Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Carey

Any positive thing like that will absolutely create problems. But I thought it was and still is a wonderful thing.

William Goldman

As far as the filmmaking process is concerned, stars are essentially worthless - and absolutely essential.

John Martin

As far as the extent of residential housing (that should go downtown), we missed the boat in 1997. The view taken since 1997, to push forward with the extent of housing that the city has done, has been absolutely correct and it'll be proved in the long run.

E. O. Wilson

As hitters, we got dominated. This is lucky. (Clemens) absolutely shoved it down our throats. That's why you give all the credit to Kip for keeping it close.

Carl Mydans

As he came across the deck, tapping the deck with his cane, the entire ship was absolutely silent. And the sound of him coming to surrender his country -- tap, tap, tap -- affected me greatly. And my vindictive feelings about him vanished.

Graham Shear

Ashley is absolutely adamant that he will be proceeding with an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport as he remains entirely dissatisfied with the result.

Larry Miller

As far as I'm concerned, nothing has changed. One thing I always know about Jerry, he is absolutely trustworthy and always doing the best that he can.

Charles Baudelaire

As a remedy against all ills; poverty, sickness, and melancholy only one thing is absolutely necessary; a liking for work.

Rich Becker

As a team, we played great defense. We are absolutely a defensive-minded team.

Jacob Lew

The budget is not just a collection of numbers, but an expression of our values and aspirations.

Richard Hayne

At URBN, we see ourselves as customer specialists, a collection of brands, each one specializing in one particular customer group, a particular lifestyle or a life stage. We offer her things she wants in environments that inspire her. We talk to her and listen to her ideas and opinions.

William Penn

A wise man makes what he learns his own, the other shows he is but a copy or a collection at most . . .

Peter Doyle

Operational efficiencies resulting from management interventions over several years, in terms of improved cost management, better quality of new business, more focused premium collection and more competitive investment performance in particular, are largely responsible for this incremental value-add for stakeholders,

Vito Galati

The three of us took work off to start a collection of donations for hurricane victims.

James Doran

The museum has probably the finest collection of its kind in the country.

Michael Kors

The store recently held an exclusive preview of Kors's fall collection. Zac Posen also has been popular this season, as has Jacobs, whose fall collection Monahan called a ''statement.

Dan Owens

This is as good a collection of players as I can remember.

Patrick Cox

This is the first time that we've put together this collection of extremely rare documents for travel.

Mark Ferrulo

Any pro-environmental piece of legislation has a hard road to travel in this Congress. It's not going to be a walk in the park, not with current leadership in some of these committees.

John Breaux

a sense of what's happening in Congress and what's not happening.

Jim Hunter

Back then, they (Congress) were targeting NASCAR as a waste of fuel,

Jerry Costello

As Members of Congress and people of conscience, we must work to overcome the indifference and distortions of history, and ensure that future generations know what happened.

Daniel Solove

That pervades CALEA and everything we talk about. This is something that Congress has been very derelict in addressing.

Daniel Solove

That pervades CALEA and everything we talk about, ... This is something that Congress has been very derelict in addressing.

Mark Twain

Rail-splitting produced an unparalleled president in Lincoln. But gold hasn't produced even a good A-1 congressman.

Tom Daschle

ram through divisive provisions and pork spending that could never win the support of Congress on their own.

Fred Thompson

People think that they can waltz up to Congress and say anything that comes to their minds, ... Until somebody is prosecuted for some of this activity, people are not going to take congressional investigations very seriously in the future.

Peter Dixon

A second half recovery has already been priced in and we are well into the quarterly reporting season. The economic data due out this week will be pivotal and if it does come in worse than expected, there is scope for downside.

Mark Gertler

A year and a half ago it was pretty obvious how to forecast the path of the funds rate. Now, I think what happens is really going to depend on the new data that comes in.

Elga Bartsch

As long as the data point to an ongoing economic recovery, they should feel comfortable about normalizing rates. If anything, the survey numbers are more robust than before.

Joel Kastner

Our data suggest that the planet-forming process may be hardier than previously believed, occurring around even the most massive stars.

Fernando Ferrer

Our data suggests that Latino turnout will be as strong as it was last time.

Robert Rosen

Our data is telling us that updated and improved standards of practice for storm water management would enhance water quality and do a better job of handling the volume of run-off.

