Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ken King

We want to stress that the Mississippi will remain at high levels and above flood stage for weeks yet.

Chris Coleman

Wayne Bridge is a world class player and even though he is only just returning from injury, we are more than delighted to have him on board for the remainder of the season. Obviously with the World Cup around the corner Wayne is keen to play regular football and given that some big clubs were interested in signing him this window, we are delighted that he has chosen Fulham above everyone else.

Michael Specter

The Maldives, a string of islands off the coast of India whose highest point above sea level is eight feet, may be the first nation to drown. In Alaska, entire towns have begun to shift in the loosening permafrost.

Maajid Nawaz

In an open society, no idea can be above scrutiny, just as no people should be beneath dignity.

Rakesh Shankar

The possibility of a warmer than expected summer, along with a spike in crude oil prices and a freak heat wave in Texas that led to a surge in demand for natural gas all helped boost natural gas futures prices to well above $8 this week. Prices look to stay there in the near term, despite the record inventories.

Brendan McDermott

The person that was skiing was actually able to get themselves up onto a tree and keep themselves above the snow so that person was unharmed. The second person, a female, was caught in the avalanche.

Gitesh Pandya

The performance so far has been well above expectations.

Bruce Campbell

The perception was it was a college movie, but it really wasn't, ... It was a completely professional venture where we formed a limited partnership and gave out shares. It was all above board. And we're so glad it was, because 25 years later we can still keep track of it. No one's suing anyone because we all know what happened.

Cecilia Zalkind

The point of adoption is to create a new family with all the rights and responsibilities that go with that. Our law recognizes the importance of the family in making decisions, especially for younger children. To go above a parent's decision is unusual and has to be considered very carefully.

Humberto Moreira

We want them to get precise, objective information so they can pass it along to their other loved ones.

Steve Spurrier

We actually get along I think very well, ... I talk with Phil every time I see him.

Deshea Townsend

We always get along fine; that's never been a problem here. We all get along well. ... We just didn't get it done, and this time we got it done.

Luke Bracey

You can make movies and not particularly get along with the people you're working with but, when they say 'Action,' your job is to make it look like you're in love.

Mohsin Hamid

For people who are at the bottom economically, the world is becoming a harder and harder place. And yet the incentives to become rich are so great because enormous amounts of wealth are being accumulated. And so those two things, that carrot and stick, are beating people along this trajectory of trying desperately to move up in the world.

Andy Reid

We appreciate all that Corey has done for this organization over the last five years. With the great amount of depth and talent we have along the defensive line, we chose to give Corey and opportunity to sign with another team.

George Fellows

We are proud to expand our support of junior golf by extending our relationship with the Junior World Championships. Our sponsorship of this prestigious event, along with our ongoing support of high school and college programs around the country, further demonstrates our commitment to the players who are the future of this great game.

Richard Waugh

We've all heard horror stories about a proposed concrete barrier about to be dropped in the center lane along Southgate. The center median is necessary, but it won't be the concrete type used in highway construction projects.

Gary Tucker

We are pleased to announce that Little Sioux Corn Processors, L.P., plans to construct an ethanol plant at a location south of Akron, Iowa, along Highway 12.

Gretchen Rubin

Take care of difficult calls or emails as quickly as possible. Procrastinating just makes it harder; getting them done gives a big boost of relieved energy.

Peter Bell

We want to provide that service in a way that reduces our dependence on foreign oil, is less injurious to the environment, and really gives a boost to our local economy.

Dick Baddour

Wouldn't that be something? I think it be a terrific boost for both programs.

Mark Proctor

We've got a week to try and build a stronger squad than we have now. Things can change from day to day, and we are trying very hard to identify players who might improve us, and boost our play-off hopes.

Paul Hewitt

We've tried to remind him that he's a very good player and he can make plays for us. That's a nice boost for his confidence going into our last game.

David Stewart

With the Internet being such an essential business communication tool, the NB750 provides small and medium businesses with a safety net that is simple and cost-effective to implement, helps save money and boost productivity.

Art Hogan

We're getting an oversold bounce. Telecoms are getting a boost because of the AT&T Wireless (news), ... Investors are going to buy those tech stocks that we're not necessarily worried about.

Curt Berger

We're real excited about sending 11 to state. We also got a big boost from our junior varsity wrestlers, which is what you need to win a district championship.

