Famous Quotes & Sayings

Esther Dyson

We decided we needed to be something concrete rather than something nebulous you couldn't negotiate with. This is an interim board. Our job is to figure out how to create a permanent system with a permanent board.

Jack Straw

What we have done today is to set down the most concrete benchmarks by which the conditions in which the elections in Zimbabwe are able to take place, with an overriding imperative -- even at this late stage -- of trying to secure as free and fair elections as is possible.

Karl Rove

The world is full of people who are discerning, and we need to recognize that concrete information told with honesty and specificity and integrity is important to the ultimate success in this conflict.

Lee Wooten

The construction of a concrete dam can range from hundreds of thousands of dollars to in excess of a million dollars to get the dam completely fixed up.

Scott Siegel

We're going to get a much longer life span out of them. We're doing them with stucco and concrete foundations.

Callan McAuliffe

I don't like concrete jungles.

Eric Takamura

We're going to continue the patching of the pipes where there are cracks. Where we can, we're going to put a sleeve around it. Then, we're going to pour the concrete jacket.

Juergen Boos

We are definitely in concrete talks with the U.S. to be Frankfurt's Guest of Honor in 2008.

Mitt Romney

I hope people understand that when you tax corporations that the concrete and the steel and the plastic don't pay. People pay. And so when you tax corporations, either the employees are going to pay or the shareholders are going to pay or the customers are going to pay. And so corporations are people.

John Wells

A show like 'True Detective' is definitely a drama.

Cary Fukunaga

An eight-hour movie is definitely not a two-hour movie. An eight-hour movie is really like five independent films, if you think about it, because each is usually an hour and a half. In some ways, it is like making a movie. It's just a lot more information.

Christopher Hill

A recess is one of the sort of termination scenarios. It's definitely an idea which we don't want to do,

Angus Geddes

A positive, was their cost-to-income ratio. There has definitely been some progress on costs.

Chuck D.

The Senate is a lot tougher. I think it's likely we could have a majority in the Senate, but it's only going to be about one. But I think we'll definitely have a majority in the House.

Raven Goodwin

The show is definitely not just about weight-loss physically. It's more about finding yourself. It's really funny because I realized at one of our table reads that 'Huge' was really about the weight that we carry around mentally.

Anil Kapoor

The team will definitely be there. There is a possibility that there might be a fresh team but the team will be there.

Tom Lehman

The team at Brookline definitely had it. Definitely had it. It was a great mix of guys.

Scott Butterworth

The teal are definitely there but we haven't seen big numbers yet.

Sharon Stone

I did a guest appearance on The Practice and loved it.

Smith Thammasaroj

At the moment, they (hotels) do not even have a map or instructions to tell the guests what to do in a tsunami.

Alexander Pope

For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.

Donald Berwick

We are guests in our patients' lives.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the same as that of a French poet.

Theophile Gautier

Brevity never fatigues; therefore, brevity is always a welcome guest.

Martha Stewart

(She) also (said) that she wanted me to be one of the first guests on her show.

Gail Simmons

I always want my guests to be happy and impressed.

Author unknown

Hospitality: making your guests feel like they're at home, even if you wish they were.

Gurudas Dasgupta

The strike will go on. We're ready for a settlement, but it has to be an honorable settlement.

Brenda Lee

The music business can be very cold. And it doesn't honor its elders.

Dick Cheney

We are here to honor the memory of seven lost explorers,

Desiderius Erasmus

Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

All honor to the noble women that have devoted earnest lives to the intellectual needs of mankind!

Thomas Eakins

My honors are misunderstanding, pesecution and neglect, enhanced because unsought.

Richard Lovelace

I could not love thee, dear, so much, loved I not Honor more.

Samuel Adams

May every citizen ... have a proper sense of the Deity upon his mind and an impression of the declaration recorded in the Bible, 'Him that honoreth Me I will honor, but he that despiseth Me shall be lightly esteemed.'

Tariq Ramadan

As Muslims the way we show respect to the creator is by respecting creation and this is why we have to reconcile ourselves with the objectives of the Revelation and the objective is really to honor nature as part of Creation.

Christina Hendricks

Anytime someone talks about your figure constantly, you get nervous; you get really self-conscious.