Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anytime I see something screech across a room and latch onto someone's neck, and the guy screams and tries to get it off, I have to laugh, because what is that thing.

Tom Udall

As a member of the U.S. House Law Enforcement Task Force, I join with local citizens across New Mexico toward the goal of reducing crime,

M.I.A.

As an artist, you want to play around with mediums and see if you can get the point across in different way.

Charles Powell

The British are definitely comparing notes on Moroccan cells across Europe, in Italy, France and the UK. The current thinking is that the people who did this may have trained in the same camps as the people who committed the Madrid bombings. The techniques are very similar.

Dennis Lillee

Australia was ambushed by England because way too many people right across the board were living in a comfort zone. The first priority is to appoint a captain who can lead from the front.

Robbie Hood

Rain over water affects the climate of the whole planet. It releases energy into the atmosphere. What happens in the tropics is extremely important to the climate of the whole Earth. If you can't measure rain over the ocean, you're missing a lot of activity and you'll never truly understand what is happening to the weather across the world.

Russ Pate

Randy Covington (at WIS) leaned across the table and basically told them that this is an important news event in Columbia, South Carolina, that we're here to cover the news and we're going to cover the news. (Olympic officials) decided they had better play ball or lose control of the whole thing.

John Tanner

Rather than the constituents electing the members of the legislatures across the land and the Congress, the members of the Congress and legislatures elect their constituents,

Ed Moyle

Rather than setting a universally high security bar across all systems in the enterprise, an enterprise might segregate systems into different 'zones,'

Jeb Bush

Our economy grew at double the rate of the nation. We created 1.3 million jobs. We led the nation seven out of those eight years. We were only one of two states that went to AAA bond rating. I cut taxes, $19 billion. If you do that and apply conservative principles the right way, you create an environment where everybody rises up.

Mark Hooker

The show was closed unjustly because the licensing ordinance that the city claims was the grounds for closing us does not apply to nonprofit and charitable organizations like the Milwaukee Gay Arts Center.

Mahmoud Abbas

The most important message is our readiness, our full readiness to work for the internal security, ... We have deployed forces and we have taken a final decision on uniting the security apparatus, and we will continue applying this decision.

Stephen Gillers

The rules dealing with gifts don't apply to Justice Thomas because the rules only apply to lower court judges. People give gifts to judges and justices because they have power. And they have power because of their position that they hold in trust. And to suggest that it doesn't matter, no one will care, seems to me to be whistling in the dark.

Bill Maris

I used to be a health-care investor a long time ago in the public markets. One thing I learned that we tried to apply here is that investing in small molecules, trying to invest in the next treatment, there's an element of gambling to that.

Tom Kelley

The word is out, and we are trying to make it known that these grants are available for this important drug education. I don't know how many institutions or organizations will apply and be approved, but it will be as many as we can have. We really want people to respond and submit applications as soon as possible.

John Roberts

The right that was protected in the assisted-suicide case was the right of the people through their legislatures to articulate their own views on the policies that should apply in those cases of terminating life, and not to have the court interfering in those policy decisions, ... That's an important right.

Julie Adams

This is the first competitive grant cycle where organizations had the opportunity to apply for grant funding. We've been going to organizations and presenting checks to the chosen groups for this year.

Roger Jackson

This is serious business trying to be the best in the world, and we're trying to apply all that we have available to us in Canada.

Mike Garvey

The team has done an outstanding job with the 2006 body and preparation is going as planned. The cars are really good. It should get interesting this year.

Larry Kostelac

After a rough start, We changed some things up and did a better job of getting more body on them and that was a key to our defense.

Christina Ricci

Now my body is really womanly - a little too much so. It's something I can fall back on. When I don't know what else to do, I stick my chest out.

Brandon Rush

(Saturday), even my body language wasn't good. I got mad at myself out there. I'm not playing relaxed. I just need to be more aggressive.

Nigel Dodds

Protestants are sickened at the sight of terrorists at the heart of our government. We will do everything we can to expel this cancer from the body politic.

Kenneth Ulmer

Put your body--your life--in God's hands, ... You hold that ministry in your hand, (and) it's doomed. Place your life in his hand, and God will do miracles, because it all depends upon whose hand it's in.

William Maxwell

Perhaps a body of work isn't necessary for a short story writer. If you do one story that survives in an anthology, that's enough.

Bible Bible

The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws.

Harold Ryan

I've seen that. A long time ago, I had my car in the body shop getting painted. I went out that night and saw the guy out in my car.

Edward Fitzgerald

Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught The Sultan's Turret in a Noose of Light

Bill Lee

Our defense just has guys and coaches that have a lot of pride and heart. They take it serious when it comes to keeping teams out of the end zone. They bow up when they have to.

