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.

Sometimes, when I drive across the desert in the middle of the night, with no other cars around, I start imagining: What if there were no civilization out there? No cities, no factories, no people? And then I think: No people or factories? Then who made this car? And this highway? And I get so confused I have to stick my head out the window into the driving rain---unless there's lightning, because I could get struck on the head by a bolt.

Dennis Smith

saw some people in distress across the river near the Mexican bank, and that was reported up through Border Patrol channels and relayed to Mexican officials.

Kevin Hawkins

These results confirm unequivocally that retail price deflation continues, with price deflation across the board showing a month-on-month decline for the third time this year.

Phil Koperberg

The RFS is working in China, Malaysia, Bhutan, South Korea and Indonesia. We regularly send firefighters to the US at the management level to help with some of their enormous fires. Our losses are lower in comparative circumstances and we are generally ahead of the pack in terms of managing the fire issue across the board.

Shawn Hall

This is a scam. It doesn't affect a lot of businesses 200 last year out of millions across Canada but when it does strike it can run up bills of several thousand dollars in just a couple of days. We're just encouraging customers to take a few simple steps to protect themselves.

Dan Danner

This is a resounding victory for thousands of small-business owners across the country who for decades have fought to liberate themselves from an unfair and punitive tax on their life's work.

Mike Chung

This is a reflection of all three domestic manufacturers lowering incentives across the board. It's a good and positive first step, but that's what it is - a first step in the right direction.

Jeff Francoeur

This is going to be a neat opportunity. It's going to be great to be able to go out there and have 'USA' across my chest. It's certainly an honor.

Larry Freed

During this critical stage in the holiday shopping season, online retailers face huge challenges to maintaining high satisfaction. Those who aren't able to meet customer expectations online during the last week or two of the holiday shopping season risk the long-term impact of lessened customer loyalty during the weeks and quarters to come.

Peter Yesawich

This speaks volumes about the challenges contemporary families have simply coordinating schedules . . . and the premium they place on the increasingly limited leisure time they spend together.

Lita Ford

Last night we challenged him in front of the whole team because I think in the last few games he didn't give us the games he should have. He responded and that's what I'm excited about. Some guys can't take getting called out in front of the team, but the guys that can use it as a motivational factor come out with games like he had tonight.

Reed Sorenson

I think the main challenge will be running 800 miles every weekend, but I'm looking forward to it. I think I needed to run both, just being a (Busch series) rookie last year. There'll be times when I wish I hadn't done it, but I needed to do it so I'll live with the decision.

Michael Carty

The challenge for stocks next week is going to be getting through more Iraq news.

Adam Boone

They're playing very well. They're top of the Big Ten and they have an experienced team. We know it's going to be a challenge for us.

Edward Said

To say that we're going to end countries or eradicate terrorism, and that it's a long war over many years, with many different instruments, suggests a much more complex and drawn-out conflict for which, I think, most Americans aren't prepared.

Alec Baldwin

There's less critical thinking going on in this country on a Main Street level - forget about the media - than ever before. We've never needed people to think more critically than now, and they've taken a big nap.

Mark Richt

We might have the only kickoff team in the country that doesn't have any linebackers running down there,

Doris Lessing

... it is quite easy to remark the absurdities and contradictions of a country's social system from outside its borders, but very difficult if one has been brought up in it ...

Don Young

We wonder why we have got the Freemen or the militants. We wonder why we have got unrest in this country. It is because our government, in fact, has got out of hand and out of line, with the Endangered Species Act.

Clara Barton

The Red Cross in its nature, it aims and purposes, and consequently, its methods, is unlike any other organization in the country.It is an organization of physical action, of instantaneous action, at the spur of the moment; it cannot await the ordinary deliberation of organized bodies if it would be of use to suffering humanity,[ellipsis in original] it has by its nature a field of its own.

Claire McCaskill

I'm the only United States Senator in the country that I'm aware of that's had the far left up on TV and the far right up on TV against me at the same time.

Clive James

A decade ago, critics suggested biotech crops would not be valuable in the developing world. Now 90 percent of farmers who benefit are resource-poor farmers in developing countries. These helped alleviate 7.7 million subsistence farmers in China, India, South Africa, the Philippines from abject poverty.

