Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Kennedy

As a Scot, representing a Scottish constituency for almost the past 25 years, I do not harbour an overweening ambition to pronounce on each and every matter exclusively English.

Brad Clark

The building has been vacant for so long that it's almost like starting from scratch.

Gilberto Gil

The builder has tried really hard to incorporate open space, ... The part of the project that faces the church is almost a park.

David Hendler

The brokers have been almost like the old Internet stocks. The stocks have been on a huge ride and they're starting to cool off and come back to reality.

Rocky Smith

The business is doing really well. Each semester my customer base almost doubles.

Peter Capaldi

The British film industry has always tried to sell itself as something rather sophisticated. It's almost as if it thinks it is by royal command. It has always tried to claim the high ground, not only over Hollywood but over the whole of humanity!

Scott Elarton

The big thing is, there is no tension on this team. I've been with some (Houston) clubs going down the stretch in a playoff race, and teams get on edge. On this club, everyone is so relaxed it's almost like they don't care. But the results say otherwise.

Carrie Barker

The Big Ten is almost like restarting the season again. Once the Big Ten starts, it's like starting from scratch. The Big Ten is like a different life.

Tom Orlich

At this time of the year everybody is ready for almost anything.

Jeffrey Katzenberg

As a result of its tremendous box office success, the potential to tell a new chapter in its story and the popularity of the film's characters, we are excited to announce that we are making 'Madagascar' our second company franchise -- along with 'Shrek,

Douglas Brinkley

As a composer, Dylan now fits comfortably alongside George Gershwin or Irving Berlin, though he grumpily refuses to wear any man's collar.

John Eisenhower

The British soldiers serving in Afghanistan alongside Prince Harry were in exceptional danger until he was withdrawn.

Source Unknown

A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

Steven Whittaker

At youth team level, I always played in central midfield alongside Kevin Thomson and I used to get well up the park and score quite a lot of goals,

Ehud Barak

a true partner for (Yitzhak Rabin) all along his life, and the woman that carried the torch of the peace process since her husband was assassinated.

Robert Warren

A young man's ambition is to get along in the world and make a place for himself-half your life goes that way, till you're 45 or 50. Then, if you're lucky, you make terms with life, you get released.

David Sax

Bacon has been a staple of the American diet since the first European settlers, but until recently, it was consumed in a predictable, seasonal pattern. The bulk of sales came from home consumers, diners, and pancake houses, which fried it up along with eggs for breakfast.

Anthony Bailey

As one comes down the Henry Hudson Parkway along the river in the dusk, New York is never real; it is always fabulous.

Kenneth Blackwell

They reality is that we have 70% of our voters use a punch card system that I tried to change and that bipartisan resistance in the legislature stopped.

Steve Forbes

I think when those hearings are held or completed, public opinion will be such that he will be removed from office with full bipartisan support.

Stephen Hess

A big, bipartisan vote sends a message to the Iraqis and the White House. It's very, very significant.

Arlen Specter

There's a very decisive bipartisan flavor to this vote,

Asa Hutchinson

We are ready to lead and govern in a bipartisan way. We should work together in a positive way.

Joe Barton

The president's package is a good package. We're going to work on a bipartisan basis.

Tom Daschle

There is a bipartisan effort, a bipartisan willingness to provide assistance. ... We'll consult with the administration ... to try to meet some of that need in the coming days,

George Scalise

We have full confidence they will be implemented and we will be very successful. This is going to be a bipartisan effort.

Katie Decker

Now, it's a matter of seeing whether the funding is forthcoming. We're trying to make lemonade from lemons, but the border needs protecting and it isn't happening.

Phil Hardberger

San Antonio is going through a metamorphosis from a small border village to a big city.

Tim Pape

Rather than just have the annexed people represented by people they never voted for, some people on borders of districts will get new councilmen. And they've always got the at-large members.

Chris Ricks

The storm's sitting right on top of it, from the Oklahoma border to St. Louis. I-44 is pretty covered right now,

Ted Hayes

I've been down to the border with them. They're not racist. They don't care what color you are.

