Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Bernanke

At some point in the future, the committee may decide to take no action at one or more meetings in the interest of allowing more time to receive information relevant to the outlook.

Najib Tun

Prompt action must be taken at anywhere terrorists are detected and are vulnerable to commit acts of sabotage like this,

Stuart Levey

Proliferators of weapons of mass destruction often rely on front companies to mask their illicit activities and cover their tracks, ... Today's action turns a spotlight on eight firms involved in weapons of mass destruction proliferation out of North Korea. We will continue to expose and designate these dangerous actors.

Mark Harris

Prince of Egypt' is an enormous gamble for DreamWorks, ... It's a very expensive film. The question is: can they be all things to all people? Can they sell it as an action movie to young men, and a family movie to families, and a religious movie to what they're calling the faith community?

Will Holman

Progress has been made in some areas, but there is still a lot of work to do in a short amount of time. Our goal is to reach an agreement, but that will depend on management's actions at the negotiating table.

Bill Gates

Private philanthropy is no substitute for governmental action here,

Timothy Muris

Privacy and security promises must be kept. It's good business. It's the law, and we'll take action against companies that do not keep their promises,

Noah Cowan

People who have viewed the film -- and that includes several Toronto journalists and our curators -- indicate that it certainly does not allow room to sympathize with the actions of the convicted criminals portrayed in the documentary and shows them to be morally bankrupt.

John Taylor

Our concern is that the sport of ocean racing has been damaged and people are reluctant to get involved because of the actions of one person.

Lloyd Jones

A whole series of tests will occur. The Fish and Wildlife Service is coordinating with the Department of Agriculture, with surveillance activities through the fall to collect samples from birds taken during banding to hunter- harvested birds. It will be a very comprehensive testing program.

Abe Reichental

Product margins benefited from higher unit sales of new systems and materials, lower costs from our outsourcing activities and favorable price/mix effects.

Colen Garrow

Persistent currency strength has had a detrimental impact on export-based activities in the manufacturing sector, making similar imported goods more competitive.

Glenn Fine

Our detailed statistical review shows that FBI investigative activities in 2003 generally were in line with its post-September 11 priorities,

Heather Hunter

Our curriculums have a theme of the week. Activities include music and movement, art sensory, outdoor play, et cetera.

Robert Prince

Our extensive service capabilities and outstanding platform base in support of waste management activities at U.S. nuclear power plants make it a natural progression for us to move into management of high-level waste,

Mohamed ElBaradei

No prohibited nuclear activities have been identified during these inspections,

Valerie Fellows

Normally, activities like that are not something that would be enough to agitate a nest.

Peter Yesawich

Age-appropriate activities and attractions are very important to this group of family travelers.

James Davis

As energy prices stay high, there's savings to be had by looking at your energy infrastructure. Most companies haven't.

Luigi Speranza

As growth gathers momentum, companies are regaining some of their lost pricing power. This increases the probability of greater pass-through of past oil shocks to non-energy prices.

Ibrahim Rugova

As far as privatization is concerned, we will follow the international norms, and all foreign companies have to comply with international standards.

John Nelson

As analysts, we know that there are these smoking and health issues, ... but it is always reassuring to hear from the company that irrespective of what is going on, (it is) doing well enough that (it) can raise the dividend 20 percent. Not many companies can do that.

Todd Johnson

As data storage volume continues to explode on a global basis, new resources are needed to help IT professionals who are responsible for managing that data and protecting their organization's continuity efforts. Our symposium will provide these professionals with a comprehensive overview on data management and recovery topics, helping them gain a competitive edge in the marketplace and become an even stronger technological resource for their companies and internal clients.

Mamoru Yamazaki

As companies have finished restructuring and the economy is expected to keep growing next year, you don't have to be pessimistic about a rise in the jobless rate in a single month.

Tom Browning

As companies get bigger, they are looking for efficiencies, they pare down internal resources and they get less personal with their consumers.

Colin Morton

As a shareholder you get nervous when companies say they are looking at the U.S., because historically, UK firms haven't made a good fist of it over there.

Susanna Phillips

As a young singer, you have to get experience somehow, to try things out and grow as a singer. They way you do that is by going through the ranks and singing at companies like Opera Birmingham. It's a perfect place to foster a career.

Ryan Hall

Any project under construction will continue to stay on track.

Dr. Tucker

As far as total expectations, we know that we have work to do and we want to continue to improve. Magnet schools are just a vehicle that we are using to improve education in Texarkana. So, until education improves, then our expectations are not met.

Marsha Blackburn

As far as the political landscape in our state, I think that what we continue to see is that Tennessean voters are more independent and more conservative, and they are watching issues very closely; they are watching votes very closely.

Clive Smith

As far as their reasons for hunger striking, it seems to be a myriad of different reasons that they all have, the largest one seems to be like they want to protest their continued (detention).

Hootie Johnson

As far as the golf course is concerned, we'll have to continue to evaluate that.

Stephen Mandel

As Edmonton continues to position itself as a major film location, it is important that the industry feels welcome and views Edmonton as a film-friendly, professional destination,

Sheridan Murphy

As Florida continues to develop rapidly, this issue will continue to come up.

Don Brash

As expected in November, growth in the economies of our trading partners has continued to be sluggish.

Kym McKay

As a team, our defense continued to shine and was even more exciting than it was last fall. Our new serve-receive system went very well and we are looking for it to continue to improve. We had a handful of moments that we looked extremely impressive and were firing on all cylinders. It was very exciting.

Steve Cohen

The Breeders' Cup is one of the most anticipated events of the year. From the track, to the jockey's room, to the paddock, we will offer unprecedented coverage of the Breeders' Cup with our team of horse racing experts.

John Rose

Radio will also be crucial. There will be 13 radio specials that will cover all formats.

Jeff Fager

People don't want to leave it. They want to stay, even though covering Katrina has been so difficult and painful in so many ways.

Steve Finley

Defensively, it's easier here. They pull the right fielder over to cover the gap, and it makes the field smaller.

Kevin Thomas

Cold.. Extremely cold.. Don't leave any unprotected skin.. You cover everything up.

Lawrence Wilkerson

The secretary of defense under cover of the vice president's office,

Dan Hill

The stuff I write I'm very proud of, but I'm smart enough to know I'll never get on the cover of 'Rolling Stone' next to Elvis Costello.

Porter Goss

the suspicion that maybe people are covering it up.

Deion Sanders

I've never been in a position where I blitzed on occasion, but now I can drop into coverage or blitz.

Philippe Petit

Of course, the slightest little mistake on the wire will deprive me of my life, so in that sense, yes, it is a dangerous profession. You have to pay attention; if not, you will lose your life.

Mafumi Usui

Depressed, young people and the Internet - it's a very dangerous mix.

Becky Hammon

They are a lot more dangerous now. She's exactly what they needed.

Dan McCarthy

This is developing into a potentially dangerous situation.

Jeff Last

That's why it is so dangerous to fly near a thunderstorm.

Daniel H. Wilson

Humans are inscrutable. Infinitely unpredictable. This is what makes them dangerous.

Dean Steward

The reality is, federal penitentiaries are violent and dangerous places and all of these guys - white guys - are a small minority and they're just trying to survive.

Phyllis Bottome

It is very a dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice

Frank O'Donnell

We should be doing much more to try to reduce this dangerous pollution.

Mark Freeze

Back in May we were worried. We thought we'd be lucky to win eight or nine games.

Todd Bertuzzi

Pronger said I couldn't have 44 until 2010. I said I wasn't going to be around until 2010. Eight is too small a number so I thought I'd go to the next four in the line.

Thomas Gardner

Our shots just weren't going in. But we were still able to hold them to 28 points and only be down eight at the half.

Bob Hilmer

Our eight seniors have played hard for three years, so I wanted to let them have some fun today. We wanted to give as many people minutes as we could while still being competitive. They got away from us, but I think our kids still enjoyed themselves.

Tim Bayard

People don't want to come out. They say they have enough water and food to sustain themselves. They don't understand. It's going to take six to eight weeks before the electricity comes on.

Ed Mitchell

Of the eight sitting judges, I've helped elect five or six of them.

Suresh Kalmadi

Of the eight new venues, five will be outdoors and three indoors.

