Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tal Moise

Background screening might appear to be a cut and dry decision for a corporation, however, common buyer misperceptions are placing corporations at increased risk of regulatory non-compliance, workplace violence, fraud and possible litigation. Based on an audit of over 500,000 employees, Verified Person estimates that current employer practices are identifying only 66 percent of relevant criminal offenses.

Joseph Beaulieu

As of the September quarter it didn't appear that things were getting any better.

Fran Calverase

That's where the fox is in the hen house. They can make data appear how they want it to appear.

Darrel Good

Prices now appear to be settling into a trading range that may persist into the first of the calendar year.

Robertson Davies

Other-directed appears to be nothing more than a sociological term for weak-minded

Pascal Rannou

On Titan, the clouds appear in the summer time. This is opposite from Earth?when we have summer in the southern hemisphere, clouds are transferred to the north. We should spend all our days in winter on Titan, compared to Earth.

Fred Hutchinson

On the whole, the use of estrogen with progestin HRT does not appear to be associated with an increased risk of breast cancer in middle-aged women.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Of course what is talked about in the U.N. General Assembly is very important. Officials, the leaders of nations, appear there to speak of the most important topics - what they perceive to be the most important topics.

Sherry Nelson

Often the straw that broke the camel's back may be pretty little. Somebody may get upset about something that doesn't appear to be related to what's going on at the farm.

Stewart Cink

Augusta was always a place where you could have a lot of fun and you could demonstrate an artistic talent for strategy around the golf course. Now it's not.

Vincent Van Gogh

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Pavlos Flourentzos

The style of the decoration is unique, not so much from an artistic point of view, but for the subject and the colors used.

Rabindranath Tagore

Science urges us to occupy by our mind the immensity of the knowable world; our spiritual teacher enjoins us to comprehend by our soul the infinite spirit which is in the depth of the moving and changing facts of the world; the urging of our artistic

Jeff Feuerzeig

It was an unprecedented archaeological find for a single artist. I don't think there's ever been a more self-documented artistic life.

Eric Whitacre

The virtual choir would never replace live music or a real choir, but the same sort of focus and intent and esprit de corps is evident in both, and at the end of the day it seems to me a genuine artistic expression.

Kathryn Lasky

I have always been fascinated by paleontology and prehistoric people, and I've always thought that one of the most intriguing moments in human history was the birth of artistic imagination. I always loved those cave paintings.

Chris Anderson

We do not wish to inhibit the artistic merits of our students, but there will be warnings before particularly racy films.

Ben Edwards

There is also an artistic element which is lead by the film maker. Issues of what is reality and objectivity are as always relevant as someone is going to edit the film.

Mike Shula

Offense is what creates excitement. Defense just wins games.

Tom Rosenstiel

Normally, the press imposes a sports template and tends to create a winner,

Lauren Spillers

Defense creates offense. We create turnovers and steals and that gives us easy chances.

Michael Strauss

An efficient and effective guest worker program should be created in order to stop the incentive for illegal immigration into the U.S..

Chucky Atkins

The second quarter was the difference. Our second unit gave us great energy to open the second quarter. When this team gets in sync quick and we're locking down on defense, it creates a lot more opportunities on the other end for us.

Alan Young

Something has to be done in the short term, because we have created a panic in our community.

Perry Farrell

Punk rock was exciting because you could get your ass kicked for looking like a punk. Punks were atrocious. They created mayhem. Now you just throw on a plaid-that's not style.

Perhaps, if I am very lucky, the feeble efforts of my lifetime will someday be noticed, and maybe, in some small way, they will be acknowledged as the greatest works of genius ever created by Man

LaVar Arrington

I've slowed everything down, ... I slowed how I view things. I slowed how I react to things. Not just in football, but in life. I used to create something in my mind and make myself go 100 miles an hour towards whatever that was.

Suresh Kalmadi

Of the eight new venues, five will be outdoors and three indoors.

Marc Procaccini

No question about it, the new realignment of teams in our region made this a tough tournament. Our goal was to get eight guys into the state meet. We got six in, which is a good showing.

George Austin

No seat is more than eight seats from the stage.

Amy Rymer

Once we got (to state), we wanted to qualify for Saturday's finals. Then, we made the most of it and made the jump to eighth place (after Saturday's final two rounds). I'm proud of each and every one of them.

Casey Todd

Defensively you can?t give up eight 3-pointers and expect to win. (Beaulieu) had a great game.

Ron Gardenhire

And that's a pretty good formula. You get your starter to go eight or nine innings and you hit three-run homers. Normally it works out pretty good.

Ryan Brown

These last two games we have put up some runs. When you score eight runs you feel pretty good about your chances, but the pitching just wasn't there today and we made some errors in key situations.

Clive Davis

The songs are great and they're radio-friendly, ... so we have six, seven, eight possibilities at singles.

Ben Woodside

I've never experienced that much excitement through eight hours of travel. We were all hyped the whole way home. We could not stop smiling.

Joe Wright

Emma was the fairy godmother of the film; she gave wonderful advice.

Sonya Hartnett

Nothing was easy, and sometimes she failed, and sometimes she thought that the fairy stories were right, that there must indeed be easier ways of living happily ever after; but defeat is a poor ending to any tale, so she kept trying.

Douglas Jerrold

Nothing can be truer than fairy wisdom. It is as true as sunbeams.

Sean Durkin

We had a lot of wood to chop. It's a shame the fairy tale ride had to end here.

Jack Zipes

Fairy tales are with us day in and day out, not just in commercials, but references in the theater, movies, museums, schools, etc.

