Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Palmer

We started this thing (the Josh Palmer Fund) to help people who were hurting and were in need of a helping hand. There's nobody hurting as much in this country right now as those people whose lives have been devastated by Hurricane Katrina. Although our primary mission is to help young people afflicted by cancer and ultimately to find a cure for cancer, these people need help right now and we're going to do our best to help the American Red Cross help them.

Barry Ritholtz

When you stop and think about it, if the Fed were to pause, what does it actually do for anybody ... in the afflicted Gulf region? At this point they're more concerned with basic food and shelter and not really comparison-shopping for mortgages.

David Shuster

Most of us entered journalism and joined 'news organizations' because we care about the greater good. We strive to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

There are plenty of African-Americans in this country - and I would say this goes right up to the White House - who are not by any means poor, but are very much afflicted by white supremacy.

Atharva Veda

If only he had known the truth, all that grief could have been avoided. So too, until you know that all are altars where the name God is installed and all are moved and motivated by the Grace of the self-same God, you are afflicted by hate and pride; once you know it and experience it, you are full of Love and reverence to all.

Barry Ritholtz

If the Fed were to pause, what does it actually do for anybody ... in the afflicted Gulf region? At this point they're more concerned with basic food and shelter and not really comparison-shopping for mortgages.

Caitlin Moran

Our world is afflicted by poverty. Don't spend all this money on clothes!

F. Sionil Jose

Like so many poor Ilokanos, my grandparents left their village, for it could no longer sustain them. The Ilocos is a narrow coastal plain where, so often, the mountain drops to the sea. Land hunger had always afflicted the Ilokanos and made them migratory.

Gregory Maguire

In a sense, 'Out of Oz' is an examination of how individuals keep going, keep reinventing themselves and their lives, even after life-altering complications have afflicted them.

Bengie Molina

We know who we've got to go against. All we've got to think about is us. It's a big deal, a big thing. If we think about anybody else, we're in trouble. If we think about us all the time and about winning games, we should be okay.

Gary Sheffield

We know what this is about, regardless of what anybody says. They've had their way with us pretty much this year, and we have to go out and change that in our favor.

Hugh Douglas

We know we're not going to slip up on anybody this year. Last year the battle cry was, 'We think we can.' Now it's 'We have to get it done.' We're not the hunters any more. We're the hunted. Teams are going to come after us.

Mark Gainforth

We know we're not going surprise anybody this year. That's good and bad. It makes us play knowing that we can't have one letdown the whole journey.

Michael Bertram

We know we can play with anybody in the league. We definitely know right now that we can play with anybody in the conference or the country.

Darius Jr

We know we can play with anybody in the country. We just want to play and keep playing. If we play our best, we think we're hard to beat.

Bobby Jones

We know how good we can play and we know how bad we can play. We know we can't take anybody lightly.

Tom Izzo

The only reason I'd say no to that is because it's the type of player he is. We have other guys that can fill in in certain spots, but it's the athlete, it's the versatile 6-6, 6-7 athlete that can guard inside guys and guards, and that's where it creates some problems for us. It's not really replacing apples to apples. Anybody else that we replace him with is a completely different kind of athlete.

Roderick Wilmont

The positive today is that we just know we can play with anybody at any time. Going into next week, we'll start it all over again. Everybody will be back to 0-0.

Clifford Jordan

We want to serve our state and our country, that's basically it.

Robert Glauber

We know from research we've conducted that a high percentage of service men and women lack basic financial knowledge.

Nancy Giles

Waiting. Waiting. What would you do if your family was starving and you saw people dying in the streets? 'Love thy neighbor.' Didn't I read that somewhere? The real war is not in Iraq, but right here in America. It's the War on Poverty, and it's a war that's been ignored and lost. An estimated 37 million Americans are living in poverty. New Orleans is one of the poorest cities in the country, with 40 percent of its children living in poverty. Mississippi has the highest poverty rate of any state. We've repeatedly given tax cuts to the wealthiest and left our most vulnerable American citizens to basically fend for themselves.

Mark Ferguson

Vernal pools can be found in a number of places. From high-elevation saddles between mountaintops down to flood plains in the Champlain Valley. Basically any place that will hold water for three or four months at a time is a potential breeding site.

Jose Ferreira

Venture capitalists buy minority positions in young companies they think will grow quickly; buy-out investors buy most or all of companies they think can be turned around by fixing a few basic things.

Robby Reasonover

Vaughn does a good job driving and trying to draw a foul. We tried to press some, but we mostly stayed with our basic man defense.

Lukas Haas

I was in Kansas for about a month, and we worked most of the time in a very small town, so it felt like the production basically took the whole town over. In a way, we were the Martians in Kansas.

Louis Navellier

I'm from Berkeley, California, so I'm fully trained in socialism and all, but basically what they teach you there is markets are efficient and we can't beat them, so we might as well index.

Louis Sachar

'The Cardturner,' while it has bridge in it, you certainly don't need to know how to play bridge to read it. It's basically a book about relationships - between Alton and his great-uncle, and Alton and his friends, and how it changes his life.

Bubba Franks

We know we're not that far out of it, but all we're concerned with is winning games. And that's going to happen one game at a time,

Rick Carlisle

We know he's going to play because he plays, but we're concerned about it because it is his shooting hand.

John Street

very concerned that all of his years of public service are going to be compromised by the current situation.

Jack Straw

very concerned indeed about the human rights situation.

Steny Hoyer

very concerned by OPM's announcement tonight of a significant increase in health insurance premium costs.

Kofi Annan

very concerned about the military build-up and expressed his readiness for dialogue.

Carlton Dotson

very concerned about his well-being at this time.

