Famous Quotes & Sayings

A. Scott Berg

I think it is important for readers to know that it is possible to bring intellectualism and idealism to the White House and still be political enough to advance an agenda.

Charles Schumer

has an obligation to answer tough questions from the committee about whether his views have changed and whether he would advance a particular ideological position that is contrary to decades of legal precedent.

B. F. Skinner

Guys like Jon were here and working hard when it was not the most fashionable thing to play basketball here at BC. When you see us reach the Sweet Sixteen and advance in the rankings it's because of guys like Jon and others who put in their time and got the most out of their abilities day in and day out.

Mike Gillespie

He's advanced beyond his age in terms of his coolness and composure. He'll give up hits and people will score, but he just doesn't all of a sudden spiral into a mess.

Bernard Siegel

He said if I would form an organization to advance scientific research from a legal perspective, he would join the advisory board,

Scott Parrish

I thought we should have had a few more advance to sectionals.

Tom Collen

We've been to the NCAA Tournament the last two years, but we've been one and done. I really think next year, with the talent we have, we could advance to the Sweet 16 and maybe all the way to the Final Four. It could be a real breakthrough year for us.

Mike O'Connell

We're pleased that we were able to come to this agreement in advance of the arbitration process. We recognize that Hal is an important part of our defense and is one of our steadiest and most reliable players.

Rob Jeter

I think we're playing some of our best basketball. We need to do that to advance in the tournament.

Jackie Cooper

Keep 'em clear of things like leaves and tree branches and stuff. They run hot.

Brad King

I think the charge of a cover-up is false and irresponsible. This was legislation intended to protect the rights of voters who register at a license branch to make sure that, if there's a delay in getting the paper copy or the electronic signature, they'll still be able to vote.

Thad Cochran

I think we shouldn't impose any deadlines or date on the military or on the executive branch for conducting operations in that part of the world that we feel are important to our national security interests.

Gloria Romero

The legislature is not a rubber-stamp organization, ... We are an independent branch of government.

Dan Pfeiffer

As President Franklin Delano Roosevelt learned when he tried to pack the Supreme Court, the three branches of government are coequal for a reason. Neither the executive branch or the legislative branch should use the third branch to a pursue a partisan agenda.

Maria LaHood

This further empowers the executive branch to do whatever it wants outside of the law.

Kenneth Davis

Throughout our history, there has been an ebb and flow of one branch being a little more powerful, the president getting a little more power, then congress being more powerful, ... Don't Know Much About History.

Robyn Jones

As far as I know there has never been a public library branch in May's Lick.

Tucker Carlson

The Bush campaign is claiming that they've been working hard and they've had everything in place and they're ready to go and they're going to be able to pull it off. But it's really complicated. Thousands of people are going to get new jobs. The whole city and the whole executive branch are changing.

Rudy Siegel

He was able to capture a point in life and an emotion with a few strokes.

Henry Wallace

Happily, it can be said that as yet fascism has not captured a predominant place in the outlook of any American section, class or religion.

Jason Olim

Historically, we have captured all of our international sales by default.

Joey Sato

He has that smile that just captures people. He's early to practice, smile on his face, 'How you doing, coach?' He's the last guy to leave, smile on his face, 'See you tomorrow, coach.' He's that way no matter how the day has gone. He is just a great kid. He makes everyone around him happy.

Dave Henderson

We can make anything with sand. People like it because it captures the kid in them.

Phil Dow

Right now, technology represents about 24 percent of the capitalization of the S&P, ... My guess is we're headed up to maybe the 20s or maybe 30 percent. If you look back historically, leading groups can capture that much of the market and I think technology's driving the market right now.

Philip Levine

In my twenties, before I learned how to write poems of work, I thought of myself as the person who would capture this world.

Jim Johnstone

If you're first to the market, you capture that market. You can always follow other companies and take their breadcrumbs. But I'd rather be out there.

Bill Pascrell

In the years since 9/11, more terrorists have been created through this President's policies than were captured or killed. There weren't any terrorists in Iraq in 2003, but there are now.

George Hamlin

It could be a way to signal the market that things are getting serious. I'd like to think they'd done better planning in terms of cash flow and the airline's operations. This would be a relatively new and troubling development.

