Famous Quotes & Sayings

Donald Thompson

I will be approving the appointment, however, because I think it will be irresponsible if we don't have proper leadership in the high school.

Mayor O'Reilly

The lawsuit challenges the taxpayer money being used. But, they started out saying the town was wrong in approving the conditional use permit. They have now shifted their argument to focus on the expenditure of taxpayer funds.

Bryan Whitman

The deputy secretary of defense is not in the business of approving interrogation plans.

Carl Hilliard

This can only help in terms of approving the quality of AT&T Wireless service. The latest Consumer Reports ranked them at the bottom in a number of categories.

John Palmer

The board won't shy away from approving further tough decisions to ensure this continues.

David Meyer

Island Heights is committing to nothing. We're footing the bill and it won't cost them a dime. All Island Heights would be approving is a study so that the facts and necessary information could be made available to everyone.

Cesare Vaciago

Alarmism was creating turbulence and confusion. Approving the budget has distanced us from these risks.

Pam Richardson

We usually discuss the goals in August and don't end up approving them until November.

Ben Shapiro

There is no greater way to ensure that universities remain a hotbed of leftist thought than to guarantee that professors knight their own successors. But that's basically how the Ph.D. system works, with sitting professors approving the work of would-be professors.

Reagan Silber

Kevin brings a level of expertise and credibility that perfectly matches the status and style of the destination we are creating here in Las Vegas.

Jim Leyland

Kenny Rogers made the All-Star team this year. He's 50-some games over .500 lifetime. He brings a lot to this party. I think we got a tremendous deal here.

Roy Williams

Kevin's our third guy right now, and he brings veteran leadership to this group. But we do make fun of him because he's so small. He looks like he's 5-7 out there next to us. But he does make plays.

J. Nicholson

Ken Holland brings a wealth of experience in preparing a team and he has had great success in selecting championship teams.

Tom Doyle

Keith brings a level of professionalism to the team that will help us get to the next level. He has been working with NBA caliber players and knows how to get these guys ready to play at that level.

Tom Kennedy

Keep your car filled up. If you have a half a tank of gas, you could possibly get out of harm's way. During the evacuation from Katrina, a lot of people started running out of gas. Then they had to close roads to try to bring tankers to fill them up.

Rob Manuel

Keep it simple, stupid. Good game design shouldn't keep you looking at the manual but should have enough depth where you feel like you bring something new to the game every time you play.

Nick Johnson

Just the opportunity to be here the next four years ? I?m looking forward to winning. I haven?t won the big one yet, and I want to bring that to Washington.

Jim Kubinski

Just the name Augusta brings to mind thoughts of championship golf. I feel we are ready to start playing our A-game, and what better place to do it than Augusta, Georgia.

Sebastian Thrun

I always felt that if countries knew each other better, there would be less war. Often, conflict goes with demonizing other countries and cultures.

Michael Graves

I think it's a really good way to get people to come up here. It's good to expand your mind by meeting people of other countries and beliefs, a good experience.

Donald Rumsfeld

I think it's interesting that other countries wonder why they would be increasing their defense effort at the pace they are and yet not acknowledging it, ... That is as interesting as the fact that it's increasing at the pace it is.

Peter Mayhew

Whatever people say about America, it is still one of the most wonderful countries in the world, despite the politics, religion and everything else that goes on.

Ismail Haniyeh

We think countries in power can decide for themselves what kinds of positions and policies they can take.

Perry Crosswhite

I think we've done very well. In fact, some countries would say we've done too well.

Nick Haan

Under normal conditions, Somalia is one of the poorest and most food insecure countries in the world, and these are not normal conditions. It is a humanitarian crisis - it is a food crisis, a water crisis, a health crisis and a protection crisis.

Mary Quant

I still like the King's Road. It is very alive; it is a hustle of things from different countries and so on. It is lovely.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

I don't know why some countries do not want to understand the fact that the Iranian people do not tolerate force.

Sidney Blumenthal

Ken Starr's prosecutors demanded to know what I had told reporters and what reporters had told me about Ken Starr's prosecutors. If they think they have intimidated me they have failed. And if any journalist here or elsewhere wants to talk to me, I'll be glad to talk to you.

Tom Baker

has been driven by increased demand for our growing lineup of new game themes, strong gaming operations performance and solid market share growth by our major international subsidiaries.

Carl Herrman

What we would like is that people will demand more. We're hoping to work together again.

