Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul McCaffrey

These mid-day fights in broad daylight on State Street is a broad change from how gangs used to steel their difference, which tended to be more in back allies at night, in neighborhoods belonging to one gang or the other. Meeting together in the most visible, heavily traveled area of Santa Barbara is something we want to stop right now.

George H. W. Bush

the terrorists will lose their sponsors, lose their recruits, and lose their hopes for turning that region into a base for attacks on America and our allies around the world.

Robert Lichter

The thing that really matters that weve seen in the past is when the presidents allies desert him, ... When reporters go to natural supporters and they provide the criticism, youre a goner.... Right now it is the shock value. This is actually news.

Kevin McCarthy

The principles that should guide American foreign policy are simple: the world is safer when America leads, only strength ensures peace and freedom, and America must stand with its allies and challenge its adversaries.

Duke Cox

No one but the energy industry and its allies stand by it now.

Clint Bolick

Napolitano decided that her special-interest allies are more important than Arizona schoolchildren.

Saddam Hussein

The Americans with their allies will fly out of Iraq very soon, and their puppets will leave even before the Americans.

Cathy McMorris

We must not allow Iran to bully the world or our allies or fail to show Iran that we will take their irresponsible and careless behavior seriously.

Sandy Berger

We can proceed to develop the options on missile defense on a much more measured timetable which allows China and our allies like Australia to have a greater degree of input.

Rod Nilsestuen

As electricity prices continue to rise in Wisconsin and the costs of renewable energy systems continue to fall, a growing number of the state's large farms are implementing anaerobic digestion to reduce their utility bills and improve the environmental performance on the farm.

Bernadette Chiaro

As huge energy bills hit California mailboxes this month, there is no better time to jumpstart a mainstream solar power market. Today's vote promises to eclipse expensive and imported fossil fuels with clean and homegrown solar power.

Jay Alan Sekulow

As a private lawyer, I could bill $750 an hour, but I don't.

F. Stone

As of 2004, the New York State wine industry brings in about $3.3 billion in New York State. It'd be nice to get a piece of that in Jefferson County.

Duaner Sanchez

As long as it ends this way, I'm OK with it. I just wanted to be sure Billy had a lead when he came in.

Jason Napodano

Off the top of my head, $1.3 billion sounds like a lot of money. I think it will be a billion dollar drug but it will take some time.

Brad Dean

The signing of this bill is a huge victory for the residents of South Carolina, for millions of future visitors, and for our state's number one industry.

Jia Qinglin

The Taiwan issue concerns China's core interest and the national feelings of 1.3 billion Chinese.

Ronald Hill

A deficit of only $8.4 billion in fact is not as much of a drag on GDP growth. It keeps things faster and also means that American exports continue to remain competitive in a market where the world is growing generally slower than we are.

Lawrence Eagles

As far as the Middle East is concerned, there is still strong justification for a premium to remain in the market until it is clear the situation is much calmer on the ground,

Mark Buehrle

Actually, I got out in the woods and kind of cleared my mind,

Michael Moran

A nomination does not mean it will have clear sailing to being listed. What gets listed on the national register, unfortunately, is subject to the will of the governor's office.

Michael Conforti

The surprise happens as you experience the building. This is clearly a reason why we thought Mr. Ando was the appropriate person for our landscape here.

John Petrashek

Sometimes we request a phased approach. To clear the site, start the construction.

Keith Hembre

There will be some clear near-term inflation effects because of higher energy prices.

Carl Hiaasen

These are all kids who are going to be growing up to vote. They have a much clearer idea of the kind of world they want to live in, ... I like to think sanity will prevail.

Hilary Clinton

The Roe v. Wade issue is a big issue, because Justice (Clarence) Thomas said he'd never even discussed it with anybody, and then, like the minute he got on the court, he made it clear that he wanted to repeal it, ... This Week.

Mike Kohs

It was a lack of communication on his part. He?s been clearly frustrated with his injury.

Ken Kendrick

As owners of this great franchise, we understand our responsibility of giving back to the community, be it here locally, or any place in need throughout this nation, ... We are proud of the leadership that our players demonstrated with their donation, and are honored to match that generous amount. We take comfort in knowing that all of our efforts from this week, which combined fans, players, and front office, will have a positive impact on such a devastating situation.

Anja Paerson

Any kind of combined is cool. I think the super combined is pretty good because it's just a one-run slalom and it gives the speed skiers a better chance. I think the super-combined is something that will stay. For me, it's better than the normal combined with the two-run slalom.

Conley Duncan

The testing that I do at the combine is just one of the pieces of the puzzle that NFL teams look at.

Atoosa Rubenstein

Teen girls are figuring out what they want out of life and who they want to be. Combine this new responsibility with all the stress and pressures in their lives and the result, unfortunately, can be substance abuse.

Nigel Hawkins

There are some shareholders who want BT to hold on to Wireless because they feel the company could lose revenue that a combined company can enjoy, ... I expect the sale to go ahead. BT has called an analysts meeting for September 5 to outline its plans for BT Wireless.

