Famous Quotes & Sayings

James L. Buckley

As a consequence, the Court ruled that the limits on campaign spending violated the First Amendment, but it accepted the $1,000 limit on individual contributions on the ground that the need to avoid the appearance of corruption justified this limited constraint on speech.

Christian Carion

The British army accepted that. I respect that and told them: 'Congratulations, I'm proud these soldiers far away from home will see it.'

Peter Suwak

As part of the rezoning vote, they accepted that recommendation, which opened the door for our legal challenge, we think. We don't understand how they can now consider that blighted.

Naeem Khan

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has invited the President to dinner. The President has accepted the invitation. The dinner will be preceded by a meeting at which the two leaders will review the progress in the Composite Dialogue process.

Edith Summerskill

Prize-fighting is still accepted as a display worthy of a civilized people despite the fact that all those connected with it are fully aware it caters to the latent sadistic instincts.

John Benson

Our engineering staff signed off in the last 24 hours (so) it has been accepted in principle, but we'll know between now and Sept. 10-11 if it satisfies all (our) requirements,

Chris Kearney

Our facility is not suitable for a person in this gentleman's condition. ... If we had known he was prone to violence, we would not have accepted him.

Chuck Nelson

People have accepted the fact they'll be spending $2.25 a gallon for gas but they realize, too, that they'll probably put, on average, only about 2,000 miles a year on their vehicle.

Gene Johnson

After settling down and proving herself by getting a couple wins, I think she felt more accepted and like she'd really earned a spot there. She's turned out to be one of the most popular in the group. It seems there's daily, almost hourly, contact between she and some of the others. You know those girls and their cell phones.

Shekhar Kapur

As a director, my job is to spend money, and the producer's is to save money. Masoom, Bandit Queen and the first Queen Elizabeth have been my most uncompromised films.

Adam Schoenfeld

Bandwidth is a big growth category, ... It's an important trend that the Internet sector offers some choice and segmentation.

Eric Brown

The music is really bigger than us, because it did have an impact on people. This is something we can have forever. It doesn't have to be the same struggling band situation, which is hard to maintain.

Reece Thompson

A friend and I started a band together. I am kind of learning how to play instruments. We write stuff over Skype or e-mail. I send one part and he writes another.

Kim Anderson

After I graduated, I was like, OK, what do I do now? ... And nothing was as great as playing in a band with R.L. So I just called and said, 'What if I just moved to Kansas City?'

Jeff Pevar

The most important thing for this band is that it is playing. I liken playing in this band to sitting around a poker table. The game is still going on. It goes on no matter who shows up. It's cool if different players are part of this. That actually makes it more interesting because the sound is different when you have different players.

Gary Koenig

Stop and think about a new rock band just trying to come up with a name that's not been used. There's only so much you can do in one direction.

Ricky Phillips

Styx is a very exclusive club. The band doesn't think of it as the new Styx -- they think of it as a continuum.

Nick Atkinson

Someone said we were too good looking to be a rock band which is the weirdest thing I have ever heard in my life,

Deborah Moggach

My parents were both writers - they would type their manuscripts sitting side by side on the veranda of our house near Watford - so I wanted to do something different. I wanted to be a bluegrass singer, an architect, a landscape gardener, or to do something with animals.

Jackie Kennedy

A newspaper reported that I spent $30,000 a year buying Paris clothes and that women hate me for it. I couldn't spend that much unless I wore sable underwear.

Ernie Zeigler

(A new attitude) had to be developed. The first year was tough. It was hard for some of the guys that had been there three or four years (under Lavin) to buy totally into that (defensive) mind-set.

David Martin

As far as donating goods, we have nowhere to put them. We have filled every warehouse they are letting me use. What we need now is monetary donations, so when people stop donating goods, we can go out and buy them.

Randy Petersen

As a result of people buying tickets so often, there's not much room for people cashing in their miles.

Scott Johnson

As a regular guy who likes to buy wine, this is going to make it easier to get the eclectic things that right now are hard to get in Florida unless you pay triple the price in a restaurant.

Kurt Barnard

As consumers become more comfortable with buying from the computer, ... and this new generation that has grown up with the computer comes of age, what we will see is huge dollar amounts of retail sales being transacted on the Web and we will see a lot of stores become increasingly Web stores.

Jeffrey Swartz

As a company, Timberland wants to make it better and the new packaging will do just that. Our goal is to reduce our impact on the environment while engaging consumers to take action. This packaging and labeling initiative should make our industry more transparent and give consumers the information they need to make smart buying decisions.

