Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Urbanization has relied on land conversion and land financing, which is causing urban sprawl and, on occasion, ghost towns and waste.

Amnon Dankner

He proved that it can be done without causing civil strife and he paved the way for his heir to go on with it.

Missy Sharer

Nothing will extend a lead quicker than causing a couple turnovers off your press.

Daunte Culpepper

They did a great job of causing confusion and stopping the run, and putting guys in position to make plays.

Mo Ibrahim

Transfer pricing is causing huge problems in Africa.

Walter Miller

Over the years, there has been some gradual growth out there causing other schools to become closer to capacity.

Chelsea Hobbs

The pressure to keep up with what society tells us is perfect is causing us to enter a time when women are no longer women, but plastic shells of what women used to be.

Raymond Woosley

We need to understand the biology, what it is about men and women that is causing this.

Pascual Gonzalez

There are right ways and wrong ways to make your voice heard, and we certainly understand the need for students to make their voices heard. But skipping school and causing a distraction on a public street, causing a disturbance, are not ways to make your voices heard!

Leif Johansson

now investigating the matter more closely to determine what has happened.

Walter Rodgers

This is a terribly closely contested election in a very tough campaign.

John Fougere

We count on our officers to closely scrutinize these offenders year-round. We don't see Halloween as a time to get serious about keeping an eye on offenders.

Rick Wagoner

While vehicle deliveries were somewhat resilient last week, it is too soon to determine the effect on consumer confidence, ... We will closely monitor the economic outlook and will be prepared to make appropriate production adjustments.

Karl Rove

What is important is that members of Congress have the time to get fully briefed on this. We intend to work closely with them in order to give them a comfort level on this.

Abe Reichental

We expect our local presence in Rock Hill to enable us to work closely with our local architects, developers and contractors to ensure that we execute the design and construction of our new facility on time and on budget.

Tony Iorio

We will work with them very closely to try to make this happen.

Brian Spears

The printout doesn't lie, ... The printout shows how many times the weapon was discharged. And the last discharge of the Taser corresponds very closely with the time he stopped breathing.

Jeffrey Kaye

Many times workers work very closely to each other in the 'cube' environment, and that is very stressful because it's noisy, there's little or no privacy, and there is a forced conviviality.

LaDainian Tomlinson

Over the years as I went through a lot more things, I've gotten closer and closer to God as far as praying a lot more, being into the Word.

Gerris Wilkinson

When I left, we got closer. It was kind of... we got much closer after I left. I'm not sure why that was.

Patricia Baker

The fact that drivers don't get paid if they don't race, consumers relate to that. Race fans are much closer to drivers than they are to stick-and-ball players making $50 million sitting on the bench.

Merlin Lahm

She's been in OK condition, and she's getting closer to race form. She was running great times last year.

Joan Baker

She's closer to me than my sisters, ... We've been through a lot together.

Jim Aumann

She got us started. Without that start, it would have been a closer game.

Kim Clijsters

She kept hitting the lines and going for her shots, but the closer it gets, she misses a smash. They'll go for more risks and you get them out of their comfort zone. That's what sometimes makes a difference.

Jimmy Howard

I have been dreaming of playing in the National Hockey League all of my life, and to get one step closer to that goal is special.

Pam Robinson

I have a very difficult time moving west of Metcalf when you have families driving past one, two or three elementary schools that are closer than 21.

Casey Stengel

I stayed up last night and watched the Republican Convention all night long. I watched all of them talk, and listened to them and seen them and I'm not interested in politics. If you watch them and listen to them you can find out why.

Harold Ford, Jr.

I look forward to their convention and look forward to hearing the President talk about what he will do for the next four years. He hasn't done it up to this point.

Ralph Brennan

We need to be able to increase our efforts and the efforts of the CVB to sell the Convention Center. This is a huge investment for the state, and we need to make sure it pays off.

Justin Trudeau

In 2012, the Liberal Party affirmed overwhelmingly at the policy convention that we are a pro-choice party. It means that we are a party that defends women's rights, and therefore, it would be inconsistent for any Liberal MP to be able to vote to take away women's rights.

Joan Didion

I lead a very conventional life.

Barack Obama

Our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn't have much to say about how they'd make it right. They want your vote, but they don't want you to know their plan.

George Takei

I thought this convention phenomenon was very flattering, but that's about the extent of it.

Jeff Nobers

Once we get the permits, it's about 120 days to get the store built, stocked and open.

Brendan Shanahan

The old days of having a two- or three-goal lead and just being able to lock on are over. You're just going to have to keep on playing.

Sherri Coale

After 30 days of practice and three wins now, it was not something I expected. I was very surprised there was a lack of poise from particularly my point guards.

Plaxico Burress

Some days you get the pretty lady. Some days you get the beast.

Michelle Monaghan

Some days I really love being a mom, and some days I don't! It's crazy - I'm tired of packing lunches!

Lora Ho

The sequential decline is mainly due to three fewer working days in February.

Ronnie Belliard

I started feeling a pinch in my right side a few days ago but figured I would just play through it,

Eric Zorn

I've been retired for about four days now.

Ali Omar

I've been trying to vote since 10 a.m.. They say I'm not registered to vote, but four days ago, I went to the police station to register and they said I could vote with my ID card. Today when I tried to vote, they said I couldn't.

