Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gary Doer

We've already completed the tests on mercury and fish and . . . so far there's nothing to alarm us,

Matt Nerzig

We find it ironic and alarming that the people who protect the building are paid less than everyone else who works at the building.

Pat Campbell

We're just not getting out of bed until the fourth quarter. We hit the snooze button and the alarm isn't ringing.

Michael Buckley

Ultimately, it was the increase in the amount of cash that he was requiring that set off the alarm bells.

Kevin Mitnick

For the average home-user, anti-virus software is a must. A personal firewall such as Zone Alarm and running a program like HFNetcheck, which is a free download for personal users. It checks your system to see if anything needs to be patched. I'd also recommend a program such as SpyCop to periodically check for any spyware on your system.

Rose George

'MaerskKendal' is a rarity with its British flag, the 'LONDON' home port painted on its bow, its two British chief officers, and its portrait of the queen in the mess room, apparently common courtesy on British ships, but a little alarming to me.

Vladimir Putin

It's alarming that military intervention in internal conflicts in foreign countries has become commonplace for the United States.

Joyce Holliman

When I came out of the apartment Steve was, um -- I had him in a chair. As soon as I opened the door, I was thinking that it was a false alarm or something.

Lucas Sithole

Security guards at the shopping centre heard an alarm early this morning and upon investigation saw smoke coming out of the building, but could not ascertain where the fire was coming from.

David Strickland

If something is bothering you, keep it to yourself.

Louise Leakey

With the discovery of Zinjanthropus at Olduvai Gorge in 1959, my grandmother Mary Leakey pioneered the research in East Africa with my grandfather Louis. Many more spectacular fossil finds have since been made, both in Africa and elsewhere, by many researchers driven to understand our past.

Lisa Cholodenko

Wendy and I both wanted kids, but since we were pushing 40, the clock was ticking.

Maajid Nawaz

I care not to debate which came first, Islamism or anti-Muslim bigotry; suffice to say that both feed into each other symbiotically.

Mackenzie Astin

There is a healthy fraternal rivalry, but nothing serious and we both have been looking for a project to do together. I guess he may direct me in a project some day.

Richard Cohen

The other side said (there are) 799 federal and state laws mandating the use of English. ... We would say those kinds of laws are not at issue here. I think that English is the official language of this country in a practical sense already. And I think that most people who come here both learn English and want to learn English.

Ben Folds

The other reason Rufus and I are great together is that we're both really lazy. The rehearsing, the sound checks -- he's actually worse than I am, and that's something. To get us to do anything other than sit in our dressing rooms is a challenge. Who knows what will happen?

Duncan Chase

The potential is unbelievable with both those girls.

Tarun Das

The potential is huge for them both in sales and production.

Fred Engh

We want them to have clear information about this subject, and resources to call on.

Steve McDonald

We want them to call us. It takes a collaborative effort with our partners.

Chris Bohjalian

The honest answer is more complex. On some level I was sent. Or inspired. Or called. But my calling, such as it was, wasn't a single booming invitation from above (really, is it ever?)...

David Sedaris

I felt uncomfortable calling myself a writer until I started with 'The New Yorker,' and then I was like, 'Okay, now you can call yourself that.

Lucas Till

'Crush' was my first number one on the call sheet.

Louis Stokes

There have been a couple of instances prior to now where members of the House have filed resolutions calling for release of the sealed files which were developed during the course of our committee's investigation.

Lisa Cholodenko

I think I'm interested in these kinds of character dramas, psychological dramas, domestic dramas, whatever you want to call them - comedy dramas.

Michael Moriarty

Film is something that came later into my life. I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as kind of a calling - a vocation.

Marianne Moore

I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.

Alan Ball

Directing is physically exciting because there's a ticking clock, you're working with people, it's very social, it's very enjoyable.

David Mitchell

clocks in disagreement are worse than no clock at all.

Drew Brees

We've already got things lined up, and we'll be rocking and rolling the minute the clock strikes midnight.

