Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Specter

It is a remarkable fact that smallpox, a scourge for thousands of years, has now vanished from the earth, except for two tiny vials, one locked in a highly secure facility at the Centers for Disease Control, in Atlanta, and another stored in a similarly secure vault in Siberia.

Heywood Sanders

We're talking about a market where convention centers are giving their space away. There clearly will be winners and losers.

Ronald Neumann

When you think four years ago Taliban were here, women were being stoned to death at halftime at football games, now you have women running polling centers and women voting and men voting and, I think, each one voting for some of the others as well.

Paul Bauer

We have never been 5-0. One thing I can say about this team is we have been in some close games, but find a way to win. I am real proud of the kids tonight because we played without (senior running back Nate) Robinson for most of the fourth quarter. A lot of our offense centers around him, but the kids stepped up.

H. Hart

What this administration has done ... is to say that until someone tells us that 19 men are going to hijack four airplanes and fly them into the World Trade Centers and the Pentagon at 9 a.m. on September 11, we are not accountable, ... In the Money.

Michael Barry

We're seeing continued development in New Jersey's urban centers in response to an ever-increasing demand for luxury residences near mass transportation. Mixed-use development is the byword People want retail shops and services at their doorstep; they'd like to be able to walk rather than drive.

Frank Turner

What Lincoln wants to do is to create a mixed-use urban center. One of the questions the plan commission needs to consider is how many and how big and where should urban centers be the most appropriately located.

Tod Marks

With these candies, it's all about the fillings. The centers just exploded with flavor, and unusual flavors like tropical fruit and key lime pie.

Robert Redford

As San Francisco holds a special place in my heart and is one of the nation's great centers of independent film, I am particularly excited to have found such a perfect home for Sundance in this city.

Nicholas Kristof

You no more have the right to risk others by failing to vaccinate than you do by sending your child to school with a hunting knife. Vaccination isn't a private choice but a civic obligation.

Michael Leunig

A street full of electric light is a sign of civic failure and is an insulting injury to the soul. Shutting out the night is as disastrous as shutting out the light.

Bob Stewart

About every 25 years, people get excited and get on the civic bandwagon. Then they get complacent.

John Mendel

For 2006, the Civic underwent the most radical transformation in its 33-year history. It is a cornerstone of the Honda lineup, and we're delighted that Motor Trend has recognized the new levels of styling, performance, technology, safety and value that characterize the new Civic. Customers have validated our direction too, as evidenced by strong sales of the new model.

Steve DeLuca

It's their own fault. We went through this last hurricane (season). Last year, it was our civic duty (to help). This year, it questions common sense.

John Clarke

It's the idea of mixing uses in close proximity, so you can get to the store from your house on foot, or on a bicycle, or in a short drive in a car. There will a post office, town hall, and other civic uses all within the perimeter.

Gary Ruskin

The names of our civic places reflect our values and our aspirations, ... It's wrong to sever the link between civic names and civic virtue.

Wole Soyinka

an opportunity for Nigerian civic society, an opportunity for the Nigerian military, and an opportunity for the international community.

Raymond Flynn

speak out on important issues in the civic arena.

Adam Carr

Whenever she's around you're pretty much happy. She'd come over to my house between classes and I'd take her to class. We'd just talk. I told her all the time she reminded me of my sister. There aren't many people I could talk to like I talked to her.

Diane McColley

Women who take classes together become friends, meet on the outside, go to quilt shows together." ()

John Sherry

We found out why the Rolling Stones don't have a day job. Meetings and classes and conflicting schedules chews up a lot of practice time.

Dixie Aiazzi

Yes, and we've already taken all the classes and shots.

Elaine Swann

All my classes are interactive. I videotape the girls before and after. I use the same material I had used with the sorority, but I've made it more in-depth.

Brian Berger

It's just an incredible group. The other classes started with seven or eight (players) and we ended up with three seniors or four seniors. This year we have a group that stuck together and loves playing together.

Patricia Adams

A lot of classes and teachers have made it a friendly competition.

Kristi Wallace

A lot of teachers from elementary to university classes have been requesting ash samples through our Web site to do science projects. It's intriguing. From all over the United States, people are seizing the opportunity to do real-time studies of the volcano.

