Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Paxon

It can grow two, three, four times what it is presently. This fire is not over. It is out of control. If it's 300,000 acres now, it's only going to get bigger.

Bill Rose

Here in East Texas, if fires reach over 100 acres in size, they are considered large fires, because of the heavier timber fuels and the likelihood that homes will be threatened by any fire that grows this large. A 4,000-acre fire is a huge fire in this region.

Steve Roman

History has shown that the Legislature has never done that. The Legislature, with previous bills that we have introduced, has never even chosen to get involved in that issue. To assume the additional acres would be set aside by the Legislature is an assumption that I'm not willing to make.

Terry Casey

It is a 200-acre-plus site, and the casino might be two to three acres of that.

Robert Wyatt

We're proposing a very simple LNG import terminal. We have an option on an 80-acre (32.4-hectare) piece of land but we would probably use only about 35 acres (14 hectares). We would keep a lot of trees in the front.

Jim Graham

It is possible that the grove acreage (in Florida) could be down to about 548,000 acres at the end of 2009.

Jamey Clary

I watched it grow in the 1980s and 1990s, and 500 to 1,000 acres of water were being built every year.

Jon Preiksat

We may have our family feuds, but at least this is our 6.6 acres of God's green earth. Let us decide, not someone else.

Jennifer Holder

If we commented on every single one of them, you'd think we were building everywhere. That (Green Acres proposal) may very well be going on, but we don't comment until arrangements are final.

Mark Brenner

It can mean thousands of dollars in additional costs to American families. And those with higher debts are definitely looking at significant increases. So those families who most need to borrow are the ones that will be most affected.

Mike Woods

He was a great advocate of cycling, a great role model for cyclists. I met him at a public meeting in Leesburg. And he got up and spoke to the presenters. He spoke in support of additional trail projects. And I think he was instrumental in bringing other people to the meetings to speak their mind.

Kent Conrad

He wants an additional $18 billion that is not in the budget. And my question to him is, this is spending you say is needed. How do you intend to pay for it?

John Sanders

He kept the place going while President Graham in particular pursued the additional ends of those involved in the presidency.

Stuart Roy

He is very good at keeping people as part of his extended family. It gives him additional reach and additional eyes and ears.

Asa Hutchinson

there are targeted flights, special flights of concern, that are particularly covered. And we're trying to make sure, through additional resources, that we really increase the number of flights that are covered.

Dorothy Attwood

What we feel that we're offering is an additional product, an additional choice. We're not taking anything away from the consumer.

Ray Mabus

Here are the choices I don't want to make: between paying additional fuel costs and flying and steaming less; between paying additional fuel costs and building fewer ships and planes.

Jim Rogers

Having an entity out there assessing and evaluating and having the information being made public, that's not all bad, ... It's just one additional way of providing some kind of picture of higher education in this country.

Tom DeLay

I would suggest to Senator Daschle that he put aside his party's planned fund-raising trip and take up the serious business of this country.

Sallie Beard

I think that's a strange irony that we're playing Truman State. Aside from Joplin, there isn't anyplace else on the face of the earth that will be more touched and more impacted than Kirksville and the Truman State campus by the loss of John Ware.

Nancy Schlichting

It is important that Michigan residents express their concern and let members of Congress know that health care coverage is a critical national problem that must be a top Congressional priority. It is time to put politics aside and take meaningful steps toward solutions. In southeast Michigan, we are doing what we can to help those living without health insurance, but this is a national problem that demands national solutions.

Jenny Lewis

I was kind of surprised after making the record, like, 'Wow, there are a lot of god references here!' I didn't realize I was thinking about that so much. There are a lot of cynical elements to these songs, and there's sort of the expression of dissatisfaction ? but not without hope at the end. It's about putting all that aside and having a little bit of faith.

Russell Kinnel

He's a very sharp guy who did a really good job at Mutual Series. They got points for not giving up on their strategy during the growth boom and tossing aside dividends and balance sheet analysis.

Virginia Laken

We make sure our love making takes place, even though our bodies are not driving us to make love -- our minds are. We realize that lovemaking is so important to our marriage that we set aside the time.

Keith Ellison

There must be something in the water in Minnesota because historically, despite its seemingly homogeneous population, the state has produced some of our more radical political thinkers, and its people have put their prejudices aside to vote for them.

Dick Bennett

I don't know what that is aside from the emotions of the game. Maybe the fact that they have pretty much owned us over the years. I'm not sure. I do know . . . that they've got a lot of young kids out there.

