Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Bisio

Anyone who suggests the number is inaccurate is way out of bounds. What would we have to gain from that? We are in no position to mislead people. A lot of people have an interest in working at Wal-Mart.

Hans Buder

Anyone who knows that area, if you had a bus, it would take you no more than 20 minutes to drive in with a bus and get these people out. They sat there for four or five days with no food, no water, babies getting raped in the bathrooms, there were murders, nobody was doing anything for these people. And we just drove right in, really disgraceful. I don't want to get too fired up with the rhetoric, but some blame needs to be placed somewhere.

Robert Duffy

Anyone who knows Ron Evangelista and his history with Rochester police chiefs will see this exactly for what it is, ... Unfortunately with Ron, everything is personal.

Peter Tom

Anyone who knows Pat will know it's not about money. If it had been about money, this would have been resolved months ago.

Jose Andres Puerta

Anyone who knows me knows that I have never been shy about how important Ferran Adria has been in my life; he is a friend, a mentor, an inspiration.

Barry Bonds

Anyone who knows me knows I'm not jealous of anybody. I'm proud of what Mark McGwire did; I'm proud of what Sammy did. They lifted the game.

Joshua Bell

Anyone who knows classical music and loves classical music has heard the Beethoven Seventh hundreds of times probably in their life.

Mike Walker

Anyone who knows boxing in the Midwest knows Shuler is trying to build a reputation for himself, but I plan to show that Mike Walker is one of the big names in the future of the Middleweight division. Taking Shuler is one of those things I'll do on my way to the top.

Mike Walker

Anyone who knows boxing in the Midwest knows Shuler is trying to build a reputation for himself, but I plan to show that Mike Walker is one of the big names in the future of the Middleweight division, ... Taking Shuler is one of those things I'll do on my way to the top.

Chris Rankin

The smoke was so thick it blocked out daylight.

Jim Tressel

Bobby Carpenter makes things happen. He's a nightmare for those tackles when he's rushing. He's got tremendous range as a linebacker and covers so much ground. I don't see him get blocked very often. He makes plays.

Jimmy White

This woman was chronically sick and her family called us for help during the storm, but we couldn't put a vehicle on the roads, ... After the winds died down, there was no way to get to her because Highway 15 where she lived was blocked by fallen trees.

Tony Dungy

You have to learn offensive blocking schemes and especially when rushing the passer you get blocked differently, ... Larry had to call some (assignments) for us on Sunday with Corey not as familiar with what we're doing. Montae has always done that the last two years. Larry did a good job of getting us into some of the right things.

Chris Ellis

Those possessions we contested (shots), everybody blocked out and that led to our run. When you stop a team and they're taking contested jumpers, that frustrates them into making other decisions.

Brian Satterfield

We talked about forcing them (Mooresville) to have to make decisions on the offensive end of the floor. We couldn't score early on to set up our press, but eventually we came up with some steals and blocked some shots and that led to some easy baskets for us in transition.

Bat for Lashes

The creative part of your brain needs to be stimulated. Sometimes you get blocked in the thing you do, because there's so much pressure to do it.

Nick Harmer

People were maybe a little worried. We blocked that all out as much as we could and just said, we need to make a record, make it great, put it out and get on the road. I think just by us doing that and making the record we did, there was kind of a collective sigh.

Rock Cartwright

The Eagles blocked a field goal and ran it back,

Art Spiegelman

Well, I am not 100 percent sure of the definition of polemic, but it wasn't meant to convince anybody of anything.

Grace Meng

I take the definition and title of my job - Representative - seriously. That's what I will be above and beyond everything else.

Brent Weeks

You’ll come with us,” she said. “Sure,” Gavin said. “It wasn’t a request.” “Yes it was,” Gavin said. “When you don’t have power to compel obedience, by definition you’re making a request.

Tao Lin

I don't have a definition for depression. I'm productive, and that's not a sign of depression, right? And I don't have weeks where I don't leave my bed. It seems like depressed people have those.

Aristotle

1 is not prime, by definition. 2 is an unnatural prime, 4 is an unnatural prime, and 6 is an unnatural prime. All other natural primes cannot be unnatural primes.

Mark Gottfried

This was the definition of a team win.

Adam Carolla

The very definition of 'beauty' is outside.

Abraham Maslow

We cannot study creativeness in an ultimate sense until we realize that practically all the definitions that we have been using of creativeness are essentially male or masculine definitions of male or masculine products. We've left out of consideration almost entirely the creativeness of women.

Albert Einstein

The true definition of madness is repeating the same action, over and over, hoping for a different result.

Larry Sabato

As far as others in his party are concerned, Simmons' district is highly competitive and in a strong Democratic year, it could easily be lost. ... These favors are done for Simmons simply to save the seat.

Iqbal Sacranie

Our democratic values need to be upheld, not undermined.

