Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Haggis

As a filmmaker, it's a great thing to feel you've really affected them, one way or another. I'd much rather have that than have someone say, 'Nice film, man.' That's a stake through your heart.

David Orton

Profitability for the quarter was affected by the lower revenue and a reduction in average selling prices for the company's board products.

Jim Albaugh

People touching product and programs won't be affected much.

Patricia Russo

Our deepest, heartfelt sympathy goes out to everyone affected by the scope of this tragic natural disaster, ... At times like these, the performance and reliability of communications networks are more critical than ever. That's why our Lucent and Bell Labs teams are drawing upon their knowledge and expertise in network disaster recovery to help the Gulf Coast victims and our customers to rapidly restore and rebuild the region's vital communications networks.

Lori Anderson

Our efforts reach far beyond this community, by participating in the tithe program we have helped Habitat for Humanity International build homes for 11 families living in Central America. It is exciting to think about how many lives can be affected when we share our blessings.

Rick Pietri

North Texas did a nice job of getting into our shooters tonight. When we were able to have good looks, we just couldn't knock them down. When you're a shorter team, you need to make shots from the perimeter. We just didn't bring enough juice in the second half. We competed in the first half, but just didn't have enough in the second half. When we stopped scoring, it was a snowball effect. It affected our defense and we got into a rut.

Erik Olson

No one wants to slow down the recovery, but there has been no input from people in the affected communities,

David Wood

A full-time student with no siblings or parents who might be affected financially by his premature death, Harry Potter doesn't have a need for life insurance.

Ted Saskin

The National Hockey League Players Association members have those affected by Hurricane Katrina in their thoughts during this extremely difficult time, ... It is our hope that this donation and the auction proceeds from the players? opening night jerseys will assist the Red Cross in their massive relief effort, and help to ease the burden on the hurricane victims.

Mark Gottfried

As a graduate assistant just starting, I get the opportunity to know John Wooden. I mean, are you kidding me? How great an opportunity that was.

Dan Hanrahan

Our thoughts and prayers go out to everyone whose lives have been touched by this tragedy. We are devastated. We will continue to do everything possible to assist our guests and their family members.

Dave Hollenbeck

Colby never really did get his stroke going like he did last year. I told my assistant coaches that one of these nights he's going to go off. He picked a good time.

John Russell

Any young pitcher who has stuff like Brito does, (needs) consistency. (He) has to be able to command the strike zone, command his pitches, and handle the running game. ... That's what I saw in the big leagues the last three years in Pittsburgh (as an assistant coach). Young pitchers that were consistent survived.

Buster Keaton

It was an event when you could get all three of them on the set at the same time. The minute you started a picture with the Marx brothers you hired three assistant directors. One for each Marx brother. You had two of 'em while you went to look for the third one and the first two would disappear.

Allen Iverson

I've been seeing a different side basically all year long. His demeanor is totally different from being an assistant coach and the Maurice Cheeks that I got to know throughout the years of him being here. I expect it because he has a different role now.

David Adams

This is part of our responsibility to assist in the non-aviation domain. The whole purpose is that people will not know when we're going to be there or if we are going to be there. It's a preventative approach.

Joe Theismann

There are excellent football coaches out there, and excellent assistants that could do a good job. But it's going to take time. With Tice, you have an excellent football coach. I think he should be given a chance to come back and coach that football team.

Kevin Roberts

The real failing that my client had was in assisting his son in trying to cover it up.

John McMillin

Even if the auction does not go to where some people expected it to, the stock had a great run up. I just don't see a lot of upside at this point.

Greg Isaacs

Today, most of us think about eBay as an auction site, but a third of the items that transact on eBay are actually fixed price.

Nigel Hawkins

We expect the white flags to fly over Madrid and Helsinki in the next two to three days. The auction will possibly raise about $35.5 billion, that's just around the U.K. figure. It may just top that.

