Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ellen Tauscher

We appreciate the chairman responding to us but we also find his response deeply disturbing. The letter appears to have been written without any investigation of the specific facts in this case. It also appears there was no consultation with the Democratic members of the House Administration Committee.

Leigh Foreman

We are proud to play even a small part in helping our industries provide emergency shelter for the victims of this tragedy. It appears that most of the shelters ordered by FEMA have now been produced, but we do expect to see some carryover into 2006. In addition, industry sales in 2006 may increase due both to the need to replenish dealer lots that were depleted while manufacturers diverted their production capabilities to filling FEMA orders, and the permanent rebuilding of the hurricane-stricken areas.

John Ashcroft

We are alerting law enforcement and financial institutions and the American people to be vigilant and to be aware of anything that appears suspicious,

John Ziegelbauer

There are definitely more bankers sitting on the fence this year when it comes to the state of the national economy. There appears to be much indecision about how things will fall out in 2006 with such important things, such as gas prices and the housing bubble, still so uncertain.

Thomas Day

There are certain forms in which vice appears not only monstrous, but ridiculous; the cruelty of Nero is more disgusting than that of Tiberius.

Martin Selmayr

There are some black sheep countries in Europe, and one of them was Ireland and it now appears that a second one may be France.

George Harleigh

We're talking about a basic violation of the Constitutional guarantee of a free press as well as a violation of the rights of privacy of American citizens. I had hoped we would have learned our lessons from the Nixon era. Sadly, it appears we have not.

Gary Thayer

We were anticipating that we could see a little bit of an improvement in October because the rebuilding after the hurricanes appears to have started and energy prices have stabilized, but it appears that it will take a little longer for consumers to feel better about things.

Sean Howard

There is no need for any of the residents to fear. This appears to be something internal. That's the way we're looking at it. We've ruled out any outsiders. There isn't a criminal on the warpath out there. We are very certain who we're looking for.

Ron Wilson

We actually got right down to the wire on both kills. I think maybe we let our guard down a little bit.

Jack Berry

We always hate to see employees move out, but we're always seeing movements, both in and out.

Atharva Veda

Wealth comes naturally to a person, who is endowed with both these qualities.

Louise Leakey

With the discovery of Zinjanthropus at Olduvai Gorge in 1959, my grandmother Mary Leakey pioneered the research in East Africa with my grandfather Louis. Many more spectacular fossil finds have since been made, both in Africa and elsewhere, by many researchers driven to understand our past.

Lisa Cholodenko

Wendy and I both wanted kids, but since we were pushing 40, the clock was ticking.

Mackenzie Astin

There is a healthy fraternal rivalry, but nothing serious and we both have been looking for a project to do together. I guess he may direct me in a project some day.

Ben Folds

The other reason Rufus and I are great together is that we're both really lazy. The rehearsing, the sound checks -- he's actually worse than I am, and that's something. To get us to do anything other than sit in our dressing rooms is a challenge. Who knows what will happen?

Duncan Chase

The potential is unbelievable with both those girls.

Tarun Das

The potential is huge for them both in sales and production.

Mark Fields

As we go forward, we will make intelligent decisions, looking at our dealer network, working with our dealer partners, to make sure that just as we are right-sizing our manufacturing footprint, we have the right size for our dealer footprint as well.

Bruce Tognazzini

It's very difficult when you have as low a market share as they do to get dealers interested. A dealer has to sell a Mac, whereas he doesn't have to sell a Windows machine, since the Windows machine is a known quantity.

Tim Wise

In short, and let us be clear on it: race is not a card. It determines whom the dealer is, and who gets dealt.

Brad Bayne

Right now we'll sell directly if there is no dealer within 100 miles. Our main focus is now and will always be to direct (consumers) to a dealer.

Jack Carroll

We don't think it's a good depiction of out brand. It's not an association we feel comfortable with, for obvious reasons. Every dealer I've talked to is not in favor of this relationship.

Marc Smith

We'll then show how this will result in what's most important to the dealer and that's more gross profit.

George Pipas

I don't know if it's a seasonal uplift so much as that dealer incentives have been more focused on trucks than cars.

Anna Gunn

I'm not a gambler, let's just say that, nor have I ever been a dealer at a casino.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dealer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

Randy Jepson

They were great. We have been depleted all year, we didn't have all of our guys, but we didn't quit and it showed.

Dave Fisher

We were disappointed not to have taken all three points, but we were severely depleted in attack.

