Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Coll

What we have attempted to do in this draft is try to make Colonial Avenue much more of a local street - a local cul-de-sac, actually.

John Ashcroft

Today, I can report to you that our investigation has uncovered several individuals, including individuals who may have links to the hijackers, who fraudulently have obtained or attempted to obtain hazardous material transportation licenses,

Richard Brodhead

I am aware that police attempted to enter those rooms and I am now about to leave this news conference to learn the whole story.

Jay Larranaga

I just looked on the Internet for certain trends and if anything pops out in the games that Michigan State lost. I think when they attempted less than 16 free throws, they lost every game, and they are a great free throw shooting team. I think there was also was a great discrepancy between wins and losses and how their inside player Paul Davis played. When he played well and scored over 18, 19 points, they usually won.

Joey Skaggs

In 1968 I organized the Hippie Bus Tour to Queens as a satirical cultural exchange tour and I attempted to burn down a Vietnamese Village Nativity I erected in Central Park to protest the war in Vietnam.

Brad Soderberg

I know that topic keeps coming up, but I'm most interested in quality basketball. We're having a hard time sustaining quality basketball, and tonight was as bad as it gets. Everything we tried didn't work. Every shot we attempted seemed a little off rhythm.

Kathleen Blanco

The Corps Of Engineers has attempted to fix the situation under emergency conditions, ... They're not the best conditions, and probably too little, too late.

George Washington

The consciousness of having attempted faithfully to discharge my duty, and the approbation of my Country will be a sufficient recompense for my Services

Keiji Fukuda

This has never been attempted before. There is a very good chance that we will fail and that we will not be able to stop it.

Patti Smith

It is a great avenue because the subject matter is so broad. A lot of students have always been interested in religion.

Steve Zmak

I think the public will is going to be heard. I don't think every avenue has been explored. Marina residents haven't weighed in on this.

Doug Hall

I think the changes on Washington are positive for the Beat Festival. The streets are safer, the district offers more options for dining before the event, and more residents means more attendance. The Beat Festival has always been an opportunity for people to check out everything Washington Avenue has to offer. Now there's just a lot more to check out.

James Rosenquist

I painted the Astor-Victoria sign seven times, and it's 395 feet wide and 58 feet high. I dropped a gallon of purple paint on Seventh Avenue and 47th Street from 15 stories up and didn't kill anybody. I dropped a brush at Columbus Circle. It fell on a guy's camel-hair coat.

Terry Malone

I really think that my long-term future is to be a head coach in college football. This (move) is an avenue to get there.

Brian Boye

I haven't seen so many men wearing pink since I was a kid in the '70s and 'The Preppy Handbook' was in its first printing. You can't walk one block on Park Avenue in Manhattan without seeing refined, well-heeled businessmen hustling to their offices in pink dress shirts or ties.

Dave Hayward

I really had to plan my mornings out in order to make the commute. It was a lot more complicated than taking a 10-minute walk from Ackerman Avenue to the Quad (at SU).

Mark Cooper

The Internet is already an important avenue for participation in society.

Steve Davies

The Hilton Avenue section is the most pressing part of the project because it's a deep line with a lot of other utility and storm lines around it. We are proceeding at our best pace.

Patrick White

In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school.

Wayne Pivac

We had the Colonial Cup competition where they had a five-team competition, then now we have the six-team competition on top of that so local players have twice the opportunity to show selectors what they have.

Gore Vidal

On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.

Hal McManus

We couldn't hit that little 7- or 8-foot shot for anything. We've played down here twice and have had probably our two worst shooting percentages here at the Colonial Center.

Randy Horn

Colonial makes it a priority to be a good neighbor in the Midlands to be the company people in the community want to partner with.

Alice Morse Earle

It is easy to gain a definite notion of the furnishing of colonial houses from a contemporary and reliable source - the inventories of the estates of the colonists.

Samora Machel

The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.

Sara Sheridan

The question shouldn't be 'Are we guilty about our colonial past;' it should be 'Why aren't we more guilty about our corporate present'?

George Howard

We're returning this river to its colonial days.

Mathias Kiwanuka

I was waiting throughout the whole draft and knew somebody would take me, I just didn't know who. When it got to that point, I was surprised that the Giants took me, but I wasn't surprised that I went.

Bobby Johnson

He was exactly right. He bettered us, he bettered his draft position and had a lot of fun doing it.

Tommy Williams

I don't know what they're talking about. A draft is just a draft until it's adopted.

Iyad Allawi

Today is not the end, ... We still have big problems?. The whole draft is open for review.

Ben Dogra

Players get destroyed. You could say you're going to draft the pope, and someone would say he's too old. Draft Santa Claus, and someone would say he wouldn't fit down the chimney.

Jim Haslett

If you draft someone in the second round, you should feel comfortable with them. Hopefully, he can get playing time with the first team.

Reggie Bush

I think now it is just about the draft and making this whole thing happen.

Mark Norris

If we think it will further the purpose of considering and drafting remedial legislation as we move forward, then it's appropriate.

Dick Jauron

I remember more the players than all the other stuff, but it was a wild day. It obviously ended up being a terrific draft for us.

E. Hicks

I talked to a local person who's into philanthropy for a defibrillator.

Bill Doyle

I think it's a wonderful contribution to local history.

H. Hart

The overwhelming majority of new deposits are not from the local area. It's been a cost-effective way of reaching a new marketplace.

Victor Lin

If we could get support from the state and from these local companies, there is no reason why it would not stay here. I see opportunity in Iowa.

Alan Curbishley

He is a local ref and perhaps it is something we have to look at.

Haley Barbour

the ultimate decision-making would be at the local level.

Kevin McCarthy

It's regrettable that we're going to spend local property taxes on schools the state would otherwise fund. As I understand it, we don't get back that money.

E. B. White

Its important to do things locally as well, ... impeach.

Scott Henson

They have a structural accountability problem; they're federally funded, state managed and locally staffed, therefore accountable to no one.

Daphne White

Do we really want 6-year-olds to become street fighters?

Alan Johnson

We were thinking Wall Street would be flattish for the year, but we fortunately may have undershot.

Darrell Sanders

We're taking it off the street one gram at a time.

Eric Fry

There's no visibility, to put it in Wall Street terms,

Dan Jenkins

I get 'USA Today,' the 'New York Times,' 'Wall Street Journal' and the 'Star-Telegram' at my doorstep. I can't do without them.

Angelo Vaughn

He was a street cop. He was someone you want to emulate.

Beeban Kidron

I often go out on the street with my camera and ask questions.

Elaine Stritch

New Yorkers stop me on the street all the time to say, 'You're terrific! You're the nuts!'

Frank Roder

We've been complaining about 12th street for many, many years.