Imelda May

I like to escape; I like to write when I go on a walk - I'm kind of very fairy that way. I get inspired by the wind. Or when I daydream, that's when I write.

Amanda Eliasch

Everything is for sale in Hollywood; the fairy tale, the costume, the pumpkin, the footman and the mice.

Gary Ross

What works about fairy tales is that they endure, and the great thing about fairy tales is that you can explore big, epic things that you can't really explore in other situations.

Lee Humphrey

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

Brian Cashman

As of yesterday Carl felt he was 70 percent better from Friday.

Quin Snyder

As painful as this loss is and as much as you think, 'Hey, this is a game that we felt we had won,' we can't be living in yesterday. We've got to go forward.

Mark Olson

As our September FOMC (Federal Open Market Committee) meeting followed Hurricane Katrina by approximately three weeks and was held concurrently with the formation of Hurricane Rita, I felt that there was insufficient information as well as great uncertainty about how these forces would play out in the near term,

Tim Lewis

That was a big one for us because it gave us momentum. When the score was tied at halftime, I felt and the team felt that the next goal was going to be big.

Stephany Smith

That's where we felt the role model line had been drawn.

Alex Brink

Personally, I felt improved. I felt I was able to stretch the field a little more. There's been kind of a misconception of my play, that I can't throw downfield. That's about all we did in high school.

Ken Schrad

People told me that's the first time anyone's ever felt the need to scout us in years.

Major Applewhite

People don't understand I felt I had accomplished all I wanted as a player in football.

David Reed

As a parish priest you're formed much by the people you serve and live with.

Richard Lewis

Back in the day, people used to have more patience for the long form and for storytelling,

Thomas Kyd

Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; O life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs

Oscar Levant

A pun is the lowest form of humor - when you don't think of it first

Howard Kurtz

These conventions are staged for television, but it's not very good television, and most people are watching more interesting programs. I think a lot of people are going to form their impressions on how the party did by front-page headlines, by the pictures on the front page, by some of the analysis. By what's in the paper.

Merrill Stabile

The strength of our competitors is what really helped me form an opinion on this. They're all on a much grander scale.

John Romano

The smaller the understanding of the situation, the more pretentious the form of expression.

Paul Richards

The thought was that it was better to withdraw the proposal rather than risk a formal veto at this stage,

Leonardo da Vinci

The most praiseworthy form of painting is one that most resembles what it imitates.

Peter Simonson

These new stories are from a very innocent source,

Dr. Vlasak

So yes, I think the threat of violence would save lives, innocent lives. I'm sorry to say its true.

Anna Faris

She's still the same old simple Cindy. She's just as innocent and naive as ever, just trying to save the world again.

Jere Reneer

They are as innocent as they were when they first walked in here.

Benjamin Franklin

That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally approved.

Mike Byers

That picture was taken at 8:27 a.m., May 18, 1980.

Willie Smith

Everything you can think of, he was there taking people's pictures and he was just an outstanding person.

John Shirreffs

I don't put a lot of pressure on a race. It's the big picture that counts.

Rob Johnson

I didn't understand it at all. It's not like Joe. I couldn't picture him being down there.

Anna Jones

The only thing I think about this is that it's big. I saw a picture (in the newspaper) and I wanted to see it.

Fred Dooley

He did the right thing. So, I thought it was the right thing to do to take the pictures down.

Hanna Salonen

I really want to go out there and take pictures of what I find interesting and not like, these set-ups of life.

Jessie Boylan

I know you from somewhere. I've got pictures of you.

Craig Barlow

I've got to look at the big picture here,

Charles Caleb Colton

Is there anything more tedious than the often repeated tales of the old and forgetful?

Magic Johnson

I think that there are always goals for me to try to achieve, and I'm going to work toward those goals.

Doc Sadler

We tried some things. A triangle-and-two, some zone. And they made some shots.

Phil Budervic

We tried not to do that, because that's kind of unfair. But when we need a basket...that's who we're going to.

Dirk Nowitzki

We tried a lot of things that game, but he's just that good.

James Simpson

We all tried to get the word out any way possible. Did it help? Who knows. For all we know, the chopper was already on the way. But it did get attention, and now they're safe.

Denny McCrotty

We tried to manufacture some runs, it was too much. That's kind of been our story for some kind now." ()

Kylan Robinson

She tried to make it, but it was too late.

Grant Hill

I would probably say yes. I don't see getting another surgery. We tried it. It didn't work. I don't see doing another.

Bob Enos

We've tried surgery, medications, and nothing has changed.

Tom Daschle

We've tried all the voluntary options, ... They have all failed. We know what we've got to do.

Jim Mowen

I've been walking on eggshells and trying not to badmouth any other candidates.

Melissa McCarthy

I've been trying to play old-lady parts since I was in my 20s, so I look forward to all of that.

Virginia Jackson

I've been trying to get it done for a long time.

A. Hodge

I've been trying to find someone for a year,

Mark Indelicato

I've been doing a lot of stuff that has to do with charity and giving. I'm trying to give and not take as much.

Jimmy Rollins

I understood that he was trying to get to third,

Steve Ballmer

Things are working well. We're always trying to improve, though.

Sanjay Gupta

the wind was just clawing at the window, trying to get in.

Darren Sharper

This could be it. Or he could go one more year. I don't see him trying to go too many more after this.

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.

Kelsey Primiano

Everyone wrote state. So everyone got what they wanted.

Joseph Biden

He said he was 35 when he wrote that.