Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Said

To say that we're going to end countries or eradicate terrorism, and that it's a long war over many years, with many different instruments, suggests a much more complex and drawn-out conflict for which, I think, most Americans aren't prepared.

Gary Garner

Every year there are one or two games that stick in your craw. Every team in the country has that. That was one for us.

Neil Boyd

Except for the very unlikely event of being hit by a stray bullet, the country is very much as safe to walk around in as it was a decade ago.

Philip Morris

There's probably not a country in the world that can withstand a verdict this size.

Laura Bush

The response of this country has been amazing,

David Yardley

There was 28.16 percent of the registered voters who voted. For a primary election, that is fairly typical, ... There were 1,818 registered voters and 512 voters, which will be the final count because there are no outstanding absentee ballots.

Cameron Bagrie

There's not a lot of investment opportunities out there, so yield is still the default play for the market. But when the New Zealand dollar turns, it will turn aggressively, and if we don't get yield demand it will fall by a country mile.

Riley Wallace

There's nobody in the country who can match what we do for our seniors. We've created something special with the fans for that, and this is a special group that deserves another good send off.

Jim Calhoun

There's no one in the country that has guard play like them and they're a very difficult team to stop.

Abby Cohen

We expect profit growth to decelerate in the second half of 2004.

Elton Brand

I expect a hard-fought series from Denver. We got home-court advantage, and that should help. The Nuggets are a tough club, and so is Dallas. I felt that we matched up well with either.

Kim Il

I was shocked when I heard my uncle, Soo Jo, was looking for me. I didn't expect him to be alive,

Frank Gillett

I would expect this to be primarily about experimentation.

Robert Long

I would expect a strong payrolls number Friday, and for the market to have some sort of positive response to it, even if it's just very short-term.

Emily Watson

She says she hangs on to the voice even after we've left the studio, so expect an, 'I'm having a jolly good time' from her on the red carpet.

Melinda Fischer

She has really been able to guide them through some things and been very patient. You can't expect somebody who's never been in our program to come in and get it right away. They're going to keep getting it all the way through the season. She's been real patient and been a good leader.

Patty Schnyder

I didn't know what to expect and I was very happy. They were there for me.

Jay Bryson

Most people expect that the Fed will hike short-term rates more than the 10-year (yield) will go up this year.

Angie Martinez

The fact that they're taking this service away is disheartening.

Steve Allen

I don't know that much about them other than the fact that they gave us a lot of trouble last year over at their yard.

Anil Kumble

I am disappointed but never regretted the fact that I was never given the opportunity to lead the Indian side. You can only be as good as the opportunities you get.

Sandra Anderson

I am humbled to be third. I am humbled by the fact that people who don't know me very well are willing to put their trust in me.

Ron Fujikawa

He is not a person of interest. We have received no indication he is somebody who will be called before a grand jury. We have received assurances that he is at most a fact witness.

Joe Paterno

He is a good football player. He is not a great football player. But the fact that he has gone through this I think has helped him with some other kids. He has been able to go to other kids and talk to them a little.

Mike Stevens

He doesn't highlight the things he thinks is fact and the things he thinks is fiction, so the reader hasn't any way of knowing.

Mark Parent

Other than a handful of games, we usually had a shot to win it at the end. That's called competing, and that's what our guys did. I'm really proud of the fact that they did that all year. They handled themselves like professionals.

Felton McClellan

Regardless of the fact that we lost everything materially, we are so blessed.

Abby Cohen

Opportunities are likely to present themselves, especially given a 6- to 12-month time horizon.

Robert Williamson

It's not that I'm trying to be greedy. It's the principle of it. If you're injured, the regulations state you're to be given this medal.

John Burroughs

It's nothing she would ever have given away. It's value is really sentimental.

Adrian Benepe

This park was taken away for construction of the tunnel and never given back. We unpaved a parking lot and put up a paradise.

Girish Tyagi

There were no major surprises and that actually is good news, given that the recent surprises for the sector have been of the wrong kind.

