Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlo Panunzi

Anyhow, it is not a very important business and mainly active in Europe.

Paul Aussaresses

As for torture, it was tolerated if not actively encouraged, ... He (the emissary) knew exactly what went on during the night.

Jodhi May

As an actor, I think it's really important to be as anonymous as possible. It's your job to convince people that you are somebody else, and so any recognition I'd get away from the screen - well, it's not something I actively seek. To be honest with you, I'm surprised anybody does.

Jon Austin

Northwest does not want a strike and we remain actively engaged at the negotiating table. At the same time, however, we have the responsibility to make orderly and timely provisions to minimize confusion and disruptions should a strike occur. We want to keep our passengers fully informed and to assist them with alternative travel arrangements.

Donald Rumsfeld

actively lying about civilian casualties taking place in their country.

Barclays Capital

a number of proposals contained in the draft policy would actively discourage foreign direct investment and the associated financing.

Henry Ward Beecher

Any law that takes hold of a man's daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of the community are actively in favor of it. The laws that are the most operative are the laws which protect life.

Richard Boucher

The situation in Liberia is of major concern to us. We have been actively discussing how we can best support international efforts to help Liberia return to peace and the rule of law.

Eric Brewer

The site that we had been looking at did not work out. We never got to the point of moving forward on an actual approval process. We are still actively looking for sites in Citrus County but do not have any specific plans at this time.

Lee Scott

That's when they become the experts and can help teach the other kids. It's the highlight of my day.

Ben Nicholson

I'm not an expert, but I want to be.

Edward Norton

I don't flatter myself - I'm not a scientist, I'm not a conservation expert.

Albert Einstein

The place of the expert is on tap not on top.

Stephen Cambone

The experts have been through it, and they have not found another plausible use for it.

Susan Sontag

The camera can be lenient; it is can also expert at being cruel. But its cruelty only produces another kind of beauty, according to the surrealist preferences which rule photographic taste.

Rutherford B. Hayes

Every expert was once a beginner.

Susan Collins

An expert is anyone who can already do what we want to do.

Theo de Raadt

Only failure makes us experts.

Dr. Ratard

No such outbreak occurred because of Hurricane Katrina.

Stacy Stewart

Some people thought the hurricane season was over. It's not.

Mark Goodman

It was the (strangest) hurricane we've seen in a long time.

E. B. White

Even if there's no damage, it's going to take at least two weeks for refineries to come back. It's at least as serious as Hurricane Ivan, which we had last year. And it took six months to get production back to normal in that case.

Michael Chertoff

We are going to be very prepared for Hurricane Wilma.

Michael Fish

Reports of a hurricane are unfounded.

John Gill

I can pretty much say, we're all ready for it. If you're not ready for a hurricane now, you never will be!

Richard Wright

It looked like a tsunami with hurricane winds.

Mitch Frazier

There is not the hurricane protection here that there once was. It is significantly compromised. The hurricane level protection we have had here prior to Hurricane Katrina will not be able to return. It will be years, not months.

Mike Edwards

We've dodged a bullet. It's not as severe as it has been in the past.

Anton Chekhov

What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.

Billy Connolly

The religion in Scotland is one of the most patronising things... after the weather.

Chuck Jones

The weatherman is not only blamed for his failure to foretell, he is blamed for the weather itself.

Amos Lee

I'm not into cold weather, I like warm weather.

David Petersen

Clouds, leaves, soil, and wind all offer themselves as signals of changes in the weather. However, not all the storms of life can be predicted.

Thomas Sowell

Just as a poetic discussion of the weather is not meteorology, so an issuance of moral pronouncements or political creeds about the economy is not economics. Economics is a study of cause-and-effect relationships in an economy.

Tommy Lasorda

The only way I'd worry about the weather is if it snows on our side of the field and not theirs.

Ron Paul

We don't have the freedom of speech to talk about the weather. We have the first amendment so we can say some very controversial things.

Ruth Rendell

the English, although partakers in the most variable and quixotic climate in the world, never become used to its vagaries, but comment upon them with shock and resentment as if all their lives had been spent in the predictable monsoon.