Trip Hawkins

Besides, games like total eclipse and john madden football combine great texture-mapping and polygon rendering, and that's a pretty satisfactory experience right now.

Paul Johnson

We wanted to run and we wanted to get easy buckets. Combine that with the fact that we made a lot of shots, and it really turned into a ... fabulous game.

Dub Huckabee

Turnovers always hurt you, and when you combine that with the way we were shooting, it makes it tough.

Alan Ackerman

One more solid salvo from the Fed, combined with a tax cut, could be the combustible combination to get the market going.

Neena Moorjani

We're adjourning the negotiations for Thanksgiving and for consultations with Congress and industry,

Dennis Hastert

Congress has always been for the people and by the people. And in keeping with the great traditions of our country, we need to keep it that way.

Rick Lane

There was a hands-off mentality because Congress didn't understand the issues.

Carol Cox

We will spend less money next year than we did two years ago -- not very much less, ... The administration, having lowered the bar, got more of what it wanted out of Congress. At the end, the administration was holding the whip hand because it was Congress that wanted to go home.

Michael White

We're just following orders from Congress. They haven't issued any legislation about discontinuing the one-cent coin, so we keep making them.

Michael White

We're just following orders from Congress, ... They haven't issued any legislation about discontinuing the one-cent coin, so we keep making them.

Mark Vitner

If we had an anti-business Congress that went after pension reform aggressively, it could have a devastating impact on Wall Street.

Tom Daschle

OK, we'll take the first step. This is as crucial as it gets.

Amar Singh

It is a shame that the Congress party is describing their president Sonia Gandhi's resignation from parliament as a sacrifice. She wanted to defame us and instead stumbled and fell in the grave dug by them.

Ruth Ross

A ''should'' is a ''have to'' with no teeth; it is dead energy.

Siri Hustvedt

The brain-mind is not a computer, and regarding it as one has led to a variety of theoretical dead ends.

Hugh Orde

Officers were shot at last night. We are very lucky we do not have dead officers this morning.

Robert Reid

Dead trees are hazardous, and they will fall in the period of a storm.

Eric Fry

Dead money that springs to life will die again.

Jessica Raine

After filming, I can't wait to shake off all that '50s primness. I'll go out to a gig and dance ridiculously. I love to lose myself in music. Just letting go - it's dead important.

Victoria Wood

Thanx for all you did and said, i'm so grateful dad's not dead

Pras Michel

Sometimes people say things because it sounds cool. But when I say I'm with the revolution, especially now, I'm dead serious about it.

Chris McKay

The work is very relevant to Mars because we know the surface of Mars is as dead as a doornail and any life there -- if it exists -- would live underground.

Kate Ziegler

As far as the world record goes, it still seems so far away from me, ... As far as the world championships . . . I'm just so happy how it's gone.

Ronald Zarrella

As far as theories, there's a lot of them, and we've run a lot of them to ground and come up with nothing.

Dweezil Zappa

As far as solo records, there's ten years between it. As far as other releases, there's, I don't know, four or five years between it.

Bobby Hatfield

As far as our song list... I think between the two of us knew seven songs... for the whole night... we did a lot of variations on those seven songs.

Warren Sapp

As far as me, as a teammate of mine? I love him.

Rod Thorn

As far as we were concerned, we had a good season, with a real nice run at the end. But now, things start over.

Granth Sahib

The Society of the Guru is not obtained like this, by trying to be near or far away.

Ralph Krueger

The team is mature. You're going to see that here, we've by far not reached our goals yet. We have Germany tomorrow. There's no time to sit on this. They can look back on this period for the rest of their life and they should do that with pride but they're not going to do that right now. I know that.

Mark Rey

The supporters have been far quieter than the people who have found problems with it.

Gregg Downer

Sometimes you have to go toe-to-toe with them, they force you to play fast. It was just kind of like a heavyweight fight and we couldn't really slow them down, whoever gets that 15th-round punch is going to win.

Kurt Russell

Sometimes they did end up in fights, ... At one point there were four fights going on, and Ryan Walter just threw his hands up and said 'I can't stop them.'

Eric Esch

I've never had a fixed fight that I know of.

Steve Gross

The wholesalers and the retailers are fighting us very hard.

John Barrymore

The way to fight a woman is with your hat - grab it and run

Brandon Sanderson

And is an ending always bad? it asked. Must not all things, even worlds, someday end?"There is no need to hasten that end," Vin said. "No reason to force it."All things are subject to their own nature, Vin, Ruin said, seeming to flow around her. She could feel its touch upon her - wet and delicate, like mist. You cannot blame me for being what I am. Without me, nothing would end. Nothing could end. And therefore, nothing could grow. I am life. Would you fight life itself?

Archie Panjabi

I think it is vital to fight to do something you want to do despite not gaining your community's or your friends' approval.

Ayn Rand

For they have nothing to fight me with, save the brute force of their numbers. I have my mind.

