Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Thompson

Recreational fishing is a long-standing, valid activity in the park, and we recognize that. But the park has a dual mission, to protect resources and provide for their enjoyment. If you don't protect the resources, it'll prevent the enjoyment.

Steve Pearce

Regardless of the true source of these incursions, the Mexican government must not evade its responsibility to help us stop illegal activity on the border. I hope that this letter will lead to a more productive partnership toward that goal.

Antoine Halff

Refinery activity has been very depressed because of damage caused by hurricanes last year and deferred maintenance. There was a huge surge in imports after last year's storms but that has ended. At the same time refinery activity has not recovered.

Amy Cutts

Refinancing activity was very strong in the fourth quarter, even with higher interest rates. The large share of borrowers who took cash out when refinancing their mortgages combined with the strong overall refinance volume led to an extraction of home equity through prime first-lien refinances of $70.3 billion, slightly higher than the revised estimate of $67.2 billion extracted in the third quarter. We expect the share of all refinance borrowers who take out cash to remain high in 2006 because of the relatively high cost of second mortgages and home-equity lines of credit.

Bob Walters

Refinance activity will continue as homeowners refinance out of adjustable rate mortgages and into fixed-rate programs now that there is virtually no difference between long- and short-term interest rates.

Alan Greenspan

reductions in demand for our exports and intensified competition from imports. All of this suggests that the growth of economic activity in this country will moderate from the recent brisk pace.

Tom Murphy

reiterate to all our principals that this type of activity is never appropriate and should never occur in our schools.

Abraham Maslow

Religion becomes. a state of mind achievable in almost any activity of life, if this activity is raised to a suitable level of perfection.

Karen Thomas

Our position has always been that the focus should be on suspicious activities. Rely on the banks to use their knowledge and expertise when they see something suspicious to report it and file a suspicious activity report.

Kofi Annan

reflecting our mutual commitment to a stable, prosperous and equitable world.

Jason Brown

Organic to Go was founded on the principle of providing delicious, convenient breakfasts and lunches that happen to be organic and natural delivered to corporate America, Eating organic is not only good for you personally, but good for the environment. Receiving certification proves our commitment to both. We're here for the long term health of the consumer -- and the planet.

Chris Carney

States like New Jersey have already made a commitment to reduce mercury pollution by 90 percent. The technology is out there. We just need to move in that direction.

Ed Clair

Some of the Sago miners requested that the United Mine Workers be their representatives for the purposes of this investigation, and they have a right to be there. Together, the state and MSHA made a commitment to the families that we would conduct a fair, open investigation, and we decided we needed to take this extraordinary step to keep that commitment.

Scott Kriens

Our performance during the third quarter reflects the return on our commitment and focus on continued execution.

Sidney Taurel

Our strong bottom-line results in the first quarter reflect the execution on our commitment to grow sales at a faster rate than our expenses.

Wade Henderson

Our strength is the diversity of our membership and our unity of purpose, ... Unity of purpose doesn't mean we are in lock step on every issue. Janet Murguia is a strong leader who reflects deep commitment to our values.

Jude Walsh

Our commitment is to try to keep people's out-of-pocket costs no more than what it was under DEL.

Matt Silverman

Our commitment is to keep these players here for many years to come.

Chris Caballero

Part of the discussion is to have a softer approach.

John Calvert

That's the issue, whether we should suppress the open discussion of evolution. Can evolution ever be falsified if it can't be criticized?

David Longanecker

I think it's very important that we raise to a national level and a federal level a discussion about what's happening to our competitiveness.

Charles Kupchella

It has actually widened the gap and increased the negative rhetoric, ... It has not been helpful with anything at all. It's like playing two record players in a room whenever there's a discussion about it.

Bill Cowher

I will tell the players, as I've told the coaches, there will be no more questions about it, there will be no more discussion about it, our focus this week will be on the Indianapolis Colts. I don't think it will be a distraction at all and, having gone through the process myself, if anything it's inspiring to know there's an opportunity potentially for you.

Jim Tressel

I suppose when I was here 20 years ago, I don't remember much discussion about anything other than winning the Big Ten and winning the Rose Bowl.

