Famous Quotes & Sayings

Drew Bledsoe

Anytime somebody picks somebody else over you, it's motivating. The Bills went and picked this young kid to play ahead of me. I don't think it was the right decision. I still don't. I want to go out and prove I can still get it done. The ability to throw the ball effectively, accurately and all over the field is still there. When that goes away, I think you'll see me tip my cap and hand it off to somebody else.

Bryan Whitman

Any sovereign government needs the ability to control their borders. So the role of the (Iraqi) border-control security forces is one that is vital to the overall security of the country.

Kris Hagerman

Any sizable data center has got to have the ability to understand what is going on with its servers. We feel very strongly that every one of the Global 5,000 should have this capability.

Mike Bradford

Ashley brought her all-around game to the gym every night. There really isn't any part of the game that she can't do, and her ability to shoot the three really helped us open up our offense. On the defensive side, she is just a very, very hard worker and that work ethic rubs off on the other players.

Brendan Taman

As he has shown throughout his career, Ron has the ability to get to the quarterback and disrupt what opposing offences are trying to do. Adding Ron will make the defensive line a very interesting group to watch in training camp.

Eric Holland

As far as regenerating parts of the brain that have degenerated, such as in Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease and others of that nature, the ability to regenerate the needed cell type and placing it in the correct spot would have major impact.

Andrew Feinberg

A service provider's business is only as strong as its ability to manage its network and services delivery. In today's competitive environment, proper resource and service management is an absolute must. By partnering with NetCracker, Covad has taken an innovative and essential approach that allows it to realize the true value of its network, prevent revenue leakage, and increase customer satisfaction and retention rates. We are thrilled to be a part of Covad's market-leading strategy.

Jerry York

As good as Elliott, Parise and Cory are in their games, none of them have the ability that Bishop has to almost be a third defender back there.

F. Stone

As fuel prices go up, airlines have ratcheted back down in terms of their ability to make a profit.

Kyle McSlarrow

Any government mandates, and certainly for any one of those options (suggested by Martin), in our view is very clearly under Supreme Court precedent a violation of the First Amendment.

Gary Kellough

As far as the change, I needed it. ... When you get to a certain point, sometimes change is good and a new challenge is good. That's the way I've approached the whole thing - it's a tremendous challenge.

Susan Basford

As elephants get older, pregnancies certainly become more problematic.

Jerome Holtzman

a shortstop with some, but certainly not overwhelming promise.

Larry Ellison

As far as J.D. Edwards, we're certainly interested, ... We've been looking at that closely as well. It's simply a matter of terms of the deal and price of the deal. We're keeping our options open there.

Neil Fox

As for heat, it certainly seemed very hot throughout the month, and maybe the dryness accounted for that impression.

Derek Loomis

As far as designing for girls, certain designs will cross right over.

Carl Duke

As for widespread searches, we aren't doing that, but if a lead comes about a location we will certainly check it out.

Mahmoud Abbas

As for relations and contacts with the Israelis, we are completely certain they are going to resume very rapidly because there are many things we can tackle with the Israelis and which must be discussed,

Philip Shaw

As a result, fears over a significant near-term increase in personal or corporate taxation have virtually disappeared. Most expectations, including our own are for a broadly neutral stance.

Rob Feckner

As a major shareholder, our overall goal is to improve corporate governance and shareholder value.

Frank Gannon

As investors this year, we have to focus on the durability of corporate profit growth. Within that you can find a lot of opportunities in the stock market.

Wayne Ayers

Productivity always slows as the economy slows. If labor and wage costs are still on the rise and productivity slows, either corporate profits decline or prices increase.

Gary Ruskin

People should know when they are talking to a corporate shill.

Adi Godrej

People should be encouraged by things like awards given for corporate governance practices.

Michael Uhl

Demand by corporations for Las Vegas group and meeting hotel space is huge, even incredible, because of the diversity of the city's product. As we search for availability in Las Vegas for corporate groups, we do so smarter, not necessarily harder these days.

Sarah Andrus

DECA is an outstanding organization that has been preparing high school students for the workplace for more than 50 years. We are honored to be a corporate sponsor because our goals parallel those of this fine student group.

Renault Kam

Any negative news on the corporate front will be taken as an excuse for investors to take their gains.

Michael Strauss

An efficient and effective guest worker program should be created in order to stop the incentive for illegal immigration into the U.S..

Alan Young

Something has to be done in the short term, because we have created a panic in our community.

Perry Farrell

Punk rock was exciting because you could get your ass kicked for looking like a punk. Punks were atrocious. They created mayhem. Now you just throw on a plaid-that's not style.

Perhaps, if I am very lucky, the feeble efforts of my lifetime will someday be noticed, and maybe, in some small way, they will be acknowledged as the greatest works of genius ever created by Man

James E. Faust

God and His Son are glorified personages. God the Father is our living Creator, and His Son, Jesus Christ, is our Savior and Redeemer. We have been created in God's image.

Elliott Abrams

A Palestinian state will never be created by terror.

Edward Carey

I inhaled Dickens as a kid, and I've always been fascinated by the Victorians. So many ridiculous objects they had! They created things like mustache cups, so you wouldn't wet your mustache when you were drinking tea. And eyebrow combs. What's happened to all the eyebrow combs? Marvelous things.

Kage Baker

In 1913, the noted German actor and director Paul Wegener was making a film in Prague when he heard the legend of Rabbi Loew, who created a golem to protect the inhabitants of the Prague ghetto from persecution.

Martin Jol

We did it. We pressed them all the time, we created chances. The only thing we could be disappointed about is that we didn't score more than one goal.

Suresh Raina

At home in Ghaziabad, everyone is a pure vegetarian. In fact, when I want to cook non-veg there, my mum shoos me out on the terrace where I have my cooking utensils. I'm told categorically that whatever non-veg or egg, etc., that I have to cook, I should do upstairs and not enter her kitchen at all.

Bono

The most powerful idea that's entered the world in the last few thousand years - the idea of grace - is the reason I would like to be a Christian.

Kim Fields

There has been a tremendous growth in the entertainment industry throughout Atlanta. There are many opportunities in film, television and theatre.

Ma Huateng

On all open platforms, regardless of whether it's Facebook or the Apple App Store, the largest segment is entertainment and games. It's the largest revenue segment. And it's the same for Tencent.

Timothy Noah

For any politician who didn't enter office a wealthy man, nothing says 'I take bribes' like a Rolex watch.

Britney Spears

My prerogative right now is to just chill and let all the other overexposed blondes on the cover of Us Weekly (magazine) be your entertainment.

George Meredith

Enter these enchanted woods, / You who dare.

Robin Wright

Entertainment and escapism - those are the bigger money-making films today.

Nettie Coad

We could only enter an establishment through the back door, even though we paid the same money as Whites.

Jimmy Stewart

So much of what we have taken for granted has been ripped from us,

Michael Chambers

This grant is another validation of our technology,

David Warren

All applications are looked at on their merit. I don't have a problem with them making applications. Whether they get granted or not is a whole other issue.

Chris Boone

We will also pursue grants to help pay the cost.

Tim Kaine

I am not taking anything for granted.

Albert Schweitzer

It is not always granted to the sower to see the harvest.

Gene Kelly

If Fred Astaire is the Cary Grant of dance, I'm the Marlon Brando.

Albert Schweitzer

It is not always granted to the sower to live to see the harvest. All work that is worth anything is done in faith.

Darren Sinnaeve

In the second half, we played real hard, pressed hard, got up in their faces. In the first half, we relied on 3-point shooting. We had one 2-pointe and seven 3s. Granted it was a zone defense, but we did a lot of standing around.

George Brown

So we're going to be looking into our legal options.

Philip Kerr

The most interesting legal philosophy is German, so naturally I went to Germany, particularly to Berlin, quite a bit.

O. J. Simpson

There have been a lot of unique and novel legal questions that require more research than normal,

Joseph Sobran

War nearly always serves as an occasion for serious expansions of state power and the destruction of legal protections

John Schaeffer

Obviously, we need to look into what our legal rights and responsibilities to our ratepayers are, so we'll be studying that.

