Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Schumer

The states have a total of $80 billion in deficit spending. What are they going to have to do? Well, they are either going to have to cut programs, which will drag the economy down, or they are going to have to raise taxes, which will drag the economy down.

Gordon Sinclair

Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy, were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts.

Allen Michel

They've integrated a lot of the companies they've bought quite well. But when you're comparing them to a $27 billion deal in a different kind of competitive environment where a lot of things can go wrong, you have no room for error. ... You can't be a gunslinger.

Peter Adams

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Mary MacDonald

Over the last 12 quarters, we've been between $4 billion and $6 billion each quarter and in (the third quarter) we're effectively right in the middle of that band.

Jim Redding

Our country currently uses 150 billion gallons of gasoline per year. By contrast, we consume four billion gallons of ethanol. A huge potential for growth exists within this industry.

Mosab Hassan Yousef

Out of 1.6 billion Muslims, perhaps only 300 million actually understand the language of the Koran.

Barack Obama

Unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies write this country's energy plan, or endanger our coastlines, or collect another $4 billion in corporate welfare from our taxpayers.

Andy Bryant

We are well way to meeting our 2001 target of $7.5 billion in capital spending having deployed just under two-thirds of this in the first half. The bulk of these dollars have gone to new technologies that enable us to make products at higher volumes with lower overall unit costs and higher performance.

Tim Dougherty

Our defense did a great job on run defense.

Dan Flynn

Our defense did a great job of shutting them down but our offense really helped our defense tonight because they (Gladstone) didn't have the ball,

Doug Johnson

Our defense did a great job, given our offense an opportunity to tie the game. We just couldn't get it in.

Phil Murphy

Our defense couldn't even flip the puck when we started to do it, but we got them in a line and they were flipping pancakes for about 20 minutes.

Steve Slaton

Our defense already was ranked highly, and I think they're just getting better. But they still have more to go. They're very fast. A lot of teams will have problems with them.

Ben Jacobson

Our defense was what sparked that run. We were able to get some stops, and then get some things in transition.

Karen Friel

Our defense was the key to this game. Whenever you play Reed you have to worry about stopping their 3-point shooters. But you also have to remember that they have Kayla (Williams) inside. They can give you a lot of problems.

Kelly Mathews

Our defense was the key in the first half. We didn't let any single one of their players get hot and take over the game.

Michael Herring

Our defense was terrific, we couldn't put in a shot. We haven't had a day like this in a while.

Brian Perry

The older they get, the harder they are to find parts for,

Pat Rafter

The way he's playing right now I think it's very hard for him to keep winning.

Joe Henderson

The water's all the way up to the roof and it's just one of those things you've never seen. It's hard to describe,

Roman Kostomarov

The rink is much smaller than the standard Olympic size so it's hard to skate perfectly, but I think we did okay.

Roman Kostomarov

The rink is much smaller than standard Olympic size, so it's hard to skate perfectly. We've only had two practices at this rink before today.

Jim Haslett

This is going to be a long, hard year, ... We're going to be gypsies. We don't know where we're going to live, where we're going to stay, where we're going to be playing. But it could be worse.

Chris Hanners

This is heaven-sent for the Paints, but it is also going to make a lot of kids proud to work hard and come out here and play. The Paints are only going to use this a very small percentage of the time, and when the high schools or the Little League teams come out here to play, it's going to be very nice for them.

Ed Churchwell

This is hard to do from within the galaxy.

Ed Iacobucci

This is hard stuff. There's a lot of new science involved.

Kirby Moses

Ten of our 14 wrestlers scored points which helped us today. There were 15 teams and we didn't know what to expect. We were the smallest school there.

Danielle Jackson

Ryan has really stepped up and takes some of the pressure away from the rest of us. She's going to help a lot.

Deon Grant

We didn't play bad, ... But we sure didn't do a lot to help ourselves.

James Lafferty

We tell them they're not therapy, but if you get eight, 10, 12 people together, they can help one another.

Deion Sanders

Through unity, we can touch thousands. This is in our own backyard. We feel this. Ed, Alan, feel this. I have friends, relatives that feel this pain. Help in any way you can.

Tim Sauter

We try and scramble to get them the help they need.

Ryan Crawford

We just realized we had to pick up the defense. Talk more and help out.

Marilyn Montross

We will use our marketing plan to help get the word out to women who need these resources.

Rose Johnson

We will try to help someone who's trying to help themselves.

Arthur Miller

I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.

Arundhati Roy

It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of porcelain. To let it be, to travel with it, as Velutha did, is much the harder thing to do.

Kevin Bardsley

We didn't want them to have to recreate the wheel, ... In our eyes, Garrett saved Brennan's life because of the things that we've learned.

Charles Fillmore

The mind is the seat of perception of the things we see, hear, and feel. It is through the mind that we see the beauties of the earth and sky, or music, of art, in fact, of everything. That silent shuttle of thought working in and out through cell and nerve weaves into one harmonious whole the myriad moods of mind, and we call it life.

Charles Fillmore

Here is a mental treatment guaranteed to cure every ill that flesh is heir to: sit for half an hour every night and mentally forgive everyone against whom you have any ill will or antipathy.

Charles Bukowski

To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.

Charles Bukowski

Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.

Charles Bukowski

If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.

Charles Bukowski

Life's as kind as you let it be.

