Famous Quotes & Sayings

Grant Smith

If I painted him I would probably just paint like his eye -- completely just beet red because it had some many drugs in it or something. Or maybe just a zoom in on a forearm or something ... just where it looks like an abstract painting but it's just veins.

Richard Shelton

Our language is polarized. Concrete words are usually the language of poets. Abstract words are usually the language of politicians.

Joyce Bickers

As always, there are things to work on, but I am seeing the players incorporating things we work on in practice into the matches, whereas before they would work on it in practice, but never attempt in an actual game. These players are growing with each play and getting stronger and stronger and more confident.

Todd Gessner

It's a gentleman's hunt. The beginning and end aren't real gentlemanly, but the actual hunting is gentlemanly.

Gary Kurokawa

When we get down to the Board of Review level, a lot of the appeals are not successful because they're filing on emotion and not looking at actual statistical information available to support their appeal.

Gordon Bethune

When you actually take the time to go over to somebody's office and personally thank them - whether their office is in a cockpit of an airplane, or in a break room - that's an actual manifestation of interest in them. You need to take the time to show the people around you who work for you that you're interested in them.

Tom Glavine

I think you're going to see another winter where free agency is not as ... chaotic as it has been in years past, ... It'll be more like last winter.

Bobby Carpenter

Seeing a lot of teams go to the 3-4, I think helps me. Looking around, it's tough to find a whole lot of guys who have the size and weight to play outside linebacker in the 3-4. You have to be a bigger, physical guy with good speed. That's something that's kind of a (rare) commodity in today's game. I think that's something I can bring to the table.

Sandy Berger

There have been incidents today, and we just need to encourage (and) press the parties to do everything to try to bring this under control,

Jessica Phillips

We are very strict about this: We do not do any evangelism, we are not missionaries. Our interest is to bring an end to the violence and destruction of civilian life in Iraq.

Nancy Lee

We are very proud to bring Canadians coverage of the 2006 Commonwealth Games and continue our commitment to high performance sports.

Bob Greenly

We are very pleased to be working with Sony CONNECT. Our visions about video delivery over broadband are very much aligned, and we are excited about the marketing opportunities that Sony CONNECT will bring to the table.

Jack Roush

We are very pleased that Matt extended his contract with Roush Racing. Matt is one of the most talented drivers in the garage and he'll always hold a special place in our organization, having helped to bring us our first Cup championship in 2003.

Steve Pope

We are very lucky to have Luis bring his knowledge and skills to our company.

Rian Labuschagne

We are taking care of this world-class resource and creating something that will be sustainable for the next hundred years. We want to bring the millionaires like Ted Turner in here and squeeze as much money out of them as we can. The more money we squeeze out of them, the more we will put back into the community, so that people in the villages can finally have some money in their pockets. They have to get something out of it too.

Paul Otellini

We are still looking for that magic number, the holy grail that will bring in new buyers.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

This was life! Ah, how he loved it! Civilization held nothing like this in its narrow and circumscribed sphere, hemmed in by restrictions and conventionalities. Even clothes were a hindrance and a nuisance. At last he was free. He had not realized what a prisoner he had been.

Barack Obama

I think there are a whole host of things that are civil rights, and then there are other things - such as traditional marriage - that, I think, express a community's concern and regard for a particular institution.

William Odom

But I would make it unambiguously clear that we are going to withdraw, and if Iraq falls into civil war and if all these unhappy things occur, we're just going to have to accept them.

Bayard Rustin

We demand that segregation be ended in every school district in the year 1963! We demand that we have effective civil rights legislation - no compromise, no filibuster - and that include public accommodations, decent housing, integrated education, FEPC and the right to vote.

Paul O'Grady

I went to work for the Civil Service. I'd wanted to work for the Ministry of Defence because I had some far-fetched idea that it had something to do with the Avengers, but I ended up in Social Security.

