Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bruce Vladeck

As bad as the situation is now. it can only get worse when the economy stops growing.

Carol Bruess

As a culture, we decide what is a good word and we decide what is a bad word and that's changing over time.

Raymond Floyd

As a kid in Fayetteville, N.C., I played golf all day, every day, a lot of it by myself. I spent hundreds of hours around the greens at Cape Fear Valley, the course my dad owned, hitting every shot I could think of - the one-hop-and-release, the chip that lands dead, the explosion from a bad lie.

Andy Reid

The bottom line is, as bad as it seems today we are two games out of first place in the NFC East, ... We have a great opportunity to go forward here and put the remaining part of this season together in a plus manner.

JoEllen Kenney

The building was in bad shape. It needed a new roof and wiring. It was a monumental event when we got appropriate wiring and cabling. We went from a manual typewriter to a computer.

Daniel Kim

The building just has a bad history, ... We didn't know it in the beginning, so we had to bless the set to make sure it let us work in there safely. We went through this Hawaiian ritual. It was the building nobody wanted to go into.

Joseph Keyes

The building is solid; the (prior) management was bad. The problem with the building from the outside is it's dated. People look at it and think is in bad shape (inside). All the outside will be re-done.

John Hanley

The building is in very, very, very bad shape.

Peter Power

The boycott is bad for all those concerned.

Hiroyuki Kitakata

A series of geopolitical concerns are supporting the market.

Lynn Reaser

The cacophony on Wall Street this week reflected concerns that the Federal Reserve may raise interest rates further and that corporate profit performance could start to dissipate.

Pam Wilson

Back in 2002, we had a pretty similar situation. (The fire season) started back in mid-April, which is very early we definitely have some concerns as we head toward summer.

Shuji Sugata

As long as geopolitical concerns are there, gold will be supported.

Yasuhisa Ishida

As long as concerns over possible interest rate rises are out there, the dollar is likely to be pressured by the unwinding of yen-carry trade positions.

Susan Collins

raises some disturbing concerns about the spread of extremist materials in American mosques and Islamic centers.

George Tenet

raised several concerns about the fragmentary nature of the intelligence with National Security Council colleagues. Some of the language was changed.

Dariusz Kowalczyk

Prices haven?t fallen by much because of the heavy refinery maintenance seen around March, which still raises some concerns over supply particularly for gasoline.

Mary Abbott

Personally, I don't think it's a good idea to move to a countywide system. I have real concerns about how frequently the revenues would be distributed and what sort of accountability there would be in getting proper distribution.

Michael Hendricks

Progress was slow at first, but the evidence is mounting that restoration is working.

Brent Bracelin

This is further evidence of a deterioration in their business.

Charles Wicks

This is probably an ongoing feature in Yellowstone. We've only been able to study it like this for 10 years, so we're still not sure what's normal and what's not. But there's no evidence yet to suspect an eruption.

Mark Richt

That's just more evidence that if one team is more ready to play than the other, it could be over by the second quarter.

Jane Rissler

A lack of evidence doesn't mean there isn't a problem. We've never done the studies necessary to find a problem.

Mike Rasnak

We have provided excellent photographic evidence to the police from our surveillance equipment.

Robert Hill

There is considerable evidence that the weapons of mass destruction program (in Iraq) ... is progressing,

Greg Graffin

One of the things that all religions have is a narrative of doomsday. There has to be some kind of overarching fear of the future. If there wasn't, none of the religions could invoke this important thing - that science has no evidence of, by the way - called free will.

Jacques Rogge

Even if there is a negative test, that is only part of the equation. We have evidence of Italian police which we should receive shortly. If you want to prove the guilt of athletes, there are various methods of proof.

Kenneth Williams

As of now, we haven't gotten any kind of request from the state to open our shelters.

David Vitter

The situation has gotten a lot better. The water is not rising right now in New Orleans.

Doc Sadler

The thing about Southern Miss is that they've gotten better and better each game.

Shari Brill

I've always gotten a kick out that show.

Rich Aurilia

The one thing I wish would have happened was we would have scored one more run for Milton. I wish he could have gotten a win out of that instead of a no-decision.

Timothy Ghriskey

So the message here, spread your investments around, ... If you've gotten hurt this year in technology, learn from that and diversify your investments.

David Hunt

Publicly, we're saying we're better at fighting terrorism. Privately, we know that the bureaucracy has only gotten worse, since the high-level people are scared of being held responsible for 9/11.

Claire Rubin

The sad part is 13, 14 years later, we don't seem to have gotten much smarter, ... If anything, we've lost traction.

Jimmy Williams

It was windy and the situation could have gotten really serious.

Bob Boughner

He interfered with me, but I did give it a little extra. I won't be winning an Oscar, put it that way.

Li Hongzhi

What I am doing is teaching people to be kind and benevolent, ... It is not politically motivated. I have never interfered with state laws and decrees, nor have I been involved in politics.

Jim Tracy

A very wonderful note, I might add. A very professionally done thing.

Adelaide Anne Procter

No star is ever lost we once have seen, we always may be what we might have been.

