Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Cole

I wrote one of my songs completely out in the field. Another one I started in Alaska and finished in Yellowstone. Even though my books are out, I still consider myself an educator first. I want to give people a better understanding of grizzly bears.

Sarah Palin

And Alaska - we're set up, unlike other states in the union, where it's collectively Alaskans own the resources. So we share in the wealth when the development of these resources occurs. It's to maximize benefits for Alaskans, not an individual company, not some multinational somewhere, but for Alaskans.

Walter Martin

I am a friend of Adventist people and a lover of truth.

William O. Douglas

The Arctic has a call that is compelling. The distant mountains [of the Brooks Range in Alaska] make one want to go on and on over the next ridge and over the one beyond. The call is that of a wilderness known only to a few...This last American wilderness must remain sacrosanct.

Marc Magliarditi

Our mind-set is to win (tonight) and to win Saturday night. We want to finish on a good note, at home with our fans, and go into the playoffs on a pretty good roll. We don't think about Alaska and what's going on with them. Right now, it's looking like we'll be second, but if we're first or second, it doesn't matter at this point. We're looking pretty good, and playing together.

Scott Hodge

If you were to look at Alaska simply with its corporate tax code compared to the rest of the United States, it would rank very poorly because it's a very complicated corporate tax system, very high tax rates, but that is offset and balanced by the fact that Alaska does not have a personal income tax and does not have a sales tax.

Tom Harkin

I have some real grievances on this issue, ... We have pushed for years to get a natural gas pipeline built from Alaska to the lower 48 states. If this administration had four to five years ago begun saying 'we are going to get that pipeline built', we would be a third of the way done. There are huge natural gas reserves up there. However the natural gas industry in Texas and the Gulf Coast don't want that thing built. We have plenty of natural gas up north - we should have pushed to get it down here.

David Boies

Their concerted refusal to market this gas results in higher gas prices that hurt consumers and businesses throughout Alaska and the rest of the U.S. This cannot be allowed to continue.

Adam Smith

The contentious matter of whether or not to begin drilling in Alaska has no place in a bill that funds the Department of Defense. The needs of our troops serving in combat should never be subject to such cynical politics.

Charles Fried

I think in many respects, his hold on his court in the last few years has begun to slip away.

Paul Epstein

There are strong indications that a disturbing change in disease patterns has begun and that global warming is contributing to them.

Caroline DeWaal

It is good that they are funding new inspectors for overseas, but they haven't begun to grapple with the fact that they need new inspectors for domestic produce and seafood.

William Schmitz

What is clear is that (the) uncertain macro environment and brand turnaround begun too late are not just short-term hiccups,

Stephen Kinzer

To frustrated Americans who have begun boycotting BP: Welcome to the club. It's great not to be the only member any more!

Don Cooper

I think that game might have permanently etched Buehrle's name in White Sox history and maybe even begun a legacy type of thing. It couldn't have happened at a better time or a bigger moment.

Robert Brusca

I think some of the job growth has been pushed forward. Behind the surface of these very strong reports, there are signs the economy has begun to slow down.

Masaki Iso

It is impossible to expect that things will improve in a short period of time at Sony, ... The company has only just begun a begun a real structural reform.

Carlos Lopez

The rain stopped, rays of sun have begun to warm the country, but the danger continues,

Chris Paul

I was in the process of having a house built in English Turn,

Jack Quinn

Knowing the conditions in place today, ... I would think the community would want to examine any and all sports facilities built in recent years to see what arrangements were made.

Pat Perez

I would think that once two or three of them get built it's going to be tough for the others to come in.

Carl Anthony

Jacqueline Kennedy rented and then built homes in the horse country of Virginia where she would take these Thursday to Tuesday weekends and just come back to the White House two or three days during the week.

Mike Griffin

is very optimistic that the replacement for the shuttle will be built at Kennedy Space Center.

Mark House

I think it might be the only option. Compensate people fairly for what they have and make sure it's never built on again.

