Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Conyers

a serious abuse of power or a serious abuse of official duties.

Dana Perino

The signing statement makes clear that the president will faithfully execute the law in a manner that is consistent with the Constitution. The president has welcomed at least seven Inspector General reports on the Patriot Act since it was first passed, and there has not been one verified abuse of civil liberties using the Patriot Act.

John Kelly

The taxpayer should not pick up the bill for abuse committed by members of the religious orders.

Santiago Durango

No, we did one more as that Silver Abuse and for that we did a full set and we broke up 'cause I didn't want to play with them anymore.

Karen Finney

This is going to be a huge issue. This smacks of abuse of power.

Mike Rutherford

We have arrested several people over the last several years that had pistol permits or weapons in their possession when we arrested them for the abuse or the sexual assault.

Greg LeMond

I want to tell the world of cycling to please join me in telling Pat McQuaid to resign. I have never seen such an abuse of power in cycling's history - resign, Pat, if you love cycling. Resign even if you hate the sport.

Don Cote

Though I think the majority of students are going to be responsible, there's a few who're going to abuse it.

John Thompson

There is nothing much better than going to a baseball game, getting a decent seat with a nice view (for one tenth of the price of a seat at Stamford Bridge) and enjoying a game with a beer in one hand and a NY-style hot dog in the other - and no chance of some idiot behind me shouting abuse or spitting obsenities at me (I am a Celtic supporter, I'm used to both).

Jamie Bamber

Back in the Eighties, I'd buy the biggest Benetton jumper I could find and would wear it long-sleeved, hanging off my shoulders, with a varsity jacket and a baseball cap on back to front with a quiff. I was the smallest boy in my class, and I looked like a reject from New Kids On The Block. Terrible.

Jeff Chown

Right now there's a risk in signing any baseball player, whether or not there's been a rumor about him or not. There's a dark cloud over the entire sport.

Esteban Loaiza

This is great for Mexico. You see commercials on the TV for all the baseball powerhouse countries and they mention Cuba, the Dominican, Puerto Rico, Venezuela. They don't mention Mexico. Maybe now they will.

Jose Guillen

This is a pitchers' ballpark. Everybody knows that here. It's not in my mind anymore. I'm just here to play baseball -- that's what I'm going to do. Some of these guys are worried about it. That's not by business.

Bryan Carano

This isn't just baseball out here. It's life. Coach Savage eats it, drinks it, sleeps it. And that's what is so great about being a part of this.

Chuck Armstrong

This is the end of a generation that remade and saved baseball in Seattle. He's the last connection to that miracle 1995 team.

Michael McCann

This is the classic case of corporate paranoia. If they try to make the case that consumers are confused as to what is being sold here, that's absurd. You don't even have to be a baseball fan to recognize the difference between a Yankee Hater logo and a Yankees logo.

Jimmy Walker

This is the best conference for Division II baseball in the nation. We are really trying to get the team ready for next year.

Jim Andrews

This gives baseball more global credibility. But it's an uphill battle. It's difficult to unseat the more established sports in any given country.

Paul Gatza

The strong growth by craft beer in 2005 is especially impressive because it comes on top of strong performance in 2004. Craft beer clearly leads the beer industry in consumer appeal.

Ray Daniels

The most vibrant beer culture in the world is here in the U.S.. The Great American Beer Festival is a place to see the influence of the beers of Europe on craft beers of America.

Ken Knowles

So now they'll just come in and buy 10 cases of beer instead.

Caitlin Ryan

It wouldn't be summer unless I came to the root beer stand.

John B. Keane

I've never had a green beer in my entire life. Oh, how I love Ireland. When she's doing well, I feel good; when she's not, I feel poorly.

Aziz Ansari

Zerts' are what I call desserts. 'Trée-trées' are entrées. I call sandwiches 'sammies,' 'sandoozles,' or 'Adam Sandlers.' Air conditioners are 'cool blasterz' with a 'z' - I don't know where that came from. I call cakes 'big ol' cookies.' I call noodles 'long-ass rice.' Fried chicken is 'fry-fry chicky-chick.' Chicken parm is 'chicky-chicky-parm-parm.' Chicken cacciatore? 'Chicky-cacc.' I call eggs 'pre-birds,' or 'future birds.' Root beer is 'super water.' Tortillas are 'bean blankets.' And I call forks 'food rakes.'

Bret Easton Ellis

What else is there to do in college except drink beer or slit one's wrists?

Billy Carter

Well, a good ole boy is somebody that rides around in a pick-up truck - which I do - and drinks beer and puts 'em in a litter bag. A redneck's one that rides around in a truck and drinks beer and throws 'em out the window.

