Famous Quotes & Sayings

Erik Autor

The Byrd Amendment virtually defines corporate welfare. This is a massive payola scheme that takes money out of the US Treasury and uses it to line the pockets of private companies that have done nothing to earn it except sign on to antidumping petitions that drive up prices for American consumers.

Erik Autor

The Byrd Amendment virtually defines corporate welfare, ... This is a massive payola scheme that takes money out of the US Treasury and uses it to line the pockets of private companies that have done nothing to earn it except sign on to antidumping petitions that drive up prices for American consumers.

Bill White

As mayor, I avoid commenting on state and federal laws and policies I do not influence, ... I intend to vote 'no' on the proposed state constitutional amendment to protest its use as a wedge issue.

Dan Leistikow

Rather than make tough choices on spending, the Assembly decided to pass an amendment in the middle of the night without any public hearing and without any study of what the proposal actually does.

Katherine Kennedy

Projects like Cape Wind would help put America on the path toward energy independence. This amendment emerges from nowhere, from the back door, from closed rooms.

Alan Sager

Private companies can always do what they want, ... I don't think this amendment is going to change business. There's a lot of scaring going on, with folks telling people that if they vote for this, they're discriminating. I can tell you there is no discrimination in our company, and this amendment isn't going to change that.

Geoffrey Kors

Anti-gay rhetoric and campaign tactics are never acceptable. This amendment to the Code of Fair Campaign Practices simply seeks to establish a level playing field that all candidates would be able to follow. Candidates should focus on issues, not attacks on any group of people.

Tim Wagner

Any discussion about the Wright amendment needs to include the full spectrum of options, including closing Love Field.

Vince Megna

Arbitration is rapidly replacing our Seventh Amendment right to trial by jury. The best way to prepare for arbitration is to bend over and grab your ankles.

Michael Greve

Any industry that confronts cases under consumer protection statutes ? and that is every industry in America ? will breathe a huge sigh of relief after this ruling.

Jen Rizzotti

Any road game in the America East that you can win, no matter how you do it, is a positive. There are a lot of teams that play well at home and Vermont is one of them.

Diane Johnson

A novel's whole pattern is rarely apparent at the outset of writing, or even at the end; that is when the writer finds out what a novel is about, and the job becomes one of understanding and deepening or sharpening what is already written. That is finding the theme.

Cynthia Ozick

A novel can be set in motion by an incident, a character, a location, a mood - by anything at all. Sometimes the stimulus can be an idea, which will rapidly clothe itself in character and incident. 'Foreign Bodies' came about through the contemplation of the contrast between post-second world war America and Europe.

Dick Cheney

A senator can be wrong for 20 years without consequence to the nation, ... But a president, a president, always casts the deciding vote. And in this time of challenge, America needs -- and America has -- a president we can count on to get it right.

David Gross

As far as I can tell, these discussions about Internet governance won't put one more computer or one more cell phone or one more anything into the hands of somebody who doesn't have it in Africa, Asia, South America or elsewhere,

Professor Jafar

As far as I can see there is no prospect of America providing nuclear reactors to Pakistan or giving this country the status of a nuclear power - the chances of any such thing is zero.

John Hawkes

As he was telling us about these pleasures, at that very moment, in the ruin and the tall grass, I stepped on a hornets, nest and got stung.

Leigh Steinberg

As for football in L.A., it's going to take a loooong time before another team comes here.

LeBron James

That's like my cape. If you knock a super hero's cape off, they get very angry.

Chris Ball

One or two intermediaries approached us and suggested they could influence the votes. We turned them down. We certainly didn't set out to influence people other than give them a pot of Cape gooseberry jam.

John F. Kennedy

The rising tide lifts all the boats.

Heidi Dallin

The last time we did this concert (in Cape Ann) was for an outreach program, but we never did a public performance. The fact that we're doing it for the public this time is really exciting.

Steven Ross

Our customers are going to be shut out with all the closed streets.

Tommy Bowden

Antonio has closed the separation. He is the one that had made the move, which is good.

Mark Klein

A Day without Latinos. They closed the plant because a lot of people walked out.

Jim Steel

Some refineries have made repairs quickly and will be running normally in a week or two. About half of the refineries that closed will take a lot longer to get back on line.

Fran Calverase

No matter how hard they seemed to have closed the door, somebody higher up can say you should have looked at this. I'm not faint of heart at this point, anyway.

Johnny Smith

Sometimes they'll have a lane closed and it doesn't even look like they're working.

DeAnn Sampley

Romania was closed to Americans at this time.

William Morris

Pray but one prayer for me 'twixt thy closed lips.

Mary Shelley

The scene of my existence is closed & though there be no pleasure in retracing the scenes that have preceded the event which has crushed my hopes yet there seems to be a necessity in doing so, and I obey the impulse that urges me.

