Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jared Bernstein

Clearly, Katrina hasn't shown up in the jobless claims yet, but it will, ... Next month, we're going to be looking at one of the largest one month negative spikes in the history of this series, going back to the '30s.

Chris Neal

We still have folks working Katrina claims in Florida, as well as claims open from last season. If it hits, we'll be in pretty good shape to handle it.

Michael Englund

The level of claims remains remarkably lean. The labor market has improved significantly in early 2006. Payroll growth has likely entered a period of overdrive.

Antonio Tabucchi

I claim the right to take a stand once in a while.

Ethan Harris

These continued claims are a sign the unemployment rate is still on an upward trajectory. There are still a lot of people out of work out there.

William Armstrong

The throaty V-8 growl that William Clay Ford Jr. claims he likes. That was my last major contribution.

Jeff Goodell

The oil industry fought hard to keep Keystone alive, making wildly exaggerated claims that the pipeline - the country's largest infrastructure project - would create tens of thousands of jobs and decrease America's reliance on oil from the Middle East.

Bob Gibbs

Some people had claims where there were no claims.

Chris Vos

So when minister Erwin claims that there will not be thousands of jobs lost, he is just playing with words.

Bill Gray

I think that our offensive line has really started to gel, ... We have three new faces up there on the front line and they haven't played a lot of football. Despite their experience, I think that every time we step on the football field, they get better.

Roseanne Roseanne

I think we're looking at a pretty strong housing market despite the fact that starts didn't rise, ... far from runaway.

Russ Yarworth

He's a very tough worker. Mentally, he's tough, despite what he might tell you. He's got a good feel for the water.

Willie Green

I know I've been in motor sport for 46 years and some might think it is time I grew up, but I am still here, despite smashing up my legs.

Jane Jensen

I love 'Gabriel Knight' and will always be proud of it. Despite the fact that I've done many other things, it seems to be the one thing that people remember. I hope 'Gray Matter' is as memorable.

Robert Hall

The health fears are what stuck out the most for me, but I think the stuff we see on television and all of the victims affected, pushes me into helping, despite the fear.

Margaret Atwood

I planned my death carefully, unlike my life, which meandered along from one thing to another, despite my feeble attempts to control it.

Patrick Fearon

So despite the indicator today, the report for February might not be quite as strong as this is suggesting.

Stuart Hoffman

At the same time, many retailers and the automakers have had good June numbers, despite the rise in oil prices (over the last month), ... Overall, there's some relief right now that the economy is indeed strong, but not overheating.

Chuck Adams

He needs a million dollars to be able to be noticed.

Harry Smith

I'm proud of myself. People who spent time with me afterward said, 'You're such a humble person.' I'm talking about myself now, but in the game you don't get portrayed as you always are. I want to come away with more than a million dollars with my honor and integrity. And I did that.

Susan Jackson

The last thing we want is for these dollars (for free tutoring) to go unused.

Andrew Nikiforuk

When governments run on petro dollars or petro revenue instead of taxes, then they kind of sever the link between taxation and representation, and if you're not being taxed, then you're not being represented.

Steve Novak

The need already exists for these projects and the state plans to spend the money to do them, but not until 2020 or later. Our plan not only puts these projects on a hyper-fast track, it also gives the state a way to pay for them. That's smart government. Ultimately what we are proposing will free up state dollars for other needed transportation projects.

Davy Hite

It's really shaping up to be a good tournament. It's going to be a half a million dollars good to somebody. I just hope it's me.

Paul Swangard

The NHL has taught us that the players need to understand that this is about extending the revenue opportunities to keep the dollars flowing. If you want to make millions, (you) have to do some things that are creative. It's about as saturated a marketplace for sports today than we've ever seen before.

Kathy Mitchell

It's an effort to stretch those federal dollars as far as we can.

Dan Crawford

No tax dollars are used for these services.

Andy Xie

Growth rates could decelerate by another 1 percentage point due to further rises in oil prices.

Patty Clausen

I think it's due to the economy. People are hanging onto their money, because they don't know what's going to happen.

Danny Smith

Robinson is due for a major revival. We have to provide a reliable source for people.

Rob Simmons

Indictments of any kind are serious. That being said, let's not forget that an indictment is not a conviction. We still have due process in this country.

Rob Simmons

Indictments of any kind are serious, ... That being said, let's not forget that an indictment is not a conviction. We still have due process in this country.

Kirk Ferentz

I mean this with all due respect, but it's not really on my laundry list right now. I've got other things that have moved in front of it.

