Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cynthia McKinney

The 9/11 Omission: Did the Commission Get it Wrong?

John Poindexter

The 9/11 Commission is identifying the exact problems that we were trying to get technology to solve. So I keep pushing the idea.

Candy Olson

We can't just keep hoping the county commission will do right by these kids.

Laura Martin

We have the Racial and Cultural Diversity Commission which translates and publishes our press releases into Latino magazines.

Michael Copps

Today the Federal Communications Commission empowers America's new media elite with unacceptable levels of influence over the ideas and information upon which our society and our democracy depend,

Jack Evans

We will respond quickly and comprehensively to any requests for information from the Commission on this complaint, but no such requests have been received so far.

Stephen Williams

We have been working for some time on this commission and the purchaser is a long standing customer of ours. Even though we regularly work on commissions to source rare wines this one has been particularly gratifying.

Thomas Vinje

Microsoft has been playing games with the Commission from the beginning, but now it realizes its time is up.

J. Taylor

Microsoft continues to be open to working with partners and competitors, alike, to jointly commission research that helps all our customers engage in an informed and respectful debate on the facts.

Idina Menzel

I started working professionally as soon as I could, doing weddings and things like that in high school, while everyone else was having keg parties. I just felt destined to do it and really committed and driven; it was something that just felt right all my life.

Idina Menzel

I feel like I was born to do this... I started working professionally as soon as I could, doing weddings and things like that in high school, while everyone else was having keg parties. I just felt destined to do it and really committed and driven; it was something that just felt right all my life.

Vincent Bugliosi

We should not televise trials. There's only one purpose for a criminal trial. It's to determine whether or not the defendant committed the crime. Anything that interferes or has the potential of interfering with that should automatically be prohibited.

Michael Grant

The only crime, if any, that may have been committed in these circumstances is the perpetration of a dangerous act.

Janie Jamieson

The people are committed to wanting the land back and are willing to stay as long as they have to.

Toll Holdings

The outlook for the group is very positive and the company remains committed and focussed on delivering superior shareholder value in the long term.

Barack Obama

As president, I'm committed to making Washington work better and rebuilding the trust of the people who sent us here.

Rand Paul

I don't think you should have everybody's information from their bank. There should be some process: accusations and proof that you've committed a crime.

Jay Rockefeller

The American people deserve to know not just whether this administration committed crimes, but whether this administration told the truth - the full truth, the straight story,

Josh Lerner

The patent system is a trade-off. We get the 'good' of an invention in exchange for the 'bad' of a temporary monopoly on that invention.

Richard Leakey

A number of scientists with greatly different backgrounds can come up with completely different assessments. The discussions or controversies are endless. Once a year, we try to bring the most important discoverers together to exchange their experiences and knowledge.

Lior Horev

We are not sitting quietly. ... We are molding the region, security-wise, the way we think it needs to look, and the Palestinians have a lot to lose. First of all in exchange for an independent Palestinian state, they have to provide security.

Tang Xu

We have a very good start for the foreign exchange regime ... We also want liberalization of interest rates.

George Carlin

Little-known fact: When the stock exchange closes, the guy who comes out on the balcony with that big hammer slams it on the head of the person who lost the most money that day

Agnes Garvin

We're all in this together. So it provided an opportunity for us to exchange views.

Khaled Mashaal

We expect an exchange of opinions to take place and hope that nobody will put forward any conditions.

Rig Veda

Those who exchange ideas, views and knowledge can never be harmed by anyone.

Michel Alaby

One of the proposals is to link the sites. Another is to exchange information about investment, trade, tourism and business.

Ian Mckellen

You see people in Hollywood trying to make blockbuster after blockbuster, but it's not possible. There's some god up there saying, 'You will fail now.' But I suppose that's true of us all.

Yann Martel

If I didn't have children, I think my life would be a failure.

Victoria Osteen

God's not thinking about your mistakes, failures or shortcomings. No, His thoughts toward you are good.

Rick Pitino

Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Ashton Kutcher

What I've become good at is bringing things that aren't necessarily mainstream to the mainstream. What I did see on Twitter was a potential for mass publication; it's a mainstream consumer broadcasting device. It transforms customers and companies. You have to be transparent or you fail.

Bill Vaughan

Failed the bright promise of your early day?

