Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jon Katz

I owe my dogs much - more than I can say - but they are not my 'companions' - as if we voluntarily chose to hang out together but none of us has authority over the others. I bought and/or acquired them. I own them. I am profoundly responsible for their care and well being.

Pat Riley

We are very fortunate to have been able to acquire a player of Gary Payton 's stature. He is a proven veteran and will be a big addition to this team.

Nick Fry

Since Honda acquired a 45% stake in the team at the beginning of this year, we have been finding ways to work even closer with our Honda colleagues, ... The Honda Institute is the perfect place for us to learn more about Honda and I'm sure that what will come out of this will be greater communication and understanding throughout the team.

Dasha Zhukova

I have a few pieces that I got for my birthdays or that I bought for myself: I acquire things that speak to me and put them on my wall. When I see things I like, I just know.

Kathy Ireland

. . . I saw people willing to compromise themselves, or change themselves, to acquire what they thought was important. I don't judge what other people do, many choices that may be right for others are definitely not right for me.

Brian McGill

Whoever loses out is going to have to find some other vehicle for growth. There is not a lot left to acquire in Las Vegas.

Scott Ritter

I believe Iraq will seek to reconstitute a militarized nerve agent that will be used in a last ditch defense of Baghdad, and I think the Iraqi government's efforts to acquire significant stockpiles of atropine are an indication that this is the direction that Saddam Hussein is heading, ... Crossfire.

Dick Cheney

He's been free -- and we know he has -- to continue to improve his chemical weapons capability, ... We know he has worked to and has succeeded in improving his biological weapons capability. And we're confident that he has also begun, once again, to try to acquire a nuclear weapon.

Dick Cheney

He is, in fact, actively and aggressively seeking to acquire nuclear weapons,

Scott Ford

It can go on and on, or someone must write 'The End' to it. I have concluded that only I can do that. And if I can, I must.(Fords pardon of Richard Nixon for Watergate)

Michelle Snow

I've been doing this for 20 years. I've seen hundreds of kids. Monica is dedicated to music. She's got perseverance. She's one of the few that will actually make it.

Pastor Birnbaum

We dedicated 17 new flags during this President's weekend and the groundbreaking was for the parking lot and landscaping improvements and getting ready for the 50th.

John Cena

When my job isn't performing in a WWE ring, my job is to get back performing in that ring. When I'm hurt, all I have to do all day is get strong and get better. I'm a very dedicated physical therapy patient, and that helps a lot.

Kimberly Schmitz

Five shows are specifically dedicated to beading, which has become a phenomenon. Even doggie sweaters are beaded now.

Carolyn Smith

We all have been singing the blues. We have dedicated full time the last month to the museum and we all have other jobs.

Jason Portz

We have some kids that are going to be playing at the next level. They all have a great work ethic and really dedicated themselves to the weight room over the summer. They'll be rewarded this spring.

Jennifer Kluge

We are thrilled to have the Governor as our keynote speaker. She recognizes the importance of paying tribute to women who are dedicated to superior professional standards in Michigan. Throughout these 10 years, we have honored many highly accomplished women.

Skeeter Barnes

I think he's going to be a good pitcher. He seems to be a pretty focused and dedicated player.

Greg Brooks

We don't expect everything will be perfect, ... but we have a great plan and a lot of dedicated people to make this happen.

Bill Gates

We don't think there'll be a huge swing to one model at the expense of the other.

Sherwood Schwartz

I think writers have become hypnotised by the number of jokes on the page at the expense of character.

Toye Taylor

I'm looking for quality of life, non-recurring expenses for these funds.

Frederic Bastiat

It's always tempting to do good at someone else's expense

Richard Vespucci

We would question the necessity of an expense like that.

Sharon Harrington

This would be a huge expense and very difficult.

Alan Trammel

We want to win as many games as we can, ... but not at the expense of losing somebody like that for possibly longer.

Pat Riley

We don't want to go through what we went through last year. My whole thing is about maintenance right now, but not at the expense of complacency.

Abby Cohen

Opportunities are likely to present themselves, especially given a 6- to 12-month time horizon.

Hal Capps

You never know what we are going to run. We feel like we have six tailbacks that can get the job done on any given night.

David Brodsky

Everything (entitled to the defense) is not given to us,

Peter Weir

With more time I like to see the actors find something of their own places, so I can get their own ideas before I put mine in. Given they have a better idea more often enough.

Mark Rylance

This situation has given them an opportunity to really set themselves up.

Orrin Hatch

We think that this money should be given in tax relief to the American people, not spent by those know-it-alls back in Washington,

Taylor Swift

I never expected anything to be given to me.

Luan Enjie

Sending a man to the Moon? It would be a one-way ticket if we do it now, given the thrust of our rockets at present is not strong enough.

Doug Thornton

She's taken a hit. She's been given the ultimate test.

Karen Hechler

I was overwhelmed by the number of hotels -- there were over 12. They would invite someone to stay in their hotel for $3 a week.

John Oates

You've got to pay me to leave my house, spend the night in hotels and fly in airplanes. That's what I get paid for. Playing I actually do for free.

David Paulison

These people in hotels and motels must take the next step to find a better housing solution.

Terry Hall

There were more hotel rooms in our town than we had people.

Judy Chicago

You shouldn't have to justify your work.

Aldo Leopold

If the land mechanism as a whole is good then every part is good, whether we understand it or not...

Aldo Leopold

Once you learn to read the land, I have no fear of what you will do to it, or with it. And I know many pleasant things it will do to you.

Andrew Young

There is a happy land, Far, far away, Where Saints in glory stand, Bright, bright as day.

David Chang

We're hoping to succeed; we're okay with failure. We just don't want to land in between.

Daniel Webster

If the power of the Gospel is not felt throughout the length and breadth of the land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and misery, corruption and darkness will reign without mitigation or end.

John Ray

He that buys land buys many stones, He that buys flesh buys many bones, He that buys eggs buys many shells, But he that buys good ale buys nothing else.

Alexis de Tocqueville

So many of my thoughts and feelings are shared by the English that England has turned into a second native land of the mind for me.

Jim Gibbons

Patenting and purchase of lands are absolutely vital to the health of Nevada's rural communities.

George Washington Cable

And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses, submerged; a land of reptiles, silence, shadow, decay.

Andy Stanley

The sermon begins in the parking lot.

Jim Lowe

In the Wal-Mart parking lot, they had a regular city.

Tony Marino

I just wish people would go with the flow. I mean, a parking meter is like a restaurant table: We have to turn these things over.

Ted Forrest

It's better than parking in the parking lot. This way, you just pull right up to the curb, pick up your people and go.