Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Bisio

Anyone who suggests the number is inaccurate is way out of bounds. What would we have to gain from that? We are in no position to mislead people. A lot of people have an interest in working at Wal-Mart.

Judd Gregg

Anyone who knew my father knew he was an extraordinary and special person who brought humor, energy and optimism to all his infinite endeavors, especially those involving promoting and improving his beloved New Hampshire. He will be greatly missed but always remembered.

Marty Brown

The bottom line is that this guy doesn't belong in this league. Anyone you refer to as 'Mister' belongs in the big leagues. I think he's going to be ready for whenever the Twins want him.

Bob Williams

Normally when they shut down every year, Sikeston just goes out and buys the extra power and sells it to its customers. But the prices are so volatile Sikeston hasn't been able to get anyone to lock in a bid, and we haven't been able to either.

Sammy Day

A game like that gives you a chance to play everybody. I don't like to embarrass anyone and I will never run the score up, but I can't tell my girls to go up there and strikeout either.

Shawn Horcoff

After you take that much time off it gives you a chance to kind of step into it easy. Yesterday and today we kind of felt our way into it; we don't want anyone to come back and get sore. We're going to pick it up in the next couple of days and by early next week we'll have our team together and be up to speed.

Tony Spencer

After seeing the mother and child together, it became clear to me that they have a wonderful relationship. She's a great mother. Any attempt by anyone to interfere with that relationship . . . is wrong.

W. S. Gilbert

After seeing (Elliott) tonight, I don't think anyone can say he's not going to start every game, especially in the WCHA,

Bill Evans

Actually, I'm not interested in Zen that much, as a philosophy, nor in joining any movements. I don't pretend to understand it. I just find it comforting. And very similar to jazz. Like jazz, you can't explain it to anyone without losing the experience. It's got to be experienced, because it's feeling, not words.

Carrie Fisher

People are still asking me if I knew it was going to be that big of a hit. Yes, we all knew. The only one who didn't know was George.

Chris Lasoya

People ask me what makes a professional player and I don't know. I guess I was really marketable.

Lester Piggott

People ask me why I ride with my bottom in the air. Well, I've got to put it somewhere.

Michael Brennan

Often, citizens don't feel like they have a voice in policy. This is a direct, overt effort to reach as many residents and ask them to give their voice.

Jennifer Aniston

Oh gosh I, you know, there's been times when you don't really feel you know the direction you should be going in. And you know, sometimes you just got to build yourself up a little bit and try to figure out what you want to do. Ask yourself the big questions. Having a group of friends like I have, the same, you know, so there's similarities.

Jim Soukup

Normally, we do ask for that, but in that type of situation we felt like we had the location and we had to get there right away -- we tried to respond as quickly as possible.

Erasmus Darwin

No, Sir, because I have time to think before I speak, and don't ask impertinent questions.

Melvin Johnson

Normally the doctor will send us a prescription and ask for a wax ring to put in a person's mouth to make sure they have the right dimensions. Once we make that we send it back to the doctor.

Craig Ray

After the first of the year, the governor will ask for specific funds for economic development and tourism to re-market the state of Mississippi.

Dennis Hastert

On this historic day, it is a high honor and rather humbling that a great number of my colleagues have come to me and urged me to lead the House into the 21st century, ... It is a calling that I have not sought. However, it is a duty that I cannot ignore.

Leslie Alperstein

Dean probably scares the market the most because he, for now at least, is calling for rolling back all of the tax cuts.

Kyle Lowry

Coach was calling the plays and telling me to make plays. I just do what he says.

Jim Young

And there is no such thing as a no-sale call. A sale is made on every call you make. Either you sell the client some stock or he sells you a reason he can't. Either way a sale is made, the only question is who is gonna close? You or him? Now be relentless. That's it, I'm done.

Ryan Evanochko

I wanted to go; I didn't want to call a timeout. But that's our system. That's how we practice. We trusted the system, and it just didn't work out that time.

Kenneth Kaunda

Some people draw a comforting distinction between ''force'' and ''violence.'' I refuse to cloud the issue by such word-play. The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence. Call an elephant a rabbit only if it gives you comfort to feel that you are about to be trampled to death by a rabbit.

Wade Reece

Some people might call a chicken a duck, but it's still a chicken.

Rob Schilling

Someone sitting up at midnight can't call me - but they can certainly go to their Web page and enter a request for some materials or information, and that's very helpful.

Chris Bell

Someone shouts food fight; food starts flying; management comes and tells us to get out or we're calling the police.

Tim Healy

Any game is scary right now. Tonight, it all came down to shooting.

Jeff Phillips

That's where the title came from. He still had things to say. It just wasn't in God's plan to say it in person.

Chris Tibbits

North Penn came out and played hard in the second half. They were hitting and we weren't.

