Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anytime I see something screech across a room and latch onto someone's neck, and the guy screams and tries to get it off, I have to laugh, because what is that thing.

Margaret Spellings

As children across America get ready to start classes, our thoughts and prayers are with the children who are living along the Gulf Coast and who may not be able to return to their schools for weeks or months. I'm working with the White House Task Force on Hurricane Katrina Response in order to find ways that we can help these children in any way we can. We will stick with these communities for as long as it takes to get them back on their feet.

Nicola Sturgeon

As a young woman in politics, with few women around, you start to subconsciously behave like men in politics. That comes across as quite hard, tough and humorless, but you're trying to be taken seriously.

Johann Lamont

As a youngster, I travelled every year across the sea to Tiree. On occasion, we ventured to Skye on the Kyleakin-Kyle of Lochalsh ferry, where there is now a bridge.

Mitch Golub

As dealerships move more of their advertising online, they are choosing partners that deliver the highest quality of shoppers and that have the greatest impact on their bottom line. We are proud to be a premiere choice, and will continue our commitment to quality across several new online products we launched at the National Automobile Dealers Association's 89th Annual Convention and Exposition in Orlando.

Ken Cassar

...As consumers increase their use of the Internet, the opportunity for the Web to influence their online and off-line shopping behavior grows. Simply put, businesses must integrate across channels.

Rashid Johnson

As an undergrad at Columbia College in Chicago, I came across 'Boondocks,' and then I watched the 'Boondocks' television show.

Lynn Coady

As a novelist, you have to pick your battles. You are tired. You have begun to experience the first ominous tinglings of carpal tunnel syndrome. You wake up in the middle of the night with both hands lying across your chest like a couple of plucked bird carcasses, dead of all sensation.

Rupert Murdoch

As a broadcaster, he had an uncanny knack of knowing what people across the country were thinking.

Dick Cheney

A senator can be wrong for 20 years without consequence to the nation, ... But a president, a president, always casts the deciding vote. And in this time of challenge, America needs -- and America has -- a president we can count on to get it right.

John Hawkes

As he was telling us about these pleasures, at that very moment, in the ruin and the tall grass, I stepped on a hornets, nest and got stung.

Leigh Steinberg

As for football in L.A., it's going to take a loooong time before another team comes here.

Stephen Kinzer

As British and French imperialism ebbed following the end of the Second World War, America became the main outside player in Arab affairs.

Roger Warren

As a PGA Professional, I believe that PGA Free Fitting & Trade-Up Month offers a tremendous opportunity to bring new customers to our facilities and stimulate equipment sales. The promotion is a natural extension of Play Golf America and PGA Free Lesson Month, and will undoubtedly elevate the status of PGA Professionals in the eyes of the public.

Jose Antonio Vargas

As a newcomer to America who learned to 'speak American' by watching movies, I firmly believe that to change the politics of immigration and citizenship, we must change culture - the way we portray undocumented people like me and our role in society.

Dorian Missick

As a black actor, you always have the feeling that there's not as much work out there as for a white counterpart, but is America after all; you have to play ball if you're going to play ball.

Reggie White

As America has permitted homosexuality to establish itself as an alternative lifestyle, it is also reeling from the frightening spread of sexually transmitted disease. Sin begets its own consequence, both on individuals and nations.

Wally Schirra

As a Naval officer, I was trained, essentially bred, to be a military aviator. I was a Naval officer on assignment, not an employee of NASA.

Wayne Hudson

As far as African-American lieutenants, I believe I am the first.

Andrew Booth

As good as Cassie and Jen are, they are even better people. They are humble and soft-spoken but they can dominate games. But they truly believe they can't do it alone.

Josiah Royce

As for you, my beloved friend, I loyally believe in your uniqueness; but whenever I try to tell to you wherein it consists, I helplessly describe only a type.

John Fahey

As for the source of the music, I believe it comes from the unconscious; that there is no such thing as talent.

Rocky Carroll

As an actor, you can believe that you are the reason for a show's success, but these things are a brand name now. They're like Coca-Cola. It's like, with or without you, people are still gonna drink it.

Elaine Turner

As a registered nurse and community health educator, I believe that we need to do more of these types of events for people of all ages. With the technology of today, it's easy to forget the importance that exercise and healthy living play in our lives.

