Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Kolbe

Any realistic guest-worker program must include provisions for those who are already in this country regardless of how they arrived here,

Gurinder Chadha

Southall Broadway, in west London, has been a constant part of my life from the day I arrived in England as a baby from Kenya in 1962. My parents rented a room in one of the terraces off the Broadway, and I've seen it change from an ordinary English high street to what is now 'Little India.' with a confident Asian community.

Christopher Dodd

not yet arrived at a product that we can present to this body that is a bipartisan proposal.

Jennifer Kopp

The storm was so intense and arrived so quickly that people were unprepared to protect their assets. But there won't be any negative effect on the quality or quantity of next year's grapes or wines.

Laura Wasser

Generally, there are no lightning bolts or magical signs that tell you when it is time to get divorced. When the bad starts outweighing the good on a consistent basis, you may feel that taking the next step is appropriate. It is a very personal decision and most likely should be arrived upon with the help of some kind of counseling or support.

Jack Abramoff

When I arrived in prison, they locked the prison down that day because the media was all over the place.

Peter Clarke

Everything that happens to these men from the moment they arrived on UK soil will be entirely in accordance with the United Kingdom law and the normal procedures in these cases will be followed.

Simon Newcomb

In October, 1865, occurred what was, in my eyes, the greatest event in the history of the observatory. The new transit circle arrived from Berlin in its boxes.

Gu Yuan

There is speculation that as much as 15,000 tons of copper from Chile and Japan arrived on Monday in Shanghai. Increased supply hasn't been able to cool cash prices, which indicates strong buying on the spot market.

Zhang Yadong

Our confidence are not based on the performances at the recent National Games and East Asian Games, but come from the disappointments over the last few years, like in Athens and at this year's worlds,

Alexis Herman

Of greatest concern to me is the relationship of the manufacturing sector to the Asian market and the need to bring stability to that area,

Nick Carter

After the Backstreet Boys' last Asian tour, everyone was taking a couple months off. Instead of taking the time off, I decided to write. I was just going to be in the studio and maybe start building something on my own, just to see what it sounded like - to see if I was even capable.

David Thurtell

Oil could ease back a bit today, though the hurricane season runs into November so we're not out of the woods yet. Asian demand is still pretty strong, so we're likely to see some buying if it goes much below $60.

James Cayne

Despite the Asian economic crisis, we continued to find opportunities in the Far East, ... We attribute the record results for the quarter and the fiscal year to strength in all of the firm's core businesses.

Osamu Takashima

The stronger economic outlook is positive for the stock market and may encourage more fund inflows to Asian countries such as South Korea and Taiwan. Such flows are supporting the currencies.

Mahesh Bhatt

The movie is inspired by the London bombings and my son will make his film debut by playing the key role of the suicide bomber who is of Asian origin.

Joseph Estrada

After a brief period of recovery from the financial crises (of 1997-1998), the Asian region is suffering from a mild relapse,

Nariman Behravesh

The most pleasant surprise and remarkable development in 2005 has been the resilience of the US and Asian economies to record high oil prices.

Chris Hanson

Baby boomers are our prime demographic. We'll stick to that.

Mark Vitner

As long as energy prices remain high, they're likely to move in baby steps. I just don't think it's a slam dunk that they raise rates in December.

David Toms

As I was getting ready, the 2-month-old baby was screaming for a bottle and the 8 year old was screaming to go out,

Joe Carnahan

'Raising Arizona' is maybe my favorite comedy of all time. What's great about it is that as slapstick as it gets, it has great moments of emotion and caring. Them bringing the baby back and Trey Wilson's character. I love that, man.

P. J. O'Rourke

Our earliest evidence of government, in the ruins of Babylon and Egypt, shows nothing but ziggurats and pyramids of wasted taxpayer money, the TARP funds and shovel-ready stimulus programs of their day.

Scott Tucker

Of course, we probably should have left them where they were, ... But when we'd bring them home, they'd lay eggs, and next thing you know we'd have baby turtles running around. I love nature and wildlife, and it's always been a part of my family.

