Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Smith

I heard a loud sound. I sensed it might be a line because I knew the line was there. My television turned on, turned blue, and my alarm went off. So I was really busy answering the alarm so they wouldn't call the police. But when I came out here, I could see the wire was down.

John Challenger

If job cuts in the auto industry continue and we start to see consistently high job-cut numbers from the top three job cutters in July, it should set off some relatively loud alarm bells about the state of the job market and economy.

Steve Warren

I had the school to myself, and I was on a roll when the alarm went off. I saw water coming down one of the walls, and I ducked in (the area) and it was full of smoke and heat, so I got out of there in a hurry. The Fire Department was there a couple of minutes later.

Robert Kesten

In many ways the alarm bells in the scientific community have been going off for quite some time. But they have never dramatically impacted the general public.

George Pauli

The issue here is not something that should cause anyone alarm or terrific concern.

Norman Fisher

The captain didn't sound the usual alarm because he was worried that people would run up on the deck thinking it was a fire, and that would be the worst place to be,

John Durham

The fire alarm system worked as it was designed to.

M. Wolfe

The key is to take a few minutes to check, test and clean your smoke alarm to make sure it is functioning properly. What better time to do this than when you change your clock for Daylight Savings Time?

Matt Boxler

The alarm sounded simultaneously in the building and at the fire station, as well as at our security office. And I have to say, we're very proud of the way the students reacted. We do drills a lot, we do fire safety constantly and we're reinforcing that all the time. They did a really good job to get out of the building, to get themselves together and to look out for each other. All of the systems worked the way they should have and nobody was hurt.

Sophie Kennedy Clark

I was a feral child. Always on the go. My mother used to sew bells into my dresses so they would know where I was.

Doug Cooper

I think Bell and Rogers are probably formulating their opinions on the subject.

Kyle McSlarrow

It is important to take stock of where we are in 2006. In the last decade, the Bell monopolies have all but wiped out their telephone competitors; they have swallowed their long-distance competitors; and with the announcement of the AT&T-BellSouth merger, they are on the verge of recreating Ma Bell. And only one competitor really stands in their way: the cable industry.

William Faulkner

A writer strives to express a universal truth in the way that rings the most bells in the shortest amount of time.

Lori Brumbach

Our most popular design perfect for the belle of the ball.

Chad Knaus

His bell has definitely been rung. That was a pretty hard hit that he took out there.

Foster Friess

In America, we have this bell curve of certain values. And then we have another bell curve of different values, which is the Republican Party. And they're out of sync right now.

Adam Thierer

I have to give Hundt credit for recognizing the changed competitive landscape since 1997. Long-distance has largely been cannibalized by the rise of rigorous wireless competition and flat-rate nationwide calling plans. The Internet is everywhere, which means IP-enabled calling is a new threat to the old players. And the old Bell copper empire has now become a copper cage they are fighting their way out of.

Kim Smith

I have to sneak in food too. Yesterday I was in line when the bell rang.

Paul Johnston

It is a lot of money. We've never had that kind of funding for this kind of work.

John McKay

It's not a lack of initiative or a lack of trying. The funding is simply not there right now.

Jo Salyers

There was never any funding to work with.

Rod Nelson

We know we have it (PRP) for 2006, but funding has been taken away for 2007. However, it could be back in 2008.

Ray Durham

We're just not getting the funding for the legislature to get updated and new equipment.

Dale Mitchell

The state does not provide any funding at all,

Richard Mann

Scholarship funding doesn't come from the state, it doesn't come from university coffers.

Bob Albanese

It would take years to rehabilitate all of the large lecture classes. We simply do not have the funding from the government.

John Duncan

That type of funding just isn't going to happen.

Richard DeKaser

I think the market is responding now to a perception of the increased possibility of recession, which I do not see.

Gerhard Schroeder

I think we can say that in the past seven years, we have increased respect in the world for our country, our Germany, and I am sure that we will safeguard that together,

Elizabeth Loftus

Undergraduate fees have increased to $8000 for each year of an undergraduate law course,

Alan Hevesi

The new reforms have increased the value of the franchise,

Chris Williamson

As we saw last month, there were signs of increased overseas spending on UK services.

Jeff Cogen

As revenues have increased, Mr. Hicks has increased the payroll accordingly.

Elaine Chao

This has been an across-the-board gain, ... All that (data) bodes for increased hiring.

Mike Lomas

There will be an increased interest from visitors who want to know how to get in this club.

Cate Blanchett

There is a societal cost of increased pollution, and that's what I'm passionate about as a mother.

Bill Parcells

I was kind of thinking back to Seattle last year, ... We kind of talked about that. We're just fortunate, really.

Joe Edgens

Kelley is going to be right up to the last minute before it's done.

Dave Kaplan

(Jocelyn) bounced back from a rough outing last time. Very nicely done. She's going to get another start, and we're going to keep working with her.

Bobbie Davis

I think I said to the players last year that they had one day to celebrate. And then they had to start concentrating and thinking about this year.

Jim Knight

There are so many things that we try before we ever go to court. It's the last step, and we don't like to do it, but there needs to be consequences.

Justin Gray

I think (the fans) are going to talk about it all the time just because they know probably what we could've done with the team from last year. But that's last year.

Peter Currie

It is fundamentally different from the last time we restated, primarily because the scope is a lot narrower.

Marthen Manu

Last night one person was rescued, the rest have been picked up today.

David Price

Last night he painted the picture of the night he was going to have.

Chris Botti

They recalled all of our CDs. The week of Thanksgiving, all through November and December, there was no product in the stores.

Roy Harper

I was determined if I was going to become a superstar it would be on my terms. I've had that ethic since the beginning.

Shane Valdez

I think that's the first time since I've been here that we had everyone qualify.

Asaf Shariv

I don't know about anything since then that is new.

Samuel Smiles

The truest politeness comes of sincerity.

Zane Grey

These critics who crucify me do not guess the littlest part of my sincerity. They must be burned in a blaze. I cannot learn from them.

Chelsea Clinton

I have voted in every election that I have been qualified to vote in since I turned 18.

Michael Mayer

I haven't read a single word that a critic has written about me since 1994.

Kelly Slater

I haven't surfed since Japannot even one wave.

Saku Koivu

I haven't been back in Montreal, at all, since the playoffs ended two years ago. It's been a while.

Emily Cederholm

I think the expectations are higher, but they don't feel so much pressure. This whole year is different.

Brandon Roy

I think this is the year it can happen.

Richard D. James

My filing system's really crap because I can never decide whether to sort things by studio, or year, or where I lived.

Richard D. James

I've always got to change something. All the tracks I've done in the last five years were made in like six different studios. It gets a bit complicated.

Robbie Coltraine

Once you've been doing anything for twenty-five years people start to notice you.

Rob Sheffield

Not being able to protect her from things was the most frightening thing I'd ever felt, and it kicked in as soon as we got together. With every year we spent together, I became more conscious that I now had an infinitely expanding number of reasons to be afraid. I had something to lose.

Rob Chapman

The way I have progressed as a writer over the years is to try and stay true to the principles I absorbed.

Rob Halford

They were and still are a groundbreaking band. Even though they haven't released any new music in ages, you can put on the first Black Sabbath album and it still sounds as fresh today as it did 30-odd years ago. And that's because great music has a timeless ability: To me, Sabbath are in the same league as the Beatles or Mozart. They're on the leading edge of something extraordinary.

Richard P. Feynman

If the professors of English will complain to me that the students who come to the universities, after all those years of study, still cannot spell 'friend,' I say to them that something's the matter with the way you spell friend.