Dick Cheney

I thought it was a good discussion of the issues, ... and we kept it to a high plane.

Jon Favreau

I don't 'handle' people. It's so much easier to manipulate actors than to really have an earnest discussion with them. It's very easy to say whatever's going to appease them and then turn around and do whatever you want to do. It's difficult to be forthright with people, because the job does not lend itself to that.

Bill Fischer

There are still some practical concerns. We don't want to violate federal laws on disclosing employees' medical records but once that practical discussion occurs we can go forward from there.

Donna Thompson

Some of the playground equipment that's out there has been there for 50 years.

Dale Flatt

Some of the other ones, the equipment is very expensive and hard to get a hold of. Typically you would do a soil scraping. But, we wanted something that was non-evasive.

Gene Madden

Some of the medium bulldozers can't get in and the heavier bulldozers are having trouble. That stretches our equipment even further.

Jack Boyle

Our first priority was to get all of the students' equipment out of there, as much as we could, for two reasons: to salvage it; we couldn't just rip it down, it was all their equipment, and to see if we could save the structure.

Scott Simons

Our feeds quit because of the equipment failure.

Juliana Hatfield

Playing a show is a monumental hassle. You've got to schlep all your heavy equipment into the van, then you've got to drive for five hours, then you have to schlep all the heavy equipment out of the van, onto the stage, set it up, do the sound check, hang around for three hours, then play the show, which is incredibly draining.

Rebecca Mercuri

Really, it's going to be 2006 before we see any really updated equipment with updated standards.

Lance Wilson

Managed services vendors are primarily the major wireless infrastructure equipment vendors.

Mark Hunter

We've talked to our guys about taking equipment off. We tell them not to do it. I don't know why they do it.

Kurt Barnard

Rebates are wonderful to the extent that they are executed, regardless of the deficit.

Tom Masters

People have been quite dissatisfied with the extent of consultation that has taken place.

Anthony Chukumba

I was a little surprised that the fourth quarter guidance at the mid-point is a little weaker than people were looking for ... but to some extent that?s nit-picking.

Robert Herzfeld

The allegations are despicable, ... The suspects will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

Matt Mullenweg

I think it's really important for the independent web to have a platform, and to the extent that WordPress can serve that role, I think it's a great privilege and responsibility.

Dr. Roberts

I think time will tell to what extent he recovers from this.

Jim King

I think to the extent that property values go up out there it will have nothing to do with the arena.

Norman Mineta

I think that's just a swag and so to that extent I don't think that will be the case.

Paul Williams

It is likely that many of the organizations reporting an intrusion did not realize the duration, extent or severity of the intrusion, or detected only a portion of multiple separate intrusions during the reporting period.

Randy Carlyle

Our relationship goes back a long way. Our kids played minor hockey together in Winnipeg. There are roots there.

Jim Williams

Our little dog, he goes into this unbelievable shaking for about 10 or 15 minutes. And we have no idea when they'll be blasting, so all we can do is wait for it.

Inaki Saez

Our mistake was in not scoring. But not just tonight, throughout the whole tournament, ... Greece goes through simply because it scored more goals.

Otis Smith

Steve is still a good player in this league. Whether he goes from good to great is going to be on Steve.

Richard White

Spend your money and it all goes to here as opposed to going out for dinner.

Mark Attanasio

Our payroll can go higher, but we need to be mindful that it goes higher in the right way, at the right time and for the right players. We're not going to spend money for money's sake.

Sam Cassell

Our season goes up and down and we are going to find a way to get it back. We don't have a monkey on our back. We have a gorilla.

Jessica Laing

Our team is amazing. I love them all to death. Whoever goes out there, they always give 110 percent. It's just awesome.

Gary Hennip

Overall I'm pleased with the way we're playing. We have a lot of new young players. We'll get better as the season goes on.

John Challenger

Pay raises have been paltry since 2001. Since 2001, wage growth has been muted because productivity has been so strong.

Mark Pervan

Supply growth is not there, and the players in the market aren't investing in new supply.

