Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dennis Hastert

We stand firmly behind Tom DeLay and ask that he be afforded the same rights as every other American -- that is innocent until proven otherwise,

Tom Reynolds

Until Majority Leader Tom DeLay has his day in court, it is vitally important he be afforded the same presumption of innocence afforded to every other American,

Sandy Johnson

With Ms. Truesdale's current CD album, 'I know Him' on Nashville's CIS-Christian label, Jeanie Kay has brought forth an array of inspirational music sure to please any listener, ... Her soulful voice and her emotional, believable musical delivery reaches audiences in a direct manner not often afforded many singers.

Darcy Tucker

We're not afforded the luxury of looking past any games.

Jon Meacham

With the perspective afforded by the passage of time, where does 9/11 rank as a turning point in our national history? For the victims and their families, innocents going about their lives, suddenly and brutally murdered, no other day can ever matter as much.

Paramahansa Yogananda

I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation. Clear recollections came to me of a distant life, a yogi amidst the Himalayan snows. These glimpses of the past, by some dimensionless link, also afforded me a glimpse of the future.

Steven LaTourette

As a former prosecutor, I trust that the legal system will work and Tom DeLay, like every American, should have his day in court and should be afforded the presumption of innocence. However, in order to remove any questions that may arise about these contributions, I have made a donation in the same amount to the Bush-Clinton Katrina fund,

Adam Cohen

The building is actually steel and concrete, which is more like the new construction we're doing. So it all of a sudden afforded us really good bones.

Daniel Glaser

The briefing focused on the Treasury's authorities to combat illicit finance and the tools we utilize to protect the U.S. financial system, and afforded a useful opportunity to clarify numerous issues.

Gunter Grass

My sister and I did not have our own rooms, or even a place to ourselves. In the living room, beyond the two windows, was a little corner where my books were kept, and other thing - my watercolors and so on. Often I had to imagine the things I needed. I learned very early to read amidst noise.

Jonathan Feeney

We believe that Kellogg is the best-executing food company. It stands out for its solid momentum amidst competitors that face pressure in both pricing and volume over the next year.

Blanche Lincoln

At a time when U.S. jobs are heading overseas at a record pace, and amidst increased sanctions on our manufacturers and producers from other countries, it's imperative that we do all we can to provide our businesses a climate to operate successfully.

Mike Hankwitz

It's not the easiest situation for a quarterback to have his first start amidst all the things we've been through. I'd have liked for him to have more experience going into it, but that's the hand he was dealt.

Mike Hankwitz

It's a bittersweet moment. I was extremely proud of our team, the way they fought and competed in the most difficult situation, amidst all the distractions, all the things that happened. I was extremely proud of that. I was disappointed that we couldn't stop them there at the end when we needed to and give us a chance to win.

Friedrich Muller

As a solid rock is not shaken by the wind, wise people falter not amidst blame and praise.

Chinese Proverbs

A crane standing amidst a flock of chickens

Felicia Hemans

The stately homes of England! / How beautiful they stand, / Amidst their tall ancestral trees, / O'er all the pleasant land!

James Beattie

Zealous, yet modest; innocent, though free; Patient of toil; serene amidst alarms; Inflexible in faith; invincible in arms.

Amber Smith

We actually came out pretty flat-footed. Even though we had a lot of goals, they had a lot of mental breakdowns today. ... But we're glad to come out with a win.

Joe Masleh

We accomplished what we came here to do due to great senior leadership.

Terry Butcher

Wayne Rooney is wasted switching between the right and left hand side. He's got to play through the middle, playing to his strengths. He came inside in the second half but didn't know what he was doing.

Carlos Levorin

The possibility of an upgrade in Mexico's rating came out, the Mexican stock market went up and the other markets followed suit.

Jim Owens

The person that was sitting in front of me came flying over the desk, ... and it was then that the sound registered.

Kenny Brooks

The people who kept Shirley McCall off the all-conference teams are crazy. She?s one of the most valuable players in this league, and I?m just happy she came out and played extremely well today.

Steve Tobin

unseen strength. New Yorkers came together in a way that no one imagined New Yorkers could or would. The generosity and compassion spread around the country and the world.

Gary Wilson

We've already mailed them out. Today being a holiday, they will probably get them on (today). They came out really nice. They are orange, the same style as in the movie 'Glory Road.' No one had the trim that they used, so we had to contact the company that made the uniforms for the movie and get it from them.

Ben Brooks

We started to execute more and our team did not have as many turnovers. We just played better as a team in the fourth quarter. I was a little nervous at first, a little nervous. They played us real tough, but we came through.

Gerhard Schroeder

We want to send a clear signal that the region can very much rely on the fact that we are not just talking about providing assistance, but that we really want to help, and will help,

Chogyam Trungpa

Things get very clear when you're cornered.

David Duke

Our clear goal must be the advancement of the white race and separation of the white and black races. This goal must include freeing of the American media and government from subservient Jewish interests.

Bob Nicholson

Wayne has dealt with the media before. I think he's made it very clear where he is in this situation. He has not been involved. So there's no reason for Wayne not to be here. If Wayne didn't come that's not right. We want Wayne Gretzky to be here.

