Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brent Plater

Green sturgeon are on the brink of extinction, and we have a moral obligation to ensure that this ancient creature survives for future generations to enjoy.

Shari Arison

For most of my life, I have received messages - images and worded communications, sometimes even in an ancient language - that came to me from above.

Edward Hirsch

I think ancient cultures incorporated death into the experience of life in a more natural way than we have done. In our obsessive focus on youth, on celebrity, our denial of death makes it harder for people who are grieving to find a place for that grief.

Margaret O'Brien

I was always fascinated, even as a child, by antiques and ancient times. I always felt I should have been born in the 17th or 18th century. They really had a big stone castle with authentic furniture.

Robert Owens

We may look through ancient and modern history, yet scarce find a sovereign to whom God offered the privilege of bestowing on humanity a boon so vast.

Jack Gleeson

I'd like to be an academic, a philosophy lecturer if possible. I'd do a Masters in Ancient Hebrew maybe, and a Ph.D. hopefully, if I get in.

M. Wolfe

I am also working with Mark Carlton on a maze game set in Ancient Greece. It is still in the early stages and is estimated to be completed in summer 2006.

Phil Gramm

He has reminded me in this debate of an ancient god Aeneas whose mother was the Earth, and every time he was thrown to the ground he got up stronger than he had been when he was cast to the ground,

Rick Riordan

that's me. ancient history." [Poseidon to Paul]

Ron Sims

King County has completed a remarkable financial turnaround that any corporation would envy.

Carla Ponte

It is a great pity for justice that the (Milosevic) trial will not be completed and no verdict will be rendered.

Christopher Williams

We're in the final stages of including strong warnings in . . . the patient information. It's going to be completed by the end of the month.

Gary Doer

What is a concern is the plant-like material that needed culture testing. That hasn't been completed yet. It takes two more weeks.

Rob Katz

We are extremely pleased that we have completed the exchange with the Forest Service for the five-acre Federal parcel. It allows us to proceed to the next steps in the Front Door project.

Tom Daschle

If we completed the count, there is little doubt you'd be ahead, ... In order to win, you have to get the votes. We think you've got the votes.

Bill Pecoriello

restructuring and reorganization plans don't seem to be fully completed yet.

Mark Waggoner

In the next month to month-and-a-half, we're going to hit $70 a barrel, and I would expect $75 to $85 by the summer. We're just going to be taking the supplies down until refinery maintenance is completed around the end of the month.

Kuntoro Mangkusubroto

In the mid of 2007, all of internally displaced persons will live in permanent houses. The facility of health and education will be completed next year.

Tony Raines

Knowing how we ran early in the race and how I think we could have run, I was disappointed. But at the same time, I went there knowing I was going to race for a finish. I didn't race anybody.

Helen Brown

I would say that Cosmo was always a feminist magazine; it was before the movement really took shape. The early feminist movement felt I put a lot of emphasis on beauty, which was true.

Mike Ledsome

Katie was ready to go (Thursday). She got into a groove early and started hitting her spots and pitching stronger as the games progressed.

Rich Brands

Just looking at their results, I think it will be a pretty even match. We want to come out and not make any mistakes early on. We want to try and exploit some of the free kicks and throw-in stuff we've been working on.

Ben Gordon

Just like Tuesday (against Dallas) we struggled early and in the second half we were able to make a run. It was just a little to late.

Frank Warren

Joe is never going to be ready for that (November date) so we'll try to rearrange it for next year. It is frustrating for Joe but these things happen in boxing. It is a great shame. We'll do the fight early next year, maybe February.

Kevin Merkle

I think it is too early to form a long-lasting opinion. It is good to get some feedback first.

Jim Schmitz

He comes out early all the time. But he's struggling.

Graeme Murphy

I mean, I think in the early days we were pretty... pretty British in our entertainment leads.

Simon Hauger

We've estimated that there's probably between $80,000 and $100,000 worth of parts in the car.

Saddam Hussein

I just wanted to be able to reach at least half of the show's estimated viewers.

David Orr

Initially, we estimated the number of people in need was about one million and we had reached about 50 percent of them. We've had a food security team in the field and they've revised the estimate up quite dramatically.

Val Charlton

The circumference of the fire is an estimated 50km.

