Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Garza

We're obviously very disappointed. We're hoping that Congress will see the importance of leaving the food aid budget as it is -- that 25 percent needs to stay in the U.S..

Dambisa Moyo

I have dedicated many years to economic study, up to the Ph.D. level, to analyze and understand the inherent weaknesses of aid and why aid policies have consistently failed to deliver on economic growth and poverty alleviation.

Marty Markowitz

I'd like to see every Brooklyn organization raising funds for the relief effort, ... Brooklyn book clubs, sports teams, block associations, business and professional associations, schools, libraries, houses of worship, and any other forum where Brooklynites come together can all join in and make a difference.  I would also like to see all Brooklyn restaurants donate a percentage of their receipts for a week to the relief effort. Right now, donations of money are most urgently needed.  As the rescue and recovery progresses, there will be many other needs, and we will continue to respond as those needs become clear.  Brooklynites can be counted upon to come to the aid of our southern neighbors and we will be there for the long haul.

Allard Baird

He has solid, above-average receiving skills and is above-average in handling a pitching staff. He'll be able to aid us in the development of Buck.

John Davis

Really, we were six or seven years into the AIDS epidemic at that time, and I think it was a move that offered an acceptance. You know, sometimes movies are great because I think they can precondition society for acceptance, and I think when they do that we're really at the statesmanship level of film-making.

Donald Rumsfeld

Our military is making a significant difference in providing relief and aid and help and compassion for those who have suffered,

Michel Lu

In total, China has financed US$15 million in aid for Fiji for this year alone.

Nobutaka Machimura

In addition, I would like to call on all countries engaged in bilateral aid efforts to steadily implement their projects,

Joy Maniscalco

If you know someone is going to punch you, should you close your eyes and pretend it's not going to happen? or should you be alert, eyes wide open, ready to defend yourself? I don't know about you, but I'd rather see the punch coming than get hit when I'm not looking. Will I be in pain either way? Yes, but I'll have the band aid ready.

Floyd Reese

Kevin has been extremely durable just year after year. Kevin is one of those guys who understands what winning is and knows how to win and can help everybody along that way.

Lesley Garrett

Just walking along Shaftesbury Avenue gave me such a buzz - it still does - and communicating with an audience through music is still the biggest thrill in the world.

Rick Rubin

He is one of the few people who can get on a stage in an arena in front of any audience anywhere in the world and and play original songs for hours (that) everyone would be familiar with and sing along to. The list of people whose music has this power could be counted on one hand, tops.

Hasim Rahman

He knows when he fights me, along with the whipping comes a little trash-talking. I know one thing he won't be faking it November 12th.

Bruce Bochy

Greenie's coming along faster than we thought. He's feeling pretty good with it, and he's got the OK to do just about everything.

Thorsten Fischer

Half of the refining industry's capacity is located alongside the Gulf of Mexico.

Bruce Gunter

We are going to miss this senior group. They were a pretty good group. We have some players coming along from a 14-4 junior varsity team, so we're not losing the cupboards so to speak.

Bob DuPuy

There are still some fundamental economic differences. We've said all along our goal is get a lease and we're going to continue to work on it. I don't think it'll be done Friday. We're probably looking at next week.

Andrew Karmen

There are still a lot of places around the globe where eight million people get along a lot better than they do in New York.

Jim Gilligan

He's a legitimate Friday night guy. We will have to play well to beat him. They have had a full year to recruit since they announced they were reviving the program, so they're already pretty well stocked with players.

Patrick Kerney

His name was getting announced all the time over the loudspeaker. He was going sideline to sideline making plays, making vicious hits. Every time I watched the Ravens after that, I couldn't help but watch him.

Jim Gallagher

It in no way signals a change in our very specific direction that we announced in rejecting the Hilton offer.

Dan Gilroy

I don't know too many people who, when the TV announcer says, 'Viewer discretion is advised', then turn the TV off. Those are code words for, 'Turn the sound up; this is gonna be really good.'

