Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jack Roush

Looking back, this is the cleanest we've ever run at Richmond.

Sathya Baba

I do not need your garlands and fruits. They are not genuinely yours. Give me something that is yours, something which is clean and fragrant with the perfume of virtue and innocence and washed in the tears of repentance.

Ricky Carmichael

I do not liking winning this way, and it was very unfortunate what happened to James. It was hard to get by him, and it was great that we kept the racing clean out there. This is a dream come true for me tonight.

Monica Johnson

God is looking for clean hands and a pure heart.

Patrick Brady

If we could come up with a technology that works like that, at even a fraction of that level, the cost to clean water would come down dramatically.

Frances Beinecke

Instead of hazarding our future on the dirty fuels of the past, let's invest in clean power that can drive this country forward. Let's cut energy waste, make our economy the world's most efficient, and give our workers a leg up in the global marketplace.

Anna Tibaijuka

By improving the lives of slum dwellers, we are also combating malnutrition and diseases, many of which are directly linked to overcrowding and to the lack of clean water and improved sanitation. By the same token, slum improvement helps improve environmental sustainability and addresses gender inequality in the most efficient manner.

T. S. Eliot

Clear the air! clean the sky! wash the wind! take stone from stone and wash them.

Richard Smalley

Clean water is a great example of something that depends on energy. And if you solve the water problem, you solve the food problem.

Edward Said

To say that we're going to end countries or eradicate terrorism, and that it's a long war over many years, with many different instruments, suggests a much more complex and drawn-out conflict for which, I think, most Americans aren't prepared.

Doug Booth

Florida reported one of the top three growth rates in the country last year. Our membership went from 43,700 to 45,500.

Ryan Ford

We live in a country of differences, and we should be able to voice those differences.

Brian Eno

When we go out to the country and just sit there, what we're really doing is just switching off various kinds of alertness that we don't have to use. When we do that, we are stopping being defensive. We are no longer shutting ourselves off from different types of experiences, we are welcoming them in.

Chris Allen

We could see a movement in the country toward food and fitness, and we thought we could be successful in that niche.

Severo Ochoa

Being a native of Spain, the country to which I owe much of my education and cultural background, I was deeply influenced by my great predecessor Santiago Ramon y Cajal.

Jo Nata

Everything that is happening in the country at the moment is putting pressure on the chiefs.

A. Bush

Every time I come back here, I see progress, ... . . . This part of the country is changing. You're moving forward.

David Chester

While we are still finalizing the fields, already the competitive slates are very strong. With the Olympics on tap, we have a number of runners who are hoping to qualify for their respective country teams in January.

Ari Fleischer

When President George W. Bush cut taxes, he cut them for everyone.

Tom Griffin

When you reach out for help and it's just not there, it's like signing a death sentence. The more they cut beds, they are killing people on the streets.

John Hand

What can I say? ... You never can predict. You never know about any one melon until you cut into it. You put in all the work, but you don't know until the last minute if you have a good crop.

Eric Hayes

We tried to get out and pressure them, full-court. We know they run that 'five-out' offense, so we got up on them to cut down on those back-door cuts.

Dave Stockwell

We just missed on an opportunity to cut it to three, and they turned around and hit a 3 on us.

Herb Sendek

We just had to get the margin sliced before the half, and we did some good things. When Tony hit that big 3 and cut the lead to five, that was huge for us.

Dave Allison

We weren't generating anything. We have to play to win. We cut it to 3-2. We're going to go after it.

Johnny Roscoe

We were our worst enemy Friday night, so we have to cut out the turnovers and penalties and be a much better football team this week. If we do that, we can only enhance our chances.

Joseph Biden

What's the plan, Stan? Tell us, ... We are not setting timetables and saying cut and run. We are saying give us a plan.

As a young boy, when you get splashed by a mud puddle on the way to school, you wonder if you should go home and change, but be late for school, or go to school the way you are; dirty and soaking wet. Well, while he tried to decide, I drove by and splashed him again.

Mike Morgan

Arson investigation is very slow, tedious, dirty work,

Holly Black

He must have been handsome when he was alive and was handsome still, although made monstrous by his pallor and her awareness of what he was. His mouth looked soft, his cheekbones as sharp as blades, and his jaw curved, giving him an off-kilter beauty. His black hair a mad forest of dirty curls.

