Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Pierce Baker

The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this pleasure with adequate characterization and dialogue memorable in itself produces dramatic literature.

Tom Daschle

I think it's important that, to the extent possible, those contingency plans be coordinated, that each branch work in concert with the other. I don't think that's been done adequately to date, but I am confident that it could be in the future,

Peter Angelos

I think the past three years Jim Beattie has been leading the effort with strong assistance from Mike. Now it will be Mike's chance. I think Mike is very capable and a very bright guy who certainly is adequate to perform the job.

Kathy Lewis

Lack of adequate NIH funding is particularly dangerous in a relatively small field like spinal cord injury. For our field to continue to grow and push therapies to the patient, NIH funding is critical. Our scientists are telling us the situation is desperate. How do you tell someone recently paralyzed that the science is there but the funding is not?

Piet Smith

We're not working as efficiently and effectively as we could be. Without adequate staff, appliances and equipment, we can't render this service as well as we should be.

Richard Martin

We are finding that the President has surrounded himself with some capable and pretty knowledgeable people. I am comfortable that they will adequately be able to represent the issues.

Gerald Garrett

It is probably not going to happen, ... At this point, I have had no indication from the members that we need to have a formal hearing to adequately explore this matter.

John Hines

It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life.

James Loney

I am grateful in a way that can never be adequately expressed in words. To the British soldiers who risked their lives to rescue us, to the government of Canada who sent a team to Baghdad to help secure our release, to all those who thought about us and prayed for us, for all those who spoke for us when we had no voice, I am forever and truly grateful. It's great to be alive.

Aaron Gray

He let me know we're stuck with him. It's great, because he's a guy who's been here for everyone's college career, and we've had a lot of success.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

There are so many high school students who are not interested in going to a four-year college to be a doctor or lawyer but who want to learn a trade,

Dat Nguyen

He's a great guy and he's been a great mentor for me. I looked up at him when I was a college player and he has helped me to be a better player.

Rick Comegy

He's a great athlete. He did some tremendous things on the junior college level. We're hoping he can do the same thing here.

Mitch Ashmore

God loves baseball. It's not a real big deal. The colleges and pros they all play on Sundays.

Kenny Chesney

He's a school teacher in the Knoxville school system and has been for a long time. And even though I didn't live with my dad, and mom says we're just alike, talk alike, walk alike, and we definitely look a lot alike...but he's very, very supportive of what I'm doing. One thing that dad did, even though I wasn't living with him, he helped me pay for college and that was a really cool thing,

Karen Smith

We feel it is an important part of the high school experience. We hope they continue on with it in college and with the rest of their lives.

Michael Gorman

There is a failure in the core values of education. They're told to go to college in order to get a better job -- and that's okay. But the real task is to produce educated people.

Doug Ross

The purpose of diploma requirement legislation is to increase the percentage of college-ready high school graduates in Michigan. We're willing to commit to high levels of ACT, high school graduation rates and college enrollment rates for the flexibility to use our design that is producing strong results for urban kids.

Ken King

It made it one of the main entrances and really classy.

Kevin Smith

The longer version is still an exercise in futility. If you never liked that movie, the longer version won't make you like it any more. But fans want to see everything to be entranced in the world of the movie.

Pam Danziger

After proclaiming their entrance into the fashion world with the Vogue ad, this is a logical step for Wal-Mart.

Steve Mohyla

Sometimes you have to literally step over people meeting in the entrance hallway.

Yuval Steinitz

It would be a massive strategic blunder to sacrifice the entrance to Jerusalem and put it in the range of gunfire.

Wayne Wilkinson

This is probably one of the ugliest things I've ever seen. North Adams is working very hard to improve its entrance quarters, so this is important to the city.

Mark Foley

Entrance into the United States is not a guaranteed right.

Mel Pins

We wanted to beautify the entrance to our neighborhood.

David Albright

This new tunnel entrance is indicative of a new underground facility or the further expansion of the existing one.

Kyle Rase

I talked to the kids about giving free passes, free runners, those are very costly. There was a perfect example of that with all the free runners they had tonight.

William Shelton

I think it's a good example of wishing a problem away. Unfortunately, more than not, we face these issues as they arise. It's like putting out fires.

Thomas Wilson

He was a great example of love expressed that expands and does not contract.

Rob DiMaio

He led by example and the way he played. He didn't have to talk. He was one of those guys who just played.

Rod Marsh

He leads by example, but he also thinks about the game as well,

Roberto Luongo

Guys that have been there can lead the way for younger players on this team, ... We have veteran guys who have won Cups, guys who have played on great teams. They know what it takes and know what it takes to put pucks in the net. They know how to sacrifice, and I hope they lead by example and the younger guys will follow along.

