Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kathleen Troia McFarland

Russia does not have a modern economy: it's a petro-power. The only thing it sells that the world wants to buy is oil and natural gas. When was the last time anyone bought a Russian computer? A Russian car? A Russian cell phone? Russia is so dependent on high energy prices that if oil falls below $100 a barrel, the Kremlin can't meet payroll.

Robert LeBlanc

Knowing these people, most of them are hunters, trappers, farmers, they're not going to wait on FEMA or anyone else. They're going to do what they need to do. They're used to primitive conditions.

Garrett Gomez

I wouldn't say I thought I had the race won. It was all in the way he was going to respond to me when we turned for home. Once we headed to about the three-eighths pole, he seemed to start to come back to me a little bit more than I liked. And I said, 'I'm going to go now.' I thought I went fast enough that as long as I had him going I wouldn't give anyone a chance to even get close to him.

Shauna Dunlap

I would urge anyone who has information about this individual or about the robbery to contact us and prevent this individual from striking again.

Jack Kilmer

I admire James Franco. I admire somebody like Jack Nicholson. Anyone who just does movies for the sake of making movies and takes big risks.

Tiffani Walker

I always expect a good performance from her. She is the type of player who is harder on herself than anyone else can be. If she's not doing as well as she feels she should be doing, she picks it up a notch.

Steve Savard

He was a better friend than anyone will ever know.

Tom Curran

He walked on the field and was 6 inches taller than anyone there. My eyes lit up.

Robin Gibb

He could play a few chords on a keyboard and inspire a whole song. I don't think anyone could play a few notes as magically as Maurice could. Maurice is a part of the history of the Bee Gees, so the music will always have Maurice in it. We've lost Maurice, but we'll never lose his inspiration.

Peter Davis

Relevance to Alzheimer's? I don't know, ... It's a nice piece of work in the snail model, but any possible link to Alzheimer's is currently obscure.

Richard Wilson

If there's a frustration about the Rosebud season this year, it's that there's not enough Friday nights to screen all the good stuff that's currently available.

Brian Jones

We are currently over the Sahara Desert. We are positioning ourselves to enter the Gulf Stream.

Thomas Ferguson

The next denomination in the series will be a new $10 note, ... We are currently working on the design and expect to unveil it in the spring of 2005.

Ed Pinckney

It's sometimes embarrassing when these guys come back, because he makes such a big thing about them being part of the program. They really respect the fact he integrates what they've done with the guys that are currently here.

Ralph Brown

It'll employ about 275 jobs. My estimate is that Wal-Mart will displace about 100 jobs that are currently here, so we'll have about 175 jobs net.

Brian Daugherty

They currently have one, but within a few years, we're hoping to have five or six, and expand from there. This will be a great opportunity for us to be with our family, and my wife will have the option of not working and spending more time with our boys.

Romeo Dator

They've had a very good run, year-to-date, and we're probably selling into the strength. There's no indication that there's going to be the second-half pick-up that's currently priced into the valuations.

Christopher Hill

The six parties are currently in the process of evaluating where we are as right.

Dick Cheney

I think the economic outlook makes tax reform, tax cuts more important than ever, ... Because it does look like the economy has slowed significantly.

Andrew Goodsall

Whatever way you cut it, it was a good result. But it was helped by strong hedging gains because sales were better than forecast.

Dean Stanley

I think that cut is priced into the markets,

David H. Koch

I think to balance the budget, probably every federal department has to take cuts in my opinion.

Joseph Muscat

It is not fair that honest people who always paid their taxes were being denied a cut in income tax while those involved in the VAT scandal were given light sentences and those who failed to pay VAT in the past years were being offered an amnesty.

Kris Husnick

Last year it was just a shock that I was going, because I didn't make the cut (my sophomore year). For my junior year to make it to state, it was a great feeling.

Dan McCarney

Last year it was a fact that there was a gap between the North and South. But there have been years in the past when the North has dominated. I know that Iowa State is going to do everything we can to cut down on the disparity between the North and South.

Kyle O'Brien

I was working hard in that direction. He just can't cut the weight to get to 112.

Edoardo Molinari

I was just here to make the cut and see what happened in match play. It turned out very good in the end.

Phil Olson

It could be a lot of money depending on how popular they become.

Justin McNaull

Labor Day seems to be going out with more of a whimper than a bang, depending on where you are.

Kelly Hu

It's fun being able to suit up and go and kick butt and not have to worry about memorizing dialogue. It's a whole different way of acting because you're not depending on the words at all, you're really depending on everything else that you have.

