Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephan Pastis

I never feel burdened or overwhelmed by my work. People tell you to find something you love for a career, and I have. That makes me feel very lucky.

Alain Badiou

The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny, and that's why it is so perilous and so burdened with a kind of horrifying stage fright.

Timothy Griffin

President Obama's policies have been categorical failures for our country. Unemployment is over nine percent, our deficits are growing, and small businesses are being burdened with regulations.

John Curtice

People like Simon Hughes are still burdened by the mores of the generation they grew up in.

Eric Ripert

What I never want to do is lose my focus on Le Bernardin. That's why I did not want to be burdened with managing the place. I'm not going to be there every day.

Lee Siegel

The sitcom's traditional role has been to comfort the viewer who feels burdened by the unreality of American expectations.

Jackie Wagner

It's not my job to get people to vote. My job is to make customers go out and have fun. I don't want them to feel guilty or burdened about voting.

Reggie Witherspoon

It's not like our need for him went away because he was hurt. It still was there, and sometimes there in greater fashion. What has happened is that other guys have been burdened with more of a role than they are fully ready for yet.

Selig Harrison

It's very valuable to the State Department to have what are called second track contacts with North Korea because they are more frank, and they're not burdened by the official process.

Thomas Steg

We have to use existing contacts to contribute to de-escalation.

Joe Meno

Most novels put out by small or corporate presses don't really sell that well - usually a thousand copies or so. Working with a small press, you have to be willing to book reading tours, plan events, make contacts with other small press authors, and find new ways of getting word about your new work out there.

Allard Baird

Justin probably shortened the time to really establish ourselves by two years because of his contacts and notoriety.

John Shaw

Those contacts I have with those kids last forever.

Ron Brown

We really weren't able to manage those contacts with the intimacy that we would have liked.

Nancy Tellem

Jack's extensive background, contacts and expertise in the music industry make him the ideal person to become CBS' go-to executive for all music-related enterprises.

Prince Nayef

Handing over the hijackers is up to contacts between the two countries. The fate of the hijackers would be decided by the Saudi authorities,

Larry Morris

He has the contacts to get the job done. We need fewer liquor stores and more grocery stores.

H. Hart

He has the contacts and the time to move us forward. There will be a learning curve for him like there is for any first year coach, but we're going to focus on strategies that are effective here.

Evan G. Galbraith

The State Department desperately needs to be vigorously harnessed. It has too big a role to play in the formulation of foreign policy, and foreign policy is too important to be left up to foreign service officers.

Judie Brown

The police department was handed this on a silver platter and did nothing. That's how I feel.

Nicolas Roeg

Marketing is such a key issue; in fact, the marketing department is often involved in the approval of scripts now.

Lisa Ray

We have talked to the Georgia Department of Agriculture, and they said supplies are not a problem in Georgia at this time,

Allen Benson

We have a letter from the director of the U.S. Geological Survey to the Energy Department supporting the site recommendation. It supports going ahead.

Mayor Rockingham

We have a fine police department but manpower is not up to full complement.

Nancy Chambers

We have been working with the Mississippi Department of Transportation on this and they are the ones who are actually doing it,

Phil Padgett

We're working on it, a lot of DNA testing in that department too, I'll be honest with you. It's not gonna be as strong as it has been in the past, but it can still be respectable and that's our goal: to make sure it never hurts us.

H. Hart

Usually the Public Works Department does one, the parks department and water resources does theirs. It's a value that (county supervisors) will see it all in one place.

Michael Perlis

We'll have, by the end of 2013, 30 local language editions of Forbes, many of those are pioneers in the markets they serve with Forbes.com. We launched recently in Thailand and Vietnam, and we're in China and Korea and all around Latin America.

Kim Young-ha

A military career offers the stability many South Korean women crave.

Martin Jol

He has played at PSV for three years and was in the South Korea side which reached the semi-finals of the World Cup,

Bill Maher

North Korea has the same ability to launch a nuclear strike against America as I do. It's like walking through a parking lot and getting barked at by a chihuahua locked in a car.

Bill Maher

The president had a press conference about this this week and he said that the U.S. has no plans to attack North Korea. And then he added, 'Like having no plan ever stopped me before.'. He has something even more deadly in store for them - we're going to bring them democracy.

Charles Krauthammer

After the Soviet collapse, Marxism is a relic, a pathetic anachronism reduced to its last redoubts: North Korea, Cuba, and the English departments of the more expensive American universities.

Richard Armitage

I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles - because the appearance is that you reward bad behavior. But if North Korea behaves for some period of time, I would pretty much favor direct talks.

Ari Fleischer

The greatest threat to the security of the people of North Korea comes from the government of North Korea.

Bong Joon-ho

There's hardly any governmental censorship in Korea.

Brent Frank

We have always welcomed opportunities to partner with other jurisdictions and other organizations to have a presence in other parts of the Commonwealth. We would never turn down the opportunity to talk about how we can partner with somebody to have a presence in any jurisdiction from Southwest all the way to Northern Virginia.

