Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Walters

I think it's a great fit. (Kirk's) been really good with Department 56 and Byers' Choice.

James McDonough

I think it really puts the department on very solid footing to do its missions and do it in a streamlined and effective manner. This is a very healthy and very positive realignment.

Jerry Moran

I always assumed the Department of Agriculture was the farmer and rancher's friend.

Jenny Manley

He sees a discussion about moving FEMA from under the jurisdiction of the Department of Homeland Security as an excellent starting point in efforts to make the federal government more responsive in emergencies.

Joel Klatt

I think it's important to most of us because of exactly what it provides to the whole program. Obviously, the whole department gets a little national respect. Hopefully, we go down there and put together a solid effort and get recognized on a national stage where we feel we belong.

Tom Williams

I agree, ... In rural Kansas, in the event of an emergency, people aren't going to look to an emergency management coordinator. They're going to look to the sheriff's department for help.

Mike Herndon

I'd like to double-bunk inmates, where it can be done safely, and take in as many (state Department of Correction) inmates as possible. I made a large sum of money (for the county) when I was sheriff.

Laura Blackann

He has not been subpoenaed nor has he been contacted by the Justice Department or the FBI.

Ron Suskind

He got the documents from lawyers at the Treasury Department when he made a request after he left.

Jeremiah Gertler

The equipment is wearing out five times faster than normal operations.

Jake Moreland

The equipment does a pretty good job of protecting us, plus you never think about getting hurt. You think only about stopping the puck.

Jack McCarthy

All this high-vacuum equipment is expensive and cumbersome and also incompatible with materials like plastics.

Sarah Fisher

Danica's been put under a lot of pressure ... probably more than I ever was. No one ever expected me to win with the equipment I was given.

Bryan Williams

No matter what equipment fails, voting will not be interrupted.

Todd Spencer

This extra equipment allows them to stay on the road for a long time.

Larry Ellison

It's a nontrivial process to supply certification. IBM is much better equipped to go through it (than many companies). I'm not sure I can say that for these other databases,

Lisa Jakub

When I was 14 years old, I went on location to film 'Mrs. Doubtfire' for five months, and my high school was not happy. My job meant an increased workload for teachers, and they were not equipped to handle a 'non-traditional' student. So, during filming, they kicked me out.

Todd Cartner

We're starting to pull stuff together, mostly equipment and tools we've used.

Charles Henderson

I would turn down the buyout offer. The main thing for me is they have excellent health-care benefits. When you look at it, $140,000 isn't really all that much after taxes. We're in a high-income bracket.

David Powers

I think investors are really pleased with what they heard about the future guidance for the second half. We think that the second half will indeed turn out to be better for Intel. It's seasonally stronger for them. At the same time, they're doing an excellent job reducing their cost.

Van Coleman

He's a good, solid big-man recruit. He's long; he runs the floor really well, excellent shooting touch from outside. Very, very physical kid around the basket. He doesn't mind contact.

Jason Varitek

He's dong an excellent job. Do I expect him to be perfect all year? No. but he's doing an excellent job.

Mark Basham

I think their products are very good. I think it's going to be an excellent IPO.

Willis McGahee

Cincinnati's D-linemen were great. They did a good job as far as holding us up and making us kick field goals. It was an excellent job, keeping their pads low, and just standing us up.

Joe McLaughlin

Individually we have excellent talent, but need to stay healthy because injuries will hurt us as a team.

Michael Strahan

I'm an excellent dancer. I keep up with whatever's hot. I've been break-dancing and pop-locking since back in the day.

Simo Valakari

I haven't played for a while in the league so it was nice to get back out on the field, but it was even nicer to get a result. ... Being 3-0 up, we knew that they were going to throw everything that they had and put us under pressure, but I thought that we handled it well and it was excellent just to get 3-0 up. We're playing well and scoring goals, but our game comes down to how we defend, so it was a little sad to give a goal away, but that's the game and we'll take the result.

Eric Schlosser

There is a growing market today for local, organic foods produced by small farmers. And farmers' markets have played a large role in making that happen.

Allen Johnson

We've been told they have to be 'completely self-sufficient,' ... so they have to take their own food, water and clothing. There is no local support.

