Famous Quotes & Sayings

The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere.

Litigation is completely inappropriate and unfounded in light of the ongoing discussions between the company and all our bottlers to respond to a major customer's request for the benefit of everyone. We are extremely disappointed that a few individuals are attempting to hijack those discussions.

Val McDermid

I won't be attempting to write Jane Austen-style prose - that would be suicidal. But I will attempt to bring the highest level of my own prose, and to make it sparkle.

When it comes to debates over public policy and issues, Dean should be welcoming the voice of America's churches, not attempting to silence them.

Scott Wright

We received a call from the BB&T in Mount Holly from one of the tellers. They recognized a female subject that was at the bank attempting to do what they call a check deposit split scam.

We're always attempting to balance the sounds of the race with our commentators' voices to give viewers the best experience possible. It's something we're very aware of and something that we're always trying to improve.

We're not the antidote. We're not attempting to be the opposition choice.

Chris, in his mind, was basically on a mission from God. He believed in a higher authority. His mother was not going to stand in his way. He was attempting to stop the abortionists. He was attempting to stop the pornographers. He wanted to save children.

Lance Armstrong

I look forward to leading this team and attempting to give the great folks at Discovery a yellow jersey. I'm more motivated than ever.

Muriel Spark

Godfrey's wife, Charmian, sat with her eyes closed, attempting to put her thoughts into alphabetical order, which Godfrey had told her was better than no order at all since she now had grasp of neither logic nor chronology

I think it's a cheap stock, but it's cheap for a reason. The company's core market has changed and it's attempting to change with it in order to keep up. But it's a real uphill battle.

It complements what Yahoo! is attempting to build on the convergence media side pretty nicely.

Rick Monday

Whatever their protest was about, what they were attempting to do to the flag - which represents a lot of rights and freedoms that we all have - was wrong for a lot of reasons. Not only does it desecrate the flag, but it also desecrates the effort and the lives that have been laid down to protect those rights and freedoms for all of us.

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

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.

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.

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,

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

Richard Thompson

We were attempting to restore the culture of Britain for the British, ... But the English, in particular, aren't comfortable with their own culture. To be taken seriously, it has to come from somewhere else. So we remained a cult band.

Leila Janah

The perception in Silicon Valley is that if you dress well, you couldn't possibly be smart, or you're in P.R. but couldn't possibly run a company. I remember briefly attempting the Adidas and jeans and sweatshirt over T-shirt look, but I realized I was trying to dress like a young tech geek, and that just wasn't me.

We are attempting to offer the program statewide.

We are attempting to give the public around the world the opportunity to be involved in very real space missions.

We are attempting not only to show the great movies of the past, but we are also reproducing the very experience that people saw it in when these films were first released.

We believe that gold is attempting to find a range with the recent extremes of $535 and $555 likely to confine the metal for a while.

We're extremely troubled by the prospect that the legislature is attempting to hold our proposed merger hostage, and to that end we will be considering all options, including the legal route.

George Burgess

This was a silly experiment. ... It has been well documented that great white sharks prefer brisket over bacon. These men had no business attempting such a dangerous experiment. I myself pioneered the study of great white shark food preferences and published the definitive work on the subject titled: Great White Shark Food Preferences: A definitive study.

Kent Haruf

I'm attempting to broaden my novels' scope through landscape and weather, leaves falling off trees, overnight storms, timeless elements which, irrespective of human endeavour, have always been there and, as long as there is life and snow, will always be there.

Nina Garcia

I firmly believe that 90 percent of the confusion that women feel when they are attempting to put together an occasion-specific ensemble is caused by fear: fear of breaking the 'fashion rules,' fear of violating some long-forgotten tradition, or the basic fear of looking bad.

Ray Brown

Well, I think that I've been learning how to, attempting to learn how to write for a trio. I've sort of taken a page out of Duke Ellington's book. I watched Ellington over the years and it didn't matter who got in that band, he found out what they could do good and then he wrote for them.

William Cobbett

It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.

Brian K. Vaughan

By the time you have your protagonist attempting to assassinate the Pope, you've sort of signaled that everything is on the table.

P. J. O'Rourke

Arguing, in the sense of attempting to convince others, has gone out of fashion with conservatives.

David Whyte

Stop trying to change reality by attempting to eliminate complexity.