Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jalal Talabani

selected by Iraq's Transitional National Assembly to lead the nation's democratically elected government in over 50 years.

Muqtada Sadr

This is a result of the inadequate performance of the interior and defence ministers which has caused such a loss of life. They should stand in front of the national assembly and be questioned. If it is proven that they have failed to fulfil their responsibilities, they should be dismissed and stand trial.

Mark Hansen

The price of gas goes up every day, and the need to do this increases every day. We'd like to see the Assembly join us.

Abdallah Baali

You cannot give all the powers to the secretary general. The General Assembly has to keep its main prerogative, and the secretary general and all bodies should be accountable to the General Assembly.

Abdallah Baali

On management reform, you have one side basically saying that the secretary general should be empowered and should have all flexibility as a kind of C.E.O. and the other side saying that it is not ready to give up the prerogative of the General Assembly and would like to keep a close eye on the work of the secretary general.

Jason Davis

If we can get some energy to feed over from Assembly Hall and get it into Memorial Stadium, we'll be all right. It's set up good because those two home games can catapult us into the conference schedule.

Brett Hall

But we are gratified that the General Assembly has included quite a few of the governor's initiatives in this budget.

Patrick Rocks

The allegation that the assembly was faith-based is unfounded. We don't believe there was any wrongdoing.

John McArdle

The Assembly concurred that it was an unnecessary expenditure. It was not included.

Jack Bicknell

As far as their character, you can't beat either of those two guys, ... Both of them bring something and having two starters is a positive. You don't have to worry about the first guy going down.

Rick Stockstill

As far as the class, I'm not one to stand up here and talk about this guy and that guy and say, 'We beat this team or we beat that team on a player.' That's just not my style. We are excited about this class. I think the big thing in it is what I have said since I've been here, which is I want to surround myself with winners.

Joe Novak

Our earliest ever. We don't beat the Big Ten schools very often. Hardly at all, if they want a kid.

Jimmy Kimmel

Oh, great, ... Three people beating me up. Maybe it isn't such a great idea.

Peter Coolidge

The Nasdaq has been beaten up so much that there's room for a technical rebound if not more. It's still very murky as to where valuations should be and how much more room there is on the downside.

Sam Stovall

December is one of the best months of the year for retailers. Of the past four years, retailers have beaten the market. Typically, everyone says the Christmas season is going to be horrible and they don't want to be in retailers, only to see December do very well for the market and even better for retailers.

Mo Johnston

D.C. was the better team. There's no way I'm going to stand up here and make excuses when we got beat 4-1.

James Augustine

Coach (Weber) always talks about how good of a team we can be. Like, he gave the example of how we beat Georgetown at home, and Georgetown beats Duke. I know it's a home win for us. But I think we're up there with some of the best teams. If we keep winning on the road and showing some character and keeping playing solid basketball, I think we can make a run at it.

Tony Skinn

Coach told us when we got into the tournament that teams like that -- Michigan State, North Carolina -- they are supposed to beat us. With that on them, that is a lot of pressure. They have to make all the shots. The pressure is on them to do that.

Terry Vaughn

As an athlete, you've got to understand there's no loyalty in sports. I understand that and it doesn't bother me,

Bernie Williams

As long as we've got his presence there, that's the most important thing, because being the D.H. doesn't bother him,

Malik Rose

It was tough for me sitting next to him and hearing (the fans), so, I can imagine what it was like for him. It's like somebody two feet tall just punching you and punching you, and you can't hit them back. It's so frustrating, but Al never let it bother him. Some days were better than others, but he never complained about it. It was just the price of fame.

Kate Bush

We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, mystery is all around us, but the way we live our lives now, we're too busy to be bothered with it.

Tony Camillucci

We had a great first quarter, the press really bothered them. I was really pleased with our defensive effort tonight.

Michelle Jones

There was a boy in the class who was, I think, Pakistani, and his mother saw me a couple days later and she was so thankful. There was a certain discomfort, the way people responded to them. I was bothered by that.

Mose Allison

The thing of playin' and singin' never bothered me.

Darrell Butler

Maybe the long inning bothered him, maybe he got tired. But no excuses, when you're up 20 runs, you throw strikes, he knows that. But he was very good in the early part of the game, so I'm not sure what happened. I liked his slider, it looked very sharp and his fastball was good.

Rod Gorman

Oakley definitely bothered us at the basket. I was pretty pleased with our defense, but offensively we just never had a flow. But I'm very proud of this group for getting here.

Jodi Picoult

As it turned out, hell wasn't watching the people you love get hurt; it was coming in during the second act, when it was already too late to stop it from happening.

Joe Hammer

People focus on the Nasdaq indices because in general they represent the kinds of companies that are coming out - younger companies,

Jamie Koch

The money this is coming from is already there. We're just honoring his contract.

Brenda Frese

Coming up to the arena, most of the players had no idea what we were doing. It showed them what we were playing for.

Danny Culler

Coming to the checkered. Watch your mirror. Watch your mirror.

John Gibbons

Coming in we knew we had a good one,

Jason Simmons

The thing with Pittsburgh coming into town, whenever they give you an opportunity you have to capitalize, because they are a team that's big on turnover ratio.

Jeff Rolen

Once you see what's going on here, you just want to reach out and help them. I'm coming back. I just don't see how I couldn't. Other volunteers are saying the same thing.

David Perkins

Now, gas prices, ... they go to $10 to the gallon, we're still coming to the races.

Ray Emery

As an athlete, you have confidence in yourself all the time. I didn't really realize I was going to play this long.

Laura Harper

Our confidence in overtime is out of this world.

A. Johnson

Once we didn't hit a couple of shots, for some reason our girls' confidence went down. There were shots we should have made that just rolled out tonight. East played great defense, but I thought we had some good looks.

