Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jamie Shea

We have no indication at all that our aircraft were involved in that incident.

Marion Blakey

The FAA is maintaining safety by determining that aircraft are properly equipped and authorized before they're allowed to fly at these high altitudes,

Eric Christian Olsen

When I was in the gunner's bubble of a B25 bomber, taking off from an aircraft carrier 100 miles off the coast of San Diego, I remember saying to myself how amazing it was to get the chance to do that.

Mike Turner

The other test aircraft already had the system, so we decided we should install it on the other one.

David Fraser

The possibility of friendly fire, I say the possibility, did not come from the air. It was not about bombs. So we are now investigating where this possible friendly fire came from, but it was not from an aircraft of any type.

James Saxton

We appear to be heading out of BRACC with quite a few more aircraft and people that we had heading into it. If approved by the president and Congress, this can only be viewed as an expansion of the missions to be conducted out of the new joint base in the future.

Geoff Hoon

We are aware of reports that the aircraft may have been shot down, but we are not in a position to come to any conclusions until the investigation is complete,

Chris Ball

We've got everything, from vintage aircraft all the way to the most current aircraft available.

Donald Rumsfeld

There is no question that the effectiveness of the bombing is vastly improved as you have people on the ground in communication with the aircraft overhead, ... We now have some larger number of teams of people on the ground ... and the effectiveness of bombing is improving every day.

David Leavy

We have seen continued fighting and reports of atrocities. It only underscores the brutality of the Milosevic regime and his blatant disregard for human life, and the necessity for NATO's strong response to his repression.

Charles Studd

Prayer is good: but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is naught but a blatant hypocrisy, a despicable Pharisaism.

Vojislav Kostunica

We are talking about political fraud and blatant stealing of votes. This is an offer which must be rejected.

Carl Tobias

She has tried as hard and she can to get this difficult case right, and then she is confronted with a blatant violation of the rules. She has been careful and cautious, but probably is thinking about some kind of sanction.

Mary Harron

She was very much of the period, ... A lot of people played it too sexy, in a very modern way. And I think Gretchen had a very instinctive understanding of the sexiness of a very different time. You have to go back before Playboy, before the outright, blatant sexiness to something more hidden, teasing, more of the nice girl. Naughty but nice.

Richard Stiennon

I was really shocked at how blatant they were in discussing what they did and were going to do. They knew exactly what they were doing.

Mathias Kiwanuka

I was shocked at how blatant it was. I had done nothing to him. ... I don't buy that he got overexcited.

Rob Scuderi

Obviously, I was just going for the puck first. I can't say I was surprised with the call. I haven't seen the replay, whether it was a blatant trip or not. But either way, I cost my team the game, so it's kind of tough to take.

Beth Grant

I love 'Child's Play 2!' I love Don Mancini. That movie has a great theme: You better listen to children. That's why I wanted to do it. I was scared to do a horror movie - a blatant studio horror movie - but I liked the script, and I thought that was such an important theme because I don't think adults listen to children enough.

Michael Specter

All the food we eat, whether Brussels sprouts or pork bellies, has been modified by mankind. Genetic engineering is only one particularly powerful way to do what we have been doing for eleven thousand years.

Danny Meyer

Ninety-five percent of all brussels sprouts come from California.

Jim Ratcliffe

Brussels has become inefficient and very bureaucratic, which makes it slow to do things. The concept of the United States of Europe will never work.

E. B. White

Given the mood music flying around, I suspect people in Brussels will find it irresistible to get involved (in these deals) in some fashion.

Charlie McCreevy

France knows how to work the system. But countries shouldn't come to Brussels and sign up to the internal market and then do the opposite. It is hypocritical." ()

George Robertson

We will be discussing this matter at a briefing that the Russians will be giving in Brussels at a very early date.

Rafael Benitez

We did a very good job in Brussels in the first leg to win 1-0,

Anders Rasmussen

We are not leaving Brussels without a result, and I will let it take the time it needs...If not, we will not be able to conclude the accession talks in December.

Daniel Hannan

Whenever the debate moves on to hard numbers - our deficit with Europe, our surplus with the rest of the world, our Brussels budget contributions, the tiny part of our economy dependent on sales to the EU, the vast part subjected to EU regulation - Euro-enthusiasts quickly shift their ground and start harrumphing about influence.

Agnes Repplier

People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.

Agnes Repplier

English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.

Alan Rudolph

You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization.

