Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Johannessen

Our agency will pay for this if we have to. It's too critical to get caught up in a question of who ultimately is going to pay for it.

Mark Dayton

Apparently the primary qualification necessary to lead the nation's disaster relief agency was to have been a major supporter of the president's 2000 election campaign,

Robb Hankins

Any nonprofit organization (in Stark County) was eligible to apply. In many cases, it's the local church or the elementary school or the social service agency that's doing arts projects. We just didn't know about it.

Andy Jackson

The skill of the agency, photographer and ourselves combine to create a fantastic image and happy client. Quotes from manufacturers already state that they see CGI as a major part of the solution for future photography. If an agency decides not to embrace this, they run the risk of being left behind by their competitors.

Ion Sancho

The secretary of state's office has been a very difficult agency to work with the past couple of years. This gives the governor an opportunity to really step forward and select someone who has expertise in the area of elections.

Alex Roland

The shuttle could never do what the agency tried to make it do, and so they traded off safety. I don't blame the managers; they were presented with an impossible job.

Chris Taylor

I've never asked for anything. I've never gotten a raise in my seven years. So you always think that they'll come back and want to keep you just because what I've done. I've always stayed here, never gone the free agency route and never asked for a raise. Hopefully they'll take care of me now.

David Dye

A few short years ago, those numbers would have been laughed at as impossible goals. Our agency is constantly examining its strategies and looking at outcomes to determine how we can help the mining industry drive fatality, injury and illness rates down to zero.

Tom Courtney

The one thing it said was under no circumstance would any government agency be allowed to keep the fingerprints on file,

Peter Zahler

As a species, the cheetahs are still in dire straits in Iran, so it is extremely encouraging to see an apparently healthy family in their native habitat.

Kevin Bankston

As best we can tell, the NSA program is apparently the biggest fishing expedition ever devised, scanning millions of ordinary Americans' calls and e-mails for suspicious patterns.

Andrew McDonald

As I understand the situation, it's pretty clear that this corporate entity is nothing more than a holding company for Mrs. Young's personal assets and to use that as a platform for claiming corporate management is a gross misrepresentation of her qualifications, ... To my knowledge, Castaway Bay has no office, no employees, no payroll. She is apparently the CEO of her family and to claim that gives her broad business experience to run a municipality is a sham.

Mick Jagger

Pricing a concert ticket is very different from pricing a Lexus or toothpaste. Apparently he's been fundraising outside, selling bootleg T-shirts and scalping tickets.

John Roberts

Promotion of the National Motto is apparently the foundation's next step.

Taylor Swift

People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like - that's a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.

Adam Gontier

On tour, there was a young girl that came up to me and said if it wasn't for the song 'Home' she had felt that she wouldn't be here anymore. She related to that song so much that it apparently saved her life.

Alan Greenspan

Demand has been growing quite strongly in recent months, and the (Fed monetary-policy committee)? will have to judge whether that pace of expansion will be maintained (and), if so, whether it will continue to be met by solid productivity growth, as it apparently has been.

John Mueller

Development of ASR is apparently very slow, since it has been difficult to find pustules in any of our samples from the Hampton County field. We have sampled numerous other fields throughout South Carolina in the last 10 days without any other ASR detections other than at the Edisto Center field.

Abdullah A. Badawi

People regard the monsoon season as a natural disaster and there have always been negative conceptions that the monsoon season isnt a good time to visit Terengganu,

Ron Osborne

No state can truly be ready for a disaster of the magnitude of Hurricane Katrina.

James Sensenbrenner

a recipe for disaster -- the same kind of disaster that occurred on 9/11.

Jalal Talabani

A premature withdrawal would be a disaster for the Iraqi people and a victory for terrorism,

Jan Vandemoortele

The situation is horrific. The job is colossal. One disaster occurred Saturday that couldn't be prevented but a second disaster must be.

Houston Nutt

The terrible disaster in New Orleans with his family.

Mark Merritt

A disaster of this magnitude ... has never happened on this scale in U.S. history.

Jim Nelson

A disaster is whatever will drive you out of business.

Bryan Robson

A draw wouldn't be a disaster for us but no way would I ever send my team out to draw a game.

Carl Forti

Any incumbent running for re-election that needs our support will get it.

Bruce Cran

Any relief is welcome. However, this looks like election goodies and temporary solutions.