David Fleischer

A stronger coalition would boost Lula's chances of being reelected.

Ali Rodriguez

There is no problem with crude supply. Prices do not depend exclusively on OPEC,

Kevin Scully

Until the uncertainty regarding crude oil prices can be stabilized, it's hard to see the market going anywhere.

Tobias Merath

The refinery outages should lead to weak demand for crude oil from the refining sector. It's not crude oil that is in short supply, but gasoline and distillates.

Thurston Moore

With these reissues, listening to these tapes, it seemed very crude to me. There's no way I'd ever want to play like that again.

Jerry Taylor

A supply disruption in the Middle East would increase the price of crude everywhere in the world no matter where or how it is produced.

Marshall Steeves

Also refinery utilization was lower, which was also unexpected. It means that refineries are not using as much crude, so as a consequence of that we got a larger-then-expected crude build.

Nicole Niemi

It's the same reasons as in the past. The price of crude oil is up significantly and there is a high demand (for gasoline), not only in the U.S., but around the world.

Dariusz Kowalczyk

The report was a big surprise. Crude oil seems very ample.

Jan Egeland

It is the first, crude way to get food there. It is not, however, a good way to get water and medicine distributed.

David Ricardo

The demand for money is regulated entirely by its value, and its value by its quantity.

David Ricardo

But it is clear that the price of labour has no necessary connection with the price of food, since it depends entirely on the supply of labourers compared with the demand.

David Silver

The powerful multiyear up-cycle in potash shows signs of maturing. Demand growth has slowed steadily since last spring, and North American producer inventories have risen to multiyear highs.

Brett Galloway

We are seeing an enormous increase in demand for wireless infrastructure.

Arlen Specter

We are proceeding in a matter of the utmost, utmost gravity -- the potential for impeachment of the president of the United States -- and I think American people will demand and are entitled to that kind of bipartisanship,

Rick Barnes

We want him to want the ball. He's going to have to demand it. ... The worst thing he can do is be passive this time of year.

Charlotte Bronte

Unheard-of combinations of circumstances demand unheard-of rules.

Bill McCollum

We demand privacy, yet we glorify those that break into computers.

Bernard of Clairvaux

True love does not demand a reward, but it deserves one.

Ted Baker

We are pleased to report strong first-half results despite a tough UK retail environment,

Trey Songz

My life has shifted to different levels financially, in terms of fame as a result of being blessed enough to be able to share my music with the world, and what that has done for me. Despite all of that, I always want people to listen to my music and be able to relate to it as well as to me.

Craig Kennedy

We found that, despite major efforts to repair relations, there is still a rift in how we view each other and the world.

Ken Perkins

We're getting some very good results today despite the very difficult 6.7 percent February same-store sales comparisons from last year.

Les Morris

About 70 percent of the parking lot was already full by 7 a.m. at Ross Park despite heavy rains. Jewelry, toys, DVDs and home accessories are the most sought after products. At Sears in Northeast Mall, jewelry and DVD/TV combos are selling well.

John Tippett

About 100 firefighters every year die in the line of duty and another 100,000 suffer lost-time injuries. Despite better equipment and training, that overall rate doesn't seem to drop.

Jake Winslow

They needed that, because they've been banged up this year. They're getting better, despite injuries and sickness.

Jake Brace

Third quarter results are strong, despite a $405 million impact from higher fuel prices year-over-year,

Trilby Lundberg

This is a manifestation of what has occurred in the world oil market, despite OPEC production cuts,

Kelly Trahon

Wayland has a strong program so I expected this to be a good game.

Jeff Mittie

The positive was our team play was further ahead. I thought our guards played the way they should have. They played like I expected since they're the veterans.

Paul James

We're in a win-win situation. If we lose, we've still done more than we expected in our first year.

Mark Barrowcliffe

Our grandparents' generation never expected too much out of life and, paradoxically, were happier for it. It never occurred to my granddad that he would enjoy work. He hated it from the day he walked through the factory gates at 14 to when he left at 65.

Kim Yuna

When I was little, I had never really expected to win such a big competition. For a long time, just skating in the Olympics had been my goal because not many Koreans had done it.

John Livengood

We're starting to see the industry divided. Some feel hurt by the new policy and now want a total ban. I expected that to happen when the ordinance passed.

