Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Blumenthal

Joel Klein has taken antitrust enforcement to a new and higher level of intellectual rigor and forceful advocacy and protection of the public, ... He's been more proactive and consumer minded than many other antitrust enforcers. Joel is a hands-on enforcer who is enormously energetic and supportive of his staff, inspires tremendous loyalty, and has very insightful judgment.

Jonathan Katz

Her (Newman's) inspired advocacy has helped leaders in North Carolina and throughout the country better understand how the arts improve the lives and communities of all Americans. Arts advocates nationwide look to Tog as a model for service, civility, engagement and leadership.

Peter Holland

I think some people thought that the event was advocacy of homosexuality. It wasn't. It isn't. Nobody could think 'narratives, filmmakers and spectatorship' is a statement about advocacy.

Teresa Evans

I have been the forensic interviewer for about a year and a half, and my job is to interview the child that is brought to the advocacy center, or the Gingerbread House.

Karen Ignagni

Our community's job is to work collaboratively with beneficiaries, pharmacies, physicians and advocacy organizations to resolve any remaining transition issues.

Assemblyman Merkt

In my votes you can read my advocacy of fiscal restraint and responsibility.

Mike Byrne

Interest and advocacy groups' response to the purchasing of older animals has been very limited. Now more than ever, we need stewards from the ranching community and other supporters who care about public lands to step up and purchase these horses.

Jan Schakowsky

I'm concerned about e-mails being blocked from advocacy groups, of all sides. I'm concerned about start-ups that may be shut down.

David Horowitz

I have no problem with professors being left-wing. The problem is if they bring political agendas to the classroom. Advocacy is a form of preaching -- not teaching.

Jean Claude

I would say that consumers are not pushing enough,

Sherwood Boehlert

Judd Road was very important in going forward with Consumer Square and The Orchard,

Scott Anderson

Job growth is the main engine for consumer spending.

Kyle Hall

What we wanted to do is solve the issues for the consumers of where their pictures are going.

Wayne Ayers

I think the general message here is that despite the fears about a low savings rate, the consumer continues to hang in there, and that's essentially the only thing that's going to keep the economy on track.

John Klein

What do you do as a consumer to get your truck fixed?

Gerard Kleisterlee

There is a lack of value creation, particularly around consumer electronics,

Gray Davis

There is no easy solution, ... But, if I have to use the power of eminent domain to prevent generators from driving consumers into the dark and utilities into bankruptcy, then that's what I'll do.

Martin Sorrell

We're now in a situation where people are questioning consumer spending.

Porschia Holmes

I was just trying to be as energetic as I could. I want to go out with a bang.

Mitch Miller

He was energetic and a little spunky. He had a sense of humor.

Phil Biston

I'm just looking for people who are energetic and will work those late hours. It will be a fun place to work.

I. Stone

I knew he was good football man and I needed good football people. He knows what to expect and knows what I want of people. He relates really well to kids. It helps to have some real energetic coaches.

David Perez

the type of guy who goes full-out, who's very energetic and passionate.

Sarah Lowe

It's been a remarkable year for us. It hasn't been perfect. But it's at the point now where I wish I had another year so I could make it as positive and as energetic as it has been this year.

Jimmy Fallon

I like doing energetic things.

Sean Williams

It's energetic rock 'n' roll. We try to be as original as possible, and we try to make music that we would like listening to ourselves, and hopefully other people have the same tastes we do.

Dave Tippett

They play a very energetic style, and they do a lot of good things that push the game along. But it would be nice to see them get rewarded every now and then.

Rachel Cusk

I have some pretty forceful ideas about the world - obviously I do. But I suppose I can only really speak about them from within the protection of a literary form.

Willie Nelson

Cruelty is all out of ignorance. If you knew what was in store for you, you wouldn't hurt anybody, because whatever you do comes back much more forceful than you send it out.

Ali Rodriguez

There has been no forceful condemnation by the United States as everyone expected.

Clark Yingst

I suspect 'Well we're in a directionless market' is likely to persist until we get a better read on how much higher rates will go.

Fred Powell

It hit at around 1 a.m., ... The mayor had been on TV telling everyone to get to higher ground, but I knew as much about getting around in New Orleans as I know about Mars.

