Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matt Blunt

I am extremely disappointed in the Supreme Court's decision. The decision is highly offensive to traditional Missouri values and is contrary to state law, which prohibits taxpayer dollars from being spent to facilitate abortions,

Jose Vistan

Investors were relieved that contrary to expectations, Labor Day ended without any violence.

Robert Pastor

In the short term, there may be people who think that pushing democracy is contrary to our interests.

Samuel Coleridge

The Language of the Dream/Night is contrary to that of Waking/Day. It is a language of Images and Sensations, the various dialects of which are far less different from each other, than the various Day-Languages of Nations.

Marianne Williamson

The entire political system is contrary to everything a feminine heart stands for. It lacks inclusion. It lacks tenderness toward children. It lacks honor for relationships. It lacks reverence for the earth. It lacks love. And without those things, the feminine psyche disconnects.

Dick Marty

These two facts are significant because they indicate methodology, logistics and personnel for this kind of operation ? operations which are totally contrary to the spirit and the text of the European convention on human rights.

Jim Rich

This is contrary to everything that the Marine Corps stands for,

Carl Williams

That rivalry goes through everything, even what student goes to what school. Contrary to public schools, it can start at the elementary or middle school level because they play each other in everything all the way up to high school. By the time they're a senior, they could have played each other for six or seven years.

Merle Haggard

That I'm a contrary old son of a bitch, I guess,

Greg Brenneman

I usually tell people upfront what to expect, and that I really want their feedback and their ideas, and if they think I've got a hair out of place or food stuck in my teeth, gosh, I want to know that.

Kenny Walker

For me personally, he always was very supportive and gave very positive feedback about my playing. He called me to play. I've always appreciated that.

Aaron Hill

He's helped me through everything, really. Having Johnny Mac to really show me everything and giving you positive feedback -- how I'm doing, how I'm looking. It's always good to have someone there.

Mark Stevenson

We took a lot of feedback from people who were in the event. ... They wanted the route to be more difficult.

John Astin

The feedback that I get from my association with Gomez is heartwarming. It is very difficult for me to take anything but a positive view of the Gomez phenomenon.

Piero Romano

Not only do they get to learn music and rhythms, but they got to learn about culture. Even if they are younger, they were interested and wanted to learn. It was a lot of fun and the feedback from the parents was amazing. These are songs that wake up the whole soul.

Greg Gorman

It's brilliant. That's the feedback we've gotten from all levels of corporations.

James Touchton

The letters called for better feedback and to make our voice heard.

Todd White

We're starting to get enough good feedback that we feel we'll have all this money pulled together in the next six months.

John Beasley

Katie was really lucky because she had her handbag on the floor at the table and when they marched us off, they sort of missed it.

Jim Kolbe

There are so many people moving around on the floor that nobody would notice anything,

Colin Cushman

Gustafson was a great leader on the floor for us tonight. She played a really great game.

Kerri Brown

Her play speaks for itself. She is very athletic. She does a lot of good things on the floor for us defensively.

Brenda Hildreth

(He said), 'I think we have a problem.' I went over and didn't see anything at first. He goes, 'Could you go on the second floor and make sure there's no smoke or anything?' So, I went out on the second floor and, yes, in the kitchen there was smoke.

Jeff Gundy

He's a very good player, it's good to see he could make a full recovery and have as good a year as he's had. With him and Mo Williams on the floor together, when you put two point guards on the floor at the same time, it's very difficult.

Karl Hobbs

His status is at the point where he's getting up and down the floor a little bit. And we're hoping that he'll be able to play on Thursday.

David Price

He's athletic, big and he runs the floor good and plays good defense. He's very good at doing what he does best. He just plays and has a good time.

Sam Davis

We talked about the tempo at halftime, and I didn't like it because we weren't playing with enough energy. Our strength is our perimeter game, and once we were able to get a lead, we were able to spread the floor and make them guard us.

Jostein Gaarder

I wrote 'Sophie's World' in three months, but I was only writing and sleeping. I work for 14 hours a day when I'm working on a book.

Mike Darnell

I swear, it must (have been) 13 hours a day, ... And I still do. It's on all the time. I was sort of hypnotized by it as a kid, I think. I just loved it.

