Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kenneth Langone

When then-New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer sued me in 2003 over my stewardship as a director of the New York Stock Exchange, the NYSE's legal expenses were more than $100 million, which made it perhaps the priciest litigation in the state's history.

Leah Goldstein

At no point during the proceedings were we given a chance to explain ourselves. As soon as our attorney started reading a letter of support from Good Samaritan Hospital, 250 people in the courtroom began booing. It was something you would see on a TV show. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. It didn't feel like America. It just didn't.

Howard Mills

continue to investigate with the Attorney General's office allegations of illegal behavior that prevent consumers from getting the best insurance products at the best price.

Melissa Merz

We are very pleased that Mr. Cohen will join the attorney general and her office in the fight for Illinois consumers.

Tanya Humboldt

We gave everything to our attorney ... but he felt three other individuals were taking a part in this.

Donald Kerr

to meet the expectations of Attorney General Reno and Director Freeh.

Gabriel Claudio

The opposition should be more careful and prudent about their accusations. Attorney Lozano is not with the administration.

Harvey Pitt

The recent disclosures that resulted from the investigation by the New York state attorney general, as well as the practices uncovered by the staff of the SEC, the NYSE and NASD, reinforced the commission's conclusion that further inquiry is warranted,

Evert Fowle

We indicated we will work closely with (the U.S. Attorney General's office) to make sure this crime ends up in the proper court.

Helane Becker

The shares are down obviously on the New York Times article. That's the only news that came out before the stock began to fall,

Bobby May

That's not a very good start, I'm afraid. This is a big day for me, an important day, one that when I started thinking about doing this and actually making this appearance, I began to get a little nervous about what's actually happening. Just maintaining your composure is not easy for me, but I'm going to forge forward.

Edward M. Lerner

I'm a physicist and computer scientist by training. I worked in high tech for thirty years as everything from engineer to senior vice president - for many of those years, writing SF as a hobby - until, in 2004, I began writing full time.

Eric Kandel

Rather than studying the most complex form of memory in a very complicated animal, we had to take the most simple form - an implicit form of memory - in a very simple animal. So I began to look around for very simple animals. And I focused in on the marine snail Aplysia.

John Eaton

Well, opera began with an intent to resuscitate Greek drama, that is, modern opera as we know it.

Aasif Mandvi

The longer I spent time on 'The Daily Show,' standing in front of a green screen pretending to report from war zones and hot spots around the world - most often from somewhere in the Middle East - the more I began to realize that 'The Daily Show' was radicalizing me.

Ted Chiang

The universe began as an enormous breath being held. I am glad that it did... until this great exhalation is finished, my thoughts live on.

Joy Harjo

When I began to listen to poetry, it's when I began to listen to the stones, and I began to listen to what the clouds had to say, and I began to listen to others. And I think, most importantly for all of us, then you begin to learn to listen to the soul, the soul of yourself in here, which is also the soul of everyone else.

Terry Semel

When I began working in Yahoo, my family moved with me. Despite our efforts, our kids wanted to study in Los Angeles, and I was forced to see my family and friends only on weekends. In the beginning I even enjoyed it, but knew that at some stage I'd want to go back home.

Wayne Hudson

As far as African-American lieutenants, I believe I am the first.

Elaine Turner

As a registered nurse and community health educator, I believe that we need to do more of these types of events for people of all ages. With the technology of today, it's easy to forget the importance that exercise and healthy living play in our lives.

Laura Bush

As a librarian and a lover of literature I believe it's important for Americans to visit the homes of our most loved and renowned writers.

Rob Thomas

The bottom line is these individuals believed him and he was able to portray himself as the type of person who could pull that off.

David Perlmutter

The bottom line is that this author, a practicing neurologist dealing with Alzheimer's disease on a daily basis, believes we need to expand the public awareness that modifiable lifestyle factors have a profound role to play in determining who will or won't get this disease.

Michael Connelly

The bottom line is that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link. And I have to believe from past experience and knowledge that some of the links in Homeland Security are weak. Part of the story in "Lost Light" is about a weak link in the chain.

Teresa Hostetler

The bottom line is, for each count of sexual battery, and I believe he plead guilty to two, carries a maximum of five years per count. This guy could have spent ten years in jail.

Bob Bailey

The bottom line financially is that we believe QED can be a billion dollar a year business for us within five years, and we think that it will be neutral to our earnings this year,

Jenna McCarthy

The bottom line is, whether you're in it or you're searching for it, I believe marriage is an institution worth pursuing and protecting.

Rob Sumner

Our defenseman couldn't get there because he was getting blocked. There was a scoring chance created off of it and they scored.

Phil Garner

No question about it, he's got to send him. I'd been upset if he hadn't sent him. If the throw's off at all, he's got a chance to be safe.

Phil Garner

No question about it, he's got to send him, ... I'd been upset if he hadn't sent him. If the throw's off at all, he's got a chance to be safe.

Mahela Jayawardene

No problems with him right now, I can say there is 90 percent chance of him playing tomorrow morning.

Chris Cauble

Northwest is too good a hitting team to take any kind of chance at all. We had to win. We knew we couldn't get down two games to them.