Dick Anderson

IBM believes a common standards-based approach, like the XMCL Initiative, is an important step forward for content owners, retailers, and distributors, and ultimately for consumers, ... The initiative announced today will help evolve the digital distribution of content over the Internet to create new e-commerce opportunities.

Farid Ayyar

Partial results will be announced Saturday or Sunday and we will then announce the non-certified national total.

Elliott Abrams

Peace in the Middle East has been on the Obama administration's mind from the beginning. Two days after his inauguration, the president traveled to the State Department to announce the appointment of George Mitchell as his Middle East peace negotiator.

Mohammad Saeedi

In the near future, Iran will officially announce an international tender for the construction of two nuclear power plants and, taking all technical requirements as well as security guarantees into consideration, will definitely choose the most qualified companies,

Ben Kwong

Interest rate uncertainty and the fact that major blue chips have already announced results force a new correction on the market.

Mark Levitt

Internet e-mail is simpler and cheaper, but you won't get integrated calendaring, scheduling, database functionality or applications,

Gary Price

Not only is the material in the database open but also the database itself,

Michael Mahoney

Applications are the only place where you can get the type of growth to justify a premium multiple for Oracle's stock. Going forward, Oracle will get 10 percent growth out of the database side at best.

Peter Kelly

During the peak of the internet bubble, the leading database management system vendors were getting out of touch in terms of their pricing,

Charles Bona

I think people were disappointed in the database number.

Charles Bona

The database is a little weaker than we expected.

Larry Ellison

While that may underscore our database growth in the fourth quarter, it bodes extremely well for database sales in the first quarter, and the second quarter and the third quarter, ... It's because we didn't sweep the table in the fourth quarter and we will never sweep the table again.

Bruce Bochy

Jake was feeling the effects of everything going on in his teeth and his hand. To me, that is major surgery. I made up my mind after talking to him. I was inclined to get him when I went out there. I decided he had enough.

Dave Jones

He could have done anything else, but he decided to come out for track. I'm proud I got to be his coach.

Sanath Jayasuriya

I thought about it long and hard and decided that's it. It's a very emotional moment, but I guess every good thing has to come to an end.

Freddy Peralta

The people have united. The people have awakened, and they have decided to fight for their rights.

Mike Healy

We're in the process of replacing old machines right now. So we decided to put the new software that recognizes the $20s only into the new machines, starting with the highest-volume locations.

Tony Dungy

We're obviously happy for Mike. I don't know what the league's rationale is on it, but I'm sure they looked at all the facts and that's what they decided to. It's really out of our hands and we've just decided to be thankful for whatever happens.

Dave Anderson

We then decided to get together and play.

Jim Parker

We then decided that since we were making all the parts, why not make the shells and manufacture our own vintage suspension helmets,

Dusty Auxier

We thought we would be a playoff team when the season began. We had 17 games decided by less than 10 points and suffered nine league losses by five (points) or less. We could never get over the hump.

Herb Grace

Kevin Lynch was huge tonight, especially on the post. He gave us a great effort and is the heart and soul of our team.

Gerald Myers

We're proud of the effort Lubbock has made in order to give (the athletes) a new start,

T.I.

To expect for me to be one-way every time you see me is to expect me to be a one-dimensional man, which I've never been. I've always applauded my efforts to be diverse and multi-faceted.

Doc Rivers

I thought some guys gave good effort tonight, but some have their luggage in mind on the plane already. Turnovers and shot selection killed us.

Rob Ciarlo

He?s going to give you a good effort every time he goes out there.

Bruce Marthaller

We made too many mistakes to win the game, but the effort and the intensity were right there the whole time.

Larry Brown

We made some hustle plays that got us back. We played hard. The effort was there, and that was big.