Bjorn Hanson

What we've seen is demand growing at three and a half to four and a half percent in some recent years. This year it will only grow about two and a half percent.

Joe Mauer

Having the first year of going through that and getting to know these guys, that's a lot of information, ... It's not only a physical demand on you, but mentally as well.

Keith Tkachuk

He's a competitor, I'll tell you that much. He wants to win; he's been with the Rangers and he demands a lot.

Dennis George

It is all symptomatic of the pursuit of the demands of the Washington consensus.

Mark Routt

I think you're going to see isolated price spikes as we work our way through the traditional demand high of August/September .. so it could be a long, hot summer.

Ray Rose

It is full all the time so there is still a lot of demand out there.

Jimmy Conrad

I was like, well, there goes my chance.

Roy Sommer

Kaspar took a selfish penalty. He goes after the referee -- what's he going to do? They scored twice because of that.

Ken Davis

Keeping it tuned up and keeping it well maintained it goes a long way.

Brett Lebda

Just throw it at the net sometimes and it goes in.

Julius Peppers

Jordan (Carstens) has played and Kindal (Moorehead) has played, so we feel good about those guys. You have to go to be ready when someone goes down.

Robert Gottlieb

Jodi Melnick is hotly self-absorbed. Her onstage musicians are much too loud, and like so many narcissistic performers, she goes on much too long: She's interested in herself; why wouldn't we be?

Dana Martell

It can't just be something that goes on for one year and just stops. It has to keep going.

Bob Stern

It always raises questions when someone goes from one side to the other. One of the questions that comes up is, where is his loyalty?

Lorenzo Bundy

He just goes with the flow, wherever the water takes him. He knows he's going to play in the leagues. He knows he's a big leaguer waiting to happen.

Larry Petersen

Just look at what already happens on the freeway now and triple it.

Kofi Annan

I suspect, whatever happens in the future, that kind of consultation will take place.

Bobby Bowden

It could be a lot worse. We could have two quarterbacks with no talent. What you hope happens is someone will separate themselves from the other.

Maria Shriver

I thought a lot about what I could say here today. I also thought a lot about what I couldn't or shouldn't say for one reason or the other, ... We all know what happens to first ladies who shoot their mouths off they get sent to first ladies' dungeon, and you wouldn't want that to happen to me.

David Stern

It happens at least probably 5 percent of the time.

Jon Snow

It happens all the time. People feel threatened by my height.

Steve Trachsel

It happens to a lot of guys. A lot of times New York can be overwhelming, and I've seen a lot of guys, first year they struggle, and second year they kind of take off.

Mike Jones

It happens so quick you don't really remember what happened. One wreck I was in, I remember being in the pace line, then the next thing I knew I was on the ground.

Miguel Cabrera

It happens sometimes, ... I feel bad. It's not going to happen again. When you're late, you see what happens.

Robert Murray

Joy is increased by spreading it to others

Gale Norton

We have vastly increased the amount of funding that is available for conservation partnerships.

Vijay Jayant

It increase the pie for radio in general.

Kim Beazley

It increases the pressure for Howard to appear.

Richard DeKaser

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

David Rose

We are extremely attractive to page companies, because we significantly increase their user base.

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,

Tina Olson

There aren't a lot of obvious places to just go and increase rates.

Elizabeth Loftus

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

Ebenezer Ekuban

I'd be lying to you if I said that it's just another game. It really isn't.

Andy Pettitte

I'd be lying if I said this wasn't a blow.

Richard Page

As someone who has shot in most disciplines, I can tell the House that when one is lying on ones stomach in Bisley with a sling round ones arm to hold the rifle steady, it is hard enough to hit the target on the right spot even when it is obligingly staying still. Foxes do not stay still. They move with remarkable rapidity.

Richard P. Feynman

The other thing that gives a scientific man the creeps in the world today are the methods of choosing leaders - in every nation. Today, for example, in the United States, the two political parties have decided to employ public relations men, that is, advertising men, who are trained in the necessary methods of telling the truth or lying in order to develop a product.

Richard P. Feynman

You should not fool the laymen when you're talking as a scientist... . I'm talking about a specific, extra type of integrity that is not lying, but bending over backwards to show how you're maybe wrong, [an integrity] that you ought to have when acting as a scientist. And this is our responsibility as scientists, certainly to other scientists, and I think to laymen.

