Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Laszlo

It certainly has not been adoption at the rate that some companies in the industry, some of the early entrants among the broadband providers, were expecting.

John Patrick Shanley

I adopted two children, then I got eye disease and five rounds of surgery. I went blind in one eye, then the other eye, and that went on for three or four years. I got very enamored and involved with the theater and did a lot of plays.

Josh King

Greenwood for a long time has wanted to compare itself to Carmel. But I gotta say that Greenwood has fallen behind. I would very much like to see Greenwood adopt the kind of image that Carmel has.

Mary Gauthier

I was adopted when I was about a year old. My adopted parents tried, but their marriage was doomed. Music saved my life. I couldn't relate to things in Baton Rouge, but I found songs that spoke to me.

Mary McDowell

We are focused on changing the economics of mobile email adoption with Nokia Business Center. As the leading mobile phone manufacturer in the world, we have the distinct advantage of being able to make a great mobile business device that can be used to make phone calls, do email, or use other applications. Considering 70 percent of people who use popular email devices also carry a mobile phone, the opportunity for us to provide one device and solution that perfectly addresses both the voice and data experiences is tremendous. In the current landscape, many industry players are going after a slice of the potential mobile email market. Nokia is going after the full 650 million corporate email inboxes. We want to knock down the barriers to mobilizing the entire corporate email market.

Wendy Kramer

I think we will eventually follow in England's footsteps. Donor insemination is moving in the same direction as adoption did years ago. Family secrets are unhealthy, and disclosure is in the best interest of the child. People have the right to know their genetic history.

Ed White

I think what happened is we all adopted each other.

John B. Hood

I have great concerns about what it will do to our community, as well, ... I know if we adopt (the proposed funding formula) it will impact City Schools in particular. We're a long way from doing that.

Hu Jintao

Hence, to jointly promote balanced and orderly development of the world economy, all countries, major economies in particular, should not only adopt responsible economic policies to introduce necessary economic restructuring, keep major currencies reasonably stable and prevent trade protectionism, but also intensify dialogues on macro-economic policies and, most importantly, coordination on major issues that bear on the overall development of the world economy and the common interest of all countries,

Alex Rodriguez

I always enjoy my stay here in Canada. It's one of those places where you just feel comfortable.

Stacey McAlpine

He's got his fair share of experience playing for Team Canada and wearing the Team Canada colors. He's proud to be a Canadian and is pretty excited about coming back to Canada.

Kirk Pengilly

He seemed to have the whole package. Canada must be proud of him.

Ezra Levant

He should be lucky we have freedom of speech in Canada because if we were in a country that didn't, he'd be in jail.

Bruce Arena

I think you can't overreact from one game, the Norway game, and ignore the Canada game. You judge players over time, not over a game. As he continues to move forward we'll have a better feel for the direction he's headed. Obviously, he's getting better. From my perspective, I need to see if he's developing into a guy who should be a player on the World Cup roster and can help us win a game.

Yasser Elguindi

If you gave oil companies a choice between the tar sands in Canada or oil in Saudi Arabia, which do you think they'd choose?

Deborah Ellis

In 'Off to War, Voices of Soldier's Children,' kids from Canada and the United States talk about what it is like when their mother or father goes off to war - and comes home again.

Adam Stern

Being Canadian, we get excited about it. We take a lot of pride in wearing the Canada jersey. A lot of us were stoked for it. We have a chance to surprise some people.

John Grandy

Canada should be ashamed. Our team is there as peaceful observers and they should not have to fear for their safety.

Brian Mulroney

He certainly made an important mark on Canadian journalism.

Ryan Gosling

I don't feel like I would be a good mentor. I don't know what I have to offer in that respect. I do this for pretty selfish reasons.

David Bolland

I could see them sort of lay back a little bit. They were sort of like, 'Holy ... what's going on here?' It's a Canadian game we want to play. We want to make sure everyone knows that we're coming out hitting.

