Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Keys

You got to realize that the vision, the image, according to 1964 U.S. rock and roll standards, was mohair suit and tie, and nicey-nicey ol' boy next door.

Oscar Arias

Without a free trade agreement, no one, not national or foreign firms, will invest. We have many things that need to get done, and all those who oppose the free trade accord need to tell me how the heck we're going to do them.

Alain Juppe

(Juppe) noted that the talks had progressed greatly and wanted pressure to be kept up on the two sides so that a final accord can be reached quickly,

Joost Hiltermann

I can't decide if the accord was a genuine attempt to bring the groups together that failed or a bid to divide the Sunnis that succeeded.

Ronald Walters

The challenge to the president is therefore important because if he does not want to give some acknowledgment to the protest, if he does not want to accord respect to the congressional Black Caucus, the civil rights leadership, the fraternal leadership, and those mainline leaders, then he's still faced with this group, which is posing him the same challenge in terms of public policy.

Eddie Greene

According to the locality it's a lot of crime. But this is heaven compared to where we came from.

Granth Sahib

According to their pre-ordained destiny, they act out their karma. Serving the True Guru, a lasting peace is found.

Scott Harris

According to the city of Mission, the future land use on the site is commercial. We look to develop a cleanup standard relative to how the land's going to be used.

Dora Russell

According to our view, freedom given and understood early enough would result in a natural evolution to maturity and self-discipline.

Ron Dennis

We want to be the best and the only way of achieving this objective is by attracting the best people.

Thomas Shannon

The degree to which there is division in the Americas, the degree to which there are people who want to opt out of that common consensus, it lessens the chances of successfully achieving the kind of agenda that we have identified.

Kaoru Yosano

Under the BOJ Law, the central bank is by definition aimed at achieving price stability. It is natural for the BOJ to emphasize the CPI.

Tom Stephens

We've made excellent progress toward achieving our strategic objectives during our first full year since the leveraged buyout that took place in late October 2004.

Patrice Motsepe

Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.

Stephen Gaghan

When I was seven and told my mom, 'I'm gonna be a writer,' she said, 'Oh, that's a terrible idea. You'll live in misery and die teaching other people's children badly.' My parents wanted the safer path for me, and I think they failed miserably achieving that.

Craig Bruce

It's funny how social activists usually protest against the only things that have a credible chance of achieving the activists' goals.

Bjorn Ulvaeus

Sweden is an open, liberal, secular and democratic country. We strive towards achieving equality; we are forward-looking and refuse to be pulled back by social constructs such as religion.

Wang Guangya

We're not in favor of sanctions. We still have time to be flexible, to work diplomatic solutions. I think that talking about sanctions at this stage would not be good for achieving the results.

Jiang Xiaoyu

The budget of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games will not surpass that of 2.4 billion US dollars for the Games in Athens.

Hu Jintao

China is forever an important force safeguarding world peace. China have never sought hegemony, and never will in the future,

Michael Whitaker

China is a very special market, a very important market.

Aphaluck Bhatiasevi

China has learned from the SARS experience and has been more open and more willing to respond to disease outbreaks.

Chong Quan

China has a competitive edge in the labor-intensive shoe manufacturing industry. They have ignored the fact that 98 percent of the shoemakers in China are privately owned.

Luo Bingsheng

China expects the 2006 global iron ore price to return to the level previous to the dramatic price hike.

Chen Xingdong

For sure by 2006 China will become number four and by 2010 it will be more than Germany.

Alan Greenspan

Further development of China's trading relationships with the United States and other industrial countries will work to strengthen the rule of law within China and to firm its commitment to economic reform,

Mark Brewer

is all but a China company at this point, and he's turned his back on Michigan.

Li Peng

Such a system may be suitable to the West. However, China has its own conditions. We are a developing country with a large population,

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.

Tom Benson

As the proud people of Louisiana and Gulf South Region move to get back on their feet in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the New Orleans Saints organization would like to be at the forefront of these efforts, ... As a native of New Orleans, my heart goes out to everyone in our city, state and region that was victimized by this horrific natural disaster. Our organization remains committed to being a leader in the rebuilding process and helping the people of the Gulf South. The establishment of this fund is a first step in that rebuilding process.

Rich Brooks

We got all the guys committed and we got the jelly doughnut in Corey Peters.

Arnold Fielkow

We want to ensure that the entire Saints community sees how committed that we are to this state and how much we want to find a long-term resolution to a very difficult and complex matter.

Rusty Fumi

You hear about troubled adolescents. That was not the young men and women I saw. They were incredible workers, they had vision, they were dedicated and determined and committed to the project.

David Boyd

The one thing we've never heard is the reason why they've committed this crime. I look forward to hearing that. I think we all do,

Baruch Spinoza

In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible; or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another. For no one by the law of nature is bound to please another, unless he chooses, nor to hold anything to be good or evil, but what he himself, according to his own temperament, pronounces to be so; and, to speak generally, nothing is forbidden by the law of nature, except what is beyond everyone's power.

