Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gary Jackson

The Gulf Coast I know and the people of the great state of Missisisppi are not dependent on casinos for whether they survive. They are dependent on what God put within them - that character I saw down there.

Paul Robinson

They were typical communities, the Gulf Coast naval ship yards and bases, the casinos and the fisherman. These people have been very impacted. They were functioning. Now they have nothing.

John Maynard Keynes

It is generally agreed that casinos should, in the public interest, be inaccessible and expensive. And perhaps the same is true of Stock Exchanges.

James Campiglia

Think Sinatra and Dean Martin and Hollywood starlets throwing down chips in Art Deco casinos like the Dunes and Sands. That's where these pieces come from.

Gary Peck

This is an effort by regulators to bully, intimidate and threaten casinos in a totally inappropriate manner. Clearly, they are playing with fire.

Tony Sheridan

There's been not enough made out of the ripple effect that the casinos bring. It extends into individual proprietorships like the coffee shops.

Charlie Munger

A lot of our respected financial institutions are just casinos in drag.

Larry Gregory

We've always had our casinos on barges. They've always had to be over water. Due to the hurricane, there was a lot of interest to move our casinos on land.

Gene Candeloro

Saturday night we had five young Italian people in here. They were heading to the casinos and stopped here. They got espressos, but they saw this and went crazy.

Ken Hill

Sometimes just getting out of the house and doing something you haven't done in a long time (or never done!) can open up the doors to musical inspiration.

Chris Chute

keeps all doors open as long as possible until the real opportunities start to shape themselves.

Tim Walsh

His parents always opened their doors to us.

Jerome Meyer

To get 3,000 students through two doors in 15 minutes is an impossibility, ... The University can figure out that you can open more doors. It doesn't take much to do it.

Jody Conradt

I think (Texas Western coach) Don Haskins probably opened a lot of doors for a lot of people. I can't identify totally with the African-American players, but I can identify as a woman doing things you're not supposed to do. That has been in my thoughts.

Manmohan Singh

I have extended a hand of friendship to Pakistan, our doors are open to everyone who wants to talk to me calmly,

Rick Riordan

The eidolons started pounding on the door. 'Who is it?' Leo called. 'Valdez!' 'Valdez who?

Rick Riordan

I touched the combination lock. I concentrated so hard I felt like I was dead-lifting five hundred pounds. My pulse quickening. A line of sweat trickled down my nose. Finally I felt gears turning. Metal groaned, tumblers clicked, and the bolts popped back. Carefully avoiding the handle, I pried open the door with my fingertips and extracted an unbroken vial of green liquid. Hal exhaled. Thalia kissed me on the cheek, which she probably shouldn't haven't done while I was holding a tube of deadly poison. "You are so good," she said. Did that make the risk worth? Yeah, pretty much.

Raymond Chandler

When I left Merle was wearing a bungalow apron and rolling pie crust. She came to the door wiping her hands on the apron and kissed me on the mouth and began to cry and ran back into the house, leaving the doorway empty [...] I had a funny feeling as I saw the house disappear, as though I had written a poem and it was very good and I had lost it and would never remember it again. (p. 262)

Mitch Hedberg

There are six ducks out here, and they all want Sun Chips!

Robert Salerno

It is like shooting ducks in a pond.

Richard Russo

Who but an English professor would threaten to kill a duck a day and hold up a goose as an example?

Sarah Polley

We're still at a point where women [directors] aren't allowed to be mad visionaries. We have to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that we're responsible, that we can handle it, that we've got all our ducks in a row . . . most women who direct always come in on budget, always come in on schedule, and if they were wild and irresponsible it would not be put down to brilliance, but to a general flakiness.

Rodney Dangerfield

Hey, did somebody step on a duck?

Paul Feig

Throughout my teens, I just wanted to go somewhere I could wear a Donald Duck pin and no one would care.