Richard P. Feynman

The chance is high that the truth lies in the fashionable direction. But, on the off chance that it is in another direction — a direction obvious from an unfashionable view of field theory — who will find it? Only someone who has sacrificed himself by teaching himself quantum electrodynamics from a peculiar and unfashionable point of view; one that he may have to invent for himself.

Richard P. Feynman

Science is what we do to keep us from lying to ourselves

Richard Hofstadter

Whatever the intellectual is too certain of, if he is healthily playful, he begins to find unsatisfactory. The meaning of his intellectual life lies not in the possession of truth but in the quest for new uncertainties.

Richard Hofstadter

To the zealot overcome by his piety and to the journeyman of ideas concerned only with his marketable mental skills, the beginning and end of ideas lies in their efficacy with respect to some goal external to intellectual processes.

Haroon Lorgat

He is well established and respected as a senior member of the squad.

Jim Moran

I think it's difficult for members of Congress to be as independent as they need to be in their voting.

Brad Dayspring

I think a lot of members will be supportive of the legislation.

Niranjan Shah

It is nothing. If some members (of the board) want to speak to the press about it, we can't do anything.

Michael Hopkins

He was never a member of this organization! That's all I have to say about ... Pete McGowan.

Hut Landon

I'd like to uncover some worthy recipients and I'd like it if the member booksellers nominated programs in their communities.

Westbrook Pegler

I am a member of the rabble in good standing.

Warren Cuccurullo

Fortunately, I was still living in Los Angeles at the time. So I went out to World Gym and got a membership.

Travis Barker

Right now, one of our members needs time off, so we're granting him that,

Monica Crowley

Just when you think you've heard it all from Team Obama, the next day brings another jaw-dropper.

Meredith Ostrom

John Casablancas was saying, 'You will be the next Claudia Schiffer!' But I said, 'Actually, I have to go to college.'

Stephen Colbert

All I can do is today and tomorrow and have some idea of what we're doing next week. That's all I can worry about.

Erin Dethloff

Having a season-best performance before the Big 12 (conference meet) is really huge. We are just going to keep practicing next week.

Nick Price

He's a little older than me and out of respect he should be the next one to be asked,

Ted Ligety

I think it's kind of stupid to make him do it if he isn't going to be in the next run.

Carl Poston

It could be (today), it could be next week. It's all up to him.

Sean McGowan

It could be this week, it could be next week, but I think we're going to see that sudden drop.

John Lyboldt

I think you will see it repeat itself; it will be more next year and the year after.

David Briggs

I think the oil prices (being) off helps.

Chris Perkins

What most people need to understand is that oil is not going to be around forever, and we need to start thinking ahead. The sun is going to be here for as long as we are.

Sarah Palin

Up here in Alaska we're sitting on billions of barrels of oil. We're sitting on hundreds of trillions of cubic feet of natural gas onshore and offshore. And it seems to be only the Republicans who understand that companies should be competing for the right to tap those resources, and get that energy source flowing into these hungry markets so that we will be less reliant on foreign sources of energy. In a volatile world, relying on foreign regimes that are not friendly to Americans, asking them to ramp up resource production for our benefit, that's nonsensical.

Rodrigo Rato

Oil prices have certainly become a threat for the world economy.

Veerappa Moily

Those who know me would tell you, 'Moily can't be cowed down.' I have plans to enhance domestic oil and gas production.

Van Jones

We pull out of the ground death, we burn death in our power plants, and then we act shocked when we get death in the form of oil spills and global warming.

Rodney Dangerfield

People say fish is good for a diet. But fish should never be cooked in butter. Fish should be cooked in its natural oils - Texaco, Mobil, Exxon .

Robert Orben

I feel that if God had really wanted us to have enough oil, he would never have given us a Department of Energy.

Robert E. Howard

Some mechanism in my sub-consciousness took the dominant characteristics of various prize-fighters, gunmen, bootleggers, oil field bullies, gamblers, and honest workmen I had come in contact with, and combining them all, produced the amalgamation I call Conan the Cimmerian.

Jeff Capell

Jamal can do that. He can score points in bunches.

Andrew Kohut

His ratings for being trustworthy, which were his strong point for all of his first term, have tumbled rather substantially this year.

Robbie Bach

Historically, there's been one price point and one configuration. You got it whether you wanted it or not,

Rich Baccellieri

I think (the point spread) would go to 3 before it went up to 4. But I think it's pretty solid at 3 1/2.

M. Thompson

I thought she was going to make a four- point difference. Turned out, it was five.

