Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jennifer Granholm

Her greatness lay in doing what everybody could do but doesn't. She was unexpected. She was untitled. . . . (She was) an improbable warrior that was leading an unlikely army of waitresses and street sweepers and shopkeepers and auto mechanics.

Gene Luen Yang

I think the 'Boxers' book was easier for me to envision as a comic, because they were on this epic journey. These teenagers basically gathered into this army and marched to the capital city where they had a showdown with the Europeans and Japanese. On the 'Saints' side, it was a lot trickier.

Justin Ramsey

We took very seriously our responsibilities with the government. All of us have a very strong belief in the Army and how it operates and what it does for us. We took a lot of pride in supporting the soldier in whatever way we could. When we left the Arsenal, it was very difficult for us. We wanted to let them know we would support them in any way we could.

Jeff Sessions

I am bitterly disappointed that Anniston Army Depot did not gain personnel from Red River Army Depot as the Defense Department had recommended,

James Barber

He had his mind set for what he wanted. And he was going to get it no matter what, ... He went into the Army thinking, 'I'll give it a try.'

Bret Meyer

We can enjoy this win a little bit, but we need to come back and focus, ... It's great to celebrate, but at the same time, we need to remember that going to Army is a business trip.

Ruben Aguilar

In no way have we contemplated the intervention of the army in tasks that belong to police at the different levels of government. What is contemplated .. is support from the army in these tasks but not in direct actions that correspond to municipal, state and federal police.

Truman Capote

[T]he army of wrongness rampant in the world might as well march over me.

Trey Songz

I grew up poor, but I didn't really know it because of amazing places like the Salvation Army where we got a lot of our Christmas presents from.

Dave Hall

Right now our main role is supporting the Red Cross and the Salvation Army.

Liz Smith

It's certainly not my hope I'm replacing the irreplaceable Army. I've known him forever. He's a great, great guy.

Ken Jones

We had a plan for when he got out of the Army,

Richard Boucher

so-called National Liberation Army, which has threatened civilians and deliberately puts civilians into jeopardy.

Kenneth Bacon

The KLA (Kosovo Liberation Army) is responding, but it's basically trying to get out of the way, to retreat to the hills and preserve itself. The bulk of the fighting is at the instigation of the Yugoslav forces.

Heather Wilson

The men who wrote the Constitution feared most a strong Executive with control of a standing army. Our Constitution is set up to protect all of us from tyranny.

Bible Bible

They of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in thine army, thy men of war: they hanged the shield and helmet in thee; they set forth thy comeliness.

Gary Fife

Dean graduated from California two years ago and went into the Army, ... He's overseas now, and some of my other friends also have joined the military. My mother also got me interested by showing me pictures on the Internet of our soldiers and the conditions in which they are living in the Middle East. Their homes, in many cases, are in ditches and in the sand. I also learned that they really are in need of some of the basic day-to-day items most of us might take for granted, so I thought that would be the most useful thing to pursue.

Alexander Haig

Major Clark is one of the most outstanding officers of his grade in the U.S. Army... an officer of impeccable character with a rare blend of personal qualities and professional attributes which uniquely qualify him as a soldier-scholar.

Larry Fitzgerald

He's a great person to be around, ... He's a great influence on not only me, but the whole receiving corps and this whole football team. He's going to help us out in the locker room and he's definitely going to help us out on the field.

Dan Walters

I'd like to thank the Marine Corps for everything they do to protect our country,

Otto Schily

I suggest setting up a corps of specially trained European riot police that can work at an international level to de-escalate problems and, where needed, effectively quell violence.

Nancy Stoner

The corps is not following the law, and drinking water supplies, wildlife habitat and flood protection could be lost as a result.

Spiro Agnew

A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.

Bob Johnson

I spent six years in the marine corps and I think I played three games of poker in those years, ... If we have an out-of-date ordinance, let's look at it and see if it needs to be changed.

John Barry

My intent is not to point the finger. I still have a high regard for the corps. Holding back the Mississippi River isn't an easy thing to do. They've done an extraordinary job at flood control, and that's what makes this all the more devastating. I'm sure the corps is devastated, too. They know people put their faith in them and that faith was betrayed.

Carla Korbes

By the end of 'Swan Lake,' you know how there's all the corps on stage, and she keeps running in the back, doing arms? You can't feel your arms. You're just like, 'Ow.'

Phil Klay

For me, leaving the Marine Corps was more disorienting than returning home.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

Despite spending trillions of dollars and spilling the blood of thousands of Americans, we remain in servitude to Arab oil.

Bill Gray

I think that our offensive line has really started to gel, ... We have three new faces up there on the front line and they haven't played a lot of football. Despite their experience, I think that every time we step on the football field, they get better.

Roseanne Roseanne

I think we're looking at a pretty strong housing market despite the fact that starts didn't rise, ... far from runaway.

Russ Yarworth

He's a very tough worker. Mentally, he's tough, despite what he might tell you. He's got a good feel for the water.

Rupert Lowe

I did not offer to stand down because of Clive Woodward's involvement and there is no suggestion of that happening despite this report. I don't know where this has come from.

Saddam Hussein

help with the legal justification for the use of force ... despite U.S. resistance.

Mike Dubbelde

Our relationship with the parents so far has been great. Despite being a new sport, the fundraising and support has really been there.

Richard Martin

In this regard, Japan stands out as the dominant threat to regional stability, despite its low share of exports as a percentage of GDP.

Willie Green

I know I've been in motor sport for 46 years and some might think it is time I grew up, but I am still here, despite smashing up my legs.

Clay Johnson

Katrina has sharpened everyone's focus on spending the taxpayers' dollars wisely.

Mark Dobson

I also want to make sure student tax dollars are spent responsibly. Regardless, they are spent on the students who pay them.

Chuck Adams

He needs a million dollars to be able to be noticed.

Harry Smith

I'm proud of myself. People who spent time with me afterward said, 'You're such a humble person.' I'm talking about myself now, but in the game you don't get portrayed as you always are. I want to come away with more than a million dollars with my honor and integrity. And I did that.

Susan Jackson

The last thing we want is for these dollars (for free tutoring) to go unused.

Tom Schatz

Their tax dollars are getting flushed down the drain here in Washington.

Joe Horn

I'm going to try to help, donate money and try to feed the families who have been in the Superdome, do whatever it takes. If I have to spend a million dollars to get food, I'll do that.

Andrew Nikiforuk

When governments run on petro dollars or petro revenue instead of taxes, then they kind of sever the link between taxation and representation, and if you're not being taxed, then you're not being represented.

Jesse Brown

There was a plan to make all of this stuff happen going back over 40 years. But the missing ingredient has been the dollars to fund it.

Hoop Scheffer

He did not mention it. It's more use for us to send engineers with road-clearing and snow-moving equipment - because it will be winter soon - than that sort of operation, which, to my knowledge, Pakistan has not requested.

John Lomax

Right now, our nation is in somewhat of a crisis. We don't have now and are not producing now enough engineers to keep the United States competitive in a global market.

Nancy Lewis

If there are engineers out there looking for jobs, we have the resources.

Kerry Sieh

If nothing ruptured, then that's really good news for the engineers who were trying to make it in fact so that it wouldn't.

Tim Powell

The military police were there to provide support to local law enforcement , and the engineers were used for search-and-recovery mission support and evacuation support ,

Bob Garrett

Engineers can start with our sample programs, which range from 'Hello World' to a Web server and network connection.

Jim Olson

None of us have enough engineers to do what we need to do. You get scale on the engineering level by doing alliances and you get scale on the costs.

Linda Smith

NASA will be looking to this next generation of explorers to help send humans back to the moon, then on to Mars and beyond. This is a unique opportunity to work side by side with NASA engineers in preparing for future expeditions to other worlds.

Steven Strogatz

That's the phenomenon. Why did they all start moving in step? They did it unconsciously. That is what nobody had thought about and engineers did not anticipate.

Alice Lowe

I was in something called 'Garth Marenghi's Darkplace' which was a real cult comedy; it's sort of a spoof horror sort of thing, and it only ever had one series, but I liked the fact that it only had one series because it's kind of got this little gemlike quality to it that there were only ever six episodes.

Smush Parker

Kobe is always a factor in the game. I don't think Golden State stopped him from scoring the ball. He just got other guys involved in the offense. It was a game Kobe didn't have to force the game until late.

Jeremy Jacobs

Jacques agonized over it. Not so much in a financial way, but it increased our recognition factor - it's become a hook for us.

Robert Sarver

I would say it did surprise me. When I heard Toronto was interested in talking to him, that didn't surprise me. The fact that he wanted to pursue it surprised me.

Rejean Beauchemin

Just the fact that we?re playing this well right now with what we have, it?s really exciting. Hopefully we keep getting better and keep riding it into the playoffs.

Jane Harman

Just the fact that the Iranian government is making a lot of noise doesn't prove their capabilities.

