Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Greve

Any industry that confronts cases under consumer protection statutes ? and that is every industry in America ? will breathe a huge sigh of relief after this ruling.

Jen Rizzotti

Any road game in the America East that you can win, no matter how you do it, is a positive. There are a lot of teams that play well at home and Vermont is one of them.

Diane Johnson

A novel's whole pattern is rarely apparent at the outset of writing, or even at the end; that is when the writer finds out what a novel is about, and the job becomes one of understanding and deepening or sharpening what is already written. That is finding the theme.

Cynthia Ozick

A novel can be set in motion by an incident, a character, a location, a mood - by anything at all. Sometimes the stimulus can be an idea, which will rapidly clothe itself in character and incident. 'Foreign Bodies' came about through the contemplation of the contrast between post-second world war America and Europe.

Kyan Douglas

As far as the grooming goes, if I'm introducing someone to skin care, I really hope they'll take what I've given them and use that for a long time.

Dick Cheney

A senator can be wrong for 20 years without consequence to the nation, ... But a president, a president, always casts the deciding vote. And in this time of challenge, America needs -- and America has -- a president we can count on to get it right.

David Gross

As far as I can tell, these discussions about Internet governance won't put one more computer or one more cell phone or one more anything into the hands of somebody who doesn't have it in Africa, Asia, South America or elsewhere,

Professor Jafar

As far as I can see there is no prospect of America providing nuclear reactors to Pakistan or giving this country the status of a nuclear power - the chances of any such thing is zero.

Jhumpa Lahiri

As he watched, he had an immovable expression on his face, composed but alert, as if someone were giving him directions to an unknown destination.

Carole Theriault

A new chain letter has entered the charts claiming that the MSN will be closed down unless the bogus email is forwarded to family, friends and colleagues. As always, these chain letters are best deleted as they waste bandwidth.

Frank Murkowski

Any increase in oil production will just go to meet increased demand that has already taken place, ... Thus, any increase will not result in significant price reductions to consumers ... at best it will just keep them from continuing to spiral out of sight.

Gregory Craig

Any proceedings from this date forward only serve to delay the final resolution of this matter and run counter to the best interests of the Congress, the presidency and the American people, ... We remain convinced that the national interest is best served by ending the process in a way that is fair, speedy and bipartisan.

Ken Hitchcock

Any player who thinks he is owed anything is wrong. You talk about the best players in the world, and they understand that. They always think they are a week away from going into the stands.

Kurt Warner

Anquan reminds me a whole bunch of Torry: the way they run routes, their strength to the football. Larry's a big young receiver, continues to grow. Those two guys I played with in St. Louis are the two best receivers I ever played with. The guys here have the same potential.

Kris Alexander

As far as track meets, it's by far the best meet in the state.

Mark Sanchez

As far as the Jets go, I'm competing to play. It will be a heated competition between Kellen and me, and I'm excited about that; I will do it in a respectful way. I have the utmost respect for him because he's a great player. Whatever's best for team will be best for the team and the coaches will decide.

Charles Bofferding

As engineers, we have a different perspective. If a company really wants to get its product to be the best in all areas, then it must listen to all sides. A union is the best vehicle to carry the engineers' perspective.

Martin Brodeur

As far as I'm concerned, he's the best hockey player that I've played against.

Marcia Gay Harden

A New York casting director, who shall remain nameless, once said to me, 'Marcia, you have what I call the flaring-nostril look, and until you get something done about it, you will never, ever work.'

Paul Grasmanis

Another very intense guy. He plays hard when he's in there. He plays violent. We call him 'Violent Gras.'

John Hales

As he is one, so we call Him God, the Deity, the Divine Nature, and other names of the same signification.

M. Wolfe

As analysts we are paid to make anticipatory calls on things, and if all we do is repeat what management says to us, we are not doing our jobs. So I don't spend that much time listening to the companies.

Terry Fleck

As a matter of fact, I'm going to call the governor's office right now to encourage that.

Sian Jones

The call would go out: 'Who can drive a bulldozer?' and inevitably someone would raise their hand.

Bill Cowher

The call was made to try to get us a spark and get us another possession. That's my decision. If it works, it's a good play. If it doesn't, you're open to second guessing, which is the nature of this business. But I have no second thoughts about that, I really don't.

Brent Sutter

The call was made. They had the opportunity to review it. As far as the IIHF was concerned, they didn't feel it was worth a suspension or worth a review. I trust them on that.

Brad Dean

The call volume has been higher and more steady than preceding some of the hurricanes we had last year.

Damien Woody

Any time an organization hasn't won a lot, you have to change the culture. No question we're a better team on paper. But everyone has to have the same level of urgency.

Damon Galgut

Any radical change or trauma always makes for interesting subject matter, but then all stories deal, to some extent, with the disjuncture between past and present.

