Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ivan Feinseth

Oracle kind of has the backbone to be in the hosted business, but it isn't, while Siebel already is.

Al Guthman

Our defense was just fantastic as it has been all year. It has been the backbone of our team all year.

Madhav Nepal

Our goal is to foil government plans to hold the municipal elections and to break the backbone of the autocratic regime.

Gigi Arntzen

I'm hoping we could develop a code fair to everyone throughout the city, but more importantly we need to have backbone to enforce whatever we do adopt.

Rob Tuchman

I think sports and entertainment is kind of the backbone of what our society is about these days, for better, for worse. I think it only can grow.

Peter Harrold

He is the backbone of the team. Hopefully we can just do a little better in front of him.

Fred Smoot

I hate that we had to lose a player like him. It hurts me. I wanted to come to a team that had a backbone quarterback. But now I just hope we make the right decision.

Sung Sohn

It clearly tells us that consumers have and will continue to sustain and support economic growth, ... Consumers have really been the backbone of current economic growth and will continue to be a stabilizer for the balance of this year.

Steve Nicol

I think the fact that we were forcing the game and we were away from home in Kansas City, who is undefeated, kind of tells you that the backbone of team. We did make changes, we were forced into a couple of changes, but it never knocked us off our straight, we kept pushing forward. But we just never got that break in the penalty box when we needed it. It's just not running for us in the penalty box at the moment.

Philip Reeker

Our policy toward Iran has not changed. The president has said we will be looking for indications that countries do want to change. But ... we've had long-standing concerns.

Julian Smith

People in some countries are just more receptive to the idea of posting their thoughts online.

James Rubin

Such incidents ... illustrate the need for the two countries to resolve their differences through dialogue,

Joseph Bruno

Such 'bullet trains' operate regularly in countries throughout Europe and Asia, ... It's time for New York to get on board.

Ben Bernanke

Our financial system is so complicated and so interactive - so many different markets in different countries and so many sets of rules.

Michael Cromartie

Our understanding is that a lot of behind-the-scenes diplomacy is going on with some of the countries that are not on the list.

Steve James

Representing the church, he has traveled to many countries in Europe, as well as Kenya, Burundi, Zimbabwe, Singapore, China, Haiti, Belize, Mexico, Jamaica, Costa Rica, Israel and Russia. He and his wife have been dedicated to helping needy people everywhere.

Franco Frattini

People who reside illegally in Europe should be sent back to their countries of origin

Jack Straw

we not only help those countries in the region which are subject to Iraqi threats and intimidation, we also deprive Saddam of his most powerful tools for keeping the Iraqi people living in fear and subjugation.

Sathya Baba

Patience is all the strength that man needs.

Franz Humer

Patents will not stand in the way of producing the drug for mankind.

H. Hunt

Our management team and operational infrastructure have been strengthened during 2005 and we now have the structure in place to move towards profitability.

Tara Fisher

People need to know that predators aren't a man in the bushes. Eighty-five percent of the time you know your attacker.

Buzz Hargrove

Our union does not resist change, so long as we can manage it in a way that does not threaten our members.

Jeff Siegel

Our traffic management is substantial and works quite well.

Irish Proverbs

Pity the man who has a stranger's spancel on him.

E.R. Rock

Pity the man that all women wish to be friends with because none of them will want to be anything more.

Jon Lester

Pitchers really don't deal with the managers a whole lot. When we come in the clubhouse, we see him, we say, 'Hey.' That's really it.

Jim Haslett

Part of me says maybe it's time for a change.

Guy Kawasaki

Statistically it's probably one out of a hundred, so that means there's ten out there. Maybe twenty.

Reggie Bush

Overall, I think I proved I should be the No. 1 pick. I thought I maybe could have pushed a 4.29 out of there, but overall I'm pretty happy.

Matthew Gervais

(Research) is so meaningful and rewarding at this point I'm willing to withhold assumptions on where I'll end up. Maybe I'll find God. Maybe I'll find out science isn't for me. Maybe I'll go sit on a mountain and meditate. The ride will be worth it.

Marilyn Oliveira

Planning the nursery comes soon enough, maybe at the same time. Don't do both.

Nancy Wilson

Maybe our team was a little star struck. But the turnovers had more to do with the size differential and the quickness differential.

Charlie Whitehurst

Maybe on third down, that's where we need to be looking. He always delivers.

Frank Beamer

Maybe one practice day wasn't quite what we wanted,

Sheryl Garrett

Maybe it's a reaction to going overboard in the 1980s and 1990s, but I sense a lot of people are moving away from materialistic things (and) toward more thoughtful and meaningful holidays.