Gerhard Schroeder

The American president called me and made the proposal, and I told him that it would not fail because of Germany,

Pete Harpolis

That was in 2002, and to date, we haven't had any failures since we proof tested this cable.

Ron Rivera

That was a tough thing, too. They went after the young guy. It was a tough play and he failed as well.

Steven Kaye

The 401(k) can get you where you want to go, it's just a shame that you have to fund it yourself.

Craig Bryson

The $64,000 question: nobody knows where the rest of the funding is going to come from.

Shawn Gumataotao

We're working with Mr. (Juan) Flores to find funding for payroll.

Warren Huff

We're working with funds where individuals are putting money into deals.

Prince Royce

At 17, I was working at Sprint in the Bronx so I could make money to fund my own music.

Travis Reindl

When state funding goes up, tuition increases go down. States are putting more money back into higher education. We don't know how long that's going to last.

Joanne Vavrek

We have only restored 81.5 percent (of the 2002-03 funding allocation) this year.

M. Wolfe

It did work out a little better than we thought. But you have to remember that one key part of all this is that we're still using our fund balance.

Jim Gibbons

We can always do better and we will by making sure government respects the wishes of those who fund it ? the hardworking taxpayers,

George Scalise

The outlook for the semiconductor industry remains robust.

Michael Walden

We have all the ingredients for a strong biotech industry here with the agriculture, pharmaceuticals and educational base.

Leah Rush

Time is money, and you can tell how much an industry is interested in getting their legislation through by how much they pay.

Randeep Hooda

I think I'm the only professional horse rider from the movie industry. Strangely, I've seen no men from the industry at equestrian events. Though I've seen some ladies like Diya Mirza and Lara Dutta at the race course. Women, by the way, make superior horse riders.

Rex Wilmouth

We're all trying to come together to make it work for the industry and for the consumer.

Gerald Brown

With all the industry we've lost, this will be a shot in the arm.

Jake Brace

We don't see the industry has reached equilibrium yet.

Molly O'Donnell

We are on track to support a worldwide launch for the first time in industry history.

Kathleen Walters

One of the nice things about tissue is we are not losing market share. We are No. 1 in our industry and we intend to stay there.

Clint Eastwood

There has to be something in every role that interests you.

Michael Greco

The ABA does not, and we will not, protect the interests of any political party or faction, nor the interests of any ideological or interest group.

Victor LaValle

Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.

Steve Johnson

Basically, it's the tourist trade that interests China,

Dick Dadey

We feel that the interests of New Yorkers are always better served when there are well-spaced and well-informed debates.

Zeng Qinghong

The prosperity of ASEAN accords with the interests of China,

Guillermo Ortiz

Parent banks' stakeholders are not necessarily the same as those of their subsidiaries. Moreover, their interests may diverge, especially during a crisis.

Danny Diaz

Sportsmen represent a very important constituency to this campaign. They reflect, in many cases, the interests and views of a majority of Americans and rural America.

John Tyler Bonner

My prime interests are in evolution and development. I use the cellular slime molds as a tool to seek an understanding of those twin disciplines.

Frank Quattrone

Respect public investors and treat them as partners and important constituents.

Justin Pascoe

Most investors will view the Link REIT as largely a yield play, with some potential upside through rental increases.

Mark Sue

I think investors are relieved about these results because there were thoughts they would have to ratchet down for this quarter.

Chris Shilakes

With the stock trading at premium multiples and momentum investors exiting the stock, it may take some time ... to re-establish an upward trend.

Edwin Soeryadjaya

The mandate that I got from my investors is to invest. So far, we are on the right track, and it is the right formula to invest in Indonesia.

Kevin Rose

I want to be known as one of the most accurate investors that ever lived.

Mark Mahaney

Yahoo! and Microsoft have reminded investors that search is not a monopoly,

Aaron Patzer

I pitch Mint to everyone from investors to engineers, young and old, and I do it pretty much the same way: Here's the problem in the market place, here's how we solve it, and here's how we make money.

Joe Osha

We'd love to tell investors that we anticipated Intel's problems, but we did not.

Jamie Rodriguez

We have a mutual respect for each other competing. We would never sit on each other and make someone else do all the work. That's just kind of like a runner moral.

Gerald Grinstein

Without Atlanta, there would not be a Delta. And without a Delta, there would not be the same Atlanta. You could say we are in a mutual nonaggression pact.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Because I am female, I’m expected to aspire to marriage. I am expected to make my life choices always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important.

