Famous Quotes & Sayings

Larry Ellison

One of the great things about Lanai is that the weather is always fabulous. Always 82 degrees and sunny. The problem is that, like California now, Lanai needs more water.

Dean Baker

Hawaii's home prices suffered in the 1990s because of economic trouble in Japan, ... If home prices in California reverse, it will have ripple effects.

Ryan Newman

Going into California, just because we're in third (in points), we can come out of California 33rd in points.

Uli Hoeness

He should stop his dancing around in California while leaving us to deal with all the crap here.

Christopher Paasch

I think the Kentucky Oaks winner comes through California this year.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Today California has given me the greatest gift of all: You've given me your trust by voting for me,

John Laird

I thought that if something was going to endanger the bill, especially considering the state?s current financial climate, it would be the cost to the state, ... But 50,000 more students means $23 million for California from the federal government.

James Burke

I think it's pretty cutting edge. San Bernardino County in California visited us about it. I have had calls from Holland and South Africa.

Dan Newman

Under Prop. 34, serious candidates for governor in California need to have one of two things. Tens of millions of dollars of their own money or tens of thousands of their own supporters.

Evan Wilson

I was intrigued by the opportunity to live and experience a country less well off than ours. And see firsthand the problems that plague a developing nation.

Troy Sunderland

Kish is a kid that pushes the tempo, even though he might not be as highly ranked as other guys, but he will be a guy ranked high in the country by the end of the year.

Brian France

I would vote no. Other people in our organization would like to see it. But I like distinguishing the elite division in the country with a unique way of settling the championship.

Ifzal Ali

Just look at the organized sector of the economy in a country such as India, which employs less than 10 percent of workforce, you are worrying about this when there is a multitude of people completely being bypassed.

Brian Martin

I think it's a great idea, there are a lot of different cultures in the fire departments throughout the country. It's a neat idea.

Otton Solis

I think it is a very delicate moment for the country and we are going to wait until the end, until the electoral tribunal has processed all the votes because with such a small difference, anything can happen.

Silvio Berlusconi

Italy will always be grateful to the United States for what this country has been doing to free us from totalitarianism in the past century,

Grandmaster Flash

I want to go to - what's that hot country with a lot of money? - Dubai.

Sam Hunt

I think of a song in terms of lyrics and stories, and that's what keeps it country for me.

Howard Safir

What we find is that many of the people involved in minor crimes are the same people that are involved in major crimes,

Noam Chomsky

In November 2004, U.S. occupation forces launched their second major attack on the city of Falluja. The press reported major war crimes instantly, with approval.

Lynne Abraham

The evidence is clear. This reaches the top -- the very top of our archdiocese, ... Regrettably, the perpetrators of these crimes and the people that protected them will never face the penalties they deserve.

Lydia Child

The cure for all ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love.' It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Jerry Doyle

It's a shame people would stoop to this kind of thing. We have to look at these crimes and see if there is anything else we can do.

James Lockyer

This is a familiar problem: people spending years in jail for crimes that didn't happen as a result of erroneous pathology.

Latin Proverb

It is to their crimes that most great men are indebted for their gardens, their tables, their fine old plate - their love

Hugh Graf

It's not uncommon for these types of scams or crimes around this time of the year.

David Smith

It's a vicious and ugly reminder of anti-gay prejudice. What is unique about hate crimes is that they terrorize the whole community.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

It's the libertarians who want to reclaim decision-making for themselves. It's the small government folks who see government as a great Leviathan gobbling up more and more of their treasure and freedoms.

Kate Philips

He is waiting on the folks from New Jersey to move forward with the dredging project.

Ben Crump

What you all have done in the last 48 hours, that's history. It is history because it's the young folks who are doing the leading today.

Ken Jackson

I think it's hard for new businesses, especially younger folks who could make more money somewhere else.

Matt Kleinschmit

It is a first. It will be interesting to see whether or not folks pay for this content.

Andrew Hudson

What we are trying to do is meld these folks back into a community, rather than putting them in a big pen,

Andy Graham

We take the mobile phone with the GPS capabilities and turn it into a lifestyle recorder for those who run or cycle, or even walk. A lot of folks want to see how well they're doing on a mile-to-mile basis.

