Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jon Katz

I owe my dogs much - more than I can say - but they are not my 'companions' - as if we voluntarily chose to hang out together but none of us has authority over the others. I bought and/or acquired them. I own them. I am profoundly responsible for their care and well being.

Tori Amos

You can't control your popularity; I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things. If I was potato chips, I could go a lot more places, but I'm not.

Dave Warren

We will work to ensure this transition will be as seamless as possible for all customers, suppliers and valued partners. In addition, we will extend the opportunity for employment to all Ryerson employees in the acquired locations. We value their expertise and believe they will complement and strengthen our existing Energy Alloys team. Additionally, they share our mission for superior customer service and have an outstanding reputation for exceeding customer expectations.

Nick Fry

Since Honda acquired a 45% stake in the team at the beginning of this year, we have been finding ways to work even closer with our Honda colleagues, ... The Honda Institute is the perfect place for us to learn more about Honda and I'm sure that what will come out of this will be greater communication and understanding throughout the team.

Franklin P. Adams

I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Charles Dickens

Minerva House was ''a finishing establishment for young ladies,'' where some twenty girls of the ages from thirteen to nineteen inclusive, acquired a smattering of everything and a knowledge of nothing.

Robert Toombs

Mr. Monroe acquired Florida from Spain, extending the same guarantee to the inhabitants which Mr. Jefferson had to those of Louisiana.

Charles Dickens

Mr Podsnap settled that whatever he put behind him he put out of existence . . . Mr Podsnap had even acquired a peculiar flourish of his right arm in often clearing the world of its most difficult problems, by sweeping them behind him.

Michael Morpurgo

Much that is great in literature is an acquired taste, and you have to acquire it in the first place. Our job as parents is essentially to pass on the enthusiasm we had for the things we loved. That's how we'll get them to fall in love with reading in the first place and, hopefully, to stay in love with it.

Sean Ross

As for how far it stretches, it's too soon to tell yet. So far, what we know is that it transcends national heritage among Hispanics.

Jared Diamond

The broadest pattern of history - namely, the differences between human societies on different continents - seems to me to be attributable to differences among continental environments, and not to biological differences among peoples themselves.

Robert Shapiro

Our constitutionally-based criminal justice system places a high value on protecting the innocent. Among its central tenets is the idea that it is better to let a guilty person go free than to convict someone without evidence beyond a reasonable doubt.

Thomas Harrison

Other, far fewer, directors are more like the composer - conceptualizing the piece, scoring it, distributing its musical lines among a range of registers, chords, and instruments.

Richard Lloyd

People recognize it, and history has placed it among the group of influential records. I'm gratified it stuck to the wall.

Steve Jobs

Apple had a terrific quarter -- we sold a record number of Power Macintosh G3 computers, customers love our new PowerBooks, Apple earned its highest profit in years and we ended the quarter with the lowest inventory level among the major PC players,

Gerald Andersen

The tie business went into the doldrums in the mid-1990s. Now there is definitely a dress-up trend among younger consumers.

Bo Ryan

The three of us appreciate where we came from and how we got here. There was no one that received a job here, among the three of us, by privilege. You had to get something done somewhere as a coach on your own.

Andrew Kohut

The threat from Iran has really penetrated, with two of three saying Iran's nuclear program represents a major threat. Among people who have been following news about the issue, there's even greater concern.

Juan Somavia

No worker should be imprisoned or penalized for carrying out legitimate trade union activities,

Mia Hamm

This is emotional, and I'm truly speechless, ... I was expecting to be a follower tomorrow night, just to go wherever I was pointed, and now I'm carrying the flag. It's a tremendous honor and I thank my fellow Olympians for thinking of me.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

For, quite literally, the whole world today is looking for us to take the lead in carrying out those obligations imposed on the American people as a whole by the beautiful, compassionate and courageous principle of noblesse oblige.

John Wade

If something happens to me because I was carrying weight, then it's on me. I'm the one who chose to be a lineman. If I wanted to play football, I was going to be a lineman. That's the skill I was given. If you're really that worried about it, do something else.

