Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Wilkinson

What you had was a lot of young volunteers who, frankly, objected to this election being decided behind closed doors, without the media having a full view and without our observers having a full view. We executed our First Amendment rights in a peaceful manner, with full decorum.

Mike McGavick

I though it appropriate ... that I drop by and let him know that it was my view that changing the Magnuson amendment was unacceptable in my state, and that view crossed all party lines.

Ken Starr

It isn't in the interest of the First Amendment for distortions, lies about career civil servants to be spread about. We don't know who is spreading them about. But lies and distortions have no place in our First Amendment universe.

Leonard Sand

I don't believe First Amendment rights are being infringed,

Zach Braff

It has been pretty much downhill ever since the 13th amendment

Dick Thornburgh

If U.S. national sovereignty continues, it is only as a state that Puerto Rico will have permanent 10th Amendment powers over its non-federal affairs, as well as voting power in Congress.

Jim Cooper

Immortality awaits the legislator fortunate enough to have a significant law named after him. Think of Pell grants or Stafford loans for students, Sarbanes-Oxley to regulate Wall Street, or the Hyde Amendment on abortions.

William Kelly

In contrast to the prescribed right to statewide referendum process, there is no affirmative right under the Maine Constitution which enables citizens to enact local ordinances by petition. This conclusion is in accordance with Maine law.... In conclusion, the city drafted the charter to provide for a citizen's initiative process and the city can amend the charter to limit that process. The proposed amendment is in accordance with state and federal constitutions, as well as state statute.

John Barlow

In Cyberspace, the 1st Amendment is a local ordinance

Kathleen Hanna

I like art with a sense of humor. I don't have a huge art education to understand everything. I don't think that means that art has to be watered down to the lowest common denominator, though. I don't think you have to go to college to be able appreciate great art, but I like art that doesn't take itself too seriously.

Paul Johnson

Kevin's played a vital role in helping us get the program turned around at Navy and we certainly appreciate the effort of both he and his family. He's a highly motivated individual and I'm sure he will do a great job for Georgetown football.

Allen Stockberger

Knox County board of commissioners would support more flexibility, not less. You have to be responsible for tax dollars, as do we, but we'd appreciate more. One component may work well in one community, but not another.

Boris Said

Joe told me something after the first practice Friday and it was just a tiny little thing, but it made a big difference, ... I even got to pass him once today, but it didn't take him long to retake his position. It's great to have a teammate like Joe, he's a pro and I appreciate the help he has given me. I just want to learn and get better in each race. I think I did that today. I am starting to figure out this oval racing.

Suzanne Jones

I think it really boosted their morale. It lets them know people really appreciate what they do over there.

Levance Fields

He let me know the ins and outs. He taught me how to do things, how to be a leader. Basically, he's just been that senior leader and I appreciate everything he'd done for me.

John Bowers

He's a tough, hard-nosed, focused young man and the more I'm around him the more I appreciate the things that he does and the style that he plays,

Steve Cleveland

Today is a new chapter, not only for the men's basketball team, but the entire Fresno State athletic department. We feel the NCAA has treated us fairly. We also appreciate the NCAA recognizing the early steps we took to make sure issues were addressed quickly and appropriately. We are committed to fully comply with NCAA rules. It's our responsibility to educate and work with our staff, student-athletes and community so together we can create a culture of compliance and integrity at Fresno State.

Peter Pace

To each of the families who have lost a loved one, I don't know how you find the right words to tell them how much we appreciate and respect the sacrifice that they have made, Generations of Americans have made those sacrifices that we could live in freedom, as we do today,

Mike Harper

Kathy Cikanek took time from her day to take a group of adults to Tabernacle on Monday to enroll all those children who were planning on attending classes in Ennis. Her efforts and those of the group made for a much smoother transition.

John Parrott

Joan Collins unfortunately can't be with us tonight. She's busy attending the birth of her next husband.

Gary Sheffield

When McGwire started the home run mania, attendance came back. The owners understood that the sudden spike in homers wasn't accidental. All baseball knew it. But baseball is run on money, and home runs meant money. Baseball turned a blind eye.

Julie O'Brien

There are so many more people attending than in years past. There's a real new enthusiasm I haven't seen.

Ed Benson

Having the CMA Awards in a venue the size of Madison Square Garden allows us to offer the public a chance to attend this very exclusive event.

Jeffrey Logsdon

He's been such a lightning rod for criticism, oftentimes for things that were clearly not in his purview to make better. If theme park attendance goes down because of 9/11, is that Michael's fault?

Charlie Cook

I think the leadership conference will be the first major cattle show before the 2008 election, and it should be pretty much mandatory attendance for any candidate seeking election in 2008.

