Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ron Gettelfinger

Delphi 's misuse of the bankruptcy procedure to circumvent the collective bargaining process and slash jobs and wages and drastically reduce healthcare, retirement, and other hard-won benefits or eliminate them altogether is a travesty and a concern for every American.

Edmund Phelps

After a major loss of dynamism in the 1960s, productivity growth rates began dropping in most countries, falling by half in the U.S. in the 1970s and more or less ceasing altogether in France, Germany and Britain in the late 1990s.

Peter Stuyvesant

It would be altogether too tedious to insert here all the annual petitions for powder which were sometimes repeated two or three times a year.

Thomas Christie

I see this as the most viable of four possible options. We could do away with the matrix altogether and go back to an 8 year top-out. Or we could do nothing at all. Or we could use Dickerson?s suggestion, or mine.

Lew Wallace

Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder.

Leo Brincat

Eradicating gambling is as futile as trying to wipe out prostitution. But regulating well is another matter altogether and that is where government failed dismally in past months.

J. Maarten Troost

Escapism, we are led to believe, is evidence of a deficiency in character, a certain failure of temperament, and like so many -isms, it is to be strenuously avoided. 'How do you expect to get ahead?,' people ask. But the question altogether misses the point. The escapist doesn't want to get ahead. He simply wants to get away.

Joseph Heller

Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.

Jojo Moyes

I started writing novels by not thinking about actually writing a whole novel - that felt altogether too daunting. I thought out a rough idea, then wrote chapter by chapter, and then by the time I'd hit 40,000 words, it was a challenge just to see if I could get to the end.

George Robertson

I see this as turning a page on past disagreements and turning to new chapters of dialogue and cooperation on matters of mutual interest,

Scott Westerfeld

When I finish a first draft, I often look back at first chapters I wrote and laugh at them. They're like pictures of yourself in middle school. You're embarrassed to see them.

Ryan Crocker

You have written history in a very major way and you have also written a new chapter in the way that nations worked together.

Duncan Hunter

We, his remaining friends, have spent the last day with Duke praying and talking about a new chapter in Duke's life, a chapter of service to God,

Jack Williamson

I got involved with it and sort of discovered the story chapter by chapter as I went along,

Mike Hacker

Because New Mexico has one of the country's lowest median incomes, a lot of consumers with decent-paying jobs could be disqualified from Chapter 7.

Lou Gerstner

Chapter One (of the Internet) was about e-commerce and e-business. Chapter Two moves us to 'Do it for me'

George Muller

It hasn't happened a lot, but we do get people who, when we check into it further, we discover have already been to shelter A or shelter B. We send them to chapter headquarters in Salt Lake City. Not everyone is the most ethical.

Kevin Tynan

If GM does file for a bankruptcy, he would be the one to take them into the Chapter 11 filing,

Lee Humphrey

As a shooter you can tell when your shots are going good. Tonight I felt good, especially in the second half.

William Bell

The T1 line went down at work the other day and I felt like I was working with half a brain,

Brandon Jenkins

I've never felt this way. I never lost this many games in my two years here. We're just a young team. We've got to get tougher.

Lynsey Addario

I've always wanted to do a photo book, but I've never done one because I've never felt ready; I just didn't feel my work was good enough.

Lorenzo Meyer

A frantic response by bureaucrats who felt the (student) movement was threatening their grip on power.

Stephen McPherson

Once we saw it was not launching, we felt like unfortunately it was not going to get better and we had to make a change.

Todd Engle

It was very big to get that win and something we kind of played off. I felt no matter what happened that we had a successful run, but it was of major importance to the kids to get that win. I could really tell in the fourth quarter and there was a lot of excitement.

Baron Davis

The whole game was frustrating for me, ... It was an ugly game, but it was a 'W.' Guys stepped up and hit big shots. ... I tried to be a nuisance on defense. I felt like it was an opportunity to go after it (against Crawford), especially down the stretch. I knew he wasn't passing, so I took a gamble.

Bartolo Colon

This doesn't take away the pain that I felt and the sour taste in my mouth about the way the season ended, ... This is a great accomplishment, but we wanted to go a little further.

Jeb Bush

A very serious storm is hitting our state.

Carlos Gracida

Once we got to overtime, we were going to win. Luckily, I was hitting my penalty shots well.

Stephen Ames

Anything can happen. Especially where he's hitting the ball.

Mark O'Connor

The music is addictive, ... When it's going well, you feel like you're hitting home runs all night.

Carol Davis

Schools we don't hit this year, we'll start with next year.

Stan Hyman

The scouts who have been looking at (Shore) for three years have been waiting for this, he's been hitting all his spots recently. This is his third promising showing in a row.

Tom Watson

I've worked with it. I took three putts and hit the first one about 3 inches fat. The second one, I hit it; and I hit the third 15 inches fat. That was it.

Raja Bell

It was there for the taking. Once I hit my first 3-pointer, everything started clicking.

Logan Mankins

It was unintentional where I hit him, but that?s where it landed. You saw what happened.

Michel Faber

All my novels are about people who strive to heal and evolve.

Jojo Moyes

Rejection is part of the process, so you can't let it crush you. My first three novels never made it into publication, but my fourth, 'Sheltering Rain,' was translated into 11 languages.

Dwyane Wade

Every time we play them, it's a rough game.

Jack Wilson

We've been through some very rough times. But we survived. Now we're on the rebound.

Jon Lieber

It was just a rough day. Things snowballed.

John Hartford

A banjo will get you through times of no money, but money won't get you through times of no banjo

D. James

Today was a rough one for me but we got through it. I started off bad. We got the victory though, so I did enough to win.

Peter Stark

To see him ski is to see fluidity, as if he were a droplet of water trickling down a rough plaster wall.

Jim Veltman

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

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,

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.

Brian Andreas

The clock is a conspiracy & a crime against humanity and I would not own one except I miss appointments without it.

Jane Hamilton

Our mission in life is not to discover our fate as we go along, or even to procreate, but rather to fill up the endless gray void that is time.

Jan Timman

The best reason to abolish it, in my opinion, is that everyone should deal with his time in the best way; there is no good reason why you should get half a minute extra with each move, except that it's a bit easier for the arbiter.

Laetitia Casta

It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.

Mike DeWine

This is really what we anticipated when we wrote the law,

Kent Haruf

Writing is the hardest thing I know, but it was the only thing I wanted to do. I wrote for 20 years and published nothing before my first book.