Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Costello

I think it could be done in a clean, safe way to deliver cheap energy and we in Australia have the energy they need.

Virgin Blue

Having secured over 30 per cent of the Australian domestic market, we are now focused on strengthening our network, developing our product for the business market and steadily building our presence as the low-fare value-based carrier in our region,

David Graveney

How we're going to manage the players through all this is something we're going to have to talk about. We have to make sure that our key guys like Freddie are fit and raring to go for the Australia and World Cup legs.

David Jones

I have been to Australia three times I think now ... but this is the first time I have come to present something which is all my own,

Fred Couples

I did play with Tiger in Australia and it was truly, truly a treat. I think I'm looking forward to that.

Grant Hackett

I am in two minds about it (the criteria). I think basing selection on world rankings is a bit harsh. I can understand Swimming Australia wants to set the bar fairly high, but I don't think it should be at the expense of a Commonwealth Games medal. I am a fan of choosing the team based on Commonwealth rankings.

Darren Lehmann

He is a bloke who can win a World Cup for Australia - he is that good.

Niranjan Shah

Our basic complaint is if England and Australia can plan regular home series every year, why should we not plan. India is a major force.

Christopher Brown

Rising petrol prices and reduced domestic travel is a concern for regional Australia as few tourists will be passing through country towns, staying in local hotels and contributing to local economies and jobs.

Gene Munster

Hitting the 1 billion mark means that the business of selling music online is real. Over the next 10 years, the retail music industry will be turned upside down and 25 percent of worldwide industry sales will be made online.

Chris Lynch

We expect total expenditure to increase to around $6 billion (in 2006). This will include around $4 billion spent on growth projects and $550 million on exploration.

Pete Domenici

I think the across-the-board budget cut is if we cannot find about $4 billion in savings any other way, then we'll look to that,

Hilary Clinton

It is necessary that the Silverstein organization be granted the $3.5 billion in Liberty Bond financing requested so that these efforts may continue without delay.

Paul Richards

There is an element to that. The AOL-Time Warner deal must go through; it's $200 billion (in terms of the combined company's market value), whereas the EMI deal is a $20 billion joint venture.

Stephen Gould

Humans are here today because our particular line never fractured - never once at any of the billion points that could have erased us from history.

Greg Stuart

If we continue to grow at 26 percent, we will probably end the year at mid-$11 billion (in revenue), or near $12 billion.

Bernie Sanders

If we completely repealed the estate tax, it would provide an estimated $32 billion tax break for the Walton family - the founders of Wal-Mart.

Christopher Flavin

Rising demand for energy, food and raw materials by 2.5 billion Chinese and Indians is already having ripple effects worldwide.

Alex Rodriguez

I always enjoy my stay here in Canada. It's one of those places where you just feel comfortable.

Kirk Pengilly

He seemed to have the whole package. Canada must be proud of him.

Ezra Levant

He should be lucky we have freedom of speech in Canada because if we were in a country that didn't, he'd be in jail.

Bruce Arena

I think you can't overreact from one game, the Norway game, and ignore the Canada game. You judge players over time, not over a game. As he continues to move forward we'll have a better feel for the direction he's headed. Obviously, he's getting better. From my perspective, I need to see if he's developing into a guy who should be a player on the World Cup roster and can help us win a game.

Yasser Elguindi

If you gave oil companies a choice between the tar sands in Canada or oil in Saudi Arabia, which do you think they'd choose?

Adam Stern

Being Canadian, we get excited about it. We take a lot of pride in wearing the Canada jersey. A lot of us were stoked for it. We have a chance to surprise some people.

John Grandy

Canada should be ashamed. Our team is there as peaceful observers and they should not have to fear for their safety.

Stephane Dion

Canada must be a leader of climate change, ... It's important for us, for our north, for our role in the world.

Warren Jestin

Canada may even regain G7 leadership by the end of this period.

Brian France

I would vote no. Other people in our organization would like to see it. But I like distinguishing the elite division in the country with a unique way of settling the championship.

Ifzal Ali

Just look at the organized sector of the economy in a country such as India, which employs less than 10 percent of workforce, you are worrying about this when there is a multitude of people completely being bypassed.

Brian Martin

I think it's a great idea, there are a lot of different cultures in the fire departments throughout the country. It's a neat idea.

Otton Solis

I think it is a very delicate moment for the country and we are going to wait until the end, until the electoral tribunal has processed all the votes because with such a small difference, anything can happen.

Tony Greig

Well the war lasted for three months, from April of 1994 until the Tutsi army, the exiles as it were, gained control of the country and then it stopped.

John Cornyn

What worries me more than anything else is this mind-set that once people go to Mexico there's nothing law enforcement in this country can do.

English 19th Century Proverbs

Happy is the country that has no history.

Jose Lima

He's a stud. I like Diaz, and not because he's from my .country. He could be from Japan. He's still a stud.

Michael Jenkins

I think it's going to be a nice fit. It's a good school with good track and cross country programs. I know it's going to be a lot of work, but this is is what all the training and hard work have been about.

Veerappa Moily

Fuel conservation is a necessity, and I have to be the first person to set the example.

Katsuaki Watanabe

In the United States people are getting more fuel conscious,

Ray Neidl

The fuel was a little higher than expected, but the revenue was a little higher as well,

Josh Boone

All that stuff, the Wiggins thing, the other thing, might have fueled what you saw tonight. There was trash-talking, pushing and shoving. I think the game was more intense because of that stuff.

Ted Duncan

All of the winter fuel (dry brush) is on the ground during this period.

