Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gary Beard

We want to present valuable information about the disease and the potential consequences if it occurs in the United States, and more specifically, the effect it could have on Alabama's $8 billion poultry industry. Our speakers will present everything you need to know about bird flu and some things you may not want to know.

Chris Gent

We have no plans to sell Japan Telecom's fixed business for three billion or any other number.

Jeff Sessions

When figures start flowing up to $200 billion, I have concerns, ... $1 billion is a lot of money.

Joshua Schwartz

We have resources to do $200 billion in contracts, but we are spending $400 billion in contracts.

Samir Mathur

The problem with the classical theory is that you could use any combination of particles to make the black hole -- protons, electrons, stars, planets, whatever -- and it would make no difference. There must be billions of ways to make a black hole, yet with the classical model the final state of the system is always the same.

Kenneth Johnson

The people moving in to Cook County every year make $1.2 billion less than those moving out.

Tim Bray

Enterprise Systems, I mean. And not just a little bit, either. Orders of magnitude wrong. Billions and billions of dollars worth of wrong. Hang-our-heads-in-shame wrong. It's time to stop the madness.

Kofi Annan

We know from experience that if the international community does not support these control measures now, the potential cost to the world will be much higher in the long term. Past outbreaks have already cost more than $10 billion in economic losses.

Elon Musk

From an evolutionary standpoint, human consciousness has not been around very long. A little light just went on after four and a half billion years. How often does that happen? Maybe it is quite rare.

Dan Smith

The reality is much like you've heard about the Jordan River. There are some not-so-good things in that water that could be potentially dangerous to our divers.

Dean Steward

The reality is, federal penitentiaries are violent and dangerous places and all of these guys - white guys - are a small minority and they're just trying to survive.

Dean Steward

The reality is, federal penitentiaries are violent and dangerous places, and all of these guys -- white guys -- are a small minority and they're just trying to survive.

Bruce Bochy

We know how dangerous he is. And we don't want to make a mistake and find out.

Jim Jordan

Ultimately, voters are going to decide a small-town physician from a small and atypical state is probably not qualified to lead this nation in a dangerous world.

Alain Robert

Life has to be dangerous.

Charlotte Mary Yonge

General rules are dangerous of application in particular instances.

Todd Matthews

We've already had some dangerous situations, and I am really dreading March.

Todd Matthews

We've already had a dangerous situation in January with a number of grass fires. But the month I dread is March.

Alan Greenspan

There is a limit to how long and how far deficits can be sustained,

David Bradley

UH-Downtown has a very severe space deficit at this time.

Tony Cristaldi

We have a significant deficit in rainfall, The fire threat remains quite high.

Kent Conrad

Social Security has not contributed to the deficit problem.

Jason Schenker

With the year-on-year deficit in gasoline and with economic growth it is hard to be bearish about energy in the short or medium term. The manufacturing and retail numbers, the regional and national numbers, wherever you look they are positive. The same goes for overseas.

Nariman Behravesh

There is no question that the deficit this year will be worse than last year. A number of the improvements in May were temporary.

Alan Greenspan

Lowering the deficit further in the near term, however, will be difficult in light of the need to pay for post-hurricane reconstruction and relief,

Benedict XVI

But its ultimate roots can be seen as moral and spiritual; they are linked to a disturbing deficit of faith, hope and, indeed, love.

Joe Barton

Basically, it takes the money and spends it all. It doesn't leave anything for deficit reduction.

Jim Daly

We want to reach out to those kids who are having a hard time, ... We encourage them to talk to someone, a teacher, counselor, principal, anyone.

Jordan Metzl

We were always encouraged to do whatever it was we wanted to do. There was never a goal that was too high or too crazy.

Steve Riley

We were trying to do something to encourage recycling without taking over and making it a town trash department. It's just kind of been there. It's been one of those things that doesn't seem to get a whole lot of attention.

Charlotte Bronte

The cool peace and dewy sweetness of the night filled me with a mood of hope: not hope on any definite point, but a general sense of encouragement and heart-ease.

Charles Dickens

I had no advice, no counsel, no encouragement, no consolation, no assistance, no support, of any kind, from anyone, that I can call to mind, as I hope to go to heaven!

Charles Spurgeon

The greater our present trials, the louder will our future songs be, and the more intense our joyful gratitude.

Uzo Aduba

I think of myself as a little kid, and I had a wild imagination, but it was something that was encouraged and supported, which helped steer me into the arts.

Diane Warren

I'm somebody who finds adversity is almost as good as encouragement. It's almost like, you close the door, and I'll find ten ways to kick it in and go around it or dig under it or something.

