Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Regan

We want to totally reconfigure this model so that the purchasers have available information before they make a purchase. Our concern is how soon can consumers get the info how soon can NMVTIS get the information. If we're dependent on federal agencies, we're not going to get it as fast as if the private sector is allowed to leverage that info manage it and interpret it and send it back out.

Bud Morris

We want to show the community that there are things happening at our college that are directly benefiting the community. This will also allow our students to interact directly with the public.

Lorraine Toussaint

My job as an actor is to cover and expose in varying allowance that - so that the audience can peek through the window to the people I create.

Michael Weatherly

I had done a couple of plays, but I was a clueless boob. 'Cosby' allowed me to have something on my resume that was real and then the producers of 'Guiding Light' let me play a preppy killer just the following month. Suddenly I had two gigs on my resume that made me look like a real actor, although I was far from it.

Mads Mikkelsen

I've never been specifically attached to westerns, but there are those I like - one of the best westerns I've seen is 'Unforgiven.' I think the genre has something extremely powerful that can allow them to talk about good and evil in a very straight way.

John Bolton

The outcome document represents an important step in a long process of U.N. reform, ... We cannot allow the reform effort to be derailed or run out of steam.

Clint Stretch

The other thing it does is allow him to keep the focus on Social Security in the waning days of this Congress, ... If you put this proposal out at the end of July, the conversation shifts.

James Kelly

The position of the Teamsters continues to be unrealistic. That position does not allow us to compete, ... make the difficult decisions that we have to make going forward.

Julie Andrews

The pleasure is in being allowed to play in so many different sandboxes.

Louis Stokes

There is one instance that we cite in the report where in one of the conversations a member of organized crime is talking to another member of organized crime and he suggests that Attorney General Kennedy should be murdered.

Carter Phillips

We are pleased to welcome these two accomplished attorneys to the firm. Bill and Jim both have impressive track records handling the increasingly complex regulatory and litigation issues that are critical to our client base. I look forward to their contributions to the continued growth and success of our energy practice.

Howard Opinsky

We are pleased the judge has ordered A.I.G. to share with Mr. Greenberg the report created under threat from the attorney general. Unlike the attorney general, the judge clearly understands Mr. Greenberg's right to review this material.

Henry Mazurek

Whenever you appeal, it's a little bit of an uphill battle. But it's a real issue an appellate court will take some time to decide and an issue the district attorney would rather not have.

Jeanine Pirro

Whether it was my first campaign for district attorney in 1993 or my most recent re-election in 2001, your support has been a source of comfort and proved to be critically important to my election victories,

George Hood

We're going to let our attorneys review the ruling and see what we can do to get our port built. Obviously, there are more hurdles we have to jump.

E. Hurley

We're going to have to consult with the attorney general and our legal staff to see where we'll take it from this point.

Michelle Meredith

Yes, but the Attorney General's office is not investigating Channel 2. They're investigating your company though.

Ronnie Musgrove

Important state legislative races and statewide elections for offices like Lt. Governor and Attorneys General are often overshadowed by gubernatorial and federal elections.

Linda Shelton

We want them to grow up and have a solid psychological and physiological basis for success. I love to move more than life, and want to empower girls and women to feel the joy of movement.

John Connell

We are seeing certain markets where housing costs and rents are going up on a monthly basis because of limited inventory, especially in developing Eastern European markets and major centers such as London, Paris and Moscow.

Terence Gabriel

We are probably going to see another 75 basis points.

Mike Street

We are pleased to have concluded the basis and substance of a deal with Gate Gourmet. The key to unlocking this dispute now lies firmly in the hands of Gate Gourmet and the Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU). They must sort out their differences for the good of our customers and the employees of Gate Gourmet.

Wu Bangguo

There are both solid basis and immense potentials for cooperation between China and Morocco. Enhancing cooperation in various fields will definitely bring tangible benefits to the people of the two countries and play an important role in facilitating world peace, stability and development.

David Brown

We still think that the bigger 50 basis points move is the odds on favorite judging by the current strength of the euro,

Scott Snyder

We still see more value in the Asia-Pacific region than in the U.S. market, where people are still panicking over inflation. On a 15- to 20-year basis for a country like Japan, which has had years of market turmoil, there is certainly still room to run.

