Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Douglas

As effective as he's been. I agree with that (decision), I think it's an effective cost savings move. Our office largely deals with three department heads directly.

E. Helm

As for Mr. Milosevic's future, I don't care one way or the other if he lives out his days in sunny Cyprus or if he will agree to step aside and make way for democracy in Serbia, the important thing is that he be removed from power, whether voluntarily or not, and now,

Jia Qingguo

As for Beijing, the 'One China' principle is the political basis ... that the two sides must agree on before they can engage in any kind of dialogue.

Patrick Ramsey

As Coach said, I don't agree with the decision, but the decision has been made.

Larry Gossett

As an elected official, I genuinely agree with that statement. It needs to be challenged.

Billy Tauzin

Anyone who looks at that objectively would agree you had a horrible flawed process in place. If those numbers are accurate, why would Firestone not report that to headquarters? ... How could you possibly have not known in 1996 that you had an obligation to recall those tires...how could you assume that a one-out-of-10 failure rate was not significant enough to issue a recall?

Sergey Lavrov

The British draft is not that clear and it is basically suggesting a procedure which would lead to deterioration of the situation further, and we cannot agree with something that would not be realistic.

Ian Macfarlane

Australia is already fully committed in terms of uranium production through until about 2008, bearing in mind that the signing of this agreement means that this is really only the start of the process.

Brian Lara

Australia came out victorious but I'm sure you'll agree we've got a good group of young players, very exciting players, and guys who want to represent their country.

Jane Jackson

The big thing is it's brought us closer to friends from 40, 50, 60 years ago. They're calling and sending notes.

Danny Thompson

People saw we had kids and they brought us a canopy and a tent,

Jill Soloway

Normally, I think the people you would use on your first film, it would be a real struggle to bring them with you onto your television show. I just brought every single person with and expanded my little indie film world.

Jay Rockefeller

Any line of questioning that has brought us too close to the White House has been thwarted, ... We have been undermined, avoided, put off and vilified by the other side.

Norv Turner

Some we brought on ourselves. Three times we had enough yards for a first down, and we had penalties that knocked us back, so that we were facing either first-and-20 or second-and-20. The environment we were in - a real good football team, and a team that can pressure the quarterback - we were playing into their hands.

Jeremy Rifkin

So my attorneys brought litigation in the U.S. federal courts. The judge ruled in our favor.

Clare Short

The US was pressing Chile, Mexico - enormous pressures were brought to bear. What's remarkable is that these countries didn't break.

Mike Timlin

That's how we have to play. We brought it down to the end of the season like we usually do. We've been fighting for first place all year long.

Kenneth Koch

Some of the French surrealists at the beginning of the war had come over to New York and they brought out this magazine. It was a big, glossy magazine full of surrealist things.

Nick Park

Any Hollywood studio, if they're doing a deal with somebody else, wants to own characters, but we have managed to keep hold of them.

Jennifer Hinson

As far as I know, nobody knows this deal fell through.

Thomas Murphy

As far as we were concerned, it was a legitimate deal with a realistic price,

Antonia Maioni

As a minority government, they are by definition in a pre- electoral mode. Accountability is going to be a big thing. The deal they are going to do with the provinces is another.

Mark Morales

a very private guy and doesn't want to make a big deal of it.

John W. Snow

a very important idea ... which would help deal with the whole issue of long-term sustainability of the Social Security system.

Miroslav Klose

A very great deal is possible with the players we have in the squad.

Andrew Shue

At some point in their lives, people deal with tragedy. It's just a question of when.

Jay Jacobs

A true gentleman. He was a very compassionate and giving person who meant a great deal to this university.

Ron Krumer

A serious deterioration of his digestive tract was discovered after an examination and doctors decided to operate.

Vince Young

As a team, we decided that we had to shut these guys up and that is what we did.

Harvey Pitt

As a safety precaution while the tragic events of today are sorted out, the securities markets have decided not to open for trading today. We strongly support that decision.

Shea Little

As an experiment we decided to try a collaboration together between the three of us, and it turned out great, and we have been working together ever since the first experiment.

Lazar Makyadeth

As a group we have decided to go with Connor and Woolley, with the progress. We are not stopping the progress.

