Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Zahler

As a species, the cheetahs are still in dire straits in Iran, so it is extremely encouraging to see an apparently healthy family in their native habitat.

Kevin Bankston

As best we can tell, the NSA program is apparently the biggest fishing expedition ever devised, scanning millions of ordinary Americans' calls and e-mails for suspicious patterns.

Tom Vinger

Apparently they were not bad enough to put him out of service.

Fred Eckhard

Apparently they are nowhere near Freetown. We can no longer confirm it out of New York. The information is just not good.

Fred Eckhard

Apparently they are nowhere near Freetown, ... We can no longer confirm it out of New York. The information is just not good.

Robert Blackburn

Approximately 2.5 to 3 hours later I received another telephone call from the Nursing Staff stating that they had noticed change of mental status with the patient. Apparently he was having difficulty walking. He was unable to swallow his pills and actually kind of spit the antibiotics out. They felt that the patient was having significant changes.

Dick Durbin

Apparently the White House believes she doesn't have any burden to prove she deserves a lifetime appointment.

Donald Watkins

Apparently the spanking we gave them in Birmingham was not sufficient. We will have to do a better job in Montgomery.

Gary Hill

Apparently the second landowner was a friend of the first and just followed suit,

Pam Olshanski

The call actually came in as a mental subject call as officers were responding. The mother had called, concerned for her son's welfare. We're familiar with the house as we've responded as recently as last week under similar conditions.

Dan Waterman

The big thing is we were able to stop them from running down the floor. We got back on defense, didn't give them any cheap buckets. We made them set up and call the play and we were able to defend those plays pretty well.

James Schlesinger

a wake-up call with regard to the dependency or the growing dependency of the United States on foreign sources of supply.

David Strow

At some of our properties, absenteeism was below-normal. Some properties had as few as 10 people call in.

Kevin Mawae

A winning team doesn't do dumb things, and we did a lot of dumb things the other day, ... Redemption is not the word, getting better is what you call it. Last week we laid an egg. The whole team did. ... We just need to line up and play.

Merry Clayton

Back when I was working with the Stones and with Joe Cocker and Neil Young and Neil Diamond and all of those - 'the boys,' I call them - it was fun.

Phil Gordon

A tight player raised from middle position. I had to call about one-twelfth of my stack with pocket deuces.

Chuck James

As long as I'm getting the job done, I have no complaints. They can call me whatever.

Mayor Ralph

That philosophy is extremely dangerous. I'm hearing it day in and day out and getting phone call after phone call.

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.

George Moore

A very slight change in our habits is sufficient to destroy our sense of our daily reality, and the reality of the world about us; the moment we pass out of our habits we lose all sense of permanency and routine

John B. Hood

A vast majority of the votes have to do with policy matters, for which your member has one vote out of 120. It's (a new lawmaker) unlikely to dramatically change anything.

Mike Parsons

As often does happen, new head coaches like to come in a make their marks. One of the things he wanted to do was change the helmet.

Karl Frieden

As long as Congress doesn't change the rules of the game, there's only so far the states can go.

Sung Sohn

A slight decline should not change the picture that much, ... If you look at the fundamentals, despite all the negative news, consumers are in pretty good shape. The jobless rate is pretty low, and their net worth is going up because house prices going up.

Trevor Pryce

As long as I've been here, ... I've never seen one play change a game like that.

M. Wolfe

As long as I own it, I retain the option to change the color,

Kaley Cuoco

As I've gotten older, I've had to change my food intake.

Kathleen Gurney

often have the most difficulty because they put everything into their businesses. These people often find themselves misplaced a bit.

Dan Kelly

I understand the difficulty it puts them in to choose,

Kevin Smith

This is really the last resort because of the expense and difficulty.

Eric Close

The majority of the world - including myself - we all have problems and difficulty in life, and life's messy. But there are great rewards in life, too.

John Chrysostom

I know my own soul, how feeble and puny it is: I know the magnitude of this ministry, and the great difficulty of the work; for more stormy billows vex the soul of the priest than the gales which disturb the sea.

