Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Johannessen

Our agency will pay for this if we have to. It's too critical to get caught up in a question of who ultimately is going to pay for it.

Alex Roland

The shuttle could never do what the agency tried to make it do, and so they traded off safety. I don't blame the managers; they were presented with an impossible job.

Nigel Dennis

I should point out that I have not worked for National Geographic on assignment - they have merely used my stock agency pics from time to time.

Jan Egeland

We estimate that humanitarian agencies have access to about 350,000 vulnerable people in Darfur - only about one third of the estimated total population in need.

Janet Yellen

For my own part, I did not see and did not appreciate what the risks were with securitization, the credit ratings agencies, the shadow banking system, the S.I.V.’s — I didn’t see any of that coming until it happened.

Thomas Horn

We were bemused, I guess, when we got the call from Hollywood. We didn't know anything about the entertainment industry or even what a casting agency was. But I thought, 'What do I have to lose?' It's not every day a great opportunity presents itself.

Tom Rachman

My own career started in New York at the 'Associated Press', a fast-paced news agency where we rarely had time for deep reporting.

Timothy Noah

If the Pentagon truly confined itself to providing defense, then presumably we wouldn't need a whole separate government agency to provide 'Homeland Security.'

Edward Snowden

We need to put the security back in the National Security Agency. We can't have the national surveillance agency.

Bruce Vladeck

As bad as the situation is now. it can only get worse when the economy stops growing.

Peter Power

The boycott is bad for all those concerned.

Kristen DeTienne

Bad service is something everyone can relate to -- we've all had an experience with an obnoxious employee or had to call to correct an error on a bill. What we often can't relate to is the great way a company recovers from a service failure and wins our future business.

Andrew Baird

Bad science is being used to drive bad policy. And that policy is resulting in the large-scale dispossession of some of the poorest people on the planet.

Pat Schneider

Bad public officials give us all a bad name. If we're going to have systems in which people have trust, then there's got to be integrity.

Marco Sturm

Bad penalties. We let them back in the game.

Whit Ayres

Bad news tends to move in bunches, and this White House has had more than its share. When you are in one of these periods, the best thing is to keep your head down, stay focused on the job and wait for your luck to change.

Matthew Dowd

bad news for the Bush team and declared 'the sky is falling' once again.

Kelly Fero

bad news for Kinky. If a voter was going to go independent, they may want to go somewhere that they won't waste their vote.

Michael Baird

The bottom line is, even if the player was unaware they've been given the drug, the test doesn't require intent. The standard is so strict, if the NFL wants to enforce it strictly, you're basically sunk.

Frederick Moran

The cable division came in with 13 percent cash-flow growth, which is basically the strongest we're going to see out of the whole cable industry this quarter, ... They're showing some real power.

Bill Richardson

And the president is basically saying, on Social Security, 'This is my issue. This is my proposal. Take it or leave it.'

Bob Hill

I've basically just played since I moved to The Villages. I had played in maybe 20 or 30 games before that.

James Pasheilich

The M.O. was basically the same. They wore masks and had guns. They demanded cash. They usually were looking for the safes.

Jonathan Evison

After 20 years of writing in basically a vacuum, I love being part of a community. I've vetted other writers' contracts for them and do publicity for free just because I like a book. Some people think of it as hubris or careerism, but I love to champion books. You can't use your whole sphere of influence just to help yourself.

Paul Pinegar

After a loss like that, you think of everything you could've done to maybe have changed the outcome, ... That's a game we should have had and were in position to win. We know the BCS run is basically out of reach. We just have to have a short memory from here out.

Bob Stiles

After Opening Ceremonies, we've gone to every venue as it opened, my team. We've helped them open on their first days. Now we're basically firefighters if there's something going on.

Scott Aukerman

After I did 'Mr. Show,' I was basically just a writer for a while. I was really young, and I kinda was like, wow, I'm 27 and I was already on this iconic show, and now I can just coast. But no one likes coasting, because you have to fill your day with stuff.

William Stairs

As far as the timing of the budget is concerned, he hasn't made up his mind.

Ping Chew

The budget should put the country's deficit reduction effort back on track.

Dick DeVos

The budget problem we can deal with, but let's get people in Michigan back to work. Having someone who understands the realities of business sitting in the governor's chair would make a big difference.

Gary Goddard

The budget is pretty self-explanatory, ... This is a very readable document.

Earle Holley

The budget is going to be OK. We're not going to have a windfall of money, but we have resources.

Ron Faust

The budget hasn't kept pace with the need. We're doing more with less.

Russ Williams

No real changes in the budget coming from Frankfort will be reviewed; we'll only discuss any suggestions to be voted on at our June meeting.

James Klein

Companies want to be able to plan and budget for their pensions, and that's been hard in the current environment.

Sandy Miller

Despite the success of our efforts to increase productivity and rationalize costs, the impact of September 11th and the continued recession in the travel sector has left Budget Group with a level of non-vehicle debt greater than our operations can reasonably support.

Ken Lee

Demand has strengthened since July because of tax cuts and incredibly low unemployment. Sales at our stores were about 5 percent higher than the same time a year earlier.

A. Hodge

Despite the tax cuts passed by the federal government, Americans will spend more on taxes than they spend on food, clothing, and housing combined.

O. Singh

A rapid reduction to operating costs, especially through job cuts in France, may not be feasible.

Henry Willmore

And the main reason for that will be the job cuts that enabled firms to do a more effective job of holding down labor costs.

David Fleming

To make the substantial cuts in emissions we are going to have to make, there are only two ways to do it - taxation or rationing,

Dave Cole

We showed the legislators what these cuts meant for students. We wanted to put a student face on this.

Dennis Hastert

Well, there's a lot of types of tax cuts in the menu ... Some people are talking about an across-the-board tax cut, there's marriage penalty, there's reduction for earnings test and seniors and Social Security. There's a lot of things that we're looking at and I think whatever we do will be part of a mix.

Bruce Allen

We haven't made any cuts. We never intended to make any cuts until the final minutes. We were going to work right up until 9:59.

Grover Norquist

Those kinds of tax cuts you can keep doing.

Richard Fuller

Spaceship Earth: The problem for the passengers is that there is no manual to identify all the parts, and no instructions on how to operate the spaceship.

John Breaux

San Francisco sits on an earthquake fault, ... So do you say: Move 'em all out of there?

Christine Gregoire

The viaduct is our levees, ... The earthquake is our hurricane.

Barbara Kingsolver

A careless way of sauntering across the earth and breaking open its treasures, a terrible dependency on sucking out the world's best juices for ourselves-these may also be our enemies. The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.

Brian Jacques

You love young ones and babes, I know this. The young will always befriend and admire you...all the young ones of the earth belong to you in friendship. Be good to them. —Breeze, to Sunflash the Mace

Jane Hamilton

Life on earth, filled with uncertainty and change, seemed far more difficult than what lay beyond the grave.

Jan Schakowsky

There is a lot that happens around the world we cannot control. We cannot stop earthquakes, we cannot prevent droughts, and we cannot prevent all conflict, but when we know where the hungry, the homeless and the sick exist, then we can help.

Al Capone

I would rather be rich affluent and greedy and go to hell when I die, than live in poverty on this earth.

John Cross

We are here on Earth for just a short time, whether you're 16 years old or 80,

J. M. G. Le Clezio

I have the feeling of being a very small item on this planet, and literature enables me to express that.

Donald Powell

This will enable people to get on with their lives.

Terrence Gabriel

The Nasdaq has at least the Microsoft report to look forward to, which should be strong.

Amelie Mauresmo

It would be great (to end 2004 at number one), ... Hopefully, I can make it this week even though I know it will be very tough. She's been playing well also. I'm looking forward to the next match every day.

Lee Humphrey

This is a new year, and a different team. We're looking forward to making a run.

Jon Jansen

This is gratifying because it's been so long. I'm looking forward to seeing the fun guys have in the locker room this week because I remember how much fun I had the last time.

Larry Coker

This is a private, in-house matter and I will have no further comment. We will now move forward with our preparations for the Georgia Tech game on Saturday.

Bruce Arena

This is the first time he'll be our starting goalkeeper so I know he's really looking forward to the challenge.

David Carle

The White House informed Sen. Leahy that they will not move forward with the nomination.

Sir Greenstock

The unity of the country, the forward progress of the country, would be lost.

Wyclef Jean

The way that we're moving forward toward music, it's all about using music together. We have hip-hop, we have rock, (but) all the kids now, we all listen to the same thing. If you're listening to rock, you're listening to rap.

James Mulva

As an industry we feel it is not a good precedent to fund a government program.

Emily Hall

As a group, the funds have shown that you can do about as well in a screened universe as in a non-screened universe. But that doesn't mean all socially screened funds are good.

David Hale

Back when I gave that speech in March, some of my hedge fund friends thought it would be a big issue by the third quarter. But here we are, it's July, and it just hasn't seemed to register.

Tim Kaine

Often, money is taken out of that fund for other projects. I'll make sure that stops.

Dale Mitchell

The state does not provide any funding at all,

Joe Jones

The Second Injury Fund seems to be advantageous to a very small number of people.

Richard Mann

Scholarship funding doesn't come from the state, it doesn't come from university coffers.

James Sarni

It wouldn't surprise me if we get to 4 3/4 percent, but it would surprise me to see the funds rate go higher than that.

David Rose

You're going to see a lot more mutual funds owning international securities.

Stacy Stewart

Perhaps by the end of the work week it could be posing a threat to Bermuda, but not the US.

Oliver Kahn

Perhaps we will still be using this policy for the World Cup. That would be a new concept.

Ann Gerhart

Perhaps this is how she is spending her capital,

Todd Hamilton

I'm so excited, I probably won't sleep for two or three or perhaps seven days,

John Lennon

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything.

Steve Robinson

The vibrancy in our sports programs is still there.

Ken Leonard

That's what you want to get your program to, but we still have to prove it,

Benito Mussolini

The Socialists ask what is our program? Our program is to smash the heads of the Socialists.

Hillary Clinton

There was even a time when Donald Trump didn't get an Emmy for his TV program three years in a row and he started tweeting that the Emmys were rigged against him.

Fred Siget

Some of the programs I wrote there are still running maintenance free.

Jonathan Brandis

I was in a theater program when I was about 6 years old. I didn't like it as much as most actors do. Which is probably why I never went back to it.

Robert Redford

We don't program (the festival) for commerciality. We program for diversity.

Jim Colborn

He allows me to have my own program and supports me and makes me feel like I am appreciated and respected.

Vinton Cerf

There was something amazingly enticing about programming.

Steve Robinson

The vibrancy in our sports programs is still there.

Fred Siget

Some of the programs I wrote there are still running maintenance free.

Greg Allen

They're two programs that don't seem to have hiccups.

Brian Postol

There's a long way to go for these guys, but I think their programs are the right ones.

Robert H. Connelly

The programs were more about 'reallocating sales' than stimulating demand.

Jane Hirshfield

Gestation requires protected space; ripening requires both permeability to the outer — and non-disturbance.

Al Gore

We can build a collective civic space large enough for all our separate identities, that we can be E Pluribus Unum - Out of One, Many.

Alan Vega

But it was great, we sit in the same dressing room where, like, Johnny Cash sat and Willie Nelson and all those guys. That was in itself something amazing - I was on the same space these guys stood on, ya know?

Jane Siberry

I try to make my music have the quiet spaces of folk, the intimacy, and the energy of rock.

Diane Ackerman

A life like an intricately woven basket, frayed, worn, broken, unraveled, reworked, reknit from many of its original pieces... Life can survive in the constant shadow of illness, and even rise to moments of rampant joy, but the shadow remains, and one has to make space for it.

Diane Ackerman

Tranquillity hides in small spaces, and when found needs to be treasured, because you know it's a phantom that will slip away again.

Daniel H. Pink

Create some psychological space between you and your project by imagining you're doing it for someone else or contemplating what advice you'd give to another person in your predicament.

Diane Sawyer

Follow what you are genuinely passionate about and let that guide you to your destination.

Denis Diderot

Time, matter, space - all, it may be, are no more than a point.

Jaime Contreras

Some days, work is truly a four-letter word.

Shaukat Aziz

This truly encapsulates China's world view in this century,

Jonathan Todd

We think he will be a truly independent adviser.

Barbara Green

Those who complained truly feel that they are discriminated against, they truly feel that way.

David Williams

They are truly the ones that do all the real work.

Jillian Messenger

I truly have a lot of all-stars on this team, I really do.

Julie Foudy

It wasn't just that we were together; we were truly a family. There was always laughter.

Dianna Agron

Without love we are not truly living.

Sean McCarthy

If we do nothing, things will get that much worse sooner.

Jeff Johnson

I can't think of a worse place to put a church,

Dusty Baker

He's day to day. He's no better or worse than he was yesterday.

Chris Carr

It's just crazy. This is worse than 9-11, with everything that's going on with that.

John Updike

There's almost nothing worse to live with than a struggling artist.