Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dave Anderson

As an alternative I'd like to propose that we consider an ordinance that states specifically how many car spaces per residential spot. You should base that upon some mathematical formula of the living area, bedroom area or occupancy load of the house.

Jim Lushine

The bottom line: If you've got an area that has a hurricane warning, you should prepare regardless.

David Gallop

The Bulldogs have made significant inroads in this area with the help from the majority of fans,

Don Cox

The bottom line is we're still going to have people probably swim outside the designated area and do what they want to do in these public-type lakes, ... Short of having somebody there 24/7 with some real policing power, there's only so much we can do.

Richard Flanagan

'The Bradshaws' is the appropriately inappropriate English title given to an enigma - some hundreds of thousands of mysterious rock art paintings scattered through the wilds of the Kimberley, an area larger than Germany in the remote, scarcely populated northwest of Australia.

Carrie Knox

The break was an inch from his hip joint, and Dr. (David) Carlton didn't think there was enough bone in the area to operate without taking out the ball and socket joint. But he was able to put a screw in it.

John Graddy

The boat came to evacuate them and they couldn't get them all on, so the aunt went with the two nephews and we actually transported those three from the staging area at Interstate 10 to Baton Rouge, LSU campus.

Norman Solomon

The boast that the United States is now the world's only superpower has a grim undertow in the area of human rights; no one can tell Washington what to do or not do, no matter how egregious its cruelties.

John Roach

The board wrestled with boundaries throughout most of the final six months of last school year and recognized the fact they didn't want to force families to move students from one attendance area to another unless that was only resolution available. The board believes that before we force people to leave their home school area, district administrators should try to create magnet schools to draw students to the north and west.

Ben Vereen

As far as working with Chita Rivera, all I can say is it's a dream come true. Her artistry and discipline and dedication is a joy to be around.

Rashid Johnson

As an artist, I've always felt most comfortable outside of the art supply store. So domestic materials are the ones that most help inform what I'm trying to talk about and our familiarity as a whole - kind of the collective us, I guess.

John Van Hamersveld

As an artist, illustrator, and photographer, most of my daily work was formed around the Art & Entertainment business, which was about packaging ideas that looked like they were crafted as artist ideas. In the distributed products, my artist credit was hidden inside the package of the artist or entertainment personality.

Kevin Doyle

Art is an important part of the garden and it's great fun. We show 80 pieces by 20 artists and sell three-quarters of them. It's the fusion of the art and the garden that does it. Our goal is to find homes for all this art.

Larry Coker

Art is an important part of living. We hold these shows in the odd-numbered years as a service to the community and to encourage the love of arts, crafts and hobbies.

Andre Maurois

Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more human world

Heather Becker

Art is a narrative and tells a lot of personal stories. If we don't try to save the history of our culture, of our communities, we lose that forever.

Yoko Ono

Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.

Doug Aitken

Art is always a search for understanding, and the different levels and frequencies of that search feel completely comfortable and natural to me.

Sergei Yastrzhembsky

Really, and this can be said now, Kenneth Gluck was threatened with the sad fate of the beheaded English hostages,

Charles McCabe

Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an art.

Robert Fitzgerald

The test of a given phrase would be: Is it worthy to be immortal? To ''make a beeline'' for something. That's worthy of being immortal and is immortal in English idiom. ''I guess I'll split'' is not going to be immortal and is excludable, therefore excluded.

J. M. G. Le Clezio

I've always felt very much from a mixed culture - mainly English and French, but also Nigerian, Thai, Mexican. Everything's had its influence on me.

John Terry

After I finish playing, maybe I will sit down and watch it properly, but I don't think I will be able to until I retire or until I win it.

Paul Parker

Some will say that tele has lost its soul with the new gear. My feeling is that if people don't want to use the big stuff, they don't have to.

Frank Clarke

It would be better for our association and the English game as a whole if we had an English manager,

Anchee Min

I understood that without English I would never get far, so my dream was to become a receptionist, and so I started to learn English from watching 'Sesame Street.'

Tim Hogan

This is a reprieve for English language learners. The question now is whether we can get a productive solution to the problem. This is exactly what we need to happen, have the threat of these fines hanging over the Legislature's head so we can come up with a reasonable solution.