Al Jarreau

Since the beginning of my recording career in 1975, I have had a little difficulty because the pop stations think I'm a jazzer who doesn't have a feeling for pop, so it's hard to get my records played. Similarly, black urban radio doesn't understand that with my R&B roots, I am more than a jazz singer. So I get pigeonholed.

Steve Ball

We had some difficulty matching up with them in transition in the second half, but our offense was balanced, and we've shown we can play with anyone.

David Payne

There is no intention to increase the difficulty level.

Marc Touati

The recovery remains very fragile. Consumption slowed, investments are still subdued, and exports are having difficulty picking up.

Lee Humphrey

As a shooter you can tell when your shots are going good. Tonight I felt good, especially in the second half.

I. Stone

People felt that the need was no longer there.

Jim Calhoun

On the way down here, it was just a really happy team. They really felt they played well. ... It's going to be a different kind of game (tonight). Over the next 24 hours, at the team meeting (Sunday) and at the shoot-around (today), we'll get an opportunity to really tell them. With only six games to go, there is significance to the game.

Phil Savage

Orlando fits the 3-4. He's a physical, inside backer. We felt we needed a guy who had more bulk. He worked out and we said we'd give him a shot.

Todd Jones

Of the 20-something pitches I threw, I think only two weren't strikes. So I felt pretty good. I was very happy. Not once did I feel anything that made me think about it.

John C. Reilly

Oh, absolutely, it felt more serious than your typical job. One of the things that got us through how difficult the shooting actually was was that we are telling a real story.

Ted Lilly

No question, it was a trying year. Mentally, it was the toughest year of my career. I always felt like I could find a way to pitch myself out of a hole, and last year, I don't feel like I ever did that.

John Maahs

After the first shot, it all felt good.

Ken Hawkins

After the first inning, I thought we settled down. It felt good for the seniors. We did what we needed to do, and we got some hits when we needed them.

Liu Peng

During the Games, the test laboratories will work for 24 hours a day, and all the staff are under training now.

Jeffrey Archer

I've been doing nineteen hours a day on London, nothing else, I mean this has been my whole life, and writing has been put on one side, and if I'm privileged enough to be the Mayor of this city, then I will not write again.

Kate Thompson

I find it very difficult to say no when I'm in Ireland. You do end up going around doing lots of events and things and not getting work done, and it's not just a question of having hours at the desk.

Timothy Robishaw

First, we spent hundreds of hours since January 2003 trying to characterize how the telescope responds to radio waves.

Vic Mignogna

Be where the acting is. I live in Houston. Dallas is 4 1/2 hours away. I let them know there's no difference.

Arthur Smith

I myself am pathetically impressed when I meet writers of very long novels. How can they spend so many hundreds of hours at the miserable, lonely pastime of creating fiction?

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

I don't love acting. How can you love something when you sit around 12 hours a day and work 10 minutes a day? I'm just doing it because it keeps me off the streets and out of jail.

Wit Ostrenko

We've had more people come in the first two hours than we did all week.

Rosann Sanders

We'll have to have summer hours year round.

Kathy Bailey

Prior to that, it was mostly in the single digits. A week later it was 20.

Jaromir Jagr

Of course, you can work hard, but you have to be lucky too and you have to have a lot of talent. And later in the season, it's just my opinion, the talent is always going to show up.

Dan Bonner

The Monday after Selection Sunday, I'm scrambling to learn all the teams that I'll have to do later in the week. And then I'm out on the road.

Greg Evans

The secret is if you write enough words, sooner or later you have a book.

Romano Prodi

Sooner or later they will recognize how things are. It is very sad that there should be something like this in a mature democracy.

James Marsh

The score, which comes often quite later in a film, can help reinvigorate your emotional engagement with it.

Paula Creamer

I see the photographers. I know I'll be doing some things later on.

Pat Gerard

That's iron-fisted control, and sooner or later it's going to fail.

John Gibbons

We could probably use some of those later in the year.

Stephanie Scalessa

As a runner, the mental toughness Steven has is amazing.

