Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tinashe

My dad was a theater actor, so he had an agent, and he brought me into his agency when I was maybe four years old. That was how I started. I started modeling, and it progressed from there.

Tom Glavine

I think you're going to see another winter where free agency is not as ... chaotic as it has been in years past, ... It'll be more like last winter.

Bill Johnson

Release of the draft environmental impact statement represents a significant milestone in the review process. This document gives the public a detailed look at the project and its consequences. There's also the opportunity to provide feedback for agency consideration.

Sergei Lavrov

Iran agreed to work with the IAEA. It is very important that the agency is prepared to continue its work,

Leslie Miller

I guess it would be called The Bahamas National Energy Agency (NEA), ... a quasi government agency just as Bahamasair is.

Susan Collins

In the environment we're in right now with tight federal budgets and the demands of responding to Hurricane Katrina, it is particularly disturbing to learn that a federal agency is not being a more careful steward of the taxpayers' dollars. There's also a waste of fuel here, too.

Jasper Becker

Instead we were filling the newspaper with bland, harmless stories, and if there was anything sensitive we would run agency copy and sort of try and downplay it.

Charles Grassley

In recent years, the FDA has demonstrated a too-cozy relationship with the pharmaceutical industry and an attitude of shielding rather than disclosing information, ... The opportunity to name a new commissioner is a chance to take the agency in a necessary new direction ... and reassert that the agency's top priority is what's good for John Q. Public when it comes to reviewing drugs in the marketplace.

Susan Collins

If there was ever an agency in need of oversight, FEMA is it. It's a very big management job, and because of the nature of the work they do, they have only one chance to get it right.

Lee Sentell

As long as I've been in the tourism business, 30 years, people who come to the state say one thing a great deal, 'I had no idea Alabama was such a beautiful state,'

Neil Callaway

I don't want to say anything ugly, but Georgia was kind of struggling at the time. As it turned out, in 1976, they beat us pretty good, but if you were to compare the two programs at the time, Alabama was on top of the world and Georgia was back and forth.

Rick Greenspan

I came all the way from Alabama to play for coach Davis. With him not here, I feel like it will be tough to play. I don't think I'm coming back next year.

Shelby Foote

I ran into Ku Klux Klan and the threat of hurricanes, and those two things made me decide not to build on the Alabama coast, so we came back to Memphis.

Don Maestri

Their confidence factor is at a high level because they've won so many games as of late. They beat South Alabama and knocked both Arkansas teams out of byes. Not to mention they've got seven players and three starters back from an NCAA Tournament team.

Bob Riley

Alabama is not just better off. Alabama is better,

Jane Arraf

It's history being made. More than that, I don't think you can send 140,000 soldiers out there, young guys from Kansas and Alabama and all over the place, and not take some of the same risks that you're asking them to take.

Bill Schneider

Democrats would love to make Mississippi the third state, after South Carolina and Alabama last year, where they've taken the statehouse back from the GOP,

Steve Chapman

The devastation caused by this is somewhat unprecedented in American history. The Gladiators organization is particularly moved, not only by the images from photographs and television, but by the fact that we have made many friends along the Gulf Coast through our history in Mobile, Alabama and here in Gwinnett. Through our relationship with the Salvation Army, we have learned of the thousands of evacuees that have found refuge in the state of Georgia. Many have been temporarily displaced, but have lost much. Many may have little to return to when they go home. As always, communities throughout America have responded with help and we simply want to do the same through this donation and by helping to spread the word that assistance is needed here in Georgia to help these survivors.

O. Henry

Decisions are made on a case-by-case basis in the best interest of the individual. So we need to look at how much rugby any given player has had since the beginning of the year, the amount of contact, their position, plus any injury history.

O. Henry

The team showed a huge amount of character and heart out there. Maybe they wouldn't have handled it at other times.

Patrick Fearon

The survey for the final reading would have taken place over the past 10 days or so, when market volatility was particularly high, ... Because of that, the final reading very well could have come in below the preliminary reading. The fact it came in higher shows a certain amount of resilience in the consumer sector.

Kevin Murphy

So this wasn't just a slight stabbing, this was something with a huge amount of force put into it.

Richard Morris

(Santa Fe) started out very slow because we had a lot of new players but our fly half, Hulbert, is from New Zealand, and his experience made a tremendous amount of difference.

Robbie Deans

It would be fair to say we were off the pace, but a large amount of credit deserves to go to the Force for that.

Ron Bonjean

It would take a longer amount of time to get all our members back into session. Victims of Hurricane Katrina don't have that kind of time.