David Dodge

Such a slowdown in growth, in turn, raises the risk that policy-makers might resort to protectionism. In that event, a period of very slow growth could, perhaps, be punctuated by periods of outright recession.

David Hendler

Stan O'Neal has rehabilitated Merrill over the last several years, but where is the next growth area? That's what people are wondering.

Mark Batey

Out of all the major markets, it was the only one to show growth. We were up one percent.

Ken McCarthy

Right now, you could say we're at sort of a sweet spot, where we have healthy growth and reasonably high interest rates.

Bill Crawford

A relationship is like life. It isn't a process of preservation, but of change and growth. Unless you grow and change together, you will change ... and grow apart.

C. S. Lewis

Everywhere, except in theology, there has been a vigorous growth of skepticism about skepticism itself.

C. S. Lewis

Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.

Ron Vos

Passing out flyers at a shopping mall or hoping somebody sees a poster doesn't get through to today's jaded, image-bombarded, media-savvy young consumer. Street marketing is practically an old strategy now, so the stakes are much higher when it comes to getting your message across.

Mark Waggoner

Supplies really aren't a problem. Consumption over the holidays is usually a little higher than normal but production has been keeping up.

Alan Greenspan

Such an increase in market value is too often viewed by market participants as structural and permanent, ... To some extent, those higher values may be reflecting the increased flexibility and resilience of our economy.

Justin Lane

Some of the higher peaks I would imagine could see 2 1/2 feet.

Satish Kumar

Some of our standards are higher than the U.S.

Karen Johnson

Our prices are 18 percent higher that they were this time last year.

Rhonda Rompola

Our RPI has to get higher for any tournament play.

Bill Cooke

Our attrition rate is not higher than last year but it is higher than we would like.

William Ross

Right there, there is not that much inventory for that kind of property. Because of a lack of availability, what you get is higher prices.

Valery Yashin

Our main task is to strengthen our position on the market through investment in the development of new services.

Andrew Steer

Our strong view is that private investment will surge in the second half.

Richard Pierce

Our taxes are going up anyway. It's an investment in your children. You owe it to the kids to vote for the budget.

Nathaniel Smith

I'd like see the the party give strong arguments for more investment in post-secondary education. What's a better place to do it than in Halifax, where there are so many students?

Judy Genshaft

I would say that the Legislature and the people of Tampa made a very savvy investment 50 years ago.

Trevor Manuel

It is something that we should be able to release very very soon. We owe it to the people who need to make a long-term investment in mining in this country.

Matthew Lloyd

For most people, it represents a stable, solid investment in choppy waters.

Harvey Pitt

We meet with lots of people ... we meet with representatives of many investment groups,

Todd Pratt

He has been great, ... This is what the organization made that investment for.

Mark Fischer

Pat always took the jobs nobody else wanted. What makes this place work is the people who give their time to others and that was Pat. She wasn't an ordinary soccer mom.

Tom DeLay

People need to be doing their jobs right now,

Tim Roth

Some jobs, which would otherwise have been lost in the industry, have not been lost because of NAFTA.

Pat Conacher

Players have to realize they're playing for their jobs right now.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If you want to build a ship, don't summon people to buy wood, prepare tools, distribute jobs, and organize the work; teach people the yearning for the wide, boundless ocean.

Bebe Neuwirth

I made jokes about kissing Murphy Brown. But if that's what cost me my job, my wife will probably say, "Hey asshole, I told you so."

Becca Fitzpatrick

I take my job seriously, which means I'm going to need to get acquainted with the subject matter on a personal level.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I got a new job.” Patch locked eyes with me, and I warmed in a lot of places. In fact, I was dangerously close to feverish.

Becca Fitzpatrick

You’re a guardian angel now.”.... I’m your guardian angel,” he said. “I get my very own guardian angel? What, exactly, is your job description?” “Guard your body.” His smile tipped higher. “I take my job seriously, which means I’m going to need to get acquainted with the subject matter on a personal level.

Ian Shepherdson

Overall, the labor market is improving, but progress is still slow,

Art Alexakis

Maybe I'll work for a label someday, write some fiction, nonfiction. Someday I'd like to go back to school and get my teaching degree. I want to be a grandpa. I want to have more kids.