Phil Gartside

There is a lack of quality around and we were not going to make signings for the sake of it. It was not just about cash availability.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

When I looked at my life’s ledger I realized I was a very rich woman. What I was experiencing was merely a temporary cash-flow problem. Finally, I came to an inner awareness that my personal net worth couldn’t possibly be determined by the size of my checking account balance. Neither can yours.

Warren Buffett

I do not like debt and do not like to invest in companies that have too much debt, particularly long-term debt. With long-term debt, increases in interest rates can drastically affect company profits and make future cash flows less predictable.

Tim Evans

Really, it's just a rush to cash in profits on what was really a spectacular move higher.

Jose Vistan

Investors may start to cash in once first-quarter results start coming out.

Peter Boockvar

Investors may not be willing to go way too long on stocks as the new year starts. At the same time, there are so many hedge funds in this market that they may be selling some stocks to cash in gains after November's rally.

Aryeh Bourkoff

Investors have had low expectations for NTL and the company was able to meet these expectations for the first time in a while. Talking about the dividend and returning cash to shareholders was new and it's appropriate for a company with strong free cash flow.

Yutaka Miura

Investors sell futures contracts speculating about a further fall in the cash market in the afternoon, so by the time the cash market opens, investors turn bearish -- it's a vicious cycle.

Dr. Gerberding

Cigarette smoking continues to impose substantial health and financial costs on individuals and society. If we want to significantly reduce the toll in this decade, we must provide the 32 million smokers who say they want to quit with the tools and support to do so successfully.

Sylvia Pankhurst

The emancipation of today displays itself mainly in cigarettes and shorts. There is even a reaction from the ideal of an intellectual and emancipated womanhood, for which the pioneers toiled and suffered, to be seen in painted lips and nails, and the return of trailing skirts and other absurdities of dress which betoken the slave-woman's intelligent companionship.

Marc Manley

It's good health policy to have higher cigarette prices. It prevents kids from starting to smoke and it encourages adults to quit.

Justin Bieber

None of my friends smoke. I've never smoked a cigarette in my life.

Douglas Adams

If we see you smoking we will assume you are on fire and take appropriate action.

Aaron Eckhart

For Nick, the game, basically, is convincing people. It's getting people to look at things your way. That's the big game in life, and that's what he's teaching his son. That's what he and his friends talk about when they get together. He's not defending cigarettes so much as he's defending his right to defend cigarettes.

Diane Smith

We saw a lot of cigarette butts. But we drew the line at picking those up.

Heath Cowan

I think the legs are a lot fresher compared to this time last year.

Ricky Giles

I thought everybody we played (in the tournament) was pretty deep with talent compared to where we were at, and they were a lot deeper. We knew when we went there that we had to play if we were going to survive in that tournament.

Donna Cerrato

The competition is very tough compared to what we run into during the regular season.

Richard Burr

The inconveniences we faced within this state are minor compared to ... New Orleans.

Col. Hoge

A higher percentage of those soldiers returning from Iraq report mental health concerns and use mental health services when they get home ... compared to soldiers who are returning from deployment to Afghanistan or other locations.

Jeff Suppan

It's pretty amazing, the type of players that he's compared to. Names that you've heard your whole life, and he's putting up those types of numbers. ... He's the type of guy who has that ability, and has a good work ethic and it shows out on the field.

Mike Johnson

That's pretty large compared to other stop-motion puppets, ... The Nightmare Before Christmas.

Mary Williams

That is a small number, compared to concerns expressed that the law might be abused or people might feel pressured to use it. It confirms that the law gives the terminally ill some control and say in their final days whether they want to have physician help in hastening death.

Richard Peterson

The world prior to that legislation was tepid compared to the enormity, velocity and scope of the deals in telecommunications that we've seen since then.

John Avery

I think it (ball control) was the difference in the game,

Walt Patynski

He controlled the top of the third. From the fourth through seventh innings, he was really on top of his game.

Mark Shaffer

Here we are, offering people a safe ride home, and we just don't have control of the situation to offer them a safe ride.

Gregg Brandon

He's doing a nice job with it. It can get overwhelming, which it's becoming. We have to manage that and make sure it doesn't get out of control and we're able to keep him grounded and focused on the task at hand.

Frank Beamer

I think it's got the makings of a heck of a Thursday night football game. I think they're better. They talk about they're back in the title hunt, and they are. They control their own destiny.

