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.

Margaret Spellings

As children across America get ready to start classes, our thoughts and prayers are with the children who are living along the Gulf Coast and who may not be able to return to their schools for weeks or months. I'm working with the White House Task Force on Hurricane Katrina Response in order to find ways that we can help these children in any way we can. We will stick with these communities for as long as it takes to get them back on their feet.

Nicola Sturgeon

As a young woman in politics, with few women around, you start to subconsciously behave like men in politics. That comes across as quite hard, tough and humorless, but you're trying to be taken seriously.

Johann Lamont

As a youngster, I travelled every year across the sea to Tiree. On occasion, we ventured to Skye on the Kyleakin-Kyle of Lochalsh ferry, where there is now a bridge.

Mitch Golub

As dealerships move more of their advertising online, they are choosing partners that deliver the highest quality of shoppers and that have the greatest impact on their bottom line. We are proud to be a premiere choice, and will continue our commitment to quality across several new online products we launched at the National Automobile Dealers Association's 89th Annual Convention and Exposition in Orlando.

Ken Cassar

...As consumers increase their use of the Internet, the opportunity for the Web to influence their online and off-line shopping behavior grows. Simply put, businesses must integrate across channels.

Rashid Johnson

As an undergrad at Columbia College in Chicago, I came across 'Boondocks,' and then I watched the 'Boondocks' television show.

Lynn Coady

As a novelist, you have to pick your battles. You are tired. You have begun to experience the first ominous tinglings of carpal tunnel syndrome. You wake up in the middle of the night with both hands lying across your chest like a couple of plucked bird carcasses, dead of all sensation.

Rupert Murdoch

As a broadcaster, he had an uncanny knack of knowing what people across the country were thinking.

Meg Whitman

Asia-Pacific is the fastest growing user region with markets like India, China and Korea leading the pack as Internet and broadband penetration rise.

Michael Widmer

The broader picture here is that this will strengthen the health care system in Massachusetts in a number of ways. You will have a much more rational structure for financing the system.

Derek Halpenny

The broader picture for the yen's decline is down to the continued deterioration in Japan's trade surplus.

Hiroichi Nishi

The broader market will probably struggle to make any headway today.

Charles Haynes

The broader issue is there are many U.S. conservative Christians who feel that public schools have become hostile to their faith.

Bill Gates

The broad and rich foundation of the Internet will unleash a

Marc Morial

Back in the 1960s, the 10 or 12 (black) members were all national figures. Now, people will look more to people that are much closer to them and more local. The African-American leadership is much broader and more diverse than it's ever been.

Robert Kirby

Proof of our society's decline is that Halloween has become a broad daylight event for man

Mark Zandi

Productivity growth is slowing and it is not strong enough to forestall rising labor costs and broader inflation.

Tokio Furuta

Despite the weak yen, technology issues suffered because of the lack of their main buyers -- foreign investors -- due to the Christmas holiday season.

David Kerr

Buyers are looking for a deal. It does not necessarily mean there are any deals out there. A well-priced house still sells at a premium even in a transitional market.

John Silvia

Home buyers need something visible on-screen to surprise them, ... If it's the dollar gradually losing another 10 percent or mortgage rates creeping up 1 percentage point, that's not going to do it.

Piers Handling

Which is why they're in the large venues like the Ryerson and the Elgin. The press screenings are actually happening after their world premiere so the key press, the key buyers are in those public screenings and that is important.

Daniel Gorrell

I think it has to be looked upon as a play to get new buyers in the franchise.

Richard Cripps

I think it's more a result of a fear of buyers being left behind.

Michael Marks

All of those buyers are looking to the West Coast. East Coast demand could make prices here go up, but you've got to understand that we've never experienced anything so devastating. It's hard to know how the market is going to react.

Walter Molony

It's not like all of the buyers fell off a cliff. There are still people in the market during this time, just fewer. Some people think it's a great time to buy or sell.

John Karevoll

There isn't a sense of urgency in the market. Buyers don't feel they need to stretch (finances) the way they felt before.

Caitlin Griffith

What's causing the bunching is unclear, and likely involves unknown features on Titan's still largely unexplored surface.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Urbanization has relied on land conversion and land financing, which is causing urban sprawl and, on occasion, ghost towns and waste.

Pete Hasbrook

We've got a lot of stuff over on the vehicle right now. It is causing us extra crew time in terms of going to search for items.

Vernell Crittendon

We are unable to have a licensed medical professional come forward to inject the medication intravenously, causing the life to end.

Thomas Foran

You gather enough people together, and you have some people who are dedicated to causing public disorder for serious purposes.

Sondhi Limthongkul

The crisis has reached an impasse. We, the king's subjects, see no other way out in resolving the crisis without causing bloodshed.

Justin Dombrowski

The problems with these high winds is not only is it sucking the moisture out of the fuel or the vegetation that's going to burn, but it also fanned the fire for a half a mile long and also got it into the trees causing safety problems for firefighters.

