Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anne Johnson

There is no attempt by Walter Reed to hide the number of patients we receive.

There is no excuse for failing to declare one's business interests. It is simply a matter of filling out a form. Failure to do so constitutes either negligence or an attempt to conceal a possible conflict of interest or even contempt for the Parliamentary ethics process. Either way, there must be consequences.

There is going to be a serious attempt within the present council to try and push for a definition of how you qualify to be a party and what are the rules of the game.

We've been trying to do this kind of thing for about a decade. We attempted to do it on one of our Mars probe, but either we got weathered out or the spacecraft misread some stars and everything closed down.

We took care of the basketball and made more free throws (12) than they attempted (11). Those two really helped.

Harvey Levin

What I love about this so much is it hasn't shown its potential. It's more exciting to me to be at a place where I can at least attempt to break some ground than to basically follow a set path.

We take a variety of points into consideration when convening as a group to pick films to attempt to get for screening purposes. One thing we think about before much else is whether or not a local theater, be it Keene Cinemas or The Colonial, will be screening a film and if so, when. The Putnam is technically a second-run theater.

We are extremely disappointed that a few individuals are attempting to hijack those discussions.

Kelley Armstrong

The first piece of 'long' fiction I wrote was a novella parody of Stephen King's 'Christine.' I was in high school, and my version was about a kid with a possessed locker instead of a possessed car. It was also my first attempt at humour, which fell completely flat because no one who read it realized it was a parody!

He was successful in removing her clothes but he was unsuccessful in his attempt to have sexual intercourse with her, and then he told her to run away, so she did.

He continues to improve. He cleared 12-6 and had a couple good attempts at 13 feet. I think Ryan will eventually qualify for districts, that's his immediate goal.

He lined up out of position. That means instead of being two yards from the ball carrier, you might be seven, and then what should be an easy tackle near the line becomes an attempted tackle in the open field, and a 2-yard gain turns into 10.

He left a man on the ground dying, and he didn't attempt to render aid.

I always look at a group of people who want to attempt an enterprise greater than their means. They begin on this enterprise and they fail.

He was very excited about that. He actually had one real good attempt at 15-feet, 6-inches. It's there within range for him easily; it's just a matter of him having the right conditions.

Warren Beatty

He will probably be very flexible now. He'll be very adroit in his attempt to win popularity.

He helps prioritize funding requests from the University of Louisville. Otherwise, we would end up having every (university) department trying to end-run the process in an attempt to gain funding, even if it was not a top priority for the university overall.

He felt like the true story hadn't been told because it had been told in a one-sided way. And that's what we're attempting to do, is tell the full story from a dual perspective.

If things continue to go as they have in terms of the resumption of their attempt to enrich uranium, the Japanese government views the situation that bringing the issue to the U.N. Security Council is inevitable.

Emmett Kelly

I don't feel 'funny' inside when I'm this hobo character. I'm a misfit (as Weary Willie). Life is passing me by. Maybe it's Willie's attempt at a little dignity in spite of everything that tickles folks.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

I don't attempt to be a poker player before this crowd.

Kofi Annan

I did not influence, or attempt to influence, the procurement process.

Kathryn Lasky

I did not find that writing a diary with a lead male character differed in any essential way from writing one with a female character. They all had the same challenges in terms of attempting to establish an identity, coping with loneliness, friendships, relationships.

I found it very disturbing that Mr. Baldwin's lawyers attempted to cast terrible aspersions toward Kim rather than focusing on the main issue, which was before the court today, which is his daughter, Ireland.

If on the third attempt they do not past the test, a grade placement committee is formed, and that committee consists of the child's parents, teacher and principal. If the committee unanimously agrees, then the child can be promoted to the sixth-grade.

Given recent activity, McAfee AVERT Labs forecasts that attackers may attempt to test the viability of exploiting this vulnerability en masse, by producing a reconnaissance Trojan to identify a vulnerable user base. Exploit source code with a payload has been published. Now, the message is 'welcome to zero-day vulnerability land for many Mac OS X users' Only, Mac OS X users are less prepared, less aware and mitigation tools are less evolved.

Richard Preston

Fox bought the rights to the book way back when, and there was this attempt by Fox to make a movie out of 'The Hot Zone,' and it tended tragically in a Hollywood disaster involving Robert Redford and Jodie Foster and Ridley Scott. But the rights have been sitting at Fox ever since.

For some time now, the (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) has been reaching out to the international community, and attempting to increase the number of countries with which it has foreign relations,

Freshman year we traveled to Jamaica and had our heads turned around by that reggae rhythm. It was just after Bob Marley returned to his home country after the assassination attempt and self-exile; the country was exploding with reggae.

We have no group that's claimed responsibility. It could be any number of groups attempting to operate inside Iraq.

We have never proposed a tax increase. This lie about tax hikes is a desperate attempt by Berlusconi to rake in some votes...

What the Rams did to him was wrong. It isn't that they traded him. But they put the word out that he was a bad guy in an attempt to justify the trade. But it took people in Pittsburgh about five minutes to realize it was untrue. But Jerome was miserable over what happened in St. Louis, until he had a chance to get out there and prove the Rams wrong.

Maurice Cheeks

We want him to get offensive opportunities - no question. I think that he can get more opportunities in running the floor, getting early post up which he did. Tonight was a little unusual where he had more than a number of attempts at dunking the basketball going to the rim so I think that's a little bit unusual.