Robert Sweeney

As a social service agency, I don't see a slackening, ... After 9/11, we cut off solicitation to New York and D.C., but the giving has come back. I don't believe our success or failure will be determined by these natural disasters.

David Emanuel

As costs come down, we expect to see others follow suit with free services. We really believe there's a demand. It's the fastest way people are getting on line.

Dan Niles

As a result, we believe forward EPS estimates at best will remain unchanged and most likely will need to be lowered.

Erin Campbell

The bottom line is this should translate into a savings of several million dollars for the people of Vermont.

Peter Beck

The bottom line is, they are many years away from food self-sufficiency. If they push the public distribution too far, they could easily be looking at another famine.

Clint Hurdle

The bottom line is, they are in the playoffs. They won the (National League West).

Andrew Roskill

The bottom line is, the way things are laid out on the table right now, they just aren't going to work. The government doesn't really understand how technology works.

Phil Anderton

The bottom line is the team is selected by the manager and that is the way it should be.

Robert McKinley

The bottom line is these offers are a marketing gimmick. If you get an offer in the mail, it's important to read the disclosure box very carefully.

Mike Claffey

The bottom line is there will be only three lanes.

David George

The bottom line is there's nothing very new here. It's not going to change our forecasts.

Ronald Brown

The bottom line is there's more use of psychotropic medication with children than there is research data on it.

Beat Siegenthaler

Any sophisticated investor will recognize the country is not about to fall apart.

Mike DeWitt

As of right now, we are part of Green Country Technical Center, but we are in the same location we've been for 50 years. They said there were not enough graduates in the program to justify having it.

Dick Mountjoy

Rank and file Democrats are very patriotic. They love this country and support the military.

Chelsea Clinton

People who imagine and implement solutions to challenges in their own lives, in their communities, in our country and in our world have always inspired me.

Saul Garcia

People who have been in this country for a long time deserve an opportunity to have a better way to work.

David Axelrod

People understand we're on the doorstep of doing something really historic that will help the American people and strengthen our country for the long run.

Deborah Pryce

Our economic policies have done the trick. We are in the middle of one of the strongest economies this country has ever seen.

Patty Murray

Our entire country owes Sam a debt of gratitude for all he has done for so many,

Stephen Cohen

People saw this as a sign of his own weakness -- that he had to run to the Americans for protection. The United States is not the most popular country in Pakistan.

Benicio Toro

Raoul Duke: I wouldn't dare go to sleep with you wandering around with a head full of acid, wanting to slice me up with that goddamn knife. Dr. Gonzo: Who said anything about slicing you up, man. I just wanted to cut a little Z in your forehead.

Mark Chmura

People who don't think that it's all about him are fooling themselves. With a quote like, 'What are they going to do, cut me?' It's all about him.

Eric Bass

Our shots didn't fall. We were 3 of 21 (three-pointers). We've never been that bad. It was our night not to make shots. In the third quarter we cut it to within four and our shots didn't fall. In the fourth quarter we cut it to within five points and our shots didn't fall.

Mark Slotsve

Our defense has been great and I hope it stays the way it is. Offensively, we're going to have to find a way to score some more points, because I don't think our offense in the West Region is going to cut it if we want to take a run at the title.

Gao Zhisheng

Our event is completely peaceful and legal. We're using our own bodies, in our own homes to do what we choose. Yet people who have joined the hunger strike are disappearing. I don't know exactly how many people, but this is expanding. I've been followed by the police for more than three months and now they've tapped my phones and cut off most of my communication.

Herbert Lau

People are switching to utilities because there is a lot of uncertainty in the market about how deep the rate cut will be.

Seth Grossman

People don't know how to cut spending if they don't know who is getting the tax money now.

John Hanley

People get injured fighting fires. Last night, we had a guy cut a tendon in his hand. He'll be off for six months. Somebody has to come in and fill his position.

John Hanley

People get injured fighting fires, ... Last night, we had a guy cut a tendon in his hand. He'll be off for six months. Somebody has to come in and fill his position.

Abdul Reeki

No Sunni has a right to become a president, prime minister or even a minister in the Iranian government.

Greg Potter

The telecoms and construction sectors are likely to be up because that's where the money is going after the government said it wants to up its investment in these sectors.

