Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rod Nilsestuen

As electricity prices continue to rise in Wisconsin and the costs of renewable energy systems continue to fall, a growing number of the state's large farms are implementing anaerobic digestion to reduce their utility bills and improve the environmental performance on the farm.

Bernadette Chiaro

As huge energy bills hit California mailboxes this month, there is no better time to jumpstart a mainstream solar power market. Today's vote promises to eclipse expensive and imported fossil fuels with clean and homegrown solar power.

Jay Alan Sekulow

As a private lawyer, I could bill $750 an hour, but I don't.

Sam Bodman

As a result of tight oil and gas markets, and the damage done by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, it's likely that consumers will see an increase in their heating bills this winter,

Steve Tasker

The Buffalo Bills are a punch line. We were always the team that couldn't win the big game. But we kept getting to the big game.

F. Stone

As of 2004, the New York State wine industry brings in about $3.3 billion in New York State. It'd be nice to get a piece of that in Jefferson County.

Duaner Sanchez

As long as it ends this way, I'm OK with it. I just wanted to be sure Billy had a lead when he came in.

Jason Napodano

Off the top of my head, $1.3 billion sounds like a lot of money. I think it will be a billion dollar drug but it will take some time.

Mark Hansen

The Senate passes dozens of bills every year to crack down on drunk drivers.

Kenneth Blackwell

They reality is that we have 70% of our voters use a punch card system that I tried to change and that bipartisan resistance in the legislature stopped.

Marsha Blackburn

The American people have made it abundantly clear that they want less government, not more. They want problems solved in a bipartisan manner, not the creation of new problems.

Carla Blanton

I think if you use last year as a guidepost, the governor was successful in overcoming issues and working in a bipartisan manner with both chambers.

Dana Perino

We had hoped the hearings would be finished by the end of the year. However, we have tremendous confidence in Sen. Specter, who handled Chief Justice Roberts' confirmation process so well. We are encouraged by the bipartisan momentum that has set the vote on the Senate floor for January 20th.

William Daley

Gov. Bush should follow the example set by his father and by Bob Dole and participate in the universally broadcast Presidential Commission debates. The American people come first, and the bipartisan Presidential Commission debates will reach the largest possible number of viewers.

Gene Sperling

If having a separate vote on tax cuts turns out to be a means of getting a bipartisan balanced-budget agreement, we're open to that.

W. Hull

I'd particularly like to thank you, the Legislature, for your outstanding bipartisan support of our efforts to protect our citizens.

Steve Forbes

I think when those hearings are held or completed, public opinion will be such that he will be removed from office with full bipartisan support.

Stephen Hess

A big, bipartisan vote sends a message to the Iraqis and the White House. It's very, very significant.

Carolina Milanesi

As competition continues to drive price pressure at the low end and a design and technology 'arms race' at the high end, the survival of the fittest depends more and more on economies of scales, or very carefully cut out niche markets.

Marc Chouinard

As a hockey player, it's one of the things you dread. It made me realize to be careful out there, especially when you have your back to the play.

Nick Harkaway

Professional politicians will say anything, and they're always careful to leave themselves room to turn around and do the other.

James Graham

The show is going on 100% Sunday night. We have a ton of contingency plans in place -- for everything from light rain to lightning to a full-on storm. We're just rolling with it. We're watching it carefully hour by hour.

James Fallows

The technology of nonstop news and the Internet means that allegations that would have been carefully checked out a generation ago no longer are. We now have a 24-hour-a-day news cycle. News gets used up very quickly and there's a constant hunger for new tidbits.

Carol Olson

The Swiss Tropical Institute will be responsible for selecting patients and carefully monitoring the trials,

John W. Thompson

The thing we have to be careful of is that the Internet is a global communications medium, and if one country tips the balance in regulating its use or regulating what companies or individuals do on the web, it could have an economic impact that might be unintended, quite frankly, by the regulations themselves.

Rick Wolff

I've always been careful because what is the difference between this and paying somebody $70 an hour to teach my kid how to play piano, 'cause I can't play piano?

Paul Dergarabedian

The movies didn't inspire people as much as they did last year. People are being more careful about how they spend their discretionary income with gas at $3 a gallon.