Patrick Guerriero

The big story in this election is that Karl Rove has decided to strategically use gay and lesbian Americans in a number of swing states,

Jonathan Tropper

'Banshee' was kind of a lark. I was getting paid pretty well to write movies no one was making - and so I decided to try my hand at TV and get paid much less to actually get something produced.

Abraham Twerski

Back then very few people knew anything about AA, ... But as this woman spoke and told me about the meetings, I realised that something was happening at these meetings that had nothing to do with the medical profession or medical science. I decided to attend.

Derrick Jackson

Randy and I decided to get it started, so we wrote the check.

Scott Harris

Another thing that went into the decision to come up here was it wasn't as hectic. And we kind of felt more comfortable in the small-town setting.

Jon Tester

As a policymaker, as a public servant, I come to Washington, D.C., and I make difficult decisions and I make difficult decisions every day. And sometimes those decisions upset people.

Neal Katyal

authoritative decision to stop people from rioting in the streets.

Chris Anderson

At some point, I made the decision to live and go on. I'm grateful for where I am today, but the price I paid was too great.

Troy Glaus

A year ago, it would have been a lot different. But I saw all their moves go by on the ticker. That made the decision pretty easy.

Joseph Shatz

As long as the Fed keeps raising rates, yields are going to move higher. The Fed decision definitely left the door open for more rate hikes.

Trent Yawney

A smart decision on his part. We're talking about a professional in a field where shoulders are important.

Steve Carter

As individuals, they can make the decision to self-insure, but as an advisor, it is unthinkable. They should purchase health insurance before they do anything else.

Stewart Tuttle

Our evaluation of all of our programs is ongoing and decisions on which programs will go forward -- and how -- will move on its own timetable.

Jim Winchester

Any increase in Middle East oil market share is very positive for the tanker business, because the Middle East is the producer farthest from major oil consumption markets,

Julianne Moore

As an actor, there are places you can live, and when I graduated from school, it was either New York or L.A., and I liked the East Coast. That's why I ended up in New York.

Mike Brey

As of now, we're feeling pretty confident. I like that group. We've had better spacing on offense. But there's no rulebook saying we have to have a set lineup when we start Big East play.

Chris Quinn

That was a big win for us. Every night in the Big East is a battle.

Stacy Stewart

On this track, Maria should remain well to the east of Bermuda and only pose a threat to shipping interests.

Jim Graves

Approximately two-thirds of East Ship was lost to the storm.

Frank Baumholtz

Any of the East teams could surprise the field.

Jim Brown

After Florida, Virginia is the fastest growth market on the East Coast.

Mike Nichols

'Streetcar' is no longer about the moment at all. There is no Blanche DuBois anywhere; south, north, east or west. We don't have Blanche DuBois at the moment. But we have Willy Loman; everywhere we look we see Willy Loman. We are Willy Loman. We're on Facebook; we need to be known; we're selling all the time.

Jonathan Pochyly

People who have been good friends will turn on someone because they aren't following the same path. You have to question whether you want them to be your friends anyway.

Roger Thomas

The monkey was off our back. We played a home game the following week, and I remember telling the team, 'Guys, we have to find our goalpost.' It was kind of crooked, but we had it up by the next week.

Jennifer Harbury

The soldier who tortures can now simply state that he or she was following orders.

Alan Greenspan

The system worked. Moreover, following September 11, 2001, we found that the Y2K preparations and fixes had far-greater reach than we had realized,

Marco Rubio

I've always viewed politics the following way: if you do a good job at the job you're doing, you'll have opportunities to do other things in the future. Maybe things you never envisioned.

Masayoshi Okamoto

After going through volatility in recent trade, not many investors would like to hold their positions through the three-day weekend. And when they square positions, most of them are short following Tokyo's recent downtrend.

Neil Schwartz

Texas has a much more national following than USC.

Paul Levine

Right now the stock market is following the price of oil, and in the intermediate term, oil prices look to go higher.

Cedric Benson

I've been following what those guys are doing. My time will come.

Richard Clark

As part of our strategy going forward we are aggressively looking at alliances and joint ventures and acquisitions of biotech companies.

