Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Adams

Any exposed piping, go ahead and cover it with foam insulation.

Ian Shepherdson

As far as we can tell, confidence now seems to have run a bit ahead of the improvement in the stock market, and the failure of the Nasdaq and Dow to make further progress in recent weeks makes it doubtful that confidence will continue to rise at the May pace. The sharp rise in unemployment is likely to become a negative factor, too.

Susan Kalla

As far as technological innovation they are ahead of the Bells. Whether they can leverage the technology to put them on an even position with the Bells -- it's possible but not probable.

David Goodwin

As developers, we have to keep a little ahead of the game, ... This is an area that's on the move.

Priscilla Feral

As far as a tourism boycott which I had called off, it will be organized again. As much as we are floored to get the news, we are determined to go ahead and keep working.

Michael J. Anderson

As good as 'Twin Peaks' was, and I mean, it's a superb work that's way ahead of its time, and we've never caught up, and we never will... I mean, we will never catch up to 'Twin Peaks.'

Michael Cuggino

As a general rule, techs got ahead of themselves last year. There's a 'priced to perfection' mentality with tech now.

Kimberly Harris

The bottom line is we are working to give our customers and our utility more energy independence. Over the long term we're trying to shield our customers, as much as we can, from the financial stings an unstable energy market can inflict. The way to do that, we believe, is to plan ahead -- to invest now and secure the energy resources and infrastructure needed to serve our region long into the future.

Phil Singer

The bottom line is that if you're an average American, it's pretty hard to get heard by George Bush and get ahead in today's economy. But if you're a big contributor, or a powerful corporate interest, you get heard loud and clear.

Michael Korda

An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition.

Kate Fox

The British male is either reticent, tongue-tied and awkward, or boorish and crass, and he usually consumes too much alcohol. English male flirting tends to be very circuitous, and involves a lot of insults rather than compliments.

Alan Johnson

The British government was disappointed that the meeting did not make more progress but relieved it did not end in failure like Cancun and Seattle.

John Scarlett

The skills of the British intelligence community are a great national asset.

Jessie Matthews

The songwriters were introduced to me as ordinary human beings; they would play their songs, and sometimes I would start to sing a song with them.

Rhona Mitra

I wanted to go out and experience the fields.

Lord Acton

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the party that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.

Shahid Malik

the most profound challenge yet faced by the British Muslim community.

Martin Rees

Some things, like the orbits of the planets, can be calculated far into the future. But that's atypical. In most contexts, there is a limit. Even the most fine-grained computation can only forecast British weather a few days ahead. There are limits to what can ever be learned about the future, however powerful computers become.

Sylvia Pankhurst

A wondrous city of fairest carving, reflected in gleaming waters swirled to new patterning by every passing gondola.

Richard Danzig

a wonderful opportunity for the city of New York and the Navy to combine together to display the nature of sea power.

Carlos Torres

As of this point, we most definitely know we have one in Orange County and one in the city of Winter Garden.

John Sattler

As of late last night, we have been in all parts of the city, ... We have liberated the city of Falluja.

Julie Laird

Rainier is the city of license, but since we are so close, we can actually run the station from our offices in Longview.

Steve Sigmund

Ramon Martinez is a senior person with enormous and valuable experience in the Council and in city and federal government.

Thomas Finlan

Rather than Oil City starting those two classes ourselves and have those two teachers be without jobs, we would rather have their knowledge and expertise in their classrooms.

Donald Rumsfeld

problem that's faced by police forces in every major city in our country - that criminals infiltrate and sign up to join the police force.

Darrell Smith

Problems and delays in the implementation of Hansen 8 have become a significant concern in the city administration as well as City Council.

Klaus Toepfer

We have a duty to rescue our closest living relatives as part of our wider responsibilities to conserve the ecosystems they inhabit.

Ben Bucca

This was the closest tennis match I have been involved in in six years. A couple points here and there, and it could have gone the other way.

Anita Tucker

This was the closest site to Beersheba, so we drove down one day with our three children,

Ryan MacMurchy

We might not be the most talented team, but I think we're definitely one of the closest teams and definitely one of the most competitive teams ever.

Hanya Yanagihara

The first thing I do whenever I go to Thailand is seek out the closest restaurant or stall selling mango-and-sticky rice: it's a little hillock of glutinous rice drenched in lashings of coconut milk and served with fresh mango.

