Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kathleen Troia McFarland

Russia does not have a modern economy: it's a petro-power. The only thing it sells that the world wants to buy is oil and natural gas. When was the last time anyone bought a Russian computer? A Russian car? A Russian cell phone? Russia is so dependent on high energy prices that if oil falls below $100 a barrel, the Kremlin can't meet payroll.

Robert LeBlanc

Knowing these people, most of them are hunters, trappers, farmers, they're not going to wait on FEMA or anyone else. They're going to do what they need to do. They're used to primitive conditions.

Garrett Gomez

I wouldn't say I thought I had the race won. It was all in the way he was going to respond to me when we turned for home. Once we headed to about the three-eighths pole, he seemed to start to come back to me a little bit more than I liked. And I said, 'I'm going to go now.' I thought I went fast enough that as long as I had him going I wouldn't give anyone a chance to even get close to him.

Shauna Dunlap

I would urge anyone who has information about this individual or about the robbery to contact us and prevent this individual from striking again.

Jack Kilmer

I admire James Franco. I admire somebody like Jack Nicholson. Anyone who just does movies for the sake of making movies and takes big risks.

Tiffani Walker

I always expect a good performance from her. She is the type of player who is harder on herself than anyone else can be. If she's not doing as well as she feels she should be doing, she picks it up a notch.

Tom Curran

He walked on the field and was 6 inches taller than anyone there. My eyes lit up.

Robin Gibb

He could play a few chords on a keyboard and inspire a whole song. I don't think anyone could play a few notes as magically as Maurice could. Maurice is a part of the history of the Bee Gees, so the music will always have Maurice in it. We've lost Maurice, but we'll never lose his inspiration.

Peter Kelley

He did not indicate that anyone else was involved and my distinct impression was that he had done this on his own.

Paul Adams

They have their backpack and their sleeping bag, and that's about it,

Linda Davis

Sephora has it all, and this brush set is no exception! The set includes five brushes in a neat little case that can slip easily into your purse, backpack or briefcase. The soft brushes feel wonderful on your face, and the best news is, the fibers don't come off on your face like some brushes I've used in the past. No one needs or deserves stray hairs on their face. The brush combination is called 'essential' and it is. This is a must-have!

Cindy Sheehan

I was speaking and someone grabbed my backpack and pulled me back pretty roughly. I was shoved around.

Lawrence Rome

We are working on parallel development of ergonomic backpacks for everyone from school children carrying heavy bags of books, a worldwide public health problem, to the normal backpack used to carry laptops, to hikers' backpacks to military and explorers. Everyone can benefit from a more ergonomic backpack.

Zachary Levi

I started in theater, and I love to go back to theater, just to have the experience and recharge my batteries, creatively.

Thomas Gage

The batteries went low. He simply wasn't able to make effective use of it.

John Matessino

They got into the parking garage at Tulane and they were stealing car batteries and radios, vandalizing vehicles.

Sam Veda

After a hard day's of work,the night gives us an opportunity to take rest and relax. Thus, our batteries are re-charged and we are ready for the challenges of the next day.

Mike Milne

They appeared, luckily, to be in fine health. This group was pretty well prepared with water, food to spare, blankets, car batteries for lighting and a fan, tools, and a ladder.

Kevin Sorbo

This is our lance. See, you're making me laugh about this now, because there have been a few jokes on the set about what they actually look like. But, see, I personally think they'd be a great toy. So... just batteries aren't included.

Dan Doughty

We want to develop a battery that has a graceful failure - meaning that if it's damaged, it won't cause other problems. We have to understand how batteries fail and why they fail.

Donald Sadoway

In a battery, I strive to maximize electrical potential. When mentoring, I strive to maximize human potential.

Charles Platt

When the International Space Station is finally launched, it will be fitted with special nickel-hydrogen batteries weighing a total of several tons, with a lifetime of just five years, requiring spares to be brought up from Earth at literally astronomical expense.

Jeff Davis

I wouldn't be surprised (if the rally continued next week), ... There's a lot of momentum that can carry into the coming weeks.

Ronnie Brown

I wouldn't be surprised if he called me later on this week and put some kind of wager out there as far as yards per carry or something.

Dave Jones

I think it's a great idea. If you carry a weapon, you're going to use a weapon, that's as simple as it gets.

Paul Bremer

He is virulently anti-Western and is particularly anti-American, ... and he has the resources to fund considerable anti-American or anti-Western activity. So he is a concern, because he's got a clear motive and he's got the means to carry out -- or to pay people to carry out -- attacks.

Henry Mason

He really worked hard on gaining some weight. He's a stronger player. Hopefully, that strength will carry over (during the season).

