Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Carey

Any positive thing like that will absolutely create problems. But I thought it was and still is a wonderful thing.

William Goldman

As far as the filmmaking process is concerned, stars are essentially worthless - and absolutely essential.

John Martin

As far as the extent of residential housing (that should go downtown), we missed the boat in 1997. The view taken since 1997, to push forward with the extent of housing that the city has done, has been absolutely correct and it'll be proved in the long run.

E. O. Wilson

As hitters, we got dominated. This is lucky. (Clemens) absolutely shoved it down our throats. That's why you give all the credit to Kip for keeping it close.

Carl Mydans

As he came across the deck, tapping the deck with his cane, the entire ship was absolutely silent. And the sound of him coming to surrender his country -- tap, tap, tap -- affected me greatly. And my vindictive feelings about him vanished.

Graham Shear

Ashley is absolutely adamant that he will be proceeding with an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport as he remains entirely dissatisfied with the result.

Larry Miller

As far as I'm concerned, nothing has changed. One thing I always know about Jerry, he is absolutely trustworthy and always doing the best that he can.

Charles Baudelaire

As a remedy against all ills; poverty, sickness, and melancholy only one thing is absolutely necessary; a liking for work.

Rich Becker

As a team, we played great defense. We are absolutely a defensive-minded team.

John Rothfield

A shakeout in the commodity market in the near-term may weigh on the Australian dollar. We see further downside risk.

Peter Beattie

The Cadbury Schweppes Australian PGA Championship celebrates its Centenary this year so it's pleasing to see our top Australian players coming out in force to support the event,

Mark Vaile

Australian service suppliers and investors in sectors such as legal, financial and professional services, telecoms, education and environmental services will be the main beneficiaries of the FTA,

Abu Ba'asyir

Australian people, God willing, have no problem with Islam. However, usually, Australian leaders do influence their people a lot to make enemy of Islam, especially the incumbent prime minister.

Stephen Roberts

The start of a higher import price trend implies higher Australian inflation ahead.

Bill Evans

The sharp fall in confidence does provide a warning signal that there are ongoing concerns with Australian consumers,

James Sutherland

This is a world-class event and Australian cricket is proud to play host. We believe it will be something fans will talk about for years to come, just as they recall the 1977 Centeneray Test and the 1971-72 Rest of the World Series.

James Sutherland

This is going to be the biggest summer of cricket that we've ever seen and we want to make sure that Australian cricket fans are there and make up the majority of the crowd.

Djoko Susilo

This is an unfriendly gesture by the Australian government.

Susan Wojcicki

Any researcher or student, whether they're in New York or New Delhi can now research and learn from these books that previously were only available in a library.

Scott Ross

Another use of the room and equipment is that we will make available to other government bodies, which could then televise their meetings,

Matt Golombek

As far as we can tell from all available data?slopes look relatively benign.

E. Hicks

As far as the club is concerned, this issue is behind us and we're eagerly awaiting Sunday's game. He will train all week and we expect him to be available for Sunday.

Joey Harrington

As far as taking shots when they are available ? if they are available in the first preseason game, if they're available on the first play of the game ? we're going to take them. It's an opportunistic thing as opposed to a focus. We have three healthy, big targets right now, and that helps.

Jerry Cooper

Asarco remains committed to realizing maximum value for its shareholders. To that end, we intend to explore all alternatives available to the company.

Linda Parker

As commissioner of activities, one of my long-term goals would be to have a student center available for students to utilize in their free time.

David Lange

As a physician, it can be very frustrating to care for patients with difficult-to-control asthma, so when we have a medication available that can improve outcomes such as this, it's exciting.

James Meeks

As a consumer, I have the right to information that's available to me.

John Huisman

Any progressive community needs to provide recreation for its citizens.

Hun Sen

Any pressure on the government from the international community will be worthless, because on the contrary it will only make the jailed man stay in jail longer,

Rich Ballinger

As far as the rate structure, our goal is to give an excellent value to the different segments of our community and to make sure that SHSU students can play the golf course for a very minimal fee.

Carrie Underwood

As a proud Oklahoman, I'm honored to receive this recognition from my home state and hometown community,

Tony Mason

As a community we have always pulled together to support events and we know this could have happened to any event occurring at this time. We know we have not only been impacted here in Indianapolis.

