Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brett Davis

After consulting with all of the school districts in my Assembly district and talking with parents that have school aged children, I have decided to introduce legislation that will continue to increase the cap on open enrollment, ... This bill will help smaller rural schools where students currently enjoy small class sizes.

Elizabeth Selvin

This is the first study with national data on the prevalence of ED in the United States. ED varies by age, with 5 percent of men aged 20 to 40 having ED, to 70 percent of men 70 and older.

John Kim

Current industry data shows that American workers aren't saving enough in their workplace-provided retirement programs, and our survey indicates that this lack of preparedness extends from the accumulation phase of retirement planning into the distribution phase. Even those who are conscientious savers and investors, including Baby Boomers now aged 55 to 58, aren't prepared to convert their retirement savings into a predictable retirement paycheck that they can't outlive.

Cathy Marie Buchanan

Edgar Degas's famous sculpture, 'Little Dancer Aged Fourteen,' served as my muse for 'The Painted Girls.' I came upon a television documentary on the work, and as someone who held the sculpture in high esteem and who largely considered ballet to be the high-minded pursuit of privileged young girls, I was struck by what I would learn.

Nicholas Hoult

Richard wanted me to play him aged 11 and 15, but as soon as he saw how tall I'd grown - I'm six foot two - he had a rethink and cast another boy as his younger self.

Eddie Izzard

Pol Pot killed one point seven million Cambodians, died under house arrest, well done there. Stalin killed many millions, died in his bed, aged seventy-two, well done indeed. And the reason we let them get away with it is they killed their own people. And we're sort of fine with that. Hitler killed people next door. Oh, stupid man. After a couple of years we won't stand for that, will we?

Kurt Busch

I'm a little older now. I've aged pretty quick these past few months.

Anne Solli

Old dogs are the wise ones. There?s a depth, a feeling, like aged wine, you don?t get the same depth and experience with younger dogs. It might take a couple of weeks before they get used to the house, but you can see when they realize they are home - the tension melts away.

Joe Ivers

Since the 1997 model year, Ford vehicles have been improving on a consistent basis. This year is a bit of an exception. The Focus is one of those vehicles that hasn't aged gracefully.

Pierre Corneille

A service beyond all recompense - Weighs so heavy that it almost gives offense

John Milton

As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye

Herman Kahn

As for total disarmament, there are almost 50,000 nuclear weapons in the world today; even if they were banned, not all would be destroyed.

Mullah Bakhtiyar

As for the self-determination for the Kurds, this issue did not enjoy the support of Sunnis or Shiites, and we almost gave up this demand,

Robert Gottlieb

As for the once-revolutionary 'Agon,' after more than half a century, its lessons and revelations have been so absorbed into the language of ballet that it now seems almost conventional.

Milton Babbitt

As for the future of electronic music, it seems quite obvious to me that its unique resources guarantee its use, because it has shifted the boundaries of music away from the limitations of the acoustical instrument, of the performer's coordinating capabilities, to the almost infinite limitations of the electronic instrument.

Mike Colter

As an actor, you're trying to capture the nuances of real life, but voice work is almost over-acting.

H. Hunt

As a stimulus proposal, it's a non-starter. The economic impact is very, very small -- almost imperceptible.

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.

Thomas Laird

Once the meat is through inspection, they can start cooking, and I suspect some of them will be cooking all night.

Jinny Fleischman

Cooking is a good unifier. It gives people the opportunity to work together.

Keith Downey

Twenty years ago I was cooking in Las Vegas.

Alfred Hitchcock

A woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing doesn't want to go to the movies to watch a film about a woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing.

Anthony Bourdain

You know, from age 17 on, my paycheck was coming from cooking and working in kitchens.

Alton Brown

I became a cook so I could cook and tell stories in wacky ways.

Red Smith

I like to get where the cabbage is cooking and catch the scents.

Simone de Beauvoir

Cooking is revolution and creation ...

Sophia Loren

Cooking is an act of love, a gift, a way of sharing with others the little secrets -- 'piccoli segreti' -- that are simmering on the burners.

Rick Adams

Offensively, ... we thought our size gave us an advantage. We wanted to pound the football all game.

Bob Howell

Defensively, we really bowed up. We knew they were going to make a run at us. It's their home stadium. They're a good football team. We knew we'd have to weather their storm.

William Beckford

Definitely. First of all he's tough and hard working. He's a smart player. In order to be linebacker you have to be a smart football player.

Steve Roberts

Antonio's an outstanding contributor to our football team. A leader, without a doubt.

Kevin Higgins

Appalachian really is a good football team. They run so much better than other teams. When you look at the league right now, these guys are playing better than anybody.

Sean Payton

A poorly conditioned football team gets penalties, a poorly conditioned football team holds, a poorly conditioned football team turns the football over. The other way to look at it is, if your not in shape, you can lose games, so I think being in shape is a must. You need to have stamina ... you need to have some staying power in the fourth quarter to win football games and if you're not I think you're going to lose.

