Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Page

The bullet entered through one cheek and exited out the other side.

Harry Anderson

I've lived in a lot of places, and this is the only town I love, the only town I'd take a bullet for, ... Right now I feel like I have an Uzi aimed at my head, but I'll take a lot more bullets if there are people standing next to me.

Chris Robinson

It weighed exactly what it did when it was fired. There is no evidence that is consistent with this bullet being a ricochet.

Steve Troxler

This is a tremendous opportunity for people in rural North Carolina, ... It couldn't come at a better time, with our farmers making a transition after the end of the tobacco program. It could be the silver bullet we've been looking for.

Tom Kelleher

A little different placement of the bus, we could have been a lot more in harm's way. The fact that we dodged the bullet is just amazing.

Neil Ferguson

The modelling shows there is no single magic bullet which can control a flu pandemic, but that a combination of interventions could be highly effective at saving lives.

James Upham

You medal is that far away. Half a bullet tip away.

Matt Maldre

Dove chocolate Easter eggs make good bullets for my chocolate cannon.

John Perkins

An economic hit man walked into his office and said, 'Congratulations, Mr President, I just want you to know that over here I've got a couple of hundred million dollars for you and your family if you cooperate with your Uncle Sam and our oil companies. And over here I have a man with a gun in his hand and a bullet with your name on it.'

Tommy Thompson

What we're going to do as a department is to collaborate and to cooperate and partnership with the people of Iraq to rebuild that medical system back to what it was in the 1970s,

Pete Carroll

We'll cooperate fully and do whatever we can to assist.

Mark Geragos

I don't see any reason in the world not to cooperate at this point, because I think this is going to exonerate him. And that's what he's looking for.

Kofi Annan

I was encouraged by what he said in the speech that he will cooperate with the U.N. investigation. I think that is essential and is good for Syria to cooperate. It is good for the region and the international system so I am happy that he did indicate he would cooperate,

Jeff Tedford

He's been one that has been cooperating. None of our players have been implicated with any wrongdoing. We're doing everything we can to cooperate with the investigation.

Ibrahim Jaafari

I hope they will cooperate with us now,

John Ostrem

Not only do we want to reduce the fragmentation of Linux, but we also want to reduce the fragmentation of the standardization groups around Linux. So we're all trying to talk and find a way that we can all cooperate together and work towards one platform and one solution -- that's an ongoing effort.

Chris Peterson

The point we're at now is we're not taking any options off the table, but I can tell you one thing: We're not moving the school. I think there's always room for discussion, and we definitely want to cooperate as much as possible.

Dean Fryer

We were stopped at the entrance by the security guard who refused to grant us access, refused to cooperate with us, refused to take the stop order personally.

Gavin Miller

That was a big shot. We really needed somebody to step up so we could get over the hump -- because we tied it a couple of times before that -- and get the lead.

Stephen Forrest

That was a big offensive rebound. That and a couple of big defensive plays may have turned it for us.

Vicki Carle

That was a big key to the match because, boy, if you give them an inch they'll go and get five or six or seven points. We held. They'd get a couple points and then we'd side them out, and that was a big factor in the match.

Norv Turner

Randy's struggling with some things, ... He got hit in the head pretty good. He's got some soreness. I'm pleased that we're getting as much out of him as we are. He gave us some life early, made a couple of plays. I'd like to get him back full time, but that might not happen as soon as we would like.

Bob Hill

Ray did what Ray was supposed to do late. He hit some big shots and we got a couple of stops that were real important.

Barry Hyman

Profit taking will be key words today (Thursday) and over the next couple of weeks. The Fed's rate cut yesterday bodes well for the longer term but near term it is an excuse to take profits. Cisco's story is another excuse to take profits in technology.

Lorraine Jones

Probably in a couple of years we might do it again.

Jason Kerr

Our tempo was good. We were willing to sit down and make a couple extra passes. It showed in our shooting percentage.

Brad Andera

Our seniors had a good couple of days, I'd like to congratulate them. And as for our underclassmen, it's time for them to start thinking about next year.

Pat Taylor

As a result of the campaign, we've done 27 million dollars of construction on campus.

David Anderson

Prices are rising because of expectations. If we have it in our heads that oil is going to do well and we start putting dollars into it, then the prices will iron out.

