Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isiah Thomas

I would say that right now we're pretty satisfied with where we are. I don't think we will be actively out shopping and trying to make a deal or anything like that.

Alan Milburn

It cannot keep patients in the dark. It has to take patients into its confidence. It has to actively earn the trust of patients in life and it has to actively seek the consent of relatives in death.

Peter Berg

Greenwich has always been a great place to grow up, attend school, raise a family, retire actively and grow old gracefully,

Steve Hildebrand

Harkin's good with organized labor, teachers, seniors and environmentalists. And when he endorses, he doesn't just endorse, he actively works for you.

John Brewer

Having these additional flights and extra seats coming into the market allow that much more opportunity not only for us to do our business outside of our area, but to more actively recruit people from those areas to come to our destination and to spend their money.

Steve Williams

Having attended the World Trade Organization's Ministerial meeting in Hong Kong a few weeks ago, we must make sure the many trade agreements now being actively negotiated by our government do not put U.S. sugar farmers at a disadvantage in the global marketplace. The world sugar market is the most distorted commodity market in the world, caused by the dumping of surplus sugar from countries that don't want to play by the same rules as U.S. farmers.

David Novak

Historically, Jews only accept converts rather than actively seeking them.

Ted Hellard

We've formed three committees. One is actively searching for new ownership, one is working towards gathering as much data as we can so we can fully understand the impact and a third is a group to (find alternate solutions) by thinking outside the box.

Glenn Jennings

We are extremely pleased to see judges hand down some strict sentences and to see prosecutors actively pursuing these cases. This sends a message that Kentucky is aggressively pursuing cases of insurance fraud, and those who are caught won't get a slap on the wrist. They will pay for the crime.

Jamie Clark

Having an endangered or candidate species on your property should be a good thing, something a landowner can be proud of, not something to avoid. With the administrative reforms we have made to the Endangered Species Act, such as safe harbor agreements, habitat conservation plans, and candidate conservation agreements with assurances, ranchers, timber companies and other landowners are able to participate in the conservation of at-risk species without the concern that their future plans may be delayed or halted.

Randy Levine

We're in the process of negotiating agreements that we think are going to be very significant.

Richard Boucher

It is important to us to be able to keep working with the parties and try to do what we can diplomatically to calm the situation, get back to implementation of the agreements of the cease-fire.

Glenn Tilton

We look forward to continued cooperation with all of our unions and employee groups as we work to reach consensual agreements that will help us redesign our business and compete more effectively in the long term.

James Little

We made these agreements only because it is painfully obvious that the results of bankruptcy proceedings would have been far worse. The company has been provided with everything it needs to survive. We can only hope that they will not squander the opportunity our members have provided them.

Ariel Sharon

I am aware that peace requires painful compromises. Any agreements will be based on security,

Liu Jianchao

Relevant agreements are in the process of being signed one by one, with some of them still under negotiation.

James Gleick

Patent battles have become a strong catalyst for mergers, reducing competition in various domains. The largest corporations, with gigantic patent portfolios, routinely enter into cross-licensing agreements with their largest competitors.

David Phillips

If you stand back and look at the past 50 years, all these parties have been competing with each other for resources. There have been some agreements but essentially they've been competing in a zero-sum game.

Mary Robinson

I think the main perpetrators are substantially known, and indeed known to Jakarta ... at every meeting I have attended the issue of justice has come up,

John Kear

He will be playing on Friday. He has attended work all week. This situation is a personal matter for Paul and Hull FC does not wish to make any further comment.

John Kear

He will be playing on Friday. He has attended work all week.

Mark Twain

He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients, no, three, I think / yes, it was three; I attended their funerals.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

INTERREGNUM, n. The period during which a monarchical country is governed by a warm spot on the cushion of the throne. The experiment of letting the spot grow cold has commonly been attended by most unhappy results from the zeal of many worthy persons to make it warm again.