Keith Burns

We expect the auction to do phenomenally well for a couple of reasons,

Mark James

There's relief around the industry that the final 3G auction is over, ... The next sale of licenses is in France next year and that has been factored into company spending because it's a fixed-fee beauty contest.

Richard Gilhooly

There's no panic, most of the auction was hedged by dealers.

Alexis McGee

We teach our investor clients to develop win-win scenarios that will benefit both the distressed homeowner and the investor. The troubled homeowner conserves some equity for a new start, and the investor realizes a reasonable profit. That's much better than seeing the owners lose everything, including their credit, in an auction on the courthouse steps.

Heather Reid

Unfortunately Woodbine Racetrack is not a venue that will be available for this year's sale, but we're thrilled to be able to offer the Canadian Open at a terrific facility like Country Heritage Park. We've been hosting the auction on Sundays in recent years, but a Wednesday format allows us to proceed with as little inconvenience as possible to horsemen and potential buyers.

Akitsugu Bando

Many investors were sidelined awaiting the outcome of the 20-year JGB auction while firmer equity prices also kept market participants at bay.

Larry Barnett

People should not be under the illusion that the city is in a position to shoulder the financial burden of a new swimming center, ... We just don't have the money.

Jon McMullen

People that do these sorts of things are a burden on all of us quite frankly. We all pay higher insurance costs. We pay for security systems. Thieves should be locked up as far as I'm concerned.

Leon Smith

It would just be another burden on businesses.

Susan Crawford

This issue is one of burden and also of feeling bullied.

Tullian Tchividjian

The Gospel declares that our guilt has been atoned for, the law has been fulfilled. So we don't need to live under the burden of trying to appease the judgment we feel.

Mewelde Moore

Everybody in Louisiana was watching the game. They're going through a lot of things right now, and I carry those burdens as well as they do. It's one of those things where you always want to represent and give a little light.

Patrick Murray

As the campaign gets under way and voters take a closer look at the candidates, property taxes will be at the forefront, ... have to convince the voters that they are serious about lowering the property tax burden and that they can do it without significantly raising other taxes.

Kathy Lawrence

We don't want students to be a burden on families. When (our family) hosted a student, we didn't feel an impact on our family budget.

Susan Foy

We certainly don't want to burden a company with dues.

Shanna Zolman

The thought never crossed our mind that we were going to lose.

Karen Meredith

I visited Ken's cross this morning, and I'll always see that as a reminder of his service to his country. I think it's a very honorable way to memorialize them.

Ricky Davis

Once you cross it, you're going to get it,

Gomer Morgan

It was a nice cross by Matt and Peter had a nice finish.

Ivo Daalder

The whole reason for a threat is to show there is a line. And show that the U.S. will respond if he crosses it.

Stephanie Scalessa

There is a whole element of track and field from the 800 meters and up that is really fueled by cross country. In those events, we weren't having much of a showing. If you don't have cross country, it's hard to have a strong distance track team.

Mark Davies

Drivers are to yield the right of way to the train. No matter what the kind of railroad crossing warning it is. . . . All mean the same thing.

Bhagavad Gita

Even if one is the most sinful of all sinners, yet one shall cross over the ocean of sin by the raft of knowledge alone.

Norman Ornstein

Even those people in the leadership who've done commendable jobs may find themselves in the cross hairs just because it's possible there will be a more widespread desire for change.

Demetrius Fannick

Quite honestly I'm just trying to stay focused and do my job. I would do the same job if no one was here. It's difficult because it takes time to accommodate everyone.

David Briggs

Reality is setting in. It is going to be extremely difficult for the market to rally. The market showed resilience from $40 to $60 a barrel, but I don't know about $70.

Jim Calhoun

I've talked to the kids about the difficult situation they've given me, in the sense I think all of our guys can play.

Dan Fitzgerald

I've talked to a lot of my friends from the team. It was difficult at first because a lot of the phone lines were down, but they all seem to be doing OK now. They've lost a lot of material things, but everyone is OK.

