Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ron Anderson

We have to fly legal, which is 1,000 feet over populated areas, and we cruise a little over 100 mph. Kids who have been in commercial flights say that this is so different because you can see the cars and people and cows below. It absolutely amazes them.

James Rubin

We have no illusions about China's desire to acquire sensitive information and technology for military uses by many different means. It is absolutely not true that we downplayed any evidence of this. We took the issue seriously, as our actions demonstrate.

Richard Blumenthal

We have no idea what the legal basis is for these claims, ... There seems to be no legal or factual basis for these claims since the state has played absolutely no role in this internal church dispute. ? We really, essentially, have no idea what they mean by this claim.

Gerhard Schroeder

What the prime minister has said about the close, personal relationship which I have with this country is absolutely correct. That has always been the case and will always remain the case.

Susanna Kearsley

When you say that you write romantic fiction, there are a lot of people who have an image in their mind of the 'bodice ripper.' It's the one term that most romantic fiction writers absolutely hate because it has no bearing on what people are writing.

Karen Allen

We have backed off the big push to get computers in primary grades, ... We do have things where kids use technology before they leave fifth grade. But previous studies of the introduction of technology at other schools haven't shown a huge value in learning as a result. When we put something in the classroom, it absolutely has to further what kids need to know. I just don't want to go off in a tangent in one direction without being completely clear that it will pay off for all the kids.

Jim Puckett

We have had absolutely no discussions about it. All that I and the public have seen was the preliminary presentation. This continues to be public money, and we should have the opportunity to be involved with making decisions.

Bob Holthus

There are a lot of complicated estate tax matters to consider but I think the children are going to keep Lawyer Ron, at least through the Kentucky Derby. Mr. Hines absolutely didn't want to sell this horse. This was his Derby horse.

Mike Christian

There are a lot of anti-huggers. Usually it's because they are more introverted and shy or their family wasn't particularly affectionate. But everyone - absolutely everyone - in the right surroundings enjoys a good hug.

Harry Wadsworth

The external tanks are okay. The initial assessment is good for them. Just one of them had a little water on it. We keep them all inside in the factory, or the vertical assembly building, or our process and checkout building.

Martin Lee

The people of Hong Kong have no other option but to show solidarity by joining together, by taking part in peaceful assembly to voice our aspirations, to let the Beijing leaders know we really want and deserve democracy.

Stephane Dujarric

Ultimately, this will be a sovereign decision by the Iraqis, and it's up to the Iraqi National Assembly to decide on the appropriate electoral framework. That being said, it is our duty in our role in Iraq to point out when the process does not meet international standards.

William Schulz

Untie the hands of state and federal judges and prosecutors, ... Give them options other than turning the courts into assembly lines that mass produce mandatory life-without-parole sentences for children.

Lou Hatter

The reason for that is because the General Assembly has yet to pass a budget. Therefore, we have to base our six-year plan update on the latest revenue estimates from the Department of Taxation.

Charles Kennedy

We have a Scottish Parliament and National Assembly for Wales, both elected by fairer votes - involving proportional representation.

Chuck Cooper

Would be nice if I could have talked to them or had an assembly on what they did.

Johannes Ullrich

Writing a cross-platform worm is difficult because it limits you to functions that are available on both operating systems. You have to also code the virus in assembly to make it work without relying on any OS-specific function.

Saleem Cheeks

We've always been urging the Senate to join the Assembly in passing it.

Aaron McFarland

We were totally playing their style most of the game. Then their player got hurt and we started playing our style which is 1-2 touch pass. We didn't wake up but once we did, we created chances.

Penn Jillette

'Moxie' is a name that was created by an American for the first national soft drink and then went on to mean chutzpah, and that's nice.

Michael Birch

The problem with Myspace was always that it was never as strong a product as it needed to be. It left itself vulnerable to competition. It was only a matter of time before someone created something better.

Morgan Fairchild

When I've got all the makeup on and all the spit, polish and glue together, I look fine. But I know what I really look like, and I'm still that same little kid under there. I don't think I look that great. I think I did a good job of creating Morgan Fairchild. But I created her.

Richard Nichols

The process worked. You see this crowd. We created a strong interest in the problem of growth. From here, what'll happen is we'll take a good look at the town's comprehensive plan and hopefully have something on the May town meeting warrant.

Don McCoy

Venus is extremely inhospitable for life, whereas Earth is a great place to live. If these planets were created about the same time, why would Earth take on such a different character?

