Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlo Panunzi

Anyhow, it is not a very important business and mainly active in Europe.

Paul Aussaresses

As for torture, it was tolerated if not actively encouraged, ... He (the emissary) knew exactly what went on during the night.

Jodhi May

As an actor, I think it's really important to be as anonymous as possible. It's your job to convince people that you are somebody else, and so any recognition I'd get away from the screen - well, it's not something I actively seek. To be honest with you, I'm surprised anybody does.

Eric Brewer

The site that we had been looking at did not work out. We never got to the point of moving forward on an actual approval process. We are still actively looking for sites in Citrus County but do not have any specific plans at this time.

Ram Hernandez

The official statement I can give you, the only statement I can give you is that Naomi Fuentes is a person of interest in an active criminal investigation.

Steve Zeller

These are the sort of films we are actively and passionately looking for. They have excited audiences and jurors alike at a number of film festivals because they are stunning and emotional pieces of work, and we are happy to be involved with such excellent movies.

Rep. Schultheis

This is going to be used quite frequently by sexually active women.

Susan Sullivan

This is going to be so much fun for everyone especially the kids and parents, ... We wanted to have this day so kids and their families can get involved with one another and become active playing and having fun outside. It's an opportunity for families to spend fun time together while improving their health.

Butch Kinerney

This is not a seismically active area. It's unusual for the region to be shaken that way.

Bruce Latimer

Oil is down, silver is down, so we have to assume those stocks will be down. I think we'll be a little weaker out of the gate.

Jen Kirkman

Sometimes I feel like if two parents were given $100, and a child-free person was given $100, everyone would assume that the parents would invest their money wisely because they're smart. And people like me would just go buy candy.

Joan Didion

The shock of it was that this time, she had a lot of strength, ... Her husband and I assumed she'd overcome it.

Zach Hall

This program will be the most comprehensive and broadest program for stem cell research training in the country and I assume in the world,

Kim Shaw

With any modern relationship between a man and a woman, everyone - including their own friends - assume that they're going to hook up.

Karen Joy Fowler

I assume that we are all limited by our own brains and experiences and can only understand other people and other creatures through a kind of translation that brings them closer to us.

James dyer

We had assumed or hoped for today to be so much more than yesterday. Isn't it strange how we do nothing and expect different outcomes.

Abby Cohen

We don't think so, and continue to assume long-term earnings growth of 7 percent-to-8 percent in our valuation model.

Tim Russert

Those who could not get out were the poor, who rely on public buses to get out! Your website says that your department assumes primary responsibility for a national disaster - if you knew a hurricane three storm was coming, why were buses, trains, planes ... provided on Friday, Saturday, Sunday to evacuate people before the storm?

Phil Klay

People should be able to tell stories that are important to them to try and understand what they mean. I don't think you figure anything out on your own. Certainly not war stories.

G. H. Hardy

Anything we can do to help impart knowledge of our Constitution is important. If we spent a day recognizing, say, presidents or particular people, this certainly is the one thing we share in common - our Constitution. It's the thread that holds us all together.

Rodrigo Rato

oil prices have become certainly a threat to the world economy.

Tom Stoppard

Quite early on, and certainly since I started writing, I found that philosophical questions occupied me more than any other kind. I hadn't really thought of them as being philosophical questions, but one rapidly comes to an understanding that philosophy's only really about two questions: 'What is true?' and 'What is good?'

Marc Berman

Pulling a stunt like this (which is certainly not a first) shows a lack of respect for the audience.

Brad Rubin

The salaried workers are certainly going to be touched by this. By how much, it's difficult to say.

Joe Thompson

I've seen it before in my coaching career, but it's certainly unique to this area,

Mike Simmonds

I've talked to Mike, and he said he's ready for that challenge. I most certainly think he is. I think we have a good thing going here, and we should keep the continuity. Keeping Mike and the rest of the staff intact would keep that continuity.

Jerry Colangelo

I've spoken with Shawn some time ago and he certainly indicated he wanted to be a part of this thing. He's the kind of individual and player who personifies what you want to represent you.

David Lemmon

As always, our first concerns are for protection of people and our environment. With this in mind, we continue to work closely with the electric utilities as they re-establish service in Mississippi,

Mark Johnson

That was a close call, but it was the right one. There was never any doubt that (Byrd) won that match.

Steven Ross

Our customers are going to be shut out with all the closed streets.

Gilberto Madail

Of those 12 cases, there was a response to only one, and that response was to close it for lack of proof.

Leif Johansson

now investigating the matter more closely to determine what has happened.

Bill Wright

Some were already hung, but many were stuck away in a closet on the second floor, in various states of disrepair and deterioration.

Patrick Martin

Ryan is one of our close personal friends. He's kinda part of the family.

Dusty Baker

Running is the hard part. It's getting close to having to make a decision.

