Famous Quotes & Sayings

Geoff Hoon

I lived at admiralty house from 2002 until 2006 on advice from special branch on security grounds as defence secretary. The alternative of providing comprehensive security at my personal property would have entailed significant extra costs to the taxpayer.

Bill Hader

'Vanity Fair' did this grid thing a couple years ago, connecting people who've worked together, and I had the most branches on it or whatever, because I'd worked with so-and-so and so-and-so worked with so-and-so, and I was kind of in the middle.

Donald Johanson

All mammals undergo a certain degree of diversification. Darwin knew that. When he drew a family tree, it had many branches on it.

Fractal geometry is everywhere, even in lines drawn in the sand. It's the cycle of life... You see fractals in plants, in flowers. Within the human lung are branches within branches.

Lawton Chiles

We have the power to make the other branches of government really angry,

George Stewart

You are a separate branch of government. You don't rely on the city manager like other city councils, where the city manager really represents the council.

We will review this request to determine which branch of government is best-suited to ensure people in the St. Louis region are protected from sex offenders.

We're really looking to branch out into new markets with this technology.

Randy Bachman

You don't need a uniform color: We used a mixture of brick red, browns and grays, and then threw in seashells, branches and various types of rock, so our walls ended up looking like cave paintings!

Mark Hudson

Wind damages, such as loss of plastic greenhouse coverings, broken branches of orchards, and fallen nursery stocks were observed.

John Danforth

We continue to hold out an olive branch to resolve these matters short of full-scale trials.

It is extremely important that a commission independent of the executive and legislative branches analyzes the Katrina disaster and the events leading up to it.

Melbourne will become a branch office of Sydney.

John B. S. Haldane

Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.

We're cutting weeds, getting branches out and carrying away debris. It'll look nice when we finish.

We're not the UNO news, so we strive to branch out to the Omaha community.

Harold Urey

The discovery of deuterium and the marked differences in the physical and chemical properties of hydrogen and deuterium, together with an efficient method for the separation of these isotopes, have opened an interesting field of research in several of the major branches of science.

Personally, I would have liked to have seen it priced at the lower end of the range as an olive branch to the individual investors. But I think they did a superb job pricing it, particularly given the pressures they were under with an offering of this size.

Nobody really wants to go down this route and it is a case of who blinks first. There is a cast-iron rationale for maintaining a significant number of full-service branches and staffed offices.

Spencer Abraham

Ninety-five of the 105 recommendations are ones that the executive branch can implement, and we have been implementing them, ... We've done the things we can do as an executive branch. Now we have to finish the job at the Congress.

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I guess it means we will have to pursue our judicial branch option. We would have liked to continue talking about our options.

For public universities, it is inevitable that the legislative and executive branch appropriations are going to have to be reassessed every year. There's never an ironclad guarantee.

Dick Gephardt

I don't think we've done enough here on our continuity-of-government plan, ... It isn't enough to just have continuity in the executive branch. We need it in the judicial branch and the legislative branch.

Aaron Patzer

Whenever I see a tree that is climbable, it must be climbed. Sometimes when I'm on a run, I'll just run up a tree, jump on a branch and swing off. My favorite tree, in Saratoga, gets me a good 75 feet up.

has to deal with the legislature and other branches of government.

Jackie Cooper

Keep 'em clear of things like leaves and tree branches and stuff. They run hot.

It caused consternation (among the judges) that the City Council was looking at it, and they want a separation of powers, ... They're the judicial branch, and they don't seem to think the executive branch or the legislative branch of city government should be looking at them.

Robert Sterling

H&R Block's real strength is they have these branch offices everywhere and a lot of talented people who do taxes and that's a real strength and they need to focus on that. They demonstrated pretty clearly last year that they weren't very good at the Web side of it, so they've got to get better, but the main focus is bringing what they do well to more people.

Ty Law

He went to two branches within 10 to 15 minutes of each other and took me for about 20 grand. It was an hour and a half from where I'm from. I'd never been to the branches in my life. He had a forged driver's license from Ohio. He got me.

He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.

Frankly some of the branches did not execute at the branch level. That is disappointing but we are working very hard to get that message out today.

Charles Caleb Colton

Professors in every branch of the sciences, prefer their own theories to truth: the reason is that their theories are private property, but truth is common stock.