Vernon Keenan

We are aggressively pursuing this around the clock and we are making progress in the case,

Mike Hill

There are clocks on there, I notice, but you still don't know what time it is.

David Cole

We're in a time where the clock is moving much more quickly on GM. I think they're fortunate to have Jerry because this thing is going to be played out in the next six months, not the next five years.

Chadwick Boseman

You have to cherish things in a different way when you know the clock is ticking, you are under pressure.

Chris Villarrial

We were a smash-mouth team. We'd dink and dunk you down the field and every once in a while we'd go for the big play. We were very conservative, working the clock all the time.

Michael Chertoff

We're racing the clock in terms of possible injury. We're racing the clock in terms of illness, and we're racing the clock to get them food and water.

David Sedaris

But I'm a humorist. I'm not a reporter, I never pretended to be a reporter.

Phil Bronstein

We stand by our reporters and the reporting they did.

Tony Fratto

We're always willing to talk about how to make reports like this as useful as possible.

George Meyer

We are a 24-hour department. If you see something amiss, report it immediately. Timing is very important,

Anthony Chan

Nothing in this report tells things are running out of control.

Jean-Marie Lehn

My first scientific paper in 1961 reported an additivity rule for substituent-induced shifts of proton NMR signals in steroid derivatives.

Ronald Biggs

One report said that since my time on the run I've had 2,500 girlfriends. I mean you got to realize, I've been on the run for more than 30 years, I have got to have had more than that!

Kent Cooper

One tribe has been reported with over 75 different names.

Dr. Shannon

I am thrilled to report we have had terrific success overnight.

Hugh Johnson

There are big risks when you get leveraged,

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

If you take risks and face your fate with dignity, there is nothing you can do that makes you small; if you don't take risks, there is nothing you can do that makes you grand, nothing.

Azouz Ennifar

There are risks that it doesn't work and there are risks that it works.

Doug Pritchard

We know the risks involved. It's very much a part of our training.

Benny Gray

We were going to get the people. We take risks all the time firefighting, but we didn't want to get shot.

Jimmie Johnson

It's just one of the risks that go with it.

Thomas Wilson

These risks are uninsurable because they are not predictable,

David Wallace

and take risks whenever you think it is right.

Sam Cowart

When you take thorough beatings on the road twice, that's a concern.

Denise Juneau

When you're educated, you must offer others a road to success.

Brian Hill

We've always said there's something better down the road waiting for you. It wasn't the right time or the right place.

Mike Koepp

We're going to have to be road warriors from here on out.

John Adams

Since the road has been changed, that's just let everything come off the park.

Bob McKenzie

There are a lot of considerations, especially on a road that is as traveled as I-15.

Wanda Sykes

When I'm not on T.V. or working on a movie, I'm on the road doing stand-up. That's my roots.

Tom Tupa

She's doing great, ... She's completely done with all her treatments, and she's on the road to recovery.

Brad Paisley

I've been on the road I think probably three years.

Elizabeth Jennings

I hate a word like 'pets': it sounds so much Like something with no living of its own.

Tom Peters

I know it sounds crazy, but you've got to let what you're going to do find you, rather than you pursuing it.

Marney Cox

On the one hand, it sounds like we may be a little weaker going into 2006.

Kathryn Prescott

When you hear someone say something homophobic, it really ages them. It sounds old-fashioned.

Robert Blake

I'd like to say that I said that because it sounds lovely. But I have no recollection that I said that.

Cindy Davidsmeyer

I did talk to him (after the angioplasty) and he sounds wonderful.

Ben Howland

He didn't want to go. Sounds just like coach.

Martin Freeman

I think acting is all about the other people. Sounds like a worthy thing to say, but it's true.

Adam Jones

If I play anything that sounds like a solo, it's gonna sound like a lyric.

Jan Egeland

It's even more urgent than it was in these other hurricanes or tsunamis.