Roy Wright

I think we?re getting to a point of equilibrium. I think we?re getting back to the norm.

Tania Zaetta

I think at any point you go it's disappointing because everyone would like to make it all the way through,

Luke Hudson

It got to a point where I was rushing through everything. I had to try and slow everything down. I never did.

LeBron James

It got to a point where it was kind of mental. I've got to regroup.

Christopher Murray

Just like in real farming, you want to sell when prices are high.

Tom Crosby

I think we'd better get used to it. I think we're going to see prices roller-coaster like this for a long time.

David Patterson

I think all the prices are crazy. They are just very expensive.

Mike Fitzpatrick

It is not surprising that prices are retreating.

Robert G. Allen

Your network is your net worth. How do you value your network? Well, if you don't value it, cultivate it, nurture it, it becomes worthless. If you do value it, it becomes priceless.

Bob Quinn

By making my own fuel, I can have a stable price and use my own resources in the process. I'm working to do that on my own right now, but on a smaller scale.

Andrew Logan

If prices keep going up quickly, you?re going to see a real shock to the economy.

Richard Taylor

If prices got out of whack and stay out of equilibrium for a long time, then we'd want to know why and we'd go and find out why.

Darren Benitez

I had some songs in that I had wrote, you know, priceless to me.

Dana Brunetti

The production value of YouTube videos is not there.

Jessy Schram

You know that you're part of a Spielberg production when you've got some aliens involved, but you really know when you're sitting there at a table read, and they say, 'Steven really wanted it this way.'

John le Carre

There was an ITV television production of the second novel I wrote, called 'Murder of Quality.' It was a little murder story set in a public school - I'd once taught at Eton, and I used that stuff.

Alex Schott

It's an important project. Everyone will be watching and waiting to see how production goes.

Frank Robinson

We are not getting the production offensively for what we need to be successful.

Rebecca Watson

All safety systems worked to successfully shut down production on the OCS (Outer Continental Shelf) platforms,

Robert Porter

It's a solid result in terms of our production figures.

Rich Lechner

It's not only being used for development purposes, but also being used in production environments very heavily.

Scott Hudson

You put those all together, you can get some pretty significant production out of there.

Jacob Lusk

In my spare time I like to sleep.

Marcel Proust

On ne re c° oit pas la sagesse, il faut la de couvrir soi-me" me, apre' s un trajet que personne ne peut faire pour nous, ne peut nous e pargner. We do not receive wisdom.We must discover it ourselves after experiences which no one else can have for us and from which no one else can spare us.

Henry Rollins

No such thing as spare time, no such thing as free time, no such thing as down time. All you got is life time. Go.

Mother Teresa

... do not spare me in anything -- let there be less and less of me in everything.

Joe Rogan

I do cagefight commentary in my spare time.

Dario Marenco

I tried to spare them this thing. But if they want to fight, I'm ready.

Purnomo Yusgiantoro

At the moment, there's nothing we can do. OPEC has spare capacity. However, whatever we do, there is no sensitivity in the market,

Bryan Cranston

I don't have spare time.

Lara Jean Chorostecki

I have a passion for animals and spend a lot of my spare time working with various organizations here in Toronto.

Jonas Jennings

Have you ever tried to write with one hand?

Jim Gallagher

I didn't get a sense of what the temperature is on that. I tried to allay the fears, and there are significant fears.

Nate Robinson

I am going to go at him (Iverson). I am going to make him play defense. That is what I tried to do tonight.

Marc Grossman

had some questions, we tried to give some answers... it was not negotiations.

Michael Campbell

I just tried to give us some confidence.

Travis Garrison

I just tried to do what I could.

Kwame Brown

I just tried to play the right way.

Bill Laimbeer

I tried hard, it was close, but it didn't happen.

Darrent Williams

I tried to give him encouragement. At times he was down because he was used to starting.

Ed Comeau

We're not worried about the history. We're not worried about the future.

Byron Sanders

I was worried about them the whole time,

W. Somerset Maugham

Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.

Ernie Hudson

I'm working and that's all that matters. As an actor, I never worried about being the star.

Mike Ford

I'm not worried about that at this point.

Abby Waner

I'm not worried about Mo -- at all.

Martin Brodeur

I'm not worried about it. It's not something I need to have right now.

Hines Ward

I'm not worried about Ben. I'm not worried at all.

Stephon Marbury

I know I'm going to get the blame. I'm all right. I'm not worried about that.