Patricia Ross

I am concerned about the U.S. energy industry taking over our Canadian natural resources. We should be holding onto them more tightly.

Al Leiter

Having faced a lot of these Canadian hitters, I certainly didn't think of them as patsies.

Steve Butler

Rising commodities prices definitely contributed to the fortune of the Canadian dollar today. Commodities have been a positive factor for the Canadian dollar in 2005 and the market expects good news to continue this year.

Stephen Harper

If the Liberals are re-elected, this is what Canadians can look forward to, a government pre-occupied with ongoing scandals, corruption and police investigations.

Boris Schlossberg

If you have a continuation of gains in commodities prices, the Canadian dollar will rise. There is some positive momentum going on for the Canadian dollar.

Mark Burnett

If you look at that situation, it certainly bodes well for the future of getting a Canadian on Survivor. Tell Canadians to submit more tapes.

Sena Lund

I think it's a decent choice, and with the challenges Merck faces, they needed someone who knows the company and knows the environment,

Lynn Solomon

Have fun, work hard be safe. And realize the difference between hating a class because it challenges you and hating a class because you just don't like it.

Venus Williams

Life is challenging but I'm always up for a challenge.

Robert Redford

Like all actors, I was open to taking on new challenges, including those outside my comfort zone.

Satoru Iwata

If you do the same thing as others, it will wear you out. Nintendo is not good at competing so we always have to challenge the status quo by making something new, rather than competing in an existing market.

Sarah MacLean

You plan to be a challenge, do you?" Juliana smiled angelically. "I agreed to remain, my lord. Not to remain silent.

Sarah Polley

I'm never sure what's coming next, but I'm an open minded person and I welcome any challenge.

Walter Cronkite

When you're bringing in a fairly unknown candidate challenging a sitting president, the population needs a lot more information than reduced coverage provides.

Salman Rushdie

Originality is dangerous. It challenges, questions, overturns assumptions, unsettles moral codes.

Mike Thompson

He is short, single and has a mullet. But why would such a guy need a makeover, you ask? Hmmm ... That is a very tough question to answer. Maybe Mickey doesn't need a makeover, but some minor changes to his trendy and stylish habits.

Dale Walker

It changes (your game plan) some. You've got to put people in different positions, but we've done that some this year and I thought we did a pretty good job with that.

Billy Hite

I think it's very doubtful that he'll play, unless something changes here. I think he wants to play, but I don't think he's ready yet.

Don Schiemann

I think it's safe to say that, in varying degrees, there's a sense from all four parties that there are significant changes that are needed.

Dick Gephardt

It is only their insistence on tax cuts for the wealthy, to be funded by Medicare cuts or changes in the CPI, that we don't have a budget,

Shea Little

It is made of 18 panels, so we could disassemble it and work on parts of it in our individual areas, but no one person could really make sweeping changes to the whole painting, so it developed in a group setting.

Jason Isringhausen

When they started going over the itinerary, I told them I didn't want to do that. It wasn't about not getting ready. When I first committed, we didn't have all the information about how long we were going to be away. I just wasn't comfortable with that because of all the changes we've made. I wanted to be part of it here.

E. O. Wilson

When they go to Liz Claiborne and find out that you have to study mathematics (and) you have to know computer technology, that changes what you think you'll take next year in school.

Dale Hedges

We made some changes that hurt us. We are a much better team right now, and I know we can play with them.

Matt Simmons

I was looking for (opportunities). It was determination - trying to find the smallest little hole to get to the basket. When they started coming back a little, we had to step up our game. We weren't really worried though.

Arthur Sullivan

I would suggest the people from other counties here, they do have emissions tests. Not waste their time coming over here.

Kevin Boyd

Katie is a creative, technical player who can impact a game from any position. She is easily one of the top players coming out this year.

Chuck D.

Joey is a phenomenal talent and his knowledge of the sport and athleticism are off the chart. Now everything is coming together for him.

Nick Saban

I talked to Ricky and Ricky still seems to be very, very interested in coming back.

