Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Franck

The boys approached me and asked if they could do it. The seniors grew up with him. It was a nice thing to do.

Gianfranco Fini

As of today, the organizers of the conference had asked for entry visas for six Iraqi political exponents notorious for positions which are radical, extremist and not unequivocally hostile to terrorism,

Joseph Tate

As lawyers, we recognize that a person's recollection of events will not always match those of other people, particularly when they are asked to testify months after the events occurred.

Hale Irwin

As long as I have a chance, that's all I've ever asked of myself.

Joseph Bridges

As Matt indicated, we essentially looked at the comments and asked which were complete and which were substantive.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

RANK, n. Relative elevation in the scale of human worth.He held at court a rank so high That other noblemen asked why."Because," 'twas answered, "others lack His skill to scratch the royal back." --Aramis Jukes

Geoffrey Nice

Proof will include truth, but it will not present the full picture. We have a limitless field of evidence from the wars, but we are not inquiring like scientists; we are asked to extract from it.

Bob Long

Pro asked us questions like 'Who are your competitors?' and forced us to look at all the crevices of our business,

James Humphrey

Probably if you had asked me 30 seconds after I finished it, I could tell you.

Gerald Galloway

Major urban centers like Sacramento, like Los Angeles, remain protected only at the margin. Engineers and scientists have got to be fully involved in this decision process, this political process.

John Beilein

He's very, very quick. And in the Big East (Conference) you don't see that. Generally, the centers are more 6-10 to 7 feet, and 250-260 pounds. He's so quick and he's so active, there will be problems for us there.

Trudi Lacey

We are thrilled to have Tammy back with the Charlotte Sting. She has been an integral part of our team for the past five years and has continued to make improvements in her game to become one of the top centers in the league.

Steve Valdez

You can find out anything you want. We're hoping in the future to also be able to show you where the different neighborhood service centers and parks are. And after a couple of other departments join in, we'll be able to tell what programs are being offered at various parks and senior centers.

Frank Turner

What Lincoln wants to do is to create a mixed-use urban center. One of the questions the plan commission needs to consider is how many and how big and where should urban centers be the most appropriately located.

Rick Smolan

They're trying to put data centers in cold environments because they're actually generating so much heat now; they're using up so much electricity.

Barton Gellman

Iraq has the most extensive petrochemical industry in the Middle East and a wealth of vaccine factories, single-cell protein research labs, medical and veterinary manufacturing centers and water treatment plants.

Chip Conley

When people get into that fight-or-flight place, then they move away from the creative centers of their brain.

Linda Rosenstock

UCLA's School of Public Health is now poised to house one of the leading reproductive health and population centers in the United States. Thanks to the commitment and vision of the Bixby Foundation, we are able to develop and enhance programs that enrich our students' training and make a difference in people's lives.

Howard Osofsky

People's emotions are very frayed, ... And returning citizens will often be more irritable dealing with their own issues. People coming back will be under more pressure more stress.

Mark DiCamillo

The survey just looked at registered Latino voters. Had it included non-voters and non-citizens, the numbers likely would have been different.

Paul Hancock

Public officials have a responsibility to count and recognize the votes of all Floridians who voted in this presidential election, ... Factors such as administrative inconvenience, expediency or the limitations of vote-reading machines pale in comparison to protecting the voting rights of our citizens.

Fatos Nano

These elections are of extraordinary importance. This will be a society of free citizens no different from other European nations. Tomorrow will be a new day.

Elliott Abrams

Denmark has long been regarded as one of the world's most attractive nations, for citizens and tourists alike. My own visits there, years ago as a student, were delightful.

Candace Cameron Bure

I'm a mom, so I have to be comfortable. Jeans are a staple - I have way too many in my closet! It's warm in Florida, so I wear jeans and a tank top every day. I love my True Religions, my Rich and Skinny, and Citizens of Humanity. But I also love getting dressed up!

Alan Dershowitz

Twenty five percent of Israeli citizens are not even Jewish. Anybody can become an Israeli citizen if you qualify. Religion is not a criterion for citizenship.

Desiderius Erasmus

I am a citizen of the world, known to all and to all a stranger.

Dennis Prager

The bigger the State, the smaller the citizen

Leslie Howle

The thing I think I'm missing the most is she was so much fun to go places with. Sometimes, Octavia ended our phone conversations with, 'I'll be seeing you then.' I didn't get to say goodbye, so I'll say, I'll be seeing you then.

Cierra Ramirez

A dream of mine is to become an executive producer and writer. I would love if that ended up happening to me in the future.

Mel Kahele

Actually, we ended up with a real deal, a package that I don't think we would have been able to refuse.

Lorraine Jones

Ten would have been nice for the first one. We've ended up with this.

Luc Robitaille

It was the second time we've done it. Most of the guys ended up playing with their kids in the back yard, or they took naps.

Anthony Crescenzi

It was very well subscribed -- and that was why they raised it and it ended up being $4.8 billion.

Mark Philippoussis

It was a long day, but it ended up well so I'm happy. The hard work is paying off. I've just got to be patient and keep working at it.

