Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Koryta

I would say of characters I've created, the one I've felt the most connected to emotionally was Adam Austin from 'The Prophet.' I think it was the connection to the idea that one decision you make innocently enough can have very serious, drastic consequences for someone else's life.

Michael Starke

I think it means the world to Brian. Adam would be honored to pass the torch to Brian.

Joe Sakic

For me, on a personal note, it was really tough to see both Adam and Peter go. I'm really going to miss them.

Leonard Levinson

History is the short trudge from Adam to atom.

Dave Schutter

I thought out of everybody on the team, Adam had the best performance on the weekend. Over the past two weeks since we came back from break, he's been wrestling better each consecutive week. It's about consistency and improving, and he's definitely been doing that over the last couple weeks.

Mike Redwine

I think it took Adam until the second quarter to get comfortable. He may have been a little anxious and trying too hard early, but he is definitely the right guy for this program.

Doug Flutie

I was just disappointed. You know, Adam has been a big part of this team for a number of years and his game-winning kicks, Super Bowl kicks, and all that, so he will be missed by his teammates, but it's just the nature of the business. He will be forever etched in the memories of New England sports fans.

Andy Frye

Our backs are running hard and sharing the responsibility, and we're getting balls around to different players. I still think our go-to-guy is Adam Clark. He's almost healthy, and I think that's helped us, too.

Bobby Byerly

I keep telling Adam he's not our No. 9 guy, he's our second lead-off man. I'm trying to give him confidence.

Mike Kuntz

He?s good at avoiding getting served, ... He?s good at dragging things out.

John Toshack

I will now not see these players for about four months so there is no point in not saying how I feel. I have never been one for avoiding the issue,

Wayne Dyer

Wisdom is avoiding all thoughts that weaken you.

Henry Hyde

as we enact these reforms, we must exercise some care in avoiding unforeseen consequences.

Washington Post

As President Bush prepares to visit India, the question is whether he can cement the improvement in US-India ties while avoiding negative spill-over effects.

Jonah Rapino

It seems like it's the classic of classics. I think we had been avoiding it for a little while.

Mal Peet

It's extremely difficult to describe interestingly what happens on the pitch. Thousands of journalists write millions of words every week trying to do it, so your chances of avoiding cliche are very slim. And you're trying to write fiction, not a match report.

Tom Ridge

They tell us that avoiding panic and confusion in a crisis helps them do their jobs better. So when you protect yourself, you're protecting your community, and it's one less concern that the first responders have at the time of an incident,

Ram Kumar

It started as a quiet and calm demonstration as we had promised for the sake of avoiding any hassles for the innocent bystanders but the police turned it into violence.

Ed Perkins

Greed on the part of banks is never surprising. Fortunately, not all the cards are doing it.

Zhou Shengxian

Groundwater near both banks of the river is in accordance with national standards and it's safe to drink.

Ron Dennis

I think the difference in the discussions that have taken place in the last month ... is that the push now is more towards what is in the long term interests of Formula One. That is where probably the acquisition from the banks of the equity by CVC has been most positively felt because they want stability, they want growth and now we participate in that growth so everybody has a very common interest.

Diego Rivera

What do you mean the banks of the river?. Are/ you the banks of Diego Rivera? I will be/ remembered throughout history and already my/ little Frida has forgotten.... Who first put a/ paint brush in your hand? ... And now you/ have become the banks to contain me? No,/ Frida, you have forgotten the real truth. You/ are a stone in the mighty river. A lovely/ speckled stone.

Jasmine Guinness

We've got to make greedy banks pass on interest rate cuts in full, and we've got to see rents coming down.

Mark Lackey

I think what's happening is that with Japanese banks wanting to clean positions by March 31, we're hearing that they have been big sellers in North America.

Yoji Takeda

It gives the impression Koizumi wanted someone who has political clout and who can support his structural reforms. Merging or privatizing government-affiliated banks will be positive for commercial lenders and brokerages because it will mean more business for them.

Michael Molligan

It goes from flooding its banks to getting very low.

Hans Tietmeyer

I will not talk about this experience. But, as I wrote before today, a signal of intervention by central banks can be an extremely effective move. I am not disapproving in certain situations of joint single intervention.

Nathan Robertson

I was just desperate to win it. It was such a big occasion and right now it ranks as the best. We can win grand prix events but it is the medals you have won that define your career when it's all done.

