Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lana Stanley

Our temporary space on First Street is actually a beautiful location, and we are happy to be here. We look forward to seeing old friends and making new ones as well.

Ruth Warrick

Orson was a beautiful man, he was not only a genius as a director, an actor, a writer but as a person he was bigger than life and I don't mean just in girth. He was a wonderful, wonderful mind and a wonderful disposition.

Kelly Packard

The shot was intended to go to her. Becky made a beautiful but difficult pass. Ruth caught it, had somebody hanging on her but hit the shot.

Kathy Miles

That this event took place this year and brought such a crowd is so good for the beautiful people of New Orleans.

Aravind Adiga

Iqbal, that great poet, was so right. The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave. To hell with the Naxals and their guns shipped from China. If you taught every poor boy how to paint, that would be the end of the rich in India.

Ben Okri

What hope is there for individual reality or authenticity when the forces of violence and orthodoxy, the earthly powers of guns and bombs and manipulated public opinion make it impossible for us to be authentic and fulfilled human beings? The only hope is in the creation of alternative values, alternative realities. The only hope is in daring to redream one's place in the world - a beautiful act of imagination, and a sustained act of self becoming. Which is to say that in some way or another we breach and confound the accepted frontiers of things.

Barbara Kingsolver

What we lose in our great human exodus from the land is a rooted sense, as deep and intangible as religious faith, of why we need to hold on to the wild and beautiful places that once surrounded us.

Bai Ling

I went to South Africa on safari and came eye to eye with a beautiful leopard. We were so close; I was staring at him for a long time and I felt a recognition with my own nature.

Bai Ling

Storms and darkness scared me, but somehow it encouraged me to learn about nature and I think nothing's dark, dark is beautiful too.

Bob Thompson

The most logical explanation is that the scale of what we were actually able to observe on TV on Sept. 11 - planes crashing into buildings, buildings collapsing - were so visceral and immediate,

Ed Nottle

I've seen a lot of new buildings go up, the new library, new developments and new businesses which will help the city over the long haul. There have been some big improvements in this city in the time I've been here, and I think those are things the city should be especially proud of.

Claire Ellis

These buildings are a tangible sign to me that this community cares about its young people, ... And that is what matters most in the whole scheme of things.

Pat Sullivan

What we're facing is catastrophe, ... There's very few buildings that I've seen right now that do not have some type of damage.

William Lewis

We won't have as much polish on the buildings and grounds as we'd like, but all our learning institutions are ready,

Angie Quinn

Downtown has for the most part been able to retain the important buildings in recent years, but we're still losing the little ones.

David Collins

I think everyone took deliberate steps to try to do what was necessary to make the buildings as safe as possible,

Harry Wadsworth

Some of our buildings got a little wet from the hurricane, but it was sporadic.

Doug Aitken

My office has two buildings that function like the right and left sides of the brain. There's a room where everything is being edited for an upcoming project, but you can pull out of that into a tranquil space to work in a different, more solitary medium. It's an architectural unfolding of the process instead of just one chaotic structure.

John Street

I've been an elected official now for 24 years, and I value my integrity very highly, ... And this speculation about whether or not I'm a target of any federal investigation has caused some concern.

Ross Pillari

We regret that our mistakes have caused so much suffering.

Jamie Shea

We regret any loss of life that this may have caused because our policy remains to minimize collateral damage.

Richard Boucher

discussed the strains that are caused by the (incidents) that occur with regard to ... the presence of troops in any location, including Japan.

Ben Hatfield

We don't what went wrong and caused this explosion.

Damion McIntosh

There was a lot of chaos here last year. It wasn't too uniform. Things changed from week to week, which caused confusion. Now the system is always consistent.

H. Hunt

She was coming to a jump. She hooked a tip, and that caused her to go into a jump off-balance, and she crashed off the jump.

Jeffrey Christian

That caused the dollar to fall and gold to rise.

Dr. Wildenthal

Nancy Ann and Ray Hunt have observed and been moved by the personal devastation caused in people's lives by circumstances often out of their control.

Philip Hoffman

The movie is about knowing that somebody has lost his soul out there, somebody has destroyed a part of himself. ... The minute he saw Perry Smith, the outcome was inevitable that two men would die -- one literally and the other figuratively.

Rusty Ladd

Salazar destroyed that little girl's body, just destroyed it.

