Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mario Monti

A few years ago, if a European regulator had raised two eyebrows or even one, the chief executive would have backed off. The courage wasn't there. Now, in a sense, the king is naked.

Bob Letsch

(Roncalli) backed off of him and gave him that shot. A lot of times people think that we just try to get the ball inside ... but we can shoot the 3, too.

Rocky Rosas

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Terry Goodson

We did a good job on the big guy and kept him out of the game. We fronted and backed him and hoped they didn't hit the threes. If they hit the threes, we would have had to change the strategy.

Ron Gardenhire

This year he's been very, very solid. As good as they get in this league. We haven't exactly scored a lot of runs. We know that. But he's backed it up.

David Jennings

We challenged them to throw the out and they didn't want to throw the out, they wanted to throw the ball down the field. Once we backed off, they seemed to quit on throwing that fade.

Ray Thompson

There's no drinking water. The toilets are backed up. There's no power, no electricity and there's no telling when help will arrive, ... If you're not from the South, you don't understand that once that levee breaks, you've got snakes, you've got alligators, you've got everything going through the city.

Randi Shea

The traffic was so heavy we couldn't move. Traffic was backed up and stopped in all directions leaving the city, so we turned around while we could still get back to our neighborhood.

Bobby Baldwin

The traffic is backed up. And the customers are wrapped around the corner to play. We just need to get open. I expect to hit full throttle pretty quickly.

Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a plan for a slit in the face of a bronze fountain goat and the path of fresh drinking water.

Dan Thompson

I am awake, I might as well be drinking

Bob Dole

We know smoking tobacco is not good for kids, but a lot of other things aren't good. Drinking's not good. Some would say milk's not good.

Billy Connolly

I decided to stop drinking while it was still my idea.

Edward Abbey

A drink a day keeps the shrink away.

Kevin Collier

We're taking a system down that can do the whole project - all the way to drinking water if they need us to do that.

Daniel Silva

So what are you planning to do with the rest of your life? Develop a drinking problem. More Scotch, please.

Clive James

When I finally embraced abstinence it was because of the simple urge to work a longer day. Thus, without joining Alcoholics Anonymous, I was at last able to leave Piss-Artists Notorious.

Dylan Moran

That's a rather flippant quote "drinking and writing bad poetry" from me. I mean, I said it, but I was doing other stuff too. I certainly didn't manage the full stretch of four years.

Philippe Gijsels

Lower prices are hurting utilities and energy companies. Electricity prices are an enormous risk for utilities so we shouldn't be surprised by the response.

James Lancaster

Basically, the electricity in my heart wasn't working correctly.

Greg Walden

I did not come to Washington to raise the electricity rates by as much as $40 per month as this plan would do.

Judith Yaphe

I think for most Iraqis it's not a big issue. The big issues are water, electricity and security.

Carl Griffith

If I hadn't thought to get the senators involved, those people that were in the hospital today would probably be dead, some of them. They wouldn't have electricity and water to survive.

Ian Shepherdson

The headline reflects a 3.2 percent rise in gasoline prices. Natural gas and electricity prices were also much stronger than the PPI suggested. The good news is the 0.1 percent core, which supports the Fed's view that transitory factors have boosted inflation in recent months.

James Woods

You could see all this fire and smoke and electricity flying everywhere. You could see arcs of electricity. It was just crazy.

Dorothy Thompson

The house was a dump. There was no plumbing, no electricity, no bathrooms,

Renaldo Wynn

It's a new era. Guys have that taste in their mouths. Guys are starting to believe. It's an electricity, from top to bottom.

Dennis Northcutt

As long as I'm doing what I'm supposed to do, and I'm going out and helping this team in any way, I'm going to be here, ... The only way I'm going to lose my job is if I'm messing up and not getting the job done.

Javier Solana

The solution of this problem is not only military, the solution has to be political.... We are prepared for the possibility of helping with a cease-fire,

Peter Briggs

The students get help they need, and we learn about the rest of the world by being involved with them.

Robert Reisz

So we are suggesting this was a relatively helpless little hatchling.

Juan Avila

Thank you to all the people who helped us get this house.

Kirby Moses

Ten of our 14 wrestlers scored points which helped us today. There were 15 teams and we didn't know what to expect. We were the smallest school there.

Danielle Jackson

Ryan has really stepped up and takes some of the pressure away from the rest of us. She's going to help a lot.

Daniel Burns

It was unbelievable, ... but I knew it was helping us.

Cheech Marin

It was about taking the show and shining a different light on it. Each monologue was like a separate jewel that I helped thread into a necklace.

Randy Moss

There's no telling what you are going to see,

Anne Frank

The young are not afraid of telling the truth.

Chris Roberson

My 7-year-old daughter is not shy of telling me she can draw better than me, and she's right.

Charles Bishop

No! ... You're telling me if three commissioners tell me I've got to sign, I've got to sign? I don't think so.

Sabrina Carpenter

Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self... When acting, you're someone else.

Foxy Brown

It feels so good to tell the truth

Emily Saliers

Always tell the truth and be true.

Greg Cox

When you can't tell the truth, tell *a* truth.

Grover Cleveland

WHATEVER YOU DO, TELL THE TRUTH.

Andy Warhol

I will go to the Opening of Anything, including a Toilet Seat

J. K. Rowling

We'll send you a Hogwarts toilet seat!

Orson Scott Card

The only process you've mastered is the process of elimination, and the only reason you've mastered that is because you can do it in the toilet.

John Mushtare

As I understand it, we're going to need a lot of help. We need to win out and get some help.

Lori Chappell

You really have to see the grounds to understand how populated they are.

Brad Meltzer

there's nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else.

Brad Pitt

There's peace in understanding that I have only one life, here and now, and I'm responsible.

Charles Jencks

In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.

Damon Lindelof

When I saw 'Blade Runner,' my understanding was that 'Blade Runner' and 'Alien' were sequels to each other - or they were related. They were set in the same world.

Bodhidharma

When your mind doesn't stir inside, the world doesn't arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.

Albert Einstein

Relations between pure and applied mathematicians are based on trust and understanding. Namely, pure mathematicians do not trust applied mathematicians, and applied mathematicians do not understand pure mathematicians.

Albert Einstein

The most difficult part about understanding something is that we understand it all.