Famous Quotes & Sayings

Imelda May

At school, I'd refuse to take part in biology lessons when animals were being dissected. One time, the teacher announced that we would be gassing worms. So I ran around the room, gathered up all the worms and set them free in the fields. I just loved animals and couldn't bear the thought of them suffering.

William McNamara

I started volunteering at an animal shelter, and little by little, my life started getting better. I think that is the secret. It is just being on a mission that is something bigger than me and it's thankless. You do that because it is thankless, and I am not looking for anybody to say, 'Thanks' and 'You are great!'

Francesco Cece

The people and animals we grow to love in our life time, remain in our personal time-capsule stored deep in our heart forever, even when they are gone!

David Boothe

The peer-reviewed science also shows that human beings do not react in the same way as rats or other animals to exposure to PFOA.

Nina Easton

Sea World's killer whale collection needs constant replenishing. The average life span of the animals in captivity is less than half the average for killer whales in the ocean.

Nikki Sixx

It's interesting. People go to an animal shelter and pick a dog that's been kicked, beaten, and has lost a leg and an eye, and they'll take that dog home and give it love and support, but they don't do that with people.

Debbie Leahy

The Arkansas-Oklahoma State Fair would do the animals and the public a favor by banning exotic-animal acts. Tearing babies from their mothers for stressful and potentially dangerous public contact isn't wholesome family entertainment.

Peggy Laskowski

The animals were the favorite. You know you can't compete with that.

Doug McCroskey

The animals were just tied to here, there, stacked up here, stacked up on garbage there, buried under garbage here. It was pretty bad." ()

Gabriel Mann

Whenever somebody hates you too much it usually means they have deeper feelings for you because nobody bothers to hate you unless they actually feel something.

Don Rickles

My father was an insurance man and a small-time gambler. He was a good man, but he had an eye for the racehorses, and I saw how it used to bother my mother. I've never gambled a dime. Never, in all those years in Vegas.

Brittany Howard

Contacts would bother me. I'm just not that used to them. I think glasses are a great accessory.

Craig Conroy

That was the difference tonight. We had some opportunities, some chances to score, but it just didn't go in for us. The bottom line is we're going to score goals. We just have to work hard and keep moving forward and not let this bother us.

Eleanor Norton

We have trivialized this park, residents make too little use of it, and tourists don't know where it is, ... Neither the city or the federal government has bothered to make maximum use of it. The problem is that it had no plan and it's in a state of great deterioration.

Joseph Garcia

We came out lethargic in the first half. Audra (Major's) back was bothering her like it did before Christmas, and the guards really had to step it up.

Sendhil Mullainathan

Web searching and cellphone use both flourish in the wee hours. Before the dawn of the web, I would stay up watching television. But there is something soporific about television: I would often nod off. Not so when I'm online. As technologies expand, these problems may only worsen.

Rupert Grint

Ron was always my favorite character, because I feel like I relate to him, like we've both got red hair, we both like sweets, we've both got lots of brothers and sisters.

Mark Zuckerberg

It's really easy to have a nice philosophy about openness, but moving the world in that direction is a different thing. It requires both understanding where you want to go and being pragmatic about getting there.

Virginia Postrel

Just as producers often give consumers things they want but didn't think to ask for, consumers sometimes come up with surprising uses for new inventions. When a new product appears, it can uncover dissatisfactions and desires no one knew were there.

Michael Workman

The pick up in house price inflation since mid-2005 has the potential to provide further positive impetus to consumer spending in the months ahead.

Heather Dougherty

The 2005 holiday season was a gadget year for consumers of all ages, and consumers continued to show their love for free shipping.

Paul Taylor

The affordability issue from rising interest rates takes some consumers out of the market. These are big-ticket items for consumers. They are going to be sensitive to interest rates.

Ken Perkins

The American consumer has been particularly resilient over the last year plus, ... They're finding ways to spend.

David Rosenberg

That will just reinforce the slowdown in consumer spending.

Howard Silverblatt

We have already started to see some consumer resistance on high oil prices and this is obviously going to increase, and it will hurt consumer spending.

M. Wolfe

We can throw variable pricing in and we can raise prices of a hit song, but it doesn't mean consumers will buy. They have an alternative - get songs for free.

Meg Whitman

We have tremendous momentum in our flagship business. Our customers now transact well over $200 million in gross merchandise sales per month, making this the most vibrant consumer e-commerce site on the entire Internet.

Chris Stanley

That was a huge game for us. We needed a win after the last two games here. We wanted to prove ourselves as a team that's going to be dominant at home, and we showed tonight we're a very, very dominant team at home.