Tom Barrett

Quite candidly, I think there are sufficient dollars to do both.

Chris Patterson

Performance incentives focus education dollars on effective teaching and student learning.

Bob Fox

Think about the people that have maybe 100 horses. That's thousands of dollars for them this year.

Stephen Wood

This is taking dollars from Wal-Mart and giving it to Shell. It's shifting the money. It's not increasing inflation.

Alex Knott

Your local taxpayer dollars are being used to employ a lobbyist as a middleman to go out and get your federal tax dollars. It's a situation that's increasing.

Brian Jacques

Aha! Today I shall become an author! And I will auth and auth and auth and make a squillion dollars, whoopee!

Bruce Kovner

Place your stops at a point that, if reached, will reasonably indicate that the trade is wrong, not at a point determined primarily by the maximum dollar amount you are willing to lose

George Goncalves

As people read the economic numbers, they know the Fed is still there.

John Hughs

So much of this economic news has been anticipated that you're not going to get much reaction either way, to better than expected news, or to something that misses estimates,

Kathleen Camilli

The stock market could be on track for a recovery. The stock market is one of the key leading economic indicators and it tends to turn up about six months before the official end of recession. So, if in fact it stays up now, it would be signaling that the recession could be over sometime next June.

Klaus Schwab

The World Economic Forum tries to keep away from issues that are too politicized.

Douglas Duncan

These are very modest interest rate increases for the level of economic growth we are expecting.

Robert Robbins

This is a wonderful economy, you've got great economic growth.

Bob Woods

This is a severe hardship on the families right here at school time. These people are economic refugees. They are having to leave to find work and they are skilled, so they can find jobs.

Susan Mitchell

This is a quality of life and economic development improvement.

Mike Greene

This is huge for the town. We will now use this Internet utility for economic development and distinguish ourselves.

Richard Holbrooke

As highly successful and secure Americans, they could have lived a comfortable life surrounded by their family and their many friends,

Richard Fisher

As a community, we're going to try to reach out and support the family as much as we can,

Mike Lookinland

The Brady family was what everyone wanted their family to be like.

Derek Sivers

A work-only zone does wonders for your productivity. So, I prefer working at the office now. I spend 8 focused hours there, then I go home to be present with my family.

Stephen Lacy

As long as the family is interested in journalism, you're OK.

Manti Te'o

As long as my family's OK, I'll be fine.

Mike Johnson

That was a big mystery, not having a motive and (the defendants) being family and all. I think that was a tragedy, I think that was a travesty, I think that was hideous. That was the worst thing that you could do to anyone, but you can't just pin that on to somebody just because of what happened.

Susan Streitz

Promote a healthy family lifestyle instead of singling out the child.

Clayton Christensen

People under-invest in family because it doesn't pay off until the long term.

Donald Rumsfeld

People say, 'Well, where's the smoking gun?' Well, we don't want to see a smoking gun from a weapon of mass destruction.

Eric Dubin

Do you have any explanation how the gun got from the seat to the floor?

Claude Gascon

The smoking gun in all this is the fungus,

Bob Grant

The taking of a human life is the ultimate crime. Irreversible. It does not matter to the victim of a murder whether the person holding a gun is 16 or 60.

Joe Russo

Some people go out in the woods with a gun to hunt. Me, I go out with a list and hunt cars.

Sofyan Dawood

One gun can be used by 20 people. So even though we have 3,000 soldiers, we only have 840 guns.

Ann Armstrong

I seen him come in through the balcony door, and he pulled the gun from under his coat. He just started shooting her, then he shot at the pulpit.

Michael D. Barnes

This is a tragic capitulation to the special interest gun lobby.

Peter Hamm

This is not really a gun issue. It's a violence issue.

Frank Lautenberg

Any properties that are available, we ought to be able to get our hands on.

Alexander Torshin

As a result, law enforcement officers did not know how to handle the situation. No training had been provided for them.

African Proverb

A weapon which you don't have in your hand won't kill a snake

Al Dyer

As long as I'm here we're going to keep playing tough teams because that's the only way to really get better. But these young ladies maybe aren't mature enough yet to handle all these losses.

Shivan Barwari

Raise your hand if you've ever shot putted a mailbox. Raise your hand Joe, you were there.

