Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Mariani

A young man opened the door and announced that Kennedy had been shot. At first I thought, what kind of a stupid pre-Thanksgiving joke was that to pull. But he said it was no joke, that he'd heard it on the radio,

G. H. Hardy

People, as soon as the LDS Church announced they would build a temple, clamored to get lots, ... The prices went up significantly.

Rebecca MacKinnon

After Secretary Clinton announced in January 2010 that Internet freedom would be a major pillar of U.S. foreign policy, the State Department decided to take what Clinton calls a 'venture capital' approach to the funding of tools, research, public information projects, and training.

Kevin Cathcart

Once the next nominee is announced Lambda Legal will take the same approach we did with John Roberts. We will carefully review any material relevant to our community's core issues of concern and work to insure that during the Senate hearing the nominee is asked about, and addresses those issues.

Loren Hill

Dell has been positively impacting the High Point and Piedmont Triad economy ever since the site was announced last December,

Marc Falcone

Despite the phenomenal growth of Las Vegas, the construction talent pool is not deep enough to provide the needed labor to build all currently announced projects. We believe if all announced and anticipated projects were to proceed before the end of the decade, a significant portion would not get off the ground given the limited depth of the construction talent pool, most importantly subcontractors.

Warren Buffett

Despite the lack of precedent, a negative coupon security seemed possible in the present interest rate environment ... I asked Goldman Sachs to create such an instrument and they responded promptly with the innovative security being announced today.

Ernie Goss

Despite the announced closure of the two Tyson plants, Nebraska's confidence index stood at a regional high of 70.2. Certainly, the rising fortunes of the state's ethanol and renewable energy industry have buoyed businesses in this industry or firms with close ties to this industry.

Marc Koska

A number of immunisation programmes are funded and announced by the government and international bodies, but little thought goes into the injecting or delivery mechanism.

William Jefferson

As Hurricane Wilma quickly approaches American soil, I fear that our federal response to emergencies is still lacking, ... could not gather that much has changed about where FEMA stands today as it stood at the time Katrina struck.

Brian Gruber

As a team and as a program we really made strides in how we play and how we approach the game. There were a lot of positives that we can take away. The wins are always nice to see. It means the hard work is paying off.

Ramani Ayer

As boomers approach retirement age, they want all kinds of flexibility.

Tommy Tuberville

As coaches, we approach any game the same, whether it's a bowl game here or in Atlanta or New Orleans. But the thing we want to do is to make sure the guys enjoy it and have fun. It's supposed to be fun.

Lee Brown

As an industry, maybe we can approach the governor to force CARB to back off and wait for the National Clean Diesel Standards to go into effect, and we can use diesel from more sources (refineries) until then.

Eric Keller

Automating and streamlining Sarbanes-Oxley processes and financial controls with Movaris Certainty delivers increased accuracy, cost-savings and a more comprehensive approach to financial control management.

Rob Wittman

As many citizens can attest, the U.S. is a great place to get sick, but a terrible place to stay well. This requires a shift in the way both doctors and patients approach health maintenance and disease prevention.

John Cohen

Rankings are great for recruiting, it's great for our fan base, and it's great for these kids to reward, but at the same time, it really doesn't change our approach. As a coach, if it starts to change your approach a little bit, you have to step in and say, hey look, we need to get right back to where we were. Hopefully, we continue on the same path, not worry about those things, and keep battling every single pitch.

Francois VI Duc de La Rochefoucauld

Our enemies approach nearer to truth in their judgments of us than we do ourselves.

Moe Ammar

Any time I asked him for anything that Pacific Grove needed, any cause, he always pulled his checkbook and wrote a big check. Mr. Chamberlin, as your neighbor, as your friend, I will miss you.

Jimmy Carter

Another thing that we share is a need to earn a living after we leave the White House. Rosalyn asked me to announce, by the way, that our books are still on sale.

