Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jack Greenberg

We want the line -- which for McDonald's includes our divisional and regional staffs, owner/operators and restaurant personnel -- to make decisions on behalf of customers based on field operating needs. The line ultimately has responsibility and accountability for our business success,

Elizabeth Gregory

We actually choose the schools that we work with in each location, so basically we evaluate them based on curriculum, facilities, reputation and cost.

Amanda Tobin

The possible pressurization issues that we've had recently do represent an above-average number for this time period, based on historical averages.

Ginny Goblirsch

We are always so happy to see them. It is such a reminder of what the US Coast Guard brings to our community. It's also a reminder of what it took to get the helicopter based here and how critical it is that it remains here.

Adam Ereli

We believe that these convictions are based on evidence that isn't credible and a trial that isn't fair,

Mike Clarke

We still plan to have the appraisal done and try to keep discussions open with them and at the appropriate time, based on the appraisal, try to initiate, once again, negotiations.

Frank Newport

We're in a period of time that there is a conventional wisdom that Bush is on the ropes. I think, based on my experience, that the media tend to move in lockstep as conventional wisdom on a story develops.

Bernie Schaeffer

We're in a frenetic short-covering based rally. The jury is still out about how long this is going to last.

Brent Trout

Where the crux of the issue lies is that (certain) departments are so heavily based on labor force. There is more to it at the library, there's a little more flexibility about other softer items where you are just able to cut.

Charles Spurgeon

Birds sing on a bare bough; O, believer, canst not thou?

Alan Watts

For a decision-the freest of my actions just happens like hiccups inside me or like a bird singing outside me.

Ed Begley, Jr.

Keep in mind, coal plants claim plenty of birds too. Sadly, hydro claims the lives of many fish. There is a price for everything. Solar does the best as far as very minimal wildlife damage.

Dean Acheson

The Iraqi is really not whacky toady, perhaps, even tacky. When they gave him the word, he gave us the bird and joined with the Arabs, by cracky!

Hon Ip

We also worry that birds will stop off in some of the U.S. territories in the Pacific like Guam, and Hawaii.

Siti Supari

We are awaiting for further results. We will continue to investigate whether she had been in contact with anything that related to bird flu,

Chad Olson

There are some challenges we deal with, primarily people management more than bird management.

Kurt Vonnegut

And what do the birds say? All there is to say about a massacre, things like "Poo-tee-weet?

Kurt Vonnegut

I wish we had all been born birds instead.

Charles Caleb Colton

Religion has treated knowledge sometimes as an enemy, sometimes as a hostage; often as a captive and more often as a child; but knowledge has become of age, and religion must either renounce her acquaintance, or introduce her as a companion and respect her as a friend.

Charles Caleb Colton

Gaming is the child of avarice, but the parent of prodigality.

Charles Caleb Colton

Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children and like Priam survives them all. It starves its keeper to surfeit those who wish him dead, and makes him submit to more mortifications to lose heaven than the martyr undergoes to gain it.

Charles Dickens

The streets looked small, of course. The streets that we have only seen as children always do I believe when we go back to them

Charles Dickens

That, they never could lay their heads upon their pillows; that, they could never tolerate the idea of their wives laying their heads upon their pillows; that, they could never endure the notion of their children laying their heads on their pillows; in short , that there never more could be , for them or theirs , any laying of heads upon pillows at all , unless the prisioner's head was taken off. The Attorney General during the trial of Mr. Darnay

Charles Dickens

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

Charles Dickens

He was a very young boy; quite a little child. His hair still hung in curls about his face, and his eyes were very bright; but their light was of Heaven, not earth.

Charles Dickens

"A child!" said Edith, looking at her. "When was I a child? What childhood did you ever leave to me? I was a woman - artful, designing, mercenary, laying snares for men - before I knew myself, or you, or even understood the base and wretched aim of every new display I learnt. You gave birth to a woman. Look upon her. She is in her pride tonight."

Charles Dickens

I never see any difference in boys. I only know two sorts of boys. Mealy boys and beef-faced boys.

Michael Specter

Someone told me that they didn't want to take a flu shot because they didn't want to put a foreign substance in their body. What do they think they do at dinner every night?

Irwin Redlener

We are profoundly unprepared to manage a pandemic flu threat right now,

Chevy Chase

A flute without holes, is not a flute. A donut without a hole, is a Danish.

Charles M. Schulz

It's either the flu or love... The synptoms are the same.

Bill Maher

A flu shot just compromises your immune system.

Tom Browning

We're starting to get some fluidity in our offense,

Bob Garfield

Chain letters are the postal equivalent of intestinal flu: you get it and pass it along to your friends.

Tom Roy

A lot of people will say they got the flu from the vaccine and they didn't. What they had was a reaction to a shot the same as you would have a reaction to any other shot.

Amy Johnson

Also those who have appointments with their physician can receive a flu shot as part of their visit.

Billy Eckstine

When Byrd came out of there, he had written a lot things while he was in the hospital.

Todd Williams

They had minor injuries and were taken to Onslow Memorial Hospital as a precaution,

Dr. Ratard

It's not like the flu. The signs and symptoms are very severe. The problem is by the time you know, you're very sick and when you go to the hospital it may be too late.

Fred Phillips

There were times that I sat in the hospital where if I could have reached up and pulled the plug to end it, I would have.

Tao Levy

It might give hospitals some more power to push back on prices.

Andrew Spano

They're living at the hospital now. They may be there another year, ... This is a semblance of normalcy.

Jerry Jones

They're looking for any kind of volunteers you'd find in a typical hospital setting.

Frank Gore

It was really tough, that was first time she went to the hospital (with) me not being around her, ... me not knowing if she was all right or not.

Victor LaValle

I have a very intimate knowledge of the world of the mentally ill and of life inside of, especially, public hospitals and the way people are treated in there and the way that they try to survive in there.

Charles Stross

The trouble is, if you go too far towards being polite, the label that applies is "doormat".

Guenael Rodier

We want to see the laboratory (results) before we move on. But she's likely to be a case, unfortunately.

Chris Asplen

Ultimately it all comes down to money, ultimately it all comes down to lab capacity. One thing we are clear about is if that money were to pass (in Congress), thousands of lives will be saved.

Astrid Lindgren

I have been very interested in labor movement. If I could have wished another life, I would have loved to be a pioneer woman in the beginning of labor movement.

Denzel Washington

When you don't understand something, you label it and condemn it" (94) - Danny Glover, "The Fundamental Things

Michael Specter

Many of the most eloquent people I have ever met work in lab coats every day.

Peter Agre

Until 1985, when my lab found the protein they are made of, aquaporins hadn't yet been identified. There had been a controversy in biology for more than 100 years about how water moved through cells.

Carlos Mencia

We celebrate Labor Day by not going to work?

Alan Light

You don't need a major label and they sure don't need you.

Gabrielle Zevin

For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'

Phil Garner

I thought we were going to him today, but they told him (Saturday) he could not play. I suspected that was going to be the case.

Charles Stross

More often than not, piracy is a symptom of an under-provisioned market.

Dr. Kovacik

You're actually dehydrating yourself, which are some of the symptoms of a hangover.

Tracy Brown

WHAT ARE THE SYMPTOMS OF SUPERCALAFRAJALISTICEXPEALODOCIOUS BECAUSE i THINK I GOT EM ALL.

Darrell Hammond

Everyone always told me that I had the symptoms of a P.O.W.

Alain Prost

In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place.

Chris Copeland

The three-ball is an easy shot if you're uncontested, but when they know you can shoot, it's a lot harder to get off.

Bill Wright

The other three have really made strides. They're consistently getting better.

William Shakespeare

Preferred three hours quicker over one moment late.

Agnes Varda

When I started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It's like when you start to jump and you put the pole very high - you have to jump very high. I thought, I have to use cinema as a language.

Chiang Kai-shek

There are three essential factors in all human activity: spirit, materials, and action.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Purpose, and to be thoroughly wedded to that purpose, is three quarters of salvation.

Bill Maher

Recognition is one of the three big elements of comedy.

Bill Bailey

Three blokes go into a pub. Something happens. The outcome was hilarious!!

Sofia Boutella

Working with Madonna, she always told me the meaning behind the steps and why I was doing these steps - she treated us like actors. So I feel like I've always been an actor, truly.

Dr. Esse

A lot of those could be treated out in the communities.

Alec Baldwin

Actors are treated like suppositories that are inserted into cavities of the movie-going public.

Bobby DeBerry

This week I treated it like Sunnyside versus (the state) of Arizona. That is the way we have to look at it.

Michael Dukakis

Like a good general, I treated everyone who wasnt with me as against me.

Mary Scott

No one should have been treated like that.

Gwendoline Christie

My parents treated my height as a wonderful thing to be celebrated, but also normal.

Jill Carroll

I was treated well, but I don't know why I was kidnapped.

Phil Fontaine

We can't be treated as secondary. We can't be an after-thought,

Jonah Lomu

Until 1998, I worked in marketing at ASB bank. I loved it.

Ellen Roberts

Until we investigate and find out what happened, I don't want him to go back to Mexico.

Dean Laidley

Until this day, we didn't have any injuries, but now we've got this one, so that's the disappointing part.

Dennis Wharton

Until there's a selection, NAB is not commenting.

Tommy Lapid

until the disengagement ends. It is about to end soon.

Ed Troyer

We're going to keep doing it until (the problem) disappears.

Scott Wolf

Although, I didn't really like sushi until I moved out to L.A.

Michael Mussa

They don't need to do it tomorrow, but they can't wait until the end of the year,

Liz Shimek

It's not over until it's over. We're fighters.