Lynn Franco

I think what we're seeing here, ... is that wages, overall, have always been seen as being at the low end of the totem pole. People are never quite satisfied with their wages. We don't find many folks who say they're overpaid.

Will Rogers

I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Robert Khayat

Rod means a lot to all of us. He's been wonderfully successful. He's an honorable man and I have the highest regard for him.

Jeffrey Benjamin

Integrity of one's values is the highest score.

Ludwig Feuerbach

The first and highest law must be the love of man to man. Homo homini Deus est- this is the supreme practical maxim, this the turning point of the world's History.

Giuseppe Pisanu

We are considering the highest possible risk of an attack, ... and we are preparing ourselves for the worse possible threat.

Amber Magner

It's not an impossible task. But we will have to play out our highest level to have even a chance.

Publilius Syrus

The highest condition takes rise in the lowest.

Vivian Stringer

They're tournament-tested and play at the highest level. They're ready.

Dave Esquer

It's about us-we've got to play well (for) ourselves. If we play at our highest level and (Stanford) plays well, we'll take our chances.

Dave Cole

This is the highest number of reported vulnerabilities we have seen in a 6-month period.

J. C. Watts

If you shoot the C.E.O., they'll hire another one. The job will still get done.

Mark Neumann

If somebody walks in to me and says, 'I'm a gay person, I want a job in your office,' I would say that's inappropriate, and they wouldn't be hired because that would mean they are promoting their agenda.

Amy Adams

I probably never would have been hired on Broadway had I not moved out to L.A. and pursued acting and film, which is sad, really.

Dave Nonis

I'm not going to talk about individual people. I want to make sure that when we hire somebody, that it's someone that we're comfortable with as a person.

Ron Meyer

It's just natural for him to hire me.

Ed Adler

They're working on this, but weren't hired specifically for it.

Kent Thompson

This is why you hire professionals to do this,

Tony Fernandes

I look for people who have drive, who have ambition, who are humble. I've hired many people at very strange places.

Mona Williams

We acknowledge we should have had better safeguards in place to make sure our (floor-cleaning) contractors hired only legal workers.

Dusty Baker

He wanted to play. He didn't want to be out too long because then you lose your stroke.

Larry Sandburg

We've done that three times now. The only two loses we've had were the other two.

Ken McCloud

To get here and lose is all right." ()

Chanda Gunn

I think we were disappointed, obviously very disappointed, to lose the semifinal, so we wanted to come out and show what a special team we are and I think we did that.

Hilary Swank

I think it's unfortunate that things are seen as winners or losers because in the end, it's the performance that matters.

Antonio McDyess

I was a little more motivated for the win. It was my first finals. To lose like we did, I'm going to remember it for the rest of my life.

Jordan Zuppe

We made up our minds we weren't going to lose again.

Kevan Barlow

I didn't lose no pep in my step. If we can get together on offense, we can get the same things going.

John Reid

In that game, yeah, it's tough to lose Warren.

Russ Jones

Our rates only go up once a year, and that's in June.

John Seabrook

In the nineteen-eighties, rates of obesity started to rise sharply in the U.S. and around the world. By the nineteen-nineties, obesity reached epidemic proportions.

Michael Stipe

The future's ours, and you don't even rate a footnote now

Richard Bernstein

At the rate it's going right now, profitability will accelerate, but at a very, very slow pace, ... much slower than what's implied by valuation in the market.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

I've always held that early marriage is a sure indication of second-rate goods that had to be sold in a hurry." - Martin Harris

Jamie Rappaport

An astonishing success rate of more than 99 percent.

Scott Berry

And as rates go higher, that should go higher, too.

Mark Kantrowitz

It's a no-brainer at this point. You want to consolidate before rates rise,

Robert Brusca

It's a surprise -- we thought the unemployment rate would be edging up.

Diane Jacobowitz

He refused to sign the petition. He didn't want any part of it.

Sadaharu Oh

I was disappointed but it's up to him to decide. It was not a surprise that he refused since he had been hesitating for such a long time.

Don Moreland

I thought Walker just stepped up and (turned on his game) in the second half, just refuse to lose.

