Famous Quotes & Sayings

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I admit it's tempting to wish for the perfect boss - the perfect parent - or the perfect outfit. But maybe the best any of us can do is not quit, play the hand we've been dealt, and accessorize what we've got.-Carrie (Sex & the City)

David Delainey

Having to admit we were a very large trader, and frankly a good one, would put significant pressure on Enron's stock because the investment community does not put a significant multiple on trading revenues.

Warren Christopher

I think the country will come together, but we have a rocky four years ahead, and maybe admitting that, and not being too euphoric about that, is the best way to face this. This is going to be a very evenly divided country, and we'll need to find centrist coalitions that can get things done.

Bobby Plump

The people have not embraced it. But I don't think they will admit they made a mistake.

Charles Rosen

To comprehend the distaste for modernism, it must be admitted at the start that the greatest works of modernism in all the arts are, much of the time, fundamentally disagreeable when first encountered.

Rep. Baudler

I was assured this guy was not getting railroaded. As far as the delay in charges, I don't know. It's rather odd, I'll admit that. There's several questions I would like answered.

Joe Biden

I think we have a six-month window here to get it right. But I have to admit that I think the chances are not a lot better than 50-50.

Jim Crosbie

I think we were looking past them a little bit, which I hate to admit because we respect all teams.

Sandy Alderson

I think we all would admit that we didn't have the premier team in the National League this year, but we did make the playoffs, ... Crazy things can happen in a short series. In our particular case we fell behind in those three games and never really gave ourselves a chance. So that was disappointing. We played down to people's expectations. So that was very disappointing.

Charles Boucher

It appears that Intel's significant shortfall in Europe is company-specific, although the exact cause of the shortfall is still unclear.

Russ Sonaty

He likes to be involved although he is over there. They like that he talks to them. It gives them something to work for.

Stephen Richer

Having these three resorts back in business will attract thousands of day trip customers, some of our meetings business, and many tour groups. Although we still will be far short of our previous room inventory and meeting space, we know that the demand to visit our destination is high and that business will take off with the reopening of the Imperial Palace, the Isle of Capri, and the Palace.

John Moody

Having obtained control of the New York Central, the Hudson River, and the Harlem railroads, Commodore Vanderbilt now decided in the summer of 1867 to go after the Erie, of which Drew was nominally in possession, although no one knew when he owned a majority of the stock or when he was temporarily short of it.

Brian Campbell

He's a complete player now. He's not just a guy that goes down and scores highlight-reel goals every time, although all he seems to do is score highlight goals. He's a great penalty killer, he's everything. You look at Timmy now, and he combines everything. Now, he's a dominant hockey player.

Bill Richardson

Here was the government putting this skinny 60-year-old guy into solitary confinement for nearly a year. I have come to realize that it was wrong and I should have spoken out more, although I did try to influence the Justice Department on their incarceration of Lee.

Mike Harding

Gold, n.: A soft malleable metal relatively scarce in distribution. It is mined deep in the earth by poor men who then give it to rich men who immediately bury it back in the earth in great prisons, although gold hasn't done anything to them.

Richard Greene

His short- and long-term memory seem to be good and he is talking and has been for about two weeks ... although fairly quiet given that he had some serious problems in that area for about six weeks.

Scotty Bowman

Hockey is its own game. It's completely different than all other games, although it's getting way too close to soccer.

Paul Guen

I had contacts with Rangers last year and they have been resumed recently.

Christopher Hill

It's fairly routine, these contacts in the context of the six-party talks,

Donnie Tyndall

It's about relationships. You start in your backyard. At Middle we had 13 players from eight states. I have contacts to go outside Kentucky and sign good players.

Brian Rogers

This is the most mail, e-mail, phone calls, personal contacts and public testimony on a single issue in about 15 years.

Richard Boucher

Contacts between the parties continue on all the issues.

John Shaw

Those contacts I have with those kids last forever.

