Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chuck D.

A downtown is the center of a community, the pulse, ... When it dies, your town dies. I want my kids to experience something different from Wal-Mart and strip malls.

Stacy Stewart

So, until the 2006 season begins, unless Zeta somehow makes an unlikely miracle comeback, this is the National Hurricane Center signing off for 2005. Finally.

Tim Griffin

So when the penguin takes a step, its center of mass is low, so when he stops coming up over his leg, the mass moves to the side, ... And it's high now, and as it starts rocking backward, it starts falling to the side, it's also falling forward.

John Shannon

Right now, the weather is somewhat questionable at the Kennedy Space Center all three days.

W. H. Murray

Sam was a one-person chamber of commerce, a visitor's center and a cheerleading squad all wrapped into one.

Bob Carpenter

The school is no longer the center of social life. Kids are either working to help their families or hanging on the street corner.

Ronald Miller

The same things that work at St. Clair High School won't work somewhere else. (International Center President Willard Daggett) is not coming and selling a template that every school should be using.

Phil Condit

The role of the new, leaner corporate center will be to seek new growth opportunities around the globe.

Ben Braun

I've seen Jones go from center to forward to guard.

Nancy Kress

Readers want to visualize your story as they read it. The more exact words you give them, the more clearly they see it, smell it, hear it, taste it. Thus, a dog should be an 'Airedale,' not just a 'dog.' A taste should not be merely 'good' but 'creamy and sweet' or 'sharply salty' or 'buttery on the tongue.'

Cass Sunstein

People who know him in Washington, D.C., of various ideological stripes, say this is not the type to be a fundamentalist. He is clearly extremely able, and his opinions are real lawyers' opinions.

Dick Cheney

The senator has got his facts wrong, ... I have not suggested there's a connection between Iraq and 9/11, but there's clearly an established Iraqi track record with terror.

Brian Riedl

The Senate is clearly dragging its feet on spending reform. Some senators have called for instead reversing the tax cuts.

Jeffrey Lieberman

These medicines are clearly an improvement on no treatment at all, ... But it's also clear that we need new treatments.

Jonathan Loynes

The stronger tone of recent data was clearly enough to prompt most members of the MPC to vote to keep interest rates on hold today, but we would not be surprised if the decision was rather closer than the markets seemed to think.

Tom Daschle

The strong-arm tactics being used by the administration are clearly backfiring,

Stephen Cheetham

The Smart plant in France is more a liability than an asset. It's clearly the wrong place to be making that car.

Robert Wayman

The slowdown has clearly become global in scope, and visibility is still very limited.

Ayn Rand

Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent.

Brent Weeks

It's better that the innocent should live than that the guilty die

John Grisham

We didn't want to leave. You feel guilty because you can hop on a plane and come back home where everything works and everything is standing,

Dolores Ibarruri

It is better to kill one hundred innocents than to let one guilty person go.

Ann Marie Buerkle

I really don't have a guilty pleasure.

Robert A. Heinlein

Any priest or shaman must be presumed guilty until proved innocent.

Max Lucado

Relationships don't thrive because the guilty are punished but because the innocent are merciful.

Mason Cooley

The intimacy of love absolves us of our guilty separateness.

William Moffitt

My understanding was that he was to plead guilty this afternoon.

Anthony Mizzi

If only lawyers could be sworn in like all the witnesses to tell the truth in a jury trial, so justice will not only be seen to be done but be done !

John Maloney

Obviously, we're disappointed that the jury didn't see it this time the way the jury saw it the last time.

Thomas Bergstrom

It could have been a lot worse. Obviously, it could have been better, but I think the jury worked very, very hard...

William Blake

A petty sneaking thief I knew - / O! Mr Cr-, how do you do?

Jarkko Nieminen

The second set was huge. I knew at the end of the second set that I could win.

Kirsten Nelson

I knew Kathy Joosten; we worked together on a very short-lived series called 'Thanks' for CBS.

Kristin Gore

I can't look at people's wrists. Something about the veins makes me weak. My siblings used to torture me with that because they knew it was the thing I couldn't handle. They would stick their wrists in my face.

