Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Quinn

The business must be based on the success of our football team,

William Frey

Back 30 or 40 years ago when people thought about where they'd move it was based on jobs. Now housing is as much of a factor.

Jason Mraz

A rescue mission doesn't involve going in and just taking a child and leaving. You can't just choose any child at random. Every kid has a case that is based on that child's original family. So, we made it over to a village, found the child; we were interacting with the child.

Carolyn Johnson

The students are selected based on recommendations that come from their instructors and who have demonstrated a record of high achievement.

Joe Case

Rates are based on computer modeling that predicts future risk, not about recouping past losses.

Diane Siri

The Santa Cruz County Office of Education, in partnership with the Local Childcare Planning Council and First 5 Santa Cruz County, is developing a model plan for a voluntary preschool system that would create opportunity for every 4-year-old in Santa Cruz County. This vision is based on the understanding that quality preschool programs are the foundation for success in school and, therefore, in life.

Alexandra Sanders

It was very hard, but we could not convict her of manslaughter in the other five cases based on the evidence we had.

Curtis Withers

It was tough losing games we should have won, based on execution and rebounding. It was the small things that good teams should do.

Jim Mastro

These rules are there for schools like Nevada. We don't have the budget. We rent compact cars. We do everything as cost effective as possible. If a kid is making his decision based on whether I pull up in a Cadillac or a compact car, we don't want them here.

Michael Armstrong

Borders all over the world are coming down, and as they come down opportunities spring up, ... Companies reach further to compete with their products and services, and when they want to open shop, wherever they want to open shop, they want those communications services to support their people and their products, and we've got to be there.

Michael Chertoff

We cannot hermetically seal 7,000 miles of land borders and keep out 100 percent of illegal crossers, ... But we can create such a high likelihood of interdiction that it will have a strong and unequivocal deterrent effect on those who wish to cross illegally.

Martin Jacques

China has existed within very roughly its present borders for over two millennia and for virtually the whole of that period saw itself as a 'civilisation state.' It was only when it was too weak to resist the western powers in the early 20th century that it finally acquiesced in an arrangement that was alien to it.

Erin Hunter

Once a friend, always a friend. Why should borders stop that?

Mike Tidwell

Maryland leaders took a historic step today in acknowledging the crisis of global warming and deciding to do something about it. While leaders in Washington say carbon reductions are impossible, the capital itself now borders a region stretching from Maryland to Maine where reductions are in fact happening.

Emile M. Cioran

The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.

Laura Bush

David Dreier cares a lot about a lot of issues. One of the issues that he's been talking to me a lot about is to make sure the federal government does its job in enforcing our borders to keep illegal folks out of our country,

Mike Johanns

When one cow was found with BSE in 2003, many of our trading partners closed their borders to our beef.

Bobby Jindal

In the aftermath of September 11th, it is critical to secure our borders.

Keating Holland

So the pressure is on Kerry to meet expectations. And let's not forget the good news for the White House in this poll: Bush is still seen as a stronger leader who would better deal with Iraq and terrorism,

Tom Brokaw

This race is all but over, ... President Bush is our projected winner in the state of Ohio.

Karen Finney

As the saying goes, you can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig. Unfortunately for the American people all President Bush did today was make it clear that they should expect nothing more than the same failed policies they have come to know all too well.

Bill Daley

upset with mistakes Bush made, upset with his behavior.

Nigel Hamilton

What George W. Bush learned in his pre-presidential years - and what he omits in his new memoirs - was not how to lead a nation, but how, with sufficient toughness, to cheat the democratic system to get elected.

Jiang Zemin

Let's find out more about what Bush wants to do with Taiwan, the Dalai Lama and the missile-defense system,

Ed Rendell

There are people on the left who think John Kerry's too conservative, as well as the Bush administration that's trying to paint him as a wild-spending liberal.

Luis Saenz

We're excited and honored that the same folks who worked hard to re-elect President Bush are doing the same to re-elect Governor Perry.

Mahmoud Abbas

We expect President Bush to implement his own vision of a two-state solution, the birth of the Palestinian State and the ending of the occupation that started in 1967.

James Steel

Any hint of recovery in industrial recovery there is a good sign, ... it was a supporting factor to the rally.

Rey Mysterio

Reading helps me be more creative, it helps my imagination and I like the fact that it gives me some quiet time,

John Challenger

People who have been out for a while say, 'I've got to get back to work,' so they take downgraded jobs, ... Maybe they can't get a job as the plant manager, so they try to get a job as a manager on the factory line and work their way back up.

James Mcewan

People hate the fact that they kidnapped people, including a little child.

Peter Lehman

The technology needs to get out of the lab and into the factory to reduce costs,

Arnold Glasow

Telling a teen-ager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.

Jeff Holland

Quite honestly, I don't know anything about (the fungus). I guess it just reiterated the fact that it's important to be careful.

Melody Heidel

The sad fact of human nature is when something of this magnitude happens, people do finally pay attention.

H. Hunt

The sad fact it is could have been anybody. My feeling is that whoever is involved in this is still walking free.

Jimmy Stewart

So much of what we have taken for granted has been ripped from us,

David Warren

All applications are looked at on their merit. I don't have a problem with them making applications. Whether they get granted or not is a whole other issue.

Darren Sinnaeve

In the second half, we played real hard, pressed hard, got up in their faces. In the first half, we relied on 3-point shooting. We had one 2-pointe and seven 3s. Granted it was a zone defense, but we did a lot of standing around.

Rick Sandlin

We were hollering '3,' and when I got over to the corner, he said he didn't hear it, and I probably should've called timeout and made sure he understood that. I think I took it a little too much for granted for this young man to know what to do, being down three with 18 seconds or so.

Adam Rayner

If somebody knew every time they did something it was going to be a hit there would never be any failures. Sadly, that's not how it works. You take nothing for granted.

Keith Tkachuk

We have to. I think teams took us for granted and we jumped on teams early. We just have to keep doing the same no matter who's in the lineup.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

When something is universal enough in our everyday lives, we take it for granted to the point of forgetting it exists.

Jamie McMurray

We can't relax or take anything for granted until after Richmond is over.

Hilary Clinton

I've been subject to quite a lot of illegal leaking,

Barbara Kingsolver

A human being can be good or bad or right or wrong, maybe. But how can you say a person is illegal? You just can't. That's all there is to it.

Jo Handelsman

Some of it is outright illegal behavior, but most of it is subtle. It makes women feel undervalued and not respected.

Michael Harrison

Many said that what was going on was terrible, and that immigrants participating should go back to Mexico.

Chuck Pavlos

You're going to have a million people in this corridor.

Russell Perreault

There are more than 300 million people in the US, so we still have a lot of potential sales out there.

America Ferrera

They say 15 million people are watching the show, but what does that mean, you know? It's not until I'm accosted on the street that I understand!

Magglio Ordonez

We've got 25 million people in Venezuela. At least 24 million are going to be watching the games.

Mark Mann

We will spend well over $2 million on this facility.

Hasan M. Elahi

If 300 million people were to offer up the details of their private lives, you would need to hire another 300 million people just to keep up.

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.

David Sanborn

Pop used to actually routinely sell 10 million records. Now if they get there at all it takes them quite awhile.