Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shane Pendley

When you've been burned your always going to have your hand on the pull cord...the right one makes you forget you have the parachute on.

John Glover

The most devastating thing was the level of tragedy, with the land and burned up livestock. The fire front at one point was 31 miles wide.

Chris Hope

It's just us. It's how we play and how we want to play. He had burned us in the first game, and we weren't going to let it happen again. We just feel if we do things smartly and unpredictably, it's really hard to stop us consistently.

David Mann

A lot of people felt very burned by that, and it probably underlies a lot of what's going on now. But ... somehow, someway, they've got to get together.

Jonathan Eunice

A lot of energy was being diffused and burned up in the process.

Alan Simpson

They're talking about things that, if I had talked about, they would have burned my humble butt.

Terry Moore

There was this pool of money sitting in the retirement funds, that was not part of the (state treasury). A couple of legislatures burned up that surplus. We came back to ground zero and then we got into the loss years.

David Strathairn

I tried all different kinds of tobacco to see which would be the least crippling and I ended up with pipe tobacco, ... I found that that burned less harshly. It also smelled better.

David Elkind

It's all very misguided. They're starting too early, and getting burned out.

Amber Smith

We actually came out pretty flat-footed. Even though we had a lot of goals, they had a lot of mental breakdowns today. ... But we're glad to come out with a win.

Joe Masleh

We accomplished what we came here to do due to great senior leadership.

Terry Butcher

Wayne Rooney is wasted switching between the right and left hand side. He's got to play through the middle, playing to his strengths. He came inside in the second half but didn't know what he was doing.

Carlos Levorin

The possibility of an upgrade in Mexico's rating came out, the Mexican stock market went up and the other markets followed suit.

Jim Owens

The person that was sitting in front of me came flying over the desk, ... and it was then that the sound registered.

Kenny Brooks

The people who kept Shirley McCall off the all-conference teams are crazy. She?s one of the most valuable players in this league, and I?m just happy she came out and played extremely well today.

Steve Tobin

unseen strength. New Yorkers came together in a way that no one imagined New Yorkers could or would. The generosity and compassion spread around the country and the world.

Gary Wilson

We've already mailed them out. Today being a holiday, they will probably get them on (today). They came out really nice. They are orange, the same style as in the movie 'Glory Road.' No one had the trim that they used, so we had to contact the company that made the uniforms for the movie and get it from them.

Ben Brooks

We started to execute more and our team did not have as many turnovers. We just played better as a team in the fourth quarter. I was a little nervous at first, a little nervous. They played us real tough, but we came through.

Ken Goldstein

The performance of the leading index is suggestive of continued momentum or growth in the spring.

Nick Griffin

We are pleased to see continued growth in the Hawaii financial services industry.

Henning Kagermann

We are pleased to say that we are off to a good start in 2006 with continued strong growth in software and product revenues for the first quarter.

Hoshiyar Zebari

We are at a crucial period now and we need their continued engagement.

Martin Van Buren

Our country presents on every side the evidences of that continued favor under whose auspices it, has gradually risen from a few feeble and dependent colonies to a prosperous and powerful confederacy.

Douglas Elliott

We've been able to hold the line on electricity prices for a long time. Unfortunately, the costs we incur to serve customers have continued to rise over the years.

Jon Abernathy

We wrestled very well. We continued to show improvement. Zach Lopez has been using his practice time wisely and looked much-improved.

Michael Molligan

We're still living off a couple of years of surplus rainfall. We can get through a continued dry spring, as long as the summer rains come when they're supposed to.

Gary Arant

We're still going to need continued cooperation from our customer to get through the weekend.

Philip Ruddock

This morning ... some 70 to 80 detainees set fire to two recreational buildings, the dining room and an ablution block,

Cynthia Smith

It is our policy that all detainees are treated humanely and to report any suspected detainee mistreatment and investigate that thoroughly.

Curt Goering

These detainees are being held solely for their political beliefs. If the Ethiopian government wants them on trial, it should at least be a fair trial. This will be a test of the independence of the Ethiopian judiciary.

Donald Rumsfeld

We have had three or four or five different stories from the same detainees in any number of instances.

Joanne Mariner

There is no doubt that the United States held and tortured detainees. The only doubt is whether these detainees were being held on European soil.

Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr.

We got a lot of information from the detainees that eventually led us to bin Laden.

Bryan Whitman

We typically don't talk about the movement of detainees except when they are being transferred or released to another country. We don't typically talk about the transit for security reasons.

Dick Marty

But it is possible that there were detainees that stayed 10, 15 or 30 days. We do not have the full picture.