Charles Bukowski

You can’t beat death but you can beat death in life, sometimes. and the more often you learn to do it, the more light there will be. your life is your life. know it while you have it.

Cristie Kerr

I did everything I could do and tried as hard as I could. In light of how I putted, I guess second place will do.

Cristin Milioti

That's what's so cool about 'Once:' There is a layer of darker stuff, but it's balanced by this incredible light.

Criss Angel

I want to ride my motorcycle up the side of the Luxor to the light and vanish.

Constantin Stanislavski

In the circle of light on the state in the midst of darkness, you have the sensation of being entirely alone... This is called solitude in public... During a performance, before an audience of thousands, you can always enclose yourself in this circle, like a snail in its shell... You can carry it wherever you go.

Corazon Aquino

Keep inviolate an area of light and peace within you.

Dan Halutz

If you nevertheless want to know what I feel when I release a bomb, I will tell you: I feel a light bump to the plane as a result of the bomb's release. A second later it's gone, and that's all. That is what I feel.

Cynthia Kadohata

you could see the roads crisscrossing over the fields. When cars went by, far away, the beams were so bright they seemed to be ropes of light pulling the cars behind.

Clive James

All I can do is turn a phrase until it catches the light.

Richard Dean

I think people should stop and see it, and pay respect to the people that manned them.

Bill Wyman

We don't sell so many records. When I make the album, I pay the musicians.

Robert Taylor

We'd try not to pay attention. Anything I can do for you, Coach?

Kent Mergler

It doesn't pay to go to war with the world.

Joanne Wuensch

I think J&J has a claim. I don't think they are going to have to pay Guidant.

Jean Baudrillard

The price we pay for the complexity of life is too high.

Jay Sekulow

I wouldn't pretend to tell you we don't pay our lawyers well.

Jay Leno

Show business pays you a lot of money because eventually you’re gonna get screwed.

Javan

What a price we pay for experience, when we must sell our youth to buy it.

Geraldine Ferraro

President Reagan's one-liners were terrific.

Geraldo Rivera

Being a president is being a CEO, essentially.

Harry Reid

Social Security is not in crisis. It's a crisis the president's created, period.

Harry S Truman

Being President is a little bit like riding a tiger. You have to keep riding, or else you will be swallowed up by it!

Harry S Truman

A President cannot always be popular.

Pat Buchanan

I am not sure the president of the United States wants to see Roe v. Wade overturned,

Richard Shelby

How we do it, when we do it, I don't know and I'm not even sure the president knows,

Karl Rove

I can make him president of the United States.

Hunter S. Thompson

The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie, he's a bummer to have around, especially as President.

Gerald Brenan

We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them.

Mike Gillespie

He's poised. He's not going to get rattled. He's an experienced, quality pitcher.

Indira Gandhi

Popularity is not a gurantee of quality.

Jack McDevitt

Faith is conviction without evidence, and sometimes even in the face of contrary evidence. In some quarters, this quality is perceived as a virtue.

Jack Herer

Rag paper, containing hemp fiber, is the highest quality and longest lasting paper ever made. It can be torn when wet, but returns to its full strength when dry.

Jack Benny

Modesty is my best quality.

Beck

There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable.

Barry Lopez

Throughout the centuries we have projected on to the wolf the qualities we most despise and fear in ourselves.

Robert Dunn

We now know, he didn't have anything to do with the device. He didn't have anything to do with the attack. So what does that say about the quality of whatever the polygrapher was doing?.

Terry Gough

I don't know what it is. Recruiting is crazy.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is the nature of strong people that they can bring out crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them.

Bernie Sanders

We need a very progressive and strong agenda to bring people into the political process because I worry very much about the future of the American democracy where so many people are giving up.

Dave Allison

We want to get him some games. We want to play with some weight and he's a big, strong kid.

Phil Williams

This year is going to be as strong as ever.

Carl Taylor

We're strong people, working together, and Peter, Una and I will get there.

Stephen Jay Gould

Theory and fact are equally strong and utterly interdependent; one has no meaning without the other. We need theory to organize and interpret facts, even to know what we can or might observe. And we need facts to validate theories and give them substance.

John Bell

We feel the requirements are pretty strong and pretty reasonable.

Sgt. Reynolds

We're going on a very strong possibility that this is the same man.

Orson Scott Card

[It] was written and sold. I knew it was a strong story because I cared about it and believed in it. I had no idea that it would have the effect it had on the audience. While most people ignored it, of course, and continue to live full and happy lives without reading it or anything else by me, there was still a surprisingly large group who responded to the story with some fervency.

Frank Gehry

We want that center, we yearn for it, we need it. It shouldn't look like New York or Paris, it should look like us.

Bobby Womack

I started with Sam Cooke when I was 6 or 7 years old.

Bobby Scott

Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads.

Bobby Sherman

In the last 5 years I've been working with the LAPD, training police officers in first aid and CPR.

Bobby Knight

At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven't called walking for 20 years, now you don't know what it is. When you call walking, you're about half right.

Bobby Cox

This year is different, ... We have 11 for about four.

Doris Lessing

It is not always possible to know, when you make a note of an event, or a state of mind, how this may strike someone perhaps ten thousand years later.

Doris Lessing

You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.

Donna Summer

I haven't really been recording in the last several years. I haven't wanted to. And even though I had to deal with Sony and now I'm on Universal again, I will probably put out a new record soon.