Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fabian Nunez

John Hall and I worked shoulder-to-shoulder for nearly a decade in the trenches of politics and public service. No one was more devoted to his craft and to working families. He was passionate about his profession, and particularly in helping young people. In his service on the Contractors State License Board, he was a staunch advocate for professional standards for his trade. We will miss him dearly.

Richard Levin

He was a forceful advocate for causes he believed in, ... Sometimes he regarded himself as the conscience of the University.

Bonnie Adams

He is such an advocate for us in his everyday job and life. And he does that daily, continuously and with enthusiasm.

John Chisholm

There are still decent prospects within emerging markets. We wouldn't advocate getting out of them completely. We just don't think you're going to see the same kind of performance you've seen coming out of them in the past five years.

Shantelle Taylor

For me, my mom wasn't actually a big advocate of allowing me to watch wrestling. However, my uncle, he was a huge wrestling fan and he got pay per views every month so he always had me over at his house to watch. I was just completely infatuated with the athleticism.

Russell Schweiss

He's always been a strong advocate for tax relief and believes some of the surplus should be returned to taxpayer pockets.

Bob Richardson

He's a very very strong advocate of science and education.

Ivory Phillips

I thoroughly enjoyed being an advocate for the faculty as far as shared governance was concerned.

Don Fowler

It is fully appropriate for the head of a national political party to secure a meeting for a supporter with an administration official or even to advocate a worthy cause.

Lupita Nyong'o

I always envisioned working in film and in theater. Theater and film are not, they're not in any way substitutable. What I love about theater is so different from what I love about film, and I enjoy the craft of both.

Tony Martinez

He's a crafty pitcher who figures out ways to get outs.

Dave Tippett

He's a crafty, keen player. Crafty in the way he goes about it on the ice and keen on the way he picks up things and reads plays.

Lee Raymond

History teaches us that punitive measures, hastily crafted in reaction to short-term market fluctuations, will likely have unintended negative consequences.

Maya MacGuineas

To craft a full package of offsets, everything should be on the table.

John Scalzi

I think that what I do, in terms of how I craft my words rhetorically, is fairly simple stuff. I don't mean that to denigrate myself. I mean that in the sense of, when I write, the person that I keep in mind is my mother-in-law.

B. R. Hayden

I didn't craft the authorization. I am responding to a lawful order.

Mike Brey

He does a good job drawing fouls. He's crafty like that.

Virginia Woolf

Life stand still here.

Maripol

I would say there's always a movement of music and fashion in youth culture - every decade inspires the new one.

Gil Jamieson

Had Hurricane Katrina not come through here, the Rita storm would be really the event of the decade and the event that we're all talking about.

Joe Donahue

It comes as a surprise to no one that after decades of internal and international conflict, Iraq is littered with land mines and bombs.

Donna Lopiano

I think the public's more understanding now of the gay and lesbian issue. It's much more sophisticated than it was two or three decades ago.

Paul Horowitz

We've done two decades of radio searches and haven't found anything. We just thought we'd try something different.

Tom Brady

I think it takes more than three years. We need to string together a decade or two to match something like that.

Condoleezza Rice

It has been, after all, 11 years, more than a decade now, of defiance of U.N. resolutions by Saddam Hussein. Every obligation that he signed onto after the Gulf War, so that he would not be a threat to peace and security, he has ignored and flaunted.

Charles Kennedy

It has been a fantastic victory. We have shown we are the party of the future. This decade can see us as part of the governments of our country.

Preston Burch

I think two more decades of flight is a real possibility for Hubble,

Sathya Baba

Have faith in His Grace and lead a virtuous life, a life devoted to the service of the weak; a life spent in the thought about the might and glory of God.

Coral Conner

He's a family guy, and his family has all moved out of the area. He's very devoted to his grandchildren.

Paula Wagner

He's devoted to his work. He's totally professional and loves what he does.