Clive James

Freedom and diversity guard each other, and if a country could form the whole of one's character, Napoleon III and Victor Hugo would have been the same person... if national identity means anything, it means something that comes with you wherever you go, and stays with you no matter how long you stay away.

Bobby Scott

Giving a 10-year mandatory minimum for a second offense fist fight is not going to reduce the chance that someone will be stabbed 16 times when you are not funding any of the programs that are desperately needed to actually reduce juvenile crime.

Derek Smith

We're at a fork in the road. You have a choice. You can go out and fight or you can lay down.

Clara Barton

While soldiers can stand and fight.I can fight and feed them

Cain Jagodzinski

It?s been hard to motivate these guys after last season. After being the top, they had to realize that they are still going to have to fight to stay there, and I think they are getting that now.

Joe Crawford

It's going to be tough. We're just going to have to be tougher than them and fight and claw for rebounds.

Sue Semrau

It's going to be something she has to fight through.

Paul Sullivan

It's going to be a fight for us, it'll be a struggle.

Stromile Swift

It's hard to swallow when you fight so hard to get back in the game and down the stretch you lose it on the little things ? loose balls, key rebounds and free throws. It's always hard to lose games like that.

Ken Bublitz

When you're not scoring very much, you just have to fight through it and grind it out. That is really what we did. It's a maturing process for this group and I would like to think we're getting better.

Demi Lovato

Growing up in America, I never really appreciated my culture. I knew what being Hispanic was, but I thought that since I didn't look Hispanic, I was white.

Alexander Herzen

We think the purpose of a child is to grow up because it does grow up. But its purpose is to play, to enjoy itself, to be a child. If we merely look to the end of the process, the purpose of life is death

Will Smith

You can't break poor people mentality. Once you grow up poor, you don't take anything for granted. It can have the negative side also because you can never truly be relaxed.

Ellen DeGeneres

You listen to any monologue on late-night TV or just in general, to people talking, and there's always a joke at someone's expense. It's sarcasm; it's nasty. Kids grow up hearing that, and they think that's what humor is, and they think it's OK. But that negativity permeates the entire planet.

Jacques Beaulieu

That's part of being a rookie and growing up as a player. You don't get your proper rest (on a five-hour train ride), but we want him to play as much as possible.

Selena Gomez

I attempt to be who I am and it's fun. At the same time, growing up doing what I'm doing can be a little crazy.

Shannon Miller

Charles Barkley, I used to watch him growing up. Then I met him. He was a big teddy bear.

Eric Stoltz

You know, you grow up with the image of John Travolta being super cool - 'Saturday Night Fever,' Brian De Palma, handsome young god... he, in reality, is a very silly man. And I mean that in a good way. He'll walk around the set talking in little weird voices, making people laugh.

Barry Hyman

The market rally this week supported a growing opinion that January 31 will be the last interest rate hike.

Jack Kerouac

Nothing ever happened - Not even this

Doug Duncan

The question in New Orleans is what will happen to the economy. The key to housing is jobs.

Craig Biggio

You know, it was going to happen sooner or later. We understand that. Whether it's another year, another two years, whatever, we know it's going to happen. We know nobody can play forever. But for now, the thing I'm happy about the most is that he's down here and he's getting the opportunity to play. And he's such a professional, if he can't play, he'll let you know it.

Harriet Harman

Actually, I don't ever think there will be a men-only team of leadership in the Labour party again. People would look at it and say, 'What? Are there no women in the party to be part of the leadership? Do men want to do it all themselves?' It just won't happen again.

Kelly Witte

We have to keep scoring when we have runners in position to score. That has to happen for the rest of the season.

Bonnie Mathis

We have to keep our waterways clean. We happen to have all these pumping stations because of all our lakes.

Robert Mercer

We're working on a fail-safe solution to be sure this doesn't happen again.

Peter Thonis

We're working around the clock, ... It will be incremental and will happen in stages. It will take some time before everyone is up.

Paul Taylor

I get like a melody that comes up and I try to write it down or record it. Hum it into a tape recorder or write it down on some manuscript paper. It could happen at any time, on the road or off the road, but mostly, you know, at home.