Matthew Lombardi

As a team we feed off him real well and the energy he brings. He's such a good leader.

Jim Mulva

As Americans, we all feel for those who are less fortunate. We want to make sure they get the energy they need. We feel it's not a good precedent for one industry to fund a program as such. We think that's a responsibility of the government.

Pete Carroll

As a little kid, you can see it. Your eyes are so big, and you're full of all the energy and excitement. I don't feel a whole lot different about going into this game as I did back then.

Rick Carlisle

As long as he plays with this kind of energy and force, he'll get minutes and make things happen.

Tom Golisano

That place has been rocking. You can really feel the energy of the fans. I can't think of any place I would rather be.

Lennox Lewis

Rage takes energy, and I want to keep my energy focused. If a man hits me, I'll think, good for you, that's a good shot.

Reggie Hamilton

Our energy level did go up. And it seemed like (North) laid off a little after that.

Kevin Pittsnogle

Our energy is great around this time of year. This could be our last game at any time since we're all seniors.

Kevin Pittsnogle

Our energy is always great around this time of year. We're always ready to play, especially since it could be the last game at any time for us seniors.

James Browning

Any help we get is needed. This is something more.

Rick Carlisle

Any help we can get will be appreciated.

Shawn Springs

As a player, if you're about the team, you do what you can to help them.

Ruben Sierra

As long as I can do it and I can help the club, then I'm going to keep playing. If not, then I'll go home.

Dennis Northcutt

As long as I'm doing what I'm supposed to do, and I'm going out and helping this team in any way, I'm going to be here, ... The only way I'm going to lose my job is if I'm messing up and not getting the job done.

Tamara Brown

That's where we see most (cases), ... (They're) who we tend to help the most.

Tom Starling

That's where we need help. It's rotted. We need help with signage and our Web site.

Dee Mahan

Prices are much lower in other countries. You can't help but feel as an American that you're getting gouged with the prices here.

Ali Rodriguez

Problems are solved by talking. They took the initiative; now they should solve the problem and we'll try to help them,

Atharva Veda

The Saint has shown me the Path of God; slave Nanak has implanted devotional worship and the Praise of the Lord.

Bob Djurdjevic

The way I would characterize what I saw today is, they're on a slow path of improvement. It's not a sprint.

Baha'u'llah

Peace be upon him who follows the Straight Path!

Juvenal

The only path to a tranquil life is through virtue. [Lat., Semita certe Tranquillae per virtutem patet unica vitae.]

Demi Lovato

You really need to be careful of who you hang out with and who you listen to. They can lead you down the wrong path.

Brie Larson

Surrounding myself with women of different backgrounds and on different paths and in different stages of their lives has become so valuable to me.

Antonio Porchia

And if you find everything as soon as you look for it, you find it in vain, you look for it in vain.

Shanen Boettcher

We are on a path to be code-complete by the end of 2005.

Major Parker

There is nothing in this world that can ever make me go down that path again.

Barbara Jones

We had been talking about doing more projects together.

Abraham Maslow

Every person is, in part, 'his own project' and makes himself.

Stanley Tucci

And I love doing my own projects; that's what I've always wanted to do.

Evan Glodell

I hope I don't have to act in one of my own projects again.

Jennifer Connelly

I'm so happy in the projects that I'm able to make, to be involved in projects like this. This isn't always where it was at for me, I started working when I was a kid. I'm just a different person now, I'm 30. I started working when I was 11 and it's a different ballgame.

Magic Johnson

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

Derek Mazeitis

The wind was pretty strong. I don't know what it was like in Leavenworth, but in Topeka it was pretty harsh.

Adam Zuleger

The wind set it off once. And we sprinted over there. But there was no fish.

S. Hughes

The wind is at the back to this industry, no question.

Barbara Kingsolver

Want is a thing that unfurls unbidden like fungus, opening large upon itself, stopless, filling the sky. But needs, from one day to the next, are few enough to fit in a bucket, with room enough left to rattle like brittle brush in a dry wind.

Ayn Rand

The fortune my spirit is not to be blown into coins of brass and flung to the winds as alms for the poor of the spirit. I guard my treasures: my thought, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom.

Buster Keaton

If one more person tells me this is just like old times, I swear I'll jump out the window.

Diane Ackerman

There's no place you can go on the prairie that you don't hear the white noise of the wind, steady and rough as surf curling along a non-existant shore.

Bret Easton Ellis

I kept staring into the blackness of the woods, drawn into the darkness as I always had been. I suddenly realized how alone I was. (But this is how you travel, the wind whispered back, this is how you've always lived.)

Billie Joe Armstrong

You can't change the wind but you can set your sails.