David Sobel

Where the basis of the request comes from is that the government itself has revealed nothing about these initiatives. The objective here is to move beyond unnamed DOT sources to really make public on an official basis some of the details.

Hiram Rhodes Revels

We are in the midst of an exciting canvass... I am working very hard in politics as well as in other matters. We are determined that Mississippi shall be settled on a basis of justice and political and legal equality.

Pat Taylor

We actually collected about 40.5 million with about 7 million dollars pledged

James Calvin

We don't have any doubt that, in one way or another, the taxes on sales to non-Indians are going to be collected by New York. The question is: How soon?

Stjepan Hauser

When I was a kid, I collected cactuses. I had hundreds of different kinds in my room. I was a weird child. Everyone was playing football, and I was collecting cactuses. I spent all my money on them. I had so many colors and shapes. I even gave them names.

Don Brownlee

We found mineral grains that are considered very high-temperature minerals -- they normally form under extremely high temperature conditions. And yet they were collected in a comet, the Siberia of the solar system.

Mukul Krishna

Unless the French government comes up with something more concrete, saying that the $8.50 will be collected and distributed in such a way so that all the stakeholders welcome this new distribution medium, this won't go through.

Michael Devine

We know how much was collected and how much is unclaimed.

Sarah Wilson

She played a great game. She made a ton of saves and collected all the rebounds.

Carol Miller

So far this year we have taken in 108.5 tons of recyclable versus the estimated 65.6 tons collected last year.

W. G. Sebald

In school I was in the dark room all the time, and I've always collected stray photographs; there's a great deal of memory in them.

Graeme Souness

The other pleasing points are that we've got through and won a tie 5-1 when we've played, first after only two weeks, and then after only 17 days of training.

Robert Kabushenga

The posters are depicting government in a negative light and this comes only a few days to the polling day.

Rick Michaels

We are pleased that we were able to reach record production levels, despite losing several days due to the holidays.

Dusty Baker

There are days when you don't have your premier stuff,

Donna Wisniewski

There are days they pick up two or three, but there's days that they come in with over 40 of them.

Walt Harris

There are days the offensive line looks like they're putting it together. At times we see the light at the end of the tunnel. They're starting to respond, but they've got to grow up fast.

Jody Conradt

There are days it's really been fun. And there are days when it's really been, well ... trying.

Karen Allen

There are days he just reads my mind.

Nicky Byrne

There are some days when you just want to push Shane off his chair.

David Potts

We are looking to be respectable in our division and make the league playoffs again, ... We have a good nucleus of returning players and plenty of experience gained from last year?s run in the league and district playoffs.

Tim Mueller

There are some exciting things happening in the park district, and I'm having a lot of fun. I love the work, and being a part of what the park district provides for the community. It keeps me going.

Chuck D.

We started off slow and then put it together to get our scoring going. It's good to be 3-0 at this time in district play.

Emma Brooks

We started off a little slow, but we picked it up. We just executed the way we practiced. It's good to start district off on a positive note.

Tommy Aldridge

We started four sophomores that year and we played in a national tournament in Tennessee. When we went into the lobby where the teams were, it looked like a lobby of WNBA players. We split our games in Tennessee (going 2-2) and I was proud of that. We went 22-12 and won the district championship.

Cynthia Zea

We start district Tuesday. The games we missed out on are games you just won't get to prepare.

Kevin Ford

What the school district is doing here . . . is prohibiting a student from quoting the Bible.

Ken Perkins

When you say a school and a district is going to be judged on this, and then it's not a valid test, that doesn't seem right.

Matt Jones

We were too loose. We just talked about ending the district schedule on a good note. We wanted to come in here and win at Bloomington. This has always been tough place for us to play.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is far better to borrow experience than to buy it.

Chogyam Trungpa

One has to taste an experience for oneself and find out if the thing is genuine or helpful. Then, before discarding something, one has to go further, so that one gets firsthand experience.

Lukas Haas

It was a wonderful experience to work with Sylvia. She pushed me to be more powerful with my acting, and she told me scores of the most incredible stories I've ever heard. She is amazing.

Lorraine Toussaint

I hope that whenever my daughter has a negative experience, I'm there to talk about it and remind her how we feel when it's done to her so that she doesn't do it to others.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The person who has lived the most is not the one who has lived the longest, but the one with the richest experiences

Mike Cisco

We've all had experience to this point, which has been good.

