Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kevan Gosper

Here we have a huge country which has never had the games. This could be an event, which encourages an even greater degree of openness. From an Olympic point of view, Beijing has to have the edge.

Liu Xiang

Holding the Olympics in Beijing will be a major event that will remain in Chinese history, ... It will be an excellent opportunity for China to demonstrate the rapid development it has made. As athletes, we will be called upon to produce good results for our home country.

Hu Jintao

The purpose of holding the commemorative meeting is to reiterate our solemn commitments to the principles of the UN Charter and the implementation of the 2000 Millennium Development Goals and the Beijing Declaration and the Platform for Action,

Frank Lu

I think Beijing is probing how party documents have been leaked, and Wu's organization is being investigated as one of the major sources,

Norbert Young

We look forward to meeting with the world's leading contractors, design firms, developers, financiers and building product manufacturers in Beijing to discuss global issues facing this great industry.

Michael Callahan

I couldn't sit in an office in California and tell a Chinese citizen in Beijing not to follow a lawful demand of the Chinese government.

S. Walker

Relations between Beijing and London are pretty cool. The Chinese are not happy with the way power is being transferred. Britain doesn't really have any military, and not all that much economic, role to play in China in the future.

Maria Cheng

Our office in Beijing was informed of this today. It is in a province that hasn't identified human cases before but it is somebody who seems to have a history of exposure to poultry.

Natalie Coughlin

I plan to swim at the Beijing Olympics in 2008. After all, I'm still improving.

Bill Carrick

I think it gets to the point where the question is whether he has any effectiveness as a governor. This guy is the governor of California and what's he doing?

Chuck D.

He knows the (Mountain West Conference), and that helped him. He also knows Southern California in terms of recruiting. We think it's a great fit for us.

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.

Jeremy Crabtree

I think Willingham did a good job of keeping Washington state kids at home, went out and got some good ones out of California and sprinkled in some junior college guys. It looks like a pretty darn good class.

Christian Moody

I think the California game was actually a big start for us.

George Beranek

It also helps that Chinese contractors tend to do the work on their projects.

Hu Jia

I think it's ironic that the way the Chinese government prepares to host the United Nations Commission on Human Rights is by placing dissidents under house arrest.

Bill Gates

I think (the internet) is contributing to Chinese political engagement...access to the outside world is preventing more censorship.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Whatever Tencent can see, the Chinese government can see.

Rebecca MacKinnon

There is a great deal of concern in the Chinese military that Taiwan's reunification with China is drifting further and further away.

Jim Campbell

To get any volume for the Chinese it will take a couple of years to ramp up.

Marvin Harris

I think that by following the route that I have tried to outline, one gets into a much more interesting and productive series of questions than those that result from saying simply that Chinese don't like milk because they don't like milk.

Mark White

I agree totally with Metheny regarding the sound influencing the way you play.

Robert Fortune

I have, however, often seen Chinese gardeners selecting suckers and plants for this purpose from the other plants which are growing in their garden.

William Thomas

He was a good solid citizen of Rutland Town. I knew all of the family and they're good people.

Patrick Fitzgerald

He claims to be a citizen but he is not an American, ... He claims to be a religious man, but he is not a true Muslim.

Joseph Bruno

He knows this state as well as any citizen knows this state,

Steve Brown

Having a place to live is great. I get to have my dog. I feel like a productive citizen again. It's a new lease on life.

Bob Baldwin

He's a great corporate citizen and does tremendous work in our community,

Mayor Cartmell

He's just the kind of model citizen we like to have ... He's just the nicest kid that you would ever want to know.

Eric Hoffman

He should be forever locked up to ensure the safety and security of the citizens of Delaware County.

Scott Harshbarger

His pattern of conflicts of interest undermines citizen confidence and investor confidence in the operations of the SEC. Left unchecked this has the potential to undermine market confidence. Americans and investors deserve an SEC that will vigorously protect their interests and protect the openness and efficiency of our markets.