David Heard

I thought we really had control of the game. (North Medford) had some offensive rebounds in the second half that hurt us and they stepped up and made some big shots.

Steve Giambanco

I thought we really had control in that game.

Jim Calhoun

I thought we would eventually take control of the game, and Kentucky kept fighting back. That was not in the game plan.

Nelson Cundiff

I thought we were in control most of the night, but they were able to fight back.

Tommy Franks

I don't know Senator Kerry's plan for victory,

Ahmed Nazif

If there are demonstrations, they will be sabotaging the elections,

Gerald Barzan

You don't have to fool all the people all of the time; you just have to fool enough to get elected.

Jon Corzine

It's disappointing where the race went in the last week, ... Elections are about the future and that's what I'm going to stay talking about for the next three days.

Chamlong Srimuang

I want to reaffirm that after the election, we will stage protracted protests until the prime minister resigns.

Steven Boylan

Nothing has been announced. We still have to get over the elections and see what happens then and what the (new) government of Iraq wants,

Tom Rath

It's March, and there are congressional elections in November, and at some point it's every person for himself.

Jeff Flake

It's more than likely there will be leadership elections in January. We don't want to go into an election year without a permanent majority leader.

Norm Dicks

It's going to be a 2006 elections issue.

Jerry Mathers

I had a very special family life. My mother and father made sure when we were home, we were part of the family, not a TV star. And the other thing: my father was fully employed while I was doing the series.

Greg Gallaspy

What we want to do is ensure there's a balance. That's the key.

David Hartley

Having a new state-of-the-art plant is encouraging, but it does not ensure that Cott will do a better job of managing its entire plant operations.

Denis MacShane

I will be urging him to ensure any shutdown is as painless as possible for local communities,

Charles Grassley

We must ensure that this nightmare NEVER occurs again,

Tim Frank

Our policy . . . does not require a player to take a drug test at any point during a game, and we will ensure going forward that no testing is conducted during this time.

David Emerson

Part of what we're doing right now is to ensure that what we do doesn't make matters worse.

Kip Hawley

In view of our need to establish trust with all of our stakeholders on the security and privacy of our systems and data, my priority is to ensure that we do it right, not just that we do it quickly.

Don Garber

In order to ensure that the team will have the appropriate time to prepare for the 2006 season,

Mbhazima Shilowa

In particular, we need to ensure that by 2009 all roads in the townships are tarred.

Mr Howard

I think it is the obligation of senior executives of Telstra to talk up the company's interest, not to talk them down.

Sumner Redstone

We are extremely fortunate to have John, a top-notch executive with more than 25 years of experience in the service-oriented retail business, as the new leader of Blockbuster Entertainment,

James Sullivan

I have been very frustrated with what seems to be the overuse of executive session.

Lumkile Mondi

The laws effectively require that white executives replace themselves.

Barbara Stewart

It's the top executive who wants to live the way he lives elsewhere--in a fine, fine building, in an extraordinary living space.

Letitia Baldrige

For every rude executive who makes it to the top, there are nine successful executives with good manners.

Howard Dean

That's how we're going to fix Medicare, is to get somebody who has executive experience in governing, particularly in health care, ... With me, you'll get results, because I'm a governor and I've done it.

William Crawford

We have executives running this city. We need to wait for a master plan to make a decision? It's part of my frustration.

Kris Gopalakrishnan

Axilor Ventures helps startups to improve their odds of success, and I look forward to supporting the executive management of Axilor with this vision.

Robert McKinley

If you're looking to transfer a $5,000 balance, you need to look to the largest issuers.

Dan Woods

The largest need right now is to move students out of there,

Joel Silver

(The) four-volume set is the largest project of its kind done up until its time.

Jan Stuart

It's patently obvious that the Saudis, as the world's largest producer, could lead prices lower by offering lower prices,

Martin Winterkorn

The Volkswagen Group offers the world's largest low-CO2 fleet.

Patch Adams

We are a breathtakingly alienated people... One of my props is the world's largest underpants. I've had the president of Costa Rica in my underpants with me.

Richard Preston

A football player is often bigger than a basketball player - more massive, that is. The basketball player is taller and more slender. So it is with redwoods. The tallest redwoods are often slender, and so they aren't the largest ones.

Joe Becker

We sheltered about 3.5 million people. The largest night was about 150,000.