Vince Young

(The media) is not saying anything about us, so it's a little fuel for you. There are a lot of different things that we're doing over there that we're not getting respected for, so we're just going to go out there and play our game.

Bruce Thompson

They ran out of fuel as the pilot was still negotiating with the hijackers at the time the plane hit the sea,

Andy Pomeroy

For every pound that you're low, you're losing 2 percent of your fuel economy.

Paula Berg

There never was a high fuel temperature on the plane, it was just the indicator light.

Jeff Flake

We've got to take some of these definitions with a huge grain of salt.

Craig Venter

It takes 10 kilograms of grain to produce one kilogram of beef, 15 liters of water to get one kilogram of beef, and those cows produce a lot of methane. Why not get rid of the cows?

Mike Palmerino

It's looking more and more like there is going to be some acreage down there that is not going to be harvested for grain in Texas and Oklahoma.

Patrick Michaels

This movie takes a grain of truth and turns into a mountain of apocalypse.

Author unknown

I always take life with a grain of salt, ...plus a slice of lemon, ...and a shot of tequila.

Gregg Laskoski

We need to take it with a grain of salt when it comes to speculation of what may happen in the future.

Teresa Follmer

Try and go with the grain of the wood if we can.

Daniel Breaker

I think that the major message in 'Shrek: The Musical' is be who you want to be. I think that it is about being your true self in this world.

Phil Goff

It is not within the power of the president to remove the prime minister other than on the vote of a majority of the house,

Alan Greenspan

Roger was the major policy maker during 9/11.

Roger Altman

The Fed is the major U.S. firefighter. It's not the Treasury. It's not the Congress. We certainly saw that vividly in 2008.

Phyllis Davis

I'm going to miss it terribly. I know that. It's been a major part of my life. So, it's going to be a new adjustment.

Eliot Spitzer

A lot of major songs have been implicated in this.

Steve Friswell

The major companies, and we represent about 80 percent of them, do. It's the other 20 percent who have been underpaid.

Walter Bradley

The major question is the nature of nature.

Ann Brown

These products can really hurt. We're talking a major recall,

Paul Reiser

He's 50 percent Peter Falk, 50 percent my own father,

Michael Andretti

He's all but signed. It's not 100 percent done, but we're down to the piddly stuff.

Jim Tracy

I think the personnel is here to get that done.

Sarah Parcak

I think archaeologists are stuck, and we are losing our past at a very rapid rate. Tens of thousands of sites will be lost, and we've only unveiled a tiny percent of the past.

Steve Tisch

I think that's the perception and I'm not saying it's not accurate.

Gwen Stefani

I was ... writing that song (with) tears streaming down my face. To me it'sa snapshot of (a) time period of my life, and ... that's the song that kind of took us around the world.

and City

I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it.

Ken Thompson

There are no projects per se in the Computing Sciences Research Center.

J. C. Watts

I have friends who didn't turn 60. As you get older, your perspective clears.

Bob Baffert

He just had little pesky injuries. He's showing his stuff now.

John Cena

Whether you like me or you don't, I still dig showing up for work.

Chris Marshall

It's showing our talent off to the scouts.

Shigeru Omi

I think it is similar to tsunamis and earthquakes...we do not know when,

Chris Sisko

It's going to be a similar track to Dennis, potentially.

Madhur Bhandarkar

For my film 'Fashion,' like an investigative journalist, I went about knowing the people, the models, the fashion designers. Similarly with the corporate world.

Steve Ron

We all have to wait. We're in a similar situation.

Michael Zenker

There's a geopolitical overlay that's going to look similar to oil.

Oliver Luck

My sense is that we're going to have a similar crowd.

Rob Bell

The joy is in the creation. So I've never had a target audience, it's always been about being true to the work as it emerges.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Benchmarks are targets that have to be fulfilled. They cannot be fulfilled in an indefinite period of time, so there are timetables in benchmarks." (On the "benchmarks" used by George W. Bush

Mark Williams

That's targeted as one of our big projects.

Nyla Milleson

It may be the first year we play without a big target on our backs. They will like that challenge. I think it will be good.

Milton Friedman

The use of quantity of money as a target has not been a success. I'm not sure that I would as of today push it as hard as I once did.

Kevin Mitnick

The human. Now you know all about your target

Ashleigh Brilliant

To always hit the target, throw a dart, then call whatever you hit the target.

Ted McGinley

I don't know why, but I'm an easy target. And I don't do anything to dispel it.

Patrick Stump

Touring on 'Folie' was like being the last act at the vaudeville show: We were rotten vegetable targets in clandestine hoods.

Brandon Roy

I think this is the year it can happen.

Richard D. James

My filing system's really crap because I can never decide whether to sort things by studio, or year, or where I lived.

Richard D. James

I've always got to change something. All the tracks I've done in the last five years were made in like six different studios. It gets a bit complicated.

Robbie Coltraine

Once you've been doing anything for twenty-five years people start to notice you.

Rob Chapman

The way I have progressed as a writer over the years is to try and stay true to the principles I absorbed.

Richard Dawkins

All qualified physicists, biologists, cosmologists and geologists agree, on the basis of massive, mutually corroborating evidence, that the earth's age is at least four billion years.

Roz Savage

A few years ago I wrote two versions of my obituary, the one I wanted and the one I was heading for. They were very different. I realized I needed to make some big changes if I was going to look back and be proud of my life. I am making those changes, and now I have a life worth living.

Tyler Hoechlin

For me, as an actor, one of the biggest fears on a TV show is getting stuck in something where you end up feeling like you're doing the same thing, every single year.

Reza Aslan

But every year you grow, you will find me bigger.