Heather Brooke

CCTV is seen either as a symbol of Orwellian dystopia or a technology that will lead to crime-free streets and civil behaviour. While arguments continue, there is very little solid data in the public domain about the costs, quantity and effectiveness of surveillance.

Bruce Gordon

While it comes as no surprise that the nominee's views are different than ours, it is the seemingly extreme nature of those views, the degree of difference, that makes his candidacy unacceptable. Roberts has demonstrated a commitment to reversing the historic civil rights gains of the past 40 years.

Alex Penelas

express those emotions with violence, they must not express them with civil disorder, or any fashion that infringes on the rights of others.

Beth Wilson

There are a lot of liberty issues. I'm not sure these things are going to make us any safer and they have the potential to infringe on civil liberties.

Jim Leach

Clearly the loan payment shouldn't go out if it's going to be handled the way the past has been handled, ... If money is to be stolen it shouldn't be transferred.

Bruce Snyder

Clearly (the legislature) has not been able to support any tax on cigarettes, not to mention a 93-cent tax. And we have to be able to take what we can get. We can't continue to be locked into the rigidity of 93 cents.

Steve Largent

Clearly the last two years are nothing to be proud of.

David Simmonds

Clearly their overriding priority is to maintain control of the dollar/China exchange rate.

Todd Kort

Clearly their future is with smart phones, and as that mix moves toward the higher ASP, it will give them better gross margins and improve their financial picture.

Kevin Grice

Clearly the Iran situation is the key focus at the moment, our view is that eventually it will settle down, but it's expected to rumble on for a while and so maybe at the margins slightly supportive of the safe-haven currencies like the Swiss Franc.

Andrew Marr

Clearly the human story is one of acceleration. There has been a Moore curve in terms of the number of people alive on the planet, our technological ability, and our ability to understand ourselves. We have had this extraordinary, explosive growth in our ingenuity.

David Cummings

Clearly the GST windfall is going to be considerable and I think the Prime Minister's option of doing nothing no longer exists,

Rick Clancy

Clearly the growth is coming from these new (flat-panel) form factors.

Duane Joubert

We like to play full-court defense, but we can play half-court, too. I don't think Hughes Springs has faced a team that can play defense like we do.

Brooke Baker

Everything has been defense, defense, defense. However, I agree. We have got to improve our defense.

Joe Kuhn

Even though we scored 10 points in the first half, we were playing tough defense. We told the guys to pick up the offensive intensity.

Jennifer Granholm

Our strength is not just in the size of our defense budget, but in the size of our hearts, in the size of our gratitude for their sacrifice. And that's not just measured in words or gestures.

Jason Murgel

We were doing a good job of mixing and matching our zone and man-to-man defense in the first half. That's what kept us in the game.

Marcus Trufant

You are the last line of defense so anything that goes wrong on the back end usually results in six points. On the back end, pretty much, you've got to try and be perfect, and if you're not it's going to show.

Shane Wichers

We had a really great team effort, we made great decisions, and we played great team defense.

Sam Johnson

We wanted to end it there and that felt good. Our defense was shaky in Game 1, but we kept up in Game 2.

Cari Strange

We wanted to come out and put some pressure on them, (and) make them handle the ball. Our game plan was to use our defense and run on them, and I think we did that fairly well.

John Conley

We know it's a dynamic situation, but it's totally premature to talk about delays or postponement. Runners need to be prepared and dress for the weather.

Dick Enberg

He was the first superstar of sports television because he did all of the big events. He's the last of the dinosaurs. No one will ever be the voice of so many major events at the same time ever again.

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.

Bruce Babbitt

We have an obligation to live in harmony with creation, with our capital... with God's creation. And we need to administer and work that very carefully.

Albert Schweitzer

The the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hope are optimistic.

Robert Browning

God! Thou art love! I build my faith on that.

Robert Browning

I have lived, And seen God's hand thro a life time, And all was for the best.

