Famous Quotes & Sayings

Danielle Brian

A lot of people need a lot of money now that Katrina has devastated so many communities. Should it be the taxpayers' first priority to make a contractor at the shipyard whole? Money to Northrop means that it is not going to someone else who might need it.

Dave Jones

This fall, when Phase Two is ongoing, the contractor will have to accommodate high water any way he chooses.

Gene Cofiell

For each day past the May 12 deadline the contractor will be fined $3,000.

Eric Goldberg

It's not enough to hire a general contractor and say here's a big pile of money, now go to it. Homeowners are generally more satisfied if they're on the site.

Jack Barnes

It replaces some of the wearing surface and seals it so water can't get in - water is the enemy of the street. We've already cracksealed the streets - we've found that it works better when we've done that, ... The contractor is doing some patching that we weren't able to get to.

Wendy Hall

As a responsible government contractor we will work with the appropriate government agency.

Steve Chapman

A gas official or other certified contractor has to come out and turn the gas back on and light the pilot lights in all the appliances, because that's something that we don't recommend people do on their own,

John Edward

When the only shot many people have is a good job rebuilding New Orleans, the president intervened to suspend prevailing wage laws so his contractor friends can cut wages for a hard day's work,

John Woods

Everything seems to be on schedule. We've started the demolition, the pruning and removal of diseased trees, and the contractor is starting the underground utilities and walkway layout.

Brett Favre

Until power is hooked back up, until there are places where you can go get gas and you can go get something to eat, I'm better off being here.

Jeff Bell

We've always planned on gasoline being over $65 a barrel,

Brad Dean

We're not anticipating any sustained impact on tourism as long as gas prices come down to a reasonable level.

Francis Gaskins

They have high-quality natural gas there, and it's just in the right place at the right time.

John Lichtblau

They (drivers) are not going to substantially reduce gasoline consumption.

Tom Snyder

They should stay the same. Gas prices go up and down. There are no long-term projections.

Bill Richards

They say this station has pumped gasoline for over 50 years. I hope we never stop.

Jerry Taylor

It's not really a compensation for higher gas prices. It's simply a please-vote-for-me-in-November payment.

Don Rogers

It's the last holiday and I think people will be out here regardless of what the price of gas is.

Charles Dickens

In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is--as the light called human life is--at its coming and its going.

Charles Dickens

Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.

Charles Caleb Colton

Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer; for it prevents those disorders which other remedies sometimes cure, but sometimes confirm.

Charles Caleb Colton

Posthumous fame is a plant of tardy growth, for our body must be the seed of it; or we may liken it to a torch, which nothing but the last spark of life can light up; or we may compare it to the trumpet of the archangel, for it is blown over the dead; but unlike that awful blast, it is of earth, not of heaven, and can neither rouse nor raise us.

Charles Dickens

What connexion can there be, between the place in Lincolnshire, the house in town, the Mercury in powder, and the whereabout of Jo the outlaw with the broom, who had that distant ray of light upon him when he swept the churchyard-step? What connexion can there have been between many people in the innumerable histories of this world, who, from opposite sides of great gulfs, have, nevertheless, been very curiously brought together!

Charles Dickens

Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.

Charles Spurgeon

When you speak of heaven, let your face light up...When you speak of hell well then, your everyday face will do.

Charles Spurgeon

The grace of the spirit comes only from heaven, and lights up the whole bodily presence.

Alan Watts

The question "What shall we do about it?" is only asked by those who do not understand the problem. If a problem can be solved at all, to understand it and to know what to do about it are the same thing. On the other hand, doing something about a problem which you do not understand is like trying to clear away darkness by thrusting it aside with your hands. When light is brought, the darkness vanishes at once.

Richard Dormer

When you see a school bus, you got to think children. Even if the lights are not flashing, you got to slow down.

Larry Porter

As you can see we don't have any lights on.

Steve Costello

This can be used for new traffic lights or sidewalks or a whole variety of things.