Jeff Jones

As a faith community, we want to respond, whether that is individually or as an organization.

Chet Culver

As a lifelong Iowan who has been a farmer, a registered nurse, a small businesswoman, a state senator and secretary of agriculture, Patty has spent her life devoted to her community and her state.

Al Brown

The big thing for us now is to go back to our roots. That is membership. We aren't supported by tax dollars. We are supported by the community saying we want it.

Hilary Rosen

a victory for the creative community and the legitimate marketplace.

Reid Scott

As a layperson, I consider myself fairly well-educated in terms of politics. My family always has been really interested in politics, and various members of my family have a hand in politics in upstate New York.

David Harcharik

Avian flu should not be considered a human health issue, but a human- and animal-health issue.

Malcolm Speed

Australia, Bermuda, Malaysia, New Zealand, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Thailand, UAE and the West Indies have indicated their intention to be considered as hosts for an inaugural Twenty20 event while England, Hong Kong, Nepal and Scotland have also expressed an interest in hosting future events.

Ken Williams

I've always thought it's kind of disrespectful to the guys that have gotten you in the position to consider a move, ... So if you come out and say I need X, Y or Z ... they deserve better than that.

R. Robinson

So often space is wasted, or dead, in a house which the owners consider too small. First, you need to take away the name of the room, and then the space is liberated for a variety of new uses.

Bill Cherpak

I've never seen Nate play a better game - ever. I told him before the game: 'If you want to be considered a big-time player, this is where you do it. I saw Nate take control of that huddle in the last drive. He took over.

Petro Poroshenko

I understand that my presence in the position ... could be considered possible pressure on the investigation (into the corruption allegations).

Dave Gould

They are an icon of the '50s, ... It was considered a friendly, comfortable American sports car,

Steve Terry

This is a significant trophy trout fishery, there's a number of trout, 10 pound plus, which is considered trophy size in New Zealand so it's quite significant.

Rahul Dravid

Seeing the video, cricket seems like fun, I didn't know that. We only know about fast bowlers, dressing room and hotels. Now I know what to do after I finish with cricket. You meet so many people and have such fun. It is quite interesting and exciting.

Trafalgar Square

Say it loud, we're cricket lovers and proud.

Ryk Neethling

The win had a huge impact on us. The next morning we were all walking tall. My little sister is on the team and a little unsure of herself here, as are some of the younger swimmers. I told her that she should look at what the cricket team did. Anything is possible, you don't know what you can do or what can happen.

Matthew Hoggard

The World Cup is a massive event for world cricket and we need to start winning. We've shown hints of what we can do and over the next three games we've got to throw everything into it.

Samir Inamdar

Cricket Kenya has started afresh and we are not ready to think of the past and forward and improve the standards of the sport in the country.

Warda Tahir

Cricket is not only a game, it is a whole life

Trevor Hohns

Brett is an exciting prospect who has good height and is able to generate good bounce. He has had solid results in domestic cricket and we want to have a look at him at the next level.

Michael Vaughan

With Leeds, you always know there is going to be a good game of cricket,

Trevor Hohns

We expect that all three players who have not been selected will go back to state cricket and get back to the sort of form they were in 12 months ago.

Jim Cook

Our direction from (supervisors) has been to facilitate the effort, and there lies why we are putting up $1.3 million.

Ted Moskonas

It would be very easy to direct a show with four or five students. But that's not what we're trying to do here.

Asia Argento

I've worked with very few directors who've asked of me what I asked of myself.

Boyd Holbrook

There are all kinds of directors I want to work with and all kinds of films that I want to do.

Kristen Stewart

There are things that directors know about me that people shouldn't know. But everyone's really different. I've worked with women who I've never wanted to tell anything about myself to, and I've worked with guys who have been pouring wells of emotion. So emotional availability is not a gender-specific thing.

Chad Reed

This was a step in the right direction for me. I will take it any way I can get it. Something told me it was going to get ugly tonight.

Alan Cumming

It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.

Kevin McDonald

He sort of gets comic moments. Not a lot of directors do.

E. Hurley

We've seen our vehicle donation drop by over 40 percent this year, and it's all a direct result of the tax law change.

Maurice Ravel

Another significant influence, other than Chabrier - is from Satie, who had a notable effect on Debussy, on myself, and, to tell the truth, on the majority of modern French composers.