Matt Cooke

Normally I?m peeling away to be a third guy, but I saw his head down and saw I had a chance to poke it away from him and fortunately it went in the net.

Hiroichi Nishi

After the big losses in the U.S., Japanese stocks look likely to fall ... High-techs in particular have a good chance of being dragged down.

Shawn Berner

Again, we put out a lot of video, and it was another situation where we had to find a school that had a need. And also the kid has got to like the school as well, and Larry did. They run a lot of one-back offense, and he has a shot to play right away. He will be going with a teammate (Jesse Fox), and he has a chance to do good in the classroom and on the football field. He's excited and it's a great fit.

Tim Arnold

After-prom is the place to be. I think it's probably our last chance to hang out as a class and it's a better way to remember the night than being high or drunk.

Robert Shapiro

I was interested in getting courtroom experience. When I was a young lawyer, the only way I could get real courtroom experience was in the criminal law field.

Vladimir Mijanovic

Their presence in the courtroom was just fantastic.

Ellis Anderson

Finally, we're going to have our day in court. We need a good showing of our membership in the courtroom to prove a point.

Donald Knuth

Any inaccuracies in this index may be explained by the fact that it has been sorted with the help of a computer.

Elizabeth Hagood

No sir, I'm not at all saying that, I'm explaining to you the process that has taken place so far.

Bob Woodruff

After I explained that, he recognized his statements don't apply,

Frank Busch

I've never seen anything like that before in my life. I don't know how to explain it. That was a guy, very talented, whose heart wanted whatever it took. You just don't see races like that.

Lindy Ruff

It would be tough to stand here and explain to you guys how they had our number if we had lost tonight.

Alfred Rock

It was a once-in-a-lifetime moment. I really can't explain it. It was crazy.

Steve Foley

This is something I've sought after my whole career. I look at myself as the leader on and off the field, vocally and in my actions. I try to lead by example. The point I'm at right now in my career, I'm so happy I'm having the opportunity to do these things, I really can't explain it.

Day One

Yes, look, I don't think I can explain this any better to you, but we don't want to ... Well, I guess I will have to find another hospital.

Sir Campbell

The prime minister has a lot of explaining to do.

Abby Cohen

Opportunities are likely to present themselves, especially given a 6- to 12-month time horizon.

Jennifer Pahlka

Now, a lot of people have given up on government. And if you're one of those people, I would ask that you reconsider, because things are changing. Politics is not changing; government is changing.

Jack Kozuchowski

I've spent half my life here. And they've always given me a lot of space to do what I thought I needed to do. It's been a labor of love.

Alexis Wright

I've never seen myself as a spokesperson. I've always seen myself as a worker and am very grateful for the trust that my own people have given me over the years.

Tom Fitzgerald

I've probably never given it an ample opportunity.

Orrin Hatch

It would be a national catastrophe if they can only be given to the wealthy.

Roy Barnes

It was tremendously uplifting knowing how he had given his life and was then victorious. If he didn't give his all on Calvary, we wouldn't have anything to stand on.

John Novak

The steps they are talking about seem to make sense, given the state of the supplier industry and their customers. Plant closures and headcount reductions are something they have to do if they are going to reorganize.

John McDermott

The statement was very similar to the statements he's given previously,

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Tom Halbmaier

(A win) will be huge momentum for us going into the midpoint and it would be huge momentum for them, too. At the turn it's all about getting in that top four. Right now we've done a good job to get where we're at, but we're not satisfied.

Rick DiPietro

A win's a win. To see 60 shots and lose wouldn't be a good feeling. I'll take this any day.

Bill Stoneman

A year ago we had a pretty good reason not to make any changes. We had some needs at the end of '03 that we thought we should address. After the '02 season, we didn't really see those same needs.

Bill Stoneman

A year ago we had a pretty good reason not to make any changes, ... We had some needs at the end of '03 that we thought we should address. After the '02 season, we didn't really see those same needs.

Rich Bonnaure

Baldwin's a really good player. Every time we managed to get it close, he'd come right back with a basket.

Mike Steele

Back when we had good rebounding teams we rarely got to 40 - 40 is a lot of rebounds.

Ridley Scott

A word on 'Kingdom of Heaven:' if you get the four-disc set, which is 3 hr. 8 min., you'll see why it's such a good movie. It was a real passion project, and it's the film I'm most proud of. I think it was treated incredibly unfairly.

Shannan Bergen

At home you wanna come out ready to go. You wanna put your opponents down and we did a good job of that.

Charles Barkley

When you get arrested it's in big letters. When you get acquitted it's in small letters.

Stephen King

Why' is a crooked letter and can't be made straight.

Ray Bradbury

If someone sends you a love letter you've got to answer back.

Norah Jones

I got stood up by the letter Y, he was hanging around with his X.

Myrtle Reed

A letter has distinct advantages. You can say all you want to say before the other person has a chance to put in a word.

Becca Fitzpatrick

And anyway, the first three letters in the word diet should tell you what I want it to do.

Julian Kurtz

We even sent them a certified letter but they won't pick it up.

