Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dennis Hastert

On this historic day, it is a high honor and rather humbling that a great number of my colleagues have come to me and urged me to lead the House into the 21st century, ... It is a calling that I have not sought. However, it is a duty that I cannot ignore.

Bill Cowher

No, something even more diabolical. I call it 'The Immaculate Deception.' I can't reveal any details, but we'll run it on the first play of our first possession in the second quarter.

William Shakespeare

Do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.

Leslie Alperstein

Dean probably scares the market the most because he, for now at least, is calling for rolling back all of the tax cuts.

Thomas Straubhaar

Compared to the United States, ... there is no clear message from the CDU about an individualist, market-oriented economic policy. The program is piecemeal. It's not a vision. It's a sort of muddling through. These are programs that may help give some economic benefits, but it's definitely not something that you could call a conclusive economic program.

Barry Alvarez

Coach Mason could have taken a safety, but that's his call and I'm not going to second-guess him.

Zack Crockett

Coaches call that fresh legs. You've got a guy who's anxious, when he hears his number called, he'll be ready to go. He hasn't gotten much of a chance this year, so you know he's hungry. When you've got one guy who's been carrying the load, then you spread it around, guys will be happy around here. It's going to be a great thing.

Kyle Lowry

Coach was calling the plays and telling me to make plays. I just do what he says.

Jamal Crawford

Coach didn't want to call a timeout so they could set up their defense. Then it was up to me. I knew I was shooting the ball.

Lawrence Eagles

As far as the Middle East is concerned, there is still strong justification for a premium to remain in the market until it is clear the situation is much calmer on the ground,

Nancy Kress

Readers want to visualize your story as they read it. The more exact words you give them, the more clearly they see it, smell it, hear it, taste it. Thus, a dog should be an 'Airedale,' not just a 'dog.' A taste should not be merely 'good' but 'creamy and sweet' or 'sharply salty' or 'buttery on the tongue.'

Cass Sunstein

People who know him in Washington, D.C., of various ideological stripes, say this is not the type to be a fundamentalist. He is clearly extremely able, and his opinions are real lawyers' opinions.

Kevin Towers

After what I went through with Arizona, the last four or five days, they were crazy with all the speculation out there. I don't think it was fair to this organization. One thing I want to make clear is that I wasn't throwing my name out there. It got to the point where it didn't stop.

Mark Buehrle

Actually, I got out in the woods and kind of cleared my mind,

Michael Moran

A nomination does not mean it will have clear sailing to being listed. What gets listed on the national register, unfortunately, is subject to the will of the governor's office.

Richard Holbrooke

The situation therefore remains fully as serious today as it was a week or two ago. We hope to make clear to President Milosevic and the people of Yugoslavia the extreme gravity of the situation.

Luis Miranda

These new revelations make it clear that the administration and the foreign government-owned company have not been forthcoming with the American people.

Queen Elizabeth

These natural and human tragedies provided the headline news; they also provoked a quite remarkable humanitarian response. It has been clear that in the course of this year relief workers and financial support have come from members of every faith and from every corner of the world.

Amanda Hearst

Compared to overdeveloped islands like Nassau, Bimini has kept its original charm. Walk the streets to see colorfully painted houses, funky shops, and trade greetings with friendly Biminites.

Louis Pitschmann

Actually, problems here are very, very minimal compared to other universities.

Pat Perez

Terrible, compared to yesterday. That's about it. I've played four rounds this year, three have been in the wind and I've shot over par every time.

Chris Fowler

Salaries for nursing faculty are particularly low when compared to those earned by nurses in hospitals.

Carl Smith

says Stanley Crouch, the writer who long urged Rollins to trust Smith. ''It actually creates a kind of a reevaluation of what we consider musical creativity. When you hear this, these chumps in hip-hop and rock, they're jokes compared to Sonny Rollins.

Henry David Thoreau

Public opinion is a weak tyrant, compared with our private opinion - what a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates his fate

Henry David Thoreau

Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.

Dan Hendricks

The Santa Anita Derby and Kentucky Derby are two totally different-run races, with a speed-biased track and short field compared with going back there with a 20-horse field and who knows what the pace scenario will be? This is a big race, a $750,000 Grade I. To win that would be a big deal. The Kentucky Derby is like a one-hand poker game. It's all in with whatever you've got. Whatever comes up comes up.

Paul Kim

The stock is at a premium valuation right now. Compared to its peers, it's got the worst fundamentals.

John Wells

A show like 'True Detective' is definitely a drama.

David Jones

Once the security cordon is lifted, people will be ready to go back. This is definitely not the end of our protest.

Steve Sarkisian

Definitely there is pressure. I wouldn't be human if I did not say so, but when you get faced with pressure you can go one of two ways. You can take it on and get excited about it, or you can shy away and hide.

Luis Diaz

Definitely the numbers are up. One would think there are also more getting through.

Tariq Khan

Definitely the government is interested in investigating this. But the first priority is to rehabilitate the people,

Ben Leber

Definitely the fans are going to be riled up. It'll help us in the long run. If they can make some noise and get in his head, that would be great.

Ben Leber

Definitely the fans are going to be riled up, ... It'll help us in the long run. If they can make some noise and get in his head, that would be great.