Hans Kristensen

It's depending on the scenario. The whole point of 8022 is that it's supposed to be extremely flexible. It's a new thing.

Tre Kelley

I've got something to show this year. I've got something to really prove. I think I will earn respect this year. It's that time to step up and be that player I can be. I have to be ready to step into that role. They're depending on me to be the leader this year. I have to show those qualities of being a leader.

Jim Spears

Nothing is set with the other players and may not be until game time depending on what those players have going on.

Reginald Knowles

It may take several weeks, depending on the weather.

Bryan Derreberry

So, depending on how much money we use during this time period, we'll make an evaluation whether we can do another enhanced program or not.

Retief Goosen

It's usually a 6-iron, depending on the wind. Sometimes, it can be a 5-iron, or even a 4-iron, when the pin is to the right.

Steve Lundholm

It always makes it nice when the team performs this well. I'm not surprised with the way they played. They have been playing better; I hope they peak at the right time with districts on Tuesday.

Tom Suelzle

I think it's going to be a good district tourney. If a team gets hot, anything can happen.

Chris Williams

I think it's fair to say that high schools all over the district are over capacity, but the north end is especially bad. We desperately need a new high school.

Mike Johnson

I think that people can see the results of everything that's going on and the progress in District 8 during my time in office, ... We've provided everyone a seat at the table.

Stephen Gussler

We may kind of fly under the radar a bit, but we have a good sound team. We were seeded fourth last year, and this year we'd like to go out and win a district title.

Steve Larson

We look at the developments that are occurring in the School District area.

Chris Steinmetz

If we come out and are ready to play, we'll have just as good an opportunity in our district to win it. It's all about the kids working hard. We're giving them the tools and strategies and getting them to work hard, but it comes down to them. We're not where we want to be.

Augustine Ruiz

I don't know what to expect. I would just like us to go out there and play hard. We have some good teams that we are going to play early in the season. Hopefully, that will prepare us for district play.

Todd Vesely

He was trying to stick the landing, and that's what you want. He had just watched two teammates in front of him stick their landings, and he was going for it. He's a competitor, and he's been in this position before. What I'm most pleased is the way the team improved from district to this meet, and hopefully that will continue.

Bryce Kaneshiro

Kaiser, they always step it up in the playoffs. They eliminated us last year, I didn't forget that.

Paul Lambert

I think it's going to slow the shopping around (of student-athletes). I don't know if it's going to eliminate it, but I think it's going to slow it down. It's a good deal.

Joe Herald

I didn't go into this with the underlying premise that I wanted to eliminate the idea of a centralized campus.

Charles Schumer

He has been one of the most outspoken anti-choice crusaders in the country. He has worked to totally eliminate even in (cases of) rape and incest a woman's right to choose.

Ariel Sharon

He must start to eliminate the terrorist organizations,

Walt Dabney

Our only option was to shut down operations and eliminate positions.

Bill Crawford

If you eliminate just one of those groups of people, we're just flat out of luck.

Kevin Wilson

If you get him in the pass game, sometimes you eliminate half of the guys he's got to beat.

Kathy Roberts

It has been proven to safely eliminate or reduce many of the normal discomforts of pregnancy.

Mike Ford

Recently, the news has been filled with big jackpots and winners. Wouldn't you love to be part of the winning?

Ray Brown

They did a great job of scheming. I was surprised at some of the looks we got. They filled (the gaps) a different way with their linebackers that we didn't anticipate. I don't think we did a good job of adjusting.

Mark Harmsen

There will be canyons of people grandstands filled with spectators watching them.

Dennis Smith

A year ago, I think I filled my tanks in the $1.15, ($1.18) range, and this year, we're pushing $2.25 to $2.30.

Rick Miller

A solo show is filled with 100 moments that you try to make better and better.

Bhagavad Gita

Then Arjuna, filled with wonder and his hairs standing on end, bowed his head to the Lord and prayed with folded hands.

Margaret MacDonald

The Spirit must and will be poured out on the church, that she may be purified and filled with God - and just in proportion as the Spirit of God works, so will he - when our Lord anoints men with power, so will he.

Atharva Veda

The One Lord of the Universe is the Support of His humble servants. They love the One Lord; their minds are filled with love for the Lord. The Name of the Lord is all treasures for them.

John White Geary

The roads are filled with armed robbers, and murders for mere plunder are of daily occurrence.

Paul Johnston

It is a lot of money. We've never had that kind of funding for this kind of work.

John McKay

It's not a lack of initiative or a lack of trying. The funding is simply not there right now.

Jo Salyers

There was never any funding to work with.