Sharon Dawley

Ashleigh was tremendous on Ray Williams. (Williams) is a great post player ... but she doesn't like it when a guard defends her, so that's a switch we made and we were going to keep Ashleigh on her until she asked to come out of the game.

Tadahito Iguchi

As far as being asked to play in the WBC, I am incredibly happy and incredibly honored to be asked. It just didn't work out this year. I definitely wanted to perform here in the camp in the beginning, especially with the change in the batting order.

Martin Freeman

As an actor, you know there are things you get asked to do that you do quite well, with less effort.

Nat Friedman

As a programmer, it's sometimes difficult to know how ordinary people with no technical experience are reacting to your software. Linux people tend to know other Linux people. In these usability tests, we selected test subjects who were experienced with Windows, but who had never heard of Linux, and asked them to perform basic tasks using the Linux desktop.

Harry Reid

As bright and brilliant and as good a lawyer as Judge Roberts was, I asked him - he'd never taken a deposition, he'd never picked a jury, never tried a case, ... He never tried a case. She has. We need people like that who have real-life experiences.

Mark Williams

As coach, I could have asked for nothing more from Matthew as a player and as the captain of the Port Adelaide Football Club for the past five years,

Brad Clark

As a player, it's all the hype and running out on the court, the excitement of 15,000 people. As a coach, it's the experience that I've had that I've shared with these guys throughout the whole year. They've asked me many questions since we've won on Saturday.

Carolina Milanesi

As competition continues to drive price pressure at the low end and a design and technology 'arms race' at the high end, the survival of the fittest depends more and more on economies of scales, or very carefully cut out niche markets.

James Graham

The show is going on 100% Sunday night. We have a ton of contingency plans in place -- for everything from light rain to lightning to a full-on storm. We're just rolling with it. We're watching it carefully hour by hour.

James Fallows

The technology of nonstop news and the Internet means that allegations that would have been carefully checked out a generation ago no longer are. We now have a 24-hour-a-day news cycle. News gets used up very quickly and there's a constant hunger for new tidbits.

Carol Olson

The Swiss Tropical Institute will be responsible for selecting patients and carefully monitoring the trials,

Hu Jintao

The motherland and people are proud of you. I hope you will successfully complete your task by carrying out the mission calmly and carefully and have a triumphant return,

Janet Reno

The most important thing in any investigation, particularly at this time of year, is that we just do it right -- methodically, carefully and without commenting on it,

Suzanne Fields

Style has rarely been either a characteristic or a qualification for secretaries of state. Henry Kissinger had his square, dark-rimmed glasses, and Madeleine Albright her funky hats, but these were carefully contrived affectations.

W. Clement Stone

No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more that pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Donald Kennedy

Science is publishing this study because it provides information necessary for developing drugs and vaccines that could help prevent another global flu pandemic. We carefully considered the implications of publishing this research and concluded that the knowledge we're gaining to potentially protect public health far outweighs the risk of working with this virus.

Henry Hughes

Any time players have an issue or concern like this, we take a look at it. It's really not an issue from our standpoint.

J. C. Watts

Another thing we need to concern ourselves with on the coast, is the (hurricane) season is not over.

Shane Richardson

As far as we are concerned 'Mad Monday' doesn't exist,

So Taguchi

As far as the team is concerned our target will be to win the World Series. For me personally I want to establish myself as a regular in the team.

Nick Fazekas

As far as I'm concerned I don't feel we've won the thing yet. We talk about sharing the title. We don't want to have to share the title with anyone.

Felipe Alou

As far as I'm concerned he's playing (tonight). (But) everybody wants him to play in the home opener. At this hour, I really don't know. My plan was not to play him (tonight) and play him in the (home) opener and go from there.

Milan Mandaric

As far as I'm concerned he'll never die... he's been a very special friend and a very special man.