Mario Batali

I think that the rise of a group of people called the slow food movement is doing a lot to try to protect and preserve traditions.

Thomas Armstrong

When they see the Spirit of Connecticut coming, they'll know they're going to get good food coming.

Truman Capote

First, a gorgeous breakfast: just everything you can imagine from flapjacks and fried squirrel to hominy grits and honey in the comb...we're so impatient to get at the presents we can't eat a mouthful.

Raymond Chandler

He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.

Woody Allen

The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small.

William Wordsworth

A genial hearth, a hospitable board, and a refined rusticity.

William Shakespeare

Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.

Dennis Hastert

We support common-sense legislation that keeps guns out of the hands of unsupervised children,

Lyndon B. Johnson

The guns and bombs, the rockets and the warships, all are symbols of human failure.

Jim Cavanaugh

They were throwing everything at us. Their guns sounded like cannons and our guns sounded like pop guns.

Keith Williams

What I want to know is why we don't have any paratroopers with machine guns on every street,

Daniel Anderson

You do want your big guns for the play-offs. We'll just have to knuckle down and work as a unit.

Sarah Brady

There are a lot more guns on the street and then you're going to get the right to use them willy-nilly? That doesn't bode real well,

Steve Shoff

We shut down their two big guns but we couldn't mark them all.

Linda Sanchez

Getting guns off the streets does make communities safer. We can't stand here and say because we don't have the perfect solution, we shouldn't try.

Warren Zevon

Send lawyers, guns and money, the shit has hit the fan.

Paul Franklin

Keep your heads up, boys. This is your job. Don't let these (suicide bombers) intimidate you. We're here for the right reasons.

Charles Stross

I don't do villains often enough. There are two approaches: give them sympathetic, reasonable motivations for doing the most unspeakable things, or get inside heads that are interestingly broken.

Rashad Mitchell

It helped a ton. We never put our heads down and thought because we were down that we were going to lose. We just kept pushing and pushing.

Michael Lehmann

I really like getting inside the heads of female characters. I think I can do that well, and I enjoy it.

Charles Richardson

Their heads were down when we were making big shots and big plays. We had them on their heels and we didn't let up.

Jamie Ullman

They kept their heads about them and that's the important. It was pretty much everything I expected. (I thought) it was going to come down to the last possession or the last minute and sure enough, it did.

Steven Rogers

It may have been a rough road, but by and large the system works. As long as we keep our heads level about us, we can see progress.

Kaui Hart Hemmings

Especially when I write, I want to get out of people's heads and have them speak and have them get dressed and have them go to work.

Jim Crace

Almost everyone who's been to primary school in Britain has had towels put on their heads to play the shepherds in the nativity play.

Rob Sheffield

Like any teenager who reads The Great Gatsby, probably, I was madly in love with the teacher who had opened it up for me.

Richelle Mead

You are an exceptional, talented, and brilliant young woman. Do not ever let anyone make you feel like you’re less. Do not ever let anyone make you feel invisible. Do not let anyone—not even a teacher who constantly sends you for coffee—push you around.

Russell Lynes

Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. It is the dishonest businessman's substitute for conscience. It is the communicator's substitute, whether he is advertising man or editor or writer, for self-respect.

Tyler Oakley

I initially thought I was going to be a teacher. Maybe like an elementary teacher or something like that, which would be fun. Maybe someday.

William Zinsser

I have no interest in teaching writers how to sell. I want to teach them how to write. If the process is sound, the product will take care of itself, and sales are likely to follow.

William Zinsser

Writers who think THEY are being criticized when only that writing is being criticized are beyond a teacher's reach. Writing can only be learned when a writer coldly separates himself from what he has written and looks at it with the objectivity of a plumber examining a newly piped bathroom to see if he got all the joints tight.

William Sanderson

The best came from my martial arts teacher, who also taught Elvis. He said, Your ego will get you killed.

William Matthews

Intercourse is after all man's best teacher. "Know thyself" is an excellent maxim; but even self-knowledge cannot be perfected in closets and cloisters--nor amid lake scenery, and on the sunny side of the mountains. Men who seldom mix with their fellow-creatures are almost sure to be one-sided--the victims of fixed ideas, that sometimes lead to insanity.

William Jennings Bryan

Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.