E. O. Wilson

We are getting a good response so far for this being our first try at a craft show, and depending on the participation by vendors and attendance by the community. We would like to try to do this annually.

Kristina Hill

I think we as a group need to attend this meeting. I would like to get direction from this organizing meeting - see what they want from us.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Paycheck protection means protecting the paychecks of the workers. It means protecting the workers themselves. Right now, union bosses take the money out of workers' paychecks and use it without their permission.

Cynthia Morgan

In most cases, tech workers don't telecommute because their bosses discourage it or their companies prohibit it. Sixty percent of help-desk and support workers don't telecommute at all -- often because they're in the office supporting all the other telecommuters. In some cases, they're working on large, expensive equipment that you just can't take home with you.

Keith Ashdown

You can't treat the Congress like they're a bunch of buzzing flies around your head, ... They're your bosses because they represent the American taxpayers.

John Challenger

A lot of people leave jobs because they say, 'I had no freedom. I had no say,' ... People don't want bosses who are ... just telling them what to do and not creating a strong collegial relationship with give and take.

Paul Stone

They don't make bosses like that any more.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

It's the union bosses that run the state of California.

Peter Foley

It started in America. These are the kinds of sports done now, that modern people participate in. It's awesome. I'm really happy we're successful. It's great. I told my bosses we could get at least six medals and we've done that.

John MacPhee

At his point, my bosses are telling me we have to evaluate how and when to proceed, ... We're evaluating the plans and our options. What's going to be built is what the market demands...we're going to retrench and figure that out. Stay tuned, we'll be back in touch.

Peter Foley

It's awesome. I want everybody to do well but I'm really happy that we were successful. It's what I planned to do. I told my bosses we could get six and we have.

Jerry Gray

I talked to Marv and he pretty much gave me permission to go and seek another job somewhere else, so I have no problem with that. Would I like to be interviewed for the head coaching job? Yes. I know the players on offense and defense and I think I have their respect.

Billy Donovan

I always felt I was going to have a lot of fun coaching these guys. They've had the right attitude, and winning has been the byproduct of it.

Darren Kalina

Going unbeaten (in the league) for a second straight year is a big deal to the coaching staff and the kids. I don't know if it's ever been done before, and we're trying to make it happen.

Mike Miello

He's a leader, not just in statistics, but a true leader on our football team. He leads by example. He's not a rah-rah guy. He's got a real sense of maturity about him. He leads and people follow. He's the kind of kid that makes coaching worthwhile. That's how we all feel about him, and he's having a great year on top of it, individually.

E. B. White

He's definitely auditioning for a head coaching job, maybe not here but he's going to get a head coaching job. He's a great coach, a players' coach and he's going to give it his all. He played the game and played it well.

Troy Smith

I think it's being more comfortable within the offense, the guys starting to be comfortable with me and also the coaching staff. With more film study you're able to see more guys, not just through tunnel vision like I had early in the season.

Wayne Simien

I was ecstatic come draft night just to hear my name called. And now, after playing in the summer league and getting to know some of the guys and being able to play under the coaching staff and seeing the great things that are going on here in this organization, I'm even more excited to put my name on the dotted line.

Sean Brady

I don't have a good coaching voice, that's for sure.

Shawn Springs

I didn't get coaching in Seattle like I did this year, ... except for my first two years.

Sidney Blumenthal

Ken Starr's prosecutors demanded to know what I had told reporters and what reporters had told me about Ken Starr's prosecutors. If they think they have intimidated me they have failed. And if any journalist here or elsewhere wants to talk to me, I'll be glad to talk to you.

Kasan Mulyono

Residents only demanded a larger quota of local workers, and we have met that.

Amber Moon

In that district, she is particularly vulnerable given her record. Voters have demanded an investment in education coupled with property tax relief. (Lawmakers) are going to have to face that in November ...

Jusuf Kalla

I have several times demanded that the recruitment of legislators should be transparent and accountable.

Matt Rosoff

They are licensing a specific subset related to the protocols the EU demanded more documentation on.

Jim Whitaker

It's long overdue, ... Mark Myers and Commissioner Irwin are very, very brave. For them to have read the law, understood the law and then demanded that the law be upheld is very admirable, and every Alaskan should take their hat off to them.

Robertson Davies

For I was a collaborator with Destiny, not one who put a pistol to its head and demanded particular treasures

Moshe Dayan

The supreme efforts will be demanded of you, the troops, fighting in the air, on the land, and on the sea. Our security rests with you.

Ramez Naam

I've read science fiction my whole life. I never really dreamed that I'd be a published science fiction writer myself, but a short story I started years ago sort of demanded to be turned into a novel.