Charles de Gaulle

At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.

Charles Caleb Colton

A semi-civilized state of society, equally removed from the extremes of barbarity and of refinement, seems to be that particular meridian under which all the reciprocities and gratuities of hospitality do most readily flourish and abound. For it so happens that the ease, the luxury, and the abundance of the highest state of civilization, are as productive of selfishness, as the difficulties, the privations, and the sterilities of he lowest.

Bill Reynolds

There are a lot of Civil War guys around that nobody knows where they're buried.

Kemal Saiki

There is a limit on our resources and the priorities we have are protecting civilians and supporting the transitional process.

Sue Monk Kidd

When I wrote 'The Secret Life of Bees,' I was writing about civil rights.

Sean MacBride

It is a rule of international law that weapons and methods of warfare which do not discriminate between combatants and civilians should never be used.

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.

M.V. Govindan

We have no problem of funds because we have raised these from various banks. We have now decided to enlist new members. By the time we are ready to open, we would have a membership of more than 10,000 people, each of whom will have paid a fee of Rs.500.

Ann Powell

When I decided to sell it, it was just to get the money to do all the things that I've done,

Rusty Wallace

When I decided to retire, I decided I couldn't stand it if I went out a loser,

Kelly Preston

When I decided to resume acting, I had become Mrs. Travolta in many people's eyes so I had to prove myself all over again.

Estella Warren

When I decided to go to L.A. I said I was going to quit modelling and just go and see how I do. In the first two weeks I got three movies. I was so excited I had all my furniture shipped out from New York.

Alfredo Palacio

The people of Ecuador today have decided to save the republic, a republic of hope, in whose streets and green fields should flower dignity, hope, equality and happiness.

Tom Scholz

I've sort of decided that I can settle for being just the artist, arranger, writer and part-time engineer. That seems like enough to do.

Sharon Stone

Many actresses do that kind of shoot when they are in their early 20s but I didn't think I had anything to worry about so I decided to go for it. I was very pleased with the results and it was also nice to surprise a few people.

Stelios Haji-Ioannou

I decided very early on that the way to make a difference in my life and in other people's lives was to give them services and products that are actually for the many and not for the few.

Robert Duncan

There is no dispute that judges need a pay raise.

Barclays Capital

The possibility for a non-benign solution to the dispute leaves open the risk for higher prices in the short term.

Juvenal

There is hardly a case in which the dispute was not caused by a woman.

Aristotle

How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms

Michael Birdwell

We're hoping that it will generate some interest and support so we can go back and finish up and settle the dispute once and for all, without a doubt.

Mike Gascoyne

Obviously it is the end of an era but nobody can dispute that Toyota has made a big step forward over the last two seasons.

Hans Hofmann

Nobody would dispute that I'm giving him a centrality he doesn't generally have.

Mandy Moore

I had just laid down to go to sleep and got up to use the restroom and I thought it was just like a dispute or something.

Rep. Lang

I had hoped to use my appointment to overcome the dispute over individuals. Unfortunately, my own appointment is now suddenly drawing unnecessary controversy which risks further undermining the commission's larger purpose.

Juvenal

There is hardly a case in which the dispute was not caused by a woman.

Aristotle

How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms

Steven Camarota

No one disputes that less-educated natives have done very poorly in the last five years.

Gregory Kutz

There are lots of disputes over reimbursements for meals.

Paul Woods

We view this $240 million as effectively settling all disputes between the two companies. We've resolved our differences in an amicable manner.

Alan McCoy

Unfortunately, we've experienced labor disputes long term. We're not looking to have a repeat of that experience." ()

Ed Skyler

We have had several major incidents since this protocol went into effect and there hasn't been any disputes over who's in charge. Everyone did their part and saved lives.

Brendan Barber

If the government suggested that they were actually going to walk away from a deal, that would be a hugely important problem and then, of course, the possibility of disputes could come back on to the agenda.

Theo Zwanziger

We take any disputes of a racist nature very seriously.

Ethan Moreau

We have to get that next goal. You either have to get a stop or get the next goal. It's happened a number of times. Good efforts have been wasted because of it.

Joshua Katcher

We want it to be a team effort from top to bottom, and we want to give the fans a good show. I think everyone will tell you that the traditional (tournament) title is more special because that's where the sport started, but this is special because we've been so inconsistent with injuries, and different line-ups and we have been able to go undefeated so far, even with all those things to overcome.

