Famous Quotes & Sayings

Howard Tritz

We've always been a mining town. Now we're going to boom again.

Kevin McMahon

We stopped the source of the spill and have deployed approximately 8,000 feet of boom to contain it. Our main goals are to protect people and the environment, so we're focusing our efforts on safely recovering the oil and minimizing impact to the environment and other businesses in the area. We're responding as aggressively as the weather conditions safely permit. No one has been injured, and we certainly want to keep it that way.

Douglas Duncan

We have seen a lot of pre-positioning. Boomers are buying that retirement home before they have sold their current residence.

Don Phillips

Whenever one or two people think they want a study group or discussion - boom - you've got a class. And that's what makes SAGE so great. They're drawing on personal experiences. Been there, done that.

Jim Webb

World War II brought the Greatest Generation together. Vietnam tore the Baby Boomers apart.

Anthony Crescenzi

The refinancing boom and effects from the tax rebates are waning, so spending on big-ticket items such as cars may be slowing down, ... But spending on services, which is where the majority of the job creation occurs, has held on, and we expect it to pick up. Friday's payroll report should be a good indication of that.

Charles L. Allen

Faith is like a boomerang; begin using what you have and it comes back to you in greater measure.

Ken Salazar

At first glance, the President's mix of spending and spending cuts presents a fiscally tight budget. But, this proposal is ultimately what's wrong with Washington. The President is not being forthcoming about his budget or the booming deficit.

Koji Kobayashi

A surge of some 20 percent in exports in February reflects the booming global economy, one example of which is growth in vehicle exports to North America.

Charles Caleb Colton

Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge.

Alan Moore

For whatever the future holds, one thing is certain... It just won't be the same.

Lisa Cholodenko

I feel like I've been observed as an individual more than a gay person, or as a filmmaker with a certain point of view rather than a lesbian filmmaker with a gay point of view.

Michael Specter

If there is anything more frightening than the threat of global nuclear war, it is the certainty that humans not only stand on the verge of producing new life forms but may soon be able to tinker with them as if they were vintage convertibles or bonsai trees.

Pete Nichols

We are providing Guidant shareholders with certainty of completion, significant upside potential and substantially more value today than the Johnson & Johnson transaction. By any objective measure, our offer is clearly superior to Johnson & Johnson.

Marc Short

There are communities that have not been as proactive as say, San Francisco and Oakland in having a mutual plan in how to respond or how to prevent certain attacks.

Richard Hell

There are characters in it that do deliberately go as far as they can in certain kind of taboo areas,

Mike Johnson

There are certain types of situations when it is more likely.

Rae Tyson

There are certain types of crashes where SUVs may provide you with some type of protection but you have to look at the overall safety record.

Nica Burns

The Perrier is about helping to discover new talent. In years to come, this generation of young comedians who are stepping into the spotlight will be setting the heather alight.

Nica Burns

The Perrier is about helping to discover new talent, ... In years to come, this generation of young comedians who are stepping into the spotlight will be setting the heather alight.

Maria Bamford

As far as I can tell, comedians are pretty serious people, and that's why they make fun of things all of the time.

Norm MacDonald

I'd say Jon Stewart has remained funny the entire time. Jon always makes it funny first. And he's just, he's talking about serious things, but in a funny way. Other comedians will talk about serious things in a serious way, and then you don't know what's going on.

Frank Mastalerz

We're going to look like we're guilty of something when it's just comedians and vaudeville dancing.

Jon Stewart

As I was watching Dave talking about Johnny Carson, the way he feels about Carson is the way we, the comedians of our generation, feel about him,

Carly Craig

A lot of female comedians will go up there in a sweatshirt and Converses, trying to dress themselves down, because it is sort of a boy's club. I'll go up in my heels. I like that people don't think I'll be funny. I'll take that on. I don't do standup comedy - I do standup and I do comedy, but I don't go up there and do jokes.

Jon Stewart

The way that he feels about Johnny Carson is the way that all of us, the comedians of our era, feel about him.

Tracy Morgan

So I think all comedians are earning their wings into heaven. We're all going to heaven, but everybody's not going to get their wings. Some people are just going to be regular angels. Doing cleanup, janitor work. In heaven, I'm going to sit on the couch with Oprah.

Heikki Kovalainen

I enjoy playing golf, but no, I don't think golf helps driving. It does take my mind away from driving, though; every time I play golf, I don't think about Formula 1.

Richard Miranda

We're meeting to go over laboratory test results and formulate a plan for what we're going to do about this.