Bon Scott

What's a punk band? Hey, who's got a beer?

Bubba Davis

The big thing about the win is that we fell behind 12-2 early and came back. Especially with these kids, it was very, very big that we hung in and did what we had to do to win.

David Sanborn

The music is going to change anyway, whether or not the record companies get behind it or not. The music is there, and it's happening, and it's going on out there.

Mohammad Khatami

Something that pains me, and for which I pity the American people, is that their leaders have fallen behind the times. They are not living in their times,

Bob Mattison

Someone told me about the house with a shop behind it. We came up and thought it was ideal.

Navneet Sikera

So we need to prove that this outfit is behind the attack, but all this will take a bit of time.

Dwight Yorke

So that the record is put straight I have signed a two-year contract with Sydney but also behind the scenes I have been told that I can go.

Ken Warger

Once you get behind a team like this, you're in trouble because they collapse on you so much.

Steve Burke

once you get behind a sport, you can bring it to a new level.

Bob Storman

Once (Zuccarelli) found out that David Miller had total intention of running ? that he filed ? he suggested that Thaddeus Jones withdraw and throw his support behind David Miller.

Willie McKay

If Stephen's playing for Celtic, he's a Celtic fan, he's happy. If he doesn't play I think he'd like to go to Preston and play.

S. Hughes

I was pleased with the way we played at Celtic Park,

Sophie Kennedy Clark

I love Celtic music and listening to it, but I just don't have the type of voice to sing it.

John Hartson

If I really feel that I justify being in the side and I am playing and scoring for Celtic I will say what I feel. I have never been one to just turn up and be a part of the furniture.

Jonathan Barnett

He has got two years remaining on his Celtic contract, so why wouldn't he see that through? He is enjoying his time up there.

Alex McLeish

Players like Maloney and Beattie, who've been on the fringe, will see an opportunity for themselves at Celtic now,

Gordon Strachan

It has been the Jimmy Johnstone week at Celtic Park.

Gordon Strachan

It's fantastic, my first cup since coming to Celtic and I hope there's many more.

Rob Sumner

Our defenseman couldn't get there because he was getting blocked. There was a scoring chance created off of it and they scored.

Al Wolski

The monkey is kinda off our back. The first win is always the most important. To be so close to it so many games prior, it gnawed at their insides and finally they got a chance to win. It's great for them.

Walt Jocketty

After a discussion I had with his agent, I think it would be probably less than a 50 percent chance that would happen.

Joe Gibbs

A couple of times we make a mistake by being so aggressive, ... We come up and we probably had a chance to get the guy down, but we try to explode on him and miss a tackle.

Joe Paterno

A couple of passes we thought we could develop downfield and we didn't get a chance to, because Mike had to run for his life a couple times.

Candice Olson

Strip makeup lights just don't give you a fighting chance no matter how good looking you are. Light sconces that flank the mirror illuminate your entire face evenly.

James Comey

Stuff doesn't matter - boats, cars, fancy things don't matter. What matters, what will matter to me, is the love of the people around me, and did I take a chance? Did I seize an opportunity to do something for people with the talents that I was lucky enough to be given? Did I make a difference in the lives of people who needed me?

Jonathan Ornstein

Strategically, this is the most important endeavor for us. This is our chance to spread our wings, have our own logo and brand.

Jon Gruden

Sometime in the future Barrett Ruud will get his chance to play, and we always feel like we have a contingency plan to move a guy like Shelton if we need to,

John Izzo

On the whole, I am pleased with the progress so far. We are in pretty decent mid-season form.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

We fight terrorism. It threatens our sovereign, democratic, compassionate and decent way of life.

Mark Newton

We were decent in the Bay. 5-5 wasn't bad, but it was disappointing.

Sinorice Moss

No one respects us right now, ... I know we had a decent season, but that's not expected out of a University of Miami team. People expect better. ... We're the underdogs right now, and we understand that.

Jeff Tageant

If we can just play better defense. We can be a pretty decent club.

Eric Kruljac

She's back at the top of her game. She's back on a decent racing surface and she couldn't be doing any better.

Charles Coody

I have a lot or respect for the tournament. That's one reason I won't play anymore. I won't embarrass the tournament. Yesterday I embarrassed myself. I'm glad I got out with a decent round today.

Padraig Harrington

I had one round there to win (the Honda Classic) and a decent week at Westchester, but that's all. I haven't really performed at all this year. It has been an interesting year and one I wouldn't mind seeing the back of.

Sonny Lubick

I felt like we got a lot of things done. I really feel we can be a decent football team.

