Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johnny Rotten

(During a gig on the Sex Pistols' US Tour) See the fine, upstanding, young men Britain is chucking out these days.

Michael McGrath

We are delighted to be named as the Preferred Supplier of Ferry Services to The Ryder Cup 2006 which promises to be one of the greatest sporting occasions that Ireland has ever witnessed. Out extensive route network and choice of craft between Britain and Ireland has helped us secure this prestigious contract.

Martin Parr

I am not as cross about Thatcher now as I was in the '80s. Begrudgingly, I can see that some of her policies helped modernise Britain.

Alice Lowe

One thing about television in Britain is that they're so scared about complaints. It curbs a lot of drama.

David Miliband

I am the 'change Britain' candidate. We can only change Britain through a united Labour Party and I am the unity candidate. I have got support from the Left and the Right of the party.

Tony Blair

cement the new modern relationship between Britain and India.

Rowan D. Williams

More perhaps than any war for centuries, the conflict that ended sixty years ago had for us in Britain the clear character of a moral struggle.

Jennifer Morgan

My hope is that the end product won't look like the draft. I am counting on Germany, France and Britain to ensure that this text is put into shape.

James Bamford

Maybe nothing will come of it. Maybe the next time he tries to enter the United States or Britain he will be denied, without explanation. Maybe he will be arrested.

John Russell

People are there by choice. It's increasingly unusual that undergraduates are willing to commit their time to something like this. What we do tends to fly in the face of a lot of popular culture. It's being committed to music making of a fairly high order.

Jim Wallis

On this budget, we have the starkest choice we've had in a long time -- tax cuts for the wealthiest versus food stamps and Medicaid.

David Bookbinder

The more one learns about his positions, the clearer it is that he's the wrong choice.

Nishi Silva

Death makes us forget everything we love and loved ones at the most fearful moment of doubt on loosing our lives. This moment convinces us how much we are selfish of struggling to save ourselves rather than saving others. It would be worthy to live as we do not need to make a choice like that by not getting bounded much in relationships or being indifferent by loosing you to yourself and loosing others to yourself.

Michael Dunne

Competition in the TV service market will be good because customers will get better prices. Cox has been hiking rates year after year, and they'll keep on doing it until customers have a choice and can make their voice heard.

Tom Jurkowsky

Coffman continues to have the full confidence of the board. Coffman's decision to retire was a personal choice. He's ready to move on to the next stage of his life,

Mike Kramer

Dennis is the No. 1 choice right now. The people in Idaho would love to see him return.

Scott Watson

Any opportunity that we have where we can demonstrate some of the different programs that we have helps the parents make a better decision and helps the students make a better choice of what they want to do.

Blaine Lee

Any change, any loss, does not make us victims. Others can shake you, surprise you, disappoint you, but they can't prevent you from acting, from taking the situation you're presented with and moving on. No matter where you are in life, no matter what your situation, you can always do something. You always have a choice and the choice can be power.

T'Keyah Crystal Keymah

I'm inspired every time I see a role I'd like to play, an actor turn in a well crafted performance, a story I'd like to tell, direct or produce.

Robert Bly

The language you use for your poems should be the language you use with your friends.

T. S. Eliot

Mediocre writers borrow; great writers steal.

Sam Raimi

Rob [Tapert], myself and Bruce Campbell sat in hundreds of drive-insnot hundreds, but tens of drive-ins, watching these movies and learning how they were made, and we started to make our own in Super 8. And that’s really how we got into horror films. After a while we learned to really like them, and the craft that went into them.

Tom T. Hall

Songwriting is as much a craft as a talent.

Tom Stoppard

The hard part is getting to the top of page 1.

Tina Brown

In the end, Dan Rather's legend skewered him, CBS and the craft of journalism.

Patti LaBelle

A diva is someone who is a perfectionist, who does her best in her craft.

Elizabeth Warren

Because policymakers often rely on think tanks' research when crafting laws and regulations, it's critical to know whether these organizations are truly independent.

Chris Baldwin

The Solheim Cup was all about the future of women's golf, not its tired past. And the future does not need Michelle Wie to win.

Graham Arnold

I've made the point before, and I'll make it again, we don't have the depth of other countries. These four blokes, they are all very important to us. You don't want to be thinking about going into the World Cup without them.

Michael Putnam

I waited all summer to turn pro until after the Walker Cup (two weeks ago). That was my whole goal this summer, to play in the Walker Cup, get the Cup back for the United States. After we did that, it was an easy decision to turn pro and not play in the Amateur.

Keith Tkachuk

The old guys can still play a little bit. ... We've been around, we've won the World Cup in '96, and we demand a lot from each other. I think the young guys expect us to go out and lead by example. I think tonight was a good example of that.

Bo Ryan

After five minutes of that Memphis game, ... I shut the VCR off, walked out into the kitchen, got a cup of coffee, turned around and went back into my office at home, and just said, 'Wow.'

Bob Brown

One has a right to be suspicious, while the prime minister did not make this announcement yesterday because it was Melbourne Cup Day, he's making it today when he's releasing the industrial relations legislation to take (it) off the front page,

John Fitzgerald

Sometimes these Davis Cup doubles are on a knife's edge, especially when it's a 1-1 scenario, it shows how pivotal they are, but this was a good effort, tough players those two guys. You've got Max ranked three in the world (in doubles) and the other guy's a hell of a hitter of the ball. These are not easy to win. That was a very good performance.

