Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lucius Thomas

The bottom line is, if the service pay works, the constable with 15 years' service won't be too worried about promotion because it will put him above the young man who is promoted to sergeant.

Carrie Graf

Our aim was to try to keep our head above water. Unfortunately, our head was under water. But we went blue in the face, we came up for air and we're going OK now. We've learned to swim.

Lin Wood

Despite their threats and assertions to the contrary, the AJC, its attorneys and its employees are not above the law and the authority of the court,

Matthew Parry

Despite our belief that crude prices will slowly trend down over the remainder of the year, further escalation in the U.N.-Iran standoff could quite conceivably send oil to a new record above $70.

Martin Charnin

'Annie' was a comic strip with an awful lot of information in it. It had more information in the balloons above the characters than practically any other comic strip that was around. The strip told tales instead of jokes.

Ameen Rihani

An idealist is ahead of his time only in the sense that he is articulate. The same is true of a nation. For even primitive people, even effete races have a message for those above or below them. The heritage of the Ideal, however small can not be exhausted.

Josh Bernoff

Any strategy that gets a message to rise above the clutter is terrific from the advertiser's perspective. Even if it's not much of a secret, it's still a pretty good marketing idea.

Steve Brozak

The silence was really deafening, given that everybody cares about one thing Guidant. Above all, the future of J&J is dictated by what happens with Guidant.

Steve Brozak

The silence was really deafening, given that everybody cares about one thing - Guidant. Above all, the future of J&J is dictated by what happens with Guidant.

M. Wolfe

A few years ago, you could heat a home for $500. Now it takes $1,500. Energy has become a lot less affordable for low-income families.

Michael Mayo

The one issue, the one question that comes to mind, is we need to quantify where the (buyers) are coming from. Some of these units are $1 million and up. Can our work force afford these? We have a crisis of affordable housing in that area already.

Glen Lewinski

The rule is, you can afford a house about 2 1/2 times your income. Well, you'd be hard-pressed to find a $140,000 house around here anymore.

Cory Miller

I've seen students check out anywhere between $250 up to $1,200. The fact that we are a rental (school) can make a difference. Some kids just aren't going to be able to afford those books.

Carl Pohlad

It was tough, but you've got to pay what the market is. It wasn't easy because this sort of thing really isn't our policy. But there's an exception to every rule, and Santana is exceptional. We couldn't afford to lose him.

Ryan Getzlaf

It was a little frustrating to give up a two-goal lead, but we had to win. We couldn't afford to lose tonight.

Lise Buyer

These stocks are for speculators more than investors. The average individual should be very careful that the money they are putting into these stocks is money they can afford to lose. This should be play money.

David Lucas

The zero percent is real effective on those (U.S.) models. Customers shop the monthly payment, so zero percent is what moves the vehicles. As long as they (automakers) can afford to offer zero percent, they're going to be there with it.

David Lucas

The zero percent is real effective on those (U.S.) models, ... Customers shop the monthly payment, so zero percent is what moves the vehicles. As long as they (automakers) can afford to offer zero percent, they're going to be there with it.

Michael Rosenberg

We want to give the lowest dose to get the job done, ... I think it's part of the continued evolution of the pill.

Dwyane Wade

You all (the media) might have made him mad. I think you all lit a fire under him. He's been playing well the last couple of games. He continued to do it today.

Matthew Parry

Gold continues to rally on continued U.S. dollar weakness, a trend I expect to continue over the next week.

Mark Geragos

And that continued through the time that you worked?

Jason Schenker

Strong continued gross domestic product growth and solid employment gains should fuel further home sales and may mitigate some of the slowing engendered by higher interest rates.

Hiroshi Okuda

I want reforms to be continued without pause.

Thomas Frank

American conservatism depends on its continued dominance and even for its very existence on people never making connections about the world, connections that until recent were treated as obvious or self-evident everywhere on the planet.

Ken Goldstein

The performance of the leading index is suggestive of continued momentum or growth in the spring.

Nick Griffin

We are pleased to see continued growth in the Hawaii financial services industry.

Gore Vidal

As dumb as this administration is, they don't look ahead. They don't know where any countries are. They don't know how to make deals. They don't really know much about anything. There is no plan.

Donald Rumsfeld

normally ministers of defense visit countries where there's that type of activity.

Liu Jian

Countries around the world shoulder major responsibility for development.

Christopher Painter

Countries around the world are drafting stronger laws. But hackers will find the weakest link, the country with no laws.

Masiela Lusha

Many countries had a hand in raising me. I am the product of many contradicting philosophies and cultures... My entire universe is comprised of these foreign traditions. If any one of these experiences are to be ignored, I wouldn't be the same.

Paul Rogers

We don't recommend putting a lot of retirement money in it. A small allocation might make sense, depending on your risk profile. It's very much a long-term investment. These countries are evolving and growing, and they have a lot more emerging to do.

Anthony Wayne

to invest in countries that are pursuing policies that are harmful to global stability.

Sven Eriksson

To have the same preparation as all the other countries is important. It would have been very difficult to have one week less.

Chanda Gunn

To see other countries are putting time and effort and money into their programs is a great thing...that's exciting for the future. We just hate to be the team that takes it in the gut.

Steve Huff

It was tough. She was the type of person that made the most of it. She was the type of person who didn't like to talk to anybody, but knew she had obligations to do so to promote the donor program.

P. J. Harvey

This is not a story of donors being mean. This is a story of a failed system.

Peter Bate

What donors find useful is to provide resources to try to guide the main work of these organizations so they go as far upstream as they can when the projects are being prepared to ensure the projects acknowledge their development priorities.

Don Stewart

When they leave the program, when they turn 18, The Haven will match up to $1,000 of whatever they save. Then, at the end of 12 months of the Turning Point program with Turtle Nest, whatever they've been able to save during that 12-month period, our donors will match up to $2,500.

