Famous Quotes & Sayings

With an event like this, we always have to take precautions. We're taking the type of precautions we took last year and it went off without a hitch. We're confident it will go off without a hitch this year.

Sarah Lewis

The prohibition from participating in the competitions is not a sanction, but is considered to serve to protect the health of the athlete.

Christine Quinn

When I was running for speaker, people would go out of their way to point out why I wasn't going to win: 'You're a woman, you're too liberal, you're gay, you're from the West Side of Manhattan,' which in that context was an insult.

Gia Coppola

I'm so drawn to photography because you can convey a complex story in a single frame.

Gabourey Sidibe

Precious, she gets hit by life so many different ways and so many times, but she doesn't yield to it. She continues to get up and she continues to struggle for a better life.

George Karl

I think we, as pro coaches, should have a consciousness towards having an image and a role model mentality for kids.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

She did not admire him any more than she had. It was merely that she considered him the Lesser of two evils.

Elizabeth McCracken

Life likes jokes; life is constantly making jokes, even at the most inopportune moments.

Ginni Rometty

The only way you survive is you continuously transform into something else. It's this idea of continuous transformation that makes you an innovation company.

Georg Simmel

For this reason, strangers are not really conceived as individuals, but as strangers of a particular type: the element of distance is no less general in regard to them than the element of nearness.

Geoffrey Canada

In two-parent households, women have increasingly entered the workplace, and in single-parent households, there is even more of a need for the adults to work. That means parents do not fully control their own schedule and have to scramble to find high-quality after-school options.

We have county employees who wanted more money and processed a contract giving themselves more money, ... To me, there is a conflict-of-interest situation that is fairly blatant.

We have considered many strategic options over the last several years and this merger is by far the most attractive.

Robert McCullum

We're still winless in conference play but we've played a number of games that could have gone either way. I feel our fortunes are going to change." ()

Alan Furst

Fast-paced from start to finish, 'The Honourable Schoolboy' is fired by le Carre's conviction regarding evil done and its consequences.

Banks

When I'm writing, it's the weirdest thing: it's not even a conscious process. I'm not even thinking when I write, and then all of a sudden, I'll have a song that makes me feel so much better than I did before.

We urge the government of National Unity to continue to take steps to stop the violence, to promote reconciliation and to maintain momentum on implementation of the comprehensive peace agreement.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

There are those on Wall Street and in the plutocracy who feel that Geithner is a hero who deftly steered the country from economic ruin. To many ordinary Americans, however, he is considered a Wall Street puppet and a servant of the so-called banksters.

Ahmed Zewail

Curiosity - the rover and the concept - is what science is all about: the quest to reveal the unknown.

We have seen the first decommissioning (of GAM weapons) yesterday. We took in about 62 weapons. Today was a much better day. We took in 100 weapons, so we are confident the GAM side will meet its obligations.

This will ensure fairness since the two envisaged regulators have no conflict of interest in the industry.

The party division being addressed is a market positive, but Arroyo staying on will mean continuing political tension.

There are a number of reasons why you do concept vehicles, one of them is to give an early look at intended production vehicles. Sure we thought about doing that.

The photos were very disturbing, and while the content was not a direct threat, we just felt it was important for us to take appropriate disciplinary action.

The petition doesn't hold water. Your concerns do, though.

When you get into the conference tournament you can't rely so much on your offense. There are too many talented teams that defend well.

Mike Shanahan

When you have your second, third or fourth back that knows the system, you can throw him in there every day. That is why it's tough to pick a guy up during the season, because you actually want that guy to contribute to the team.

Roxane Gay

There are all kinds of people who continue to be largely ignored by advertisers, whose lives largely go unseen. They deserve their moment.

When you look at the stronger (applications), they are very, very descriptive in what they're doing. The general consensus was that it was just a weak application. There was nothing unique about the application.

When you look at the enabling technologies for live voice, most consumers have speakers, many have a microphone, but how you get them to work is another thing.

When you look at the contrast between compacts and full-size (SUVs), it has to be driven in part by gas prices, ... Why else would there be such polarity?

We've got to get him stymied and contained somehow, and then we can pin our ears back and focus on getting Henry as uncomfortable as possible.

We've got to get better. My concern is our depth, especially up front.