Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ron Perry

Authorities are worried. Our fire conditions, as far as the grasses and the brush, in all of Texas except for the coast are in extreme fire danger.

Ken Goldstein

The storms and flooding, and now the rebuilding and dislocations in the Gulf Coast area, are taking place in a weakening national labor market.

Eugenie Clark

It would be nice if we didn't have to drill for oil in the gulf. We have this shallow continental shelf on the west coast of Florida, and it would be a real disaster if we had a major oil spill there. It would be wonderful if we could find some other source of energy.

Loretta Napoleoni

The majority of the cocoa that we eat, it is actually produced by young kids which are being enslaved in the plantations of the Ivory Coast. Ivory Coast is the largest producer of cocoa.

Tea Leoni

Yes, I guess I am bi-coastal.

Vera Wang

New York for me is about work. If L.A. were to become a West Coast version of that, I'd shoot myself. The climate, the lifestyle - it really fits as the yin to my New York yang.

Henry Louis Gates

No one thinks of Mexico and Peru as black. But Mexico and Peru together got 700,000 Africans in the slave trade. The coast of Acapulco was a black city in the 1870s. And the Veracruz Coast on the gulf of Mexico and the Costa Chica, south of Acapulco are traditional black lands.

Mike Stamper

Now we have more than 400 teams competing and can draw upwards of 20,000 people into the area. With teams coming from eight states on the East Coast we're one of the largest national competitions.

Carolyn Maloney

I guess in their rush to the Gulf Coast to secure reconstruction contracts, they forgot about the troops who are protecting them over in Iraq.

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.

Helen Humphreys

Our concern is that this is spring, and typically ground water and streams are recharged during the spring. Moreover, not only is precipitation down, but vegetation, which is coming out of its dormant state, will be drawing on the ground water.

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.

Chuck Darby

Coming out of the Dallas game and through that Giants game, that's when things really started to pick up for us. We've had players go down and other guys had to step in, but everything kept going. We didn't miss a beat.

Carnell Williams

Coming out of spring we knew exactly how good we could be,

Jim Tracy

Coming out of Spring Training, I thought we'd score some runs. We've scored 20 runs in the last three days and haven't won a game.

Will Morgan

We're here, we're not polar opposites, we're not competing for the hold of the city.

Jerry Sloan

We are still hanging in there, competing and finishing to the end.

Gordon Gee

We intend on competing with the values of a world-class university.

Matt Baker

There's just such a mass of hotels that just want to give the service away for free. When that's what you're competing against, it just gets harder.

Matt Butterman

More and more pro teams are realizing the value of having a development squad, and we provide the perfect event for these young riders not only to have a taste of being a team leader, but also to get the feeling of competing in a proper road stage race.

Greg Marsden

Nebraska is very talented and well-coached. Everyone is looking forward to competing in front of our home crowd.

Willie Graham

I give our kids a lot of credit because they are kind of down right now. They have had some tough losses and they didn't pack it in. They did a good job of competing and made some plays.

Mike Getkin

He was competing out there. He started to get a little tired, but we were going to win or lose with him.

Jamal Mayers

I got hurt after the fight and couldn't go back out there. It started to sink (in) for me. We put a lot of work in every day, and it's just frustrating to think that we're not going to be competing for a Stanley Cup ... that's why we play.

Darren Kimball

Automakers' extremely generous incentives in recent weeks have simply drawn forward industry demand.

Robin Lanier

As long as they're extending the contract, I think that's a signal there will be no slowdown. Perhaps there will be a very long drawn out negotiating process that will give us a lot of gray hair.

Preston Beckman

Ratings for an event like the Olympics aren't necessarily drawn from the usual prime-time television audience. For us to suddenly program differently for those two weeks would be a mistake for our network.

S. Hughes

Prices are going nowhere and homebuilders are using a whole range of incentives to try and draw people in -- free carpets, furniture, legal fees, deposits -- you name it.

Keith Wilbur

Our team was fired up from the get go. They wanted to play well for the seniors. We had a good game plan drawn up from the last time we faced them and we executed it pretty well.

Christopher Abbott

I've never been in a band, but I've hung out with a lot of musicians and helped them with their shows. It's something that I'm really drawn to.

Jaime Winstone

I've always liked to dress eccentrically, but as I get older I'm drawn to more classic looks, though I'll still put my own twist on them.

Meg Wolitzer

I've always been drawn to writing for young readers. The books that I read growing up remain in my mind very strongly.

John Brantley

I've always been drawn to Texas. I just want to go on the visit, see what they're trying to do. Everything I've heard from people is that they like Austin.

David Steinberg

The whole idea of doing the Hollywood thing never even occurred to me. When you grow up on the East coast, Hollywood seems like this fantasy land and you don't think that people can actually make a living there.

Argus Hamilton

Bill and Hillary will spend Easter with her brothers Hugh and Tony and Roger Clinton. They have a family ritual at all holiday dinners. After they sit down, they hold hands, close their eyes, and get their stories straight.

Benigno Aquino III

Peace in the Middle East is of prime importance to the Philippines, due to the presence of around 2 million of our countrymen working in that region.

Dave Uhrich

We did have some people place high, but for us it wasn't as much about placing as much as it was about just competing. In track you can measure how fast you run, how far you throw, or how high you jump week by week. So we were just looking at having everybody progress. Our ultimate goal is to have everyone be competitive at the Big East level.

Taylor Handley

We shot 'Skateland' in the end of 2008, in Shreveport, Louisiana just between the border of East Texas and Louisiana - and we shot 'Battle: Los Angeles' at the end of 2009, also in Shreveport. So I know a lot about Shreveport.