Pete Sampras

I have fond memories of being involved in the event as a player, and now to be involved as an owner should be equally rewarding. Our investment group believes that even though this event is already the most attended event outside of the Grand Slams it has the potential to reach even greater heights, and there is not a better place for that to happen than at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden.

Daniel Woodrell

I think my grandmother Woodrell was most responsible for my becoming a writer. She wasn't quite literate, but was very proud that she attended school as far as the third grade. She worked as a maid, housekeeper and cook.

Tim Barthel

Chuck has always been gifted, but he's much more disciplined. He attended some camps, got a good look at what great wide receivers look like and has been working his tail off. John Baldwin is a super possession receiver with good feet and great balance. They complement each other very well.

Dick Smothers

In a marriage there are times when you don't want to be married. Well, there are times we don't want to be brothers. But because we really love each other, we work hard at our relationship. In fact, at one point we even attended couples counseling. Things are a lot better now. We're a lot more focused. And we are performing better than ever before and enjoying our lives, too.

Harry Reid

Katrina makes it clear this government has failed, ... We must find out why immediately to make sure the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina never happens again.

Rem Murray

It caused my head to turn totally to the left, and it was frozen there for quite some time,

Rob Spencer

He lied so the plot could proceed unimpeded. With that lie, he caused the deaths of nearly 3,000 people. He rejoiced in the death and destruction.

Brian Rust

We took it down. It was our machine, our node, and our network. Because it wasn't vetted with our security and network groups, it could have potentially caused harm to our users.

Mark Edwards

We've found about 200 road-rage deaths over a period of several years, compared to the 17,000 a year caused by drunk driving. Some states are considering pretty severe penalties, trying to rewrite laws so that road rage has some specific legal consequences. We're not sure that's appropriate.

Eric Long

We switched defenses and the change caused Galva some trouble. Our energy level picked up at that point in the game.

Debbie Casto

I thought that changed the entire momentum of the game. It caused turnovers and we scored off transition. It put us in a comfort zone that I felt much better about.

John Ashworth

I think we mixed up our defensive scheme a lot. That kind of caused some confusion.

Theresa Adams

I think what we did was slack up on a lot of it, and that's what caused the problems. So when we rededicated ourselves, we went back to doing all of the things that made us a success in the beginning.

Bobby Carpenter

I think it definitely helps me. We're a commodity in today's game.

Steve Donahue

He was a known commodity to a lot of the Indiana schools out there. They shied away because of his size.

Billy Flahive

Gold is a hot commodity now, so more people, especially large hedge funds, are paying attention.

Tom Boustead

It is all fund liquidation, probably commodity-index related. This was a commodity flush-out.

Robert Lutz

I think the American industry has stopped considering (small cars) as commodity vehicles,

Burton

The purpose of the fund is to invest in habit-forming small ticket items which people think they can't live without, ... That turns out to (include) liquor and tobacco. But that's not it. I hate to tell you. The No. 1 habit-forming commodity is toilet paper.

Byron Koste

It isn't like you are replacing something (industrial and office properties) that is a precious commodity at this point. Vacancy rates are still pretty high.

Sherry Cooper

Right now, the acceleration in commodity prices tips the scales for a 16th and a 17th rate hike by the Fed.

Jerry Hunton

Red dirt is a big commodity because of all the growth in the area. It gives that solid foundation everybody's looking for.

Sebastian Thrun

I always felt that if countries knew each other better, there would be less war. Often, conflict goes with demonizing other countries and cultures.

Michael Graves

I think it's a really good way to get people to come up here. It's good to expand your mind by meeting people of other countries and beliefs, a good experience.

Donald Rumsfeld

I think it's interesting that other countries wonder why they would be increasing their defense effort at the pace they are and yet not acknowledging it, ... That is as interesting as the fact that it's increasing at the pace it is.

Peter Mayhew

Whatever people say about America, it is still one of the most wonderful countries in the world, despite the politics, religion and everything else that goes on.

Ismail Haniyeh

We think countries in power can decide for themselves what kinds of positions and policies they can take.