Tim Duncan

I don't even know how he got it off, honestly. I think he shot it with his left hand. I went after his right hand, thinking he was going to float it with the time going down like that, but somehow he got it up there and it stayed up there on the rim and went in. It was just a great shot, a great effort by those guys to turn a turnover into a fast-break that quickly and get it to the rim.

Dan Fridgen

I am emotionally drained. The injuries kept on occurring ... but what an effort by our guys.

Joker Phillips

He's flying around and looking like his old self.

Kevin Finan

I don't fly as much as I'd like to, but it's one of my passions.

Sarah Brightman

I do quite a lot of flying in my concerts.

Glenn Engel

If you're flying a propeller when the other guys have regional jets, you will lose market share, especially in a weaker economy.

Scott Skiles

The last thing we wanted was to sit out there until 3 in the morning and then fly in.

Greg Lynch

(Allen) really stepped it up today. He's just a kid who loves to fly around and play.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.

Loren Roberts

Everybody's in the game here. You don't have to fly it 320 yards off the tee.

Maria Mutola

It's been a tough three weeks for me. I had to fly in and make a quick recovery which wasn't easy.

Tucker Carlson

I wouldn't say I'm happy now. My skepticism is warranted, given what I've seen over the decades.

Muhammad Yunus

I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh.

James Salter

I think you can be taught to write. You can't be taught to be a good writer. For that, you have to bring something to it, yourself, something that can't be given to you.

Jerry Stracke

We're pretty balanced. I think that is what has gotten us this far. We have different players that can step up on any given day. It makes it hard for other teams to play us because we are so balanced.

Ed Comeau

We talk about winning as a team and on any given night we think we have the talent to get all our guys scoring. We want that type of balance; we don't want to rely on (Grant) and Willy to score seven between them.

Maria Semple

I think a novel has to be about where you are at a given moment in time. I think it really needs to represent some specific pain you're going through. it's not just a story.

Bill Schneider

He's going to be given very different treatment than he had in the past, ... celebrity.

Jack Kokinda

He's given up one run in the last 42 innings. That's the reason why we're winning. If teams can't score, they can't win.

Gary Patterson

He's given TCU three great years. All you can say is it shows that TCU has arrived.

Richard Gephardt

inexorably tied to Persian Gulf oil and old energy.

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.

Tony Nunan

The situation is unclear because output is still down in the Gulf of Mexico and U.S. refineries are having problems.

Sophie B. Hawkins

I am so proud to be partnering with Waterkeepers, who are the voice for the Gulf Coast's waters.

J. Taylor

If all the steel is heading to the Gulf for rebuilding because of (Hurricane) Katrina, it could increase our costs.

Bill Parsons

You just can't watch it on TV and get a feel for the devastation that I've seen down here on the Gulf Coast. It's just unbelievable,

Terry Francl

The port of New Orleans, the Gulf of Mexico and Mississippi River system are the heart of the logistical transportation system for our exports.

Anthony Anderson

Kangaroo Jack is the first movie I've been in where I was the star, or co-star, so this is my baby. This is the one that holds special meaning to me.

Sheila Nevins

I get very nervous when it's quiet, because I think it's dead. What I learned in the moment was to hold back a little before you talk.

Gore Vidal

God, no. Unless you hold office, there's no point in being there.

Josh Hall

I think that people actually just like to hold on to the map.

Ryan Coleman

I think we're doing a tremendous job defensively. We're holding our opponents to 50 points or less, which is right where they need to be.

Ted Dailey

The rains pretty well knocked them down. We hope that our containment lines will hold if they rekindle.

Jeffrey Allen

We lost one (on the road), and we could have lost this one if we didn't hold them on defense. We have to learn to win on the road a lot better.

Asma Jehangir

I did not see ill will on the part of the government, that they were holding it for themselves, or misappropriating it. But nevertheless, what they didn't understand is the need for speed. They're being bureaucratic.

Jeff Hanna

He loved it over there, and they loved him. When we went onstage in Japan, there were people holding up 'Vassar Clements' placards.