Greg Albrecht

We're doing great on growth on sales taxes so far. We expected this number to fall, but it hasn't fallen yet.

Russell Robinson

We're a young team and not too many people expected much out of us. We tried to go out there and play hard every day and it paid off.

Ron Haskins

Three years after a recession we're still having trouble getting into a recovery. I would have expected poverty to go down.

Natalie Appleton

The other reason is because I'm a masochistic freak

Chauncey Billups

Watching him is unbelievable. The kid is a freak of nature.

David Ewalt

A lot of people have kind of been freaked out by it. It really makes you stop and think about your life in a way that you usually don't.

Stephanie Dressel

A lot of people on our team have had an ACL injury. It was just a freak thing when it happened to me.

Sherry Levy

They told us a lot of things; he'd never run right, never jump. All the things they'd tell you to freak you out.

George Foster

It's not horribly contaminated. There's still no freaky or scary stuff out there.

Elizabeth Banks

It's not good to put in a magazine what I weigh because it's too little. People freak out when they hear what I weigh. They think, 'Oh, you're too skinny.'

Chris Widger

It's one of those freaky things that happen. It'll probably never happen again.

Kelly Stone

It was so smoky. I was a little freaked out because we were on the top of that mountain, and we could see the smoke from all the fires.

Brett Favre

Until power is hooked back up, until there are places where you can go get gas and you can go get something to eat, I'm better off being here.

Jeff Bell

We've always planned on gasoline being over $65 a barrel,

Brad Dean

We're not anticipating any sustained impact on tourism as long as gas prices come down to a reasonable level.

Francis Gaskins

They have high-quality natural gas there, and it's just in the right place at the right time.

John Lichtblau

They (drivers) are not going to substantially reduce gasoline consumption.

Tom Snyder

They should stay the same. Gas prices go up and down. There are no long-term projections.

Harold Vogel

They've come through this higher gas price period quite well. They had a very strong marketing program for Disneyland's 50th anniversary. This will be a good indication that as long as gas prices don't go up too much more, that things will be OK over there.

Bill Richards

They say this station has pumped gasoline for over 50 years. I hope we never stop.

Jerry Taylor

It's not really a compensation for higher gas prices. It's simply a please-vote-for-me-in-November payment.

Kerry Spees

We usually wait longer. If the weather is still cold, we won't turn off the heat in mid-April, even though we could.

William Shakespeare

The best quarrels, in the heat, are cursed by those that feel their sharpness.

Denise Miller

We've tried to not lay a lot on him right now. I don't think Heath even realizes what an impact he has had.

Ed Helms

I've been to Indonesia, but I've never been to Thailand. I hear the people are lovely, the food is delicious, and that the heat and humidity are lethal.

Bill Gates

Sorghum is kind of unusual. It can go to very high heats, but it's not as productive in most environments as maize is.

Cindi Nicholson

They put out heat at table level rather than up so no one has to stand up to get warm.

Charles Adams

It's three inches thick, so it's going to keep all the heat inside your water heater that otherwise would be radiating out into your room.

Joel Parkinson

It's the way surfing is - you grow up surfing together, and then you're thrown into a heat at Pipe or a world title bout against one another.

Mark Krikorian

There were players on the Olympic team like Abby Wambach, Shannon Boxx and Heather Mitts who were not on the national team right out of college,

Michael Musto

Pretending to be other people helped bring me out of my shell and shed my inhibitions.

Sarah Clapper

We started rushing things on the offensive end and that only helped them get into their transition game.

Scott Nicklas

We're more experienced this season. Also, we have some new additions who have helped us.

Jay Parmeter

What helped is the suppliers all wanted to showcase their products.

Jim Moran

would probably have helped us apprehend him by now.

Kathy Burns

We got to walk up the hill for Martin Luther King. He helped people become what they are today.

Amy Hamilton

At first, I was kind of nervous. But he's a really nice person. He's really helped me with my form.

Edward Yingling

It's been six years in the making, but the lengthy legislative process has helped to produce a thorough, well-thought-out bill.

Rev. Dryer

It's exhilarating. There's so much satisfaction knowing you helped someone.

Bobby Lamb

We've all been at Furman for so long. Being at Furman so long has led to loyalty. The transitions are so smooth.

Doug Bleadorn

West led us and we rode the third period to victory.

