Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stella Young

People get all up in arms when I describe myself as a crip because what they hear is the word 'cripple,' and they hear a word you're not allowed to say anymore.

Julie Sternberg

Tennessee cannot pick and choose who among its residents is allowed to speak freely. We are hopeful that the Supreme Court will recognize that only allowing an anti-choice plate violates free speech rights and that the appeals court will prevent production of the plate while the case is under review.

Jamie Cullum

See, in the rock bands and stuff I was in, I'd always been a fairly animated performer, but when I played jazz, I wasn't sure whether I was allowed to do that, you know?

Tim Barnes

Seeing some of the guys run around out there not getting touched made it hard to stand out there and watch. I want to help the team and go out and have fun, but I'm not allowed to do that yet.

Madeline Albright

Saddam Hussein is a congenital liar, and he cheats and he steals and he cannot be allowed to defy the international community,

Mary McDonnell

Ron allowed us to see right away the private piece of a person about to become very public. I suspect we're going to see more of her very private world - Laura's private experience. I'm not sure yet how public she's going to be about the actions she's going to have to take.

Joe Biden

Saudi Arabia has allowed training on its soil of American forces.

Mariella Frostrup

Saturday and Sunday mornings are the only time the children are allowed to turn on the television.

Scott Bakula

'Quantum Leap' gave me a huge opportunity as an actor. The nature of the role and it's demands allowed people to perceive me as a versatile actor, and the wide success of the show around the planet gave me a certain notoriety that helped me get other work.

Don Kirkman

You want growth - it is a clear indicator of economic health. But you don't want growth that is so rapid that it outstrips your capacity and your infrastructure.

Joseph Badaracco

The people in power are the people who are constantly able to discover new and relevant knowledge, which is really tied to the capacity to learn.

Steve Darendinger

We had a supplier management organization, but it was focused more around growth and optimization for that growth and to get more capacity that we needed.

E. Stanley Jones

Your capacity to say "No" determines your capacity to say "Yes" to greater things.

Robert Reich

Corporations aren't people. They have no brains, no consciences, no capacity for intent or guilt.

Rollo May

Imagination is the outreaching of mind . . . . the bombardment of the conscious mind with ideas, impulses, images and every sort of psychic phenomena welling up from the preconscious. It is the capacity to "dream dreams and see visions . . . .

Craig Miller

My experience is that the American public has a really great capacity to care and to give,

Giovanni Bisignani

Moreover, the impact of Hurricane Katrina on fuel supplies and refinery capacity will only ensure that relief will not come soon.

Patrick Gloyd

My hope is that it will be another center that is very nicely done with capacity for larger groups. The potential is to be able to have several meetings to be going on at once, so that three or more groups of 15 to 20 people can be meeting in these rooms and not get in each other's way.

Clive Smith

As far as their reasons for hunger striking, it seems to be a myriad of different reasons that they all have, the largest one seems to be like they want to protest their continued (detention).

Gunter Thielen

During the first half of the year, Bertelsmann established the foundations for continued future growth, ... I am very pleased at our improved return on sales.

Tim Sinicki

Zach Groh has been so dominant this spring. He's continued to recover and it's great to have him back out there.

Drew Matus

Between the move in the employment index and continued strength in new orders it suggests that the economy should continue to expand in the near term.

Peter Dunne

Continued focus on (employee) turnover is of critical importance, because of the direct relation of turnover to improvements in labor costs and guest satisfaction.

Michael Rosenberg

We want to give the lowest dose to get the job done, ... I think it's part of the continued evolution of the pill.

Mike Yancosky

T.J. wasn't being a player and he wasn't focused on some things, but it turned him around. He had a great section tournament, and he continued it here.

Bill Campbell

We trust in the continued good efforts of the Department of Justice and Judge Jackson to determine a fair way to separate the Windows operating system from Microsoft's other businesses,

Julian McLain

We just fought and fought until the game was over. I mean, we were down and we continued to fight and fight. We pulled it out. It's all about heart and desire. We just played our hearts out tonight.