David Amram

I wish to share and pass down some of my generation's traits, and encourage young people to create their own art, music, and literature.

Carol Roth

Many businesses fail because the owner wasn't willing to invest and wasn't educated on the difference between spending money frivolously and investing money into the business for growth, and the risks and rewards of that cash infusion.

Carol Leifer

You can never go wrong betting on Americans' bad eating habits. So I've made a ton investing in all fast food chains, while at the same time investing in Dockers, spandex, Spanx, and sweatpants. Basically, anything with an elastic waistband is a goldmine.

Mike Crinieri

We've seen a tremendous pickup (in investor interest) in the last year.

Stephen Cambone

We've complemented that with a second office to think about how we need to prepare ourselves for that period 10 or 15 or 20 years from now, by way of investment in our technology, our organization and our people.

Diane Watson

Social Security is a family insurance program, not an investment scheme.

Edwin Soeryadjaya

The mandate that I got from my investors is to invest. So far, we are on the right track, and it is the right formula to invest in Indonesia.

Cherie Blair

All the research shows that investing in women is a good investment

Robert Whiteley

The perimeter is getting more porous. The no-no is to just invest there.

Brad Bradshaw

This Quest represents the largest mid-life investment in Nissan's history. We realized the styling of the Quest was polarizing for some owners.

Carol Moseley Braun

It's hard to be the first. It's almost as if I'm subject to a different level of inspection.

Tom Robinson

We have never operated outside permit levels at the plant.

Gordon Ramsay

There is a level of snobbery and fickleness in L.A.

Steve Belardi

We used to send all footwear? men's, women's and kid's?all together on a pallet. It was a big hassle at the store level because a lot of it would go to the back room. They were touching every carton. It was crazy.

Ian Hamilton

The process sets wage levels for the country.

Andrew Jones

We're just trying to get people back on a professional level of things.

Garry South

We know how much we're going to have to spend. This is a (spending) level we think we can sustain.

DJ Jazzy Jeff

As a DJ I am never 100 percent in charge of the sound. The sound levels are controlled by someone at the sound board of the venue.

Dexter Scott King

Veganism has given me a higher level of awareness and spirituality, primary because the energy associated with eating has shifted to other areas. If you’re violent to yourself by putting [harmful] things into your body that violate its spirit, it will be difficult not to perpetuate that [violence] onto someone else.

Nicki Grossman

We have never, ever been 100 percent full. There are always rooms.

Stan Heath

We've seen some zones this year, but Texas-Pan American will play zone about 80 percent of the time.

Greg Sullivan

We've seen discounts up to 50 percent off, but those are not the norm.

Larry Matheis

We've seen a stabilizing of the market. We're not seeing 80 or 100 percent increases.

David Winters

What we do is quite different from 99.9 percent of Wall Street.

Serj Tankian

The percentage of Americans in the prison system, Prison system, has doubled since 1985

David Hillery

The percentage of African-Americans at (SDSU) in proportion to the population isn't equal.

Mario Pescante

We are preparing very well but it is not possible to be 100 percent secure.

Don Davis

We usually keep it between 40 to 50 percent relative humidity, and around 65 to 70 degrees.

Dave Barry

I hope I don't sound like an old-fashioned stick-in-the-mud, but when I hear about people making vast fortunes without doing any productive work or contributing anything to society, my reaction is: “How can I get in on that?

Daniel Goldstein

Psychology, unlike chemistry, unlike algebra, unlike literature, is an owner's manual for your own mind. It's a guide to life. What could be more important than grounding young people in the scientific information that they need to live happy, healthy, productive lives? To have good relationships?

Ayn Rand

Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal.

Stanley Hauerwas

I'm a happy and productive person. I'm very fortunate; I was born with happy genes. I've got a lot of energy.

Drew Rosenhaus

We had a productive meeting. We talked about things important to us, and they talked about things important to them.

Hal Mumme

We haven't been as productive as we'd like. We just have to keep working.

Nick Saban

He has been one of our most productive players.

Peter Wallace

You can be productive while you are doing that. Time is money.

Condoleezza Rice

The United States does have, in fact, productive relations with Russia.

Mike Adams

We've reduced it significantly ... but I don't think we've stopped it completely.

Carolyn Beck

We're trying to reduce that and save lives.

Jeff Miller

As a taxpayer, I want to assure you that Republicans are doing everything we can to reduce wasteful spending.

Leila Janah

Most of us working on poverty alleviation simply want to know, 'How much poverty can I reduce for every dollar I donate?'