Rick Martinez

He's usually carrying a notebook or a day planner type, leather-bound binder. He'll place it on the counter, open it up and remove a demand note, which usually indicates he has a gun.

If I lived back in the wild west days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster, I'd carry a soldering iron. That way, if some smart-aleck cowboy said something like "Hey, look. He's carrying a soldering iron!" and started laughing, and everybody else started laughing, I could just say, "That's right, it's a soldering iron. The soldering iron of justice." Then everybody would get real quiet and ashamed, because they had made fun of the soldering iron of justice, and I could probably hit them up for a free drink.

Ian Macdonald

Investigations revealed the vessel was carrying 143 tonnes of Patagonian toothfish,

Mike DuBose

I'm walking down three flights of stairs carrying furniture, trying to talk on the phone about the job. I've never been involved in one that was done exactly that way.

M. C. Gainey

I just have that sort of face and when I got to Hollywood in the late '70s they took one look at me and said, 'Get him a gun. You definitely should be carrying a gun,' and so a lot of it is just the way I look. I look like I'm angry and dangerous, and in fact, I'm loveable and kind.

Malcolm Gets

Once you have a central character who announces in the first five minutes of the show that he feels whooped by life and that he's had enough, I'm in. I'm hooked.

Naomi Mitchison

It was all coming out from somewhere, and I just had the job of writing it down. I was, however, determined that the central characters would have a happy ending, but it was quite difficult sometimes to get them out of trouble.

Scott Shane

Mr. Ford's decision to pardon Richard M. Nixon for any crimes he might have been charged with because of Watergate is seen by many historians as the central event of his 896-day presidency.

Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia

Electricity transmission operates on a frequency between 49.7 Hertz and 50.2 Hertz. What I have done is petitioned the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission and squeezed this band to now 49.9 Hertz to 50.1 Hertz. This will contain volatility.

Kim Jones

Everything that's upgraded is upgraded in a central location so schools will no longer have to upgrade PCs and individual systems in the classroom. Everything will be done in one location.

Jacquie Fernandes

Everything that happened in the past we've let go, we've moved on. Ever since Central last year, this is what we've been waiting for and it's finally here, so we're trying to prove ourselves all over again. Show everybody that we've got a new side and just try to work to get back Central.

Mike Tiede

We changed that to: 'Pulaski County residents are encouraged to observe Central time. We're not going to be the time police. We're not going to be the clock cops. They said as long as our government ran on Central time, they weren't worried about anything else.

John Prescott

What government has been doing, we've got major programmes now, of billions of pounds, which are directed by central government into these areas of deprivation.

Rachel Nichols

There's something so soothing about the hum of Grand Central Station.

Donald Rumsfeld

the sooner it is done, the fewer Iraqis that will be killed, the fewer Americans or coalition forces that will be killed.

Mark Pervan

This is still a pretty good outcome and would lend support to iron ore pricing. The price settlement for lower quality coking coal was better than expected.

Dick Gephardt

We have a big job of reconciling the people in Iraq. We need to pull together that international coalition that we should have gotten together a long time ago,

Yulia Tymoshenko

Today, much more than yesterday, there is a threat of a coalition between Our Ukraine and the Regions Party.

Paul Patterson

With higher oil and natural gas prices, nuclear and coal plants have a distinct competitive advantage. Policy-makers should look for ways to enable and encourage development of such capacity.

Nick Carter

We see coal prices remaining strong for the foreseeable future.

Jim Dean

We lost an entire generation of coal miners.

Gernot Erler

We will not form any coalition with the Left Party, that's definite.

William Scranton

The public schools, trade schools and research schools, these are the coal mines of the 21st century,

Will Morgan

We're here, we're not polar opposites, we're not competing for the hold of the city.

Matt Baker

There's just such a mass of hotels that just want to give the service away for free. When that's what you're competing against, it just gets harder.

Willie Graham

I give our kids a lot of credit because they are kind of down right now. They have had some tough losses and they didn't pack it in. They did a good job of competing and made some plays.

Jamal Mayers

I got hurt after the fight and couldn't go back out there. It started to sink (in) for me. We put a lot of work in every day, and it's just frustrating to think that we're not going to be competing for a Stanley Cup ... that's why we play.