John Eyler

During the course of our strategic review, we redefined our business model and sharpened our competitive position, ... We believe that our new financial partners will help us build on this momentum and we look forward to a successful future as a leading toy and baby products retailer.

Nadrine Stocker

Destiny is a fighter - she's had to be in order to still be here. When I look at her I can't believe she's the same tiny baby that's in the pictures.

Bible Bible

And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.

Jonas Gahr Store

As foreign minister of Norway, I learnt how natural changes provoked by climate change are creating new sources of political instability.

Jim Calhoun

As far as we're concerned, we're incredibly happy to be a No. 1 seed. Obviously, I don't think anything we did changed us from being the overall No. 1. I think it's what Duke did.

Sergey Lavrov

As for relations between the European trio and Russia, we are not expecting any change in these relations. There is no need for that,

Tim Howard

As an OCD guy, I find change difficult.

Moran Atias

As actors, we get to hide. You can change your hair and your accent, and it's not you. You have tricks, these masks.

Neil Mellor

As always, markets will be looking to the statement. Each word holds implications for the markets, and each change will have implications for the dollar.

Gregory Benford

As a literature of change driven by technology, science fiction presents religion to a part of the reading public that probably seldom goes to church.

Gerry Adams

the big question is not if there is going to be change, but when there is going to be change and what change there is going to be.

George Moore

A very slight change of our habits is sufficient to destroy our sense of our daily reality, and the reality of the world around us

Alan Horowitz

I've always been a confident person, and this just helped.

Jenny Condon

Sarah's probably our most confident player. She doesn't get rattled in any situation. She's the kind of player who thrives in a pressure situation. She's been great for us in that leadership role.

Bastien Ripoll

It was very very hard (but) it's great to win a race that worked perfectly. It was exactly what we expected. We were very confident during the warm up and we knew it was our chance.

Robert McCann

This is a solid deal for us at Merrill Lynch , and we are confident about the long-term benefits. We will definitely consider other acquisitions like this when they become available.

Ken Schrader

You've just got to be confident or you wouldn't be here at this level.

Lindy Ruff

We really feel we've got a hidden gem if we can get him back to that level that he was at the end of '03-04. I'm confident that we can get him there.

Daniel Gibson

We're a confident group of guys. We definitely think that we can go all the way.

Bill Simmons

Even though a decision has been made, the war is not over. Some of those jobs we are confident will stay here.

Rene Mirandilla

We wanted to see how confident we are and how we measure up in the state playoffs. We're quite tested, and I think we're ready.

Woody Allen

A relationship, I think, is like a shark, you know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies. And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark.

Doug Ellin

The show has always been about the shallow moment-by-moment existence of life in the business. But we keep discovering subtleties, like, in Hollywood, even a guy who makes $5 million is constantly insecure and struggling.

Terrence Roberts

The summer was just horrible after that because you're constantly thinking about that game and you can't wait for the next season. We definitely don't want to go out like we did last year.

Bruce Tulgan

The thing that people need to remember is that downsizing may be back on the front pages, but the downsizing never slowed down. Downsizing has been a constant and regular feature of the new working world, and it will continue to be.

Mike Nichols

The thing about being an outsider... is that it teaches you to hear what people are thinking because you're constantly looking for the people who just don't give a damn.

Mike McGann

The thing is with Sauk, is they do have some holes. They're constantly moving their lineup around and it's hard to keep sync on what they are going to do.

Maria Semple

The one constant in my life has been my love of books: reading them, thinking about them, talking about them, holding them, turning people on to new ones.

Bob Murray

The one constant in all of this is our defense has been a Steady-Eddie,

Dan Taylor

After I threw the first time, we looked at tapes and digested what I was doing wrong. Over the past few weeks, we fixed my problems. It's just a constant work in progress.

Dwayne Peel

People say there is a lot of expectation on the England side but I can't speak for them. We are just concentrating on ourselves and doing our homework. I think we have been doing that pretty well and we can look forward to going there.

Rob Andrew

Nowadays there are too many players who can't get a contract elsewhere, who come to England and just take the money.

Lawyer Milloy

The way the Patriots tried to back me into a corner. It didn't show a lot on their part, ... New England tried to squeeze me with a last-minute deal, so we took a risk and went on the market.