Marcus Aurelius

He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse

Johnny Hardesty

I refuse to cry, ... This is supposed to be a spoof of a makeover show.

Bobby Bowden

I refuse to back down. Who can you trust more than your family?

Jim Hall

They refused to participate at all, even though we requested them.

Alberto Sanchez

They refused to come, and three times they told me they were not doing that service any more.

Bob Melvin

I've never said anything disparaging about Wally Backman and I refuse to do so now.

Laurie Levenson

It is my understanding that they have walled her off from day one and that she has had no decision-making responsibility in the case.

Richard P. Feynman

It is our responsibility to leave the people of the future a free hand.

Richard P. Feynman

Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

Richelle Mead

You understand your responsibilities better than guardians twice your age. You'll do what you have to do to succeed.

Russell Crowe

If there's anything about someone's life that's important enough to make a movie about it, I have to take responsibility to get all of it right. It's a huge responsibility.

Ron Chernow

Mutual funds have historically offered safety and diversification. And they spare you the responsibility of picking individual stocks.

Umberto Eco

Political satire is a serious thing. In democratic newspapers throughout the world there are daily cartoons that often are not even funny, as is the case especially in many English-language newspapers. Instead, they contain a political message, and the artist takes full responsibility.

Travis Barker

There's a lot more responsibility at home, so a tour is like the opposite for me. It's like a breath of fresh air.

William Mapother

I do like taking on responsibility, sometimes too much. But I was aware of that early on and it's something that came up in the previous set of interviews, and that is the actor‛s contribution.

Jim Hickey

I wouldn't be surprised at all if he starts,

Kathy Pulley

He's a whole lot better than we ever imagined. I am surprised that he wasn't just shattered.

Howard Opinsky

I was as surprised as everyone else was to see it.

Jerry Jones

I was very surprised that he was still there.

Jordan Leopold

I was actually kind of surprised but it's OK. We get all of the attention.

John Heimlich

I will be very surprised if there is not a proposal.

Jeff Candage

I'd be surprised that he would do something like that.

David Hayes

I'm surprised to see him doing so well

David Gold

I'm surprised that Emile isn't in the squad,

Graham Elliot

Dining should be something that isn't always taken extremely seriously.

Tony Stewart

I'm scared of saying something that may get taken the wrong way.

George Best

It has been a long week but things have taken a turn for the best. I am very optimistic.

Richelle Mead

Well," he said, clearly enjoying my confusion. "It was actually for two souls, since you and Seth were both saved. But even if it wasn't, it still would've been worth it. Do you know the price of one soul, Georgina? It's beyond rubies and diamonds, beyond any mortal reckoning. If it had taken me centuries, if it had taken a dozen more angels to help me, it all would have been worth it.

Richelle Mead

I’ve come to ask you where Seth is.” "Funny,” said Andrea. “We were going to ask you the same thing.” I was taken aback. “How would I know?” They both just stared. "I don’t!

Ron Chernow

A prudent silence will frequently be taken for wisdom and a sentence or two cautiously thrown in will sometimes gain the palm of knowledge, while a man well informed but indiscreet and unreserved will not uncommonly talk himself out of all consideration and weight. (Alexander Hamilton's 'thesis on discretion' written to his son James shortly before his fatal duel with Burr.)

Tryon Edwards

We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.

William S. Burroughs

Everything Jack says is to be taken with considerable reserve.

William J. Brennan

Whether to the average person, applying contemporary community standards, the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest.

Emily Lyons

I was in the right place, just at the wrong time that day.

Dwyane Wade

I was in the right place at the right time to get the bucket.

Denny Green

J.J. is the starter. I said that a long time ago.

Ronny Jenkins

I take my vacation this time of year every year.

Leslie Cohen

I think it'll be time at the end of this year for them to go off and try something new, ... It'll be torture. It'll be torture.

Mary Lambert

I think I streaked one time when I was 16, which was scary.

Cynthia Johnson

He didn't get the time that we may feel he deserved, and he may not get it in this lifetime. But before it's all over with, he will get it.

Graham Elliot

Any time you can involve fake mustaches, things are just better.

David Champion

I think it's desperately time for a change.