Louise Bourgeois

Even though what I do does enter the market, it doesn't interest me. I am exclusively concerned with the formal qualities of my work. It is about the need and the right to self-expression.

Linda Johnson

The people who voted yes understood the issue, and that is really what we are concerned about. I think it speaks for itself.

John Cain

We know we've got to have that 20 percent (to be used as the city's match for a federal 80 percent grant).

Joseph Biden

Ultimately, all the federal government does is not going to be able to get the job done without your aid.

Trot Nixon

We started off sluggish. But we fed off our fans.

David Hockney

I'm fed up with being bossed around.

Ben Bernanke

The Federal Reserve is not currently forecasting a recession.

Ben Bernanke

The Fed is totally open.

Diane Swonk

We have seen a softer tone in their write-ups. I think there is a real sense that the Fed is going to stay on the sidelines.

Jason Chaffetz

We have seen an outrageous increase in the size, scope, and intrusiveness of the federal government.

Fran Quigley

We have no idea. We will never know, because so much being done by the federal government now is shrouded in secrecy.

Charles Dudley Warner

Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.

Charles de Gaulle

How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?

Charles Dickens

Hallo! A great deal of steam! the pudding was out of the copper. A smell like a washing-day! That was the cloth. A smell like an eating-house and a pastrycook's next door to each other, with a laundress's next door to that. That was the pudding.

Charles Simmons

He who feasts every day, feasts no day.

Roger Morris

Venissa is a perfect destination for day-trippers from Venice proper who are searching for great food and a little adventure; it's a 30-minute jaunt by vaporetto from St. Mark's, quicker by water taxi.

Diane von Furstenberg

Italy will always have the best food.

Dave Barry

In Spain, attempting to obtain a chicken salad sandwich, you wind up with a dish whose name, when you look it up in your Spanish-English dictionary, turns out to mean: Eel with big abcess.

Catherine Bertini

We need a new definition of malnutrition. Malnutrition means under- and over-nutrition. Malnutrition means emaciated and obese.

Kathleen Blanco

The power is out, the phones are down and there is no food or water, and many trees are down.

Richard LaBounty

We bounced back after a tough loss to Gulf Breeze. I'm very proud of our approach.

John Herrlin

Unless the winter is polar, Gulf of Mexico natural-gas output will be back.

Bill Zollars

Many of the local programs funded by United Way will play an important role in helping hurricane victims who fled the Gulf Coast, and have at least temporarily relocated here.

J. Taylor

If all the steel is heading to the Gulf for rebuilding because of (Hurricane) Katrina, it could increase our costs.

Bill Parsons

You just can't watch it on TV and get a feel for the devastation that I've seen down here on the Gulf Coast. It's just unbelievable,

Richard Pasch

Right now what we're forecasting is for it to become a tropical storm and move into the northern Gulf of Mexico.

Sophie B. Hawkins

I am so proud to be partnering with Waterkeepers, who are the voice for the Gulf Coast's waters.

Bill Maher

There is good news. Scientists sent a probe down there in the Gulf of Mexico today and they found traces of seawater.

Diana Nyad

The highs were high, the awe, I'm not a religious person, but I'll tell you, to be in the azure blue of the Gulf Stream as if, as you're breathing, you're looking down miles and miles and miles, to feel the majesty of this blue planet we live on, it's awe-inspiring.

Satya Pradhuman

The point is, we're not out of the woods yet,

Michael Vickers

The point is to stop it (illegal immigration), and if we have to do it ourselves, we're going to do everything we can to stop it.

Craig Martin

The point is to get it right, not necessarily to get it done early.

Father Thomas

The point is that we are not at a place yet where we can say one way or the other.

Livan Hernandez

The point is, it's now or never. You try to make the playoffs.

Jan Egeland

The point here is it could have been avoided. It didn't have to reach these proportions.

Jim Clarke

We are at the point where we have succeeded in accomplishing what we wanted to do.

Tom Renney

We have to get to the point where he thinks he could play, and I don't think we're at that point.

Michael Ondaatje

You're getting everyone's point of view at the same time, which, for me, is the perfect state for a novel: a cubist state, the cubist novel.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

There is no shelter in you anywhere.

Joe Thornton

There are a lot of distractions with homecoming. Hopefully, we can shelter them as much as we can from that.

Charles R. Swindoll

God presents the Sabbath rest as a shelter we can enter. (Hebrews 4:1-11)

Armistead Maupin

I tend to prefer the shelter of fiction.

Alice Morse Earle

When the first settlers landed on American shores, the difficulties in finding or making shelter must have seemed ironical as well as almost unbearable.

Alice Munro

A story ... has a sturdy sense of itself of being built out of its own necessity, not just to shelter or beguile you.

Aloe Blacc

What do you actually need? Food, clothing and shelter. Everything else is entertainment.

David Spade

Staying in a hotel this time. They put me up in a little bit of a shithole. Yeah. Just this side of rinky dink. The first 7 floors are a homeless shelter, but I'm on 8.

Dee Crumpler

It's not a shelter problem. It's a community-wide problem.

Kevin Nursick

Vehicles are being stopped and inspected as they should be.

Jimmy Kennedy

We've got a new attitude. We want to stop the run.

Jim Schaus

We're going to have three of these pep rallies here. Nothing's going to stop this team now.

Joe Spraggins

We're just trying to get them all up because we want to stop another problem.

Alanis Morissette

How about not equating death with stopping?

Charles R. Swindoll

Learning more truth is a poor and cheap substitute for stopping and putting into action the truth already learned

Ed Pastor

Stopping Vieques bombing range good; sooner is better.

Isaiah Tucker

We're going down there and going down to win and we're not stopping until we do that.

Barbara Warren

She wouldn't be around if she hadn't stopped smoking,