Julia Quinn

There was a certain history to this. While heavily pregnant with Amelia, she had asked him if she was radiant or if she just looked like a waddling duck. He told her she’d looked like a radiant duck. This had not been the correct answer.

Mitch Hedberg

I find a duck's opinion of me is very much influenced by whether or not I have bread.

Phil Robertson

I picked ducks in a tub in my dorm room. I'd hang deer in the doorway between the bedroom and the little living room in our little apartment there, and I'd skin my deer, and all the guts would go in the tub, and I'd sneak them out so my fellow students on both sides wouldn't see all that, you know. I'd clean fish up there and all.

Sonya Pace

He was talking about driver's licenses and he was going to be more mature when he turned 16.

Harry Williams

Photo Stencil is the only Xerox-authorized stencil manufacturer to use the SMTX Electroform stencil technology, licensed under U.S. Patents 5,359,928 and 5,478,699, owned by Xerox.

Bill Campbell

Being in the software business, I have no problem with licenses and no problem with paying for licenses. But I think that this is a real heavy-handed approach.

Vera Gibbons

Every time you make a return they swipe your license and if you make too many returns that return is denied. They are very secretive about how many returns you can make before they say no, no, no.

George Will

They seem to have a license to lie.

Dorothy Johnson

They're selling drugs like they have a license to sell -- I mean, in open daylight.

Gwen Carter

We license the home, not the whole neighborhood.

Michael Cohen

Edi is a lovely man who made the mistake of not getting a license for his business. This is just a regulatory offense.

Bob Stimson

People were pleasantly surprised with the application license number this quarter so this puts to rest a lot of concerns.

Dale Mitchell

He was lined up straight with the ship canal,

Alex Segura

They were all lined up anyway. It's no surprise.

Mike Dove

They were all lined up and ready for us to come in. It's just something you had to see in person.

Brad Turner

There were about 300 or 400 people already lined up.

Ethan Harris

This is one of the very-easy-to-interpret reports. In this one, everything lined up like the planets.

Eric Van Lustbader

I mean, if you lined up 100 writers, you'd get 100 different ways in which they write. There's no right way or wrong way to do it; it's whatever your process is.

Harold Rogers

And they were lined up in a parking lot, end on end?

Randall Eliason

We've got a lot of quartets lined up and ready to go.

Aaron Smith

You get to the point where you're not thinking mentally straight because you are worried about getting back, getting lined up. You're not thinking about the little things that go on.

Joel Klein

has been and always remains open to a settlement.

Tom Driscoll

We're opening up the day after Mother's Day.

Eric Wicks

I thought they'd try to run a lot more outside to open up the field. I think after a while, they were just trying to make a play, anywhere.

Lorrie Miller

It is just as open to me as it is to them.

E. Hicks

I welcome them all with open arms. At least we can get through practice.

Anthony Geary

I have friends in France who are artists. I go to gallery openings and things like that.

Richelle Mead

Those who have to ask if faith is true are opening up a discussion they may not be ready for.

Winston Churchill

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Anders Igel

Our acquisition strategy is still very much the same as before, but we are opening up our thinking a little.

Steve Ball

I would sooner go back to, if you want to vote you have to come here and vote.

Bob Woodward

He made the point, which is right: I should tell him more. More is better. Sooner is better.

Elian Gonzalez

I know that you're scared. This must be frightening, but this will be over very soon and you will feel much better. I'm going to take you to Poppy.

Herman Edwards

I'm not listing him as anything right now because I don't know what the tests are. I'm not a doctor. As soon as I know, I'll let you know.

Kristen Staab

To me, the sooner the better. At least with the trial it will all be over.

Don Temeyer

It's probably too soon to say how we'll do it.

Silvan Shalom

It is very, very important to stop them, and the sooner the better,

Gregg Overman

That's a 'no-later-than' date. It could be sooner than that.

Thomas a Kempis

We feel and weigh soon enough what we suffer from others: but how much others suffer from us, of this we take no heed.