Mathieu Kassovitz

Like anywhere, we had to make people understand that we were there with good intentions, and that we were there with respect. We started making contacts with the people in the neighborhood three months before shooting began, so that everyone involved was comfortable.

Debbie Millan

Some of the students have maintained their contacts from the week and ended up with full scholarships. It could happen again.

Penny Junor

My sources could not be better, ... I have got some contacts that trust me and respect what I do.

Dennis Miller

Just put down 9/11... I think, on most things I'm liberal, except on defending ourselves and keeping half the money. Those things I'm kind of conservative on.

Willie Savannah

Juan has been wanting to fight. If it was up to him, he would have defended his title three or four times in the past year instead of once.

Andrew Park

It is great that I can go to a place where I can walk on the same ground of somebody that defended our country,

Curt Dobbs

We try to get fast with our hands instead of fast with our feet, and that gets us in foul trouble. Then we're trying to defend them with all guards out there, it just wasn't going to work. I take full responsibility for this loss. I did not do a good job of preparing the girls for this game and the defense that we needed to run.

Ken Hitchcock

We took really poor penalties. We made defending mistakes. When you don't kill them off, it's deflating. And when you don't score on your opportunities, it's even more deflating.

Ian Holloway

We've got to learn to shut up shop like they did and I hope that we can defend like that when we go to Wolves,

Paul Young

I thought we did excellent today. The first half was good, the second half, up and down. Overall I am glad for the victory, and we are in the semi-finals and hopefully we can move on to defend our title.

Jim Nesser

I think we wore down a bit. It's tough to bang, rebound, defend and score. It took its toll on us. Plus, TJ stepped their game up.

Richard Robinson

I think back now, it's like nothing was going through my mind. Somebody swung at me and my natural reaction was to fight back. I'm not a violent person, I'm far from it. But I also work hard for what's mine and I'm going to defend it.

Andrew Douglas

It is going to change, quite dramatically, the way European markets work.

Goran Persson

The European Union sticks to the Kyoto Protocol and (will) go for a ratification process.

Mel Gibson

It's set before the Conquest, so there are no European faces, and we are using mostly indigenous people and actors from Mexico City,

Jeremy Corbyn

Taken slightly historically, the turning point in the E.U. was actually the Single European Act, the Thatcher/Maastricht-era stuff, which was turning the E.U. into very much a market system.

Kofi Annan

At this stage the European Union is not involved,

Philip Tod

The likelihood is that we will have to reintegrate Sweden into the European (testing) regime.

Philip Tod

The likelihood is that we will have to reintegrate Sweden into the European regime.

Jason Winston George

American television tends to move faster than European or U.K. television.

Brian Shea

For many of the European insurers, Katrina will likely push the full-year 2005 (earnings) to an above-average year with respect to large losses.

Michael Thompson

I went to the post office, the grocery store and the drug store today, and everywhere I went people were talking about it.

Brian Cashman

He's been young everywhere we've put him. But obviously he is very talented.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

I know. Ive been everywhere and seen everything and done everythingSophisticated God, Im sophisticated!

Charlton Young

I'm not a candidate. That's message-board stuff. They've got me going everywhere this year. I'm a Georgia Tech guy.

Abraham Lincoln

I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men everywhere could be free.

Richard Pasch

The intensity of a hurricane does not mean that the strength of the wind is the same everywhere around the storm's circulation.

Rep. Rubio

The idea that we have to have a system that is uniform everywhere all schools look alike, the same desk, the same light, all the same over and over. Maybe 12 years is too short or too long. Maybe it should be year-round. Maybe it should be longer days. I don't know, all I'm trying to do is start that debate.

Wilson Mizner

A good listener is not only popular everywhere but, after a while he knows something

Niki Caro

The iron range has its problems, like everywhere else, but the people are genuinely good,

Voltaire

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

Quincy Jones

After I learned the piano, I went on to learn percussion, the tuba, b-flat baritone, French horn, trombone, trumpet, most of the instruments in the orchestra. Trumpet was my instrument.