Robert Browning

I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God.

Robert Browning

God is the perfect poet, Who in his person acts his own creations.

Rigoberta Menchu

To be a light to others you will need a good dose of the spiritual life. Because as my mother used to say, if you are in a good place, then you can help others; but if you're not well, then go look for somebody who is in a good place who can help you.

Calvin Coolidge

At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it.

Thomas Jefferson

A free government is of all others the most energetic.

Thomas Jefferson

If I had to choose between government and a free press, I would choose a free press.

Thomas Jefferson

Government governed least is government governed best.

Thomas Jefferson

The chief purpose of government is to protect life. Abandon that and you have abandoned all.

Thomas Jefferson

Government can do something for the people only in proportion as it can do something to the people.

Thomas Jefferson

The great object of my fear is the federal judiciary. That body, like gravity, ever acting, with noiseless foot, and unalarming advance, gaining ground step by step, and holding what it gains, is ingulfing insidiously the special governments into the jaws of that which feeds them.

Thomas Jefferson

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.

Thomas Jefferson

Very many and very meritorious were the worthy patriots who assisted in bringing back our government to its republican tack. To preserve it in that, will require unremitting vigilance.

Takeo Spikes

And the most important thing at the end of the day is that we stay together as one in relaying the information to the rest of the guys.

Roy Orbison

I waited, and I’m sure Elvis did too, for each Ricky Nelson record like we would a Chuck Berry record or a Fats Domino record, to see what was going on. I used to say to some of the guys that Ricky Nelson learned to sing on million selling records.

Ron James

I know now for a fact that improv can't hold a candle to doing standup. It's not the same buzz, it just isn't. It feels infantile to me at times. When you see guys who do it really well, great. But improv needs a rewrite.

Tom Felton

It's remarkable to see the advancements since the early days of [Harry] Potter with putting LEDs on everything, pointing sticks and measuring. Just archaic stuff. Now, it's like one guy with a laptop.

Tom Berenger

I've done about six comedies. Oddly enough, the script came to me from one of the guys in Platoon

Tom Berenger

Rough Riders took 13 weeks to shoot, plus a week of training. The same guy trained us trained the cast in Platoon. Except, instead of radios, we used bugles to signal

Todd Helton

I'm not a guy who is going to make a lot of noise. I hope to lead by example.

Todd McFarlane

I'm a guy who likes to watch something cool, creepy and suspenseful and there is no show to watch as an adult that would scare me at for even four seconds.

Tony Hawk

In ramp skating, theres this guy Alex Perelson whos really coming into his own and doing some amazing new stuff we havent seen before. Just different types of spin.

John Wilhelm

We've become persuaded that, after two years of trying to reform the national AFL-CIO, it is unwilling to change,

Nicolas Sarkozy

I fought for the values of responsibility, and I'm not a man who does not accept his responsibilities.

Lou Holtz

Coaching is about helping young people have a chance to succeed. There is no more awesome responsibility than that. One of the greatest honors a person can have is being called 'Coach.'

Mahatma Gandhi

Responsibility will mellow and sober the youth and prepare them, for the burden they must discharge.

Mahatma Gandhi

If you take care of your immediate surroundings, the universe will take care of itself.

Mahatma Gandhi

All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gail Carson Levine

The Writer's Oath I promise solemnly: 1. to write as often and as much as I can, 2. to respect my writing self, and 3. to nurture the writing of others. I accept these responsibilities and shall honor them always.

Frank Lautenberg

I'm convinced that our duty to provide advice and consent for justices of the Supreme Court is our most important constitutional responsibility.

Lynn Flewelling

You always have a choice. Don't ever imagine you don't. Whatever you do, it's a decision and you have to accept responsibility for it. That's when honor becomes more than empty words.

Haruki Murakami

Another person's life is that person's life. You can't take responsibility.

Eminem

It's not a contest, and I ain't on no conquest for no mate.