Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Kennedy

As a Scot, representing a Scottish constituency for almost the past 25 years, I do not harbour an overweening ambition to pronounce on each and every matter exclusively English.

Gilberto Gil

The builder has tried really hard to incorporate open space, ... The part of the project that faces the church is almost a park.

Dario Franchitti

A wheel bearing went in the rear suspension, which I think is the same problem as Tony (Kanaan). It almost put me into the wall and almost put Tony in the wall as well. It's unfortunate and the ArcaEx team deserves better. It's the same problem we had at Nashville.

Joe Clark

Authoring tools' are terrible; there is almost no software that can create closed captions for media players. And of course there is no training. TV captioning is bad enough, and this stuff is generally worse.

Susan Williamson

Autistic children who go missing are almost always found dead in a ditch or at a lake. They get frightened of new things. Their instinct might be to hide in a small, dark place.

Robert Whaley

At Walsh, ... it was almost like, 'Let Rob post up and give him the ball.'

Carson Kainer

At San Diego, there was almost a sense of we were scared to fail. Our biggest change has been at the plate. It's black and white.

Tomas Scheckter

A win in Chevy's final race would be unbelievable. I'm almost in tears that Chevy is going from the series with all the horsepower we've got. I think Chevy is now on par with the Honda on the ovals.

Tomas Scheckter

A win in Chevy's final race would be unbelievable, ... I'm almost in tears that Chevy is going from the series with all the horsepower we've got. I think Chevy is now on par with the Honda on the ovals.

Mary Cole

I've never applied for any (assistance) programs, ... I make just enough where we don't qualify for welfare or anything.

Robin Oakley

stricter standards applied to those who influence impressionable young people.

Clive Lloyd

Something was being applied to the ball quite obviously and he must have known it. It's quite conclusive on film.

Terence Gabriel

So, the longer-term story looks great for Applied Materials. It just may be a bit overheated here. If we were to get about a 20 percent pullback in this stock, I think it would be very attractive.

Jacques Chirac

Tempers must calm down. The law must be applied in a spirit of dialogue and respect,

Kevin Spacey

I've taken the experiences that I've had in the theatre and applied them to film and television and now games.

Thomas Hales

The shortcomings of traditional practices of peer review become evident when applied to complex computer-assisted proofs.

Laurie Anderson

I see that it has huge benefits for us understanding how and why diversity changes over time and how that might be applied to evaluate potential effects of future environment and climate changes,

Corky Palmer

They applied to enter as a baseball school only. I'd vote for them again.

Bernie Sanders

In 49 countries around the world, including all of Europe, people have the opportunity of knowing whether or not they are eating food which contains genetically engineered ingredients. In the United States, we don't.

Vikram Seth

As for what I listen to after writing, it could be anything - but I've noticed that if the current book contains music from one tradition, it is music from another tradition that most relaxes me.

Nancy Lee

Some department heads feel they're losing some (prospective) faculty members to the private sector, which can offer better benefits.

Steve Douglas

The Rural Fire Department (east of Pueblo), Rye and Pueblo West fire departments all have permit systems within their districts.

Tish Olszewski

It was very difficult to realize that he wasn't going to be there today. The department is devastated. . . . We're going to miss him dearly. We love him.

Don Allison

The onus is on us to demonstrate (there is enough water) to the Department of Water Resources.

Terry J. Lundgren

I had 13 job offers out of college. I went to Bullock's department store and had a fantastic interview, but was skeptical. I knew retail didn't pay much.

Jessica Martin

We don't want to sell shoes that you can find at department stores. We're trying to keep it very unique.

John Piper

The training is more extensive, the training has been upgraded, the training is very successful, and the training is monitored by the police department of New York City,

Pam Davis

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Rural Development have fronted the money to help get these people into homes,

Mark Klein

The United States Department of Agriculture made the mistake that resulted in the reporting errors that were the subject of the lawsuit.

Marianne Cusato

Properly designed and planned, a 1,000-square-foot house can meet a family's needs perfectly, whether it is permanent or emergency housing.

Robert Baker

After you've designed and placed an organ as well as you possibly can, some well-meaning lady is able to ruin the whole thing by donating memorial carpeting.

Pat Abeln

An engineer is designing the runway right now.

Ed Mierzwinski

A rate is something everybody pays for their service. This is a penalty that is designed to prevent you from shopping around.