Carlos Ordonez

They already built some of the border wall, and it has made no impact all. Water will always find a course.

Fadela Chaib

The virus is still circulating in this corridor, so it's important to target the children who live on the border between the two countries.

Javier Solana

This is the first time a border is opened and not controlled by the Israelis. As you can imagine this is a very important step.

Ron Moran

That's how they decided to deal with it. 'I'll call you every 15 minutes to see if you're alive.' There's an acknowledgement from everyone that the border officers need to be armed, especially in these remote locations.

Ron Klein

It would be wrong for any Legislature to overturn the will of the voters, ... It would be a dangerous precedent ... It would be a constitutional crisis ... To overthrow the will of the people would be such a huge political mistake and such a huge moral mistake.

Gerry Adams

the worst crisis this process has been in,

Bruce Nissen

We're heading into a crisis. It's got to be a critical question for public policy.

Lyle Gramley

Crisis management has been elevated to a very fine skill under his tutelage.

Peter Cardillo

Energy prices are the reason for this. The crisis in the Middle East is obviously going to keep the price of energy at a strong level and that means this market is going to now be fearful of inflation exploding. We could be in for a further bumpy ride.

Liu Jianchao

During his three-day working visit to Iran, Lu will discuss with Iran's foreign ministry officials ways to prevent the nuclear crisis from escalating, given the current developments.

Sheldon Steinbach

Duke has already done more ... than any other institution facing a crisis in the 21st century.

Marc Touati

Even before the negative impact of the (youth employment measure) crisis on the economy, the evolution of industrial production in February already gives a picture of the current state of the French economy - in free fall.

Amanda Lindhout

The big-time journalists generally had kidnapping insurance through their news organizations. Usually, it would pay for a crisis response company to help negotiate for a hostage's release. Freelancers most often had none.

Leo Bosner

Successful emergency management relies upon experience and expertise.

Ken Auletta

Now NBC News devotes entire hours to 'exclusive' interviews with the Runaway Bride. CBS' '48 Hours,' which once took us inside the emergency room of a hospital,

Dominique Sopo

The state of emergency was simply a political gesture which showed the government prefers a law-and-order response to the problem.

Libby Turner

Emergency sheltering has to come to an end at some point.

Rick Plunkett

We have emergency responders responding to these kinds of calls. They're risking their lives out there every day in emergency traffic to extinguish fires that have been set.

Becky Ault

There's no reason for people to be on township roads when we're in a state of emergency unless they live out there.

William Rochelle

Is there a price that is too expensive for open heart surgery, because that is what we've got here? We've got a terminally ill patient presented in the emergency room with life-threatening injuries.

William Ford

We are in luck because we actually incorporate pets into our emergency planning.

Jay Ofsanik

We'll look at ways to help emergency services respond more quickly and get the road open more quickly, so we don't have secondary accidents.

Abdul Reeki

No Sunni has a right to become a president, prime minister or even a minister in the Iranian government.

Greg Potter

The telecoms and construction sectors are likely to be up because that's where the money is going after the government said it wants to up its investment in these sectors.

Bill Frist

Now my hand, my hand can be grasped, and the hand of government can be grasped, by you, by your families, by your communities, and that others can together with us in government seize what may well be an unprecedented, unprecedented opportunity,

Jack Straw

putting the government of Syria on notice that our patience has limits.

Joe Lhota

The role of government is to steer us in the right direction, not do all the work for us.

Susan Goldstein

I've never really been a taker, always a giver, but in this case, I really had the sense that this is what the government is supposed to be there to do.

Stephen Harper

Is it a nudge? A wink? Precisely what kind of sign is the government looking for?

Ron Ruff

I've been involved in politics and government since high school.

Elin Suleymanov

Things are moving toward a positive solution. The government has reacted to the allegations.

Richard McLaren

As a spy, under the laws of war, and his house being designated a military target, we are perfectly under international law in our right to do this,

Richard Gordon

Of the 300 houses in the area, only three are left that are not covered.

