Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bruce Myers

I think the contract started out at maybe $500,000, and they had a change order to get it to $700,000, but they ended up paying like $1 million, and there was no evidence of any other change orders or any other board approval for that last change.

Tony Fabrizio

He has no political capital. Slowly but surely it's been unraveling. There's been a direct correlation between the trajectory of his approval numbers and the -- I don't want to call it disloyalty -- the independence on the part of the Republicans in Congress.

Jane Miller

Heinz is confident that this acquisition will meet the criteria for final clearance. This deal has already received approval from the merger authorities in Ireland and Germany.

Skip Campbell

He does have the authority to do it and probably should do it. He probably would get total legislative approval if he wants the Legislature to do it. I can't imagine that any legislator would say there wasn't an emergency.

William Shatner

Getting that audience approval is always a question mark, and it's always that flag that flutters in front of you.

Robert Byrd

Is it any wonder, why the approval ratings of the Congress go up every time we go into recess?

Said Nursi

Do what you do only for God's sake, start for God's sake, work for God's sake, and act within the sphere of God's good approval.

Zadie Smith

It made me feel that I had to work very hard, but I've always felt I had to work very hard to get my own approval.

Bud Brannon

President Bush had the highest approval ratings ever after Desert Storm. Then Clinton took a role leading the party and won the presidency.

Alfredo Stroessner

I was always confident that I knew. I never expected this.

Martin McGuinness

I was always confident during the course of this week that Mr. Trimble would win the day.

Ernie Chatman

Jacki knows about running talent. I've known her for years, and I am confident in the training Danielle will get under her.

Gary Enis

Just like everybody else, we want them to throw strikes and let the defense make plays. They've all been working hard on location and hitting their spots, and we feel confident no matter who's on the mound.

Megan Roark

I always feel more confident when my team goes out and scores runs like today. They were on fire today, so it was easy to pitch.

Craig Thomas

He represents the kind of justice who will interpret the law with respect to the Constitution and not legislate from the bench. His judicial experience is second to none, and I'm confident he will do an excellent job handling his constitutional responsibility.

Grant Thomas

He's just got to prove to training services that he's fit and available. We're really confident that he will be and he's really confident that he will be. We'll know by the end of training.

Joe Gibbs

He's been real consistent with his play since we started back this year, ... He's been confident and sure. ... What I'm looking towards is somebody to really establish themselves as a quarterback, take over and take off with the football team.

Zdeno Chara

He's a very challenging guy who is very athletic. He grabbed his opportunity. Dominik is out and he's obviously now our No. 1 goalie. Ray is going to get a lot of games and he's going to feel confident going into the playoffs.

H. Hart

I think the number one criteria (for getting into NCAA Tournament) has to be how you did in your conference.

Wayne Smith

Our acquisition pace has been strong and steady, and we have established a track record for not only finding hospitals that fit our criteria but also for successfully assimilating these facilities into our system.

Ben Howland

I'm excited about a No. 2 seed. It was well-deserved. Our guys have worked very, very hard. One of the criteria that is used is how are you playing at the end of the season.

Tom Kelley

(The Federal Emergency Management Agency) has some pretty tight criteria to get any disaster relief. People need to take some initiative on their own.

Sean Connery

It makes you wonder at times what exactly is the criteria to qualify.

Neal A. Maxwell

Celestial criteria measures service, not status.

Bud Selig

It's exceeded in intensity, in interest, in just every way that you can ---- criteria that you can use to judge something, it has been really successful.

Jack Powell

They need to have a more well-defined criteria on who moves on, so that everyone knows what it takes. I really can't speak to when a response might come.

Wayne Oakes

They should be reconsidering the criteria in light of what's happened. Four young men are dead.

Peter Schultz

Jaco signed a three-year deal with NEC and it's unlikely they'll release him.

Dave Musgrove

Jack the Ripper remains an iconic figure today, and perhaps is seen as the forerunner of the serial killers that society has had to deal with since.

Richard D. James

I would say the Borg presented us with a great deal of imagination.

Tom Renney

Just something we have to deal with internally as a team when it comes to penalties.

Lee Mazzilli

Joe is the master in terms of dealing with people. But that has come with experience. He has a way about him now he may not have had before.