Song Min

North Korea did not single out the issues one-by-one but came up with a rudimentary opinion about the issue of a light-water nuclear reactor and the process of dismantling the nuclear program,

Brian Rush

(Northeast) came out ready to play. Dawn played a phenomenal game. She showed why she was the (District 10-AAA) Player of the Year. It took us until the middle of the third quarter to finally get in our set. Once we got in our sets, we played our game. The end of the third and most of the fourth, I thought we dictated the game. Had we done that throughout, we probably could have made it closer.

Mark McCray

North Branford was coming off a two-overtime win, so we knew they were going to play well down the stretch. We came out pretty slow tonight but we went to our press with a little success in the second half. Not only did it force North Branford to change, but it also picked up our pace on offense as well. It got us into the game." ()

Mike Rowinski

North Andover is probably the top team in the league. Their seventh and eighth golfers came through with 27 and 33 points, and when that happens it is tough to overcome.

Brandon McCarthy

After the first game, I felt like it was about time I came in and contributed my part, and did well.

Bob Hayes

After the 'cry of soul,' the individual remembers everything that they came here to earth to do but didn't do it. So they are given another chance and they come back again.

Ruth Johnson

The writing contest is a way for teachers to get kids writing. It gives them a purpose, a real-world experience. They get feedback from others and not just from me as their classroom teacher. They have a wider audience.

Stephen Hughes

Ninety-nine to 138 students is not an insignificant number. You're looking at three or four classrooms in schools that are already pushing 100 percent capacity.

Pam Dixon

You can't slink into the back row of the classroom and tune out,

Jan McDonald

They can grow on their own: plant the seeds, harvest the produce, learn how to cook with it, take it home, learn about nature, the environment and integrate what they learned in the classroom into the garden.

Mark Dahlberg

It's just a huge honor to walk in the classroom and see them smiling.

E. O. Wilson

Thirty kids in a classroom in the 21st century, there's something wrong with that school. They aren't learning anything.

Frank Turner

Now, students and faculty can all learn about this great writer firsthand,

Neal Stephenson

This made him a grad student, and grad students existed not to learn things but to relieve the tenured faculty members of tiresome burdens such as educating people and doing research.

Susan Blanchard

That's a huge impact on the program and a huge impact on the quality of faculty we can recruit. If we tell them, sorry there is no space for you to do research, they're not going to come here.

Jeff Lenard

People price shop. There is no loyalty. They will leave you for a penny a gallon.

Alice McDermott

The thing that fiction can do is look from the inside out rather than from the outside in. Even memoir leaves me somewhat frustrated. I think now we need a poet to uncover what isn't on the surface.

Kevin Reilly

Put a show in its time period, leave it in its time period, start it on time.

Fred Droes

It would be unacceptable to leave it there if it didn't work. We would come down and take it out or modify it.

Kevin Towers

The way I look at it, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to leave (the offer) out there for other teams to beat.

Barry White

Leave me alone. I'm fine.

Baha'u'llah

Ye are the fruits of one tree and the leaves of one branch.

Roger Lloyd-Pack

To walk out on a marriage and leave a child was painful.

Stuart Desjarlait

There's still a lot of sadness. This is going to take years to get over. A lot of the students, I think they have to graduate, leave the building, get away from that.

Eliot Ness

Unquestionably, it was going to be highly dangerous. Yet I felt it was quite natural to jump at the task. After all, if you don't like action and excitement, you don't go into police work. And, what the hell, I figured, nobody lives forever!

Stephen Harper

Mr. Speaker, I am sure the picture of the hon. member of the NDP [Svend Robinson] is posted in much more wonderful places than just police stations.

Joseph Biden

No. 1, on the police training, we've wasted 17 months,

Frank Serpico

The problem is that the atmosphere does not yet exist in which honest police officers can act without fear of ridicule or reprisal from fellow officers.

Robert Peel

The police are the public and the public are the police

Walter Mosley

The police and I have a deal. I don't talk to them and they don't listen to me.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

I know L.A. well, but it's a police state.

Khaled Hosseini

You have extreme poverty and high crime and you have to admit that the governance of the Kabul regime has been poor and has been losing its popular legitimacy. You have a corrupt police force, not to mention homelessness, joblessness. The problems are huge.

Moby

I'm not sure how healthy it is to shoot police helicopters with bazookas.

Patti Smith

We did get a request from the publisher to remove the title and we've done so.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?

Gene Miller

The students are coming, and we're going to have to do something to accommodate the growth.

Sathya Baba

The teachers of tomorrow are the students of today.

MaryEllen Elia

We have a way to go with our 12th-grade students.

Ray Romano

I would get my student loans, get money, register and never really go. It was a system I thought would somehow pan out.

Terence Lewis

I was, am and always will be a student…, the day I stop learning, is the day I die.

Louis Garrel

I like being surrounded by students and intellectuals.

Willie Smith

If the students see it as something they can put to use, then they are interested.

Ernie Chatman

He was always kind of a student of the game.

John Boyles

I have a vision for the way students can be represented.