Elliott Abrams

A Palestinian state will never be created by terror.

Ed Sheeran

I think the music I've created is quite odd, and people are going to start talking about that.

Edward Carey

I inhaled Dickens as a kid, and I've always been fascinated by the Victorians. So many ridiculous objects they had! They created things like mustache cups, so you wouldn't wet your mustache when you were drinking tea. And eyebrow combs. What's happened to all the eyebrow combs? Marvelous things.

Nick Miller

We have to get everybody on the same page. Everybody had their own definition of what is appropriate and inappropriate.

Brent Weeks

You’ll come with us,” she said. “Sure,” Gavin said. “It wasn’t a request.” “Yes it was,” Gavin said. “When you don’t have power to compel obedience, by definition you’re making a request.

Brandi Carlile

I'm not sure I'll ever be famous by anyone's definition. I can only hope to be allowed by the audience to continue my life's work.

J. R. Moehringer

Vegas is like the old definition of writing: though I don't enjoy writing, I love having written. Though I didn't enjoy Vegas, I love having lived there.

Bruno Latour

The composition of a common world would be the definition of politics.

Kara Swisher

Is a family just the strict definition of a small and discrete unit, or is it about the larger organic group that inevitably grows up around the smaller one?

Chinua Achebe

In my definition I am a protest writer, with restraint.

M. Night Shyamalan

When you say 'fear of the unknown', that is the definition of fear; fear is the unknown, fear is what you do not know, and it's genetically within us so that we feel safe. We feel scared of the woods because we're not familiar with it, and that keeps you safe.

Ben Okri

We have not yet arrived, but every point at which we stop requires a re-definition of our destination.

Alessio Vinci

The people in the street -- a few dozen on Thursday night -- are a reminder of the fact that Milosevic still enjoys substantial support,

Phil Williams

We are talking dozens and dozens of sex offenders - mainly from just four states that report the employers names.

Joe Garagiola

Six of one, half dozen of another. Oh, well, half of one, six dozen of the other.

Arthur C. Clarke

Floyd could imagine a dozen things that could go wrong; it was little consolation that it was always the thirteenth that actually happened.

Ehud Barak

maybe there will be a need for a few dozens of foreign observers.

John Montgomery

Numerous people were interviewed and dozens of leads were investigated,

Jami Attenberg

For years I drove cross-country, back and forth a dozen times, sometimes on book tour, sometimes just to get lost and found.

Jen Bluestein

Freddy Ferrer is proud to have the support of literally dozens of Latino leaders.

Charles Kupchella

I did tell him I was going to issue this appeal. I have talked with no fewer than several dozen American Indians on this, him included.

Carol Shields

The silence is perfect, and yet a torment ...

Carlos Castaneda

The body must be perfection before the will is a functioning unit

Alan Kulwicki

The pursuit of perfection is frustrating and a waste of time, because nothing is ever perfect. The pursuit of excellence is commendable and worthwhile. Therefore strive for excellence not perfection.

Charlotte Bronte

The human and fallible should not arrogate a power with which the divine and perfect alone can be safely intrusted.

Charles de Lint

Well, you know this world isn't perfect.' 'No, you're wrong. This world IS perfect, people just come along and mess it up sometimes.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that can enjoy the intimacy of the great, and on no occasion disgust them by familiarity, or disgrace himself by servility, proves that he is as perfect a gentleman by nature as his companions are by rank.

Charles Dickens

Missionaries are perfect nuisances and leave every place worse than they found it.

Charles Stanley

No matter how far we may wander from the Lord’s perfect will for our lives, we are always welcome back.

Charles Spurgeon

If you wait for a perfect church, you must wait until you get to heaven; and even if you could find a perfect assembly on earth, I am sure they would not admit you to their fellowship, for you are not perfect yourself.

Carol Shields

Our friendship is made up of these brief frenzied exchanges, but the quality of our conversation, for all its feverish outpouring, is genuine.

Agnes Repplier

Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.

Charles W. Pickering

The current lack of a national standard for operators of medical imaging and radiation therapy equipment poses a hazard to American patients and jeopardizes quality health care.

Charles Dickens

It will be your duty, and it will be your pleasure too to estimate her (as you chose her) by the qualities that she has, and not by the qualities she may not have.

Brian Eno

Most big concerts sound disgusting and awful and insultingly bad. It's like going to the cinema and been shown a scratchy film which is upsidedown and the bulb had gone on the projector. The quality of large-scale live music is so shocking.