Steve Nash

I talked to him before that, too, and his heart wasn't into coming back,

Nate Harris

I think it's a combination of a lot of things. We have a good arena, we always get a good crowd, and the travel is difficult for teams coming in here.

Michael Brown

I think I told him that we were realizing our worst nightmare, that everything we had planned about, worried about, that FEMA, frankly, had worried about for 10 years was coming true.

Sen. Bell

I think it deserves a full hearing before the full House committee. Secondhand smoke is not just an annoyance. It is a health hazard, and Virginians are coming forward every day to tell us this is something they want addressed.

R. Robinson

Kids are facing problems earlier. Teen problems run the gamut: problems with friends, boyfriends, girlfriends, to suicide and abortion.

Shannon Cross

They will be facing head winds of (component) pricing going up, but they've done a good job of managing margins last several quarters.

Derek Lowe

It was a big win. Zambrano, in my opinion, is one of the top five pitchers in all of baseball. Facing Zambrano, you know he's not going to give up much.

Willy Taveras

It's going to be funny, joking with the new guys and facing them. It'll be funny for the fans, too, when they notice me in a different uniform.

Andruw Jones

It's going to be nice, but we're still facing Pedro tonight.

Misty Streitweiser

It's going to be installed right where they always used to fish, facing Grass Island. It's a perfect place.

Bill Ginsburg

The Linda Tripp tapes are just being selectively leaked. It is just unfair and just more of the same unfairness that we have been facing for some time.

Mike Coffey

The lights are the problem. Some are facing the field, others were flipped around by the storm.

Jim Manley

At a time when we have so many other pressing issues facing the country, I'm not sure where this falls in the list of priorities.

Tucker Carlson

I wouldn't say I'm happy now. My skepticism is warranted, given what I've seen over the decades.

Muhammad Yunus

I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh.

James Salter

I think you can be taught to write. You can't be taught to be a good writer. For that, you have to bring something to it, yourself, something that can't be given to you.

Jerry Stracke

We're pretty balanced. I think that is what has gotten us this far. We have different players that can step up on any given day. It makes it hard for other teams to play us because we are so balanced.

Ed Comeau

We talk about winning as a team and on any given night we think we have the talent to get all our guys scoring. We want that type of balance; we don't want to rely on (Grant) and Willy to score seven between them.

Maria Semple

I think a novel has to be about where you are at a given moment in time. I think it really needs to represent some specific pain you're going through. it's not just a story.

Bill Schneider

He's going to be given very different treatment than he had in the past, ... celebrity.

Jack Kokinda

He's given up one run in the last 42 innings. That's the reason why we're winning. If teams can't score, they can't win.

Gary Patterson

He's given TCU three great years. All you can say is it shows that TCU has arrived.

Piero Fassino

Everything has to be done, and every initiative must be put into play to save these two young women,

Dean Boyer

We want this initiative to be seen as reasonable and fair. Our initiative treats all property owners the same, and we wanted to pick a reasonable period of time.

Steve Kennedy

On the levy, I personally feel it ought to be a November levy and it ought to be done by initiative petition instead of us standing up here voting for it. You have to get 363 signatures to start the process.

Heinz Kramer

A lot remains to be done when it comes to Turkish policies towards minorities.

Tom Daschle

All along, the administration vowed their policies would be painless,

Craig Hill

We did all we could. Policies and procedures were followed. Everything went very well and effectively.

Wesley Clark

I think his disadvantage is that he doesn't seem to know who he is and he doesn't know what his policies are.

Erik Jones

We don't even have any policies and procedures, yet.

Bobby Seale

I'm a progressive. The progression has to be manifested in a new direction in policies and legislation.

Sharon Reid

We are now in the process of reviewing our policies and procedures.

Elizabeth A. Sherman

It's not about Obama, it's about the Democrats and their policies that cause consternation on the right.

Robert Hale

We've been doing this for a long time, ... We look at our policies on a regular basis.

Rick Warren

You can like somebody without agreeing with all of their policies.

