Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Chocola

Every year the Federal Government wastes billions of dollars as a result of overpayments of government agencies, misuse of government credit cards, abuse of the Federal entitlement programs, and the mismanagement of the Federal bureaucracy.

Chris Christie

I support Planned Parenthood privately with my personal contribution, and that should be the goal of any such agency, to find private donations.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

If I were not African, I wonder whether it would be clear to me that Africa is a place where the people do not need limp gifts of fish but sturdy fishing rods and fair access to the pond. I wonder whether I would realize that while African nations have a failure of leadership, they also have dynamic people with agency and voices.

Chris Kennedy

We always hope our federal bureaucracy is going to do a good job responding to the needs of Americans. The painful fact is, this is a bureaucratic process. Unfortunately, there are complaints all over the place out there about the speed with which the agency is dispensing with these claims.

Doug Risebrough

Unrestricted free agency is not a savior. I've never seen an unrestricted free agent carry a team. But it is a tool.

Martin Van Buren

Mutual forbearance and reciprocal concessions: thro' their agency the Union was established - the patriotic spirit from which they emanated will forever sustain it.

Bob McDonnell

The EPA is now the Employment Prevention Agency.

Michael Brown

There is no other government agency that reaches people in a more direct way, ... It has been the best job in the world to help Americans in their darkest hours.

Sharon Hess

When we went to talk to those families, we found out that one of the families was originally from Herrin, so we were able to quickly place them in one of our vacant homes in Herrin. Our agency covers 24 counties, and if we don't have a house available, we can still help a family by making referrals.

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.

John Glover

The most devastating thing was the level of tragedy, with the land and burned up livestock. The fire front at one point was 31 miles wide.

Chris Hope

It's just us. It's how we play and how we want to play. He had burned us in the first game, and we weren't going to let it happen again. We just feel if we do things smartly and unpredictably, it's really hard to stop us consistently.

David Mann

A lot of people felt very burned by that, and it probably underlies a lot of what's going on now. But ... somehow, someway, they've got to get together.

Jonathan Eunice

A lot of energy was being diffused and burned up in the process.

Alan Simpson

They're talking about things that, if I had talked about, they would have burned my humble butt.

David Carter

For a generation of consumers who have known Nike for being nothing less than their brand, it's their generation's Coca-Cola, burned into their consciousness, burned into an entire generation. The same can't be said for Adidas.

Terry Moore

There was this pool of money sitting in the retirement funds, that was not part of the (state treasury). A couple of legislatures burned up that surplus. We came back to ground zero and then we got into the loss years.

David Strathairn

I tried all different kinds of tobacco to see which would be the least crippling and I ended up with pipe tobacco, ... I found that that burned less harshly. It also smelled better.

Pawel Janas

There are definitely going to be a ton of Polish fans there to root us on.

Matt Hasselbeck

There are definitely enough resources of people that have been there. Even guys on our team that have been there and played in this game, and I guess you just have to listen and try to learn what you can from those types of people.

Sabrina Davis

There are definitely enough people out getting the petition circulating to get enough signatures.

Michael Showalter

There are comedians that I like. I think a lot of it, you just figure out on your own. It's definitely one of those things that you get good at by doing it a lot. But I like Jim Gaffigan. Patton Oswalt. Janeane Garofalo.

Bob Gates

There are some excellent golfers in the area, no doubt. But I definitely think Tyson had a lot to do with our all-around team success this year, not to mention with the growth of some of our younger players. He's going to be a tough player to replace next season.

Ron James

We're in a three-game stretch right now that definitely will shape our season. This is the first step in that direction. It's a division game. It's a game that can get us to .500.

Ricky Stuart

We're in a really tough period, we've got some good teams to play over the next month but it's how we handle the tough period that will determine the result at the back end of the season. We will definitely stick solid as a team.

Catherine Young

We started off a little slow. The heat was definitely a factor. Once we got going, we had 3-4 nice combinations and we got our heads in the game.

Robert Lamm

When you've been playing for 35 years, there aren't too many 'firsts' left. But this is definitely the first time we've ever played a record company's lobby.

Lauren Miller

Girls will go see anything. They're open and excited to go to the movies and laugh.

Mike Thomas

We're so excited and want to thank everyone who voted for us. It's a humbling experience.

Gerard Way

We're so excited about playing the new record that we just want to play the whole thing.

Paul Chavez

We're going to throw him in the fire right away. He's going to be participating on the golf team immediately. We're excited to have him on board.

Paul Dergarabedian

We're going to need some huge performances by these movies, or this will be the third down year in a row. One or two movies is not enough; moviegoers need to be excited about going back to the theaters.