Dhirubhai Ambani

We must always go for the best. Do not compromise on quality. Reject if it is not the best - not only the best in India, but globally.

Ed Comeau

We did have some quality shots and he made some saves.

Jane Austen

my good qualities are under your protection, and you are to exaggerate them as much as possible; and, in return, it belongs to me to find occasion for teasing and quarreling with you as often as may be...

Alan Chadwick

We need to create the beauty and the quality first. The quantity will follow.

Larry Harris

I feel we reached out and stole a Clipper.

Billy Graham

When I reached 80, my world turned upside down physically. I've had a lot of physical problems.

Evelyn Glennie

I want to be able to say on my deathbed that I reached a few people. That would be very nice, just to be able to say that.

Drew Kesse

He immediately reached out to us. We're very grateful.

Rush Limbaugh

Do you think if there was any real evidence, we would have reached a settlement?

Kypros Chrysostomides

It seems that today we reached a satisfactory conclusion.

Larry Baer

We've reached out to her and she referred us to her son. We're working with the son to see what if anything to do.

Mary Jordan

They wanted to see them. And when you say no, we can't let you in, we've reached capacity, that's heartbreaking and that's what it was.

Heraclitus

If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.

Karen Traviss

I'm a visual person - when I write, my input is always visual. I worked in television for several years.

Nikki Cox

I'm a McDonald's girl - several times a week. Usually the two-cheeseburger combo meal.

Scott Kim

What I always want is to have several little 'aha' moments where your brain is very happy.

Bill Hall

Several students have called and said, 'I have a video, do you want it?'

Rachel Carpenter

Right now I'm wearing several hats, and she's wearing several hats, and we will share.

Bruce Raynor

On several occasions, we intervened with the mayor. We had several conversations with Roger.

David Hastings

I have had several say, 'I don't want to go,' and I said, 'I'm sorry, you're going.'

Reinhard Selten

I did several types of work about several investigations of application of game theory to international relations.

Dennis Ritchie

Over the past several years, I've been more in a managerial role.

Charles Dickens

Reflect upon your present blessings

Alan Bishop

Everyone's a singer now, thanks to karaoke, for better and for much worse. But the live band is now becoming ancient history in Thailand, Cambodia, and Burma.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now.

Charlize Theron

I learned everything about love, watching 'Splash.' That's why I'm still single, so thanks Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah for that.

Charles Lamb

Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for thanksgiving.

Bernie Siegel

Be grateful simply for being alive. When you are grateful for life, pure and simple, your life becomes one you can be grateful for. That may strike you as circular or even backward logic, but your attitude really does have an effect on how things work out. When you can't change your life any other way, you can still change your attitude. When you do, your life changes. You find more chances to love, and you will be surprised to see how much more love is returned to you.

Brian Andreas

There are things you do because they feel right and they may make no sense and they may make no money and it may be the real reason we are here: to love each other and to eat each other's cooking and say it was good.

Calvin Coolidge

Measured by the standards of men of their time, [the Pilgrims] were the humble of the earth. Measured by later accomplishments, they were the mighty. In appearance weak and persecuted they came -- rejected, despised -- an insignificant band; in reality strong and independent, a mighty host of whom the world was not worthy destined to free mankind.

Bill Maher

Americans are gluttons. We shop with forklifts. We have a holiday where we stuff food into other food. Our strippers wrestle in Jell-O, where other countries have to use mud.

Trinny Woodall

I think I just took a while to know myself. I went on a journey to find out. I was a bit wild.

Larenz Tate

'Scarface,' I remember going to see that with my father. We didn't know what to expect; we did not know what to expect. I was a kid, and my father took me, and we didn't leave. It was so disturbing, but we loved it.

Jason Swearingen

We started out sluggish. It took us a while to get in our groove.

James E. Faust

Our Redeemer took upon Himself all the sins, pains, infirmities, and sicknesses of all who have ever lived and will ever live.

Lindsey Vonn

Vail's a very important place for me. Everyone kind of took me in and accepted me in that town, and they still have to this day. I wouldn't be a downhill skier if I hadn't been there.

Nate Gallick

When we got to our feet, I wanted to make something happen, so I took a chance. It worked out for me.

Barbara Green

She never complained about being sick. She took it all in stride.

Jalal Farzaneh

Mohammad and I took a tour of the devastation.

Gary Gambardella

She was a fortune-teller, and she took this woman for a fortune.