Bobbi Vandenberg

(Wilson) was dominant tonight. She played very well and very hard.

Wade Boggs

Those are three dominant pitchers in their era who really revolutionized the game,

Brandon Roy

My teammates like me, they enjoy me. I'm not being too dominant in the locker room or anything like that. As long as all the things are good, I'm having fun.

Eric Rignot

What we found is this is probably the dominant response of the ice sheets.

John Edward

Having him back healthy, you can't stop him. He's huge, he's skilled, he moves very well. Everybody sees it. He's the most dominant player in the league.

Sherri Coale

Her play was similar to how it has gone all season. There was a lot of single coverage. She is such a dominant presence. She shot her free throws well today. Even the ones that she missed, she shot better. She had a pretty good night or lunch.

Angel Jr.

He's been the most dominant rider the last 15 years, and one of the most accomplished riders ever. He's in there with guys like Pincay, Shoemaker, Arcaro, Day. He's one of us, no doubt.

Patrik Elias

When he's on, he's the most dominant player in the league.

Clark Gregg

New York is the perfect place for a film festival because there's already so much energy and life here, and New Yorkers love movies.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.

Phil Smith

That would be, in performance, equal to let's say a window meeting the Energy Star standards today.

Rebecca Wagner

That would be a part of any energy policy with regard to pipeline supply that I would propose. It will include conservation.

Mike Davis

We just didn't play with a whole lot of intensity, with that passion and energy we needed to play with to win the game. We didn't really execute, we didn't keep our poise.

Ron Wilson

We just didn't have the energy to get anything going. It was a struggle all night. We weren't generating any shots, especially in the third period.

Julian Sensley

We just didn't have any energy left. We couldn't execute anything we were trying to do there at the end.

Jack Rose

We just didn't have any energy in the game. We had a lot of guys that didn't practice during the week (because of injuries) that played in the game. And we just had no fire. I'm real disappointed in that.

Paula Smith

We hadn't done 36 holes in one day since the fall so that was a little different. The team seemed a little tired but they proved me wrong and had lots of energy to focus on each shot.

Graham Murray

That was as expected by the medical staff - they'll be fine.

Pete Fenson

We could hear the Swiss yelling and stuff. We expected that.

Brenden Morrow

We just didn't have the jump right away. We expected a big game from them because they've been hot.

Jeremy Burk

We played outstanding. We shot the way they expected to all year.

Sarah Kay

My first spoken word poem, packed with all the wisdom of a 14-year-old, was about the injustice of being seen as unfeminine. The poem was very indignant, and mainly exaggerated, but the only spoken word poetry that I had seen up until that point was mainly indignant, so I thought that that's what was expected of me.

Michael Bergin

Calvin had finally taken a look at the ET tape, and he had reacted just as she had expected he would. He loved it; he loved me. Suddenly he was thinking of me for everything: underwear, jeans, suits, even the Escape fragrance campaign.

Patricia McBride

I am just so thankful that my mom was a fantastic mom. She wasn't a stage mother; she didn't push me. She was happy if I was happy. We are so different. I was very shy; my mom did all the talking. She was my strength. She never expected that I would be this ballerina.

Craig Stinnett

We've got that Gill magic, I guess. Nobody even expected us to be here. To come out and play like we did shows a lot of heart and determination.

John Pine

Most grabbed some stuff thinking we would be back in three days. They never expected this.

Iris Johansen

Mystery writing involves solving a puzzle, but 'high suspense' writing is a situation whereby the writer thrusts the hero/heroine into high drama.

Siti Supari

The polio virus that hit Indonesia has been proven to have a high rate of attack,

David Kennedy

The overall picture is of an operator aggressively maintaining its market position in a highly competitive market, and sacrificing margin to do it.

Mike Vrabel

The Patriots have sort of become the measuring stick in the NFL, but that stick isn't very high right now.

David H. Murdock

Obesity is racing through America, everywhere. It's high time someone spent some money to do something about it.

Neil Peart

You have to know when you're at the top of your particular mountain, I guess. Maybe not the summit, but as high as you can go.

Rand Paul

The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to be in prison; however, some of them do not.

Gordon B. Hinckley

A nation will rise no higher than the strength of its homes.

Frank Quattrone

When we took Netscape public, if people wanted to invest in the web, that was the only stock that they could do it by investing in. So Netscape's market value was higher than it probably otherwise would have been if there were lots of other ways to play that theme.

Bethany Hamilton

Life is a lot like surfing… When you get caught in the impact zone, you’ve got to just get back up. Because you never know what may be over the next wave.

Michael Panzner

We've got quadruple witching, which always has the potential to have an impact on prices.

Mark McKinnon

Technology has had more of an impact on the presidency and how the presidency communicates than anything.

Nicholas Graham

We haven't seen anything unusual or alarming. There hasn't been any impact on our members or our service.

Dave Wannstedt

I think Kevin Collier will have an opportunity to make an impact early.

Justin Gray

Man, they made some tough shots. The three-pointers can impact the game. Especially when you give them up in a row.

Barry Manilow

Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.

Simon Flannery

The quarter is likely to see a mix of positive and negative surprises, reflecting the impacts of mergers and competitive pressures respectively.

Thom McDaniels

I won't be shocked if he impacts the outcome.

Gillian Armstrong

I have major credibility as a hip, out-there documentary filmmaker, and I'm not going to say, 'I'm only a drama filmmaker' anymore.

Buck Leonard

I was not bitter by not being allowed to play in the major leagues. I just said, 'The time has not come.'

Bryan Cogman

I hate when the major event of a show I watch is spoiled for me. And I'm wracked with guilt when/if I spoil something for someone else.

Bridget Kelly

For me, the majority of my music is really dark and to the point.

Frank Pierson

There's no question that the '70s themselves were really wide open. There was just so much being done at that time. Every year, the major studios were commissioning things that they would never touch today or even thought of touching in the 1950s.

Tony Benn

The anti-war movement now represents a majority in the country.

Steve Forbes

The American administration is making a major mistake, trying to pressure the Chinese. I wish we'd back off.

Sue Enquist

The ASA Major Championship is the pinnacle of women's major softball during the summer. I'm really proud of all the players that contributed to that team.

Arlen Specter

We have a major, major problem on our hands, ... It is a matter of very, very substantial urgency.

Barry Mann

It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.

Robert Miller

We are in a negative situation relative to new apartments.

Nick Knight

It doesn't seem to be having a negative impact.

Thomas Kean

Unfortunately, races seem to get more negative every year,

Peter McWilliams

Positive thoughts have positive results. Negative thoughts produce negative results.

Koichi Ogawa

Fundamentally, there's nothing negative you can point to with Toyota.

Jeremy Siegel

His rating is a negative for the market. He has been a stock market-friendly president in terms of legislation.

Allen Iverson

His opinion is his opinion - and it's just that. I don't have anything negative to say about him, and I don't have anything negative to say about the situation.

David Cross

I've had plenty of negative reviews. I have my entire life.

Tim Noest

If it doesn't get there, prices will rise again. They may not be able to find the ships.

Christopher Murray

Just like in real farming, you want to sell when prices are high.

John Eade

We're probably going to see more weakness in stock prices in the near-term,

Louis Navellier

When volume drops off, prices settle down. Volume is the force that turns stocks higher.

Mark Clare

With wholesale prices where they are, all suppliers are going to have to put prices up in 2006, and I think that is inevitable.

Ed Smith

One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.

Kate Joncas

Some of these prices are pretty hefty. Who are these people?

David Briggs

I think (stock) prices have run up anticipating a recovery but I don't think the recovery's here yet,

Tom Crosby

I think we'd better get used to it. I think we're going to see prices roller-coaster like this for a long time.

E. O. Wilson

We're getting a little more Rita than we wanted to get,

Jennifer Lopez

I look to women who epitomize old Hollywood glamour, like Rita Hayworth.

Claude Mandil

Rita was better than expected, but no survey has been made on the platforms,

Carlos Alvarez

Rita is a storm to be taken seriously,

Dan Cooper

We'll look at the spending cap. We have to look at the legislation that was passed.

Craig Benson

I don't think anyone's pushing for spending limits in the campaign.

Jack Morgan

If they end up spending 4 or 5 weeks there, it won't surprise me.

Alan Watts

What would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life?

Al Sharpton

I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending.

Jason Chaffetz

Federal spending is atrocious.

Elizabeth Hurley

Spending time outdoors makes you feel great.

William J. H. Boetcker

You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.

Leon Wieseltier

I was not interested in spending 10 years in the culture wars.

Benj Steinman

Wine and spirits are outperforming beer. It's been a reversal of a decade-long trend.

Benj Steinman

Wine and spirits are outperforming beer, ... It's been a reversal of a decade-long trend.

Richard Jackson

Troubled spirits often are manipulated by other types of spirits.

Harvey Jackson

Our spirits are high. We're in it for the long haul.

Mary Hayes

Even the trees have spirits - everything has a spirit.

Alan Noble

Their spirits go up and down with the wind speeds, and right now the wind is up.