Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeff Davidson

We've entered an era when very good, competent people aren't getting jobs. One remedy is to stand out, to self-promote. If you do, you're going to get the nod over some co-worker.

Kathleen Tierney

The big question in everybody's mind is whether entities that proved themselves incompetent to handle Hurricane Katrina can become competent by the summer of 2006. So far, we've seen no evidence of that.

Lauren Willig

My official field was Tudor-Stuart England; I also considered myself reasonably competent when it came to Renaissance and Reformation Europe.

Paul Thomas Anderson

You know, I'm really not that competent at describing things musically.

Wayne Blanton

All of those things that get competent teachers into schools, we're supportive of.

Edwin Eisendrath

This just echoes what I've heard all over the state. State employees just don't trust the governor. They don't trust him with their pensions, they don't trust him to hire competent managers, they don't trust him with the state budget.

P. J. Harvey

They have some very competent guards and they love to run screen and rolls. So we will have to be ready for that. This will be a very tough game.

William Wordsworth

And the most difficult of tasks to keepHeights which the soul is competent to gain.

Jay Ellison

A fairly good percentage of young people have only a wireless device. But as the older generation of homeowners move into their golden years, they will be more comfortable with just a wireless phone around the house. They've grown up with improved technology, and they're more competent with it.

Larry Medina

I think it's a great example of a public-private partnership. I really wish the government entities in the past would have scrutinized other tax abatements as much as this.

Ray Arvidson

I wouldn't be surprised as we move uphill that we find a section of the rock, in fact, that was modified in a shallow open-water environment. We haven't found the smoking-gun evidence for that yet.

Jack Boatwright

There are still places where you can see evidence of the 1906 earthquake. You just have to know where to look.

Ken Tower

What would make me more optimistic is if there was evidence that money on the sidelines is being put to work. But I'm not convinced.

Michael Shermer

Having a Nobel Prize or being a famous scientist will get you a week to a week and a half, metaphorically speaking, of a hearing for your new idea, but after that, it's going to tank if you don't have the evidence and support for it.

David Scott

He's a liar, in the view of the commissioner, except when it comes to his evidence about what he and Mr. Pelletier did together.

Mark Schneider

It is actually one of the really strong pieces of evidence in the report that we should be celebrating.

Wesley Clark

I think the evidence of the mass graves is confirmation of the terrible wrong done here.

William Brennan

There is a lack of evidence in this case.

Brian Doyle

There is more than enough evidence that we have good security these issues were addressed quickly and efficiently.

Jiang Zemin

I was invited by President Clinton, ... So it will be up to the United States to handle these events.

Bengie Molina

He kept saying he was sore, he was sore. He couldn't do another pitch. He couldn't handle it.

Wayne Lawson

He knows he scares people. You get the impression he knows how to handle them.

Quincy Jones

I lost my mother when I was 7 and they put her in a mental hospital. My brother and I watched her being taken away in a strait jacket. That's something you never forget. And my stepmother was like in the movie 'Precious.' I couldn't handle it. So I said to myself, 'I don't have a mother. I don't need one. I'm going to let music be my mother.'

Paul Hackett

What you have to like is how he handled the situation, how he handled the team, his calmness, how he ran the team,

Todd Shipley

He's a big, strong kid who can handle the pounding an inside runner is going to take.

Garrett Gomez

He's a grinder. I was very impressed with the way he handled everything.

Dan Peitz

Going a mile, I didn't know if we could handle everything. Our horse wants to run farther.

Sidney Crosby

Going through two years of junior, it taught me a lot about myself, how I can handle it, ... You have to worry about hockey. Handle stuff outside of that when you need to, but just worry about hockey. That's what I learned.

Timothy Conder

The magnitude of the hurricane season last year has people a little skittish.

Michael Leavitt

The big lesson I learned from Hurricane Katrina is that we have to be thinking about the unthinkable, ... because sometimes the unthinkable happens.

Richard Wright

It looked like a tsunami with hurricane winds.

Stacy Stewart

They better take this hurricane dead-serious or they're going to be dead.

Lawrence Eagles

The market has coped very well with the hurricane situation on the surface, particularly on the refinery side,

Mitch Frazier

There is not the hurricane protection here that there once was. It is significantly compromised. The hurricane level protection we have had here prior to Hurricane Katrina will not be able to return. It will be years, not months.

Mike Trevino

We've got another 800 (adjusters) or so standing by waiting to work Hurricane Rita.

David Beasley

Unfortunately, it looks like Hurricane Bertha is making a major turn for the worse,

Salvation Army

Rally for Relief: Oriental's Response to the Victims of Hurricane Katrina

Mary Fetchet

Katrina should be enough to wake people up.

John Metz

Katrina produced a catastrophic storm surge, it was one of the worst we've seen in this country,

Kim Stewart

Katrina knocked us down, but it's not going to keep us there. I think things should be a lot faster.

Peter Morris

Katrina is like a very large pile of stones on top of a mountain. Standing by the pile of stones it's a big pile. But when you're looking at the mountain, it's not going to be that dramatic.

Hal Rogers

I think it's time we thought about having Katrina bonds,

Richard Falkenrath

I think this issue, Katrina and our government's response to it, should be looked at by an independent commission,

Kathleen Blanco

he has recognized that Katrina was no ordinary hurricane.

Richard Cobb

On the supply side, we are about the same as after Katrina and before Rita.

Mitch Landrieu

Eighty-five percent of us in this country, by the way, live in coastal areas, so again, Katrina and Rita were not just about New Orleans. There were a lot of lessons that the nation can learn from us if they just pay attention to the things that are going on down here.

Sheikh Ahmad

He is very stubborn. When he puts his mind into something, he will do it.