Jeff Dellis

What a great team effort. I'm excited for the kids and the program.

Dean Smith

What he wants to show more than anything else is the fact that they won the game. I think he's really excited about being part of a real good team like the Nets are this year.

Ethan Mentzer

With this, it was, yes, we were excited about it but it was something new that we hadn't done before being on national TV. You get one shot, one song and that's it. And you're in a room full of screaming girls and we played acoustically and couldn't hear ourselves.

Tasha Humphrey

We're still excited to play aggressively. We've handled it well for the most part.

Arne Jacobsen

You will soon find that I am a bit obsessive about my work. And that is a little sad, one often feels strangely restricted, not finding time to simmer, although one actually has many interests.

Diablo Cody

There's probably no experience more alienating than fame, other than a terminal illness, where you actually find yourself in a situation that nobody around you can relate to.

C. S. Lewis

Got to start by finding it, have we? Can't start by looking for it, I suppose?

Marian Seldes

I'm not a good tourist. I don't like walking around and looking at things. I like being in a city and working and finding out how other people live.

Kevin Arquit

What they presumably need to do today is come up with something that is realistic enough and acknowledges enough of the judge's finding that he takes the proposal seriously.

Byron Katie

The person who finds peace inside and lives it, is the one who teaches what true peace is.

Laura Gunn

We're still taking statements, we're still finding stuff.

Steve Coury

We?re still finding ourselves offensively, but defensively, we?re pretty sound. Our team speed is very good.

Dick Clark

Success is finding something you love to do, getting paid to do it and finding someone to share it with.

Alan Arkin

Either you're growing or you're decaying; there's no middle ground. If you're standing still, you're decaying.

Al Michaels

As a kid growing up, I was so in sync as a fan that that served me well through the years. I can feel the game. And I try to match where the game is with my inflection, with my - the tonal quality, with getting excited.

Akhil Sharma

It's easy when you grow up in fear to act out of fear. I don't want to embrace that fear; I prefer to be kind.

John Parker

We want to see more positive growth in North America.

Chris Carter

I wasn't a big science-fiction fan growing up. But I loved Jules Verne and Sherlock Holmes. Both came into play on 'The X-Files.'

Chris Colfer

Being a best-selling author just means the world for me. Some of my happiest memories, growing up, are being at book stores and reading books I couldn't afford, as a kid, and the midnight parties, waiting for the next Harry Potter book. The fact that I have that straw in my cap means more to me than anything I've ever accomplished before.

Chris Colfer

I grew up in a conservative small town, and the gay characters I saw on TV and in movies when I was growing up were all flamboyant and obnoxious and sometimes kind of annoying.

Chris Abani

That women are mysterious and unknowable is something every young man grows up believing. Men, on the other hand, never think of themselves as mysterious or confusing, and we are often at a loss as to why women want to figure us out.

Chloe Sevigny

I feel terrible about corporate greed. Growing up in a household that was a little more humble and didn't put so much emphasis on money and material goods, I think I have a pretty good head on my shoulders.

Ken Miller

The one thing you will find between all of the employees, particularly the linemen, is that they are willing to go out and help when there is a need like this,

Richard Roberts

The other thing is, when you see somebody smoking and you're trying to quit, you get that urge again. It doesn't help people quit,

Kevin Hall

The positive thing about it is I can use my story to inspire other people, to help them see that they can do what they want to help them pursue their dreams. If I can help one person that would make me happy.

Anne Ward

We are providing a lot of information and online resources to help people who have memory concerns.

Sarah Clapper

We started rushing things on the offensive end and that only helped them get into their transition game.

Andres Perez

We want people to know Latinos help not only Latinos, but the rest of the people.

Cheryl James

I got to that desperate place where nobody could help me but God.

Charles Handy

A consultant solves other people"s problems. I could never do that. I want to help other people solve their own problems.

Beth Moore

Authentic faith cannot help but act.

Jerry Clements

We respond to lots of things; that's why it's interesting. You're not doing the same thing every day.

Christine Walsh

Usually, it's complicated enough just doing a role. But when it's your senior project, there's lots, lots more involved.

Jeanette Miller

It's a small town with lots of shops, sort of like Peddler's Village. We thought we'd look around.

Carol Lee

A lot of stress, lots of that. Sleepless nights, the waiting is the hardest.

Cesar Conda

They have been in recent weeks delegating lots of responsibility to other members of the senior staff. They've been preparing for it. There are lots of talented people there.

Paul Saffo

They're taking lots of really smart risks and doing things that are very strategic.