Jim Pringle

Last year was particularly mild. This year is closer to normal snowfall. I wouldn't be overly concerned with the late spring snowmelt causing flooding.

Wanda Jackson

So, it happened pretty fast, but, it is causing a lot of stir, which thrills me that people still remember the songs.

Jonas Gahr Store

As foreign minister of Norway, I learnt how natural changes provoked by climate change are creating new sources of political instability.

Jim Calhoun

As far as we're concerned, we're incredibly happy to be a No. 1 seed. Obviously, I don't think anything we did changed us from being the overall No. 1. I think it's what Duke did.

Sergey Lavrov

As for relations between the European trio and Russia, we are not expecting any change in these relations. There is no need for that,

Tim Howard

As an OCD guy, I find change difficult.

Moran Atias

As actors, we get to hide. You can change your hair and your accent, and it's not you. You have tricks, these masks.

Neil Mellor

As always, markets will be looking to the statement. Each word holds implications for the markets, and each change will have implications for the dollar.

Gregory Benford

As a literature of change driven by technology, science fiction presents religion to a part of the reading public that probably seldom goes to church.

Gerry Adams

the big question is not if there is going to be change, but when there is going to be change and what change there is going to be.

George Moore

A very slight change of our habits is sufficient to destroy our sense of our daily reality, and the reality of the world around us

Bob Stallman

So you do have your work cut out for you, ... I'm not going to pretend this is going to be easy here in this county. But other counties have managed to defeat these kinds of initiatives.

Gary Bartlett

This is simply a guide for us to know what steps the counties have completed, what steps they still need to take and what we can do to help.

Dan Doherty

You never say, 'Let's forget about it,' but it's how you react to it. We have two seasons left: counties and states. Tomorrow is the first day of practice for the second season.

Mike Love

Broward County is the first county of substantial size to do so. The 10 largest counties generate 80 percent of the work.

Larry Thomas

Even though we're not going to be getting into a water shortage in the next year, we need to start planning. It's taken other counties more than 10 years to put everything together and get everyone on board.

S. Walker

Those weeds have been reduced by the 70-80 percent range in my counties (Lake and Chaffee).

M. Thompson

One of the issues that we are wrestling with in our eight counties is crisis services, and ensuring that crisis services are available. We don't have that in place yet for adults or for kids, but we're working to try to put it in place.

Rep. Ozment

If we don't do something this session, we don't have a program set up to deal with this long-term. And the counties are then going to be kind of just sitting there, saying, 'Boy, if this stuff starts ending up in the ditches, what do we do? Who's going to pay for that? So it ends up on property taxes.

Kevin Brady

I feel even deeper for them, hurt even deeper for them, because these were the communities and counties that first opened their hearts and homes to Hurricane Katrina victims, ... And now they need our help.

Michael Leunig

As a child, I heard many warnings from teachers about the perils of talking with strangers. Yet now, fairly late in my life, I can think of not many things better than to talk with strangers. The idea of being a stranger is also very appealing.

John Morton

These newspapers generally have by industry standards fairly fat news staffs, so generally the layoffs are not draconian,

Dave Nonis

The style of game they play is fairly open and they have some offensive weapons.

Chris Mudd

I've always been able to, when I first meet someone, get a good read on their personality, and I'm fairly observant, so I can tell what people will do and won't do. I pick up on that quicker than some.

Colin Love

Notwithstanding Steve Rogers' pure qualities as a footballer he will be remembered as much for the way he played the game - always cleanly and fairly and in the true spirit of sportsmanship.

Anita Allen

Sometimes it's fairly obvious they're trying to hide their face. That's a first tip maybe they are trying to hide something and it's obvious from the picture they aren't who they say they are.

Gary Bardini

These rises are going to be fairly high but not near as high as what we saw three months ago.

Dennis Yaw

You need to find out if they have been fairly consistent.

Antonya Nelson

I think about and study people. I think I make people uneasy sometimes by being so curious as to why they do what they do. I find myself thinking about this fairly obsessively, and I can't stop until I've found an answer.

Sam Davis

Once we got a lead, we said make them come out and guard you. Once they opened up the floor, our perimeter play is pretty good and our kids are smart. We did a great job of running our offense in the fourth quarter.

Hugh Johnson

The stuff that worked in the fourth quarter and the first part of this year isn't working any more, like Internet stocks, large-cap tech stocks, and other large-cap names.

John Tavares

I've been able to handle the pace, ... I've got four goals in four games so I feel pretty good. Obviously today wasn't a great day, but hopefully I can come back next week and have a good one.

Main Street

I used to walk down there on the Fourth of July,

David Jones

Then all of a sudden, in the fourth quarter the other team's back in it.

Pete Carroll

I've never understood how two-thirds of the thing can vote for you one way and one third can knock you into fourth place. It looks like it should be third, third, third, but that's my simple math.