Sathya Baba

It is very appropriate to infer that the Veda was given to the world only by persons endowed with all powers.

Keith Tucker

They haven't given up, ... That is what I like about them.

David White

Our victim got all but $250 back of the $90,000 she had given him. The other lady got about one-third of her money ($50,000) back - that was all we could trace. It's quite unusual to get money back - it's usually gone but we got lucky.

Buck Leonard

I only wish I could have played in the big leagues when I was young enough to show what I could do. When an offer was given to me to join up, I was too old, and I knew it.

Toni Morrison

Say make me, remake me. You are free to do it and I am free to let you because look, look. Look where your hands are. Now.

Ricardo Montalban

If you shake your fist, the other guy will shake his too. But if you extend your hand to shake their hand, then they will extend theirs also, and you've made a friend.

Sarah Dessen

I looked down again at the sign in my hand - ENJOY THE RIDE! - and it seemed, suddenly, to be just that. A sign.

William Powell

I can fully appreciate the fury and anger that a person can feel when put through a humiliating experience by a cop, but I would recommend strongly that a person maintain his cool, and in no circumstances lose his temper. If you lose your temper, you are playing right into the cop's hands.

William Jones

My opinion is, that power should always be distrusted, in whatever hands it is placed.

Rick Riordan

I like both Greek and Egyptian. More Greek stories have survived, so we know more about them. They've always been my favorite. On the other hand, I like the Egyptian stories because they're not as commonly known and they have an exotic flavour.

Amir Vahedi

I know he has something in his hand because of his flat-call,

Donald Brashear

I had my hands down and he threw a big left hand at me and he got me. He got me buzzing. You learn quick that if you keep your hands down, you better get them up quick.

Neale Donald Walsch

How you experience your life depends on how you look at it. If you look at it as a constant stream of difficulties and challenges, messes and problems, it will show up that way. If, on the other hand, you see it as a continuing flow of good fortune, one good thing after another, that is what you will encounter.

Robert A. Heinlein

To assess the intelligence of a committee, divide the IQ of its stupidest member by the number of members.

Vernon Jordan

A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Why do photographers start giving numbers to their prints? It’s absurd. What do you do when the 20th print has been done? Do you swallow the negative? Do you shoot yourself? It’s the gimmick of money.

Alexei Mordashov

My wealth is reflected in the price of Severstal, and the number of shares I have in my possession doesn't have any impact on the company.

Irv DeGraw

I would like to think they can get in the 20 percent range, but with that number of shares it could be difficult.

Will Forte

It takes a certain type of person to register your 'Donkey Kong' score. So I'm just number 29 in registered Donkey Kong scores.

Nathan Myhrvold

Near Marseilles in the south of France, bouillabaisse is a cult food. In Toulouse and Carcassonne, the bean-based stew cassoulet is a cult food. Spain has paella and a number of others. Italy has so many, its cuisine is practically defined by them.

Bill Gates

I have to admit that business-type thoughts do sneak into my head: I hope our customers pay us, I hope this stuff is decent, I hope we get it done on time. The little additions and subtractions that one has to do. Take sales, take costs and try to get that big positive number at the bottom.

Dolores Huerta

Professional farmworkers who know how to do a number of different jobs, whether it be pruning or picking or crafting, they see themselves as professionals, and they take a lot of pride in that work. They don't see themselves as doing work that is demeaning.

George Washington

The business being thus closed . . . dined together and took a cordial leave of each other After which I returned to my lodgings, did some business with and received the papers from the secretary of the Convention, and retired to meditate on the momentous work which had been executed.

Barack Obama

I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.

Ami Ayalon

Once we agree on the future, the present will be much easier. A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there. We have first to decide where we want to go, where we want to sail.

Terry Goodkind

Over the millennia the seed of stories planted in the fertile soil of bits and scraps of facts was watered by wishes and began to take root and grow. Eventually, a bountiful fruit of rumors burst forth, to be spread on the wind of whispers that said we hid a fabled hoard of gold. Nothing could convince the believers that it was not true. The truth does not glitter for these people like gold does.