Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Adams

Like every issue, it has been actively discussed at the technical level and the point now is to get everyone in a room together to review what has been done.

Roy Brown

Make good choices, set realistic goals, develop pride and respect in yourself, be active in your community and become a good role model for someone.

Susan Walvius

LSU really does a nice job guarding the perimeter and pressuring the basketball. The one thing LSU does different from other teams is they have extremely active hands on the ball. They get a lot of deflections and play the passing lanes. Teams tend to throw (ball) away because it looks like the passing lanes are open.

Patrick Campbell

Let's just say we will be very active in discussions with suppliers in trying to hold the line here.

John Harbaugh

looks OK, but again, I don't think he's at 100 percent. So that's still part of the process, whether he'll be active or not. It looks like he has a chance, but he still has to get better.

Steve Kolenda

Last year's group was probably more active than ever. It was probably the last one that disagreed with selectmen.

Joseph Addison

Learning is pedantry, wit, impertinence, virtue itself looked like weakness, and the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice.

Naomi Hasegawa

Many investors are reluctant to trade actively before the central bank starts its two-day meeting Wednesday.

Hideo Mizutani

Share prices ended weaker. This is because of lingering concerns about a lack of active inflows of funds from offshore investors.

Granth Sahib

Let all your affairs be resolved, by continually worshipping the Feet of the Guru.

Joe Nation

Several questions concerning the status of veteran's benefits, the construction of veteran's homes, and suitable mental health services face our veteran population and necessitate action, ... As chair of the Assembly committee on veterans affairs I will fight to provide first-rate care for California's 2.5 million veterans and will pursue increased benefits for the brave men and women serving in the California National Guard.

Jill Lepore

Secret government programs that pry into people's private affairs are bound up with ideas about secrecy and privacy that arose during the process by which the mysterious became secular.

Sean Conway

Sen. Allard testified in front of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee last year that a number of hurdles have to be cleared before he could support this legislation, including putting it to a statewide referendum. The issue is larger than just Pueblo County.

Chiang Kai-shek

Modern warfare is by no means merely a matter of military operations. Economic affairs stand together with them in the first rank of the factors of importance.

David Shuster

'Meet the Press' is the oldest and most treasured public affairs show on television.

Elio Evangelista

Medical affairs groups that have been removed from the grips of commercial bias must look elsewhere for funding. Medical affairs groups are oftentimes receiving their own dedicated budgets.

Richard Butler

My job is to return to New York to report this stage of affairs to the Security Council. I can't go into details until I do that.

Bill Cunningham

Obviously we don't know right now how it was smuggled in the jail -- that's the subject of an internal affairs investigation.

Beatrice Arthur

Lucy-my God, Lucy was a brilliant, brilliant clown, but she was terribly miscast. But we would have never gotten the money for the production if she hadn't wanted to do it.

Cate Blanchett

Louise Frogley is a brilliant designer. I always find her wardrobe fittings really informative and creative. Together, you kick images and ideas around.

Andrew Kelly

Many of our Latino kids, that we have in our system, are brilliant kids.... but, we as a system have placed a value judgement that unless they can do it in our language, we don't give them credit for it.

Steven Pinker

M.I.T. has a reputation for turning out Dilberts. They may be brilliant in what they do, but no one can understand what they say.

Harry Waters

Max Headroom, if overly exposed, could end up as just another Muppet Nothing would be more distressing than to witness a brilliant parody of TV turn into a TV cliche.

Christopher Fowler

My father worked in a scientific lab where he designed and built glass instruments. He was regarded as brilliant at his job and once constructed a human brain in glass just to show off his skills.

Michael Harrison

No one will pick up where Stern has left off, ... Howard is a one-of-a-kind broadcasting phenomenon who has not just a brilliant intellect and personality but an enormously well-honed set of radio skills and natural talent. Infinity faces a major challenge losing him, and Sirius will be the beneficiary of tremendous buzz.

Bruce Springsteen

When i look in your eyes is that you baby, or just a brilliant disguise.

Thomas Sangster

On 'Love Actually,' I met Hugh Grant, who is a relative: our great-grandmothers were sisters. He'd call me cousin and ruffle my hair. And it was brilliant working with David Tennant on 'Doctor Who.'

Timothy Noah

Washington is a place where politics and economics often aren't on speaking terms.

Eleanor Clift

John Kerry, windsurfing dilettante

Lena Headey

If I was into politics, I would be rich.

Elliott Abrams

Four years is a long time in politics.

Robin Wright

I don't know enough about politics. I am out of the loop.

Dan Aykroyd

Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.

Oliver St. John

Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or rather the hashish.

Oliver Kahn

This match is about sport and I separate that completely from politics.

Sergei Lavrov

A second opinion never hurts, not only in medicine, but also in politics.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.

Lech Walesa

I represent the concept that pluralism is essential, union pluralism. I made an oath about this.

Bill Ayers

When I was young, communism, which had a certain allure to me, was clearly a failed experiment in the Soviet Union and in China. And yet, anti-communism was as bad.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Reasonable and vicious are quite consistent with each other, in fact, only through their union are great and far-reaching crimes possible

Brian Herbert

Humans are different in private than in the presence of others. While the private persona merges into the social persona in varying degrees, the union is never complete. Something is always held back.

Alexander Haig

More often than not, Americans and Westerners overestimated the power and capability of the Soviet Union.

Clive James

Delivering the State of the Union? That bloke couldn't deliver pizza.

Aleister Crowley

For I am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union.

Andy Stern

The AFL-CIO is a structure that divides workers' strength by allowing each union to organize in any industry, then bargain on its own, even when workers share a common employer.