Dave Curry

There is nobody here at all. Ian Thorpe pulling out obviously has a lot higher significance.

Bradley Hunter

When home prices are so much higher than median incomes, it makes for an unhealthy economy.

Tom Daschle

We've got to rise to a higher level,

Josh Bernoff

I thought they would start higher and work their way down. The problem is, you can't go up.

Sarah MacQuiddy

I think we'll have to push the higher ed piece.

Jacob Knight

I'd like to see higher sales on the year and get sales back up. I can't wait to get started.

Todd Davison

Had Ivan hit Mississippi, the storm surges in Mississippi would have been higher than those in Florida.

Warren Buffett

In economics, you always want to ask 'And then what?'

Walter White

Chemistry is, well technically, chemistry is the study of matter. But I prefer to see it as the study of change.

Robert G. Allen

The fundamental level of success is doing the hard things first - If you go for the feared thing first, then the rest of the day is easy.

John Maynard Keynes

It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.

Paul Gauguin

One's state of mind is three-quarters of what counts, so it has to be carefully nurtured if you want to do something great and lasting.

Leonard Nimoy

Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.

Tavis Smiley

Leonard Pitts, Jr. is the most insightful and inspiring columnist of his generation.

Heidi Klum

I don't really care if they like me or not.

Henry Ford

Stopping advertising to save money is like stopping your watch to save time.

Dan Hill

I think the last thing you want to do as a writer, as a storyteller, is to create indifference. I don't necessarily go out of my way to provoke, but I would much rather have a song that triggers a whole myriad of reactions than a song that inspires a shrug of the shoulder.

David Phelps

Something in life inspires me, ... I have a song on my new record, 'Visions of God,' about my kids and not missing the important moments.

Jennifer Westfeldt

I seem to only write New York stories because it's the only thing that inspires or interests me.

Alexander Rossi

My goal is to be a racer, and I want to be someone who inspires Americans to watch Formula One.

Rose Mashigo

Making love to my thoughts always inspires me to keep my thoughts aroused, for more inspiration.

Nikki Sixx

What inspires me? I am so inspired every day. I am inspired by thinkers. I am inspired by rebellion. I am inspired by children. I have been inspired by love.

Lisa Hannigan

Stephen Colbert has such a loyal following; I don't know if it's the same with Jay Leno; he really inspires love in people, and there can be a lucky ricochet of that for some people.

Simon Van Booy

This is why fashion is such a magical part of our lives, for it inspires our decisions without dictating them; it sets the theme but not the limits of our aesthetic.

Lamar Owens

I would've been satisfied with a one-point victory. But we wanted to prove that we're on a different level ... To come out and play the way we did was phenomenal.

Siobhan Finneran

'Downton' has really pushed me to a new level in my career, but it's not like I have a big career plan. They are about as useful as a birth plan; they should be burned.

Brad Goreski

There are so many levels in fashion that I'm happy to dip in and dip out of it all.

P. J. Harvey

going on at the acquisition level and the requirements level.

Marco Sullivan

I think it's great, personally. Now everyone's got to perform. It's another level of intensity. Everyone is kind of picking it up.

Scott Butler

I think it's here now, but it may not stay, ... I don't know that it will level out at this amount.

F. Schumacher

I think with 12 to 13 minutes left, we stepped up our level of play. We were in a lull in the first half.

Karl Hobbs

I think we still have a way to go. I want to get to the point where we're playing at the level we need to play at. Because very shortly it's going to come down to one game, one play and that's my focus. We need to be at the level where its one play and your season is over.

Nancy Turner

I think it's steep. But there always has to be a level of ideal.

John Washington

I think the contractor's very proactive with this. He's really ready to go. He wants to go to work.

Drew Bledsoe

It seems like we're a little reactive right now. We need to be more proactive in our approach.

David Suzuki

You are what you do, not what you say.

Brian Tracy

Be a creator of circumstances rather than just a creature of circumstances. Be proactive rather than reactive.

Russell Schweiss

Under Gov. Bush, Florida's wetlands and waterways are receiving better protection than ever before.

Moliere

There is no protection against slander.

Arlen Specter

When the 14th Amendment, equal protection clause was enacted, the galleries in the Senate were segregated. Now we have integration.