Larry Dixon

I think it's a little different when you're in the middle of the points deal for the championship going into Pomona with everything going on,

John Cox

He did not have a sinker when we first signed him, ... Ninety percent of the pitchers in the Pacific Rim are told not to throw the sinker. From Little League to college, they want four-seam fastballs, because the big deal over there is throwing strikes. In order to get some kind of movement, most of them use a splitter.

Garrett Jones

He dealt with the entire process better than most would. But you can tell that he's just so glad to be back to playing again. He always wants to be out there on the field hitting. He's smiling more and just having fun.

Joe Torre

He deals with the stress and pressure very well,

Chris Hill

Kelvin seems a lot more energized now. He finally got his legs back.

Savas Kyriacou

I think it's a day that Toronto has finally lost its innocence. It was a tragic loss and tragic day.

Robert Torricelli

I think it is all over but the final act.

Paul Ryan

It also tells the American people that we're finally getting serious about saving the Social Security surplus for Social Security benefits.

Jade Gribble

He is taking up some new styles. I just showed him a new offensive shot and he had three takedowns in the finals with it for six points.

Peter Gregory

What we weren't able to do was give him a good rest because of his fitness test before the final Test match.

Ron Averill

Having those three guys in the finals is going to nail our name to the wall pretty well.

Kevin Kinel

I think its finally getting to the fun time. It's getting to the point to where we'll find if Mat is up to the challenge.

Steve Smith

I think the offense was there, we just weren't able to finish our chances. We hit the post twice. We had one goal taken away. We've been around two years and that's the first game we've won in the final five minutes of a game.

Mo Mowlam

The last thing the people of Northern Ireland need now is an outbreak of recriminations,

James Joyce

Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.

John McGahern

Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed the twentieth century.

John Millington Synge

There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.

Denis Leary

Wolfhounds helped kill off the wolves in Ireland.

Bernard Laporte

If we win, I don't see how Ireland could better our points difference.

George Bernard Shaw

Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.

John Cooney

Middle-class Ireland has effectively become a la carte Catholics.

Gregory Peck

I had that stubborn streak, the Irish in me I guess.

Bob McDonald

He just had that something, that intangible. You don't know who has it, but he had it. To do whatever it took to meet his goal.

Kate Bosworth

I don't really get star-struck, but I do get talent struck. If I meet somebody that I think is just wildly talented and brilliant, that's when I start getting nervous.

Larry Gregory

Having these meetings was more important than taking part on that panel,

Howard Stringer

He's a star. Nobody turns down a meeting with him.

Alison Goldfrapp

I thought what everyone thinks when they first meet Will,

Mike Pincus

The people that were at this meeting had no opinion at all.

George Speight

I think some people are trying to do me over ... and they're going to meet with some very stiff resistance.

Mike Bohn

I'd like the players to have the opportunity to meet him before the game.

Tony Fabrizio

I don't know that the rocky start is as important as what people see at the end of the day. The real rubber meets the road when they see what their expectations were versus what they actually get.

Duncan King

There are so many more mergers going on now.

Tom McKillop

I'm not at all frightened, ... We are big enough now -- we now have the scale from this merger to compete.

Martin Reynolds

For Dell and IBM, the HP-Compaq merger is a win,

Gigi Sohn

This merger makes a net neutrality requirement all the more urgent.

James Rogers

This merger is all about shaping our future.

Michael Schneider

This is the type of merger that we've seen in the past and that we're going to see more of in the future.

Jim Valentine

These mergers are messy. They take a long time to do. That's why you don't want to own that name during a deal.

Earl Comstock

These mergers are a big step toward recreating the old AT&T monopoly that the Reagan administration courageously dismantled.

Mark Davis

The one question that comes to our mind is how will the merger be viewed by rail shippers overall,

Richard McGinn

I think we're doing a lot of things well, and I think it's been received well on the street, ... Street Sweep.

Christian Winthrop

He has received a lot of support from Yonkers and Westchester. A lot of them were contributions that were under $200 that were not itemized.

Bea Arthur

If you would have told me ten years ago I'd be doing this and being received like I am now, I'd say you're crazy.

Jerry Glover

I have never received one dime. This is all volunteer.

Volodymyr Lytvyn

I have not received the resolution for signing.

Scott Nester

I keep checking, and we have not received any yet.

Rachel Johnson

After that I received 74 unsolicited text messages,

Edie Falco

I didn't know that the show would be received the way that it has been, ... I couldn't be more thrilled about it. But it's been a surprise.

Dimieari Kemedi

Most of these militants received their first weapon from the ruling party.