Famous Quotes & Sayings

Klaus Toepfer

The peoples of the Arctic and the small islands of this world face many of the same threats.

John Burnside

I went for a walk in the Arctic Circle without map or compass. Fortunately, I was only lost for hours, not days.

David Suzuki

Humans are an infant species, a mere 150,000 years old. But, armed with a massive brain, we've not only survived, we've used our wits to adapt to and flourish in habitats as varied as deserts, Arctic tundra, tropical rainforests, wetlands and high mountain ranges.

Siouxsie Sioux

I don't care about champagne backstage or anything else - the one thing I need to specify is that I can't have any Arctic drafts on stage.

Lisa Renstrom

Rep. Nancy Johnson has always been a champion of legislation to protect the Arctic Refuge as a wilderness area. Showing great independence, Rep. Johnson has led the effort in the House to block efforts to use the budget process to open up the refuge to oil and gas exploration. Her leadership has been indispensable to the millions of Americans who place a priority on safeguarding our environment and protecting America?s great wilderness areas.

Harry Reid

Our military is being held hostage by this issue, Arctic drilling.

Jacqueline McGlade

In the Arctic countries and southern Europe, ... it will become harder and harder to sustain current living and consumption patterns.

Drew Shindell

Instead of being this tiny player, (ozone) can be more like 30 or 40 or even 50 percent of the cause of warming that we're seeing in the Arctic now. It's very dramatic.

Carl Pope

By using the budget bill primarily as a vehicle for Arctic Refuge drilling, the Senate has dropped any pretense of working to balance the budget or reduce the deficit. The Senate is treating the budget process as a joke and a special interest gravy boat.

Rick Tocchet

I would take a 3-0 lead every night. We didn't quit. Some guys think it's easy. It's hard to win. It's uncomfortable to win. I thought we were into it early and let Colorado off the hook. That's where your leadership takes over and you don't let it happen. In the end somebody has to go to the net. Somebody has to block a shot.

Jim Calhoun

He was a difference maker the entire day. He cleaned up the middle by blocking shots and obviously scored big baskets for us.

Cory Withrow

He knows the blocking schemes before we do them.

George Herbert Mead

Our cautious ancestors, when yawning, blocked the way to the entrance of evil spirits by putting their hands before their mouths. We find a reason for the gesture in the delicacy of manner which forbids an indecent exposure.

Nadine Velazquez

I would love to be a guys' girl, but they always end up falling in love with me, so I'm a girls' girl instead. I've tried having friendly relationships with men, but it ends up being impossible, and I've been around the block too many times not to see it coming.

Jason Dawson

Having them makes everything easier. They get us second-chance points, they block shots and they bring a lot of heart.

William Blake

He's a Blockhead who wants a proof of what he Can't Percieve And he's a Fool who tries to make such a Blockhead believe.

William Blake

He's a Blockhead who wants a proof of what heCan't PerceiveAnd he's a Fool who tries to make such aBlockhead believe.

Ahmad Dorsett

He's 6-8. It's expected for him to block shots. If he didn't block shots, something would be wrong. He's a great player.

Sandy Poferl

Knowing where our budget sits, knowing where our enrollment sits, I wasn't really pleased with the number he threw out for his salary.

Susan Cole

Kids need to learn financial lessons early when they have their parents as a safety net. If you're just learning about saving and budgeting when your first car payment is due, you could be in trouble.

George H. W. Bush

Joel Kaplan is a man of great talent, intellect and experience who possesses a deep knowledge of policy and budget processes.

Gerald Curtis

Handling the budget is a big part of the job, but you have to realize that 70 or 80 percent of the budget is mandated by the state; you can change very little of it. But you do have to look at cuts.

Brett Hall

His voice is strong. He's engaged in everything and wants to discuss what's happening right now with the budget and other bills.

Ozhan Bahrambeygui

I think it's important for kids to budget their time. I'm a big proponent of kids doing multiple sports. I like to think we put an emphasis on balance.

Joseph Lieberman

There is no cheap way to be better prepared. It takes money -- more money than this budget offers.

G. H. Hardy

There is no budget shortfall per se. We were challenged in putting together the budget year because of the loss of federal funding.

Tom DeLay

There is no fat left to cut in the federal budget.

Joe Funderburk

Jake lost to an outstanding wrestler. He's a two-time state champion and ranked second in the nation.

Harry Redknapp

Jose won't let him come but I would have taken him. They need their players for the Champions League so there is little chance of Glen coming.

