Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Johannessen

Our agency will pay for this if we have to. It's too critical to get caught up in a question of who ultimately is going to pay for it.

Jan Egeland

We estimate that humanitarian agencies have access to about 350,000 vulnerable people in Darfur - only about one third of the estimated total population in need.

Janet Yellen

For my own part, I did not see and did not appreciate what the risks were with securitization, the credit ratings agencies, the shadow banking system, the S.I.V.’s — I didn’t see any of that coming until it happened.

Thomas Horn

We were bemused, I guess, when we got the call from Hollywood. We didn't know anything about the entertainment industry or even what a casting agency was. But I thought, 'What do I have to lose?' It's not every day a great opportunity presents itself.

Edward Snowden

We need to put the security back in the National Security Agency. We can't have the national surveillance agency.

Glenn Hughes

Tony is totally up for doing it; (drummer) Kenny and I are totally up for doing it. Tony wants to go out with a proper production, and it entails money. I think the agency is looking into that, but right now, I'm moving forward.

Norman Cousins

The great challenge of the '90s... is to salvage and improve the UN and to develop it into an agency capable of meeting the wide range of serious problems that are inherent in a world that has become a single geographic unit.

Norm Dicks

The Smithsonian Institute is one of the most popular agencies of government in the United States.

John Sparkman

The Community Relations Service would be another pro-civil rights Federal agency attempting to make people do what the policy of the Federal Government demanded that they do. Moreover, in title II of the bill, this Service is made an agent of the court without due thought as to the effect on legal and judicial procedures.

Susie Gardner

As hard as it was to lose to Alabama it was an important step for us. Especially to come back from a huge deficit on the road.

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,'

B. R. Hayden

Because of the many problems hogs create, we want to see the sportsmen in Alabama take as many hogs as they possibly can, whenever they can. I know we have some hunters who really enjoy hunting hogs and who have some well-trained dogs that can find, chase, bay, catch and hold hogs. But we really want to see the number of hogs statewide reduced drastically because they do so much destruction to the habitat.

Bobby Pierce

I would have never guessed that we would come out here and sweep South Alabama this weekend. But what a way to get us off and rolling in a new conference. We have been telling our guys all year that they are good, but it is another thing altogether to sweep a three-game series from South Alabama.

Billy Donovan

I got on them because our thought process going into the game was go inside first and then come back out. We were letting the ball sometimes go on the perimeter with the ball never touching the paint, and I think South Alabama wanted us to do that early in the game.

Michael Gorman

The American Library Association (ALA) is saddened by the tragic loss of life and widespread damage to homes and communities by Hurricane Katrina, ... Libraries are an indispensable part of their communities, providing support and resources for everyone. Dozens of libraries in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama need our assistance so they, in turn, can meet the many needs of their communities.

Jodi Collins

Lisa called me here in Alabama and told me about this. And, I'm only about 3½ hours from Hattiesburg, so I told her to fly to Birmingham and I'd pick her up and then we could drive down to Hattiesburg together.

Stuart Rothenberg

Like Rasputin, who refused to die even after he was poisoned, shot three times and beaten with a 2-pound dumbbell, Alabama Gov. Bob Riley (R) is proving to be more resilient than many political observers once assumed.

Bob Riley

I won't let our great state move backward, not when we can keep Alabama moving forward,

Stacy Palmer

a very remarkable outpouring, but compared to the amount of need . . . there's still a fund-raising challenge ahead.

Mark McClain

Northwest employees should not pick up an inordinate amount of the fuel costs.

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.

Marie Kondo

Once you learn to choose your belongings properly, you will be left with only the amount that fits perfectly in the space you own.

Al Groh

Sometimes people think that's isolated to the passing game. For the real good run games, it takes the same amount of communication and repetitions to develop with that execution.

Tim Chambers

Sometimes, I think, guys at our level think they have it figured out. When they see the amount of time and effort the big league guys put in, when nobody's watching, it shows them how hard you have to work if you want to make it.

