Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anytime I see something screech across a room and latch onto someone's neck, and the guy screams and tries to get it off, I have to laugh, because what is that thing.

Tom Udall

As a member of the U.S. House Law Enforcement Task Force, I join with local citizens across New Mexico toward the goal of reducing crime,

M.I.A.

As an artist, you want to play around with mediums and see if you can get the point across in different way.

Charles Powell

The British are definitely comparing notes on Moroccan cells across Europe, in Italy, France and the UK. The current thinking is that the people who did this may have trained in the same camps as the people who committed the Madrid bombings. The techniques are very similar.

Dennis Lillee

Australia was ambushed by England because way too many people right across the board were living in a comfort zone. The first priority is to appoint a captain who can lead from the front.

Lance Bass

As long as I knew my family was OK, I felt very safe. When something doesn't affect you (directly), it's sometimes hard to get involved. But when the images come across the screen ... it hits home for everyone. You start to realize that, as a human being, you can do something.

Capt. Elkins

As it reached near the end of the runway, the pilot accelerated in an attempt to take back off and avoid a crash. Instead, the plane went down an embankment, through a fence and across King Avenue (Country Club Road) and ended up in a fence that secures Indian Pines Country Club.

Gary Glasscock

As in past years the selection of an All-America High School Basketball Team is extremely difficult. Several weeks of phone calling, and communication with coaches and experts at all levels across the country help make the process go very smoothly. The nine-member selection committee did another fantastic job in selecting this year's team. The 20 All-Americans are deserving of this honor and will have a competitive game in Boston.

Thomas Perez

Raising the minimum wage to $10.10 will benefit about 28 million workers across the country. And it will help businesses, too - raising the wage will put more money in people's pockets, which they will pump back into the economy by spending it on goods and services in their communities.

Howard Silverblatt

The bulge in cash is permitting companies to simultaneously finance record levels of stock buybacks and dividends,

Larry Young

People say they're going to go get cash and don't come back.

Robert Doll

Depending on the degree to which earnings slow, the dollar declines, corporations and individuals put cash to work and a variety of other factors, we can envision a scenario where the markets decline and then rebound to finish the year in the black.

Kevin Hall

The speaker says we walked away from cash on the table. We don't need cash on the table. We need transportation improvements on the ground.

Dean Baker

I've always thought you'll have the movement in price before you'll see it on quantity side, ... As long as the price remains high, if you're a builder, you want to get the houses up in order to cash in.

Larry Rice

The mutual funds are trying to make up for a god-awful performance and they're going to put whatever cash they have to work.

Matthew Kelmon

Now Microsoft has no excuses. The cash is going to be put to work.

Hal Kvisle

So our challenge, in this era, is to find good opportunities where we can take that stable cash flow from the regulated pipes and re-invest it in new high-quality opportunities.

David Lindsay-Abaire

Pretty much, the writer's in charge in theater. Of course you're in charge with the director, but no one can change your words. People can give you notes, but you don't have to take them. In Hollywood you take them and you cash your check and that's your job. It's very different.

Josh Bernoff

This is the complete explosion of the distribution model for television. Today is the last day the schedule for television programming makes a difference.

John LeBlanc

You walk down Main Street and it looks like downtown Beirut, a complete disaster, ... All that's left is a driveway, just pieces.

Judi Dench

It actually was a complete departure having a woman playing M. I didn't realize at the time that it would be so noticed.

Tom Daschle

We are here in complete unity with our New York and New Jersey friends, ... We support you, and we're here to continue to provide that support whatever it may mean. That support will be here for whatever length of time it takes.

Ian Gold

We did not complete the mission and it's frustrating.

Grace Meng

I was raised as a Christian, where all you're taught is to be humble, even if you did something right. Politics is the complete opposite of: you do something a little nice, and you tell everyone.

Theodore Schultz

My schooling was disrupted by the shortage of labor during World War I. It meant foregoing high school. Then, late in 1921, I entered upon a short course in agriculture at South Dakota State College. I managed to enter college in 1924, and I was permitted to complete my college work in three years.

Kurt Mayer

We have people who will get on a motorcycle in the dead of winter and ride 350 miles to go to a funeral of a complete stranger and stand there for an hour, at attention, give a salute and go home.

Mohamed Mahdi

There is complete forgery by every way and means.

Lino Spiteri

An opposition leader deals with the Prime Minister, not with component parts of the executive. Were opposition members to go directly to members of the public administration with their queries, the government would surely yell 'foul!' And rightly so.