Kermit Ruffins

I know that we're gonna be back in New Orleans, swinging like we've never swung before, in due time.

Krista Conte

The feeling is, we're due for a major catastrophic event to occur here. We're doing this in order to preserve the promises we made to the large majority of our customers.

Phil Johnson

Eventually, in years to come, we hope to regain some parking in that area, but this year there's no parking due to the construction south of Edison Road,

Kathleen Norris

Maybe the desert wisdom of the Dakotas can teach us to love anyway, to love what is dying, in the face of death, and not pretend that things are other than they are. The irony and wonder of all of this is that it is the desert's grimness, its stillness and isolation, that brings us back to love.

P. D. James

A nation that can't remember its dead will soon cease to be worth dying for.

Mark Batterson

We start dying when we have nothing worth living for. And we don't really start living until we find something worth dying for

Mike Cooley

Living in fear is just another way of dying before your time.

Ned Vizzini

I'm not afraid of dying, I'm afraid of living.

Leon Trotsky

I feel here that this time they have succeeded.

Elias Canetti

There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.

Meher Baba

Being is Dying by Loving.

Thomas Aquinas

He who is dying of hunger must be fed rather than taught.

Rik Mayall

I am a global light entertainment phenomena, so how can I remember everything?

Agnes Kosinski

He is great. He sings, he's a comic, he does a magic show... It's great family entertainment.

Celia Chen

People who spent money on travel and luxury goods are spending more money entertaining themselves at home.

Jerry Jones

I'm not happy with the proposal. I didn't think we'd be entertaining the type of proposal we got from the players.

Eric Snow

To me, the rules are made for guys to score more. And I guess that's where the entertainment comes in.

Jim Barry

These things have gotten so small that you can take your information or your entertainment with you just about anywhere.

Stuart Baxter

They'll be very entertaining but they'll get slaughtered.

John McTiernan

The entertainment is in the presentation.

Charice Pempengco

I want to be an entertainment lawyer so I'll be in the business still.

Allen Johnson

We've been told they have to be 'completely self-sufficient,' ... so they have to take their own food, water and clothing. There is no local support.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it to your guests is a sign of fatigue.

Roald Amundsen

A rich and varied menu is for people who have no work to do.

Samuel Hoffenstein

My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet.

Sally Schneider

Confit is the ultimate comfort food, and trendy or not, it is dazzling stuff.

Robin Leach

In Italy, they add work and life on to food and wine.

W. C. Fields

I feel like a midget with muddy feet had been walking over my tongue all night.

W. C. Fields

I don't drink water. Have you seen the way it rusts pipes?

Voltaire

Ice-cream is exquisite - what a pity it isn't illegal.

Theresa May

If the police need more help to do their work, I will not hesitate in granting it to them.

Ibrahim Jaafari

If we find any truth in these claims, we will not hesitate to take up the matter with Iranian authorities,

Gordon Brown

If we did not get the result that we wanted, we would not hesitate to use our veto.

George H. W. Bush

Appeasement does not work. As was the case in the 1930s, we see in Saddam Hussein an aggressive dictator threatening his neighbors.

Douglas Feith

It was known in the mid 90s already that Saddam Hussein was a dangerous tyrant that he had already launched aggressions against Iran, he had invaded Kuwait.

Colin Powell

The burden is on Saddam Hussein. And our policy, our national policy - not the UN policy but our national policy - is that the regime should be changed until such time as he demonstrates that it is not necessary to change the regime because the regime has changed itself.

Richard Ben-Veniste

Were there contacts over time between Iraq and al-Qaeda? Yes, there were efforts made to communicate. We found no evidence of collaboration in any effort to mount any kind of operation against the United States' interests.

Robert Byrd

The money the president wants to borrow for Iraq will come directly out of the American taxpayer wallets in the form of Medicare and Social Security receipts. That's your money

Walter Cronkite

The invasion of Iraq was illegal from the start.

Don Evans

I'm not scared here, ... I feel very safe here, quite frankly. And I'll tell you what else -- the people of Iraq are not scared.

Jose Maria Aznar

Disarming Iraq is legal under a series of U.N. resolutions. Iraq is in flagrant violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions.

Kevin Bacon

Even the people that support Bush aren't happy with the way things are going in Iraq.

John Bolton

I am all in favour of democracy in Iraq.

Michael Rubin

The Iraqis have consistently surprised us at every milestone.