Don Jordan

Ken was recognized early in his career as a man of integrity, strength and imagination. I hated it when he told me he was taking early retirement. I tried hard to talk him out of it.

Gary Griffiths

Kids need to be connected to the school and they need to feel someone cares about them. In a large school setting it can be extremely impersonal. There's nothing worse than a student in a large setting not being connected to anything. That's the height of loneliness.

Ayn Rand

know not if this earth on which I stand is the core of the universe or if it is but a speck of dust lost in eternity. I know not and I care not. For I know what happiness is possible to me on earth.

Courtney LaVere

Knowing it's the end of the season and the end of my career possibly, I don't want to regret anything.

Santonio Holmes

Knowing I have three kids to take care of, I want them to have a dad, something I didn't have. I want to be there to support them. My mom was always a single parent raising four kids. I really want to support my mom.

Anthony Principi

Kids coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan . . . deserve to come back to 21st-century medical care, ... Whatever it costs, we need to incur that cost to provide that world-class care to an extraordinary group of men and women in harm's way.

Walt Jocketty

I would think it's a good fit, ... but that's not something for me to decide. He started his career there, and he's obviously one of the top managers in the game that's not employed as a manager. Jim is going to manage somewhere in 2006. Definitely.

David Skorton

I wouldn't be so presumptuous as to walk in here with approximately 90 seconds of experience and start telling the people who have made their careers here what the important issues are.

Drew Gilpin Faust

When I was growing up in Virginia, the Civil War was presented to me as glorious with dramatic courage and military honor. Later, I realized how death was central to the reality. It was at the core of women's lives. It's what they talked about most.

Kirk Walters

He's a real vocal guy for us. He's a central part of our defense and our offense.

Alan Greenspan

History has demonstrated that implicit in any removal of power from central planners and broadening of market mechanisms -- as would occur under WTO -- is a more general spread of rights to individuals,

David Resler

It could be a drag on earnings...something that delays the revival of profits so central to the revival of the economy itself.

Yi Xianrong

It is a clear signal to the property market that the central government has the determination and the means to curb investments and housing prices.

Jon Katz

I think the new reality that's converging all this is, you have on the one end this culture of extraordinarily gifted outsiders who have patched together the Internet. And then there's the rest of the world -- business, education and politics -- that suddenly has woken up to the fact that they desperately need the Internet. It's very important. And so they become sort of central while still not being in the mainstream.

Robert H. Connelly

I think that if the tribe can demonstrate that this site is central and essential to its religion, it has a good chance of success in this case,

Kemp Ewing

I think that they've just got some talent going to Lenoir-Rhyne from this area. And to be coming from South Central really means a lot to us. I think that with the young coaches teaching these guys and what they're going to teach, you're going to see some more guys walk through these doors and sign and do some things in the future.

Stephen Colbert

I want to thank Comedy Central for picking up the show, but more importantly I want to congratulate Comedy Central for picking up the show,

Joseph Stiglitz

The US economy has lots of vulnerabilities in debts and deficits.

Gary Schatsky

They are signing on for large debts with low initial interest rates that can skyrocket ultimately.

Spanish Proverb

Debts are like children: the smaller they are the more noise they make

Stephen Rand

This is some of the debts of some of the world's poorest countries. And we have been campaigning for that 100 percent to be 100 percent of all the debts of all the world's poorest countries.

Zeng Jun

Leveraging on debts is definitely a useful method for gaining more wealth. The issue is, do you have your own set of risk management system to ensure you do not take on more debts than needed?

John C. Calhoun

What is it but a cunningly devised scheme to take from one State and to give to another - to replenish the treasury of some of the States from the pockets of the people of the others; in reality, to make them support the governments and pay the debts of other States as well as their own?

Charles B. Rangel

A default on our debts as a result of not meeting our obligations would be a disaster for the stock market, and Americans would see their retirement funds shrivel up.

Junyi Eng

We always say, don't let the debts go to the New Year. It's good to pay debts.

Glenn Beck

I was in Washington, D.C., on the morning show, by the time I was 18, programming a station by 19, No. 1 in the mornings. I think I was making, I don't know, a quarter of a million dollars by the time I was 25.

Clay Johnson

Katrina has sharpened everyone's focus on spending the taxpayers' dollars wisely.