Alastair Cook

He has been fantastic. It is great, he every now and then takes you aside and gives you little bits of advice.

David Howell

It came as a big surprise, to be honest, ... We all assumed Luke (England's highest-ranked player) would pick Paul to defend the title, but Luke didn't think that was necessary and thought the man on form would be the pick.

George Pierce Baker

What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in recent years we have come to understand that to live on is sometimes far more tragic than death.

Drew Gilpin Faust

I lived in a world where social arrangements were taken for granted and assumed to be timeless. A child's obligation was to learn these usages, not to question them. The complexities of racial deportment were of a piece with learning manners and etiquette more generally.

John Owen

We expect to report an operating margin between 2 percent and 4 percent, and that should bring us to a net loss for the full year. And for full-year, we are using an assumed fuel price of $1.92 (for a gallon of jet fuel). So, basically, $1.92 in the first quarter and an average of about $2 for each of the remaining three quarters.

John Taylor

I think we ought to assume that $59.99 is going to be the place we start for game prices,

Dexter Irvin

I think we just assumed that Snow wasn't going to come out and play as hard as they did. By halftime we realized that that was not the case and that if we didn't pull it together we were going to be in trouble.

Sidney Jones

I think we have to be careful not to assume that, just because Azahari and Noordin were involved, that it was a JI operation.

Sung Sohn

I think we should know about candidates' desires and views, but I think it would be a mistake to assume that they will become reality.

Ricky Jay

I think a lot of people just assumed I came to L.A. to do more television and get into show business.

Tamsin Egerton

Some people who meet me might think I starve myself, because there's such an assumption that being thin involves putting yourself through torture and punishing your body, but I'm just naturally skinny - you should watch me demolish a ploughman's lunch.

George Pipas

Our base planning assumption was not predicated on unemployment going down,

Scott Skiles

I guess the assumption I'll go under is that we'll start the same way we did (Saturday) night.

Robert Kagan

The international perception of the U.S. leadership is hobbled, ... The assumption is, the president is weak. And this has a direct and immediate impact on the way other countries deal with us.

Jon Cleary

I'm going on the assumption that it's all gone my studio, my guitars, my keyboards, all my work. And even if the house survived, I'm worried that people have looted everything in it.

Jerry Yang

The 'Field of Dreams' Internet--where the assumption was 'If you build it, they will come'--is no longer a reality. Content sites can no longer grow organically, and I give only six more months for most new electronic commerce sites.

Callum Henderson

The comments by Tim Adams were a bombshell. This is the first clear warning in a very long time by the U.S. that Japan shouldn't cap the rise in the yen. The implicit assumption is the yen will indeed strengthen.

Whit Andrews

The hairy assumption is that people want to do this, and that they're going to do a good job. There is some value to me if I use it myself; if you used it and I cared what you thought, it would be substantially more valuable for me.

Henry Giroux

Any dominant ideology operates off the assumption that what it has to say is unaccountable and unquestionable.

Bill Harding

I think investors have become more serious about the impact of taxes because they were saddled with tax bills in 2000 -- but many funds performed poorly as the market crashed.

Mark Zandi

It is going to be a tough winter for many seniors. Not only will they face higher Medicare premiums, but record gasoline prices and higher home heating bills as well.

Bob Grantham

I was disappointed in some respect to see that some of these bills had been submitted have an effective date of July 1, 2007, which is going to be no help to the people who need the relief now.

Ken Mayland

There is a great deal of fear and uncertainty out there. On the one hand it's sad to see peoples' lives disrupted and destroyed. On the other hand, people are worrying about how they are going to pay their gasoline bills and their home heating bills this winter. It makes for a pretty bleak view of the future.

Stan Dixon

We try to provide as much information on the Web site as we can, and we encourage people to calculate their tax bills on the site. We want their help in uncovering any discrepancy or mistake that may be on their bill.

Tom Daschle

We therefore expect more say on how the Senate is run, and that includes everything from deciding what bills are debated on the floor, what goes into conference reports, to deciding committee chairs and ratios, and assigning committee staff and office space,

Heizo Takenaka

I am happy that understanding for the bills is spreading,

Robert Creeley

Comes the time when it's later and onto your table the headwaiter puts the bill

Travis Barker

Bill Stevenson of The Descendants is really good, too.

Lanny Breuer

I think it's extraordinarily unfair that in the last minute the government has chosen to intervene.

Hani Durzy

We are extremely gratified that the Supreme Court has chosen to review this case.

John O'Hurley

I am excited that I have been chosen as the host of such a television institution.