Tony Hitt

Another sister of mine, Kathie, and Jimmy Acosta, and their three children, are en route, having to go out through Texas, and then head north. They're on their way to Tennessee where they all plan to take up residence, and enroll their children Christopher, 17, and Tyler, 11 in our schools here.

Bible Bible

As for the Jebusites the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the children of Judah could not drive them out; but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Judah at Jerusalem unto this day.

Joanna Scott

As children know, there's lots of fun in nonsense. We never stop benefiting from staying flexible, open and responsive, even in the midst of confusion.

Paul Houston

As children are growing up in an increasingly diverse world, they need to have exposure to people different than themselves. I'm not saying it can't happen outside the public system, but it happens easily in the public system in many cases.

Wendy Nehring

As a young girl, I wanted to be a first-grade teacher. When I was about 12 years old, I saw an Easter Seals commercial on television that really made me want to do something in my life in which I would help children with I/DD.

Rodman Philbrick

As a writer, I'm convinced that encouraging children to write fiction, to hook into that marvelous machine called the imagination, has to be good for everyone.

Jose Andres Puerta

As a chef and father, it kills me that children are fed processed foods, fast food clones, foods loaded with preservatives and high-fructose corn syrup.

Maeve Binchy

As a memorial, I'd like a statue. Not of me, but a little modern statue, in marble or bronze, maybe of a bird, in a park where children could play and people going by could see it. On it, I'd just like it to say: 'Maeve Binchy, storyteller' and people could look at the name and remember that they'd seen it somewhere else.

Stephen Pagliuca

As a father of four, I want our children to enjoy the freedoms and opportunities that are the fruit of progressive values.

Frances Johnson

The National Elections Commission (NEC) is confident that the months of work that NEC staff and international partners have been pouring into the electoral process will result in a successful election that all Liberians can be proud of,

Phyllis Schlafly

Do you really think that serving on the Texas Lottery Commission helps the resume of a Supreme Court nominee?

Zahir Azimi

Defense Minister has been deeply angered over the issue and constituted a commission to probe it independently.

Stephen Jones

Dead men don't tell tales. We don't want a Lee Harvey Oswald here. We don't want an Oliver Stone movie. We don't want a Warren Commission report.

M. Wolfe

I've always been concerned about this dangerously cozy relationship between the joint commission and the hospital industry generally, and the individual hospitals that it looks at,

Jacqueline Salame

A flagpole is a structure. The Historic District Commission never objected to the content of a flag.

Kevin Farrell

Thanks to the generous support from donors, including the European Commission and EU member states, at the moment we have commitments for about 50 percent of our needs through to December.

Ron Porter

Quite frankly, I question their value. I'm not sure how much the commission can absorb, because they're going to be getting a variety of viewpoints.

Mike Cormack

The sale of the Archipelago brokerage subsidiary was obligated by an order of the Securities and Exchange Commission as a condition to Archipelago's acquisition of the Pacific Exchange, Inc., in September 2005.

Christine Lagarde

There will not be consensus and there will not be major progress (in Hong Kong),

Tony Blair

That's why it's important, I think, that as long as it takes -- and maybe it's not possible to reach consensus at the moment -- that there is a reform of the Security Council at some stage.

David George

Don't run the consensus up, especially not in the first quarter.

Jeoff Hall

Anecdotes, including purchasing manager surveys and regional and national Fed indices, do little to support the consensus view of a 210,000 gain. Moreover, the market has a tendency to overestimate November payrolls.

Money Magazine

Earnings are supposed to be up 10 percent by the second quarter of 2002 if you look at the consensus numbers, ... But our guess is that they'll be down about 10 percent by the second quarter of 2002.

Bill Hornbarger

Everyone wants to get through the Fed with the affirmation. The consensus in the marketplace is no move out of the Fed and I do think that's been priced into the market.

Ron James

(Ferraro) has a model of what he wants, and either I fit into that model or I don't. When the season ends, we'll come to a consensus if we're heading in the right direction or the wrong direction.

Michael Shifter

There's no consensus on how to move forward.

Allan Meltzer

There's more consensus . . . within the economics profession about how the world works than there was in the 1950s, '60s and '70s.

Roger Toussaint

The struggle and defiance and unfortunately sacrifice will be required and will occur and judges need to understand that, the courts need to understand that and the lawmakers need to understand that.

