Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kathleen Blanco

Katrina and Rita altered the fabric of our society,

Mr Howard

I'd like to think that I could wave a magic wand and send the world oil price down, but you know and the people who think about this will know that it is impossible for an individual country to alter the world price of oil on its own,

Joe Biden

Other than being crazy enough to press a button, there is nothing that Putin can do militarily to fundamentally alter American interests.

James Campbell

Pay attention and try to be patient, ... Use alternate routes or stay home as much as possible.

Mother Maribel

Our Lord did not try to alter circumstances. He submitted to them. They shaped his life and eventually brought him to Calvary. I believe we miss opportunities and lovely secrets our Lord is waiting to teach us by not taking what comes.

Jackson Katz

In the alternate universe of conservative talk radio, the killing of Bin Laden coincidentally happened on Barack Obama's watch. He had to be kicked dragging and screaming into authorizing it, and even then he made lots of mistakes.

Keith Brown

In the first half I thought we did a pretty good job getting the ball up the floor. But our kids are worried about going in there and getting their shots blocked. We altered some shots in the first half, and we talked about it. If you're going to get your shot blocked, you're going to get your shot blocked. You have to just keep going at it.

Samuel Butler

It has been said that though God cannot alter the past, historians can; it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence

Dick Bennett

I'm trying not to panic or change everything around regarding that, but I'm trying to find some alternate means of scoring. We can't rely on winning with the three.

Dan Rooney

I think it could be done by July. We'll get it together after this meeting, sit down and talk and then come up with a plan. But we're too busy here right now. That's my opinion.

Here's a good thing to do if you go to a party and you don't know anybody: First take out the garbage. Then go around and collect any extra garbage that people might have, like a crumpled napkin, and take that out too. Pretty soon people will want to meet the busy garbage guy.

Paul Benjamin

He's gonna make it up here for the show. He didn't get hit too hard by Katrina but he's been busy helping people out ever since. We've got some things planned for the shows to help those in need, too.

Oscar Ortiz

It is going to be a busy night.

Chris Yates

We've enjoyed a very busy show. The qualifying worker classes were very well supported with locals taking their fair share of the tickets. This turnout and results confirm the strength of showing in Cornwall.

Maria Sharapova

I think it's the toughest grand slam to win because of the traffic getting here and the busy city.

Ursula Andress

It's going to be over soon, so I don't really have time to get busy.

Liz Tucker

If you have a really busy and stimulating stressful life, the only way that you can keep that going is through relaxation. That is the whole reason why we have to sleep every night.

Steve Maraboli

In this busy world, we should never be a stranger to love and compassion. It is the fertile soil in the garden of peace.

Hanya Yanagihara

I was interested about how relationships change as you get older. You are great friends in your 20s. In your 30s, you get married. Your 40s are all about your kids. In your 50s, you get divorced, and your friendships become primary again.

Jeff Murray

Jack Reynolds (the developer's attorney) told me that a simple language change in their development proposal resulted in the need to rezone the site. They changed the language from 'senior living' to 'age-restricted' and apparently, doing so requires a rezoning if they want to develop the site in the way that they propose.

Robert Boswell

I write a ridiculous number of drafts. The characters change and grow through the drafting, and my understanding of them deepens. Creating characters in a novel is like shooting at clay pigeons and missing, and then missing more productively as the narrative continues.

Barry Collier

Kansas didn't just cut our hair. They shaved our head. They scored 196 or 96 or one or the other on us. It'll take a tremendous effort to slow them down and change that.

Gabriella Goddard

Just one step could change your life forever.

Mike Lowell

Josh was crying to me for five years with the Marlins that he always wanted No. 19 so I told him I'd be willing to give it up. I think change is good sometimes. So I figured why not? I'm on a new team, new number and everything is new. I'm kind of starting from scratch. I feel good about that.

John Silvia

I suspect that there's a little optimism that the Fed will signal that they are just about done, that they'll change their language from saying 'further policy firming may be' to saying it 'might be' needed.

Craig Hansen

I think it really changed the way some scouts look at Northeast kids and how they play ball.

Jim Zandri

I think it is a combination of things. A lot has changed in New Year's over the past few years.

Ken Buck

I think it's wrong to compromise your values to fit in with the social climate in Washington, D.C. When it comes to spending, I'm not compromising. I don't care who, what, when or where, I'm not compromising.

Stavros Dimas

The EU is committed to international efforts to combat climate change, which requires that we meet all our reporting obligations.