Heath Bell

I actually want to see this house go up. There's so many houses being built around here. I'd love to go over there and maybe even still be a part of it.

Jerry Glanville

I always built the defense around outside linebackers that could pressure the passer,

Lawrence Cohn

has built a good junk-bond business, but they have no equity capacity whatsoever -- and they've got to get it. They know they have to get it, the question is, 'When and how?'

Olympia Snowe

I think it demonstrates their effectiveness, ... It makes you realize they are critical at moments like this, as we have seen off the coast of Maine.

Adam Hughes

I was born in Riverside and spent my whole growing-up years in Florence, a little township on the Delaware River. I tell people that I'm from the West Coast of New Jersey.

Cassie Scerbo

I was born in New York and raised in South Florida, so I'm an East Coast girl.

Jeff Miller

I will continue to fight any and all drilling that occurs within 100 miles of our coast or encroaches on our military mission in the Eastern Gulf.

Geoff Davis

We manage the two (land-based) casinos, the Gold Coast and the Treasury.

Kit Bond

Our ports are owned by local governments who are responsible for the ports. It is the Coast Guard and Customs that provide security. The federal government will never outsource our security.

Johnny Miller

Hurricane Katrina can only take you so far. Those kids from the Coast went through so much and just relied on playing basketball. We represented the Gulf Coast.

Jim Lee

I'd like to see some of the things that ordinary folks have. Our local folks, with their tradition of joining the Coast Guard, and the Life-Saving Service before that, traveled all over the world. So they'll have some souvenirs from Lord knows where.

Dwane Casey

He gets them in so many different ways. He is as quick as Iverson with the ball, probably not from coast to coast, but from a standstill going to the basket, he is as quick.

Dan Reynolds

I wouldn't recommend being a musician to anyone. It's not glamorous. It's a lot of being dirty, not eating, playing for five people and one of them is the bartender.

Mark Richt

I would say you're running it up if you've got your first-team players in the game with five minutes to go and you're up by 40. If you're still throwing bombs, maybe that's running it up. I think it's the defense's job to slow people down anyway.

S. Walker

Just under ten seconds...call it nine point five in round figures.

Don Waddell

Just think we're going to have this player for the next five years.

Ken Valiska

Jose has got phenomenal skills. He's got great moves with the ball, a really quick shot, he'll probably be one of our top five starters. I've been very impressed by him. He's a great player with a great attitude.

Peter Donovan

He was a full-time mortgage-broker and poker was a pursuit. He was doing about four or five hours a week, just like we would play tennis or watch TV.

Jack McKeon

He could throw a no-hitter any day with his stuff but you can't keep walking the leadoff guy, ... You shouldn't be throwing 100 pitches in five or six innings.

Bobby Frankel

He couldn't have rode a better race, ... She had never been a mile-and-a-quarter before. I wasn't really comfortable until five jumps from the wire.

Del Schoenfish

He can only play one way and that's all out. He goes 100 percent all the time. I told him four or five times to back off a bit, but that's not his way of playing.

Joe Moore

Knowing what they have to pay for the next four years would be a luxury for their budgeting.

Ricky Woods

I wouldn't be surprised if we don't (make up) this game. They might not have school down there for three or four weeks.

Mark Tiby

I yelled out to her that the fourth quarter was hers, and she took it.

Chris Higgins

Just wanted to let you know your wife is four weeks pregnant' -- those were the first words out of the doctor's mouth.

Terry Roberts

keep the next group down to four or five.

Buzz Peterson

Joseph and Moses got four fouls each. That completely takes us out of what we want to do defensively. So the game plan was thrown out right there.

Scott Green

Jordan Wilson pitched the first four-plus innings. He struck out four, but he walked seven and six of those were hit batters. Four of those scored.

John Dunning

I think it's a good way for all four teams to start the year,

Lee Matthews

I think it helped that our top four guys played for me last year. That makes a difference.

Mike Haley

I swear, if you tell me how you're going to solve these gas prices, I'll vote for you.