Steve DeAugustino

This district is just ridiculous. You've got four weight classes here with two guys who could be in the state finals.

Jerry Angelo

It's a tough position. It's a supply-and-demand business, and the colleges just aren't generating enough of them.

Claire Ellis

They have a lot of colleges and universities (in Michigan), ... but they don't have a lot of jobs.

Verlene Powell

They say some of these are the same problems with our schools today. It's similar to what's going on with the colleges right now.

Jason Robinson

There was some talk of him coming back this year, but he decided to stay down there because some colleges were looking at him,

Rob Moore

It's a highly competitive environment. There are about 3,400 universities in the U.S. alone, that's not counting community colleges or online providers.

Mark Lyons

It's all about having fun. You want exposure, you want the colleges to see you, and if you're having fun, it's because you're doing things right.

David Stahl

It was fantastic. Earl took fight songs from various colleges and universities and made it a terrific, joyous time.

Michael Johnson

We play a schedule of 30 to 35 games, and we've been told we're comparable to some small colleges and community colleges. We have to make cuts because so many players turn out. All of our guys have solid backgrounds in high school or community college ball.

John Schultz

Thanks to the wonderful generosity of the Katzenberg family, we can return to the forefront of colleges whose equipment and facilities are on the industry's cutting edge. The facilities upgrade will have an impact for many years to come.

Eddie Izzard

I am someone who's very positive about business, as a social Democrat. I do like the safety net of the welfare system and people setting things and creating business, and that's what I try to do with my own work: export it around the world from the U.K.

Beau Willimon

When you're creating new roles out of scratch in my opinion working with the actors is a great asset. You can learn a lot from that.

Zeev Boim

We are making another turn by creating these zones, hoping the message will be learnt and that the launching squads will be stopped, but if there will be no alternative will have to turn it again.

Marvin Avery

We started out slow with our defensive pressure, but we were creating a lot of turnovers, and we shut them down.

Heinrich Rohrer

Scientific fraud, plagiarism, and ghost writing are increasingly being reported in the news media, creating the impression that misconduct has become a widespread and omnipresent evil in scientific research.

Bertolt Brecht

Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can't bear to see it.

Cass McCombs

Musicians wake up and create a more loving community by creating heavier music.

C. S. Lewis

A world of automata – of creatures that worked like machines – would hardly be worth creating.

Charlie Haden

In the midst of creating, a person is raised to another level of consciousness.

Steve Jocz

We were trying to joke around as much as possible. Well, as much as you could in that . . . eventually it got really not funny.

Jim Kelley

We're making progress, but we'd still like to see the population get lower. The problem we've been fighting is that they've had two straight years of good reproduction. So it's kind of like taking two steps forward and one back. But we think if we stay with the program we have in place, we'll eventually get there.

Sherry Cooper

We remain of the view that next week's rate hike will not be the Fed's last work this cycle. Indeed, they will likely eventually unwind all of last fall's crisis-induced easing.

Jack Crumbliss

We're going to get better. We're eventually going to get over the hump.

Linda Stephenson

What a lot of people don't realize is these tests are given in preparation for the 10th-grade GQE. That's the one with the highest stakes for individual students. They have to eventually pass that to graduate.

Mark Wilson

We're looking for improvement every meet from them. If they can do that - keep improving - eventually we'll get our points there.

Jim Carlin

With the legs that extend on it, he has an 18-foot reach, and it also can go six-feet down, so we started skimming the water, skimming the ground, then eventually we're down to four to five feet.

Keke Palmer

There's not always going to be something out there for you, especially not a positive role, so once you get up there and start being well known, you can't just think projects will come to you. You have to start doing your own projects because if you don't, you'll miss out, and eventually your fame will be over.

Donald Rumsfeld

Throughout human history there have been those who seek power through fear and mass murder, ... But eventually all of them - every one - has fallen.

Dr. Baxter

A lot of our facilities are old, with no isolation facilities.

Tom Reilly

They've always been a top organization for golf. Now they want to make this one of their flagship facilities and they're willing to do what they can to upgrade.