Michelle Paver

For me, inspiration isn't a sort of spark which lights the fire of the story. It's more like a thread, one of many, which you can tease out of a story once it's written, if you feel so inclined.

Tom Link

It's a different way of living; you don't turn on lights indiscriminately.

Richard Tolbert

They're going to tax people who have to get a payday loan just to keep their lights from being turned off.

Ken Jenne

There's debris, there are tree limbs all over. Traffic lights are out, ... Don't get in your car.

Mike Compton

Any room he walks in, he smiles and the room just lights up.

Kim Lawrence

That's when you get people's lights on. You get a lot of satisfaction when you see the lights go on.

Tom Swan

For him to officially get in, we're going to need to recruit volunteers from every town.

Lance Davids

It pretty much is just official now. It wasn't like this wasn't going to happen.

John Hill

There's been no official confirmation that anything was going on.

Dave Freudenthal

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

Jake Halpern

Deities can actually own property in India, though the law treats them as minors, and they must be represented by an official guardian.

Rochelle Cancienne

The students will be contacted by the schools in regard to registering. At registration they will be told their official start date.

Mark Spitz

The officials I was with, I don't know if they were unaware, but they didn't say anything to me. The whole thing turned into what did I see and what did I know.

Dave Calloway

Now, Chris, I want to officially let you know you are officially welcome in Avon pick-up games.

Derek Jeter

The season doesn't officially start till you get this one out of the way. Fortunately, we were able to sneak this one out.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Studd

Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.

Charles Stross

In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.

Charles Stanley

I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.

Charles Spurgeon

The Lord's people have always been a waiting people.

Charles Spurgeon

People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.

Alan Shepard

You know, being a test pilot isn't always the healthiest business in the world.

Chesley Sullenberger

Each generation of pilots hopes that they will leave their profession better off than they found it.

Bo Jackson

I always wanted to be a pilot.

Dave Barry

Never board a commercial aircraft if the pilot is wearing a tank top.

Craig Ferguson

My pilot's license. I'm proud of that.

Deyon Pitter

You are the pilot of your life, be sure that you do not crash.

Donal Logue

I did pilots here and there but mostly I was doing little bits in movies.

Duane G. Carey

And, I wouldn't consider myself to be a natural pilot; I've had to work at it.

Alex Newell

I always wanted to be on Glee. As soon as the pilot aired, I said I needed to be on the show.

Donald Rumsfeld

I slept on it, and I'm not going to recommend that it be vetoed.

Mike Hammond

We don't recommend just everybody. We don't want to be a rubber stamp.

Stuart Rose

I was the chief executive once, I've been there. My recommendation to anybody is don't go backwards.

Kenny Smith

We recommend you do it from a ladder, it's safer.

Sam Claflin

Get yourself into every audition that you can. Even in those for smaller roles, you'll never know when someone may recommend you for a bigger one.

Marcia Cross

I think she would be a very interesting patient. I'd recommend she come three times a week.

Mike Hohensee

We'll be sure to recommend him when the time comes.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

He has no other recommendation, save an assumed and crafty solemnity of demeanour.

Johannes Laitenberger

It is not up to us to recommend anything to the press.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

How completely satisfying to turn from [our] limitations to a God who has none.

Denise Levertov

Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.

Frank Molinaro

It's exciting. We just try to get one another to turn it up a bit.

Shannon Davis

They did that for me, (so) why turn my back on them?

Mike Piazza

You don't want to turn away from it. You may want to and no one would begrudge you if you did. But you shouldn't do that. I think I'm a better person because of what I went through.

Leighton Reese

This is turn 8 and 9, you want to take them in one big arc.

Marc Chandler

There's been a turn in psychology. It has been buy-the-dips. Now it is sell-the-rallies.

Nick Hunter

As Don Meredith used to say, turn out the lights, the party?s over.

Randy Stone

As it turns out, ... he just can't spell.