Tim Eyman

I think the citizens would have some sympathy for (increasing legislative pay) if they saw their legislators listening to their concerns and doing a good job. And when a top legislative priority is taking away the rights of citizens to participate in the initiative process, they don't want to reward that.

Sidney Blumenthal

Ken Starr's prosecutors demanded to know what I had told reporters and what reporters had told me about Ken Starr's prosecutors. If they think they have intimidated me they have failed. And if any journalist here or elsewhere wants to talk to me, I'll be glad to talk to you.

Tom Baker

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Spencer Abraham

The demand for electricity to have a strong, growing economy is too great to be simply offset by more conservation.

Jeff Garlin

The only thing that I demand of the audience is that they listen to what I'm saying. Other than that, they owe me nothing. They don't owe me a thing.

Carl Herrman

What we would like is that people will demand more. We're hoping to work together again.

Bjorn Hanson

What we've seen is demand growing at three and a half to four and a half percent in some recent years. This year it will only grow about two and a half percent.

Joe Mauer

Having the first year of going through that and getting to know these guys, that's a lot of information, ... It's not only a physical demand on you, but mentally as well.

Keith Tkachuk

He's a competitor, I'll tell you that much. He wants to win; he's been with the Rangers and he demands a lot.

Tim Rattay

He rides them, ... He rides those guys hard, and he demands a lot, and it's good. Those guys are responding.

Detective McFadden

I suspect they may have been sold on eBay, and we're following up on that.

David Morris

He used to take my brother, Robert, and me on weekend trips. Maybe to Snowden to hunt, or to a trout stream he knew up near the Peaks of Otter. But when he got back, he always made sure he did something special with our sister Brenda the following weekend.

Boris Vian

Have you noticed with inflexible necessity of the me to insert itself between the sol which precedes it and the sol which follows it.

Walt Miller

He knows how his mother was, he'll make suggestions and pass on information. He has quite a following there.

Tony Bui

Harvey kept going, 'Who's that guy following you around?,'

Jordyn Wieber

There are so many little girls who follow me and look up to me. I'm their role model, so I have to make sure I'm always being professional and not putting any swear words out there - just really putting positive things out there on the Internet.

Kenneth Chenault

Many people don't focus enough on execution. If you make a commitment to get something done, you need to follow through on that commitment.

Paul Anderson

He regards it as a very sensitive matter and will be following up when he returns.

Hebrew Proverb

Happy the generation where the great listen to the small, for it follows that in such a generation the small will listen to the great

Jim Manley

This is just a typical part of lawful fund-raising.

Pete Carroll

Just my game-plan folders (are saved). I have a stack of those through the years. I'm not a big memorabilia guy. My office may look cluttered, but it's not from memorabilia.

Dave Miller

He used my office to make phone calls,

David Goldberg

Lasers are very much like computers. They don't like to get bounced around. And a rental laser is in a van going from doctor's office to doctor's office every day.

Glenn Martin

What you're going to start seeing is the infrastructure the roads, doctor's offices and stores come next.

Andrew Forman

We may just open our own transition office.

Charlie Leonard

He was in the office at 7 a.m. this morning.

Ryan Holmes

HootSuite never had a big launch. We were lucky to even have office space.

Ryan Holmes

Email is familiar. It's comfortable. It's easy to use. But it might just be the biggest killer of time and productivity in the office today.

Roz Savage

I just used to have a really normal life, working in an office.

Errol Morris

I taught my son to read with tabloids. We would sit to read the 'Weekly World News' together.

Randy Cunneyworth

He's been sitting long enough. We need a contribution from him.

Kevin Criswell

I thrive off of these types of situations and I can't wait to get out there.

John Tortorella

We've been through a lot tougher situations than this in our past. We will get it done.

David Francis

I think what we can say is we're watching the situation carefully.

Rahul Gandhi

I will speak to you tomorrow and till then I will sit there (among the delegates).

George Hamilton

Well, you were sitting practically on Len's lap.

M. Wolfe

He was just sitting here three weeks ago.

R. Halloran

He was in a stressful situation that day.