Doug Cauthen

He was a champion and it was a great privilege to have been around him. Even though he'd been out of service for a couple of years, we kept him in the same stall so he still felt he was part of things. That's what he deserved.

H. Hunt

He is the essence of sports in Kansas City and why there is a Truman Sports Complex and, frankly, why the two teams are there. He is and always will be a champion of all sports in Kansas City.

Tony McCoy

When I started off riding, you dream about being champion jockey. Then I wanted to be champion jockey again. Then I wanted to ride 200 winners in a season. Then, when there was a chance of riding more winners than Richard Dunwoody, that was my goal.

Tony McCoy

Essentially, I am a dreamer. I've dreamed all my life. When I started, I dreamed I'd be Champion because it is a sport that is all about the people who win the most, and I have a fear of not winning.

Dave Vining

Having those champions is great in just two years.

Steven Gerrard

He's a great player. He scores goals in the league, in cup competitions and also in the Champions League,

Jerry Bailey

He seems to be a pretty good horse. I'm not ready to crown him a champion yet, but he was pretty impressive.

Herb Grace

Kevin Lynch was huge tonight, especially on the post. He gave us a great effort and is the heart and soul of our team.

Frank Robinson

Hector has been a nice, pleasant surprise with another great effort on his part tonight. He has pitched four good starts. I don't know how he does it at this stage of the season. He seems to thrive on it.

Steve Kellar

This was a good game for us in that everybody played and everybody scored. It was a good, solid effort on everybody's part.

Dwane Casey

He's just made a concerted effort going to the boards. It's called him being a great player.

George Haddow

It comes down to leadership, and this effort is without a leader. I don't think they understand how to do this at the top level.

Nate Altenhofen

I was disappointed in our focus and our effort in the second half. I think we got complacent.

Ed Thompson

The people started using it unauthorized. It was a construction site. We had to make some extra effort to secure the site to keep the public from using it because they were getting in the way.

Mark Cooke

We've been very competitive, especially at home. So far I'm pleased with our effort at home, but I'd like to see us play on the road better.

Gerald Myers

We're proud of the effort Lubbock has made in order to give (the athletes) a new start,

T.I.

To expect for me to be one-way every time you see me is to expect me to be a one-dimensional man, which I've never been. I've always applauded my efforts to be diverse and multi-faceted.

Brian Jenkins

I think that is the lesson of the Israeli efforts over the years.

Mark Farley

He's done a nice job with our kids here. I thanked him for his efforts and everything he has done here the past few years, and wished him well.

Stuart Anderson

On the state level, these efforts will continue.

Atsutoshi Nishida

Regrettably, two different types of products seem set to hit the market. But this is the kind of technology that will be around for five or 10 years. Efforts should be made continuously to make unification happen.

Phil Smith

If you want your town to be pedestrian-friendly, you need to persist in your efforts over time. You can't just do one thing, either. You need a multiple strategy.

Rio Ferdinand

In my mind, and in a lot of the lads' minds, we are still concentrating all our efforts on finishing second.

Kip Hawley

By incorporating unpredictability into our procedures and eliminating low-threat items, we can better focus our efforts on stopping individuals who wish to do us harm.

Greg Smith

I'm not sure who will pay for relief efforts after that (two weeks).

Jay Brown

He wants the place to feel like a family environment.

James Sarni

What will keep swap spreads from widening dramatically is that we are still in (a relatively) low yield environment.

Deb Patterson

I thought about the fans and how incredible it was for us to have competed in that environment. I thought about our players and just how proud I was of how tough-minded they had become as competitors and how happy I was for them. I thought about our staff and how hard they've worked.

Mary Walker

It gives our workforce a great opportunity to expand their knowledge within the normal working environment.

Jeff VanArsdel

It is important if they are going to get into a sectional environment they needed to be in tonight's environment as long as they could be. We were able to get them quality minutes tonight.

Daniel Nepstad

There is a notion that the presence of people can be harmful to the environment. But this is not always true.

Richard Chu

I don't have high expectations for revenue gains from HP in this environment.

Jason Griggs

He felt trapped in an environment where he could do nothing right. He could do nothing to make his family or his father happy.

Nina Totenberg

He might well win his case. It is something of a bellwether (for environmental cases).

Mike Haley

I swear, if you tell me how you're going to solve these gas prices, I'll vote for you.

Chris Christensen

It can?t be like this forever. Just the other day a gas station opened in the neighborhood. Every day it gets better.

Jerry Lambert

Here you're at the mercy of the gas companies.