Jalal Talabani

And the Iraqi people are liberated from the worst kind of dictatorship. Now they are enjoying their democratic rights, all kinds of freedoms, a free press.

Ron Gidwitz

I've never heard of internships that pay $50,000 or $60,000. These internships are simply a way to reward those who pay their dues to Democratic campaigns.

Mo Ibrahim

The Zimbabwean people, like everyone else, have a right to live in freedom and prosperity and to select their leaders through fair and democratic elections.

Joe Gaylord

These are the worst (poll) numbers I've seen for any party since I was looking at the Democratic numbers in 1994.

Condoleezza Rice

This is the democratic process at work, ... What you're seeing with this process is the Iraqi people embracing American-style democracy.

B. R. Hayden

There is a power to the street that's part of the democratic process when all else has failed,

Michael Parmly

Cuba's future will be determined by Cubans. Our role is to support those working for democratic change.

Debby Padgett

Our efforts are coordinated, and we are working toward a fabulous event in 2007. Not only for 2007, but beyond.

Rob Stutzman

that they're supporting efforts that have a long-standing positive influence on the state.

Troy Ellerman

We're a rodeo association, not a bull-riding association. Our efforts should be focused on making our rodeos better.

Tim Carney

There is a lot of focus on counter-drug efforts on the part of Rene Preval.

Rig Veda

During emergencies learned ones make efforts using their intelligence.

Elliott Abrams

Tunisian liberals say that the U.S. Embassy in Tunis is unengaged with their efforts to make sure the Tunisian model remains one of expanding freedom.

David Makovsky

US efforts between now and March may have to be low profile, but Washington need not be dormant.

Hilary Clinton

The controversy surrounding the IFC has impeded progress on the memorial and essential rebuilding efforts in Lower Manhattan.

Kelly Kisio

Right from the goalie out, there was a lot of selfish play tonight. There were some iffy efforts on a lot of guys' parts.

Aphaluck Bhatiasevi

As of Wednesday, we haven't seen further outbreaks or human infections.

John Williams

As Mark settles into the role he will further concentrate on the relationship between the senior playing squad and the Academy.

Harold Evans

Once we get further into the irrigation season and start using more water, we'll get all of it flushed out.

Asafa Powell

Actually, I wanted to get it over with. Further on in the season, I'll try, for the record.

Richard Ford

A promise was made by the Iraqi side to provide us with further information that we have requested.

Simon Clarke

Perhaps it will work in Dublin, but in the further out places it will be near impossible.

Ben Bernanke

Providing quantitative guidance about the meaning of 'long-term price stability' could have several advantages, including further reducing public uncertainty about monetary policy and anchoring long-term inflation expectations even more effectively,

Gordon Smith

Provided there are no further power outages and we are able to start up by Thursday this week, production should be back to normal by this time next week.

Sven Friebe

Rates are going to rise, and we see potential for further upside in the euro.

Steve Shephard

On vaulting, we need to improve our landings. We didn't stick any vaults. Everyone of them took a step.

Global Initiative

an unprecedented opportunity to improve the lives of millions of people around the world.

James Kim

The second quarter should see a marginal improvement.

David Johnson

School is grade-motivated: You're looking for the A. This is personally motivated: How you can improve yourself.

Dan Nault

The SCC is as competitive as ever and all I am really looking for is improvement from last years three wins.

Jeff Malloy

I've seen a lot of improvement. This year she has a better mastery of her pitches.

Chris Hope

It would be big, being that we're real young and we still have lot of improvement to do.

Ansari Bukhari

It would be better to do this first while we improve the quality of our import statistics and data.

Richard Falkenrath

This is going to improve the quality of our identification, which we use at every checkpoint in the country.

Terry Hoeppner

We are going to have 200 motorcycles leading us down (Indiana) 37. They are going to be leading us back into Bloomington.

Sean Landeta

Up to that point, our punt team had done very well. Two weeks earlier, I was leading the NFC in punting, and I thought I was punting well, but they thought that they needed to do something to shake things up.

Bobby Howard

We were leading 7-2 in the game. We just didn't get it done.

Steve Taylor

But I think if he's still leading the points, he'll go to Reno.

Frank Kimmel

He was a grizzly, old veteran, just a real hard-nosed racer, ... He would run all day long, and then all of a sudden with 20 (laps) to go, you would look up and he would be leading the race.

Doug Firebaugh

The life you are leading is simply a reflection of your thinking.

Ryan Routzon

Everyone has to step up. Lucas can't be leading us all the time.

Kevin Schmidt

I have my character actor side as a kid and my more leading man side. It's all been beneficial.

Al Leiter

It's a very big mental game, all day leading up to warm-ups. You're not sure if your curveball will break, or will you be able to throw it over the plate? It's all negative thoughts going into the game.

Yingxi Yu

Technical trends are looking very strong and people find it very risky to go short right now. I think that's why the rally has been continuing.