Charles Caleb Colton

There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the excellence of their happiest efforts.

Charles Dickens

Of little worth as life is when we misuse it, it is worth that effort. It would cost nothing to lay down if it were not.

Tim Carney

There is a lot of focus on counter-drug efforts on the part of Rene Preval.

Phoebe Diftler

We use our hands and our feet and our forearms and our elbows and knees and actually the weight of the whole body. There are parts of it that are a cooperative ... effort where it actually is two people, the practitioner and the receiver, in a pose together.

Richard G. Scott

Freedom requires no effort to enjoy but requires heroic efforts to preserve.

Bret Harte

Perhaps there is no gift of nature that requires as little exertion on the part of the owner as personal beauty. I am not certain but that it is this very absence of effort which excites our admiration.

Teemu Selanne

We know how much it takes, and nothing is going to come easy. We just have to find that effort and do better on special teams.

Barry Trotz

We have to get as many points as can right now. We have to get some separation. We have a lot of teams playing each other in the Western Conference. We are going to gain some ground on someone.

Richard G. Scott

I witness that as you gain experience and success in being guided by the Spirit, your confidence in the impressions you feel can become more certain than your dependence on what you see or hear.

Wayne Morgan

We did nothing wrong. Damon Archibald did not do anything wrong. Damon did nothing illegal. He never tried to gain anything or get anything other than ascertain a good schedule for us.

Alan Greenspan

If we allow terrorism to undermine our freedom of action, we could reverse at least part of the palpable gains achieved by postwar globalization. It is incumbent upon us not to allow that to happen.

Richard Wallace

The potential returns for BHP are enormous, even after the gains recently.

Kim Rupert

The post-auction gains were used as a selling opportunity.

Lonnie Roberts

We're happy to be in the playoffs and have the opportunity to take it all in and gain the experience.

Elvis Picardo

This rally looks sustainable because the gains are smaller. It is not like you have a 250-point gain in one day, which is hard to keep up.

Eric Benhamou

This quarter's significant increase in revenue and improved results over last quarter reflect that we have gained traction in the marketplace and restored operational rigor.

Brendan Barnicle

What's interesting is that Microsoft is now more of a leverage story.

John Drury

We leverage as much as we can from our brethren.

Dave Combs

We don't have a lot of leverage to stop annexations.

Quinten Fuentes

He is really a strong wrestler. A lot stronger than me. I was just able to use my leverage to get him.

Lori Lucas

There's a lot of room for individuals to leverage investments in their plans to get the most out of their account.

Pat Comack

AT&T still has a lot of leverage because Comcast can't tender for anything.

Andrea Williams

What is exciting, is for the first time we are starting to see leverage in their operating models so they should remain profitable,

Selim Bingol

They have a fiber-rich network. We see a big opportunity to leverage that for video and other services.

Michael Myers

It's been pretty impressive. He's long and tall. He's down there getting leverage on every play. That's why he's so good.

Alex Gibney

But it still serves as a primer for everyone who's watching the trial.

Ryan Martin

I was just trying to keep my serves inbound. I wasn't really going for aces.

Nancy Stern

We had a lot of reinforcing in the basement. It took several years to get it where we wanted it, but it serves us well.

Steven Smith

We don't feel that this kind of publication serves the university well or the students.

Steve Smith

We do not feel that this kind of publication serves the university well or the students.

George Stroumboulopoulos

If an interview just serves the idea of celebrity, then I think that sucks. I don't want to do that.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

When I'm on the set, I'll come up with ideas if I'm sort of just between responsibilities, because there's a lot of sitting around on set. Invariably, though, the stuff I come up with on the set tends to be bad.

Sarah Snook

I always wanted to do some sort of action film - even a superhero movie - and when 'Lucy' came out, I was like, 'That's what I want to do.'

Lyle Bauer

What we didn't want was it to be sort of a one-hit wonder.

Nigel Kneale

You set up a story and it turns inside out and that is, for me, the most exciting sort of story to write. The viewer thinks it's going to be about something and it does the opposite.

Kiesza

I tend to sort of dive into things without worrying about risk or anything. Like, when I get an idea, I tend to just go for it and see what happens.

John Godfrey

Until they sort it out, we're not going to get in the way.

Ernie Hudson

I think it's important to find the joy in your work and the things that sort of renew that.

Paul Souza

We're sort of bucking the trend a little bit.

Desmond Soon

Let's see what sort of spreads it comes out at.