer and I'm putting in about 50 miles a week now. So when I start tapering toward the end season it should be interesting.

Tom Taylor

I pushed him a little through one of the miles to get him back on pace and the next mile he totally went out the back door,

Alex Ferguson

I'm going to tell you the story about the geese which fly 5,000 miles from Canada to France. They fly in V-formation but the second ones don't fly. They're the subs for the first ones. And then the second ones take over - so it's teamwork.

Mark Campbell

You couldn't keep him still. He was going 90 miles an hour.

Kevin Collins

You've been doing the same 100-plus miles per week that I used to do. You're not going to have the speed for 5Ks with that kind of training.

Bill Richardson

is used for national supply emergencies for a really rainy day.

Ted Dexter

The whole of our national sport is not doing very well.

Alex Salmond

It had 1,000 years as an independent nation before the union,

Tanya Chaplin

I think that when they went out they were a little tight because they were trying too hard. But that's actually not surprising to me in that every single one of them, this is the first national championships.

Aldo Radamus

It is Julia's first year on the national team, and she's been successful in downhill.

Ward Grant

He was so proud of his heritage, and his national pride is legendary.

Mark Grindstaff

He has wrestled in many, many national competitions.

Sean Dockery

He doesn't get the national props he deserves. Without him, we would not be sitting here today.

Wallace Stegner

That is all the National Parks are about. Use, but do no harm.

Jeff Capell

Jamal can do that. He can score points in bunches.

Andrew Kohut

His ratings for being trustworthy, which were his strong point for all of his first term, have tumbled rather substantially this year.

Robbie Bach

Historically, there's been one price point and one configuration. You got it whether you wanted it or not,

Rich Baccellieri

I think (the point spread) would go to 3 before it went up to 4. But I think it's pretty solid at 3 1/2.

Bruce Jackson

I think that's all been settled, I don't know what their point is now, anyway.

Frank Thomas

We've got to try and do something with this, because it's getting to the point where it's getting really frustrating. This is excruciating. After I run, it's just really, really sore. I ran the other day (Friday), and I ran hard, and it was really sore. I don't know what we're going to do now. Hopefully, we'll come up with something.

Royce Chadwick

We've done pretty well. It just comes down to whether we put an exclamation point on the season or a period.

M. Thompson

I thought she was going to make a four- point difference. Turned out, it was five.

Roy Wright

I think we?re getting to a point of equilibrium. I think we?re getting back to the norm.

Tom Casey

He is the established constitutional president of Mauritania.

John Edwards

It is actually the responsibility of the president of the U.S. to be able to do two things at the same time,

Orrin Hatch

I think the president has to do some compromising here, not just the House.

Gary Chaison

I think that (AFL-CIO President John) Sweeney will have to make a strong statement about the AFL-CIO and how it's strong and still relevant.

Dale Bills

He was strong and vibrant and it was vintage President Hinckley.

Ryan Lochte

Abe Lincoln is my favorite president of all time - and he pulls off that top hat pretty well.

Russell Baker

The best thing about being President is that it gets you out of American life. I don't know what the theory is behind this, but it is a fact. The first thing we do with a President is shunt him off to a siding where nothing American can ever happen to him.

Townsend Harris

The President wishes the Japanese to be very prudent about the introduction of opium, and if a treaty is made, he wishes that opium may be strictly prohibited.

Reza Aslan

Obama has been the single worst president in modern American history in dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

JoAnn Carrin

He just wants to make sure the wetlands are as protected as they can be.

Janet Norwood

He just hugged me and said, 'You've done your job, mom. It's my turn to protect you now.' I was just floored, you know, it was pretty unreal.

Gary Thompson

Whatever has to be done to protect the citizens. If it's going to save lives, I know that's really important.

Darian Townes

We've got to protect our home, and we let this one get away. It's very disappointing.

Russell Schweiss

Under Gov. Bush, Florida's wetlands and waterways are receiving better protection than ever before.

John Simmons

He was just protecting us. That showed us that he'll do what it takes to protect us.

Michael Essien

I don't know why (Lauren) should make out I elbowed him on purpose. All I was doing was protecting the ball... For me, it was not even a foul.

P. J. Harvey

Ideally, you want to protect all of the important pieces, as much as you can.

Richelle Mead

You got some cheap foreign labor to protect Lissa?