Paul Broadhurst

(Ryder Cup captain) Ian (Woosnam) has rung me already to congratulate me. Obviously I'd love to play again.

Walter Smith

Sadly, there is nothing we can do about it. The current Fifa ruling regarding release of players extends to just four days before a World Cup tie.

Bryan Robson

The way he's done his job is very good. This is the reward for that and I'm delighted he's signed.

Sandra Hebron

We are delighted with the quality and strength of this year's selection.

Don Logan

We're delighted to have the Times Mirror titles become part of Time Inc., ... We think that their vertical sports enthusiast titles are a perfect fit with the Sports Illustrated group.

Ken Schanzer

Whatever it is we're paying, ... we're delighted to be in this relationship. We want to keep going forever.

Mark Ford

I'm delighted we have a general manager that would be in demand. I love that they want to get our general manager, if it's true. But we're going to keep Doug with us.

Fabio Capello

I'm delighted he has taken his total to 100. He has always been a great finisher,

Brian Kelley

We are delighted that Keith has joined our team.

Steven Burd

I need more personal time and, given my extensive work in health care, I want to pursue that interest further.

Aldrich Ames

The U.S. is, so far as I know, the only nation which places such extensive reliance on the polygraph. It has gotten us into a lot of trouble.

Robert Erspamer

There was extensive fire, smoke and water damage.

Jessica Dyer

Our vocabulary will be much more extensive now.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

Derek Jeter

People say this is the greatest offense ever. But let us play awhile. Names don't win games. You have to play the games.

Jim Yerkovich

(Deane) plays with the greatest intensity of any big kid I've ever been around.

Richard Grimes

The smallest pleasures hold the greatest treasures like the smallest treasures hold the greatest pleasures.

Craig Chilton

The summertime and late spring are the greatest times of production for this industry because dealers sell more of these vehicles at this time of year, ... How to Get Paid $30,000 a Year to Travel: Without Selling Anything.

Sarah Vandish

I've met some of the greatest people through swimming.

Jeremy Yablonski

Things weren't working out the greatest in Milwaukee and Nashville.

Ashley Hill

This is probably the greatest group of kids I've ever had in any sport at any level.

Greg Oden

This is one of my greatest moments. I'm very happy to win this award, and I'm very grateful.

Juan Avila

Thank you to all the people who helped us get this house.

Kirby Moses

Ten of our 14 wrestlers scored points which helped us today. There were 15 teams and we didn't know what to expect. We were the smallest school there.

Cheech Marin

It was about taking the show and shining a different light on it. Each monologue was like a separate jewel that I helped thread into a necklace.

Pat Riley

I should have played him in New Jersey. I regret that. He could have helped on (Vince) Carter.

Karen Brown

I should have helped in some way. I should have put my life on the line.

Peter Diepenbrock

They all helped out on (Gordon). From top to bottom, this was truly a team effort.

Tricia Gaither

This is the first time we've had him for a whole year, and his program is one of the best. I think the sport specific things he does have helped me a lot and our team a lot.

Bruce Cunningham

This is special for him. He tried to stay with Shawn and that helped him stay focused.

J. M. Roberts

That's like saying you shouldn't nominate Roberts because he helped with Roemer v. Evans,

John Millington Synge

There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.

Tony Blair

Yet here we are for all the difficulties in Northern Ireland able to point back to real improvements in the security and the standards of living,

Sue Monk Kidd

I have an old dog named Lily, and she's a black lab.

Colin Cooper

You'll have to wait and see. The team will be named on Friday.

Dave Wannstedt

I could've named several others who were deserving.

Frances Townsend

We've not named them, because, frankly, they don't want to be named. They are partners and we respect that, so we're not naming them.

E. B. White

The most vulnerable part of the network are the undersea pipelines.

Richard Fox

you must have a network in order to make this a continuous, profitable scheme.

Stacey Koerner

Every network has something that it can talk about.

Matthew Felling

That was really a retelling of an old tale at that point, and that's not what most people turn to news networks for.

Andrew Heyward

Each of the networks is in a period of transition. It is extraordinary.

Marc Berman

Each network has at least one new show that's doing well. That's a real positive. There's not a single network where everything bombed.

Shari Brill

They need Thursday to be their strong night, ... Thursday was such a strong night for them so long that they used to get by without winning any other night of the week. The other networks used to roll over.

Mitch Metcalf

It's the loneliest night of the week for network television and television in general.

Jill Abramson

There's a way to do networking that isn't overly brown-nosing.

Fran Clader

Everything the officers did in each of these occasions was right.

Steve Mills

It's not the preferred style for enterprise-class operation.

David Clohessy

So much for their promises to be more transparent.

John Sparkman

We can't make promises that we can give you assistance.

Toby Hall

It's a new route we need to take,

Tim Chapman

This is going to be a social services disaster.

Dan Bailey

We're going to try and make it a one-stop social services fair,

Timothy Noah

The financial services industry is a ward of the state.