Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andy Kopplin

We need to keep working to get our national surrogates to explain the facts - that the federal response was anemic and had been shortchanged by budget cuts and avoiding responsibilities like protecting Louisiana levees and wetlands.

Kurt Karl

We have a housing valuation issue. The time is now for raising interest rates and defusing these problems potentially by slowing down the economy a bit and avoiding a big necessary increase later and a consequential recession.

Sean Egan

It dodged a bullet by avoiding punitive damages in this case. But if it is forced to clean up lead paint, the company's exposure could be huge.

Himanshu Patel

One of the likely sticking points in the pending sale of GMAC may well be resolution on Delphi, further emphasizing GM's interest in avoiding a labor dispute.

Rachel Miner

I have all these rules for avoiding depression. One is going outside in the morning. I don't keep breakfast in the house, so that I have to go out first thing when I first wake up. And then I come back and shower.

John Faso

I have always been pro-life. I characterize myself that way and I'm not running away from it or avoiding it.

Frederick Sanger

I had remained in Cambridge concentrating only on basic research and avoiding as far as possible teaching or administrative responsibilities.

Brent Lewis

I felt like they were avoiding questions. They cut it (the meeting) short when people weren't done.

John King

Fortunately for us, we got a break and he did a good job of avoiding the tag.

Rick Perry

We have truly dodged a major bullet here,

Michael Malpede

While the comments from Fed officials suggest they are close to finishing, the Fed may still have a few bullets left in its gun. Traders aren't willing yet to dump dollars.

Alex Swartz

You'll see some bullet shells on some of the trails around campus. But that's about it.

The Jerusalem

will not lay down their weapons and will not stop firing their bullets until the end of this battle.

John Tortorella

Johnny has been spitting bullets at me since he's been here because he thinks he should be playing more. We had decided he was ready to take over the No. 1 spot. Then he screwed up.

John Tortorella

I think this is a great opportunity for John Grahame, who has been spitting bullets at me since he got here to be a No. 1. But you know what, it's not going to be me making the decisions, it's going to be them making the decision for the team, and that's the most important thing.

James Huguet

We have a strong economy, but it's not bullet proof, so you've got to be very careful about the steps you take to try to change the way things are going. There is certainly room for the market to go up.

Alephonsion Deng

I was used to a life of escaping bullets and taking care of myself.

Geoffrey Fieger

We do not deny that Nathaniel had the gun that fired the bullet that struck Mr. Green.

Chuck Palahniuk

I haven't had television since 1991, and it definitely influences me. As a child of the 1970s, I couldn't hold a narrative in my head; I was lucky if I could hold a joke in my head, because every time you turn on television or radio, it wipes the slate clean - at least in my case.

Wynton Marsalis

Duke Ellington always had a style: original, clean with interesting color combinations. He had an artist's eye.

Morihei Ueshiba

The only cure for materialism is the cleansing of the six sense (eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, and mind). If the senses are clogged, one's perception is stifled. The more it is stifled, the more contaminated the sense become. This creates disorder in the world, and that is the greatest evil of all.

Jack Roeser

The people are looking for somebody that will clean up the mess. The last thing they're looking for is somebody from the mess. Jim fills that bill.

Julius Peppers

The Patriots are going to be very disciplined. We have to work even harder to clean up the stupid mistakes we made.

Christopher Fry

What after all Is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean

Nicole Ari Parker

We're all moving at such a high rate that we have to grab the frozen dinners and the McDonald's. We can't make it a way of life - we have to get back to real, simple, clean good foods. It will save our lives on so many levels; not just spina bifida, but obesity, diabetes, everything. Food is our medicine.

Bill Burr

I was certified to take x-rays, but you can't just show up and start cleaning people's teeth.

Tammy Moore

That was some real one-on-one time you got with your mother. Other than that, you're doing chores, she's cooking, cleaning and probably hanging up clothes.

Hisashi Hieda

We will seek compensatory damages at any cost.

Donnell Barton

We did not write any punishment or punitive damages into the policy. Hopefully, we won't have to do that.

Jesse Jackson

We want the people resettled and the damages paid for lives lost and lives injured.

Michael Morris

would be surprised if we couldn't prove damages north of $1 billion.

Roe Hye

We determined that this is a grave misconduct that damages the foundation of science.

Michael Robertson

We are going into the damages phase and we feel very confident.

Richard Berthelsen

If the arbitrator rules our way, we're looking at damages that were occurred. Things we would be looking at is the final year of his contract.

Tom LaSorda

Second, we need to set some reasonable and fair limits on damages in product liability cases.

Paul Fletcher

We'll be seeking damages in the range of tens of millions of dollars.

Atsushi Osa

Most of the Japanese automakers have a lot of exposure in the U.S. and it's important for their overall performance how the U.S. market performs.

Steven Patch

Most candies have very low lead, it's essentially no exposure risk at all. These Mexican candies, some of them, do have very worrisome levels of lead in them.

Pete Carroll

We get as much exposure as any NFL team in any NFL city. You can't get more exposure than that. It's impossible.

Colin Edwards

It doesn't matter if the noise comes from years of on-the-job exposure or from a source that isn't job-related.

Nick Leaders

We don't get much TV exposure around here.

Pamela Salsberry

We don't have physiological data, but our findings suggest that prenatal exposure can be seen as a risk factor. There's such a strong relationship.

Bill Self

Today couldn't have been scripted much better for Kansas. This did a lot for our program from an exposure standpoint. Playing well was icing on the cake.

David Winters

Having less exposure to the U.S. is the key.

John Sherman

Here's this quiet kid who got some quick exposure ... very quick exposure.

Jeff Newman

The pay-per-view people were very organized and they forced him to think about things he never would have thought of. He knew he needed professionals to do that.

Paulo Costanzo

In high school, my first thing ever was I played Tony in 'West Side Story' when I was about 17. I was a really shy kid, and I just, like, forced myself to learn how to sing this one month because I loved 'West Side Story' so much, and I somehow managed to get the role.

Megan Fox

I hate receiving compliments; I hate being told I'm talented or people think I'm going to be a movie star. I always feel that it's forced and fake.

I. Stone

might yet have its hand forced by outside intervention.

E. P. Thompson

I thought it was a really good team effort. I thought we played well, defensively, and we forced them to take some tough shots all night. We did a good job on the boards.

Greg Bennett

We forced turnovers, but got nothing from them. And then we couldn't stop them in transition.

Ray Allen

We forced them to take shots on the perimeter. We kind of took what they were trying to do away from them.

Wendy Larry

We forced them to play 'man.' We don't see it very often.

Tim Moe

We forced them into taking some penalties and took them out of the game by distracting them.

Gwen Moore

I've been the co-chair of the Non-Partisan Women's Caucus and vice-chair for several years, taking a leadership role in this women's organization.

Ellen Key

War can be prevented only by broad-minded statesmanship - a statesmanship that understands how to enlist people's interests in a leading cause.

Danny Glover

The points leader (Ferris) had nothing for me. Once I got outside, I was gone.

Cathy Rigby

There's no disgrace in failure, the disgrace is not to try.

Carrie Underwood

It's hard to look at things that are too close.

Carl Sagan

I promise to question everything my leaders tell me. I promise to use my critical faculties. I promise to develop my independence of thought. I promise to educate myself so I can make my own judgments.

Bergen Evans

Legislators who are of even average intelligence stand out among their colleagues. . . . A cultured college president has become as much a rarity as a literate newspaper publisher. A financier interested in economics is as exceptional as a labor leader interested in the labor movement. For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they [only] marshal us in the way that we are going.

Bergen Evans

Leadership is more likely to be assumed by the aggressive than by the able, and those who scramble to the top are more often motivated by their own inner torments.

Bergen Evans

For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they do but marshal us the way that we are going.