Chris Christensen

It can?t be like this forever. Just the other day a gas station opened in the neighborhood. Every day it gets better.

Jerry Lambert

Here you're at the mercy of the gas companies.

Nancy Cartwright

I think its ironic that for once dad's butt prevented the release of toxic gas

Jim Smith

I think the drive-to travel market is still up in the air, and we won't know until Thanksgiving, ... That's the next big travel holiday in the petroleum industry. But, generally, I think the rapid escalation in the price of gasoline has slowed down demand.

Alan Peterson

Last month, we handed out 52 gallons of gas and we've handed out 78 gallons this month. We hear about every excuse,

Candace Smith

We think gas prices had something to do with it.

Steve Reynolds

We're on track to record high gas prices this winter,

Phil Riccio

I think we had plenty of gas left. They just made some plays.

Sergei Lavrov

There's no room for petty grievances in politics.

Richard Pasch

Right now what we're forecasting is for it to become a tropical storm and move into the northern Gulf of Mexico.

Richard Gephardt

inexorably tied to Persian Gulf oil and old energy.

Ralph Peters

In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks.

Stephen Richer

I'm very happy here. I love the people here. I love doing what I'm doing. I love getting things back together... This has nothing to do with how I feel about the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

Jerry Lewis

The human needs in the Gulf region are all too apparent,

Peter Beutel

This is all about Tropical Storm Rita ... obviously, the last thing that this market needs is for a hurricane to hit the western gulf where it didn't hit last time.

Larry Wall

These two storms took the most destructive path over the Gulf that they could.

Roger Allen

After the last hurricane hit the Gulf of Mexico, it took six months for the oil platform to get back up and running.

Ken Cook

It's a pretty big storm system. It's really tapping the moisture from the Gulf and the sheer strength of the storm is leading to really heavy snow.

Errol Alcott

He is responding well to treatment however he will be out of tomorrow's Twenty20 match.

Kelly Macdonald

L.A. is brilliant, but however long my trip is I'm always ready to leave. But New York I'm never quite happy to see the back of.

Janie Jamieson

We're prepared . . . for however long it takes.

Bill Belichick

I don't know, ... Day to day. We'll take it day by day. That's the way it's been for the last however many months. That's, I think, the only way you can do it.

Sufjan Stevens

I come from a folk tradition where you just dance however you feel comfortable.

Chade-Meng Tan

If you had to pick between being moral and successful, obviously I'd choose to be moral. However if you can choose both, will you choose both? I'd say definitely.

Bob Bowlsby

Because it's got all 11 Big Ten teams, and however many MAC teams, it's taking a while to work it out,

Carol Bartz

If people really don't want ads, they can go find their information however it is they want. It's a free world on that matter.

Scott Hatteberg

I'll try to mix in wherever I can. That's going to be up to Jerry and the guys. I'll be ready, however they want me.

Chris Coste

Kirby was the first name on everyone's list. That smile and that magnetic personality. He was a huge role model for so many people in that area. He was a huge influence in the way that I hit.

Bud Keene

Kelly really pushed the limits of women's riding by going huge and super technical.

Doc Scheppler

Just returning to the team was a huge lift for us.

Ben Howland

Josh Shipp was huge tonight. I mean, having not played 13 weeks, for him to do what he did tonight was just miraculous.

Brian Fanelli

I think it's a huge accomplishment for her.

Mike Szabo

He just stepped up and made a play. That was a huge play.

Robert Russell

There are such huge, huge issues out there, that to get sidetracked (on this topic) ... to me, it's just tragic, frustrating, hopeless.

James Abbott

There are six people in the race. There are jumps, turns and rollers and some huge jumps.

Sven Eriksson

He seems like a different player and very mature in his way of playing. He's a huge talent and has been doing very well for us

Scott Storch

I think it's just sad in this industry that sometimes the pressures of being successful make you say things that are untrue.

Halle Berry

I think it was a shift in the industry for the people of color.