Vincent Creel

The cadaver dogs are due in this afternoon.

Larry Adams

People got the right to know they live next door to a dog that's declared dangerous.

Archie Panjabi

I am still married, yes - no children. I have Benzo, though; he's my dog, a Lhasa apso.

Brian Jacques

I enjoy walking my dog and completing crossword puzzles.

Calvin Coolidge

Any man who does not like dogs and want them about does not deserve to be in the White House.

Cesar Millan

People say I train dogs, but in many ways I train people.

Cesar Millan

The reality is, if you have a high-level-energy dog, it's not going to be happy with a one-hour walk. Those types of dogs are going to require more than one hour of physical challenge in the outside world.

Cesar Millan

The dog is a reflection of your energy, of your behavior. You have to ask, 'What am I doing?' That's the right question to ask.

Cesar Millan

You cannot "love" a dog out of her bad behavior, just as you can't "love" a criminal into stopping his crimes.

Damien Chazelle

Practicing is not normally fun. Sometimes people say they're practicing, but they're really just enjoying themselves and the instrument. That's not real practice.

Joe Legerski

You start wondering when that first victory is going to come. That victory made them relax and start enjoying the season.

Chad Jackson

There's not usually much to watch, so hopefully they're enjoying the sun.

John Fitzgerald

I am reading it more and enjoying it less.

Bill Cowher

Next year is the only future I've looked at. It's going to be starting over and trying to re-establish a group of guys that is going to be different than it was this year. But I can tell you that next week I'm going to be doing a lot of reflecting, and enjoying every moment of it.

Andy Blackston

I think these kids are just having a lot of fun right now, and that's really important. They are just together and enjoying being around each other.

Kiril Wachsmann

I don't want to think about that. I haven't given any thought to the fact that the next game we lose, that's it. I'm just enjoying this right now.

Rochelle Aytes

I don't want to look exactly the same in everything I do. And if I'm not identifiable, then that can be a blessing or a curse. But I'm fine with it. Because at the end of the day, I'm still working, and I'm enjoying what I do.

Vince Young

I was enjoying it. I'm at home. I'm always relaxed.

Michael Bennet

Often times, political games prevent senators from even beginning to debate some of the most important issues.

Scott Robinson

A point for us is good but we made some mistakes out there and I thought this was a game we could have won. Normally in three-on-three someone scores after a game like this but we'll take the positives and move on into the new year.

Brian Buchanan

And then I see them at the games, and they just go, go, go. I never hear them complain. Heck, they're always so happy to be there. And it reminds me how lucky we are to have them.

DeShawn Stevenson

So we've got to go out there and play every game like it's a playoff game and play together like we're doing. We're doing a good job.

Larry Vieira

Sometimes you run into a hot goalie in hockey. That is just the way this game works.

Corky Miller

Somewhere down the line (they will open up). Playing this game is not bad.

Thomas Jones

Sometimes when you're thinking about the game more than your injury, it kind of helps you.

Jim Calhoun

Terrific defense. They are trying to be the toughest, scrappiest team in every game they play, and it's working. You can see it on tape.

Bill Belichick

terrible ... We loved when he was in the game.

Jared Leto

I showed up in L.A. with $500 and a backpack and I stayed at a shelter, so nobody handed me anything. I worked for every single thing that I have.

Rob Andrew

This is an unfortunate setback, and is in the hands of the medics, who will continually monitor the situation.

Camilo Villegas

You never know. I'm sure she's down about it. She's only 16 and she's going to keep learning. She's got a lot of pressure on her, but she handled herself well out there.

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Times is a paper which is seldom found in any hands but those of the highly educated.

Barbara Kingsolver

The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brain and in your hands, wherever you go.

Jan Morris

Venice is a cheek-by-jowl, back-of-the-hand, under-the-counter, higgledy-piggledy, anecdotal city, and she is rich in piquant wrinkled things, like an assortment of bric-a-brac in the house of a wayward connoisseur, or parasites on an oyster-shell.

Burt Ward

We found that just by the way we stood, affected women dramatically, and if you look at our show, you'll see that we always stood with our legs open our fists on hips and our bat bulges forward, which had a profound effect on women!

Carnie Wilson

Life presents itself in constantly changing ways, but you're able to accept the challenges, rather than recoil, throw up your hands, and go on a binge.

Al Gore

The choice to 'do nothing' in response to the mounting evidence is actually a choice to continue and even accelerate the reckless environmental destruction that is creating the catastrophe at hand.

Janet Maslin

[On the movie "American Hot Wax:] A plot so thin you could thread a needle with it.