Nestor Aguila

The buying is just too strong for that.

John Hughes

The buying is broad-based, and the movement in some of these stocks is significant, particularly for technology, ... I think we're making some good progress today. It could mean a change in tone.

Casey Stengel

A shave, please, but don't cut my throat. I may want to do it later myself.

Barclays Capital

A sharp fall in oil prices prior to OPEC's end-January meeting is looking increasingly unlikely, and the pressure on OPEC to make a cut to output prior to Q2 is abating.

J. Taylor

(The Bulldogs) got so many points off our turnovers it was ridiculous. If we cut down on our turnovers and be patient with our offense, things will be way better than it was at Fresno.

Dale Erickson

A weak defensive start led to strong opponent shooting. Defensively we could have worked harder to cut down the perimeter shooting.

Pat Fuscaldo

Bakersfield took us out of our offense in the first half. We got down big, but it was big for us to cut it down to single digits. ... The second half was a different game.

Catherine Hardwicke

Back in medieval times, Victorian repression hadn't come in yet. People were bawdy and wild and more in touch with their true natures. If you look at the Bosch paintings or Bruegel, you see, when people are dancing, they're totally cutting loose.

Hamid Awaluddin

As long as the regulations have not been revised, all prisoners will be given a sentence cut in line with their rights under prevailing laws and regulations,

Rob Stillwell

As of Friday there were 46 people on our MIA list. We cut off their paychecks and heard from 26 of them.

Sheldon Brown

As long as you're moving forward in a straight line, you'll be OK. But if you have to cut vertically, that can be tough.

Tony Russa

And then the other stuff falls into place. As you saw there, that's what he's been doing all year long. I can't remember seeing a pitcher all the years that I've managed that has been so good every time out.

Andre Dreicon

Another day of falls and another day without volume.

A. E. Housman

Ensanguining the skies, How heavily it dies, Into the west away; Past touch and sight and sound, Not further to be found, How hopeless under ground, Falls the remorseful day

Tommy Fabian

She tends to throw good pitches when she falls behind.

Laura Bush

No one who falls will be forgotten by this grateful nation,

Eric Lewis

Now we're on another United flight, we might make that, I don't know. If not, we're just going to stay in Sioux Falls forever.

Aviv Kochavi

From now on, ... responsibility for what happens in Gaza falls on the Palestinian Authority.

Thomas Fuller

If a man falls once, all will tread upon him.

Gustav Mahler

Fortissimo at last!( on seeing Niagara Falls )

Pope Benedict

tireless witness of the Gospel of peace and reconciliation.

Brian Tracy

There are never any traffic jams on the extra mile.

Tony Benn

Some of the jam we thought was for tomorrow, we've already eaten

Tessanne Chin

Being born in Jamaica, race was never an issue. It was always about the type of person I wanted to be, not the colour of my skin.

Dee Brown

Me and James (Augustine) have been through this before as sophomores. You just have to play with a different mentality.

Rohan Verplank

James just stomped it and smoked everyone again.

Pryce Underwood

I thought we couldn't win without James in there. He is our big guy, and we were a little out of sync without him.

John Heard

Lauren Bacall, James Garner, and Jack Lemmon - they're all gone now, but I was so impressed by them.

Sally Kirkland

I didn't go to college, not that I don't think people should, but I didn't because I was Off-Broadway when I was 17, with James Earl Jones.

Ursula Andress

I mostly gave away what I had from the James Bond movie.

Brian Reynolds

GM's going out to the markets to get the money and they're going to put it back into the market, so in a sense it's a wash,

Carlos Ghosn

We don't know where the markets are going,

Hernan Cortes

This city has many public squares, in which are situated the markets and other places for buying and selling.

Bill Hornbarger

The big thing on everybody's mind is oil prices.

Toba Beta

A well-trained mind responded to symptoms. An ordinary mind reacted after it happened.

Joshua Young

At times, you don't think you are going to be able to do it. But if you do what you are supposed to do and keep your mind on focus, you'll get a whole lot out of it.

James Fox

People think 'Performance' blew my mind... my mind was blown long before that.

Daphne Maurier

a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Mike Love

The songs are complicated enough to keep your mind engaged,

Nick Rimando

The thing that's on my mind now is the (United-Galaxy) game. It grounds us a little bit.

Steve Brozak

The thing that comes to mind is that Guidant blinked (in the negotiations).