Susan Smith

It's probably time to do the whole policy over.

Dan Smith

It's worth considering the value of these trees when making policy decisions.

Mao Zedong

On all basic points our policies have proved correct from the very beginning.

John F. Kennedy

It shall be the policy of this nation to regard any nuclear missile launched from Cuba as an attack by the Soviet Union on the United States.

Jimmy Wales

IAR is policy, always has been.

William Shakespeare

Policy sits above conscience.

Stephen Harper

Universality has been severely reduced: it is virtually dead as a concept in most areas of public policy.

Nigel S. Wright

Public policy has been a passion of mine. For three decades, I've had some involvement in the political process.

Morgan Ensberg

Playing third base, you rarely have time to get into a great fielding position. It's all about reaction.

Jacob Frenkel

Congressional prodding historically has resulted in responses and reaction from the SEC.

Leon Trotsky

Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.

David Davis

They say you react seriously as you do practice, ... so this is one thing that we do with the exercise.

Sergei Markov

They react to the music. The artistry, the inspiration of the musicianship comes first.

David Katz

You don't know who's going to win until they actually win and by the time stocks react to that, it's too late.

Tom Browning

I've never seen a reaction like it, it's just incredible.

Lee Ferridge

It was a knee-jerk reaction after the reports of an earthquake.

Renee Fleming

I'm not a reactionary.

Narendra Modi

Reforms are not an end in itself. Reforms must have a concrete objective.

Justin Amash

There seems to be a lot of momentum behind immigration reform.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every reform was once a private opinion.

Phil Bredesen

It's not health care reform to dump more money into Medicaid.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A great licentiousness treads on the heels of a reformation.

John Garamendi

I have been absolutely clear where I'm coming from about health care reform. This is something this nation has to do and a robust public option has been the mantra of my campaign from the very outset.

John Mica

Slovakias joining the OECD in 1999 is totally dependent on meeting economic reforms required such as transparency and legislation that permits fair and open conduct of trade and business.

Fred Upton

While the Left seems obsessed with increasing taxes and spending even more money, conservatives have focused more heavily on the need for spending restraint and entitlement reform - primarily to preserve and protect the future of the Medicare program. Overlooked in all of this is the future of Medicaid.

John Lancaster Spalding

Reform the world within thyself, which is thy proper world.

Ephrem Fernandez

I think that part of the solution will come simply with time, because time does heal.

Becky Lourey

I don't just want to talk about goals. I know we can get there. We simply can't wait.

Michael Dean

I have not talked with Terri in weeks. We were simply brainstorming.

Chris Duerksen

This is simply something you don't have right now.

Rhys Ifans

Acting is not an intellectual process for me. It comes from my heart. It's this strange netherworld of osmosis where I simply become.

Jim Wilkinson

I can tell you that simply did not happen.

Robert Rubin

I think there is more work to do, and we simply have to all work together and do everything we can to get it done,

Paul Cleave

You simply couldn't make a living as an author if New Zealand was your only market.

Howard Hawks

I try to tell my story as simply as possible, with the camera at eye level.

Warren Buffett

I'll bring my tax returns; you bring yours. I'll meet you anytime anywhere.

Wesley Snipes

I was never charged with tax evasion. I've never been a tax protester.

Robert Orben

Did you ever get to wondering if taxation without representation might have been cheaper?

Lyndon B. Johnson

In 1790, the nation which had fought a revolution against taxation without representation discovered that some of its citizens weren't much happier about taxation with representation.

Jim Ramstad

As American taxpayers know too well, the tax code is incredibly complex and compliance is all to expensive.

David R. Ellis

No, in Lethal Weapon I was a taxi cab driver that Mel jumps in front of the taxi and pulls me out of the car and steals the taxi. Then I did some other indie driving for some of the car sequences.

Alan Sugar

I don't like paying 50 per cent of tax.

Calvin Trillin

The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living than work.

Robert James

The taxpayers have spoken. They want a change.