David Beasley

Good grief, Chiles? Miller? Romer? These guys had tremendous experience and credibility, and it will be several years before Democrats develop guys who carry that kind of water,

Alan Trammell

He's a kid who wants to help carry us -- which is commendable -- and of late it hasn't happened. It's like we say about hitters who want to go out there and do too much. The same is true of pitchers, and Jeremy, unfortunately, still falls into that rut of -- instead of being a pitcher -- reverts sometimes to being a thrower.

Ben Johnson

He showed me the ropes. A lot of the struggles I had in the minors, he's had as a ballplayer. We clicked on that level. We just tried to make a lot of the adjustments I needed to make. Not only on the field, but off the field, how to carry yourself, how to be a professional.

Paul Maholm

I threw some fastballs and they hit them. It was just one of those days. You put it in the back of your mind and carry it into the season.

Stanley Brand

He's going to face hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal expenses if he gets charged and decides to defend himself. It's hard to focus on that and focus on re-election.

Thomas Walker

The charges are ludicrous. To think Bas would be charged with something like this of all people is ridiculous.

Abdul Haq

This is a highly charged political show. It is really nothing to do with the legal process.

Khalid Mehmood

These van drivers charged up to a hundred times more than the normal fare immediately after the earthquake when a huge number of patients had to be taken to hospital.

Victor Herrera

It's very important that he be charged for four because he killed four.

Kendall Coffey

None of that is provable. He's not charged with any of that.

Walter Tejada

This is a difficult issue that's highly charged and emotional. We want to be really informed and separate rumor from fact.

Rosario Dawson

It was really interesting. His passion was charged in a way when he was younger, and he was just in a different place in his life than he is now.

Gene Smith

We're sorry. We need to treat our visitors with class. But at the same time it's 105,000 people in a highly emotionally charged time frame. And there were a lot of Texas fans who had a great experience.

David Walker

responding to floods and other natural disasters by FEMA.

Valerie Plame

the greatest strategic disaster in United States history.

John Livingston

The food that we are sending out for the disaster response is food that we would normally distribute here to the food shelves and people of Minnesota, ... We're hoping that people in the state will step up and help us replenish those supplies.

Nizam Idris

It's not a disaster because you know this sector (pharmaceuticals) is very volatile. It's not a trend.

Lixion Avila

This is a very large hurricane, a very powerful hurricane. Wherever you have the eye of this system, you are going to have a potentially catastrophic disaster there. This is the worst-case scenario for a hurricane.

Gene Poston

Nothing was the same -- just like any disaster.

Rob Stevenson

The need for this just doesn't go away because of a natural disaster.

Donnie Smith

It's probably the largest weather disaster we've had in years.

Jan Egeland

The number one priority is to get to those who have nothing. If we don't, we will become a disaster within a disaster.

Kyle Rase

I talked to the kids about giving free passes, free runners, those are very costly. There was a perfect example of that with all the free runners they had tonight.

Roberto Luongo

Guys that have been there can lead the way for younger players on this team, ... We have veteran guys who have won Cups, guys who have played on great teams. They know what it takes and know what it takes to put pucks in the net. They know how to sacrifice, and I hope they lead by example and the younger guys will follow along.

Patrick Robinson

He's a good example of what can be done wrestling outside of the scholastic program. The vast majority of our kids don't. But they also play other sports. Wrestling is Dan's only thing.

David Poile

Hockey is the ultimate team sport. You have to have all of the pieces working together. My example is I always use is Wayne Gretzky. He would often be in front of the net and get the puck from two guys who were getting the heck pounded out of them in the corner. They were making a lot less than him. They get bloody. Gretzky puts the puck in the net and he gets the glory.

Chris Browne

I think, yes. I think they were trying to make an example out of Mr. Phillips. I think they picked the wrong guy to make an example out of, that's all.

Heber J. Grant

There is no better example of an older brother's love than that exhibited in the life of Hyrum Smith for the Prophet Joseph Smith.

Jill Paton Walsh

I think that novels are tools of thought. They are moral philosophy with the theory left out, with just the examples of the moral situations left standing.

Janet Reno

I think what these mothers are doing is an example of what we must do when we see something wrong,

June Jones

He's done a nice job. He's the perfect example of someone who knows his assignments and knows what to do. He gets the most out of his abilities, and he's helped us.

Willie Randolph

He knows his body, he knows what he has to do to get ready. He might not have been on the field a lot (in Florida), but I trust him. And when he tells me he s ready to go, I give him the ball.

Tim Cleland

This was one of the toughest, if not the toughest, fields we've had.