Harmony Korine

When I was a child, the temptation to sin was always a romantic option. This romantic option led me to the cinema, a place where sin was welcome.

Steve Martarano

There doesn't seem to be anything that really led to the attack.

Eric Rothdeutsch

They have been moving toward just-in-time style of production, so I'm sure that led to the shortfall.

R. Robinson

Thirteen and three. He's a 13-3 quarterback. You're going to just sit him down? That man led us to 13-3, so why would you sit him down?

Stephen Baker

This is a major milestone for AMD. This is the first time that a processor family, other than one manufactured by Intel, led the U.S. retail market.

Stephen Baker

This is a major milestone for AMD, ... This is the first time that a processor family, other than one manufactured by Intel, led the U.S. retail market.

Craig White

This led us to think outside of the box,

Bertrand Russell

It is a natural propensity to attribute misfortune to someone's malignity.

Steve Reynolds

We have no strategic reserves for natural gas,

Robert Brown

When he first started, it was all just natural talent. Now we have him sprinting, he's strengthening his legs, and I think he is going to reach 6-8 soon.

Chanel Iman

I'm really into natural and organic products.

John Lang

Tony is a natural leader, not only on the field, but off it. He'll have everyone's support.

Willa Cather

It takes a great deal of experience to become natural.

Byron Katie

Happiness is the natural state for someone who knows that there's nothing to know.

Bill Goldberg

Sometimes my natural instincts take over and I just go overboard.

Bob Barker

I'll tell you one thing, in what I do for a living, there's no substitute for experience. I don't care how much natural talent you may have... In the type of show I do, you can depend on surprises.

Bob Stull

We are pleased with our progress, but we are nowhere near where we want to be yet.

Rick Pitino

We've accomplished what we've wanted to accomplish, record-wise. But we're nowhere near where we should be or where we ought to be.

Eddie Jordan

We started as if we were on a qualifying lap, got a puncture near the end but we got it home,

Nick Harkaway

I think the reason I wrote screenplays for nearly a decade was because it was my territory. I could stake that out.

Laura Perkovic

We'll be contacting each other by telephone in the near future.

Seamus Mallon

We are getting near to the stage where hardball will be played.

Richard Peddie

We're getting near the end of the process, but obviously it is not over yet,

James Williams

Yes, he was standing near the trash can.

Barry Toiv

As near as we can tell, it's not authorized. But we are taking this in a lighthearted manner. It is milk, after all.

Chris Chocola

The Iraqi Free Press, which did not exist 18 months ago because there was no such thing as the Iraqi Free Press, broke a story about the U.N. Oil-for-Food scandal, which could potentially turn out to be the largest scandal in history.

Chloe Bridges

My hair does get really frizzy, so I use a de-frizzing serum from Bumble and Bumble, and also Moroccan Oil is some really good stuff. Plus, I can't live without my Burt's Bees lip balm!

Chinua Achebe

If one finger brings oil it soils the others.

Edward Hopper

Yes, linseed oil. I used to use poppy oil, but I have heard that poppy oil is given to cracking pigment too, so I use it no longer.

David Dixon

Always expect the unexpected. The oil and gas industry is terrible at predicting anything. Always have a back-up plan.

Stephen Stanley

We're in a pretty quiet time of the year. We've been pretty directionless today. Oil hasn't been doing much.

Stephen Stanley

We're in a pretty quiet time of the year, ... We've been pretty directionless today. Oil hasn't been doing much.

William Shakespeare

Let me not live, after my flame lacks oil, to be the snuff of younger spirits.

Bernard Ingham

The media ... is like an oil painting. Close up, it looks like nothing on Earth. Stand back and you get the drift.

Louis Navellier

When volume drops off, prices settle down. Volume is the force that turns stocks higher.

Mark Clare

With wholesale prices where they are, all suppliers are going to have to put prices up in 2006, and I think that is inevitable.

Chen Yonglin

All prices went up by about 1,400 yuan (per ton),

John Calverley

There was a view that prices would keep going up forever.

T. Boone Pickens

As long as there's political uncertainty around the energy space, stock prices will come down.

Scott Bailey

As long as futures are steadily climbing, we can look for rising prices (at the pump).

John Maxwell

Prices will come down, ... There will be stability.

Claude Mandil

Prices today are much too high, even at $50.

Andrew Harrington

Prices have been rarely, if ever, this high. Now is the time to make hay.

