Famous Quotes & Sayings

Larry Ellison

One of the great things about Lanai is that the weather is always fabulous. Always 82 degrees and sunny. The problem is that, like California now, Lanai needs more water.

Dean Baker

Hawaii's home prices suffered in the 1990s because of economic trouble in Japan, ... If home prices in California reverse, it will have ripple effects.

Ryan Newman

Going into California, just because we're in third (in points), we can come out of California 33rd in points.

Uli Hoeness

He should stop his dancing around in California while leaving us to deal with all the crap here.

Christopher Paasch

I think the Kentucky Oaks winner comes through California this year.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Today California has given me the greatest gift of all: You've given me your trust by voting for me,

John Laird

I thought that if something was going to endanger the bill, especially considering the state?s current financial climate, it would be the cost to the state, ... But 50,000 more students means $23 million for California from the federal government.

James Burke

I think it's pretty cutting edge. San Bernardino County in California visited us about it. I have had calls from Holland and South Africa.

Venus Williams

If I cared deeply about what people thought of me, I probably would have never made it out of Compton, California.

Srikantha Herath

In general we are observing more and more heavy rain-associated disasters in the region.

Jim Furyk

You can make a lot of birdies, but there are a lot of disasters waiting to happen.

Henry IV

It is in the midst of disasters that bold men grow bolder.

Gordon McBean

We have an opportunity right now right after disasters while governments are more receptive to influence policy from the start.

Eduardo Galeano

Disasters are called natural, as if nature were the executioner and not the victim.

Rusty Schweickart

There are always natural disasters and it always seems as though the preparation is somewhat less than adequate. But we have had a series of quite substantial ones here in the last year.

Richard Pasch

Right now what we're forecasting is for it to become a tropical storm and move into the northern Gulf of Mexico.

Richard Gephardt

inexorably tied to Persian Gulf oil and old energy.

Peter Beutel

This is all about Tropical Storm Rita ... obviously, the last thing that this market needs is for a hurricane to hit the western gulf where it didn't hit last time.

Larry Wall

These two storms took the most destructive path over the Gulf that they could.

Roger Allen

After the last hurricane hit the Gulf of Mexico, it took six months for the oil platform to get back up and running.

Tony Nunan

The situation is unclear because output is still down in the Gulf of Mexico and U.S. refineries are having problems.

Bill Zollars

Many of the local programs funded by United Way will play an important role in helping hurricane victims who fled the Gulf Coast, and have at least temporarily relocated here.

Sophie B. Hawkins

I am so proud to be partnering with Waterkeepers, who are the voice for the Gulf Coast's waters.

J. Taylor

If all the steel is heading to the Gulf for rebuilding because of (Hurricane) Katrina, it could increase our costs.

David Sanderson

We're prepared to sit down and talk, I'm not quite sure they're ready to talk yet.

Dilip Shanghvi

I like to win without fighting. But if I can't, then I'm prepared to fight.

Karen Traviss

If you're not prepared to do something in public, don't do it at all.

Charles Clarke

I told him (Blair) I was prepared to resign if he thought it was right, and he said he didn't think it was right.

James Canning

It's a proposed vision for the city, and it was used as we prepared this year's budget.

Brigham Young

We are prepared for some things, and we receive just as fast as we prepare ourselves.

Deepak Chopra

You can never receive more love than you are prepared to receive.

Marc Jacobs

And when I see students now, I just don't think they are prepared to work so hard. It comes too easy.

Mary Antin

First, you had to have a tutor at home, who prepared you and talked all the time about the examination you would have to pass, till you were scared.

Woodrow Wilson

The only place in the world that nothing has to be explained to me is the South.

Wilbur Smith

I am a closet birdwatcher. I can identify Southern African species, but it irks me I can barely tell a jay from a blackbird in the U.K.

Katy Mixon

You can't do Shakespeare with a Southern accent, honey.

Cal Brown

Ah, to be young and in love, in Southern California.

Joe Tex

Currently, I bowl regional tournaments out of the PBA Southern Region.

Mike Colter

You see a lot of Baptist churches in Harlem, you see a lot of the same kind of cuisine, the soul food - there's a lot of places that remind you of its southern roots.

Paul Prudhomme

When the taste changes with every bite and the last bite tastes as good as the first, that's Cajun.

Padma Lakshmi

In southern Spain, they made me eat a bull's testicles. They were really garlicky, which I don't like. I prefer to take a bull by the horns, not by, um...

Peter Mayle

No matter what their background, the southern French are fascinated by food.