John Challenger

A growing number of unemployed Americans waste time browsing the estimated 4,000 to 5,000 online job sites, blanketing them with resumes, and then waiting for callbacks. It is a formula for long-drawn-out joblessness.

Chris Evans

The Italian-based horse is worth somewhere around $10 million after winning six of seven major races and finishing second in the seventh. If he is going to win in Tokyo and perform like this next year, his value could reach an estimated $30 million.

Peter Piot

The number of people living with HIV globally has reached its highest level ever at an estimated 40.3 million people.

Terri Smith

They are estimated higher than what they will actually be,

Rob Binns

World Airways will operate five international round trips a week under the contract, which has an estimated value of $11 million.

Paul Doughty

Knowing that I have these younger girls who are playing and getting better every game is encouraging.

Tom Renney

Kevin was fine. I thought it was more an opportunity to wake up 18 guys and get ourselves back in the hockey game by doing what we have to do in terms of managing the puck, and maybe give yourself to play 5-on-5 hockey or better.

Dion Phaneuf

I wouldn't pinpoint any one thing. I just have to play my game and I didn't do that for the first little bit.

David Ward

Jacob pitched a really good game for us today. He was throwing pretty hard. If he can keep pitching like that, we'll be in good shape.

Larry Finucane

I would say the pressure is on them (Mills). They're the #6 or #7 seed and have the game on their home court.

Rich Kaelin

Katie really looks up to some of my seniors. But that's the nice thing about softball. It's very competitive on the field, but once the game is over most of these girls are friends.

Joe Torre

Just win as many games as we can and see where that leaves us when it's over.

Jeff Ackermann

Keir Jeter played a tremendous game tonight. He was awesome.

Tom Massolio

Just the speed of the game (isn't there). We try to practice like it's a game, at the same speed. But you don't have the jitters of a game.

Patty Thayer

I would say it's one of our most important marketing pieces. It is a response to every phone call, to every reader, that we get.

Mike Johns

Just to regain that market share we had before will take some time.

Edmund Daukoru

Just rest assured, we are under obligation to the market to keep the market well supplied. We meet as often as it takes to micro-manage the short-term volatility.

Francis Gannon

I think in this market you never know what's going to happen,

Jim Robb

I think the market will not really react to it.

Alex Brown

I think the markets will probably be up,

Brett Gallagher

I think the market is just biding its time, and we're going to have these back-and-forth days.

Larry Wachtel

I think the market has done quite well in what is supposed to be the worst month of the year, but at some point you're going to run into an overbought condition,

Tom Gallagher

I think the market doesn't know where to go.

Lord Chesterfield

Firmness of purpose is one of the best instruments of success.

James Billington

They're somewhat easier, because they're self-contained. They don't have the same maze of menus and screens you have to navigate with software.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Theirs is an endless road, a hopeless maze, who seek for goods before they seek for God.

Catherynne M. Valente

I am the Walker and the Maze.

E. M. Forster

Those who search for truth are too conscious of the maze to be hard on others.

Imre Lakatos

It is not that we propose a theory and Nature may shout NO; rather, we propose a maze of theories, and Nature may shout INCONSISTENT.

Brian Waldron

We can co-exist with soccer, absolutely. They're essentially a summer sport and we're winter. We'll make it work beautifully.

Rob Sheffield

God bless America - what other civilization would give Patrick Dempsey another shot to rule as a sex symbol, twenty years after 'Meatballs III: Summer Job?' His reign as Dr. McDreamy on 'Grey's Anatomy' is proof that there's nothing we love more than giving Eighties celebs a heartwarming second stab at life.

Richard Paul Evans

There are people who come into our lives as welcome as a cool breeze in summer- and last about as long.

Tyler Perry

Developing a good work ethic is a key [to success]. Apply yourself at whatever you do, whether you're a janitor or taking your first summer job, because that work ethic will be reflected in everything you do in life.

Truman Capote

Hot weather opens the skull of a city, exposing its white brain, and its heart of nerves, which sizzle like the wires inside a lightbulb. And there exudes a sour extra-human smell that makes the very stone seem flesh-alive, webbed and pulsing.

Rick Riordan

She'd secretly had a crush on him since they were twelve years old. Last summer, she'd fallen for him hard.

William Law

Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.

Violette Leduc

I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music. It is a fire that solitude presses against my lips.

Woody Allen

I wonder if Socrates and Plato took a house on Crete during the summer.