Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Yates

The security system is 10-15 percent better. I would have liked to have seen the system 50, 60, 70 percent better. After all, we have had 12 months to get our acts together and do something about it.

Kenny Scott

My officers will be under strict orders to arrest any person who would seek to compromise public safety or who engages in acts of disorder aimed at affecting the response of the emergency services.

Laura DiDio

I'm hoping we see the same type of rebound this year, but we had a couple of random acts that nobody could have forecasted.

Donnie Walsh

I think Ronnie is a guy who acts first and thinks later. If he were to do it over again, he might do it differently.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.

Mark Schweiker

The entire region could benefit from this. Not just Pennsylvania, but there would be more people staying (at hotels in) New Jersey and Delaware. If this region acts together, it would be an incredible thing.

Ramman Kenoun

The tyrant always talks as if he's preserving the best interests of his people when he actually acts to undermine them.

Gary Bongiovanni

These older acts are the gravy train, but someday that train is not going to run anymore, and no one really knows what to do when they're gone. Of the young acts, you have someone like Coldplay who does quite well, but where will it be in 10 years? That's hard to say.

Susanne Boyce

These three world-class acts underscore how The 2006 JUNO Awards continues to grow in both prestige and popularity as Canada's pre-eminent awards broadcast. Wait until you see what else we have in store!

Larry Harris

As Cotton turns around, he hollers, 'No!' and sort of brings his arms up and that's when she shot him.

Suliman Baldo

Deby has a very small army on whose loyalty he cannot count, so the edge he has is the French.

Matt Maldre

Rolling up your sleeves is like wearing capris on your arms

Ryan Toohey

It would be like competing with one arm tied behind our back.

Kim Clijsters

I've been happy with how I've played all summer. It took a while to get my rhythm since I hadn't been on Armstrong Stadium court in quite some time.

Brent Weeks

Put on some armor. Just remember what's armor and what's you, so when it's time to take it off, you can.

Jack Dean

When I called Kelly she opened her arms to us. They instruct some of the girls privately, so we coordinate our lessons so the girls are working on the same things.

Elie Wiesel

Moses was the greatest legislator and the commander in chief of perhaps the first liberation army.

Winston Churchill

Arm yourselves, and be ye men of valour, and be in readiness for the conflict? forit is better for us to perish in battle than to look upon the outrage of our nation andour altar.

Don Edwards

Our English for Speakers of Other Languages wait list averages about 400 and we update it once a month. In our pre-GED program, we get 80-100 applications per month throughout the year. People can be on the wait list for too long. We don't have enough to meet the demand.

P. Herbert

I volunteered for it; I wanted to help out any way I could. Last year we averaged 4.8 on punt returns and 19.1 on kickoffs. That's horrible. But we have worked hard on it this year, and Johnny and I are ready to go. There are no excuses this year.

Bobby Martin

Somebody told me this the other day, but J.C. could probably average 30 points per game on another team. Or vice-versa for Ridge. But by sharing it makes us an even bigger threat.

Gary Jones

The way you measure improvement in a player is different with each guy. When we (managers, organization officials) look at stats we see different things than the average fan. A player might hit .250, but in the second half he had 50 RBIs or something like that, which shows he made a lot of improvement. That's how we have to look at things.

Bobby Rahal

In 1982 when I showed up, the average age of the drivers in the series was something like 40, 41. The crowds were small. There was not much prize money. The competition wasn't very tight.

Neil Smit

Disciplined execution of our growth and operating strategies is driving consistent improvement in a range of key metrics, including customer counts, average revenue per customer, total revenue, and churn.

Scott Devitt

Consumers start out with books and as they become more comfortable buying on the Internet, they climb the average selling price ladder. Before you know it, they?re buying expensive jewelry on the Internet.

Peter Sotos

The book grew out of the introduction I did for Brady's Gates of Janus. I knew that the writing in that introduction had a better than average chance of being read by people involved in Brady's life - parents of victims, police, Brady himself.

John Redwood

We should begin to remind people they are always after your money and if you are on something around average earnings you really don't have that spare capacity to pay for all these follies that Labour keep spending their money on.

Bubba Davis

The big thing about the win is that we fell behind 12-2 early and came back. Especially with these kids, it was very, very big that we hung in and did what we had to do to win.

