Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gerry Spence

Government is operated by deeply embedded, hopelessly entangled bureaus where nothing is accomplished because the function of the bureau is to intercept every living idea and smother it.

Barack Obama

Those who oppose reform will also tell you that under our plan, you won't get to choose your doctor - that some bureaucrat will choose for you. That's also not true.

Jared Bernstein

We have welcomed past efforts by the Bureau to offer alternative poverty measures. Their most recent release, however, ignores critical innovations and omits essential costs like child care for working parents and thus represents a step backwards.

Harold Frazier

We are playing a very important role in the design of the 2010 Census. As a census test site, we are setting the standard for how the Census Bureau counts American Indians all over the United States.

Ellen Sauerbrey

I have a very deep commitment to the fundamental work of this bureau protecting vulnerable people,

Robert Pitofsky

I don't want the Federal Trade Commission to be the thought police, ... I don't want a bureaucrat like me influencing the content of these materials. But, rather, we need to influence the way these materials are marketed.

Muhammad Ali

Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the U.S. Bureau of Wild Life.

Warren Riley

We're happy our efforts with the Criminal Intelligence Bureau are paying off.

Erik Molvar

This study is going to change the debate on sage grouse and oil and gas development. The (federal) Bureau of Land Management won't be able to tell the public that (its) standard oil and gas . . . mitigation measures will protect the sage grouse anymore.

David Adler

We had one lady ... we had an emergency run and she waited an hour to donate stuff.

Chris Kramer

We were going to donate something. This puts a personal touch on it.

Renee Williams

We have a great variety of items donated for the auction.

Stacy Palmer

Usually these big bequests happen because people donate all their money when they die, and when they're alive, they give smaller amounts.

Wanda Wagner

Members have made quilted items and donated them for sale.

Alice Moore

I thought if someone is willing to donate them, we're willing to take them. It never hurts to ask.

John Winters

I thought I could be there; I thought I could help. We made the first one and donated it to the city, and it's just kind of mushrooming from there.

Louis Hobaica

We get volunteers throughout our organization, whether it's manufacturers and supplies, the contractors donate equipment and supplies labor and we do it all for free. The crane companies, everyone is doing it for free.

Patricia Murray

We had equipment that had been donated to us used years ago from varying sources. There was nothing that was the same.

David Norris

I think it is more competitive than it has been in many years. Frazier was the right group for us.

Muhammad Ali

Joe Frazier is so ugly that when he cries, the tears turn around and go down the back of his head.

Ferdie Pacheco

We had been told Joe Frazier was not only hurt, but broke,

Roy Green

We had talked about fouling, but that's not my philosophy ? we've never done that. Frazier jumped up and made it. That was a big shot. It didn't surprise me too much to see him make that shot.

Yann Martel

'Life of Pi' was actually a very simple novel to write.

Thomas a Kempis

Without the way, there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living.

Idina Menzel

'Rent,' for me, was a significant time in my life because it was my first break. It was my first professional job. I also met my husband in that cast, Taye Diggs.

Ian Mckellen

Gandalf is ever-present in my life. I like it.

Isaac Hempstead-Wright

One of my first days shooting on 'Game of Thrones' was possibly the coldest day I've ever experienced in my life, and that sticks out especially because I'd never, ever done anything before.

Isobelle Carmody

I am very fortunate in that I have spent pretty much my whole life being a writer, and before I was a writer, I was a storyteller.

Ismail Kadare

I thought for a long time about leaving Albania, but at the same time to play a role in its life.

Gin Wigmore

I think I was probably a cowboy in a past life.

Jane Seymour

When I was younger, I remember thinking, 'I have to pass this mark' or 'I have to get this role' or 'I have to do this or that' and then that will mean I have accomplished something. But life is actually all about the process and not about the goals.

Al Groh

Those kinks usually have an ugly way of only materializing during the games.

Bryan Ferry

Why should I spoil my mood by wearing an ugly suit?

Diablo Cody

You know, I did not like being famous. It was a stressful and ugly time, and I'm glad it's over.

Bill Gates

DOS is ugly and interferes with users' experience.

Aisha Tyler

Comedy is ugly. It's honest, it's raw.

Jane Gardam

The complexion of a novelist is seldom rosy (Paul Bailey once announced to a heavy-hearted audience of novelists at PEN that we have always been an ugly tribe). We are engaged in indoor activity, haemorrhoidal, prone to chillblains, poor of circulation.

Benjamin Franklin

Vice knows [its] ugly, so [it] puts on [a] mask.

Benjamin Franklin

Vice knows she is ugly, so puts on her mask.

Brigitte Bardot

I tried to make myself as pretty as possible and even then I thought I was ugly. I found it madly difficult to go out, to show myself.