Famous Quotes & Sayings

Burt Rutan

Just like when early airplanes were flying in 1910, we didn't know what the benefits are, but we were doing it because it was fun.

Mike Wallace

Just merging the two organizations has a lot of challenges, ... The potential pitfalls and opportunities for disagreements exceed whatever benefits could be gained.

Larry Ellison

Joe brings perspective and experience not commonly found in Silicon Valley companies, ... In the last few years we have transformed Oracle Corporation into the leader in e-business. Joe will help us clearly and broadly communicate the benefits of e-business and e-government.

Steve Schmidt

John Kerry has made up a false measurement to support his ongoing efforts to talk down the economy, ... John Kerry's support for higher taxes on small business, Social Security benefits and gasoline would bring misery to America's working families.

Bill Whyde

I think it's a good idea. The economic benefits will be great. It will make millions of dollars for the city. They will hire 3,200 people. Hopefully most of them will be from Barstow.

Jennifer Robinson

I think it means there's a lot of work to be done, not just getting information but actually making it so that they want to come in and get screened. They can see the benefits of an early screening process for the overall health.

Dave Sheffield

It benefits you winning those games because your kids get a little more confidence. But other than that it doesn't mean much.

Muhammad Abdullah

It benefits me more because I'm more in the box. It puts me in the position where I can make more plays and bigger plays for the team.

Radio Entertainment

has offered our musicians an extremely fair contract proposal. ... The contract includes increases in salary and benefits and fully protects the existing overtime system. They have rejected that proposal and walked away from the table.

Reagan Silber

Kevin brings a level of expertise and credibility that perfectly matches the status and style of the destination we are creating here in Las Vegas.

Jim Leyland

Kenny Rogers made the All-Star team this year. He's 50-some games over .500 lifetime. He brings a lot to this party. I think we got a tremendous deal here.

Roy Williams

Kevin's our third guy right now, and he brings veteran leadership to this group. But we do make fun of him because he's so small. He looks like he's 5-7 out there next to us. But he does make plays.

Apolo Ohno

I wouldn't say that I always wear this particular shirt, but I do ALWAYS bring it with me to trips and competitions.

Angela Mejia

I would say that if the kids could bring out a thousand students, then there's no reason for us not to bring out 20, 30 or 40,000 people.

Gabrielle Aplin

I wrote poetry before I wrote songs, and T.S. Eliot was my inspiration. I love his honesty and try to bring that to my own songwriting.

Al Sharpton

I wrestled with this, even over the last few days, as I sat and stood and walked in Louisiana, where I saw people ravaged, lives torn. I thought about the fact that we need a man that's strong enough to bring us through 9/11 but compassionate enough that if Katrina hits, will make sure that poor people are not the scapegoats of a natural disaster.

Pat Robertson

I would warn Orlando that you're right in the way of some serious hurricanes, ... It'll bring about terrorist bombs. It'll bring earthquakes, tornadoes and possibly a meteor.

J. Nicholson

Ken Holland brings a wealth of experience in preparing a team and he has had great success in selecting championship teams.

T.I.

To expect for me to be one-way every time you see me is to expect me to be a one-dimensional man, which I've never been. I've always applauded my efforts to be diverse and multi-faceted.

Brian Jenkins

I think that is the lesson of the Israeli efforts over the years.

Mark Farley

He's done a nice job with our kids here. I thanked him for his efforts and everything he has done here the past few years, and wished him well.

Stuart Anderson

On the state level, these efforts will continue.

John Kilduff

Remember, the power outages are what bedeviled recovery efforts after Katrina,

Atsutoshi Nishida

Regrettably, two different types of products seem set to hit the market. But this is the kind of technology that will be around for five or 10 years. Efforts should be made continuously to make unification happen.

Phil Smith

If you want your town to be pedestrian-friendly, you need to persist in your efforts over time. You can't just do one thing, either. You need a multiple strategy.

Rio Ferdinand

In my mind, and in a lot of the lads' minds, we are still concentrating all our efforts on finishing second.

Kip Hawley

By incorporating unpredictability into our procedures and eliminating low-threat items, we can better focus our efforts on stopping individuals who wish to do us harm.

Paul O'Neill

Harvey said that people are going to certify, and if they falsely certify, it's going to be fraud, and they're going to go to jail, and we think that's the right step,

Wayne Gandy

I think we were moving it pretty well. We killed ourselves with turnovers and false starts.

John Jay

If people are still trying to find out why things aren't working, they're on a false treasure hunt. Because the reason why things haven't gone well lately is because of the injuries, plain and simple.

John Cornyn

I personally find that not only false but condescending and really inappropriate.

David Sanborn

I hope this doesn't sound like false humility, because I don't mean it to, but I'm just a member of the band.

Bruce Silverglade

The Internet is a veritable minefield of false and misleading claims.

Justin Vernon

The falsetto stuff, it must be a reaction to the black gospel singers that I really enjoy listening to.

Ezra Taft Benson

The false prophets of Communism predict a utopian society.

Andy Anderson

The farmers received false information a long time ago. There was all kinds of misinformation put out there to them about this 40-acre thing, and what they could do.

