Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lucius Thomas

The bottom line is, if the service pay works, the constable with 15 years' service won't be too worried about promotion because it will put him above the young man who is promoted to sergeant.

Carrie Graf

Our aim was to try to keep our head above water. Unfortunately, our head was under water. But we went blue in the face, we came up for air and we're going OK now. We've learned to swim.

Lin Wood

Despite their threats and assertions to the contrary, the AJC, its attorneys and its employees are not above the law and the authority of the court,

Matthew Parry

Despite our belief that crude prices will slowly trend down over the remainder of the year, further escalation in the U.N.-Iran standoff could quite conceivably send oil to a new record above $70.

Martin Charnin

'Annie' was a comic strip with an awful lot of information in it. It had more information in the balloons above the characters than practically any other comic strip that was around. The strip told tales instead of jokes.

Ameen Rihani

An idealist is ahead of his time only in the sense that he is articulate. The same is true of a nation. For even primitive people, even effete races have a message for those above or below them. The heritage of the Ideal, however small can not be exhausted.

Josh Bernoff

Any strategy that gets a message to rise above the clutter is terrific from the advertiser's perspective. Even if it's not much of a secret, it's still a pretty good marketing idea.

Steve Brozak

The silence was really deafening, given that everybody cares about one thing Guidant. Above all, the future of J&J is dictated by what happens with Guidant.

Steve Brozak

The silence was really deafening, given that everybody cares about one thing - Guidant. Above all, the future of J&J is dictated by what happens with Guidant.

Carrie Fisher

People are still asking me if I knew it was going to be that big of a hit. Yes, we all knew. The only one who didn't know was George.

Chris Lasoya

People ask me what makes a professional player and I don't know. I guess I was really marketable.

Lester Piggott

People ask me why I ride with my bottom in the air. Well, I've got to put it somewhere.

Francois Hollande

After what happened yesterday -- notably at the Sorbonne -- with these images of brutality, I ask the government to end its obstinacy and stubbornness and open talks toward withdrawing this law.

Steve Morton

Once the shootings occurred in Jonesboro and people asked if there is hope for the future, is there hope tragedies like this can be avoided, we stood up to be counted and said yes, there is hope.

Chris Kelly

Delta employees continue to rise to the challenge every time something is asked of them, ... Delta employees know how important their job is and how every passenger matters.

Todd Holmes

An official business will never ask you for your information. They already have it, and people have to be careful, because everything looks so legitimate.

Baruch Fischhoff

Are we prepared to lose a major city every year? ... It's cowardice not to ask the question and cowardice on the public's part not to get engaged in the answer.

James McCann

The senators will want to ask about views on presidential powers, women's rights and minorities, because Roberts expressed views during Reagan's term that need to be cleared up,

Michael Carty

The oil prices are creating a few problems, ... Prices are impacting the PPI report and also consumer prices and are also hurting our trade balance, what with the weaker dollar, because we have to pay more to import oil. However, there aren't a lot of inflationary pressures here beyond that.

Pansy Tlakula

I urge voters to register or re-register as a matter of urgency and not to delay it beyond this week. They will only be able to do so until the elections are formally proclaimed in the Government Gazette, and that could be imminent.

Sean Brown

The victim here is a local attorney, and I am familiar with him. That may cause a problem with my being able to represent her beyond today.

Kurt Barnard

The weather was a factor and the effects of higher gasoline prices are finally catching up with retailers at the registers. Beyond that, I think we're likely to see softness for the next two to three months.

John McWhorter

Loving your language means a command of its vocabulary beyond the level of the everyday.

Charlie Pierce

There are few colonial nations anymore. Instead, we are colonized by financial institutions beyond our political control. We are colonized with pens and papers and millions of little digital bursts transferring billions of dollars all over the globe in the blink of an eye.

Travie McCoy

I feel like a lot of people in the hip hop world don't take me seriously as a rapper, and I feel that first-and-foremost I came up as a rapper before I started singing. All a lot of people know from me is 'Cupid's Chokehold,' and they don't scratch the surface and see beyond that dude who sings the song about his girlfriend.