Robert Hager

If the administrative phase is conducted in two different courts and it leads to two different verdicts, then prudence and judicial economy would tell us that these proceedings should be consolidated into one court. It only makes sense.

Octavio Paz

...chases after it, mocks it, courts it, hugs it, sleeps with it; it is his favorite plaything and his most lasting love.

Joe Solmonese

The American people deserve justice, not prejudice. With judges like Pryor on the courts of appeal, the Supreme Court is more important than ever.

Mary Pierce

Kim has been incredible on hard courts this year.

Michael Adams

Josef Ackermann's personal integrity is not in question. He didn't see the red line that some courts have seen. But it's a squishy concept.

Adam Barrett

I think we all feel better going into the tournament, including me. We know the layout of the Dome. We understand that the courts and the backboards are different. It's a different environment, but we've been there, so we understand that.

Gary Wagher

In the '80s, the water would seep up through the cracks when it warmed up and the courts would be slick. Plus, they sloped the courts from the east to the west instead of putting a slight grade on each side so that it would slop either direction. That didn't help with the drainage.

Matthew Myers

In this case, the courts are going to find that the FDA is right,

Elizabeth Warren

Because policymakers often rely on think tanks' research when crafting laws and regulations, it's critical to know whether these organizations are truly independent.

Probably the saddest thing you'll ever see is a mosquito sucking on a mummy. Forget it, little friend.

Jack Whitaker

People forget that (Facenda) was a great news man, ... They just think of him as the voice of NFL Films. John was a great fan. We had a great set up for 12 years.

Steve Alford

The staff really worked hard at trying to get (players) to forget about what happened Saturday. The seniors then did the rest.

African Proverb

The sun does not forget a village just because it is small

Mark LaBarbera

The term 'crusader' is a positive thing. Forget about what happened 1,000 years ago. Let's look at just recently in history. When people talk about Rosa Parks they talk about someone who's a crusader for racial justice. When we think about crusaders here we think about the image of people who are crusaders for social justice.

Kyle Lohse

I wanted to go out there and get a good start, so I can forget about everything that happened,

Robert McCracken

The most infectiously joyous men and women are those who forget themselves in thinking about and serving others" ()

H. Tejomayananda

Some smile to forget, some forget to smile.

Edmund Burke

So to be patriots as not to forget that we are gentlemen.

Brad Garrett

I feel very, very grateful. I'm a lucky guy, you need a lot of luck, and then when the cameras roll, you have to have this group of writers, directors, and actors that just gel, and it seems to literally be happening more and more.

Celia Rivenbark

And I reminded myself that it's easy to be grateful for the obvious blessings in life, much harder to be grateful for the tough moments and the lessons they teach.

Demetri Martin

I know about Woodstock probably as much as your average person who is over 30, where I'd know Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead.

Conor McGregor

Be passionate, be optimistic, be grateful.

Conor McGregor

Appreciate your surroundings and be grateful for it and that's when good things happen.

Bram Stoker

Euthanasia" is an excellent and comforting word! I am grateful to whoever invented it.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

What is happiness and unhappiness? It depends so little on the circumstances; it depends really only on what happens inside a person. I am grateful for every day and that makes me happy.

Eckhart Tolle

When you accept what is, you are grateful for whatever situation arises,

William Wordsworth

There is a luxury in self-dispraise;And inward self-disparagement affordsTo meditative spleen a grateful feast.

Toby Keith

Probably 75 percent of the people in this town think I'll fail, and the other 25 percent hope I fail,

Peja Stojakovic

Probably I won't be available. My knee is still hurting. Hopefully we can get it better.

Jim Bolla

Officially, all we're saying is she's suspended right now. It's day-to-day, and hopefully when we get to Reno, we can get some things resolved one way or the other.

Christian Prudhomme

After seven years of implacable domination, there will be a different race which I hope will be open.

Dave Roberts

The more interesting we make this, the more I'll have to try to push the envelope. But hopefully it doesn't come to that.

David Nabarro

The more I find out about an influenza pandemic and the lack of readiness, the more I am concerned. But I am more hopeful about the scope for international cooperation.

Andrea Gaston

The team has been doing everything right mentally and physically, so now we just have to hope that we peak at the right time.