Rod Nelson

We know we have it (PRP) for 2006, but funding has been taken away for 2007. However, it could be back in 2008.

Ray Durham

We're just not getting the funding for the legislature to get updated and new equipment.

Dale Mitchell

The state does not provide any funding at all,

Richard Mann

Scholarship funding doesn't come from the state, it doesn't come from university coffers.

Bob Albanese

It would take years to rehabilitate all of the large lecture classes. We simply do not have the funding from the government.

John Duncan

That type of funding just isn't going to happen.

Monica Crowley

Just when you think you've heard it all from Team Obama, the next day brings another jaw-dropper.

Meredith Ostrom

John Casablancas was saying, 'You will be the next Claudia Schiffer!' But I said, 'Actually, I have to go to college.'

Ted Ligety

I think it's kind of stupid to make him do it if he isn't going to be in the next run.

Ken Warwick

When they go to school the next day, it's become the show to watch, and if they haven't seen it, they've got a problem.

Elliott Sadler

I actually am pretty pumped up for the next nine races.

Edward Cooke

He was poking the screen with it, over and over until he ripped it. But he didn't say anything about it, and then he actually incorporated it into his explanation of the next slide.

Dylan Carr

He was good, but I'll be back next year.

Charlie Lewis

He was really on us that next morning, ... We didn't start that day.

Dave Blaney

I don't know where I'm going to be at next year. That's all I know,

Caroline Norton

A soldier of the Legion lay dying in Algiers, There was a lack of woman's nursing, there was dearth of woman's tears; But a comrade stood beside him, while his lifeblood ebbed away.

Desmond Tutu

Nursing a grudge is bad for your heath.

Anne-Marie Slaughter

Someone must transform income into the food, shelter, clothing, nurture, discipline, education, minding, nursing, transportation, and emotional support that creates life outside of the office, permits survival of the race, cares for the ill and disabled, and makes life livable when we can no longer care for ourselves.

Stephen Ambrose

It would not be possible to praises nurses too highly.

Steven Amsterdam

Nursing demands vigilance about people. The sights and smells that a patient offers, their movements and their offhand comments all contribute crucial information to understanding what they need. Training and experience heighten one's ability to see what needs to be seen.

Florence Nightingale

Instead of wishing to see more doctors made by women joining what there are, I wish to see as few doctors, either male or female, as possible. For, mark you, the women have made no improvement they have only tried to be "men" and they have only succeeded in being third-rate men.

Florence Nightingale

I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.

Florence Nightingale

A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.

Florence Nightingale

Women should have the true nurse calling, the good of the sick first the second only the consideration of what is their 'place' to do - and that women who want for a housemaid to do this or the charwomen to do that, when the patient is suffering, have not the making of a nurse in them.

Joel Klein

has been and always remains open to a settlement.

Eric Wicks

I thought they'd try to run a lot more outside to open up the field. I think after a while, they were just trying to make a play, anywhere.

Anthony Geary

I have friends in France who are artists. I go to gallery openings and things like that.

Tom Peterson

Our middles are very good. We passed really well and that opened things up for our offense.

Cynthia Johnson

In the past two years, since so many burrito places have been opening up, people have been going there.

Ted Fitzgerald

In practice, they seem to be more open to abuse.

Pete Carroll

I never thought we'd get that much open space. It was way better than I could have imagined.

Valerie Cranford

If you're 70 and still riding, we're open to that.

Paul Vachon

If you give them open looks, they don't miss. But if you have someone there, and especially with Paradis because she shoots from the hip, it's going to be a little tougher than if they're open.

Seth Shostak

The planets and moons of our solar system are blatantly visible because they reflect sunlight. Without the nearby Sun, these planets would be cryptic and dark on the sky.

Juli Lax

I think we're up to Plan K right now.

Fred Williams

I ain't got no plane money. I just stayed... this is all I got right here.

Richard Paul Evans

Life is what happens to us while we're planning something else.

River Phoenix

Although I can't stop all cruelty to living creatures on the planet, I can be kinder to every living creature in my life.

Vladimir Putin

Though we still come first in the sphere of gas export, national production has diminished due to the increasing volumes of hydrogenation for the electric power industry and therefore there is a lower need for gas at thermal power plants.

Winston Churchill

Plans are worthless. Planning is priceless.

Walter Raleigh

Corrupt seeds bring forth corrupt plants.

Mack Brown

Plan on being behind. Plan on getting yourself in trouble.

Mila Kunis

Always have a backup plan.

Kevin Reilly

It's not dead, but I don't have any plans on it.

