Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Waller

The point here is that the (US) administration has been very thoughtful in making sure that all aspects of the trip go well,

S. Walker

We have to get better in the mental aspects of the game, ... That's true for both the pitchers and hitters. The pitchers can't be giving up hits on 0-2 counts like we have, and the hitters have to find a way to get the runner over when he's on second with no outs.

Henry Selick

When you're writing, it's all up to you, and you don't have to make any compromises. And when you're directing, there's this intense pleasure you get from working with all these really talented people, and pooling the efforts towards a common goal. I like all the aspects of film-making.

Andy Robinson

We were awful. We performed poorly in all aspects of the game. It was all about silencing the crowd. But we either kicked poorly or knocked the ball on.

Jean Kelly

Until the water is pumped out and until we can test the sludge and everything, we really don't know what the livability aspects are going to be, ... And that is probably going to be another two months just to get the water out of New Orleans.

David Perlmutter

When we are exposed to a real or perceived threatening situation, powerful things happen in the brain to memorialize aspects of the event, including all manner of associated circumstances like where, when and how it occurred.

Dr. McKinlay

We found that on I.Q. and other aspects of brain function, as well as kidney function, the group that received the mercury-based amalgam was exactly the same as those that received a composite.

George Casey

The referendum on the constitution and the elections at the end of December are the most important aspects of what we're doing now.

Johnny Thomas

We can depend on so many different people. We've got so many different aspects of our game that we can go to and get the job done if one of us has an off night.

Chan Gailey

We've already got a lot of the film breakdown done,

Michael McCulloch

We actually don't know what the dogs are smelling. But we do know that cancers have breakdown products - cocktails of compounds - and these smell different to a dog than normal cells." ()

Nicholas Kristof

Since the end of the 1970s, something has gone profoundly wrong in America. Inequality has soared. Educational progress slowed. Incarceration rates quintupled. Family breakdown accelerated. Median household income stagnated.

Maj. Crisp

Usually it is someone driving in the breakdown lane.

Robert Carlyle

The first thing you should know about me is when I was three years old my mother left me and my father. And that was traumatic obviously for my father - he suffered a nervous breakdown at that time in his life.

Wesley Clark

Just looking at the environment, the breakdown in Iraqi defense system, and the fact that we're in there in that urban area, we're not a good target for the use of chemical weapons even if Saddam could throw them at us, and I think the guess would be he can't at this point,

Tomas Vokoun

Jason was all by himself. A breakdown like that decides the game.

Jake Hutton

I think everyone needs to win their one-on-ones. When you look at film, there were so many games where just one breakdown cost us the game. ... We need to die hard, work hard on every play and not go down.

Charlie Rangel

What you have just witnessed is the official breakdown of bipartisanship,

David Miliband

I've committed myself to serve my constituents in South Shields and I have committed myself to British politics.

Louis Leakey

I kept an open mind on the question of whether a hominid had been present in Europe in the early Pleistocene.

Louis Leakey

I felt that in time simple stone tools would be found in early Pleistocene in England.

Louis Leakey

At Olduvai, for 20 years, Mary and I had investigated and made a general survey of the overall geology.

Louis Leakey

I have examined the stomach contents of seven aardvarks.

Michael York

It's a question of why they come for your advice. Whatever I tell you, it doesn't matter, it is completely irrelevant in a way. I know so many actors who were discouraged and put that aside. You will get half-baked opinions.

Reg Keys

The people who will be his judge is not God, it will be the families of the bereaved British soldiers and it will be the families of the bereaved innocent Iraqis who have all been slaughtered in this totally unnecessary conflict.

Davina McCall

The people who go into that house are a cross section of British culture. They're not freaks.

Mike Parker

We are pleased to be able to enter into a contract that will secure the maximum return on the British taxpayers' investment and cement the continued leadership of Westinghouse in the nuclear energy field through the stewardship of the Toshiba Corporation.

Maajid Nawaz

The truth is that just as the 'West' is not a homogenous entity with one view on foreign and domestic policy, nor are Muslims.

Adi Godrej

We started the 10/10 objective in 2011, and that time, our turnover was about Rs. 15,000 crore. We would like to have a turnover of Rs. 1,50,000 crore by 2021. This will be through high growth in domestic and international operations as well as through acquisitions.

Attorney Garnati

We have scraped together the $9,500 to keep the doors open until March 31. We need a miracle to save our domestic violence program, and in turn, save women and children.

Pat Camden

We're being told there's an order of protection in place, and as I said, it's an ongoing domestic situation.

Joey Rodriguez

We've survived hurricanes ever since the domestic shrimp industry began. The only thing we haven't been able to survive is the dumping of imported shrimp.

Therese Fowler

My husband and I have, in some ways, a non-traditional relationship - especially when it comes to domestic duties. He does most of the cooking, dishes, and laundry, while I do most of the yard work. I love to mow the lawn! And I take great satisfaction in planting and pruning.

David Wyss

We might have a lower unemployment rate and a somewhat lower gross domestic product, but it wouldn't be a huge impact.

Wasim Bari

We have included Iqbal because of his prolific form in domestic matches.

Ian Stewart

Loose monetary policy is working its way through the economy and what started as an export recovery is broadening out into domestic demand. There have been false dawns before but this does look encouraging.

Douglas Coupland

We are a dreadful species indeed, and deserve whatever it is our techno-baubles do to us.

Jane Austen

Single women have a dreadful propensity to being poor

Maura Harty

We are exponentially better than we were on that dreadful September morning.

Prince Charles

Our hearts go out to you today as they did on that dreadful today.

Ruth Reichl

My mother really would make these dreadful concoctions. She really prided herself on something called 'Everything Stew,' where she would take everything in the refrigerator, all the leftovers, and put them all together.

Tony Blair

I would like to express our sympathy and condolences to the people of Nepal following the dreadful tragedy there in respect of the royal family,

Marvin Kalb

He's a very accomplished newsman and a very nice man. He found himself in a dreadful, dreadful situation.

Marvin Kalb

He's a very accomplished newsman and a very nice man, ... He found himself in a dreadful, dreadful situation.

Kathryn Harrold

One of the reasons I moved to New York was because I thought it would be easier to say no to dreadful scripts. I wouldn't be tempted to fly back and do them. There are some things even I won't do.

Donald Rumsfeld

We're not going to rule out anything, but we don't have any plans at the present time to use U.S. forces in that way,

Georgie Fame

When I was a kid,if you were lucky, you listened to that music on Radio Luxembourg or the American Forces Network.

Kathleen Sebelius

I know how tough it is to stand up to powerful forces that prey on consumers.

Eric Long

When you put yourself in the position to have to come back like that it forces your hand. You have to make every play and you can't make a mistake. But the story of this game was told in the first four minutes.

Yosef Lapid

Security forces must respond with strength to the terrible attack.

R. Ingram

What I can say is that U.S. forces helped to provide urgent medical support at the scene of the incident, something for which I know our forces are grateful,

Patty Schnyder

She puts huge pressure on me. She is so present on the court. She really forces you back. It's tough to get the rallies going and move her around.

Tom Wilkinson

There are forces surrounding this trial ? dark, powerful forces,

Richard Williams

From our point of view, anything that forces a shutdown will speed up a settlement, which we view as a positive event.

Benjamin Cardozo

The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.

Alan Furst

You can't make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.

Anne Fadiman

Americans admire success. Englishmen admire heroic failure

Eugene Debs

The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.

Nicholas Winton

I wasn't heroic because I was never in danger.

Oscar Isaac

I think for some reason we're conditioned in movies that the protagonist must be heroic or redeemable in some way, whereas in theater, that's not a necessary.

John Milton

Let those who would write heroic poems make their life an heroic poem.

John Walsh

This was such a massive catastrophe. I don't know that anything could have been done differently. We had a lot of heroic people.

Nelson Mandela

reaching the end of a long and heroic struggle.

Tariq Aziz

Singling out the question of inspectors is wrong. There is the Iraqi issue, and in that issue, there are many items, there are many areas, and some of them are very, very important to the Iraqi people.

Lawrence Eagles

Most of these projects were supposed to be done last year. If U.S. money had been made available, Iraqis could have done the job faster. Whichever way you look in the short term, it comes back to security.

Jalal Talabani

Furthermore, the Iraqis do not want to be more Palestinians than the Palestinians themselves,

Mark Kimmitt

I suspect that most Iraqi people were as horrified,

George H. W. Bush

If the Iraqi regime were disarming, we would know it because we would see it.

Amr Moussa

I salute the Iraqis and wish them victory.

James Dobbins

Most Iraqis remain less secure than they were under Saddam, less secure even than they were in the first year of the American occupation.

Massoud Barzani

rejected by the Iraqi people in its entirety.

George H. W. Bush

positive day for the Iraqis and as well for world peace.

Charles W. Pickering

In states where no regulation exists, anyone is permitted to perform medical imaging and radiation therapy procedures, sometimes after just a few weeks of on-the-job training.

Charles Edison

Any man who takes a job with the idea that it is simply a springboard for something else is a chump. His attention will be more on the other things than on the job at hand and so he will fail.