Brian Jacques

Where's the point in fighting and slaying if you can make a friend out of anybeast instead of a foe?

Howard Marks

The state of Florida would have never required her to take her veil off if 9-11 had not occurred.

Craig Fugate

Florida feels we owe a great debt to our neighboring states.

Edwidge Danticat

I see the sharp inequality between how Haitian and Cuban refugees are treated in Florida. Both groups come here because their lives are equally desperate. But on arrival, the Haitians are incarcerated, and some are immediately repatriated, whereas Cubans get to stay and are eligible for citizenship.

Bruce Pearl

Florida looks to me like they're the team to beat.

Jack Beven

There's no part of Florida that's truly hurricane-invulnerable.

Mary Wesley

A lot of people stop short. They don't actually die but they say, 'Right I'm old, and I'm going to retire,' and then they dwindle into nothing. They go off to Florida and become jolly boring.

Andre Holland

I did my undergrad at Florida State, got a Bachelor's, and then I got my Masters in Acting at NYU. So I've spent a lot of time in the classroom.

Jack Youngblood

One day, though, I was asked if I'd like to go to the University of Florida and become a Gator.

Homer

Remember that postcard Grandpa sent us from Florida of that Alligator biting that woman's bottom? That's right, we all thought it was hilarious. But, it turns out we were wrong. That alligator was sexually harassing that woman.

Ed Rendell

Because this is an industry that is young, it has tremendous potential,

Shaw Wu

From an industry perspective, consolidation is good. For Maxtor and Seagate, I'm not so sure.

Mike Paul

She did research in the industry to find out what the top 12 tips are and those are the tips.

Bill Fisher

If industry can't find an answer, then there isn't one.

Paul Ballew

I can't say I'd be surprised if industry ran 17 million units in April. Would I be surprised if it ran at 18? Yes I would.

Andy Ross

I don't know if the industry ever learns,

Halle Berry

I think it was a shift in the industry for the people of color.

Alan Autry

Your Mayor must seek new ways to bring jobs and industry to our community.

Bobby Frankel

I want to be the Martha Stewart of the health-food industry — without the jail.

Mark Ferrulo

An oil pipeline is subject to significant oil spills.

Daniel Yergin

The Iranians know they hold high cards because of oil.

Ray Davies

There was a gas strike, oil strike, lorry strike, bread strike, got to be a Superman to survive.

Ross MacDonald

We're all in the game. We all drive cars, and we're all hooked on oil. The question is how we can get unhooked before we drown in the stuff.

Ron Kind

We have seen what the dependence and addiction to foreign oil has done to us economically.

Rush Limbaugh

I am just stupefied here. The left has officially stamped it now: Oil is a villain. Now, please ask yourselves: When did this start?

Rush Limbaugh

What better way to head off more oil drilling, nuclear plants, than by blowing up a rig? I'm just noting the timing, here.

Rosa DeLauro

The Bush administration and Congressional Republicans have failed to bring up comprehensive energy reform or any piece of legislation for that matter that would lower gas prices, opting instead to give massive subsidies to the oil and gas industry

Steve Chabot

We've passed an energy bill in the House, to help us be less reliant upon foreign oil so we can get gas prices down. But nothing happens in the Senate.

Fredi Gonzalez

Pratt wore his shirt on the plane home.

Mack Brown

I've been planning this one for 33 years and now I really don't know what to say.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

Plants live; how much they feel and enjoy, who shall say?

Steve Harris

We're having this process stuffed down our throats. Nothing about this plan is acceptable.

Frans Ludeke

We have had to prepare plans for all eventualities.

Liaquat Baluch

The results are totally managed, planned and rigged.

Turhan Douglas

We were planning to win. We trained just like we would if we were going to the playoffs.

Dale Carnegie

An hour of planning can save you 10 hours of doing.

Rick Santorum

The dangers of carbon dioxide? Tell that to a plant, how dangerous carbon dioxide is,

Rick Kaplan

It's a prize that's waiting to be taken,

Sarah Brightman

I have the sort of round face that you complain about when you're younger, but which serves you well as you get older.

bell hooks

It is obvious that many women have appropriated feminism to serve their own ends, especially those white women who have been at the forefront of the movement; but rather than resigning myself to this appropriation I choose to re-appropriate the term “feminism,” to focus on the fact that to be “feminist” in any authentic sense of the term is to want for all people, female and male, liberation from sexist role patterns, domination, and oppression.

Daniel Handler

The moral of Snow White is never eat apples.

Charles Evers

I'm against an all-white anything or an all-black anything.

Alec Baldwin

If Obama was white, he’d be up by 17 points.

Doug E. Fresh

Scientology is not a White religion. It is not just for White people

Anne Sexton

I was only sitting here in my white study with the awful black words pushing me around.

Anthony Hopkins

You're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling?

William Shakespeare

How ill white hairs become a fool and jester!

Ta-Nehisi Coates

To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good. To prevent verifying stereotypes, we pledge to never eat a slice a watermelon in front of white people.