John Mayer

I find myself in situations that I know would be unbelievable pictures and I have to gauge, Is this worth taking the camera out? Am I gonna lose the moment? Am I gonna get a dirty look from Sting?

John le Carre

You have no idea how humiliating it was, as a boy, to suddenly have all your clothes, your toys, snatched by the bailiff. I mean we were a middle-class family, it's not as if it was happening up and down the street. It made me ashamed, I felt dirty.

Katherine Heath

It's not really dirty and it doesn't really stink either. The grease traps are worse (than the septic tanks). People think it's a dirty job but I'll tell you this, I'd rather do this than be on a hog farm.

Brooke Wyckoff

It's a playoff game. Everyone is trying to win at whatever cost. I would never be a dirty player or anything like that.

Charles Manson

They're looking for something dirty in everything, and if you're looking for something, you'll find it. You have to put up some kind of face for them, and that's the only face they understand.

Tom Duxbury

There's been this controversy over whether comets are dirty snowballs or icy dirtballs.

Rick Mears

You hear a lot of drivers say they'll quit when they're not enjoying it. That's pretty much what happened to me. It was a combination of things, but mostly it was losing that enthusiasm I always felt before.

Brian Wilson

What they do, they do well. They are pretty goal driven and work hard.

Bobby Labonte

When I quit driving it one day, I want to see 25 guys in line wanting to drive it because it must be a great car. You want people to want to drive the car. That would be better than any money you could get to have that feeling.

Sean Murphy

It's all about relevancy. There's a lot of focus to drive users to a Web site, but not a lot of focus on the user experience at the site.

Gilles Villeneuve

I will drive flat out all the time. I love racing.

Kyle Brown

We have tried to teach him that it's about helping others, ... It's not what you have or what you drive ? it's other people's lives.

Simon Travaglia

It's good to follow the path of personal happiness to some extent. People tend to get upset however when you drive a steamroller down it.

Fabrizio Moretti

We were talking about how we wished we had enjoyed the time, like when we were touring in that little van. We wished we had really taken the time to look around and be happy about where we were. I enjoyed it, but it was always hand in hand with fear and this drive to get to the next levels. I was never looking around so much.

Rep. Aguirre

When people drive around town with this license plate on their car, they will remind women to get tested. Screenings are key in fighting cancer.

Ralph Solveen

This is really a very positive surprise but unfortunately it has nothing to do with the economy. It's only a statistical effect because many people who used to be registered as unemployed are no longer included in the numbers.

Melinda Gates

Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.

Dave Edwards

People like to give to where they live, and after these episodic events they tend to give more. A lot of this has more to do with the economy than with the cause.

Rick Brown

It's great for the economy. I think there will be other tax receipts from goods sold during the holiday to people who are out and about shopping.

J. J. Johnson

It is troubling to see so many more purchasing managers, manufacturing and non-manufacturing, paying higher prices to their vendors, ... It suggests that the Federal Reserve is faced with an economy which is weaker and inflation which is stronger. That is not a particularly good configuration.

Nick Angiletta

It's no longer what techs can do to help the economy, it's what can the economy do to help out techs.

Celso Senise

It's the same as last week -- waiting to see what happens in Argentina, waiting to see if the U.S. economy is going to heat up.

Rob Palombi

It's obvious that the U.S. economy is very strong and producing jobs at a very robust pace. Even with the relatively tame wage gains, the market is anticipating another interest rate increase from the Fed.

Elliot Spar

It's the kind of market now where (investors) have to get out -- to lighten up, ... Interest rates are making people do that, and fear of a slowing economy and higher inflation. If that's the fear, then prices come down.

Janice Kruger

I think I love the energy in the gym,

Harry S Truman

I studied the lives of great men and famous women; and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.

Manu Ginobili

I struggled in the first half. I was very upset, I just tried to play with more energy.

Miguel Tejada

I think he has a lot of energy and a lot of talent. He struggled last year but I think he could come back and play two or three more years.

John Stack

I think high energy prices will be devastating especially for corn,

Jeff Lebo

I thought Moses and Brett were terrific. They're guys who haven't played much, but they gave us some execution and energy and got us back in the game.

Lou Belken

John's a high-energy player. But obviously he needs to use that energy more constructively.