Mary Fetchet

Katrina should be enough to wake people up.

John Metz

Katrina produced a catastrophic storm surge, it was one of the worst we've seen in this country,

Hal Rogers

I think it's time we thought about having Katrina bonds,

Richard Cobb

On the supply side, we are about the same as after Katrina and before Rita.

Diane Swonk

Once they got the uncertainty of Katrina out of the way they just got back to their boilerplate statement,

John Franklin

It's not so much Katrina as a phenomenon as it's Katrina as a metaphor for what our society has become. It reflects; it's a mirror of what we've become - super-extraordinarily complacent.

Rick Perry

Between Katrina and our preparations for this, people understand this isn't something you're going to play around with,

Leigh Crawford

Like everyone, I wish Katrina would have never happened. But, you can learn a lot through experiences like this.

I. Stone

Many scenarios had been run prior to Katrina years ago, and with that type of storm, the scenarios should have been taken seriously.

Bill Parcells

I was kind of thinking back to Seattle last year, ... We kind of talked about that. We're just fortunate, really.

Joe Edgens

Kelley is going to be right up to the last minute before it's done.

Dave Kaplan

(Jocelyn) bounced back from a rough outing last time. Very nicely done. She's going to get another start, and we're going to keep working with her.

Bobbie Davis

I think I said to the players last year that they had one day to celebrate. And then they had to start concentrating and thinking about this year.

Jim Knight

There are so many things that we try before we ever go to court. It's the last step, and we don't like to do it, but there needs to be consequences.

Justin Gray

I think (the fans) are going to talk about it all the time just because they know probably what we could've done with the team from last year. But that's last year.

Peter Currie

It is fundamentally different from the last time we restated, primarily because the scope is a lot narrower.

Marthen Manu

Last night one person was rescued, the rest have been picked up today.

David Price

Last night he painted the picture of the night he was going to have.

Michael Clayton

You can't picture something natural doing something like that. It's devastating. People in Louisiana haven't seen anything like this in a long, long time. This was one of the most powerful hurricanes Louisiana has ever had to take on.

Reggie Theus

It's everything I thought it would be. Us winning at Pacific and Louisiana Tech winning. Fresno State played Creighton very strong. It bodes well for us in general.

David Stern

It was important to the Hornets and the NBA that we maintain a presence in Louisiana in anticipation of a return to New Orleans next season.

Johnny Knoxville

I love Louisiana. It's amazing.

Wes Brown

Love the show 'Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives.' Being from Louisiana and a big outdoorsman, I'm a big fan of 'Duck Dynasty' as well.

Andy Kopplin

We are providing ways to keep homeowners as homeowners. You can successfully rebuild South Louisiana with the package we have proposed.

Bob Jones

We were still getting some oysters from waters in Louisiana and Texas and those may stop as soon as Rita makes landfall.

Jennifer Marusak

Voting is a right, but it's also a responsibility. The state of Louisiana spent over $2.5 million trying to find everyone and let everyone know what their voting rights are.

E. Howard Hunt

I would say this in terms of my career, that my career provided me with everything that I wanted, and I think a man is fortunate if he can say that at the end of his life.

David Pickering

He is the right man at the right time to take Wales forward.

Bill Ross

He is tight with his mom. He has such an old-fashioned sense of responsibility. He is the man of the house.

Rosemary Dillard

He should be murdered, killed. I mean, this man has no remorse.

Friedrich Muller

Whatever place a faithful, virtuous, celebrated, and wealthy man chooses, there he is respected.

Donald McDonald

We've been trying to get applications out, but everything has been rejected because of his record. I would go with him to talk with some of these managers to just be a support for him.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.

Ron Gardenhire

He's pitching like a man on a mission on the mound.

Javier Valentin

I don't know, man. ... What can I say?

Niranjan Shah

It is nothing. If some members (of the board) want to speak to the press about it, we can't do anything.