Diana DeGarmo

West Side Story. It's a totally new experience for me. I've always loved theater.

African Proverb

We start as fools and become wise through experience

Dan Brooks

When you've got talent from top to bottom, everybody's playing to count. It's a tremendous experience to play without that mental cushion.

Charles Stross

I don't do football. (Grew up in Leeds in the 1970s. Football there was indellibly associated with the National Front, i.e. violent fascist skinheads.)

Alan Pardew

I tried to push him away with my head. I apologise to everyone. I should not have got involved in it.

Alan Pardew

Shut your noise, you old c***!

Alan Page

How on earth can otherwise sensible people get so involved in a football game? You could measure the lasting impact on the lives of the people who played it at just about zero.

Alan Page

The way to be successful is through preparation. It doesn't just happen. You don't wake up one day and discover you're a lawyer any more than you wake up as a pro football player. It takes time.

Alan Hansen

I think if Tottenham are going to be top four side, the fans and the club will need to get away from the philosophy of 'pretty football', that's got to go.

Alan Hansen

I don't miss playing football, but I do miss going into the dressing room every day and having a laugh.

Alan Green

Phil Dowd checks his whistle and blows his watch.

Alan Green

Ziege hits it high for Heskey who isn't playing

Ted Engstrom

Excellence is a process that should occupy all our days.

Alison Moyet

I was writing and I have three kids. I was occupying my time with them but it was difficult.

Massimo Moratti

I do not want to occupy this position if someone else thinks he could do better. If there is a buyer, I will sell the club.

Isabelle Holland

As long as you don't forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy rent-free space in your mind.

Ignatius of Loyola

Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others.

Yemane Gebremeskel

They can't say the war is over when they still occupy sovereign Eritrean territory.

Ovid

Occupy yourself, and you will be out of harm's way.

Jock Sturges

My hope is that the work is in some way counter-pinup. A pinup asks you to suspend interest in who the person is and occupy yourself entirely with looking at the body and fantasizing about what you could do with that body, completely ignoring how the person might feel about it.

James Purefoy

When you're dealing with killing people and things that are upsetting, that can be a delicate place to occupy yourself for a day.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

A multitude of people and yet solitude.

Charles Dickens

My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.

Charles Dickens

Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.

Charles Dickens

Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Soule

Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows?

Deb Caletti

Because that’s how it works after something terrible has happened. You know this is true if something terrible has ever happened to you. A thousand objects take on new meaning. Everything is a reminder of something else.

Kathryn Schulz

Regret doesn't remind us that we did badly. It reminds us that we know we can do better.

Jonathan Safran Foer

When a book remembers, we remember. It reminds you that you have a body. So many of the things we may think of as burdensome are actually the things that make us more human.

Larry Ellison

Maui reminded me of San Diego: beautiful, but crowded.

George Jessel

This case reminds me of one in which I likened the Plaintiff's case to a colander, because it was so full of holes.

Alexandra Stoddard

Put a picture of yourself as a child in view somewhere, to remind yourself to be playful.

Gene Ween

You know, it's absolutely connected to The Mollusk in that, it's what we're writing after The Mollusk. A lot of this stuff reminds me of things on The Mollusk.

Scott Weiss

I don't like sweating the details, and I'm pretty disorganized. To be a better leader, I need to stay on top of these shortcomings, and being reminded really helps.

CeeLo Green

My first rap name was Ralo. Because my first name is Carlos. I likened myself to what Busta Rhymes was doing when he first came out. And what Onyx did when they first came out - they reminded me of me.

Charles Dickens

Marley was dead, to begin with ... This must be distintly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate.

Alan Rickman

The point about a great story is that it's got a beginning, a middle and end.

Alan Rickman

It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.

Alan Rickman

I like it when stories are left open.

Alan Moore

This is an IMAGINARY STORY...aren't they all?

Alan Moore

Everybody has their story to tell.

Alan Ball

I really love storytelling, and I love the stories as they reveal themselves. It's an incredibly nourishing process; it's probably the closest I come to having a religion.

Chris Cleave

Our stories are the tellers of us.

Chris Cleave

We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.

Edward Hirsch

There's been no poet, no great poet in the history of poetry who hasn't also been a great reader of poetry. This is sometimes distressing to my students when I tell them this.