Shyam Selvadurai

I knew I had to write about Canada. I just could not find in literature any examples of the immigrant experience that I've had.

Patrick Robinson

He's a good example of what can be done wrestling outside of the scholastic program. The vast majority of our kids don't. But they also play other sports. Wrestling is Dan's only thing.

Todd Chanko

Here, you have a great example of two sister operations with mutual needs being satisfied by the other,

Bob McDonald

He just had that something, that intangible. You don't know who has it, but he had it. To do whatever it took to meet his goal.

Kate Bosworth

I don't really get star-struck, but I do get talent struck. If I meet somebody that I think is just wildly talented and brilliant, that's when I start getting nervous.

Larry Gregory

Having these meetings was more important than taking part on that panel,

Howard Stringer

He's a star. Nobody turns down a meeting with him.

Alison Goldfrapp

I thought what everyone thinks when they first meet Will,

Mike Pincus

The people that were at this meeting had no opinion at all.

George Speight

I think some people are trying to do me over ... and they're going to meet with some very stiff resistance.

Mike Bohn

I'd like the players to have the opportunity to meet him before the game.

Tony Fabrizio

I don't know that the rocky start is as important as what people see at the end of the day. The real rubber meets the road when they see what their expectations were versus what they actually get.

Ward Churchill

There's always merit to having a debate.

Samuel Johnson

Merit rather enforces respect than attracts fondness.

Mr Howard

If there's some outcome, some merit in those sorts of things (I would support the summit),

Epictetus

You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don't be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.

John Dryden

There is a proud modesty in merit.

Source Unknown

Acknowledgment -- If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Faith is not in itself a meritorious act; the merit is in the One to Whom it is directed.

Chanakya

Offspring, friends and relatives flee from a devotee of the Lord: yet those who follow him bring merit to their families through their devotion.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters.

Marco Killingsworth

They're Michigan State ... They're going to make that run. We just have to weather the storm.

Jose Fernandez

This is probably the strongest schedule we ever played. We had that stretch with Carolina, DePaul and Michigan State, then played LSU and opened on the road at Pitt. So we've played some quality teams.

Brent Musburger

Right now, hail to the Michigan State Spartans.

Bret Bielema

You can take Saban's record when he was at Michigan State and when he was a coach in the Big Ten and put it against mine, and he can't compare.

Adam Haluska

Up there, we rolled over, no question, but I remember saying that I thought we were a better team than Michigan State.

Tom Izzo

If I was him, I'd never do anything in the state of Michigan again.

Maurice Stovall

Michigan State just made more plays than we did.

Stephen Hadley

I would say that is some real progress.

John Bolton

I think we are still making progress. I think it is slow but it is steady,

Peter Flynn

We made progress, we haven't made as much progress as we'd like to make,

Richelle Mead

Right. As opposed to your cradle-robbing mentor. I don't really see you making much progress with him.

Trey Songz

Change is a natural form of progression.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions than by doing good ones.

Samuel Johnson

There is a frightful interval between the seed and the timber.

Walt Disney

Progress is impossible without change

Walter Lippmann

Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak.

Richard Boucher

The purpose of these talks is to get started,

Tim Wulfemeyer

The purpose of new technology is to democratize the system a little bit.

Mark Dutro

I did that on purpose. We were down by two, and I didn't want to see Montrose win here on our track.

Richard Dawkins

We have to find our own purposes in life, which are not derived directly from our scientific history.

William S. Burroughs

The whole point is, I feel the machine should be eliminated. Now that it has served its purpose of alerting us to the dangers of machine control.

William Matthews

The countenance may be rightly defined as the title page which heralds the contents of the human volume, but like other title pages, it sometimes puzzles, often misleads, and often says nothing to the purpose.

Sarah Brady

There is no personal right to be armed for private purposes unrelated to the service in a well regulated militia.

Sara Gilbert

I like that kind of frantic schedule. It makes me feel like I have a purpose.

Richard Flanagan

The enslavement, humiliation, torture, and ultimate destruction of thousands upon thousands of human beings for a project for which there was ultimately no purpose is a horror that's very hard to imagine, far less understand.

Sergei Bubka

His statements are really crazy, we are really shocked.

David Wojciechowski

He?s going to play. It?s the state championship game.

E. O. Wilson

I was completely surprised at his statement (to resign).

Larry Small

What we are trying to do is make a statement -- If you can't come to the Smithsonian in Washington, we will come to you,

Kate Saunders

It is not unprecedented that the two will be in the United States at the same time.

Quinnetta Claytor

We can do it, we can win state championships.

Will Durant

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

Willy Brandt

Peace, like freedom, is no original state which existed from the start; we shall have to make it, in the truest sense of the word.

Steve Lyle

Other states have called us, and are taking a look at it.