Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mason Tvert

Once there is no state law, the city ordinance is what the cities and towns would go by and other places ... would have every right to keep punishing adult marijuana users if they chose to.

Brian Carpenter

And the help they will need in their advanced years will fall mostly on the shoulders of their adult children.

Steven Forester

The state can no more impose a special tax on adult entertainment than it could impose a special tax on theaters showing 'gay cowboy' movies.

David Day

The social aspect is always there. And a refreshing adult beverage after a fun sports event is always an enjoyable time.

Tracy Smith

The students really enjoyed the response from the adult day care center. I think that's when it really hit us that these little things really are affecting other people.

Marshall Cohen

The surge in men's apparel sales came from some of the most unexpected places, such as young men buying a suit. Teens and young adult men have finally 'discovered the suit.' When exploring that further, NPD found that young men never owned a suit, never wore a suit and never saw their father in a suit - yet, they have migrated towards dressing up to be 'cool.' We are seeing a shift in the younger generation reaching their image through grooming and dressing up.

John Battelle

I've been a Mac guy for almost my entire adult life. I wrote my first college papers on a typewriter, but by the end of my freshman year - almost 20 years ago - I was on an IBM PC. Then, in 1984, I found the Mac, and I never looked back.

John Friend

Adult Swim is a phenomenon with young adult viewers who identify with the edgy, irreverent tone of the shows and the block. Clearly, lots of Adult Swim fans are avid gamers, and we look forward to working with Midway to make games the fans will love.

Rachel Hunter

Adult gorillas being poached for their meat-baby gorillas stolen for the pet trade. I have just spent a week in West Africa seeing this for myself. I am horrified. I am desperate. But I am determined to do something about it and I'm in it for the long-haul. But I can't do it on my own.

Ken Perkins

August is the big month because that's when the bulk of the back-to-school revenues are generated, ... But we got some very positive signs in July, especially with apparel sales showing the strongest monthly gains. Apparel sales are important because they provide the first indication of how consumers are spending their discretionary income.

Jack Ward

As indicated earlier, we were disappointed in our 2005 financial results. Despite certain areas of our business having record performances, such as international apparel and Brooks, we did experience disappointing sales overall in our Sporting Goods segment. Unfilled orders earlier in the year contributed to weaker sales results for the balance of the year for Russell Athletic. Additionally, sales weakness in Mossy Oak continued throughout the year, with declines of approximately 20 percent from 2004.

Heather Dougherty

Apparel remains one of the more dominant product categories during the holiday season, mirroring offline holiday retail behavior.

Eric Gordon

Apparel companies are tired of getting their face beat in when they try fashion leadership so they're going back to the old stuff. It worked 10 to 20 years ago.

Carolyn Kwan

The strength in this component, which includes apparel and home entertainment goods, bodes well for Christmas retail sales.

Howard Davidowitz

Specialty apparel is a very fast-moving business. It's also a fickle business of fashion and creativity where the winners are those retailers who can constantly reinvent themselves and their products.

Ken Perkins

Sales of men's apparel has been lagging for some time. Men usually don't shop as frequently as women. When they do, there's only so much of casual clothes men really need.

Britt Beemer

Electronics is particularly hot cause there is nothing else that has created much excitement for consumers. Our research indicates that 44 percent of shoppers have completed their holiday shopping and about 20 percent still have to start it. This weekend we think more dollars will be spent overall. Apparel sales could benefit form colder weather but watch out for electronics to come out on top again.

Anthony Chan

While weather played a role in soft apparel sales, the high energy prices impacted overall sales. Net-net, the climate is likely to get better with improvements in the labor market.

Randy Petersen

As a result of people buying tickets so often, there's not much room for people cashing in their miles.

Andre Dreicon

The mood is negative. It could fall further, but whoever comes in now is buying cheap.

Gordon Haff

Dell has had a very focused strategy: Don't spend a lot on research and development, leverage the work of others, and deliver cookie-cutter servers and desktops cheaply. That lined up well with the market when saving money was in. But IT managers have to consider more than price now in making buying decisions.

Andy Greene

A number of investors seem to be buying irrespective of price, and yields could actually go lower.

Michael Birch

Any company that goes through an integration, buying a new business, there are always risks. So as soon as we see that bedded down, a lot more comfortable we'll be. We still think that mining services, companies related to resources, will do really well next year.

Masatoshi Sato

Apple's announcement deterred investors from buying certain semiconductor-related stocks. But the New York market stabilized as a whole, and that is a big plus.

Kurt Barnard

Are consumers buying more? I don't know. I think what Wal-Mart said about people spending less of the rebate money this year in stores is significant. It shows people prefer to save any extra money than spend it.

Kazunori Jinnai

The selling will likely ease this month, but strong buying won't return for a while longer -- as long as U.S. markets are down.