Steve Warner

Problem is people get impatient and want to pass on the right when he's trying to get back to the right hand lane if you'll just let him do it.

Tom Rankin

Prisons in Florence, Ariz., go hand in hand,

David Eckstein

Personally, I can handle myself after this, ... but I feel disappointed in letting them down.

Jim Lefebvre

Our team was very nervous as it was a big game. But that's part of being a professional player and they did not handle it well.

Greg Brunner

A senior should hit that shot, and I didn't. Nothing else I can say about that.

Peter Wright

As a team, we're starting to hit our stride. I think we're playing the type of tennis we need to be at this time of year.

Jason Boone

As a whole they need to hit the weight room, ... We were outrebounding them by huge margins every game.

Keith Andrews

The big thing for her was that she rebounded well. She scored and hit the big shots.

Jeb Bush

A very serious storm is hitting our state.

Roger Clemens

A very hittable pitch, ... When a guy's at this level, it doesn't matter if he's 21 or 41. He's going to hit that.

John Pescatore

Back then, it was more a reaction to all these worms and viruses that would hit Windows, and Microsoft would get yelled at. Symantec's stock price would go up every time there was a virus.

Sergio Garcia

That was a big hit on my head. She was a lovely person, very caring.

Tom King

That was a big hit for us. It was pretty much the answer. When Blackwell got that hit, it really got us going.

Andrzej Gaska

The roof was made of corrugated iron, more than 10 meters (30 feet) high; several hundred square meters caved in.

William Shakespeare

A hundred thousand welcomes. I could weep / And I could laugh, I am light and heavy. / Welcome.

Colby Armstrong

A hundred points is huge, huge, especially for an 18-year-old. It's unbelievable.

Turkish Proverbs

A tribulation is better than a hundred warnings.

Confucius

One hundred women are not worth a single testicle.

Mark Twain

When angry, count to a hundred.

Tom DeGroote

But you know what? I lost a hundred pounds, so it's worth it to me.

Diane Hendricks

When I was 9, we moved to Osseo, Wis., where we owned a couple of hundred acres. My father was well respected in town.

Benjamin Franklin

For one poor Man there are an hundred indigent.

Turkish Proverb

A wise man remembers his friends at all times; a fool, only when he has need of them.

Scottie Somers

A wise man once told Me that an overnight success takes 10 years. But I may not have 10 Years. I might have to settle for a naptime success.

English 16th Century Proverbs

A young man married is a young man marred.

Fred Byrd

Back then, if a man could walk, he would go into service.

Robert Gottlieb

Raimund Hoghe is a little man with a spinal deformity who was once Pina Bausch's dramaturge.

Terry McAuliffe

People pigeonhole me - I'm known for raising more money than any man alive.

Everett Dirksen

An old man once taught me what a million is. He said, look at your watch, and watch the second hand. You can see it every second, every minute, every day, every night, every week, every month, every year - and in 3 years it would go around 1,000,000 times.

Harold Kushner

A prophet is not a man who tells the future; he is a man who tells the truth.

Marcel Proust

A powerful idea communicates some of its power to the man who contradicts it

Alex Rodriguez

You're representing 400 million (300 million, actually) Americans. That's a pretty big responsibility.

Bob Collins

You've got to say this was ill-conceived, poorly planned. We now have $1 million spent on a ferry that's going nowhere.

Chuck Pavlos

You're going to have a million people in this corridor.

Russell Perreault

There are more than 300 million people in the US, so we still have a lot of potential sales out there.

America Ferrera

They say 15 million people are watching the show, but what does that mean, you know? It's not until I'm accosted on the street that I understand!

Magglio Ordonez

We've got 25 million people in Venezuela. At least 24 million are going to be watching the games.

Martin Grove

could see these pictures go to $100 million or more worldwide.

Parker Palmer

There are a million 'oughts' in the world. There's a million ways in which I ought to be serving the world. But the ways I'm gifted to serve and the opportunities that come to me to serve are not a million.

George Pechtel

We wanted $3.4 million to get to Seventh Avenue.

Janis Joplin

Don't go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.

Virginia Woolf

It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.

Oprah Winfrey

Mr. Right is coming, but he's in Africa and he's walking.

John Bunyan

A very stately palace before him, the name of which was Beautiful.

