Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kurt Barrow

Oil markets have been a bit irrational in the past week or two with long-term supply concerns affecting short-term prices. Iranian oil exports are unlikely to ever be restricted and certainly not anytime soon.

Tomas Rosander

Beyond Blond has established a special branding for Sweden in the western region of the U.S. that presents Sweden today as a nation at the top of its game in delivering innovative design, scientific achievements, communication technologies, sustainable development, energy, environment technology and business prowess in numerous fields affecting contemporary lifestyle and quality of life. I'm pleased to say that Beyond Blond 2006 goes beyond California this year, featuring for the first time lifestyle events elsewhere within this consulate's 13-state region, including Washington State and Nevada.

Laurie Garrett

Right now in human beings, it kills 55 percent of the people it infects. That makes it the most lethal flu we know of that has ever been on planet Earth affecting human beings.

Declan Kidney

Peter took a bang and it's affecting his leg so he's a bit of a doubt for the game. We'll just see how he wakes up. He didn't respond too well. We are hoping it would be a bit better this morning so we'll give it every bit of time we can.

Sukbir Khanijoh

Ongoing protests are affecting investor sentiment negatively. Investors are now concerned whether the crisis will affect government economic policy.

David Satcher

One of the major concerns we have about the AIDS epidemic is that increasingly it is affecting communities that tend to be left out of the health care and public health system, ... We know that in order to be successful we have to find a new way to reach these communities.

Kevin Miller

I bet it's really affecting the smaller schools.

William Congreve

Careless she is with artful care, / Affecting to seem unaffected.

Kevin Brophy

Basically, the biggest thing was this team is going to be together for the next two or three years. Things that we're doing wrong now are not only affecting this game but the next game after that and for years to come. Coach is saying if you're not going to do the right things now, what's going to make you do them in the future?

Richard Fuller

Spaceship Earth: The problem for the passengers is that there is no manual to identify all the parts, and no instructions on how to operate the spaceship.

John Breaux

San Francisco sits on an earthquake fault, ... So do you say: Move 'em all out of there?

Christine Gregoire

The viaduct is our levees, ... The earthquake is our hurricane.

Barbara Kingsolver

A careless way of sauntering across the earth and breaking open its treasures, a terrible dependency on sucking out the world's best juices for ourselves-these may also be our enemies. The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.

Brian Jacques

You love young ones and babes, I know this. The young will always befriend and admire you...all the young ones of the earth belong to you in friendship. Be good to them. —Breeze, to Sunflash the Mace

Jan Schakowsky

There is a lot that happens around the world we cannot control. We cannot stop earthquakes, we cannot prevent droughts, and we cannot prevent all conflict, but when we know where the hungry, the homeless and the sick exist, then we can help.

Al Capone

I would rather be rich affluent and greedy and go to hell when I die, than live in poverty on this earth.

John Cross

We are here on Earth for just a short time, whether you're 16 years old or 80,

Brigham Young

What is the duty of a Latter-day Saint? To do all the good he can upon the earth.

Bill Snyder

That win was not a fluke by any stretch.

Wanda Evans

I don't have to take showers with other women anymore. I don't have to flush a toilet somebody left something in before I use it. I can sleep when I want to.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

It is not solid wood that can become a flute, but the empty reed.

Jack Leasure

You look at that and you think it's luck - it's a fluke thing. When you have eight, seven freshman, it takes a long time to click.

Peter Morgan

I actually speak fluent German. And I live in Vienna, and I'm married to a Viennese woman.

David Murphy

We had about 17 inches with that last big storm we had out here, but that was light, fluffy snow. This one is a lot harder (to shovel), and it's really icy underneath. It's really slippery.

John Galsworthy

As for the law--it catered for a human nature of which it took a naturally low view.

Tom Mann

Property can be replaced ! Human life, never.

Edward Hirsch

Once your poems are completed, you send them into the world. You don't write for a coterie of other writers - you write for other human beings.

Auguste Comte

Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.

Arthur Miller

Today, [theatre's] more likely to be consciously not aimed at the public, but at a more sophisticated or educated public. . . . The result is that some of the sheer humanity has leaked out of the enterprise.

Jim Fowler

I don't want to save a creek for the creek's sake, but what's in it for human beings.

Anton Chekhov

What must human beings be, to destroy what they can never create?

Dean Koontz

The most identifying trait of humanity is our abilty to be inhumane to one another.

Coco Chanel

One should refrain from contempt for the baser specimens of humanity, for whom liberation amounts to shaving the heads of women who have slept with Germans.

Jonathan Tucker

These weapons were extraordinarily potent. Some of them were actually engineered, genetically, to become more lethal than the strains in nature,

Michael White

People train for this all year like the Olympics.

Sarah Davis

People think, 'It's a winter hike, I don't have to take as much water,' but they do.

Richard M. Nixon

People see me and they think, "He's risen from the dead.

Jon Jansen

People say this stuff like they just thought of it, ... Everyone thinks they're so clever. I'm like, 'Heard that two weeks ago. Where ya been?'

Johnathon Schaech

People recognize me on the street for all kinds of different things that I've done. 'That Thing You Do' remains to be my favorite film in which I played my favorite character. That role is the one that I'm most recognized for.

Karlos Dansby

People really dont know or they really aint watching, ... Got to give them something to see.

Howard Dvorkin

People spend what's there. If it's not there, they're not going to spend it.

Kevin Spacey

People sometimes have to be reminded, I'm not Frank Underwood. I'm an actor named Kevin Spacey.

Ruth Rendell

People tell me the most extraordinary things. I've noticed it for years. Perhaps they know I won't be shocked. Or judgmental.

Bill Bullard

As a regular commissioner, it takes about 50 percent of my time, ... As chairman, it's about 90 percent of my time. It's significantly more work and more hours.

Frank Barnaby

A vast percentage of centrifuges have to be rejected in testing, up to 60% rejection.

Greg Anderson

We have 50 percent of the units reserved and that's very exciting.

Craig Shniderman

Percentage of sales--the table contributions, which often represent about 50 percent of the table revenue--actually go up.

Chris Cooney

Only 10 percent say very unfavorable after 20 years of work.

Melissa Etheridge

I would say I'm 97 percent back now,

Thomas A. Edison

Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.

Lawrence Lindsey

I would not be surprised to see 5 percent unemployment by the end of the summer. I would be surprised to see 6 percent.

Dick Vermeil

We just want to make sure he's 100 percent ready in his own mind, as well as physically.

Michio Kaku

Our astronauts, when they go orbiting around the earth, they actually come back slightly younger than a twin that they would have on the planet Earth who was stationary. This is called the twin paradox.

Alex Van Halen

When you leave the planet, you leave music behind.

Alice Walker

Activism is my rent for living on the planet.

Thomas Harris

It's hard to have anything isn't it? Rare to get it, hard to keep it. This is a damn slippery planet.

Ralph Merkle

We see an entire planet which has many limitations.

George Carlin

The planet isn't going anywhere. We are.

Harley Lee

Wind will not save the planet but it is a solution.

Ian Somerhalder

What we're doing to the planet is inexcusable.

Howard Finster

As for me, I'm just passin' through this planet.