Robert Horan

This jail has been accredited by the state as a jail that can hold juveniles because it has facilities to keep them separate from adults,

Tim Floyd

There's a reason why this program has not gotten to the level of other sports (at USC). And facilities have something to do with it. This allows us to sell our program in recruiting. You have to go in apologizing, not recruiting. Spending $143 million shows commitment, and that it's not only a football school. And hopefully, it will give us a home-court advantage.

Ryan Daniels

VCA runs freestanding, larger facilities that are probably running a higher level of health care.

Sean Callahan

As our program grows, the facilities are not growing with it. That is really discouraging.

Tom Bauer

It was the right thing to do because I think that there is more opportunity in the township schools in terms of facilities and after-school programs.

Deborah White

The storm's track at the moment takes it through a different patch of the offshore oil production facilities to Katrina,

Don Stewart

I've been to facilities that have had issues in the past, but I've been to good facilities, too.

Chris Brown

There's never a right time to say goodbye.

Chris Brown

There's never a right time to say goodbye. But I gotta make the first move 'cause if I don't you're gonna start hating me.

Chinua Achebe

I don't want to be the one to tell somebody, You will not make it, even though I know that the majority of those who come to me with their manuscripts are not really good enough.

China Mieville

In time, in time they tell me, I'll not feel so bad. I don't want time to heal me. There's a reason I'm like this. I want time to set me ugly and knotted with loss of you, marking me. I won't smooth you away. I can't say goodbye.

Edith Wharton

There is someone I must say goodbye to. Oh, not you - we are sure to see each other again - but the Lily Bart you knew. I have kept her with me all this time, but now we are going to part, and I have brought her back to you - I am going to leave her here. When I go out presently she will not go with me. I shall like to think that she has stayed with you.

Daymond John

Poor people put a low value on themselves and their efforts.

David Hyde Pierce

We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.

David Icke

Terms like 'good' and 'bad' are extremely simplistic in what is a far more complex situation.

Ben Whishaw

I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.

Krystyna Phillips

We actually get more people out here by appointment than during our open hours.

William Griffin

We started slowly. We got some open looks, but they just weren't falling.

Emery Wallace

We were trying to set up for a 3, but that wasn't open so I went to the basket. I thought I had it.

Ertharin Cousin

I'm lucky. As soon as I open my mouth, people see I know what I'm talking about, and when I leave the room, I think most say, 'She's OK.'

Susan Beal

Whether that other theater will remain open is yet to be seen.

John Winn

We're going to take that into account, ... with open arms.

Tony Padilla

We're going to see if we can open things up with Tiger throwing the ball.

Alan Horowitz

We're going to party opening night. And we want everyone to come out and party with us.

Lynn King

We're going to open a playable field, but we've got more work to do.

Kevin McKenzie

All my experiences with Lonoke schools have been great.

Elaine Hanratty

I've seen different schools and interacted with different disciplines.

Sherry Sturner

Every year, the schools were taking another week out of our summers. It was hot. So I said, 'You know what? I've had enough.

Rick Page

Right now I don't think my 5A schools would go to the Valley. But they could put us with Laredo.

Anne Anderson

Situations in low-rated schools like Jasper are very frustrating,

Randy Copeland

Sir, two of those schools aren't even under our jurisdiction.

Ron Messick

Lauren's so big as a player. A lot of schools are starting to take notice.

Mark Zupan

Students from his schools come out with real-world seasoning.

Mike Babineaux

They will be monitoring the schools throughout the week. They go in and use a form, similar to the one the state uses when it does its walk through.

Carol Peters

The system we have in place worked just the way it should. It was a little inconvenient.

Patricia Vance

The system is working effectively now. There's nothing broken.

Tim Donohoe

The system is really creaking and probably unsustainable in the long term.

Alan Paller

It would have been terrible (without the widespread patching). That got a lot of systems fixed.

David Garrett

This is a system that we take for granted,

Michael Chertoff

This is a system desperately in need of repair,

Ruth Ginsburg

That's just not the way our system works.

David Hayes

There is a weakness in the system somewhere,

Alexander Yakovenko

envisages a two-tier system of electing a president.

Chris Rainier

I am a storyteller who uses a camera.

Rabih Alameddine

Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.