Silvio Berlusconi

I've never stopped supporting him. I've always followed his career, including his most recent and most difficult battle, to guide his country,

Mark Brunell

It would be my hope that we could keep this group intact, which is difficult to do these days. I think we have guys with great character, work ethic, attitude; all the things that you'd want.

Benny Elon

it would be very difficult for a future government to shake it off

Dee Crumpler

It would be real simple to say only look at Caroline Brevard. These are very heart-wrenching, difficult decisions.

Claude Mandil

It would be difficult to understand if there was a cut.

Larry Steach

Every penny of the donations goes into the memorial fund.

Tom Logan

Those first trips were to Zaire, and we made sure that 100 percent of the donations we received made it to the field, ... Dr. Morgan, an orthopedic surgeon, did 65 operations in a little over six weeks. Dr. Pueda went to a hospital with no electric power and took out a little girl's spleen by flashlight. He saved her life while we all stood around and held Wal-Mart flashlights so he could see.

Mark Love

If they (businesses) make a donation for two years, 90 percent of their tax liability is forgiven by the state.

Salvation Army

With all of the donations going south we expect to be hurt locally, ... A lot of people will say they already gave.

Cathy Curran

It's to the point we're overwhelmed and we have no space, though we have had donations of warehouse space, for which we're very grateful.

Hugh Evans

Global poverty is the product of reversible policy failures overseen by politicians, past and present. The poorest of the poor don't vote in American or European elections. They don't make donations to political parties or hire lobbyists in D.C., London or Canberra.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

Investments are a real partnership, with an expected return; donations are a gesture made as a result of ethical, religious, or political passions.

Stacey James

The players have all made donations through the Players' Association.

Donald Lowe

It would have put everyone's mind at ease very quickly and would have helped the investigation,

Aaron Baddeley

This is a stepping stone for the big picture. It's going to ease (expectations) and I'm going to learn from today. I learned from Jim, watching him play. It's a step in the right direction.

Atharva Veda

You must be uncomfortable when those around you are unhappy; when you ease their discomfort, you are making them happy and making yourself happy, isn't it?

Barry Unsworth

We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.

Francis Clines

Thus does the Beeb ease the English into another gray familiar day, another half-century of magic mystic rays.

Albert Einstein

I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves. This ethical basis I call the ideal of the pigsty.

Anne Graham Lotz

The kind of trust God wants us to have cannot be learned in comfort and ease.

Robert Higgs

Abetted by misguided or co-opted intellectuals, the rulers weave a cloak of legitimacy to disguise their theft and hence to ease their extraction of wealth from the rightful owners.

Tina Brown

Manners are the ability to put someone else at their ease...by turning any answer into another question.

Roma Downey

People really feel the need to share how the series has touched their lives, and that's been very moving. We're enormously grateful to the fans of the show. They've been extremely loyal to us season after season, and they make it all worthwhile.

John Sutherland

These are six extremely different novels, all of them good in a very different way.

Daniel Roling

The outlook for steel is still extremely difficult.

Shane Valdez

Luke is extremely hard to score on. He's got good solid takedowns, he's solid on top and he's very hard to take down.

Mike Bossy

I'm always extremely honored to be applauded the way I am when I get back here and have any kind of liaison with the fans. I'm humbled by it.

Shanna Briggs

I felt like we started out extremely flat. And we didn't do some things well defensively that we wanted to, and that's when they went on their run.

J. Taylor

Hiroshi is an extremely technical player with his passing and dribbling, ... He'll be a good player for us.

Jay Foreman

He stepped up big for us. They had put a lot of good shots on goal. He was solid in net. His reflexes are good and he is extremely athletic. He showed me a lot stepping in a tough spot like that.

Peter Castro

He's extremely concerned. And she's extremely grateful for that concern.

