Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anytime I see something screech across a room and latch onto someone's neck, and the guy screams and tries to get it off, I have to laugh, because what is that thing.

Tom Udall

As a member of the U.S. House Law Enforcement Task Force, I join with local citizens across New Mexico toward the goal of reducing crime,

M.I.A.

As an artist, you want to play around with mediums and see if you can get the point across in different way.

Charles Powell

The British are definitely comparing notes on Moroccan cells across Europe, in Italy, France and the UK. The current thinking is that the people who did this may have trained in the same camps as the people who committed the Madrid bombings. The techniques are very similar.

Dennis Lillee

Australia was ambushed by England because way too many people right across the board were living in a comfort zone. The first priority is to appoint a captain who can lead from the front.

Lance Bass

As long as I knew my family was OK, I felt very safe. When something doesn't affect you (directly), it's sometimes hard to get involved. But when the images come across the screen ... it hits home for everyone. You start to realize that, as a human being, you can do something.

Capt. Elkins

As it reached near the end of the runway, the pilot accelerated in an attempt to take back off and avoid a crash. Instead, the plane went down an embankment, through a fence and across King Avenue (Country Club Road) and ended up in a fence that secures Indian Pines Country Club.

Gary Glasscock

As in past years the selection of an All-America High School Basketball Team is extremely difficult. Several weeks of phone calling, and communication with coaches and experts at all levels across the country help make the process go very smoothly. The nine-member selection committee did another fantastic job in selecting this year's team. The 20 All-Americans are deserving of this honor and will have a competitive game in Boston.

Thomas Perez

Raising the minimum wage to $10.10 will benefit about 28 million workers across the country. And it will help businesses, too - raising the wage will put more money in people's pockets, which they will pump back into the economy by spending it on goods and services in their communities.

Amanda Hearst

Compared to overdeveloped islands like Nassau, Bimini has kept its original charm. Walk the streets to see colorfully painted houses, funky shops, and trade greetings with friendly Biminites.

Louis Pitschmann

Actually, problems here are very, very minimal compared to other universities.

Pat Perez

Terrible, compared to yesterday. That's about it. I've played four rounds this year, three have been in the wind and I've shot over par every time.

Chris Fowler

Salaries for nursing faculty are particularly low when compared to those earned by nurses in hospitals.

Carl Smith

says Stanley Crouch, the writer who long urged Rollins to trust Smith. ''It actually creates a kind of a reevaluation of what we consider musical creativity. When you hear this, these chumps in hip-hop and rock, they're jokes compared to Sonny Rollins.

Henry David Thoreau

Public opinion is a weak tyrant, compared with our private opinion - what a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates his fate

Henry David Thoreau

Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.

Dan Hendricks

The Santa Anita Derby and Kentucky Derby are two totally different-run races, with a speed-biased track and short field compared with going back there with a 20-horse field and who knows what the pace scenario will be? This is a big race, a $750,000 Grade I. To win that would be a big deal. The Kentucky Derby is like a one-hand poker game. It's all in with whatever you've got. Whatever comes up comes up.

Paul Kim

The stock is at a premium valuation right now. Compared to its peers, it's got the worst fundamentals.

Jan Leroy

The mood is very positive. Earnings are supportive.

William Hummer

The third quarter earnings have been fairly well received and I think there will be anticipation that fourth-quarter earnings could be better than expected,

Barry Hyman

The moves in media stocks are never earnings based.

Jack Ablin

Right now, we have this positive confluence of earnings and economic news that has been propelling the market.

Jim Volk

Right now the perception is we are not going to get the earnings recovery we thought we were going to get.

Takashi Ushio

Right now the market is showing a positive reaction to yesterday's earnings results.

Takashi Ushio

Right now, the market is showing a positive reaction to yesterday's earnings results. But investors are also in something of a wait-and-see mood, as we have earnings from industrial electronics firms tomorrow.

Brian Gendreau

Practically in every quarter lately, we've had this feeling that we're at the peak, this is it, no more growth. That's why you see a lot of volatility but, ultimately, the Dow or the other indexes end up not having moved much. But one day we may see earnings growth decelerate, and it could be this year.

Rick Meckler

It was too much for the market to overcome. Otherwise, it could have been an even better year profit-wise if so much of (companies') earnings weren't deflected into energy costs.

Courtney McInnis

That play was big. We were thinking of just getting to the half and making adjustments. I thought they would run it out, but Waters made a great play. He picked it up and ran with it instead of falling on it.

Zach Keene

Once we got relaxed a little bit, we started playing our style of up-tempo basketball. Shots started to fall and it gave us some confidence.

