Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hamish Bowles

In the midst of applying for American citizenship, of finally attempting to get my presidents in a row, I felt it incumbent upon myself to explore the national psyche in every way.

We're wary of applying a huge outer barrier here in Louisiana.

We're taking what we learned from the Dean campaign and are applying it to a state. If we do our job right, when election time comes around, we will have a much more engaged electorate.

Paul Singer

The Congo is very wealthy from oil money but is not paying its debts and at the same time is applying for special status at the World Bank. That's shocking and disingenuous.

Pierre Bayle

There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.

REALTORS(R) in Denver already rely heavily on the Denver Board to provide the resources and support necessary to be successful in this profession. We intend to significantly increase the value of membership in DBR by applying exciting new technologies and business models to help our members be even more effective advocates for the consumer during the home buying and selling process.

If you want a summer job, you need to start applying now. If you wait too long and don't apply until you're two weeks out of school, you don't have as much to offer.

If you're applying for a loan, and there are mistakes on your credit report you didn't know about, it's going to take time to get that information removed.

In the face of provocative outbursts, the judge has to be firm but not trigger-happy in applying sanctions if fairness is going to be respected.

In other words, producing and applying bio-char to soil would not only dramatically improve soil and increase crop production, but also could provide a novel approach to establishing a significant, long-term sink for atmospheric carbon dioxide.

It has taken years and years and years of applying his talent and his mental desire to just get to the major leagues. And it just shows how fragile it is. You can blow it fairly easily.

Highly credentialed kids are applying with greater frequency to the same set of schools.

Chirac is saying: France is adapting. We are applying the same strategic thought but to deeply different circumstances.

Matt Drudge

I'm not sure I'll ever hit that level and to the level of official stature that Bob Woodward had for his Nixon coverage, simply because I'm an outsider, ... But to the degree that the story now threatens a president, I do think it's on the same level as what Woodward and Bernstein did with their coverage and applying the pressure.

In 2002, we were involved in the early implementation of RFID readers as part of the Auto-ID Center field trial. Those early readers took hours to install and minutes to destroy. But we learned a lot, and we have been applying that knowledge.

John Strachan

In applying this subject to the melancholy event, which has deprived this Diocese of its venerable Bishop, we presume not to compare him with the blessed Apostle, of whom we have been speaking.

I'm not sure I believe the Labor Department. On Friday, there must have been a below-normal number of people applying for benefits.

It's not a pocketbook issue for the American consumer. We're already applying pretty low tariffs to China.

The borders are obstacles in applying the law,

The biggest mistake people make is applying caustic cleaning materials that denigrate the finish of the blinds.

These students research, design, and construct prototype vehicles, applying what they learn in topics related to safety, control, geometry, aerodynamics, composite materials, fabrication techniques, and much more.

Elton Gallegly

It's really unconscionable that we reward people for being here illegally, and punish those, in effect, for waiting in line applying through the legal process, ... We have our priorities backwards on this.

Eventually people just stopped applying and the funds just sat there.

That is a lot of hitting right there. We have girls with plenty of experience of batting in clutch situations. We need to keep applying pressure to other teams.

That is the type of thing we need to see so that when the teams that are applying to do the project are judged we can include what the community wants in the decision.

It's changed considerably what it means to parent in the 21st century. They are making very important decision in their lives -- applying to colleges, choosing courses and making friends. They really want to be with their parents.

The U.S. is going to be applying some pretty awesome military technology,

Leigh Steinberg

They are not getting hurt in some frivolous hobby. They are hurt applying themselves to the exact task they've been hired to do. This is a risk that ought to be shared in a fairer way.

It was kind of tough for us with their size, strength and quickness around the basket. Give Texas credit for applying the pressure.

It was not relevant what happened that day. They're taking a law and applying it to a situation that was not applicable.

Philippe Petit

It's always easy to describe something complex by applying to it an already known label.

It's appropriate to ask references to call you back and let you know how the reference check went. This will shed light on how you were perceived during the interview. You may also get a sense of what the key issues the employer is interested in about the job you're applying for.

Paul Walsh

The first step when creating best practice standards for mobile web users is to understand what they actually need and want. This field trial is just one example of how the MWI is embracing users' views and applying this knowledge to create a user friendly environment.