Famous Quotes & Sayings

Saudi Arabia

who boast of friendship with the United States.

Ron Maclean

There's no other way to paint this. It killed Canada.

Neil Boyd

What we see in other parts of the world is not all that uncommon -- kidnapping of wealthy individuals for ransom. And in Canada and the United States we have been relatively immune from that kind of problem.

Stephen Harper

The jackasses at Elections Canada are out of control.

Melanie Fiona

I love Canada, always.

Maureen Forrester

Another turn in my life happened when I took on the Canada Council.

Margaret Mahy

Canadians are Americans with no Disneyland.

Ben Smith

Obviously, Canada is the No. 1 team on our hit list. But our team is shaping up quite nicely for a strong run at the (gold) medal.

Bill Daly

Obviously, Canada cares so much about hockey. That will be totally different in Vancouver. Hockey will be front and center, on center stage, and it should be a good opportunity to showcase the game.

David Phillips

Never has Canada been so wet as it's been here this year, and particularly the summer. It was also the most expensive summer from an insurance point of view.

Michael Sprung

Oil is stronger. That'll be reflected in the Canadian market. We'll wait and see what the Fed does. One more quarter point after today is fine, but if there's a hint that the current course will continue further, there will be concern in the market.

Paul Kariya

I've love to get the opportunity again. But to be honest on my end I haven't heard anything. Obviously I don't get too much Canadian press down here. I'm in the dark really.

Chris Hadfield

So without that Canadian invention we were grounded,

Kathleen Robertson

The director is a Canadian, Jeff Stephenson, and any time I get a script that has any Canadian component, I'm always immediately much more interested.

Geddy Lee

When I do a take, I very often try things that I haven't planned to try to see if I can pull it off.

Bruce Greenwood

Did I get jiggy with Will? I would have to say no! Did I have fun with Will? I would have to say yeah! But you know, I did not jig with the man, if you know what I'm saying!

Shaun Osborne

Commodities prices are pretty robust, which supports the Canadian dollar. The Canadian dollar is still looking relatively good.

Greg Anderson

Commodities currencies including the Canadian dollar are doing very well today as gold and oil prices are up.

Steve Butler

Commodities continue to look soft. The slowing down of commodities could drag on the Canadian economy a bit.

Jeffrey R. Immelt

As one of America's largest exporters, GE remains committed to producing more products in the United States, which is our home and largest market.

Terry Garcia

Salmon are in serious trouble. Regardless of the final outcome of this case, we remain steadfastly committed to our goal of recovery of these species.

P. Herbert

It would be a failure if we don't come up with something and do something, ... The governor and I are committed to taking the information received here (at the summit) and putting together some sort of transportation initiative.

Tim Richards

It was a long match, ... Jerome played well as a team. Wood River committed a lot of unforced errors.

David Gill

We hope to make one or two very big signings this summer - and we are already committed to that.

Mark Attanasio

Doug not only has a Plan A; he has a Plan B and C. We'd all love to keep Carlos, but if it doesn't pan out for any reason, Doug can go to Plan B or C. We're committed to having a competitive team here.

John Phelps

Essentially, ... we learned after the 2004 permit was issued that virtually all of the existing slips had been tied up in long-term rental, and that Whitefish Lake Lodge had already committed a number of the new slips to long-term rentals in violation of the original (planned-unit development, PUD) and lakeshore permits.

David Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Turville

Even if Pfizer committed itself legally to maintaining some of its research and development in the U.K., its takeover of AstraZeneca would involve dismembering an excellent and strategically important British company.

Tom Meeker

We have deep ties to this community and are strongly committed to continuing our corporate presence here in metro Louisville and in the commonwealth of Kentucky.

Mario Hernandez

It was all on fire and the roof had fallen in.

Sarah Roemer

I had friends who were actors. I had some close friends who are actors before I had fallen into it. And but I never approached anybody about doing it. But once I had been approached, I said, 'Sure and I'll give it a go.'

Tony Anderson

I would like to get a hold of their families and maybe this will give them a little closure, ... to know that their fallen sons' sacrifices weren't totally in vain and that at least somebody recognized what they did for us.

John Davis

I think it's really fallen off people's radar. We don't hear much about it at all.

Bill Frist

Now my hand, my hand can be grasped, and the hand of government can be grasped, by you, by your families, by your communities, and that others can together with us in government seize what may well be an unprecedented, unprecedented opportunity,

Joe Lhota

The role of government is to steer us in the right direction, not do all the work for us.

Susan Goldstein

I've never really been a taker, always a giver, but in this case, I really had the sense that this is what the government is supposed to be there to do.

Elfriede Jelinek

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.

Calvin Coolidge

At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it.

Jan Brewer

Government just simply can't do everything for everyone.

Billy Crystal

When I've gotten criticism, it's that it's too long, too soft, didn't hit the government hard enough. Then when I do hit the government, they go, What's he doing hitting the government?

Bobby Fischer

I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.

Ludwig von Mises

If the practice persists of covering government deficits with the issue of notes, then the day will come without fail, sooner or later, when the monetary systems of those nations pursuing this course will break down completely. The purchasing power of the monetary unit will decline more and more, until finally it disappears completely.

Bill Callahan

A number of us talked about what we would do if we had come on him when he was loose, and you wouldn't be having a trial right now if that had occurred.

Gray Davis

the most qualified person on question number two.

Tom Slade

We are as vulnerable as we have been in a number of years. It is not a pretty picture.

Alex Ferguson

Myths grow all the time. If I was to listen to the number of times I've thrown teacups then we've gone through some crockery in this place. It's completely exaggerated, but I don't like people arguing back with me.

Alexa Chung

I mix my own lipsticks, so I don't really keep track of the brand as it's usually a number of them I've smushed together.

Alice Walker

I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.

Richard Bach

Numbers are limits, and perfection doesn't have limits.

Richard Leakey

The greatest problem we face is the growing number of people living in poverty. The related sense of hopelessness has to be impacting on every part of environmental management.

Tony Robbins

The number one key to success in life is to master your own state. If you can manage and master your states, there's nothing you can't do.