Dennis Northcutt

As long as I'm doing what I'm supposed to do, and I'm going out and helping this team in any way, I'm going to be here, ... The only way I'm going to lose my job is if I'm messing up and not getting the job done.

Javier Solana

The solution of this problem is not only military, the solution has to be political.... We are prepared for the possibility of helping with a cease-fire,

Peter Briggs

The students get help they need, and we learn about the rest of the world by being involved with them.

Robert Reisz

So we are suggesting this was a relatively helpless little hatchling.

Juan Avila

Thank you to all the people who helped us get this house.

Kirby Moses

Ten of our 14 wrestlers scored points which helped us today. There were 15 teams and we didn't know what to expect. We were the smallest school there.

Danielle Jackson

Ryan has really stepped up and takes some of the pressure away from the rest of us. She's going to help a lot.

Daniel Burns

It was unbelievable, ... but I knew it was helping us.

Cheech Marin

It was about taking the show and shining a different light on it. Each monologue was like a separate jewel that I helped thread into a necklace.

Brett Hull

If you're going to play hockey now, you have to be able to play. If you have the ability to fight and play, you're an unbelievable commodity. But if you can only fight, there might be six of those guys left in the league, and I can guarantee they're going fast.

Carol Alt

I found my prince - he's a hockey player and we met at an NHL event, the last place I'd ever expect to meet someone, but there he was.

Brendan Morrison

Bert's wallet is like an onion. Any time he opens it, he starts crying.

Bobby Clarke

We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor.

Bobby Hull

I was a multi-millionaire from playing hockey. Then I got divorced, and now I'm a millionaire.

Bobby Hull

My former wife made me a millionaire. I used to have three million dollars.

Dean Lombardi

I've always felt we weren't physical enough on the back line. Now there's a no - parking sign in front of our net.

Angela Ruggiero

I still love hockey. It's just I'm at a different stage of my life and I think I'm just ready to grow in other ways outside of just being a hockey player.

Angela Ruggiero

There were no women's players I knew of. I didn't even know women's hockey existed.

Toby Keith

Probably 75 percent of the people in this town think I'll fail, and the other 25 percent hope I fail,

Jim Bolla

Officially, all we're saying is she's suspended right now. It's day-to-day, and hopefully when we get to Reno, we can get some things resolved one way or the other.

Christian Prudhomme

After seven years of implacable domination, there will be a different race which I hope will be open.

Dave Roberts

The more interesting we make this, the more I'll have to try to push the envelope. But hopefully it doesn't come to that.

Kirk Pedersen

Right now we are struggling a little big with our relay teams. We are going to work on those and hopefully get them to run a little better.

Mike Slive

Right now, there is peace in the valley. We hope to keep it that way for a little while.

John Snow

It would be our hope they can do that quickly within a week,

Shane Murphy

I've been saying we're a work in progress, and there's still improving to do. Hopefully we can keep getting better and get to where we want to be.

Titus Maccius Plautus

Things we do not hope for often come to pass than things we wish.

Dr. Ratard

No such outbreak occurred because of Hurricane Katrina.

Stacy Stewart

Some people thought the hurricane season was over. It's not.

Mark Goodman

It was the (strangest) hurricane we've seen in a long time.

E. B. White

Even if there's no damage, it's going to take at least two weeks for refineries to come back. It's at least as serious as Hurricane Ivan, which we had last year. And it took six months to get production back to normal in that case.

Michael Chertoff

We are going to be very prepared for Hurricane Wilma.

Michael Fish

Reports of a hurricane are unfounded.

Richard Wright

It looked like a tsunami with hurricane winds.

Mitch Frazier

There is not the hurricane protection here that there once was. It is significantly compromised. The hurricane level protection we have had here prior to Hurricane Katrina will not be able to return. It will be years, not months.

Mike Trevino

We've got another 800 (adjusters) or so standing by waiting to work Hurricane Rita.