Dave Johnston

We are not trying to criminalise more people, we are trying to reduce the supply and demand.

Mitt Romney

I'd rather see the tax for innovation reduced rather than expanded.

David Mitchell

You'd have to reduce a whole lot of ammonia before you get any benefit.

Greg Knudsen

We're not saying let's make everything easier. There will be the need for a new test because of the new standards, but they have not been reduced in difficulty.

Roy Blunt

I'd be a lot more excited about eliminating earmarks if we reduced all of the spending by whatever the earmarks used to be, but nobody's, apparently, going to talk about doing that.

Peter Thiel

Unsolved problems are where you'll find opportunity. Energy is one sector with extremely urgent unsolved problems.

Hector Garcia

I'd like to go back into another sector other than hospitality,

Robert Brady

There can be no doubt that the transportation sector is the most critical sector of our economy.

Jon Burnham

I still like the tech sector very much,

Harvey Weinstein

We in the independent sector more than anybody need Netflix, because they care about what we do.

William Hummer

The services sector is showing some inflationary pressure, and wages are starting to climb.

Lynn Reaser

This is another sign that the manufacturing sector is positioned for an upswing in the third quarter.

Marco Rubio

The private sector doesn't sit around and say - 'Well, since the president said we should do this, we should do it.'

Markus Steinbeis

The sentiment for the whole telecoms sector has now cooled down.

Madhur Bhandarkar

For my film 'Fashion,' like an investigative journalist, I went about knowing the people, the models, the fashion designers. Similarly with the corporate world.

Robert Rodriguez

Usually, I'm just pleasing myself and I have very similar tastes I think to an audience, what that core audience really likes.

Oliver Luck

My sense is that we're going to have a similar crowd.

Bobby Johnson

To tell you the truth, we're sort of similar to Wake Forest,

Charlotte Church

I would quite like to do a different accent or play something so different from myself because Olivia, the character I play in this film, is similar to me.

Steve Ron

We all have to wait. We're in a similar situation.

Wang Guoliang

His voice and tone were similar to the secretary-general.

Ladell Betts

Hopefully, we can get something similar like we had in the first game, when we had a 1-2 punch,

Jordan Foreman

He has a big body, he's strong, so it's somewhat similar to what he (Davis) does. He's been a big help.

Al Jarreau

I sang do-wop on the street corner before it was called do-wop.

Bob Marley

You can't find the right roads when the streets are paved.

Frank Roder

We've been complaining about 12th street for many, many years.

Darrell Sanders

We're taking it off the street one gram at a time.

Billy Joel

Why should I worry? Why should I care?There's just this street population, and I've got 'street savoir-faire'.

Elaine Stritch

New Yorkers stop me on the street all the time to say, 'You're terrific! You're the nuts!'

Nas

The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling.

Dan Jenkins

I get 'USA Today,' the 'New York Times,' 'Wall Street Journal' and the 'Star-Telegram' at my doorstep. I can't do without them.

Angelo Vaughn

He was a street cop. He was someone you want to emulate.

Carlos Castaneda

For an instant I think I saw. I saw the loneliness of man as a gigantic wave which had been frozen in front of me, held back by the invisible wall of a metaphor.

Carlos Castaneda

Intent is what sends a shaman through a wall, through space, to infinity.

Carlos Castaneda

Warriors do not win victories by beating their heads against walls, but by overtaking the walls. Warriors jump over walls; they don't demolish them.

Carlos Castaneda

Intent is not a thought, or an object, or a wish. Intent is what can make a man succeed when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated. It operates in spite of the warrior's indulgence. Intent is what makes him invulnerable. Intent is what sends a shaman through a wall, through space, to infinity.

C. S. Lewis

When the police arrived and found no lion, no broken wall, and no convicts, and the Head behaving like a lunatic, there was an inquiry into the whole thing. And in the inquiry all sorts of things about Experiment House came out, and about ten people got expelled. After that, the Head's friends saw that the Head was no use as a Head, so they got her made an Inspector to interfere with other Heads. And when they found she wasn't much good even at that, they got her into Parliament where she lived happily ever after.

Agnes Macphail

The way to get things out of a government is to back them to the wall, put your hands to their throats, and you will get all they have.

Aaron Sorkin

We live in a world that has walls and those walls need to be guarded by men with guns.

Aaron Sorkin

Rule of storytelling: When a character is shoved against a wall, shove them against a wall harder.

Charlotte Bronte

Too often do reviewers remind us of the mob of Astrologers, Chaldeans, and Soothsayers gathered before 'the writing on the wall' and unable to read the characters or make known the interpretation.