Bob Davidson

The storm took the roof off so the water went inside after that. We have to take the rubber roof off and then take the metal deck off and then replace it.

S. Walker

I was an able-seaman, a deck hand. As I say, it's the way to see the world and get paid for it.

John Kosmina

We're in a situation because of the ways the squads are restricted it makes it difficult, so we need all players on deck who can perform.

Marianne Cusato

Properly designed and planned, a 1,000-square-foot house can meet a family's needs perfectly, whether it is permanent or emergency housing.

Pat Abeln

An engineer is designing the runway right now.

Nick Brown

These measures are not an issue of human health but are designed to prevent the spread of the virus in livestock,

Brian O'Neill

The solutions to the problem are relatively simple. We can design seats and head restraints that are not expensive, that can eliminate a lot of these injuries.

Charles Curtis

The system should not have failed in this way, it should have held together. And there's either design problems or as we are saying, voltage support weaknesses in this system that have to be addressed,

John Grele

The system has been designed perhaps a little haphazardly and swiftly.

Mike Hess

The spacesuits are designed for a considerably longer period of time.

John Ashcroft

Some people fail to understand that security is designed to secure something, and what we are securing are the rights of individuals, ... Larry King Live.

Alice Fisher

The scheme was designed to mislead analysts and the investing public.

Jennifer Clarke

Everything ages, and with other schools, their facilities and the things they can offer their students (are up to date). We need to have the most up-to-date offerings as well.

Jim Nicholson

We had people on ventilators, we had liver patients, ambulatory patients, and every patient that we evacuated from every one of our facilities made it through this evacuation,

Laura Brown

There's no way of knowing how soon we are going to get these facilities up and going. I don't want to hazard a guess.

Nigel Parsons

We will share resources, production facilities and story lists.

Jim Roberts

I think what I'm hearing is, 'Can we keep Heath students in Heath, at least through those two facilities (Garfield and Stevenson)?' And I think we could.

Larry Greene

It's a very low-lying area, ... There's a very huge tidal fluctuation here on a normal tide and, with a storm tide on top of that, most of the facilities are going to be under water that are on the waterfront.

Bill Fauver

Virtually all of the Olympic facilities have been totally destroyed. That mimics what's happened for the country, too.

Steve Shephard

On vaulting, we need to improve our landings. We didn't stick any vaults. Everyone of them took a step.

James Kim

The second quarter should see a marginal improvement.

David Johnson

School is grade-motivated: You're looking for the A. This is personally motivated: How you can improve yourself.

Dan Nault

The SCC is as competitive as ever and all I am really looking for is improvement from last years three wins.

Jeff Malloy

I've seen a lot of improvement. This year she has a better mastery of her pitches.

Chris Hope

It would be big, being that we're real young and we still have lot of improvement to do.

Ansari Bukhari

It would be better to do this first while we improve the quality of our import statistics and data.

John Conyers

This is not a new and improved Patriot Act.

Kofi Annan

This is not unique within Mexico ... The important thing is not only to say we have made some progress but we should consolidate the progress we have made and move on to try to improve things even further.

Tetsu Emori

The oil market is now down because most people are taking profits after seeing a sharp increase last week.

Sergei Ivanov

Russia has no intentions to increase its military presence in the northwest.

Dan Ballister

These are the lowest increases we've done in over 10 years.

Rob Enderle

This is a potentially market-changing event. My sense is that this is going to increase Apple's market share dramatically.

Doug Tumen

You should increase weekly mileage no more than 10 percent. If you run 20 miles this week, then you should run no more than 22 next week.

Alan King

We could see a small increase as a result of that.

Tony Gerlicz

We have a very arts-rich curriculum. I could get rid of all that. But if I increased my test scores, does that mean a student is better educated? No.

Tony Blair

We have no plans to increase tax at all.