Chris Martin

We are committed to meeting the needs of our communities and feel it's time to implement a new system that allows patients to receive treatment at the closest hospital.

Michael Nash

Unfortunately, the national conference only takes the top two teams and no one placed in the top five. Our closest winner was Dominique Rivers who finished 20th in Fundamental Word Processing.

Paul Edwards

Well, look around and find the closest trash can and throw it in there and start over.

Les Brown

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Bob Stallman

So you do have your work cut out for you, ... I'm not going to pretend this is going to be easy here in this county. But other counties have managed to defeat these kinds of initiatives.

Gary Bartlett

This is simply a guide for us to know what steps the counties have completed, what steps they still need to take and what we can do to help.

Dan Doherty

You never say, 'Let's forget about it,' but it's how you react to it. We have two seasons left: counties and states. Tomorrow is the first day of practice for the second season.

Mike Love

Broward County is the first county of substantial size to do so. The 10 largest counties generate 80 percent of the work.

Larry Thomas

Even though we're not going to be getting into a water shortage in the next year, we need to start planning. It's taken other counties more than 10 years to put everything together and get everyone on board.

S. Walker

Those weeds have been reduced by the 70-80 percent range in my counties (Lake and Chaffee).

Ron Miller

Imagine the economic impact to the area, the state and the nation if no one in McLean and Tazewell counties could farm for two years. That's the kind of impact this flooding will have.

William Daley

Now that the legal hurdles have been cleared, the counting can resume in Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade Counties ... with these legal obstacles gone, we hope these counts can be finished in the next few days,

Dave Ellis

If something catastrophic happened, there are five counties we know can respond in hours,

Gabriela Forte

Any help or donation, no matter how small, will be deeply appreciated and is much needed.

M. Wolfe

Athletically, Manual is big, they're deep and they're fast. They have the whole package. We just went through three in a row that nobody wants to go through.

Phyllis Oakley

prompted by a growing concern, deeply held, about the future of the country's national security.

Gary Chapman

Our shooting wasn't there tonight. The first quarter turnovers hurt us, and Hobbs' hot shooting got us too deep in the hole.

David Harrison

People don't realize how deep this team is. They probably walked in and saw J.O., Ron and J.T. out, and they probably overlooked us. I don't think people should do that.

Mark McClellan

People do have time to take a deep breath. They don't need to rush into a decision.

Tiger Woods

On this course, the way it's playing, it's not easy. It's hard to take it deep on the South Course.

Ramez Naam

Orwell wasn't right about where society was in 1984. We haven't turned into that sort of surveillance society. But that may be, at least in small part, because of his book. The notion that ubiquitous surveillance and state manipulation of the media is evil is deeply engrained in us.

Brad Johnson

Offensively, he's as deep as you're going to find. He has enough stuff ready every week to get you through four or five games.

John Donne

As he that fears God fears nothing else, so, he that sees God sees everything else

Chris Rainier

As a result of 9/11, we in the U.S. are living in a state of fear,

Michelle Jones

People had a knee-jerk reaction to groups of people. The more you understand something, the less you fear it.

Justin Long

And that's been the challenge, making the fear real.

Bible Bible

Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God? / But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.

Bobby Miller

A prison made of steel and stone I can endure, and have endured, but never could I survive being locked away in one with walls made of fear and ghost for guards.

George Bernard Shaw

The slave of fear: the worst of slaveries

Joanna Southcott

The Spirit of the Lord is with them that fear him.

Greek proverb

The silence of a treacherous man is to be feared even more than his words

Bobby Frasor

Now I foul out of the game and it looks like I'm a hack. It's frustrating. Hopefully I can just come out tomorrow and play a great game.

Victor Snyder

They are a big help, especially when someone gets in foul trouble.

Armando Johnson

That's when I knew we were in a tough situation when Walter got into foul trouble. That's a lot of our offensive production, and it really hurts when we're not doing hardly anything outside. Our guards couldn't get a shot off.

Tony Bethel

That's what was open. Guys were able to get by their man and make plays, or get a foul called.

Chris Bosh

That's free points. You're going to have to reward yourself for taking it hard to the lane and putting pressure on their big guys, putting them in foul trouble and making them pay.

