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.

Margaret Spellings

As children across America get ready to start classes, our thoughts and prayers are with the children who are living along the Gulf Coast and who may not be able to return to their schools for weeks or months. I'm working with the White House Task Force on Hurricane Katrina Response in order to find ways that we can help these children in any way we can. We will stick with these communities for as long as it takes to get them back on their feet.

Nicola Sturgeon

As a young woman in politics, with few women around, you start to subconsciously behave like men in politics. That comes across as quite hard, tough and humorless, but you're trying to be taken seriously.

Johann Lamont

As a youngster, I travelled every year across the sea to Tiree. On occasion, we ventured to Skye on the Kyleakin-Kyle of Lochalsh ferry, where there is now a bridge.

Mitch Golub

As dealerships move more of their advertising online, they are choosing partners that deliver the highest quality of shoppers and that have the greatest impact on their bottom line. We are proud to be a premiere choice, and will continue our commitment to quality across several new online products we launched at the National Automobile Dealers Association's 89th Annual Convention and Exposition in Orlando.

Ken Cassar

...As consumers increase their use of the Internet, the opportunity for the Web to influence their online and off-line shopping behavior grows. Simply put, businesses must integrate across channels.

Rashid Johnson

As an undergrad at Columbia College in Chicago, I came across 'Boondocks,' and then I watched the 'Boondocks' television show.

Lynn Coady

As a novelist, you have to pick your battles. You are tired. You have begun to experience the first ominous tinglings of carpal tunnel syndrome. You wake up in the middle of the night with both hands lying across your chest like a couple of plucked bird carcasses, dead of all sensation.

Rupert Murdoch

As a broadcaster, he had an uncanny knack of knowing what people across the country were thinking.

Gary Ozzello

Primarily what you're trying to do when you build a compensation package is not that different in some ways from the recruiting process - you want to come up with as attractive an offer as possible to be as competitive as possible.

Jim Marks

People retreat to the sidelines, licking their wounds. The whole process is not as attractive anymore.

Takahide Kiuchi

People's sentiment is changing. They don't mind spending more for attractive goods.

Robert Ray

Offering a BIG Dow contract with a $25 multiplier is very attractive to a broad spectrum of market participants.

James Awad

North Fork Bancorp stock is selling at about 20. We think its fair value would be about 30. But meanwhile, you're getting a 3 percent dividend yield and it's selling at 10 times earnings. Demographically, it's a very attractive area. So, your risk in buying North Fork is that you're a little bit early and the market doesn't care about value stocks for a while. And of course, in a period of rising rates, financial stocks don't do particularly well. But, ... if you buy it and put it away, you'll end up making 50 percent from current levels over a 12 to 18 month period.

Markus Steinbeis

Oil and gas shares are shining at the moment: Rising oil prices are lifting the shares which are also undervalued and offer attractive dividend yields.

Dawn Keezer

Once we enacted statewide tax credit legislation, that has made (Pennsylvania) a lot more attractive destination. We're on the radar now.

Mark Sutton

Despite the expectation for continued if not increased market volatility, we also expect to see returns more in line with historical levels, or approximately seven to ten percent annually, which still makes the markets very attractive for investors.

E. Hurley

A prepaid tuition plan is attractive to a family that just wants to make sure they've paid for the future tuition at a public university and they don't want to worry about which direction the markets are going.

Leo Bosner

As long as FEMA is under DHS, problems are likely to continue. I'm told that at least three state emergency officials have turned down the job of FEMA Director because it is under the Department of Homeland Security. Everyone says FEMA needs a top-quality director, but how do we get one when the top candidates won't take the job?

Mark Baldwin

Depending on the school culture at the site where they student teach, our teacher candidates are either very involved in faculty meetings and workshops, or they are not involved at all. We want to improve this because one of the most critical parts in laying the foundation for a quality teaching career is the student teaching experience.

Paul Maryniak

Perhaps at no time in the recent past has the need for quality city leadership been more critical to Mesa than it is now. We want Mesa residents to know as much as possible about the people who are running for a chance to provide that leadership, and The Republic's forum gives citizens an excellent chance to eyeball the candidates and give them the kind of job interview necessary for an educated vote.

George Fetherling

The heart was always seen as the noblest of the internal organs as well as the most vital. The hearts of martyrs or future candidates for sainthood would be preserved, but never their livers, say, or the entrails - at least not on their own; it was either the heart by itself or the whole lot together.

Paul Barrett

Essentially the same men who would be candidates for a prostate surgery are also candidates for radiation therapy.

John Prescott

At present there are more Tory candidates than I've had hot dinners - and you can see I have had a few,

Fred Eckhard

Twenty-five candidates already considered and rejected doesn't suggest that there are many names left to consider.