Lara Azar

Randall's a good guy, and the governor looks forward to working with him in his role as speaker.

Wendy Braun

People really look forward to this tourney because they have a lot of fun.

Randy Belote

Northrop Grumman is pleased to see the process moving forward and we welcome the opportunity to respond to the upcoming request for information and subsequent request for proposal.

Steve Renfroe

Again, we're just evaluating this, and if we go forward with this, it would be great news for Jackson County.

Terrence Gabriel

The Nasdaq has at least the Microsoft report to look forward to, which should be strong.

Jeff Francis

Once the season is over. I just kind of go back through it, look at the things I wrote down over the year -- what I did, what I need to do, what I'm happy with, what I'm not happy with -- and look forward to next year.

Jarome Iginla

Defensively, we've been doing really well, and offensively, we'd like to score more goals. I don't think that's a secret. Personally, I think the first half could have been better and I'm looking forward to the second half and contributing more on the offensive side of it.

Tom Powers

Deanna is very, very good. We are looking forward to see what she can do for us.

Roxane Gay

Definitely, there is a sense in my writing that people now know me in a personal way. And to an extent, that's true because I write about very personal things, and I use the personal often to contextualize some of these sociopolitical issues that we're dealing with. And to an extent, they're right. They know something about me.

Fred Harran

Anything that a pedophile can utilize to find the location of the child. These people are smart, just because they have issues doesn't mean they're stupid.

Asif Ali Zardari

Political disagreements have the colour and fragrance that normally is seen and felt in a political bouquet, while remaining united on one issue that democracy is the future of Pakistan.

Burton Richter

Since stepping down as laboratory director in 1999, I have devoted an increasing fraction of my time to international issues. I am involved with energy, environment, and sustainability issues, particularly as they involve new energy sources free of greenhouse gases.

Aimee Mullins

I'm not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.

Charles Bass

There are things I want to get done, and If I can reconnect where I was before, working on the issues I'm interested in, that's exciting to me.

James Wolfensohn

The first thing that you need to deal with is the issue of equity and poverty.

Ban Ki-moon

Now, more than ever, we need to connect the dots between climate, poverty, energy, food and water. These issues cannot be addressed in isolation.

Diane Duane

The issues of the choice between right and wrong has to be an ongoing concern for everybody, at every age. There is no magical point in a human life when anyone is or becomes immune to the second-by-second choice to do right instead of wrong.

Johnny Knoxville

I love Louisiana. It's amazing.

Isaiah Stanback

Louis was going to surprise a lot of people, but he wasn't going to surprise us. What he did in that game, he can do more.

Matt Gifford

If St. Louis is 1A (as a sports town in Missouri), Springfield is 1B.

John Davidson

People I know purchased the St. Louis Blues. It's a purchase in principle. They don't own the team yet. The sale has to be ratified by the league. For me to speculate what I might do with the St. Louis Blues, well, they don't even own the team yet. I don't have anything to tell anybody.

Lorenzo Booker

I'm like from St. Louis on that one - the 'Show Me State'.

Michael Clayton

You can't picture something natural doing something like that. It's devastating. People in Louisiana haven't seen anything like this in a long, long time. This was one of the most powerful hurricanes Louisiana has ever had to take on.

David Stern

It was important to the Hornets and the NBA that we maintain a presence in Louisiana in anticipation of a return to New Orleans next season.

Wes Brown

Love the show 'Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives.' Being from Louisiana and a big outdoorsman, I'm a big fan of 'Duck Dynasty' as well.

Andy Kopplin

We are providing ways to keep homeowners as homeowners. You can successfully rebuild South Louisiana with the package we have proposed.

Tom Cail

A very nice guy, very nice. Oswaldo had a lot of friends in here after he started meeting all of us.

Wade Blaufuss

Progress has been slow but there has been progress. Negotiators are meeting around the clock.

Wade Blaufuss

Progress has been slow but there has been progress. ... Negotiators are meeting around the clock.

Curtis Crews

Originally we started with only meeting once a month but we realized that it was taking too long, so we went to meeting twice a month. Once we get the new members on the committee, we should be able to get moving on it.