Ben Harper

It will make a weak man mighty. it will make a mighty man fall. It will fill your heart and hands or leave you with nothing at all. It's the eyes for the blind and legs for the lame. It is the love for hate and pride for shame. That's the power of the gospel.

Doug Phillips

East Liverpool gave us all we wanted tonight,

Scott Maddox

East Davidson was good. Lee walked a few, gave up some line drives. He was down. It was like life as we know it was over.

Gordie Kerkman

East Aurora is struggling right now but if we have to play them next Friday, I'll guarantee you they'll be playing a lot better than they have the last month or so. It's going to be tough for us.

Suresh Kalmadi

Of the eight new venues, five will be outdoors and three indoors.

Amy Rymer

Once we got (to state), we wanted to qualify for Saturday's finals. Then, we made the most of it and made the jump to eighth place (after Saturday's final two rounds). I'm proud of each and every one of them.

Jimmy Fennig

No -- we're still going racing because that's what we're here for -- we've still got eight races left,

Chipper Jones

I've seen a guy who may or may not pinch hit in the eighth or ninth inning pop two before the game and another in the fifth inning. It's part of their pre-game ritual. Some guys have to have it.

Lindsay Davenport

I've played four matches in New Haven, four matches here, so it's been eight matches in two weeks. Hopefully that's enough matches,

Danny Peitz

I've been waiting two months to get to this race. I've been saying the mile and an eighth can't get here fast enough for this horse.

Mike Schofield

I've been up there and I've worked on this before. They don't have to wonder if I'm going to fight for lower taxes. (Murphy) had eight years to prove that he was a friend to taxpayers, and he hasn't done that.

Steven Gerrard

I've been here since I was eight years old and there has never been a single moment when I have wanted to move on and play for someone else,

Harold Taylor

I've been here, in the council, for eight years. I feel that I know what is going on in the city. I have the relationships with people that will help me to make sure these programs continue.

Enrique Pena Nieto

The United States is already Mexico's largest trading partner.

John Davidson

I still like Maverick Tube, which is the largest provider of tubular product to that industry,

Robert McKinley

If you're looking to transfer a $5,000 balance, you need to look to the largest issuers.

Dan Woods

The largest need right now is to move students out of there,

Joel Silver

(The) four-volume set is the largest project of its kind done up until its time.

Martin Winterkorn

The Volkswagen Group offers the world's largest low-CO2 fleet.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

To wish to progress is the largest part of progress.

Howard Stern

Yeah, OK, Michael, ... That's why I've received the largest fines in history.

Kevin Nelson

We had 80 entries for the parade and about 150 vehicles and floats. This is probably the largest parade we have ever had.

Scott Peterson

I've seen them on every national broadcast. It's pretty amazing.

Josh Pastner

We're here to win a national championship. This is not a rebuilding stage. It's not a question of talent. We've got pros on our team.

E. Helm

We're playing in a tournament where somebody's going to the national tournament. It's that simple. And we'll compete.

Alfonso Scanio

The problem of railway safety has by now become a national emergency.

Rod Smith

Those are tragedies that have to be addressed on a national level.

Martha Stewart

I haven't been to Tasmania. I haven't been to the South Pole, and I haven't been to the North Pole. I want to see the polar bear migration before there are no polar bears. I want to see Glacier National Park before the glacier melts.

Larry Diamond

How can we communicate effectively if you risk being intercepted by the National Security Agency?

Javier Hernandez

I think every national team has the same possibilities to win the World Cup.

Douglas Booth

I saw 'Othello' at the National Theatre in London, and it was so stunning. I was so moved. It's beautiful.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled.

Michael White

People train for this all year like the Olympics.

Sarah Davis

People think, 'It's a winter hike, I don't have to take as much water,' but they do.

Richard M. Nixon

People see me and they think, "He's risen from the dead.

Christian Louboutin

People say I am the king of painful shoes.

Laura Baranek

People say 'Hi' to me I don't even know. They say 'Good game' and 'I saw you' and 'Great job.

Vinnie Jones

People say you can get bored of the sunshine in L.A. No, you can't.

Daunte Culpepper

People say what they want to say and people are going to make their own opinions.

Lucious Jordan

People say we're going to be the underdogs. We're just going to go in there and play hard. We've been underdogs every year before this, so we're going to go out there and play our game.

Mike McCurry

there will be steps that the United States will take." ()

The Bravery

the only town in the United States of that name!

Corrine Brown

Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

If we live in a state of constant fear, can we remain human?

Albert Einstein

The State is made for Mankind, not mankind for the state

Angela Merkel

There's a rumour going around that states cannot go bankrupt. This rumour is not true.

Roger Williams

God requireth not an uniformity of Religion to be inacted and inforced in any civill state.

Stirling Moss

You get to the stage when your almost looking down on yourself. When you get into that state, it’s the best state ever.

Sallust

Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.

Tubby Smith

Teams like this give us a lot of problems.

George C. Williams

This is one of the best, if not the best, teams we've had here in a long time,

Jamie Spencer

We've got two different teams here. It's like this every year.

Jim Brown

This one is a very competitive tournament. There's probably 10 teams in the top 20 there, at least.

Lynn Meger

There's not a lot of differences between their teams in that district. There aren't a lot of differences between our teams.

Cadillac Williams

We want to be great. No question. Even more than that, we want our teams to be great.

Tom Condon

Those are the two teams we have scheduled so far.

Marissa Chovanec

Many of them play on the same travel teams and know each other well.

Randy Schaedig

From that standpoint, this isn't really much of a change. We play all those teams already anyway.