Leroy Foster

The motivation wasn't there. I don't know if it was the layoff, but they just weren't ready to play. The mental mistakes, the turnovers, everything just showed they weren't prepared.

Megan Callahan

Roose has tremendous physical and mental toughness, leadership, skills, and experience.

Carol Hutchins

Samantha's one of the most mentally tough people I've ever met,

Sam Blank

It was a little different. I think its all about warming up and staying mentally focused.

Tony Russa

That's just the way he pitches. I think it has more to do with him mentally concentrating really well. He hasn't let anything get away from him.

Wendy Watson

Elena was very consistent. She's very mentally tough.

Samuel Butler

Everyone should keep a mental wastepaper basket, and the older he grows, the more things will he promptly consign to it.

Jonathan Papelbon

When I was starting I would start getting mentally prepared before the game. Now, I'm getting mentally ready during the game. There really isn't that much of a difference.

Dave Lewis

I wish I had noticed the teammate's number so I could tell you his name. He is a true American hero.

Randy Bachman

I don't like the word 'rock star' or 'super star.' I am a guitar player, a songwriter who got lucky because I stayed at it and didn't give up, long enough that people noticed me.

Tommy Bowden

They ran a lot of pursuit drills. If you noticed they ran a whole bunch. They ran their tails off pretty good. That's while they're dragging.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.

Desmond Tutu

Nursing a grudge is bad for your heath.

Stephen Ambrose

It would not be possible to praises nurses too highly.

Florence Nightingale

I use the word nursing for want of a better.

Carlos Lee

I've been very patient at the plate. I'm trying to see a lot of pitches and wait for the right one.

David Adamson

There are unquestionably some patients getting too many embryos.

Jane Goodall

Maternal behavior helps when you have to be patient with nonverbal creatures.

Billy Carter

We did over 200 adjustments, ... My patients really responded.

Carl Griffith

We had patients throwing up. It was very ugly.

Jerry Kramer

In November, 1964 when I was a patient at the Mayo Clinic I though seriously about killing myself.

Ron Gardenhire

He's just rushing. He's not being patient enough.

Garry McPeek

We have to be patient and take what they give us.

William Kamkwamba

One thing that has helped me to become patient and cool is that I grew up with sisters.

Frederick Chiluba

Privatization is a bitter pill but it is a pill that will cure.

Bea Arthur

If you would have told me ten years ago I'd be doing this and being received like I am now, I'd say you're crazy.

Jerry Glover

I have never received one dime. This is all volunteer.

Volodymyr Lytvyn

I have not received the resolution for signing.

Rachel Johnson

After that I received 74 unsolicited text messages,

Eric Dubin

When you received Rosie, did you say, 'It's now you and me, kid?'

Horton Foote

I've lived long enough to know things go in and out of fashion, and things not well received now can be totally reversed years later.

John Spiak

This year we received more entries than we ever had.

Tyler Barnes

To say that we haven't received any (complaints) would not be true, but it has only been a handful.

Joel Madden

Sorry if i spit on ya'll... I kinda have a problem with doing that.

Ice Age

Manfred: Diego, spit that out. You don't know where it's been.

Wayne Dyer

Any success that I've had in my life has been in spite of my education rather than because of it.

Joyce Carol Oates

Yet I will make you all love me and I will punish myself to spite your love.

Bette Midler

I love nature, in spite of what it did to me.

Brian Marshall

The staff told me they were going to do this. I told them it wasn't necessary.

Oliver North

The teachers that teach here could make more money. The staff could do something else.

Mark Sanchez

That's what the staff wants to do with it.

John Roberts

I was a staff lawyer, ... I didn't have a position.

Paul Tagliabue

I think that I see (finding a replacement) as one of opportunity. I told the staff that we have a lot of things in place, a lot of initiatives under way.

O. J. Simpson

Some things can swallow other things whole, but this is a chew-up-and-swallow meal.

Brian Eno

Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.

Richard Armour

I've suffered from all of the hang-ups known, and none is as bad as the telephone.

Jesse Eisenberg

To criticize Facebook is to criticize the telephone.