Jim Smith

I think the drive-to travel market is still up in the air, and we won't know until Thanksgiving, ... That's the next big travel holiday in the petroleum industry. But, generally, I think the rapid escalation in the price of gasoline has slowed down demand.

Robert Brown

We look at it as an alternative renewable fuel. Ideally, we would be able to use it the same way we use gasoline in our engines.

Pat Fagan

I'd like to give you $100 (in gasoline money) for whoever gives you the buses.

Kevin Forbes

Right now our wholesale prices are so high we're going to be sucking in gasoline from everywhere. Which is what we want.

Michael Ervin

Inventories of gasoline are very robust right now.

Michael McNamara

If you take gasoline out, it's still a good number.

David Huether

Clearly, high gasoline prices took quite a toll on the typical consumer.

April Horace

The first quarter was like the perfect storm, where you had Howard Stern, high gasoline prices, and lousy (General Motors) sales.

Mark Pervan

The increase in gasoline supplies could partly be just the release of U.S. strategic reserves being accounted for now.

Clark Yingst

I suspect 'Well we're in a directionless market' is likely to persist until we get a better read on how much higher rates will go.

Fred Powell

It hit at around 1 a.m., ... The mayor had been on TV telling everyone to get to higher ground, but I knew as much about getting around in New Orleans as I know about Mars.

Dave Curry

There is nobody here at all. Ian Thorpe pulling out obviously has a lot higher significance.

David Howell

There is going to be a lot higher scoring than last year and I am very pleased.

Tom Schrader

We're off our highs, but we're trying to work it back higher again.

Bradley Hunter

When home prices are so much higher than median incomes, it makes for an unhealthy economy.

Tom Daschle

We've got to rise to a higher level,

Deb Bennett

We switched to a zone, higher up and more aggressive. Our kids played hard. I thought we matched Bingham's aggressiveness more in the second-half.

Josh Bernoff

I thought they would start higher and work their way down. The problem is, you can't go up.

Bradlee Pelt

Jake knows that he's not John Elway, and I don't think he wants to be. He's Jake Plummer.

Philip Purcell

John and I have never disagreed about the businesses.

John Gartland

John always has a vision, with great, broad-stroked kinds of goals.

Susanne Bier

John le Carre's 'The Night Manager' is a relentlessly exhilarating thriller with profound emotional depths.

Douglas Brinkley

John Kerry only went to prep schools because he had an aunt who had the money to pay for his way into those prep schools.

John Edward

John Kerry has what it takes ... to be president of the United States,

Michael Meehan

John Kerry has a record in the military that he's running on, not from. Everything the U.S. Navy sent to Sen. Kerry, we'll post on the Web site.

Nicholas Burns

John is working very hard, hand-in-glove with Washington on this.

Pete Carroll

John is talking to everybody, all the time. That's the way he handles his business. He's got a marvelous spirit.

Dusty Baker

He likes being with the team and we like having Kerry around,

Steve Foley

I think we did one of the things we set out to do, and that's try to get on Kerry Collins, get as much pressure as we can, kind of get him out of his rhythm a little bit. We had some success there, so I think that was a big part of our (overall) success.

Bruce DuMont

How you look saying something matters. Kerry has to look warmer, fuzzier, more comfortable and more likable.

Bill Richardson

Our objective is to show the personal side of Sen. Kerry -- his character, his Vietnam service, his leadership qualities,

Amani Toomer

I really loved playing with Kerry and I just respected him a lot as a person, not only as a player.

Peter Greene

If Kerry were to win his policies would be more restrictive on business.

Mike Wallace

I've known (Democratic presidential nominee John) Kerry for 25 years. He's a patriot. I'm listening to what he has to say,

Jamal Qureshi

Under a Kerry administration we'd likely have a much more interventionist SPR (Strategic Petroleum Reserve) policy,

Kim Gordon

I like that show 'Ray Donovan' - I'm obsessed with that. He's in Hollywood, he's some kind of a fixer, but he's also kind of a thug. And 'Scandal,' the D.C. one with Kerry Washington.

D. James

I thought well, why not? At least we'll have someone to talk to if we have pain or misery or whatever. Someone that you're comfortable with makes a lot of difference.

Tyler Perry

You can,t make yourself happy by causing other peoples misery -Tyler Perry The Family That Preys

William Wordsworth

And mighty poets in their misery dead.

Samuel Beckett

Be again, be again. (Pause.) All that old misery. (Pause.) Once wasn't enough for you.

Roberto Bolano

If life is misery, why do we endure it?

Saul Bellow

Do we always, always to the point of misery, do a thing?

Rod McKuen

There's no misery in not being loved, only in not loving.

Wislawa Szymborska

Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven't got even that much, however loveless and boring--this is one of the harshest human miseries.

Voltaire

He who doesn't have the spirit of his time, has all its misery.

Russell Ahr

There is an ongoing investigation. This isn't over.

Joschka Fischer

There is an ongoing debate about the reform of the U.N. system.

Saul Alinsky

A free and open society is an ongoing conflict, interrupted periodically by compromises.

Don Lynn

It's not a one-shot deal. It's an ongoing situation.