Marcelo Porto

As Brazil's risk falls, this should have a positive effect on financials.

Fred Ketchen

The big thing here had to be Nortel. Any time Nortel loses C$2.45, you know the effect that has on the index,

Mark Richard

As of right now, we do not have any penalties. The only way they would come into effect is if (a player) would leave the team and not come back, and they would leave ineligible.

Ali Rodriguez

Prices will fall, but the effect will be temporary.

Steve Smith

People don't realize how big an effect the group had on people and how die-hard their fans are.

Oleg Orlov

(Officials' powers) are so vaguely formulated, they are so broad, that in effect a bureaucrat, if he wants to ... can put our existence under threat.

Martin Thompson

Once we get into the winter months, we tend to stay overcast quite a bit. A lot of times we do get lake effect cloudiness, and that prevails for quite a long period of time.

Wendy Wong

The more effective it is, the less safe it is, and with a strong product the reaction will be expected to be more,

Helen Zille

This government's preoccupation with race has nothing to do with empowering those disadvantaged by apartheid. It has everything to do with empowering a small elite through cronyism and patronage.

Darren McCarty

That's what prime-time players do. They want the ball, they want the puck. It's what separates the elite from the great.

Todd Jones

The problem is, when you think about it, saves are the only stat where 100 percent is the benchmark. And the elite make it look so easy. There is so much to it.

Hud Venerable

I thought he was at least the co-MVP in the league last year. It looks like he's stronger and he's running harder than he did a year ago. He's an elite player, and he's got a nice group of blockers in front of him. He's powerful, fast and he can cut. He's got the whole package.

Kathy Lanter

I don't think there's any favorite. You're in the Elite Eight. Being the favorite really doesn't matter. You have to go up there and execute. It's that simple.

Bob Francis

He can take it as far as he wants to. He has elite skills.

Bobby Burton

(Hunter is) one of the top players in the country, and you're talking about a guy who has scholarship offers from around the country. I think the thing that separates him from other linebackers is he doesn't have just good speed for a linebacker, he has elite speed and he still has that size, too.

Chris Bosh

To be a part of the world's elite instead of the just league's elite is a little more special.

Ben Carson

What you're saying is that 'I, the superior elite, will take care of you.' Why? Because, you see, that superior, elite group needs to feel superior and elite. And they can't be superior and elite unless you have a whole lot of people down there groveling around. So you keep them down there by feeding them.

Kenneth Roth

Property is an investment and it is susceptible to market forces, just like stocks

H. Hart

At this point, there is nowhere that I can find any other money but we need to have more investment put in this system to keep the system the way it is today.

Chris Norton

We think public investment there will spur private investment.

Makoto Ebata

We will put the priority on investment rather than profitability for the time being.

Brad Bradshaw

This was the largest mid-cycle investment in Nissan's history.

David Malone

We don't think long term it meets our target for investment returns.

Pat Gelsinger

We see a fundamental shift away from IT investment in the U.S.,

Robert Kiyosaki

If the investor is uneducated, anything he or she invests in will be risky. So it's not the investment that is risky. It's the investor.

Louis Friedman

Everything we pour into the shuttle is an investment in the past.

Richard Geist

Any relationship in which you're talking about money, like a broker/client relationship, is a powerful, emotionally-charged thing, ... Money is important because there are so many important connotations to it: self-esteem, security, self-confidence, power.

Robert Kiyosaki

As capitalism falters, the rich move their money out of the country, violence increases, and politicians promising prosperity are elected.

Chris Browning

The big thing is they're paying a lot of money and they're not getting a whole lot of house.

David Marshall

As long as I make enough money so I don't go under, I can pretty much do what I want. I have time when I want it. That, to me, is freedom.

Barrett Kaiser

Raising money is a reality of modern-day politics.

Larry Wright

probably find some work, save some money, start all over.

Linda Jeffers

People think people got money and people getting on with their lives. This is where we are.

Donna Mutzenard

People say throwing money at the system isn't going to solve it, but in education, they're wrong. We need more money.

Todd Bertuzzi

People pay their money and they come into the building, whether it's here or it's our place, ... They have every right to do whatever they want to do.

Albert Einstein

Ninety nine failed solutions equals a gain of 99 pieces of information.