Dan Hampton

It was a perfect storm of talent, personalities, direction, goals and dominance.

Kevin Myers

I see our role as a complement, not an alternative to the public schools. We view ourselves as a partner, an extension. Our goal is to return the kids to the public schools as quickly as possible.

Adrian Fenty

This government can get things done when we put our minds to it. The real goal is that we institutionalize that in the police department.

Reggie Evans

That's why we still got a lot of our main guys still playing. That's our goal for right now these last three games, is to try and get the home-court advantage.

Brian Tracy

Success is goals, everything else is commentary.

Brian Tracy

Develop and maintain momentum by working continuously toward your sales goals every day.

Alanis Morissette

Getting married and starting a family has been a lifelong goal and one that I have persevered through different paths up to it!

Bong Joon-ho

I don't intentionally make my films with the express goal of surprising the viewer.

Billie Joe Armstrong

My goal is to be one of the biggest bands in the world, and I have never been bashful about saying that.

Toby Keith

Probably 75 percent of the people in this town think I'll fail, and the other 25 percent hope I fail,

Christian Prudhomme

After seven years of implacable domination, there will be a different race which I hope will be open.

Kirk Pedersen

Right now we are struggling a little big with our relay teams. We are going to work on those and hopefully get them to run a little better.

Mike Slive

Right now, there is peace in the valley. We hope to keep it that way for a little while.

Ian Shepherdson

This is as upbeat a testimony as could reasonably have been hoped for.

Tim Frisby

This is a start. Hopefully I'll get more this season,

Jimmy Rollins

You've got to respect them. You can't just put up lollipop pitches and hope to get them out.

Mary Shelley

You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you,as mine has been.

Rick Clunn

You're going to be making a lot of decisions, and you hope they're the right ones.

Otis Smith

You want me to tell you that moving Steve was big? I told you that when we moved him.

Melissa McBride

The only way to move forward is to be able to trust whomever you're with 100 percent.

Adrian Beltre

Don't like them, ... I'm not comfortable with them. When you move, it moves around. I never wear one.

Anna Kendrick

When I was 12, I did this show on Broadway called 'High Society,' so we moved to New York for the run of that.

Janet Reno

Everyone working together has made a difference, but you can't say, 'Okay, now let's move on to something else,' ... We can never relax our vigilance about crime, about enforcement, about prevention ... there's going to be some new problem down the road.

Michael Useem

Every move you make is scrutinized for its meaning, its performance, its adequacy,

Ron Carey

This victory sends a signal that American workers are on the move again.

Jay Wright

You get past that first one and now we are in the tournament. We've moved on and I think that makes them feel better, that they can just go play basketball.

Todd Clapper

There's just more people gunning for us now. It should give us confidence, but also we've got a lot of work to do to move up and keep moving in a positive direction.

Frank Barnaby

A vast percentage of centrifuges have to be rejected in testing, up to 60% rejection.

Phil Simms

The team performed even better than I thought they would,

John Eaton

I wait until something is really in the shape that I want to make it as a permanent record, because I think of recording as a permanent record.

China Anne McClain

On Disney, we stick to the script. But you go to the 'Grown Ups set' and it's completely different. Same thing with Tyler Perry - it's nothing but ad-libbing.

Stacy Stewart

Perhaps by the end of the work week it could be posing a threat to Bermuda, but not the US.

Anthony Sampson

Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.

Brian Tracy

Persistence is self-discipline in action.

Jamie Redknapp

I am a positive person and do not allow things to get on top of me.

Jane Smiley

Because your goal is a complete rough draft of a novel, and every rough draft, by being complete, is perfect.

James Long

I've stayed in Hiltons before, but I'd have to say that this was one of the best. They did everything for us.

Lindsey Hunter

Things are going well, but it just takes time. It's all going well, so I just have to stay patient.

Jane Addams

Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.

Brodie Croyle

Don't get used to that. I want to stay back there and throw it if I can.

Derek Jeter

I stay in touch with him, but he hasn't said anything. He really hasn't.

Matthew Lillard

I stayed at a Howard Johnson's once when I was 19 and that kind of scarred me for life.

Joe Torre

We'll stay with it as long we're comfortable with it and it's productive. We're trying to do things that work immediately.

Derek Sivers

Instead of staying strong and working through when times are really tough, I usually quit this recipe for failure and start a whole new recipe. So if something is too challenging, I tend to chalk it up as not a good fit, and move on to something else.

Alannah Myles

I give myself strength by staying away from any music.

Chris McAlister

No sacks, no turnovers. That's not our type of football.

Craig Ferguson

In the 1970s vampires were pretty boring. The scariest vampire was Count Chocula. One bite of Count Chocula and you were cursed with Type 2 diabetes.

Abdallah II of Jordan

I'm not the type of person that is forced.

Ryan Kavanaugh

To me, an Oscar movie has to have some type of emotional pull.

Allen Ginsberg

The typewriter is holy the poem is holy the voice is holy the hearers are holy the ecstacy is holy!

Alex Haley

But then, as far as I know, as far as I've studied or heard or picked up, it seems that this type of thing is a curse against mankind.

E. M. Forster

There has been, is, and always will be every conceivable type of person.

David Bailey

I'm never shocked, I'm not the shockable type!

Dave Attell

I'm not like a performer type.