Famous Quotes & Sayings

DeEtta Culbertson

The simplest (solution) would be (for PAISD trustees) to follow acceptable board actions and procedures.

Malcolm Gray

Storage as an option is more acceptable than disposal for the time-being.

Ron Gettelfinger

Subject to acceptable resolution of outstanding issues and satisfactory finalization of contractual language, the UAW GM National Negotiating Committee, the UAW National GM Council, and the UAW Retired Workers Advisory Council have unanimously endorsed this tentative agreement,

Kraibo Chawang

Praag would be playing the role of a facilitator or a peace broker and he is expected to submit a list of independent proposals to resolve the problem in fresh talks next month. The proposals may not be acceptable to us or to the Indian government, but his impartial role we believe could bring in positive results and also help patching up differences between our group and New Delhi.

Bruce Raynor

Poverty-level wages and no benefits aren't acceptable for an industry that's booming. The goal is to raise standards nationally.

Wu Dawei

put forward proposals and ideas so that we will be able to work out an implementation plan that is acceptable to all sides at an early date.

James L. Buckley

It would seem, therefore, that this constitutional safeguard may no longer serve its original purpose, especially when, as we learned last year, some acts of perjury may now be acceptable - in this world, at least, if not the next.

John Breaux

It was acceptable because we never had problems with that arrangement. After September 11 everything has dramatically changed.

Rocky Pullman

The shock is over with. Now we have to come back and create something that is compatible and acceptable to everybody. If we don't do what is right for the citizens and compromise, shame on us.

Joyce Banda

As a democratic society, Malawi has a moral obligation to ensure that each and every injustice, whether through acts of commission or omission, is met with deliberate and tangible action.

Chris Yates

The security system is 10-15 percent better. I would have liked to have seen the system 50, 60, 70 percent better. After all, we have had 12 months to get our acts together and do something about it.

Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

The world cannot live without the Arctic; it affects every living thing on Earth and acts as a virtual thermostat, reflecting sunlight and cooling the planet.

Josiah Strong

This is due partly to the fact that Americans are much better fed than Europeans, and partly to the undeveloped resources of a new country, but more largely to our climate, which acts as a constant stimulus.

Tricia Nguyen

We have just as good a chance to book these acts as anybody else would.

Edwin Starr

Believe me when I tell you if you're still doing this in ten years from now it won't be one of those acts you'll be doing this with. It just won't!

Craig Ferguson

We wanted something different this year. We're still keeping the musicianship, as opposed to it being a jam band fest. There's also a lot more standard bluegrass acts and we've never had an act like Bobby McFerrin before. You don't have to be a bluegrass artist - you just have to be a great artist to fit in at Telluride.

Joe Billhimer

We will probably focus on some of the Southern rock musicians throughout. And then focus on some of the acts too.

Andrea Peiro

The top five World of Difference contest finalists are small businesses that have been able to develop and articulate a strong vision and demonstrate a keen understanding of how technology acts as an innovation catalyst and an indispensable engine to sustain business performance for both short and long term success. We look forward to hearing the finalists present how their technology vision will influence their business at The World of Difference Learning and Development Conference.

Goran Persson

A nice person who I've learned to appreciate.

Caroll Spinney

I've learned to say, 'I'm a friend of Big Bird. He even taught me how to sound like him.'

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I've learned to lose with a smile on my face. That's what the Oscar teaches you.

Scott Eyre

I've become a better pitcher because I've learned to economize.

Russ Ortiz

After I sat down and thought about it, I learned a lot about the game, about myself.

Tom DeLay

some things that we've learned and when we do it again, we'll probably be better at it.

Ozzie Guillen

Now I learned a lesson. I never thought I was going to do that, and it's ugly because I know a lot of people have taken the first shot at me, and I come back real strong.

J. Nichols

This is a resolution of this issue, but we've learned maybe how we can work together in the future.

John Mahoney

That's how I learned how to act. I learned by doing it. I didn't start acting until I was 37.

Ted Stevens

The stability of some of the nations principally responsible for supplying oil to the United States can no longer be taken for granted.

Tom Coughlin

Storage is no longer in the background. It's not just nice to have; it's a must-have.

Wes Anderson

Sometimes when you're editing a movie, you have the thing that you don't expect - which is you make it longer and longer as you go along.

Charles Howell

The shortest 11 can play is 505. I walked it to the back and it was 513, which puts it longer than No. 13.

J. D. Souther

I've been singing and writing songs only a little longer than acting. I really enjoy both.

Fernando Lopez

There will no longer be a big eruption. It's releasing pressure.

Rick Clausen

That's kind of been the story of my life. Everything kind of takes a little longer for me in order to be successful.

Richard Mandella

Everything's going great. He'll get a little longer one (workout) next week. We'll ship the 23rd, the way it looks now.

Al Roker

I try to get in two runs during the week, after the 'Today' show, probably around 1 or 2 o'clock, Tuesday, Thursday. Then Saturday or Sunday, I do my longer runs and try to do it in the morning.

Steve Martin

I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct.

Rumi

There is an original inside me.

Michael Eisner

Sometimes you have to be worn out and burnt out to become authentic and original.

John Steinbeck

Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.

Theodore Roosevelt

It is always better to be an original than an imitation.

Anthony Storr

Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.

Gene Fowler

If they haven't heard it before it's original.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I really do not aim at any originality.

Ray Stevens

I originally passed on 'Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head' in 1969, so they gave it to B.J. Thomas.

Michael Brown

I serve totally at the will of the president.

Alex Gibney

But it still serves as a primer for everyone who's watching the trial.

Steve Carter

If they can serve it from Sallisaw, and show they can serve it well, that's OK. But I would like to see a station there at some point, once it makes sense.

Nancy Stern

We had a lot of reinforcing in the basement. It took several years to get it where we wanted it, but it serves us well.

Justine Henin-Hardenne

I had a lot of trouble with my serve in this tournament.

Francis Bacon

Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability.