Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Urman

There is no question that films that we would have considered viable just a few seasons ago are too risky to undertake these days, ... Small films are smaller than ever and titles that would have done decently a few years back would almost certainly be doomed to abject failure these days.

Eliot Spitzer

It's fascinating to me: when it comes to innovation in policy, it all comes from the states, ... It reflects an abject failure of policy (at the national level) in terms of dealing with energy, the environment or the securities industry. And into that void, the states have stepped.

Steven Goldstein

This is a major milestone. This is the most populous county in the southern part of the state. It shows geographic unity against homophobia and abject hatred.

Steven Camarota

Coming to America is becoming a national aspiration rather than simply reflecting abject economic conditions.

Eric Massa

Across the board, this program has been an abject failure.

Thomas E. Lawrence

This death's livery which walled its bearers from ordinary life was sign that they have sold their wills and bodies to the State: and contracted themselves into a service not the less abject for that its beginning was voluntary.

Kara Walker

My work is really abject and self-effacing sometimes. I mean, it's big and overwrought, but it's just paper dolls, and it's kind of silly.

Jim Boeheim

First of all, I want to start off with a profound abject apology for my language yesterday.

Atharva Veda

Water is the abject necessity for any kind of life to exist.

Mike Bundy

We want the Norton area to be able to support itself.

Tom Hansen

We want them to test the waters. We want to see if other areas are attractive to us.

S. Hughes

We want the kids to learn about working on yachts, crewing them, marine electronics, boat building and design, interior design and engine repair. Since we have many brokers in the area, we will even have people teach them how to sell yachts. There are so many areas they can pursue.

Robin Pearson

We want to think of ways to promote the parks and bring in more visitors to see the area and spend time here. We need a plan, a strategy.

Thom Ciarniello

We want to start branching out. It's really a brave move for us because we're used to being around our area here, and to step out is really big. But I look forward to it.

Dave Rose

We actually had a great crowd tonight. Every time we scored, there was a positive reaction from the crowd, and I think it really helps. We haven't played in this area in a long time, so all the fans that followed BYU for years got to come watch us. We also have three players on our team from Texas. It was nice to have the fans' support.

Craig Perry

We always had most of our communities in South Florida. But we have big plans now for Central Florida. It's an area we want to be a part of.

Gabe Gross

The only area of the game where I really didn't have a good year in was hitting the ball out of the ballpark, ... I feel like in every other area I improved in and had a solid year.

Dick Thompson

The outbreaks in those areas are being contained, ... There's still disease, but the disease is largely contained in hospitals.

Nina Jacobson

When you read a book, you create that tonal bandwidth. You set a tone for yourself, as you're reading it, in which everything exists within the world of your imagination.

Lydia Leonard

I've met more than one person in their early 20s who has never heard of Jackie Onassis, though most girls have because she exists as a fashion icon.

Larry James

Absolutely, with the growth we experienced last year, Lithia Toyota recognized the opportunity that exists here in Odessa.

Joseph Biden

This has become the greatest propaganda tool that exists for recruiting of terrorists around the world, and it is unnecessary to be in that position, ... This Week.

Bhagwan Rajneesh

It is true that nothing exists without a thought first, but the idea that thought comes from form is backwards.

Andrei Kostin

We plan to offer a significant number of the shares to members of the public. Interest exists there. The shares will be sold this year and next.

Neil Sheehan

Any contamination that exists is at low levels. It does not pose a threat to the public or workers at the site.

George Carl

A distressing gap exists between the public's expectations for retirement and the reality.

Teju Cole

Punitive murder by the police and by vigilantes has existed in all societies at some point, and probably still exists in most.

Paul Johnston

We want people to know we are on schedule, that June 1 (the start of hurricane season) is obtainable and it is our intention to do that.

Charles Rangel

Hurricane season routinely strikes the Caribbean harder than the U.S.

Alex Penelas

worse than what we experienced last year with Hurricane Irene in that the water has come in a much shorter period of time.

Mike Trevino

We've got another 800 (adjusters) or so standing by waiting to work Hurricane Rita.

David Joy

We'll see what impact, if anything, the hurricane had on them, and it may be a harbinger.

David Beasley

Unfortunately, it looks like Hurricane Bertha is making a major turn for the worse,

Brad Cotter

With the hurricane and all some people wondered if the show was still on,

Valerie Plagnol

As we were still in the process of assessing Katrina's impact on the economy, Hurricane Rita appears, stirring new worries of oil supply shortage in the United States.

Mitch Frazier

There is not the hurricane protection here that there once was. It is significantly compromised. The hurricane level protection we have had here prior to Hurricane Katrina will not be able to return. It will be years, not months.

John Franklin

It's not so much Katrina as a phenomenon as it's Katrina as a metaphor for what our society has become. It reflects; it's a mirror of what we've become - super-extraordinarily complacent.

Tom Cole

These are serious numbers. The question is whether this is a trend or a reaction to Katrina and Rita.

Jack Reed

We're about see a second tidal surge from Katrina and Rita,

Maya MacGuineas

There is a window where nobody will be willing to say 'no' to anything as long as it has a Katrina label on it.