Lorraine Toussaint

I love to see how a character unfolds off the page in a project. I don't always know how the character is going to turn out, even with the script being there. It's not always clear where that character is going to take me. Or where I will take them.

Peter Varney

The position remains as we have clearly stated it on many occasions.

Erik Friedly

The people who were involved in this, it's still pretty clear in their minds. Jim Sullivan is one of the big ones.

Barbara Ryan

The only company which is a clear growth vehicle in our view is Schering-Plough.

Grover Cleveland

Unswerving loyalty to duty, constant devotion to truth, and a clear consciencewill overcome every discouragement and surely lead the way to usefulness andhigh achievement.

Fallon McClanahan

It seems like every game we've played with Jefferson has been hard-fought. There's lots of hitting, lots of covering and lots of offense. That's what makes for good volleyball.

Adam Clymer

A lot of the reporters have really been wondering and doubting their editors. It wasn't that they knew the defense of Judy was wrong, but they didn't have a sense of what was being defended. . . . People all over the paper think the Times should have been covering the story harder.

Emery Wallace

They knew where I was going to be. The girl that was covering me knew everywhere I was going. That was pretty hard, but if I didn't have a look, I was trying to pass it to my teammates. They had a good scouting report. They knew all of our plays.

Jack Beven

It is still quite large. We will have hurricane-force and tropical storm-force winds covering a large area.

Barry Alvarez

It never looked like he was tired. I guess that's a good thing with having those 18-year-old legs. They don't get tired, those kids. Man, did he play. I'm really proud of him. That's unbelievable. Then he's covering punts and on the punt return and kickoff team. We took him off some of that.

Joe Collins

It wasn't easy covering 6-7 and 6-6 shooters. We weren't playing hard in the first half. In the second half we outplayed them, but they did the same to us in the first half.

Ron Ream

We practiced covering the option all week. The defense did a great job of staying with their assignments.

David Cope

Our defenders are really covering for each other well. Our defenders are also getting involved in the attack. You saw Sydney get assists and Morgan (Wallace) got involved in the attack.

Brian Wolk

Our customers 18-year-old Japanese girls to 65-year-old ladies like the idea of covering their arms.

Louise Leakey

What the fossil record does do is to force us to contemplate our place on the planet. We are but one species of several hominids that inhabited Planet Earth, and like our distant cousins who went extinct fairly recently, our time on Planet Earth is also finite.

Geraldo Rivera

A lot of what Oprah does is not so distant from what we do,

James Norton

For any actor, it's a great privilege to play a character that is very distant from yourself.

Nostradamus

A great stench will come from Lausanne, but they will not know its origin; they will put out all people from distant places, fire seen in the sky, a foreign nation defeated.

Floyd Abrams

A visitor from a distant planet might say of all of this, 'What are you doing? Why are you limiting speech about elections?' But that's what we're doing, and that's what the legislation that passed yesterday does.

John Smith

The more I think about what I did, the more lucky I feel today. It has been two years now and it is already a distant memory.

Simeon Rice

A distant memory. Many moons ago. Now, we're looking forward. It's the future. We're living it now. We're in the moment. It's a whole another ballgame. It's a whole another perspective. It's this year. It's about what we have. It's about pioneering back to new things and getting ourselves back to winning things like Super Bowls.

Isabella Bird

The Sandwich Islands are not the same as Otaheite nor as the Fijis, from which they are distant about 4,000 miles, nor are their people of the same race. The natives are not cannibals, and it is doubtful if they ever were so. Their idols only exist in missionary museums.

Roger Smith

We couldn't take any more orders for that year. People also wanted their goods as soon as they ordered, they didn't want to wait for us to manufacture them some time in the distant future.

Steve Davies

There may be some short-term disappointment today that investors are going to have to wait until the end of 2006 at the earliest for this separation to take place.

Paul Theroux

My earliest thought, long before I was in high school, was just to go away, get out of my house, get out of my city. I went to Medford High School, but even in grade school and junior high, I fantasized about leaving.

Alan Alda

You know what my earliest memories are? Going from one burlesque town to another. My father was in burlesque.

Jill Tarter

Our television transmitters leak out from the Earth. And actually, there's a sphere surrounding the Earth from the earliest television signals, maybe 70 years ago, that's going out one light year per year. But it's really weak.

Linda Perry

This is the earliest use of maize in this region of the Andes. We have good evidence they were growing the plants on site and that they were processing it into flour.

Linda Perry

This is the earliest use of maize in this region of the Andes.

Theodor Mommsen

Individual tribes or, in other words, races or stocks, are the constituent elements of the earliest history.

Adam Hamilton

The earliest stories in Genesis were not written to tell primeval history. They were written to tell readers about themselves and about God.

David Prentice

We should be able to look at the scientific facts and say this is what it is: It's a member of the species at the earliest stage of development.

Richard Steele

No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more than she can be witty only by the help of speech

Jim Allchin

This CTP that we are doing in this quarter will have all the features that we had planned to put in the product.

Elizabeth Mitchell

I am very benign-looking. I'm somewhat like a golden retriever: It's not hard to look at me. I'm perfectly fine. It's not like things jut out and make you nervous. But the lovely thing about being so pale and having such pasty features is that I can look like pretty much anything, which is nice.

