Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kenneth Prewitt

It is ... a complicated, challenging task. But the alternative is to just ignore them -- is to say, 'Well, even though we didn't count them and we know they are part of the United States, since we don't know where to put them, we'll just sort of leave them off the census rolls. That strikes us as a social injustice.

Orlando Rodriguez

In Connecticut, because of our extremes of wealth, you can't rely on census data.

Wayne Villemez

The Census provides highs that are too low and lows that are too high. In effect, the Census income estimates artificially reduce the gap between the wealthiest and poorest Connecticut towns.

Steve Davis

The census is costing us right at $1 million, and all of that money we will recover, I believe, three for one in four years.

Kenneth Prewitt

The census is a scientific effort. We know that a census number is an estimate. It's not the truth,

John Cole

The census data for the most part confirms that.

K. V. Thomas

There are some who complain that there is not enough food grain. But I put the argument that at the moment we use 2000 census population figures and require 50-55 million tonnes for distribution.

Paul Auster

I took a job with the U.S. Census Bureau. In The Locked Room, the third volume of the New York Trilogy, there's a sequence where the narrator talks about working for the census, and I took this straight from life. As in the book, I wound up inventing people. Kind of curious.

Chang-Rae Lee

We know the point of the 2010 Census is to count us, one by one, to tally every last resident, but the massive project of course has more prying, if limited, interests.

Linda Allen

Kim kept going back to medical, complaining about the contractions, but they just kept sending her back to her cell.

Doc Sadler

Josh has been here every day, working hard. I've never heard Josh complain about one thing. He will definitely be a very successful person.

Randi Osberg

The only thing that is really different is that inspections are not complaint-based any more. Originally, it was totally complaint-based and no inspection was done unless a complaint was received.

Ken Smith

Having to get more than one market pass hasn't been on the same level of complaints as high hotel rates and other hospitality costs.

Rob Babcock

He's a real man who has a strong character. He's not one of those guys who will come in and complain that they aren't staying in a five-star hotel.

Dexter Williams

Whatever Josh allegedly did, I'm very shocked because Josh is a good kid. Since he's been with us, our relationship has been good. We didn't have any complaints from teachers or anything.

John Jones

We try to look for solutions rather than just complain about the problems of being poor.

Liz Smith

We took all the technological know-how that we had and took all the things women complained about and married the two.

John Greene

He's conservative by temperament; many of his policy positions, such as cutting taxes, are on the right side of the political spectrum. But he doesn't have a consistent set of conservative principles. That's what a lot of the complaint has been about, especially after the State of the Union.

Cass Sunstein

He is unquestionably one of the most important figures in the history of American law.

John Gibbons

When he throws strikes, he's as good as anybody. When he figures it out, watch out. He was on. Nobody's going to hit that guy today.

Nate Clements

I don't know what the figures look like, yet, I really don't get into that. I just worry about producing on the field.

J. C. Watts

He has such a simple way to show all kinds of emotion. His figures are not trying to look real.

William Fichtner

When I was younger, I never wanted to rehearse because I thought that someone would figure out I don't know what I'm doing.

Tonya Harding

I have never been the stereotypical figure skater.

Brendan Wilders

The figures were broadly in line with our expectations.

John Wilson

You don't have to know people personally for them to be role models. Some of my most important role models were historical or literary figures that I only read about - never actually met.

Eric Lascelles

It's hard to imagine that individual month-to-month figures are going to have much bearing.

Sathya Baba

Knowledge that is not put into practice is like food that is not digested.

Timothy Ramey

There is a lack of innovation, lack of reinvestment, and lack of news in the category. We're not recommending any large-cap food names.

Eric Schlosser

There is a growing market today for local, organic foods produced by small farmers. And farmers' markets have played a large role in making that happen.

Allen Johnson

We've been told they have to be 'completely self-sufficient,' ... so they have to take their own food, water and clothing. There is no local support.

Gilbert Arenas

We've got to realize that these people lost everything they had. For some people they didn't have food or water for days. I'm just trying to do my part and help out as much as I can.

Mario Batali

I think that the rise of a group of people called the slow food movement is doing a lot to try to protect and preserve traditions.

Thomas Armstrong

When they see the Spirit of Connecticut coming, they'll know they're going to get good food coming.

Truman Capote

First, a gorgeous breakfast: just everything you can imagine from flapjacks and fried squirrel to hominy grits and honey in the comb...we're so impatient to get at the presents we can't eat a mouthful.

Raymond Chandler

He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.

Larry Sabato

He could have made millions in the private sector.

Jeb Putzier

It comes out to $310 million more for the players.

Jim Amos

It is significant in its impact. We do millions of packages a year with UPS.

Larry Anderson

I think the $12 million is just way out of the way,

Bobby Cox

He's getting paid $12 million because he can hit.

Stephen Breyer

He says, 'I've seen 50 million paintings, I know magenta,'

Walter Hagen

I never wanted to be a millionaire. I just wanted to live like one.

David Carr

I never thought in a million years we'd play like that, ... That was unbelievable.

Simon McBurney

In 1600, Shakespeare's London was a city of 200,000 people. At the same time, there were already over a million in Tokyo.

Lynne Black

Our position right now is that this is not an appropriate program and population to put in a heavily populated two-square-mile village.

Kelley Armstrong

A stereotype becomes a stereotype when a significant percentage of the population appears to conform to it.

Niccolo Machiavelli

When every province of the world so teems with inhabitants that they can neither subsist where they are nor remove themselves elsewhere... the world will purge itself in one or another of these three ways (floods, plague and famine)

Noam Chomsky

You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.

Elliott Abrams

Syria's population is 74% Sunni Muslim.

Garrett Hardin

The population problem has no technical solution; it requires a fundamental extension in morality.

Garrett Hardin

The optimum population is, then, less than the maximum.

Marc Lumpkin

It's a way to go after another segment of the population that wants to sign up for satellite-TV service but hasn't had a way to do it.

Jared Diamond

People often ask, "What is the single most important environmental population problem facing the world today?" A flip answer would be, "The single most important problem is our misguided focus on identifying the single most important problem!

John Lloyd Young

I think that of musicals - especially the big, splashy ones - require an actor that's also part cheerleader, too, and that's really tough to do if it's not something that really grabs you and your heart's not in it.

Benjamin Franklin

Youth, Age, and Sick require a different Quantity.

Steve Schultz

It may require some bor­row­ing, using the village's bond­ing agreement.

Ronald Hill

When you research companies, they now have a statement on Y2K compliance, which they are required to give you,

Lilli Palmer

Fidelity is a gift not a requirement.

Max Gillespie

It's a challenge, especially with with soccer in the fall. That's two sports that require numbers.

Charles Stanley

Brokenness is God’s requirement for maximum usefulness.

Bob Bennett

We are still going to require that students still take the SAT with the writing section, as well as the ACT.

Jorge Paulo Lemann

I always say, 'To have a big dream requires the same effort as having a small dream. Dream big!'