Famous Quotes & Sayings

Amy Clark

Anytime anyone can do something academically, then kids see it everywhere. Now with ISTEP it's not just English, language arts and math, it's also science in fifth grade. That will trickle down eventually.

Joe Wilcox

Any time anyone asks for your credit card number online when you already have an account, consider that to be a fraudulent spam mail.

Roger Payne

As far as I know, the use of the word 'slave' has never been even proposed by anyone as offensive.

Benny Gray

As hot as it is, I can't imagine anyone wanting to burn. Hopefully, we'll get some rain before the first of October.

Jerry Klein

As far as participation, this is the best showing anyone can remember since sometime in the '90s. It was fantastic.

Ben Jacobson

As far as we're concerned, we're 100 percent positive. Unfortunately, we don't have anyone on this team on the selection committee.

Shaun Stenshol

As far as bio-diesel rental cars, I don't know of anyone else doing it in the world.

James Gallagher

As far as anyone knows, and officials have checked, there was no wreck and Junior was not dead.

Paul Miller

As far as anyone knew, she was just a good Samaritan who had tried to help this guy.

Tim Pape

Rather than just have the annexed people represented by people they never voted for, some people on borders of districts will get new councilmen. And they've always got the at-large members.

Michael Armstrong

Borders all over the world are coming down, and as they come down opportunities spring up, ... Companies reach further to compete with their products and services, and when they want to open shop, wherever they want to open shop, they want those communications services to support their people and their products, and we've got to be there.

Bryan Harris

At some point you know they are going to go on a run and she's going to be in the middle of it. She plays with extreme confidence that borders on arrogance, but doesn't quite cross over that line. The whole team does. They know what they can do.

Michael Chertoff

We cannot hermetically seal 7,000 miles of land borders and keep out 100 percent of illegal crossers, ... But we can create such a high likelihood of interdiction that it will have a strong and unequivocal deterrent effect on those who wish to cross illegally.

Mike Johanns

There is no justifiable reason for borders to be closed to U.S. beef,

Donald Trump

We pay a subsidy. Money coming over the border, they're - there are so many ways that Mexico makes money with us, Bob. There are so many different ways, five in particular, that we will take it out of there.

Amelia Earhart

No borders, just horizons - only freedom.

Tom Tancredo

We can control our borders, we just choose not too.

Marco Rubio

I am the son and grandson of immigrants. And I know that securing our borders is not anti-immigrant and we will do it.

Todd Tiahrt

As a result of our limited capacity to refine crude oil, we experience higher fuel prices when faced with refinery outages, such as during hurricanes Katrina and Rita, ... My legislation will encourage domestic refineries to expand their capacity so that we are less vulnerable to price fluctuations at the gasoline pump.

Ken Simonson

Availability is going to be even more of a problem in 2006 than it was in 2005. In 2005 you had spot shortages. In 2006, nonresidential construction is growing and capacity is not expanding to meet those needs.

Klaus Rinnen

Back end capacity is relatively tight, mainly due to raw material issues and the pending Restriction of Hazardous Substances and Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment environmental regulations.

Robert McTeer

As long as the growth is taking place in a slack economy, with a high unemployment rate and a low capacity utilization rate. That growth is not likely to be inflationary, and not much reason for us to worry about it,

Byron Callan

Rapid growth in new orders and sales does not automatically translate to higher profits. New employees will need to be hired and trained. Suppliers need to expand capacity too. Can all this be handled without margin degradation?

Li Li

Rapid growth in 2003 and 2004 produced more production capacity than the market could digest and led to last year's stagnant performance.

Phil Anderton

Rangers will receive 2,100 seats - the equivalent of 12 per cent of our capacity - a figure that we feel is more than fair.

Gerard Burg

Prices are expected to ease in 2007 as expanding refinery capacity reduces some of the bottleneck in that sector. However, the likely strength of oil demand, as well as the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries' intention to support higher prices will maintain crude oil prices at historically high levels.

John Porter

People underestimate their capacity for change. There is never a right time to do a difficult thing. A leader's job is to help people have vision of their potential.

Richard Durbin

As it turns out, the seniors are going to be the victims -- at least for the next few months while they struggle through this terrible transition trying to figure out how many plans to choose from,

Marin Cilic

Probably around 14, when I was finishing primary school. I'm coming from a pretty small city in Croatia, not too many options to train, not too many players. So I had to either choose to stay at home to do more school or move to Zagreb to the national training center. That was when I made decisions to do something better in tennis.

Chris Dutton

Our customers have expressed interest in being able to choose renewable resources and I'm pleased that we will now be able to offer them that choice. Green Mountain Power's overall power mix is already low in fossil fuels, but under our new program, customers can choose 100 percent renewable resources. We've called the program 'Greener Mountain Power' to reflect that greener choice.

Dick Porter

People can come and they may not have 500 varieties to choose from but they may have 300.

Kwek Beng

Once the rules are set, I would know which one would give me a better deal, ... But you also run the danger the partner you want to choose would not be a successful partner. So preferably, if you can, partner with three, four or five of them, or the whole lot. One of them will get it!

Robert Wilson

The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever.

