Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Wright

Refineries in Texas did not take a direct hit from Rita, but the energy grids in that area were effected, and power has not been restored to those refineries.

Richard Preston

Redwoods have an enormous surface area that extends upward into space because they have a propensity to do something called reiteration. A redwood is a fractal. And as they put out limbs, the limbs burst into small trees, copies of the redwood.

Mike Shockley

Recommendations included changes in several areas of energy expenses.

Gerry Fleming

Reggie has done a lot of things away from the play as far as his defensive play and his play without the puck. He's been in areas and made some big plays without the puck as well.

Bob Noun

President Bush's proposed budget will not have an impact this year. The current situation is we still have to lay off between 30 to 40 employees. But we are encouraged by the areas that were covered by the president.

Stephanie Williams

Preserving farmland and preserving the farming enterprise must go hand-in-hand. By working with Cumberland County Economic Development, we are able to help ensure that area farms become preserved, and remain competitive, for generations to come.

Irene Toner

Our policy is to call for a general evacuation in areas that might be prone to Category 3 impacts.

Hassan Nasrallah

Our policy is clear, we are fighting in an area that is still under occupation in Lebanon. And beyond that area, we are on the defensive.

Mike Ruddock

Our passing, tackling, lineout and tackle area play all need to be improved,

Adam Jonas

Recalls are a cost of doing business. Even high-quality companies like Toyota set aside a little money for each car to cover that risk.

Pete Wilson

Reinforce the governor's emergency powers to set anything aside -- state and federal statute and regulation -- that stands in the way of quick recovery,

Supavud Saicheua

Regionally, the Thai market remains buoyant. Once the political tensions subside, more investment would be seen aside from the net buy of Bt90 billion in the first two months of this year.

Jim Black

Our past has been set aside for us,

David Paulison

Part of the fire grants designated by Congress is set aside for health and safety for firefighters. We lose, over 50 percent of our firefighters' fatalities are heart attacks and strokes.

John Hagerty

State police put their emotions aside every single day.

John Nelson

Our philosophy at Creston is quite simple. We believe in setting aside equal shares for people and for nature in a community that offers the benefits of well thought-out land use.

Rod Shurtz

Our girls ran okay today - this was not one of our better races. Aside from that, Heather Mitchell ran really well for us and is improving each and every race. The girls need to compete with some fire, and as a whole that wasn't the case at Nashville.

Dwayne Roloson

Right now you have to put the satisfaction aside and focus on the playoff race. For me personally it's great, but for the team it's great that we were able to get this win. Hopefully this will create a snowball effect and we can keep on winning.

Hunter Hillenmeyer

Some of the guys we'll see are the ones who made Bears football what it is. You think about how exciting it is to play for the Chicago Bears, and you know it probably wouldn't be this way if not for those guys and the standard they set.

Scott Hagel

Our goal is to get as many Bears fans as possible to the game.

Dana Johnson

It had little trains and teddy bears on it, ... It was cute.

Chris Bowman

I think Thursday definitely bears watching for us -- especially southeast Kansas.

Nick Brown

It isn't my physical presence that bears down on the disease.

Lee Hannah

It isn't just polar bears and penguins that we must worry about any more.

Greg Walker

I was here when the Bears won, I know how big they were. Every player had his own restaurant.

Ruth Reichl

I don't have my own garden; we're on shale and in the woods. And if I did have a garden, the deer and chipmunks and squirrels and bears would eat everything anyway.

Ozzie Guillen

I don't care if you're a Cubs fan, a Bulls fan, a Bears fan. I think a lot of people now are Chicago fans,

Sharon Fanning

Rebounding is why we were in the game. When you are a smaller team, you have to block out.

Rob Konrad

Our offense was horrible. I don't care if Brett Favre was back there, it was going to be tough. We couldn't block anybody. ... We had no offensive identity.

Justin Jackson

Our line was blocking good and making big holes. I didn't have to do too much, just run to the daylight.

Shell Dula

Our offensive line was tremendous. They were outstanding in both pass blocking and on the run.

Andy Gray

Our No. 1 goal, any time we line up, is to block a kick or get a big return,

Sam Diehl

Our line did a heck of a job blocking - a lot better improvement from our first two scrimmages.

Doug Scott

Our line blocked better and it just opened up for me. It was a hard spot to fill but I just had to step up my game and fill his (Parks') shoes.

Sathya Baba

Our life is like a block of ice which is melting away every moment. Before it spends itself, devote it to the service of others.

Allan Ray

Surprisingly, it's not that hard to block things out. You just go up there confident, with a clear head.

Richard Preston

Redwood time moves at a more stately pace than human time. To us, when we look at a redwood tree, it seems to be motionless and still, and yet redwoods are constantly in motion, moving upward into space, articulating themselves and filling redwood space over redwood time, over thousands of years.

John Hagel III

Passion and true passion is actually very unpredictable. It heads in unexpected directions because it's constantly seeking out new challenges. But what's really interesting is that passion ultimately is necessary for sustained extreme performance improvement.

Mark Schultz

Stability is the number one thing you need to be successful in anything. I constantly had the rug pulled out from under me. I think people were jealous of me. I think people saw me as this guy who could conquer the world.

