Famous Quotes & Sayings

Erin Campbell

The bottom line is this should translate into a savings of several million dollars for the people of Vermont.

Elaine Makatura

The bottom line is that we take enforcement of compliance with our regulations seriously, and we are concerned about the quality of life of residents in the area.

Jimmy Ray

The bottom line is that we don't pursue a lot of cases that other counties do. And that's because we don't take garbage up front.

Joe Perry

The bottom line is fans just want to hear a good song. Some people will look underneath to see who wrote it, but they just want to hear a good song. And if they don't hear it, they're not going to buy it just because you wrote it.

Lawrence Frank

The bottom player is he's a better player than what he showed in the first half,

Flip Saunders

Bottom line, we are a multi-dimensional team that can play different ways. We can play inside, we can play deep perimeter and we can play mid-range. We can do different things and that's what makes our offense so effective.

Mike Hohensee

Bottom line is we didn't win. I think we come out of this game with a lot of positives that we found out about our football team. But, we have to continue to get better.

Martin Grove

Bottom line: Hollywood is worried. Nobody wants to see this really healthy industry ... just put flat on its back.

Steve Barnes

This was very good, and frankly, unexpected news. Bottom line, it was unlawful. And that's a very strong statement.

Libby Doggett

Pre-K is gradually being integrated into the K-12 education system nationwide. In a state that has so many great universities like Purdue, Indiana and Notre Dame, it's a shame (Indiana) won't do more to ensure its own children are better prepared to enter those schools with high quality pre-K.

Jack Horn

This is a serious problem nationally and statewide as well as in the county, ... Solano County has been particularly proactive, signing people up on various programs, particularly children with the SKIP program, but it's still a serious problem, no question about it.

Barbara Mertz

Since I am not as stupid as my children believe I am, I had immediately realized this might be a ruse, but I was not at all averse to a confrontation. In fact, I had been hoping for some such thing.

Ogden Nash

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

C. S. Lewis

But courage, child: we are all between the paws of the true Aslan.

C. S. Lewis

Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us.

Celine Dion

Since I was a little child, my nose - I think it's too big.

Alan Keyes

When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions, we are telling them, in effect, that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom.

Jane Smiley

The fundamental condition of childhood is powerlessness.

Tim Roberts

Things went well. We went over some concerns and discussed some alternatives and options.

Ken Clarke

This is a special inspection related to concerns that have been raised about inadequate security measures at the plant.

Bill Daly

We do not yet consider the matter closed. We are hopeful to be able to sit down with the Russian federation in the next several days to discuss whatever concerns they might have in entering into a new agreement.

Juan Felipe Herrera

All voices are important, and yet it seems that people of color have a lot to say, particularly if you look through the poetry of young people - a lot of questions and a lot of concerns about immigration and security issues, you name it - big questions.

Daniel Griswold

This is nine parts politics, one part legitimate concerns about national security.

Wendell Perkins

The revenue numbers looked really impressive. There were concerns out there about how Microsoft would grow the top line.

Bobby Shelton

They can contact our traffic management division at 455-6100. We'd take their concerns and issues and put it on a list to study.

Nancy Talanian

As we have gotten further away from Sept. 11 and we've had more debate about what the government is doing and whether it is justified, and whether it's really protecting us or just taking away rights, those concerns have been growing.

Wes Kooistra

Absolutely. Given the security and the perimeter fencing at Moose Lake, we have no concerns about the security at that facility.

Scott Borg

The Russians aren't waiting for standards. They have decided to move forward. We have declined to participate (in the drilling). We don't feel it's ready.

Tim Ries

This could have been a very expensive mantelpiece for my shelf, ... But I realized that if I couldn't sell this, I shouldn't even be in the business. Instead of investing the money I earn with the Stones in the stock market, I decided to have faith, leap in and invest in myself.

Pat Brown

We decided to go where the kids are.

Jason Gibson

We decided to go in another direction at quarterback. He's (Leak) a big, strong kid and he's got a big-time arm.

Mike DiNovo

We decided that if they said he could go, he was going to go. I think it was a lot just to get him on the mat. He did not want to go down quietly.

Tom Scholz

I've sort of decided that I can settle for being just the artist, arranger, writer and part-time engineer. That seems like enough to do.

Ellen Simon

We have decided to make sure that we are the safety net for our patients and our community,

Fran Dunphy

We went to Duke this year as decided underdogs. Our job is to prepare our guys; we watched a number of segments of film.

Brian Keith

We went through a practice (Saturday morning) and decided to make sure we didn't give up any easy baskets. Our guys pulled out a track meet tonight, by hustling back on defense. We just didn't give up any easy shots.

Ruth J. Simmons

There's nothing worse than a leader who lacks ambition.

Kevin Logan

It's a very thin market. People don't want to take any risk because of the lack of liquidity.

Jack Ma

When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.

William Shakespeare

And simple truth miscalled simplicity

Rita Mae Brown

Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.

Yasser Elguindi

OPEC wants to be perceived as part of the solution, not part of the problem,

Aeschylus

Wiles and deceit are female qualities.

Tony Robbins

The quality of one's life is directly related to the quality of questions one asks oneself.

Tony Robbins

The quality of our questions determine the quality of our lives.

Marilynne Robinson

I really can't claim ever to have had an exceptionally close relationship with a minister. I'm always there. I pay my pledge. I listen and observe with interest. I'm very sympathetic with the rigor and the aesthetic quality of what they do. Aside from that, I don't have a kind of personal experience with any of them that I could consider privileged, so to speak.

Paula Creamer

I care about my quality of life and money.

Martin Puryear

There remains this belief that the work itself can have an identity that can speak, whether it's through beauty, or through ugliness, or whatever quality you put into the work. The work doesn't have to be a transparent vehicle for you to say things about life today.

Lisa See

I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one in the same.

John Travolta

You can't control the quality of projects that are coming to you, so if you get several in a row that are quality, you take them.

John Updike

There is this quality, in things, of the right way seeming wrong at first.

Ernest Hemingway

The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.