Carrie Cunningham

He said he would get a letter out to students seven weeks ago and we have not received it yet.

Donna Mitchell

We sent the letter registered mail with confirmation to the TSA. We got confirmation back that they had received it. That was at the end of March 2005.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled.

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.

Dave Chanley

Other people stepped up, and we got enough production to win.

Ben Gordon

Other people may be surprised, but I always thought I should go No. 1.

Patrick Taylor

Other people could come up with different models.

Richard M. Nixon

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

Nick Kamberis

People scoff at that, but they're legit. We sent his tape out and all 122 are on there.

Sarah Waters

People say, 'You're like Dickens', but I'm not like Dickens. Zadie Smith is a Dickensian writer because she's writing about society now, just as Dickens was writing about his society.

Wally Buono

A very tricky situation. Some of the salaries are at the point of being out of whack, really out of proportion.

Pat Robertson

a vote (on the Supreme Court) that reflects his point of view.

Wendy Murphy

At what point does it really matter. This is such a strong case. The statement to the police is going to kill him, and I don't know if you need much more than that.

Greg Beals

At times, we've pressed to the point where it's tough. When you're not winning, it makes it even tougher to have fun.

Wayne Fischer

At some point in time you must ask, 'how much is enough?

Chris Horner

At some point in the future, there may be a market, but it's not like that's anything we've really factored into our planning.

Ray Giacoletti

Offensively, I'd say he's more of a point guard. Defensively, I'd say he's better off guarding a two.

Sarah Brown

No one wants to look like they are spackled. The point is to make your skin look better than it is.

Sarah Brown

No one wants to look like they are spackled, ... The point is to make your skin look better than it is.

Jesse McCartney

I've been reading script after script after script,

James Sturm

I've been collecting, reading 'Peanuts' since I was five,

Brandon Sanderson

Novels aren’t just happy escapes; they are slivers of people’s souls, nailed to the pages, dripping ink from veins of wood pulp. Reading the right one at the right time can make all the difference.

Ben Mezrich

Seeing someone reading something I wrote on an airplane - things like that are pretty awesome.

Barbara Kingsolver

I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written.

Augusten Burroughs

Reading takes solitude and it takes focus.

Azar Nafisi

We do not read in order to turn great works of fiction into simplistic replicas of our own realities, we read for the pure, sensual, and unadulterated pleasure of reading. And if we do so, our reward is the discovery of the many hidden layers within these works that do not merely reflect reality but reveal a spectrum of truths, thus intrinsically going against the grain of totalitarian mindsets.

Ayn Rand

Is it advisable to spread out all the conveniences of culture before people to whom a few steps up a stair to a library is a sufficient deterrent from reading?

Jamie Farr

I got tired of reading that everybody was either coming out of the closet or they were abused or had some kind of substance problem.

Michael English

The streetcar will always have detractors. Is it going to go away? No. Is it going to be expanded? Yes, sooner or later.

Sue Black

The sooner I can alleviate everyone's fears, the better.

George Andrews

We tried to get foam on it as soon as we could. Any spark and that whole tanker could have blown,

Roy Halladay

We tried to do everything we could to get back as soon as possible,

George R. R. Martin

A woman's life is nine parts mess to one part magic, you'll learn that soon enough...and the parts that look like magic turn out to be the messiest of all.

Cindy Sheehan

We have to stop it as soon as possible.

George Herbert

We do it soon enough, if that we do be well.

Thomas a Kempis

We feel and weigh soon enough what we suffer from others: but how much others suffer from us, of this we take no heed.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If youth is a fault, it is one that one gets rid of soon enough.

Chris Schuster

The Tigers would like to thank all the support throughout the season.

Bob Storman

Now he can mobilize the 'Z Team' to support other candidates.

Dave Fleming

Things are going well, ... We've had a lot of support so far.

Brian Sandoval

Racial profiling is illegal, and I do not support it.

Brian Tracy

The whole purpose of working is to support your ideal lifestyle.

Arthur Bloch

Enough research will tend to support your conclusions.

Bill Hayden

Support for alternate languages will largely depend on the underlying OS.

Edmund Hillary

I'm definitely a Queen supporter. She was great.

Douglas Rushkoff

I understand Windows as well as most technical-support personnel. I can edit a config.sys file and delete bad lines in an autoexec.bat with the best of them. I can partition a hard drive in FAT32 But why would I want to?

Candice Olson

I sort of went into the TV thing kicking and screaming.

Riley Wallace

The worst part about it is that payback game. And when you don't get a TV game, it doesn't feel worth it.

Todd Marks

The (Web sites) you see on TV could end up costing you something.

Dennis Farina

I wanted to do Buddy Faro as a small budget movie. They said no. So I wanted to do it as a series of recurring TV movies, and they said no. So I agreed to do it as a series.

Debra Messing

I would absolutely be a litigator. I watch Court TV every day.

Dominic West

I don't know why British actors are getting big parts in American TV shows. Maybe it's because we're cheap.

Richard LaGravenese

TV is where a writer can write his novel.

Courteney Cox

I like TV. It all depends what it is.

Alia Shawkat

You get a kind of familiarity on a set when you're on a TV show.