Buck Showalter

I wouldn't put any limits on him. He can be a difference maker defensively, one of those guys who turns hits into outs.

Paul Levinson

I think in the long run it's not going to make much difference for CBS.

Bonnie Stewart

He wants to be able to learn. He wants to be able to make a difference in someone's life.

Rick Barnes

He is the difference in this team. We know he is going to give us everything he?s got, and he does every night he goes out there.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

The primary difference that I have found between the system of education in India and other countries, particularly the U.S., is that they focus on problem solving and relating theories to reality around them. These two things are lacking in the education system in India.

Dean Bonham

Here is a substantial and growing difference between the high and low revenue teams and it's a significant issue. It has to be resolved or they're headed for the kind of disparity we've seen in Major League Baseball.

Carlos Rivera

He's a great person. He has helped us so much this year. You can see a difference from when I first started three years ago.

Norm Gagne

It hurts to lose. What we did, the things I didn't want to see us do, stay out of the box, and that's what killed us. The two five-on-three goals, that was the difference in the game.

Dave Swanson

I think the difference between the haves and have-nots is alarming. Unless something happens, I think the scores are only going to get worse.

Mikel Haas

We've got to try and verify every one of those registrations. There's no way someone can get on the statewide voter file without it.

Helane Becker

I think that they will file before October 17 for sure. With oil prices where they are and big pension contributions due, and without higher airfares, Northwest had no choice,

Helane Becker

I think that they will file before Oct. 17 for sure. With oil prices where they are and big pension contributions due, and without higher airfares, Northwest had no choice,

John Whitaker

I didn't want to file this lawsuit, ... But all we got from the university was, 'Not our fault.'

Nancy Williams

I did not see itI would have had to have actually seen it to file a report,

Jon Stewart

I don't file reports anymore. I do movies,

John Messina

Henry and Pam were under the impression that if you spent less than $250, you didn't need to file a waiver,

John Hamm

He mentioned the file to me and I said minister on this file I can't tell you what to do. Do what you think is right.

Steve Johnson

The IRS position is that these folks have to include all $75 in income. (However) a lot of people 65 and over won't have to file income tax returns at all.

Margo Lewis

He'd been ill for a while and was forced in 2005 to take a hiatus from performing.

Doug Heller

The only thing more shocking than these profits is the prices that motorists are being forced to pay at the pump. It's hard to imagine that these numbers won't rattle the cages pretty severely.

Richard Hamilton

I thought we were great defensively. We pressured the ball, got in passing lanes, forced everything baseline. That's what we wanted to do tonight. We weren't worried about our offense. We wanted to come out and try to make a statement.

Ron Carey

I think working people have been taking it on the chinlong enough, ... It's acrime that they have forced our members into a strike.

Gary Knapp

We took residents completely out of this project. No residents will be forced to hook up the sewer.

Tom Wright

I think we got something accomplished. I think we forced them into this.

David Murdoch

I think we just placed our stones better today. We never made a messy shot. We forced a lot of pressure on Canada.

Tage Clausen

He was not forced out. He's on vacation, that's all.

Mark Capasso

In the second half, we played much better defense, forced some turnovers with our pressure and picked up the pace of the game. In the first half, we played the game at Plainfield's pace.

Ken Hill

Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.

Jarrius Jackson

He did his job. He prepared us. He did a lot more teaching this year because we were a young team. We have to listen more and do our job.

Rudi Johnson

He listens to what I tell him to do.

Brian Humke

I think we want to listen to what people say; that's our job.

Nick Hornby

I think a lot of unpublished writers feel the same way. They're not getting anywhere, and nobody's listening to them. You do get frustrated.

Joe Gibbs

I will say this, we don't listen to him all the time or we'd be out here in our underwear.

Greg Simon

He's been visiting with people, first thanking them for all the work they did while he was in public service, and he's listening to people to see what they thought went right and wrong.

Jeanine Pirro

I don't even have to listen to the people because I'm a New Yorker.

Henry Garza

I can listen to an oldies station all day long,

E. Howard Hunt

I would say this in terms of my career, that my career provided me with everything that I wanted, and I think a man is fortunate if he can say that at the end of his life.

Carmelo Anthony

(Karl) just told us management had to make a decision.

David Pickering

He is the right man at the right time to take Wales forward.

Bill Ross

He is tight with his mom. He has such an old-fashioned sense of responsibility. He is the man of the house.

Shane Victorino

He's a silent assassin. He's a big man and can be intimidating, but he's so soft-spoken. But you always know when he's around.