Jesse Reynolds

The expectations have started to be lowered, but I think expectations were raised beyond justification.

Newt Gingrich

Do they understand that beyond getting past the unhappiness with this choice, there is a profound sense of discontent within the conservative movement?

Bobby Cremins

Coaching at Kentucky is not something you want to do for 20 years. You'd probably be dead. ... It's such a pressure cooker.

Thomas Gardner

Right now we're still trying to search for that win. It doesn't get any easier. ... It's all in our control. We're the ones playing. All the coaching staff can do is continue to create strategies and game plans for us to go out and execute. We have to play the game.

Brendon Burchard

I'm not interested in your limiting beliefs, i'm interested in what makes you limitless.

Andy Stanley

I can go further and faster with someone coaching me than I can on my own.

Joey Downs

I am proud to have it and excited for the coaching staff.

Randy White

But we've got a good group to work with. They have a good work ethic. They're good people with good parents. It's not just coaching it goes back to home, where their parents teach them to be the people they are.

Joe Blair

From a coaching standpoint, it's been an interesting year and a good year because the kids who are playing for me suck up the knowledge of the game like leeches. They just want to learn and get better.

Grady Jackson

Mike was a great guy and I know he'll be coaching somewhere else. Wherever he goes, I won't mind playing for Mike Sherman. He's just that great of a guy.

Tom Renney

I think everyone feels honored to be part of it. Jaromir comes to work every day and displays what you could only hope for in a player like that, with his work habits and the way he treats his teammates and the respect he shows the organization and the coaching staff.

Jerome Flynn

I've always enjoyed the physical side of acting.

Thomas Friedman

I've always enjoyed the communal side of Jewish life.

Stan Gaines

You hear all types of things and you try to not listen to it. I was shocked when he told us this morning. I enjoyed playing for him. I don't know what standard he's being judged by, but I can say nothing but good things about him.

Rebecca Johnson

Many of them told us that they didn't necessarily walk in the study because they knew it was good for their health; they enjoyed walking because they knew it was good for the animals.

Joe Farmer

People were smart. They stayed home in large part. They enjoyed an extended holiday.

Pat Daugherty

I enjoyed scouting and wanted to keep scouting.

Brian Morris

I enjoyed playing quarterback. But the way I look at it now, with us running the Power-I, I'm in a very important position in the offense. We have a great tailback with E.J. Burgess. Hopefully I can help the team any way I can.

Kellen Easley

I enjoyed it. It was a heck of an environment with the fans right up on the court. You never want to lose, but it was fun to play here.

Joe Trohman

I feel like touchscreen technology blows my mind still. It just makes me think of all of the sci-fi films I enjoyed as a kid.

Bob Dylan

I'm looking for a woman who's head is mixed up like mine.

Dennis Prager

The rarest of the good qualities in human beings is courage

Dieter Rams

Nothing works without details. They are everything, the baseline of quality

Aeschylus

Wiles and deceit are female qualities.

Anthony Daniels

Modernity is the most transient of qualities.

Suze Orman

What happens to your money directly affects the quality of your life -- not your stockbroker's life or your banker's life, but YOUR life.

Suzan-Lori Parks

Quality is like quantity, but there's a lot less of it.

Tony Robbins

The quality of your life is directly related to how much uncertainty you can comfortably handle.

Tony Robbins

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

James Marsh

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

Bryson Sumlin

That's not in the playbook, ... That's just excitement. Everything worked as clockwork.

Mitch Ashmore

We have not executed well all year on things like that. We made them make a play, and it just worked out well.

Michael Keaton

I worked at a PBS station called WQED in Pittsburgh.

Kevin Sutherland

It's worked out pretty good, but now I need the space.

Shanna Zolman

There's a lot of things that need to be worked on before we get to where we need to be.

Evangeline Lilly

I've not worked with Martin Freeman. I've hung out with him, but I've not worked with him.