Peter Beattie

The money might be better off used for things like law-and- order initiatives, schools and hospitals,

Pat Davis

The technician will see if the AC system is an old one or in need of repair. A suggestion might then be made to upgrade to a more energy-efficient system.

John Butler

See, I might have screwed the whole thing up in Buffalo,

Eric Desjardins

I've tried to play with the composites, and I still might go to it eventually, ... But I'm used to the feel of the wooden sticks and I like them.

Don Haskins

I spent 18 months, off and on, with the script writer. I might as well have not spent one second with him.

Ben Dattner

You should be truthful, constructive and not personal, vindictive or petty. You might say, 'Here are some suggestions for the next person who has this job.

Romesh Gunesekera

You might want to write 'War and Peace,' but that might not be who you are. You might be better off with nursery rhymes.

Charles Singley

Ruth was my girlfriend's name at the time.

Brett Favre

Well I would say that we're regular people first of all and we're normal and it's obvious by some of the things that have happened just because our name is famous we're not immune to tragedy.

Arthur Adamov

What is there? I know first of all that I am. But who am I? All I know of myself is that I suffer. And if I suffer it is because at the origin of myself there is mutilation, separation. I am separated. What I am separated from -- I cannot name it. But I am separated.

Jamie Farr

It makes you famous, you get money from it, you go on and do the best you can, but it really is dreadful that people don't know your name.

James Van Der Beek

I've been through quite a few hurricanes. I worked in North Carolina, where there's a housing development whose name was Landfall.

Jane Smiley

Charles Dickens was an avid seeker of names - he read directories and looked for odd names on gravestones.

Asa Gray

This substance, which is manifold in its forms and protean in its transformations, has, in its state of living matter, one physiological name which has become familiar, that of protoplasm.

Brian Wilson

I earned my famous name.

Brie Larson

I have a sister and her name is Mimsy, like from 'Alice in Wonderland,' so we've got some strange names in our family.

Dan May

What we really need is a proper lab.

Ogden Nash

The only way I can distinguish proper from improper fractions/ Is by their actions.

Jonah Lomu

Each haka has its own interpretation, but you have to make sure you are in unison with your team-mates; the haka should be a proper war cry.

Shur Gopal

We couldn't wait. We did not have a proper sleep that night.

Rep. Chalk

My whole view is that we can't legitimately look at property tax reform if we don't look at all these things.

Hank Klumpp

My property value has been stolen from me and my family.

Russell Tovey

I came out to myself when I was about 15 or 16, and to my parents when I was 18. When you come out to your parents, that's when it's properly official.

Meg Mallon

I don't even look at it as a proper score.

Rick Reed

He has made several airplanes essentially to scale and proper proportion.

Robert Richardson

Any organization of reasonable size is going to be attacked.

Frank Lautenberg

This is a reasonable standard we know will save lives.

I. Stone

You want a reasonable standard so you can receive and send help.

Benjamin Disraeli

There are so many plans, so many schemes, and so many reasons why there should be neither plans nor schemes.

Charles Darwin

We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.

Diana Wynne Jones

Nobody gets praised for the right reasons.

Brendon Burchard

Optimists are happier in life for a reason.

Aristotle

If something's bound to happen, it will happen.. Right time, right person, and for the best reason.

Todd Helton

Better be. That's the reason we put up with this year.

Roy Romer

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

Rex Wilmouth

If they are making that much profit, they should reduce rates.

David Mitchell

You'd have to reduce a whole lot of ammonia before you get any benefit.

Dave Johnston

We are not trying to criminalise more people, we are trying to reduce the supply and demand.

Maggie Mermin

The risk is not zero. But it's low.

William Schmitt

This is probably one (company) where that risk is the greatest.

Brian Tracy

The future belongs to the risk-takers, not the comfort-seekers .

Lou Jiwei

There is a lot of risk in the tech sector.

Dana Delany

Television is more of a business. You can't take as many risks, because there's so many channels now, and the advertising's dropping.

Brenda Blethyn

At the risk of sounding naff, it is having hope fulfilled

Edward Norton

Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.

Edward Snowden

You will never be completely free from risk, if you're free. The only time you can be free from risk is when you're in prison.

Brian Ferneyhough

If nothing is at risk, nothing is established.

Amy Jordan

I wanted to do something totally out of the ordinary,

Keith Olbermann

And the White House, totally off the script.

Marcia Gay Harden

They tell us in magazines and in ads, 'Oh, you should look like this, you should wear this, you should look like this movie star, or you're nothing.' And so we're all totally unsatisfied.

John Howard

She was very distressed. She was very angry, she was very upset, and all of that is totally understandable.

Andray Blatche

Right now, I'm totally back, because I can do everything.

Ronnie Spector

From that first meeting, I totally loved working with Joey, it was a real collaboration.

Ahmed Plummer

I would like to start. That's what I've been doing here, but that's totally up to the coaches.

Max von Sydow

I could never learn to be totally fluent in any other language.

Cindy Christensen

I think we'll get a lot of people. I could be totally wrong, but I think we'll get a lot of people.