Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Walters

I think it's a great fit. (Kirk's) been really good with Department 56 and Byers' Choice.

James McDonough

I think it really puts the department on very solid footing to do its missions and do it in a streamlined and effective manner. This is a very healthy and very positive realignment.

Jerry Moran

I always assumed the Department of Agriculture was the farmer and rancher's friend.

Jenny Manley

He sees a discussion about moving FEMA from under the jurisdiction of the Department of Homeland Security as an excellent starting point in efforts to make the federal government more responsive in emergencies.

Joel Klatt

I think it's important to most of us because of exactly what it provides to the whole program. Obviously, the whole department gets a little national respect. Hopefully, we go down there and put together a solid effort and get recognized on a national stage where we feel we belong.

Tom Williams

I agree, ... In rural Kansas, in the event of an emergency, people aren't going to look to an emergency management coordinator. They're going to look to the sheriff's department for help.

Mike Herndon

I'd like to double-bunk inmates, where it can be done safely, and take in as many (state Department of Correction) inmates as possible. I made a large sum of money (for the county) when I was sheriff.

Laura Blackann

He has not been subpoenaed nor has he been contacted by the Justice Department or the FBI.

Ron Suskind

He got the documents from lawyers at the Treasury Department when he made a request after he left.

James Cox

I think it's a good idea. The Bangor School System is the gold standard as far as education goes, at least in this part of the state.

Fred Wilson

He's a wonderful person if for no other reason than the education piece.

Martin O'Malley

There is no greater ladder into the middle class than education.

Ernest Hollings

There is no education in the second kick of a mule

Aaron Blake

I think this year we are really focusing on education, ... We need to embrace those who set out to harm our community, because really something is wrong with them.

Russell Baker

How many more years will our educators continue to lecture us on the evils of whipping children until they bring home high grades? Year after year we listen to these fellows tell us that it is not the grade that counts but the development of the child's personality. After the lecture they go back to all the best schools and reject our children because they have C averages.

Ruben Blades

I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.

Tryon Edwards

The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers rather than to fill it with the accumulation of others.

Tryon Edwards

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.

Jeff Sessions

I would suggest we'd better spend our time investigating how a top-secret program such as this, a program fully shared with congressional leaders, was breached and provided to the media and revealed throughout the world.

Hwang Suk

I take full responsibility for the papers and offer you my apology.

Paul Cabana

Guys were joking saying Savy is back so now you'll be ready to go. I kind of laughed and said, 'Oh, you guys are full of it.' They were right.

Bob Harman

There are so many issues and the system is full of holes. It's a mess. Every year the state tries to put a number on something that's nebulous and none of these numbers are ever accurate.

Kate Bush

I had an incredibly full life with my imagination: I used to have all sorts of trolls and things; I had a wonderful world around my toys and invented people. I don't mean I had imaginary friends; I just had this big imagination thing going on. I didn't need any imaginary friends, because I had so much other stuff going on.

Todd Christensen

He said he woke up and the room was full of smoke.

Bill Durham

He said he had listened to some clips of my song and, if I wanted to get airplay, to send him a full CD.

Billy Donovan

He's always been a terrific runner. He has a great threshold to run through fatigue. He plays all the way. One hundred percent. Full throttle.

Tony Quinn

His problem right now is people think he is full of hot air.

Paul Johnston

It is a lot of money. We've never had that kind of funding for this kind of work.

John McKay

It's not a lack of initiative or a lack of trying. The funding is simply not there right now.

Fran Ackley

It's on the horizon. We can do the job as long as the funding stays consistent.

Jo Salyers

There was never any funding to work with.

Rod Nelson

We know we have it (PRP) for 2006, but funding has been taken away for 2007. However, it could be back in 2008.

Ray Durham

We're just not getting the funding for the legislature to get updated and new equipment.

Dale Mitchell

The state does not provide any funding at all,

Richard Mann

Scholarship funding doesn't come from the state, it doesn't come from university coffers.

Bob Albanese

It would take years to rehabilitate all of the large lecture classes. We simply do not have the funding from the government.

Matisyahu

As a kid, I was really into performing. I would do choruses, I would do musicals, whatever it was. And then, as a teenager, I got into an acting class at SUNY Purchase for gifted kids, and that really turned me on to material beyond musicals, Sam Shepard, and Christopher Durang plays.

Mike Waldo

Spencer is a very gifted player who works very hard at what he does. I thought he played smart, played with a lot of intensity and had a great game.

Mark Machtolf

Ryan is a big, strong physically gifted hitter who has the potential to hit for a lot of power.