Rosemary Dillard

He should be murdered, killed. I mean, this man has no remorse.

Friedrich Muller

Whatever place a faithful, virtuous, celebrated, and wealthy man chooses, there he is respected.

Donald McDonald

We've been trying to get applications out, but everything has been rejected because of his record. I would go with him to talk with some of these managers to just be a support for him.

Andre Holland

I think that a man should not be shy; you should say what you really think and feel - put it out there.

Denise Bottcher

The mandatory evacuation order was never reversed - quite the contrary.

Jon Coupal

As a matter of policy, we never like mandatory insurance.

Christine Whitman

I don't think we'll get to the protocol without mandatory caps.

Steve Gross

We run rain or shine, they just make the rain tires mandatory on a day like today.

Jennifer Baker

I would say maybe there are more mistakes.

Joel Klein

I think it could take a year, maybe a little more than a year,

Kyle Waters

I think in the past year, he wrote maybe one check.

Sarah Brightman

I always felt older than my years, maybe because I was married to someone older.

Sam Hunt

Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.

Thomas Piketty

I don't live in the Cold War. Some people maybe still live in the Cold War, but this is their problem, not mine.

Carlos Mencia

Going there is paying your dues. You always have to pay your dues. . . . You've just got to do it. Maybe I come from a working family. Maybe it's the voice of my mom saying, 'You've always got to be nice to people.' I look at it as saying it's going to be fun. Those people are going to be really, really happy.

Mark Calcavecchia

I thought somebody would shoot 7- or 8-under for sure, maybe even 9-under.

Champ Bailey

I was a little shocked with the recovery I made so fast. I didn't think I'd be able to do anything today. I thought maybe tomorrow, but not today.

Vance Havner

Some missionaries bound for Africa were laughed at by the boat captain. 'You'll only die over there,' he said. But a missionary replied, 'Captain, we died before we started.'

William Carey

Is not the commission of our Lord still binding upon us? Can we not do more than now we are doing?

William Carey

To know the will of God, we need an open Bible and an open map.

Alan Hevesi

Part of our mission in this project is to restore some of that confidence, ... But, that's going to take some pain.

Milan Kundera

I have no mission. No one has.

Luis Palau

A nation will not be moved by timid methods.

Emile M. Cioran

My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.

Ellen G. White

The spirit of Christ is a missionary spirit.

John Ellsworth

I want to make sure his mission is finished.

Tom Nutten

It actually works, and he obviously has no inhibition to show it. I think it has some kind of a gravitational pull, because everything does go towards him. That's why he is the center, and he is in the middle.

Jamie Campbell Bower

'Hamlet' is obviously a role a lot of actors want to portray or be involved with in some way and that I'd like to be involved in.

Kate Middleton

It's obviously nerve-wracking, because I don't know the ropes really, William is obviously used to it, but I'm willing to learn quickly and work hard.

Burt Stellers

I thought we rebounded harder, and defensively we were a lot more intense. They took it to us the first time. For us to come back and get a victory was obviously a positive.

John Gordon Sinclair

I think the problem I have is that first impressions are the ones that stick with people. And people's first impressions of me are obviously from the film, from 'Gregory's Girl.'

Robert Wiley

I think that his performances (in the WAFL) have been outstanding and (he's come into the side) obviously to replace Phillip Matera,

Kerry Haigh

We're obviously disappointed for the spectators who were unable to see the finish. We all wanted to see a finish, obviously.

Peter Beattie

He'll obviously want to return to the U.S. as soon as possible,

Taylor Twellman

A lot has changed, ... With it being one game, them obviously playing well of late, I don't think we're the favorite.

Nastassja Kinski

Just now, I've been working all the time and I don't have much of a personal life.

Roger Lemerre

It is not a personal thing for me, it is a voyage for the Tunisian team and people.

Dan Bartlett

He doesn't have a personal relationship with him.

Rob Zombie

The studio experience fluctuates depending on who you work with, it's not like it's all one experience. Every studio is different, every producer's personality is different. You never know what you're going to do.

Tullian Tchividjian

An identity based in the one-way love of God does not take into account public opinion or, thankfully, even personal opinion.

Will Smith

I've trained myself to illuminate the things in my personality that are likable and to hide and protect the things that are less likeable.

Vivienne Westwood

If you dress up, it helps your personality to emerge - if you choose well.

Ryan Stiles

I'm Jim Phillips, I have multiple personalities. I'm also a skindiver, a puppeteer, and I was the tenth president of the United States.

Wilhelm Steinitz

I am fully and entirely concentrated on the board. I never even consider my opponent's personality. So far as I am concerned, my opponent might as well be an abstraction or an automaton.