Chris Carter

Humpback and fin whales are severely depleted whales species and New Zealand is very worried about the impact of further hunting on their numbers,

Wayne Allard

In 1935, when the Social Security system was created, the Government did not need to prepare for the possibility of a depleted system.

Mike Chung

If you find a vehicle that you really like, now's a great time to get it. But one of the issues with employee pricing is the inventory was depleted very quickly for the most-desirable vehicles.

Marc Procaccini

Their team is a little depleted this year. Traditionally, Wilde Lake has been a little tougher than that. They have some really tough kids on their team. Talking to their coach, who is also their AD, they've had some difficulties. While it's a good win, you kind of feel for a team like that because they've had some problems.

Tom Allen

Traditionally, our offensive line is depleted every year. Seniors usually dominate it so this is unusual for us. We normally have a starter or two back in the skill positions, but we have the opposite of that this year.

Craig Fugate

The previous hurricanes had depleted the national supply.

Eddie Jordan

We knew it wasn't going to be easy. They are a very competitive team and always have been. I think it took Miami a 16-0 run in the second half to win the game last night. They are so depleted with injuries and my heart goes out to Bernie.

Mohammed Habib

The others have refused due to personal problems that have to do with home, children, breast-feeding or husbands.

Steve Crawford

We stand for liberty. We stand for due process of law. And yet we're keeping someone locked up and away from his family that has been found not guilty. It's embarrassing. We need to do something about it.

John Fitzgibbon

We have seen an increase in postponements or cancels due to market conditions. That's now starting to become more commonplace than it was three months ago.

Franklin Johnson

Until we do our due diligence, no one knows, ... Once you get in there, who knows. If they're enthusiastic, they might want to go for more.

Kevin Doll

We're speculating that the shooting may have occurred from a moving vehicle. Due to an ongoing investigation and no eyewitnesses to the shooting, we're still piecing this together.

Hugo Luna

The region tournament has kind of lost value due to the new rating system.

Mark Trakh

What makes her so tough is that she's so athletic. But you know, she's due for an off game.

Paul Christopher

This suggests the economy is due for a slowdown, much like the one we had in 1995,

Katherine Young

We knew we wouldn't be able to use the Garland lot as of last year due to all the construction. We had started thinking of alternative locations then.

Ertharin Cousin

When you're providing emergency aid, you're fighting hunger; you're filling stomachs.

Ted Forsgren

We felt it was very important to let people know there are more manatees now than there were 25 years ago. So we're not in any emergency situation; we are in a situation where we have to manage the species carefully.

Wade Sanders

We explain that our No. 1 priority is to open up main thoroughfares for emergency vehicles.

Kevin Dwyer

It's just nuts, the idea you could live there now, ... There's no power, no water, no sewage, no AC, nowhere to get food and no emergency service to speak of. It's not safe by any stretch.

David Engelthaler

It's just the overall significance of the impact of such a large-scale emergency ... We can't be stuck in the old Katrina model where we're not prepared.

Ken Bacon

It's a sort of a self-contained, quickly movable team that can go in to an emergency situation abroad, set up a communications, set up an operations center, do some of the initial investigative work.

Frank Robinson

A lot of teams are using emergency starters this time of year, ... but we have two 'openings' in our rotation instead of just one and, right now, they come back to back.

E. B. White

This is about getting the government to move faster in times of emergency and it's about saving lives,

Bob Campbell

This is an emergency situation. We just wanted to get the money into their hands.

Charles Dickens

So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.

Chip Kelly

If your expectations aren't to be the best, then... you know, nobody rises to low expectations.

Edward Hirsch

One of the deep fundamentals of poetry is the recurrence of sounds, syllables, words, phrases, lines, and stanzas. Repetition can be one of the most intoxicating features of poetry. It creates expectations, which can be fulfilled or frustrated. It can create a sense of boredom and complacency, but it can also incite enchantment and inspire bliss.

David Hume

Habit may lead us to belief and expectation but not to the knowledge, and still less to the understanding, of lawful relations.

Bear Grylls

You can't live someone else's expectations in life. It's a recipe for disaster.

Audre Lorde

For we have built into all of us, old blueprints of expectation and response, old structures of oppression and these must be altered at the same time that we alter the living condition which are the result of those structures. For the master's tool will never dismantle the master's house.

Frederic Bastiat

Nothing is more senseless than to base so many expectations on the state, that is, to assume the existence of collective wisdom and foresight after taking for granted the existence of individual imbecility and improvidence.

Ray Johnson

We always expect a good game from them. It's playoff intensity.