Wayne Gandy

It was the normalcy we've been looking for.

Mike Browning

You're looking at the young guys. You're not looking to win, just to get a win.

Chuck Koons

We're looking for what we could do that was ecologically sound.

Eva Simons

Sometimes when I'm dancing and don't put in enough hairspray, I wind up looking like a... what's the animal with needles? Porcupine.

Jeff Bryant

We really don't know our starters yet, or where everyone will play. We're looking for the right combinations.

Robert Wood

We've seen the report and are looking into it.

Robin Wagner

At that particular time, I was looking for something in her that maybe she wasn't ready to give me.

Nick Vujicic

If you're looking for happiness in things, you'll never find it.

Larry Johnson

Don't tie up your retirement portfolio in one stock,

David Axelrod

I'm a kibitzer with a broad portfolio.

George Eliot

Satan was a blunderer ... who made a stupendous failure. If he had succeeded, we should all have been worshipping him, and his portrait would have been more flattering.

Lili Taylor

My thing is that anybody's interesting if you go into the complexities. That's my problem with the whore. We've seen the whore, obviously, two-dimensionally, one-dimensionally. But if we're truly going to portray a whore in a complicated light, then I'm interested.

Rick Danko

Also a portion of my sales go directly to Greenpeace.

Wavy Gravy

I'm related to the portrait painter George Romney.

Richard Carroll

Chimps are portrayed as the super-ape and gorillas are the big brutes in the forest.

Mario Gabelli

Always keep your portfolio and your risk at your own individual comfortable sleeping point.

Hugh Johnson

It's not the stocks you pick, it's the structure of your portfolio that counts,

Donna Brazile

We were not republicans or democrats during Katrina. We truly were all Americans, and Trent Lott came through for me.

Stephanie Miller

I was actually abandoned by wolves and then raised by Republicans.

Megyn Kelly

Reagan Republicans do not criticize the other Republicans

Joe Lando

I'd be honored to be playing a Republican, although I'm not.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Republicans simply don't know how to manage the economy.

Chely Wright

I'm not a Democrat, I'm not a Republican-I'm an American, I'm a human.

Fatih Birol

We think security of supply will be a big problem.

Colin Powell

Finding the Russian scientists may be a problem being that Russia does not have a Social Security System, as here in America, that allows us to monitor, track down and capture an American citizen.

Alice Cooper

How old are you? Sixteen? S-seventeen? [asks security guard] Is seventeen legal?

Thomas Brooks

He who stands upon his own strength will never stand.

Rand Beers

The precondition to freedom is security.

Alberto Gonzales

Security is a concern, ... It is a priority.

Jay Leno

Gas stations are considering hiring security guards. Why are they getting security guards? We're the ones getting robbed.

Ken Stern

It has to come to a head. We won't have Social Security if it doesn't.

Taylor Swift

I don't have big security guards. I don't have an entourage.

Mickey Blake

I've worked here since I was a kid. I've always been part of the business.

Gloria Naylor

Lord keep her safe since you can't keep her sane.

Corita Kent

Earnestness and sincerity are synonymous.

Maurice Denis

All that is necessary to paint well is to be sincere.

Isla Fisher

You know, I didn't get to go to university because I've been acting since I was a kid.

Jeff Hanna

Since it's in litigation, it just wouldn't be appropriate to talk about it.

John Foster

Since my Japanese isn't very good, I had to have an interpreter to communicate with most of the crew.

Roberto Galvan

I have been here since Sunday. We are waiting for the blow.

Janet Gamet

He's worked since he was 14 years old and he's 52.

Baruch Spinoza

Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.

Auguste Comte

After Montesquieu, the next great addition to Sociology (which is the term I may be allowed to invent to designate Social Physics) was made by Condorcet, proceeding on the views suggested by his illustrious friend Turgot.

Ayelet Waldman

I wish I could view the belly that oozes over the top of my pants as a badge of maternal honor. I do try. I make sure that the women whose looks I admire all have sufficient fat reserves to survive a famine, and I make a lot of snide comments about the skeletal likes of Lara Flynn Boyle and Paris Hilton.

Ayn Rand

Aquinas brought an Aristotelian view of reason back into European culture, and lighted the way toward the Renaissance.

Boyd Rice

People who consider themselves political, who follow political developments most rigorously, are often those who view the political process with the greatest lack of perspective.

Carter Burwell

Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.

Alain de Botton

We each appear to hold within ourselves a range of divergent views as to our native qualities.. And amid such uncertainty, we typically turn to the wider world to settle the question of our significance.. we seem beholden to affections of others to endure ourselves.

Arthur C. Clarke

What we need is a machine that will let us see the other guy's point of view.

Austin Mahone

I promoted myself on Twitter and Facebook as hard as possible, nonstop. People started realizing that if they commented on my videos, I'd reply to their comment, so I started getting a lot more views and comments.