Mohammad Khatami

Something that pains me, and for which I pity the American people, is that their leaders have fallen behind the times. They are not living in their times,

Bob Mattison

Someone told me about the house with a shop behind it. We came up and thought it was ideal.

Toba Beta

Sometimes, you feel like being watched from behind by someone. When you turned, it's just nothing, nobody, none, or only someone who's daydreaming and staring right through you.

Roy H. Williams

Quentin had a tough night, but I still believe in him and still believe that he's going to be able to do some good things for us. He's got to put that behind him.

Ben Wilcox

The whole idea behind public financing was to hold down the cost of campaigns and encourage more people to participate. Now they've escalated campaign fund-raising to levels we've never seen.

Al Carter

This early in the year we're going to hold our pitchers down to 60 or 65 pitches. You get behind the good hitters and they'll make you pay. That's what happened a couple of times in the late innings.

Edwin Jackson

That's going to be a big thing for me, to get ahead. A lot of the time when I've struggled I've walked people and been behind in the pitch count. I just want to come out and get ahead.

Kelly Kisio

That's for sure. There's fire behind that door and you don't want to play with it.

Keith Stewart

We're very concerned because the (electricity) system is still very much in the hands of the people who built our last nuclear plants and got us into the mess we're in today,

Fisher DeBerry

We feel like we have some depth in our offensive line and obviously we have two good quarterbacks with game experience. That second unit built some pride. There are a lot of those second-unit guys that could be just as effective as the first-unit guys. We'll continue to use two units like that. What periods of the game we'll use them or when we'll use them, we're not going to say.

Steven Tuen

The expectations are built up so high that anything less than perfection will cause the stocks to fall.

Scott Ford

Life is a series of experiences, each of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Roustam Tariko

Lots of businesses built in the early 1990s were not very transparent, not only by Russians, but also by foreigners.

Rabindranath Tagore

Man has a fund of emotional energy which is not all occupied with his self-preservation. This surplus seeks its outlet in the creation of art, for man's civilization is built upon his surplus... In everyday life, when we are mostly moved by our habit

John Guppy

Peter has done a fantastic job as GM for the past seven years and has built one of the most successful and respected teams in MLS. Just as Peter has helped shape a successful past, I hope to shape a successful future.

Joss Whedon

People would say, 'You're going to need this and that,' and I'd be like, 'Not so much.' If I only needed three walls, we only built three, and if someone asked, 'Well, what if you want to do this other shot?' I said, 'Well, we just won't.'

Lisa Patterson

Plum Island was built with isolation in mind for a specific reason. We understand the highest levels of security would take place, but we also know mistakes happen.

Sinorice Moss

No one respects us right now, ... I know we had a decent season, but that's not expected out of a University of Miami team. People expect better. ... We're the underdogs right now, and we understand that.

Bobby Frankel

I'd rather not have the 1-hole. She doesn't have too much early speed. But she's brave. She's got a decent shot. You've got to be a little lucky from the rail, luckier than if you have the outside.

Sean Singletary

I feel I got a decent look at it. It just didn't go in, but there are a lot of little things during the game we didn't do that was the deciding factor.

DeAndre Scott

He's got a decent size list, he's going to try to narrow it down from there. He doesn't have a top three or five, he's just trying to see who all is interested and how he would fit in.

Chang-Rae Lee

I can put together a pretty decent meal from whatever happens to be in the refrigerator and the pantry. I like the challenge of this sort of improvisation, the rigor of limitation and sometimes having to take a risk.

Bruce Rauner

Our government works should be treated fairly and appropriately; they should have a decent retirement, but not a gold-plated system where they can retire multimillionaires in their 50s.

Robert Grimes

We have like a fourth the number of miners as we used to have, and the equipment is doing a lot of the work. And, I think that we are starting to get a lot of the other plants and everything like this, that would exist because, a lot of times when plants want to move into a state, they look at the lifestyle. Are the schools decent? Are the roads decent? Do you have, is there decent recreation? West Virginia has those things, now.

Sarah Jessica Parker

It's not like it's hard to be decent and respectful and well-behaved. I do wait in line, and I do take the subway, and I do do my own grocery shopping, and I do take the kids to school.

Bob Bathalon

We do a pretty decent job of running a tournament so we said, 'Let's jump on this and go.' We have six seniors who deserve it.