Harry Hamlin

I get interested in writers who are enigmatic.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

For us, genocide was the gas chamber - what happened in Germany. We were not able to realize that with the machete you can create a genocide.

Claudia Schiffer

Berlin is like being abroad in Germany. It's German, but not provincial.

Franz Beckenbauer

What FC Bayern has become is thanks to Gerd Mueller.

Hans Berger

In Germany I am not so famous.

William Joyce

Germany calling! Germany Calling!

Joschka Fischer

Germany is to be contained from outside and heterogenized from the inside by influx, 'diluted' so to speak.

Paul Celan

Death is a master from Germany.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Better a street-sweeper in Mexico than a filmmaker in Germany!

Boris Becker

It's silly to say it about a tennis player, but I'm an unbelievable hero in Germany. And Germany needs heroes more than any place.

Abby Cohen

Opportunities are likely to present themselves, especially given a 6- to 12-month time horizon.

Leo Tolstoy

The more is given the less people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase

Lillian Koller

The money is so flexible, so broad. But it's a limited amount. While it seems a lot, given all our needs and services, it goes fast.

Mick Durham

Defensively he's also making great strides. No question he's given us a lift offensively.

Jim Beaver

'Deadwood' proved that viewers are smarter in terms of grasping intricate dialogue than they had been given credit for.

Anthony Crescenzi

Any money given to seniors probably would get spent and therefore help the economy.

Carlos Delgado

The situation with the Marlins, getting rid of some of their players, has given me a great opportunity in New York,

Nicolas Massu

These matches in the Latin American Tour have always given me luck. But I still need to take one more step.

Larry Rothschild

The second round is important for us to get him ready and that he keeps progressing. I have nothing to say about it, but I would like him to get a start. Some consideration has to be given to that. If not, then we have to reconsider what's going on. After the first round I need to find out what's going on with him.

Greg Ryan

The technology had not been obvious to larger companies, so that's how we were able to get the patent,

Timm Bechter

There could be a lot less spending. Most of the network build-out for larger telecom players is already done,

Seth Shostak

In 1908, there was a persuasive demonstration of the power of high-speed, low-mass asteroids in rural Siberia. The Tunguska impactor iced millions of pine trees and about a zillion mosquitoes - and was no larger than an office building.

John Thompson

It is a little larger than we've ever done, but as we prepare for the jail, it's just something we need to do.

Joe Klein

You know, larger than life is always better than smaller than life in politicians. And, you know, God save us from mediocrities.

Dave Scott

It's a larger fumigation, but it wasn't the most challenging we've done.

Sean M. Carroll

I'm a big believer that science is part of a larger cultural thing. Science is not all by itself.

Idina Menzel

That's what I love about songwriting - that you can write something about your own experiences and think it's completely specific to you, and then people can take away a completely different meaning for themselves. I really love that. I think you've been successful at writing a song when it has a larger life than yourself.

Adam McKay

With the derivatives market larger than ever, we need way more regulation of Wall Street, not less.

Ayn Rand

We have come to see how great is the unexplored.

Stephen Crane

A mysterious fraternity born out of smoke and danger of death.

Marvin Minsky

Experience has shown that science frequently develops most fruitfully once we learn to examine the things that seem the simplest, instead of those that seem the most mysterious.

Elizabeth Goudge

Butterflies... not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures.

Ferdinand Foch

The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.

Jeff Goldblum

It's mysterious what attracts you to a person.

Gore Vidal

You can improve your talent, but your talent is a given, a mysterious constant. You must make it the best of its kind.

Isaac Mizrahi

I'd love to talk to Angelina Jolie. On my show I would love her because she's a mysterious, mysterious figure.

Richard P. Feynman

I don't feel frightened by not knowing things.

Condoleezza Rice

The northwest is very different from what I could have imagined.

Cy Twombly

It's absurd to talk about paintings that you haven't finished.

Mark Palmer

We think it's important that they have face-to-face contact. In the old building, they were scattered all over the place.

Warren County

Makes you wonder where they all scattered to.

Cory Booker

Leadership is not a position or a title, it is action and example.

Michele Bachmann

Though I'm a congresswoman by title, a politician I've never been.

Tom Harkin

No one ever wore the title of 'senator' better and used it less.

Chris Whitaker

Until you've won a title you'll never be completely happy.

Adam Lambert

I've always been fond of the glam-rocker title.