Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kathleen Blanco

Katrina and Rita altered the fabric of our society,

Keith Brown

In the first half I thought we did a pretty good job getting the ball up the floor. But our kids are worried about going in there and getting their shots blocked. We altered some shots in the first half, and we talked about it. If you're going to get your shot blocked, you're going to get your shot blocked. You have to just keep going at it.

Claudia Rankine

If the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s civil rights movement made demands that altered the course of American lives and backed up those demands with the willingness to give up your life in service of your civil rights, with Black Lives Matter, a more internalized change is being asked for: recognition.

Lanny Smith

I knew that the two previous times I drove, the help defender either blocked or altered my shot. I knew I had to get the shot up quick and high off the glass because they have some athletic big men. And that's exactly how it worked out.

James Frey

All the way through the book I altered details about every one of the characters.

Pankaj Mishra

The Dalai Lama can claim the sanction of the Buddha, who is said to have altered his teachings in order to reach a diverse audience.

Allan Johnson

The big thing with Marcus is his discipline. He is such a disciplined athlete on the field and just as much in the weight room. He is disciplined with his diet, too. He altered it and stayed committed to it. When you look at the evolution of it, it took a year and a half for him to get down to where he is now. He came into camp his freshman year at 348. Now, he always stays at a steady 290-295. To keep at that weight, that is hard to do for a big guy.

Tim McConnell

There was an eternity left and I thought we could inch our way back into the game. Their size and athleticism played a role in that. They like to jump and block shots. That altered our shots a little bit.

Danny Maciocia

They were able to solidify their offensive line by getting two established quality Canadians. The mind set for them going into the draft may be altered a little bit.

Tommy Franks

I don't know Senator Kerry's plan for victory,

Craig Jenness

In our view, all communities of Iraq have won in these elections, all will have a strong voice in parliament. We hope the elections will be the start of a new process of strength and unity in Iraq.

Stephen Harper

It has fallen off because we're in the summer and not having an election,

Jill Carroll

Iraqis in the street are saying that the Shiite-dominated government planned it that way. The elections gave people hope for an improved life, but immediately after the vote, the quality of life declined.

Jemera Rone

In essence these are multi-party elections in a one-party state.

Ahmed Nazif

If there are demonstrations, they will be sabotaging the elections,

John Murray

All elections revolve around and are often resolved by who raises the most money. That's unfair. I'd like to see that process changed, but it seems once you win and get to Congress, that doesn't happen.

Gerald Barzan

You don't have to fool all the people all of the time; you just have to fool enough to get elected.

Jon Corzine

It's disappointing where the race went in the last week, ... Elections are about the future and that's what I'm going to stay talking about for the next three days.

Marty Heires

We've been told we would get some shipments in December, they would not be dependable, and that in January we would get all we need.

Terry Hartle

I think it's unlikely that most of these schools in New Orleans will open before January -- if then.

Vita Sackville-West

I do not like January very much. It is too stationary. Not enough happens. I like the evidences of life, and in January there are too few of them.

Pat Ryan

Playing in Muskrat Hole, Saskatchewan, in the middle of January is a little lower on my priority list now. I think I need to do other things with my life.

Charles Bass

Refineries and distributors could have predicted January would be cold, ... There is much more to this than just the cartels.

Dennis Quaid

Can we get in here by January 1st (06)? If there's any way we can do it here, I want to do it here. This is the place that really needs it.

Venkaiah Naidu

If not tomorrow, it (the government) will go on January 27.

Angus Campbell

The first week of January is historically a positive week for equities.

Bryant Gimlin

It is typical that in January we will see a rise (in prices), this year it looks particularly volatile.

Richard K. Morgan

Evolutionary theory informs our understanding of some frankly inexcusable social behavior and renders it perfectly normal.

Molly Ivins

Imagine wasting all that perfectly good anger on paranoid fantasies. Not since Emily Litella got upset about "Soviet jewelry" has there been such a waste of anger. You will notice a certain theme to these Emily Litella Moments. Behind them all is a touching faith that someone, somewhere is actually in charge of what's happening - a proposition I beg leave to doubt.

Katherine Schwarzenegger

I don't do my hair very perfectly because I think it looks sexier when you don't have everything perfectly structured out.

Aldous Huxley

Fortunately, however, birds don't understand pep talks. Not even St. Francis'. Just imagine, he went on, preaching sermons to perfectly good thrushes and goldfinches and chiff-chaffs! What presumption! Why couldn't he have kept his mouth shut and let the birds preach to him?

Annie Lennox

I've thought about what is an alternative word to feminism. There isn't one. It's a perfectly good word. And it can't be changed.

Stephen Fry

We gave you a perfectly good language and you f***ed up.

Rihanna

I may be bad, but I’m perfectly good at it.

JoAnn Carrin

We're confused. We don't understand the judge's reaction. We're perfectly prepared to prosecute this case.

John Drinkwater

Poe's saying that a long poem is a sequence of short ones is perfectly just.

Noam Chomsky

There is no plausible theory under which the record of the Pentagon Papers can be interpreted as relating to the national defense.

Jason Varitek

It's big. Having him back in the rotation is big for this team.

John Green

The thought of you being removed from the rotation is not funny to me.

Alan Ackerman

As we end the quarter, there is some rotation into small stocks,

Robert Armknecht

We are seeing a rotation back into some of the real companies, if you will.

Scot Shields

The starters are what make our team better. Our starting rotation is a lot better than what it was in 2002 -and you've got a right fielder who makes us a little better, too.

Mary Wittenberg

We just want a shot in the rotation of an athlete's career.