Don Lemon

There are features that African Americans have that are similar! There are features that white people have that are similar! Features that Hispanic people have that are similar!

Gerald Bell

We've been indicated for several months now that these features would develop, and they have finally arrived.

Ed Warner

We didn't want a trophy home. We wanted people to be invited into the house to see all the wondrous things, features that the public doesn't get to see.

J. Horton

Focus Features is following a nationwide release pattern and playing it in just a handful of theaters. They haven't offered the film to us yet, but it might become more available, especially if it wins Oscars.

Paul DeGroot

Vista is, I hope, the last time that Microsoft labors so long, misses so many ship dates, and revises so many features midstream.

Zahi Hawass

Many parts of the granite statues were found, the most important of which had features close to Ramses II. The statue needs some restoration and weighs between four and five tons.

Dean Acheson

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

John Abizaid

The people who were low-level Baathists need to know they have a part in the future of their country,

Harry Sinden

When you think something has to be done ... you have to do it. It was not proper to let him keep doing what he was doing -- signing players, making plans for the future -- when we knew that at the end of the year we were going to relieve him of his job.

Patrick Callahan

We want to protect the lake in the future and for our children.

Mohammad Khan

We want job opportunities and a good life, a good future for our children,

Damon Albarn

Whether people like it or not, China is incredibly important to the future of mankind. For me, this is something that we all need to have intelligent discussions about in America, in Britain, in Europe.

Gus Melonas

We're investing to meet present and future needs.

Lisa Stone

it remains her wish to have Bankhead become a part of the UW team in the future.

Ban Ki-moon

Nuclear disarmament is one of the greatest legacies we can pass on to future generations.

Chogyam Trungpa

Watchfulness is experiencing a sudden glimpse of something without any qualifications - just the sudden glimpse itself.

Lea Thompson

One of things I like about looking at pictures when you're young and also meeting back with old friends you haven't seen in a long time is, for me, it's a glimpse of who I was.

Bob Kendrick

This will provide a glimpse of what life was like in the Negro Leagues.

Dean Koontz

In each little life, we can see great truth and beauty, and in each little life we glimpse the way of all things in the universe. If we alow ourselves to be enchanted by the beauty of the ordinary, we begin to see that all things extraordinary.

Steve Sullivan

Tomas made some really timely saves for us and we went the other way with it. We play them so often, you never want to give them a glimpse of hope that they're in the hockey game.

Jon Gruden

We got our first glimpse of what these guys can do wire-to-wire.

Anaxagoras

Appearances are but a glimpse of what is hidden.

Pablo Neruda

I have forgotten your love, yet I seem to glimpse you in every window.

John Updike

A photograph offers us a glimpse into the abyss of time.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much too oft we make life gloomy-- When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see.

Charles Caleb Colton

Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers upon their road; they both appear great at a distance, but when we approach them we find that they are far less insurmountable than we had conceived.

Charles Dickens

While the flowers, pale and unreal in the moonlight, floated away upon the river; and thus do greater things that once were in our breasts, and near our hearts, flow from us to the eternal sea.

Charles Dickens

There either is or is not, that’s the way things are. The colour of the day. The way it felt to be a child. The saltwater on your sunburnt legs. Sometimes the water is yellow, sometimes it’s red. But what colour it may be in memory, depends on the day. I’m not going to tell you the story the way it happened. I’m going to tell it the way I remember it.

Charles Dickens

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Charles Dickens

Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old! Of right choice food are his meals, I ween, In his cell so lone and cold. Creeping where no life is seen, A rare old plant is the ivy green.

Charles Dickens

Buy an annuity cheap, and make your life interesting to yourself and everybody else that watches the speculation.

Charles Dickens

Love is not a feeling to pass away Like the balmy breath of a Summer's day....... Love is not a passion of earthly mould As a thirst for honour, or fame, or gold

Charles Dickens

My life is one demd horrid grind.

Sanjaasuren Oyun

It was stupid to oust the previous government. It's illogical.

Ansyaad Mbai

The modus operandi is very similar to the previous bombings.

Ali Kerimli

even all the previous falsifications were not enough for them to win.

George Foster

We'll have to go back and resample all the previous sampled locations.

Jim Oberweis

I stand here with no involvement with any previous administration. Judy's been in Springfield for 25 years.

Chris Tarrant

Of course, completely, ... My previous producer always said we were there to learn.

William Mosher

That was surprising to us. The previous studies had not shown as much.

Kim Yuna

Watching previous figure skaters, I always wondered why they cried after their performance.

Hideo Kojima

As a game creator, I'm not 100% satisfied when looking back at the previous game that I released.

T. J. Miller

Yogi Bear changed my life in ways that I can't explain because it's not a full feature on me.

Mel Ott

Yogi seemed to be doing everything wrong, yet everything came out right.

Mick Ronson

Actually, I never liked Dylan's kind of music before; I always thought he sounded just like Yogi Bear.

Yogi Berra

Amplifying on the things improperly attributed to him, Yogi said: "I never really said all those things I said