Michael Vick

Guys are four and five yards down the field and I'm throwing bullets. You can't do that.

Bruce Arena

I think the first half we were a little sloppy in different parts of the field, but I think in the second half we were much more solid. Obviously, we could have scored more goals.

Josh Scobey

We're on special teams, and that's our job. Get our team in great field position so they can score, and keep the other team from scoring.

Peter Bell

We're now on a level playing field with diesel.

Ron Gardenhire

When he was on the field, he knew what was going on. He was always in the game. ... I had a lot of fun with Denny. I probably knew him as well as anybody.

Romeo Crennel

We've got to take it from the paper and put it on the field. That's where the test comes in.

Jerry Rice

What you saw out there on the football field was an individual who loved the game.

Mark Slotsve

It actually helps to have played them, we know a little of what they're about.

Sufjan Stevens

I think it just helps us to feel kind of unified,

Marcus Spears

I think it helps us a lot to know we can be better than we were, ... and we still played effectively.

Bobby Smith

It ain't easy. When you can't do what you want to do on the field, it's tough. But I still want to be able to help out the team.

Bouna Ndiaye

He wants to play for the Lakers, and I think he can help the Lakers. We can wait for the Lakers for about a week to make a decision. He has high interest from teams in Europe. But Ronny wants to play for the Lakers.

A. Hodge

He wants to do whatever it takes to help the team win a championship, whether it's two rebounds or whatever. That's admirable. We know it's going to be a process.

Kiki Vandeweghe

He wants to be helping his team. Let's just leave it at that.

Doug Mitchell

He did everything he could to help this team succeed.

Stephen Jones

He can really help solidify our offensive line. We needed some flexibility there as well.

Laura Bush

When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.

John Powell

We have tightened just as tight as we can go including the elimination of personnel,

Mark Trakh

They are going to be scary for a long time. And I'm including this year when I say that.

George Will

Schools, including universities, must insist upon the prestige of reading and especially of reading old books.

Dionne Warwick

Drugs of every sort, including aspirin, are not anything I even think about.

LeBron James

Brenda was a special person to everyone, including myself. I will truly miss her being around. My prayers go out to her family, especially my little brother, Brandon.

Alex Clare

Every song I write, including 'Too Close,' always starts on the guitar.

William McCarthy

You have to look at the big picture, including your other lifestyle choices.

Matt Hammons

This was a total team effort. Everyone, including the kids who didn't qualify to district, contributed to our team's strong performance.

Stella McCartney

I was in this stadium with 200,000 people looking at my mum and dad. That was mind-bending.

Harry Redknapp

I was looking out there with two minutes to go thinking 'Don't do this to me again'.

John Smoltz

I was looking forward. It was brutal. I was tested to the max.

Trot Nixon

I was looking for Baez to come after me like he normally does,

Jim Crawley

I was looking at our play sheet at halftime,

Dwight Davis

I wouldn't be surprised to see anything at this point; this is the Wild West in terms of licensing models, ... Everyone is looking for models right now.

Kenneth Clarke

I think it sends a message that they are looking for a younger leader.

Les Harrison

We're on the radar now and we're looking to get on the map.

Before Veeder

When he showed up, I wasn't looking for him, but he said he would, and sure enough he did.

Greg Sterling

This is mobile e-mail for the rest of us, who have normal or tiny screens.

Chris Gent

Spain is one of Europe's fastest-growing mobile markets.

Greger Johansson

The mobile systems side is doing well, but Marconi and the fixed-line side are weighing heavily.

Paul Miller

The results show that there is a lot of outdated thinking in terms of mobile technology security.

Mark Elliott

The unique thing about the mobile phone is it's always with you wherever you go, but you don't always know how to get where you're going.

Scott Kerstetter

We had a lot of turnovers, but Hannah Tobin was the MVP of this game. She was really mobile in this game.

Charlayne Woodard

I talk to my girlfriends. And I have three sisters. I talk to them on the phone every day.

Werner Herzog

If you’re purely after facts, please buy yourself the phone directory of Manhattan. It has four million times correct facts. But it doesn’t illuminate.

Will Self

I'd rather fiddle with my phone for precious seconds than neglect an apostrophe; I'd rather insert a word laboriously keyed out than resort to predictive texting for a - acceptable to some - synonym.

Kena Lewis

It was one of those things that, yeah, you know about, but it really had nothing to do with how our phone was priced or packaged.

Jodi Picoult

Besides the obvious difference, there was not much distinction between losing a best friend and losing a lover: it was all about intimacy. One moment, you had someone to share your biggest triumphs and fatal flaws with; the next minute, you had to keep them bottled inside. One moment, you'd start to call her to tell her a snippet of news or to vent about your awful day before realizing you did not have that right anymore; the next, you could not remember the digits of her phone number.