Janet Napolitano

Definitely some work needs to be done, and it's pretty astounding,

Larry Coker

Definitely some things have been improved. But without question, we've got a lot we can work on and we've got to get a lot better to be the team that we want to be.

George Goncalves

As people read the economic numbers, they know the Fed is still there.

John Hughs

So much of this economic news has been anticipated that you're not going to get much reaction either way, to better than expected news, or to something that misses estimates,

Kathleen Camilli

The stock market could be on track for a recovery. The stock market is one of the key leading economic indicators and it tends to turn up about six months before the official end of recession. So, if in fact it stays up now, it would be signaling that the recession could be over sometime next June.

Mike Greene

This is huge for the town. We will now use this Internet utility for economic development and distinguish ourselves.

Wang Ziqiang

This is not because of foreign pressure. This is about the country's economic development.

Harvey Pitt

This is not an economic problem, it's a physical catastrophe,

Sean Comey

This is not a lot to reassure the consumer. The only upside to high prices is that it should ensure a steady supply because there is an economic incentive to produce and ship it.

Mir Nasir

The miserable power situation must improve to help sustain our economic growth.

Thein Sein

To have internal peace and stability and economic development, it is important to have good relations with the political parties that we have in our country. That is why we have had engagement with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.

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.

Tom Lochner

Probably the most important thing was the educational process those students went through. Our role in the state symbol was to help those students have that experience.

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.

Larry Sabato

The sixth year of a two-term president's administration is typically an opportunity for voters to send a message. It's not going to be a pretty message for Bush, if his popularity stays this low.

Christine Berg

The take-home message is to never start smoking, and if you do smoke, to quit.

Michael Gartenberg

The survey reinforces Microsoft's message to enterprises that Windows is a safe bet.

Mason Tvert

The whole thing on 4/20 is actually something we're against. I don't really see how smoking marijuana in public does anything positive. It sends the wrong message about the work that we (SAFER) are doing.

Frank Billingsley

This is one more reason to be downtown, in buildings, parks and public areas. It also sends a message that this is a progressive community.

Adam Ereli

The United States ... reiterates this message in the strongest possible terms.

Mitch McConnell

That's not the message we want to send." ()

Damien Newton

You're sending a message about what the state's transportation priorities are.

Adalius Thomas

Brian, this message is for you: Go work out. Stop playing racquetball and run some half-gassers.

Steve Robinson

The vibrancy in our sports programs is still there.

Ken Leonard

That's what you want to get your program to, but we still have to prove it,

Benito Mussolini

The Socialists ask what is our program? Our program is to smash the heads of the Socialists.

Mayor Lederer

Unfortunately, the program is a victim of its own success, and as result my description of it would be a program in crisis.

Hillary Clinton

There was even a time when Donald Trump didn't get an Emmy for his TV program three years in a row and he started tweeting that the Emmys were rigged against him.

Fred Siget

Some of the programs I wrote there are still running maintenance free.

Jonathan Brandis

I was in a theater program when I was about 6 years old. I didn't like it as much as most actors do. Which is probably why I never went back to it.

Robert Redford

We don't program (the festival) for commerciality. We program for diversity.

Jim Colborn

He allows me to have my own program and supports me and makes me feel like I am appreciated and respected.

Steve Robinson

The vibrancy in our sports programs is still there.

Fred Siget

Some of the programs I wrote there are still running maintenance free.

Greg Allen

They're two programs that don't seem to have hiccups.

Brian Postol

There's a long way to go for these guys, but I think their programs are the right ones.

Robert H. Connelly

The programs were more about 'reallocating sales' than stimulating demand.

and City

the sort of person who'd back Proposition 14.

Paul Stoddart

And we were only seeing, at best, the sort of mid-30s.

Bruce Sevy

We all kind of get to go to Italy. Sometimes you just need a break, and that's sort of what this play is about.

Before Veeder

When it did, it really hurt, and that's when I started getting trouble. It was like $280,000 we lost. I sort of got stupid.

Robert Manne

You have short-term winners and losers, and that's the toughest thing to sort out.

Pat Gillick

more of a staying-in-touch, passing-through sort of thing.

Thom Browne

I always like playing with some sort of typical convention or idea and turning it over.

Ray Stevenson

I feel like I don't exist. It's like I'm some sort of an alias.

Jay Frank

We have one person in custody. They are still trying to sort things out.

Thomas Sowell

When all is said and done, the Constitution of the United States is a set of words on a piece of paper. The only way that the Constitution can protect us is if we protect the Constitution.

Michael Lewis

The United States stock market, the most iconic market in global capitalism, is rigged,

Melinda Gates

I'm constantly saying to myself, 'I'm lucky I was born in the United States.

Paulo Coelho

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

Nikita Khrushchev

The thought sometimes -- the unpleasant thought sometimes creeps up on me here as to whether perhaps Khrushchev was not invited here to enable you to sort of rub him in your sauce and to show the might and the strength of the United States so as to make him sort of ... so as to make him shaky at the knees. If that is so, then if I came -- if it took me about 12 hours to get here, I guess it'll just -- it'll take no more than about 10½ hours to fly back.

Nikita Khrushchev

We do not have to invade the United States, we will destroy you from within.

Michel Hazanavicius

I am unusual for a Frenchman - I have absolutely nothing against the United States.

Allison Hooper

No one else (in the United States) is making it.

Strom Thurmond

New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States.