Rick Perry

Between Katrina and our preparations for this, people understand this isn't something you're going to play around with,

I. Stone

Many scenarios had been run prior to Katrina years ago, and with that type of storm, the scenarios should have been taken seriously.

Mary Fetchet

Katrina should be enough to wake people up.

Richard Cobb

On the supply side, we are about the same as after Katrina and before Rita.

Diane Swonk

Once they got the uncertainty of Katrina out of the way they just got back to their boilerplate statement,

John Franklin

It's not so much Katrina as a phenomenon as it's Katrina as a metaphor for what our society has become. It reflects; it's a mirror of what we've become - super-extraordinarily complacent.

David Vitter

We'll only victimize the victims of Katrina all over again.

Pat Brisson

Savior is a big word. No one's a savior of the league at this point.

Tom Hicks

We want to add an American League pennant... and to bring the World Series to Arlington.

Riley Wallace

We're 1-0 in the league and we're starting a new season now. You're in league play and that's what really counts.

Liz McCarrell

We wanted to come out and start league play strong. We wanted to show what we could do in league. And I think we did that, at least in the first half.

Nick Kroll

Really, I just love doing comedy. Any form it takes is great, as long as I can keep doing it, you know? If I can do my show and 'The League' while also getting to do other bits, that's awesome.

Jack Schrader

From top to bottom, I just don't see how there could be a better league in the nation.

Jeff Olson

There aren't many millionaires who bowl over 100. Why not? Because they left the bowling league behind to build their fortunes.

Brian Kilrea

He's their Danny. I think he's been a top goaltender in this league for years,

Stan Joplin

I don?t know if there has been a more tough-minded team in the league for a long time.

Ed Sheeran

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

Gitesh Pandya

Star Wars' is going to be a massive hit,

Marketing Manager

It is, however, quite rare to have a player have two massive wins within such a short space of time.

Judy White

This has been so very massive and different from any other we've had.

Ruud Lubbers

We are preparing for a massive relief operation,

Don Stewart

As many members as there are in Congress, there are that many opinions on how to secure the border.

Richard Durbin

The secretary testified without even indicating to the members of the Senate that this story existed, about to be disclosed to the American people. That is unacceptable.

Albert Speer

I was not a member of the SS.

Amartya Sen

The success of a society is to be evaluated primarily by the freedoms that members of the society enjoy.

Daniel Defoe

Wit, like the Belly, if it be not fed, Will starve the Members, and distract the Head.

Clay Shirky

In a profession, members are only partly guided by service to the public.

Rick Nielsen

If I weren't as tall as I am, I would've been a member of AC/DC.

Thomas E. Mann

Congress requires states to draw single-member districts.

Shane Carruth

All I know is that as an audience member, I am less and less inclined to go to the theater.

Scott Peterson

I've seen them on every national broadcast. It's pretty amazing.

E. Helm

We're playing in a tournament where somebody's going to the national tournament. It's that simple. And we'll compete.

Alfonso Scanio

The problem of railway safety has by now become a national emergency.

Rod Smith

Those are tragedies that have to be addressed on a national level.

Martha Stewart

I haven't been to Tasmania. I haven't been to the South Pole, and I haven't been to the North Pole. I want to see the polar bear migration before there are no polar bears. I want to see Glacier National Park before the glacier melts.

Larry Diamond

How can we communicate effectively if you risk being intercepted by the National Security Agency?

Dalia Mogahed

My national identity is first American. My religious identity is first Muslim.

Matthew Crenson

National security will be an issue, but it will be tied to a whole lot of other things.

Bill Daly

We now have a national product we can sell in United States, ... When you're perceived as a regional sport, you can't sell national sponsorship agreements.

Ben Okri

It is easy to forget how mysterious and mighty stories are. They do their work in silence, invisibly. They work with all the internal materials of your mind and self. They become part of you while changing you. Beware the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.