Julian Schnabel

It's very difficult, I think, for people to be around you when you're getting lots of attention. It's very difficult for young people to understand what that's about when people start treating you differently when you've been doing the same thing you were doing the day before.

Richard Long

There was lots of red ink, but that was to be expected.

Richard Dodd

There was lots of apocalyptic talk before it was introduced.

Barnett Newman

I know that it is impossible to talk about my work. And since it's impossible for me or anybody else to talk about my work, I feel I might as well talk about it.

Audrey Tautou

It might seem paradoxical given my profession, but I'm not someone who likes to be in the limelight.

Deb Caletti

They never told you that stranger might be someone you knew.

Lorraine Toussaint

I think if I weren't an actress, I might have made a halfway decent attorney! I like the way they think.

John Milton

The other shape, / If shape it might be called that shape had none.

Joe Vinson

The point is, people are getting the most antioxidants from beverages, as opposed to what you might think,

Mike Stackpole

We still thought we might be able to do it.

Kurt Vonnegut

One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the Universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.

Bill Nighy

I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.

Charles Dickens

This fine young man had all the inclination to be a profligate of the first water, and only lacked the one good trait in the common catalogue of debauched vices - open-handedness - to be a notable vagabond. But there his griping and penurious habits stepped in; and as one poison will sometimes neutralise another, when wholesome remedies would not avail, so he was restrained by a bad passion from quaffing his full measure of evil, when virtue might have sought to hold him back in vain.

Charles Spurgeon

Oh that I could have the cross painted on my eyeballs, that I could not see anything except through the medium of my Savior’s passion!

Alanis Morissette

My message to anyone who's afraid that they can't write music when they're happy is 'Just trust the passion.' The passion can write a lot of things.

Alan J. Pakula

I've hardly had an avant-garde career ... If you're going to make a film, you have to try to make sure it comes out of a childlike passion, as if you're doing it for the first time.

Alan Jay Lerner

Pleasure without joy is as hollow as passion without tenderness.

Al Sharpton

If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.

Al Pacino

A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.

Akshay Kumar

It's the best thing if your work is your passion in life. It makes me feel like I'm always on break.

Chris Colfer

From this day on, I refuse to let anyone bring me to a point where I can't take a horrible situation and spin it into something beneficial. I will never let anyone make me feel anything I don't want to feel again or rob me of the passions that make me who I am.

Jason Bowen

They stayed right in there, and after the first 10 minutes, Greenwood was never a threat to us.

Todd Galloway

I tried to (play) through it, but it stayed tight.

Ciara

I want to be one of those moms and women that when I look back, I know that I always stayed focused.

Lillian Carter

Sometimes when I look at all my children, I say to myself, "Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin.

James Long

I've stayed in Hiltons before, but I'd have to say that this was one of the best. They did everything for us.

Carmen Ejogo

I've stayed away from sexy roles. It's never interested me.

Jean Prewitt

It was very moving. I wish I could have stayed longer,

Scott Neal

It wouldn't surprise me if they stayed here long-term.

Paula Abdul

You showed versatility and stayed true to what you are.

Matt Hasselbeck

They make you prepare. Just some of the things they do and all of the ways they come after you.

Jesus Fierro

They've come up. They are on the rise, but they've got a ways to go yet.

David Blair

We know we have a long ways to go with the Missoula public.

Andy Reid

Offensively, we've got a ways to go now. We need to get back on track.

Russ Kinnel

You really should find other ways to distinguish yourself.

Colin Devine

There are ways to get around that, though.

Tommie Liddell

Different day, same old thing. Down the stretch, we couldn't find ways to convert.

Val Hiser

We give in the ways we can. This is something I can do.

Dick Hutton

You have to look at other ways of making money. That's not always easy.

Alan Watts

Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work.

Al Kaline

You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.

Dean Acheson

I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office.

David Riesman

Though top executives may work as hard as ever-in part perhaps because, being trained in an earlier day, they can hardly help doing so-their subordinates are somewhat less work-minded.

David Riesman

The closest thing we have to the traditional ideology of the leisure class is a group of artists and intellectuals who regard their work as play and their play as work.

David Duval

I've just been working hard, trying to get some good stuff to come out.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

When your vision is powerful enough, everything else falls into place: how you live your life, your workouts, what friends you choose to hang out with, how you eat, what you do for fun. Vision is purpose, and when your purpose is clear, so are your life choices. Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower. With faith, there is no anxiety, no doubt - just absolute confidence.

Ben Whishaw

I've gone on workout regimes, but I seem to have a system that is very resistant to changing.

Arnold Palmer

I never met a winner who had a work ethic. Not somebody who says I have so much talent that naturally I won.