Famous Quotes & Sayings

William O. Douglas

The Arctic has a call that is compelling. The distant mountains [of the Brooks Range in Alaska] make one want to go on and on over the next ridge and over the one beyond. The call is that of a wilderness known only to a few...This last American wilderness must remain sacrosanct.

Scott Hodge

If you were to look at Alaska simply with its corporate tax code compared to the rest of the United States, it would rank very poorly because it's a very complicated corporate tax system, very high tax rates, but that is offset and balanced by the fact that Alaska does not have a personal income tax and does not have a sales tax.

David Boies

Their concerted refusal to market this gas results in higher gas prices that hurt consumers and businesses throughout Alaska and the rest of the U.S. This cannot be allowed to continue.

Pierre Salinger

On several occasions President Kennedy encouraged me to take a lover, an obvious sign he also had some himself.

Juan Williams

Alaska and Montana are not in the south but they definitely form part of the crimson tide of red states where Republicans are dominant.

Paula Poundstone

I'm thankful for Sarah Palin's vice presidential bid, which taught us that Alaska is not in a box off the coast of California.

Simon Bolivar

Damn it, how will I ever get out of this labyrinth

Tamae Watanabe

In 1977, I climbed a fairly difficult mountain for the first time, which was Mount McKinley, in Alaska. I climbed the so-called 'American Direct Route,' which was a route straight up to the top. I really enjoyed it. Through such experiences, I learned that mountaineering wasn't just about height. I found that different routes have different charms.

Lindy Boggs

So many people are walking around looking so grim all the time. I just never understand why.

Matthew Davis

Yesterday's good rate may well be unobtainable tomorrow -- leading to unpredictable hotel coasts and, occasionally, an inability to obtain a suitable room,

Jim Gillespie

People want to move where it's warm and where the coasts are. As long as more people want to move in than homes are being built, we're going to continue to see an imbalance.

Buck Showalter

I wouldn't put any limits on him. He can be a difference maker defensively, one of those guys who turns hits into outs.

Paul Levinson

I think in the long run it's not going to make much difference for CBS.

Bonnie Stewart

He wants to be able to learn. He wants to be able to make a difference in someone's life.

Rick Barnes

He is the difference in this team. We know he is going to give us everything he?s got, and he does every night he goes out there.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

The primary difference that I have found between the system of education in India and other countries, particularly the U.S., is that they focus on problem solving and relating theories to reality around them. These two things are lacking in the education system in India.

Dean Bonham

Here is a substantial and growing difference between the high and low revenue teams and it's a significant issue. It has to be resolved or they're headed for the kind of disparity we've seen in Major League Baseball.

Carlos Rivera

He's a great person. He has helped us so much this year. You can see a difference from when I first started three years ago.

Norm Gagne

It hurts to lose. What we did, the things I didn't want to see us do, stay out of the box, and that's what killed us. The two five-on-three goals, that was the difference in the game.

Dave Swanson

I think the difference between the haves and have-nots is alarming. Unless something happens, I think the scores are only going to get worse.

Paul Friel

He's drilling him with all kinds of questions.

Jeff Goodell

In any crass political calculation, drilling for oil will always win more votes than putting a price on carbon. But if I recall what I was taught in fifth-grade American government class, we elect presidents to do more than crass political calculations.

Robert Adair

The next few months should prove very interesting with the drilling programme about to start in Bulgaria. In Egypt, I am excited about the El Tamad oil discovery.

Chris Zwettler

They were drilling us. We clamped down in the third quarter. The press helped us pick up our energy level.

Nick Davis

There was no drilling involved because it was above- ground. Most of the guys would not even qualify for 250 straight days.

Elmore Lockley

The prices have gone down because the prices we purchase natural gas have gone down. There also has been increased drilling and increases in storage capacity.

Arthur Mitchell

But it's being abused by the oil lobby and proponents of drilling to try to get the legislation through a back door.

Russ Halverson

Because we've been drilling, drilling and drilling them (in practice), there's only so much you can do.

Travis DeWalt

I don't think there's a day that goes by that we don't talk about his situation. When he's drilling in the room, he's not drilling moves. He's wrestling a state tournament match every day in the room.

Bill Parcells

I was kind of thinking back to Seattle last year, ... We kind of talked about that. We're just fortunate, really.

Joe Edgens

Kelley is going to be right up to the last minute before it's done.

Dave Kaplan

(Jocelyn) bounced back from a rough outing last time. Very nicely done. She's going to get another start, and we're going to keep working with her.

Will Grace

JLo-so karen hows married life?Karen-well it only lasted 20 minutesJLo-Oh is that short?

Bobbie Davis

I think I said to the players last year that they had one day to celebrate. And then they had to start concentrating and thinking about this year.

Jack Parker

He couldn't make a pass or shoot a puck. If this wasn't his senior year, if he was a junior, we probably wouldn't have played him this weekend. I didn't want to miss what could have been, at any moment, his last game.

Jim Knight

There are so many things that we try before we ever go to court. It's the last step, and we don't like to do it, but there needs to be consequences.

Jayson Swain

I think the problem last year was people were taking the pressure the wrong way. We were pressing to make the big plays.

Jim Grobe

I thought a win last week was pretty important and we didn't get it. Any win for us right now is important. Every team we play here down the stretch, if we're going to have any kind of season at all, is important. Our players understand that.

Luiz Scolari

There are several teams, and one of them could be Corinthians.

Noam Chomsky

There are nuclear-weapons-free zones in several parts of the world already, except that they're not implemented fully, because the U.S. won't allow it.

Reinhard Selten

I did several types of work about several investigations of application of game theory to international relations.

John Allen

I had talked to several other guys, but (Jones) was, in my opinion, a better candidate.

Rob Riggle

I've written several pilots that haven't gone, so that's why you haven't seen any.

Rob Hartman

It's been several years since we've had this widespread of flooding, and we're not done.

Dan Smith

They're always tough. Several years ago everyone used us as a measuring stick. Now everyone uses them as the measuring stick.

Scott Kim

What I always want is to have several little 'aha' moments where your brain is very happy.

Joe Gibbs

I should have said, 'Hey, we've got several things we're going to turn in and want to look at with them,' ... 'We see it one way, and we'll see how they see it.' That should have been my comments, but I went specifically . . . I went over some things there that you can't.

James Park

Today is a very directionless market, ... It is really quiet. There's not much going on.

Donald Tusk

Today I must tell myself I did not make it.

Jim Haslett

Today he's sore, so he didn't practice. He'll be fine. He'll play.

Tony Franklin

I thought we got a lot done offensively. Omar showed today why he has become the top quarterback.

Rachel Kyono

I think that I wouldn't be where I am today without going through the program.

Graeme Smith

He had a re-scan today and it doesn't look good. It would pretty much look like he's going home.

Rowan Williams

Well, today, the diocese is more than ever a microcosm.

William Hague

Today further EU targeted sanctions on Syria come into force. The message is clear and unambiguous: those responsible for the repression will be singled out and held accountable.

Wendell Berry

All we can do to prepare rightly for tomorrow is to do the right thing today.