Art Garfunkel

They say in the darkest night there is a light beyond

Brian Jacques

So here is my story, may it bring Some smiles and a tear or so, It happened once upon a time, Far away, and long ago, Outside the night wind keens and wails, Come listen to me, the Teller of Tales!

Jane Fonda

In spite of the incident, my experience in Kansas City was wonderful and I thank all the warm and supportive people, including so many veterans, who came to welcome me last night.

Jamie Farr

The entire behind the scenes of Saturday Night Live are all Canadian.

Caprice Bourret

It's like night and day... to do business, in Europe, there is no bull, they are pretty straightforward.

Jane Austen

When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more attended to, and people were carried more out of themselves by contemplating such a scene.

Jane Austen

Your countenance perfectly informs me that you were in company last night with the person, whom you think the most agreeable in the world, the person who interests you at this present time, more than all the rest of the world put together.

James Wolcott

Popular culture no longer craves archangels and new dawns. Pop culture traffics in vampires and deads of night.

Ted Shaw

Things went as I expected. I think Roberts's opening statement was eloquent. I've seen him in court. But the question for me is who is he.

Scott Podsednik

Every opening day is special, but this one is really special.

Carlos Arroyo

I saw an opening and I took it. It was important for us to get a win like this. Every time we win one like this it makes us stronger for the future.

Mark Buehrle

I think I'll be ready for Opening Day. I could go right now.

Anthony Geary

I have friends in France who are artists. I go to gallery openings and things like that.

Peter Hall

I have to pour it on the opening weekend, then go back into battle.

Charles Woodson

I'm trying to make a play. I saw an opening and tried to run with it.

Genesis Rodriguez

I really want to keep on opening doors for myself, and others who want to come in.

Jeff Cirillo

Even with opening day being what it was, I was very calm, very relaxed.

John Grammer

As coaches, we tell the players to make plays and that's what they did. We made some big plays to win at the end, especially Derek Carver.

Cheryl Burnett

Purdue has some players that, in the time of need, are really going to step up and want the basketball.

Rick Barnes

I've never seen players take so much pride in their schoolwork.

Pete Hald

I've never had three players at the same time who can score like they do.

Joe Gibbs

There are players there that you wished you could have on your squad. . . . I had some tough conversations today,

David Noel

Big players show up in big times games. That's the type of player he's been all year.

Joe Legerski

We've had a lot of different players step up for us (in the post).

O. Henry

We want to get players into the NPC as soon as possible,

Jerry Angelo

To get valued players you have to be willing to give value.

William Williams

so much dependsupona red wheelbarrowglazed with rainwaterbeside the whitechickens.

Justin Dentmon

I've never seen so much red in my life.

Mel Sachs

It would still be red when he landed.

Logan Dance

Your skin will turn red if you're not careful.

Jase Robertson

When in doubt, figure it out. That's the redneck way.

Bill Wright

Even a slight reduction in revenue can have a significant impact.

Matt Hasselbeck

We fizzled when we got in the red zone. That hasn't been characteristic of our team. That's not us.

Fran Theos

The Red Cross, as did a lot of other groups, worked very, very hard.

Roy Romer

With lab courses, we may be able to simulate a lot of that and reduce costs.

Thomas Jefferson

Never did a prisoner, released from his chains, feel such relief as I shall on shaking off the shackles of power.

Susanne Beauregard

I think it was a relief to her.

William S. Burroughs

Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.

Violette Leduc

To find relief in what has been, we must make ourselves eternal.

Jim Andrus

It's been way too dry. There doesn't look to be any relief in sight.

Rob Carter

It was more of a relief than anything.

Ayumi Hamasaki

New York was a relief - not all hierarchical and rule-bound.

Eddie Griffin

We've lost a bunch on the road, I don't even know how many. It's a relief to get this one.

Jay Gallagher

It's a real sense of relief to have Tim home.

Mike McLaughlin

Everybody's going to keep him in our thoughts and prayers.

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