Derek Jacobi

Reputation is fine but you have to keep justifying it. In a sense, it makes it harder because people's expectations of you are higher. So, you have to fulfill those expectations. Or, try to exceed those expectations. But, it becomes more difficult as time goes on.

Carol Vorderman

How you look has become ridiculously disproportionate to what you do. Critics are more harsh on female presenters.

Elaine Donnelly

We have never seen so many female soldiers. They are mothers. Some of them are single mothers ? great numbers of them. And we are sending them to fight our wars in a way that is unprecedented, not just in American history, but in history around the world.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The female of the genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply.

Alexa Von Tobel

When I was planning LearnVest, everyone told me I had to talk to Ann Kaplan, one of the first female partners at Goldman Sachs. Within five minutes of our meeting, she totally got the idea - and by the time I left, she was a seed investor.

Tyga

There's not a lot of pretty, young female artists that's out. It's a lot of talent out there, but they don't know how to go about it. I feel like there should be way more sexier women in hip-hop and R&B then it is - more originality.

David Obey

This (the FEMA reduction) is something that isn't going to stick.

Camille Paglia

There are no female geniuses because there are no female Jack-the-Rippers.

Camille Paglia

Male conspiracy cannot explain all female failures. I am convinced that, even without restrictions, there still would have been no female Pascal, Milton, or Kant. Genius is not checked by social obstacles: it will overcome.

Carl Jung

Hitler's unconscious seems to be female.

Natalie Massenet

When you see an item like that, you have to have it because it is filling a void. It is something you didn't know you wanted. It can be quite emotional.

Arndt Ellinghorst

Until now, the Germans thought, 'We can make it with diesel.' They saw hybrid as a technology that was just filling a gap. Now they're seeing that, particularly in the U.S., they're missing a market.

David Stewart

A lot of people don't think of filling out an IRS change-of-address form,

Brent Wilkes

They should give Latinos a good shot at filling those positions.

Laura Brown

They were down five games in the second. They did a good job of filling that spot for us today.

John McGee

It's not Kathy filling Mark's shoes. It's a different kind of shoe.

John Abraham

It's not like I have to be the main guy. I'm just filling one of the pieces to the puzzle.

John McKenna

You can't just keep filling landfills with stuff when there is a use for it.

Greg Ward

There is no way to give a new officer a higher salary for years of experience. This has become a problem filling these vacancies.

Cheryl James

I got to that desperate place where nobody could help me but God.

Charles Handy

A consultant solves other people"s problems. I could never do that. I want to help other people solve their own problems.

Beth Moore

Authentic faith cannot help but act.

W. Hull

When I was in the record store with Sean Avery helping him look for CDs, I pulled out Tapestry. He was like, Who is Carole King?Can you imagine?

Joe Vega

We would share the revenue with the Island since they are helping with the funding.

Saeb Erekat

With this (Israeli) government, we do not have trust or confidence. Ross is simply helping make the process survive.

Raedyn Grasseth

We're not having any problems. The weather is nice, and I think that's helping people cope.

Edna Ferber

The writer is a writer because he cannot help it. It is a compulsion.

Benjamin Franklin

The noblest question in the world is: 'What good may I do in it?'

Martin Cohen

What we're seeing as we look into the futures markets presently are increases that seem to be never ending,

Rep. Heaton

What we're offering is a three?year program to increase the funding.

Jeff Rubin

What we're looking at this year is an exponential increase in interest in alternative spring breaks.

Carol Evans

We're seeing a big increase in these benefits. Flexibility is the number one program parents are looking for in the workplace.

David Gray

We are already seeing an increase in milk consumption.

Jack Kyser

What's promising about this report was not only were November-to-December job increases strong, they went back and revised up the October-to-November increase.

Tracey Mills

What's on the increase is kids getting on mailing lists.

Chris Williamson

As we saw last month, there were signs of increased overseas spending on UK services.

Jeff Cogen

As revenues have increased, Mr. Hicks has increased the payroll accordingly.

Andy Wilson

This is the most natural partnership. The industries have been moving towards each other.

Kelly Quinn

These are the industries that are time-and location-sensitive.

Chad Hurley

The one thing with the established and traditional media industries is that whenever something new comes along, they don't know what to make of it, and the natural reaction is to fight it or push back.

Tracy Lefteroff

Solid levels of investing in traditional industries are being complemented by renewed interest in promising, fast-growing niches.

J. Paul Getty

Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit.