Patrick Burns

The Iraqi people are out of luck, the way it stands right now.

Rod Schwarz

It's real disappointing. I think it shows a lack of preparation and a lack of concentration. We just weren't ready to play.

Gerhard Schroeder

It's cold, it lacks solidarity and it's inhuman,

Kevin Logan

It's a very thin market. People don't want to take any risk because of the lack of liquidity.

George Pipas

With these levels of inventories, we probably need to replenish inventories to a level that will support a - for lack of a better term - 'normal' level of sales,

Ruth J. Simmons

There's nothing worse than a leader who lacks ambition.

Source Unknown

He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

Jack Shaheen

How could that trailer go out? Why the lack of concern? Where's the empathy? Where's the understanding?

Gideon Gono

One can never be prepared enough for anything. We always want to react late. We have become a nation of pointing fingers, a nation of perpetual moaners and a nation that lacks initiatives,

Frank Gannon

I think there's a kind of 'buyers' strike,' for lack of a better term,

Larry Sabato

He could have made millions in the private sector.

Nandan Nilekani

I'm in politics to make the lives of millions of Indians better.

Beau Greely

This is two millions in a row. He'll stay here for the Breeders' Cup.

Albert Brooks

If we had 3 million exhibitionists and only one voyeur, nobody could make any money.

Mike Burkett

So many millions of people don't feel like their vote has any meaning. There is no reason why younger people can't be a unified force.

Ian Livingstone

We have spent tens of millions of pounds on it and we will spend more tens of millions of pounds.

Etel Adnan

There are not millions of deaths. It happens millions of times that someone dies.

Warren Ellis

If it's accessible by hundreds of millions of people, then it's as mainstream as it gets.

Malala Yousafzai

I have learned so much from Nelson Mandela, and he has been my leader. He is a perpetual inspiration for me and millions of others around the world.

Richelle Mead

Did you follow me from the party?" "Yes" "I didn't even know you were there." His dark clothes indicated he must have been on guardian duty at the party. "So you saw the illustrious Janine cause a commotion by dragging me out." "It wasn't a commotion. Hardly anyone noticed. I saw because I was watching you.

Sarah Palin

Well, it's always, though, safer in politics to avoid risk. To just kind of go along with the status quo. But I didn't get into government to do the safe and easy things. A ship in harbor is safe, but that's not why the ship is built. Politics isn't just a game of competing interests and clashing parties. The people of America expect us to seek public office and to serve for the right reasons. And the right reason is to challenge the status quo and to serve the common good.

Sara Cox

To be honest, it's a bit of a relief not having to be the party animal for a change.

Rhys Ifans

In Wales, singing and storytelling are party skills, not professions.

Richard Rorty

I think that a good Left is a party that always thinks about the future and doesn't care much about our past sins.

Robert Caro

Everyone believed the Senate could not really be led. It used to take so long to rise up through seniority. In two years Lyndon Johnson is assistant leader of his party. In four years he is the leader of his party.

Robert Carlyle

I don't take a great deal of interest in party politics. Social politics interests me a great deal more.

Rob Bell

It's as if Thomas Kinkade and Dante were at a party, and one turned to the other sometime after midnight and uttered that classic line "You know, we really should work together sometime...

Richard Rohr

Christianity is seen by more and more people as a negative message: anti gay, anti immigrant, anti abortion (as the only life issue), anti gay marriage, anti the Democratic party.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

Gary Sheffield

I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always tell the truth. That should count for something, right?

Sam Rockwell

I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.

Sam Worthington

I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.

Thora Birch

I'm really lucky! I'm just cognisant that I wanna move forward, and people will let me or not; who knows.

Simon Spurr

People can take away your assets, but not your DNA.

Matthew Devost

There are a lot of smart people out there. And they will always find a way in if there is something they want.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

know that there has to be a spending limit.

Kelli O'Hara

I don't ever think about the roads I didn't take because I spend too much time thinking what's ahead. I don't go backwards.

Cheryln Bennett

If you make a little money, you spend it on other things (for artwork).

Elizabeth Hurley

Spending time outdoors makes you feel great.

Shannon Bennett

The more a punter spends the better value they are getting.

Matt Mullenweg

I spend a lot of time on forums, and they drive me crazy.

Brian Tracy

You cannot save time, but you can spend time differently.

Keanu Reeves

On his new motorbike: I wanted to spend some time with it and get to know it.

Steve Prentice

More than ever, what we spend on is more important than how much we spend.