Perry Crosswhite

I think we've done very well. In fact, some countries would say we've done too well.

Christopher Hill

It gives no one any pleasure that the DPRK is literally one of the darkest countries in the world,

Michael Carroll

He's done a tremendous job in a number of countries - his statistics are extremely impressive.

Junichiro Koizumi

The pains felt by Asian countries are our own pains. Disaster in Asia is nothing but ours as well.

Anthony Chan

I think it's fair to say it'll be the least important or most distorted jobs report in memory. Maybe both.

Elliott Walden

He's by Distorted Humor, and we always want to support our own stallions.

Bob Johnson

In the 16 years I've come here, I have never heard so much uninformed, misleading and distorted testimony on a bill.

Charles Lewis

The inaugural has sort of become a metaphor for the whole political process and how money has distorted it,

Sidney Port

These large gender differences may have previously remained undetected because earlier studies looked either at men and women together or a younger, healthier group of men. If you look at men and women combined, you get a highly distorted picture because they respond so differently.

Russ Koesterich

Things have been very distorted by how warm the weather was in January. To some extent, we're trying to get a handle on how it impacted the economy. It helped retail spending and housing starts, but has hurt energy prices.

Samuel E. Morison

Any child knows that history can only be a reduced representation of reality, but it must be a true one, not distorted by queer lenses.

David Ayer

Both my grandparents were officers in World War Two, and I would be personally offended if somebody distorted their achievements.

Steven Wood

The trade figures are distorted by the effects of foreign re-insurance on the World Trade Center. Nevertheless, international trade is contracting.

Dave Lewis

Hopefully we get way over what we have 150 percent would be great farmers wouldn't worry about the water no talk about shutting off irrigation we really need the water so hopefully it'll be a good year.

David Macdonald

Instead of wholesale adoption, we are seeing at most experimentation. Worldwide farmers have good reason to be wary.

Justin Vernon

I'm just living in Eau Claire, not really leaving for much. I go to the farmers market, go to the studio, go home and play with my cats. I don't know if I've ever been this happy, which is really awesome.

Seymour Cray

Parity is for farmers.

Feng Jianzhong

The main purpose of this is to do solid work for the farmers and not to increase their financial burden.

Chief Ogden

It's not just luck. The homeowners, farmers and ranchers are doing what they're supposed to do.

Mike Cahill

It's a farming town. ... The rich people there are farmers - like it used to be in Sonoma.

Luxon Zembe

Pre-planting prices are a production tool to influence farmers' decisions. But the government has been dithering on this. So farmers have tended to shift to uncontrolled commodities such as horticulture.

Greg Beck

There would be thousands of farmers with nowhere to take grain.

Paul Scheuring

I wouldn't be surprised if you saw something like 'Prison Break,' colon, and a few other words. But it's not going to be 'Prison Broke.

Curtis Eccles

Jack is taking fewer shots because of the double-teams. He's doing a good job of finding the open man.

Anthony Zinni

I would say we're within a week or so. We're ready now but there are a few more pieces to put in.

Michael Lloyd

I would say up until the recent few weeks, it looked like CSX might be doing a better job, now the shoe may be on the other foot, ... I'd be more worried about CSX going forward than Norfolk Southern.

Greg Shivers

Katie did much better in that game. Her pitching has really picked up the last few games.

Ramesh Chennithala

Karat had first said that he would react after the full report of the CAG comes out. It is now a few weeks and there has been no reaction from him.

John Gibbons

I talked to him today about a few things and I hope he got the message. You see guys on the other side like (Derek) Jeter and (Gary) Sheffield get down the line.

Laurent Gbagbo

I think it has been one of the most successful boycotts in Africa. We're happy. Very few people voted.

Laurent Gbagbo

I think it has been one of the most successful boycotts in Africa, ... We're happy. Very few people voted.

Thomas R. Insel

I was sure I was going to be a doctor of global health or tropical medicine in some underdeveloped country.

Tara Lemmey

I think that privacy is sort of the nature of your identity, and how you transfer your identity is a very important global issue.

Bill Gates

It has been a great year for global health to get more visibility. The more people know about it, the more they want to act.

Don Budinger

He's been our consultant, that's public knowledge. People are speculating that he's our prime candidate. Obviously we need a globally competent, experienced leader to navigate the road map. Somebody of his talent obviously would come on to our radar.

Igor Luksic

Regardless of our ambitions to become part of the E.U., we have to keep in mind that Turkey is also a very strong voice that can represent the needs of our region in wider terms in global platforms.

Shane Oliver

Our market will be largely hostage to what's going on globally this week.

Guenter Verheugen

In the new global situation, our strategy is more justified than ever,

Ken Ford

In terms of global warming, in terms of price spikes, this would make us really leading the planet.

Raghuram Rajan

In a globally competitive economy, it is very important you insure the individual, you have a safety net for the individual, because they're at serious risk of losing their job and so on.

Sondhi Limthongkul

He is very arrogant, insulting other people and running the government as a one-man show. He is worse than a tyrant.

Sean McCormack

has talked about the need for reform in Uzbekistan. Very basically, the Uzbekistan government needs to trust its people." ()

Najib Razak

We can transform the government and the economy, as well as democracy, in Malaysia.

P. J. O'Rourke

Guns are the ultimate bulwark against government misbehavior.

Umar Juoro

He runs things day by day. You can't run government like that.

Wazhma Mojaddidi

He said what he said because he thought he was telling the government what they wanted to hear.

Ernest Wamba

It comes at a time when the government pretends it wants dialogue, but instead it is killing people indiscriminately.

Jim Murphy

I think the government ought to stay out of other people's business.

James Tien

I think the government could do much better.

Jason Baker

In three years of protesting in Hong Kong I have never seen anything like this,

Howard Gorges

The Hong Kong market takes the lead from Wall Street and, to a lesser extent, other overseas markets such as Tokyo.

Charles Schumer

While the Port of Hong Kong is screening everything, we are screening next to nothing.

Hariadi Wibisono

The result of test from the Hong Kong laboratory was positive.

Victor Koo

At the Hong Kong festival, we were co-producers of the opening film, 'Aberdeen,' which is the third part in a popular movie series.

Ming Pao

Hong Kong needs a harmonious society and so does the movie industry.

Jaime King

We got to jump on, like, trampolines, learn flips, learn karate, kung fu, Hong Kong street fighting.

Rob Portman

We should not be lowering the expectations, nor lowering the ambitions in the round, ... Hong Kong is not the end of process.

Patty Thayer

I would say it's one of our most important marketing pieces. It is a response to every phone call, to every reader, that we get.

Mike Johns

Just to regain that market share we had before will take some time.

Edmund Daukoru

Just rest assured, we are under obligation to the market to keep the market well supplied. We meet as often as it takes to micro-manage the short-term volatility.

Francis Gannon

I think in this market you never know what's going to happen,

Jim Robb

I think the market will not really react to it.

Alex Brown

I think the markets will probably be up,

Brett Gallagher

I think the market is just biding its time, and we're going to have these back-and-forth days.

Jon Burnham

I think the market is in the midst of a pretty strong rally, and any selling today doesn't mean much. We're in an uptrend.

David Briggs

I think the market is getting ready for a little trading buy,

Larry Gregory

Having these meetings was more important than taking part on that panel,

Howard Stringer

He's a star. Nobody turns down a meeting with him.

Mike Pincus

The people that were at this meeting had no opinion at all.

Granth Sahib

I am a sacrifice to the True Guru. Meeting Him, the supreme status is obtained.

Matthew Turnbull

He will then come to our meeting a week later.

James Franklin

He handles the meetings well, stays on top of everything and has the time to do the job.

Bob Holt

Part of the state-wide scheduling meeting was, some of these schools around the state have had trouble getting games, but if we all do our share ...