Mohamed Radwan

The selling pressure still exists for many stocks but some buying power has came back again.

Tim Healy

Any game is scary right now. Tonight, it all came down to shooting.

Akhenaton

As a camel beareth labour, and heat, and hunger, and thirst, through deserts of sand, and fainteth not; so the fortitude of a man shall sustain him through all perils.

Raul Grijalva

As a first-generation son, a native-born son of an immigrant that came to this country, I hope we do not close the door to that legacy.

Rosevelt Colvin

As a defensive team you want to get off the field. They were able to come up with the plays and the schemes -- whatever it was -- we weren't doing, they did it and they came up with a victory.

Chris Drury

As a group we're kind of limping in there, so despite being one point away it's still a frustrating night. We came here to get two points, and we didn't.

Brian Dawkins

The bye week came at a good time because after a loss like that (in Dallas), guys can get away.

Kenny Guinn

The BRAC carefully considered the data Nevada presented and came to the conclusion that the 152nd Airlift Wing is essential to our homeland security and emergency preparedness capabilities,

Coach Bell

The B team came out and played really well in the first game. They did a great job of setting it up. It was a fun match to watch.

Geno Auriemma

The Brittany thing is a lot better than we could have even imagined. We could be sitting here right now talking about how the meniscus transplant didn't work as well as we liked and it doesn't look like she will play. That was a possibility. And here we're looking at it and - knock on wood - she hasn't had one incident with that since she started being able to do things. That came out way better than we anticipated.

Philip Howard

What is special about Fisher is not the tedious stuff about six teaspoons of dry mustard, but the literary dressing around the sides of the recipes.

Paul MacDonald

We are very confident. Everyone in the dressing room understands their responsibilities.

Brad Davis

We feel like the stadium is second-to-none, and we like playing on the surface. They have redone the dressing rooms, and Abilene is a very hospitable place.

Edith Mayo

We have a tendency to want them to be the American version of royalty, but at the same time, if they start dressing that way, we get really offended and very critical.

Victor Webster

I think I'd just like to get in a time machine and travel and never come back. The '20s would be an incredible place to be, dressing up in tuxedos with fancy cars. That sounds incredible.

Dave Hakstol

No. 1, we knew we didn't come out of the dressing room Friday night the way we needed to. We didn't match Mankato's intensity Friday. I thought we did that tonight.

Bud Sueppel

Four or five of us guys got to go into the dressing room with (coach) Hayden (Fry) and hand them out to the ballplayers. That's my top memory.

Jim Beattie

He won't be dressing for the rest of the year. We felt it wouldn't be appropriate for the organization.

Chris Hughton

I feel for the lads and they are all bitterly disappointed in the dressing room.

Brian Greene

Exploring the unknown requires tolerating uncertainty.

Gillian Cross

I write because I have always been curious about what it would feel like to be someone else, in a different situation. Fiction is a wonderful way of exploring that.

Elliott McCullough

We're exploring options. We want to make this as painless as possible." ()

Kazuo Ishiguro

I used to think when I was in my teens I was very different from my father, but now I see that what we do is probably quite similar.

Ben Okri

One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.

Barbara Kingsolver

Once the rains abated, my father's garden thrived in the heat like an unleashed temper.

Barbara Kingsolver

Respecting the dignity of a spectacular food means enjoying it at its best. Europeans celebrate the short season of abundant asparagus as a form of holiday. In the Netherlands the first cutting coincides with Father's Day, on which restaurants may feature all-asparagus menus and hand out neckties decorated with asparagus spears.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

In view of the tide of religiosity engulfing a once secular republic it is refreshing to be reminded by Freethinkers that free thought and skepticism are robustly in the American tradition. After all the Founding Fathers began by omitting God from the American Constitution.

Ayelet Waldman

I was born in Israel, to Canadian parents. My father immigrated in 1948, part of a wave of young men and women who came as pioneers, to fight for a Jewish homeland. Their motive was in large part a reaction to the Holocaust, and their slogan was 'Never Again.'

Brad Meltzer

She wasn't tracking down her father to learn more about him. She was tracking him down to learn more about herself.

Brad Pitt

With sons and fathers, there's an inexplicable connection and imprint that your father leaves on you.

Jane Fonda

How would you like to have a father who keeps getting younger looking every year? Do you realize what that can do to a woman?

Aaron Rowand

After playing 14 innings, when my head finally hits that pillow, I don't think I'm going to have any trouble sleeping tonight.

Lauri Hakala

Sometimes it goes that way, sometimes it doesn't. I've been really mindful of my footwork. I'm happy it finally worked.

Darin Erstad

We're happy that spring training is finally over. It's always fun to get the season under way and to keep score for real.