Jane Austen

But are they all horrid, are you sure they are all horrid? [Referring to Gothic novels, fashionable in England at the beginning of the 19th century, but frowned upon in polite society.]

Jim Calhoun

When I walk down with Cousy I'm walking in as the face of New England as the face of so many people who weren't fortunate enough to get into what I got into.

Rupert Brooke

And think, this heart, all evil shed away, / A pulse in the eternal mind, no less / Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given.

Ryan Giggs

England got the luck this time, but if we keep producing performances like that it'll come our way,

Andrew Eldritch

I still like being in North of England and I keep a place there. But there are a lot of things about the Continent that are to be preferred. The social institutions work better, women have a better position in society and the food is another thing.

Zach Galligan

I love England and I love English culture, particularly English pop culture.

Sergei Yastrzhembsky

Really, and this can be said now, Kenneth Gluck was threatened with the sad fate of the beheaded English hostages,

Charles McCabe

Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an art.

Robert Fitzgerald

The test of a given phrase would be: Is it worthy to be immortal? To ''make a beeline'' for something. That's worthy of being immortal and is immortal in English idiom. ''I guess I'll split'' is not going to be immortal and is excludable, therefore excluded.

J. M. G. Le Clezio

I've always felt very much from a mixed culture - mainly English and French, but also Nigerian, Thai, Mexican. Everything's had its influence on me.

John Terry

After I finish playing, maybe I will sit down and watch it properly, but I don't think I will be able to until I retire or until I win it.

Paul Parker

Some will say that tele has lost its soul with the new gear. My feeling is that if people don't want to use the big stuff, they don't have to.

Frank Clarke

It would be better for our association and the English game as a whole if we had an English manager,

Anchee Min

I understood that without English I would never get far, so my dream was to become a receptionist, and so I started to learn English from watching 'Sesame Street.'

Tim Hogan

This is a reprieve for English language learners. The question now is whether we can get a productive solution to the problem. This is exactly what we need to happen, have the threat of these fines hanging over the Legislature's head so we can come up with a reasonable solution.

Richard Engel

Any information about U.S. special operations forces is highly sensitive.

John Fisher

On those locations that we find a higher number of slow-walking pedestrians, we will lengthen signals.

Manuel Miranda

These counsels are people who are not only people of high intellect, they have forgone much higher paying jobs to work in public service.

Carsten Fritsch

The structural problems have not improved and the trend is still to higher deficits. That presents a risk for the dollar.

Luisa Deason

The stakes for illegal aliens are higher now. We see more weapons and, at times, you see people shot.

Michael Butler

The stakes are much higher than they used to be.

Eric Maskin

Specifically, in the software industry, progress is highly sequential: progress is typically made through a large number of small steps, each building on the previous ones.

Fadel Gheit

Oil prices, ... are probably going to go over $26, which will mark the highest level outside the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990.

Matt Rosoff

Some versions of the product are priced higher than they need to be.

African Proverbs

To be praised is to be lost. - Kikuyu, Kenya

Johann G. Seume

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Gwendoline Christie

People come up to me and say, 'You look so much better in real life.'

Cate Blanchett

People had always vaguely mentioned that when you have children, how part of your life would stop. But they don't say that some other extraordinary part of your life opens up.

John Ortberg

Opposition is an inevitable reality of pastoral life.

Paul Ballard

On this day we want to say thank you for an American hero, for one who would sacrifice his life so we could be free.

Stella Young

On the whole, my life is and has been wonderful.

Jack Brennan

No question it has been a challenging week. But it's a reminder to us all that life in the NFL doesn't get quieter when you have some success.

Joyce Banda

After President Mutharika was declared a winner, there was life after State House. For those Malawians that know me, I am an international public speaker. So I went back to my speaking engagements.

Stuart Townsend

Acting is great. You spend your whole life trying to get it right.

Brian Perkins

All truth is very ordinary.

Orson Scott Card

[T]he politically correct are above the rules of ordinary civility, once they have identified you as an unbeliever in their religion.

Anne Tyler

It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery away

Anais Nin

Ordinary life does not interest me.

