Famous Quotes & Sayings

While the MEAP scores are not necessarily a reflection of the school system, in general it's the only measurement people look at,

We wanted to put together something that would be used by the general public, but would be used by IDOT personnel or other transportation personnel, as well.

Celso Amorim

We all have a general idea of the numbers, but when we reach this point, it is important to have a precise idea of the numbers.

Wolf populations can generally take a 30 percent mortality rate and stay stable. If this is one year, there's nothing to worry about. If it comes to successive years, we could have a problem.

Up to now we've had the luxury of being able to stow away a lots of resources in terms of money for use in the general election. Now we'll start ramping up.

We are very disappointed that general Mladic is not yet given up to the Hague,

Michael Winterbottom

We are trying to show what happened to them from their point of view. In the end we are just trying to tell the story as it is. To tell the story of these three people, not to tell the general story.

Jeffrey Bewkes

We think it's a general malaise about the (media) sector.

At midnight we'll start our general plowing operation. We will have 150 pieces on the streets.

At this point, it doesn't seem like Suzuki can give General Motors anything that Daewoo can't.

Michael Williams

At the end of the day, what happened in the first 72 hours is going to be generally overshadowed by what happens in the next 12 to 24 months,

At the WTO, it's never a general surgery. It's always a very specific, clinical, precise surgery - and you can't miss the target. If you miss the target, you kill the patient. It's as simple as that.

Wilhelm Ostwald

Consequently, even in this personal special case, the great unity of all science stands out decisively as a general regulative principle.

Dan Glickman

Corn, soy beans, wheat, cattle, things are generally pretty weak all over the place.

John Ortberg

Congregations shaped by the Scriptures generally have preachers who are shaped by the Scriptures.

Damon Hill

Compressor stations are generally safe. We have requirements to make sure the communities these are operating in are safe.

There was a general sense that Site Q might never be found. It might not be a site or it might be a series of sites in the region.

Richard Holbrooke

there's a general sense at the U.N. that process is what this place is all about.

There's a general ill will toward cyclists, unfortunately, from police and the general public. Some people just don't want to share the road.

Jacqueline Winspear

I love dogs, horses and generally all animals.

In general there's more growth outside the U.S. than inside the U.S. in terms of new or expanded markets.

In my experience, these investigations can take years and generally don't have any immediate influence on the fundamentals of the companies.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I mean, movies in general tend to sort of portray time, space and identity as these very solid things. Time moves forward. Space is what it is. You are you, and you're always you.

Cary Fukunaga

I'm better suited to be a director, I think. I see myself as the general author. I hate the word 'auteur,' because it sounds so solitary when filmmaking is anything but solitary.

William Scott

I had actually, at that point, been working with a guy back in L.A. just training with a car; not the General Lee, but other cars.

If you can tolerate it, the trains generally will.

If you live in Tuscaloosa, Ala., and you have to mow your lawn, heat is a problem. This has very general applications.

Michael Nielsen

If you go back to the 17th century, scientists generally weren't rewarded much at all for sharing discoveries, and as a result, they conducted a lot of their research very, very secretively indeed.

I liked what I heard, very much so. We have similar backgrounds from the standpoint of, it took him many years to become a manager and it took me many years to become a general manager. So we're the kind of guys that people would look at as, we've paid our dues, so to speak.

Mike Birbiglia

I'm generally so disoriented during the week about what I'm doing and where I am - I travel a lot - that when I'm home on a Sunday, I typically try to sleep in as much as I can.

I'm generally positive about the market outlook next year, too.

I'm pretty in Cincinnati. I'm not pretty in a general sense.

It's important to look at the all the fees the general partner is going to be charging over the life of the fund.