Westbrook Pegler

I am a member of the rabble in good standing.

Travis Barker

Right now, one of our members needs time off, so we're granting him that,

Robert Sinclair

Our members are screaming. People are wondering where it's going to go and, of course, we can't tell them.

Roger Toussaint

Our members will stand together and stand firm, and make sure the organization is not broken.

John Hope Franklin

Love each other. Regard each other as members of one family.

Jim Moore

As you can imagine, it's been an ordeal for all members of the family.

Nong Duc Manh

All countries, big or small, strong or weak, are equal members of the United Nations.

Don Stewart

As many members as there are in Congress, there are that many opinions on how to secure the border.

Emile M. Cioran

My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.

Terry Pratchett

We're on a mission from Glod.

John Belushi

We are on a mission for God.

Terri Smith

We want them to know missions are not just something in Africa; they can be done right next door.

Donald Rumsfeld

The worst thing you can do is allow a coalition to determine what your mission is.

Stephen Covey

We don't invent our missions, we detect them.

Jeff Bezos

I'm skeptical of any mission that has advertisers at its centerpiece.

Kathy McKiernan

This is a long planned transition and it will be a seamless one.

J. M. Roberts

someone who can't be trusted to take Planned Parenthood's position on abortion.

Patsy Christie

This is not an open-ended rezoning. It's like a planned unit development for commercial. What's shown on the site plan is all that can go there.

Liaquat Baluch

The results are totally managed, planned and rigged.

Linda Blair

I had planned to retire when I was 13, ... I had wanted to be a veterinarian.

Sarah Allen

I had planned to adopt. I was single.

Melaney Arnold

We want to make sure that everything we have planned is in place. This is something we've been working on for a very long time.

Chuck Wagner

We have a lot of things planned for the evening,

Alberto Lopez

Whatever is in the release is what we're saying officially.

Zola Jesus

And my music is always such a release of what I feel inside, an impulse.

Odalis Perez

It's no good. I started throwing, and when I go down, when I release the ball, it pinches me.

Matt Groening

Do my worst, eh? Smithers, release the robotic Richard Simmons." --Mr. Burns

Simon Bolivar

It is harder to release a nation from servitude than to enslave a free nation.

Alan Moore

Who imprisoned me here? Who keeps me here? Who can release me? Who's controlling and constraining my life except...me?

Ryan Madson

After a while, it's too much to handle. You've got to release some stuff. Or you just take it. That's what makes you stronger. I'm just going to go out there and be myself and give everything I've got.

Leslie Sloane

Yes, she has been released and she is doing better.

Tom Martin

We didn't just want to release a me-too product.

Susanne Beauregard

I think it was a relief to her.

William S. Burroughs

Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.

Violette Leduc

To find relief in what has been, we must make ourselves eternal.

Jim Andrus

It's been way too dry. There doesn't look to be any relief in sight.

Rob Carter

It was more of a relief than anything.

Ayumi Hamasaki

New York was a relief - not all hierarchical and rule-bound.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

When a great burden is lifted, the relief is not always felt at once. The galled places still ache.

John Flavel

When our needs are permitted to grow to an extremity, and all visible hopes fail, then to have relief given wonderfully enhances the price of such a mercy

Eddie Griffin

We've lost a bunch on the road, I don't even know how many. It's a relief to get this one.

Roger Boyd

They have not made that request ... if they do I am sure we would.

Victor Borge

I normally don't do requests. Unless, of course, I have been asked to do so.

Jeffrey Gitomer

Trust is not a request, Trust is earned.

David Healy

I would say that's the best-ever result we've had,

Robert Toth

Truth in my love for the subject will produce superior results.

Zig Ziglar

Concentrated thoughts produce desired results.

Mr Bush

Ahmadi-Nejad is a result of all this appeasement,

Pat Barker

The result was I went nowhere.

Molly Ivins

The Founders were right all along, but the results are a lot funnier than they intended.

