Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jessica Bird

The writing comes first for me. Not Facebook, not Twitter, not the Internet or signings or merchandise, or 'the career.' Everything begins and ends with the writing for me, and I build my entire life around sitting my butt down 365 days a year.

Rob Enderle

IE has been frozen for a number of years largely at the request of large corporations that didn't want to upgrade and impact the stability of their systems. The result was that new browsers were able to spring up and begin taking market share.

Steve Maviglio

On any other expenditure done by the state, prevailing wage is the law. If you begin to chip away here, it would start undermining the wages that are paid to California workers.

Ken Goldstein

begin to make way for a better economy this fall.

Richard Hunter

I think the days of ups and downs are behind us. I think people are beginning to realize that the growth here is being sustained. Obviously our goal is to be a profitable company and return those benefits to shareholders. That's why I'm here.

Tom Daschle

I acknowledged that concern, and it is for that reason that the Intelligence Committee is going to begin this effort, trying to limit the scope and the overall review of what happened,

Kate Ford

I am disappointed that some folks who clearly are not strong citizens to begin with took this opportunity to make this statement, ... I was chagrined that there were obvious mothers and children in the crowd with them. Several intimated that they had guns.

Charles Rule

You will begin to hear why Microsoft is doing these things and why they're good for consumers and for competition, ... In antitrust law, that's the ultimate test.

Bruce Golding

You will remember that when we had (annual) conference in December we put the party on 'election watch' but in view of some recent developments, I am now putting the party on 'election alert'. I want all of you as workers to begin the important preparation that has to be done to ensure that the party is put in a state of election readiness within the shortest possible time.

Bobby Labonte

A top-five finish in the 150 is a good start. It gives us something to build on for Sunday.

William Griffin

There's no need to build it up if someone else is going to tear it down.

Pat Fagan

There's no way we can buy 60-plus portables. We can't build enough schools in a short period of time. I don't know what else we can do but lobby the legislators.

Walt Jocketty

There's nothing you can really do to expedite the healing process. It takes time to heal, and it takes time to build the strength up. It's something he hasn't had before. I don't know if we've had an injury like that.

Richard Lee

There's not enough skilled labor in this town to build even half of what has been proposed.

Brian Curran

The tradition of the team is one where they've always won, ... Quite frankly, I want a championship. I have a desire to build a team that will win championships. That's a great challenge, and I look forward to it immensely.

Kathryn Gallagher

The timing is perfect because spring and summer for us is like the holiday season for other retailers. When the sun comes out, that's when you build your deck or paint your house.

Guus Hiddink

The time together and the match will be crucial for us. It is vital that we continue to improve as we build to November.

Louis Michel

The time has come, ... to try to build new conditions to improve and to build new relationships between Pakistan and EU in order to construct and to feed a new and long-term partnership.

Madeline Albright

Clearly the Russians disagree with us about the use of force in Iraq. They, however, have no good ideas about how to solve the problem,

Gordon Davidson

Clearly there were moments of pain, when he didn't feel as whole as he wanted to, and took medicine.

Donald Rumsfeld

Clearly there was ground fire, there's no question about that. But I'm not in a position to say that the muzzle flash was one type of weapon as opposed to another type of weapon. And therefore I shan't do so,

Guenael Rodier

Clearly there was a poor understanding as to how much spread of h5n1 there was in poultry in Turkey.

Rich Greenfield

Clearly the revenue numbers were better this quarter but I'm not sure that's relative to expectations for the year.

Clay Owen

Clearly there's thriving competition between wireless companies. Competition is fierce.

Richard Cripps

Clearly there's some issues over earnings this quarter.

Jim Collins

Clearly there's been phenomenal growth here, and a lot of that can be attributed to Howard.

Ernesto Hernandez

Clearly there's a God up above. I am so happy, I haven't eaten or slept.

Seth Greenberg

Let him get through tomorrow, and we'll figure it out from there. I wanted to give him some freedom to figure out how much he can deal with and give him some time to grieve without having to put him on a schedule.

Darren Howard

I like the situation. I like the team. It's a matter of getting a deal done.

If life deals you lemons, why not go kill someone with the lemons (maybe by shoving them down his throat).

Dan Veru

A lot of their publications deal with the Internet, targeting professionals who write software for the Internet. So, in that way you're getting to play the growth in the Internet; the growth of programmers, so on and so forth, without necessarily being right in the fray of it all.

Phil Noblitt

This is a big deal for the parkway. The essence is that we're trying to meet modern traffic safety engineering standards without compromising the historic design of the parkway. It's going to be tough.

Dave Minshall

We want them to get an offer to the table that they can live with. We want a deal that is more than just a nickel and a dime an hour. We want a deal that recognizes that they went without a wage increase for three years.

Jim Smith

We want them to be ready for whatever they might have to deal with on that first flight; to understand what to do if some of the systems don't do what they're supposed to.

Whit Ayres

Well before this happened, I was glad the '06 elections weren't being held this summer. The country's in a funk, and it was in a funk before Katrina. But there's a great deal of time for that mood to change.

Juwan Simpson

The players see it as just another practice. It's a big deal for the fans, and that's why we do it.

Calvin Coolidge

At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it.

Thomas Paine

It is important that we should never lose sight of this distinction. We must not confuse the peoples with their governments...

Thomas Paine

Wherefore, security being the true design and end of government, it unanswerably follows that whatever form thereof appears most likely to ensure it to us, with the least expense and greatest benefit, is preferable to all others.

Thomas Paine

Here then is the origin and rise of government; namely, a mode rendered necessary by the inability of moral virtue to govern the world; here too is the design and end of government, viz. Freedom and security.

Thomas Paine

The first was a government of priestcraft, the second of conquerors, and the third of reason.

Timothy Geithner

There is a basic lesson on financial crises that governments tend to wait too long, underestimate the risks, want to do too little. And it ultimately gets away from them, and they end up spending more money, causing much more damage to the economy.

Thomas Jefferson

The federal government is our servant, not our master.

Thomas Jefferson

Taxation is, in fact, the most difficult function of government and that against which their citizens are most apt to be refractory.

Thomas Jefferson

Government is being founded on opinion, the opinion of the public, even when it is wrong, ought to be respected to a certain degree.