Nancy Cartwright

I think its ironic that for once dad's butt prevented the release of toxic gas

Jim Smith

I think the drive-to travel market is still up in the air, and we won't know until Thanksgiving, ... That's the next big travel holiday in the petroleum industry. But, generally, I think the rapid escalation in the price of gasoline has slowed down demand.

Alan Peterson

Last month, we handed out 52 gallons of gas and we've handed out 78 gallons this month. We hear about every excuse,

Candace Smith

We think gas prices had something to do with it.

Steve Reynolds

We're on track to record high gas prices this winter,

Jim Palumbo

I think we ran out of gas in the third period and boy, did they step it up. But Mike made some great saves for us.

Katherine Paterson

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

Darius Miles

Kevin had a great game. We have some smaller guards out there so he was able to do a lot more things. He had it going and was on fire.

B. B. King

Kevin did a great job tonight. He gutted it out there at the end for us. It was a great team win.

James Patterson

Kids don't read as much as you'd like them to, just in terms of seeing the world from different perspectives. I mean, that's the great thing about books, still. Here's television, here are the movies, and it's pretty limited in terms of the perspectives.

Mary Carskadon

Kids are too sleepy to learn well. They're too sleepy to be happy. And they're at great risk for such things as traffic accidents.

Alan Trammel

I wouldn't say it was one of his greatest performances, but he pitched well enough to win.

Jim Schmitz

Jake Wade did just such a great job throwing strikes, going right at them. He pitched six quality innings. It was just nice to see him come out like that.

Jim Fuller

Jake had a great meet. We kind of ran him to death, too.

Joe Archuleta

Jake did a great job. Two runs, we'll take that most days.

Brad Hintz

I would say they're the weakest trading house on Wall Street.

David Gregory

Kelly O'Donnell at the White House for us this morning. Kelly thanks very much.

David Stanley

He didn't go over to that guy's house for a confrontation, he just wanted to know what was going on.

Mike Nichols

What we've offered is a house where they could all live.

Jerry Shuster

He (O'Connor) can't be indiscriminate. He can't tear down a house here and tear down a house there, because then it looks like it's more for show. But if they can do three, even though they need 30 taken down, if those three are strategic, it's a tremendous plus.

Cecil Roberts

going under your house and taking the support beams out.

Kim Etheredge

He's downsizing. It's 15,000 square feet. That's a very large house for one person.

Fred Siegel

It is a joy to live (on campus), and it is a pleasure to open my house to students,

Stan Turner

We try to get to every house in Keizer.

Joanne Wuensch

I suspect that Johnson & Johnson will be in the market sooner rather than later.

Joanne Wuensch

If you want to step back, yeah, they are mucking up Johnson & Johnson's bid.

Bob Poole

I'm 0-17 in Milford in the regular season in my 17 years of coaching. When you have second and third and no one out, you start thinking that maybe this is the one. But Johnson just shut us down.

Kurt Busch

Jimmie Johnson is putting a whoopin' on everybody!

Muddy Waters

Robert Johnson? No, I didn't know him, personally.

John Avery

I'm not supposed to know what's going on. But I can tell you this, I won't be standing around scratching my head like Coach Johnson in that Denorex commercial.

Erich Leinsdorf

I was sent down to Cuba. Everything had been prepared with the help of Congressman Johnson and his staff.

William Hamilton

Johnson is dead. - Let us go to the next best: - There is nobody; no man can be said to put you in mind of Johnson.

Matt Czuchry

Pabst Blue Ribbon. I'm from Johnson City, Tennessee. I gotta go Pabst.

Laurence J. Peter

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Sylvia Hatchell

Her leadership has also improved. For a sophomore, she has shown a lot of maturity.

Larry Kupczyk

He's a skilled player who has been able to put the puck in the net on a regular basis. Jesse also took more of a leadership role this season and is a very solid player.

Rep. Bucher

I think the legislative leadership is pretty ripe to take up this issue.

James Thurber

I thought once he was out, people would move on. But he is still there, concentrating power within the leadership and himself.

Oscar Lua

I think it was inevitable. The kickoff team is struggling a bit, so they need some sort of leadership out there.

Abbott L. Lowell

I must follow them. I am their leader.

Abbott L. Lowell

A tale is told of a man in Paris during the upheaval in 1948, who saw a friend marching after a crowd toward the barricades. Warning him that these could not be held against the troops, that he had better keep way, he received this reply, " I must follow them. I am their leader."

Peter Yang

He had the leadership to make that happen.

Mike Conley

He comes to play in big games, and today was two big games. I think he stepped up and led us to victory.