Michael Moser

He wants to show respect to the family, and if he were to say anything to the family, it would be he extends his sincere sympathies and they're in his thoughts and prayers. A day doesn't go by, an hour doesn't go by, that he doesn't think about this.

Steve Earle

You can listen to carpenters talk for hours in Ireland. The people have a relationship to words that I don't think you will run into anyplace in the world.

Tom Izzo

He's got to be going 100 miles an hour all the time.

Annelise Hoffman

I think it's like 21 hours a week (training time).

Roger Bedford

I think it's an outrage that these hours would be billed on a state holiday,

Brian Mehler

The purpose is to pay them for their work. They worked 20 hours per week -- it's like a part-time job.

Felix Bloch

It is indeed my profession to speak to students and I do this every week for several hours in the lecture rooms of Stanford University.

Greg Valliere

I think it (Friday's report) is incredibly important from a market point of view. But I'm not sure that swing voters in rural Ohio are going to be into the non-farm payroll number.

Kate Bush

Touring is an incredibly isolated situation. I don't know how people tour for years on end. You find a lot of people who can't stop touring, and it's because they don't know how to come back into life. It's sort of unreal.

Brian Cashman

He's a unique player. Not only is he someone who is incredibly talented on the field, but that talent actually translates to success in New York,

Paul Gregg

I think it's incredibly sad at the moment that we are actually contemplating selling Wayne Rooney,

Colin Egglesfield

I think it's incredibly important for kids to be able to express who they are and feel like they can be themselves without being persecuted for it or bullied for it.

Donald Stewart

It invites chaos. Leaving a job precipitously is just incredibly foolish.

Annalee Newitz

I think a lot of us responded intensely to 'True Detective' because it was so incredibly earnest. That's what made it heartbreaking and involving.

Jason Treutelaar

He was incredibly strong as we sealed up the win. He took it to the hole.

George Dennison

I am incredibly optimistic that we will not only succeed, ... but that we will go beyond.

Susan Blake

I think that the more information we have on a student, the better indicator we have of their prospective success.

David Littman

Our leading indicator - the one that's never lied to us like the politicians - suggests only 23 percent probability of recession over the next 12 months, that's very low.

Chuck D.

If you're looking for an indicator of how a teenager will drive, look at the parents.

Adam Ferrara

In California, the lines on the road are just a suggestion. They're in the left lane with the left indicator on, so naturally it's time to turn right! Are you kidding me? In your Prius? I know, you're saving the Earth by trying to kill the people!

David Weinberger

How your social network - the people that you know, or in your community - understand or value a work can be... a tremendously relevant indicator of how important or meaningful it's going to be to you.

Julius Peppers

It's an indicator of what's happening, but (the numbers) really don't tell the whole story,

John Cornyn

The Pew report is another indicator that the immigration system is broken.

Sergei Ignatchenko

You could throw this rock from the ninth floor, it can survive a long period in water.

Priest Holmes

This is my ninth year, and I feel real good.

Pat Flannery

That?s pretty impressive, nationally, that they think of us as a ninth seed. I think it?s recognition of who we played and who we beat.

Derek Jeter

The worst thing is, we were in a position to win. We were right in the position we wanted to be, in the ninth inning with Mo.

Larry Goldfarb

We are completely self-funded. This is our ninth year of concerts.

Derek Jeter

I've been playing baseball since I was 5 or 6 years old. I've been on a schedule, pretty much, since I was in eighth, ninth grade. I look forward to not doing that.

Ed Nottle

We've got to get it going before the ninth inning.

Hunter S. Thompson

We are young, ... We start a lot of juniors, sophomores and ninth graders. We have 10 seniors on the team.

Saxby Chambliss

has been ongoing throughout most of the year.

Russell Ahr

There is an ongoing investigation. This isn't over.

Joschka Fischer

There is an ongoing debate about the reform of the U.N. system.

Saul Alinsky

A free and open society is an ongoing conflict, interrupted periodically by compromises.

Jonathan Pincus

In just about every sector you can think of, there's been an ongoing process of reform.

Joschka Fischer

There is an ongoing debate about the reform of the U.N. system.

Christopher Low

You can see this clear, ongoing deterioration. And what's scary about this is it's still accelerating,

Don Lynn

It's not a one-shot deal. It's an ongoing situation.