Yasuhiro Yoshikawa

In today's meeting we were not able to reach an agreement,

Chuck D.

In our meeting in the bleachers after the game, we talked about missed opportunities and unfortunately you'll have those what-ifs.

Ron Krumer

There are no rules to how long it could take to go away. It could take one day, it could take two days, it could take two weeks.

Charlie Brown

If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?

Rusty Wallace

Evidently, what they did was within the rules,

Phil Crosby

A rule to live by: I won't use anything I can't explain in five minutes.

Patrick Leahy

I want an end to this thing. But where are we? Do we know what the rules are going to be?

Peter Ueberroth

The rules have changed, ... The old thing of 'getting in line,' that's gone.

Harry White

The rules have changed, post-9/11. We have seen some real tightening of security and for all the right reasons.

Angela Davis

These are the rules for the mullet hunt,

Ayumi Hamasaki

If there are rules and regulations, I can't help it, I want to break them.

Woody Harrelson

I'm not a Twinkie lover. I don't do sugar or dairy either.

Rick Riordan

Sugar and caffeine. My willpower crumbled.

Vince Staples

Sprite really does taste different everywhere! That's like a fact. Because of certain regulations, you can only put so many sugars...

Jerry Palm

If Virginia Tech is the only one-loss team, then they make the Sugar Bowl. Otherwise, they don't.

John Ciardi

Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar.

Kris Carr

At one of my lowest points, sugar had a painful grip on me. I'd buy/binge and then beat myself up over my behavior.

Kevin Ollie

First you bring the sugar, then you bring the hot sauce.

Marvin Harris

But with the Industrial Revolution and introduction of various industrial techniques for purifying sugar, we have a situation in which what we are consuming is not good nutritionally or ecologically.

Mitch Hedberg

Have you ever tried sugar or PCP?

Suzanne Williamson

Just make sure you throw out the bottles,

Gar Heard

He'll be back, I am sure he'll be back.

Johnathan Joseph

He's been there. He's making sure we don't go into this thing blind.

Tom Fisher

He's a veteran quarterback. I'm sure he'll be on top of his game.

Chance VanGundy

I thought for sure we were a top-10 team in our district.

Ralph Richardson

I think we can use (the study) to make sure we're in balance,

Richie Sexson

I was wondering why, when he left, he kind of got the boos. I wasn't really sure of why exactly,

Gary Sanders

He was really on target. He made sure that he didn't let up even though we got the big lead.

Reuben Droughns

I don't know about that. I'm sure it'll get me some carries.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Governments that try to shoot for a surplus hardly ever reach it.

Jenny Holzer

Any surplus is immoral.

Gray Davis

I don't care. My trademark is I say what I think, for better or for worse.

Zayn Malik

My trademark saying is probably “VAS HAPPENIN?!”

Roseanne Barr

They're all mine. . . . Of course, I'd trade any one of them for a dishwasher.

Wally Szczerbiak

It's a big-time opportunity. In this day and age, you never know why trades are made.

Benjamin Franklin

No nation has ever been ruined by trade.

Brenda Fassie

I am a shocker. I like to create controversy. It's my trademark.

Dwane Casey

We could've benefited from it, but we made a different trade.

Peter Magowan

A trade? They can't trade me. I'm sorry.

Michael Boss

The traders are for the most part are out. So we're just biding out time.

Brian Goorjian

It could be two weeks or it could be the season.

Annika Sorenstam

I have had two weeks off and I'm rested,

Cobi Jones

Being out in that heat for two weeks definitely drains your energy.

Trisha Goddard

I'll get into a pattern where I start sleeping only between 12 and 3.30, and go for weeks like that.

Natalie Gulbis

This is one of those weeks where you have to be really, really patient.

Frank Gehrke

It's a lot better than it would have been two weeks ago.

Tony Mortensen

It's going to be a long, long bye week. Two weeks to think about this.

Lori White

They thought in two weeks it would be in the back of the closet.

Annika Sorenstam

Three-under after two weeks of really no golf, I can't complain,