John Park

It was a nice getaway, just like a little cabin. A lot of my members are distraught because they made something for everybody and some yahoo goes in and destroyed it for everybody.

Yossi Sarid

This government, that destroyed 1,500 homes and lives, but doesn't want to destroy 40 former synagogues we can only say, 'Can you possible destroy, and then look away?

John Chaney

We ran into the rifleman. They put it all together, and they just destroyed us. Everybody had a gun but us.

Peter Hain

Even though I was a (Chelsea) fan, a fanatic, you actually wanted to see him do it -- you clapped him as he destroyed your team.

Maria Montessori

... nothing is created or destroyed in nature ...

David Richard

So it is important to set realistic targets for young drivers. I've seen drivers destroyed by high expectations and fear of failure.

Igor Smirnov

Moldova destroyed this plan with its own hands by imposing an economic blockade.

David Jones

People don't mind spending money on their homes and basement.

Mary Scott

Ten percent of our homes are now rentals. It's a big problem.

Dan Gallagher

These are the homes we need to address, because we know they are not going to do anything with them until we take action,

Tim Baker

Homes are kept up to the 'nth degree.

Mike Rogers

Some of those old homes made it through a lot of hurricanes,

David Williams

We need more volunteers, particularly during the week, ... A lot of (damaged) homes haven't been touched and people are trying to live in them.

Michael Brown

I surmise there are people in New Orleans who won't be able to get back to their homes for months, if ever.

Ernesto Zedillo

I will not permit these homes to be rebuilt in the same places,

Freida Pinto

In L.A. you hear all these stories of people being filmed in their own homes through their windows. I think that is so scary.

Jack Straw

are here for the long-term to see Iraq through to a better future.

Mr Bush

I've made my decision. We will stay on the offensive. We will stand with the people of Iraq and we will prevail,

Cindy Sheehan

So you're the little woman who stopped the Iraq war.

Scott McClellan

It would be wrong to suggest that he (Bush) was saying that there would still be substantial number of troops in Iraq after he is out of office. That is not he was asked. That is not what he was talking about.

Joseph Biden

This is poppycock that Iraq will be able to pay its way out.

Evan Bayh

We should be proud of liberating the 26 million people in Iraq and should remember that this is why it is important to stick it out to it's successful conclusion.

Craig Kilborn

In a new poll 54 percent believed President Bush exaggerated the size of Iraq's missile threat. Hey, he's a guy.

Charles Evers

Iraq did nothing to us. Iraq was not responsible for 9/11.

Abdallah II of Jordan

At the end of the day we want to bring stability and hope to Iraq. That's the only way to defeat terrorism.

Eduardo Galeano

From their castle in Zurich, the owners of soccer do not propose, they impose. That's their way.

James Cook

A business owner who is liberal probably inherited the business.

Brian Berger

They have ownership of this field, it's their baby. It's going to give them a sense of pride.

Ellen Hopkins

Why doesn't love come with an owner's manual?

Arthur Blank

There are a lot of reasons owners vote the way they vote. They have their reasons, usually very legitimate.

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Never be a minion, always be an owner.

Ron Perry

When you give them the ownership and the responsibility, it makes them more independent.

John Roberts

the most precious rights we have as Americans.

John Naisbitt

Learning how to learn is the most precious thing we have in life.

Judy Cornett

She worked backstage, and she was so precious to all of us. This is my first show without Pat.

Herodotus

Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.

David Duval

Confidence is such a fragile and precious thing.

Douglas Coupland

NOSTALGIA IS A WEAPON

Stephen Harper

It was the removing of a regime that was hostile, that clearly had the intention of constructing weapons systems.

Sly Stone

My only weapon is my pen, I'm a songwriter.

Michael Moore

The majority of Americans, the ones who never elected George W. Bush, are not fooled by his weapons of mass distraction.

Maria Montessori

Education today, in this particular social period, is assuming truly unlimited importance. And the increased emphasis on its practical value can be summed up in one sentence: education is the best weapon for peace.

Nikita Khrushchev

In the future, if nuclear weapons are unleashed there will be no front and no rear.

George Orwell

We were once told that the aeroplane had "abolished frontiers"; actually it is only since the aeroplane became a serious weapon that frontiers have become definitely impassable.

Jeb Bush

Every weapons system has been gutted.

Franz Kafka

You too have weapons.