Jerry Costello

Since 2000, we have lost 2.7 million manufacturing jobs, of which 500,000 jobs were in high-tech industries such as telecommunications and electronics.

John Battelle

Just like the VCR opened the film and TV industries to unimaginable new revenue streams, search, RSS and the Internet will do the same for marketers and media companies.

Harris Miller

Our first priority is the Internet Hippocratic oath: 'First, do no harm,' ... Unlike most lobbyists or industries in this town, we don't come to town with a long to-do list, but with a long don't-do list.

Lou Ehrenkrantz

You look for undervalued stocks by looking at industries that have been overlooked.

Lisa Vidal

Latinos that are in the industry writing and producing, they can't be afraid to go out there and say, 'I want my lead to be Latino. And I want to talk about this, I wanna write about that.' And Latinos as a whole, as a people in America, need to go out and support.

David Tarantino

We've become much better at doing the work online. The whole industry is moving to more online maintenance. In a regulated environment, it wasn't as important to have short outages. We do the same work, but we're online now.

Dennis Miller

The American auto industry is blowing up like a 1976 Ford Pinto.

John Felmy

It's a stain on the industry that's unfair. It's just disappointing.

Geoff Sundstrom

This in many ways is the worst-case scenario that the oil industry has been fearing.

David Sowerby

It's more and more the sobering acknowledgement that the industry is significantly challenged.

Chuck Schumer

It's no secret that the manufacturing industry has been getting killed.

Greg Gorbatenko

It's not that the industry is weak. It's Nokia being weak.

Michael Feeney

It's not the stable industry it was 20 years ago.

Jerry Clements

We respond to lots of things; that's why it's interesting. You're not doing the same thing every day.

Christine Walsh

Usually, it's complicated enough just doing a role. But when it's your senior project, there's lots, lots more involved.

Jeanette Miller

It's a small town with lots of shops, sort of like Peddler's Village. We thought we'd look around.

Carol Lee

A lot of stress, lots of that. Sleepless nights, the waiting is the hardest.

Cesar Conda

They have been in recent weeks delegating lots of responsibility to other members of the senior staff. They've been preparing for it. There are lots of talented people there.

Paul Saffo

They're taking lots of really smart risks and doing things that are very strategic.

Julian Schnabel

It's very difficult, I think, for people to be around you when you're getting lots of attention. It's very difficult for young people to understand what that's about when people start treating you differently when you've been doing the same thing you were doing the day before.

Richard Long

There was lots of red ink, but that was to be expected.

Richard Dodd

There was lots of apocalyptic talk before it was introduced.

Mark Zauderer

They have been ordered to do what they should have done a long time ago, which is to process the club's application.

Sabrina Harris

We ordered it, and it took a year to get here.

Rob Mullens

They don't have a permanent license, but they do get first shot.

Stephen Hess

This may be something that is not as permanent as it may look at the moment.

Irvin Lippman

The staircase will remain as a permanent work of art.

John Eaton

I wait until something is really in the shape that I want to make it as a permanent record, because I think of recording as a permanent record.

Dalai Lama

Nothing is permanent.

Charles Elachi

Now we have a permanent scientific presence on another planet.

George Orwell

What is not hereditary cannot be permanent.

Enrique Iglesias

If permanent happiness comes with someone, Id leave everything.

Bryan Robson

But I'll probably only look at that in January. It'd have to be a permanent situation if I make any decision.

Robert Porter

It's a solid result in terms of our production figures.

Rich Lechner

It's not only being used for development purposes, but also being used in production environments very heavily.

John Dawson

The scale and quality of the production was something we haven't seen here before.

Ian Synnott

It would remove some production from an already tight market.

Scott Hudson

You put those all together, you can get some pretty significant production out of there.

Grayson White

The production and recording is a big step up.

Chakib Khelil

We think that we will keep production at the same level.

Perry Florio

We got production from all of our lines.

Brian Sky

We will not only teach film but will also do some production and distribution.

William Shakespeare

Tis beauty that doth oft make women proud; but, God He knows, thy share thereof is small.

Mike Roberts

We were as proud as we could be with the young man.

Charles Baudelaire

On the day when a young writer corrects his first proof-sheet he is as proud as a schoolboy who has just got his first dose of pox.

Charles Rangel

I have a record that I'm so very, very proud of, and no campaign is going to take that away.

Benjamin Netanyahu

I'm a proud member of the rabble.

Kelvin Philpot

We're going to find a way to get her here. She'll see how proud she can be of her kid.

Dale Petroskey

What we're proudest of is the broadening of knowledge.