John Bunyan

The name of the slough was Despond. -'Pilgrim's Progress

Heinz Fischer

The name of Simon Wiesenthal ... will live on,

Heinz Fischer

The name of Simon Wiesenthal . . . will live on.

Cheryl Hamann

Sometimes people have little more than a name as a starting point. But, you start with what you know and work your way back.

Charles Singley

Ruth was my girlfriend's name at the time.

Herbert Spiegel

Right now, we're just taking into consideration the name change.

Ray Looze

Preparation is the name of the game. It will take some time, but we are well on the track to doing that.

Chris Browning

It was the number one priority to keep his name at this place.

John Shelton

Randy is qualified as a police officer for the state of Ohio, If he's called, he has got to go.

Richard Howell

The Sheriff's Office has not done anything for south Brooksville.

James Wallace

This is precisely what the patent office said it was going to do.

Don Williamson

That's going to get you in trouble. An unreasonable allocation to the office is something else that could trigger an audit.

Al Franken

I wish I had spent more time at the office and less time in prison.

Jan Egeland

Although we have do not have adequate access to all parts of Darfur we do fortunately have humanitarian personnel, including staff from my own office, in each of the three provincial capitals of Darfur.

Baltasar Gracian

Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.

Charles Spurgeon

This is the sum; my brethren, preach Christ, always and evermore. He is the whole gospel. His person, offices, and work must be our one great all-comprehending theme

Dick Van Dyke

I like 'The Office.' I particularly like the British version with Ricky Gervais. Of course, I liked the 'Seinfeld' show a lot. I thought that was an awfully good show.

Mark Ferrulo

An oil pipeline is subject to significant oil spills.

Tetsu Emori

The supply of oil is still ongoing; most people feel there won't be a disruption, so they're taking profit now, especially after Friday's sharp increase.

William Teague

So when there were reports of an 80-foot (24-meter) wave striking an oil platform, they called it a rogue wave. We think it wasn't a rogue wave.

Peter Schiff

This is similar to the 1970s when there was a permanent readjustment in oil prices.

Jane Hirshfield

Wrong solitude vinegars the soul, right solitude oils it.

Ariel Sharon

Arabs may have the oil, but we have the matches.

Bobby Ray Inman

Iraq is not about oil.

Bob Dylan

All that foreign oil controlling American soil.

Bernie Sanders

Subsidies for the oil, gas and coal industries are projected to cost taxpayers more than $135 billion in the coming decade. At a time when scientists tell us we need to reduce carbon pollution to prevent catastrophic climate change, it is absurd to provide massive subsidies that pad fossil-fuel companies' already enormous profits.

Elon Musk

My mentality is that of a samurai. I would rather commit seppuku than fail.

Donald Brownlee

When you have the samples in hand, it's a whole different universe.

Tom Rooney

My great uncle Pvt. Tommy Rooney, USMC, was killed on Guam during the Pacific Campaign in World War II. I was named after him, so I always thought about him and wearing the uniform. The JAG Corps gave me that opportunity after law school.

Rick Riordan

Sadie got up and kissed Amos on the forehead. “Leave it to us, Uncle. I’ve got a plan.” “That,” I said, “sounds like very bad news.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so.

Renata Adler

My grandmother refused to concede that any member of the family died of natural causes. An uncle's cancer in middle age occurred because all the suitcases fell off the luggage rack onto him when he was in his teens, and so forth. Death was an acquired characteristic.

Roger Miller

My uncle used to love me, but she died.

Roger Rosenblatt

Uncle Scrooge preferred to let the poor die "and decrease the surplus population." Scrooge may not have had God on his side, but his arithmetic was impeccable.

Tony Kushner

A handful of works in history have had a direct impact on social policy: one or two works of Dickens, some of Zola, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' and, in modern drama, Larry Kramer's 'The Normal Heart.'

Tony Danza

The great thing about getting married young like I did and having a child so young is that he gets to know all the relatives. He knew his great-grandmother, and we sat down together and tied down the stories of our uncles and aunts.

Sherri Shepherd

Black people don't talk about diabetes that much. I never knew anything. I thought everyone had an uncle with a leg cut off!

Dr. Beebe

You've got to try and normalize your life. I just walked around every morning, the same as I do here (in Connecticut).

Ray Brown

He walked into the storm. He's probably dead.