Famous Quotes & Sayings

What happened to our Senate Central Coast district was a massive injustice for the region and for Fred,

John Prescott

What government has been doing, we've got major programmes now, of billions of pounds, which are directed by central government into these areas of deprivation.

Kathy Griffin

It was sweaty Whitney (Houston) in Central Park. She knew that park pretty well. Every bush!

Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rained a ghastly dew/ From the nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue.

Heaviest flights have been reported in Central Missouri this year.

Jim Berg

Health plans are a central focus of any labor negotiation that goes on today.

Gary Hall

He reads the game very well and provides excellent cover for defending teammates. Max is a very versatile player and really could be successful at all 10 field positions. However, he will likely play as a central defender, in very much the same role he currently plays for the Inferno, when he enters our program.

He probably had one central hiding place that, for lack of a better term, would be a main camp, but then he probably had multiple spike camps,

People down there tell me the guy's just done an unbelievable job. Most of the other (North Central Conference) coaches didn't even know their players' names at the start of the year.

People had been saying Central Coast were physically stronger but I thought that we finished stronger.

North Central is the class of the state right now, if not in the nation.

(Addressing questions like) Where do I go to get a job, where do I go to get clothes. More importantly local people knowing a central place they can give money and knowing it will get dispersed locally to one centralized shelter.

Ben Bernanke

The one thing people don't appreciate, I think, is that central banking is not a new development. It's been around for a very long time.

Malcolm Gets

Once you have a central character who announces in the first five minutes of the show that he feels whooped by life and that he's had enough, I'm in. I'm hooked.

Delia's contributions about religion and religious leaders, particularly during the death and funeral of Pope John Paul II, stood out for their intelligence, sensitivity and depth. Her hire as a full-time correspondent represents a major commitment by CNN to covering the religious revival in the United States, where tens of millions of people cite faith as a central part of their lives.

Coach was saying that there was probably 19 people in Central Mass. that thought we even stood a chance. We wanted to prove a lot of people wrong.

Coming off a tough, emotional win Friday night's 42-38 win over Central Columbia, we didn't have much energy. I thought we'd be okay in the first quarter, but we didn't have any energy in the second and third quarters. Thirteen field goals isn't going to win many games.

Coming off a long tournament at Penn State this weekend, I just don't think we had that spark. But at the same time, Central wrestled quite a dual. They won all the one-point matches.

Dense central cities have some advantages, but they also have some tremendous disadvantages: congestion, pollution, crime, all the things that central cities have been criticized for in the past 100 years. The same is true of sprawl -- it has all kinds of problems, but I don't know that they're any worse than any other part of the urban area.

an implicit repudiation of the CIA, which was established to be the central focus and the integrator of the nation's intelligence production.

Naomi Mitchison

It was all coming out from somewhere, and I just had the job of writing it down. I was, however, determined that the central characters would have a happy ending, but it was quite difficult sometimes to get them out of trouble.

It was a one-point game and pretty soon, the lead was stretched to 10. We made seven turnovers in five minutes that Central converted into easy baskets.

Rick Rubin

These songs are Johnny's final statement. They are the truest reflection of the music that was central to his life at the time. This is the music that Johnny wanted us to hear.

The share of purchases from foreign investors, including central banks, may decrease as a narrow spread between short-and long-term notes makes it difficult to hold the bonds.

The situation is more worrying (in Somalia) because of the 15 years of conflict in a country that has lacked central government.

Robert Dallek

That's why pragmatism is such a central ingredient of an effective presidency. If you're not pragmatic, not responsive to changing realities, then you don't succeed.

They tend to be particularly vulnerable to developing central adiposity and inter-abdominal adiposity,

A lot of our grapes go to the Central Valley. These producers can?t justify higher wine grape prices.

This is the first time for the central authorities to invest so heavily in rural development.

This is the central issue of my career. If a hotel is renowned for its service, how much of the room rate and hotel income is really attributable to the real estate? Tough question.

Jennifer Egan

The way that Dickens structured his books has a form that we most readily recognize now from, say, the great T.V. series, like 'The Wire' or 'The Sopranos.' There's one central plot line, but then from that spin off all kinds of subplots.

There was central heating at this time, but the fireplace was needed symbolically, as if to say that it was not chilly classical architecture.

There will be no central government like before. There will be decentralized government.