Bob Kummer

Developmentally, we still are growing. We still need to learn how to play together and gain confidence together. But we are more hungry and knowledgeable, I think, this year.

Gabe Gross

I've always had great confidence that I can hit at this level - not only hit, but do very well at this level. Hopefully, this good start can lead to good things and a good year.

Vaughn Taylor

A day like (Thursday), you make nine birdies and it's really tough to go out the next day and do the same. I still rolled it pretty well, still have confidence in my putting. I've just got to give myself some more chances.

Kelly Scott

It was the only shot to make and we made it perfectly. We saw that spot a couple of times earlier in the game so we had pretty good confidence on how it would react. We had luck on our side with the way it reacted.

Hilary Clinton

This is not a game. This has to be a serious inquiry that people have confidence in that will help us understand what did go wrong. The sooner we know that, the better.

Nick Swisher

The way things have been going, to pull off a win like this gives us momentum and confidence. The way it happened was cool.

Stacy Kim

Probably the toughest part is knowing that I have to play well. That's the one skill that I am still working on.

Arthur Mitchell

Walk into a room, knowing you are somebody, somebody special. Don't ever let them smash that or pull you down.

Brian Johnson

My willingness to explore and work freely is not without risk, and at times, I find myself caught in a bind... Knowing I can fix whatever goes wrong allows me to paint, not without thought, but without hesitation.

Bryant H. McGill

Our understanding of the world around us is constantly being redefined and expanded, and so therefore, it is wiser to be passionate about seeking for truth than knowing it.

Charles Babbage

An object is frequently not seen, from not knowing how to see it, rather than from any defect of the organ of vision.

Diane Ackerman

The knowing, I told myself, is only a vapor of the mind, and yet it can wreck havok with one's sanity.

Booker T. Washington

Leaders have devoted themselves to politics, little knowing, it seems that political independence disappears without economic independence that economic independence is the foundation of political independence.

Booker T. Washington

Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.

Bobby Knight

Discipline is knowing what to do. Knowing when to do it. Doing it to the best of your abilities. Doing it that way every single time.

Atharva Veda

See yourselves in all; See all in yourselves; that is the road to lasting peace and joy.

John Sherman Cooper

Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn't care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy.

Michael Redd

I've thought of guys, whether they were here last year or not, and doing something special for them.

Shane Olivea

This is probably the worst performance we've all played, together, in the last two years.

Brooks Bollinger

This is so tough, ... People on the outside don't realize how tough it is to get to the playoffs. Last year, we were one victory away from a championship game.

Brian Tracy

Do your own market research; ask your last ten customers exactly why they bought from you.

Jane Jacobs

A region is an area safely larger than the last one to whose problems we found no solution.

Channing Tatum

Actually I have a tradition that I always steal my last costume on the last day of filming.

Janet Jackson

I truly felt that was going to be my last tour. So here we are again and I'm saying this will probably be my last tour. That's truly the way I'm looking at it.

Uli Hoeness

We're playing for the people, not for the regime. We want to reduce this to soccer only.

Matt Hasselbeck

The Pro Bowl. But I don't feel like playing right now.

Arlen Specter

I've been playing squash almost daily for 38 years.

R. Robinson

We wish we were playing for something, but we're playing for pride and that's a big thing in itself. Also, just to let 'em know that, hey, if things worked out a little differently, this is what y'all would've got.

Ricky Skaggs

I just want to keep playing music and keep recording. I feel like my best days are ahead.

Rodney Atkins

With videos, I find I'm better off if I'm playing a role inside of it. The more you do it, the more you understand it.

Romeo Miller

When I was playing college basketball, I had to work out every day; it benefited me physically.

Jim Thome

I got to see more pitches. I got over 30 at-bats in three days. When I got back to playing in the regular games, it just seemed to click.

Lleyton Hewitt

I feel like I've been playing pretty well for a while now, and here I have been putting results together day in and day out,

Kim Cattrall

If I'm producing, I'm not acting, and it's such a long road to get anything off the ground.

Wanda Sykes

When I'm not on T.V. or working on a movie, I'm on the road doing stand-up. That's my roots.

Tim Short

I wouldn't trade what we've done for anything. I think going on the road has made us a better team.

John Miller

I find it really hard-pressed to support a road tax when right here there's nothing being done.

Don Allen

I saw a lot of two-lane roads become four-lane roads. Back when I first started all the development on (Ga. Highway) 124 had not occurred.

Josh Paul

At least we have a day off in New York. I've been on a four-city road trip that took us coast-to-coast before. It is what it is.

Craig Faulkner

We've got a really tough road but if we win those three I think we can get the No. 1 seed in the district.

Jody Conradt

Our schedule is not going to get any easier. It's a tough road from here on out.

John Beilein

Today's win was much-needed before the road trip. I can't really say I am comfortable now. I think our schedule has helped.

Jim Veltman

After you win, you think to yourself, 'Is it time to get out?' But I don't feel like I want to.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Rob Allison

Now it's time to really find out what we're going to do and how we're going to do it.

Curtis Sliwa

Now I'm going to have to do a lot of rope-a-dope, never go the same way at the same time to the same places,

Bill Cowher

This is not the time to relax. They've had their off time. You can't do that. It's around the corner.

Brian Andreas

The clock is a conspiracy & a crime against humanity and I would not own one except I miss appointments without it.

Jane Hamilton

Our mission in life is not to discover our fate as we go along, or even to procreate, but rather to fill up the endless gray void that is time.

Jan Timman

The best reason to abolish it, in my opinion, is that everyone should deal with his time in the best way; there is no good reason why you should get half a minute extra with each move, except that it's a bit easier for the arbiter.

Laetitia Casta

It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.