Ann McInerney

They are a good team watching them on film but it's even better in person. They have all the components you need to be a championship team.

Sen. Hanabusa

This is not an impact study. This is a baseline environmental study that has 17 components that have to be addressed to satisfy the law.

Hiroshi Arano

The recent loss in Tokyo was triggered by factors like the reshuffle of the Nikkei components and tumbles in U.S. shares. It has nothing to do with economic fundamentals in Japan, which have not worsened at all.

Rebecca Makkai

There's a great social component to being a writer, to being an artist.

Nikolaos Scarmeas

We tried to single out which of the components of the diet are driving its effect, but none of them is prominently responsible. But, when we put them together, the effect was there.

Erik Skarvan

The exercise component to this is nice, too.

Juan Ruiz

We are developing the electoral component of the immigrant movement, and we will all see the results at the local, state and national elections.

Madeline Albright

Security is an inherent, inextricable and indispensable component of all our jobs,

John Wells

A show like 'True Detective' is definitely a drama.

David Jones

Once the security cordon is lifted, people will be ready to go back. This is definitely not the end of our protest.

Steve Sarkisian

Definitely there is pressure. I wouldn't be human if I did not say so, but when you get faced with pressure you can go one of two ways. You can take it on and get excited about it, or you can shy away and hide.

Luis Diaz

Definitely the numbers are up. One would think there are also more getting through.

Tariq Khan

Definitely the government is interested in investigating this. But the first priority is to rehabilitate the people,

Ben Leber

Definitely the fans are going to be riled up. It'll help us in the long run. If they can make some noise and get in his head, that would be great.

Ben Leber

Definitely the fans are going to be riled up, ... It'll help us in the long run. If they can make some noise and get in his head, that would be great.

Janet Napolitano

Definitely some work needs to be done, and it's pretty astounding,

Larry Coker

Definitely some things have been improved. But without question, we've got a lot we can work on and we've got to get a lot better to be the team that we want to be.

Bruce Dickinson

Don't ask me to put up a shelf, but I love engineering.

Joanna Lumley

Women are very different to men, and that hasn't been respected. So when people say there's never been a good woman painter or poet or engineer or whatever, they don't understand that our skills are many simultaneously and men's skills are single.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

An engineer cannot participate in irrationality ...

Alfred P. Sloan

Advanced engineering always, like advanced everything else, brings down upon it the discredit of ridicule of minds who cannot see so far.

Debi Thomas

So I went for engineering, specifically product design, which I enjoyed.

Daniel J. Bernstein

I do engineering, not religion.

Andrew Cuomo

What made Manhattan Manhattan was the underground infrastructure, that engineering marvel.

Ray Kurzweil

Those with engineering skills will build tomorrow's genius computers. But those with the ability to create knowledge of any kind will be the ones who are best able to extract great value from them. The way to create value in the age of genius machines will be to compile and disseminate knowledge that other people will find useful.

Simon Newcomb

All attempts at artificial aviation are not only dangerous to human life, but foredoomed to failure from the engineering standpoint.

John Fisher

On those locations that we find a higher number of slow-walking pedestrians, we will lengthen signals.

Carsten Fritsch

The structural problems have not improved and the trend is still to higher deficits. That presents a risk for the dollar.

Luisa Deason

The stakes for illegal aliens are higher now. We see more weapons and, at times, you see people shot.

Michael Butler

The stakes are much higher than they used to be.

Matt Rosoff

Some versions of the product are priced higher than they need to be.

Shawnee Smith

So much of life is just talk. At the end of the day, you're just serving the higher thing.

Alan Greene

Pound for pound, they get higher concentrations of pesticides than adults do.

Fadel Gheit

These stocks are not reflecting $50 or $60 oil. They are probably reflecting $40 oil. But this is not realistic. The fundamentals support a higher price.

Steve Chercover

The stock (Monday) is trading higher than I think it's been in a long while.

Joe Girardi

Those are little hurdles you have to get over. Sometimes you have to learn to pitch with a lead, even if it's a slight lead.

Fatih Terim

We managed to pass the first hurdle by reaching the playoffs.

Mark Rowen

Their model has a lot of hurdles that they need to leap to get it to work.

Mike Tice

This is just another hurdle we have to overcome.

Bill Warlick

It looks like the last hurdles are something they can get over here.

Anthony Zinni

I think, clearly, he is trying to lure us into a possible shoot-down situation, and we are taking every measure to prevent that.

Patti Smith

We did get a request from the publisher to remove the title and we've done so.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?

Ivy Compton-Burnett

Civilized life exacts its toll.