Steven Reinprecht

He led the way, that's for sure. I think he showed what a special player is.

Seth Vining

He's been so solid. He's come in and led the team from the start.

Dustin Milligan

I was always kind of a loudmouth and a class clown, and that kind of led to doing all the school plays and trying out all kinds of different stuff.

Winona Ryder

Googling yourself is maybe one of the worst things you can do. I did it once, and someone had to talk me off a ledge.

John Hull

Our research led on to other things, such as the fact that exchange rates are not lognormally distributed.

Wil Nichol

In the second period we turned the tide. We started doing the little things that make us successful. And that led to the big things, which is goals.

Mamie Gummer

I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.

Pat McHugh

The market can go higher, led by commodities stocks. Metals price should stay strong as most have low inventories and the trend is up for gold.

Larry Sabato

He could have made millions in the private sector.

Jim Amos

It is significant in its impact. We do millions of packages a year with UPS.

Nandan Nilekani

I'm in politics to make the lives of millions of Indians better.

Matt Mullenweg

A lot of the early adoption of WordPress was actually from thousands and millions of individually hosted instances, so a lot of the people who ran WordPress were on their own.

Richard Moyroud

They have been on the planet for millions of years. Why doesn't it have the right to continue?

Morgan Downey

This is very positive for millions of Americans.

Beau Greely

This is two millions in a row. He'll stay here for the Breeders' Cup.

E. P. Thompson

They're huge. The big ones sell millions of units annually.

Simon Cowell

I'm not sure who has the right to say that you have better taste than somebody else, because essentially what you're doing is calling millions of people morons.

Alan Nunnelee

If you had the opportunity to cast your vote for speaker, would you vote for Nancy Pelosi?

Sue Monk Kidd

I was a Nancy Drew girl. Also Grimms' fairy tales.

Jim Peters

Nancy and I want to travel on our own time.

David Briggs

I think the oil prices (being) off helps.

Chris Perkins

What most people need to understand is that oil is not going to be around forever, and we need to start thinking ahead. The sun is going to be here for as long as we are.

Sarah Palin

Up here in Alaska we're sitting on billions of barrels of oil. We're sitting on hundreds of trillions of cubic feet of natural gas onshore and offshore. And it seems to be only the Republicans who understand that companies should be competing for the right to tap those resources, and get that energy source flowing into these hungry markets so that we will be less reliant on foreign sources of energy. In a volatile world, relying on foreign regimes that are not friendly to Americans, asking them to ramp up resource production for our benefit, that's nonsensical.

Rodrigo Rato

Oil prices have certainly become a threat for the world economy.

Veerappa Moily

Those who know me would tell you, 'Moily can't be cowed down.' I have plans to enhance domestic oil and gas production.

Van Jones

We pull out of the ground death, we burn death in our power plants, and then we act shocked when we get death in the form of oil spills and global warming.

Rodney Dangerfield

People say fish is good for a diet. But fish should never be cooked in butter. Fish should be cooked in its natural oils - Texaco, Mobil, Exxon .

Robert Orben

I feel that if God had really wanted us to have enough oil, he would never have given us a Department of Energy.

Robert E. Howard

Some mechanism in my sub-consciousness took the dominant characteristics of various prize-fighters, gunmen, bootleggers, oil field bullies, gamblers, and honest workmen I had come in contact with, and combining them all, produced the amalgamation I call Conan the Cimmerian.

Joel Klein

has been and always remains open to a settlement.

Tom Driscoll

We're opening up the day after Mother's Day.

Eric Wicks

I thought they'd try to run a lot more outside to open up the field. I think after a while, they were just trying to make a play, anywhere.

Lorrie Miller

It is just as open to me as it is to them.

E. Hicks

I welcome them all with open arms. At least we can get through practice.

Robert Simmons

We made two acquisitions in 2005 and they were enabled in no small part by open source.

Anthony Geary

I have friends in France who are artists. I go to gallery openings and things like that.

Pat Santoro

He has a tremendous feel for mat wrestling. He's used to wrestling a pretty open style.

Richelle Mead

Those who have to ask if faith is true are opening up a discussion they may not be ready for.

Dick Gephardt

I think the priority has to be Social Security and Medicare,

Jakaya Kikwete

I will make sure research and development is a top priority in agricultural development.

Mark Shapiro

Our No. 1 priority now is a closer.

Sara Gonzalez

The first priority is to start working, then know the language.

Gary Snyder

The first priority is just to get them registered,

Susan Cerbone

It's been a top priority for everyone to move, but this is the first time everyone's on board.