Laura Nichols

I think if the vice president thought he had other legal options open to him, we'd defer to his judgment.

Bryan Whitman

You can do something perfectly legal, but that is inconsistent with the policy or procedures of the department. Just because it's legal doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.

John Roberts

I do think that it is a jolt to the legal system when you overrule a precedent. Precedent plays an important role in promoting stability and evenhandedness,

Chuck Robinson

I think it needs some clarification as to what is what, ... I'm not sure you don't run into some legal technicalities.

Brian Johnson

This is really a Palm issue. In the process of spinning off Palm we sorted out liability issues.

Pat Burns

There's got to be somebody that's willing to take the liability and own the risk. There's got to be ultimate responsibility, and it's got to rest with somebody.

David Stewart

Remember, they prepare the taxes and they too will sign it, but you sign it and ultimately whether they make a mistake or you make a mistake, you are liable for any tax liability if there is an error.

James Shapiro

A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599

Jeevan Sivasubramaniam

As long as the book's vision is about something that's making life better for all people. That's our criteria.

Francis Mathew

As long as life exist, Overtaking is allowed.

Charles Stuart Calverley

Read not Milton, for he is dry; nor Shakespeare, for he wrote of common life.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

Real life is often sloppy, tragic, ugly, embarrassing, unglamorous, and not made for TV.

Asif Kapadia

Real life is far more complicated than fiction.

Rich Coleman

Reading and writing are life skills that everyone should have the opportunity to learn,

Anthony Head

People said, 'That's going to be around your neck for the rest of your life. I didn't have a problem with it.

Johann G. Seume

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Andy Reid

We limited his reps, but the reps he was in there, he did a nice job. He worked it today (Thursday) and we've got to see if the swelling stays out.

Paul LePage

We must protect our limited resources for those who are truly in need and who are doing all they can to be self-sufficient.

Mark Perry

We have a very substantial and loyal limited partner group.

Margaret Gillett

Now we have space to move around in. We were pretty limited before.

Gary Becker

The most fundamental constraint is limited time

Jeff Chambers

MSU is on a limited budget. We don't have enough money to tape every athlete.

Joseph Volpe

Maybe with 'Parsifal,' because it's only three performances and a limited rehearsal time, we'll be able to get someone really good.

Lindsey Hunter

My range of motion is still limited a little bit, but I working through that.

Ann Beattie

That's what I mean; if your writing doesn't transcend the era, then it would really seem to be only of very limited sociological importance.

Georges Danton

Boldness, more boldness, and perpetual boldness!.

Benjamin Disraeli

Poverty has its duties as well as its rights.

Calvin Coolidge

If the people lose control of the arteries of trade and the natural sources of mechanical power, the nationalization of all industry should soon be expected. Our forefathers were alert to resist all encroachments upon their rights. If we wish to maintain our rights, we can do no less.

Calvin Coolidge

One of the greatest perils to an extensive republic is the disregard of individual rights.

Busy Philipps

It's ludicrous that my friends in California aren't able to legally get married. It's a civil rights issue. In 20 years we're going to look back at tapes of these antigay people saying ridiculous things on the news and it's going to sound as antiquated as the newsreels of horrible racists from the '50s.

Alan Dershowitz

Individuals have the right to pick and choose which expressions to condemn, which to praise and which to say nothing about. Governments, however, must remain neutral as to the content of expression. And governments must protect the rights of all to express even the most despicable of views.

Alan Dershowitz

In today's distorted world of 'human rights,' truth takes a back seat to ideology, and false claims - especially those that 'support' radical ideologies - persist even after they have been exposed.

Al Franken

I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.

Jan Egeland

We receive reports now on a daily basis from our own people on the ground in Darfur on widespread atrocities and grave violations of human rights against the civilian population.

bell hooks

... the outcome of the Clarence Thomas hearings and his subsequent appointment to the Supreme Court shows how misguided, narrow notions of racial solidarity that suppress dissent and critique can lead black folks to support individuals who will not protect their rights.