Laura Vandervoort

A lot of people think that reptiles don't feel, and they do. I think everyone should keep in mind what it is they are buying and if it is really worth it to them.

Alex Solis

He really won it very easy. That's what I had in my mind, not to squeeze him.

Jeff Judkins

Havlicek was my idol, so I didn't mind one bit.

Sandra Allen

Her mind was very sharp and never aged.

Heywood Broun

Her mind is so open that the wind whistles through it

Dave Tippett

His mind is in the right place now.

Susan Dolan

I think it's important to be mindful about how you live every day - what you think, and how you live. It's part of a mindful lifestyle.

Phil Jackson

I think the only thing it did was take our mind off the game.

Brian Carlwell

I think we proved that we can play with tough teams. I don't feel like we were lucky. I feel like we won the game.

Michelle Monaghan

I will say that 'Source Code' proved to be a very tricky film to shoot.

Sage Rosenfels

I proved to myself more than anything that I could play in this league,

William Blake

What is now proved was once only imagin'd

Trevor Goddard

Someone said he wouldn't make a run in Australia, he sort of proved them wrong.

Paul Doerrfeld

We proved we could play with them. We just have to relax and play our game.

Folarin Campbell

We proved we can play with anybody. We proved we don't back down from anybody.

Hines Ward

We proved all the prognosticators wrong. This is a big win for us.

Jack Roush

He proved he could keep a truck or racing vehicle off the wall.

George Daley

I would say they also raise more questions than answers.

Larry Sabato

He is very sharp. No one has any questions that he is well-qualified.

Darrell Bricker

Harper is going to win on Monday, there's no question about that.

Phil Garner

His shoulder is impaired, there's no question about that from anybody. But definitely, you can make too much of what you see or don't see today.

Scott Hannan

We've got to salvage this trip. We have to win, no question about it.

Helen Rowland

There aren't any embarrassing questions - only embarrassing answers.

Cecil Ratliff

I don't have to repeat anything this year. I tell him what to run and there's no questions about whether it will work or not. He's a senior now and much more confident, a leader.

Tracey Smith

I'm sure he'll be tried one way or the other. The question is how and when.

Michael Cimino

I know the market's there, ... The question is, 'How do you reach it, and how do you communicate with the end user?'

Glen Mason

Just when you think you've seen it all, here comes something else in football,

Ronnie Arnold

Just when you think you've seen it all.

Joe White

He didn't put them anyplace that they could be seen by children.

John DeLuca

There are so many other things for us to talk about that it just hasn't come up, ... We'll say 'How's it going?' and that's about it. By the end of the day, we've usually seen each other's work, anyway.

Naveen Chopra

What we've seen today is shocking. Ultimately it's down to how we keep strengthening our system to make it more stringent.

Tony Plath

What we've seen is a lot of pent-up demand.

Dave Leitao

He's having not only a career, but particularly this season, a year for the ages. I've watched it, I've studied it on film and now I've seen it in person.

Charles Golvin

I haven't seen any discounting from Comcast other than the short-term discounts for signing up,

Steve Pardue

I have never seen that in my 21 years of coaching. We haven't done anything like that before. I'm not sure what happened.

Brian Waldron

We can co-exist with soccer, absolutely. They're essentially a summer sport and we're winter. We'll make it work beautifully.

Rob Sheffield

God bless America - what other civilization would give Patrick Dempsey another shot to rule as a sex symbol, twenty years after 'Meatballs III: Summer Job?' His reign as Dr. McDreamy on 'Grey's Anatomy' is proof that there's nothing we love more than giving Eighties celebs a heartwarming second stab at life.

Richard Paul Evans

There are people who come into our lives as welcome as a cool breeze in summer- and last about as long.

Tyler Perry

Developing a good work ethic is a key [to success]. Apply yourself at whatever you do, whether you're a janitor or taking your first summer job, because that work ethic will be reflected in everything you do in life.

Truman Capote

Hot weather opens the skull of a city, exposing its white brain, and its heart of nerves, which sizzle like the wires inside a lightbulb. And there exudes a sour extra-human smell that makes the very stone seem flesh-alive, webbed and pulsing.

Rick Riordan

She'd secretly had a crush on him since they were twelve years old. Last summer, she'd fallen for him hard.

William Law

Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.

William Wordsworth

The moving accident is not my trade; To freeze the blood I have no ready arts: 'Tis my delight, alone in summer shade, To pipe a simple song for thinking hearts.

Will Ferrell

I think with the success of, like, every summer there has been a couple R-rated comedies that have done so well; I think it is so nice to see that people are turning out to see these movies, and it doesn't seem to be as big a stigma with the studios anymore.

David Clark

It's unfair to the students, because they don't know what they can do to get themselves expelled.

Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.

Steve Lambert

I would say that by the end of the month, we will know whether it can work.

Mary Pierce

I think it is possible. Whether it happens, I don't know.

Susumu Tonegawa

It doesn't matter whether it is chemistry or immunology or neuroscience: I just do research on what I find interesting.

Nick Cave

Everything that's said against me offends me, whether it's true or not.

Tom Woods

I don't know whether 3-3 would do for us, I don't know if 4-2 would do. But I know 6-0 would do.

Gary Sherwin

If you're part of the community, whether you like it or not, you're part of the brand.

Deirdre O'Kane

You worry about whether you are match-fit, coming back to the stand-up stage.

Enrique Morones

We still don't know whether it will be a march, a strike, or a fast.

Rivers Cuomo

It's so important to me that I feel like I'm doing something that's never been done before, whether that's in the show, or I'm writing a song. I can exist in this little box here, but I have to do something new with it.