Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ted Taylor

We were fortunate to come out on top; it could have gone either way. It is tough to come to Meridian and win. I just have to commend our kids, especially for their second-half effort.

Debbie Davis

I'm so impressed with the research that went into this book. I know Joel is a solid reporter -- after all, he did great work for us in the late 1980s -- but I want to commend him for a truly fine work of journalism.

J. C. Watts

I would like to commend Mrs. Matheny, ... I'm sad for her.

Gerard Arpey

I commend you in taking this step to move the company forward, ... I recognize these new contracts involve enormous sacrifices by our employees. We have our work cut out for us; we are not out of the woods yet.

Alveda King

If Uncle Martin were here today, he would surely commend us for giving honor where honor is due.

George W. Bush

Today, the Senate took an important step forward in cutting the deficit. I commend Senate leadership and the other senators who supported this spending-reduction legislation,

David Rose

As a small company our fastest way to market was going to be by working with other retailers that were known for pioneering new technologies and categories.

Mark Baldwin

As Britain's only large-scale touring contemporary dance company, Rambert performs on some of the largest stages this country has

Scott Harris

Our customers no longer design in isolation. They need to create, manage, and share information throughout and outside their company in order to realize their ideas.

Walter Price

People felt that this is a very tightly controlled company with a lot of levers they can pull.

Lovie Smith

Once you get into company with Walter Payton, that's saying quite a bit.

Foreign Ministry

The Russian embassy in Tehran gave to the Iranian side an official note saying that the previous Russian proposal of the creation of a joint Russian-Iranian company to enrich uranium remains in force.

Scott Rothbort

This is a work in progress and a company that's transitioning. Don't expect instant gratification here.

Bill Doyle

This is a significant investment that will have an immediate positive impact on our company and, more importantly, will provide significant growth potential for us over the long term.

Bob Corscadden

This is an invitation for people to get a better glimpse of who we are as a company and what we stand for.

Michael A. Stackpole

Prior to 2009, when publishers scoffed at the ebook market, they offered writers contracts which gave us half of the money they made off ebook sales.

Sam Reed

More than half the states that will miss the voting-equipment deadline will have signed contracts with vendors.

John Gomery

Given that contracts were issued as early as November 2000, the moratorium, if it did occur, was of a very short duration,

Gary Bettman

My feeling is contracts should always be honored,

Julie Rochman

It is not surprising that public officials in Louisiana are trying everything they can to recover dollars for those whose lives were devastated by Hurricane Katrina. But insurance contracts are contracts.

Chris Clapinski

They're in a situation where they're trying to find a mix of young players that they can sustain. It's difficult with their payroll limitations. You have players that reach arbitration and you have to decide do you try to sign them to long-term contracts or trade them.

Paul Theroux

Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation; and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind

Henry Willmore

And the main reason for that will be the job cuts that enabled firms to do a more effective job of holding down labor costs.

Fred Lewis

The system is the problem. It's not the people. Whatever we paid them, it would be well worth it to cut them from being subsidized by private interests. It's wrong.

Carl Laundrie

The storm is eating up our dunes. It has cut up right next to the road.

Carole Strayhorn

It would be wrong to use this session to only cut property taxes when Texas needs long-term solutions for our fundamental priorities.

Brandon Sanderson

Authors also create lovable, friendly characters, then proceed to do terrible things to them, like throw them in unsightly librarian-controlled dungeons. This makes readers feel hurt and worried for the characters. The simple truth is that authors like making people squirm. If this weren't the case, all novels would be filled completely with cute bunnies having birthday parties.

Aziz Ansari

Whats the worst that could happen?! The worst that could happen is he could cut off your legs and use them to make stilts that look like legs!

Ayn Rand

That's a cute sentence: the years to come. Why are you so sure they're coming?

Atticus Shaffer

My mom thought I might be good for voiceover. She thought I had a cute voice, so maybe I could do a cartoon or something. And while we were looking into that, we also thought I should get into theater acting, so I tried it and the first audition I went on, I booked it. And it kind of just snowballed from there.

Jamie Bell

I actually don't mind rats at all. I kind of think they're quite cute, but that's just me.

Robyn Archer

Quite often, if people don't want to listen to the message they will say 'Oh, but it's so musically inferior', but when you have songs that are musically sophisticated, with enormous heart and expertise and a message, that's when its hard to resist. It's great to see people of exceptional musical talent, like Paul and the musicians he works with, contributing to songs like these.

Keith Brown

It was an enormous loss, that is the one that eventually killed us.

Octavia E. Butler

I don't write about good and evil with this enormous dichotomy. I write about people. I write about people doing the kinds of things that people do.

Donald Kennedy

There are enormous pressures to be extremely productive and at the top of the heap.

Mark Cullen

As stylized as he is, Doug has a sort of filter, where he can't shoot something that's not true and something that he doesn't feel is right with the character. He just does it with enormous flair and that's what we took with us in the show.