Stanley McClover

After careful thoughts and prayers, I have decided to forgo my senior season at Auburn to pursue my dream of a career in the NFL. I returned home following the bowl game and had long talks with my parents and prayed a lot about my future. I also received the coaches' input and weighed that into my decision. I feel like this is the right opportunity for me to take my game to the next level." ()

James Anderson

Once you get into a rhythm it doesn't matter what heat you're bowling in - you just keep going.

Bob Lewis

Thank you to the bowlers who frequented Fountain Bowl, many of whom have become our friends.

Brandon Gray

It was the number one Super Bowl weekend opening of all time.

Kevin Gibson

These days, more is required than just bowing deeply and saying you're sorry. You can go to jail.

Vernon Davis

I sit back and watch guys like Heath Miller coming in as a rookie and doing things like he has done, going to the Super Bowl and making plays. That is something to be proud about, a guy who played in the same conference as you. I know I can do it because I have a good work ethic.

Andre Agassi

It would be great to win, but I have no interest in putting a nice little bow around my career and handing it over to anybody,

Rekalin Sims

That's what I want to do. I want to be able to be able to take one, two charges a game, even more than that if I can. I guess in a way I kind of look for them. That's just part of my game.

Jeff Wuite

The outcome was that no charges should be laid.

Jennifer Granholm

As the cost to provide natural gas to our citizens increases, I am reminding Michigan's utilities that the MPSC will be watching closely to ensure that charges passed on are reasonable and appropriate -- and no more, ... The MPSC must be vigilant in protecting our citizens' pocketbooks, especially when costs of the things our citizens need most are on the rise.

Savas Kyriacou

Those two people are being investigated at this point. We are still trying to determine what, if any, role they played in this incident. Charges have not been laid as yet.

John Davenport

We immediately contacted the State Attorney's Office to drop the charges and they did.

Bill Cunningham

We expect charges sometime in the next few days, and yes, we do know who the shooter is.

Ken Brown

One thing that hampers all sides in the debate is the extent to which information about telephone charges is relatively opaque, ... Many state and local governments are transparent, but some are not. The federal government actually has the least transparency.

Mike Farrell

If a man has the kind of personal honor, personal integrity and personal courage that he has demonstrated, it argues that perhaps the charges in this trial are not correct.

Mark Giles

Given the seriousness of the allegations, the National Investigations Service, our major crimes unit, followed up, which resulted in the charges being laid.

Larry Mowry

We are not going to warm up at all during the day Friday, and it will turn windy. We are going to see wind chills tomorrow in the 40s all day long.

Lawrence Eagles

As far as the Middle East is concerned, there is still strong justification for a premium to remain in the market until it is clear the situation is much calmer on the ground,

Kevin Towers

After what I went through with Arizona, the last four or five days, they were crazy with all the speculation out there. I don't think it was fair to this organization. One thing I want to make clear is that I wasn't throwing my name out there. It got to the point where it didn't stop.

Mark Buehrle

Actually, I got out in the woods and kind of cleared my mind,

Michael Moran

A nomination does not mean it will have clear sailing to being listed. What gets listed on the national register, unfortunately, is subject to the will of the governor's office.

Steven Kernkraut

The secret to survive is you have to have a clear identity and clear brand.

Richard Boucher

The secretary made quite clear that the relationship with the Taliban was a matter of great importance to the United States.

Richard Boucher

The secretary made clear we would keep pressure on (Yugoslavia).

Richard Boucher

The secretary made clear ... we would be going forward with a system, and we felt it was feasible.

Zeev Boim

These conditions are clear and these are their obligations from the first stage of the road map.

Michael Otto

One has to live with the fact that some corporate decisions are going to be wrong. As long as most of the decisions are right.

Ken McBride

We ran a first market test in 2004, and we estimated that a third of the total images -- a third of the total sheets we printed -- were in fact corporate logos.

Anthony Chan

Corporate earnings growth is slowing. Earnings might be growing at 9 to 10 percent, and that's still impressive. But they're going in the wrong direction.

James Sensenbrenner

Corporate criminals will do real time. Real long time, ... It goes a long way to protect the life savings of many Americans by making the price of theft too high.

P. J. O'Rourke

Corporate corruption has ecological merits. It's helping to preserve that species known as Democrats - thought to be endangered as recently as the year 2000.

Richard Darman

Corpocracy" is large-scale corporate America's tendency to be like the government bureaucracy.

John Conley

This opens some opportunities that we haven't had before with the exclusive branding. It will be free of this overpowering corporate presence.

Ryuta Otsuka

There had been expectations of solid corporate earnings before the earnings results season began, and indeed, they are proving to have been right.

Jerry Jasinowski

We give him great credit for raising the priority for education and training. On the other hand, he really did so many things to stick it in the corporate eye, whether or not it was downsizing or siding with the unions in the last two years of the administration.

