Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Jefferson

As Hurricane Wilma quickly approaches American soil, I fear that our federal response to emergencies is still lacking, ... could not gather that much has changed about where FEMA stands today as it stood at the time Katrina struck.

Matthew Wagner

Our current thinking is around our IT distribution channel and direct. However, that's not to say we're ruling out deep partnerships with operators, which are key to making these products work, and we may collaborate on innovative approaches that leverage our respective strengths.

Mark Fields

Our approach is not thinking how much do we shave dealer margins. Our approach is that as we come up with our products going forward that they have a strong point of view in the marketplace, that they represent good value and good quality to customers so that dealers can earn a good (margin) on them.

Janet Yellen

Our approach during this phase must be particularly dependent on information from incoming data,

Mahathir Mohamad

People tend to respond more positively to the friendly approach than to confrontations. Pushed into a corner, even the weakest will fight.

Jesse Garza

People don't take the time or put thought into it because they believe it's superficial, 'Does this closet reflect who I am?' It's a smart way to approach it.

Matt Busby

People get the impression that we approach football without method: that we're a bunch of skilled individualists. This just isn't so. I'm all for individuality. But I personally go through every tactical plan before every match.

B. F. Skinner

Operators today are constantly looking for ways to lower costs, while at the same time developing more environmentally friendly processes that their customers are demanding. This is an innovative approach from Orange and a service that Greenwoods Communications is looking to develop to meet growing operator demand for recycling, instead of writing off equipment.

Preston Sturges

The more nearly the film cutter approaches the natural law of interest, the more invisible will be his cutting. If the camera moves from one person to another at the exact moment that you in the legitimate theatre would have turned your head, you will not be conscious of a cut.

Wayne Hudson

As far as African-American lieutenants, I believe I am the first.

Elaine Turner

As a registered nurse and community health educator, I believe that we need to do more of these types of events for people of all ages. With the technology of today, it's easy to forget the importance that exercise and healthy living play in our lives.

Laura Bush

As a librarian and a lover of literature I believe it's important for Americans to visit the homes of our most loved and renowned writers.

Rob Thomas

The bottom line is these individuals believed him and he was able to portray himself as the type of person who could pull that off.

David Perlmutter

The bottom line is that this author, a practicing neurologist dealing with Alzheimer's disease on a daily basis, believes we need to expand the public awareness that modifiable lifestyle factors have a profound role to play in determining who will or won't get this disease.

Michael Connelly

The bottom line is that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link. And I have to believe from past experience and knowledge that some of the links in Homeland Security are weak. Part of the story in "Lost Light" is about a weak link in the chain.

Teresa Hostetler

The bottom line is, for each count of sexual battery, and I believe he plead guilty to two, carries a maximum of five years per count. This guy could have spent ten years in jail.

Bob Bailey

The bottom line financially is that we believe QED can be a billion dollar a year business for us within five years, and we think that it will be neutral to our earnings this year,

Jenna McCarthy

The bottom line is, whether you're in it or you're searching for it, I believe marriage is an institution worth pursuing and protecting.

Bill Wright

Some were already hung, but many were stuck away in a closet on the second floor, in various states of disrepair and deterioration.

Mona Williams

You can immediately see what's in the top of that closet and pull it down the next season.

John Stossel

I was a closet stutterer.

Marianne Williamson

God is definitely out of the closet.

John Bauer

But it's sort of like we've come out of the closet now.

John Breaux

Must be in a closet somewhere, on a shelf somewhere. I am really disappointed.

Gene Luen Yang

I grew up on monthly comics. My closet is full of monthly comics. I've always wanted to do a monthly comic, and while I've had a couple of offers, the timing has never worked out. Most superhero comics come into the world as monthly series, so we wanted the same for 'The Shadow Hero.'

Alice Gilborn

She kept it in her upstairs bedroom. It would hang in a closet by its tail.

Gail Goodman

We have people coming in that are reporting that they're having difficulties wondering if they need to go back into the closet and not feeling safe.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled.

Michael White

People train for this all year like the Olympics.

Sarah Davis

People think, 'It's a winter hike, I don't have to take as much water,' but they do.

Dave Chanley

Other people stepped up, and we got enough production to win.

Ben Gordon

Other people may be surprised, but I always thought I should go No. 1.

Patrick Taylor

Other people could come up with different models.

Richard M. Nixon

People see me and they think, "He's risen from the dead.

Nick Kamberis

People scoff at that, but they're legit. We sent his tape out and all 122 are on there.

Sarah Waters

People say, 'You're like Dickens', but I'm not like Dickens. Zadie Smith is a Dickensian writer because she's writing about society now, just as Dickens was writing about his society.

Carlton Forrester

The site is a reflection of society. It's an enter-at-your-own-risk kind of thing.

Joe Gallegos

The score doesn't reflect how well we played.

Craig Thompson

The state of your psyche is reflected in your body.

Stanley Hauerwas

I should like to think how we write as theologians would reflect our confidence in the One who makes that writing possible. That is one of the reasons, moreover, that the scriptures remain paradigmatic for how we are to write.

Ken Starr

Whether the story reflects the facts is obviously a different matter.

Olesya Rulin

I was really blessed with parents who never said I couldn't do anything. And now I reflect as an adult on that, 'Wow, they never told me no!'

Cesar Chavez

Our language is the reflection of ourselves.

Jane Austen

She was not often invited to join in the conversation of the others, nor did she desire it. Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.

Bill Cowher

At this point, it's not about the reflection on what we've accomplished. I'm not into too much reflection. You can do that when the season is over.

Azita Ghanizada

Science fiction fans are the smartest fans in television. They just are. They're just so smart, and they know so much detail and information. They're a part of the story and they inform your character, as well. We all listen to the fans, and we love their feedback and the attention they give us.

James Wan

If I'm smart as an artist, I wouldn't be a snob and turn it down, because I'd look at it and go, this is great stuff, but I definitely do want to experiment in other genres, or make films in other genres.

Socrates

Smart people learn from everything and everyone, Average people from their experiences, Stupid people already have all the answers.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

No company should depend on one person no matter how that person is smart or genius, whether it's Apple or News Corp, or Citibank or any other company in the world.

Alain de Botton

The challenge for a human now is to be more interesting to another than his or her smartphone.

Janet Napolitano

Smart businesses do not look at labor costs alone anymore. They do look at market access, transportation, telecommunications infrastructure and the education and skill level of the workforce, the development of capital and the regulatory market.

John Avlon

The American people are smart. They've gotten sick of the predictable hyperpartisan talking points and canned anger.

Derrick Rose

I don't want to be in my meetings all sore or be at my son's graduation all sore just because of something I did in the past. (I'm) just learning and being smart.

Derrick Rose

I wont ever put myself in a bad position so that people can say bad things about me. I make smart decisions, and my friends and my family, they are all there for the right reason.

Jim Veltman

After you win, you think to yourself, 'Is it time to get out?' But I don't feel like I want to.

Charlie Skelton

The story is timeless and can be done in any era.

Goldie Hawn

The movie actually has a little more back story, more consequence, and I think it's more real actually for this time period.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Rob Allison

Now it's time to really find out what we're going to do and how we're going to do it.

Curtis Sliwa

Now I'm going to have to do a lot of rope-a-dope, never go the same way at the same time to the same places,

Chris Mills

I've never had a better time doing anything -- not just music, but anything,

Bill Cowher

This is not the time to relax. They've had their off time. You can't do that. It's around the corner.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.