Brian Dunbar

It's important, with climate change, landfills, hazardous waste, the health of humans and other species, future generations and the health of the planet.

Vivian Campbell

Slang' was a really stripped-down, live-sounding record. But this time, we wanted to return to our sort of sound, because the climate in the industry was warming up to it, ... We put on 'Hysteria' and 'Pyromania' and took our sonic cues from those albums.

William Strampel

The labor levels, Medicare climate, malpractice insurance, general weather climate ? there's no simple reason why these people are leaving Michigan.

Peter Lilley

I am a global lukewarmist.

Prince Charles

One of the main reasons for the conflict in Syria, and the terrorism that it's spawned, is climate change and drought.

Lois Capps

That makes climate change a bigger public health problem than AIDS, than malaria, than pandemic flu.

James Lovelock

All the modelling we do shows that the climate is poised on the jump up to a new hot state. It is accelerating so fast that you could say that we are already in it.

Al Aqsa

We swear there will be an earthquake of retaliation,

Rube Goldberg

And, uh, I did that, and there was nothing more ridiculous to me than finding the weight of the earth because I didn't care how much the earth weighed.

Woody Harrelson

Salma is just one of the great goddesses ever put on this Earth.

Robin Ince

Wherever you are on Earth, there is more life present than in the rest of the known universe.

Zosia Mamet

I grew up backstage and on movie sets, and I thought they were the most magical places on Earth.

Yuri Gagarin

Looking at the earth from afar you realize it is too small for conflict and just big enough for co-operation.

Yunus Emre

Come let us be friends for once. Let us make life easy on us. Let us be loved ones and lovers. The earth shall be left to no one.

Twyla Tharp

Nobody likes to see that which they've invested in disappear from the face of the earth before they've even died. This is not cool. We can now see what the landmarks are.

Rick Warren

You weren't put on earth to be remembered. You were put here to prepare for eternity.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Know how to listen and be sure that silence often produces the same effects as science.

Brian Archer

I think, in general, most people go to the pump and they see what the price is. They don't really understand how much the weather really effects our energy consumption and our energy supply.

Adam Brown

If you look at all the speakers after the last Fed meeting, they've all held to the same line: Inflation is running on the higher side of where they're comfortable, and the growth effects from the hurricanes will be temporary.

David Card

Immigrants come in and the industries that use this type of labor grow. Taking all into account, the effects of immigration are much, much lower.

Martha Stewart

I'm sure it's had effects on me, ... I may talk about it. I may not. But I think that I'm just really looking forward to what we're doing. I'm looking forward to the next few years of great productivity and great growth for this company.

Wendy Wright

Is this safe for women, when in fact there have been no studies done on the long-term effects on women who take the morning-after pill, and there are no studies that have been done on multiple use -- if a woman uses it more than once.

Howard Silverblatt

All the big effects of the hurricane didn't happen.

Jim Egan

We really don't know what population effects have in terms of water quality trends.

Adolph Gottlieb

When I work, I'm thinking in terms of purely visual effects and relations, and any verbal equivalent is something that comes afterwards. But it's inconceivable to me that I could experience things and not have them enter into my painting.

Marcus Samuelsson

I think the kitchen is the new garage. And I think for a guy that wants to go out and be an evolved person, he should know about his local favorite restaurant. He should know how to cook something.

Craig Barrett

India has evolved into one of the world's leading technology centers.

Cory Sullivan

The game's kind of evolved here. It's more of a small-game park sometimes. You're not always going to have the 10-8, 10-4 games that we had the last few days.

Gary Peterson

It's evolved into something different than the original intent.

Jeff Hester

There is no way that you can form iron-60 other than in a massive, evolved star.

Chris Graves

It was talked about for a number of years, and we finally stopped talking about it and did it ... we mad-scrambled, but it's evolved and we've been learning as we go and having a great time,

Jeff Carlson

People are tough. We're evolved for less food; more exercise; less sleep; less security; more paranoia. The irony is that we're so good at what we do. We strive for more food; less exercise; more sleep; more security; less paranoia - and we've succeeded.

Shawn Green

I've always felt like it was important to be involved in the community, ... Over the years it has evolved as we've met different people and experienced things.

Isabella Rossellini

I loved my career as a model, and that evolved into being an actress.

Steven Weinberg

It is even harder to realize that this present universe has evolved from an unspeakably unfamiliar early condition, and faces a future extinction of endless cold or intolerable heat. The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it seems pointless.