O. J. Simpson

Right now we're really a legit seven and we're very close to being eight. And if we can get to that point, then we've got all sorts of options.

Gary Bardini

These rises are going to be fairly high but not near as high as what we saw three months ago.

Dennis Yaw

You need to find out if they have been fairly consistent.

Antonya Nelson

I think about and study people. I think I make people uneasy sometimes by being so curious as to why they do what they do. I find myself thinking about this fairly obsessively, and I can't stop until I've found an answer.

Ian Kawas

We were fairly nervous, just in the sense that we were the favorites. We're rarely the favorites.

Mark Foster

We first flew it, after a 12-year restoration, in 1994, ... It is fairly stable but ... it tends to wander because it doesn't have a vertical surface. It goes straight, but yaws a lot. It has fairly good cruising speed, 160 miles per hour or so.

Ric Ocasek

People tell me all the time that I look forbidding or aloof. That doesn't bother me much - I am fairly private, withdrawn, and... distant, I guess. But, um, I think that's okay.

Chris Lee

That was tough for me to get situated because I was back and forth (between positions) the whole season. Now, I'm fairly secure at defense.

John Koskinen

That will actually look fairly interesting on a T-shirt.

Kevin Norrish

Markets have already priced in a fairly sizeable production cut.

Domhnall Gleeson

Often times, I just do a job and tell my agents, 'I'm in lockdown now.' I won't talk to anybody about anything else in the meantime, and I think that's generally the way to go because I also like to have a gap in between jobs.

George Leung

The widening rate gap between the U.S. and HK in the later part of 2006 will likely be accompanied by a strong HK dollar.

Charles Adams

You peel the back of the tape off, so when you go around the door, it seals those gaps off.

Michael Greco

There are some significant gaps in people's knowledge,

Craig McCaw

Changes occur because there’s a gap between what is and what should be.

Richard Cobden

For every credibility gap there is a gullibility gap.

James Clarke

GAP is for it. They have no money to invest on this side because it's this side.

John Corbett

Gap is a quality team. Right now, they're playing as well as anybody. We're going to need another strong effort.

M. Wolfe

Gap has lost its cool. Once you get in the stores it's kind of numbing; there isn't any focus.

Abby Cohen

Opportunities are likely to present themselves, especially given a 6- to 12-month time horizon.

Jennifer Pahlka

Now, a lot of people have given up on government. And if you're one of those people, I would ask that you reconsider, because things are changing. Politics is not changing; government is changing.

Jack Kozuchowski

I've spent half my life here. And they've always given me a lot of space to do what I thought I needed to do. It's been a labor of love.

Hal Capps

You never know what we are going to run. We feel like we have six tailbacks that can get the job done on any given night.

Tony Hawk

When I landed the first 900 at the XGames, it was just - it was a personal achievement. It was something that I have strived for for years and years and years, and in a lot of ways had given up on it. But I just didn't think of the resonance that would have.

Tom Watson

I guess I have never been much of a complainer. You just take what is given you, and don't complain about what you can't affect.

David Brodsky

Everything (entitled to the defense) is not given to us,

Peter Weir

With more time I like to see the actors find something of their own places, so I can get their own ideas before I put mine in. Given they have a better idea more often enough.

Mark Rylance

This situation has given them an opportunity to really set themselves up.

Sydney Smith

Avoid shame, but do not seek glory; nothing so expensive as glory.

Sienna Miller

I'm supposed to be this complete slapper, that's my reputation.

Martin Amis

The true manipulator never has a reputation for manipulating.

Tim Chapman

This is going to be a social services disaster.

Dan Bailey

We're going to try and make it a one-stop social services fair,

Timothy Noah

The financial services industry is a ward of the state.

Brandon Sanderson

Once one becomes a man, he can and must make his own decisions. But I do offer warning. Even a good thing can become destructive if taken to excess.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I embrace technology and I just think that in 1984 when James Cameron wrote about the technology, everyone thought he was totally way out there and it was science fiction. Now it's almost reality what he talked about. The machines have taken over, except they have not become self-aware, like in Terminator. So this is really one thing that we have to watch out for, but I think technology is good.

Audie Murphy

I'm glad that it didn't take as long to get Shepard off the ground as it's taken this series. I'd begun to think the Congo would be ahead of us in the space race before Whispering Smith ever got on the air.

Cameron Mackintosh

I've taken considerable gambles on shows, but they're very considered gambles.

C. S. Lewis

They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out.

Charles Kennedy

Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.

Charles Kennedy

I want to see far more decisions taken far closer to the patients, the passengers and the pupils. Far more power for locally and regionally elected politicians who understand best the needs of their areas. And far more say too for the dedicated staff at all levels in health and education.

Jamie-Lynn Sigler

I have never taken a road trip. Unless you count Los Angeles to Vegas.

Jascha Heifetz

When people come to play music as they do to play bridge, civilization will have taken the longest stride forward since the beginning of time.