Famous Quotes & Sayings

We attempted to do some research on who this organization was, but their flyer does not have any contact names or numbers, does not have a website, nothing that we have been able to locate.

Marilyn Tavenner

To the millions of Americans who've attempted to use HealthCare.gov to shop and enroll in health-care coverage, I want to apologize to you that the Web site has not worked as well as it should. We know how desperately you need affordable coverage.

To the extent that she attempted to keep the Democrat flame burning in the Schwarzenegger administration he snuffed out that flame.

attempted to intimidate or harass the owner, her business and her husband.

Tom DeLay

attempted to browbeat and coerce' the second grand jury to change its decision not to indict DeLay so there would be no public record of a rejection.

Colin Trevorrow

There's no shame in being romantic at all. I think people want to feel that sense of romance, which is rarely even attempted anymore.

Cappie Pondexter

I don't want to say we got complacent, We attempted to play hard.

Hope Davis

I do remember that first night. We attempted to fill the pool and discovered it had a leak. I think Michael Ritchie patched a leak. I remember him standing there with a garden hose, filling this tremendous pool. He was just determined.

Joey Skaggs

In 1968 I organized the Hippie Bus Tour to Queens as a satirical cultural exchange tour and I attempted to burn down a Vietnamese Village Nativity I erected in Central Park to protest the war in Vietnam.

Brad Soderberg

I know that topic keeps coming up, but I'm most interested in quality basketball. We're having a hard time sustaining quality basketball, and tonight was as bad as it gets. Everything we tried didn't work. Every shot we attempted seemed a little off rhythm.

If there is a tie at (7-6) they will then look at the overall misses throughout the entire meet. Moffat had cleared 7-5 on his first attempt, I attempted and missed, therefore if at the next height we both missed he would win based on having no misses I had to clear 7-6 no matter what if I wanted to win, so I was only given two attempts at the following height because of my decision to pass.

If we attempted to place sand on the beach now, it would be washed out rather quickly.

I have not attempted to hide from it.

It's raised as a question mark that the thought of a gun may have averted her attempted rape. It would have been good to point out the existing evidence on that topic.

insulted by a campaign that has attempted to amend the Constitution, and in too many states we've seen discriminatory amendments that would deny hospital visitation and domestic partnership legislation.

Louis MacNeice

In writing 'A Portrait of Athens' I have attempted - rather impressionistically - to give a panorama of its present. But I have also brought in its past because I sincerely think that there is a continuity.

Thomas Jefferson

I never told my religion nor scrutinize that of another. I never attempted to make a convert nor wished to change another's creed. I have judged of others' religion by their lives...

In 2004 we attempted to meet with the sheriff quarterly and that didn't happen. In 2005, cooperation did improve. ... He met with us monthly and I think that helped.

David Bailey

He told me basically that he was pretty sure, real sure that he had the guy that kidnapped my daughter or attempted to kidnap my daughter.

I'll tell you his record -- attempted robbery, robbery, assault, disorderly conduct, sale of drugs, and punching someone during a transaction involving the sale of drugs,

I just looked on the Internet for certain trends and if anything pops out in the games that Michigan State lost. I think when they attempted less than 16 free throws, they lost every game, and they are a great free throw shooting team. I think there was also was a great discrepancy between wins and losses and how their inside player Paul Davis played. When he played well and scored over 18, 19 points, they usually won.

Before this year, she's never attempted a 3-pointer but this season she has hit five or six. When she's open the other players look for her. She's a great kid to have. Tonight she was playing really well. She's so unselfish she usually passes up the shots.

We have demonstrated that the complainant has a penchant for making false allegations of rape or attempted rape. That has been demonstrated.

This attempted fraud must be punished more severely than as if it were simply another rules infraction.

We've hit 100 more free throws than other teams have attempted this year. That's what we try to do. ... It makes a game that's difficult to defend.

Madeleine Stowe

The scene was attempted a second time, up on top of the fort, and cameras didn't even roll. Michael, though he wasn't admitting it, wasn't sure how to shoot the scene.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Google attempted to run a search engine in China, and they ended up giving up.

John Nash

The mental disturbances originated in the early months of 1959, at a time when Alicia happened to be pregnant. And as a consequence I resigned my position as a faculty member at M.I.T. and, ultimately... travelled to Europe and attempted to gain status there as a refugee.

Keiji Fukuda

This has never been attempted before. There is a very good chance that we will fail and that we will not be able to stop it.