Alan Curbishley

As far as I'm concerned Darren has just got to keep in Eriksson's face. I don't mean by scoring every week or getting to 20 goals, he just has to perform well and try to improve his game. There are going to be games when he isn't going to score so he has to contribute more in other ways. If he can do that it is only going to enhance his position.

Arthur Williams

As far as I am concerned he is still a member. He hasn't resigned.

David Rosenberg

The big surprise in 1994 was that, despite all the inflation scares -- and there was tremendous inflation worry -- core inflation actually fell in 1994.

Kathy Lien

Despite the weak GDP report, fed funds expectations for a March rate hike actually ticked higher to about 76 percent because of the rise in the core PCE price index.

Marcia Greenberger

The stakes for all Americans are high, especially for women if their core legal rights are limited, weakened or potentially overturned,

James Murdoch

The team has met or over-achieved core performance measures including sales and operating profit, notwithstanding an increase in churn.

Yang Jiechi

The Taiwan question is the most important and the most sensitive core issue in the China-U.S. relationship. Leaders of the two countries will most naturally talk about the Taiwan question.

Neil Smit

I wanted everyone focused on the core mission.

John Wiater

AEP put in a scrubber unit, and because a core byproduct of the scrubber is gypsum, this is a win-win situation for everyone.

Ian Shepherdson

After four straight months of worse-than-expected core CPI numbers, (this report provides) some relief.

Ian Shepherdson

November will be better, but the past year's flat trend in the core deficit seems to be breaking.

Edward Davis

realized that he could not do justice to a hearing today.

Arlen Specter

The sooner we get into a hearing room where there's a stenographer and public record, the better off the process is,

Michael Sheehan

I've listened to the wiretaps. Ultimately we are going to have a hearing on this.

Nancy Anderson

After hearing such stern words from the judge, I really thought it would have been 10 years.

Kyrsten Sinema

Sometimes when troops are overseas working these incredibly long hours in a difficult situation, they're not always hearing how much they're appreciated.

John Davidson

Salaries are going to come down. I'm hearing the players have already offered a 5 percent give-back, so that's the starting point for negotiations.

Mark Carlson

I've been hearing for the last year or so that space was an issue.

Lindsey Graham

This is going to be a fascinating hearing process because it's probably more important than any we've had in recent memory.

Keith Edwards

You're going to be hearing a lot more from us.

Roxane Gay

Definitely, there is a sense in my writing that people now know me in a personal way. And to an extent, that's true because I write about very personal things, and I use the personal often to contextualize some of these sociopolitical issues that we're dealing with. And to an extent, they're right. They know something about me.

Fred Harran

Anything that a pedophile can utilize to find the location of the child. These people are smart, just because they have issues doesn't mean they're stupid.

Asif Ali Zardari

Political disagreements have the colour and fragrance that normally is seen and felt in a political bouquet, while remaining united on one issue that democracy is the future of Pakistan.

Burton Richter

Since stepping down as laboratory director in 1999, I have devoted an increasing fraction of my time to international issues. I am involved with energy, environment, and sustainability issues, particularly as they involve new energy sources free of greenhouse gases.

Aimee Mullins

I'm not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.

Charles Bass

There are things I want to get done, and If I can reconnect where I was before, working on the issues I'm interested in, that's exciting to me.

James Wolfensohn

The first thing that you need to deal with is the issue of equity and poverty.

Ban Ki-moon

Now, more than ever, we need to connect the dots between climate, poverty, energy, food and water. These issues cannot be addressed in isolation.

Diane Duane

The issues of the choice between right and wrong has to be an ongoing concern for everybody, at every age. There is no magical point in a human life when anyone is or becomes immune to the second-by-second choice to do right instead of wrong.

John Fahey

So what I do is this - when I go to the venue, I become the entertainer John Fahey.

Peter King

Now John Kerry voted for the war and now he says that he would still vote for the war, so what's the difference?

Jeffrey Lichtman

This is not the same John Gotti that he was in '92, or even in '99.