Kirk Pedersen

Right now we are struggling a little big with our relay teams. We are going to work on those and hopefully get them to run a little better.

Mike Slive

Right now, there is peace in the valley. We hope to keep it that way for a little while.

Jose Canseco

Proof Positive, I'm a very positive person and I've moved on.

Douglas Alexander

The style of politics that Damian McBride represents has been discredited, and Labour has moved on.

Mats Sundin

I've told Tomas already if you see me coming, move over.

Darius Hargrove

It was tough. But we've got to move on.

Jamie Friedman

The stock moved up pretty quickly, so we changed.

Maurice Cheeks

I've been over there before. We have to move on. You can't always live in the past of what we did or what we were. The Blazers moved on and I moved on.

Stuart Bailey

Things are set up here to move really fast.

Frank Cook

Things often don't seem strange until after you move in.

Ronald Walters

This is a wise move on her part. This race was framed from the beginning.

Larry Jensen

Even if the reports are good, I'm still not going in unless I have to.

Dwayne Andreas

I never knew what a reporter looked like.

Robert Scheer

I was a finalist for the Pulitzer as a reporter.

Charles Parker

They called 911 and reported it to the police,

David Sedaris

But I'm a humorist. I'm not a reporter, I never pretended to be a reporter.

Arthur Helps

Vague injurious reports are no men's lies, but all men's carelesness.

Shaharyar Khan

We have seen these reports and we are trying to find out whether he has said these things.

Henry A. Kissinger

a review of withdrawal strategy ... seems in order.

Dave Dombrowski

I'm going to sit down with Trams and review what's going on. It's an important day.

Benigno Aquino III

I remove a lot of the pressure from myself by saying I'm not competing with my parents. They are the persons who taught me my ideology. They actively practiced what they preached. They're the exemplars and the role models. So how does one compete with a mentor?

Eric Walters

I wrote my first 30 books as a teacher. I would read to my classes, and they'd give me feedback. I was trying to role model.

Carroll Quigley

In fact, violence as a symbol of our growing irrationality has had an increasing role in activity for its own sake, when no possible justification could be made that the activity was seeking to resolve a problem.

Charles Barkley

I'm not paid to be a role model, parents should be role models.

Asa Butterfield

For every role you get, there are five roles that you don't.

Ben Foster

The roles I'm interested in or have been interested in, you know, it's going to get down to conflict. Drama is conflict - conflict of interests.

Donna Mills

You know, when they called me about the role, I thought Knots Landing was a show about a houseboat with Andy Griffith!

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

It's always the script first choosing roles. [Then] whoever else is attached. I never like to be the first person attached, because I don't really trust what's going on, unless there's a really good director.

Anthony Hopkins

I don't have any [favourite role]. I'm just a working actor.

Brandon McArthur

The series isn't over. Tomorrow is another day.

Scott Hatteberg

The whole series was tough. When I look back on things, yeah, I wish they were different.

Rahul Dravid

The way we've won this series is heartening.

James Van Der Beek

When you're the lead of a series, things happen around you, and you react to them.

Joe Berlinger

Each film stands on its own. But we have a series that hangs together and is visually arresting.

Pat Murray

We fumbled on our first series and then threw the interception on our second,

Phil Garner

Getting this World Series start is probably going to go a long way in getting him over the Tennessee loss.

Ryan Miller

I don't want that to be the way this series is remembered.

Victor Diaz

I was so stressed. Every at-bat's been like the World Series for me.

Alan McCoy

This is not chest-thumping. This is not done to intimidate. It is about serving our customers." ()

Bob Woods

We always want to work on our serving and serve-receiving.

Andy Reid

Offensively, we've got a ways to go now. We need to get back on track.

Mike Stoops

More and more we need to find ways to get them on the field. They are very athletic, and I think they can contribute.

Devin Brown

There are so many different ways you can do that.

Tom Daschle

I think it's important for us to try to find ways to work together,

Nathan Rosane

In U.S. ways so that when we leave, we don't have to come back.

Phil Savage

There are other ways to get up there to get him.

Andrew Jones

It's really sad, but in a lot of ways it was time.

Warren McCormick

Not at all. But there are ways to do it properly." ()

Emma Roberts

There's not a lot of original ways to get attention in the press.