Lauren Smith

This was a big day for our girls, and it was the largest competitive squad that we've had ever.

Francis Gannon

I think in this market you never know what's going to happen,

Jim Robb

I think the market will not really react to it.

Brett Gallagher

I think the market is just biding its time, and we're going to have these back-and-forth days.

Howard Skolnik

We're prisons, and we're marketing what we are.

Doug Duncan

We're prepared to say the market has peaked in terms of the numbers of units sold.

Michael Dell

We're number-one in the U.S. in the server market and now we're going after the world,

Courtney Smith

I think we'll probably see an up session in the market over the next several days.

Howard Ward

I think what we're seeing in the market is the reflection of a lot of uncertainty right now,

Jack Baker

I think it's very positive that the market was down more than 100 points and has come back, but this is essentially a vacation week,

Larry Sabato

He could have made millions in the private sector.

Jeb Putzier

It comes out to $310 million more for the players.

Bobby Cox

He's getting paid $12 million because he can hit.

Stephen Breyer

He says, 'I've seen 50 million paintings, I know magenta,'

Walter Hagen

I never wanted to be a millionaire. I just wanted to live like one.

Simon McBurney

In 1600, Shakespeare's London was a city of 200,000 people. At the same time, there were already over a million in Tokyo.

Eduardo Paes

In Rio, 1.4 million of the 6.3 million people live in favelas, or slums. They are all over the city, but favelas are not always a problem - sometimes they can be a solution, if you have the right public policies.

Andy Milonakis

I just want $1 million next season, that's all I want,

Tom Williams

because it was the right thing to do for our 1.5 million employees. We feel that they need to be treated with respect and feel valued--no exceptions.

Richard Paul Evans

Life is what happens to us while we're planning something else.

Winston Churchill

Plans are worthless. Planning is priceless.

Mary Fetchet

I'm not planning to attend. It will just be too emotionally draining.

Marty Sanders

It makes the year-to-year planning very difficult, especially with class-size reduction.

Paula Nelson

The best business plans are straightforward documents that spell out the who, what, where, why, and how much...

John Lennon

Life happens whilst you're planning other things.

Brad Jarvis

Then I read the book, 'Rich Dad, Poor Dad' and that really got me thinking, ... Until then I hadn't really thought a lot about planning for the future.

David Hockney

You must plan to be spontaneous.

William Shakespeare

Determine on some course more than a wild exposure to each chance.

Ken Loach

As sure as the tide comes in, communities will integrate. It is only propaganda that will stop it.

Joan Van Ark

You've got to realize that any lady on a soap is devoting her life to it, 24/7.

Alan Perlis

Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Let me stay here," he said. "There was soap.

Will Durant

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

Friedrich Engels

The state is not abolished, it withers away.

Jules Verne

I looked on, I thought, I reflected, I admired, in a state of stupefaction not altogether unmingled with fear!

Milton Friedman

If you cannot state a proposition clearly and unambiguously, you do not understand it.

Mike McCurry

there will be steps that the United States will take." ()

The Bravery

the only town in the United States of that name!

Antonin Scalia

Words no longer have meaning if an Exchange that is not established by a State is "established by the State".

James Williams

Even the United States is soft-peddling sanctions, but I think we need to wait until we know.

Brad Bayne

We've had over 45 inquiries from 35 states in three weeks of being live with the web.

Robert Torricelli

The day that I was elected to the United States Senate remains among the most cherished of my life.

Robert M. Gates

The United States has been a global power since late in the 19th century.

Virginia Foxx

In the face of terrorism, a united front is one of the strongest weapons.

Zhu Rongji

Although China and United States are competitors, China and the United States are indeed partners in trade

Donald E. Graham

I'm not wise enough to know what is the right immigration policy for the United States of America.

Nancy Pelosi

Yes, [I am accusing the CIA of] misleading the Congress of the United States, misleading the Congress of the United States. I am.

Northrop Frye

We are being swallowed up by the popular culture of the United States, but then the Americans are being swallowed up by it too. It's just as much a threat to American culture as it is to ours.

Leon Panetta

Well, the United States is a Pacific power. And we have always had a presence in the Pacific.

John McCain

Barbara Boxer is the most bitterly partisan, most anti-defense senator in the United States Senate today. I know that because I've had the unpleasant experience of having to serve with her.