Famous Quotes & Sayings

Courtney Pratt

We believe this plan does have a fighting chance of winning approval on the understanding that it's going to be discussed and probably modified or amended in some way,

Paul Rakov

Our original application included projections we made during the summer of 2005. Economic effects of Hurricane Katrina and the ever-increasing cost of fuel has made construction materials more expensive than we originally planned. We amended our original application to help balance the effect of those costs.

Tom Rathbun

Management was a bigger concern to us than the finances. The reclamation just wasn't being done despite several amended agreements.

Nancy Cartwright

The fundamental laws of physics do not describe true facts about reality. Rendered as descriptions of facts, they are false; amended to be true, they lose their explanatory force.

Yves Fortier

We are satisfied that the amended offer constitutes full and fair value for the company.

Robert Sweet

If plaintiffs were able to flesh out this argument in an amended complaint, it may establish that the dangers of McDonald's products were not commonly well known and thus that McDonald's had a duty towards its customers,

Mike Mower

The governor was only on the (corporate) jet a few times last year, maybe only once, always with other family members on family trips; once to Fillmore for the funeral of a relative. An amended federal filing will be made next week.

Chuck Bowen

While we continue to oppose even the amended version, we knew that if we appeared before the committee, the chances were likely that the original version of the bill could be adopted.

Kessel Stelling

I truly understand the passion about where your child goes to school but dealing with it as proposed is just plain wrong and contradicts the idea of 'less government' where it doesn't belong. I also understand the politics here, I know the predicament the Governor will be placed in if the bill reaches his desk, and I ask each of you to do the right thing regardless of the political consequences and not sign the amended bill.

Scott Stoker

We appeared to get good play at quarterback once again. We moved the ball well and some of our playmakers made plays. There were a lot of younger guys who got their chances tonight and it seemed like things went fairly well.

Raymond James

Until six months ago, it appeared the Internet brokers were on the periphery,

Susan Vreeland

When I was nine, my great grandfather, a landscape painter, taught me to mix colors. With his strong hand surrounding my small one, he guided the brush until a calla lily appeared as if by magic on a page of textured watercolor paper.

Mike Moran

When we caught him, he still appeared to be covered in fecal matter, ... He told us, though, he was partying with girls the night before and somehow ended up rolling around in tomato paste.

Charles Smith

We are all in shock. Dennis appeared to be in excellent physical condition.

Keith Moore

The problem with the OPES group was that it appeared to be developing a mechanism to make it easy for unauthorized third parties to modify content in transit -- say by ISPs to insert advertisements.

Thomas Mallon

Of all Americans who have appeared on the nation's postage stamps, Ayn Rand is probably the only one to have thought that the United States government has no business delivering mail.

Chip Taylor

When I got started with this, it appeared that the whole migration was just chaos pushed by weather, totally unpredictable. It turns out you can predict to within two or three days where they are going to be, and they make this migration on the basis of some celestial change.

Ian Mckellen

When I appeared in 'Coronation Street,' I lived in Manchester and enjoyed it very much.

Mike Johanns

We want to send a signal as to what the farm bill will be so that producers can make decisions.

Chris Chocola

Anytime a large, emergency spending bill makes its way through Congress, the potential for mischief is great.

Chirlane McCray

I'm married, I'm monogamous, but I'm not dead, and Bill isn't either.

George Bell

We lack billing relationships. We lack credit-card relationships with our consumers,

Kofi Annan

We know from experience that if the international community does not support these control measures now, the potential cost to the world will be much higher in the long term. Past outbreaks have already cost more than $10 billion in economic losses.

Mark Siegel

Ultimately we want to provide people with as complete a communications and home entertainment and information system as they want, ... with one bill if they want, one number to call for customer service, and one price per month if they want it that way.

Michael McKinney

The person I'd feel sorry for would be the first man, ... I'm not sure Bill could handle that.

Nathan Myhrvold

The personality of Bill Gates determines the culture of Microsoft.

Jiang Zemin

The people will always remember him, ... We have 1.2 billion people, but the life of every Chinese person is precious.

Mike Shanahan

The one thing we have in our division is everybody tries to get better. We've got ownership throughout the division where teams are looking to improve. . . . If you're not improving in our division, chances are you're not going to win.

Martyn Thomas

The performance in Paris was unacceptable. We will do what is necessary to enhance our chances of doing well in the World Cup. If that means making changes, so be it, but we are not going into panic mode.

Jose Gonzalez

We are probably in better shape than we were last year, ... Our chances to go all the way are very good. Right now, I don't think there isn't a way we can't make it to the playoffs and hopefully the finals.

Nikolai Spassky

There are chances of a peaceful solution to the Iranian problem.

Allyson Doyle

We stopped talking, stopped moving and that really hurt us in games three, four and five. We had chances but we didn't take advantage. I think we got too comfortable (after game two) and kind of let up a little bit.

Ken Hitchcock

We're in a tough state right now. We have some real adversity. Every mistake is in our net. We can't score on the chances we get. We can't kill penalties.

Jim Host

Where I thought my chances before were 10 percent or less, I would say they're less than one-half to one percent.

Dan Hill

When you think of bike couriers, you think of hyper speed. They get paid by how fast they can drop stuff off. The faster you go, the more chances you take. And the more chances you take, the greater the war between cyclists and cars.

Brett Basanez

We always have to score more points than they do. We get just as many chances as they do so we have to make good on our chances and take our shots. If it (the score) comes down to 99-98, that's what it needs to be and we have to have 99. If it comes down to 3-2, we've got to have the three.

Maia Carroll

We want the hospital to continue to look diligently for cost-saving measures.

