Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brad Woodhouse

The only thing more unpopular than private accounts was benefit cuts.

Nikolai Patrushev

It has been established that he took direct part in the funding of several such organizations. Embassy payment documents signed by Doe on money transfers to NGO accounts at our disposal prove this.

Bill Cole

I think we are all aware that some accounts have a deficient balance.

Terry Turner

Robert, my son and I do sales. Cathy is in charge of ordering supplies, accounts payable and accounts receivable, payroll, and keeping track of workers compensation certificates on all subcontractors. Barb schedules all the different stages of the job, applies for permits, and calls in all inspections. We all work pretty well together.

Gene Sperling

If you look at what is clearly in their plans, it will cost a lot of money. We have not seen the details and ... are claiming that by all accounts it is being paid for with the largest amount of gimmicks, supply side growth, and double counting in history.

Beth Givens

If you've given them your credit-card number and/or bank-account number, you should watch those accounts very carefully.

Carlos Gomes

In Ontario, job losses in manufacturing have accelerated in recent months alongside announced layoffs in the key auto sector. However, Ontario's economy is well diversified and strength in the service sector, which accounts for more than 70 percent of overall employment and economic activity, should support vehicle sales of about 590,000 units in 2006 - in line with the average of the past two years.

D. James

If rural exports lift as expected in coming quarters and support expanded export capacity in the mining sector, the much fabled improvement in Australia's trade accounts will be a step closer.

Richard Gephardt

I hope now that the Administration will rethink this approach and submit a fast track bill that accounts for labor, environmental, narcotics enforcement and human rights issues.

Terry Bradshaw

James Davison took me out to show me where Karl is living right now and where he's going to build. Karl wasn't at home. He was out there somewhere in the woods riding on some Caterpillar or some kind of tractor. But I figured we'd at least knock on the door to see if he was there. His wife answered the door. So we got to meet Kay before Karl.

Stuart Pearce

Joey Barton is a Manchester City player. I hope he'll stay. The way footballers answer anybody is by performing on the pitch and I thought he played extremely well.

Brad Brownell

John is as tough as it comes. At one point during the game, I asked him if he wanted to switch off and guard somebody else for a while. He glared back and me, so I knew what his answer was.

Evan Bayh

I think I should hear what the man has to say before making up my mind, ... Whoever is chosen for this spot could be on our nation's highest court for 30 years perhaps, and deal with some of the most fundamental liberties that we have in this country. So I think it's important we take our time, ask the right questions, listen carefully to the answers and then reach a considered judgment.

Jay Wright

I think in recruiting, it establishes us. I don't have to answer questions about, Are you going to be there? Are you going to be there when I'm finished playing?' It makes it very clean in recruiting.

E. O. Wilson

It apparently led to him putting the victim up into an apartment. He would call every two hours and if the victim did not answer the phone, he would then beat her. An average of twice a week, he would go to the apartment and have forced intercourse at times with the victim.

Paul Heath

It answers who did it and possibly why they did it, and to that extent, there is closure.

Tom Coburn

He didn't give any answers, ... What else can you want out of a judge? He's not going to answer where he is. It's wrong to make him answer where he is.

Greg Jackson

He didn't give a definitive answer and so I think that disappointed a lot of people.

Tyler Colvin

I was just a mental case, to tell you the truth. I worked on my approach and learned what pitch to swing at and it's paid off. I was just swinging at bad pitches.

Lou Holtz

Knowing Bill Snyder and the disciplinarian he is and the approach he has, yeah, I think he will bounce back, ... And he doesn't have to be real good to be pretty good in that North.

Klaus Toepfer

I would urge Presidents and Prime Ministers to make this WRI report and the findings of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment indispensable parts of their reading. I am sure that the conclusions will suggest to them, as they do to me, fresh, imaginative, sensible and truly sustainable approaches to the pressing development issues of the day,

Ben Saylor

I take the same approach every time. Early in the count I'm hoping they throw me a mistake and that's what I feel like happened in the first couple of at-bats. It's really important when another team makes a mistake, you've really got to bury them. You have to go right after them and make those mistakes hurt. I think our team did a good job of that.

Katrina Kaif

You don't really know how your film is going to turn out, but you can give it your best shot and hope the audience loves it. This has been my approach right from the beginning, and it's helped me a lot in my journey. All you can do is give the film your everything.

John Denham

What won't work is an approach which just says 'We have decided what we are going to do and we are just going to spend a lot more time explaining it to you'.

Steve Gardner

He's a good hitter. You put it where a guy like him likes it you're going to pay the price. We didn't pitch him very well. Our approach was to work him away, work him off-speed and elevate the ball. We just didn't elevate it enough.

Jim LaBelle

He said he had the runway in sight ... and was going to circle to land. He thought he had enough visibility to make a visible approach to the runway.

Ronald Reagan

History shows that when the taxes of a nation approach about 20% of the people's income, there begins to be a lack of respect for government. . . . When it reaches 25%, there comes an increase in lawlessness.

Stanley Tucci

I hope that a younger generation will start to watch a movie like this and start to better understand a slower pace in a truly cinematic way.

David Goyer

I had to immediately start preproduction on that, so I had to find a replacement really fast. And one of the things that we liked was that people had seen the first hour and thought it had more of a cinematic quality, so we thought we have to find a feature director to do the second hour. Who's available?

Kenneth Branagh

I think in the wake of the domination of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, everyone is now looking for a grand plan.

Paul Dergarabedian

There's something cinematic about sports movies, ... They're easy to pitch. You always have a winner, usually an underdog, and a loser. You don't need a lot of special effects.

Matthew Pearl

Beginning in the 1920s and 1930s, film has been a shadow thrown over the minds of all novelists. Ever since, novelists have strained to make themselves more relevant and, whether consciously or not, novel-writing has been influenced by cinematic doctrines - by turns, embracing and defying it.

Peter Capaldi

I could make the title of my memoirs: 'It's got cinematic disaster written all over it.'

Pierce Brosnan

The spy genre is something which, as a fan of movies, a movie geek myself, I just love that cinematic joy that they bring.

Nancy Pelosi

I would not want any president - Democrat or Republican - to have the expanded power the administration is claiming in this case.

Todd Berry

I think I probably wasn't as strong as I thought I was, but I never claimed I could do an hour and a half, because I just knew I couldn't.

William Wilkinson

He continues to issue press releases claiming that the court has already ruled that Mr. Noe committed a fraud. That's false.

Robby Hirst

I think the one from this year will be claimed by my wife.

Mikhail Kamynin

We are far from claiming a monopolist role in the post-Soviet space. At the same time, we feel sure that enforcing models of development from outside won't lead to any good. We have seen examples of that in the post-Soviet space, in the Middle East and in Africa.

Matisyahu

When people feel a certain religion claims to have all the answers, that's what turns them off.

David Huber

I am here before you today to tell you that this claim is not true.

Gordon Strachan

He has never claimed to be a great player. But until we find someone top class, he will do fine.

Justin Glover

Had the consumer had a claim during the mix-up, they would be covered after we found out about the error immediately.

Quinton Foreman

I think the critics are a lot right. And I think they are a little wrong.

Cyril Cusack

It is plain to me now that the Irish Producers, quite as strongly as the Critics, have neither sympathy nor understanding of my mode of playwriting.

David Cross

I've never thought of myself as a hoity-toity cultural critic.

Mike Umaga

With what Doncaster offer and the way they attack, we feel Jon is a stronger defensive option than Dave. It's all about timing as well - Jon wants to go out and prove a few critics wrong, but he knows he still has a few things to work on.

Anne Thompson

This is a question of the critics being useful to the studios. When it's youth movies, studios really don't want their weaknesses highlighted and would rather the critics ignore them. That's going to continue.

Larry Sabato

That's not quite what the critics had in mind. This is minimal change.

Johnny Knoxville

We're just trying to make ourselves laugh. We realize critics are going to hate it, but it just makes fans like it more.

Carolyn Strauss

Big Love is a unique and remarkable series. The second season will offer more of the terrific storytelling that has gripped critics and subscribers this year.

Mark Twain

The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades

Eric Fischl

Abstraction is an esoteric language.

Paul Rand

Ideas do not need to be esoteric to be original or exciting.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Genre is a useful concept only when used not evaluatively but descriptively.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Ah, genre. A word only a Frenchman could love.

Alfredo Alonso

Reggaeton is the first Spanish-language genre that Mexicans like, Caribbeans like it and South Americans like it.

Hilary Rosen

Our list represents many different genres throughout all parts of the 20th century. And our hope is that each song will help tell a very different story,

Octavia Butler

But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical.

Rachel Nichols

One of the great things about the sci-fi genre is that you can kind of get away with a bit more when talking politics, making social references or dealing with very hot-button topics because it is sci-fi.

Nicholas Sparks

There are no authors in my genre. No one is doing what I do.

Lynn Abbey

I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand by jumping genre.

James Cagney

There were many tough guys to play in the scripts that Warner kept assigning me. Each of my subsequent roles in the hoodlum genre offered the opportunity to inject something new, which I always tired to do. One could be funny, and the next one flat. Some roles were mean, and others were meaner.