Dave Smart

Of our top eight guys, two are first-year players, three are second-year, and two are third-year ... There will be some experience issues.

Mike Hogan

Of our five kids who placed from our section, three are seniors. We had a pretty young team here. I think eight of our wrestlers were first-time sectional champions.

Stan Gehrt

Often, they expose it, then poop on it just to let you know they found it and they're not going to get caught.

Doug Snyder

That's why we played this tournament: to learn. I said going in that we could come out of this tournament 0-2, but we got a split and we can learn from some of the things Linden exposed in our game tonight.

Karen Aroesty

You shine the light and you let them come out with their own words and they'll be exposed for what they really are, which is ridiculous.

Eduardo Sanchez

Many of these kids were not exposed to floodwater,

Shigeru Omi

many people have been exposed or potentially exposed.

Peter Coleman

If at any time we start to see slowing in growth in infrastructure that could expose some weakness.

Frank Melton

If I tell them something in confidence, I'm not going to turn around and expose myself,

Richard J. Roberts

I was first exposed to the idea of macro-molecular sequences while I was a postdoctoral fellow with Jack Strominger at Harvard. During that time, I briefly visited Fred Sanger's laboratory in Cambridge, England, to learn the methodology of RNA fingerprinting and sequencing.

John Cusack

I think the more you expose yourself as a celebrity, the less interesting you are to watch in your work, because if you're putting yourself out there all the time, you're not holding anything back.

John Wilson

As guarded, not necessarily secretive, but as private about his personal life as he used to be, for him to suddenly propose in front of reporters on the Eiffel Tower and jump up and down like the monkey in 'Curious George' on Oprah Winfrey 's couch, there truly is some problem there.

Matthew Szulik

As CEO, I had to get out in front and lead my people. I put the onus back on the CEO.

Matthew Szulik

As CEO, I had to get out in front and lead my people,

Dick LeBeau

As a defense, we didn't play very well in (the AFC Championship game) and that's going to be in the front of our minds, for sure.

Rodney Lloyd

The Bulldogs are very big up front defensively and offensively, and it's their great size that worries me the most.

Eli Broad

People think it's strange how briskly I move through museums. Sure, I could stand in front of each piece and stare at it for a good long time. But that's not me.

Joe Stellmacher

During the game I don't really think about it. We've got enough to worry about in the back end. But now that I think about it: Justin out, Coop out, Kurt out. Just to see those young guys grow up in front of your face. They're doing a heck of a job. I can't say enough about them.

Kelvin Sampson

The strength of the team is up front now. But we don't have a guy who you know can give you points when the going gets tough.

Don McKinnon

The smoke (was) so (thick) ... you (couldn't) see in front of you.

Luisa Deason

Often time people who are involved in such tragic situations are not forthcoming the first time around.

Gareth Edwards

After JPR Williams was involved in a road traffic accident: 'Bloody typical, isn't it? The car's a write-off. The tanker's a write-off. But JPR comes out of it all in one piece

Dave Christie

It was well involved ... The whole thing was gutted in the end.

William Taylor

This is an important case. We are going to stay involved in Connecticut.

Sharon Moss

We like to wow them when they come. We want the kids heavily involved in the planning. If it's successful, they are a success. If not they take responsibility. We've never had a failure.

Mike Browning

Even though his scoring was down, he got more kids involved which made us more of a threat.

Dan Henning

There's going to be a lot of temptation on people around the league this year on (wide receiver) Terrell Owens. I can tell you right now, we won't be involved in that temptation. That's part of the plan.

Henry Ian Cusick

I like romantic comedies, as it is a fun and light thing to get involved with.

Ray Arvidson

Water was involved in practically every one we have seen so far.

Jewish Proverb

Pride is the mask of one's own faults.

Kelly Stinnett

I was always scared by not having a mask on. I feel more comfortable that way.

Mark Dixon

We don't have a pile of masks sitting off to one side in anticipation of a pandemic.

Erica Taylor

The size and mass of this structure is not appropriate for the block.

Ed Sheeran

I've always been a massive fan of John Mayer. I think he's very talented.

Deng Xiaoping

If the masses feel some anger, we must let them express it.