Joaquin Phoenix

Johnny moved on stage in very specific ways, he had a specific guitar strum that contributed to the energy of his performances.

Tom Serratore

You just hope if you're playing with energy it doesn't matter. We had no jump.

Buck Henry

I just want to say one word to you-just one word ..."plastics!" ... There's a great future in plastics.

Christopher Flavin

Building a world where we meet our own needs without denying future generations a healthy society is not impossible, as some would assert. The question is where societies choose to put their creative efforts

Gordon Brown

If our economies are to flourish, if global poverty is to be banished, and if the well-being of the world's people enhanced - not just in this generation but in succeeding generations - we must make sure we take care of the natural environment and resources on which our economic activity depends

Horace

Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and to take as a gift whatever the day brings forth. [Lat., Quid sit futurum cras, fuge quaerere: et Quem Fors dierum cunque dabit, lucro Appone.]

Herbie Hancock

Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose.

Henry David Thoreau

The past is only so heroic as we see it. It is the canvas on which our idea of heroism is painted, and so, in one sense, the dim prospectus of our future field.

Henry David Thoreau

It would be no reproach to a philosopher, that he knew the future better than the past, or even than the present. It is better worth knowing.

Henry David Thoreau

I have not the most definite designs on the future.

Gifford Pinchot

The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for those realities.

Tommy Franks

We're taking part in a global war on terrorism,

Igor Luksic

Regardless of our ambitions to become part of the E.U., we have to keep in mind that Turkey is also a very strong voice that can represent the needs of our region in wider terms in global platforms.

Will Rogers

We can make this thing into a Party, instead of a Memory

Bobby Cox

Every once in a while he tries to overthrow out there. He throws 100 (mph) instead of pitching.

Cody Acree

Nobody who owns the stock for a long-term investment is going to sell over a $60 million miss

Matthew Lloyd

For most people, it represents a stable, solid investment in choppy waters.

David Hilal

This is just part of the software world. And because there's a remedy for these problems, investors don't lose too much sleep over it.

Sam Smith

Nature has no cure for this sort of madness, though I have known a legacy from a rich relative work wonders.

Dusty Baker

He's had leg problems two or three years in a row. But I've got to play him enough to get him ready, too.

Danny Glover

I was able to do To Sleep with Anger, a very powerful film about African Americans, their spirituality, and the things that happened within a small community and a family.

Danny Glover

Whole ideology of consumption almost to the point of religion. Whether it's the consumption of entertainment or the consumption around buying things, we're so caught up in the idea around our appetites that we don't have a clear distinction about what we need and what we just want. Plus, the decline of trade unions is a factor. When you have powerful unions, you have a working class that is politicized.

Daniel Defoe

Law is but a heathen word for power.

Dan Carter

In his study of Atlanta over the last 60 years, Kevin Kruse convincingly describes the critical connections between race, Sun Belt suburbanization, the rise of the new Republican majority. White Flight is a powerful and compelling book that should be read by anyone interested in modern American politics and post-World War II urban history.

Dan Brown

Powerful truth has its own gravity and eventually pulls people back to it.

Dan Brown

The Last Supper is supposed to be thirteen men. Who is this woman? "Everyone misses it, our preconceived notions of this scene are so powerful that our mind blocks out the incongruity and overrides our eyes.

Dan Brown

Transhumanism is the ethics and science of using things like biological and genetic engineering to transform our bodies and make us a more powerful species.

David Frum

Anybody who imagines that an election can be won under these circumstances by banging on about William Ayers and Jeremiah Wright is ... to put it mildly ... severely under-estimating the electoral importance of pocketbook issues. We conservatives are sending a powerful, inadvertent message with this negative campaign against Barack Obama's associations and former associations: that we lack a positive agenda of our own and that we don't care about the economic issues that are worrying American voters.

David Foster Wallace

And make no mistake: irony tyrannizes us. The reason why our pervasive cultural irony is at once so powerful and so unsatisfying is that an ironist is impossible to pin down. All U.S. irony is based on an implicit "I don’t really mean what I’m saying." So what does irony as a cultural norm mean to say? That it’s impossible to mean what you say? That maybe it’s too bad it’s impossible, but wake up and smell the coffee already? Most likely, I think, today’s irony ends up saying: "How totally banal of you to ask what I really mean.