Famous Quotes & Sayings

Geoffrey Fieger

Because the city of Detroit hasn't covered this up, maybe there's a possibility that they'll come forward and attempt to resolve this matter.

He's spending like a drunken sailor, and he's now taking what are essentially routine staff-issued documents and claiming they're legislative proposals on the table. It's another hypocritical attempt to distort his own record and make Marylanders forget about his awful record. Voters are smarter than that.

He's taking a single word from the realm of science -- quantum -- and using it in ways that are meaningless, ... It's an attempt to use science to prove your faith.

James Posey

He's explosive, he's going to get a lot of looks. You just try to make him work. You try to limit his touches. That's all you can really do. He's going to get his attempts up.

How do we replace someone like Martin? Well, Martin was unique, as was Neil, so it's a question of moving on rather than attempting to recapture the qualities they possessed,

Jacques Chirac

I don't know if we should use the word 'war,' ... Now we are faced with a conflict of a completely new nature, a conflict that is attempting to destroy human rights, freedom, the dignity of man, and I believe that everything must be done to safeguard these values of civilization.

Michael Vick

I don't know if I can, ... Maybe not, man. My passing attempts are not where they need to be. I need to throw the ball 30 to 40 times a game for me to have those numbers, but our run game's so good that I won't say it's hurting me, but I won't complain, because it's a lot easier and it takes a lot of pressure off me, too.

Billy Donovan

I didn't think our guards did a very good job of blocking out. There were a couple of key situations in the game where our guards didn't even attempts to block out.

Mister Milosevic said there were attempts to poison him in the prison.

Monica Crowley

Mr. Obama seeks to federalize large portions of education, beginning with his attempt to nationalize college student loans.

Mr Blairs attempt at Gleneagles to start a climate change partnership with the developing world, or at least initiate a dialogue, is vital.

Meat packers have suffered the worst sustained losses in history, and I would not be surprised by any decisions that are made. Having said that, the major companies are doing their utmost to attempt to tweak their existing operations.

Marguerite Young

My first attempt to write about Robert Owen was in the form of poetry. Then I turned it into a blank verse poem, but I discovered that I couldn't fit in all the facts, which are fabulous. I decided to rewrite it a third time, still retaining every image I had already written in the first two versions.

My first attempt at the Dakar Rally ended with a seat in a helicopter and I never wanted to be in that position again. I knew I had a great chance to win. The team worked so hard on the development of our car and I think over the 15 days we were the better all-round team. It's a fantastic feeling to win the Dakar. I experienced many highs and lows in my skiing career, but this is so different.

John Legend

My first attempt at a kiss was in fifth grade, but it didn't go so well. Later, I used Boyz II Men and Jodeci songs to come on to girls. I had more success.

P. J. O'Rourke

Network television has been attempting to lure viewers for years with its low-interest programming only to have those viewers discover later that their brains are bankrupt.

One of the things we have tried to do wherever possible is to attempt to make everything as consistent as we can. There are good sides and bad sides to that. We can't make everything the same because this is a big state, but we wanted to make the starting dates more consistent for the convenience of the hunters.

One should not attempt to buy private loyalty with public money.

Bill Thompson

One out of four people who attempt the summit die. We've only got four people on our expedition -- those aren't very good odds.

One of the attractive things for us is that our local drivers are going to be able to step up and be able to attempt to get in a more prestigious race. That was a big positive for us in making the decision to bring them here.

No one in the region should have to worry about attempting to file government documents in near-impossible circumstances,

It is an attempt to steer students to become more interested in science and mathematics and improve their overall student achievement.

It is an attempt to show nature in all of its beauty.

It is an attempt to put the blame on regional and local law enforcers and not on the leaders of federal ministries, who in my view bear responsibility for what happened. They didn't take preventive measures, they didn't check how their orders were being carried out.

I think there will be attempts to change it.

Tom DeLay

just another seedy attempt by the liberal media to embarrass me.

Bob Stoops

Just because what we've done in the past has worked and worked well doesn't mean that it will continue to. We have really got to be smart in what we're attempting to do. We need to make some adjustments and make sure we can execute certain parts of our passing game more consistently.

Java Studio Creator 2 is an update to Sun's Java Studio product, which is a new generation tool attempting to simplify Java development. Java Studio Creator 2 is trying to make the Java platform more attractive to developers coming from a Microsoft Windows or 4GL tool environment.

Saxby Chambliss

Japan is well beyond the time for assessing scientific reasoning, and diplomatic efforts attempted repeatedly by the president, by our trade emissaries, and by the U.S. Congress,

Tom Fitton

Jesse Jackson attempted to use every legal trick at his disposal to have this case dismissed, and he failed. This trial is a major step in holding Jackson accountable for his actions.

Landscape projects are expensiveespecially if you'd like to do a nice landscape like they are attempting to do all over campus.

Foster Friess

I think culture precedes politics, and I think the attempts to try and legislate people's behavior... isn't going to be productive until the culture decides what they want to achieve.

Mal Peet

I see genres as generating sets of rules or conventions that are only interesting when they are subverted or used to disguise the author's intent. My own way of doing this is to attempt a sort of whimsical alchemy, whereby seemingly incompatible genres are brought into unlikely partnerships.