Martha Stewart

It could be a lifestyle suite devoted to exercise or to love...but you have to have a vision.

Cindy Heuer

He spent a lot of years devoted to his family. There was never a break.

Michael Ignatieff

I am fighting to revive faith, not just in the Liberal party, but in politics itself. I'm a devoted Liberal, I've been one all my life. That's why I'm in the fight to renew the party I love. All my life has been inspired by Canada, and now it's my turn to try and inspire my fellow Canadians.

Richard Lamm

He devoted his whole life to education. He kept on giving, even after he retired.

Tim Finchem

Payne was a great champion, a gentleman and a devoted husband and father. He will always be remembered as a very special competitor, and one who contributed enormously to the positive image of professional golf.

Michelle McNulty

I had a girl in Seattle sing 'Hopelessly Devoted to You,' you know, Olivia Newton-John from Grease and she just killed it, she rocked it out. That was cool.

Michael Schiavo

He wanted to go out into the hall and have a fistfight. It was ludicrous.

Shirley Sippel

He'd be playing that old piano at the town hall waiting for the meetings to start.

Graeme Smith

Hall would be unlucky but an all rounder takes out an all rounder.

Shawn Amos

Harlem's Apollo is probably the most well-known music hall in the world.

Larry Lewis

We talked all spring about this, ... We talked about it at town hall meetings, at concerts, everywhere. Seventh- through 12th-graders should take some responsibility. The students need to tell their parents.

Nancy Cartwright

I will not whittle hall passes out of soap

Brenda Wickwire

We lost our first game, but we played better in the others. Hall played practically flawless. She played 11 sets and turned 10 into winners. She put in a steady performance for the team.

Benjamin Jaffe

I don't know when Preservation Hall will reopen, but all I know is that it will reopen.

Mark Dobson

I am ecstatic. I want to keep representing the residence halls as true as possible.

Alephonsion Deng

I think it is important for my self-esteem to be able to tell the stories. I think if I'm helping myself, than I'm helping other people.

Kiki Vandeweghe

He wants to be helping his team. Let's just leave it at that.

DeAndre Rice

Here, he's more humble. He's taking his time with us and learning from the mistakes he made. And he's helping us to be together and play as a team.

Bob Cole

He's a lot better from where he was last year. I think all the reps he is getting are helping him out. He's played more than he thought he was going to play.

Dana Brown

He's a local guy, so that's helping us getting him signed.

Schoolboy Q

I think we - the way to stop anything violent or anything wrong is by really just paying attention to your own circle. You only can help the world by helping the people next to you.

Marilyn Praisner

Unless we have been requested, it is not helping to send these individuals.

Anthony Fauci

You help someone's health, and you prevent them from infecting others.

Nate Robinson

I'd like to say thanks to Spud for helping me out because I think that put me over the hump.

Bradlee Pelt

Jake knows that he's not John Elway, and I don't think he wants to be. He's Jake Plummer.

Philip Purcell

John and I have never disagreed about the businesses.

John Gartland

John always has a vision, with great, broad-stroked kinds of goals.

Susanne Bier

John le Carre's 'The Night Manager' is a relentlessly exhilarating thriller with profound emotional depths.

Douglas Brinkley

John Kerry only went to prep schools because he had an aunt who had the money to pay for his way into those prep schools.

John Edward

John Kerry has what it takes ... to be president of the United States,

Michael Meehan

John Kerry has a record in the military that he's running on, not from. Everything the U.S. Navy sent to Sen. Kerry, we'll post on the Web site.

Nicholas Burns

John is working very hard, hand-in-glove with Washington on this.

Pete Carroll

John is talking to everybody, all the time. That's the way he handles his business. He's got a marvelous spirit.

Sonya Pace

He was talking about driver's licenses and he was going to be more mature when he turned 16.

Harry Williams

Photo Stencil is the only Xerox-authorized stencil manufacturer to use the SMTX Electroform stencil technology, licensed under U.S. Patents 5,359,928 and 5,478,699, owned by Xerox.