Joshua Chamberlain

We know not of the future and cannot plan for it much.

Gil Reyes

It's just not in our plans yet to retire.

Frans Ludeke

We have had to prepare plans for all eventualities.

Ron White

I don't even plan things until later, so no I got no plans.

Spike Milligan

We haven't got a plan so nothing can go wrong!

Shirley Manson

I plan on doing as much in my life as I possibly can.

Randy Pausch

You can always change you plan, but only if you have one.

Paul Perry

I think that positions No. 2 through 7 could be inter-changeable all year.

Todd Borrison

I thought we got a lot of second and third shots and every time you do that, you put yourself in position to be successful.

Carl Banks

He was the standard for that position in that era.

Gholam Elham

Our position is very clear. We will not back down.

Barbara Bush

in a position to make good, crisp decisions.

Mark Whitaker

in a position to know the things he was telling us.

Joe Lockhart

I'm not in a position to predict the two sides will reach an agreement.

Roderick Scott

Their position is not a Wal-Mart when, it's a Wal-Mart never. We're trying to be responsive to their issues, but they will always have a problem with the location.

Tim King

The city's position is that we've come to a stalemate and that we should go to mediation,

Doug Anderson

I think we need to put it in a referendum and present it to the people,

Jeff Bzdelik

I haven't even thought about it. This is my first time here, so I'm worried about the present.

Larry Spell

I really like what you're presenting to us here tonight.

Alessandra Ambrosio

My little girl, Anja, is really excited. We had a baby shower yesterday and she took the presents from everyone for me and was telling them, 'No, it's my baby.'

Gary Hanson

At the present time, I still don't think I will be a candidate, but I am not willing to rule it out,

Keith Henderson

Evidence-wise, we're going to present two different cases,

Warren Harding

America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration.

Shannon Davis

They put together a scholarship and presented it to me,

John Taylor

A smart entrepreneur will go back and present it again.

Ken Stern

It has to come to a head. We won't have Social Security if it doesn't.

Shaharyar Khan

The ECB should not feel insecure. They have strict security at all the grounds.

Taylor Swift

I don't have big security guards. I don't have an entourage.

Fatih Birol

We think security of supply will be a big problem.

Colin Powell

Finding the Russian scientists may be a problem being that Russia does not have a Social Security System, as here in America, that allows us to monitor, track down and capture an American citizen.

Alice Cooper

How old are you? Sixteen? S-seventeen? [asks security guard] Is seventeen legal?

Thomas Brooks

He who stands upon his own strength will never stand.

Rand Beers

The precondition to freedom is security.

Alberto Gonzales

Security is a concern, ... It is a priority.

Dwyane Wade

I was in the right place at the right time to get the bucket.

Ronny Jenkins

I take my vacation this time of year every year.

Graham Elliot

Any time you can involve fake mustaches, things are just better.

Mona Singh

It is about time that TV actors were paid as well as film stars.

John Shimkus

It is a bittersweet time for many of us to be here,

Jack Smith

It is a long season, we have a long time to get at them.

Lorrie Moore

I think women do write politically all the time. Margaret Atwood does; Doris Lessing does.

Scottish Proverb

What may be done at any time will be done at no time

Lorena Ochoa

There is going to be a time when they come my way.

Emily Cederholm

I think the expectations are higher, but they don't feel so much pressure. This whole year is different.

Brandon Roy

I think this is the year it can happen.

Richard D. James

My filing system's really crap because I can never decide whether to sort things by studio, or year, or where I lived.

Richard D. James

I've always got to change something. All the tracks I've done in the last five years were made in like six different studios. It gets a bit complicated.

Robbie Coltraine

Once you've been doing anything for twenty-five years people start to notice you.

Rob Sheffield

Not being able to protect her from things was the most frightening thing I'd ever felt, and it kicked in as soon as we got together. With every year we spent together, I became more conscious that I now had an infinitely expanding number of reasons to be afraid. I had something to lose.

Rob Chapman

The way I have progressed as a writer over the years is to try and stay true to the principles I absorbed.

Rob Halford

They were and still are a groundbreaking band. Even though they haven't released any new music in ages, you can put on the first Black Sabbath album and it still sounds as fresh today as it did 30-odd years ago. And that's because great music has a timeless ability: To me, Sabbath are in the same league as the Beatles or Mozart. They're on the leading edge of something extraordinary.

Richard P. Feynman

If the professors of English will complain to me that the students who come to the universities, after all those years of study, still cannot spell 'friend,' I say to them that something's the matter with the way you spell friend.