David Yepsen

The race is a jumble. There are half a dozen candidates who are in double digits, low double digits in the polls. Nobody's a front-runner.

Jim Terry

You get 16 candidates on the stage, it turns into ... there's not a lot of meaningful information that's going to be exchanged.

Steve Sexton

It is a joy each year to see the Kentucky Derby and Churchill Downs through the eyes of talented young students.

Kiaran McLaughlin

It gets more like Churchill ( Downs ) all the time.

Paul McGee

He was getting more horses and more clients, and he was winning races. He had a good Churchill meet, and things were really picking up for him. It's really a shame.

Frankie Whitlock

I knew Churchill would have momentum. But we needed this game to get ready for the playoffs. We're ready.

Rick Pitino

Football is only once a week. NASCAR is once a week. Those sports are insanely popular. Horse racing is oversaturated. Unless tracks cut back to three days a week of full fields, a lot of people will really hurt down the road. Horse racing, to survive, has to go to that. Let's face it: Churchill Downs only does well on Derby Week.

Jodi Picoult

As it turned out, hell wasn't watching the people you love get hurt; it was coming in during the second act, when it was already too late to stop it from happening.

Michelle Davis

That (penalty kick) was huge. We were very confident coming into this game and we thought it was going to be different. But it didn't happen that way.

Helen Humphreys

Our concern is that this is spring, and typically ground water and streams are recharged during the spring. Moreover, not only is precipitation down, but vegetation, which is coming out of its dormant state, will be drawing on the ground water.

Joe Hammer

People focus on the Nasdaq indices because in general they represent the kinds of companies that are coming out - younger companies,

Jamie Koch

The money this is coming from is already there. We're just honoring his contract.

Tyler Hansbrough

Definitely it was fun in the second half when we started coming back and making a run and started stopping them defensively. That was a big key in the win.

Brandon Lincoln

Definitely. He's opened up another side to us that he hasn't opened up to many people. If people take the time to get to know who he really is, then it'll be easier to see where he's coming from.

Joe Sakic

Definitely four years ago, you had the names and you went with them. Now some of those guys got older and a lot of young guys are coming in, and it is tougher for sure. But I'd like to think that's a good thing for Canada, you can't really go wrong. There's going to be great players left off the team.

Billy Wagner

Definitely coming from a different organization and taking a big step, I want to get comfortable and not be living out of a suitcase for the whole spring training and having my family do the same. It was a move that I felt was good for me and for my family.

Dr. Tucker

As far as total expectations, we know that we have work to do and we want to continue to improve. Magnet schools are just a vehicle that we are using to improve education in Texarkana. So, until education improves, then our expectations are not met.

Clive Smith

As far as their reasons for hunger striking, it seems to be a myriad of different reasons that they all have, the largest one seems to be like they want to protest their continued (detention).

Don Brash

As expected in November, growth in the economies of our trading partners has continued to be sluggish.

Tom Brady

As a team you're always trying to improve and there's a different identity this year than there has been in the past. We have to find that identity and continue to improve on our weaknesses while maintaining our strengths.

Bob Rosner

The bottom-line definition for me is that a leader is someone with followers, ... and given how tight talent is today, if you don't work to keep your followers, you will not continue to be a leader.

Frank Chumbley

(At several positions) no one has stepped up and said I'm the guy. We are inexperienced. But I like this team if they continue to get better. A lot haven't played in a varsity game.

Anthony Cannon

A win is a win, but we can't be that happy with this one. We just have to continue to get better and better. We can't take anything away from SLU.

Anthony Cannon

A win is a win, but we can't be that happy with this one, ... We just have to continue to get better and better. We can't take anything away from SLU.

Hideaki Kurimoto

Banks' earnings reaffirmed that Japan's economic fundamentals are strong. Selling by overseas investors may continue for another month or so and that is limiting the gains.

Jim Olson

Once we developed their confidence, their trust (and) their respect, they were more willing to talk to us.

Askar Akayev

develop internal resources and transform them into internal investments.

Sean Snaith

Developers see no sign of a 'bubble' bursting.

Gurpal Samra

Developers come in, they build, then they leave. But we have to live here, so we wanted to name the streets.

Scott Woodgate

Developer response has been pretty cool, ... just their middle tier.

Michael Bean

Any landowner who didn't want to pay a fee into the mitigation fund could opt out of the HCP and say to the Fish and Wildlife Service, I'm planning to develop 500 homes,

John Powers

The software development kit enables developers to grid-enable their applications very easily,

Lesley Blackner

The system is gamed to give the developer what he wants. It's ridiculous.

Anders Hejlsberg

I value simplicity over everything. I always look for simplicity. Simplicity is important in the quest for developer productivity.

Dean Foster

Even though we had less rest time because we had to play the second game, I still thought we performed with a lot of energy. They've earned some rest, so I guess I won't make them run home from here (Michigan City).