Justin McNaull

The thing we hit as we head into fall is leaf-peeping, and leaf-peeping takes a lot of gas,

Mario Hernandez

It was all on fire and the roof had fallen in.

Phil Boyer

The statistics don't support planes falling out of the sky.

Marcus Miller

This is the first time we've played soccer in the spring; we have just played in the fall in the past, so it's kind of fun to see some different teams.

bell hooks

If you do not know what you feel, then it is difficult to choose love; it is better to fall. Then you do not have to be responsible for your actions.

Clark Blaise

India is decidedly not anything that was part of my upbringing or part of my experience or part of my preparation. I really fell into it the way one should fall into it, you know - through love.

Elizabeth Scott

..."Are you okay?" he says, still looking at me, and I feel my smile slip, fade, and the silence that falls over us then is so total I can’t hear anything, not the rush-hiss of my heart pounding in my chest, not the sounds all around us; insects, wind, and the distant clatter of others’ lives in houses built close but not too close because when we look out our windows we all like to pretend that everything we see is ours. But Ryan is not mine.

Billy Connolly

Chic Murray once told me he fell in the street, and a woman said to him, Did you fall? He said, No, I'm tryin' to break a bar of chocolate in my back pocket.

Boris Pasternak

A conscious attempt to fall asleep is sure to produce insomnia, to try to be conscious of one's own digestion is a sure way to upset the stomach. Consciousness is a poison when we apply it to ourselves. Consciousness is a light directed outward. it's like the headlights on a locomotive—turn them inward and you'd have a crash.

Kate Ziegler

As far as the world record goes, it still seems so far away from me, ... As far as the world championships . . . I'm just so happy how it's gone.

Ronald Zarrella

As far as theories, there's a lot of them, and we've run a lot of them to ground and come up with nothing.

Bobby Hatfield

As far as our song list... I think between the two of us knew seven songs... for the whole night... we did a lot of variations on those seven songs.

Warren Sapp

As far as me, as a teammate of mine? I love him.

Rod Thorn

As far as we were concerned, we had a good season, with a real nice run at the end. But now, things start over.

Mark Rey

The supporters have been far quieter than the people who have found problems with it.

Kasey Chambers

I've lived more than most 25-year-olds ... but I still have a far way to go.

Kevin Correia

I've always liked starting better than relieving. That's what I want to do. As far as I'm concerned, that's the goal of my career. I've tried relieving. If that's what I need to do, I'll do it, but I'm shooting to be a starter. I've done it for most of my career. I like being in the game longer. I'm a 'feel' pitcher. Once I get through the first inning I feel better, and I work off that. A relief pitcher, one inning is all he gets.

Corey Ostman

AFC is as far away from high tech as you can get. At the moment that's a good thing.

Phil Simms

The team performed even better than I thought they would,

John Eaton

I wait until something is really in the shape that I want to make it as a permanent record, because I think of recording as a permanent record.

China Anne McClain

On Disney, we stick to the script. But you go to the 'Grown Ups set' and it's completely different. Same thing with Tyler Perry - it's nothing but ad-libbing.

Brian Tracy

Persistence is self-discipline in action.

Jamie Redknapp

I am a positive person and do not allow things to get on top of me.

Aung San Suu Kyi

The four basic ingredients for success are: you must have the will to want something; you must have the right kind of attitude; you must have perseverance, and then you must have wisdom. Then you combine these four and then you get to where you want to get to.

Brent Weeks

The perfect killer has no friends. Only targets.

Booth Tarkington

Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.

Edward Norton

As we say in the sewer, if you're not prepared to go all the way, don't put your boots on in the first place.

Donald E. Graham

The rich are staying in school, and the poor are being drafted. I can't live with that.

Marsha Kello

The poor little thing is so little that we didn't even notice.

John Bunting

You get off to a poor start in the third quarter and things start rolling the other way. It starts snowballing a little bit.

Alexander Pope

Who sees pale Mammom pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor.

Marilynne Robinson

It is a good thing to know what it is to be poor, and a better thing if you can do it in company.

Isabelle Eberhardt

We are, all of us, poor wretches, and those who prefer not to understand this are even worse off than the rest of us.

Horace

He is not poor who has a competency.

Chipper Jones

If he was trying to take me out, he did a poor job.

Robert Shaw

There's no future in being poor.

Andrew Harrington

Prices have been rarely, if ever, this high. Now is the time to make hay.

Ken Budd

These are not the prices we voted on.

Edgar Allan Poe

To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.

Anu Garg

Hindi is my mother tongue. Even though I do not get to use it as often, it's still a part of me.

John Parsons

Even though he never said anything; you could just tell,

Ted Turner

I love this planet I want to see the environment preserved and I want to see the human race preserved. And I'd like to see everybody living decently in a more equitable, kind-hearted, thoughtful, generous world.

Hillary Clinton

I think it is appropriate when you look at the test that you have to meet to be commander-in-chief for Americans to be thoughtful about, you know, who has the experience and the approach that is best likely to work.

Emily Saliers

Now I know a refuge never grows from a chin in a hand in a thoughtful pose gotta tend the earth if you want a rose.

Jack Nicholson

You are more thoughtful because you don't act as quickly anymore. When I turned 70 it was the first time I felt young for my age. Fifty dropped on me like a ton of bricks - there is something about that number - but when 70 came along I felt good about it.

Harold Russell

Yet compared with the serious things of life, fishing is after all rather trivial. The thoughtful angler must frankly confess this.

Honore de Balzac

Intuition, like the rays of the sun, acts only in an inflexibly straight line; it can guess right only on condition of never diverting its gaze; the freaks of chance disturb it.