Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob McKenzie

Just the traffic volumes. It's something our bridge inspectors are taking a look at.

William J. Clinton

The stimulus is our bridge over troubled waters. And if it's invested well, it'll generate a lot of economic growth, and we'll get quite a bit of the revenues back.

William J. Clinton

It's important that the American people understand that President has proposed and passed this stimulus plan not as the end-all and be-all to our economic woes but as our bridge over troubled water until we get the finance system, the banking system working again.

Warren Buffett

In an inflationary world, a toll bridge (like company) would be a great thing to own because you've laid out the capital costs. You built it in old dollars and you don't have to keep replacing it.

Theo Staub

Other students studied piano or violin, but I switched from flutes to drums. Music is a bridge between cultures.

Dan Johnson

Right now the bridge catches debris even in low flow situations.

Chris Sanders

Right up here at the top of this bridge is where the guy flagged me down.

Welsh Proverb

If you would get ahead, be a bridge

John Mayer

I support building a bridge large enough to handle the growth that has occurred and the growth that will occur in the future.

James Jeffords

I was lucky to be able to call Christopher Reeve a friend.His passion for life and for improving the lives of all Americans serves an inspiration to all of us. He may have played the character of Superman in the movies, but he lived the role of a superman through his life.

Pierce Brosnan

I was looking forward to making (Bond) edgier and grittier -- and for all of that to go down in one phone call was highly disappointing,

Tony Oliva

Kirby meant to me a lot. For me, it's like my own son. He used to call me 'Papa', too.

Cindy Mannes

I would not say it's an epidemic by any stretch, but it is a problem. We used to get one or two calls a year ... Now we're getting one or two calls a week.

Manny Fernandez

Jacques said any roll we can get on is a bonus. Well, I would start calling this a roll.

Rick Dunlap

I would say the ice fishing is what we call gravy. The lion's share is made in the summer and fall.

Mark DiCamillo

I would suspect his tone would change significantly if they don't make it onto the November ballot. If that happened, I could see calling the Legislature all sorts of names by the end of the campaign.

Gary Brown

Ken Lay is what I would call a fix-it man who thinks he can pick up the phone and take care of it because of who he is, a man of power. It's as though he thinks he can call anyone, any time. They're not going to like that kind of attitude.

Rich Beem

Just think of it as a golf cart with a V-8. Call it the Silver Bullet, baby.

Paul Gillis

I think it's going to do a lot of good for the city. I think that it's going to help out by cleaning up the houses, some of the streets.

R. Inge

I think it's great. I'm glad they're cleaning up the sport. I don't like it that anything can be tainted with an illegal substance. It's just going to make the playing field a little more level.

Tracy Bowen

It isn't getting better. We just keep cleaning it up every year.

Peter Evans

If you've got a switch underwater obviously it won't operate. It's also difficult to repair. There's so much potential damage from static discharge, dirt and algae that the cost of cleaning it would likely exceed the cost of replacing it.

Mike Stevens

It's slow going, ... As far as serious snowfall in and around Buffalo, we'll be cleaning up for four or five days. When we see sufficient progress on the side streets, we'll lift the ban.

Vickie Schmitt

It makes me wonder if I still got some dry cleaning out there. I don't know.

Sean Moore

Forget corporations--for NGOs, for whom an important part of their revenue is government money, the cost is tremendous. When we talk about cleaning up the procurement system, it's very important that you don't create an environment in which it simply isn't worth it to try to work with the government.

John Pescatore

The spreading of the worm has slowed down slightly, but the real cost is going back and cleaning computers.

Bruce Krall

I spent a lot of money and a lot of effort cleaning it up.

Ian Shepherdson

The gains were uneven, however, with small declines in clothing and electronics, a decent 0.7 percent rise for general merchandise and a huge leap for non-store retailers. Provided January holds up -- surveys suggest so far, so good -- the overall holiday season will have been pretty good.

Chris Anderson

The focus is the music, but we're trying to make it as much of a show was we can, with the lights and the clothing and the music. It's a party.

Michael Lombardi

They created a lifestyle for people with the clothing, (and) the clothing got fashionable. Everybody wanted to be in that lifestyle.

Jarron Collins

They come find us. On a road trip here (in Charlotte), a clothing company called my room and said 'Do you need anything?' They come to your room with fabric.