Tony Russa

And then the other stuff falls into place. As you saw there, that's what he's been doing all year long. I can't remember seeing a pitcher all the years that I've managed that has been so good every time out.

Saurav Kalra

The Skin in not important, but the 'Soul', to fall in Love and reach the Heaven's Door.

Justin McNaull

The thing we hit as we head into fall is leaf-peeping, and leaf-peeping takes a lot of gas,

Mario Hernandez

It was all on fire and the roof had fallen in.

Phil Boyer

The statistics don't support planes falling out of the sky.

Dwight Freeney

I understand that we have to really wrap up and tackle this guy. He's not one of those guys that is going to fall on the first touch.

Jessie Reyes

Things are starting to fall in place for some of the guys. Anything is possible. It is just a matter of going in there fresh and mentally prepared.

James Flecker

A ship, an isle, a sickle moon - / With few but with how splendid stars / The mirrors of the sea are strewn / Between their silver bars.

Tom Herrion

As a team we take a lot more free throws than we used to. And we've improved greatly at it. But it's like every other team sport, the team that makes the fewer mistakes wins.

Marco Polo

At school, a few people know that I'm over here. I don't know about everybody, professors, curling people and a few kids in class.

Budd Booth

That was a big accomplishment for them. They all seem to be playing well together, and we have a lot of youth and depth, so that's encouraging for the next few seasons.

Dave Tragethon

People should make reservations, because if they wait until they get to the mountain we might be full. There are people who come up, make a few runs, come in and party a little bit, then go back out. Then there's those who come just for dinner, the party and the fireworks.

Daniel Boone

Dell, Intel, Cisco and Microsoft are stronger today than a few years ago.

Damon Hollins

Definitely. I was hoping right there that we could get something going, and we did. We scratched out a run. We just needed to scratch out a few more.

Mark Simoneau

(Coaches) made me do it in practice and I made a few so they said, 'You're No. 2 (behind Akers).

Carol Woods

A number of leads were called in to police, though unfortunately it hasn't led to an arrest. They're working on a few more leads right now.

Ryutaro Kono

The rise in the numbers shows that growth is on a solid footing.

Jeffrey Kagan

This could be a growth opportunity for AT&T with a quicker payoff.

Kevin Johnson

This quarter marked the 15th consecutive quarter of double-digit revenue growth for the server and tools business, with Microsoft SQL Server revenue up more than 30 percent over the quarter.

Brian Tracy

Dedicate yourself to continuous personal improvement you are your most precious resource

Jane Addams

The new growth in the plant swelling against the sheath, which at the same time imprisons and protects it, must still be the truest type of progress.

Ho Chen

The outlook for 2006 is quite robust as we are looking for the growth momentum to be maintained. The main reason for the higher fourth-quarter numbers was the manufacturing sector.

Ben Horowitz

There are no silver bullets...

John Chambers

While there were a number of highlights, it was probably the U.S. that topped the highlight list with strong order growth of approximately 20 percent year over year. This is better order growth than we've experienced in the last six quarters in the U.S..

Mark Sanford

This number means we've outpaced two-thirds of the nation in percentage job growth over that same time period.

Rob Neyland

That's where the rubber meets the road in this - the lasting impact.

Atharva Veda

See yourselves in all; See all in yourselves; that is the road to lasting peace and joy.

John Sherman Cooper

Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn't care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy.

Michael Redd

I've thought of guys, whether they were here last year or not, and doing something special for them.

Shane Olivea

This is probably the worst performance we've all played, together, in the last two years.

Brooks Bollinger

This is so tough, ... People on the outside don't realize how tough it is to get to the playoffs. Last year, we were one victory away from a championship game.

Michael Sheehan

Your family, whether you know it or not, has been impacted by it in the last year.

Brian Williamson

You're going to see a lot of volatility all day. It's the last day of trading for the quarter, so things get hectic.

Carlos Sainz

You never know what is going to happen. I didn't know that Catalonia would be my last rally. But I don't have any regrets because the party on the Sunday night was beautiful.

Joe Wurzelbacher

Private unions, such as the UAW, is a choice between employees and employers. If that is what they want, then who am I to say you can't have it?

Greg Evans

Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them.

Tom Watkins

We need more entrepreneurs in private and public life,

Lynndie England

I was used by Private Graner. I didn't realise it at the time.

Frank Melton

I think if it's a private investment, it's a private investment,

Mark Delegal

What they say in public and what they say in private are so different.

Jeb Bush

We are just going to keep at it, ... We have no alternative. It's not just to protect private property. It's our lifeblood.