Kevin Doll

As far as we know, these (girls) are the only victims. But that could change once it is made public.

Katinka Barysch

As economic competition increases and the pace of change accelerates, governments are trying to tighten their grip on what levers they have.

Lance Ness

As duck hunters out in the field, we see that something's changed rather rapidly in the past 10 to 20 years. And so our concerns are what happening to the duck population.

Douglas Alexander

As Development Secretary, I have seen in the developing world that climate change there is not a theory, is not a future threat: it is a contemporary crisis.

Frank Vargo

As helpful as these individual steps are, they need to be followed by systemic changes that will put our trade relationship on a more fair basis.

Steve Letarte

As far as pumping up the team, we reorganized a little personnel on the team. I'm excited with the changes we've made.

Lewis Uhler

As far as I'm concerned, the Legal Services Corp. (which funds CRLA) had been the cutting edge of the left in America, of liberals in America, to change our society in their image and at a cost to the taxpayer,

Nick Park

Any Hollywood studio, if they're doing a deal with somebody else, wants to own characters, but we have managed to keep hold of them.

Jennifer Hinson

As far as I know, nobody knows this deal fell through.

Thomas Murphy

As far as we were concerned, it was a legitimate deal with a realistic price,

Antonia Maioni

As a minority government, they are by definition in a pre- electoral mode. Accountability is going to be a big thing. The deal they are going to do with the provinces is another.

Mark Morales

a very private guy and doesn't want to make a big deal of it.

John W. Snow

a very important idea ... which would help deal with the whole issue of long-term sustainability of the Social Security system.

Miroslav Klose

A very great deal is possible with the players we have in the squad.

Andrew Shue

At some point in their lives, people deal with tragedy. It's just a question of when.

Jay Jacobs

A true gentleman. He was a very compassionate and giving person who meant a great deal to this university.

Olli Rehn

Turkey's fit to open the negotiations with the European Union,

Klaus Liebscher

I think European integration -- and this is a must for me -- must not be counteracted by nationalist, protectionist measures.

Michael Caine

I think I have the secret of a successful L.A. restaurant, especially now that so many Europeans live there. You have to have a place where they can see out the windows, see the world passing by. Europeans fancy that.

Chris Tomlinson

I feel I've lost ground. I got to 22, I'd been to the finals of the Olympics, the Commonwealths, Worlds and Europeans and you think, 'This is it, 23, time to do it.' I'm now 24 and time moves on.

Jeremy Corbyn

Taken slightly historically, the turning point in the E.U. was actually the Single European Act, the Thatcher/Maastricht-era stuff, which was turning the E.U. into very much a market system.

Jason Winston George

American television tends to move faster than European or U.K. television.

Brian Shea

For many of the European insurers, Katrina will likely push the full-year 2005 (earnings) to an above-average year with respect to large losses.

Pascal Lamy

It is the Europeans and the Americans that must budge,

Warren Christopher

At heart, ... this is a European problem.

Peter Cameron

As long as I've got my eyesight I'm not going to stop.

Richard Rose

Anything you can do like that can be helpful, anything that can open eyes up.

Kevin Brownlow

The silent film was not only a vigorous popular art; it was a universal language - Esperanto for the eyes

David Morris

The temptation is to pick the eyes out of the wines to make a great wine, a trophy-winning wine,

Unknown

The soul that can speak with its eyes can also kiss with a gaze.

Brion O'Connor

I usually operate on an intuitive level. I just saw something in this kid's eyes. It's an intangible thing. But there was a spark there, something I just responded to.

Richard Natonski

I wanted to come out here to look you in the eyes to tell you that this is a good aircraft,

Matt Damon

a fairy tale about the guys who wrote fairy tales as seen through the eyes of Terry Gilliam in a wild fantasy world only he could create.

Mike Gillespie

The one thing that he has done is pitch consistently. It's not overpowering, knock-your-eyes-out kind of stuff, but it's good stuff and he throws strikes. He doesn't get rattled or become afraid, you kind of know what you're getting.

Bruce Arena

Any group we're going to be in is going to be a tough group.

Ahmed Akkari

As a group in society, we've simply been ignored.

Gerard Way

Ray- What is a large group of moose? Mooses?Mikey- No way! It's Meesi.Gerard- F*ck Off! It's Meese.

Mike Vrabel

Our development as a group is not good. You look at where we're at defensively and what we've done, and it's not good. That has nothing to do with new guys/old guys, it's got a lot to do with guys that have to play better, everybody.

Karlos Dansby

Orlando is a tough player. I like his leadership and I like his style of play. He has been around for a while and he has a lot of experience. He's with a young group of linebackers and I think he is really going to help us out.

Patrice Clerc

Of course. Why not? Welcome, well ... I still have a little problem with what he said about the country. I understand that someone does like Mr. X or Mr. Y or a group of people, but I have a problem about (criticism) of a whole country.