Richard Sands

He felt that Canandaigua, you know, 'The Chosen Spot,' that's what it means in Algonquin Indian, should have more cultural arts.

Chris Powell

The judiciary in Connecticut has chosen to obey the laws it wants to obey, and to tell you folks you can't pass other laws. The judiciary has got to get out of the legislation business.

E. P. Thompson

The clinic respects the privacy of its patients, and continues to express its condolences to the family. It is unfortunate that some have chosen to exploit this matter of personal grief for political purposes.

Ramon Leyba

There are other things he could have chosen and still make his point and still be as literate or as sarcastic.

Pam Borton

Each one of these individuals have different issues on why they have chosen to leave this program.

Christopher Hill

I want to stress that we all want to resolve this through a diplomatic way. The DPRK, not for the first time, has chosen to isolate itself.

Vinny Testaverde

Knowing his past history ... I was very concerned.

Jaclyn Smith

Kmart's as much a part of my history as 'Charlie's Angels.' Twenty-five years! It's not just a celebrity brand.

Tony Judt

You don't have to be Jewish to understand the history of Europe in the 20th century, but it helps.

Harry S Truman

The only thing new in this world is the history that you don't know

Dani Shapiro

I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.

Lindsey Graham

What would you like history to say about you when it is all said and done,

Alec Reid

history will prove that this is the end of the IRA.

Alison Weir

History was a hobby for about, oh, 20 years before I got into print.

Linda Wade

History teaches us lessons we should not forget.

Ron Iwami

I talked to A&B and HCDA, the two parties involved and they told me 'Ron, we will not move on this signing until the Legislature decides'.

Jim Bell

I think it is our role to get involved and not just sit back and wait for someone else to help.

Mark Francis

He wants to be involved in a lot of things this term so that he can become more acclimated with the position.

Charles Mason

There are simply too many players involved for a (conspiracy) to be plausible.

Sandy Goldstein

We're probably involved in 10 of the 30 most prominent investigations in the country.

Lee Baig

It is preposterous to think that they could be involved in any kind of criminality. They have not had so much as a speeding ticket in their lives.

Raymond Cruz

I went to college and studied writing, and I got involved in theater. It's always been my passion.

Pete Carroll

He's going to be involved in a lot of special teams.

Nick Cave

When you're making a film, there are so many people involved that you get opinions and notes from people and you don't even know who they are. I find that quite difficult and it wears you down.

Kim Yuna

Watching previous figure skaters, I always wondered why they cried after their performance.

George Papandreou

Previous governments, particularly the one before I took over, mismanaged the economy quite badly.

Yikyung Park

In general, most previous studies have been inconsistent.

Jeffrey Benjamin

The end result is a compilation of many previous contributions.

Norman McLaren

I don't know whether it ever comes back to the same thing; it does return to the spirit of a previous period in some way, but it's different, it's new.

Sanjaasuren Oyun

It was stupid to oust the previous government. It's illogical.

Ansyaad Mbai

The modus operandi is very similar to the previous bombings.

Ali Kerimli

even all the previous falsifications were not enough for them to win.

George Foster

We'll have to go back and resample all the previous sampled locations.

Heather Stewart

I think we've shown that we're a team that can compete.

Jim Riccitelli

He has shown us little glimpses here and there, and I told him tonight he had to be better than the other goaltender, and he was.

Larry Coker

He has shown me a lot. He's going to be an outstanding player.

Rick Taylor

We want them and I think we have shown you that.

Ken Hitchcock

We're not a one-trick pony. We've shown it all year that we're not a one-trick pony.

Alexander Johnson

We're better than that, and we've shown it.

Brian Barnes

Some time ago, we had shown schematically where we could put a wall,

Charles Baudelaire

Thank you. You have shown me the way back to myself.

Alan Trammel

I've said many times this year that at times, we can play with anybody, ... And we've shown that. We just haven't been consistent.

David Jones

He's disappointed, but he understands that's what you have to do. He's willing to go in and work a little harder.

Loui Antonucci

I don't know that we're willing to do that tonight.

Joseph Pierce

Can I make the play, ... Am I willing to make the play?

Nathalie Sarraute

We're swallowed up only when we are willing for it to happen.

Nikki Sixx

Friends tell each other what nobody else is willing to tell you.

David Brody

She'll kind of be tossed in there, but she's willing to work,

Daniel Kahneman

I have always emphasized the willingness to discard.

Rita Mae Brown

Don't hope more than you're willing to work.

Simon Sinek

We are only in charge when we are willing to let others take charge.