Terri Sewell

I'm benefitting from the sacrifices and seeds sown by Shirley Chisholm, John Lewis, and so many others. Those of us who are beneficiaries owe it to have a season of service in which we try to give back.

Christopher Meyer

There is a smell about things which reminds me of the last years of John Major,

Brian Gray

When I made it down to work the state tournament, I think John was tickled just as much as dad.

Tobe Berkovitz

The problem with John Kerry is he had his opportunity -- the 2004 Campaign.

Alex Pettyfer

Being an actor in L.A. is like being in prison: you go, you serve your time, you try to replicate Johnny Depp's career - and then you move to Paris.

Marlon Brando

At Paramount, I sat at lunch with John Wayne. I couldn't even talk.

George Brown

So we're going to be looking into our legal options.

Philip Kerr

The most interesting legal philosophy is German, so naturally I went to Germany, particularly to Berlin, quite a bit.

O. J. Simpson

There have been a lot of unique and novel legal questions that require more research than normal,

Joseph Sobran

War nearly always serves as an occasion for serious expansions of state power and the destruction of legal protections

John Schaeffer

Obviously, we need to look into what our legal rights and responsibilities to our ratepayers are, so we'll be studying that.

Laura Nichols

I think if the vice president thought he had other legal options open to him, we'd defer to his judgment.

Bryan Whitman

You can do something perfectly legal, but that is inconsistent with the policy or procedures of the department. Just because it's legal doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.

John Roberts

I do think that it is a jolt to the legal system when you overrule a precedent. Precedent plays an important role in promoting stability and evenhandedness,

Chuck Robinson

I think it needs some clarification as to what is what, ... I'm not sure you don't run into some legal technicalities.

Jan Connelley

In the past, there has been up to 100 yards of material in the basket.

Dan Modzelewski

We're using materials that are very tough and very strong to withstand the weather.

Kevin Kerr

The switch is not going to be that smooth. Within the next 14 days, I think we are going to see prices steadily climb.

Joni Pitkanen

Now I know how he wants me to play. This is a big year for me. I want to step up to the next level.

Arnold Palmer

Tell you what ... I'll wear it at the next tournament I play in.

Gordon Hamilton

This is something that we could see in the next decade.

Mike Lamb

This is one of the most resilient teams I've been on. Whether we get shut out, whether we lose, whether we win this team the next day, it doesn't faze them,

Barbara Kingsolver

The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment.

Bashar al-Assad

This is the Middle East, where every week you have something new; so whatever you talk about this week will not be valuable next week.

Arianna Huffington

I'm pulling out, and I'm going to concentrate every ounce of time and energy over the next week working to defeat the recall because I realize now that's the only way to defeat Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Susan B. Anthony

I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.

Jason Wu

I happen to like selling clothes as much as creating them. It isn't relevant unless it sells.

Cary Leahey

I don't see anything in the speech that is relevant to the near-term outlook.

Henry A. Kissinger

a review of withdrawal strategy ... seems in order.

Dave Dombrowski

I'm going to sit down with Trams and review what's going on. It's an important day.

Pauline Hanson

She may not be sitting in the Senate but she's still standing for us.

Kristin Baker

I've matured. I think I work better with the team.

James Marsh

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

Amanda Hale

I've come to realise I work so much better when I'm going by instinct.

Luis Castillo

This is terrible. Very disappointing. I've got to get back out there. There's so many things I have to work on.

Bryson Sumlin

That's not in the playbook, ... That's just excitement. Everything worked as clockwork.

Boris Yeltsin

I understand that it's hard for everyone, but one cannot give in to emotions... we'll have to draw lessons from the current crisis and now we'll have to work on overcoming it.

Auguste Rodin

Where shall we begin? There is no beginning. Start where you arrive. Stop before what entices you. And work! You will enter little by little into the entirety. Method will be born in proportion to your interest.

Jane Fonda

The harder you work out, the more you should stretch.

Kent McCord

Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work.