Arlen Specter

And there is a lot more to the issue of a woman's right to choose than how you may feel about it personally. We have a long tradition in the court.

John Boehner

aren't forced to choose between relinquishing their identities or being shut out of the program altogether.

Jon Corzine

I've always said I'd choose nominees with impeccable credentials and distinguished experience.

William Maxwell

The view after 70 is breathtaking. What is lacking is someone, anyone, of the older generation to whom you can turn when you want to satisfy your curiosity about some detail of the landscape of the past. There is no longer any older generation. You have become it, while your mind was mostly on other matters.

James Morrow

Curiosity may have killed the cat, but lack of curiosity would have killed thousands

Kitty Kelley

There's a curiosity factor, but not a fascination like there used to be.

David McCullough

What started me writing history happened because of some curiosity that I had about some photographs I'd seen in the Library of Congress." ()

Claude C. Hopkins

Curiosity is one of the strongest human incentives

Clara Bow

I'm a curiosity in Hollywood. I'm a big freak, because I'm myself!

Daniel Bell

The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he conceives to be true, regardless of the moment.

Alistair Cooke

Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.

Albert Einstein

Curiosity is its own reason.

James Marsters

Details in the mcguffins had to be worked out, but it was there. It was a good idea. I'm not going to tell you, because I didn't think of it.

Ben Goldacre

Transparency and detail are everything in science.

Davide Brivio

This was the last test before the end of the season, so the work we've done here will be very important for the remaining six races. We didn't test any big things, just some small details which are important for us.

John Mooney

This was a disgrace. No details were provided to the executive board. (Toussaint) wants us to discuss the details after Christmas.

Patty Shea

There's really nothing to worry about, it's not really the outcome or anything like that. It's really about what's going on the field, and some of the things that I'm really happy about is they're playing the game at a more sophisticated level. It's the details that are going to make the difference.

Roger Toussaint

We thank riders for their patience and forbearance. We will be providing various details regarding the outcome of this strike in the next several days.

Pete Carroll

We've been talking, and we had a more significant discussion (Wednesday). That is why I am willing to say something in a general sense. There are no details to give. We're in great shape, and things worked out really nice.

Donald Knuth

I'm obsessively detail-oriented.

Tite Kubo

I swear. Everyone here gets so worked up over the most minute details. ~Mayuri Kurotsuchi

Danny Meyer

People who have come to appreciate well-sourced and well-cooked food refuse to pay too much for food that they wouldn't want to pay anything for.

David Chang

People are trying to figure out what American food is; it's certainly an amalgamation.

Jeb Bush

People had ample time to prepare. It isn't that hard to get 72 hours worth of food and water,

Chris Bosh

The mood always lightens after a win. People are nicer, the food tastes better, practice is a lot more fun,

Joe Morgan

A plate of spaghetti back then was $1.50, and it was very good food, that's why it lasted,

Joel Fuhrman

Preferring healthful foods is a skill, and skills take practice and perseverance to develop.

Jose Andres Puerta

The right use of food can end hunger.

Barbara Jordan

Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.

Brendan Behan

I saw a notice that said "Drink Canada Dry" and I've just started.

Chris Sullivan

I've been listening to them my whole life.

Denise Bishop

You're sitting here listening to everything we have to say, but there's nothing we can do about this.

Brett Ratner

Listening is harder than just acting. Listening is the hardest part.

Carla Bley

Listening is more important than anything else because that's what music is. Somebody is playing something and you're receiving it. It is sending and receiving.

Alan Vega

Lately I've been listening to some classical music again, some jazz.

Austin Carlile

To me, music is emotion and if when you're listening to it and it doesn't make you feel that, then it's not music.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Within each individual young person you meet, you have the same fields to plough. The trick is just to wake them up, to sharpen their ears for what's already there in the music.

Barbara Bush

You get nothing done if you don't listen to each other.

Brian May

I never took sheet music seriously. I could do better myself just by listening to other people and using my own intuition.

Barbara Kingsolver

Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.

Benjamin Disraeli

Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.

Jane Austen

She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding.

Baltasar Gracian

Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.

Thomas Fuller

All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.

Thomas Fuller

Abused patience turns to fury.

Roger Toussaint

We thank our riders for their patience and forbearance.

Dale Carnegie

In order to make friends you must first be friendly

Damian Lewis

Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.

Juvenal

A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar.

Alain de Botton

A dominant impulse on encountering beauty is to wish to hold on to it, to possess it and give it weight in one’s life. There is an urge to say, ‘I was here, I saw this and it mattered to me.

Jane Austen

If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.

Diane Ackerman

Adventure is not something you travel to find. It's something you take with you, or you're not going to find it when you arrive.

Brian Eno

It's not the destination that matters. It's the change of scene.

Robert H. Connelly

This website is not your usual read-some-copy, look-at-some-pictures travel site,

e. e. cummings

may came home with a smooth round stone as small as a world and as large as alone.

E. M. Forster

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

E. M. Forster

As her time in Florence drew to a close she was only at ease amongst those to whom she felt indifferent.

Liberty Hyde Bailey

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

Robert Hathaway

It's traveling very, very fast. It can penetrate you pretty good.