Tom Leach

As far back as we go ... it's the lowest for any kind of election, and I think it's the lowest since 1920 when women got the vote.

Gina Martin

An uncertain election will do that -- people don't know who the president will be, what's ahead.

Howard Duvall

The municipal election can get lost in the shuffle.

John Breaux

The most important speech of this election is ... going to be given by the loser when they concede because it will set the tone for the next four years,

James Conway

Right now, we're just short of 160,000, ... That's sort of the baseline figure that we think we'll probably see all through the election period.

Hosni Mubarak

These elections come at a turning point in the history of our country, which is facing new challenges,

Alcee Hastings

These elections can only be described as free and fair.

Bob Nicholson

Any time Brent wants to be with us, the same as Wayne Gretzky, I want to put him in a position to lead Team Canada.

John Fitzgerald

That play shouldn't have worked on paper. But it did. Their linemen were confused, and I was supposed to have a lead block, but I got in anyway.

Gil McGowan

Rather than trying to get a deal, one of their lead negotiators is running the union leader off the road.

Bret Meyer

Our seniors can lead us to the right spot.

Robert Jackson

People take liberties and one thing leads to another,

Volker Roth

Of course, we make mistakes like every player and coach. But that shouldn't lead to referees being sworn at or even threatened,

Sergei Samsonov

Once we have a lead we have to try and keep it. It's two frustrating losses.

Casey Williams

Once we got that lead we never relinquished it.

Lawton Chiles

The more lead time we give people, the more it helps,

Kevin Keane

People shouldn't overreact. It's a very small number of products and not major brands.

Subir Raha

The Syrian acquisition is a major breakthrough for us.

Pat Gelsinger

This is not a minor retooling. This is a major leap.

Zhou Jixiang

That's why we need to stretch to other major cities. We've only started the work with Shandong Province.

Mike Wallace

You say this, 'I would never have been a Major League-caliber player without steroids.' Right,

Mat Sprague

Considering where the program has come from, it's a major accomplishment.

Laura Garcia

Don't know. Don't know anything about Toronto. It's a major city, isn't it?

Joel Blackmon

Don't get me wrong, we wouldn't turn down a major record deal.

James Thurber

And unless there is a major stumbling or bombshell, I think he will be confirmed.

Shane Osborn

We did it right, ... No apologies necessary on our part.

Ariel Sharon

do what is necessary to protect the people of Israel.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

You are the only person in the world that was ever necessary to me.

Sterling Ivey

We wanted to take all necessary safety precautions.

Tim Jones

When this occurs we have to start investigating and if necessary start a search.

Bob Poole

If we can get it into the township and get the necessary approvals, we can get it under way as soon as possible.

John Egan

If DSS isn't going to do anything, then it may not be necessary for us to do anything.

Nicolas Sarkozy

If you want to have me say that it would have been better to have not launched into this affair, I rather agree. But once we were there, it was necessary to find a way out of it, quickly and as painless as possible.

Max Baucus

If I were the president, I would be very concerned, ... and I would do what was reasonably necessary to find a way to get my people confirmed.

Thomas Jefferson

Never did a prisoner, released from his chains, feel such relief as I shall on shaking off the shackles of power.

Rutherford B. Hayes

What Congress and the popular sentiment approve is rarely defeated by reason of constitutional objections. I trust the measure will turn out well. It is a great relief to me. Defeat in this way, after a full and public hearing before this [Electoral] Commission, is not mortifying in any degree, and success will be in all respects more satisfactory.

Michelangelo

In my opinion painting should be considered excellent in proportion as it approaches the effect of relief, while relief should be considered bad in proportion as it approaches the effect of painting.

Meg Whitman

In my judgment, we have to avoid, at all costs, tax increases. That would be the worst possible thing to do and will make a bad economy even worse. Beyond that, targeted tax relief should be expanded upon.

Susan Manning

Since this play is about six women from Louisiana, we wanted to do something for the relief effort.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Happiness is the relief after extreme tension

Ernest Hemingway

Modern life ... is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief.

Fiona Shaw

There is a great relief in experiencing the worst vicariously.

Cindy Shaw

Some of this is just a little relief rally,

Edmund Hillary

I'm definitely a Queen supporter. She was great.

Erik Paulsen

I'm not a supporter of ObamaCare. I voted to repeal it, to defund it, et cetera. But we do need to move on.