Bill Campbell

Being in the software business, I have no problem with licenses and no problem with paying for licenses. But I think that this is a real heavy-handed approach.

Vera Gibbons

Every time you make a return they swipe your license and if you make too many returns that return is denied. They are very secretive about how many returns you can make before they say no, no, no.

George Will

They seem to have a license to lie.

Dorothy Johnson

They're selling drugs like they have a license to sell -- I mean, in open daylight.

Gwen Carter

We license the home, not the whole neighborhood.

Michael Cohen

Edi is a lovely man who made the mistake of not getting a license for his business. This is just a regulatory offense.

Bob Stimson

People were pleasantly surprised with the application license number this quarter so this puts to rest a lot of concerns.

Steve Ralston

I was in the right place at the right time . . . if I had missed that one, it would have been embarrassing,

Dinara Safina

I think I played well today. I just missed some really important shots.

Thomas Ken

Redeem thy misspent time that's past, And live this day as if thy last.

Jeff Burton

He said it in a way that you couldn't miss it.

Buck Showalter

He's a treasure. Every day that passes, we realize how much we miss him.

Herb Sendek

I thought we were quick to settle for the 3. At the same time, we did miss some open shots.

Jack Ferraro

I think the players that we have right now are very good. But one thing we don't have is that big-time scorer. We're going to be missing Piazza, but somebody's going to have to pick up his slack.

Justin Gamester

We track the weather all day. We could get 3 to 7 inches, or the storm could miss us.

Phil Jackson

When he's playing well, we really have a special team. When he's not playing well, we really miss him.

Mychal Williams

Kendra stepped up and played a solid game, nearly getting a double-double.

Thomas Powell

What you do is not nearly as important as who you are.

Paul Gillmor

To date, every American citizen has nearly $27,000 in public debt riding on our backs.

David Filo

The Internet is not nearly as fail-safe as the phone system.

Mike Browning

All three objects are nearly Pluto-sized or larger, and all are in elliptical orbits tilted out of the plane of the solar system,

Charles Newman

The observation of strange or interesting patterns is not nearly as unusual as people think.

Bruce Terry

It's still snowing, but not snowing nearly as heavily in New York state as it was yesterday.

Rhonda Wilson

It was overwhelming. Nearly 80 percent said they wanted to incorporate into the new city.

Frank Lampard

It was a big step towards winning it today. We got the result, we're nearly there.

William Golding

I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment.

Tracey Ullman

As you get older, you realize it's work. It's that fine line between love and companionship. But passionate love? I'd love to know how to make that last.

Yelawolf

I'm not ashamed of anything that I've done because when I did it, I was passionate about it and I was doing it for a reason.

Wil Wheaton

I'm a passionate person, and I'm passionate about politics. I'm going to write about it, and I'm not going to pull any punches.

Tony Blair

I just want to tell you why I am so passionate about this bid,

David Dill

I like him because he's really passionate about the game.

Carlton Cuse

I'm a big baseball fan, and I feel proprietary about the Dodgers. I'm not the owner. I'm not the manager. But I feel passionate about the decisions that they make, and I take it personally when they make decisions I don't like.

Milan Kundera

She was aware that in love even the most passionate idealism will not rid the body's surface of its terrible, basic importance.

Kevin Rudd

Australians are a passionate lot. We are also a very practical lot.

Richard J. Roberts

There is need for more science in politics and less politics in science.

Robin Wright

I don't know enough about politics. I am out of the loop.

Robert Cray

Tell me a boat full of lawyers just sank.

William Safire

Gridlock is great. My motto is, 'Don't just do something. Stand there.'

Richard M. Nixon

The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Ricardo Semler

It is not socialist, as some of our critics contend. It isn't purely capitalist, either. It is a new way. A third way. A more humane, trusting, productive, exhilarating, and, in every sense, rewarding way.

Tupac Shakur

Strugglin' and striving, that's how the dough come.