Led Zeppelin

Every day I work so hardBringin' home my hard earned payTry to love you baby, but you push me away.

Mike Purcell

We want to play Mitchell. They have been the measuring stick of where you need to be with your team. We've earned this and we're going to enjoy it. Now, we need to get our kids prepared in just a few days.

Dan McCarney

There's no question he's one of the top recruiters on my staff. He's earned this.

Tim Phillips

The top 10 ladies last year earned more from Wimbledon than the top 10 men did.

John Chavis

Obviously I think enough of (Mayo) to be a starter. That's what we've done, and he's earned that. I feel good about him playing.

Jay Wright

Now that we've got a good thing going here, I'm happier that it worked out that way. Everyone feels they earned it. You kind of know who your friends are. There was plenty of time for people to show whether they were loyal to the program or not.

Steve Hutchinson

Frankly, we get sick of hearing it. You'd think we'd earned respect. All we can do is keep winning.

Tiger Woods

I enjoy tournaments where if you shoot a round in the 60s, you've earned it and you're going to move up the board. I'm 1-under par and I'm in 10th. That's pretty good.

Rue McClanahan

Our show was - it remained - you know, kids could watch it and laugh at it. And they wouldn't know - they wouldn't get the jokes. But they would laugh at it. So they tell me now they have grown up and they're watching it. Now they get the jokes. But we didn't say anything blatant.

Michael Nutter

Our economy grows from the middle out, not the top down.

Naeem Wahid

People are unwinding growth expectations and interest rate expectations,

Ray Rund

People are taking this as a signal. In this case, it's kind of pro-growth stock. The Nasdaq has the most growth stocks, and when interest rates stabilize, or go down, people start to think of growth as being worth more.

Terrence Gabriel

People feel the growth is there whether you push rates up to 6.50 percent or 6.80 percent.

Steve Richards

People grow and mature as human beings, and the same is true for musicians.

David Manning

Of the various alternatives, this one was the growth story more than any others.

Nalani Boon

Oh I feel so invaded, you know, it's like a personal affront. You've worked so hard to get things to grow well and healthy, in a healthy manner, and it's gone.

William Shakespeare

No profit grows where there is no pleasure taken

Bobby Ross

I've been pleased with the way Jordan is hitting. He makes a lot of contact.

Marwan Muasher

Obviously this is something Jordan is not used to,

Erik Zabel

The sprint was long and difficult, Bennati kept me on my toes all the way to the finish.

Jan Smith

I've never been with someone this long. She is a part of my life. She's had a lot of tragedy in her life, but has kept on going.

Mal Peet

After being rejected for years, I found a publisher for 'Keeper,' and it won prizes, and then I had to write a second and a third book because I kept taking the money and spending it.

Burt Bacharach

Stuff just kept going more wrong and more wrong here as I was writing.

Cheryl Brown

Something told me to go back, ... I kept saying, I need to go back, I need to go back. Something's telling me to go back.'

Ruth Adams

Teaching kept my life as normal as it could be.

Rajon Rondo

(Tennessee) played up on me and my big men kept setting screens and getting me open.

Robert Fraser

Television should be kept in its proper place-beside us, before us, but never between us and the larger life.

Roy Williamson

Said 'I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.' He just kept saying that over and over and was weeping quite profusely.

William Wordsworth

Oh, be wiser thou!Instructed that true knowledge leads to love.

Jonathan Dimbleby

That test should not be about ratings. What should weigh is the knowledge that a public broadcaster delivers programmes that matter.

Arthur Adamov

The only thing to know is how to use your neurosis.

Bertrand Russell

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Charles Kingsley

[At the end of the story, its main character, Tom] is now a great man of science, and can plan railroads, and steam-engines, and electric telegraphs, and rifled guns, and so forth; and knows everything about everything, except why a hen's egg don't turn into a crocodile, and two or three other little things that no one will know till the coming of the Cocqcigrues.

Anton Chekhov

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Desiderius Erasmus

You must acquire the best knowledge first, and without delay; it is the height of madness to learn what you will later have to unlearn.

Blaise Pascal

Since [man] is infinitely removed from comprehending the extremes, the end of things and their beginning are hopelessly hidden from him in an impenetrable secret; he is equally incapable of seeing the nothing from which he was made, and the infinite in which he is swallowed up.

Charles Bukowski

Knowledge is knowing as little as possible.

Michael Cohen

People responded to Sandy. At public hearings, which can be so contentious, people would listen to Sandy's presentation and stand up and cheer.

Lorenzo Romar

It was tough for Jamaal. Jeffers was in there. He's a 6-11 (Jeffers is listed at 6-9) with long arms.

Chris Sullivan

I've been listening to them my whole life.

