Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ken Baker

Approximately 26 percent of the surrounding property owners within 200 feet of the property have officially registered opposition to the request. Because of this, a super majority vote (six of seven council members) is needed to approve the requested zoning change.

James Perkins

I can't guarantee it. It is important to us to get FEMA to approve us,

O. J. Simpson

My biggest passion in life is shoes. My mom, I would wear hers as a kid. I am in on the creative meetings and designing and drawings. And I approve everything that you see.

Maria Bain

We have some way to go, though, before this drug will be approved for use in people with stroke. We need to learn the extent of its benefits, optimal initiation of treatment time and duration of treatment, as well as long-term side effects associated with treatment.

John Norris

We are bogged down in red tape. We're not able to get things approved and get to (work in) the field.

Bob Hunter

For the number of residents that we have here, one library is not enough and that's why I think the council will approve this project, ... Our goal is to create a state-of-the-art library that will serve any resident in the quest for knowledge.

Bryan Brown

I approved it as to form. I don't review things for policy.

Yukio Hatoyama

This is a unilateral vote without sufficient debate and discussions, and we can never approve of this.

Terry Carmack

It means that if the final product is as the House proposed on this matter, the Federal Highway Administration will not approve the state's finance plan and the project would come to a halt.

One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. ""Oh, no,"" I said. ""Disneyland burned down."" He cried and cried, but I think that deep down, he thought it was a pretty good joke. I started to drive over to the real Disneyland, but it was getting pretty late.

Billy Jackson

It feels kind of like a death in your family, ... If it burned down, you would have felt better.

Rob Lowe

David Blum burned a lot of bridges. He burned people early in their careers. He took on the wrong people, though. He's not Hunter Thompson or Tom Wolfe, he's David Blum living in a cheap flat.

Shane Pendley

When you've been burned your always going to have your hand on the pull cord...the right one makes you forget you have the parachute on.

Mike Dunleavy

We could never get it straight to what we were trying to get to. It was a combination. Our guards were getting hung up on the pick. They definitely burned us on it.

Barbara Walters

If you could chop down a tree -- any tree at all -- what kind of tree would it be?

Dennis Herlong

It will be like trying to chop down a sequoia.

Peter Jackson

When I was about 14, I got a splicing kit, which means you could chop up the film into little pieces and switch the order around and glue it together.

James Flecker

A ship, an isle, a sickle moon - / With few but with how splendid stars / The mirrors of the sea are strewn / Between their silver bars.

Marco Polo

At school, a few people know that I'm over here. I don't know about everybody, professors, curling people and a few kids in class.

Rick Woodard

The thing I'd like for us to work on is getting better quality shots. I'd rather us get fewer shots that go in than to take more shots that don't. I'd rather have quality than quantity.

Jan Popa

A few personal photos are OK, but it's pretty hard for people to walk by a wedding picture without looking at it.

Karen Evans

A few of the service providers did not do what they said they were going to do.

Meghan Coward

Sometimes Molly will fly out to L.A. for a few days, raid the gallery scene there, and come back with a list of names and try to lure them down here.

H. Hunt

I've talked to quite a few other people who would like to come. We're possibly looking to expand.

Tim Curry

I've worked in a few sort of 'institutional' theaters - the Royal Shakespeare, the National Theater in England - and they're hopelessly top-heavy with bureaucracy.

Suanne Sines

I've walked the halls and met for a few minutes with the treasurer. Nobody really objects as much as they don't get it. They look at me like 'What is she doing?' because it's out of the box.

Steve Lewis

Thank God there was nobody in the pool.

Meryl Streep

Thank God I couldn't see anything out there.

Joyce Harris

That's what she said she wanted to do, ... She said that God told her to do that.

Ted Nugent

That's not a big bang. God made that. That's a liver. That's mystical.

Carl Sandburg

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

John Piper

God is not beholden to us at all. He doesn't owe us anything.

Bob Dylan

I've been up the mountain and I had a choice. Should I come down? So I came down. God said, Okay, you've been up on the mountain, now you go down. You're on your own, free. Check in later, but now you're on your own.

Blaise Pascal

The eternal Being is forever if he is at all.

Drew Curtis

I'm actually an evil bastard in real life. Fark allows me to vent weirdness. Thank god for that, too.

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Kurt Thomas

As long as I set a good pick and roll, get to the open spot, it's about me knocking down the shot. He knows when to find you.

Jared Bernstein

Our expectations have been pretty diminished. A good month used to be 300,000 more jobs and now it is 200,000.

Tim Parmeter

Offensively, if we don't turn it over, we're going to score, and we did a good job of that in the first half. We can shoot, so when we get a shot at the basket, good things are usually going to happen for us.

Fran Dunphy

Defensively, we were just about as good as we could be. Offensively, when the separation occurred, it was because we did some things out of character.

Erik Anderson

Defensively, we're as good as we have ever been.