Steve Fisher

We're a better shooting team because of what Gregg Gottlieb has done every single day in practice for 10-15 minutes without fail. And we have become a team that you better not foul us, because we're going to make every free throw. That wins games. We'll take it and not apologize. If you have good players and you have talent, you can find a way that when you are sputtering a bit, hold on and get a win. We did that.

Mark Schmidt

We have really struggled at the foul line. I don't know why.

Schalk Bornman

We do not suspect any foul play at the moment but an inquest docket has been opened.

Justin Horne

(Diels) wanted me to take it to the hole. I haven't been shooting well from the outside so I tried to get to the foul line and take it from there.

Paul Schubert

We can no longer be simply a hiking association. We must reach out.

Brownie McGhee

When I was hitch-hiking, people had to follow me, 'cause I didn't stay long.

Roger Taylor

I like Target. I like the ones in the Midwest, personally. We don't really have those in England yet.

Susan Orlean

I don't like hiking with convicts carrying machetes.

Tom Brown, Jr.

The place where you lose the trail is not necessarily the place where it ends.

Soren Kierkegaard

Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.

John Muir

Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.

Michael Caine

When you reach the top, that's when the climb begins.

G. M. Trevelyan

After a day's walk everything has twice its usual value.

Kent Carper

Orlando is a popular destination from Charleston, West Virginia, like a lot of other places, It has a need, already historical trips and they're interested in looking at pieces like Charleston.

Mark Miles

After reviewing the information provided, we find the report to be adequate. Therefore there will be no historic properties affected.

Julian Barnes

The Sixties were an oyster decade: slippery, luxurious and reportedly aphrodisiac they slipped down the historical throat without touching the sides

Kofi Annan

seize the opportunity ... and make it truly the historic occasion it should be.

Colm Feore

I've played all kinds of historical characters, but they are stuck in movies that aren't their movies.

Bill Shelton

The shoreline is a tribal resource, a historic resource and an important part of tribal identity.

Russ Diamond

The will of the people will make 2006 a historic year.

Kwame Brown

This is historic that we're talking about this at all. We should all be proud.

Les Moonves

This is a truly historical meeting of the established and new media.

Mary Pope Osborne

A vacation for me is when I'm home and I'm writing.

Paul Kariya

At home we just have to score in shootouts and obviously Sullivan and I didn't do that tonight.

Morris Peterson

At home, it's all about pride, and to lose so many at home at the start of the season, that was telling was that we had no character.

Joe Duffy

At home I'm obedient. The first day I'm back, I usually just listen to what she tells me to do.

Charlie Ebersol

As long as you're centering back to home base, and that's the strongest magnet in your life, that everything else is okay.

Martin Rucinsky

That's where we go when we miss home.

David Jones

People don't mind spending money on their homes and basement.

Carrie Martin

People get really comfortable, and they don't want to leave. These people's lives have been completely uprooted. This is the only home they've known for weeks.

Thomas Campbell

O Star-eyed Science! hast thou wandered there, to waft us home the message of despair?

Confucius

He who sling mud, lose ground.

Plautus

Vulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud.

Mike Lawrence

Marsh is more pleasant to look at than kind of a mud bank.

Gertrude Stein

You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.

Robert Schwartz

We're not surprised that he would try to muddy the waters.

Astro Teller

Find some fun way to get a little more oil on your hands or mud on your boots. Sometimes, that's what it takes to take down some of the really big problems.

Lester Funk

We're 16-4 right now, but we could be 0-20 and the sportsmanship has to be there whether we win or lose.

Mary Pierce

I think it is possible. Whether it happens, I don't know.

Nick Cave

Everything that's said against me offends me, whether it's true or not.

Tom Woods

I don't know whether 3-3 would do for us, I don't know if 4-2 would do. But I know 6-0 would do.

F. Schumacher

That has to be our target. Whether it's realistic, we'll find out in Bahrain.

Billy Graham

I found that this Parkinson's does slow you down, whether you want to slow down or not.

Andrew Lau

With every movie, I try to do something different, whether it's action, comedy or drama.

Susan Anthony

We need to see whether this is a one-off or more serious.

Jackie Williams

We as women are all winners, whether we are daughters, sisters, wives and mothers, and that's who I will be representing.