Todd Tiahrt

Earmarks are supposed to be bad. But they don't increase spending.

Tony Gerlicz

We have a very arts-rich curriculum. I could get rid of all that. But if I increased my test scores, does that mean a student is better educated? No.

Bill Halter

Minimum wage was last increased in 1997. It?s wrong that people that work full-time can?t support their families.

Gerhard Schroeder

I think we can say that in the past seven years, we have increased respect in the world for our country, our Germany, and I am sure that we will safeguard that together,

Elizabeth Loftus

Undergraduate fees have increased to $8000 for each year of an undergraduate law course,

Alan Hevesi

The new reforms have increased the value of the franchise,

Jeff Cogen

As revenues have increased, Mr. Hicks has increased the payroll accordingly.

Elaine Chao

This has been an across-the-board gain, ... All that (data) bodes for increased hiring.

Mike Lomas

There will be an increased interest from visitors who want to know how to get in this club.

John Douglas

The rate of syphilis increased 11 percent in men, from 2003 to 2004,

George H. W. Bush

How do you feel the operations are going?

Joseph Schwieterman

They have to completely revamp their operations to survive.

Carina Perelli

This has been a much more solid operation than the one we saw in January, ... It has been a peaceable election. Voters were much better prepared.

Kazimierz Krzowski

The rescue phase of the operation is over.

Cilla Black

I am falling apart. My hand is falling apart. I can't shake hands. I had arthritis, and I had an operation for it.

Jane Hirshfield

Gestation requires protected space; ripening requires both permeability to the outer — and non-disturbance.

Al Gore

We can build a collective civic space large enough for all our separate identities, that we can be E Pluribus Unum - Out of One, Many.

Alan Vega

But it was great, we sit in the same dressing room where, like, Johnny Cash sat and Willie Nelson and all those guys. That was in itself something amazing - I was on the same space these guys stood on, ya know?

Jane Siberry

I try to make my music have the quiet spaces of folk, the intimacy, and the energy of rock.

Diane Ackerman

A life like an intricately woven basket, frayed, worn, broken, unraveled, reworked, reknit from many of its original pieces... Life can survive in the constant shadow of illness, and even rise to moments of rampant joy, but the shadow remains, and one has to make space for it.

Diane Sawyer

Follow what you are genuinely passionate about and let that guide you to your destination.

Denis Diderot

Time, matter, space - all, it may be, are no more than a point.

Eckhart Tolle

Are you polluting the world or cleaning up the mess? You are responsible for your inner space; nobody else is, just as you are responsible for the planet. As within, so without: If humans clear inner pollution, then they will also cease to create outer pollution.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

Okay, so either (a) I just teleported somewhere else entirely (b) they can fold space like no one's business or (c) they are simply ignoring all the rules.

Jan Chipchase

Technology, we find, amplifies behaviours. If you want to be anti-social, technology allows you to be. And vice versa.

Ben Marcus

Spelling is a way to make words safe, at least for now, until another technology appears to soften attacks launched from the mouth.

Ayn Rand

Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale death.

Ben Fountain

You have the mainstream bourgeois life of the U.S., Europe, the "developed" world - the life of technology, education, mortgages, careers, a certain level of physical comfort - while on the other hand, several billion people on the planet exist on less than a dollar a day. That's a huge and terrible reality to get your head around.

Burton Richter

In 1948 I entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, undecided between studies of chemistry and physics, but my first year convinced me that physics was more interesting to me.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

Well, clearly Apple is a role model of the American innovation whereby it produced all these products - iPod, iPhone, iPad - that are really now dominating all the technology arena in the world.

Al Gore

Our new technologies, combined with our numbers, have made us, collectively, a force of nature

Aimee Mullins

You know, I think there are certain words like 'illegitimate' that should not be used to describe a person. And certainly, we have come far enough in our technology that our language can evolve, because it has an impact.

Arthur C. Clarke

The difference between machines and human beings is that human beings can be reproduced by unskilled labour.