Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Laszlo

It certainly has not been adoption at the rate that some companies in the industry, some of the early entrants among the broadband providers, were expecting.

John Patrick Shanley

I adopted two children, then I got eye disease and five rounds of surgery. I went blind in one eye, then the other eye, and that went on for three or four years. I got very enamored and involved with the theater and did a lot of plays.

Josh King

Greenwood for a long time has wanted to compare itself to Carmel. But I gotta say that Greenwood has fallen behind. I would very much like to see Greenwood adopt the kind of image that Carmel has.

Mary Gauthier

I was adopted when I was about a year old. My adopted parents tried, but their marriage was doomed. Music saved my life. I couldn't relate to things in Baton Rouge, but I found songs that spoke to me.

Mary McDowell

We are focused on changing the economics of mobile email adoption with Nokia Business Center. As the leading mobile phone manufacturer in the world, we have the distinct advantage of being able to make a great mobile business device that can be used to make phone calls, do email, or use other applications. Considering 70 percent of people who use popular email devices also carry a mobile phone, the opportunity for us to provide one device and solution that perfectly addresses both the voice and data experiences is tremendous. In the current landscape, many industry players are going after a slice of the potential mobile email market. Nokia is going after the full 650 million corporate email inboxes. We want to knock down the barriers to mobilizing the entire corporate email market.

Dorothy Lenard

I thought the council directed the legal department to work with the authors, but we have not had any input. I think we are racing into an ordinance that no one here knows anything about. If we are going to adopt something from the county, we have to spend some time to fit it for us.

Wendy Kramer

I think we will eventually follow in England's footsteps. Donor insemination is moving in the same direction as adoption did years ago. Family secrets are unhealthy, and disclosure is in the best interest of the child. People have the right to know their genetic history.

Ed White

I think what happened is we all adopted each other.

Maisie Williams

I think a lot of people on Twitter say, 'Oh you're really cute. I want to adopt you,' and things like that, yeah.

Bruce Bochy

Jake was feeling the effects of everything going on in his teeth and his hand. To me, that is major surgery. I made up my mind after talking to him. I was inclined to get him when I went out there. I decided he had enough.

Dave Jones

He could have done anything else, but he decided to come out for track. I'm proud I got to be his coach.

Sanath Jayasuriya

I thought about it long and hard and decided that's it. It's a very emotional moment, but I guess every good thing has to come to an end.

Freddy Peralta

The people have united. The people have awakened, and they have decided to fight for their rights.

Mike Healy

We're in the process of replacing old machines right now. So we decided to put the new software that recognizes the $20s only into the new machines, starting with the highest-volume locations.

Tony Dungy

We're obviously happy for Mike. I don't know what the league's rationale is on it, but I'm sure they looked at all the facts and that's what they decided to. It's really out of our hands and we've just decided to be thankful for whatever happens.

Dave Anderson

We then decided to get together and play.

Jim Parker

We then decided that since we were making all the parts, why not make the shells and manufacture our own vintage suspension helmets,

Dusty Auxier

We thought we would be a playoff team when the season began. We had 17 games decided by less than 10 points and suffered nine league losses by five (points) or less. We could never get over the hump.

David Boyer

Our medical staff has designed stretches for each of the jobs our people do.

Mike Goodman

Internet2 was designed to make large file transfers happen quickly.

Derek Wallbank

In a meeting designed for public comment, to have one person - who's not even a student - that's crap.

Andrea Newman

I love the male body, it's better designed than the male mind.

Mark Richt

I know that quarterback can run like a deer, that's for sure. Shockley's not quite the runner that he is. Shockley's athletic, but we won't have as many designed quarterback runs for him. A lot of that is because it's really not his nature and the other part is that we wanted to try to keep him healthy this year.

David Wagner

The federal certification process for voting machines is broken, sadly, when it comes to security. It was designed for the era of mechanical machines, and it hasn't kept up.

Gary Griffiths

The high schools that we have, and it's not just locally but nationally, are designed for a different purpose, a different time and a different place -- and it doesn't meet the educational needs of kids today.

Jeffrey Lubell

The incomes of working families simply have not kept pace with rising housing prices. And this is despite low interest rates and new mortgage products designed to make homes more affordable.

Patrick Swayze

You couldn't have designed a more perfect training ground for young actors, with a sort of sensei (mentor) like with Francis. He just knew how to play each of us like a violin.

Katharine Butler Hathaway

There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.

Cam McLeay

Having listened to family, friends, and everyone else, without exception everyone encouraged us to continue.