Shiloh Walker

I still have a lot of the stories I wrote in high school. Hand wrote... a number of them are in purple ink, rendering them illegible, a fact we should probably be forever thankful for.

Bruce Thomas

There are tests done for range of motion or strength, there are provocative tests to see if he might have a tear of a rotator cuff or labrum. He passed all that with flying colors, in fact had no symptoms. Actually we do feel he hurt himself in his first bullpen.

Laura Bush

I mean, the part you don't like, I mean, that's the only part. That's the part no one likes, and that is the criticisms, and the unfair criticisms, I might add, of my husband. But that's also just a fact of life in politics.

Zach Duke

I just had an aggravated spot and it's kind of limited my mobility more than I expected,

Marc Ganis

They are limited in the means by which they can spend money.

Bryan Pierce

It's typically not a 'no development' program, it's really a limited development program.

Sam Buell

A watered-down version of what the government's most persuasive witnesses have already said can only dilute the case, even if limited to rebuttal.

Arlen Specter

I understand that you were sent over in a very limited capacity, with perhaps the calculation that you didn't have this information,

Andy Reid

We limited his reps, but the reps he was in there, he did a nice job. He worked it today (Thursday) and we've got to see if the swelling stays out.

Paul LePage

We must protect our limited resources for those who are truly in need and who are doing all they can to be self-sufficient.

Michelle Duffourc

There's some activity, but it's very limited at this point.

Eric Brown

There's lots of competition, but there are limited spots to fill,

Pat McDonald

I think it probably should just be torn down. It's probably going to take a lot of money to rebuild.

Grant Heslov

When I write, I make decent money doing it, but I don't wake up dreaming about writing.

Simon Reuben

If you can't make 40% on your money in Russia, you're a fool.

Silvio Santos

I'm a TV man, not a money man.

Shuji Nakamura

There are still people in Japan who think money is something evil.

Sam Marchio

What you have to remember is he's shown he can raise the money when he needs to.

Anthony Solomon

I thought we should give the money back to the fans.

Robert Kraft

I think when you spend up to $10 million, that's real money,

Joe Kasper

Whatever this costs, it is going to save us money in the end.

Scot Bunnell

Harrison is playing really well and to go over there and win will be a challenge.

Thomas Muster

I was so tired of playing tennis, so tired of traveling, of hotels, everything related to this sport.

Jimmy Newman

When he's not playing polo or sleeping, he is concentrating on getting well-mounted and staying well-mounted.

Tony Bethel

When he (Simmons) is playing at his best, we win.

Brad Wilkerson

We've got to realize what we're playing for. Now's the time to want it.

Bill Guerin

We've got to keep playing for our lives.

Jeremy Trueblood

I thought we had a better team this year. But that was before we started playing the game, I guess. But they were a better team than they were two years ago -- a lot better.

Ryan Ghere

I thought that made them start playing harder.

Grady Sizemore

I think we got the team that can do it. We just got to keep playing the way we are. We're right where we wanted to be, and now it's up to us.

Dwyane Wade

I was in the right place at the right time to get the bucket.

Ronny Jenkins

I take my vacation this time of year every year.

Graham Elliot

Any time you can involve fake mustaches, things are just better.

Mona Singh

It is about time that TV actors were paid as well as film stars.

John Shimkus

It is a bittersweet time for many of us to be here,

Jack Smith

It is a long season, we have a long time to get at them.

Lorrie Moore

I think women do write politically all the time. Margaret Atwood does; Doris Lessing does.

Scottish Proverb

What may be done at any time will be done at no time

Lorena Ochoa

There is going to be a time when they come my way.

Nathan Frohling

We've been waiting 10 years for this moment.

Steve Adams

I don't know what's in it (investigative file). I'm waiting to see.

Ibrahim Gambari

He has said what he wanted and is waiting for a response.

Richard Dawkins

I have no explanation for complex biological design. All I know is that God isn't a good explanation, so we must wait and hope that somebody comes up with a better one.

Tyler Hoechlin

Some things are worth the wait.

Willie Keeler

Learn what pitch you can hit good; then wait for that pitch.

William Saroyan

When I began to wait to live I really began to wait to die.

Sara Zarr

Sitting and waiting for something to happen was the worst kind of torture.

Rebecca Eaton

There's always a crisis somewhere, and you get the satisfaction of solving the problem. And then, there's always the mystery of whether a program will work or not, and waiting for the reviews or seeing what the audience figures are.