Rick Perry

Between Katrina and our preparations for this, people understand this isn't something you're going to play around with,

John Edward

Every single resident of New Orleans, regardless of their wealth or status, will have terrible losses and life-altering experiences, ... suffered the most from Katrina because they always suffer the most.

Anthony Black

We should be back to normal operations from a Katrina standpoint sometime Thursday.

Roger Diwan

This was a big reminder of how tight the system is. And what Katrina did is make the system even tighter going forward.

Barbara Ward

You'd think that after Katrina they'd be willing to leave, but you never know,

Tim Chapman

When you think about it, there's not much between New Orleans and Atlanta. We're going to need shelters here.

Walter Baumy

We have never seen this in the New Orleans district.

David Wagner

They don't have much New Orleans to come to right now.

Wayne Gandy

You can't just be thinking about yourself now. Watching what's going on back in New Orleans just makes you thankful you're not in that situation.

Robin Milano

There was no water in it. We're in the 10-20 percent of New Orleans that was not flooded.

Paul Tagliabue

I told our owners (while planning the event) that this would be a true celebration of the New Orleans Saints, and, before you know it, they'll be America's team.

Wayne Gandy

Our situation is uncomfortable. But for the people in New Orleans it's catastrophic.

Mike Tidwell

The same levees that made New Orleans inhabitable have now made New Orleans uninhabitable.

Shawna Graham

I've been going there since I was 6 years old. But they're going to have a whole new New Orleans than what we did. It will never be the same.

Charles Dickens

This is the even-handed dealing of the world!" he said. "There is noth-ing on which it is so hard as poverty; and there is nothing it professes tocondemn with such severity as the pursuit of wealth!

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

One of the things that struck me when I came to the U.S. was discovering American poverty.

Billy Sunday

The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.

Charles Lamb

Rags, which are the reproach of poverty, are the beggar's robes, and graceful insignia of his profession, his tenure, his full dress, the suit in which he is expected to show himself in public.

Charles Lamb

We were happier when we were poorer, but we were also younger.

Charles Lamb

In the indications of female poverty there can be no disguise. No woman dresses below herself from caprice.

Charles Baudelaire

As a remedy against all ills - poverty, sickness, and melancholy - only one thing is absolutely necessary: a liking for work

Carlos Slim

Poverty isn’t solved with donations.

Edward Kennedy

No one who works for a living should live in poverty.

Jacki Weaver

A lot of actors, whatever movie you're working on, you make up a back story just for your own, to work off, even if the audience doesn't have it revealed to them. I think it's important that the audience makes up their own mind.

Christopher Molineux

Sometimes things are most truly revealed by the illuminance of twilight

Stephen Manes

What's been revealed of Windows Vista is particularly sad.

Gunter Blobel

The structure of many cellular macromolecules has been revealed at the atomic level using x-ray crystallography.

Brian Bannister

It's not torn. It's not anything severe. It's really just tight right now. If it was more severe I'd probably be sitting down.

Mo Ibrahim

African leaders work really under severe limitations and constraints.

John Lichtblau

This is a severe but temporary situation. Repairs can be done.

Herb Sendek

I think it was really a severe injury,

Mike Edwards

We've dodged a bullet. It's not as severe as it has been in the past.

Brian Billick

It's always more severe than it sounds. We'll have to see on the toe.

Irving Penn

The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader.

Chris Chocola

Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States.

Denis McDonough

The bottom line is this. When it comes to preventing violent extremism and terrorism in the United States, Muslim Americans are not part of the problem, you're part of the solution.

Charlaine Harris

Episcopalians are pretty thin on the ground in the central United States.

Charles Rangel

The United States is historically a nation of immigrants.

Madeleine Albright

I have always seen the United States as a force of good. And I have learned that there is the idealistic part about what we can do at the U.N. and there is a doable part. And I have learned what is more doable.

Hillary Clinton

There is no part of the world that is irrelevant to the United States anymore.

Robert H. Connelly

They're watching Katrina. They're watching Rita. They're watching what it's doing to the United States.

Ban Ki-moon

The United Nations is committed to ridding the world of anti-personnel landmines.

Jerry Costello

The United States transportation system is the envy of the world.

Camille Paglia

History shows that male homosexuality, which like prostitution flourishes with urbanization and soon becomes predictably ritualized, always tends toward decadence.

David Guterson

I'm not an urban person.

Aubrey O'Day

I have a very pop voice, but there's so much of me I associate mostly with urban music, so I try to blend the two.

Jeremy Corbyn

To give everyone a house and garden is very difficult in urban areas.

Adam Savage

We're allowed to explore the world at large on these things; the urban-legend aspect of it is just kind of an excuse.

Aldous Huxley

All urbanization, pushed beyond a certain point, automatically becomes suburbanization.... Every great city is just a collection of suburbs. Its inhabitantsdo not live in their city; they merely inhabit it.

T. S. Eliot

A thousand policemen directing traffic cannot tell you why you come or where you go.

Melanie Fiona

Canada can be tough for urban music.

Nalo Hopkinson

I’m going to check the world’s best source for spawning new urban legends, the Internet. What, you thought I couldn’t even type? The Web is just another threshold between one world and another.