Michael Lehnert

Keep in mind that though the president has made that distinction, many of the detainees here are not forthcoming. Many have been interviewed as many as four times, each time giving a different name and different information.

Jennifer Dunn

As we have always seen here in the U.S. the universal truth about elections is that people vote their pocketbook.

Bob Storman

A lot of that is because of lack of money and structure. In today's elections, it takes money to run.

Chris Redfern

This doesn't have a little to do with the upcoming election. It has everything to do with the upcoming election.

Chris Jones

There's a lot at stake during these elections. The positions voted for have a lot of influence around the University community.

Ken O'Day

This is the office that's supposed to put on elections all the time, so I don't see how they overlooked that.

Volodymyr Lytvyn

This is a very special election. At stake is whether Ukraine has passed the point of no return to its so recent authoritarian past.

Carl Forti

Any incumbent running for re-election that needs our support will get it.

Tom Leach

As far back as we go ... it's the lowest for any kind of election, and I think it's the lowest since 1920 when women got the vote.

William Bango

As long as we run elections under the same set of conditions, there is no way that elections will be free and fair.

Jonathan Tasini

The people who supported the war must be held accountable.

Jackie Robinson

We have a social responsibility and we are held to a higher standard than other institutions,

Dr. Fukino

We have never held out or said that we are doing everything perfectly, and we have accomplished everything. We have said that there's more work to be done, but that we are moving forward.

Kenneth Fisher

Fundamentally cheap stocks are often held in low regard by market participants. Something may be tainting their perception in investors' minds.

Bill Kennedy

We would've liked to have taken those points and held on to them a little.

Katy Perry

I just feel like I have this gift that I've been given. It's like, 'Someone unwrap it! Here it is!' That drive can't be held down.

Maxine Russell

They took his passport away and they said it had to be held by the police.

John Osborne

It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will in a dull man.

Georgia Cumming

They really have to prove themselves. Then their involvement in treatment will be held to a high bar.

Charles Stewart Parnell

You must show him, by leaving him severely alone.

Chinua Achebe

One reason why I am quite angry with what is happening in Nigeria today is that everything has collapsed. If I decide to go back now, there will be so many problems - where will I find the physical therapy and other things that I now require? Will the doctors, who are leaving in droves, coming to America, going to everywhere in the world - Saudi Arabia - how many of them will be there? The universities have almost completely lost their faculties and are hardly ever in session, shut down for one reason or another.

Edmond de Goncourt

I have always derived indescribable pleasure from leading a decent woman to the edge of sin and leaving her there to live between the temptation and the fear of that sin.

Deborah King

That's like buying asparagus and then leaving it at the checkout. Why would you do that?

Carol P. Christ

The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.

Charlie Chaplin

I do not wish to lose my temper because very shortly I will lose my head. Nevertheless, upon leaving this spark of earthly existence, I have this to say: I shall see you all very soon ... very soon.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

I have had to pay a price for leaving Islam and for speaking out. I have to pay for round-the-clock security because of the death threats against me.

Charlie Puth

I know not everyone is a musician, but it's important to find that craft and put all of your energy into that. It's about leaving the bad vibes and going to where the good vibes are.

Helane Becker

They got a little thin in the flight-attendant ranks. People are leaving and retiring and so they're having to replace them.

Tom Swan

For him to officially get in, we're going to need to recruit volunteers from every town.

Lance Davids

It pretty much is just official now. It wasn't like this wasn't going to happen.

John Hill

There's been no official confirmation that anything was going on.

Dave Freudenthal

The safest course for public officials is simply to throw all of the money in a sack.

Jake Halpern

Deities can actually own property in India, though the law treats them as minors, and they must be represented by an official guardian.

Rochelle Cancienne

The students will be contacted by the schools in regard to registering. At registration they will be told their official start date.

Mark Spitz

The officials I was with, I don't know if they were unaware, but they didn't say anything to me. The whole thing turned into what did I see and what did I know.

Derek Jeter

The season doesn't officially start till you get this one out of the way. Fortunately, we were able to sneak this one out.

Jeff Foxworthy

I never thought I would do a game show, but now I guess I'm now officially in that genre.

Marc Geiger

We think that the artists' sites could be virtual ticket outlets.

Bill Richardson

How can you say that there are over 60 sites that can't be inspected?

Joe Sacco

I don't often go to a place just to check out all the cultural sites of a city.

Andy Goldsworthy

I have walked around the same streets so many times, and then seen a place that had been hidden to me. I now know the sites in a way that makes me think I could have made better use of the connections between place and snowball.