Charles Dudley Warner

If you do things by the job, you are perpetually driven: the hours are scourges. If you work by the hour, you gently sail on the stream of Time, which is always bearing you on to the haven of Pay, whether you make any effort, or not.

Charles de Lint

There isn't a single day I don't do some writing -- if you don't, you won't have a book. When you're self-employed it is very easy to burn away your time instead -- answering e-mails, surfing the Internet, or hanging out with friends. You really must have the discipline to sit down and write every day. Most of what I am writing is living in the back of my head or in my subconscious. I find if I write every day, my subconscious will do the job for me.

Charles de Lint

We're so quick to cut away pieces of ourselves to suit a particular relationship, a job, a circle of friends, incessantly editing who we are until we fit in.

Charles Dickens

"There is no deception now, Mr. Weller. Tears," said Job, with a look of momentary slyness, "tears are not the only proofs of distress, nor the best ones."

Charles Dickens

"I know quite enough of myself," said Bella, with a charming air of being inclined to give herself up as a bad job, "and I don't improve upon acquaintance..."

Charles Stross

I wanted an agent who would actually sell stuff. After two British agents failed comprehensively, I was reading Locus (the SF field's trade journal) and noticed a press release about an experienced editor leaving her job to join an agent in setting up a new agency. And I went "aha!" - because what you need is an agent who knows the industry but who doesn't have a huge list of famous clients whose needs will inevitably be put ahead of you. So I emailed her, and ... well, 11 years later I am the client listed at the top of her masthead!

Charles Stross

What I read: while I'm writing, I tend to go off reading fiction for relaxation - especially the challenging stuff. It's too much like the day job.

Byron Katie

There is no security for those who seek it outside of themselves.

Atifete Jahjaga

The security of the woman is the security of society.

Benjamin Franklin

People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both.

Alberto Gonzales

Security is a concern, ... It is a priority.

Arlen Specter

Effective security measures do not come cheap.

Bruce Schneier

A colleague once told me that the world was full of bad security systems designed by people who read Applied Cryptography

Bruce Schneier

People often represent the weakest link in the security chain and are chronically responsible for the failure of security systems.

George Tenet

If one side does something, and the other side does something within the span of a security meeting, we can say we are into Tenet.

Lawrence Lindsey

I don't think we're going to be touching Social Security at all.

Brian Martin

We are seeing a lot of selling for euros.

Ben Affleck

You're basically the sum of all the experiences you've ever had, and they're sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies.

Bob Schnorbus

We're sort of seeing an orchestrated slowing of the economy. But what we're not seeing is a slamming on the brakes.

Tom Warner

We're going to start seeing a lot more of these.

Ed Stansfield

What we're seeing now is the first signs of stress.

Elizabeth Bibesco

Seeing through is rarely seeing into.

Rick Ochoa

I think the weather you're seeing in Texas is very unusual. You would have to go back to the '50s to see the kind of dryness you're seeing. I don't think we've seen anything like this in a generation.

Lorne Michaels

I think you're seeing the wave of the future.

Woody Williams

When he's seeing everything good, there's not a whole lot you can do about it.

Charles de Gaulle

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.

Charles Dickens

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

Charles Spurgeon

I would sooner walk in the dark, and hold hard to a promise of my God, than trust in the light of the brightest day that ever dawned.

Charles Spurgeon

Trust in God alone, and lean not on the needs of human help. Be not surprised when friends fail you; it is a failing world. Never reckon upon immutability in man: inconstancy you may reckon upon without fear of disappointment.

Charles Spurgeon

Trust in the person's promise who dares to refuse what they fear they cannot perform.

Alan Watts

If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself - so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed

Alan Perlis

It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

We do not trust the goodwill of the U.S. They have cut the ties.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

I believe the main solution is to gain the trust of Europe and America and to remove their concerns over the peaceful nature of our nuclear industry and to assure them that there will never be a diversion to military use.

Aaron Brooks

So I don't have concerns, but we can't be worrying about that.

Armando Iannucci

There's something inherently comic about the fact that politicians make things worse by worrying too much about something.

Michelle Gomez

I bring so much of myself to each character that there's always a worrying point when I think: 'Oh no, I'm really that person.'

Author unknown

Worrying works! 90% of the things I worry about never happen.

David Thomas

Worrying about anything but A&M right now is just foolish.

Peter Kinder

You can't be worrying about everything all at once,

Paul Freeman

It's frustrating. It's exciting. It's nerve-wracking, ... It's worrying about those who are down there.

Carly Simon

Worrying too much about other people's ears and not my own, I lost my way.