Akhil Sharma

During my breakdown, many things, tiny things I had not even registered before, had begun to torment me with guilt. I used to steal Splenda from Starbucks. I would go into a Starbucks whenever I needed the sweetener and would take a fistful of packets, even when I didn't buy a coffee.

Kris Lathan

Gasoline prices have begun their seasonal move higher.

Caroline DeWaal

It is good that they are funding new inspectors for overseas, but they haven't begun to grapple with the fact that they need new inspectors for domestic produce and seafood.

Bates Gill

They've begun to sense the volatility of the (trade) issue.

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.

Reggie Evans

I've been clean since I've been in the league, I've been clean since I've been in college, I've been clean since I've been in high school, middle school, elementary school. I'm just cleaner than clean. I'm cleaner than Pine-Sol.

Clint Wheeler

The worst thing is we end up cleaning it up and it rains the next day. We're getting good at that.

Paul Arnold

This is a project that's going to require grunt work. It's going to be clean up, it'll be dirty heavy work, but people need to have the materials hauled away that have been destroyed,

David Clark

We're happy we're going to Glens Falls. But overall, we were terrible. Newburgh played hard, but we can't be happy with how we performed. We better clean some things up or we're losing the first game in Glens Falls.

Barbara Bush

It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it's a family thing, and I guess it's clean.

Sharon Stone

I don't think Julia Roberts is as innocent as her image suggests. You have to be a really smart cookie to create an image as clean and pure and on-the-money as hers.

Perrey Reeves

My own style depends on my location. Hippie-chic in Costa Rica, tailored and clean in N.Y.C., and great jeans and comfy tops with fun sneakers in L.A.

Matt McCoy

The most important thing right now is making sure all of the debris is picked up." ()

Brian Dixon

There (are) tons of debris down there, the likes of which have never been seen. To maintain safety, we needed to limit the number of firefighters working on the site.

Larry Kelly

Trees and debris and rooftops in trees into houses. We've been removing debris out of the road. Now we're in the recovery stages at this time.

Alan Greenspan

We have to do it in a cautious, gradual way. ... (We) should go slowly and test the waters.

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.

Yoshinori Ohno

I would not say it was as wide as the Pacific Ocean, but a big river. But the differences have gradually been narrowed.

Tatsuyuki Kawasaki

In the long term this is going to be a setback for the market ... It is likely to gradually lessen trade by individual investors.

Howard Waldron

It's going to be a gradual warming trend overnight.

Patti Smith

We did get a request from the publisher to remove the title and we've done so.

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.

Andre Dubus

I love short stories because I believe they are the way we live. They are what our friends tell us, in their pain and joy, their passion and rage, their yearning and their cry against injustice.

Larry Wall

If you're going to define a shortcut, then make it the base [sic] darn shortcut you can.

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.

Mackenzie Astin

Life can only be understood backwards.

Tim Bedwell

We are short on the street, but they're in the pipeline.

Carol Burnett

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

Janis Joplin

This whole thing that's happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn't yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago in Texas, that was to be true to myself, to be the person that I...that was on inside of me and not play games...

Duane Chapman

I was in prison for a charge in Texas, murder one. Back in the '70s in Texas, I was there. I heard the shot. I was in the car.

Angie Harmon

And, Bruce and I are pretty close as well. We're both from Texas and we both understand each other. When I'm having trouble with a scene, I'll just go over to him and be like, "I have no idea what's happening here. What are we doing?" He's just been such a wonderful sounding board and, obviously, he's a tremendously talented actor.

Steven Hall

Texas has no system in place, and what you have is chaos.

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.

Jim Evans

I literally paid my way through the University of Texas with my umpiring.

Jay R. Ferguson

Im from Dallas. My whole family is based in Texas and Mississippi and Arkansas, spread throughout most of the South.

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,

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.

Brian Andreas

The clock is a conspiracy & a crime against humanity and I would not own one except I miss appointments without it.

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.

Jan Timman

The best reason to abolish it, in my opinion, is that everyone should deal with his time in the best way; there is no good reason why you should get half a minute extra with each move, except that it's a bit easier for the arbiter.

Laetitia Casta

It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.