Betsey Johnson

My customer isn't wrapped up in labels and money.

John Abraham

I don't have a problem being labeled a sex symbol, though I personally don't feel very sexy about myself.

Nathan Barankin

I don't know that it's ever been tested in court, but the law does label it a crime.

David Greenwood

I can't put labels ? on these materials,

James Campbell

Get us the cargo, and we'll get you the labor.

Michael Wasserman

I think it's a tremendous help. You've got people of all walks of life who are represented by labor unions. I think that's tremendous when you have that kind of support.

Paul Gurgol

I have labor pains right now -- I'm pregnant with all this stuff.

Jim Lord

Reasonable people have to find that reasonable line.

Stephanie Laurens

Real people are never central characters in my works.

Tom Tremont

Really, what people want is more simplicity in their life. They want a sanctuary.

Jyoti Amge

Regular people should not underestimate people who are small. In every aspect, they can do the things that normal people can.

Robert Hamilton

Our policy is to let our people know first.

Alex Halavais

Part of it is it's a really safe place for people to talk about this.

Hanya Yanagihara

Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.

Joel Edgerton

Particularly when you're making a movie of a book, people are always waiting with their knives - you know?

Jack Horn

Part of the problem, ... is there are so many more things that can be done for people - drug therapies are better, but more expensive. And there are more and better scanning technologies, which are also more expensive.

Stephen Blythe

Releasing it to the public would not be the right thing to do.

Dean Laidley

It is not for public consumption, but we have a lot of work to do this week.

Pat Gillick

He's a blue-collar guy. And he's somebody that the public will like.

Charles Ray

Her public service announcement for us went out all over the nation,

Larry Nixon

He's always done things no one's surprised at, whether it's for publicity or by accident.

Tom Davies

He's going to have to give an explanation somewhere for how it got into his system, ... His public explanation is that he doesn't know how it happened.

Amanda Martin

If anything, we are going to see more and more things shielded from public view rather than fewer; that's been the trend.

Yvonne Johnson

I go for public safety ... for public health.

Dick Bronson

If we're in trouble, this should tell us, and it should be done in a public way.

Craig Harris

Most of the questions were about the stage of development we are in.

Liu Jianchao

it is appropriate now to refer this question to the U.N. Security Council.

Cliff May

I think there's no question that he has, I would say, support from the White House,

MaryEllen Elia

I think there's no question we have some things that we need to do.

Tracy Austin

I think there are more questions in the first week than we've seen in a long time.

Nicole Vaidisova

I think the question is, 'What was not the problem?

Jeff Tedford

That was a tough start for him, no question about it,

Brent Bracelin

That will happen. The question now is the magnitude.

Patrick Murphy

That wasn't the time to question our government,

Jennifer Gray

He did research on the Internet. He stalked the house. He stalked my brother. He's cold, he's calculating and he took out his competition.

Skylar Astin

I think that I am willing to do anything. I like to collaborate. If my voice will be heard, than I will do some research and think about it.

Mike Bradley

Heretofore it's not had all that research and those developments under one roof and under one coordinated organizational structure.

Rosemarie Truglio

We took a long time and did a lot of research and preparation. We wanted to make sure we did this right.

Charles Kettering

Research is an organized method for keeping you reasonably dissatisfied with what you have.

Charles Kettering

I often say that research is a way of finding out what you are going to do when you can't keep on doing what you are doing now.

Mike Wallace

All I'm armed with is research.

Burt Rutan

NASA is doing nothing but development. They're not doing research in manned spaceflight at all and I see no reason for them to do that because we already know that it will work and we already know exactly how it will work.

Burt Rutan

I like to call the difference between research and development. Some people use that interchangeably. They'll say R&D. They're two totally different things.

Natalie Coughlin

Ties are pretty rare. I don't think I've ever tied anybody.

Theresa Hamilton

We really want to make this an entire-valley event. We all know someone. We're all tied together. This valley is very interconnected.

Matt Brown

I kind of tied the two together (music and art).

Forel Davies

Another title, but we'll probably be tied with Vista, so it's not so great. That tarnishes it a little for me.