Kevin Krone

We want to thank our Customers for their continued excitement about DING! since its introduction last February. Thanks to our hardworking Employees, fare sales were revolutionized with the creation of DING!

Keith Miller

We know what we can do. This team has plenty of talent and potential; now it's up to us to just go out there and continue to make a name for ourselves.

Ray Brown

We know we've got to play better offensively to continue in this tournament.

Levance Fields

We know he's going to be all right and we've just got to continue our game plan. We're a little sick right now. That's all it is. Hopefully, it doesn't turn out any worse than it is. But we can't just stop.

Hilary Clinton

Very calmly, we went out to the sidewalk in front of our office and continued our discussion.

Terry Lanni

Vegas will continue to grow and it will sustain downward trends.

David Holmes

Ultimately it could mean we end up releasing another record next year and continue to tour well in to 2007.

Lucas Papademos

A very difficult year is ahead of us. We must continue our efforts with decisiveness, to stay in the euro, to make sure we do not waste the sacrifices and do not turn the crisis into an uncontrolled and disastrous bankruptcy.

Sean Burke

We knew they would throw everything at us.

Bill Otte

We knew they wouldn't go away and they chipped away. It's a rivalry for a reason.

Jack Coit

We knew they would be tough inside; they have some physical players.

Randy Matthews

We knew they were working on a no-huddle offense. And, we've watched their films.

Mike Adras

We knew they were not going to quit. We're all playing for our lives at this point, so we knew they weren't going to go away.

Damarius Bilbo

We knew they were going to try to take Calvin out of the game. Same as last week with Auburn.

Rick Carlisle

We knew they were going to make runs. We knew Wade was going to play big down the stretch. When that happens, we had to keep our poise and composure. We did that and made the plays we had to make to win.

Mike Gundy

We knew they were going to make mistakes. We knew they were going to make big plays. We didn't want them to think if they did something wrong they weren't going to get back in forever.

Randall Stallworth

We knew they were going to make a run. They were playing like that throughout the tournament.

Grant Williamson

Until we get into the reporting season next month we're probably likely to see more of this thin trade.

Henry Spencer

Whether solid rockets are more or less likely to fail than liquid-fuel rockets is debatable. More serious, though, is that when they do fail, it's usually violent and spectacular.

William Gerstenmaier

We're going to have to make some modifications to the tank, so that probably puts the September (launch) window into a not very likely possibility.

David Carr

We're more likely to be understanding than to be judgmental.

Dick Vermeil

Least likely normally to have a problem is the kicker.

Henry Blodget

Settlement talks, if any, will likely be very complex, with multiple parties involved.

Marc Lipsitch

If a single introduction of a pandemic-capable strain is likely to happen, then multiple introductions are also likely.

John Davidson

I think in the near term, over this summer, the market is likely to stay in this range. There's a lot going on right now.

Michael Slater

Itanium won't be relevant for PCs until 2003 at the earliest, more likely 2005,

Norman Finkelstein

I am opposed to any state with an ethnic character, not only to Israel.

Rory Bremner

It's no wonder the Tory Party opposed identity cards, since so many of them struggle to find an identity at all.

John Roberts

Yes, I was in an administration that was opposed to quotas, ... Opposition to quotas is not the same thing as opposition to affirmative action.

Sitaram Yechury

Our party's position is clear. We are opposed to FDI in retail sector.

Jean-Pierre Leaud

My mother was an actress in comedies. My father wrote scenarios. They were not opposed to my being an actor. I really didn't know what it meant, but I wanted to be one anyway.

Michael Town

I think if enough people tell him they oppose it, he will listen.

Kate Winslet

I think heartbreak is something that you learn to live with as opposed to learn to forget.

Kate Winslet

I think there's a lot of pressure on young people to really be the thing that everyone is telling them that they are, opposed to discovering it for themselves.

Liu Jianchao

China's position on nonproliferation is clear. We resolutely oppose any proliferation.

Fran Townsend

When we were preparing the president's speech we had originally picked a different plot to try and declassify to talk about.

Michael Chetcuti

We're going to restore the original part of the building, not so that it is historically correct, but for other uses.

Benjamin Disraeli

The originality of a subject is in its treatment.

Tracy Letts

Some people do stage and film. Some people are film actors, and some people are stage actors. I'm quite sure that any of the actors who did the original production of 'August' could have done the film of 'August.' I don't think any of them were particularly surprised when they didn't wind up doing the film.

Elizabeth Taylor

I'm not like anyone. I'm me.

Steve Smith

Frankly, we wonder if (the NCAA) ever read some of the original documentation we filed in the first place.

Antoni Gaudi

Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin.

Antoni Gaudi

Originality is going back to origins.

Mark Leyner

This wasn't calculated. We didn't sit down and think, 'In three weeks, we can sell 500,000 copies.' But Billy's original idea was a stroke of genius.

Paul Rudd

We're now the (junior varsity) version of that,

Nancy Wilson

We've done so many versions of this song.

Mike Rucker

He's kind of like a younger version of Brett Favre.

Theresa Klein

But there is only one version of the truth, right?

Neil MacGregor

For the Greeks, there was no single canonical version of creation, but a number of overlapping stories.

Rene Russo

If something comes around that would be a challenge, then that would be wonderful. But if it's a watered-down version of something I've already done, I'd rather do something else.

Daniel Tosh

Yes, I am aware that I am the gayer version of Jeff Lewis.

Mark Lewis

The new CMC version removes the need for an administrator to visit each site.

Jon Corzine

If you want a long version of the inaugural address, come on Tuesday.