Jeremiah Trotter

These next three weeks are going to tell the tale of this team. It's imperative that we go down there to Washington and get this win. We lost our first game in the division to the Cowboys, so this is a must-win. A must, must-win.

Richard Engel

The Syrians are better suited to sort out their internal divisions than anyone else.

Carl Crawford

We all want to be measured up in this division and see where we stand. We'll have a good idea after this road trip.

Chris Terry

This was a big division win for us. Brandy pitched very well.

Rob Kurz

There's only 105 teams in Division I still playing. We're fortunate to be one of them, and we really want to end the year on a positive note.

Tom Ferrier

She's drawing interest from all the major Division I programs. The hoopla surrounding this, there's just nothing like it.

JoAnne Graf

She has gotten used to Division I pitching. She has been really selective at the plate.

Brian Musty

One of the things that works well for us is that we're Division III and we play three D-III teams, a D-IV team and the rest are all D-II. A lot of them are top in the division too, so when we can get to where we aren't playing those teams we can really make some noise.

Marina Warner

One of the achievements of our generation of feminists was to emancipate women from the division between being interested in clothes and appearance, and being serious and ambitious. I am of the first generation that could go to Biba, wear miniskirts and get a degree.

Fadel Gheit

Oil prices, ... are probably going to go over $26, which will mark the highest level outside the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990.

Matt Rosoff

Some versions of the product are priced higher than they need to be.

Shawnee Smith

So much of life is just talk. At the end of the day, you're just serving the higher thing.

Fadel Gheit

These stocks are not reflecting $50 or $60 oil. They are probably reflecting $40 oil. But this is not realistic. The fundamentals support a higher price.

Curtis Armstrong

I've been going to this high school for 7 and 1/2 years, I'm no dummy.

Don Bowers

The worse the hurricane does to us, the higher the prices are going to go.

Lysle Brinker

This is a tax story. What we don't know is how long the higher tax rate will be sustained going forward.

Rich Olson

That took the wind out of our sails. It just made the hill a lot higher to climb.

Swedish Proverb

Don't let your sorrow come higher than your knees

Alan Trammel

We got a lot of big hits today and that was one of them.

Ed Rappaport

We think it'll be moving about 20 to 25 mph by the time it hits Florida,

Dusty Baker

He's going to hit. You don't usually stop hitting, and if you do, then somebody's in trouble, because a lot of hits are coming.

Chris DiBona

It'll be six months before Linux really hits the desktop.

Nick Ursitti

I'm a smarter pitcher now. With more pitches to rely on, I've been a lot more effective.

Baruch Spinoza

Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.

Art Buchwald

Any company executive who overcharges the government more than $5 million will be fined $50 or have to go to traffic school three nights a week

Damon Lindelof

I always remember liking school.

Diane Ravitch

Privatizing our public schools makes as much sense as privatizing the fire department or or the police department

Dikembe Mutombo

I created the Dikembe Mutombo Foundation back in 1997 for the purpose of going in and improving the living conditions of my people on the African continent, especially in the Democratic Republic of Congo where I came from. Out first mission was to go and build a new hospital. Our next mission was to build a school.

Anton Yelchin

I've always loved punk music, since I was in my early teens, since middle school.

Bruce Boxleitner

I started in high school and then I went onto professional training after that.

Edward Abbey

Every writer has his favorite coterie of enemies: Mine is the East Coast literati -- those prep school playmates and their Ivy League colleagues.

Edward Abbey

Literary critics, like a herd of cows or a school of fish, always face in the same direction, obeying that love for unity that every critic requires.

Angela Kinsey

I keep my sisters on speed dial.

Anthony Chan

I just see it as a speed bump.

Bob Newhart

I've been told to speed up my delivery when I perform. But if I lose the stammer, I'm just another slightly amusing accountant.

Dave Russell

What's not to like? For $1999 you are going to get the processor speed you thought you had to spend $2499 to get.

Paul Ernest

We didn't throw a lot, but when we did, we were successful,

Yasmin Sewell

You can even throw them in the washing machine.

Willie Randolph

I don't like throwing superlatives around, but you've got to like what you see.

Michael Robinson

They're in my ear, 'Tell 'em to throw it deep, Mike, throw it deep. They want the ball, and they're going to make some plays.

Andre Johnson

We know we're not out there trying to throw games. If we were really trying to lose, how did we win this one?

Nathan Paetsch

We're not mathematically eliminated, we're not going to throw in the towel.