Cillian Murphy

That was the first time people noticed me in the U.S..

David Sullivan

That was the first time people actually noticed her, and why, I don't know. She has been playing this tough for two years.

Dave Lewis

I wish I had noticed the teammate's number so I could tell you his name. He is a true American hero.

Andrea Walker

When they (the committee) started, I noticed they didn?t have any students on the committee,

Randy Pausch

If you are hopeful, if you are optimistic, other people want to help you. And if you are down in the dumps, other people may still help you, but I've noticed that they're walking, not running, over to you.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.

Al Lewis

There's more to anybody. Just because you haven't noticed it, that's your problem, that's not mine.

Al Boliska

Have you ever noticed what golf spells backwards?

Penelope Mitchell

My first year of university, I ran around and signed up for these clubs, and I noticed they were all drama clubs: really lame, artsy things.

Susan Backman

Residents can see the improvements made to the outside of the buildings.

John Emerich

Resist your time - take a foothold outside it

F. Schumacher

I was on the outside and I tried and there was no opportunity.

Tom Zbikowski

I think to the outside people, it's not what they expected, but it is what we expected.

Terry Wallace

I went outside and took a look and I could see it on top of the mountain.

Mark Landy

I would venture that we are now outside of gentlemanly territory,

Jovan Vavic

J.W. is very versatile can play many positions. He can set and guard, be an outside shooter and he's very fast.

Sandra Tsing Loh

Journalists are quite surprised outside their dinner parties when they hear where I live. 'Van Nuys? You still live there?' It is like saying you're from Alabama.

Lynn Coady

Here's the thing about lingerie: The only time we see it outside our own bedrooms, it is on women who are gloriously freakish in their physical perfection.

Nancy Verderber

It is not completely solved yet be we are still working on it but I think it will be.

John Short

I thought, 'I'm the expert, I've got to have some answers,' ... 'How am I going to solve this?'

James Rosenquist

If a person is insane or troubled, you first have to get the person to admit that they have a problem before you can solve anything.

Hubert Burda

Journalists must not be made accomplices by the secret service to solve its own problems.

Gary Owens

My comedy isn't going to solve problems; I'm not that deep.

Buzz Hargrove

We have to solve that or it's a showstopper for sure.

Jim Crace

The problems of the world are not going to be engaged with and solved in Faversham, they're going to be sorted out in cities like Birmingham.

Sarah Kay

Sometimes the only way I know how to work through something is by writing a poem. And sometimes I get to the end of the poem and look back and go, 'Oh, that's what this is all about,' and sometimes I get to the end of the poem and haven't solved anything, but at least I have a new poem out of it.

Ronaldo Myers

(The expansion) is going to help. But it won't solve the situation.

Daunte Culpepper

I'd like to think I'd have made it wherever I went in the draft.

Tenzin Gyatso

There is an old Tibetan saying: wherever you feel at home, you are at home. If your surroundings are pleasant, you are at home.

Frank DeSalvo

We're not worried about what they do or where they do it. We'll try it wherever they want.

Bill Walker

Wherever she was needed, Dee was there to help.

Tyler Ebell

Wherever our game's going to be played, we have to go out there and play. And it's going to be on ESPN, so that's going to be nice.

Travis Parker

Wherever he's at, we just got to find him.

Jeanette Winterson

Although wherever you are going is always in front of you, there is no such thing as straight ahead.

Zachary Quinto

I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.

Willie Nelson

Be here. Be present. Wherever you are, be there.

Bill Cosby

Brown versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person's problem.

Carrie Chapman Catt

White supremacy will be strengthened, not weakened, by women's suffrage.

Carrie Fisher

I'd like to wear my old [cinnamon buns] hairstyle again - but with white hair,

Bertrand Russell

The white tails of rabbits, according to some theologians, have a purpose, namely to make it easier for sportsmen to shoot them.

Heidi Klum

I don't know why we work, my husband and I. We just do. We are black and white - yin and yang.

Charles Barron

I want to go up to the closest white person and say: 'You can't understand this, it's a black thing' and then slap him, just for my mental health.

Billy Boyd

I like people like Ani DiFranco, a band called Elbow, of course John Lennon, George Harrison, Barry White. I have a lot of different influences and hopefully they all come together and make some sense.

Ayn Rand

She knew that she could not have reached this white serenity except as the sum of all the colors, of all the violence she had known.

Ben Goldacre

Science has authority not because of white coats or titles, but because of precision and transparency: you explain your theory, set out your evidence, and reference the studies that support your case.