David Carr

In preseason, we used it (a three-step drop) a lot because we wanted the repetitions, but now that the season's beginning, we have to mix it up and do some things down the field,

Adam Timmerman

It helps, just the mixing it up. It's nice when we're pushing them back and running the ball.

David Milne

The growth of a company like ours tends to be a relatively steady because, like some of the other successful mixed signal companies, we have a wide range of products servicing a wide range of end applications.

Lewis Carroll

Then the bowsprit got mixed with the rudder sometimes.

Mari Pehkonen

It's sort of mixed feelings. It's sentimental and it's also being scared of what could happen.

Douglas Altabef

It's a mixed picture. There's no question that the news is a lot better, but it may be priced into the market.

Johnny Damon

It's very important to be a part of a team, and I've always been able to mix well with every team I've been on.

Mary Hart

I am actually wearing slacks on the show more than I ever have - it is now acceptable, and I like mixing it up.

Theophilus London

I am international. When I put out my second mixtape, we did four tours and a tour overseas.

Chin Han

I got to act with my childhood film idol, Robert Redford, and that's a gift in itself.

Megan Fox

I want to be as pretty as Robert Pattinson.

Chris Sienko

I think we see her as a 3. We're pretty sound at the 1-2 positions.

Elvis Costello

I didn't want it to sound like a pastiche of Andersen,

Richard Ayoade

With a live performance, you feel nervous because there's a sense it could do well or badly based on how well you are performing, whereas the only variable with a film premiere is technical, which invariably you have very little control over, whether the sound is good, whether the acoustics of the room are good.

Ron Chernow

That strategy of buy and hold, which is the sound and sensible one for the individual, can have very dangerous and perverse effects for the market as a whole.

Reynolds Price

The sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives.

Raymond Chandler

She was the music heard faintly on the edge of sound.

William Howard Taft

The policy of dollar diplomacy is one that appeals alike to idealistic humanitarian sentiments, to dictates of sound policy, and strategy, and to legitimate commercial aims.

Tyrese Gibson

Excuses sound best to the person that's making 'em up!

Rod Serling

If it sounds good as you say it, likely as not it'll sound good when an actor's saying it.

Alex Villalobos

I think that if we play our style and do what we have to do and make them play our game, we'll be OK.

Ronnie Brewer

We've got to play our style of basketball. (Being physical) is not our style of basketball.

Richard Whately

Of metaphors, those generally conduce most to energy or vivacity of style which illustrate an intellectual by a sensible object.

Toyo Ito

I will never fix my architectural style and never be satisfied with my works.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Wherever you find a sentence musically worded, of true rhythm and melody in the words, there is something deep and good in the meaning also.

Vinnie Vincent

I agree with you about the music of today. It lacks style and emotion.

Robert Pattinson

I am a big fan of music and clothing style of the 1960s. Whether in England or the United States, I like everything from that time.

William Strunk, Jr.

To acquire style, begin by affecting none.

Vladimir Nabokov

All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter. For me style is matter.

Jonas Jennings

Have you ever tried to write with one hand?

Jim Gallagher

I didn't get a sense of what the temperature is on that. I tried to allay the fears, and there are significant fears.

Nate Robinson

I am going to go at him (Iverson). I am going to make him play defense. That is what I tried to do tonight.

Marc Grossman

had some questions, we tried to give some answers... it was not negotiations.

Travis Garrison

I just tried to do what I could.

Kwame Brown

I just tried to play the right way.

Bill Laimbeer

I tried hard, it was close, but it didn't happen.

Tom Johnston

I tried to deport him once because he's Canadian.

Jeremy Shockey

I tried it their way and now I wanted to try it my way,

William Mapother

Generally a wise actor will be very careful about the person to whom he gives that power.

Will Durant

Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard

Sara Evans

Even the wise need wisdom.

William Ellery Channing

Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power.

William Ellery Channing

The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.

William Faulkner

You can't beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don't even try to.

Raymond E. Feist

Dolgan: ’Tis a wise thing to know what is wanted, and wiser still to know when ‘tis achieved. Rhuagh: True. And still wiser to know when it is unachievable, for then striving is folly.

Richard Francis Burton

[Shahrazad] had perused the books, annals and legends of preceding Kings, and the stories, examples and instances of by gone men and things; indeed it was said that she had collected a thousand books of histories relating to antique races and departed rulers. She had perused the works of the poets and knew them by heart; she had studied philosophy and the sciences, arts and accomplishments; and she was pleasant and polite, wise and witty, well read and well bred.

Richard Gere

I would say that the West is very young, it's very corrupt. We're not very wise. And I think we're hopeful that there is a place that is ancient and wise and open and filled with light.