Ray Manzarek

John is going to get about a million dollars for doing nothing. He gets an equal share as us, and we were out there working. A free million bucks. That's a gig I'd like.

Mark Dobson

I also want to make sure student tax dollars are spent responsibly. Regardless, they are spent on the students who pay them.

Richard Bernstein

Historically, S&P 500 earnings growth, on average, has been negative when the dollar has appreciated 10 percent or more in a 12-month period.

Shaun Osborne

His speech was hawkish in the sense that there would be more interest rate increases. But again, there's something for everybody in his speech, including dollar bears.

David Mozina

I think it's great news for the dollar and it will probably solidify the strong upward moves that we are seeing in today's session.

David Brazil

We've done well with their contract-in dollars and in service.

John Heisdorffer

I think it's possible. We have about a half million dollars walking into the office or by mail every day.

Denis MacShane

He never used the phrase 'ethical foreign policy'; instead, he said there should be an 'ethical dimension' to foreign policy.

Vladimir Putin

We should find other platforms, other forums for that [foreign policy], and there are plenty of them, including, for example, the UN and the Security Council.

Enrique Pena Nieto

I plan to open Mexico's energy sector to national and foreign private investment.

Jaime Salazar

Being hungry is something you get very used to in the French Foreign Legion,

Jon Porter

In light of the recent controversy surrounding foreign management of U.S. Ports, a thorough review of foreign management of U.S. airports needs to occur.

Giuliana Sgrena

These people don't want foreigners here, nobody should come to Iraq at this time. Not even journalists. Nobody.

Olivier Martinez

I'll always be a foreigner.

Margaret Thatcher

Fear is not the basis for foreign policy.

Pearl S. Buck

A foreigner is a friend I have yet to meet.

Henry Nutbrown

I think in the end, it's inevitable we'll be talking with all of our funding partners.

Paul Johnston

It is a lot of money. We've never had that kind of funding for this kind of work.

Peter Morgan

We suspect there might have been some public fund buying.

David Brenner

Together, HalfthePlanet.com and the Abilities Fund will help entrepreneurs with disabilities through every step of the start-up process.

Robert Miller

To fund it, he sold stock. He sold shares to get things started, and then he just kept selling them.

James Bennett

I think we ought to make it a first-class facility. If it takes more than $50-million, we will have to make sure we find the funds to make it right. It's pretty important to get it right.

Jim Leach

I think we have the funds now for all of it.

Angus MacMillan

There are no signs that funds have lost appetite. As long as you have a list of problems, funds will keep piling in.

Mike Parks

I have been told that we should know about the ITEP funding within the next three weeks.

Sondhi Limthongkul

He is very arrogant, insulting other people and running the government as a one-man show. He is worse than a tyrant.

Sean McCormack

has talked about the need for reform in Uzbekistan. Very basically, the Uzbekistan government needs to trust its people." ()

Najib Razak

We can transform the government and the economy, as well as democracy, in Malaysia.

P. J. O'Rourke

Guns are the ultimate bulwark against government misbehavior.

Umar Juoro

He runs things day by day. You can't run government like that.

Wazhma Mojaddidi

He said what he said because he thought he was telling the government what they wanted to hear.

Ernest Wamba

It comes at a time when the government pretends it wants dialogue, but instead it is killing people indiscriminately.

Will Rogers

I don't know jokes; I just watch the government and report the facts.

Adam Ereli

He is an official and a representative of the government of Iraq.

Joe Gibbs

Keeping a team healthy is a huge deal,

Henry Chan

I think it's a healthy correction, some valuations got a little high.

Felipe Alou

He seemed to be healthier today, his legs and everything. He said he needed work and threw 52 pitches.

Karl Dorrell

He's healthy enough, he's throwing the ball, he's getting his timing back,

Bob Filner

With more than 1,300 sites of care, VA operates the largest integrated health care system in the county.

Jacques Rogge

We support that (tests). The reason for the tests is to protect the health of the athletes. These are health tests, they are not doping tests.

Francis Gannon

I think it was a very healthy thing that we saw this week, ... It was a valuation correction, not a fundamental correction.

J. Horton

It is important to help the troops stay healthy as they help others,

William Dietz

I'd like to think this shows women are leading the way in recognizing obesity as a health threat.

Michael Garcia

He knowingly, willingly participated in this crime, ... He wanted to kill, he intended to kill, and he did kill.