Denise Bishop

You're sitting here listening to everything we have to say, but there's nothing we can do about this.

George Fleming

You never know when you'll need to use your reference list again.

Brett Ratner

Listening is harder than just acting. Listening is the hardest part.

George William Russell

It is true the orator may make a myriad replica of his own passion out of those who listen to him. But that does not prove he is right or they are not fools.

Carla Bley

Listening is more important than anything else because that's what music is. Somebody is playing something and you're receiving it. It is sending and receiving.

Alan Vega

Lately I've been listening to some classical music again, some jazz.

Scott Peterson

I've seen them on every national broadcast. It's pretty amazing.

Shay Doron

That's what makes our team so dangerous. That's why we're national champions, because we're tough at every position.

Josh Pastner

We're here to win a national championship. This is not a rebuilding stage. It's not a question of talent. We've got pros on our team.

Eric Swalwell

I think having a national system that tracks who owns guns is fine. I don't think we need to be printing it on the Internet.

Boris Johnson

I'm a one-nation Tory.

E. Helm

We're playing in a tournament where somebody's going to the national tournament. It's that simple. And we'll compete.

Madeline Albright

breakthrough because we have been working at this for seven years, and it is very important for national security.

Albert Murray

The United States is not a nation of black and white people. Any fool can see that white people are not really white, and that black people are not black.

Sharon Cole

Did I think it was realistic? I don't think I saw us getting a national title as quickly as we did.

Eric Hornbeck

As long as I can feel like I'm doing good, I'm going to be here. It could be tomorrow, it could be a month, I don't have those answers. However, if we can keep the search going, I will stay.

Nicholas Sparks

So I put out a search for him,

Matt Rosoff

MSN may want to sell search to AOL.

Aaron Brown

This is about a search for the truth,

Brian Tracy

Your ability to set and achieve goals is perhaps the most important skill you can ever develop.

Brian Jacques

Any weapon is a good weapon as long as ye can use it with honor and skill.

Diane Cilento

I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill.

Daniel Goleman

There is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse.

Daniel Goleman

Empathy represents the foundation skill for all the social competencies important for work.

Artur Davis

Mitt Romney, happens to have the exact skill set that the next president's going to require.

Brittany Daniel

If you've been told all your life that you're good-looking, people just flock around you and you never really have to try or have to learn an interesting craft, skill or hobby - or even have depth.

Brian Van Holt

Meryl Streep's got talent, she's got skills. I'm sure she wants to be on 'Cougar Town,' right?

Eckhart Tolle

To make money, to gather knowledge, to learn a new skill, to explore new territory, even to get from A to B - for all these things you need time. For almost everything you need time, except for one thing: to embrace the present moment.

Brian Marshall

The staff told me they were going to do this. I told them it wasn't necessary.

Oliver North

The teachers that teach here could make more money. The staff could do something else.

Mark Sanchez

That's what the staff wants to do with it.

John Roberts

I was a staff lawyer, ... I didn't have a position.

Paul Tagliabue

I think that I see (finding a replacement) as one of opportunity. I told the staff that we have a lot of things in place, a lot of initiatives under way.

John Mackey

When we start a new store, we make sure that we transfer enough starter culture from other stores that are already Whole Fooders, who've already incorporated our values and our culture within themselves into the... into the store.

John Connolly

Norton-Knight is a very talented player. He's versatile. He did very well at the weekend.

Pat Riley

There's not many who have a better or more talented (trio).

Dan Hendricks

I think this is a very deep, talented group.

Mike Sillinger

He always makes the right shot, the right move. He's a talented young player.

Tommy Bowden

He's as talented a tight end as we've had here in a while, but doesn't understand the tempo.

R. Robinson

Every day, he talked to us about being responsible,

Sandy Montgomery

We talked about it as a team once, and that's it. Now we have to go out, play, and see what happens.

Scott Ritter

How do I know this? I've talked to Bolton's speechwriter.

Tom Streicher

SWAT negotiators talked to him about an hour,

Dennis Riley

We've talked to (Pat), and he's going to get back to us.

Dan McDonald

We have talked about (going to state) every day this year.

Mark Grudzielanek

We talked a lot and we had to get comfortable,

Dave McDermott

I was worried about rebounding. We talked about that at halftime.

Robert Bennett

In fact, I even talked to the parents. They were there at the same time.

Arthur Ashe

Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.

Calvin Coolidge

Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.

Anton Chekhov

You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.

Adolf Hitler

All advertising, whether it lies in the field of business or of politics, will carry success by continuity and regular uniformity of application.

Aesop

He is not to be trusted as a friend who illtreats his own family.

Albert Einstein

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Trust me not at all, or all in all.

Alexander Hamilton

A promise must never be broken.

Alex Haley

In the bush, trust no one you don't know.