Kenneth Prewitt

are groups not likely to use the Internet.

William Pulleyblank

The solution is looking for patterns. It looks at a group to find out what it's doing and find out who's doing something different.

Thomas Cromwell

I've never been as concerned, for me personally or the group I was with, as when we exited the Superdome,

Jennifer Westfeldt

As an actor, I've always been interested in making sure I can perform the role and the lines in the way the writer intended.

Peter Rodman

A year from now, it will be of interest whether you have more (able to operate independently) or not.

Joerg Kraemer

As long as they are rising, the ECB tends to raise interest rates.

Eduardo Chillida

A single wave is nothing, it does not interest me. But after this wave comes another, and then yet another.

Pat Gillick

People seemed more interested in their martinis than me,

Dan Miller

People get a very real sense of her true interest in whatever it is she's doing. This is a person who doesn't go through the motions. What's the phrase - phone it in? She doesn't do that.

Adarsh Sinha

Once we do get the end of quantitative easing, it will be some time before we get an end to zero interest rates.

Edward Pullen

The more I read, the more interested I got.

Source Unknown

Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

Rashad Anderson

People say we may lose this tournament because of lapses. It's not happening.

Larry Nicks

Originally, we were going to lose tennis but we're one of two schools with tennis courts. So we may end up with tennis and give up something else.

Carmelo Anthony

You're kind of embarrassed when you lose like that.

Ingrid Seward

The only power they have is by the respect that the people have for them, and if people lose that respect they have nothing.

Sandra Gordon

The people of New Orleans have lost so much; we don't want to lose this.

Bob Hamley

You find out more about people when you lose than you do when you're winning. We're trying to find our identity.

Jay Hakkinen

There's just rules to what you're doing. No matter what's happening, you need to be aware, and if you lose that awareness, you shouldn't have a rifle in your hand.

Donald Trump

If you hang around with losers you become a loser

Robert Higgs

Intervene globally, lose freedom locally.

Reed Hundt

Isn't it only appropriate that, in return for the free use of the public spectrum, broadcasters provide something substantial, something that wouldn't otherwise be provided by marketplace competition?

Madeline Albright

These people have to go back, otherwise there are no people in Kosovo,

Hicham Guerrouj

Otherwise there is not much point in me going.

Alan Greenspan

The purpose of a politician is to be a leader. A politician has to lead. Otherwise he's just a follower.

David Strom

You have to be smart about how you use e-mail. Otherwise you let it ruin your life.

Dakota Blue Richards

As an actor you can't build up proper relationships with the people you work with, because after six months, you're done.

Daniel Sharman

As an actor, what you dream of is being able to portray people that people empathize with and understand and really feel for.

Rick Riordan

As a teacher, I've never seen anything like 'Harry Potter.' That's why I smart when people talk about the 'next' 'Harry Potter.' There is no 'next' 'Harry Potter.'

Rocco Calo

As a stockholder myself, I want to see the stock do well but I also want to see them treat people well.

Shawn Amos

As a child, I experienced black culture as many people did in America: on the TV, radio, and stages.

John Eales

As a captain, it's important to have the right people around you,

Peter Ueberroth

As a lot of people said, 'The U.S. is back,' in a way. We were well received.

Ray Santiago

As a kid, I wanted to be the person running from the monster. I also wanted to be the person saving people from the monster. I wanted to be a superhero.

W. H. Murray

The big thing is getting more infrastructure in place so that people can just pull up and get the fuel.

Lori Rogers

Spring is just around the corner, so I think you'll see a lot of seasonal positions start up.

Paul Perry

I think that positions No. 2 through 7 could be inter-changeable all year.

Sarah Fisher

Six years ago when I started this whole fiasco, there were not this many women in these positions to get the attention,

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.

Stephen Bell

West Chester has a lot going for it.

Richard Leakey

Whether or not all this came to pass in an East African ditch, I wouldn't like to say. Perhaps it happened in North Africa or further west, but Africa was definitely the place.

Steven Wright

It's like the Wild West, the Internet. There are no rules.

Steven T. Katz

The poet laureate of England talked about murdering Jews on the West Bank.

Soulja Boy

My first single I was nominated for a Grammy with 'Crank That,' and I lost a Grammy to Kanye West, but it was still such a big deal for me to be nominated anyway.

Stephen Hawking

The concern here is that financial services become a kind of tech-led Wild West.

Shahrukh Khan

I am happy making the films I make and I would like the West to be impressed with what we do from India.

Mark Steyn

The industrial powerhouse of 1950 [Detroit] is now a crime-ridden wasteland with a functioning literacy rate equivalent to West African basket-cases.

Patrick Quinn

Right now it's still kind of a Wild West out there, how this is being done.