Cedric Humes

The seniors took over. We knew that is not our type of football. We were out there getting personal fouls and things like that. We were just hurting ourselves. We had to get everything straight and just go out there and play football.

Dexter Jackson

The staff here does a good job of getting people who love football as opposed to people who play football.

William Jefferson

The spirit comes from football. If they won't come back for anything else, (the alumni) show up for football games.

Liu Peng

During the Games, the test laboratories will work for 24 hours a day, and all the staff are under training now.

Rob Hayward

Predictions that pubs will be open for 24 hours were wide of the mark.

Greg Oden

It was two hours of that, ... Pizza and Nickelodeon.

Nancy Sudduth

These were people working hours each day, who'd never done anything like this before, and then hurrying back to do their jobs.

Jeffrey Archer

I've been doing nineteen hours a day on London, nothing else, I mean this has been my whole life, and writing has been put on one side, and if I'm privileged enough to be the Mayor of this city, then I will not write again.

Roland Herwig

Things are back to normal after about two hours of special security activity.

Kate Thompson

I find it very difficult to say no when I'm in Ireland. You do end up going around doing lots of events and things and not getting work done, and it's not just a question of having hours at the desk.

Bob McKenzie

Crews will be working 24 hours a day.

Margaret Murphy

Crews were able to get that back on within two hours and that's really the only weather-related outage we've seen,

Gregg Williams

Cod and halibut tend to co-mingle quite a bit.

Bill Rodgers

I usually get side-aches when I am really tired and or when I am not quite warmed up.

John Pilger

Quite frankly, they just haven't been doing anything lately.

Fran Townsend

Quite frankly, I think we did quite well.

Brad Childress

Quite frankly, I don't think he wanted to be here anymore.

George Ryan

I've never seen anything quite like the site I saw here.

Gil Dufour

We have quite a lot. I think we have ten or twelve colors. The varieties of blue, the varieties of red and of burgundy.

Ashley Wagner

The SoCal weather can't be beat, but I just haven't quite been able to embrace the lifestyle.

Jacqueline MacInnes Wood

If you eat like crap all the time, quite frankly, you're going to feel like crap.

Mark Davies

I've been a Diamondback for a long time, ... It'll be a shock to not say I'm part of the D-Backs.

Anthony Chan

This is a shock -- and the shock is going to be there.

Evelyn Gardiner

You need to shock them back every once in a while, ... And so I do.

Kenneth Darby

Brodie kind of shocked me today. All I could do was just smile.

Alfred Hitchcock

I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.

Serena Williams

I'm playing to around 30% of my potential - you'd be shocked at what I could do.

Tom Conti

Some friends said they weren't surprised to find out Napoleon and I were related, but it came as quite a shock to me.

Peter Arnett

I am still in shock and awe at being fired,

Mignon McLaughlin

The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.

Brett Hull

I'm realistic. And realistically, I'm not that type of player that earns that type of money any more. So I'd be willing to take a little cut to get a couple of extra years.

Brett Hull

If you have an active mind, it always helps. You know, people who don't do crosswords, their minds fall asleep. That's why I do them-my mind is always working. One day my brain is going to explode through the top of my head.

Brett Favre

It's a difficult job to do, but that is why we do it. Only so many people can do it. But it, it enables you to... for a brief period of time to kind of get away. You have to go back and deal with, but it's a good escape.

Brett Favre

Well even before she was diagnosed with the cancer, I would have said that she was a lot tougher than me and most guys would probably say that about their wives and it's probably true in most cases.

Babe Ruth

I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.

Babe Ruth

If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600.

Babe Ruth

What I am, what I have, what I am going to leave behind me - all this I owe to the game of baseball.

Babe Ruth

Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.

Ashton Kutcher

I don't understand shopping, it doesn't make any sense to me. As guys, we decide we want something and then we go out and buy it. Women go to the store having no idea what they're going to buy, or what they're even doing, it's like a whole different sport. It's like going to a football game to maybe watch a game. I don't get it.

J. F. Powers

He suddenly found himself on the precipice of utility.

Kate Winslet

I don't know why I'm suddenly playing nasty people. It is very fun, though, and it isn't real, at the end of the day.

Feist

When I wrote 'Mushaboom', I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first.

Jim Veltman

After you win, you think to yourself, 'Is it time to get out?' But I don't feel like I want to.

Charlie Skelton

The story is timeless and can be done in any era.

Goldie Hawn

The movie actually has a little more back story, more consequence, and I think it's more real actually for this time period.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Rob Allison

Now it's time to really find out what we're going to do and how we're going to do it.

Curtis Sliwa

Now I'm going to have to do a lot of rope-a-dope, never go the same way at the same time to the same places,

Chris Mills

I've never had a better time doing anything -- not just music, but anything,

Bill Cowher

This is not the time to relax. They've had their off time. You can't do that. It's around the corner.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.