Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Brown

I don't want to alarm anyone that New Orleans is filling up like a bowl. That isn't happening.

Frank Robinson

I don't want him to carry that into the season with a tender arm, and you probably saw some throws yesterday that weren't quality throws. That was an alarm to me to get him out of there and try to get this thing right.

I don't think it's cause for universal alarm that the system is breaking down.

If it happens again, ... the alarm will go off and I can get back there and take care of it.

If it were to be true, it would be alarming indeed, because it is one thing to push refugees over borders where the international community is now increasingly ready to deal with them in a humane way, but it's quite another thing to push them back into a wasteland where there is no food, very little water, no medical supplies, where everything has been looted.

She would come in real early in the morning and sleep in a booth with a wind-up alarm clock so she could get up in time to start making them breakfast.

I feel safe for the most part, but it is kind of alarming that people is shooting other people and stuff like that these days.

Chains make dogs mean. People who keep their dogs chained have no business owning their dog to begin with. If they want an alarm system, they should buy one.

Maggie Gallagher

But to any thinking American who understands the basis of free government, the cultural developments in Europe are alarming to say the least.

By the time we left that meeting our alarm factor was off the chart. If you knew what I know, I promise you that you would have some sleepless nights. Because of our Government?s total lack of interest in even securing our nations borders, much less closing them, our company has planned a mission to turn the tide on border policy. Our company is eminently qualified for this mission.

My first reaction is that the students weren't a part of this process. It is very alarming that we were not involved. But we look forward to working with a permanent president and seeing how they deal with the separate constituencies on campus.

Successive seasons of drought in the worst-affected areas have now eroded many households' assets to the point of destitution. A range of appropriate emergency interventions need to be put in place as quickly as possible before the already alarming conditions become much worse.

J. Philippe Rushton

Startling, and alarming to many, is the conclusion that follows from these data that if all people were treated the same, most average race differences would not disappear.

Melanoma is really increasing at an alarming rate. Just 10 years ago, you had a 1 in 250 chance of developing malignant melanoma; now it's 1 in 70.

That was when the alarm began to be ratcheted up,

That was alarming because if my pensions depended on Delphi, I'd have no faith in it at all. We would prefer to have our money up front.

It doesn't seem there's a great deal of alarm

It doesn't alarm me. It's just too bad that the car-pool lanes continue to be underutilized, for whatever reason.

We continue to believe that motor carriers should expect modest growth in volumes going forward and that the latest decrease should not alarm the industry.

He apparently made vague, veiled e-mail threats in the past, but nothing that would raise an alarm like this.

James Blake

I can't believe how well things are going. I am waiting for the alarm clock to go off and I'm going to wake up, but I don't want to.

I'd no alternative. It proved to be a false alarm and I saw the game at home on TV.

The pattern raises the alarm, however, that these species face two challenges that increase the risk of extinction: habitat destruction, which is occurring at alarming rates in the tropics, and reduced pollinator activity.

The pattern raises the alarm, however, that species in species-rich regions face two challenges that increase the risk of extinction: habitat destruction, which is occurring at alarming rates in the tropics, and reduced pollinator activity.

Michael Crawford

I'd be totally exhausted by mid-afternoon, and I could barely climb the stairs at home. It was particularly alarming because all my life I'd enjoyed doing all my own stunts in shows, taking on every physical challenge. Yet suddenly, I'd become like a very old man. I knew something was wrong, but I had no idea what.

Leila Aboulela

When you write about a Muslim woman, like I did with my previous novels - 'Minaret', for example, which is about a woman who starts to wear the hijab - it sets all the alarm bells ringing.

Matthew Underwood

I can't start my day without hearing 'Waiting On the World to Change' by John Mayer. It's my alarm clock and my favorite song.

Sharon Stone

I think, for a long time, people just did not know what to do with me. I looked like a Barbie doll, and then I had this voice like I spend my life in a bar, and I said things that were alarming and had ideas that didn't make sense.

Tony Fadell

Nest Thermostat owners like the carbon monoxide link. If Nest Protect's carbon monoxide alarm goes off, the Nest Thermostat automatically turns off the gas furnace.

Henry Cisneros

As Secretary of Housing, I do have to express alarm, signal the alarm if you will, that the potential for homelessness to grow is there.

Zadie Smith

That's the thing about fiction writers: what seems alarming or particular or perverse about them is simply the shape of their brain - they cannot be otherwise.

Al Gore

Today's report is both an alarm clock and a road map. It sounds an urgent wake-up call about the risks of our couch-potato culture,

Tom Harkin

While I don't want to unduly alarm anyone, we do have to sound the alarm,