Richard Ferlauto

Disclosure is necessary but insufficient to restrain pay.

Jeffrey Toobin

There is no legal requirement of any public disclosure of a justice's health. And justices are very cagey and very limited in what they disclose.

Evan Osnos

Disclosure and transparency are the currency of the Internet, and they are at odds with authoritarianism.

Bill Cosby

Network executives never did understand what made our show work,

Mike Cooke

I was very surprised. I assumed, probably like most senior executives in most organizations, that I knew all of what was going on around here,

Mr Howard

I think it is the obligation of senior executives of Telstra to talk up the company's interest, not to talk them down.

Joe Nathan

Over the last 18 months that this issue has developed, we have been talking with various IBM executives at many levels, and just had not gotten anywhere, ... We're frustrated.

Christopher Cox

Our purpose here today is to help investors keep an eye on how much of their money is being paid to the top executives who work for them. It is about wage clarity, not wage controls.

James Steel

Any hint of recovery in industrial recovery there is a good sign, ... it was a supporting factor to the rally.

Rey Mysterio

Reading helps me be more creative, it helps my imagination and I like the fact that it gives me some quiet time,

John Challenger

People who have been out for a while say, 'I've got to get back to work,' so they take downgraded jobs, ... Maybe they can't get a job as the plant manager, so they try to get a job as a manager on the factory line and work their way back up.

James Mcewan

People hate the fact that they kidnapped people, including a little child.

Preston Clark

The spectator traffic wasn't even a factor today. With this weather, they all headed for the hills.

Peter Lehman

The technology needs to get out of the lab and into the factory to reduce costs,

Sean Hannity

So you think it's race-related (which Watters had not said)? You think race is the factor that the New Orleans mayor didn't use the buses?

Sendhil Mullainathan

One cost, for the lonely: If you want to be interesting, the one thing you shouldn't do is really focus on the fact that 'I want this person to like me.' That's going to make you very uninteresting. But the lonely, they just can't help but focus on that.

Darrell Royal

Thank goodness we've progressed to where it's no longer a factor that Vince Young is black. It used to be a big thing.

John Donne

As he that fears God fears nothing else, so, he that sees God sees everything else

Greek proverb

The silence of a treacherous man is to be feared even more than his words

Malcolm Gladwell

The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.

George Glynos

Oil prices tend to fuel inflationary fears, and as they fuel these fears funds so investors tend to look for an inflation head. In this situation they have looked towards gold as that inflationary head. As oil prices have gone up we have seen an increase in metal prices.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Pray God our greatness may not fail/ Thro' craven fears of being great.

George Weinberg

The roots of homophobia are fear. Fear and more fear.

Baha'u'llah

Love is a light that never dwelleth in a heart possessed by fear.

Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

Ned made a tremendous rattling, at which Bullet took fright, broke his bridle, and dashed off in grand style; and would have stopped all farther negotiations by going home in disgust, had not a traveller arrested him and brought him back; but Kit did not move.

Arthur Ashe

Fear isn't an excuse to come to a standstill. It's the impetus to step up and strike.

James Zoltak

Reading the language in some of the recent filings, it seems very personal.

Renee Zellweger

The term 'fraud' as listed in the documentation is simply legal language and not a reflection of Kenny's character.

Billy Connolly

Politically correct is the language of cowardice.

David Hamilton

Everyone wants to do the right thing and meet the spirit of the legislation. The language now leaves so much up to each municipality. We need a cohesive plan that addresses everyone.

Anna Jameson

Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.

Stephane Mallarme

To give a purer sense to the language of the tribe.

Douglas William Jerrold

The language of women should be luminous, but not voluminous.

Christopher Moore

Ooo ahe-e, I aya oa a," she said in yawnspeak, a language - not unlike Hawaiian - known for its paucity of consonants.

Annie Proulx

I am influenced by words and the chewiness of language

Robert Jackson

People take liberties and one thing leads to another,

Michael McCord

Saint Clair has kind of taken the lead on this." ()

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Prosperity often leads to pride, which leads to sin.

Michael Panzner

You normally don't find new leadership until you get washouts and corrections.

Babe Ruth

The most important thing that a young athlete must do it pick the right sport. Not one that they like just a little bit, but one that they love. Because,if they don't really love their sport, they won't work as hard as they should. Me? I loved to hit.

Jan Schakowsky

The House Republican leadership has simply run out of ideas.

Cesar Chavez

There are many reasons for why a man does what de does. To be himself he must be able to give it all. If a leader cannot give it all he cannot expect his people to give anything.

Charles R. Swindoll

This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody. There was an important job to do and Everybody was asked to do it. Everybody was sure Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry because it was Everybody’s job. Everybody thought Anybody would do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn’t do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done.

Desiderius Erasmus

God has administered to us of the present age, a bitter draught and a harsh physician, on account of our abounding infirmities.

