Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jerry Angelo

It's a tough position. It's a supply-and-demand business, and the colleges just aren't generating enough of them.

Claire Ellis

They have a lot of colleges and universities (in Michigan), ... but they don't have a lot of jobs.

Verlene Powell

They say some of these are the same problems with our schools today. It's similar to what's going on with the colleges right now.

Jason Robinson

There was some talk of him coming back this year, but he decided to stay down there because some colleges were looking at him,

Mark Lyons

It's all about having fun. You want exposure, you want the colleges to see you, and if you're having fun, it's because you're doing things right.

David Stahl

It was fantastic. Earl took fight songs from various colleges and universities and made it a terrific, joyous time.

Michael Johnson

We play a schedule of 30 to 35 games, and we've been told we're comparable to some small colleges and community colleges. We have to make cuts because so many players turn out. All of our guys have solid backgrounds in high school or community college ball.

John Schultz

Thanks to the wonderful generosity of the Katzenberg family, we can return to the forefront of colleges whose equipment and facilities are on the industry's cutting edge. The facilities upgrade will have an impact for many years to come.

Joni Finney

I've never heard of state colleges doing this to fill seats, especially when the participation of their own population isn't very good.

Jim Gaylor

When we weren't scoring early in the game, Drew kept us in it. We made a few a plays there for him. He mixed his pitches well. He's a competitor. He's not an overpowering guy, but he's got good stuff.

Ted LePage

I've watched a lot of film (of the Jays last season) and I've been around Drew now for quite a while, and I like a lot of the things he's doing. I thought the schemes he ran last year were very good.

Peter Guralnick

This is something I wanted to do for over 20 years, ... From the time I first met J.W. Alexander, he drew an inspiring portrait of an individual you wouldn't know from the music alone.

Hadi Jawad

We're grateful because it was time, in our opinion, that someone drew a hard line the way she has.

John Madden

We need the quarterbacks. It's a passing league and a quarterback-driven league. We need the Peyton Mannings in football uniforms out there playing - the Tom Bradys, the Drew Breeses, the Philip Riverses - we need those guys instead of them standing on the sideline.

Chris Savage

We've scouted them a few times. They have a lot of good athletes. They're in a tough league (City League-North Division). We drew a tough opponent.

Chris Vance

The process has worked extremely well and Republicans support it. When the Legislature drew the lines, there was nothing but lawsuits, acrimony and delay.

Kathy Kinney

And they wanted Drew to get up and do some of his (stand-up) routine, but he hadn't done it in a while and he didn't feel very confident, ... So Ryan said: 'Why don't we just get up and do some improv? There's enough people here.' Drew goes, 'Oh, all right.'

Bible Bible

And they drew out the staves, that the ends of the staves were seen out in the holy place before the oracle, and they were not seen without: and there they are unto this day.

Chet Williamson

There's nothing like a headless corpse to bring a touch of excitement into one's life.

Sherry Murphy

What a huge opportunity for our community. We're just giddy with excitement over this.

Jon Jansen

We've got more work to do. The excitement is fun and it will last for a little while, but we've got some goals that are still out there.

Michael Cherry

It's just a morale thing. The other names have been kicking around so long. It's much more about trying to keep focused and keep some excitement around where they are going.

Jon Lieber

It's a tough one to swallow because of the excitement of the first day of the year. You hate to have a game get out of hand like that one did in the fourth inning. But what else can you say?

Joe Thornton

There was lots of excitement in the third period, but we just couldn't hold the lead.

Craig Smith

There's a lot of excitement on campus. It's one weekend down, two more to go (to the Final Four).

Billy Mayfair

It's a great finishing hole. I think it makes for a lot of excitement and it could turn the whole tournament around real fast.

Tracie Beasley

It's all about the excitement of this wonderful resource and its tributaries.

Chris Chocola

Prior to the PATRIOT Act, the ability of government agencies to share information with each other was limited, which kept investigators from fully understanding what terrorists might be planning and to prevent their attacks.

Chris Christie

China need to be fought back on. And what we need to do is go at the things that they are most sensitive and most embarrassing to them; that they're hiding; get that information and put it out in public. Let the Chinese people start to digest how corrupt the Chinese government is; how they steal from the Chinese people; and how they're enriching oligarchs all throughout China.

Chris Christie

Today we must make a pact with each other to end this reckless conduct with the people's government.

Chris Christie

Is there any wonder why we are in such big trouble? Any question why the people don't trust their government anymore, and demand a change?

Edward Gibbon

The Roman government appeared every day less formidable to its enemies, more odious and oppressive to its subjects.

Edward Gibbon

The image of a free constitution was preserved with decent reverence: the Roman senate appeared to possess the sovereign authority, and devolved on the emperors all the executive powers of government. During a happy period (A.D. 98-180) of more than fourscore years, the public administration was conducted by the virtue and abilities of Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, and the two Antonines.

Edward Gibbon

The two Antonines (for it is of them that we are now speaking) governed the Roman world forty-two years, with the same invariable spirit of wisdom and virtue. ... Their united reigns are possibly the only period of history in which the happiness of a great people was the sole object of government.

Ed Balls

I will ask every government department to draw up a plan for civil service relocation outside London. And a Labour Treasury will set an objective for savings over the course of the next decade,

Earl Warren

The mere summoning of a witness and compelling him to testify against his will, about his beliefs, expressions or associations, is a measure of governmental interference. And when those forced revelations concern maters that are unorthodox, unpopular, or even hateful to the general public, the reactions in the life of the witness may be disastrous.