Dynelle Tadlock

We ran our offense to get open shots and it finally paid off. I wanted the girls to recover from those two losses as a team, and I think we showed we can play team basketball.

Jason Blum

Ethan Hawke is not a horror movie fan, but he's a really good friend of mine, and I finally cajoled him into doing 'Sinister.' Later, he said one of the reasons he was really resistant to doing a horror movie is he thought it'd be really scary on set.

Ellen Gerton

Today we showed up. We finally had the team I thought we should have had a month ago.

Scott Kelly

Today, we should finally get up to about 60. The temperatures are still going to be low, but it's not going to feel as cold.

Tommy Tune

We had a rough start. All shows do. Now it's finally hit its stride.

Mike Garland

We've had some injuries, but we finally have everyone healthy. It was like going into a gunfight with a six-shooter instead of a water pistol.

Philip Glass

And then I went back to New York and found other people doing it. A handful of people.

Tom O'Brien

I've always said, we'll find our niche in Boston, if we're good enough. I think we've found it. We have the opportunity to become a national school.

Jimmy Chamberlin

After I left the Pumpkins, I went home and just sat around. I have a studio in my basement, and I found myself writing all these songs, just taking advantage of the relaxed situation. I wrote about 30 songs in about 30 days.

Stephen Murphy

So we found out what else they were interested in, ... sound tracks for people's lifestyles.

Ella Wilcox

So much of love her spirit had,She found an ever-flowing springOf happiness in everything.

Thomas Szasz

Some people say they haven't yet found themselves. But the self is not something one finds; it is something one creates.

James Rubin

Russia has found itself out of the mainstream.

Steve Ridder

Right now we're a good team, but not great. We're not a special team yet. We think we can get there. This game is going to help us in the long run because we found something that we have to work on.

Mahmud Abbas

President Mahmud Abbas on Friday November 11, 2005 laid the foundation stone of the mausoleum of the late president Yasser Arafat,

Al Franken

I'm from the Vietnam generation. I didn't serve.

Cullen Hightower

Older generations are living proof that younger generations can survive their lunacy.

David Perlmutter

Gluten is this Generation's Tobacco

Annie Dillard

In literary history, generation follows generation in a rage.

Annie Dillard

There were no formerly heroic times, and there was no formerly pure generation. There is no one here but us chickens, and so it has always been.

E. F. Schumacher

A way of life that ever more rapidly depletes the power of the Earth to sustain it and piles up ever more insoluble problems for each succeeding generation can only be called violent.

Thomas S. Monson

Can we somehow muster the courage and steadfastness of purpose that characterized the pioneers of a former generation? Can you and I, in actual fact, be pioneers [today]?

Susan Sontag

Each generation has to reinvent spirituality.

Simon Le Bon

Music is not supposed to be nationalist. It is supposed to surpass language barriers. It is about generations communicating with each other.

Dusty Baker

At this point, we're grooming him as a starter. That's why we got him. It's not like we have a surplus of starters.

Randa Haines

As a director, you're looking for ways to tell the story with the whole image and not primarily dialogue.

Bob Shimp

The mystique of the American West is what runs this place. That image of the West still strikes people, people from all over the world.

Peter Davis

I suited the music to particular images on the film.

Ruckett

Before everyone stands a image of what he ought to be. So long as he is not that his peace is not complete.

Halle Berry

It's scary to be that vulnerable on film, ... This movie was all about shedding inhibitions for most of the cast, really, you know, saying things and presenting images that were risky because you never know how people are going to take them.

Bruce Jackson

War is big and there are only so many reporters and only so many places for their words and images to appear. Choices are made constantly.

Sammy Cahn

I had no particular image of Chicago in mind when I wrote 'My Kind of Town.' All I wanted to do was write a song in praise of Chicago, and that's what I did.

Nate Lowman

I make images from things I find serendipitously. I don't know what it is, but I know it when I see it. It could be from a newspaper, on the street. It could be something I fell over.

Daria Werbowy

I guess a lot of people don't realise, but I'm always playing a character when I'm working. When you're always having people's images projected on you, who 'Daria' is as a person sort of disappears.

Stephanie Scalessa

As a runner, the mental toughness Steven has is amazing.

Leroy Foster

The motivation wasn't there. I don't know if it was the layoff, but they just weren't ready to play. The mental mistakes, the turnovers, everything just showed they weren't prepared.

Megan Callahan

Roose has tremendous physical and mental toughness, leadership, skills, and experience.

Carol Hutchins

Samantha's one of the most mentally tough people I've ever met,

Sam Blank

It was a little different. I think its all about warming up and staying mentally focused.

Robin Wright

The word 'demand' is a tricky word when used by our gender. When used by men, it's part of their vernacular.

Carlos Castaneda

The world around us is a mystery, and men are no better than anything else.

Patrick Griffet

There will still be a Red Men Lodge. We just won't have a building.

