Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tyler Cowen

Buying from a local farmer can mean that he makes a two-hour extra truck drive, which can damage the environment more than a bunch of bananas on a boat.

Gerald Celente

Los Estados Unidos has turned into a banana republic, a fascist banana republic.

Gena Pharis

When I get all the bananas and oranges, I'll let you know.

Tom Barnes

People are trying to go higher quality -- but maybe not spend as much money -- and being more personal with things. This is making it harder on promotional-items people, because they do better when they can sell a bunch of stuff.

Mike Birbiglia

Sometimes I'll go to the grocery store and buy a bunch of groceries as though I knew how to cook, which I don't, and as though I was going to be home for the next six days, which I won't.

Kevin Klette

This is a special group of guys. They are a tight bunch of guys that love to play together.

Tom Sanvik

This is really something special. This team has so many positives and has really developed over the years into a mean bunch of girls that do not back down.

Ronde Barber

You never like to think you're rebuilding. But if you have a bunch of young guys who have to play? Yeah, you're rebuilding.

Kevin McHale

In San Paulo I went to the movies and by the time I left the theater there was a mob at the exit. I had never been in that kind of situation when we weren't on tour and there was a whole bunch of security. I'm a little dude, and out of nowhere to have 50 or 60 people come running towards me when I'm jut with my friend, it was kind of scary.

Bill Fennelly

We won the game a bunch of times, we lost the game a bunch of times but we made some plays when we had to.

Bill Bunch

Every single one of the petition signers signed an affidavit swearing that they watched the person sign their own personal signature on there. If there were any irregularities, we want them found out, we want that person prosecuted, but we know that also we had a whole bunch of extra signatures.

As the light changed from red to green to yellow and back to red again, I sat there thinking about life. Was it nothing more than a bunch of honking and yelling? Sometimes it seemed that way. - Deep Thoughts (Saturday Night Live)

Randy Petersen

As a result of people buying tickets so often, there's not much room for people cashing in their miles.

Andre Dreicon

The mood is negative. It could fall further, but whoever comes in now is buying cheap.

Michael Birch

Any company that goes through an integration, buying a new business, there are always risks. So as soon as we see that bedded down, a lot more comfortable we'll be. We still think that mining services, companies related to resources, will do really well next year.

Kurt Barnard

Are consumers buying more? I don't know. I think what Wal-Mart said about people spending less of the rebate money this year in stores is significant. It shows people prefer to save any extra money than spend it.

Kevin Norrish

This is definitely not about buying up oil resources in order to ship the oil into China.

Charles Smith

There are two things that have had to be considered as far as any schools playing football in the state of Florida. No. 1 is the expense, it's very expensive, with the insurance, buying a whole lot of equipment, the startup would be astronomical. And No. 2 is Title IX and gender equity. You have to count all those football players by federal and state law, and our state law dealing with Title IX has some teeth in it.

Britt Beemer

Customers are being just as protective with their gift cards as they were with their own money when buying Christmas gifts. The idea of free money is all in the past. They want value or something very special.

Chris Greene

Enough is enough, and we need to get it under control now. People who should be paying rent or buying food for their children are putting money in (the machines) to try and make a little extra money. In most cases it won't improve their situation, it will make it worse.

Don Bowers

We count on you going inside and buying Popsicles. If you don't go inside we generally lose money on you. We're not making it on the gasoline.

Mickey Driver

It would be highly speculative right now to pick out a day. We have people on the scene surveying the damage and every day we learn more about the situation.

John McNulty

The worst damage had already taken place at the site prior to 1988, and was due primarily to unplanned development.

Bruce Buckingham

The winds must be in limits at that point to not risk damage to the vehicle during its most fragile point in the flight.

Brian Lamb

It's easier to fix damage than it is to create it.

Matt Farley

We hear speeches about how the rebuilding is in process and technically it's true, but those positive speeches overshadow just how little is being done and just how much damage there is here.

Gregory Craig

emotionally damaged and exploited this most wonderful little boy.

Jay Clark

Florida citrus growers were devastated by the hurricanes of 2004 and 2005 due to tree damage and fruit loss, but more recently by the increased movement of citrus canker to new locations.

Chantal Petitclerc

Every day, Jeff Adams and I were kicked out of the track because they were saying our tires would damage the track.

Ken Bacon

This operation will continue. Nothing has damaged our resolve.

Peter Charlton

As long as there are no major shocks and the interest rate environment remains the same, I expect it to go on into the first half of 2006 at the very least.

David Minsker

The more connections students make with teachers and administrators, the better environment a school will have.

Rex Tillerson

This is an industry that lives in cycles. The price environment we're in today is not sustainable.

Chad Calabria

The University of Iowa was the talk of the town. There were no pro sports. It was a nice environment and seemed like the right place for me.

Ban Ki-moon

Since problems spill across borders, security anywhere depends on sustainable development everywhere.

Kerry Healey

I want my kids to be in an environment where they can talk about values in a way that you can't always do in a public school setting.

Doug Dacar

Environmental issues have always been important to me.

Jenny McKenzie

Events like this really help promote a safe environment. We're trying to prepare students for what can happen.

Bill Gates

Between the better phone, small screen devices, better PC and the wireless environment, it's a whole new world of communications,

Joni Gray

That should work well for most of our farmers and ranchers,

Gary Waters

If Farmer can come out and give some things like he gave today, we can win some games.

Justin Vernon

I'm just living in Eau Claire, not really leaving for much. I go to the farmers market, go to the studio, go home and play with my cats. I don't know if I've ever been this happy, which is really awesome.

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.

Nathan Moss

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

E. B. White

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

Paul Decker

We've been briefed by the local organizing people.

Alan Bennett

I don't want to see libraries close; I want to find local solutions that will make them sustainable.

Azzedine Alaia

I used to spend my nights oversewing dresses for a local dressmaker in order to pay for my school equipment.

Rep. Arza

We don't want the state solving local problems, but we want to be partners in the local problem.

Rodney Lovell

A 'work around' simply means your system doesn't work.

Kelly Clarkson

Thank you so much. You have no idea how much this means to me.

Carlos Delgado

This is pretty special. It's exciting, just because you know you're playing meaningful games.

Brett Ratner

I love everything black, because black is cool. When something crosses over, people are like, "Oh, this is a crossover." First of all, there is no urban anymore. Pop culture is black. White kids are dressing like black kids. It's all crossed the lines now. The way I understand it is, everything black is cool. When it crosses over to white, that means it's going from cool to uncool. That's what crossover is.

Archibald Cox

What can you or I do? Alone, almost nothing. Yet one person - you alone - can make the difference. . . . The failure of just one person to join, to participate, to do whatever he or she can - your failure or my failure - may mean that there is just one too few to win the fight for sanity, and so leave the world on the road to destruction. Each of us, all of us, must do what we can.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

The word infrastructure means nothing to the majority of people of America. We have to come up with a sexier word than infrastructure. So the key thing is that you have to go out and promote and market this the right way like with everything in policy.

Ayn Rand

The worst evil that you can do, psychologically, is to laugh at yourself. That means spitting in your own face.

Ayn Rand

The right to life means that a man has the right to support his life by his own work (on any economic level, as high as his ability will carry him); it does not mean that others must provide him with the necessities of life.

Ayn Rand

Whenever anyone accuses some person of being 'unfeeling,' he means that that person is just. He means that that person has no causeless emotions and will not grant him a feeling which he does not deserve. He means that 'to feel' is to go against reason, against moral values, against reality.