Tyra Banks

When I went to Paris after graduating high school, I saw a model who was 12 years old without any supervision. That wouldn't happen in the acting world.

Tommy Dolde

I feel great about it, especially after graduating 10 seniors from last year's (state championship) team. We have a young team and it is an honor to win the section.

Alan Greenspan

An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.

David Brooks

People who give money in large amount in politics are basically not altruistic.They have some issue. They have some interest.It may be preserving carried interest. But it's not altruistic.

Barry Diller

No one can solve an issue where there is no economic model yet.

Barney Frank

The issue is not that morals be applied to public policy, it's that conservatives bring public policy to spheres of our lives where it should not enter.

Barney Frank

Most people who are activists and are concerned about issues get their information from sources which reinforce their opinions and give them the facts that they want to hear.

Carlos Mesa

My government has the challenge of addressing the issue of gas. The issue of gas cannot be addressed today without the participation of all Bolivians alike.

Karen Dinkins

We have much different issues than the teachers. Just because the teachers go thus and so, it doesn't mean that's right for our members.

Alan Lowenthal

Im passionate about the issues that I care about, and Im a really good listener.

Charlie Crist

You know, as attorney general, there's no issue more important than making sure you are safe, that your families are safe.

Terry Holt

This president, after years of stonewalling from the Democrats, was able to pass and sign a plan for a prescription drug benefit. Kennedy was part of that as well. He was one of the lead negotiators for the Democrats. This is really a stunning about-face. He seems to be walking away from his own ideas.

Edward Kennedy

As long as a Kennedy has a voice, we'll be standing with you and the AFL-CIO.

Lucy Johnson

I've been in Kennedy Square for 31 years and this is the 3rd time that we've had someone's life taken since I've been here. So I would say very surprising.

Maria Shriver

When I look in the mirror, I don't just see a first lady, I don't just see a Kennedy or a Schwarzenegger, I don't just see a mother, a daughter, a wife, a sister and a friend, and thank God, I don't see Warren Beatty.

Tamara Feldman

I would like to see 'A Confederacy of Dunces' by John Kennedy Toole adapted.

Tina Brown

Unlike the Kennedy dynasty, who always knew how to pay off people who might make trouble, the Windsors can't bring themselves to part with any royal trinkets.

Ronald Steele

To see Kennedy Winston - the most talented player I've ever played with - not get picked was a reality check.

Stephanie Cutter

Senator Kennedy has been waiting for the right invitation.

Jackie Kennedy

I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris.

Bess Myerson

I've lived through a lifetime of crises and survived.

Bobby Valentine

I've lived that lifetime of doing it and regretting it. But not at all now. It was, what? Thirty years ago?

Paul Azinger

I've never made a nickel in my lifetime where I wasn't a little nervous getting it.

John Reid

This is a once in a lifetime opportunity for a lot of these kids.

Al Franken

I'm sure I've devoted enough thought to Rush Limbaugh for one lifetime.

Laura Ahearn

What we really would like to see is lifetime supervision and GPS monitoring.

bell hooks

All my life I have longed to have a loving relationship that would last a lifetime.

Dimitar Sasselov

In science, it is rare that a transformational change occurs during our lifetimes.

Brian Lumley

And I have to consider myself fortunate, because there are plenty of writers who spend most of a lifetime looking for that certain something without ever finding it.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Studd

Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.

Charles Stross

In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.

Charles Stanley

I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.

Charles Spurgeon

The Lord's people have always been a waiting people.

Charles Spurgeon

People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.

Benjamin Walker

Don't trust somebody that don't have a troubled period.

Robert Rodriguez

It was a tale of two periods -- before Sept. 17 and afterwards.

Kurt Angle

There are so many things that have evolved since I wrestled. They don't have periods anymore. They have rounds... it confuses the younger demographic.

Lauren Kellin

We usually get it done somehow. We've always been a third-period team. As soon as we put all three periods together, we feel there will be no stopping us.

Corey Hart

I became somewhat reclusive during a period of time in the '80s.

Alice Cooper

There was a period of time when I thought I had to be Alice Cooper all the time.

Rafael Palmeiro

I have never used steroids. Period.

Rafael Palmeiro

Let me start by telling you this: I have never used steroids. Period. I don't know how to say it any more clearly than that. Never.

Rafael Palmeiro

I have never intentionally used steroids. Never. Ever. Period,

Alan Mollohan

I have never, not once, violated my public trust.

S. Hughes

Where there is muck to be raked, it must be raked,and the public must know of it, that it may mete out justice....

Carl Andre

Americans understand better than the Europeans and the English that any publicity is good.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

I know where there is more wisdom than is found in Napoleon, Voltaire, or all the ministers present and to come - in public opinion.

Bill Goldberg

Aside from doing publicity for this film [The Longest Yard], I have Auto Maniac coming on the History Channel and since I got married recently, we are going to get to that Honeymoon we had to put off.

Bill Gates

It's hard to improve public education - that's clear.

Bob Schieffer

Good policy always trumps bad public relations. And the best PR can't trump bad policy.

Don Powell

It's not public works. It's not water, sewage or utilities. It's the soul of our life.

Victor Mendez

It's not just the workers. It's the traveling public we're also worried about.

Armstrong Williams

In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations.

David Remnick

Washington as a Surveyor. We should have been clearer.

Michael Bennet

I'm not a career politician, so the ways of Washington may be a little obscure to me.

Seth Greenberg

Deron Washington is a wonderful kid. What he did was wrong and I can't condone it.