Catherine Ashton

I was the first woman British commissioner, the first woman trade commissioner, so I am also proud to be the first woman High Representative.

Catherynne M. Valente

Respect me. Be proud, and if you love me, a little afraid, because love so often looks like fear. We are alike. We are alike.

Will Stofega

This is a big step for them. They are trying to up the ante and provide a service that's up to snuff.

John Noel

It's one thing to provide someone with a job,

Sally Roth

They are provided with that, other than that they have to come up with the rest.

Susan Tucker

It is very frustrating because we want to provide relief,

Randy Williams

It provides reassurance to students they will have a safe place to learn,

Gus Valdespino

They have not provided us with a motivation.

Nick Rahall

Our work to provide equal opportunities for all Americans should be a year-round mission.

John Gregg

Ultimately there could be two providers in Portsmouth, ... one step at a time.

Leonard Edelstein

Once we got the roads in, we had to provide a place for them to stay.

Kim Badley

For us, it is a rebuilding year. I would like to say we are just reloading, but, unfortunately, we are rebuilding.

Tim Cox

We have one big step to go (in the rebuilding process), and I think this is the year for it.

Doug Thornton

I think it could be a symbol for the rebuilding of New Orleans.

Khaled Hosseini

Without women taking an active role in Afghan society, rebuilding Afghanistan is going to be very difficult.

Dave Eggers

He must trust, and he must have faith. And so he builds, because what is building, and rebuilding and rebuilding again, but an act of faith?

Terry Gray

We thought this was going to be a rebuilding year.

Mike Milinkovich

We're rebuilding our Web site at Eclipse.org and we're using PHP,

Peter Reynolds

When we have a special event, our sales triple,

Shawn Roop

At first, all I wanted the Web site to do was $50 in sales a day, then $100 -- now I look for $350 a day.

Joel Rassman

The stock sales have nothing to do with the state of the market. It has everything to do with diversification.

Brian Tracy

Resolve to be among the top 20% of salespeople who make 80% of the sales.

Jon Hanson

Token sales have spiked, ... Token use has spiked.

Robert Klein

Fear is the greatest salesman.

Richard Foreman

We really won't see the story until we get into the spring and see the spring sales activity.

Chris Murray

Why do so many salespeople talk to customers about the product and not the result?

Shaojing Tong

I don't see how it will revive sales dramatically.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

There is no shelter in you anywhere.

Charles R. Swindoll

God presents the Sabbath rest as a shelter we can enter. (Hebrews 4:1-11)

Joe Thornton

There are a lot of distractions with homecoming. Hopefully, we can shelter them as much as we can from that.

David Spade

Staying in a hotel this time. They put me up in a little bit of a shithole. Yeah. Just this side of rinky dink. The first 7 floors are a homeless shelter, but I'm on 8.

Alice Morse Earle

When the first settlers landed on American shores, the difficulties in finding or making shelter must have seemed ironical as well as almost unbearable.

Alice Munro

A story ... has a sturdy sense of itself of being built out of its own necessity, not just to shelter or beguile you.

Aloe Blacc

What do you actually need? Food, clothing and shelter. Everything else is entertainment.

Rick Santorum

We had 90 percent rates, but nobody paid them. And so you had all these exemptions, exclusions, shelters, all this kind of stuff. And that's why most Americans are saying, 'Look, let's just be honest. Let's have lower rates, but everybody pays them.'

Simon Mawer

If God resides anywhere ... surely he shelters behind barricades of pure chance.

Chris Alexander

The marginal tax rate for high income earners is going up. Small businesses are no longer enjoying some of the exemption from payroll tax. Now there will be carbon taxes.

Barry Diller

I've not conducted my life in the service of smallness.

Nikki Sixx

When we were younger, you know, small stuff was small stuff. But we turned it into big stuff. It's just part of being young.

Boris Diaw

We're small. That hasn't changed. We've been small all year.

Cary Grant

It takes 500 small details to add up to one favorable impression.

Ai Weiwei

A small act is worth a million thoughts.

Leroy Hood

If you just focus on the smallest details, you never get the big picture right.

Zydrunas Ilgauskas

With us being really thin at small forward, it's not good. But this time of year, that's usually when it happens.

Sandy Wilson

It's a small town remembering what it's like to be an American.

Rep. Schultheis

You don't want to make two victims from the same crime.

Johnny Jessop

They're just as much victims as we are.

Jennifer Garraway

We have to do something for the victims and that's why we do this program.

Laura Gunn

We know there are more victims out there.