Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anytime I see something screech across a room and latch onto someone's neck, and the guy screams and tries to get it off, I have to laugh, because what is that thing.

Tom Udall

As a member of the U.S. House Law Enforcement Task Force, I join with local citizens across New Mexico toward the goal of reducing crime,

M.I.A.

As an artist, you want to play around with mediums and see if you can get the point across in different way.

Gideon Argov

The business and industry environment during the quarter was generally favorable. Our sales results reflected stable trends across our product lines and a modest ramp in demand for fluid handling equipment through the quarter and into December.

Todd Braisted

The British needed a stable, local supply of wood and that was just across the river in Bergen County. Ships were broken up for firewood and it was extremely difficult to get wood from Long Island.

Charles Powell

The British are definitely comparing notes on Moroccan cells across Europe, in Italy, France and the UK. The current thinking is that the people who did this may have trained in the same camps as the people who committed the Madrid bombings. The techniques are very similar.

Diane Rath

The brightest news for the year is significant job growth across every industry sector. When employers add jobs as they did throughout 2005, more opportunities are available for Texans in the workforce.

Brian Bauer

The breakthrough across all products is being able to reach new heights in gain while maintaining strong noise and distortion fundamentals.

Kofi Annan

The breakdown of health and education services, the obstruction of humanitarian assistance, the displacement of whole populations and a high infection rate among soldiers -- as in other groups which move back and forth across the continent: all these ensure that the epidemic spreads ever further and faster.

Michael Korda

An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition.

Kate Fox

The British male is either reticent, tongue-tied and awkward, or boorish and crass, and he usually consumes too much alcohol. English male flirting tends to be very circuitous, and involves a lot of insults rather than compliments.

Alan Johnson

The British government was disappointed that the meeting did not make more progress but relieved it did not end in failure like Cancun and Seattle.

John Scarlett

The skills of the British intelligence community are a great national asset.

Jessie Matthews

The songwriters were introduced to me as ordinary human beings; they would play their songs, and sometimes I would start to sing a song with them.

Rhona Mitra

I wanted to go out and experience the fields.

Lord Acton

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the party that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.

Shahid Malik

the most profound challenge yet faced by the British Muslim community.

Martin Rees

Some things, like the orbits of the planets, can be calculated far into the future. But that's atypical. In most contexts, there is a limit. Even the most fine-grained computation can only forecast British weather a few days ahead. There are limits to what can ever be learned about the future, however powerful computers become.

Dr. Johnson

Back fusions are like killing a fly on the windowpane with a sledgehammer. The fly is dead, but you've also broken the glass.

John Jones

People talk about HP being a broken company, but they're not a broken company, ... Half of their business is printers and, they're growing at as much as 16 percent.

Mohammad Farzaneh

So the whole structure is weakened and collapses. Our system ties down the roof joists and rafters to the exterior walls down to the foundation. If windows and doors are broken and the house is twisted on its foundation, the occupants are still safe.

Robert Novak

Tell me why the mayor is worried about fat people when he could be worried about this broken city. He could be putting lights on the streets instead of this.

Lorrie Brown

It was very humiliating because I felt like people thought that I had actually broken the law.

Anthony Johnson

It was a broken play. When it's a broken play, you've just got to do your 1-on-1 thing.

Phil Savage

These fans already have had their hearts broken twice. They're just looking to grasp on to something positive about the Browns. Hopefully we're going to give it to them in due time, because we really got nowhere to go but up.

H. Hunt

I've broken thermometers before, and it was no big deal,

Calista Flockhart

I've dated a couple of guys where I've not told them how old I am. Ever. I've dated them, broken up with them, and they still don't know how old I am.

Stan Heath

Auburn is a difficult team to play because they have so many different defenses. We wanted to make sure we had a high energy level. I thought we responded pretty well in the second half.

William A. Ward

Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckkon us with beepers and billboards.

Kathleen Gurney

often have the most difficulty because they put everything into their businesses. These people often find themselves misplaced a bit.

Ted Harbert

The show was incredibly difficult to produce with someone well-known. Tara was involved in every minute, and it was an exhausting production.

Terry Collins

The team here is a very professional team. They're doing a very, very difficult job under difficult circumstances.

Jim Graf

The team did a great job of planning and implementing the acquisition of these very difficult images.

Alan Fry

The task of police was made much more difficult if not impossible by the failure to give a precise location, indeed to give a wrong location,

Vlado Buckovski

The talks are very difficult and have lasted for a long time, but patience must not be lost,

John Eastman

The sooner the better. The later it is, the more difficult it will be to make changes.

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.

Jose Maria

is extremely solid, strong. It's firm, and we want it to be that way, not only now, but also in the future.

Joe Gibbs

I've been proud of our guys, the way they fight. We fight extremely hard.

Ram Shriram

I've been fortunate to work with some really smart people. Larry Page is an extremely smart guy, most probably one of the smartest people I've worked with.

John Sutherland

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

Joan Bonvicini

This is an extremely tragic situation, and we don't know all the details. But our thoughts and prayers are with Marie and her family right now.

Daniel Roling

The outlook for steel is still extremely difficult.

Kevin Stallings

While we are extremely disappointed that this means the end of Davis' playing career, we're very grateful that the prognosis for the rest of his life is good. Mike Meyer is truly a hero. He single-handedly saved the life of Davis.

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.

Brian Sullivan

At the local level, to be able to say that you're doing better than you were, or you're not, is pretty important.

Larry Rogers

Ninety-five percent (of the workers) will be from the local area.

Nathan Moss

I got to thinking of the school system, especially our local school here.

David Dunn

Since Sept. 11, the local police, our role has changed, ... Before, we were worrying about burglaries, thefts.

Mike Adams

Occasionally, you'll find a little tool. It all tells a story. I can show you some rocks that they used as a local source of materials.

Rand Paul

Marriage has always been a state and local issue.

Alan Curbishley

He is a local ref and perhaps it is something we have to look at.

E. B. White

Its important to do things locally as well, ... impeach.

Ricardo Garcia

We want to keep that money here, and we want to use local people.

Mike Richards

That's when we needed to make a run, right there. That's when we needed to make the plays to get it closer.

Demetrius Fannick

You needed to get out of some serious trouble.

Lee Pipkin

You never want to lose, but this shows us what we need to work on. We didn't do what we needed to do early. They scored on a lot of our turnovers, and we were going up weak.

Jackie Barto

Erika had an outstanding weekend. She was solid. She made some big saves when she needed to, and she was just very steady back there.

James Hacker

We like to think this is a significant case. We think it is a story that needed telling.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

'Biutiful' is a tough film. It doesn't make concessions to the vulgarity of light entertainment. It's not the kind of film that you see every day in the Cineplex. But as an artist, it's the thing that I needed to do.

Bobby Bowden

(Tuesday) was a day I needed to find that out.

Ed DeChellis

We've had some wins to kind of pick us up when we needed it.

Larry Wheeler

Well, he needed it. He was about to cry, and the next time I saw him he had a smile on his face, so that was worth it.

Antonio Porchia

You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.

Edgar Allan Poe

Ah, broken is the golden bowl! the spirit flown forever! Let the bell toll!-a saintly soul floats on the Stygian river; And, Guy de Vere, hast thou no tear?-weep now or nevermore!

Aristotle

Boundaries don't protect rivers, people do.

Alain Rene Le Sage

Mutual content is like a river, which must have its banks on either side.

Pocahontas

What I love most about rivers is you can't step in the same river twice. The water's always changing, always flowing.

Orson Scott Card

He kissed her and killed her then dumped her body in the river.

Claude Levi-Strauss

Anthropology found its Galileo in Rivers, its Newton in Mauss.

Daniel Boone

In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.

E. B. White

His words span rivers and mountains, but his thoughts are still only six inches long.

Dan Harmon

You have to just look at it like Titanic: I know the ship sinks, but this is a love story

Mignon McLaughlin

We semaphore from ship to ship, but they're sinking, too.

Jack London

I'll have you know I do the swearing on this ship. If I need your assitance I'll call you." Capt. Wolf Larsen

Herman Melville

Top-heavy was the ship as a dinnerless student with all Aristotle in his head.

Robert Louis Stevenson

When Christ came into my life, I came about like a well-handled ship.

Henry A. Kissinger

Clearly security without values is like a ship without a rudder. But values without security are like a rudder without a ship.

John Green

Barnacles on the container ship of consciousness.

Micky Arison

It's not easy to take three ships out of service.

Terry Pratchett

If words had weight, a single sentence from Death would have anchored a ship.

Anurag Kashyap

Through movies, I have met nearly everyone I have wanted to, except Woody Allen.

Elijah Wood

Hello! I'm Elijah Wood, and i'm a looser!

John Muir

In the woods is perpetual youth.

Ernest Hemingway

We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood.

Howard Thurman

Follow the grain in your own wood....

Dusty Baker

Right now, Wood is progressing like we want him to. We just don't want any setbacks, that's No. 1.

James Russell Lowell

The nunneries of silent nooks, the murmured longing of the wood.