Dee Miller

It's been just an ongoing process for years.

Leon Morris

The same power that brought Christ back from the dead is operative within those who are Christ’s. The Resurrection is an ongoing thing.

Paul Morley

Music is careful attention paid to ongoing experience.

Marc Maron

Jokes do finish themselves. I really do see them as ongoing conversations about personal themes that I ruminate on.

John Slenker

This has been an ongoing trend for decades. This isn't new. It's been getting more and more intense.

Ken Stern

It has to come to a head. We won't have Social Security if it doesn't.

Shaharyar Khan

The ECB should not feel insecure. They have strict security at all the grounds.

Eric S. Raymond

A security system is only as secure as its secret. Beware of pseudo-secrets.

Paul Sarbanes

I was very concerned that President Bush is still trying to frighten or scare the American people with respect to the condition of the Social Security system.

Gerhard Schroeder

Serbs who live here and who want to live here have the right to security and protection, not only for themselves but also for their property,

Bruce Schneier

A colleague once told me that the world was full of bad security systems designed by people who read Applied Cryptography

Bruce Schneier

People often represent the weakest link in the security chain and are chronically responsible for the failure of security systems.

Taylor Swift

I don't have big security guards. I don't have an entourage.

Lincoln Chafee

It's a very tenuous security situation, ... I'd been there a year ago -- what a change.

DerMarr Johnson

He kind of let me know what he wants out of me. I know that he wants more rebounding with a small lineup. He wants me to be a little more intense.

Sgt. Reynolds

His statement was that it was a very small amount.

Darryl Frank

There is a strong (talent) pool, but a very small pool.

Ian Fleming

To come and see them live at a small track has appeal.

Hines Ward

He had a small window to get it there and he got it in that window.

Kevin Jones

He doesn't play as small as he is.

Sander Levin

What motivates me is everything that I have been a small part of.

Vincent Van Gogh

I'll start with small things.

Tory Burch

Never underestimate the impact of a small act.

John Oliver

When he (Shaw) wrote 'Pygmalion,' he was really making a statement about social classes.

Richard Land

Social conservatives say who drives the bus.

Tracy Pollan

I'm not a social retard, but I prefer to go unnoticed.

Sandy Carter

Your social platform will become the motherboard of your business.

Rocco Buttiglione

The family has a social function and so it should be sustained.

Robert M. Pirsig

A culture that supports the dominance of social values over biological values is an absolutely superior culture to one that does not, and a culture that supports the dominance of intellectual values over social values is absolutely superior to one that does not.

Sarah Jessica Parker

I feel conflicted about my relationship with social media.

Rod Stewart

I don't have any social life or anything.

Ronald Reagan

A socialist is someone who has read Lenin and Marx. An anti-socialist is someone who understands Lenin and Marx.

Ahmed Hussein

Khartoum supports the Chadian rebels, financially, politically and militarily.

Teresa Johnson

He wants to win and we're just supporting him.

Jessica Wolf

He wanted to find his goals. We supported his choice.

Sam Richards

There are a lot of countries, oil-producing countries, that aren't very democratic, but supported by the United States. That's odd.

Joe Pemberton

Her support was important to me, ... I could sense her smiling.

David Newhan

He's a teammate. You're supportive of your teammates.

Gary Larsen

We feel it's safe, we feel it's a viable technology and we're supportive of it,

Joseph Lieberman

We support a woman's right to choose, ... The other ticket does not.

Michael Campbell

I think it's the Polynesian connection. I have a lot of support here and it's wonderful.

Scott Faieta

I talked with the contractor, who is still optimistic.

Mario Theissen

I talked to him (Ralf) on Friday, he was very positive, he wants to get back in the car.

Curtis Martin

I talked to him a lot. I showed him around. I showed him where he would probably want to live. I told him he could have my place if he wanted it. I told him I'd do whatever it took to get him here.

Ginalyn Ofamin

I talked to her yesterday, and she is doing better.

Tom Oswald

I talked to her about things like how to take notes. We weren't flirting, though. At the time, I didn't know she was going through a divorce.

William Farmer

I think it'll be ok; I think by the end of this year, we won't be talking about PeopleSoft at all.

Beth Combs

It can't be about wins and losses. We've talked about it's not where you start, it's where you finish.

Willie Randolph

He wants to be the best. We've talked a lot about his approach.

Larry Rothschild

He didn't talk me into it. We'll go at least one more time with what we're doing.

Warren Buffett

I'll bring my tax returns; you bring yours. I'll meet you anytime anywhere.

Winston Churchill

There's no such thing as a good tax.

Mike Huckabee

Wouldn't propose new taxes, but won't pledge against taxes.

Newt Gingrich

EITC is an invitation to fraud.

Milton Friedman

Congress can raise taxes because it can persuade a sizable fraction of the populace that somebody else will pay

Kellyanne Conway

We all want to know what taxes we would pay under [Donald Trump] tax plan. That's a question.

Piers Anthony

Never thought I'd see the day when Death was denied. That leaves taxes as the only certainty.

Alan Sugar

I don't like paying 50 per cent of tax.

Charles Adams

We can't live without taxes, but we sure would like to have good ones.