Mary Wittenberg

Our races are to our sport what Wimbledon and the Australian, U.S. and French Opens are to tennis.

Abu Bakar Bashir

Indonesians must understand that there is no Islamic state without the enforcement of Islamic laws. Otherwise it is just talk and nothing else.

Jean Alesi

I'm not sure they understand everything about racing cars. I am not sure that this is wise.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Leslie Caron

The French? Upper class. Now, this is not all of France, it's just the French upper class, and it's very true. That's the way that they are, yes.

Martin Besieux

The French state with its Clemenceau has 55 other ships that are waiting to be dismantled. The UK has 40. And we know that in the U.S. there are 600 ships waiting to be dismantled. All of them are government ships, full of asbestos, PCPs and all this other stuff.

Saeb Erekat

The French report did not indicate any of these things,

Greg Beratlis

I would've liked to have heard something out of his mouth. Yes, anything. A plea for his life or just his opinion on what went on over the last two years,

Mark Mandel

John is never at a loss for words. But when he heard the news, he was speechless.

Laura Stromberg

I think, in general, people just want a new, refreshing voice, and they're hearing that from Kinky.

Dean Acosta

He wanted to hear from everyone, no matter what they have to say.

Mannie DeCastro

He used a quote from the movie, 'For Love of the Game,' where the pitcher made it so he couldn't hear the crowd.

Demetra Blevins

He kicked her all the way down the stairs. You could hear her hit every step.

S. Hughes

He just went AWOL (absent without leave) on us. I think he just lost his heart for the battle. But he was a lovely lad. They all seem to be lovely lads from Trinidad.

Q-Tip

I don't really listen to my work. If I have to DJ and I play something, I hear it. But I don't sit quietly and listen to my work; I'm always off to do the next thing.

Daniel Inouye

Henry was an acquaintance of presidents and kings, but his heart was always with the native people of Hawaii, who are still struggling for their moment in the sun,

John Scully

He has always been a real straight shooting type of old school Italian guy.

Robert Cray

I cook Italian, Thai and Vietnamese, I've always liked to cook.

Rocky Marciano

Rocky is a poor Italian boy from a poor Italian family, and he appreciates the buck more than almost anybody. He's only got two halfway decent purses so far, and it was like a tiger tasting blood

Yotam Ottolenghi

Pizza was made for television in so many ways: it is easy to heat up, easy to divide and easy to eat in a group. It is easy to enjoy, easy to digest and easy-going. It is so Italian!

Marco Muller

I needed Quentin. I knew he would be very loud as a spokesman for Italian B movies.

James Fenton

A really interesting and happy time was when I first went to Florence as a student and studied Italian. I was living in a pensione on an allowance of £40 a month, which was princely. I did a lot of work and enjoyed myself immensely.

George Friedman

Italy is the fourth-largest economy in Europe and the eighth-largest economy in the world, and its banking system is collapsing. And Germany is desperate. It must maintain its standard of living. It can only do that with exports and Deutsche Bank is very exposed to Italian debt. But so is the rest of Europe.

Johnny Ramone

As far as film goes, I enjoy all Hollywood films and all Horror films like The Bride of Frankenstein, which also might be my favorite. I like 60's and 70's Italian and Spanish Horror films.

James Franco

I worked the drive-through at McDonald's and tried out different accents - Italian, Russian, Irish.

Kenoy Kennedy

I think I took off before he started to slide. I'll take a look at it on the film.

Chas Freeman

We took them to the cleaners on that trade.

Greg Paulus

We took them out from what they wanted to do.

Anthony Davis

It has to be like Hawaii. We went in there and it was about basketball, and we took them one at a time.

Bob Grant

I'm not disappointed with the decision. I don't think they are either. It's a new era. I took them through a year's worth of transition and now they'll do their own thing.

Dan Boyle

The guy, not on purpose, took out my legs.

Julie Foglesong

You could already tell a week after our wedding...it took a lot out of her.

Bill Bradford

There was an opportunity, so she took it.

Julian Wright

That's about how long it took me to get going.