Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ray Nagin

I don't think that any person can fix FEMA. I think FEMA needs a total restructuring. I think it needs to be taken from scratch and redone. The regulations are outdated; the rules are outdated.

Alaina Huffman

I think the type of actor I am, I tend to play strong leading female characters. The shows I've been on happen to be science fiction genre.

Michelle Paver

I saw myself as a trailblazer in the 1980s as a female lawyer in the City. It was exciting, as women were outnumbered by men five to one. But while I had this sense of trailblazing, in reality, I wasn't pushing boundaries; it was just a personal myth I'd created, as I was doing a job I wasn't enjoying.

Nationally, she is probably the most successful female CEO. She was a big winner in a male-dominated world.

Serena Williams

I'm here to play female tennis. I've never been involved in men's tennis. . . . I wouldn't be tempted.

Carrie Fisher

Females get hired along procreative lines. After 40, we're kind of cooked.

That was awesome. I was really hoping it was going to happen (having three female winners).

Look at our station. We have two shows our 5 p.m. newscast has two female co-anchors and our 5:30 p.m. show has two female co-anchors.

Carrie Underwood

I was hoping for new female vocalist and that's all I was really hanging my hopes on. This is a monumental moment for me, a milestone in my life and my career.

Susan Collins

I tend to think that FEMA should stay at DHS.

We do have people that are looking into it, and we're optimistic that FEMA is going to pick up 100 percent of the cost.

You can give them the right habitat and food, but they may need specific light or heat or moisture or group size, otherwise the female won't ovulate - and it can take years to study that.

Michael Chertoff

willingness to take on the vital task of leading FEMA during this challenging time.

Jared Leto

I understand a lot of the female needs. I'm not saying I know all of them all the time though.

Christian Louboutin

I am interested in all things that celebrate and enhance the female form.

Gregory Maguire

Behold the male beast roaring in the jungle for his mate," said Elphaba. "See how the female beast giggles behind a shrub while she organizes her face to say, Pardon dear, did you say something?

Geraldine Ferraro

You had to be tough to be a female member of Congress.

Estelle

I am a black British female artist, so I must be like Ms Dynamite, I must be like Shystie, I must be like Jamelia, but we're all different.

I don't want to get into names, and I've never been one to worry about male or female or keep track of the numbers game in the different genders,

Wendy Wilson

I do know that we have been contacted by FEMA and they are looking for supply for caskets. I do not know how many. We have told them that we would work with them.

Our female market demographic research showed there were 200 percent more women watching Indians games last season. Grady is the big reason. It's manifested in the 'Mrs. Sizemore' T-shirts.

Mike Ross

Our volunteer fire departments know their needs better than Washington, D.C. They need more flexibility on spending grant money from FEMA and Homeland Security.

Bel Powley

I think that Hollywood misconstrues actresses saying, 'Oh I wanna play a strong female character,' like we all want to play, like, superheroes or something.

Bel Powley

I want to keep playing strong female roles. I don't mean superheroes, but women who are really alive.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

Most female actresses will have a very difficult time being made unattractive.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.

Catherine Asaro

I do sing a bit, a solo called 'Rubies,' and the female vocals on 'In Paradisum,' 'The Sound of Silence,' and 'Sapphire Clouds'.

Leah Busque

I've never thought of myself as a female engineer or founder or a woman in tech. I just think of myself as someone who's passionate.

Lynne Reid Banks

I remember the mid-'50s well. It was when my life changed, and I left acting to become one of the first female television news reporters in the U.K.

Lela Rochon

My husband's a man's man, and he does guy films, and there's rarely any female parts in them, period, but we have some projects that are for me that we hope to do in the near future.

Lolo Jones

If a female is good-looking, it totally decreases her credibility. Now she's not a good athlete - she's only good in these track meets because she's good-looking.

When we're on stage doing a song about positive body image or another about female empowerment, everyone out there is super into it and right there with us. It's been awesome. I feel like we fit right in.

Shirley Chisholm

Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.