Jane Goodall

The best relationship you can have with a chimpanzee is total mutual trust.

Alexander Haig

A durable, long-term U.S.-China strategic relationship is even more important now than in previous decades. The relationship will continue to grow and prosper to the mutual benefit of all peoples.

Alexander Hamilton

Now, mark my words. So long as we are a young and virtuous people, this instument will bind us together in mutual interests, mutual welfare, and mutual happiness. But when we become old and corrupt, it will bind no longer.

O. J. Simpson

Resilience is really about collaboration and mutual understanding,

Craig Woker

It is also getting an arms-length relationship with its own mutual funds.

Ted Menzies

I think you're going to see a totally different rapport with the Americans, rather than name-calling. I think it'll be a treatment of mutual respect.

Yahya Jammeh

You cannot be in your offices every day doing nothing... and at the end of the day you expect to be paid.

Ken Cooper

The police officer starts to look more and more like a monster.

Henry Bunsow

The Patent Office has said these patents are invalid. The patents at this point, if there was the new lawsuit, would not be enforceable.

Carl Sagan

Those who seek power at any price detect a societal weakness, a fear that they can ride into office.

Gerald Smith

The association had directors, officers and, by 1870, had been opened to stockholders.

Terry Shea

The assessor's office respectfully disagrees with some of the court's rulings.

Scott Bauer

We'll operate in Raleigh through the loan-production office for now.

Howard Osofsky

You are going to have officers with shorter fuses,

Patricia Schroeder

The Navy runs their process. The House of Representatives doesn't do anything about their process. We do not select. Navy officers select.

Gore Vidal

There is only one party in the United States: the Property party... and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.

C. S. Lewis

Most of us are not really approaching the subject in order to find out what Christianity says; we are approaching it in the hope of finding support from Christianity for the views of our own party.

Cecelia Ahern

I was the life and she was the soul of every party.

Carrie Fisher

Two of the saddest words in the English language are, 'What party?' And L.A. is the 'What party?' capital of the world.

Carl Paladino

I think the media has been in denial just like the party regulars have been in denial. They just don't understand that the government that we have today is not what the people want as a government.

Bethenny Frankel

No matter where you are right now, no matter far along you are on your own path, don't wait to "have it all" to celebrate. You're never going to figure it all out. Make being happy your business, all along the way. Life can't be one long, tough haul, with a little party at the end. What good is that? Life should be punctuated with celebrations and you have to build them into your time because being happy isn't easy.

Bette Davis

There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.

Bill Vaughan

Nothing is more irritating than not being invited to a party you wouldn''t be seen dead at

Bill Burr

Against these two [Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton] I would [vote], but I never voted for [Barack Obama]. I always voted third party - the ones who say their gonna jail the bankers.

Francis G. Slay

Violence is not a constitutionally protected right. Damaging property is not a constitutionally protected right; inciting violence is not a constitutionally protected right.

Bill Richardson

to know my administration is doing everything it can to protect them.

Mimi Kennedy

From casting to counting, our votes must be better protected in all voting systems.

Jim Fassel

I thought Jesse did all right, considering some things. We had some routes that weren't where they were supposed to be and protection problems.

Haley Jowle

I think she was trying to protect me.

George Tenet

We protect the rights of Americans and their privacy, ... We do not violate them and we never will.

George Taylor

We do have standard protection on every desktop. But shoot, we're seeing viruses all the time that our software doesn't catch.

Herman Edwards

We have to protect the quarterback. We haven't done that and we need to do that.

Daniele Audetto

We are only trying to protect our investments.

Michael Watson

the securities that were deposited ... were essentially of no value.

Kwame Brown

I was going to slap the (expletive) out of him.

Sterling Hayden

I don't think I'll have to kill her. Just slap that pretty face into hamburger meat, that's all.

Tony Johnson

We kind of took it as a slap in the face, so we said we're going to start doing something about it.

Jack Levin

You don't give the perpetrators a slap on the wrist.

Sheriff Gay

I do think they have to have more than a slap on the wrist.

Jim Jensen

I'll be like slapping all over and I can't wait to get back into the house.

Paul Martin

If Mr. Harper wants to play sheriff, he can start by slapping handcuffs on himself,