Ted Lavit

He never has, never intended to and never did.

Fred Haberman

Our motto: Pond hockey, the way nature intended it.

Rob Marshall

I never intended to do this movie as a documentary-style version of the novel. It really is a fable.

Saburo Kawabuchi

I intend to keep raising the issue with them.

Jacob Frenkel

Not that (the justices) intended it that way. But it has that effect.

Bob Clarke

They?ve got to be careful. I don?t think they intended to take the physical play out of the game, so they?ll have to sort that out.

Ian Thorpe

It's not out of the question, but at the moment I intend to retire in Beijing.

Jerry Taylor

What I am asking, I guess, is do you intend to work on it?

William Green

I'm being pushed in ways I've never been pushed before, on and off the field. I think it's paying off.

Martin Bashir

I had a pension that I was paying into for 27 years... It's now worth less than a Herman Cain endorsement.

Silke Stegemann

The company's salt acquisitions are paying off big time thanks to the winter weather.

Robert Chavez

On average, we're paying them back about $685,000 a year.

David Baker

It's called taxation without representation. We'd be subject to paying the tax, but we couldn't vote on it.

Pedro Mart

It worked for me, ... And now it's paying off for someone else.

Lindsey Graham

It's really American to avoid paying taxes, legally.

E. B. White

I told him I would have too see about paying him, ... He told me not to worry about it.

Sean Quinn

I'm a hard-nosed businessman, that if a company is paying its way, increasing profits for thirty-odd consecutive years, you don't put it into receivership.

John Jenkins

I'm just worried about pension and medical, ... when I do get ready to retire, it is set up for me.

Shia LaBeouf

You can't have bank holding companies acting as hedge funds. You can't have them taking a million-dollar pension plan for Joe Schmo the bus driver and treat it with the same risk appetite that you treat George Soros' pocket money. It's fundamentally ridiculous.

John Lee Hooker

Groups are corporations now. They have pension plans. Musicians have saw the daylight.

Judy Aydelott

Privatization is the worst idea to try to protect Social Security. It's nuts. We have to find ways to keep pensions secure, as well as Social Security.

Anne McLellan

Quite truthfully, I have no idea (how much the pension is worth) because I have never contemplated retiring.

Roger Toussaint

What they'd be saving on pensions is a pittance.

Gregg Shotwell

What struck me the most was he said he's going to try to keep Delphi pensions solvent. And I was struck that he would think that any of us would trust that.

Philip Baggaley

I would expect, eventually, they will have to terminate the pension plan.

Camryn Manheim

The universe is like a pension plan. It will match your investment.

Dana Smith

He is returning to the private sector. Any announcement about his replacement will be made in Washington.

Shannon Flaherty

His tight schedule deemed these private travel arrangements necessary.

Nick Velasquez

I think that raises questions about what he has done in the private sector. What's he trying to hide?

Carlton Forrester

It has everything to do with governing. It has nothing to do with private life.

John Logan

I'm a very private person, a very bookish person. The social world of Hollywood I know nothing about because I choose not to take part.

Tom Hank

I remember the first time he saw 'Saving Private Ryan,' ... That was special to him because of his name.

Rob Thomas

In a weird way, 'Veronica Mars' was my reaction to 'Freaks and Geeks' because 'Freaks and Geeks' was the show I wanted to write, the one I wanted to create, where there was no gimmick; you didn't have to have a teenage private eye. It was just these beautiful small stories about real kids.

Kate Mara

Keeping your private life as private as possible is the smartest thing.

Logan Mankins

I like to keep most of my private life private.

Gideon Sam

I just want to say thanks very much Graeme Smith for that wonderful win.

Jonathan Toews

I never cook. My favorite place to eat is Smith & Wollensky in Chicago.

Bill Donovan

Tubby Smith always went out of his way to be friendly. He had me in his office. He would talk to me while we waited. He always made me feel at home.

R. Ingram

Mr. Smith was the first person in the door, so to speak,

Mark Goddard

The question I always get is, Why didn't you throw Dr. Smith off the Jupiter? I get that all the time.

Nicholas Negroponte

I think $1 trillion a year by 2000 is modest,

Steve Ellis

It's a $2.4 trillion budget. There's work for everybody.

Sevyn Streeter

I'm a perfectionist to a default. I will drive you crazy sometimes. When I'm recording, I will try something a trillion times to get it right.