Susan Sontag

God, living is enormous!

Michael Morse

made an enormous mistake in my life: I took steroids while in the minor leagues.

Norman Ornstein

Let's face it. When you're the governor of New York and even mentioned as a presidential candidate, you're going to be under an enormous microscope.

Ken Marino

I'm a huge 'Eastbound & Down' fan. I'm an enormous Danny McBride fan.

Gareth Edwards

After JPR Williams was involved in a road traffic accident: 'Bloody typical, isn't it? The car's a write-off. The tanker's a write-off. But JPR comes out of it all in one piece

Dan Henning

There's going to be a lot of temptation on people around the league this year on (wide receiver) Terrell Owens. I can tell you right now, we won't be involved in that temptation. That's part of the plan.

Henry Ian Cusick

I like romantic comedies, as it is a fun and light thing to get involved with.

Ray Arvidson

Water was involved in practically every one we have seen so far.

Brian Wilson

So I called him up! ... I was surprised that he said he didn't think I was involved because I really was. So I called him up.

Jason Goldberg

When things like this come up, there is a part of me that really wants to get involved and do something again,

Zach Pollakoff

Music is one of my passions. If I'm not making music, I want to be involved in it in some way.

Ferdinand Marcos

Frankly, if there's money to be made the province would have involved itself.

Nina Banister

If it launches or explodes, it's illegal. There is a risk involved with fireworks, period. Everything is at risk, your pets, your shrubs, your house, your car, your neighbor's house, your neighbor's car. Because something that launches or explodes can be unpredictable.

Otis Smith

You want me to tell you that moving Steve was big? I told you that when we moved him.

Melissa McBride

The only way to move forward is to be able to trust whomever you're with 100 percent.

John Bolton

We have a sense of urgency about this ... There is a need to move expeditiously.

Adrian Beltre

Don't like them, ... I'm not comfortable with them. When you move, it moves around. I never wear one.

Anna Kendrick

When I was 12, I did this show on Broadway called 'High Society,' so we moved to New York for the run of that.

Janet Reno

Everyone working together has made a difference, but you can't say, 'Okay, now let's move on to something else,' ... We can never relax our vigilance about crime, about enforcement, about prevention ... there's going to be some new problem down the road.

Michael Useem

Every move you make is scrutinized for its meaning, its performance, its adequacy,

Pat Burrell

You have to be able to move on,

Phil Garner

Tonight, we had a double-play situation and made the move right there.

Mike Hamilton

Are we going to recognize our tradition or not? If we're going to recognize our tradition, then let's get on with it.

Joel Smith

Even the way somebody walks sometimes in a video may be the way to recognize that person.

Tanya Vanasse

If you know Stewart, you'd probably recognize it.

Gordon B. Hinckley

I've tried to recognize my wife's individuality, her personality, her desires, her background, her ambitions.

Loretta Lynch

Everyone wants to be seen. Everyone wants to be heard. Everyone wants to be recognized as the person that they are and not a stereotype or an image.

Marc Racicot

We recognize that this is a regional resource, and its development has regional implications.

Mark Russinovich

This is a step they should have taken immediately.

Al Horford

We're here to win it. This is just the first step to get there.

Ayn Rand

whose steps were a restless substitute for flight.

Burt Reynolds

I can tell a young person where the mines are, but he's probably going to step on them anyway.

Antonio Porchia

I have come one step away from everything. And here I stay, far from everything, one step away.

Sarah Lowe

When I stepped up there, I just told myself that I had to relax. I had to put myself in a different place and just not even worry about the score, not worry about anything.

Ernesto Hernandez

We stepped on American soil, we shouldn't be here.

Brian Rolston

We stepped it up tonight, and if we do that we can be in it. We can make the playoffs.

Douglas Preston

One can reach the gates of hell just as easily by short steps as by large.

Mike Gold

We are taking a robust, step-by-step development approach,

Wellington Mara

I'm not taking that. Go ahead, it's here, just take it.

Nathan Bedford Forrest

Never stand and take a charge... charge them too.

Ernest Hemingway

We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood.

James Russell Lowell

The nunneries of silent nooks, the murmured longing of the wood.

Kristin Baker

I've matured. I think I work better with the team.

James Marsh

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

Amanda Hale

I've come to realise I work so much better when I'm going by instinct.

Luis Castillo

This is terrible. Very disappointing. I've got to get back out there. There's so many things I have to work on.

Bryson Sumlin

That's not in the playbook, ... That's just excitement. Everything worked as clockwork.

Jane Fonda

The harder you work out, the more you should stretch.

Kent McCord

Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work.

LaMarr Woodley

You don't want to overeat too much because then you have to work twice as hard.

Kathryn Harrison

I can't work out much about myself or what I see in the world around me unless I do it through writing.