Mike Schuster

She's competing a little harder and taking it little more serious than last year. She's doing a nice job.

Barbara Turner

I was out there competing just as hard as I could, working without my legs. I tried to go until I couldn't go any more.

Darryl Anderson

The NCAA is an exceptional meet. We're excited to be competing in the national championships and look forward to gaining some success while we're there.

Steve Carpenter

It's real surprising because I know they were a high competing team and they were ranked nationally.

Lawrence Dallaglio

It's up to all of us now to make sure that England go out and play as well as we can, and I'm looking forward to competing for a place in the team.

Marco Coleman

As far as health, that's just a blessing. There's just so much that's out of your control, that you don't know how it's going to go. Really, you've just got to be really fortunate. You've got to be lucky.

Brian Evans

A late-model Chevrolet truck discharged a firearm into the truck, striking (Morales), forcing (Morales) to lose control of his vehicle and wreck.

W. S. Gilbert

The mistake we had made was trying to control everything.

Benji Sonnichsen

We're just trying to focus on the things we can control and get better every day.

Shari Walling

We were disappointed we didn't place higher, but you can't control how other people swim. It's surprising when you qualify in 10 of the 11 events and not to place higher.

Richard Syron

We shall take the necessary steps to upgrade our control and financial reporting infrastructure to meet our regulatory and reporting commitments.

Mark Ellis

Even as a young guy, he takes control. That's his infield out there, and that's the way it should be.

Doug Miller

Being young, sometimes you don't know how to control your emotions. He'll mature. I'd take him on my team any time.

Patrick McGurn

Boards, frankly, are just getting up to speed in many instances on what they've done in the past and are really just starting to exhibit some control over the pay practices. It's going to be a gradual process.

Heraclitus Ephesus

To do the same thing over and over is not only boredom; it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do

Conlan Efurd

What I was pleased at was we maintained roughly a 12-point lead. I thought we controlled the ball. We had a lot of guys in there.

Kate McHarg

We had a great warm up from the first half. We were intense and executing. We controlled most of the first half and it showed on the scoreboard.

Igor Goloubev

Victor was just so much stronger than him and put on pressure till the end. He looked good. He was very focused before the fight. After the 1st round he controlled the fight without being too aggressive. It was a good fight for him to come back after being away for so long.

Slavoj Zizek

It's bad if we are controlled, but if we're not, it can be even worse.

Tim Ziegler

(Montpelier) controlled possession a lot of the game, definitely.

Phil Jackson

Kobe played a game in which he really controlled the offense from his position. He really doesn't play guard very often. We had people open because he got double-teamed. In the first half, Cook hit his shots.

Duffy Waldorf

I saw he was right there, but I knew I still controlled my own destiny. I knew I had to still make a couple of birdies on the back nine. I had opportunities from (holes) 11 through 15, but I just couldn't roll those putts in.

Michael Shapiro

States are doing an excellent job in keeping the tires in a controlled management situation.

Jack Bicknell

And they have some wide receivers who can really fly, so we have our hands full, ... They pretty much dominated Wyoming and their offense is really dangerous.

Bob Hartley

Even though they've pretty much dominated us in the first three games, the good news is we're still right there with them.

Malcolm Boyd

Yet through history gays have always dominated religious life and churches.

Carmen Schoolcraft

We had a good final seven-minute push in the second half, but that was about it. We dominated the first half, but we just couldn't put it in the back of the net.

Jim Tracy

We got pitched to death. He dominated the game.

Angela Merkel

My government will be dominated by a firm will to renew our fatherland,

Champ Bailey

My front seven just dominated the second half, ... Dominated.

Tony Meola

We dominated for 70 minutes and they dominated the rest. It would have been nice to get the three points and put pressure on Kansas City, but they still have a tough road so it's not over. We have to go to D.C. and get three points and forget about this.

Hines Ward

We dominated ... and we still lost. Hard to forget that one.

Joey Skaggs

As a news story, I'm just a subject, not a person. My early performances were provocative, so I was stereotypically portrayed as a counter-cultural figure by the mainstream media.

