Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lyne Lortie

People are very upset. Many made holiday plans and have had to cancel them, or they are here and not getting their rooms cleaned. We only have 200 managers working to keep things going.

Andy Borowitz

After Sept. 11, I didn't write a piece for a couple of days because I thought people wouldn't want me to be funny. This time, it was so obvious what could be written, and I'll continue to write it. I can usually gauge reader response from the number of people who cancel on my e-mail list, and there's been no major withdrawal.

Nika Fleiss

The visibility is OK, but on the jump it was so windy and that's why I fell. It was a lot of wind. It pushed me back and lifted up my skis. I had no control over what was happening. It was really dangerous. It's the right decision to cancel the race.

Kris Kristofferson

Never give up, which is the lesson I learned from boxing. As soon as you learn to never give up, you have to learn the power and wisdom of unconditional surrender, and that one doesn't cancel out the other; they just exist as contradictions. The wisdom of it comes as you get older.

Phil Reeker

Each embassy, as you know, conducts its own security assessment, and an embassy like Amman may decide to hold or limit or cancel its July Fourth events. And so that, in fact, it is the case.

David Russell

I pluck with my fingernails. If I break a nail, I can't cancel a concert. So I can make a nail out of a ping-pong ball.

Patricia Houston

Community ed is driven by the needs of the community, ... If I put a class out there and the community doesn't show interest in it, then I have to cancel that class.

Edward Fitzgerald

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.

Vivek Wadhwa

When I start getting embroiled in heated debates and feeling stressed, I just turn everything off and disconnect from the world. I simply tell my colleagues and friends that I am not well and need to cancel all meetings for a day or more. I take it easy - go for a long hike, take a vacation somewhere, or just stay at home and read.

Jake Siewert

We don't want to pre-judge how the next administration will proceed. We've been consulting with them all along.

Eric Woerth

We have to take the path of dialogue. We can't have reforms without consulting the social partners.

Edward Weston

Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk.

Epiphanny Prince

After I scored 29 points in the first quarter, I didn't think much of it. After I had 58 points at the half, and especially after having in the 80s after the third quarter, I just decided to go for it.

Scott Borg

The Russians aren't waiting for standards. They have decided to move forward. We have declined to participate (in the drilling). We don't feel it's ready.

Tim Ries

This could have been a very expensive mantelpiece for my shelf, ... But I realized that if I couldn't sell this, I shouldn't even be in the business. Instead of investing the money I earn with the Stones in the stock market, I decided to have faith, leap in and invest in myself.

Kyle Busch

We decided we were going to get tires no matter what, ... On that last lap, I just had to keep my foot in it.

Nancy Riebau

We decided we wanted this and this. It just kept going. It was the thing that wouldn't die.

Gordon Lee

We decided to put a hold on what we wanted to do and stick it out -- hurt their business.

Pat Brown

We decided to go where the kids are.

Rocky Peterson

We decided to go man, hoping our offense would pick up.

Jason Gibson

We decided to go in another direction at quarterback. He's (Leak) a big, strong kid and he's got a big-time arm.

Dominique Sopo

The state of emergency was simply a political gesture which showed the government prefers a law-and-order response to the problem.

Becky Ault

There's no reason for people to be on township roads when we're in a state of emergency unless they live out there.

William Rochelle

Is there a price that is too expensive for open heart surgery, because that is what we've got here? We've got a terminally ill patient presented in the emergency room with life-threatening injuries.

David Ramsay

It is a medical emergency so these people really need to be removed.

Salvation Army

We'll be providing emergency needs for the first 72 hours,

Jane Farmer

We can do emergency shelter, we have to put them up in hotels, and then we have to take them out of county. We put her in a hotel, and she goes home the next day.

James Hartsfield

All the systems on the space station are operating fine. This is a fairly simple emergency plan.

Neal Cummings

It's not an emergency for them; it's an emergency for every Merchant Marine veteran that's left.

Kevin Bryant

All the emergency patching was done in December. Now is the time to work on big jobs -- to completely re-roof -- if only the skies would clear.

David Packard

Management by Walking Around

Peter Drucker

Management by objectives works if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.

Peter Drucker

Management by objectives works if you first think through your objectives. Ninety percent of the time you haven't.

Palle Pedersen

In Iowa, we have a 32,000-an-acre plant population, spray, and harvest. There is no in-season management. It's all in the seeds.

Sam Bhavnani

It's an uphill battle, but they seem poised to be able to do it. And the reason I say that is they have a strong management team in place.

Jeff Siegel

Our traffic management is substantial and works quite well.

Amity Gaige

There would be times when I got so much work that I didn't have time to write. School interfered with writing more than writing with school.

Boris Vallejo

You can not do what you want to do unless you know the correct technique. The only other way you can learn how to do it is by doing it yourself, which would take twice as long than if you went to school.

Barbara Kingsolver

I've never gotten over high school, to the extent that I'm still a little surprised that my friends want to hang out with me.

Baruch Spinoza

Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.

Art Buchwald

Any company executive who overcharges the government more than $5 million will be fined $50 or have to go to traffic school three nights a week

Benjamin Bratt

I don't really consider myself to be an actor of any particular style. My aim with every role I undertake is to be truthful and honest in that particular portrayal. I don't have a particular methodology from any one school of thought or training.

Carl Zimmer

Evolution is a large political controversy as to what should be taught in the schools. But there is no scientific controversy that we evolved when we talk about evidence from fossils and DNA.

Alan Dershowitz

I came from a poor family, so working and going to school at the same time was natural. It taught me multi-tasking, although we didn't call it that back then. I learned I could never be idle, I need to be doing many things at once.

Charlayne Hunter-Gault

The private schools and the independent schools like Oprah's are really doing well because they've got the best of everything but it certainly puts the spotlight on a system of public education that is still reeling from the apartheid years [in South Africa].