Brent Mull

There were some tears in her clothing that indicated he used some type of cutting instrument to cut away her clothing,

Walter Miller

We want to provide hope. While there are short term needs like food and water these victims have no clothing no housing, ... We want to lift spirits in a time when there's not much to look forward to.

Kim Clijsters

As long as my clothing remains an issue, it is impossible for me to go to the Olympics,

Eileen Larrabee

The speaker has been pushing for the elimination of the sales tax on clothing for years and is disappointed in the governor's proposal. It's a tax increase on working families. For the day-to-day life of working families, the elimination would be much more to their benefit.

Reg Pullen

Sometimes in the fall we'll see 20 or 30 of these birders, dressed out in Abercrombie & Fitch clothing with their spotting scopes, looking at some little dickey bird. The word gets out that there's some shorebird that's rare, and they all flock to the coast to look at it.

Ryan Sims

There is a general consensus in the community of the need for a multipurpose facility. A general consensus doesn't provide the details needed for funding, so we are collecting this data to solidify the consensus into a concrete form.

Ron Moody

I'd been collecting eccentric moves since I was a kid and didn't even know that the dance step I improvised in 'Be Back Soon' was called a 'pas de basque.'

Robert Hartman

In 2005, we ended up $400,000 in the red. We were not collecting for the costs the co-op had. It just wasn't a stellar year.

Billy Beane

I'm collecting them all. But obviously, Danny's smarter than I am because he decided to go to Stanford. He's a great player, but he's also a great kid. He's the kind of guy you'd like to have as your son, just a really impressive young man.

Marty Turco

I'm not really forgotten. I'm out there collecting the wins, so that's fine with me.

Larry Ellison

All the information about you as a patient would be in one spot, ... The idea here is to stop collecting paper.

Kerry Smith

Provo is having a problem maintaining its buildings, because they are not collecting enough money to maintain them.

Kate Kendall

It was very exciting. I was just delighted. We put a lot of work into collecting those samples, and we wanted to get as much information as we could from them.

Peter Hayes

These were songs that we?d been writing and collecting over the years. Some of them we actually thought about putting on previous albums. But we didn't want to make it seem like they were filler tracks or novelties in the middle of a rock record. We felt like they were too important for that.

Bob White

There was nothing in Cobb County to coordinate disasters. Cobb Disaster Recovery has done all the hard work.

Phil Clark

We're saying please coordinate with the state. It's not that we don't think this help is important.

Paul Steiger

I look forward to hearing from you further on this matter so that we can coordinate Danny's safe and timely release.

Alvin E. Roth

I gravitated to economics because I'm interested in how people coordinate and collaborate with each other. Economics studies all the ways people get along with each other.

Frank Halish

The defense has taken more time to coordinate than in previous years.

Don Wood

We will register you and put you into teams. We have coordinators who will work and coordinate search efforts and take you out into the field. Two hours is all we really ask.

Mark Rosenker

We have to look at event data recorder in more detail. We must also coordinate that with the signal logs, which will give us an idea of what was supposed to have happened.

Ron Hutchins

John is a very pleasing young man to have. He's very focused on what he does. You'll see him moving up.

S. Walker

It all seems to be focused on him (Rodriguez).

Larry Hoff

Her scoring numbers are actually a little down from last year. Part of it is because we have other players who can score, but the main reason is that Jessi has focused on getting her teammates more involved.

Mike Beall

I think you can see by the reaction of my girls. They know we're going to have to play them again. It's just another region game, just like the last one was. Just another region game. Our focus right now is Flagstaff next Tuesday on the road.

Jim Finlen

We told the guys they'll wake up Sunday morning and it's a new day. I just hope we can get our focus back.

Frank Martin

We are focusing on maximizing our revenue streams through product innovation,

Vince Borg

We are focused on the integration of Placer Dome's assets, people and projects.

Vince Carter

I think we've established ourselves at home. But we've still got to keep that focus every night.

Ray Hunkins

I think what we have to focus on with the wolf issue is reducing the number of wolves in Wyoming, and the methodology can be different.

Eric Schlosser

There is a growing market today for local, organic foods produced by small farmers. And farmers' markets have played a large role in making that happen.

Allen Johnson

We've been told they have to be 'completely self-sufficient,' ... so they have to take their own food, water and clothing. There is no local support.

Thomas Armstrong

When they see the Spirit of Connecticut coming, they'll know they're going to get good food coming.