Quincy Douby

Defensively, they did a good job overplaying my side and putting two guys on my side, trying to get the ball.

Stan Gundy

Defensively he's not there yet because he's still got a ways to go conditioning-wise, ... but he's a very good defender.

Brent Faurote

Deke (Nelson) has Urich (46-6) of Perry Meridian, a kid who placed third last year. There are just so many good kids.

Henry Ellis

The sun and the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

William Stafford

So, the world happens twice --once what we see it as;second it legends itselfdeep, the way it is.

Frank Beamer

These are all unusual things that can happen in a ballgame,

Freddie Shepherd

That's going to happen sooner rather than later.

Steve Kerr

This ranks right up there, ... Right up there at the top with anything that happened with the Bulls.

Bret Easton Ellis

...if you're alone nothing bad can happen to you.

Tracy McCormick

We had called for a widespread 1 to 2 inches of rain this weekend. This week, we're watching what happens to the remnants of Hurricane Wilma." ()

Arthur Schopenhauer

Everything that happens, happens of necessity.

Joe Borowski

Everything happens in threes. It might happen again.

Wayne Gandy

It was the normalcy we've been looking for.

Mike Browning

You're looking at the young guys. You're not looking to win, just to get a win.

Bobby Shelton

I'm a little set back. I had no idea they were looking at retirement. I thought it would stay around for many, many years kind of like the old B-52s did.

Mike Eaves

I can tell you this explicitly, that nobody was looking at this as just a third-place game. There was a lot of pride on the line.

David Gayson

Looking back, I have this regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.

R. Robinson

I wasn't really looking to score more (in the second half), but I was looking to be more aggressive.

Tom Kelleher

We're all on schedule. Things are looking good.

Scott Parrish

He's not looking at the scoreboard, huh? Well, I was.

Jon Phillips

How was I supposed to do my work while someone is looking at such stuff next to me?

Pat Davis

The technician will see if the AC system is an old one or in need of repair. A suggestion might then be made to upgrade to a more energy-efficient system.

John Butler

See, I might have screwed the whole thing up in Buffalo,

Don Haskins

I spent 18 months, off and on, with the script writer. I might as well have not spent one second with him.

Gordon Strachan

You might as well scrap offside now if you are not going to rule that offside.

Bret Harte

If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, It might have been,' More sad are these we daily see: 'It is, but hadn't ought to be!'

Pat Olmi

We might go over there and watch 'em. We can sit back and rest a little bit.

Ryan Ward

We might be related, but it's very distant.

E. B. White

And you can use the time as you want. You could say, 'I need you to go pick up a prescription for me,' and that might take up 15 minutes of your time allotment.

Sebastien Caron

Even though we were up 3-0, we didn't want to let them get back to their game. I thought he might try to go (top) shelf, but I saw him look five-hole and was able to get my stick there in time.

Busy Philipps

I love my nose! I was so nervous when I got pregnant that I was going to get that weird nose spread that you sometimes see pregnant ladies get.

Taisen Deshimaru

If we achieve satori and the satori shows, like a bit of dogshit stuck to the top of our nose, that is not so good.

Jane Porter

The mob is a sort of bear; while your ring is through its nose, it will even dance under your cudgel; but should the ring slip, and you lose your hold, the brute will turn and rend you.

Paul Merson

You don't want to bite your nose off to spite your face

A. A. Milne

So he started to climb out of the hole. He pulled with his front paws, and pushed with his back paws, and in a little while his nose was in the open again ... and then his ears ... and then his front paws ... and then his shoulders ... and then-'Oh, help!' said Pooh, 'I'd better go back,' 'Oh bother!' said Pooh, 'I shall have to go on.' 'I can't do either!' said Pooh, 'Oh help and bother!

Bill Elliott

We never could get up there. This is the kind of race if you can't win there's no sense to wreck yourself or someone else. You just want to stay out of trouble and keep your nose clean.

Michael White

People train for this all year like the Olympics.

Sarah Davis

People think, 'It's a winter hike, I don't have to take as much water,' but they do.

Richard M. Nixon

People see me and they think, "He's risen from the dead.

Jon Jansen

People say this stuff like they just thought of it, ... Everyone thinks they're so clever. I'm like, 'Heard that two weeks ago. Where ya been?'

John Abraham

People talk about the money, but it had nothing to do with the money,

Jay Jacobs

People stumbled into the war by making mistakes.

Tom Daschle

People still would have the right to go to court,

Gary Koenig

People still want it, that's why the old stars are still doing it.

Tom Stoppard

People think I'm very nice, you know. And I'm not as nice as they think.

Pierce Brosnan

I have not had any plastic surgery in any shape or form. No implants. And my hair is not dyed.

Tom Davies

I think there are several reasons for that.

John Hurt

I've done some stinkers in the cinema. You can't regret it; there are always reasons for doing something, even if it's just the location.

Doug Gottlieb

There are reasons why teams are 8-9 seeds.