Ozzie Guillen

I've only been thrown out four times in my career, not my managing career. If I get tossed from the game, I think I let the team down. If a manager is not there in a playoff game I think you lose the respect of your team. I need my players and my players need me.

Dan Spellman

The second and fourth quarter, we didn't shoot all that well. Defensively, we did a real nice job.

Chris Raso

I've been watching these girls since they were in fourth grade. I knew what stride they could play at. I thought four years ago that we could possibly get to this level.

Richie Benaud

....and that's gone straight into the confectionary stand and out again!!

Bruce Bochy

Anything that could go wrong for him has gone wrong.

Simon Phipps

The strategy to embrace, extend, and extinguish has not necessarily gone away,

Jim Ferraro

The team has just grown as the season has gone on. We think we will only get better (the rest of the season), and we should be in good shape for next year.

Benny Hinn

The teaching on prosperity has gone too far.

Gary Arthur

Something has gone wrong with taking this young man out of the Dominican Republic. I'm frustrated, I'm angry, I'm sad. Somehow, I feel partly responsible, you know?

Alan Ackerman

Techs have gone from terrific to tepid to terrible,

E. Hicks

The search has gone into a new phase.

Clyde Shaw

I've never imagined something like this before. It's just the judicial system gone awry. It's a horrible, horrible thing. Our instruments are our voices, our souls.

Tim Brice

As long as the low pressure stays to the west, we'll see some rain in our area.

A.J. Jones

Dentists are not taking Medicaid because of the low reimbursement and the cumbersome paperwork. It is not surprising that they do not take Medicaid.

Marcos Basaglia

The special of the day was low volume. The market was practically tied to Nasdaq.

Garry Beers

It was unanimous and foot-dragging. It's a pretty sobering prospect to go on international television and pull your pants down as low as we did. We trusted our instincts, we trusted ourselves.

Art Spinella

It would have to be an entry-level model, like the Hyundai Excel. It would take low price and some style, though low price triumphs over style any time.

Bob Klein

The risk is so low that nothing needs to be done.

Lee Kuan Yew

If you are going to lower me into the grave, and I feel something is wrong, I will get up.

Bode Miller

A huge adrenaline rush is usually followed by a pretty low point.

Jim Puckett

When you're a cash-strapped school system, you're going to go to the lowest bidder. The lowest bidders are the ones who are going to export.

Chris Phillips

Sometimes our passing was without a purpose. When we did pass with a purpose, we were very good, but not nearly long enough.

Rod Smith

The season is nowhere near over. We just can't go undefeated. That's the only thing.

Ron Zarrella

Don't look for any number near this in July,

Baha'u'llah

Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.

Brian Sullivan

You have a rising tide out there, and it's even better if you're not near the water.

Earl Steele

You have to be able to get them near you before you have to worry about them seeing you.

Pascal Lamy

you have to go as near as possible to the people who want to punch you.

Paul Carter

You go in it or near it and you're dead.

English 15th Century Proverbs

Near is my kirtle, but nearer is my smock.

Bill Callahan

A number of us talked about what we would do if we had come on him when he was loose, and you wouldn't be having a trial right now if that had occurred.

Gray Davis

the most qualified person on question number two.

Steve Brown

Quite a number of the signatures were not registered voters. You have a set of rules, and everyone should play by the same set of rules.

Tony Russa

You're watching the number and go '10-9-8' and get to one and you're going to celebrate? Zero is when you celebrate. That's what we're doing to do.

Dennis Clay

You shouldn't have anything without a title and every part off the vehicle should have a serial number on the receipt that you got with it.

Roebalin Bustamante

You see the standing water, this is the number one hole.

Elaine Rubin

You're going to see many more partnerships, and for a number of different reasons. The underlying reason is that we're getting smarter and more competitive.

Hines Ward

You only get a number of opportunities to make big plays, and that was a big play.

Ashley Scott

I know what's like to be young and have atrocious spelling, spelling words all backwards, mixing up numbers, addresses. and things like that.

Cameron Diaz

If you really want to torture me, sit me in a room strapped to a chair and put Mariah Carey's records on.

Carson Daly

I'm developing a record company. I'm learning how to supervise music on a film.

Janet Jackson

I wanted to talk about my life. There is so much. I was 18 when I made the record, and I had a lot to say.

Nat Harrington

We have a really safe record if you look at how much we're on the road.

Marc Chandler

We've seen speculators try to get out of short yen positions, which were at record levels.

Eddy Cue

Just six days after its release on iTunes, a record-breaking 33 million people have already listened to the album.

Ben Harper

I've never made a record that didn't sound better than what was in my head - that's sort of my rule.

Jason Stollsteimer

We could record in Detroit, we could record anywhere,

Jay London

I went to a record store and asked for 50 cent. They kicked me out for pan-handling.