Joseph Biden

Eliminating these weapons of mass destruction would make Americans more secure and the world a safer place.

Dule Hill

I could spend a whole day at a spa. Id get a facial, a scalp rub, massages, then eat some grapes and be good to go.

Angela Belcher

What we're trying to do is have all of the mass and volume be used for the purpose it is to be used for, which is to power the device.

Conrad Black

[The] swarming, grunting masses of jackals...

Andy Warhol

The wide multitude wanted to seem contrarian. It meant that this type of nonconformism had to be mass-produced.

E. F. Schumacher

Not mass production but production by the masses.

Todd Devereaux

North is very strong. We played with them for about 25 minutes.

Michael Griffith

North Dakota's is sort of a different pace.

Tahar Rahim

The mud is cold when you're in the north of Scotland!

Thomas Mars

In California, there is a strong tension between north and south.

Leah Devlin

We use this work every day in North Carolina. All of these investments are not one-time. They require a sustained commitment.

Dominic Pacyga

First of all, this is a North Side town. You don't get a lot of respect on the South Side.

Jose Mujica

Any North American state is more important than Uruguay, in dimensions, in its economic force.

Brent Edison

We've had some version of the software from a third party vendor since 1999. We've been working on it for a long time and in the meantime, North Dakotans have had to pay time after time after time.

Howard Schultz

We have a big opportunity in China, ... We think the number of stores here can rival the number in North America.

Martin O'Neill

You cannot afford to rely on history, you have to make it.

James A. Michener

The dead are dead but they rely on us to fulfill their hopes.

Noah Baumbach

I rely on her. She's the first person I show any script to.

Mahatma Gandhi

A democrat should not rely upon the force of the arms his state could flaunt in the face of the world, but on the moral force his state could put at the disposal of the world.

Maria Mitchell

I saw, in looking over Cooper, elements of a comet of 1825 which resemble what I get out for this, from my own observations, but I cannot rely upon my own.

Joseph Rice

They?re not going to be able to rely on any other support. These are self-contained operations.

Lynn Schusterman

Just as we rely on Israel as a continual source of inspiration and renewal, Israel relies on us.

Nicole Sullivan

My kitty cats could rely on my poker winnings.

Vincent Cassel

I always had the sense of being in the spotlight, being on stage, being looked at.

Nelson Mandela

It is your duty to examine the conduct of public figures and to place them in the spotlight - that is your duty.

Cliff Floyd

A really big at-bat for us, ... The kind of at-bat that turns game.

Tim Tebow

I'm not somebody that opens a playbook and just turns and reads and reads. That doesn't do it for me.

Derek Walcott

How can I turn from Africa and live?

Simone de Beauvoir

One is not conceived a lady, one turns into one.

Robert Adams

The only freedom we've got is not to react to anything, but to turn within and know the truth.

Rumi

I turn all thorn then, but you come back again and make my thorniness fragrant and pink and petaled.

Rumi

If I Separated Myself From You . . . I Would Turn Entirely Thorn!

Theodore Kaczynski

I would just turn my back and wouldn't talk to him.

Meg Cabot

You can't turn love on and off like a faucet.

Douglas Coupland

NOSTALGIA IS A WEAPON

Robert McNamara

The indefinite combination of human fallibility and nuclear weapons will lead to the destruction of nations.

Stephen Harper

It was the removing of a regime that was hostile, that clearly had the intention of constructing weapons systems.

Sly Stone

My only weapon is my pen, I'm a songwriter.

Michael Moore

The majority of Americans, the ones who never elected George W. Bush, are not fooled by his weapons of mass distraction.

Theodore Parker

Wit has its place in debate; in controversy it is a legitimate weapon, offensive and defensive.

Maria Montessori

Education today, in this particular social period, is assuming truly unlimited importance. And the increased emphasis on its practical value can be summed up in one sentence: education is the best weapon for peace.

Nikita Khrushchev

In the future, if nuclear weapons are unleashed there will be no front and no rear.

George Orwell

We were once told that the aeroplane had "abolished frontiers"; actually it is only since the aeroplane became a serious weapon that frontiers have become definitely impassable.