Mike Kemp

We're a pretty good goal-scoring team, top to bottom. Parse is the high profile guy, but we've got a group of gifted scorers.

Norm Cook

This year, he's done an unbelievable job. He's just one of these gifted goal-scorers. He's got a great scoring touch.

Donald Ray Pollock

J.R. Angelella is a truly gifted writer. Zombie is one of the smartest, strangest, and most beautifully crafted coming-of-age stories you will ever encounter.

Ernie Kent

But from the perspective of a dad, I soul-searched and said to myself, here was someone who's very gifted and wants to try something.

Caroline Rhea

My daughter is exceptionally chatty. I'm not a braggy mother but she is gifted - with the personality of a Russian gymnastics coach.

Dick Gephardt

gifted national leader and a model public servant.

Pat Callahan

Just to release a rock record with very little help from MTV, and with just touring and radio, I think it's awesome. I think it did a lot better than any of us expected. But we're a touring band. That's where our roots are and we love touring. It's a lot of fun.

Mark Slotsve

It actually helps to have played them, we know a little of what they're about.

Sufjan Stevens

I think it just helps us to feel kind of unified,

Marcus Spears

I think it helps us a lot to know we can be better than we were, ... and we still played effectively.

Mark Whipple

It always helps to surround yourself with talent.

Tom Mueller

It always helps to do those kinds of things. But my wife won't tell you that I'm a romantic.

Bobby Smith

It ain't easy. When you can't do what you want to do on the field, it's tough. But I still want to be able to help out the team.

Bouna Ndiaye

He wants to play for the Lakers, and I think he can help the Lakers. We can wait for the Lakers for about a week to make a decision. He has high interest from teams in Europe. But Ronny wants to play for the Lakers.

A. Hodge

He wants to do whatever it takes to help the team win a championship, whether it's two rebounds or whatever. That's admirable. We know it's going to be a process.

Sherri Coale

Iowa State played fantastic. When we were up by 10 points (with 6 1/2 minutes to play), Iowa State could have said 'we're done,' but they kept fighting.

Jim Nussle

Iowa needs to be not only a renewable (energy) leader from a production standpoint but also a leader from a consumption standpoint.

Joe Biden

There's less than one percent of the population of Iowa that is African American. There is probably less than four of five percent that are minorities. What is in Washington? So look, it goes back to what you start off with, what you're dealing with.

Al Sharpton

I wanted to say to Governor Dean, don't be hard on yourself about hooting and hollering. If I had spent the money you did and got 18 percent, I'd still be in Iowa hooting and hollering.

Chuck Grassley

It wouldn't do me much good to back somebody that won in Iowa if they can't carry on the campaign elsewhere.

Michael Kinsley

Is there any other democracy where the voters are as spoiled as they are in the United States? Especially, of course, in certain states, such as Iowa and New Hampshire, where the old joke is literally true about the citizens who say they haven't yet formed an opinion about a candidate because they've only met the fellow a few times.

David Letterman

Newt Gingrich had a horrible week in the Iowa caucuses. Only 13 percent of his ex-wives voted for him.

David Letterman

Hillary Clinton is driving across Iowa in a van. It's to get to know the people she'll never, ever see again in her life.

David Letterman

Hillary is in Iowa to listen to what the people are saying - because if you want her to speak, that will cost you $200,000. So she's there listening.

Buck Showalter

I would say there were some unknowns about him. I've been pleased with the progress he's made.

John Ferguson

He's here and we're pleased to have him.

Richard Carpenter

We're pretty pleased with the services that were rendered.

Paul Armstrong

It is one of the things that I am most pleased about,

Gayle King

It is just really exciting. I have always been pleased (with the care), but now it will be even easier.

Jean Prahm

I never thought I would be so pleased with a sixth-place finish.

Derek Wright

I'm very pleased with our effort--with our attitude. I think we've turned the corner.

Dave Barry

I'm very pleased that we made the top four. But I feel that we could have had a stronger showing.

Howard Wolfson

I'm not going to speculate on his motives, but I'm pleased to see it.

Greg Allen

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

Evan Depew

They're starting to make programs that can show everyone your cards, if one guy's winning a whole lot get out of it.

Brian Postol

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

Steve Robinson

The vibrancy in our sports programs is still there.

Bill Walker

Those are the kind of programs we would like to see subsidies shifted into.

Fred Siget

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

Eric Cantor

We as Republicans understand that we have got to protect these... entitlement programs - these entitlement programs for our seniors today. And we have to sit down and have a discussion. We need more ideas on the table.

Robert H. Connelly

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

Josh Duncan

It is huge. Another win provides more motivation. We'll keep going.