Johnny Almaraz

We're going to formulate individual plans for every player. We'll pull back when a player's fatigued.

Marco Trbovich

Radical surgery like that proposed at Delphi is no solution at all. It is a formula for demise, if not confrontation.

Todd Trubey

Oftentimes that is a formula for decay, but Pannell has been able to make that work.

Aguri Suzuki

I've always wanted to own a Formula One team. Without the help from Honda, we won't be able to get started.

Igor Ivanov

Some participants are trying to put formulas unacceptable to Russia, including on Chechnya, into the declaration,

Jim Tressel

You've heard our formula many times. You ... need superior special units, relentless defense, mistake-free and opportunistic offense.

Brooke Langton

Simple formula for the actor: prove you're creative enough to get the job, sane enough to keep the job, and hungry enough to give up everything else to keep them happy.

Robert G. Allen

We're mainly providing a place to sleep, shower and use restrooms.

Vinny Prospal

It's not mainly about them. It's more about us.

Ted Kempf

There was no real news out there. This was mainly technical selling.

Seimone Augustus

It wasn't what you'd expect. There wasn't a lot of yelling and stuff like that. It was mainly a lot of talking.

Luke Smith

I've mainly just sat and listened, and I've understood the concepts.

Liu Xiaoming

Some will be used mainly for business, and others will be for living.

Troy Johnson

It would mainly be for people who already live and work in the Mankato area.

Sanyo President

We have high-end range refrigerators which are mainly meant for the urban areas.

Jamie Bamber

When I'm living in L.A., I'm mainly a jeans, vintage T-shirt and Nike high-tops guy.

Linda Duessel

The performance of dividend-paying stocks has more to do with the fundamentals in their industries.

Martin Broughton

The pleasing performance has been accompanied by the usual perplexing developments on the regulatory front,

Anthony Chukumba

When you strip everything out, the performance is pretty much as expected.

Bob Gunton

I actually acted onstage before I'd ever seen a live performance, and I loved it.

Stuart Rose

This is an encouraging performance, but there remains much to be done,

Geoff Peterson

It is unjust and unfair. Anyway, marijuana is not a performance-enhancing drug.

Peter Hitchens

It's a better performance from refining and marketing.

Liza Minnelli

It was done in one night. It was one performance only. That was it. That was our shot.

Steve Davies

It was a standout performance if I ever saw one.

Chloe Grace Moretz

Everyone around me is so strict about keeping me grounded.

Tom Coughlin

There was no fight. Were there discussions? There were discussions all week. I talk to a lot of guys, but that's strictly player-coach.

Gregory Peck

Ramon, whatever happens, it's strictly between you and me and the horse.

Paul DePodesta

I don't think we know that yet. We're not under any kind of strict time constraint.

Roman Jakobson

From a strictly articulatory point of view there is no succession of sounds.

Robert Budi Hartono

I always assign auditors to strictly supervise the businesses.

Nancy Hague

I'm not a competitor. I do it strictly for me.

Arron Afflalo

When you're on the court, it's strictly about that.

Steve Lekwa

And it will be strictly enforced. There will be a lot of unhappiness about it.

David Schwartz

A lot of these structures are going to come down.

John Hewson

It's not just the war itself. It's what you do after the war and what structure you put in place and how you make that structure work.

Dave Foley

I like the sitcom, as a structure.

Phiroz Vandrevala

The structure for the subsidiary would be in place by June.

Demetri Martin

They say that structure is freedom, and in a sense it is. When you're dealing with multiple constraints, you have to figure out what you can get out of that.

Kathleen Blanco

If we're going to have recovery, we're going to have to have structured government. Time is of the essence,

Marisa Tomei

You have your structure, but within it, it gets fuller and you can highlight other parts of the performance.

Paul Muldoon

It seems to me the structure of the Quartets is too imposed

A. R. Ammons

Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers.

Chris Blackwell

I was touring a lot... I loved the touring because you could really feel the audience. You were much closer to everything.

Bruce Dickinson

I'm not going to do any more solo touring.

Daniel Johns

Touring doesn't kill me and I can handle it.

Andy Partridge

I felt pressured by continuous touring.

Jeff Lynne

I don't actually like touring.

Jewel

I love touring - I don't do it as often as I should.

Fred Durst

And touring is difficult when everybody's heads aren't in the same place.

Joe Cocker

Ive been touring now since about 68.

Jake Shimabukuro

When I was growing up, there was no such thing as a touring ukulele player.