Glenn Johnson

I didn't lose that fight, ... I walked away because of promotional disputes. That was hard, after being in the industry so long. But the older you get, the more you learn the business.

Joshua Greenbaum

Oracle has tremendous problems being industry expert. SAP has had more success at that end.

Chris King

In the wireless industry that's a long time to be projecting into the future.

Erin O'Connor

In the early days of my modelling career, I think the industry was uncomfortable with how strikingly different I was.

Frederick Searby

Industry numbers have been somewhat disappointing. It's going to be a very tough year again.

William Moore

Industry hasn't been as prominent a player as they ought to be. I would suggest that we outsource - that shakes a lot of people, I know - a lot of support services.

Janeen Koconis

I looked at the greeting-card industry and saw that there was so much potential in it.

Tetsu Emori

In that case, we'll be in the winter season already. If temperatures in winter time are lower than forecast, then that should be a big problem.

Dan Houston

Individuals who are targeting a lower replacement ratio will see a significant reduction in their standard of living.

Karen Ignagni

In many cases, the plans have negotiated lower rates than Medicaid with pharmaceutical companies.

Bill Richardson

In my estimation, the sense was they have a small number on the lower end of one to five, ... My sense was two. But I can't verify that.

J. Taylor

The inventories are not supportive of prices at these levels. We're going to go lower from here.

J. Taylor

A lowering of tariffs will help. However, it's not the only issue.

Ed Silliere

Everyone is lowering their expectations for demand. It's taken the urgency out of the market.

Bill Dreher

Not only is there top-line pressure, but this is also going to translate into lower margins,

Travis Miner

After the play was over, she said she was having pains in her lower stomach. So I went and told the preacher.

Tammy Loew

I think it is perfectly natural for people to want to take a break.

Matt Doherty

(Harris) may be one of the quickest players I have coached. He's a natural leader.

Shamir

I wear menswear all the time. I don't do anything to make myself look more feminine. I naturally look and am more feminine.

Tori Amos

Anger is natural. It's part of the force. You just have to learn to hang out with it.

Richard Dawkins

Natural selection is anything but random.

Wayne Pacelle

When we transplant organs, we are enabling viruses to jump natural barriers between species.

Van Morrison

Performing was the natural thing originally and the rest of it [records and so on] is just like offshoots of that. That's how I see it anyway.

Robert E. Howard

Barbarism is the natural state of mankind,

Rod Stewart

I'm not a natural songwriter.

Lena Headey

Really, I still just think of myself as a Northerner, ultimately. It's in my DNA. I'll always have those Northern qualities. We can be mischievous. We can be bold.

Rob Collins

If there's a better player in Northern California, I haven't seen him.

Chuck Keller

It's not a novelty for them as much as it is in western North Dakota.

Brent Walston

Everyone here at North Johnston wishes him well at his new job.

Ben Graham

This is kind of the cornerstone of our expansion. It's the first one of its kind in North America.

John Crysler

It's been a very deliberative process and, in fact, has substantiated our solution in North Carolina.

Condoleezza Rice

The northwest is very different from what I could have imagined.

John Stephens

It took us seven years to saturate Northern California.

Mohamed ElBaradei

The U.S. engages with North Korea, so I don't see why they can't engage with Iran.

Jan Egeland

In the pipeline we have 10,000 tents and 100,000 blankets but it takes time to go to these areas.

Guy Ritchie

I'd like to work with the missus, but there's nothing in the pipeline at the moment.

John Hoffman

Jacobson was the least stoned at the time, I guess. But he was plenty stoned during the interview.

Jason Terry

We told him you have plenty of clips. Just keep shooting it.

Allen Tucker

Our neighborhood has seen plenty of rain this year,

Ben Smith

In the scheme of things, there was plenty of time.

Sue Hales

If you haven't filed yet, you're not alone, and you have plenty of company.

Katie Uhlaender

I know I could have been on that podium. But I'll take it. My first Olympics, my third season ever in the sport. I'm 21 years old. I've got plenty of time.

Craig Bellamy

I have seen plenty of level-headed kids, but I don't think I have seen any with his sort of talent.