Joseph Conrad

This could have occurred nowhere but in England, where men and sea interpenetrate, so to speak.

Daniel Petrocelli

I would have never owned those ugly-ass shoes.

Frank Hamblen

If I owned a team or was in charge, I'd want Phil Jackson, also.

John Scalzi

Reddit is not a public utility or a public square; it's a privately owned space on the Internet.

Byron Dorgan

I know of no concessions (the Chinese) have owned up to.

Todd Tate

They pretty much did whatever they wanted to do. They owned us on the glass.

Brian Tracy

Resolve to be among the top 20% of salespeople who make 80% of the sales.

Jon Hanson

Token sales have spiked, ... Token use has spiked.

Bill Clarke

That's where we are now. You take what they give you in this offense. That what we saw and worked with it.

A. Hodge

You saw how it ended. I don't think you can say we are not able to play with them.

Carl Sandburg

The buffaloes are gone. And those who saw the buffaloes are gone.

Alan Vega

It was when I saw Iggy Pop, that's what did it for me. That changed my life pretty much.

Bob Dylan

I never saw myself as a folk singer.

Dennis Rodman

If I die young, everybody's going to say they saw it coming.

Arthur Schopenhauer

I constantly saw the false and the bad, and finally the absurd and the senseless, standing in universal admiration and honour.

Helen Lee

And there was a need for an accessories store like this in the area. We saw the opportunity.

Bible Bible

And when the Pharisee saw it, he marvelled that he had not first washed before dinner.

Pete Hughes

Seeing him get the victory at 103 made me want it just as much.

Tony Soprano

I was seeing a therapist myself about a year ago, ... I had some issues.

Reggie Bush

I'm sick of seeing us on TV. We're on TV so much, it's ridiculous.

Reggie Bush

I'm sick of seeing it on TV. I'm sure they are.

Lorne Michaels

I think you're seeing the wave of the future.

Buddy Bell

We told Peralta when we sent him down that we'd probably be seeing him soon. We just didn't think it'd be this soon.

Kevin Sheridan

Remember, this has only been operational for 90 days. What you're seeing is version 1.1.

Sam Stovall

In general, we are seeing things that look a lot better.

Carl Anderson

I keep seeing them go up, up, up.

Robert McGrath

Somehow society shifted and took these things seriously.

Brad D. Smith

The world has shifted to the palm of our hand, or a tablet. We hadn't been investing in 'Quicken' that way.

Mitch Hedberg

I've always wanted to have a suitcase handcuffed to my wrist.

Jane Asher

I'm a creature of habit, so I like going to boutiques, rather than larger stores, where I know I'll find something that suits me every time.

Azzedine Alaia

In an ordinary suit and tie, I'd look like a little macho. I'd be ridiculous.

Rosa Bonheur

But the suit I wear is my work attire, and nothing else.

Melissa Marr

He looked good, like sin in a suit.

Mamata Banerjee

Our policy is very clear: whatever policy will suit the people, whatever policy will suit the circumstances, whatever policy will suit my state.

James Galway

They are all different and I find it hard to tell what flute suits me best.

Richard Dawkins

The deceitful misquoting of scientists to suit an anti-scientific agenda ranks among the many unchristian habits of fundamentalist authors.

Brian Anderson

I'll go back out, yeah. I just need a new (wet) suit and a new board.

Gaspard Ulliel

I've been an amateur photographer since my teens.

Jennifer Garner

In my teens, I was never part of the cool crowd.

Kathy Gallant

I was used to teens who had everything they needed.

Loretta Young

Just after I entered my teens I suddenly entertained an insatiable enthusiasm for the delightful habit of criticizing others.

Amy Heckerling

Teens are the target demographic for everything in pop culture.

Charles Kennedy

The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected.

Alex Flinn

Sometimes, unexpected things can happen.

Timothy Leary

Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others...

Robert Bresson

Provoke the unexpected. Expect it.

May Sarton

life is always bringing unexpected gifts.

Fay Weldon

If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.

George Soros

Discount the obvious, bet on the unexpected

John Maynard Keynes

The expected never happens; it is the unexpected always.

Barbra Streisand

Love comes from the most unexpected places.

Bob Hill

I don't think we could have done much more than we did. I thought they just wore us out with their depth.

Larry Brown

I wanted to play some of the younger kids. I didn't think there was a way we were going to get back in that ballgame, the way it was going.

Chris Evert

I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people.

Martin Parr

I like to keep in touch with younger photographers. It's important that a younger generation comes up and questions the assumptions made by old farts like me.

Bianca Lawson

I am so lazy. I really don't have a regimen. When I was younger I used to be into cardio and taebo and step-orobics and hiking. Lately, I haven't done anything at all. I'd like to get into yoga, but I've been really bad.