William Cowper

Tis Providence alone secures In every change both mine and yours.

Jacqueline McKenzie

I have provided a soundtrack for a scene that I am in which is pretty cool.

Mike Drake

I want to start seeing some of the results and know the provider is up to speed.

David McCandless

Data is the kind of ubiquitous resource that we can shape to provide new innovations and new insights, and it's all around us, and it can be mined very easily.

Richard Davidson

That is making it a lot more complicated for all social services, ... We are going to have to 'band' together to provide these services.

Bob Beauprez

It's something we can do an do quickly to provide some relief,

Larry Woolf

They like to touch and feel the game, and slots don't provide that.

Mike Shinoda

Little pieces of advice like that can provide us with months' worth of entertainment.

Kypros Chrysostomides

It seems that today we reached a satisfactory conclusion.

Tom Duxbury

There's at least one more we could reach for another flyby.

Rick Wagoner

These negotiations were done in a positive, cooperative, problem-solving spirit, ... While it may have taken some time to reach this cooperative solution, I think it was time well-spent.

Joseph Biden

We have to do more to reach out and get the rest of the world in on the game,

Marina Tsvetaeva

Don't you know no one can escape the power of creatures reaching out with breath alone?

Sandra Williams

We're uniting together to reach out into the community.

Richard Wagoner

While it may have taken some time to reach this solution, I think it was time very well spent,

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

The proprietor, producing neither by his own labor nor by his implement, and receiving products in exchange for nothing, is either a parasite or a thief.

Jim Rohn

Asking is the beginning of receiving...

Audrey Hepburn

It always boils down to the same thing - not only receiving love, but desperately needing to give it.

Simone de Beauvoir

He formed his sentences hesitantly and then threw them at me with such force that I felt as if I were receiving a present each time

Sophia Amoruso

You can't act like you've arrived when you're only just receiving the invitation.

Shawn Fanning

It was very early, and we were still like beta or alpha stage, and so we started receiving a ton of download. The server became overloaded, and that's when I realized that this had a huge market.

Richard Steele

There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy

Nicole Kidman

I'm now so much more capable of receiving love and giving it in a far different way.

Jerome Isaac Friedman

I entered the Physics Department in 1950, receiving a Master's degree in 1953 and a Ph.D. in 1956. It is difficult to convey the sense of excitement that pervaded the Department at that time.

Michael Birch

Resources have underpinned the strength of the market.

Kevin McCarthy

If Russia wants to use energy as a weapon against our friends and allies, let's use our resources to set them free.

Michael Garcia

They are now fugitives. We will be using our resources to find them.

Joseph Stalin

There are on occasions, as we know, when resources are abundant, but they are expended so incompetently that the advantage is nullified.

Tony Robbins

It's not about your resources, it's about your resourcefulness .

Stephenie Meyer

The wasting of finite resources is everyones business

Laura Linney

History's a resource.

Peter Drucker

Managers are the basic and scarcest resource of any business enterprise.

Christian Nestell Bovee

It is seldom that we find out how great are our resources until we are thrown upon them.

Rick Page

Right now I don't think my 5A schools would go to the Valley. But they could put us with Laredo.

Anthony Hamilton

It was very important for me to touch on things that haven't changed, like schools. I'm in Cleveland, Ohio. My lady's from Ohio, and the schools are being torn down, and they turned them into high-rise condos.

Eric Hoffer

The trouble is not chiefly that our universities are unfit for students but that many present-day students are unfit for universities.

Gene Miller

The students are coming, and we're going to have to do something to accommodate the growth.

Sathya Baba

The teachers of tomorrow are the students of today.

Peter Flynn

We want students to take these tests very seriously,

MaryEllen Elia

We have a way to go with our 12th-grade students.

Robert Fripp

I recommend my students not to be professional unless they really have to be. I tell them, 'If you love music, sell Hoovers or be a plumber. Do something useful with your life.'

Renee Fleming

I was always a very good student.

Ray Romano

I would get my student loans, get money, register and never really go. It was a system I thought would somehow pan out.

Sam Raimi

I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.

Tommy Bowden

He's as talented a tight end as we've had here in a while, but doesn't understand the tempo.

John Connolly

Norton-Knight is a very talented player. He's versatile. He did very well at the weekend.

F. Stone

We had so many talented receivers, but our quarterback was being very rushed.

Pat Riley

There's not many who have a better or more talented (trio).

Dan Hendricks

I think this is a very deep, talented group.

Mike Sillinger

He always makes the right shot, the right move. He's a talented young player.

Laura Thomasson

There are a lot of talented choreographers around here. I think of this as a mini-ADF.