David Woodruff

His signs are great, probably as good as can be expected at this stage. We're all so encouraged.

Eddie Miller

It comes with the work and help of my teammates. I wouldn't be where I am now if it wasn't for my teammates. They push me, encourage me. Without my teammates, I probably wouldn't have gotten any of those awards.

Glenn Crooks

Last year I don't think she was as mobile or as strong as she is now. It took her a part of last season to improve. We are fortunate to have her in the program because she knows what it takes to win and encourages her teammates to do the same.

Jason Dawson

He's been a great encouragement to me. He said to be a great point guard I have to get my assists and rebounds as well as my points. Right now I'd rather have 10 assists than six points.

Mark Peters

I don't have the money to take home, but I did get a lot of encouragement. I'm optimistic.

William Kunstler

After years spent trying to deal with the effects of COINTELPRO, my rage at the FBI's almost unimaginable evil remains undiminished because I believe that it succeeded in many of its horrifying goals, given the deaths of Martin King, Malcolm X, and other sixties leaders. Since the FBI uses taxpayer dollars to fund its extreme and ridiculous investigations of anyone who expresses dissenting opinions, even resorting to crime - including theft, encouragement to murder, subornation of perjury, and manipulation of the judicial process - to achieve its ends, I have always advocated its disbanding.

Richard Dawkins

The popularity of the paranormal, oddly enough, might even be grounds for encouragement. I think that the appetite for mystery, the enthusiasm for that which we do not understand, is healthy and to be fostered. It is the same appetite which drives the best of true science, and it is an appetite which true science is best qualified to satisfy.

Conor Oberst

I like ideas, but I don't like being preached to.

Aidan Gillen

'Heroes', 'Desperate Housewives', 'The Sopranos' - they're all very stylised. 'The Wire' is much more rooted in realism and honesty. In American television, I can't think of anything I'd rather have been in because it has got something to say and that is the kind of thing I want to do.

Brian Penn

It could have been worse. They could have been using grenades rather than eggs.

Jason Alexander

There is no community service in 'Seinfeld.' But rather than lauding that, I think it shows the insane banality of it.

Ruzwana Bashir

In the end, I'd rather wear a nice dress, and if someone is not going to take me seriously, that's so superficial.

Alison Goldfrapp

In a very slow way, I found my path. Even now, I think, 'If I can't do it my way, I'd rather not do it.'

Bill Bradley

In all honesty, I'd rather be speaking on Thursday night,

Peter Liguori

I know you get second-guessed in this business, but I'd rather be second-guessed for the right reasons.

Rita Clifton

It was one idea which was rather relentlessly executed,

Kevin Spacey

Being an actor sometimes requires that you ask yourself questions you'd rather not know the answers to.

Sam Hunt

I realized that I could try to sound like Waylon Jennings, or I could try to be like Waylon Jennings... but it's impossible to do both.

Joe Gibbs

I think we realized what was at stake,

David Baker

I think we all realized that we had really been replicating things that had already been happening. I don't know if we were smart enough to realize that we were in a cul-de-sac, but we were curious.

Steve Jobs

Oh, I never realized that those spaces were for the emotionally handicapped!

Brian Silverman

It's like a dream. I never realized how big it is.

Nancy Roman

I had left teaching, which I enjoyed, because I realized I couldn't get tenure at a research university.

Michael Newdow

And as soon as I did the research, I realized the law seemed to be on my side and I filed the suit.

Jesse Spencer

All of my girlfriends have been actors, and I've realized that maybe it's not for me - and find something else outside of the industry.

Chuck D.

I think they realized the timing was all wrong.

Norman O. Brown

The human body is not a thing or a substance, given, but a continuous creation.

Marcus Aurelius

Constantly contemplate the whole of time and the whole of substance, and consider that all individual things as to substance are a grain of a fig, and as to time the turning of a gimlet .

Nell Minow

They got the words right and the substance wrong, ... I'm very disappointed.

Diane Wakoski

We are authors, all of us, concerned with beginning, with making, with sources and substance.

Edith Wharton

Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.

Barry Commoner

In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced.

George Berkeley

I do not deny the existence of material substance merely because I have no notion of it, but because the notion of it is inconsistent, or in other words, because it is repugnant that there should be a notion of it.

Jacques Barzun

Above all, the ability to feel the force of an argument apart from the substance it deals with is the strongest weapon against prejudice.

Jessica Savitch

Some news managers have been slow to grasp that good television news is always substance over form.