Bam Margera

I'd say mostly I paint hot chicks.

John Elderfield

Ed moved into the hotel so he could work with us,

Mike Felix

We know teams are gunning for us. Especially after we swept South Alabama. We're a hot team right now, but we've got to go up there with the mindset that we're going to get a sweep or win the series.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Xedrix-"No, our motto is 'everything tastes better with hot sauce.

Robert Frost

Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. A poem may be worked over once it is in being, but may not be worried into being.

Karen Hechler

I was overwhelmed by the number of hotels -- there were over 12. They would invite someone to stay in their hotel for $3 a week.

William Shakespeare

Like to the time o' the year between the extremesOf hot and cold, he was not sad nor merry.

Jim Silver

When you're looking for hot items this year, you're really looking at electronics,

David Bailey

Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time.

Winston Churchill

Any idiot can see something wrong. But can you see what is right?

William P. Young

Did I hear God call me an idiot?

Rose Bergquist

I haven't got to meet him in person yet. I would probably be a blubbering idiot if I did.

Kasey Kahne

I finally crashed. I drove like an idiot all day.

Lindsay Pearce

I'm not an idiot: I know that I can sing and I know that I can act.

Laura Anne Gilman

Power calls to those who are hungry for power, and there are hungry idiots everywhere.

Johann Sebastian Bach

If I decide to be an idiot, then I'll be an idiot on my own accord.

Arabian Proverbs

A man profits more by the sight of an idiot than by the orations of the learned.

Jose Manuel Barroso

I very often compare relations between states to relations with people. Sometimes we are nicer to those we don't know well, who are not our friends, than we are to our friends, because with our friends we don't need to be nice all the time.

Al Michaels

It would be a nice way for this whole run to end with the first overtime Super Bowl.

Jonathan Simon

It would be nice if I could come back to Auburn. It would be nice to give back.

Ann Beattie

It was very much a surprise. It's very nice when someone takes notice.

Tim Ricketts

This is our third straight win and to win on the road like this is a nice victory.

Glenys Bakker

We're gunning for that. It would be nice to end the season with another win.

Carey Mulligan

I'm not great at having my picture taken and I don't enjoy that side of it very much but I enjoy being with my friends and it's nice to have a reunion.

Ron Gardenhire

We've talked about it. He says he'd like to do more. That would be nice to see.

Janice Dickinson

I'm not a good person to have as an enemy; say nice things about me.

Aditya Mittal

As our stock price improves, so does the value of the offer.

Andrew Harrington

Prices have been rarely, if ever, this high. Now is the time to make hay.

Kristine Fauerbach

The sticker price is not going to shock you.

Al Gore

If the only tool we use to analyse what's valuable is a price tag, then those things that don't have price tags begin to look like they have no value.

Jim Reese

The prices are up because no one has wheat.

Paul Walker

As things stand at the moment, I would have said a realistic rally in the price is up to $500.

Janet Ray

The record price we see today, I believe, is not the end.

Matthew Alexy

Everything is going down: the price of the dollar, the price of stocks, the price of bonds.

Mark Sullivan

Many are wondering how prices could go up so quickly after the hurricane.

Jerry Bruckheimer

Dramatics are what keep you in the seats.

Sheryl Lee

I was in Seattle and I wanted nothing more than to act, but I was so terrified of it that I couldn't even get myself to an audition. It was miserable.

Victoria Gonzales

We're pretty much in the driver's seat for second place now.

Clint Bowyer

I need as much seat time as I can. Because most of these tracks I am going to, I have never been to before.

Baruch Spinoza

Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.

Auguste Comte

After Montesquieu, the next great addition to Sociology (which is the term I may be allowed to invent to designate Social Physics) was made by Condorcet, proceeding on the views suggested by his illustrious friend Turgot.

Ayelet Waldman

I wish I could view the belly that oozes over the top of my pants as a badge of maternal honor. I do try. I make sure that the women whose looks I admire all have sufficient fat reserves to survive a famine, and I make a lot of snide comments about the skeletal likes of Lara Flynn Boyle and Paris Hilton.

Carter Burwell

Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.

Arthur C. Clarke

What we need is a machine that will let us see the other guy's point of view.

Austin Mahone

I promoted myself on Twitter and Facebook as hard as possible, nonstop. People started realizing that if they commented on my videos, I'd reply to their comment, so I started getting a lot more views and comments.

Delta Goodrem

I'm not worried any more about changing people's view of me.

Brian Cox

In science, there are no universal truths, just views of the world that have yet to be shown to be false.

Billy Corgan

My view of the world is always tempered by the fact that there are people who are less fortunate than I am.