Mohammed Omar

This is not a matter of weapons. We are hopeful for God's help. The real matter is the extinction of America. And, God willing, it will fall to the ground.

Donald Rumsfeld

It has to have forces which are not paper forces,

Jackie Williams

The hardship and inconvenience of traveling forces many people out.

Douglas Wood

The Iraqi forces did a very good job of saving me.

George Casey

The development of the Iraqi security forces is very much on track,

Dan Harel

All in all this is a victory for the security forces and for the settlers.

Eddie Compass

Once the voluntary evacuation has taken place, we will concentrate our resources and our forces on the mandatory evacuation.

Muqtada al Sadr

The U.S.-led forces have the money, weapons and huge numbers, but these things are not going to weaken our will because God is with us.

John Linder

The U.S. Forces are winning in Iraq. It is to be hoped that they will win at home also.

James Woolsey

They are looking hard for technology to get leverage with their conventional forces and to move more quickly than they have been able to in the past into the world of computers, electronics and so on.

Glenn Morris

Just simply splashing around in the water, if there is sewage contamination there is a risk you could get it onto your hands and get it into your mouth,

Jeff Koinange

hands down, even if in jail or in the grave.

Rob Niedermayer

He's got the sweetest hands I think I've seen on a guy. He doesn't panic with the puck at all. He doesn't let too much intimidate him or rattle him out there, and that's a big thing.

James Woods

Whatever it takes to get the job done. We need all hands on deck.

Paul Hefner

The purpose of this is to shift power from one set of hands to another.

Stephen Johnson

I think we need to put it in the hands of someone who knows real estate.

Matt Kiefer

I think that thought process will go through my mind whenever the season is over with, (then) I'll get to that. I'll have a lot of time on my hands without basketball, so I'll be able to reflect on that.

Tammy Johnson

I was very upset. No teacher has a right to put her hands on a child. This is not a one-time incident. This has happened before.

Heath Miller

I was able to get my hands inside and I probably used a little nudge from J.B. (Bettis) in the back to help me out a little bit.

Simon Clark

We're obviously disappointed in that this is a massive shift in terms of restrictions on smoking in public places. However, it could have been a whole lot worse.

Marketing Manager

It is, however, quite rare to have a player have two massive wins within such a short space of time.

Richard P. Feynman

All mass is interaction.

Salman Rushdie

My love for Dan Brown knows no bounds. It literally has no mass.

Will Rogers

If the other fellow sells cheaper than you, it is called dumping. 'Course, if you sell cheaper than him, that's mass production.

Walter Jon Williams

The mass-market paperback, for one, is too expensive.

Robert Goulet

And of course coming from Massachusetts, Rocky Marciano was my favorite.

Galileo Galilei

The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.

Nancy Pelosi

I come to this debate, Mr. Speaker, as one at the end of 10 years in office on the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, where stopping the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction was one of my top priorities. I applaud the President on focusing on this issue and on taking the lead to disarm Saddam Hussein. ... Others have talked about this threat that is posed by Saddam Hussein. Yes, he has chemical weapons, he has biological weapons, he is trying to get nuclear weapons.

Richard Dawkins

Nature is not cruel, only pitilessly indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous-indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose.

Tryon Edwards

Nature hath nothing made so base, but can read some instruction to the wisest man.

Reinhold Messner

I was in continual agony; I have never in my life been so tired as on the summit of Everest that day. I just sat and sat there, oblivious to everything....

William Wordsworth

"One impulse from a vernal wood

Richard Louv

Increasingly the evidence suggests that people benefit so much from contact with nature that land conservation can now be viewed as a public health strategy.

Richard Louv

Research suggests that exposure to the natural world - including nearby nature in cities - helps improve human health, well-being, and intellectual capacity in ways that science is only recently beginning to understand.

Richard Louv

Numerous studies document the benefits to students from school grounds that are ecologically diverse and include free play areas, habitats for wildlife, walking trails, and gardens.

Richard Louv

The woods were my Ritalin. Nature calmed me, focused me, and yet excited my senses.

Richard Francis Burton

Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of Habit, the leaden weight of Routine, the cloak of many Cares and the slavery of Civilization, man feels once more happy.

Richard Paul Evans

Man has left footprints on the moon but still hasn't walked on the ocean floor.

Tupac Shakur

For quiet times disappear listen to the ocean

Tracy Kidder

The ocean doesn't care about you. It makes your boat feel tiny. The oceans are great promoters of religion, or at least of humility-but not in everyone.