Pope Benedict XVI

Each of us is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed. Each of us is loved. Each of us is necessary.

Edward Gibbon

Rational confidence [is] the just result of knowledge and experience.

Hariadi Wibisono

The test result showed positive, but we're still waiting for confirmation from Hong Kong.

Sidney Crosby

I want to be the best, so whatever comes with that I have to accept, ... I don't think there was ever a time where I stepped back and said 'I wish I was doing something different.'

Bill Dushane

They were unseeded and they really stepped up for us.

Sarah Lowe

When I stepped up there, I just told myself that I had to relax. I had to put myself in a different place and just not even worry about the score, not worry about anything.

Ernesto Hernandez

We stepped on American soil, we shouldn't be here.

Brian Rolston

We stepped it up tonight, and if we do that we can be in it. We can make the playoffs.

Vance Wilson

If you look at the way he was continually getting strike one down in the zone ... if he does that, he can do whatever he wants.

Toby Hall

I'm safe, and it was strike three. So there it is.

Steve Friswell

They can't come to work when they feel like it and strike when they feel like it.

Terry Wilczek

They want to be a big-play offense. It's a high-risk offense, but they're having some success with it. They want to strike with the big play.

Richard Maloney

This is a strike that should not have happened.

Dave Vestal

We showed we could strike through the air. We showed we could come back.

Clint Hurdle

He really struggled to throw any strikes (on the third-base side) of the plate,

Jonathan Genant

If he had taken another strike at me, I wouldn't be here today.

Melvin Mora

He's not wild. He was around the strike zone. It's just that sometimes the umpire doesn't give him what he wants.

Waris Ahluwalia

Supporting causes with whatever we do can be effective.

Richelle Mead

..Sage is convinced one extraneous calorie will make her go from super skinny to just regular skinny. Tragedy.

William Manchester

It was his [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] relationship with the administration In Washington which became poisoned by his egomania. Link upon link the bond between events on the battlefield and his own ruin was forged, and, as is essential in genuine tragedy, the gods used the victim himself to forge the links.

William McDonough

Modern culture appears to have adopted a strategy of tragedy. If we come here and say, I didn't intend to cause global warning, it's not part of my plan, then we realize it's part of our defacto plan because it's the thing that's happening because we have no other plan.

Saul Alinsky

Human beings do not like to look squarely into the face of tragedy. Gloom is unpopular.

Nathan Fillion

There's comedy even in tragedy. There's comedy in life. And in 'Castle', we go for that comedy.

Julian Barnes

Does history repeat itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce? No, that's too grand, too considered a process. History just burps, and we taste again that raw-onion sandwich it swallowed centuries ago.

Patrick Rothfuss

It’s not over if you’re still here,” Chronicler said. “It’s not a tragedy if you’re still alive.

Olivia Wilde

The mark of a good marriage is partnership and continuing to feel inspired by your spouse. I had that with Tao. But the end is not necessarily the tragedy. Staying in a relationship that is no longer working is the tragedy. Living unhappily - that's the tragedy.

Paul Watson

The tragedy is that there is so much more incentive - money - to destroy the ecology than there is to preserve it.

Nathalie Sarraute

We're swallowed up only when we are willing for it to happen.

Nikki Sixx

Friends tell each other what nobody else is willing to tell you.

Rita Mae Brown

Don't hope more than you're willing to work.

Mike Tomlin

It's not about what you're capable of, It's about what you're willing to do.

John Piper

You ought to marry someone who’s willing to go anywhere for God. If they’re not, they're out.

Bill Crawford

Sometimes our ability to accept what we can't change is tied to our willingness to change what we can.

Steve Kroft

I think you've got be willing as an interviewer to ask the dumb question every now and then.

Loretta Lynch

It's the choices that you make and the things that you're willing to accept and not accept that define who you are.

Jose Vielma

We would even be willing to take this to an international court.