Jesse L. Martin

I have plenty of 'Law & Order' on my resume.

Bill Smith

The trucks are ready and we've got plenty of salt.

John Niven

If pushed to say what I like about Elizabeth, who, as I'm sure most of you know, overtook Queen Victoria this week to become our longest-serving monarch, it would be her uncomplaining, getting-on-with-it ethic.

Katherine Johnson

We got some quick baskets. We scored on transition and we really pushed the pace.

Gordon Richards

But that's not to say they're not here - they just got pushed over the sides,

Jake Eakin

I got up to try to stop him, and he just pushed me.

Steve Capps

He took over this project, pushed Jef out.

Ricky Ford

Sri Lanka pushed us all the way. We've been tested and bounced back stronger every time.

Stansfield Turner

I think he's being pushed out or made a scapegoat,

Dominic James

He pushed me every day. It hasn't stopped. He's the reason I'm here right now.

Guillaume Apollinaire

Come to the edge, he said. They said: We are afraid. Come to the edge, he said. They came. He pushed them and they flew.

Pete Domenici

Would we say the (oil) reserves in Texas are irrelevant? ... I don't think so.

Bob Gainey

We'll have to look to our reserves for help.

M. Wolfe

I was like 'Why am I saying not guilty?' ... I thought I had to or something. It was the wrong decision.

Joe Wooden

Just like the old saying goes, "Vasser's boon-doggling again.

David Shearer

What we were warning before was that stocks were getting low. Today we are saying stocks are gone, and the end-point has been reached.

Scott Simms

I think this is what we expected, ultimately. We didn't do anything wrong -- that's what we've been saying all along.

Greg Rucka

When they're saying 'it's too dark,' they're saying, 'I'm scared.'

Ranit Schmelzer

He was not saying anything the administration has not said -- that we need to find these guys.

Giulio Tremonti

I have been saying for three years that Fazio is not suitable for this job.

Herman Edwards

I don't even know, ... I'm not trying to start a quarterback controversy and say who the quarterback is. Anything is possible. But I'm not saying we're switching, I'm not saying that.

Heyneke Meyer

He will play, but I'm not saying where.

George H. W. Bush

Karyn is with us. A West Texas girl, just like me.

Robert Duvall

What people don't understand about Sarah Palin is that she is a rancher's wife. From Alberta down to Texas I've known women like that: good common sense, bright and vilified by city people.

Wil Wheaton

I don’t know what the future of my career holds, but I know that whatever is over the horizon, the road I’ve traveled to get here is like those Interstates in Texas: everything can look the same, and it can feel like you’re not going anywhere, until you suddenly get where you’re going and realize that you’ve been traveling for a long time.

Yogi Berra

Texas has a lot of electrical votes.

Yogi Berra

Texas has a lot of electrical votes. [During an election campaign, after George Bush stated that Texas was important to the election]

William H. Wharton

It is equally demonstrable that so far as Texas is concerned, there have been equal confusion, insecurity and injustice in the administration of the State governments.

William H. Wharton

In addition to the dread of Indians, Texas held out no inducements for Mexican emigrants.

Willie Nelson

There's a freedom you begin to feel the closer you get to Austin, Texas.

Willie Nelson

I'm from Texas, and one of the reasons I like Texas is because there's no one in control.

Pete Shelley

They weren't headlining. They were third down the bill,

Jonathan Smith

Not Ghana, not Liberia, at least a third country.

Dee Brown

It's like my third one of the year,

Evan Benjamin

They got in some pretty big plays. I thought we were stout in getting them into third down and in second-and-long, but they made some pretty big plays.

Lofa Tatupu

Third downs. That's all I'm going to say.

Matthew Stafford

Third down and long is the toughest situation for any offensive coordinator in the NFL.

Robert Adler

It's the third week of outflows we've seen.

Paul Duca

It's the third time I've done it. It doesn't feel weird any more.

Chris Sanders

This is the third year I've been in business.