Truman Capote

First, a gorgeous breakfast: just everything you can imagine from flapjacks and fried squirrel to hominy grits and honey in the comb...we're so impatient to get at the presents we can't eat a mouthful.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it to your guests is a sign of fatigue.

Roald Amundsen

A rich and varied menu is for people who have no work to do.

Samuel Hoffenstein

My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet.

Sally Schneider

Confit is the ultimate comfort food, and trendy or not, it is dazzling stuff.

Roger Ebert

What's sad about not eating is the experience, whether at a family reunion or at midnight by yourself in a greasy spoon under the L tracks. The loss of dining, not the loss of food.

John Kessel

Kafka is not interested in documenting the manners and mores of any particular place; he is not interested in probing the psyche of individual characters.

Lisa Presley

Having kids was the smartest thing I've ever done. They're little sponges who come into the world with a clean, shiny slate and such pureness. I'm interested in having more kids.

Ron Hilliard

He should have a big year. He's been rated by Dennis McCarty as one of the top linemen in the state. Michigan State, Penn State and Rutgers are very interested in Dan.

Eddie Campbell

I thought about this, I thought these people are ringing me about horror. I don't think I like horror, I don't think I'm interested in horror.

Sean McGowan

The people who are obviously most interested in it obviously went out and did it already. He doesn't even talk about it.

Dan Hicks

I was always looking to record, but how much I actually pursued it was another thing. The major labels weren't that interested in me, and the smaller labels didn't have any money to do anything.

Madeline Albright

He was jovial and forthcoming, and interested and different from what we had all been led to believe,

Lynda Carter

I don't know that the people that are doing Wonder Woman are too interested in my point of view,

Phil Brown

Paulo would be one we are interested in but not at the moment.

Kelli Calloway

The dresses, shoes and purses can all be loaned and don't have to be donated. It doesn't have to be a permanent donation. Whoever wants to loan items can get everything back dry-cleaned.

Paul Parker

These items can become missiles and they can stop storm drainage,

Fred Reid

I've got a checklist with 3,200 items on it. At any time, 150 of them are burning.

James Billington

We have 119 million items in 460 different languages,

Matthew Brown

We sell items on eBay. It doesn't get much simpler than that.

Audrey Johnson

When he saw her, he meant to have her. That was what he always said. He just loved my mother.

Lizette Hernandez

I didn't want him to ride, but oh, my God, he loved them.

Rachel Remen

I did this because the person I loved wanted it.

Jen Buckingham

It's been tuned, it's been played, it's been loved for many years, but it really needed some restoration.

Evelyn Fox

It's very sad, but he was?and his mom really wants everyone to know?a soldier, and he loved what he did.

Linda Sellers

They were opposites, but they were each other's favorites. They loved each other.

Rhoda Katz

They loved to travel the world. It's a wonderful thing, if you can do it.

Freddy Mella

They loved the idea and I have been registered with them since September.

Kim Howells

They will offer practical moral support to loved ones.

Rick Bragg

The best writers who have put pen to paper have often had a journalism background.

Werner Heisenberg

In my paper the fact the XY was not equal to YX was very disagreeable to me. I felt this was the only point of difficulty in the whole scheme...and I was not able to solve it.

William Faulkner

The writer doesn't need economic freedom. All he needs is a pencil and some paper.

Will Self

As a bookish adolescent, I sopped up texts as if I were blotting paper and they were fluid.

Faythe Levine

If you've never been to the Paper Boat, we have over 100 artists' work on sale in the store.

Chris Nelson

I read the paper and it makes me nervous.

Mahatma Gandhi

A bogus Congress register can never lead you to Swaraj any more than a paper boat can help you to sail across the Padma.

Will Rogers

All I know is what I read in the papers

Kirk Kerkorian

You get a checklist, and then you just sort of ride herd on it. It's just a few items on a single sheet of paper.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

Gale Norton

I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving.

Gary Sheffield

I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always tell the truth. That should count for something, right?

Sam Rockwell

I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.

Sam Worthington

I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.

Andy Warhol

I will go to the Opening of Anything, including a Toilet Seat

J. K. Rowling

We'll send you a Hogwarts toilet seat!

Orson Scott Card

The only process you've mastered is the process of elimination, and the only reason you've mastered that is because you can do it in the toilet.