Neil Gaiman

Never trust a demon. He has a hundred motives for anything he does ... Ninety-nine of them, at least, are malevolent.

Bob Smith

Ninety percent of people don't even know this thing is even in their car.

Mary Malone

Ninety percent of me thinks there was a Pope Joan.

Charles B. Rangel

In the battle of Kunu-ri, more than 5,000 American soldiers were killed, wounded or taken as prisoners of war. Ninety percent of my unit was killed.

Kevin Bacon

Ninety-five percent of celebrity is good.

Henry A. Kissinger

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Lincoln Steffens

In science, probably ninety-nine percent of the knowable has to be discovered. We know only a few streaks about astronomy. We are only beginning to imagine the force and composition of the atom. Physics has not yet found any indivisible matter, or psychology a sensible soul.

Julian Fellowes

Ninety-eight per cent of actors who actually make a living do so in front of a camera.

Gary Samore

The tide of opinion in Tehran seems to have shifted.

Celeste Zappala

Public opinion has shifted. You can feel it.

Cam Newton

Everybody's entitled to their own opinion.

Alan Dershowitz

In my neighborhood, everyone had an opinion on the local cantor. You didn't go to a synagogue to listen to the rabbi's sermon. You went to listen to the cantor. It was like a concert.

Bobby Knight

If you're not careful, you can get a grossly over-inflated opinion about your popularity.

Brene Brown

Fear is the opposite of love, in my opinion.

Wendell Hall

This opinion manufactures jurisdiction that does not exist, ... We have no precedent that supports this rationale for jurisdiction.

Joe King

We think that's too late, ... It's like his opinion is that this is a slam-dunk election.

Douglas Adams

All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.

Bill Bullard

As a regular commissioner, it takes about 50 percent of my time, ... As chairman, it's about 90 percent of my time. It's significantly more work and more hours.

Frank Barnaby

A vast percentage of centrifuges have to be rejected in testing, up to 60% rejection.

Padraig Harrington

These fairways are at least 50 percent narrower that anything you would see in the States.

Ethan McAfee

The stock is going to go up 5 to 10 percent the first day. It's not going to go up 50 percent or more.

Dominic James

I spend 85 percent of my day right here (McGuire Center). I don't get back to my room until 10:30 or 11.

David Fischer

That's where it all starts. I'm 100 percent positive that's where your excelling comes from.

Bob Bowman

You're ruining my life! I'm spending 90 percent of my time at the pool.

Ron Wilson

You wait for somebody like that to mature. He's still not there to my satisfaction defensively 100 percent all of the time, but he's getting closer.

Richard Valdez

You remember 20 percent of what you hear, 75 percent of what you see and 90 percent of what you do.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Thrift is a great revenue.

Lawrence Lessig

What you want to do is to get a kind of revenue that right now you don't get at all,

Bob Freehan

This is not a new thing. It has been successful in other schools.

Brett Hull

I think the biggest thing for me is being able to adjust to the way the game has changed. It's basically a 180-degree turn from the style I like to play. That's what I think I'm most proud of, being able to fit into this style of game and still be fairly successful.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

It's even harder to stay at the top in sports than it is to get there.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

There are no shortcuts—everything is reps, reps, reps.

Bertrand Russell

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

Benjamin Disraeli

Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief.

Brian Tracy

Make a decision to be successful right now. Most people never decide to be wealthy and that is why they retire poor.

Brian Tracy

Successful people save in prosperous times so they have a financial cushion in times of recession.

Brian Tracy

If you could find out what the most successful people did in any area and then you did the same thing over and over, you'd eventually get the same result they do.

Cliff Floyd

A really big at-bat for us, ... The kind of at-bat that turns game.

LeAnn Rimes

Sometimes when I look in the mirror, I see a child, then I look and see a woman who should be turning 60.

Gary Thomas

This is overreaction. It won't make a difference. They'll turn 18, but they'll still be inexperienced.

Steve Foster

this could turn into another Waco ... we don't want to get into that.

James Tate

We did make a turn for the better at some point.

Tim Tebow

I'm not somebody that opens a playbook and just turns and reads and reads. That doesn't do it for me.

Antonin Scalia

A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom of a turntable.

Chan Gailey

Don't you think they should have to turn off their TV sets?

Kris Britton

And they went in there and turned it up.