Gerry Anderson

When we made 'Fireball XL5', I'd never heard of NBC, and I didn't even know what American networks were. I knew that it would be wonderful if the show was successful in America, but I knew nothing about the American networks.

Abby Wambach

As soon as I started to realize that I could make a living playing professional soccer, I went to that place where I could torture myself because I knew it would make me better for the championship game.

Josh Duell

We tried not to let it rattle us. We knew we just had to come out and stay composed, that's one of the big things we've been trying to do all year with a young team.

Rashad Anderson

We didn't want to lose. I just knew if Marcus (Williams) got me the ball, I was going to knock it down, no matter what. We weren't going to lose this game.

Jasper Johns

The only logical thing I can think of is that I knew there were such things as artists, and I knew there were none where I lived. So I knew that to be an artist you had to be somewhere else. And I very much wanted to be somewhere else.

Anthony Davis

The vets are telling me it's loud and we've been working a lot on our protection schemes,

George Schmidt

This is 'St. Louis Tickle' I'm playing. This is a loud old banjo. They don't make them like this anymore. Here. Feel that.

Cesar Millan

I'm naturally a loud person. It can be a bit overpowering.

Mary Lauby

I can't say what I thought. I know what I thought, but I can't say out loud what I thought.

Gloria Naylor

A loud voice is not always angry; a soft voice not always to be dismissed; and a well-placed silence can be the indisputable last word.

Emily Lau

I think the people have spoken very loudly and clearly,

Ken Lucas

I think it's the loudest stadium in the NFL. They truly have a 12th man.

Rich Mullins

If you can't be good, be loud.

John Sweeney

I'm a passionate man and a passionate reporter. I've also got a loud voice.

Larry Sabato

The sixth year of a two-term president's administration is typically an opportunity for voters to send a message. It's not going to be a pretty message for Bush, if his popularity stays this low.

Christine Berg

The take-home message is to never start smoking, and if you do smoke, to quit.

Michael Gartenberg

The survey reinforces Microsoft's message to enterprises that Windows is a safe bet.

Mason Tvert

The whole thing on 4/20 is actually something we're against. I don't really see how smoking marijuana in public does anything positive. It sends the wrong message about the work that we (SAFER) are doing.

Frank Billingsley

This is one more reason to be downtown, in buildings, parks and public areas. It also sends a message that this is a progressive community.

Adam Ereli

The United States ... reiterates this message in the strongest possible terms.

Mitch McConnell

That's not the message we want to send." ()

Damien Newton

You're sending a message about what the state's transportation priorities are.

Adalius Thomas

Brian, this message is for you: Go work out. Stop playing racquetball and run some half-gassers.

Tom Robbins

I eat so much mayonnaise they were going to send me to the Mayo Clinic.

Jason Mraz

I started with a website, Jasonmraz.com, pre-YouTube. You could e-mail me directly, and I would send you a CD.

Marc Shaiman

I wouldn't have been able to live with myself if someone else did it. It's a very sweet valentine to musicals, but (it) sends them up at the same time.

John Chaney

I'm sending a message, and I'm going to do what we used to do years ago - send in the goons.

Sun Microsystems

If the U.S. side is willing to send an envoy here, we are willing to have consultations,

Bashir Ahmed

This is a good-will gesture, ... Today is a start and we will send a lot more aid.

Robert Scoble

I get a lot of email, so if you're sending me an email, if you want to rise above the clutter, put something on it: say, 'Hey!'

Shannon Staub

Englewood wants sidewalks. So do a lot of other people. I am not sure what happened.

Seneca Wallace

We just make sure they get their work in.

Mark Schubert

We just talk all week about the Lexus Gauntlet. We just want to make sure that we make our contribution.

John Chandler

We just had to be sure there wasn't anything out there,

Bruce Hapke

We weren't sure what we were going to get,

Terri Gallegos

We weren't sure what she was going to do next.

Don Catlin

We were pretty sure of its structure, but it wasn't a molecule that had ever been described before,

Jamie Lokoff

We want to be sure we get it right.

O. Henry

What we're trying to do is make sure we unearth the players, if we haven't already done so, who are going to be there for 2007.

Brian Anderson

It took a surgery to get me here.