Dee Miller

It's been just an ongoing process for years.

Mario Theissen

I think it could be possible but in the end it's a sport.

Greek proverb

It is not possible to step twice into the same river

Tim Hibbitts

It is likely? No. Is it possible or plausible? Yes.

Tomas Vokoun

I don't feel any pressure. I don't think this has got anything to do with pressure. Sometimes you just play really well, and then get in a slump. Now is the worst possible timing.

Robb Felton

I'd like to see them as soon as possible and get them out. I'm sure they're probably going crazy, they're not used to being in a kennel.

Richard P. Feynman

It is scientific only to say what is more likely and what less likely, and not to be proving all the time the possible and impossible.

Richard P. Feynman

So my antagonist said, "Is it impossible that there are flying saucers? Can you prove that it's impossible?" "No", I said, "I can't prove it's impossible. It's just very unlikely". At that he said, "You are very unscientific. If you can't prove it impossible then how can you say that it's unlikely?" But that is the way that is scientific. It is scientific only to say what is more likely and what less likely, and not to be proving all the time the possible and impossible.

Mark Streit

I never thought we could do that. But anything is possible in sports.

Bob Williams

If there was something someone wanted that we didn't have, we could usually get it for them in a day or two. We tried to make things as simple as possible for our customers. I think they appreciated that.

Pat Gillick

He's a blue-collar guy. And he's somebody that the public will like.

Charles Ray

Her public service announcement for us went out all over the nation,

Larry Nixon

He's always done things no one's surprised at, whether it's for publicity or by accident.

Tom Davies

He's going to have to give an explanation somewhere for how it got into his system, ... His public explanation is that he doesn't know how it happened.

Mike Mower

We've been very public in our support of this.

Shinzo Abe

I think we received wide support from the public on this point.

Dean Laidley

It is not for public consumption, but we have a lot of work to do this week.

Russell Baker

Live by publicity, you'll probably die by publicity.

Robert Winston

I do not know of any credible evidence that suggests Dr. Zavos can clone a human being. This seems to be yet another one of his claims to get publicity.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

know that there has to be a spending limit.

Sheryl Garrett

What you can't see, you won't spend foolishly.

Wally Herger

Whatever is in Medicare, ... we're not going to spend it.

Kelli O'Hara

I don't ever think about the roads I didn't take because I spend too much time thinking what's ahead. I don't go backwards.

Sam Huber

He doesn't like to run. He spends most of his time on the couch.

William S. Burroughs

If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you've lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.

Wilbur Ross

You cannot just keep borrowing more and more and keep spending more and more without eventually having a day of reckoning.

Cheryln Bennett

If you make a little money, you spend it on other things (for artwork).

Colin Edwards

If you're doing MotoGP you get to spend a lot of time at Sepang,

Stephanie Nelson

I think they'll have to do something. I don't think streets can support it.

Anna Brown

I really like the sheriff's street act. It's so funny,

Juan Felipe Herrera

I like marketplaces. I like train stations; I like being in trains. I like airports. I like walking down the street with a pen in my hand, writing, writing, writing.

Donnie Yen

A gesture, a smile, or just walking down the street is an expression.

Fernando Ferrer

You could go to any New Yorker on the street and they will tell you they are having an affordability crisis,

Maria Rodriguez

You've got to go to the streets to get to the table.

Nas

The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling.

David Brooks

They're from a friend's house. Three streets away.

Al Jarreau

I sang do-wop on the street corner before it was called do-wop.

Dr. Miglietta

It can be anything from him waking up to having a seizure, or it could be involuntary.

Sara Bareilles

I can very much relate to waking up inside of your life and saying to yourself, "How did I get here?"

Douglas Coupland

I keep vampire hours, going to bed at 2 A.M. and waking up at about 10:30-11 A.M.

Eric Berne

The eternal problem of the human being is how to structure his waking hours

Lenny Bruce

I am influenced by every second of my waking hour.

Paul Lowe

Waking up is seeing yourself just as you are, not as you would like to be nor as you are afraid you might be.

Avril Lavigne

I'm waking up to say I tried, instead of waking up to another TV guide.

Desmond Tutu

There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep.

Annie Dillard

I woke at intervals until . . . the intervals of waking tipped the scales, and I was more often awake than not.