Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mary Gauthier

I was adopted when I was about a year old. My adopted parents tried, but their marriage was doomed. Music saved my life. I couldn't relate to things in Baton Rouge, but I found songs that spoke to me.

Ed White

I think what happened is we all adopted each other.

Dave Walker

I'm pleased to receive this award, ... I have been a constant with this organization for many years now, but we wouldn't be here today if I wasn't surrounded by many other talented people along the way. I'm extremely proud of the Burlington community's dedication to professional baseball as evidence by the fact the Bees have survived and now prospered as the smallest full-season market in the Minor Leagues. I'm also pleased with the response we've gotten on a regional basis from the baseball fans all over Southeast Iowa and Western Illinois that have adopted the Bees as their hometown team.

Steve Johnson

In legislation that became effective in 2005, Congress adopted a uniform definition for most people. It won't change what they can take, but it'll make it easier for them to understand.

Pat Toomey

The F.E.C.'s claims and legal theories are a bizarre interpretation of the club's mission, the Constitution, the laws adopted by Congress and their own regulations,

Charles King

These are markets that are widely separated by geography, and despite that, all three adopted Linux for the same reasons -- to lower costs and increase overall IT efficiency.

Paul Goodwin

We adopted a different shape when we went down to 10 men and I felt we played some good football in the circumstances.

Leonard Green

Everybody's nice to me, they treat you real nice, I got an adopted family,

Roger Clemens

These people in greater Metropolitan Houston wanted him to play and recruited him, and it made a difference, ... And people seemed to totally and completely understand that he was doing it for the city and the community. And they've never forgotten that. So they adopted him, and he adopted them. And it hasn't hurt that he's performed remarkably for two years.

Vincent Farrell

I think the basic fundamental underpinnings are very sound. The banking system's sound, there's no near-term crisis to be had. It doesn't mean the stock market's not overextended - which I believe it is and is due for some sort of setback. But I don't think it's 1987 all over again.

Philipp Meyer

I thought that I would have a huge literary novel coming out when I was, like, 29. I quit my banking job, and I was halfway through my second novel - and I will never publish it, because it's very mediocre.

Tom Finucane

I'd like to think that this is a bottoming out and people are starting to see the value that a lot of these banking stocks offer. I'd like to think there's some bottoming out and strength, but in general the market is nervous.

Stephen Greene

Regulators can't regulate the banking sector by themselves. They need the market.

Dick Hill

In older buildings the seal between the sill and the foundation is never as good as it should be. I think banking the foundation helps keep the floor warmer, it helps keep you comfortable in the winter, especially in old buildings.

Charles Alexander

The investment banking team will be first on the ground, fixed income and equities will be the next phase. We'll do some transfers and we'll hire some people locally.

Diane Wagner

The end goal is to get a banking relationship started.

Kitty Chan

The Hong Kong market is a tough one for the banking sector.

Richard Clark

They (computers) run our electric power grid, out telecommunications network, they run our railroads, our banking system, and all of them are vulnerable, at some level, to some degree to information warfare, or cyber-terrorism,

Bronwyn Belling

It can cost over $15,000 to take out one of these loans.

Javier Bardem

There are so many movies and it's a waste of time and a waste of money. Basically, movies are made with what it costs the external debt of all Africa.

Mark Rebholz

He shared in the cost for the privilege of being the pilot, ... It worked out well for all of us -- we finished our project and he was part of a grand adventure.

David Holden

I think it's a prime property, ... I know that we're looking for funds, but if we need any properties in the future, it would cost considerably more (to purchase property).

Kay Runge

It costs us probably a third per square foot to run as the other building.

Marilyn Rush

It costs so much money, and we're poor people.

Dennis McAlpine

It costs more now to go skiing than to go to Disney World. That's going to drive skier-days down.

Tom Driscoll

It could cost $75,000 more to remove the paint.

Rory Bruer

It cost in the neighborhood of around $18 million to make, so it will be very successful for us.

David Morris

He used to take my brother, Robert, and me on weekend trips. Maybe to Snowden to hunt, or to a trout stream he knew up near the Peaks of Otter. But when he got back, he always made sure he did something special with our sister Brenda the following weekend.

Khiem Do

The issue is whether there's another increase following the one in May.

Atharva Veda

The forest-dwellers have grown weary of wandering in the forests; following the Guru's Teachings, see your Husband Lord within your heart.

Peter Hitchens

This is a good deal, BP had a hole in its lubricants portfolio and need a quality lubricant following the Mobil venture's breakup,

Larry Noble

They can speak at an event, and as long as the disclaimer is there, it seems like he (McCain) is following the law.

Norman Schwarzkopf

There's no doubt in my mind that whichever commander ordered the blowing up of Kamisiyah did so in following the instructions that he had received.

John Carioba

The market isn't very favorable. We are following New York.

Ralph Acampora

It's one thing to have a 257-point up day. What you really want to see is the following day when you see the upside follow-through, and that's what we're getting, and I think it puts people at ease.

Frank Lesh

We want to see whether or not the following months follow on up out of here after September gets out of the way. We could be looking at the highs right now.

Paul Nicholls

I think it's a really positive idea and I'm sure I shall be having runners in the first stage at Haydock.

P. Herbert

I think to come out of here, you have to have a positive attitude. I've had remained discipline-free for two years to get this job.

William McDonough

We prefer to talk about 100% renewable instead of zero carbon. When you say zero carbon, you are not positively defined.

Sarah Wilson

In life, you may face hard times. But in the face of adversity, always seek to remain positive. What we think, will eventually become our life. And if you think positive, you will have a positive life.

Wayne Dyer

Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

William Blake

What is now proved was once only imagined.

Samuel McChord Crothers

Positive thinking is the key which unlocks the doors of the world.

Zig Ziglar

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

Abraham Polonsky

I'll give you my answer calmly and sensibly, my final answer. My final answer is finally no. The answer is no! Absolutely and finally no! Finally and positively no! No! No! No! N - O!

Jeff Barker

This is a competitive business, like any other retail business. It's very important to stay on point.

Peter Cardillo

The retail sales are a real blow-out number.

S. Walker

We're not going to do that. I think the retailers would go nuts.

Larry Taddeo

He's got a strong arm. I think he'll get some looks.

Lance Armstrong

I think we have fielded our strongest team ever with this formation,

Brian Urlacher

He doesn't look any different to me. He was as strong as ever.

Richard John Neuhaus

My hope that the Church will emerge as a strong leader in society is just that a hope. What I described in The Catholic Moment is not a prophecy but the outline of a possibility. There are no guarantees that my hopes expressed in The Catholic Moment will ever be realised.

Richard Dawkins

The story of Doubting Thomas is told, not so that we shall admire Thomas, but so that we can admire the other apostles in comparison. Thomas demanded evidence … The other apostles, whose faith was so strong that they did not need evidence, are held to us as worthy of imitation.

Raymond Chandler

The coffee shop smell was strong enough to build a garage on.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Man is both strong and weak, both free and bound, both blind and far-seeing. He stands at the juncture of nature and spirit; and is involved in both freedom and necessity.

Reinhold Niebuhr

It is my strong conviction that a realist conception of human nature should be made a servant of an ethic of progressive justice and should not be made into a bastion of conservatism, particularly a conservatism which defends unjust privileges.

William Zinsser

You'll never make your mark as a writer unless you develop a respect for words and a curiosity about their shades of meaning that is almost obsessive. The English language is rich in strong and supple words. Take the time to root around and find the ones you want