Bill Frist

Now my hand, my hand can be grasped, and the hand of government can be grasped, by you, by your families, by your communities, and that others can together with us in government seize what may well be an unprecedented, unprecedented opportunity,

Jack Straw

putting the government of Syria on notice that our patience has limits.

Joe Lhota

The role of government is to steer us in the right direction, not do all the work for us.

Dalton McGuinty

I've tried to lead a progressive, activist government.

Susan Goldstein

I've never really been a taker, always a giver, but in this case, I really had the sense that this is what the government is supposed to be there to do.

Bud Selig

I've often said I won't rest until I rid the sport of steroids. If we can't solve our problems, then I submit to you the government should do what it has to do.

Steve Corson

It was the same kind of thing as what you're seeing. We were getting material that was packaged to look like it was from a government entity.

Navneet Sikera

The situation has more or less returned to normal.

Leslie Fiedler

The ''text'' is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more or less important than the sociological, psychological, historical, anthropological or generic.

Felipe Alou

Sometimes, ... you have to take less to get more.

Francis Borrego

Right now, we are playing with less than two-thirds of the team.

Sarah Clarke

There are more than 786,000 uninsured people in the state of Maryland, and less than one-half of 1 percent works for Wal-Mart.

Bob Dole

If there is one clear lesson of our century, it is this: where aggression is tolerated, it multiplies.

Amber Tamblyn

Being a performer myself I can understand that, but I think that poetry, for me, might be less about the performance and more about the words.

James Cabell

There is not any memory with less satisfaction in it than the memory of some temptation we resisted

Tomas Taterka

This was more or less expected, more or less priced in.

Tom Ridge

a very unfortunate characterization of the work that people are doing.

Jake Bugg

At school, people would say I should go on 'Britain's Got Talent,' but I would never have done that because it doesn't seem genuine; it doesn't feel natural.

Renae Dreier

A year from now, people will look back and say that was nerve-racking, but it was worth it.

Randy Falco

Back in 1975, we were making all the decisions about what people were going to watch.

Karla Reese

As people stop driving, we haven't been able to replace them as readily as we used to.

Michael Vick

As long as I can go out and make plays, people can say what they want to say,

Jake Barton

As long as your storytelling and emotional depth are intact, that's what people will focus on.

Ferdie Pacheco

As influential as I have been, do you think one of these people has ever called me? ... No.

Astro Teller

Really, having people who have different mental perspectives is what's important.

Joey Gathright

A situation like that, you just don't think about anything ... you just go get it. They were scoring runs ... we wanted to get out of that inning any way you can. You just go until the wall stops you.

Ron Gardenhire

Offensively, we didn't do too much. But we scored the runs when we had to.

Mike Lamb

Run in packs. That's the thing to do.

Keyshawn Johnson

Run the ---- ball. Run the ---- ball.

Hilary Clinton

say you are going to run in 2008!

Steve Davies

Realistically, if you want to win a state championship, you have to play tough competition, ... You can't run from them.

Markus Persson

I've never run a company before, and I don't want to feel like a boss. I just want to turn up and do my work.

Josh Smith

I've never seen them run that fast. It was like they were running from the police. It was so funny.

Greg Ostertag

I've run out of gas. I'm tired of being on the road. I just don't have it.

Jim Veltman

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

Charlie Skelton

The story is timeless and can be done in any era.

Goldie Hawn

The movie actually has a little more back story, more consequence, and I think it's more real actually for this time period.

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,

Chris Mills

I've never had a better time doing anything -- not just music, but anything,

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.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

Patrick McVerry

Defensively, again, we are going to be tops in the league.

Lance Corcoran

Anything and everything they are doing at the top is not translating to the staff, to the facilities.

Daniel Payne

That's my top goal, to go to college.

Mike Smith

We're going to be on top of that very quick.

J. Taylor

There's no better way to top it off.

Charli Turner

We want the top spot. That's our goal.

Dick Morris

... the top 10 percent of incomes pay 70 percent of the income taxes and cast about 25 percent of the vote.

Andrew Lansley

If I'm serious about patients and their GPs being able to have more control of their health care, I can't have a top-down system that imposes restrictions on the services they need.

Sam Nunn

Leadership must be established from the top down.