Elizabeth Olsen

I've always loved being a student.

Carol Kane

It's very hard to remain a student in life.

Bob Inglis

I voted for the Deficit Reduction Package with significant heartburn over the student aid provisions.

Paul Kohn

We're going to take a look at all the qualifications that all of the students bring.

Steve Gray

Three years ago, I had 18 students, ... and this year I have 44.

Jane Jacobs

One wonders at the docility of the students who evidently must be satisfied enough with the credentials to be uncaring about the lack of education.

Jan Morris

To the stern student of affairs, Beirut is a phenomenon, beguiling perhaps, but quite, quite impossible.

Carmen Davis

There are unhappy parents, students and staff. The only ones who are happy are the administration.

Charles Caleb Colton

Where thou perceivest knowledge, bend the ear of attention and respect; But yield not further to the teaching, than as thy mind is warranted by reasons. Better is an obstinant disputant, that yieldeth inch by inch, Than the shallow traitor to himself, who surrendereth to half an argument.

Charles Caleb Colton

When you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Charles Stanley

If you tell God no because He won't explain the reason He wants you to do something, you are actually hindering His blessing. But when you say yes to Him, all of heaven opens to pour out His goodness and reward your obedience. What matters more than material blessings are the things He is teaching us in our spirit.

Charles Spurgeon

I am content to live and die as the mere repeater of Scriptural teaching - as a person who has thought out nothing and invented nothing - but who concluded that he was to take the message from the lips of God to the best of his ability and simply to be a mouth for God to the people. - mourning much that anything of his own should come between - but never thinking that he was somehow to refine the message or to adapt it to the brilliance of this wonderful century and then to hand it out as being so much his own that he might take some share of the glory of it.

Charles Spurgeon

Rest assured that the most fervid revivalism will wear itself out in mere smoke, if it be not maintained by the fuel of teaching.... Sound teaching is the best protection for the heresies which ravage right and left among us.

Charles Spurgeon

If there is any verse that you would like left out of the Bible, that is the verse that ought to stick to you, like a blister, until you really attend to its teaching.

Alan Greenspan

If we are to remain preeminent in transforming knowledge into economic value, America's system of higher education must remain the world's leader in generating scientific and technological breakthrough, and in meeting the challenge to educate workers.

Alan Bradley

TV and film taught me to think cinematically. Teaching others to edit, for example, provides a great deal of insight into the millions of ways in which given elements can be put together to tell a story.

Alan Arkin

"What I've learned about teaching is to refer back to the root of that word, which is educo, which means "to pull from." Education does not mean jamming information into somebody's head. Rather, it's that ancient idea that all knowledge is within us; to teach is to help somebody pull it out of themselves."

James Salter

West Pointers tend to be rigorously honest - more than necessary, in my view.

Nina Hoss

In Germany, actors tend to be more laid-back and take orders from the director: 'Tell me what you want.' I'm more into collaboration. So are Americans.

Andy Serkis

When we, as humans, articulate, our tongues tend to hit the back of the teeth.

Nobu Matsuhisa

When I'm dining out privately, I tend to avoid fine-dining venues; I like things to feel casual.

Laurie Helgoe

I am very troubled by the tendency to define introverts by what they lack. Introversion is a preference, not a fallback plan.

Timothy Noah

Moderates tend more than ideologues to be other-directed types who respond to external pressure.

Mark Noll

When I'm thinking like a historian, I tend to be a little depressed. But when I'm thinking like a Christian, I tend to be optimistic.

Bryan Cogman

I tend to work in coffee shops. I need to get out of the house, and, well, I need the coffee.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

All actors tend to be the same messed-up people.

Charles Spurgeon

Thankfulness makes much of little.

David Mitchell

I remain thankful to God for all his mercies.

Chris Linsley

We're so thankful that we've been able to have what's a speedy recovery.

Brian Tracy

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

Nathan Kress

I'm thankful to say that I already have my dream job. I wouldn't trade it for anything.

Ben Saunders

What's the nastiest injury I've sustained? Just a frostbitten toe... but thankfully it's still intact.

Aldous Huxley

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

Babette March

I came to New York with $500 and I had to live on that, but thankfully I was taken up by photographers quickly.

Albert Schweitzer

Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude.

Stephen Kinzer

It is never wise to discourage youthful idealism.