Kenny G

I mean, what is music anyway? It's a form of communication - at least for me it is. And that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.

Deborah Tannen

Each person's life is lived as a series of conversations.

Edward Abbey

To the Technocrats: Have mercy on us. Relax a bit, take time out for simple pleasures. For example, the luxuries of electricity, indoor plumbing, central heating, instant electronic communication and such, have taught me to relearn and enjoy the basic human satisfactions of dipping water from a cold clear mountain stream; of building a wood fire in a cast-iron stove; of using long winter nights for making music, making things, making love; of writing long letters, in longhand with a fountain pen, to the few people on this earth I truly care about.

Ben Horowitz

As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.

Ashley Tisdale

Communication is so key.

Bill Vaughan

I'm not convinced that the world is in any worse shape than it ever was. It's just that in this age of almost instantaneous communication, we bear the weight of problems our forefathers only read about after they were solved.

Jesse Ventura

Listening is as important as talking. If you're a good listener, people often compliment you for being a good conversationalist....

Frank Moore Colby

Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.

Brad Little

Your keeping the rich rich and the poor poor,

George Bernard Shaw

The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.

Brad Ranson

I think we got the cobwebs out in the second quarter. At first, we were a little nervous. I thought the key was the second quarter, getting up by a big 10 points and just keeping the lead throughout the game.

Scott Downs

I'm just riding a wave right now. Pitching right now is fun. I'm going out there and keeping my team in the game.

Jim Lushine

Rain will be as heavy, if not heavier. You don't want to be walking around out there with possible downed power lines and debris. It's not over until it's over.

Angela Sarafyan

I prefer for things to happen serendipitously, but honestly, I also love terrible pickup lines.

Anthony Hopkins

What I do is just go over and over and over my lines and learn the script so well that I can just be easy and relaxed. That's the way I always work.

Simon Pegg

You know what, despite my complaints about The Phantom Menace and Episode II, when Episode III comes out I'll be first in line. I genuinely love it.

Russ Grimm

And no matter how good you are you have to work at it. It's non-stop every day, every day. The best the offensive line feels is when the season starts.

Miranda Hart

It's on the bucket list for sure to do a comedy film, even if it was just one line on the lot.

Jean-Paul Sartre

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.

Eric Burdon

Everything changes and, somewhere along the line, I'm changing with it.

Ginni Rometty

The social network will be the new production line in a company,

Kelly Clarkson

Thank you so much. You have no idea how much this means to me.

Steven Forester

He'll be singing in his upper register to give the idea of what it means to be roasted on a spit.

Leon Hall

That just means we have to do everything that we need to do perfectly. Know where we need to be at, know our technique. If you mess up your technique with this guy, he can make you pay.

E. Hicks

It means a little stability, a little security.

Michael Drake

Evolutionary theory says if there is a God, then he has not made things by means of design, purpose or, in the creationist point of view, with immediacy.

Dwight Yorke

It means now that we have it all to play for and a win will seal it for us,

Ban Ki-moon

Nuclear disarmament is the only sane path to a safer world.

Susan Rice

We are safer if there are not nuclear arsenals around the planet that can be utilized, stolen, sold to terrorists and others who would do harm.

Fareed Zakaria

In the 1990s, we were certain that Saddam Hussein had a nuclear arsenal. In fact, his factories could barely make soap.

Sue Leibold

A new world opens up for parents because a new world has opened up for their teens.

Dan Shechtman

The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.

Brenda Smith

The right tools can really open up Scripture to you.

Richard Daynard

At this point, it's really open season on the industry,

Peter Graf

We're very opportunistic when it comes to open source.

Carlos Arroyo

I saw an opening and I took it. It was important for us to get a win like this. Every time we win one like this it makes us stronger for the future.

Mark Buehrle

I think I'll be ready for Opening Day. I could go right now.

Bruce Davis

I could not keep this store open if we just had gas. It would close.

Eric Wicks

I thought they'd try to run a lot more outside to open up the field. I think after a while, they were just trying to make a play, anywhere.

Ben Foster

The roles I'm interested in or have been interested in, you know, it's going to get down to conflict. Drama is conflict - conflict of interests.

Anthony Hopkins

I don't have any [favourite role]. I'm just a working actor.

Robert Lanza

Until we recognize the essential role of biology, our attempts to truly unify the universe will remain a train to nowhere.

Tionne Watkins

A role model can teach you to love and respect yourself.

Mike Tyson

I am not a role model.

Steve Bilheimer

Before the season started, I didn't think we would be here at this point. But we're doing great, we're on a role and I just want to keep it going.

Isabelle Huppert

Some roles are easier to choose, some roles are more difficult because they are more daring. Sometimes you have to dare.

David Givens

My role at this team will be bigger.

Cathy Rigby

I will jump into most any role.

Mason Cooley

Alone, I am satisfied with myself. With others, I am beset by troubling comparisons.

Alan Cranston

I don't feel any need for redemption. I'm satisfied with what I did in the Senate. I don't look back. I look forward.

David Johansen

I'm not impersonating anybody. I'm perfectly satisfied with what I am.