Famous Quotes & Sayings

Abraham Lincoln

Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech.

That was a smart thing (for prosecutors) to do. It'll take away another avenue of questioning in cross.

Our village was built on the Ohio River, and was a halting place on this great national road, then the only avenue of traffic between the South and the North.

We wanted to move out of the 6th Avenue Y. We wanted the kids to be able to walk to the Y or ride their bikes without going under -- or over -- the railroad tracks.

Michigan Avenue are serious players in the aluminum industry, but without any details of the bid or the source of the funding it is difficult to evaluate.

It has opened more avenues to the basket for dribble penetration. We have been more efficient in our transition offense.

David Murphy

We have another contract starting in July for 12th Avenue extending from the south side of Bridge Street down to Cedar Street. We?re hoping to start that project early, if we can get this one done before its deadline.

We are doing the same thing now, but he's found a different avenue to do it.

It figures to be a slower-developing market just from the standpoint that if a player and his representatives feel that he's the key in the market, they're going to want to make sure the last dollar's on the table and that teams have exhausted other avenues to try to improve.

We're a little disappointed because I'd been pretty confident we were going to have a summer date. But our main goal was to keep professional golf in Connecticut so we can give money back to charity, and this gives us an avenue to do that. We'll have a date and a six-year investment, so we're going to move on, hope for the best and do whatever possible to be as successful as we can.

Sathya Baba

God has given enough avenues of joy in creation. But they have to be shared and enjoyed. You are entitled to just your share of it.

I would say the governor is not giving up. She's aware that Winchester is one of the most respected and valuable brands in the world, and she is continuing to work to make sure that every avenue is explored to try to save this great company and keep these jobs in Connecticut.

Keeping pesticides out of streams is the ultimate goal. Farmers who have some of the old stuff -- because they bought a farm and it's not labeled -- this gave them an avenue to get rid of it.

Jones County has a very serious school construction need, ... They have been looking for avenues since their tax base is so limited and their property tax is very high.

The people down there voted to connect to sewers, 21-10. These are the last two streets in Milford before the West Haven line and a section of New Haven Avenue would also be included.

Matthew Dowd

We took one message and designed lots of different avenues to communicate it. They took a lot of different messages and drove them all into one big funnel.

Fox is not going to tell you this, but it is an open secret on Madison Avenue that they are charging a premium of $50,000 to $100,000 a spot to be in the first six minutes.

With this, it will give them an avenue to provide information to us that would protect them if they want anonymity.

With the increased number of tourists we are expecting as the Historic Trail becomes a reality, Water Avenue needs to put on its best front. At present it is an aerial mass of lines and cables and poles.

Jimmy Breslin

Don't try to tell Namath's people on First Avenue about Babe Ruth, because they don't even know the name. In fact, with the young, you can forget all of baseball. The sport is gone. But if you ever have seen Ruth, and then you see Namath, you know there is very little difference.

We're looking forward to it, though. It's all about giving small businesses an avenue to best meet their bookkeeping priorities.

Mario Monti

We regret that this avenue had not been pursued.

We are convinced that Organic Avenue is extraordinarily well positioned to become a national leader in both the rapidly growing $5 billion organic juicing industry and the $75 billion natural foods industry, driven by an increasing number of consumers moving towards a healthier diet of organic foods.

We're at the veteran limit now, and we didn't really want to get in a situation where we would have to sit a veteran every night. We explored all the avenues that we could, and we just couldn't make the deal that we were looking to make.

Rudy Giuliani

Blacks commit murder eight times more per capita than any other group in our society. If I had put all of my police officers on Park Avenue and none in Harlem, thousands and thousands more blacks would've been killed during the eight years that I was mayor.

First Avenue is one of my favorite places to play. All along, they've treated me with respect.

Thousands of volunteers and supporters say how appreciative they are to have an avenue to express their thanks to the troops.

Sue Johnson

Our goal is we want a healthy community, and to have a healthy community, you have to have the right avenues for care and that's what a lot of this is about.

Our vision is that you'd be able to get off the train, walk down to College Avenue and catch a bus to the Douglass campus, all very easily.

Suzy Menkes

Nan Kempner wore one of the first Saint Laurent trouser suits to one of those fancy Madison Avenue restaurants and was denied access. She famously took off her pants and walked in wearing only the jacket. And it was that kind of revolution that was echoed in fashion and in life.

Drew Stanton

My major is sports administration, so you need to do an internship, and this is another avenue that I could potentially see myself doing. I wanted to check it out and get a different look from the media outlets' aspect.

Many day laborers believe that avenues for enforcement of labor and employment laws are effectively closed to them. This belief is reinforced by the general climate of hostility that exists toward day laborers in many parts of the country.

It is a message that special interests can close off legitimate avenues of scientific inquiry.