Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anytime I see something screech across a room and latch onto someone's neck, and the guy screams and tries to get it off, I have to laugh, because what is that thing.

Tom Udall

As a member of the U.S. House Law Enforcement Task Force, I join with local citizens across New Mexico toward the goal of reducing crime,

M.I.A.

As an artist, you want to play around with mediums and see if you can get the point across in different way.

Tony Rose

During the community household survey that was undertaken a few years ago, we have very strong numbers that indicate people across the territory are very interested and very engaged and do watch the assembly on a daily basis.

Dave Foreman

During my 26 years of college coaching, I have had the opportunity to experience exciting games played in great arenas across the country. Capacity crowds cheering for their teams in 'fan-friendly' arenas are what made those atmospheres special. No doubt, The Colonial Center is among the best in all of college basketball ... the place to be for every Gamecock fan!

Glen Hauenstein

Delta already offers New York customers the most service of any U.S. airline across the Atlantic, the most domestic capacity from New York's LaGuardia Airport, and the city's leading shuttle product to Washington, D.C. and Boston. The addition of daily, non-stop service from New York to South America's largest market is the latest step in ensuring that Delta is New York's airline of choice. More service announcements that will further extend our leadership position in New York are planned later this winter.

Ross Levinsohn

Delivering compelling premium experiences across screens is core to our mission at Yahoo.

Antony Starr

Collaboration is the best way to work. It's only way to work, really. Everyone's there because they have a set of skills to offer across the board.

Will Poole

Devices such as digital cameras, color printers, high-definition displays and cell phones all have made the use of color pervasive across many walks of life.

Charles Kennedy

As a Scot, representing a Scottish constituency for almost the past 25 years, I do not harbour an overweening ambition to pronounce on each and every matter exclusively English.

Ron Marks

Anybody who says there's such a thing as 'actionable intelligence' has never seen intelligence. Almost never in my 23 years have I ever seen anything that said to me that at such and such a time and such and such a place such a thing was going to happen. It just doesn't happen that way.

Dick Leggitt

These conversations he said he had with me are total fiction. Almost everything he said will be refuted.

Jimmy Ruff

The system has an automatic eye and it makes adjustments almost instantaneously. This means we can get the photo registered much faster.

Josef Duben

The swan was found near the same location as previous cases, so protection measures will be almost unchanged.

Kathy Dais

The sophomores have matured very well and I'm counting on them a lot to really step up and almost take the lead and get some things done this year. Katie has great potential to win tournaments and Denise practiced a lot over the summer and she came back really good. I think she's ready to break out.

David Deutsch

The theory of computation has traditionally been studied almost entirely in the abstract, as a topic in pure mathematics. This is to miss the point of it. Computers are physical objects, and computations are physical processes. What computers can or cannot compute is determined by the laws of physics alone, and not by pure mathematics.

Jimi Mistry

The thing with Ramu, my character, is he wants to come to America to succeed. He almost exploits a perception of society that they see, a perception of him and what he knows and what he can offer.

John Glover

I've lived in L.A. for almost 15 years now, and I've gotten sucked in a little bit to that success game that's played out there, and I wasn't enjoying my work.

O. Henry

prepare Christian men and women who will lead our nation and shape our culture with timeless biblical values and fidelity to the spirit of the American founding.

Jan Karon

I try to put my heart out there to everybody. They don't have to be Christian. For example, I have lots of Jewish readers. I love my Jewish readers.

C. S. Lewis

Love, in the Christian sense, does not mean an emotion. It is a state not of the feelings but of the will; that state of the will which we have naturally about ourselves, and must learn to have about other people.

C. S. Lewis

God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than of any other slackers. If you are thinking of becoming a Christian, I warn you you are embarking on something which is going to take the whole of you, brains and all ...

C. S. Lewis

God, in the end, gives people what they most want, including freedom from himself. What could be more fair?

Calvin Coolidge

They [the Founding Fathers] were intent upon establishing a Christian commonwealth in accordance with the principle of self-government. They were an inspired body of men. It has been said that God sifted the nations that He might send choice grain into the wilderness ... Who can fail to see it in the hand of Destiny? Who can doubt that it has been guided by a Divine Providence?

Alan Dershowitz

The plain message conveyed by the new administration is that George W Bush's America is a Christian nation, and that non-Christians are welcome into the tent so long as they agree to accept their status as a tolerated minority rather than as fully equal citizens. In effect, Bush is saying: "This is our home, and in our home we pray to Jesus as our savior. If you want to be a guest in our home, you must accept the way we pray."

Alan Dershowitz

But the United States is neither a Christian nation nor the exclusive home of any particular religious group. Non-Christians are not guests. We are as much hosts as any Mayflower-descendant Protestant. It is our home as well as theirs. And in a home with so many owners, there can be no official sectarian prayer. That is what the First Amendment is all about, and the first act by the new administration was in defiance of our Constitution.

Charles R. Swindoll

People who inspire others are those who see invisible bridges at the end of dead-end streets

Michael Conforti

The surprise happens as you experience the building. This is clearly a reason why we thought Mr. Ando was the appropriate person for our landscape here.

Mike Kohs

It was a lack of communication on his part. He?s been clearly frustrated with his injury.

Terry J. Lundgren

My father was clearly a mentor. He told me if you work 10 years and you worked 40 hours a week, then you had 10 years experience. But if you worked 10 years and you worked 60 hours a week, then you had 15 years' experience.

Tzipi Livni

The process clearly is a process that leads in the direction of two states, ... We will lead in the direction of two states.