Bible Bible

And therefore I have sworn unto the house of Eli, that the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be purged with sacrifice nor offering for ever.

Grover Norquist

I've been in the White House more in the last two weeks than I was in the last two years.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed there.

C. S. Lewis

Imagine yourself as a living house.

Bella Abzug

This woman's place is in the House - the House of Representatives.

Arundhati Roy

Perhaps it's true that things can change in a day. That a few dozen hours can affect the outcome of whole lifetimes. And that when they do, those few dozen hours, like the salvaged remains of a burned house---the charred clock, the singed photograph, the scorched furniture---must be resurrected from the ruins and examined. Preserved. Accounted for. Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstitutred. Imbued with new meaning. Suddenly they become the bleached bones of a story.

Coco Chanel

It's not houses I love, it's the life I live in them.

Rob Neyland

That's where the rubber meets the road in this - the lasting impact.

Atharva Veda

See yourselves in all; See all in yourselves; that is the road to lasting peace and joy.

John Sherman Cooper

Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn't care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy.

Michael Redd

I've thought of guys, whether they were here last year or not, and doing something special for them.

Shane Olivea

This is probably the worst performance we've all played, together, in the last two years.

Brooks Bollinger

This is so tough, ... People on the outside don't realize how tough it is to get to the playoffs. Last year, we were one victory away from a championship game.

Alexander Lukashenko

The West will not spare any expenses, ... the last thing that we need.

Ron Ellis

The weather report last night said that the snow was going to be south of us.

Rob King

The weather is always tough. I mean it just snowed last week so you can never predict what's going to happen.

Don Stewart

As many members as there are in Congress, there are that many opinions on how to secure the border.

Richard Durbin

The secretary testified without even indicating to the members of the Senate that this story existed, about to be disclosed to the American people. That is unacceptable.

Albert Speer

I was not a member of the SS.

Amartya Sen

The success of a society is to be evaluated primarily by the freedoms that members of the society enjoy.

Daniel Defoe

Wit, like the Belly, if it be not fed, Will starve the Members, and distract the Head.

Clay Shirky

In a profession, members are only partly guided by service to the public.

Rick Nielsen

If I weren't as tall as I am, I would've been a member of AC/DC.

Thomas E. Mann

Congress requires states to draw single-member districts.

Rick Ross

Most often the earlier a cult member is approached through an intervention the more likely they are to be responsive.

Anthony Horowitz

Let me tell you, Alex. He's a crook. He's based here in Miami. He's a nasty piece of work." "He's mexican" Troy added.

Rick Bayless

The greatest contribution to the Mexican table imaginable

Vicente Fox

If we can put together a Mexican businessman and a U.S. businessman, they will find a way to do more business.

Steven Michael Quezada

It's really tough to be a Mexican on 'Breaking Bad.'

Salma Hayek

I love to cook when I have the time. I don't cook French or Mexican food with exact recipes. I just go to the supermarket and buy things that look good, and I mix it all together and invent something. Ninety-five percent of the time, I'm lucky. Sometimes not so lucky, and I say, 'Let's go out to dinner.'

Sandra Cisneros

I usually say Latina, Mexican-American or American Mexican, and in certain contexts, Chicana, depending on whether my audience understands the term or not.

Mario Garcia

Automatically in the state of Arizona, if you're over 80,000 pounds, you get fined,

Don Stewart

Are we in violation of any state statutes?

Steve Kendall

The thought was the state was going to do something.

Mike McCurry

there will be steps that the United States will take." ()

Tiffany Fisher

It was very frustrating. (Heritage Christian) was better defensively than any of the teams we've played. They were a lot quicker. They were just better. That's why they're state champions.

Robert Hansen

The state is already telling us what to teach

Steve Mottinger

These are things the state wants you to forget.

Mark Johnson

This isn't about us wanting something now. This is about what we want our state to be 50 or 100 years from now. If we wait another 50 to 100 years, it'll be gone.

The Bravery

the only town in the United States of that name!