Horst Keller

We can see there is a swirl here that is similar to the one we know from the north pole.

Menachem Begin

There must be some security arrangement in the south of Lebanon so northern Israel is not threatened anymore.

Jermaine Wiggins

Win the NFC North and win the Super Bowl. That's what we have to prove, and obviously we haven't been able to do that.

Jermaine Wiggins

Win the NFC North and win the Super Bowl, ... That's what we have to prove, and obviously we haven't been able to do that.

Kevin Bianco

I think this is a win for everyone in North Bergen.

Ken Mayland

We are not there yet. I think anything north of 83 percent, we could see price pressures.

Yoshinori Katori

We have still not received any response from North Korea.

Steve Conroy

We didn't see the type of wind or rain that was pelting the northern part of the state.

Ken Ham

We just can't get comfortable with the stability of the situation for this particular opportunity. So we're going to officially wave you off for 24 hours.

Jeff Nettles

I thought I had seen everything. Now I've officially seen everything.

Alan Nero

We have not received any official notice. It is all still at a standstill.

Jenny Frost

We haven't officially split up - we are still together as a band,

Dylan Penn

I have a private Instagram and an official one, so I'm not opposed to social media.

Eric Christensen

We're officially abnormally dry, but we're not in a drought.

Dave Freudenthal

The safest course for public officials is simply to throw all of the money in a sack.

Jeff Foxworthy

I never thought I would do a game show, but now I guess I'm now officially in that genre.

Sergei Kuprianov

We have received the official response: The Ukrainian side has rejected our offer.

Stephen Jones

We have visited with Mr. McVeigh. We are going to work with him today, tonight and tomorrow for the second stage on Wednesday. I can't say anything more at this time.

Marco Rubio

The second truism that we must understand is that poverty does not create our social problems, our social problems create our poverty.

Steve Schneider

You can always get to the decision-maker, but not always on the first, second or third call.

Chris Travers

I thought if we could get it down to three with 40 seconds left, we would have had a shot.

Nedim Pajevic

We had too many turnovers in the second half, and that's what killed us.

Art Briles

The quarterback part, to me, is secondary to him as a person. His background, being from West Texas, tough, unselfish, not spoiled ... he's a can't-miss guy, in my opinion.

Heidi Smith

I wish I was second because me and Dana are 1-2 at heart. But I'll take third.

Mitch Baker

I was two-tenths of a second away from going to state.

Barry Alvarez

I think I'll take a little time and go down to our place in Naples, Fla., before going back for the second semester.

Barack Obama

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we've got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

Ron Greene

That way we can teach her what's right, not what's mandated by the state of California.

Mark Bowman

We have wrestled better, but everyone is very tough in the state tournament.

Rodney Stark

Wherever you've got a state church, you have empty churches.

Drew DiPippo

We're still trying to get better and we want to make the state tournament.

Tommy Bowden

You like to see the state be a success.

Andrew Fastow

I think many of the statements in there are false.

Daniel Breaker

Juilliard's mission statement is learn about the classics so you can use that as a springboard to anything that comes your way.

Tom Murphy

I think this is a wonderful statement of values, really,

Carrie Vaughn

Now, what does a vampire do with a computer? Keep track of investments? Send e-mail to other vampires as you all plot to take over the world?” “I spend a lot of time on Wikipedia making corrections to the entries of historical figures I’ve known.” I blinked at him. “Really?” “No, Kitty. That was a joke.

Bill Bradley

I might lose because I wasn't tall enough; I might lose because I wasn't fast enough. But I wasn't going to lose because I wasn't ready.

Joanna Schultz

I think if I got on the track and I wasn't nervous, I'd be scared.

Kenneth Billingsley

This was not unexpected. Everything we track is in the red.

Elizabeth Baker

I don't have other salespeople in here wondering what's going in and out. I keep track of what's selling.

David Mitchell

But no, we cross, crisscross, and recross our old tracks like figure skaters.

Buddy Rice

Its always a little different, racing on your hometown track. It makes it more special.

Bryan Ferry

I like to piece together different guitarists, unlikely bedfellows. You have Jonny Greenwood playing next to Nile Rodgers on the same track, so it becomes like an orchestra of sounds.

Bruce Bochy

We have to get on track with our pitching, and we think we will.

Barry McCaffrey

Experience is valuable only if it's imbued with meaning from which one can draw salient conclusions. Otherwise, experience becomes imprisoning.

Charles Seaton

What makes them so valuable is their familiarity with our system, ... a specialized location.

Richard Grasso

would have been a valuable contributor to our board.

Charles Frazier

When everything is immediately available and infinitely reproducible, nothing is valuable.

John Eaton

We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past.

Alain de Botton

Our sense of what is valuable will hence be radically distorted if we must perpetually condemn as tedious everything we lack, simply because we lack it.

Alfred Marshall

The most valuable of all capital is that invested in human beings

David Hare

The one thing that 'Via Dolorosa' has is no opinions. To me, curiosity is 50 times as valuable as opinion.

Alice Hamilton

Everything I discovered was new and most of it was really valuable.