Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Patrick Shanley

I adopted two children, then I got eye disease and five rounds of surgery. I went blind in one eye, then the other eye, and that went on for three or four years. I got very enamored and involved with the theater and did a lot of plays.

Mary Gauthier

I was adopted when I was about a year old. My adopted parents tried, but their marriage was doomed. Music saved my life. I couldn't relate to things in Baton Rouge, but I found songs that spoke to me.

Ed White

I think what happened is we all adopted each other.

Richard Thompson

Intelligent design is now being adopted by a number of credible scientists. If the Dover school district wins this case, you're going to see intelligent design popping up on school board agendas all over the country.

Ann Wilson

I'm a single mum and my daughter came from a really potentially tragic situation. If I had not adopted her she was kind of like a lost lamb.

Dave Walker

I'm pleased to receive this award, ... I have been a constant with this organization for many years now, but we wouldn't be here today if I wasn't surrounded by many other talented people along the way. I'm extremely proud of the Burlington community's dedication to professional baseball as evidence by the fact the Bees have survived and now prospered as the smallest full-season market in the Minor Leagues. I'm also pleased with the response we've gotten on a regional basis from the baseball fans all over Southeast Iowa and Western Illinois that have adopted the Bees as their hometown team.

Ed Smith

I never heard people speak about segregation as some great cross that they were bearing. They just went on about their lives. Some of them had good contacts with white people that they were serving in someone's home. Sometimes those white families almost effectively adopted you.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

In music, you have to speak about a form-form, of adopted formal elements that are applied in order to express certain specific things. Because painting with music, that's something completely different.

Steve Johnson

In legislation that became effective in 2005, Congress adopted a uniform definition for most people. It won't change what they can take, but it'll make it easier for them to understand.

George Hamlin

It could be a way to signal the market that things are getting serious. I'd like to think they'd done better planning in terms of cash flow and the airline's operations. This would be a relatively new and troubling development.

Phil Gartside

There is a lack of quality around and we were not going to make signings for the sake of it. It was not just about cash availability.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

When I looked at my life’s ledger I realized I was a very rich woman. What I was experiencing was merely a temporary cash-flow problem. Finally, I came to an inner awareness that my personal net worth couldn’t possibly be determined by the size of my checking account balance. Neither can yours.

Warren Buffett

I do not like debt and do not like to invest in companies that have too much debt, particularly long-term debt. With long-term debt, increases in interest rates can drastically affect company profits and make future cash flows less predictable.

Tim Evans

Really, it's just a rush to cash in profits on what was really a spectacular move higher.

Jose Vistan

Investors may start to cash in once first-quarter results start coming out.

Peter Boockvar

Investors may not be willing to go way too long on stocks as the new year starts. At the same time, there are so many hedge funds in this market that they may be selling some stocks to cash in gains after November's rally.

Aryeh Bourkoff

Investors have had low expectations for NTL and the company was able to meet these expectations for the first time in a while. Talking about the dividend and returning cash to shareholders was new and it's appropriate for a company with strong free cash flow.

Yutaka Miura

Investors sell futures contracts speculating about a further fall in the cash market in the afternoon, so by the time the cash market opens, investors turn bearish -- it's a vicious cycle.

Mike Greene

He's planning to be back for Saturday's game, but that's all contingent on how his mother is feeling.

Jane Jankowski

That's contingent on having the dollars that Major Moves will bring.

David Baker

The meeting would be in order to make further progress, and it's contingent on Palestinians continuing to fight terror,

Adam Ereli

It's a theoretical proposition in the future, contingent on dismantlement having taken place, (North Korea) re-signing up to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and having IAEA safeguards in place.

Liz Compton

Every law is contingent on funding for enforcement. The federal government has indicated it would not pay for removal of trees. If we don't have the money, we can't remove the trees.

Ehud Barak

contingent on making some progress on the ground there. Frankly, we haven't seen that yet.

William Massey

Just about all the private funding has been contingent on our having the signed lease with the county.

Judith Butler

There is a new venue for theory, necessarily impure, where it emerges in and as the very event of cultural translation. This is not the displacement of theory by historicism, nor a simple historicization of theory that exposes the contingent limits of its more generalizable claims.

Gottfried Leibniz

There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; those of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible.

David Meltzer

He deserves a ton of credit for making the sport what it has become. He's the Vince McMahon of his generation.

Dave Tippett

I thought our team played a very good team defensive game. Hatcher had a great year and we played very well in front of Marty, but you can't get numbers like that without having an unbelievable performance from your goaltender. Marty deserves a lot of credit for that. He's the guy who a lot of time dictates a lot of the equation as the last line of defense.

Denham Brown

I think we?re tougher than a lot of people give us credit for. They think, ?You?re talented, but you?re not tough. You can?t have both. You?d be too good if you had both.? I think they read too much into that.

Mark Rosen

I think it was hard for us to get a rhythm going in any of the first games. We were so forced in the first two games. The team deserves credit for getting out of it.

Daniela Hantuchova

I think we all know how well she can really play. But to her credit, I thought she kept fighting until the end.

David Fowler

It is important that we have people with integrity there. And I think even my enemies credit me with having integrity.

Jim Haggerty

He's followed in his father's steps. Young Hoover has topped his dad, and his dad was an icon in his day. I give a lot of credit to his dad for Jim's achievements.

Alan Zemaitis

He's done a total 180. He's accountable to himself as a man, and it's a credit to him.

John Reynolds

He was just like any other offensive lineman, giving all the credit to everyone else.

Seth Shostak

The planets and moons of our solar system are blatantly visible because they reflect sunlight. Without the nearby Sun, these planets would be cryptic and dark on the sky.

Juli Lax

I think we're up to Plan K right now.

Fred Williams

I ain't got no plane money. I just stayed... this is all I got right here.

Richard Paul Evans

Life is what happens to us while we're planning something else.

River Phoenix

Although I can't stop all cruelty to living creatures on the planet, I can be kinder to every living creature in my life.

Vladimir Putin

Though we still come first in the sphere of gas export, national production has diminished due to the increasing volumes of hydrogenation for the electric power industry and therefore there is a lower need for gas at thermal power plants.

Winston Churchill

Plans are worthless. Planning is priceless.

Walter Raleigh

Corrupt seeds bring forth corrupt plants.

Mack Brown

Plan on being behind. Plan on getting yourself in trouble.

Robert Wyatt

This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome.

Waylon Jennings

Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.

Tony Visconti

The object is to make a great record and you have to do whatever it takes.

Tony Visconti

My profession is called record production.

Tony Visconti

Today a record producer is even more involved and is often the production's sole musician, one person playing all the instruments one-by-one.

Vince Gill

It really does take a lot of time to make records, to be in the studio and do all that stuff.

Sade Adu

I only make records when I feel I have something to say. I'm not interested in releasing music just for the sake of selling something. Sade is not a brand.

Roy Ayers

The majors, they have to control the distribution, the record outlets, the radio and, in some cases, even the venues. And downloading and pirating have also put pressure on the majors.

Young Jeezy

I'ma continue to make records, continue to make hits, continue to be what I am, legendary.

Walter Scott

If you keep a thing seven years, you are sure to find a use for it.

Morgan Freeman

Anyone who spends a significant amount of time with me finds me disagreeable.

Julia Child

I was thirty-seven years old and still discovering who I was.

Phyllis Diller

I spent seven hours in a beauty shop... and that was for the estimate.

John M. McHugh

One in seven Americans lives without health insurance, and that's a truly staggering figure.

Dave Chappelle

Listen, here it is: Technically, I never quit. I'm seven years late for work.

John Powell

I wanted to play music from the age of seven. I suddenly fell in love with it and that's what I was going to do, or to be involved with music. It was just speaking to me at a level that as a seven year old I suddenly realized the world was capable of supporting in my head a lot more than what I was understanding verbally and visually.

David Ishii

Really? I don't remember. Seventeen under? That's pretty good.

Eduard Shevardnadze

I was a member of the Politburo for seven years, a foreign minister.

Will Durant

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

Friedrich Engels

The state is not abolished, it withers away.

Jules Verne

I looked on, I thought, I reflected, I admired, in a state of stupefaction not altogether unmingled with fear!

Milton Friedman

If you cannot state a proposition clearly and unambiguously, you do not understand it.

Mike McCurry

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The Bravery

the only town in the United States of that name!

Antonin Scalia

Words no longer have meaning if an Exchange that is not established by a State is "established by the State".

James Williams

Even the United States is soft-peddling sanctions, but I think we need to wait until we know.

Brad Bayne

We've had over 45 inquiries from 35 states in three weeks of being live with the web.

Warren Buffett

I'll bring my tax returns; you bring yours. I'll meet you anytime anywhere.

Wesley Snipes

I was never charged with tax evasion. I've never been a tax protester.

Robert Orben

Did you ever get to wondering if taxation without representation might have been cheaper?

Lyndon B. Johnson

In 1790, the nation which had fought a revolution against taxation without representation discovered that some of its citizens weren't much happier about taxation with representation.

Jim Ramstad

As American taxpayers know too well, the tax code is incredibly complex and compliance is all to expensive.

David R. Ellis

No, in Lethal Weapon I was a taxi cab driver that Mel jumps in front of the taxi and pulls me out of the car and steals the taxi. Then I did some other indie driving for some of the car sequences.

Alan Sugar

I don't like paying 50 per cent of tax.

Calvin Trillin

The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living than work.

Robert James

The taxpayers have spoken. They want a change.