Famous Quotes & Sayings

Terry Teachout

I can remember - barely - when Elton John was still a good songwriter, or at least capable of writing good songs.

Terry Wogan

A talk show is about having a look at a famous face, a bit of stand-up comedy, knockabout stuff - an interview is what Barbara Walters or Connie Chung does in the States, in-depth, done properly.

Scott M. Gimple

When 'The Walking Dead' has been its best, all that stuff is happening at once: the emotion, action, horror, scares. I'm very proud that I was able to write an episode where a little zombie girl could walk out of a barn after a horrific zombie execution and have people cry. That's one of the proudest things I've ever done.

Thousands of bars throughout the country do this, but not in West Chester. It?s a small town and you just don?t do things like that here, especially if you are a liquor license owner.

Travel has high barriers to entry, ... This is more a classic bet on China as an emerging market.

You know, Coach Martz and that system over there, they barely acknowledge the other team,

We need for you to just let us go. Lower the barriers on access, ... We're not going to get it from FEMA, and the real entrepreneurs won't want to wait for it anyway.

You know, $90,000 would pay a pretty long bar tab. I'm pretty sure that ordinary Hoosiers could've come up with something more creative after a few beers and some honest conversation.

We've been extremely evenly matched. I feel we just keep raising the bar for one another.

Henry Cabot Lodge

New England has a harsh climate, a barren soil, a rough and stormy coast, and yet we love it, even with a love passing that of dwellers in more favored regions.

Unlike a strike situation, where hardship develops over time, many of our members barely escaped Katrina's destruction with nothing but the clothes on their backs.

Under the current scenario, a round of profit-taking usually comes shortly after bargain hunting. Without any concrete regulatory stimulus and rosy corporate earnings reports, the market faces a downward pressure after gaining more than 10 percent this year.

People are not yet factoring in a high probability of a military strike and that's rather surprising. We should be preparing for oil prices to spike quite a lot higher, even $100 a barrel is not out of the question, and that could have a big impact on currencies.

Eric Schmidt

People are moving to video because they can. Over the past several years, technology has diminished the barriers to entry.

Pennsylvania's state-specific rule removes unfair economic barriers to preserve the marketplace for Pennsylvania's coal industry. It puts in place standards that are more protective of public health and the environment than the federal (mercury) rule.

Our hospital is just barely squeaking by. We're not sure that's a good business plan for this valley. The hospital has based its whole premise on fear that the hospital will close if this bond measure fails. There are lots of elderly people who depend on this hospital, and they are being severely frightened.

Our hitting was slacking. Today we picked it up. I'm proud of the kids. I've been barking at the kids all week and tonight they proved they could hit.

Our group has so much energy. We barely have to tell them to smile or cheer louder.

David Armstrong

Our goal with College Goal Sunday is to help break down some of the barriers that keep students and families from filling out the form. College today, of course, is the passport to the American dream for so many students.

Our celebration today is tempered by the knowledge that we lost so much -- more than 1,000 people dead and our communities so deeply wounded. If there is a saving grace here, it's the love that tragedy lays bare -- our love for each other, our love for this newspaper, our love for this community. We must love it back to life, and that's what we celebrate today.

Overall we're starting to do some good things. Tonight and over the last weekend, we're starting to get the barrel back on the ball, and we're turning the lineup over at the bottom of the order and that's making our whole lineup better.

Over the last five or six years, there's a lot more day-to-day contact between our offices on a whole host of things. You develop better working relations as a result of doing that. You hope that that translates into something which makes bargaining a little easier. But that's something you wait to find out.

Over the last 20 years, the size of oil discoveries has fallen off dramatically. We are finding more fields than in the '60s and '70s, but they're much smaller. We're producing three barrels of oil for every one barrel of oil that we find.

Pa had made only two poor wheat crops since the grasshoppers came; he had barely been able to keep out of debt, and now there was the doctor's bill.

Oxygen is a bold new network that is continually raising the bar in delivering important women's programming and entertainment, and we're pleased to accommodate our customers by providing the most requested channel over the last several years. We've been working with Oxygen since last summer looking for ways to give our customers greater choice.

Bob Woodward

over the summer, or as we get closer to the election, they could increase production several million barrels a day and the price would drop significantly.

John Entwistle

Our problem is that we play in a bunch of big bars and a whole lot of the younger people can't get into them and it is really frustrating.

Our team score on bars was 35.50, which was astounding. It got us back in the mix after we started on beam and had a tough time.

Melissa Etheridge

Our society, where we are right now, our minds are junkyards. We watch TV and sit on the computer all day and barely have an original thought.

Our floor was really good and our vault was good. Our bars and our beam struggled.

Our focus is on the bargaining table. The union feels it can be done, we feel it can be done. We just have to follow through.

Our goal is to bring building professionals in Northern California the best practices in the construction industry, and this includes bridging the gap between conventional construction and sustainable building and demonstrating the financial, social and environmental return for all parties involved. We believe a valuable consensus is emerging for delivering on this inclusive value proposition and we are removing all barriers to entry to this knowledge.

Our culture defines us as an independent nation. So it's troubling that it is barely on this government's radar.