Jim Lowell

Beth is clearly one of their big names. The good news is she's not leaving to start a hedge fund.

John O'Neil

Everybody knew Coke was the one that could pay the most if they wanted to. Now, this puts the company back to where it was three weeks ago before the Pepsi bid. It clearly can remain an independent company if it wants to. They are not cornered at all.

Willie Pearson

Coretta Scott King was clearly more than the widow of Dr. Martin Luther King. She was an icon in her own right.

Jan Leroy

Corporate results are coming in a fairly decent way and are better than expected, the market is clearly focusing on the ones that surprise on the upside and are hammering the ones who disappoint.

David Page

Contrary to the dire predictions that have become popular over the last decade, the sky is *not* falling on the Y. This research clearly demonstrates that natural selection has effectively preserved regions of the Y chromosome that have no mechanisms with which to repair damaged genes.

Eddy Curry

Sometimes they will look away from me. When I do get the ball, I try to make something happen so they don't have an excuse not to throw me the ball.

P. Herbert

I sort of fell in with the wrong crowd. Things started getting twisted, and instead of facing my drug problem, I made excuses and justified getting away with it because I was maintaining a job and family.

Paul Davis

To be honest, I don't really think so. Everyone is tired this time of year. We can't make the excuse of being tired.

Christian Nestell Bovee

The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.

Jarome Iginla

We'll try to have the same mindset for Game 2 as we did Game 1. Now hopefully all the excuses are gone and we can keep going.

Goran Ivanisevic

I just try to play tennis and don't find excuses. You know, I just lost because I lost, not because my arm was sore.

Tommie Harris

I take my hat off to them because they didn't have a bye week and we did. There was really no excuse for us to lose and not play as well as we were supposed to.

Elizabeth Ryan

I think it's outrageous. I think they're making excuses so they can keep raising it.

Kobe Bryant

We can have all the excuses in the world. You can say we're young, we have guys hurt, but we just have man up and be ready to play every night.

Brigham Young

Which would you part with first -- your tobacco, your whiskey, or your religion?

Eleanor Clift

Religion and politics are supposed to be separate.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The important thing is neither your nationality nor the religion you professed, but how your faith translated itself in your life.

Allen Tate

Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.

Alfred North Whitehead

No religion can be considered in abstraction from its followers, or even from its various types of followers.

Alfred North Whitehead

Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.

Aldous Huxley

God: a gaseous vertebrate.

E. O. Wilson

In fact, nothing in science as a whole has been more firmly established by interwoven factual information, or more illuminating than the universal occurrence of biological evolution. Further, few natural processes have been more convincingly explained than evolution by the theory of natural selection, or as it has been popularly called, Darwinism.

Christy Turlington

So much of religion is exegesis. I would rather follow in the footprints of Christ than all of the dogma.

Bertrand Russell

I say people who feel they must have a faith or religion in order to face life are showing a kind of cowardice, which in any other sphere would be considered contemptible. But when it is in the religious sphere it is thought admirable, and I cannot admire cowardice whatever sphere it is in.

Boris Kodjoe

Let's say black, the whole black religious experience, here, is very impressive to me, because when I first arrived I realized that people carry their faith with so much pride.

Brigham Young

The time will come that gold will hold no comparison in value to a bushel of wheat.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The church is not a religious community of worshippers of Christ but is Christ himself who has taken form among people.

Bobby Fischer

Well, I kind of split my life into two pieces. One was where my chess career lies. There, I kept my sanity, so to speak, and my logic. And the other was my religious life. I tried to apply what I learned in the church to my chess career too. But I still was studying chess. I wasn't just "trusting in God" to give me the moves.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The fruits of Christianity were religious wars, butcheries, crusades, inquisitions, extermination of the natives of America, and the introduction of African slaves in their place.

Bruce Kent

The problem with Bush is that yes, he's religious in a fundamentalist sort of way, they read the Old Testament as a sort of charter for the chosen people to do what they like.

Edward Abbey

Belief? What do I believe in? I believe in sun. In rock. In the dogma of the sun and the doctrine of the rock. I believe in blood, fire, woman, rivers, eagles, storm, drums, flutes, banjos, and broom-tailed horses....

Eddie Vedder

People on death row, the treatment of animals, women's right to choose. So much in America is based on religious fundamentalist Christianity. Grow up! This is the modern world!

Angus King

Somebody said, 'You may be a committee chair.' I don't think so. I don't think anybody would want me that much.

Kathy Valentine

together we're trying to make a wish come true that somebody else wasn't going to let happen.

Mike Williams

You get somebody in here and they say they only need it two or three months, and they'll stay a year. We have 800 units here, and I'm full.

Mary Carillo

There's somebody to look at, and I think that really helped.

Peter Schmitz

Let's put somebody in there that wants to stay and will be successful.

Jonathan Hickman

I always thought I was going to be an artist. All I ever did was draw. I only ever turned to writing because I couldn't find somebody to write the kind of stuff I wanted to do. That just spiraled out of control.

Doug Adkins

Somebody is going to have to step in and take the load.

Chauncey Billups

Somebody is always going to come up big in the stretch. We never know who, but somebody will come up big.

Chris Pronger

I don't really think it has anything to do with any of us over there. It has nothing to do with me, so I don't really have anything to say about it. When you find somebody who's involved, you can talk to them.

Theodore Sturgeon

I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply.

Charles Caleb Colton

The most zealous converters are always the most rancorous when they fail of producing conversion.