Nick Brown

These measures are not an issue of human health but are designed to prevent the spread of the virus in livestock,

Brian O'Neill

The solutions to the problem are relatively simple. We can design seats and head restraints that are not expensive, that can eliminate a lot of these injuries.

Charles Curtis

The system should not have failed in this way, it should have held together. And there's either design problems or as we are saying, voltage support weaknesses in this system that have to be addressed,

John Grele

The system has been designed perhaps a little haphazardly and swiftly.

Mike Hess

The spacesuits are designed for a considerably longer period of time.

Lisa Murray

collaborative education is a better way to learn.

Dianne Cox

Special education kids are always going to struggle with that accountability piece because special education kids are in the program because they have learning disabilities,

Ben Parr

Don't let failure deter you; use it as a stepping-stone and an educational experience towards making your mark on the world.

Barbara Jordan

Just remember the world is not a playground but a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday but an education. One eternal lesson for us all: to teach us how better we should love.

Barbara Jordan

Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.

Ayn Rand

The only purpose of education is to teach a student how to live his life-by developing his mind and equipping him to deal with reality. The training he needs is theoretical, i.e., conceptual. He has to be taught to think, to understand, to integrate, to prove. He has to be taught the essentials of the knowledge discovered in the past-and he has to be equipped to acquire further knowledge by his own effort.

Bertrand Russell

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Benito Mussolini

At every hour of every day, I can tell you on which page of which book each school child in Italy is studying.

Jane Hamilton

It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.

Sathya Baba

You are not doing service for others. You are doing it always for yourselves, to the God in you, the God who is equally present in others.

John Mackey

I started out young and idealistic, and it was all about social justice and fair distribution of resources. I didn't understand why everybody couldn't be equally prosperous.

Venus Williams

Wimbledon needs to do the right thing and finally pay the women the same as the men. Players won't be satisfied until all of us -- not just one out of 128 -- are treated equally with the men.

John Bolton

Identifying those who failed to execute their responsibilities is a necessary part of the process. Prosecuting wrongdoers is equally necessary.

Carnegie Hall

He was just magic. He was equally as wonderful offstage as on.

Ernie Rodriguez

When were running our offense, it's obvious. But when we're not running our offense, it's equally as obvious.

Zeke Jones

A lot of the teams will be pretty equally matched up there. There is no giant separation from the first to the last team.

Joshua Katcher

When it comes down to a meet like this and you put two equally talented kids out there, it comes down to which one wants it more. Obviously, our little guys wanted to move on.

Clint Eastwood

The stronger the participation of the female characters, the better the movie. They knew that in the old days, when women stars were equally as important as men.

Bob Harlan

He was very honored. I told him to look up there (the facade of Lambeau Field) and picture his name with the other numbers. He knew how special this was.

Jimmy Rollins

Not worried about next year right now. Worried about getting my garage cleaned.

Spalding Gray

When I first came to New York City in 1967, I joined up with Richard Schechner's Performance Group - where we worked in the Performing Garage in SoHo.

Demetrius Fannick

If they don't hit the garage door, they're going to be somewhere. They don't disappear.

Rick Hendrick

It's good to see Richard walking with that step he had when I saw him in the garage area. I kind of bowed to Robbie and said, 'You're the man when I looked up on the board.' It's good for the sport. It's real good.

Richard Flanagan

The survival of extraordinary creatures such as the giant Tasmanian freshwater crayfish - the largest in the world - is in doubt because of logging.

E. B. White

I've seen a guy reeling in a giant tarpon on a Stella. The reel literally glows.

Jim Calhoun

These are two giant tests. I told our guys at a team meeting that we're 22-1 and 9-1, but we still have more tests. We've got to keep proving it and proving it.

Margaret Spellings

This is a temporary situation (and) it's going to be narrowly focused, ... This is not the time to promote a giant national voucher program.

Patrick Craven

Each year on this day we remember and pay tribute to this much loved working-class hero and giant of the national liberation.

John Bunting

As I said to the team, that's one giant M.O. -missed opportunity,

Ed Rendell

Twenty to 25 years ago, Pennsylvania was the industrial giant of this country.

Josh Franco

Today, Mike Giant is no secret to anyone.

Susan Rosenberg

There's something very special about Doris. She is very soft-spoken, but she's a giant of a person.

Author unknown

I should've known it wasn't going to work out between my ex-wife and me. After all, I'm a Libra and she's a bitch.

Robert McCloskey

That neighborhood has never been known for racial tensions." ()

Jermaine Jackson

Had we known that the price that we would have to pay for this success, we never would have wanted it.

Chris Crutcher

Once a thing is known,it can't be UNknown.

Essence Carson

We like to play like what we're known for.

John Jeremiah Sullivan

As the planet warms, evolution speeds. We've known this for a long time.

Herman Edwards

Warrick was with us in Tampa so I've known him since he was a rookie,

Rita Ora

To me, I have my friends who I've known my whole life, and I can count them on one hand. They're people I went to school with, my mum's friends' daughters. You know?

Tom Badger

This was in a slope we've known to be a problem.

Tom Johnson

The simpler the message, the better the memorial will be.

Benjamin Disraeli

The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.

Susan Beth Pfeffer

Matt looked up kids from his high school class. Only three were listed as dead, but a bunch were listed as missing/presumed dead. As a test, he looked us up, but none of our names were on any of the lists. And that's how we know we're alive this Memorial Day.

Marcus Garvey

Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.

Maya Angelou

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

Herbert Hoover

It was the transcendent fortitude and steadfastness of these men who in adversity and in suffering through the darkest hour of our history held faithful to an ideal. Here men endured that a nation might live.

Ernest Hemingway

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

Francis Marion Crawford

They fell, but o'er their glorious grave Floats free the banner of the cause they died to save.

George Washington

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

Thomas Lee

I visited with every student here at one point or another and none of them have said they feel unsafe here.

Rick Forney

There's none of that just-down-to-the-foundation devastation that we saw out of Mississippi after Katrina.

Kim Hunter

None of this has been done before; all of this is new ground,

Reuven Paz

None of these terrorists shows any remorse. They are proud of what they do.

Charlie Strong

I'm real concerned. No one has stepped up. We have the guys. But none of them has taken the job.

William Butler Yeats

When we are young we long to tread a way none have trod before

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

New York - that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American.

Paula Vogel

we were all starving in New York, and none of us were getting produced, and we were just frustrated.

Anna Paquin

None of the characters I've played are really like me. That would be boring. That wouldn't be acting.

Tim Collins

completely full. There were no more parking spaces.

Andy Stanley

The sermon begins in the parking lot.

Tom Waits

using parking meters as walking sticks.

Jim Lowe

In the Wal-Mart parking lot, they had a regular city.

Tony Marino

I just wish people would go with the flow. I mean, a parking meter is like a restaurant table: We have to turn these things over.

Ted Forrest

It's better than parking in the parking lot. This way, you just pull right up to the curb, pick up your people and go.

Loren Smith

People are going to have to find parking on the streets or the municipal lot.

Chris Schneiter

We don't have any parking meters that reset.

Tina St. John

Santa Claus has already been here and everything. Want to see what he brought for you?" "Is it a big present?" "Very big." "With a big red bow on it?

Esther Dyson

I joined the board of the Santa Fe Institute.

Jeff Bridges

Work takes me away from my wife, Sue, and my life in Santa Barbara.

Jim Butcher

I felt like I had just double-tapped Santa.

Ellen Bass

I live in Santa Cruz. I moved here in 1974 and couldn't leave.

H. L. Mencken

God is a Republican, and Santa Claus is a Democrat.

Richard M. Nixon

It is sad that it was necessary that Santa Barbara should be the example that had to bring it to the attention of the American people. What is involved is the use of our resources of the sea and of the land in a more effective way and with more concern for preserving the beauty and the natural resources that are so important to any kind of society that we want for the future. The Santa Barbara incident has frankly touched the conscience of the American people.

Joe Nichols

I was probably nine or ten the first time I heard there was no Santa Claus.

Samuel Butler

Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.

Bruce Vilanch

I've written about 15 screenplays and they all sold - they were all sold on pitches.

Joe Sakic

I didn't do much. I was just trying to get a screen in there. He shot it, and it just went off my stick.

Bruce Goldstein

Before Clara Bow, all the screen sirens were kind of exotic.

Jeff Tank

We aren't tough enough to screen out. I'd like to see us screen out harder. We didn't do that well, either.