Famous Quotes & Sayings

We are determined to improve the economic environment by getting foreign investors in and by cutting red tape.

Abraham Lincoln

In so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so that every poor man may have a home.

Carrie Vaughn

It’s only a scratch, don’t cut my arm off!

Carl Safina

Try to cut down drastically on plastic. Recycle. Use less energy and more renewable energy. We can all live better by doing better for ourselves and the sea!

Antoine Fuqua

The violence you witness is Denzel doing it and we're taking some visual effects and doing some things and you see something happen it's happening in front of you as opposed to cutting away and doing a bunch of tricks. It's in front of you. So it's hard not to make it a hard "R" if you see a guy get punched and teeth wind up in someone's knuckles.

Bill Vaughan

The suburb is a place where someone cuts down all the trees to build houses, and then names the streets after the trees.

Bill Burr

When you say, "there's no reason [to hit a woman]" that kills any examination as to how two people ended up at that place. When you say, "there's no reason," you cut out the build-up and you're just left with the act. How you gonna solve it if you don't figure it out?

We're working on cutting down on our turnovers. We're getting better but we had a lull there in the second.

Robert Pozen

We're really reducing the potential inflow, not cutting it off,

Most of them get three cuttings of good hay. This year most got just one or two and the second cutting wasn't very good.

While the effects of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita will be felt in the short term, we remain on a path to meet the president's goal of cutting the deficit in half by 2009,

Bill Walsh

Jim's a dynamic man with incredible determination, willpower and energy. He's the ultimate in a driven person who has high expectations. The people around him respond. He's on the cutting edge with an outstanding football mind.

David Foster

I'm still sawing and cutting underhand and it seems to be getting better,

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

When one is building a ship, one does not begin with gathering timber and cutting planks, but rather by arousing in people the yearning for the great wide sea.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Cooking isn’t taught,” Patch said. “It’s inherent. Either you’ve got it or you don’t. Like chemistry. You think you’re ready for chemistry?” I pressed the knife down through the tomato; it split in two, each half rocking gently on the cutting board. “You tell me. Am I ready for chemistry?” Patch made a deep sound I couldn’t decipher and grinned.

We can all be proud we're the first here, and cutting new ground.

We aren't going to be cutting any residential trees. Upon further review of the science, the (U.S. Department of Agriculture) decided it would be would be pointless.... You just can't keep going into people's yards for the next 50 years.

We are disappointed that we lost but I am proud of the effort the kids gave. I think we are cutting back on our mistakes and progressing each game.

It doesn't indicate that households are going to dramatically start cutting back spending, but this does tells us that consumption, at least in this quarter, isn't going to be that great,

We're cutting new ground. It's something to be proud of. We're talking about nine institutions, eight markets, seven states and a very wide footprint.

Mike Woodson

We got complacent. That's what happens in games like this. We did everything to get the lead right away by sharing the ball, cutting and setting screens. But when they stiffened up their defense, we just settled.

William Shakespeare

There is Throats to be cut, and Works to be done.

Possibly the flooding was triggered by the cutting down of trees higher up the hill. But we don't know yet for sure.

David Nevins

I'm always interested in trying to stay on the cutting edge of television storytelling. To be slightly in front, pushing for the next new thing.

Kit Bond

If Americans are not using cutting edge technology to extract raw materials efficiently, or produce record harvests, they are losing their jobs.

From their point of view, there's no inflation danger. The main risk is to slow growth, and they should keep cutting rates.

Paul Brooks

If it's worth cutting a tree for, it's worth doing right.

Thomas Miller

Here we had someone who had blatantly failed to follow the plan for the sake of cutting costs.

Reggie Sanders

I think it is the cutting (with his weakened ankle),

He can't and he knows he can't because it's about cutting wages,

Melanie Mayron

I co-wrote and produced 'Sticky Fingers' with Catlin Adams, who directed it. I learned a lot writing and producing with Cat. I spent as much time as I could in the cutting room with her. All the producing experience that I had helped.

Waivers make it more difficult. No manager wants to lose a player for nothing. To lose a player after you've invested all this time and money in him is like cutting your nose off to spite your face.

Dick Armey

We're going to have a tax cut. Today's American family is overtaxed at all levels.