Bill Maher

It's all been satirized for your protection.

Jane Austen

If the heroine of one novel be not patronized by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard?

Peter Mueller

We want this Bolkestein directive off the table. Social protection will be its only victim.

Robert Asprin

To Serve and Protect..."- Traditional Motto of Protection Rackets

Tim Holden

In 1997, the National Bankruptcy Review Commission recommended that chapter 12 of the Federal Bankruptcy Code, the chapter that contains bankruptcy protection for family farmers, be made permanent.

Marcus Garvey

Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa.

Joe Carnahan

I'm pretty rigorous about the drafts I turn in. I don't turn in something that's so ungodly they go, 'What the hell is this?'

Cathy Schroeder

We have rigorous monitoring of each and every scorer.

Isaac Marion

...and we'll see what happens when we say Yes while this rigor mortis world screams No.

David Newhan

He's a teammate. You're supportive of your teammates.

Gary Larsen

We feel it's safe, we feel it's a viable technology and we're supportive of it,

Ryan McGinley

Most of the e-mails I get nowadays are from students who ask me how I got my start. In truth its from having a really supportive family but also having a good patron who will help you - like financing all those early trips I took.

Tory Burch

Having an environment that is supportive is really important for success.

Brad Baldia

The important thing now is that we're supportive and come together as a group.

Lupita Nyong'o

My immediate family was always very supportive. It was my own fear of the rest of the world not accepting me, the rest of our society not accepting my wish to be an actor.

John Cena

I've been very true to know that I have a base of fans and I'm extremely loyal and extremely supportive to that base of fans. To the rest of them, I enjoy the fact that they fill the arenas and tell me to go to hell.

Kate Brown

My folks are hilarious extroverts and have always been very supportive of all my artistic endeavors. I'm really lucky to come from such an encouraging family.

Mike Colter

My family, they're not really that involved in what I do. Career-wise, they're very supportive. They're involved after the fact. I don't tell them anything usually until I'm finished filming it or mid-way through filming it.

Graham Elliot

Dining should be something that isn't always taken extremely seriously.

Tony Stewart

I'm scared of saying something that may get taken the wrong way.

George Best

It has been a long week but things have taken a turn for the best. I am very optimistic.

Richelle Mead

Well," he said, clearly enjoying my confusion. "It was actually for two souls, since you and Seth were both saved. But even if it wasn't, it still would've been worth it. Do you know the price of one soul, Georgina? It's beyond rubies and diamonds, beyond any mortal reckoning. If it had taken me centuries, if it had taken a dozen more angels to help me, it all would have been worth it.

Richelle Mead

I’ve come to ask you where Seth is.” "Funny,” said Andrea. “We were going to ask you the same thing.” I was taken aback. “How would I know?” They both just stared. "I don’t!

Ron Chernow

A prudent silence will frequently be taken for wisdom and a sentence or two cautiously thrown in will sometimes gain the palm of knowledge, while a man well informed but indiscreet and unreserved will not uncommonly talk himself out of all consideration and weight. (Alexander Hamilton's 'thesis on discretion' written to his son James shortly before his fatal duel with Burr.)

Tryon Edwards

We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.

Raymond Chandler

What greater prestige can a man like me (not too gifted, but very understanding) have than to have taken a cheap, shoddy and utterly lost kind of writing, and have made of it something that intellectuals claw each other about?

Willie Morris

I came across a photograph of him not long ago... his black face, the long snout sniffing at something in the air, his tail straight and pointing, his eyes flashing in some momentary excitement. Looking at a faded photograph taken more than forty years before, even as a grown man, I would admit I still missed him.

Russ Boyer

He's a tremendous defender. He does a lot for us back there.

Dan Bennett

Dale Hansen is a tremendous talent, and we wish him the very best.

Carol Davis

They've really been tremendous with everything -- they just do so much for us,

Norm Chow

I think he's a tremendous player. He's so explosive.

Larry Coker

We need to find out about ourselves. We're going to get a tremendous test.

Steve Coppell

We had a tremendous year. It's been dreamlike in many ways.

Steve Lee

We put up some tremendous numbers, but we just couldn't get it done.