Ilse Hartung

It was wonderful to have that amount of support; that amount of enthusiasm from people who accompanied me and also to represent Stout.

Michaela Watkins

It was weird that most people knew me as someone let go from 'SNL.' I had the best time there, and in retrospect, it was the perfect amount of time. The only thing that matters is what you do with yourself in that moment after. If you decide, 'I'm the girl who was fired from 'SNL,' you're just that.

Kris Lathan

Gasoline prices have begun their seasonal move higher.

Barton Gellman

The first time I set out to find George F. Kennan, in 1982, I had just turned 21, begun my final semester at Princeton University and noticed with astonishment that the senior thesis deadline had crept to within four months.

Chris Hill

The thing about the committee, and you get tired of telling people, is everything's independent. Every year's different. Every team's different. We go in with a clean slate every year.

Bruce Krall

I spent a lot of money and a lot of effort cleaning it up.

Bob Graham

We should first give the Syrians and the Lebanese the opportunity to clean up their own house, ... That is a more serious threat to the United States in my judgment than Saddam Hussein.

Tom Rathbun

You have a material that can be used as fuel. As soon as you get the material out of the stream, it (the stream) improves. If we can clean streams while creating electricity, and it's not costing the taxpayers any money to clean up these streams, that's a good thing.

Richard Hall

We will also see a lot of white on white. A very clean look.

P. J. Harvey

We try to run a clean program, so we consider any violation 'serious' if it's proven to be true, ... But right now, these are just allegations. The committee will meet with the NCAA to determine the number of possible violations and their nature.

Larry Simns

We gotta start somewhere. The Corsica River is a good place to start. We clean up that treatment plant, plant some oysters, plant some grasses, do some marshland around the sewer plant -- we get that cleaned up, we can start with the Chester River.

Jaren Jackson

We hit some big threes when they made runs on us ... and we hit some shots that were momentum breakers, but they were clean looks and shots we normally make.

Teresa Follmer

We're going to wipe this down and you want to make sure you have plenty of clean water because you're going to be rinsing, rinsing, rinsing.

Michelle Paver

My thirties merged into my forties, and I sort of gradually realised that I don't really want children. Now I'm glad I don't have them. Part of that is because I have my books.

David Lynch

There are only 24 hours in a day, and my top priority is working on my films, but I love short film experiments.

Eknath Easwaran

I like to remind my friends frequently how short life is. This is the important message of death: not a day to waste, not a day to quarrel, not a day to brood upon yourself. This is not losing the joy of life; this is gaining the joy of life.

Carol Burnett

Originally, I came from Texas, and we lived on - I guess you'd call it welfare, what we called relief.

Thomas Haden Church

I don't want my hair to be ridiculous. But in Texas I do wear a hat a lot, so I probably have hat-head more than I'm aware of.

George Strait

I love to fish offshore for billfish, and have fished all over for them from the Bahamas, St. Thomas, Venezuela, Panama, Costa Rica, Mexico to the Texas gulf. I haven't made it to Australia yet, but someday I'm going.

Buzz Bissinger

I always had a curiosity about Texas. I had a curiosity about small-town life, although, granted, Odessa's not a tiny town.

Jenny Lawson

When I was young, my family didn't go on outings to the circus or trips to Disneyland. We couldn't afford them. Instead, we stayed in our small rural West Texas town, and my parents took us to cemeteries.

George H. W. Bush

Karyn is with us. A West Texas girl, just like me.

Larry McMurtry

Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas without eating a chicken fried steak.

Justin Theroux

There was a time when doing "Zoolander 2" that I was literally flying between the "Zoolander" shoot and "The Leftovers" in Texas and at that point, I was getting comedy whiplash. It was a relief, though, to get to Rome and be like, "Oh my God, I get to laugh on set."

Jimmy Fallon

After President Obama announced his support for net neutrality yesterday, Texas Senator Ted Cruz tweeted that 'Net neutrality is Obamacare for the Internet.' While Ted Cruz continues to be the Taylor Swift of not getting over Obamacare.

Jim Veltman

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

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,

Jane Hamilton

Our mission in life is not to discover our fate as we go along, or even to procreate, but rather to fill up the endless gray void that is time.

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Douglas Adams

How can I tell," said the man, "that the past isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate physical sensations and my state of mind?

Adelaide Anne Procter

Hours are golden links, God's token Reaching heaven; but one by one Take them, lest the chain be broken Ere the pilgrimage be done.