Keith Newman

Defensively, I think we've got to get off to a better start than what we have. I think we've got to go out there and set the tone early in the game.

Jake Shields

I've only seen two of his fights, and it was hard to get a feel for him because he had his man on the ground most of the time. I'm going to have to feel him out early on and see what he's got.

Brian Jones

The September report was taken too early to get the full effect.

W. S. Gilbert

The wickets will be similar to what the players will face early in the season at the SCG,

Dave Moates

That's high school baseball. It's not earth-shattering. It's early in the year, too. They have to learn to pitch and play in games like this to be successful in games like this in April.

Elize Du Toit

I'm not sure if I'll become Dr. Du Toit. I'm at the early stages of a long journey.

Chris Schultz

When you're 1-9 and down 22 at the half, it's nice to see they didn't quit. That's a good sign. I told the kids early in the third quarter that we were still in this thing. They didn't pack it in.

Bob Cook

We have incorporated the teachers into an early intervention team which visits all our nurseries up to twice a week.

Jane Siberry

Harmony is when the sum is greater than the parts. A happy exaggeration.

Albert Einstein

From discord, find Harmony.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Every word has its fragrance: there is a harmony and a disharmony of fragrances, and hence of words.

John Dryden

From Harmony, from heav'nly Harmony. This universal Frame began.

Paul McManus

Jersey as a whole spends hundreds of thousands of pounds on antibiotics a year,

Lloyd Carr

Whoever wears that jersey has some big shoes to fill. And we're out there now trying to find him.

Marty Turco

It always baffles me why they do these things. I've never made a save with my jersey before, but as long as we don't look too silly, it doesn't really matter to us.

Dee McCann

I had my fingernails in his jersey and he stepped away. He's got a lot of speed and quickness, but he's not better than his brother.

Chris Christie

It's not that I'm universally loved. We know I'm not in New Jersey. But what they do say in New Jersey is, 'We like him, and we think he's telling us the truth.' I think we need to have that type of politics on the national level.

Susan Smith

It's probably time to do the whole policy over.

Nigel S. Wright

Public policy has been a passion of mine. For three decades, I've had some involvement in the political process.

Jesse McCartney

I've been reading script after script after script,

James Sturm

I've been collecting, reading 'Peanuts' since I was five,

Brandon Sanderson

Novels aren’t just happy escapes; they are slivers of people’s souls, nailed to the pages, dripping ink from veins of wood pulp. Reading the right one at the right time can make all the difference.

Ben Mezrich

Seeing someone reading something I wrote on an airplane - things like that are pretty awesome.

Ayn Rand

Is it advisable to spread out all the conveniences of culture before people to whom a few steps up a stair to a library is a sufficient deterrent from reading?

C. S. Lewis

In Science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself.

Bella Thorne

I practice reading all the time. I read everything and having so many scripts to read, which really helps out as well.

Daniel Handler

I find reading screenplays difficult, as they're only a roadmap for what a movie might end up being.

Ricky Gervais

If you walked around like David Bowie in 1973 in Reading, you'd get beaten up. The 1970s in a small town was more like the 1950s.. and that's the truth. The backdrop was probably Victorian.

LeAnn Rimes

Sometimes when I look in the mirror, I see a child, then I look and see a woman who should be turning 60.

Gary Thomas

This is overreaction. It won't make a difference. They'll turn 18, but they'll still be inexperienced.

Steve Foster

this could turn into another Waco ... we don't want to get into that.

James Tate

We did make a turn for the better at some point.

Tim Tebow

I'm not somebody that opens a playbook and just turns and reads and reads. That doesn't do it for me.

Antonin Scalia

A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom of a turntable.

Derek Walcott

How can I turn from Africa and live?

Simone de Beauvoir

One is not conceived a lady, one turns into one.

Robert Adams

The only freedom we've got is not to react to anything, but to turn within and know the truth.

Santiago Cabrera

I've been to New York a lot. I grew up in London but I'm from Chile originally.

Eddy Curry

That's just how things happened. I think in the long run, New York is going to come out on top.

Antonio Sabato, Jr.

I'm a Laker fan, always have been. And the New York Yankees, for sure.