Ben Silbermann

I look around my neighborhood, and I see people hailing a cab or ordering their food and then paying for it all with their phone. I've read about that stuff for a really long time, and now it's starting to become commonplace.

Peter Morgan

Having a phone call from Steven Spielberg was just a fantastic rite of passage. I loved it, and he was very focused, very likable, strictly business, and really sharp.

Phil Robertson

I've never owned a cell phone and don't plan on ever having one. If anyone needs to talk to me, they know where I live.

Natsuki Takaya

Maybe I should call Aaya!(Shigure) If you call him...(Yuki) I'll make you eat that phone.(Kyou) -Shigure-san,Yuki-san, Kyou-kun Shoma

Gary Gaetti

He's got some serious power. I'm talking big power.

Sandra Tsing Loh

With more women in power, the world would be better off.

Alfonso G. Robles

The fact that lately some circles, not less powerful by their small size, have been actively promoting certain theories, as dangerous as they are illusory, of a "limited", "winnable" or "protracted" nuclear war, as well as their obsession of "nuclear superiority", make it advisable to bear always in mind that the immediate goal of all States, as was expressly declared in the Final Document of the Special Assembly of 1978, "is that of the elimination of the danger of a nuclear war"

Richard Dawkins

You can't blame science for being used for evil purposes. What you can do is say, 'This is an exceedingly powerful tool.' And you want to make sure it is used for good purposes, not bad ones. That is a political decision.

Richelle Mead

This is insane," I said blankly. "I'm the instrument of an all-powerful primordial deity's wave of chaos and destruction." "That's kind of extreme" said Dante jovially. "It's not like you work for Google or anything.

Richelle Mead

The greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly, hidden in the shadows. Remember that.

Troy Polamalu

As a territory, American Samoa has no representation in the U.S. Senate, and we Samoans lost a respected and powerful ally with the passing of Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye.

Raymond Chandler

The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endless contention of tawdry egos, some of them powerful, almost all of them vociferous, and almost none of them capable of anything much more creative than credit-stealing and self-promotion.

William Wordsworth

A power is passing from the earth.

Susanne Beauregard

I think it was a relief to her.

William S. Burroughs

Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.

Violette Leduc

To find relief in what has been, we must make ourselves eternal.

Jim Andrus

It's been way too dry. There doesn't look to be any relief in sight.

Rob Carter

It was more of a relief than anything.

Ayumi Hamasaki

New York was a relief - not all hierarchical and rule-bound.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

When a great burden is lifted, the relief is not always felt at once. The galled places still ache.

John Flavel

When our needs are permitted to grow to an extremity, and all visible hopes fail, then to have relief given wonderfully enhances the price of such a mercy

Eddie Griffin

We've lost a bunch on the road, I don't even know how many. It's a relief to get this one.

Jack Berry

Hopefully, we'll be able to backfill that space.

Josh Smith

I'd like to see how space is. I'd like to float.

Robert Crippen

If you want to go into space first time on a new vehicle that's never been flown, you want to go with a pro.

Rebecca West

Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.

William S. Burroughs

Language is a virus from outer space.

Viola Spolin

Get out of your head, into your space and await the invisible stranger

Richard Preston

Humans in space suits make monkeys nervous.

Richard Rogers

Architecture is about public space held by buildings.

Richard Rohr

Silence is the necessary space around things that allows them to develop and flourish without my pushing.

Robin Gibb

It's hard for me to put on weight.

Harvey Keitel

They have equal weight and you do the same work you'd do if you were playing a dramatic role.

Eric Bana

I used to lift very heavy weights in my mid-twenties - I used to bench press over 300lb. The most I ever lifted was 330lb; I couldn't do that today, no way.

Joely Richardson

And whatever my weight, I've always been skinny from the waist up.

Ashlee Simpson

Does the weight of consequence drag you down until it pulls you under?

Teresa Heinz

As a young woman, I attended Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, South Africa, which was then not segregated. But I witnessed the weight of apartheid everywhere around me.

John Knox

The Scriptures of God are my only foundation and substance in all matters of weight and importance.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I'm constantly looking to see whether I look the same as I did earlier, whether I've put on or lost any weight.

Cathy Guisewite

This is a business meal. The calories do not count. I am mentally labeling these as 'business calories' so my body will know they were eaten in the line of duty and will process them differently.

Paul Lopez

Every workers should be honored, every worker should be respected.

Daryl Hall

I never felt entitled to anything. I'm the hardest worker I know.