Steven Hall

Our data doesn't indicate that you're not going to be able to see the Wind River mountains,

Lee Ferridge

People are still digesting Friday's data and wondering whether the short-term reaction to sell the dollar was right,

Steven Camarota

People come here to work, ... sliced the data really thin.

Kate Warne

Pullback time. All the leaders turned tail and ran.

Darrel Mitchell

That's what leaders do. They step up and make big plays.

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.

Arthur Ashe

We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character, that it is no wonder that we sometimes seem rudderless.... We see basketball players and pop singers as possible role models, when nothing could be further, in most cases, from their capacities.

Brian Tracy

Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.

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.

Carl Yastrzemski

I loved the game - I loved the competition. But I never had any fun. All hard work - all the time.

Don Stewart

As many members as there are in Congress, there are that many opinions on how to secure the border.

Richard Durbin

The secretary testified without even indicating to the members of the Senate that this story existed, about to be disclosed to the American people. That is unacceptable.

Albert Speer

I was not a member of the SS.

Amartya Sen

The success of a society is to be evaluated primarily by the freedoms that members of the society enjoy.

Daniel Defoe

Wit, like the Belly, if it be not fed, Will starve the Members, and distract the Head.

Clay Shirky

In a profession, members are only partly guided by service to the public.

Rick Nielsen

If I weren't as tall as I am, I would've been a member of AC/DC.

Thomas E. Mann

Congress requires states to draw single-member districts.

Rick Ross

Most often the earlier a cult member is approached through an intervention the more likely they are to be responsive.

Dick Lamm

This is not a self-correcting problem. PERA needs to be put on a long-term program toward solvency.

Larry Cox

This is not something that needs to go before the board,

Fred Felleman

The whale has always flirted with this kind of danger. It was like that old children's cartoon, 'Are you my mother?' Orcas are very social animals, and this was the only way to get his social needs met.

Carnie Wilson

We need to eat and enjoy it but control it. That's what I do now.

Jamie Zawinski

Your needs are big because the Internet is big.

Dan Barker

Only sinners need saviors.

Charles Spurgeon

Every generation needs regeneration

Dick Van Dyke

You need someone to love, and something to do that you enjoy, and something to hope for, and that's enough for me.

Debra Winger

I do not need a lot of money to be happy.

Mario Garcia

Automatically in the state of Arizona, if you're over 80,000 pounds, you get fined,

Don Stewart

Are we in violation of any state statutes?

Steve Kendall

The thought was the state was going to do something.

Mike McCurry

there will be steps that the United States will take." ()

Tiffany Fisher

It was very frustrating. (Heritage Christian) was better defensively than any of the teams we've played. They were a lot quicker. They were just better. That's why they're state champions.

Robert Hansen

The state is already telling us what to teach

Steve Mottinger

These are things the state wants you to forget.

Mark Johnson

This isn't about us wanting something now. This is about what we want our state to be 50 or 100 years from now. If we wait another 50 to 100 years, it'll be gone.

Kyle Miller

This is really for the state of Texas.

Bob Edwards

Nobody cares about your wardrobe, what your tie looks like, or even if you're wearing one, and I don't.

Anne Bronte

The ties that bind us to life are tougher than you imagine, or than any one can who has not felt how roughly they may be pulled without breaking.

Ambrose Bierce

Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.

Rickey Henderson

Speeches and me don't get along sometimes. It is kind of like putting a tie too tight on my neck. I'm going to do whatever feels right.

Seal

We want to be in a situation under maximum pressure, maximum intensity, and maximum danger. When it's shared with others, it provides a bond which is stronger than any tie that can exist.

Sean Connery

I have always hated that damn James Bond. I'd like to kill him.

Seth Godin

I'm not a psychopath-I'm wearing a tie!

Neil Gaiman

We do what we do, because of who we are. If we did otherwise, we would not be ourselves.

Nick Lampson

Such an arrangement would provide Taiwan and China with a forum for dialogue whereby they may forge closer ties based on mutual understanding and respect, leading to permanent peace in the Taiwan Strait.

Tony Kushner

Unions are susceptible to the same ills that befall all human societies.

Steve Earle

Or you can be like the Soviet Union, start out with ideals, and end up ceasing to exist.

David Cameron

It does not seem to me that the steps which would be needed to make Britain - and others - more comfortable in their relationship in the European Union are inherently so outlandish or unreasonable.