Frank Maguire

The take-away from the meeting is we're on the right track,

Kansas City

After a disappointing January, we are meeting our expectations.

Art Hogan

The rhetoric from the meeting will be the most important catalyst,

David Akin

This is an important meeting for his administration. He'd like to show there's a new tone to Ottawa-Washington relations.

Michael Vaughan

This is so special to come to the palace, meeting the queen here and being here with all the rest of the boys.

Jose Canseco

Proof Positive, I'm a very positive person and I've moved on.

Douglas Alexander

The style of politics that Damian McBride represents has been discredited, and Labour has moved on.

Mats Sundin

I've told Tomas already if you see me coming, move over.

Darius Hargrove

It was tough. But we've got to move on.

Jamie Friedman

The stock moved up pretty quickly, so we changed.

Maurice Cheeks

I've been over there before. We have to move on. You can't always live in the past of what we did or what we were. The Blazers moved on and I moved on.

Stuart Bailey

Things are set up here to move really fast.

Frank Cook

Things often don't seem strange until after you move in.

Ronald Walters

This is a wise move on her part. This race was framed from the beginning.

Joe Novak

A win is a win. It was a sloppy win, but a win nonetheless. I'll tell you what ? after two losses, we needed this win bad.

Al Harris

Bad! We needed it to pick ourselves back up.

Robert Hite

That was a big-time play, but we were still in the game. We were up one, we just needed to get some stops.

Shaun Heshka

People don't realize how tiring it is to play that long on the penalty kill. We really needed this win and it was nice to see our special teams come up big for us.

Jim Haley

The third quarter is when we started to move. We needed to play and be competitive.

Jim Watson

The thing we say we've seen the most is he was there for people who needed him.

Brett Favre

The things we needed on defense, he stepped up to the plate.

Kristen Nash

I wanted it for her more than I wanted (the MVP) for myself. She has always played well when we needed her. She's so underrated. She rebounds, makes steals, everything.

Esteban Loaiza

I wanted to go out there and battle, ... We needed this win. I wanted to put some zeroes on the board, and my teammates responded well with the bats.

Bob Schieffer

Anyway, that offer is not going to be made.

Stuart Rose

The sum total of all this demonstrates that Philip Green's offer significantly undervalues the business,

Robert Watson

Space is one of the reasons we couldn't offer full-day kindergarten

Jeanne Ashley

So you see, we offer a lot more than just sports.

John Chiles

Texas made me an offer. It was over the phone. He just talked to me about Texas and talked to my coach. They're recruiting me as a quarterback and I like that. It was a big offer for me.

Alexei Smertin

I've received an offer from a Russian club.

Ed Miliband

We don't compete in the world by offering tax advantages to a few that we don't give to all our citizens and businesses

Ed Miller

Essentially, through one product, the operator can offer three different services here. We've been shooting for this type of integration for some time.

Theresa Parker

The response to our expanded product offering has been tremendous.

Steve Robinson

The vibrancy in our sports programs is still there.

Ken Leonard

That's what you want to get your program to, but we still have to prove it,

Benito Mussolini

The Socialists ask what is our program? Our program is to smash the heads of the Socialists.

Mayor Lederer

Unfortunately, the program is a victim of its own success, and as result my description of it would be a program in crisis.

Hillary Clinton

There was even a time when Donald Trump didn't get an Emmy for his TV program three years in a row and he started tweeting that the Emmys were rigged against him.

Fred Siget

Some of the programs I wrote there are still running maintenance free.

Jonathan Brandis

I was in a theater program when I was about 6 years old. I didn't like it as much as most actors do. Which is probably why I never went back to it.

Robert Redford

We don't program (the festival) for commerciality. We program for diversity.

Jim Colborn

He allows me to have my own program and supports me and makes me feel like I am appreciated and respected.

Henry A. Kissinger

a review of withdrawal strategy ... seems in order.

Dave Dombrowski

I'm going to sit down with Trams and review what's going on. It's an important day.

Hermann Maier

This time, I took it easier. I stood up before it so as not to crash again.

Do Won Chang

When I first immigrated to the United States, there were not many jobs that stood out. So I worked at a gas station, cleaning.