Rita Dove

Nothing is too small. Nothing is too, quote-unquote, ordinary or insignificant. Those are the things that make up the measure of our days, and they're the things that sustain us. And they're the things that certainly can become worthy of poetry.

Thomas Merton

Let us come alive to the splendor that is all around us and see the beauty in ordinary things.

Susan Orlean

An ordinary life examined closely reveals itself to be exquisite and complicated and exceptional, somehow managing to be both heroic and plain.

Susan Cheever

Death is terrifying because it is so ordinary. It happens all the time.

Starhawk

The terrain of the mysteries is the ordinary. To seek out mystery, we don't have to go anywhere. We must simply change our preception, our description, our consciousness of where we are.

Chuck Amato

I've talked to our trainers and managers. If we can't get (the running backs) in the game, we'll let them run the water out during timeouts. That way I can tell their parents they got on the field.

Andrew Solt

It was the only show I watched with my parents as a kid,

Jody Ault

They all have wonderful personalities and a wonderful work ethic. Their parents are hard-working people.

Margaret Atwood

They all disowned their parents long ago, the way you are supposed to

Pete Carroll

We're always worried that the parents are going to be shocked.

Maria Jimenez

We are studying here. We want to be able to work here. My parents are immigrants, too.

Larry Taylor

You have to treat people like you want to be treated. I was taught that by my parents.

Lloyd Thacker

Very seldom do parents pay the advertised price tag of a private school.

Debbie Ritchie

If that's all they're basing it on, then the parents need to take into consideration the rest of the story.

Brad Gilbert

At 21, there's lots more room there, plenty of things to improve on as you get older.

Alan Garner

Everything I have ever written has been in the same chair, in the same room.

Jane Austen

We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.

Coco Chanel

It's not the rooms, it's the life you live in them

Charles Spurgeon

The moment we glorify ourselves, since there is room for one glory only in the universe, we set ourselves up as rivals to the Most High.

Eckhart Tolle

Look around the room a few times a day as if you had just been born into that room.

Eileen Caddy

Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Yelena Bazhenova

There is still enough room for development in the regions.

Amy Schoenecker

We have a lot of T-shirts. We want to make room for winter stuff.

Mike Archer

I've been around a long time, ... and I've never seen anything like this in my life.

Carl Willis

Tell me the youngest person you have ever seen play this game.

Felix Sabates

Q:'You don't spoil your grandchildren do you?A:'Not this morning, I haven't seen them yet.'

W. S. Gilbert

I've seen it in all sorts of industries.

Claire Foy

I've seen 'Pride and Prejudice' about 4,000 times. I'm not joking: I know every single line.

Robert Williams

I've never seen anything like this in Detroit. It's different for sure.

Todd Pratt

I've never seen anything like that, ... You just sit down and go, 'This is unbelievable that this is happening.'

Doug Graham

I've never seen (a case) where they've taken the vehicles together.

Benjamin Bequer

The store is something you've never seen before.

Daphne White

Do we really want 6-year-olds to become street fighters?

Darrell Sanders

We're taking it off the street one gram at a time.

Dan Jenkins

I get 'USA Today,' the 'New York Times,' 'Wall Street Journal' and the 'Star-Telegram' at my doorstep. I can't do without them.

Angelo Vaughn

He was a street cop. He was someone you want to emulate.

Beeban Kidron

I often go out on the street with my camera and ask questions.

Stephen Bell

West Chester has a lot going for it.

Jamal Lewis

If I'm going east and west, nothing's happening

George Stoneman

I have therefore concluded to apply for the privilege of becoming a Cadet at West Point.

Francois Gautier

The West remains obsessed by the caste system.

George Bernard Shaw

Rebecca [West] can handle a pen as brilliantly as ever I could and much more savagely.

Georgie Fame

Suckle was the first West Indian DJ and he had this fantastic source of music.

Jesper Parnevik

One swing, and everything clicked, I'll be very disappointed if I don't win on the West Coast.

Bertrand Russell

If the West can claim superiority in anything, it is . . . in science and scientific technique.

Jose Maria Aznar

We in the West should stand by our core principles.