Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chuck D.

A downtown is the center of a community, the pulse, ... When it dies, your town dies. I want my kids to experience something different from Wal-Mart and strip malls.

Jamie Rappaport

A developer might propose construction of a shopping center that will wipe out the habitat of an endangered species. Once the developer has been compensated for that use, he or she can propose an office park on the site and become entitled to compensation again.

Tasneem Aslam

The OIC is perfectly within its rights to raise and talk about the Kashmir dispute, which is at the center of decades of tense ties between Pakistan and India.

Bill King

The most up-to-date information on a hurricane's status is from the National Hurricane Center (NHC), not television.

Stacy Stewart

So, until the 2006 season begins, unless Zeta somehow makes an unlikely miracle comeback, this is the National Hurricane Center signing off for 2005. Finally.

Tim Griffin

So when the penguin takes a step, its center of mass is low, so when he stops coming up over his leg, the mass moves to the side, ... And it's high now, and as it starts rocking backward, it starts falling to the side, it's also falling forward.

Peter Marsh

Rutland is the only major population center in Vermont without an actors' guild. We decided it was time to put Rutland on the map.

Hedrick Smith

Russians have always seen themselves as second to some other power. The Chinese don't see themselves as second to anybody. They may understand that they're not as economically developed as we are, but they regard their proper role as being at the center of the universe.

Martha Stewart

said Robert Thompson, director of the Center for the Study of Popular Television at Syracuse University. ''If they could have shown Martha the way they show the participants -- to their vast disadvantage -- people would have loved it.

Emilio Butragueno

The situation of the team was such that it was decided we needed a change. The performance wasn't up to expectations. It was worrying for us and Madrid supporters.

Mitch McConnell

The Senate last week decided it wanted to go down this road, so my view is if the majority of the Senate wants to go down this path, let's make sure it's effective," ()

Chris Rupkey

The selling abated, prices stabilized and people decided the path of least resistance is up.

Niranjan Shah

The selectors decided this at a meeting on Friday night.

Edward Fleming

The shots just didn't go in. The inside game wasn't getting open so we decided to shoot it. I didn't think we were patient enough.

Roland Dumas

The then prime minister, Michel Rocard, decided in 1989 that the sale should go through,

Raymond Domenech

I've listened a lot, I've seen a lot of people. After a long reflection, I've decided not to decide. We will take a decision peacefully.

Lynn Williams

I've already decided I can walk if it goes up too high,

Robin Cook

A European operation will only occur where NATO, as a whole, has decided not to act,

Kevin Keane

People shouldn't overreact. It's a very small number of products and not major brands.

Subir Raha

The Syrian acquisition is a major breakthrough for us.

Pat Gelsinger

This is not a minor retooling. This is a major leap.

Zhou Jixiang

That's why we need to stretch to other major cities. We've only started the work with Shandong Province.

Mike Wallace

You say this, 'I would never have been a Major League-caliber player without steroids.' Right,

Mat Sprague

Considering where the program has come from, it's a major accomplishment.

James Thurber

And unless there is a major stumbling or bombshell, I think he will be confirmed.

Anatoly Chubais

And yet we must be ready to get into next winter without major failures.

Rossi Ralenkotter

Even just the slippage of one or two conventions can have a major impact.

Kelly Wood

The population is healthy, but it's not like we've got a lot of them.

Allen Ginsberg

It's time we did something to assert ourselves. After all, we do comprise 10% of the population.

Clayton Christensen

It's like in biological evolution: The population will evolve, even though individuals can't. The same thing happens in the corporate world: The population of business units within corporations evolves, even though individual business units can't. That's because the capabilities of business units reside in their processes and their values, and by their very nature, processes and values are inflexible and meant not to change.

Ang Lee

I wanted to shoot straight, mainstream, somehow off-beat. Not only realistic West, which is quite unfamiliar to the world's population - even to a lot of Americans.

Ron Perlman

1% of the population has all the money and the other 99% have nothing.

Stewart Udall

In a region with a growing population, if you're doing nothing, you're losing ground.

Maurice Strong

Either we reduce the world's population voluntarily or nature will do this for us, but brutally

Terence Lewis

After working for TV, you realise that the majority of the population still wonders where their next meal is coming from.

Michel Foucault

Are the prisons overpopulated, or is the population over-imprisoned ?

Jim Veltman

After you win, you think to yourself, 'Is it time to get out?' But I don't feel like I want to.

Charlie Skelton

The story is timeless and can be done in any era.

Goldie Hawn

The movie actually has a little more back story, more consequence, and I think it's more real actually for this time period.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Rob Allison

Now it's time to really find out what we're going to do and how we're going to do it.

Curtis Sliwa

Now I'm going to have to do a lot of rope-a-dope, never go the same way at the same time to the same places,

Chris Mills

I've never had a better time doing anything -- not just music, but anything,

Bill Cowher

This is not the time to relax. They've had their off time. You can't do that. It's around the corner.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.