Steve Brozak

The thing that comes to mind is that Guidant blinked.

Jeff Wangsness

You're going to see some real challenging-type stunts, more so than they normally would do.

John Kelley

People normally wouldn't do this but they have to come in.

Mo Johnston

He said he was sorry. End of story. I'm not worried about that. He buckled down in the second half. Normally in the past, he would be sent off.

Tom Verica

Most shows are normally 40 or 50 pages.

Martha Graham

You don't pick dance. Dance picks you.

Richard Avedon

Any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same.

Janet Frank

When (Life Flight) picks up a patient, they have nothing to do with money. When they're called, they pick the person up.

Jorge Torres

This is something that should not be on places of education.

John Duncan

Those two places in South Portland are significant bottlenecks.

Dr. Seuss

You won't lag behind, because you'll have the speed. You'll pass the whole gang and you'll soon take the lead. Wherever you fly, you'll be best of the best. Wherever you go, you will top all the rest. Except when you don't. Because, sometimes, you won't.

Yotam Ottolenghi

There are tons of wonderful places to eat in London.

Adrian Smith

I get to fish a lot of wild and wonderful places on tour.

Margaret Turnbull

If TPF is not canceled, these are the places where we will search.

Lynsey Addario

Most people, when they meet me, one of the first things they say is, 'Why would you voluntarily subject yourself to war? Why would you go into these places where you know there's a risk of getting killed?'

Charlie Morgan

One of the things we stress is to make sure you are prepared. Do you have enough water? Do you have the right equipment? When we travel, there is a checklist of things, the type of places we stay in, for example.

Sam Bush

Of course, I wasn't old enough to get in these places back then,

Brodie Croyle

A record of 10-2 has a whole lot better ring to it than 9-3.

Conor Niland

Any team that has a (10-1) record is doing something right.

Leah Gingrich

I wanted that record pretty badly, so I was kind of upset after the race.

Ken Richards

The sad part is that it's on video, so if you don't know what you're doing, you'll have a record of it for life.

Daryl Hall

I've watched the world crash and burn in every sense. I've watched the record industry crash and burn; politically I've watched it crash and burn, financially crash and burn.

Susan Tedeschi

I've wanted to record some old tunes by other artists. It just seemed like the right time.

Rob Domagalski

They are a better team than their record shows. To walk away with a win, I'll take it.

Matt Howard

This is a record by far. It strengthens all the races, not just the World Cup.

Cameron Diaz

If you really want to torture me, sit me in a room strapped to a chair and put Mariah Carey's records on.

Angus King

Somebody said, 'You may be a committee chair.' I don't think so. I don't think anybody would want me that much.

Danny Hall

You spot somebody 10 runs, it's pretty tough to win.

Manti Te'o

Ever since I was young, if somebody needs help, you help them out.

Bob Bernstein

We wanted to put up enough to get somebody talking. What's a bun worth? It's kind of a strange question.

Mark McKinney

What? No one wants my bouquet! Somebody better pick it up! Somebody better pick up my bouquet!

Kathy Valentine

together we're trying to make a wish come true that somebody else wasn't going to let happen.

Brad Clark

You have to be able to take somebody down to win these days. You have to be tough on your feet.

Mike Williams

You get somebody in here and they say they only need it two or three months, and they'll stay a year. We have 800 units here, and I'm full.

Mary Carillo

There's somebody to look at, and I think that really helped.

Billy Donovan

I don't think anything surprises at least me any more in this tournament.

Peter Gade

Anyway, in the new system, many surprises could happen.

Franz Beckenbauer

It only surprises me that no one thought of it before.

Doc Sadler

We tried some things. A triangle-and-two, some zone. And they made some shots.

Phil Budervic

We tried not to do that, because that's kind of unfair. But when we need a basket...that's who we're going to.

Dirk Nowitzki

We tried a lot of things that game, but he's just that good.

James Simpson

We all tried to get the word out any way possible. Did it help? Who knows. For all we know, the chopper was already on the way. But it did get attention, and now they're safe.

Denny McCrotty

We tried to manufacture some runs, it was too much. That's kind of been our story for some kind now." ()

Kylan Robinson

She tried to make it, but it was too late.

Grant Hill

I would probably say yes. I don't see getting another surgery. We tried it. It didn't work. I don't see doing another.

Bob Enos

We've tried surgery, medications, and nothing has changed.

Tom Daschle

We've tried all the voluntary options, ... They have all failed. We know what we've got to do.