Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ken Baker

Approximately 26 percent of the surrounding property owners within 200 feet of the property have officially registered opposition to the request. Because of this, a super majority vote (six of seven council members) is needed to approve the requested zoning change.

Gary Buehler

We are very aware that many, many people are waiting for more generics to be approved and that there is frustration about the backlog.

Robert Ghiz

Sixty per cent of the population has to show up to vote; 60 per cent have to approve the change. Also 60 per cent of the ridings have to approve the change.

James Perkins

I can't guarantee it. It is important to us to get FEMA to approve us,

O. J. Simpson

My biggest passion in life is shoes. My mom, I would wear hers as a kid. I am in on the creative meetings and designing and drawings. And I approve everything that you see.

Maria Bain

We have some way to go, though, before this drug will be approved for use in people with stroke. We need to learn the extent of its benefits, optimal initiation of treatment time and duration of treatment, as well as long-term side effects associated with treatment.

Debbie Tower

We were not able to do the project as part of an emergency response because FEMA didn't approve it. FEMA considered it permanent repair, not emergency repairs.

John Norris

We are bogged down in red tape. We're not able to get things approved and get to (work in) the field.

Peter Murphy

For the first time, we have a situation where quality charter schools will not be approved for no other reason than there's no room to approve.

Sam Mitchell

Probably 80 per cent of it (is due to youth and inexperience). They come out with veteran guys who understand the league and know how to play. We come out with second-year guys, it's tough.

Colleen Kelley

An increase of 8 cents a mile, while better than leaving the reimbursement rate untouched, falls far short of what needs to be done to help people who must travel to perform the duties of their jobs.

Ernest Mandel

After all, the history of the 20th century is the history of social revolutions.

Malcolm Gets

Once you have a central character who announces in the first five minutes of the show that he feels whooped by life and that he's had enough, I'm in. I'm hooked.

Naomi Mitchison

It was all coming out from somewhere, and I just had the job of writing it down. I was, however, determined that the central characters would have a happy ending, but it was quite difficult sometimes to get them out of trouble.

Jake Epstein

The very first concert I ever went to was a Green Day concert when I was 12 years old, at the Hershey Centre in Mississauga, Ont., and I remember right after seeing them perform I started a band, and I wanted to get up in front of people and start performing. Ten years later, to be on the Green Day 'American Idiot' tour is really awesome.

Bobby Burton

You're talking about 35 million households who watched the Rose Bowl. That was putting the Longhorns front and center in a lot of future recruits.

Edward Brooke

When most presidents get in, they move to the center because they realize that this is a centrist country - even Reagan.

Lori Smith

We've seen a dramatic shift in the '80s and '90s and into this century with more political involvement by women, and I think that's a good thing.

Frank Barnaby

A vast percentage of centrifuges have to be rejected in testing, up to 60% rejection.

Phil Simms

The team performed even better than I thought they would,

John Eaton

I wait until something is really in the shape that I want to make it as a permanent record, because I think of recording as a permanent record.

China Anne McClain

On Disney, we stick to the script. But you go to the 'Grown Ups set' and it's completely different. Same thing with Tyler Perry - it's nothing but ad-libbing.

Stacy Stewart

Perhaps by the end of the work week it could be posing a threat to Bermuda, but not the US.

Anthony Sampson

Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.

Brian Tracy

Persistence is self-discipline in action.

Jane Austen

To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of 26 and 18 is to do pretty well

Jamie Redknapp

I am a positive person and do not allow things to get on top of me.

Clayton Christensen

It's like in biological evolution: The population will evolve, even though individuals can't. The same thing happens in the corporate world: The population of business units within corporations evolves, even though individual business units can't. That's because the capabilities of business units reside in their processes and their values, and by their very nature, processes and values are inflexible and meant not to change.

Jack London

In a saturated population life is always cheap.

Kelley Armstrong

A stereotype becomes a stereotype when a significant percentage of the population appears to conform to it.

Marc Lumpkin

It's a way to go after another segment of the population that wants to sign up for satellite-TV service but hasn't had a way to do it.

Lou Holtz

There are certain things in this world we all have in common such as time. Everybody has sixty seconds to a minute, sixty minutes to an hour, twenty-four hours to a day. The difference is what we do with that time and how we use it.