Donald Brownlee

They always ended up with a rigid, crusty material. If you were standing on it you might go right through it.

Greg Holle

That shot gave us all the momentum. When he threw it up over what seemed like 15 guys I was thinking, 'What the heck are you doing?' but it ended up being the smartest shot he's ever taken. He's a genius.

Linette Johnson

Actually it was more like five times. I over exaggerated.

Mike Slive

I used to go to more games than I do now. Every game you see in person you probably miss somewhere between five and 10 games.

Mark Haley

I wanted five good innings. Kellen Raab was going to be ready if we needed him. But Jackson just kept going and going.

Ichiro Suzuki

I've seen a lot of great plays in my five years in the majors. And I know we have enough talent on our team to be able to contend.

Caroline Paul

I should really be lifting only five days. I'm sort of obsessed, and I end up going in six, sometimes seven, and that's not good. Something that I preach but don't practice - moderation.

Matt Sylvester

I've been giving him assists for five years; he owed me one.

William Rehnquist

I used to worry about every little footnote, ... Now I realize you just need five votes.

George Carlin

I've never had a 10, but one night I had five twos

Andrew Brunette

This game was played in spurts. If we could've kept it tied with five minutes to play, we could've gotten a win tonight.

John Allen

As pope, he has to be the pastor of everyone.

Michael Fincke

Space has shown us over the past years that things aren't always what we expect, and that we need to be ready.

Orlando Bloom

Now my favourite pastime is to take a bath with my son.

Ben Okri

The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like.

Art Buchwald

We seem to be going through a period of nostalgia, and everyone seems to think yesterday was better than today. I don't think it was, and I would advise you not to wait ten years before admitting today was great. If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time.

Aziz Ansari

To be honest, I tend to romanticize the past, and though I appreciate all the conveniences of modern life, sometimes I yearn for simpler times.

C. S. Lewis

Most of all, perhaps, we need an intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has anything magical about it, but we cannot study the future.

Bryant H. McGill

Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.

Celia Green

Society expresses its sympathy for the geniuses of the past to distract attention from the fact that it has no intention of being sympathetic to the geniuses of the present.

Andy Grove

There's a tendency at the senior and middle-manager level to be too big-picturish and too superficial. There is a phrase, "The devil is in the details." One can formulate brilliant global strategies whose executability is zero. It's only through familiarity with details - the capability of the individuals who have to execute, the marketplace, the timing - that a good strategy emerges. I like to work from details to big pictures.

Alistair Cooke

I hasten to say to snobs from the Surrey pine-and-sand country that no invention since the corn plaster or the electric toothbrush has brought greater balm to the extremities of the senior golfer than the golfmobile, a word that will have to do for want of a better.

Andrea Jung

Avon is a unique place to work; we've got family-friendly policies. We have more senior women in high-level management than any other company; 46 percent of our officers are women.

Alexander Lebedev

I am not aspiring to be a senior bureaucrat. It would limit my freedom.

Alexa Von Tobel

Without any formal personal finance instruction in our high school or college curricula, many college seniors who graduate in the red will continue to make common financial mistakes that only exacerbate their debt burdens.

Alex Trebek

People ask me, How would you do as a contestant on the show? And I tell them I would do fairly well among senior citizens, but against a good thirty-year-old I would have trouble because I cannot recall information as quickly as I used to. You used to say something and I would go, boom, right away, very sharp. Now it's like, Oh, yes, but wait a minute, uh, uh...

Alex Trebek

The only reason I got into broadcasting was, I needed money to pay for my junior and senior years at college, and they hired me, those fools!

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

President Obama is closing the prescription drug doughnut hole. He strengthened Medicare! He extended the life of the program by eight years. And what Governor Romney and Congressman Ryan won't admit is that their plan would require current seniors to pay, on average, $600 more each year for prescription drugs.

E. O. Wilson

I was a senior in high school when I decided I wanted to work on ants as a career. I just fell in love with them, and have never regretted it.

Todrick Hall

The number one question I'm asked as a YouTuber every day is, 'How can I get my videos out there; how can I make my videos go viral?'

Jill Sobule

I was very inspired by the videos of the crowds at the Palin rallies.

Sarah Silverman

I love making videos on my couch. You can put those on the Internet fast. I can express myself.

Nia Long

Directing music videos is all about capturing images.

Placido Domingo

Young singers are much better educated musically, much better informed, through discs and videos, than I was.

Todd Nace

We're about a week away from reopening, once we get the (insurance) settlement.

Paul Johnson

We'll have to see. Two weeks into the spring, we'll have an idea of the separation.

Sylvester Croom

This week has never been about just football; how could it be?

Albert Brooks

I was in Kashmir last weekend. Went to visit one of my sweaters.

Joe Gibbs

Two weeks in a row, he's been pretty impressive.

Taye Diggs

On the set I never know what day of the week it is.

Ray Nagin

One of the best moments Ive ever had in New Orleans is seeing Bourbon Street filled on a weekend night not long ago. Just watching the city breathe again.

Tony Abbott

If you don't want to work weekends, don't.

Tommy Rettig

There's a big difference between somebody who does acid on weekends and somebody who takes downers every day.