Edgerrin James

They just signed a new guy, so they are working to get better. As long as it is a priority ten it is all right.

Ron Zook

They know they have to go to class. Their first priority is to get an education. You're here to play football, but you're also here to get an education. You have got to go to class.

Tim Stanley

It was on the top of my priority list.

Marlon Defillo

I would not say we're at 100 percent. We're still in the process of rebuilding our infrastructure. But in terms of the department's responsiveness to the community, we are functional.

Steve Siegel

We're in the process of returning it to its rightful owner.

Phil Frame

We're in the process of interviewing right now. We take their statements, then go back to the site to verify what they said they saw.

Pearl Norris

We're in the process of getting it started.

Bob Hill

We've got to get Vitaly in shape. And there's a process in that.

Larry Brown

I think we just sometimes don't understand how we get leads, and time and score. We're just young and this is the process you've got to live with.

Vince Dooley

I think we all realize that the more subjective the process is, the worse things are for everybody. I think it would be proper to come up with something more definitive.

Lloyd Dobens

It is not a question of how well each process works, the question is how well they all work together.

Scott Hawkins

He's doing just fine, which makes this process a lot easier.

JoAnn Carrin

He just wants to make sure the wetlands are as protected as they can be.

Janet Norwood

He just hugged me and said, 'You've done your job, mom. It's my turn to protect you now.' I was just floored, you know, it was pretty unreal.

Gary Thompson

Whatever has to be done to protect the citizens. If it's going to save lives, I know that's really important.

Darian Townes

We've got to protect our home, and we let this one get away. It's very disappointing.

Russell Schweiss

Under Gov. Bush, Florida's wetlands and waterways are receiving better protection than ever before.

John Simmons

He was just protecting us. That showed us that he'll do what it takes to protect us.

Michael Essien

I don't know why (Lauren) should make out I elbowed him on purpose. All I was doing was protecting the ball... For me, it was not even a foul.

P. J. Harvey

Ideally, you want to protect all of the important pieces, as much as you can.

Richelle Mead

I'd do a lot of things to protect you.

John Simmons

He was just protecting us. That showed us that he'll do what it takes to protect us.

Michael Essien

I don't know why (Lauren) should make out I elbowed him on purpose. All I was doing was protecting the ball... For me, it was not even a foul.

Veronica Roth

You promised you wouldn't tell her," she says, pointing at me. "What happened to protecting her?" "I changed my mind," I say. Tris laughs, harshly,"That's what you told him, that he would be protecting me? That's a pretty skillful manipulation. Well done.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

I’m protecting her. (Wulf) From? (Chris) Daimons. (Wulf) Big bad ones. (Cassandra)

Jonathan Safran Foer

When we talk about protecting our right to have guns, we are talking about protecting our right to shoot bullets. So what is it that's so important to shoot at?

Kurt Knauff

We're treating it, where we weren't treating it before. We were just protecting her.

Matt Brown

Having American refugees on American soil is heartbreaking,

Doug Anderson

It's become increasingly indefensible to have no refugee admissions.

Marco Rubio

In 2013 we had never faced a crisis like the Syrian refugee crisis now. Up until that point, a refugee meant someone fleeing oppression, fleeing Communism like it is in my community.

John McCain

Bashar Assad is a major cause of the refugees which are now flooding Europe and causing such consternation in the United States.

John Dowd

They must be treated lawfully under the refugee convention.

Jamie Shea

We've prevented Milosevic from using refugees as a weapon to destabilize neighboring countries.

Michael Franti

If we do not change our negative habits toward climate change, we can count on worldwide disruptions in food production, resulting in mass migration, refugee crises and increased conflict over scarce natural resources like water and farm land. This is a recipe for major security problems.

Christopher Hitchens

Don't take refuge in the false security of consensus.

Bob Baffert

He just had little pesky injuries. He's showing his stuff now.

Tiki Barber

I think we have the components, but we've got to keep showing that we can win a lot of different ways, like we already have,

Woody Allen

90% of success in life is showing up

Woody Allen

Showing up is 80 percent of life.

John Cena

Whether you like me or you don't, I still dig showing up for work.

Chris Marshall

It's showing our talent off to the scouts.

Paul Stanley

It's one way of showing there are no junkies on patrol.

Leo Atkinson

It's about always showing new stuff. Do not become stagnant.

Penn Jillette

At least it's showing that words have power.

Chief Seattle

This We Know. All Things Are Connected

Edward Abbey

Wilderness. The word itself is music.

Aldo Leopold

Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow.