Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gianfranco Fini

As of today, the organizers of the conference had asked for entry visas for six Iraqi political exponents notorious for positions which are radical, extremist and not unequivocally hostile to terrorism,

Mike Sabock

After signing Ryan Diem (now a starting lineman with the Indianapolis Colts), I asked him about the mail he had received, and his mom said he got one letter or more a day from Kentucky and they never came to his school and never called him. It just shows he was on their list, but they never followed up on it. It's crazy.

Steve Morton

Once the shootings occurred in Jonesboro and people asked if there is hope for the future, is there hope tragedies like this can be avoided, we stood up to be counted and said yes, there is hope.

Mike Easley

Once the high winds come, we cannot get in and get you out. We cannot get there by boat or helicopter or by plane. There are 61 shelters open. There is no reason for someone not to evacuate if they have been asked to do so.

Julian Fellowes

The moment I was introduced to my wife, Emma, at a party I thought, here she is - and 20 minutes later I told her she ought to marry me. She thought I was as mad as a rat. She wouldn't even give me her telephone number - and she wrote in her diary: 'A funny little man asked me to marry him.'

Jon Fleischman

Dozens of jurisdictions have reached out to us and asked us for copies of this policy. Like with any instrument that provides a resource to find criminals, departments are looking at this to see if this will help fight crime.

Reggie Theus

Defensively, down the stretch of the game, you couldn't have asked for more athleticism and smarts. I put a challenge out to our guards to defend off the dribble and they did.

Chris Kelly

Delta employees continue to rise to the challenge every time something is asked of them, ... Delta employees know how important their job is and how every passenger matters.

Cheryl Lynn

Delbert knew me from the choir. He had started a group and he wanted me to be a part of it, so he called me one day and asked me to audition.

David Chang

As a child, I didn't see my dad that much because he was always working at the restaurant. He became pretty jaded after working at the restaurant for so long.

Cokie Roberts

People came through. They all came together, they didn't worry about ratings, the stuff we spend way to much time worrying about. They became a community.

Michael Kazin

Once the majority of Americans became middle class, once their jobs ceased to be manual jobs, then they began to look around and choose to live in a place, in part, because of the weather.

David Wilson

An Olympic gymnast may have started instruction as a preschooler, but there are other sports, such as shooting, where a 17-year-old young woman recently became a champion after just two years of competition. It turned out she was a natural.

John Scurti

Apparently, with this drug, if you don't take it at night, when you wake up in the morning, you are really the old person. And ... . it became very important that Janet, his wife, see him the next morning, and it's the old Tommy all over again. What I also tied in there was that these pills that he is taking are keeping the ghosts at bay, and when he doesn't take them, the door is open again.

Bayan Jabr

Approximately 18 innocent men who were inside the mosque performing sunset prayers were killed and became martyrs. They were killed unjustly and wrongfully.

Tom Brokaw

An ideology designed to empower the masses became one of the most ruthless instruments of oppression, ... It is not enough to wire the world if you short-circuit the soul. Technology without heart is not enough.

Bible Bible

And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great: / For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.

Kathleen Blanco

The situation deteriorated on Monday and on Wednesday, it became untenable,

Matthew Henry

None so deaf as those that will not hear. None so blind as those that will not see.

John Spear

Ray's a good friend of mine, but maybe this is political payback?

Paul Rieckhoff

People don't feel comfortable getting mental health care, necessarily, because they're worried that their friends are going to think they're unstable or they're crazy.

Indian Proverb

These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Francis Bacon

The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.

Les Paul

The worst is over. I am doing better. I am grateful to all of my friends for their thoughts and I will be back shortly making them laugh.

Pat Lester

This group is such a wonderful, friendly group. We're very nurturing of each other.

Jack McGuire

This gift represents the true friendship that the people of Kuwait feel for the people of the United States.

Jamar Nesbit

The most frustrating thing is not knowing. I've had neighbors and friends go by my house and give me reports. But I have the keys; nobody can get in. So I don't really know.

Ayn Rand

About Mike the construction worker, friend of Roark: "He worshipped expertness of any kind. He loved his work passionately and had no tolerance for anything save for other single-track devotions. He was a master in his own filed and felt no sympathy except for mastery. His view of the world was simple: there were the able and there were the incompetent; he was not concerned with the latter."

Bob Friend

This is not a pep rally. It's telling the miners and the mine operators themselves to work right and make the right decisions.

Anna Kournikova

When I was 12, every little girl in Russia was trying to wear her hair like mine and playing tennis.

Terry Farley

There's no one in the mine at the moment. There has to be some rehabilitation work done at the mine for the underground investigation. The ventilation has to be restored.

Patricia Briggs

Mine, ... Mine is what she is.

Troy Williamson

For real? Wow. That's crazy. Nah, I'm going to keep mine and put it in my house.

Ryan Newman

Mine was unintentional and his was intentional, and that's all I'm saying.

Angus MacMillan

Mine production is nowhere near what we thought it would be at the start of the year.

Rainbow Rowell

My favorite Starbucks is nice - Omaha Starbucks stores tend to be friendlier than big-city ones, and the baristas are especially lovely at mine - but it's still a Starbucks.

Ben Jonson

Such sweet neglect more taketh me, / Than all the adulteries of art; / They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.

Phil Garner

I've long said the schedule is the most favorable,

Arthur Bloch

The Ninety-Ninety Rule of Project Schedules - the first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.....We must not.....assume that our schedule is our own to manage, but allow it to be arranged by God.

Mike Murdock

Your schedule and your spending describe what you really love in life.

Gil Scott-Heron

Schedule? I have no schedule. There is no hurry. I work when I want to.

G. H. Hardy

We're not willing to schedule more negotiating sessions.

Bob Hunter

It's a very tight schedule and it's a very tight budget.

Mark Few

When it all shakes out and these teams play on, it's going to be the toughest non-conference schedule in the country.

Bryan Ferry

I don't do interviews at all when I'm on tour, so this time, on a day off, I'll do that kind of thing a little bit. I don't do big promotion schedules, not when I'm touring.

Amity Gaige

There would be times when I got so much work that I didn't have time to write. School interfered with writing more than writing with school.

Brandon Sanderson

Joel, lad, school is about learning to learn. If you don't practice studying things you don't like, then you'll have a very hard time in life.

Boris Vallejo

You can not do what you want to do unless you know the correct technique. The only other way you can learn how to do it is by doing it yourself, which would take twice as long than if you went to school.

Barbara Kingsolver

I've never gotten over high school, to the extent that I'm still a little surprised that my friends want to hang out with me.

Baruch Spinoza

Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.

Art Buchwald

Any company executive who overcharges the government more than $5 million will be fined $50 or have to go to traffic school three nights a week

Benjamin Bratt

I don't really consider myself to be an actor of any particular style. My aim with every role I undertake is to be truthful and honest in that particular portrayal. I don't have a particular methodology from any one school of thought or training.

Brian Sandoval

I worked my way through law school.

Brendan Fehr

I never liked group work in school.

Jose Maria

The start of the work is (Saturday), but they are practically working now,

Elena Dementieva

I usually start to play well when I'm in trouble.

Carnell Williams

Sometimes you need this. It's tough, but now we can stop talking about 13-0 and start talking about being this 0-1 Tiger team and what we're going to do about it.

DeShawn Stevenson

Sometimes you've got to switch up the starting lineup to get a spark, just to get a win.

Nick Jones

Tech blitzes so much, the only way you can get them to back down is start to gash them,

Linda Bannister

Things look bleak. It's unclear when things are going to start to look better.

Jeff Davis

They always do that, ... because they think we're going to start some kind of trouble with him.

Ron Ward

This is a terrific opportunity, and I can't wait to really start contributing.

John Silvia

This is a surprisingly strong start of the year.