Dee Dee Warwick

They told me I should be making my own records. So I figured, 'why not?

Dee Dee Ramone

All of my favorite records have vocals high in the mix, even if it's music that wasn't necessarily mainstream.

Noel Redding

It was rehearsing in the studio, at which point they were setting up the sound, and once we'd got the thing together they'd actually record it, without us knowing sometimes!

Chad Smith

Its very sort of spontaneous and organic, not a preconceived sort of jamming. Now we record everything, cause sometimes you'll forget, you know, 'what was that thing again?' So we record everything.

Agnetha Faltskog

When I was 15 I became a full-time singer in a band. At 18 I made my first record.

Chantal Kreviazuk

I listened to my record and hear lots of influences. And it's very rich... it's got a wide spectrum.

Charlie Munger

Don't confuse correlation and causation. Almost all great records eventually dwindle...

Charlie Munger

Well, the questioner came from Singapore which has perhaps the best economic record in the history of developing an economy and therefore he referred to 15% per annum as modest. It's not modest-it's arrogant. Only someone from Singapore would call it modest.

Bill Wyman

My first record I owned was by Les Paul.

Gordon Kettle

As this transition has taken place, it's taken away the summer spike in unemployment.

Ving Rhames

I'm from New York, and yet I've done only one film executive-produced by Spike Lee and have never done a film that Spike Lee directed. I've never done a film that Keenan Wayans has directed, or Bill Duke.

Dean Cain

I did this film for less money than it costs to stay in this hotel. We shot it in 20 days. We couldn't screw up takes for fun because we didn't have enough film.

Francois Bozize

We are a hospitable country, which is why Jean-Bertrand Aristide is here. And he will stay here for a while.

Mark Rey

We want everyone to be comfortable with every half-acre that stays on the list.

Chan Ho Park

My main problem has been staying healthy.

Leonid Hurwicz

My father was convinced, I think rightly, that if he stayed in Russia, he would have trouble with Lenin.

Peter Kalikow

We're going to stay with the old rule,

Frank Tolbert

We're going to stay together and get through this.

Ben Roethlisberger

We're going to stay loose. We're going to have our fun.

Mr Bush

We're going to stay as long as it takes.

Catherine Crier

I grew up training and showing Arabs all over the US. Three of my four were bred on my farm in Texas. Thanks everyone! Hope you'll watch tomorrow. It's going to be another great look back.

Calamity Jane

While in El Paso, I met Mr. Clinton Burk, a native of Texas, who I married in August 1885.

Calvin Jillson

Back in the '40's, Lyndon Johnson could still steal a Senate election in South Texas with the help of the big patrons.

Calvin Trillin

I like chili, but not enough to discuss it with someone from Texas.

Edna Ferber

Texas history is a varied, tempestuous, and vast as the state itself. Texas yesterday is unbelievable, but no more incredible than Texas today. Today's Texas is exhilarating, exasperating, violent, charming, horrible, delightful, alive.

Edna Ferber

I never go to weddings. Waste of time. Person can get married a dozen times. Lots of folks do. Family like ours, know everybody in the state of Texas and around outside, why, you could spend your life going to weddings. But a funeral, that's different. You only die once.

Edna Ferber

If it's freedom you want, come to Texas. No one there tells you what to do and how you have to do it.

Edna Ferber

Take Texas the way Texas takes bourbon. Straight. It goes down easier.

Bobby Lee

Texas is the crossroads of the world. Everything here is big.

Geoff Coulson

The weather has been pretty amazing. It's much warmer than normal.

Chester W. Nimitz

If you're not making waves, you're not under weigh.

Adam Braun

I realized that even big waves start with small ripples

Stephen King

She couldn't be on his wavelength all the time. That's all. When you could recognize that and deal with it, you were on your way to an adult relationship.

Stefan Zweig

Every wave, regardless of how high and forceful it crests, must eventually collapse within itself.

Vanna Bonta

What appears to us solid is ultimately both a particle and a wavelength, and on that realm everything behaves as both a particle and a wave.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the cliffs, where love was more intense because it seemed like a shipwreck.

Christian Slater

There was a time when I felt I should do everything that was offered to me, you know, ride the wave

Neil Young

Every wave is new until it breaks.

P. G. Wodehouse

I shuddered from stem to stern, as stout barks do when buffeted by the waves.