Tracy Kidder

... "You may not see the ocean, but right now we are in the middle of the ocean, and we have to keep swimming.

Robinson Jeffers

Nature knows that people are a tide that swells and in time will ebb, and all their works dissolve ... As for us: We must uncenter our minds from ourselves. We must unhumanize our views a little and become confident as the rock and ocean that we are made from.

Robert E. Lee

Life processes take place in an aqueous medium. All organisms are composed mostly of water, whether they dwell in the oceans, lakes, and rivers, or on the land. Because the physical and chemical properties of water are well suited to the requirements of life, it is no accident that life is a water-based phenomenon.

Robert M. Fresco

Everything that ever walked or crawled on the face of the earth, swum the depths of the ocean or soared through the skies left its imprint here

Satish Kumar

Without the land, the rivers, the oceans, the forests, the sunshine, the minerals and thousands of natural resources we would have no economy whatsoever

Sarah McLachlan

I threw bitter tears at the ocean, but all that came back was the tide.

Chris Moller

In the meantime, we have important competitions to run so there is no point shooting ourselves in the foot.

Randy Carlyle

It wasn't pretty, but we'll take the outcome. We put ourselves in position to win it.

Bob Spencer

We pride ourselves in being a well-rounded, blue-collar group.

Andi Anderson

We usually redeem ourselves in the second half. We just had to play more steady and we had a lot of turnovers.

Gerry Adams

strenuous efforts, taken initiatives and stretched ourselves and our constituency to the limit.

Jim Gabella

Right now we're not playing very well. We're not putting anything together offensively. We can do one of two things ? we can feel sorry for ourselves or we can come back out (today) and work.

Carla Gugino

What I've realized is that we're our own harshest critics. We give ourselves limitations. But I want to push through that wall, on a creative and personal level.

Tom Coburn

We find ourselves in significant difficulties as a nation,

Claude Julien

We're putting ourselves in that situation. Over 82 games, once in a while, you like to find ways to make it easier.

Gwen Stefani

I was ... writing that song (with) tears streaming down my face. To me it'sa snapshot of (a) time period of my life, and ... that's the song that kind of took us around the world.

Travis Barker

I don't like traveling, period. I like being at places and I like going places, but I don't like forms of transportation.

Donald Trump

in a period of not too many years.

Jenna-Louise Coleman

I like period drama because everyone is so restrained, but they have all these emotions raging underneath.

Joni Pitkanen

The first period we weren't ready, that's for sure.

Leroy Shafer

You couldn't program better weather for a three-week period than we've had this year.

John Foxe

Each of the seventeen tribunals during a long period burned annually, on an average, ten miserable beings!

Tom Cross

This is just the start of a period of strong growth.

Cindy Sheehan

It's remarkable that in a 27- day period Crawford has stood for something other than war. It has stood for peace.

John Carlock

He (King) comes in in short spots because he can throw strikes.

Princess Anne

I didn't like netball... I used to get wolf whistles because of my short skirts.

Lisa Love

He doesn't take short cuts. He's very methodical, calculated.

Carl Peterson

If one of them is in for a three-and-out, that's a pretty short series.

Sheila Newman

I had short hair. And I was a whole lot younger.

Jim Springer

I'm not an expert, but I don't think in that short of time you are going to be contacting that kind of disease.

Wayne Huizenga

I know there are some short sellers out there, but that just makes us work all the more,

Larry Wall

If you're going to define a shortcut, then make it the base [sic] darn shortcut you can.

Eknath Easwaran

I like to remind my friends frequently how short life is. This is the important message of death: not a day to waste, not a day to quarrel, not a day to brood upon yourself. This is not losing the joy of life; this is gaining the joy of life.

Evan Osnos

Confucius, who was born in the sixth century B.C., traditionally had a stature in China akin to that of Socrates in the West.

Dwyane Wade

I was in the right place at the right time to get the bucket.

Ronny Jenkins

I take my vacation this time of year every year.

Cynthia Johnson

He didn't get the time that we may feel he deserved, and he may not get it in this lifetime. But before it's all over with, he will get it.

Graham Elliot

Any time you can involve fake mustaches, things are just better.

Mona Singh

It is about time that TV actors were paid as well as film stars.

John Shimkus

It is a bittersweet time for many of us to be here,

Jack Smith

It is a long season, we have a long time to get at them.

Lorrie Moore

I think women do write politically all the time. Margaret Atwood does; Doris Lessing does.

Scottish Proverb

What may be done at any time will be done at no time