Wil S. Hylton

The tension between public and private science is powerful.

John Twelve Hawks

Without private thoughts and actions, we can never truly be free.

Dave Bowman

As of now, no response from the public or business.

Dan Stessel

Some (drivers) have opted to switch to public transportation, and we're working to welcome them to the system.

Jim Bailey

public safety reasons and for your own safety.

Tom Bailey

We have a responsibility to the public to do the right thing, ... We've got 14-year-olds that read the newspaper.

Sharon Stone

My personal style and public style are very different. When I go out, I play dress up.

Ben Schott

The radio's pretty much always on, and I also listen to some American podcasts, such as for 'National Public Radio' and 'Newsweek'.

Darryl Strawberry

didn't want to make a public thing out of it.

Bob Elliott

We want a more comprehensive look at public safety.

Alicia Munnell

With public employees, the day of reckoning is more in the distance.

Markus Steinbeis

The sentiment for the whole telecoms sector has now cooled down.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

know that there has to be a spending limit.

Elizabeth Hurley

Spending time outdoors makes you feel great.

William J. H. Boetcker

You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.

Leon Wieseltier

I was not interested in spending 10 years in the culture wars.

Carmen Busquets

I was always into fashion, and used to go on spending sprees when I was a university student in Miami. My father would be furious, but I would always say, 'It was an emergency! I had a party to go to!'

Terry Tamminen

It would be much stronger if it was a law.

Kathy Emerson

The work is very exciting. In fact, we've remarked how much stronger the work is now than what it used to be.

Andrew Harrington

Zinc is a lot stronger in terms of supply characteristics than the other metals.

Barbara Kingsolver

That was when we smelled the rain. It was so strong it seemed like more than just a smell. When we stretched out our hands we could practically feel it rising up from the ground. I don’t know how a person could ever describe that scent.

Baruch Spinoza

Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.

Azar Nafisi

The more we die, the stronger we will become

Ayelet Zurer

TV is the place that writers want to be. When you don't have a very strong indie market going on, talented writers want to have their voice heard, so they'll go somewhere else, and everyone goes to TV because their voices are heard.

Aubrey McClendon

Every day you use dozens of products that have strong chemicals in them, but remember, the only difference between poison and medicine is dosage.

Brenda Strong

Balance for me now means seeing myself as a tree, being strong enough in my roots and trunk to not be a pushover, but being flexible enough in every circumstance not to break. I am continuing to expand, but not any faster than my roots can support me.

Ray Waddell

There is no substitute for the live experience,

Deepak Chopra

Nutritional supplements are not a substitute for a nutritionally balanced diet.

Andrew Carnegie

Instead of the question "What must I do for my employer?" substitute "What can I do"

Andre Gide

Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness.

Patti Page

The best substitute for money is ingenuity ...

Gordon Bethune

The substitute for knowledge is money.

Phil McGraw

I don't substitute anybody else's judgment for my own.

Joan Bonvicini

We didn't have a lot of options. We tried to substitute as much as we could.

Brett Ratner

When I was 13, Eddie Murphy was to me what Chris Tucker was to 13-year-olds when I made 'Rush Hour.' And 'Rush Hour' really came out of the fact that I grew up watching 'Beverly Hills Cop' and '48 Hrs.'

Brett Ratner

I got a Super 8 camera when I was eight years old, and I just wanted to tell stories - I love telling stories.

Brandon Sanderson

People can do great things. However, there are some things they just CAN'T do. I, for instance, have not been able to transform myself into a Popsicle, despite years of effort.

Ayn Rand

He, too, stood looking at her for a moment--and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after an absence, but the look of someone who had thought of her every day of that year. She could not be certain, it was only an instant, so brief that just as she caught it, he was turning...

Benjamin Cardozo

The repetition of a catchword can hold analysis in fetters for fifty years or more.

Benjamin Cardozo

More truly characteristic of dissent is a dignity, an elevation, of mood and thought and phrase. Deep conviction and warm feeling are saying their last say with knowledge that the cause is lost. The voice of the majority may be that of force triumphant, content with the plaudits of the hour, and recking little of the morrow. The dissenter speaks to the future, and his voice is pitched to a key that will carry through the years.

Benito Mussolini

If I advance; follow me. If I retreat; kill me. If I die; avenge me! It is better to live one day as a lion than one-hundred years as a sheep!

Brad Paisley

Willie Nelson, out there 200 days a year, calls his band family. And it is.

Brad Pitt

I've been in these tabloids for 14 years now, and at some point you just become a Zen master of it all