Eugene White

Every day we wait puts our students at a disadvantage.

Phil Rizzuto

Well, that kind of puts the damper on even a Yankee win!

Mack Strong

He comes out to compete. He comes out and puts up MVP numbers.

Nathan Vasher

If you're ready, you should run. It puts you a step ahead.

Mike Jacobs

It was a big boost. When you start off with three runs, it puts them on the defensive.

Ted Strickland

What that says to me is they know the other two and they don't like what they know.

Jerry Reinsdorf

We win the World Series and Ozzie retires, who says I'm not going to retire?

Carrie Fisher

No one says that to you any more really,

Ryan Garko

If someone says something, you know who said it.

Derek Walker

She says things like 'Mama, my stuff is all wet,'

Donna Berger

I was very amazed. The sign says the crew, they all ate, slept on the deck.

Adam Timmerman

I think it says a lot about him being unselfish and seeing the talent in Steven himself.

Mark Grudzielanek

We try to get him to go out and he says 'No, I've got a show Tivoed at home. I don't know about this guy.

Dmitri Young

He has a presence. You knew, right from the get-go, he was the manager, and what he says goes.

Kareem Rodriguez

The shots that usually go down weren't going down. It was one shot and out for us.

Tom Tupa

I've taken shots for it. It hasn't worked. That's disappointing.

Hines Ward

We thought we could take some shots in the air. We're an experienced team and we took our chances.

Ryan Longwell

We had no shot of making that one. It was just out of sequence.

Sanja Tomasevic

Everything they told us would happen, did. They would have their big shots and their power. But we could play with them if we were patient.

Edgar Bronfman

between very long shots and very, very, very long shots.

Dwight Johnson

We'll have another shot at it, I think.

Ronald Reagan

If our planes were shot down, yes, they's wake me right away. If the other fellows' were shot down, why wake me up?

Susan Estrich

I don't like cheap shots, I really don't.

William Shakespeare

First Witch He knows thy thought: Hear his speech, but say thou nought.

Mick Jagger

I am not very conscious of the figures of speech that I use.

Marla Miller

I'm speechless - it's better than we had hoped.

Jean de la Bruyere

It is a great misfortune not to possess sufficient wit to speak well, nor sufficient judgment to keep silent.

Ethan Zuckerman

While the Internet is censored in China, the censorship is allowing a level of speech to take place that's unprecedented.

Gareth Gates

I do find my speech difficult at times, but it's getting so much better as my confidence grows and that's thanks to the position I'm now in, which is totally due to my fans.

Fulton J. Sheen

We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.

Frank Muir

The speeches to be wary of are those that begin with I'm just going to say a few words.

Henry David Thoreau

Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.

John Avlon

Politics is history in the present tense.

John MacArthur

There was a tense atmosphere, ... When the end came, it was very abrupt.

C. S. Lewis

The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

Louis MacNeice

I do not envy any animal, though I envy many of their capacities.

Edgar Allan Poe

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Edgar Allan Poe

To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.

John Dryden

And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm

Anu Garg

Hindi is my mother tongue. Even though I do not get to use it as often, it's still a part of me.

Katie Jacobs

Even though they are competitors, we really wanted to do the right thing by the users and give them other choices.

Mike Eaves

Even though we've slipped a little bit, we understand that at the end of the year is when it truly matters.

John Parsons

Even though he never said anything; you could just tell,

Franz Liszt

Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his.

Brian Eno

I want to rethink 'surrender' as an active verb.

Kingsley Amis

If you are using an adverb, you have got the verb wrong.

Jimmy Carter

To me, Faith is not just a noun but also a verb

Lyle Thomas

Now, I know everyone wants to see turtles. What else?

Heather Dougherty

If someone wants to play catch-up fast, that's the way to go.

Ivan Rodriguez

He's the manager. If he wants me to DH, I'll DH.

Irving Layton

My neighbour/ doesn't want to be loved/ as much as/ he wants to be envied.

Glen Taylor

He is very, very competitive and wants to win.

Adam Sohn

He's been here 20 years and he wants to recharge.

Tim Danson

He doesn't want to be in the courtroom, he wants to be on the ice.

Tim Howard

In the end, very little gets in the way of what Manchester United wants to do.

Steve McClaren

There is no-one more than me wants to see Mick do well at Sunderland , and I want to see Sunderland do well,

Lydia M. Child

The United States is ... a warning rather than an example to the world.

J. William Fulbright

The American public has become so conditioned by crises, by warnings, by words, that there are few, other than the young, who protest against what is happening.

Libba Bray

Warning: If you are insufferable, do not walk here. We shall eat you down to the marrow.

Bill McKibben

We've been given a warning by science, and a wake-up call by nature; it is up to us now to heed them.

Chelsea Handler

There are no warning signs on the trampoline. The warning is the trampoline.