Tupac Shakur

Institutionalized, I live my life a product made to crumble.

Tupac Shakur

I'm on my knees begging, please come and save me.

Mike Mower

We've been very public in our support of this.

Russell Baker

Live by publicity, you'll probably die by publicity.

Robert Winston

I do not know of any credible evidence that suggests Dr. Zavos can clone a human being. This seems to be yet another one of his claims to get publicity.

Robert Peel

No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.

Sandra Bullock

I don't want to be seen as the kind of person who does things and then expects publicity in return.

Zachary Quinto

Even the former Attorney General of the United States Eric Holder has come out to say that he believed that [Edward] Snowden performed a public service, and I couldn't agree more.

Stephen Blythe

Releasing it to the public would not be the right thing to do.

Sol Wachtler

In the past, those who had ideas they wished to communicate to the public had the unquestioned right to disseminate those ideas in an open marketplace, called a mall, we should not abridge that right.

Mary McGinnis

I really wanted to thank them for their valuable public service, I was really quite surprised. Writing isn't my big skill.

Dan Levitan

In the web products and services world, you have a real-time interaction with your customers, and then a real-time editing of how you as a company are doing.

Phil Crosby

When you're out of quality, you're out of business.

Emanuel Swedenborg

Love comes into being through useful service to others.

John C. Maxwell

When was the last time you did something for the first time?

Henri Nouwen

The main question is not, how can we hide our wounds...but how can we put our woundedness in service to others.

Arun Sarin

As was evident, mobiles are better than the wire service here.

Connie Shade

This is where true coordination and sharing of services comes in.

Rhonda Bright

We want them to speak up on what they want in terms of service and care.

Dan Bailey

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

Robin Williams

As an alcoholic, you will violate your standards quicker than you can lower them.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.

Frank Lloyd Wright

We boast the highest standard of living when it's only the biggest.

Lord Byron

And what is writ is writ - / Would it were worthier!

Alan Bennett

Of course my standards are out of date! That's why they're called standards.

Scott Fosgard

Collaborating, we could set the standards for this type of technology.

Joan Claybrook

These standards are written for Detroit, by Detroit.

James Johnson

This is exciting. By earthworm standards they're pretty cool.

Albert Rauch

This is going to set the standards for all the other inhaled insulins that are in development,

Sergei Bubka

His statements are really crazy, we are really shocked.

David Wojciechowski

He?s going to play. It?s the state championship game.

E. O. Wilson

I was completely surprised at his statement (to resign).

Larry Small

What we are trying to do is make a statement -- If you can't come to the Smithsonian in Washington, we will come to you,

Kate Saunders

It is not unprecedented that the two will be in the United States at the same time.

Jim Betker

He has a taste of a state championship.

Quinnetta Claytor

We can do it, we can win state championships.

Will Durant

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

Robin Trower

The States still has the best audiences by far.

Stuart Fischoff

What they have been doing hasn't been working. They are trying to staunch the hemorrhage.

Quentin Kidd

He has to get down in the trenches and work for some of these candidates.

Rob Maxwell

It has worked out well in the past, and I don't see why it will be any different with Travis.

Jussie Smollett

I'm not afraid to get my hands dirty. I've done it all. I've worked as a clown, literally, at children's parties.

Stanley Tucci

The majority of directors I've worked with didn't know how to talk to actors.

Jerry Schartner

Nothing worked for us, and they didn't miss.

John Force

It's in the gut. It hurts, ... But we've been through this before. We won't panic. We'll go on doing it the same way it's worked for us for 14 years. Don't worry about this old man.

Brian Cook

It just worked out that way. We thought that they would be a lot bigger.

Kevin Sutherland

It's worked out pretty good, but now I need the space.

Dr. Young

It's worked out great. I didn't think she would take to them, but it's been unbelievable.

Carolyn Clark

As you can see, you get really dirty. But you know you worked if you get dirty.