Alice Englert

Some of us don't have the energy to be as incredible and riotous and fantastic as Emma Thompson. You're constantly just lapping up her incredible hilariousness.

Kelly Redmond

We've talked about this whole thing of Eskimos having 31 names for snow. If you live in a dry climate, you probably have 31 names for drought. When you are constantly faced with something, each instance matters.

Safaa Ibrahim

I think there is an 'us versus them' mentality. There is a frustration that we have to constantly defend ourselves. I'd rather not be on the defensive. I'd rather just educate people about our faith.

Manuel Pellegrini

I think the referee constantly made mistakes, he didn't notice when our players were pulled as well as several fouls.

James Comey

Just as our adversaries and threats continue to evolve, so, too, must the FBI. The key to this evolution lies with our greatest assets: our people and our partnerships. Every FBI professional understands that thwarting the threats facing our nation means constantly striving to be more effective and more efficient.

Ladonna Somers

That was not possible at the hospital. There was no place for Regan to lay down and take a nap. And the oncology ward is constantly full.

Victoria Jackson

That was, my whole dilemma was that when I got my first movie part The Pick Up Artist, I was playing a loose girl.

Q'orianka Kilcher

Here in L.A., you kind of get stuck in your own little dilemmas and your own little life, and hearing a story like Pocahontas' reminds you there's a bigger world out there, and there are so many more important things in life.

Steven Seagal

For me, in Buddhism there is a plethora of specific teachings that one can seek out and find for the individual dilemmas you may have.

Tipper Gore

The dilemma for society is how to preserve personal and family values in a nation of diverse tastes.

Dennis Ross

On the Israeli side there is real questioning, you do not see any signs of dilemma on the other side.

Scott Turow

Those kind of dilemmas are commonplace when you're a prosecutor. You're always in that position with the flipper witnesses.

Ian Johnson

We're all trying to work our way around this dilemma and find a solution,

Gary Clark

What you have is all these various compartments, but there's no umbrella, and that's the dilemma that's emerging. You have to have a voice that can look at the big picture.

Bob Watson

We respect the dilemma that A-Rod is in, and we wanted to give him as much time as he needed to make his decision. Are we surprised that the Dominicans have included him on their roster? No.

Bijou Phillips

I'd always been treated like an object, not like a human.

Bill Hicks

I don't get along with anything, I really don't...I'm, I'm, maybe I'm just a, you know, incredibly tasteful human being.

Michio Kaku

Humans are natural-born scientists. When we're born, we want to know why the stars shine. We want to know why the sun rises.

Jeremy Jacobs

Jacques had done street theater in Paris. He'd always been interested in large architectural structures and how humans interact with them.

Jason Silva

I make short films, little documentaries, about the co-evolution of humans and technology.

Mary Roach

I think by and large, humans prefer to think of themselves as minds from the neck up. We don't really like to think of ourselves as another animal, another digesting, excreting, mating, snoring, sleeping kind of sack of guts. I don't think we like that. I think we'd rather not be reminded of it.

Erich Roeckner

Humans have had a large one-of-a-kind influence on the climate.

Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

Humans are something very different from animals, and the numbers required to get cloning to work in animals are completely prohibitory with humans.

Paul Martin

Humans are really expensive, and they're really slow.

Greg Collins

Preserving the agricultural land out in that part of Visalia has been important to me since 1975, and I haven't wavered from that position for 30 years.

John Roberts

Roe v. Wade is the settled law of the land, ... It's a little more than settled.

Kamika Smith

Rocks were landing right on the viewing area.

Ahmed Qorei

Please protect this land. It is for you and yours to protect.

Larry Kelly

Pierre said, 'If he can get clearance, give us a shout and we'll see what the lay of the land is at that point.

Barry Lopez

The land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.

Barry Lopez

We keep each other alive with our stories. We need to share them, as much as we need to share food. We also require for our health the presence of good companions. One of the most extraordinary things about the land is that it knows this—and it compels language from some of us so that as a community we may converse about this or that place, and speak of the need.

Barry Lopez

The land is like poetry: it is inexplicably coherent, it is transcendent in its meaning, and it has the power to elevate a consideration of human life.

C. S. Lewis

I can promise you none of these things. No sphere of usefulness; you are not needed there at all. No scope of your talents; only forgiveness for having perverted them. No atmosphere of inquiry, for I will bring you to the land not of questions but of answers, and you shall see the face of God. (pg 40)

Craig Bradley

Parking here is worse than on many other large campuses.

Tom Daschle

That cozy, permissive relationship has to end, and he in large measure has orchestrated that over he last 18 months,

Jeff Davis

Our players, because they travel a lot, are not shocked at tournament time playing away from home. The larger leagues that play between themselves are surprised come tournament time because they're seeing pitchers they've never seen before.

Hans Vestberg

Our take was that if we are going to support our customers, we have to help them with video distribution, whether that is iPad, TV, small screen or large screen.

Danny Shader

Overall, the situation is going nuts. We are getting a very large number of inquiries.

William Diamond

Our upholsterer teased us about the scale of the sofa. He says it's the largest sofa that he has ever made.

Sam Moore

Remember, I'm your largest shareholder. Don't screw it up,

Bette Davis

I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable... I suppose I'm larger than life.

Mike Chung

Large trucks have been so much more inexpensive recently.

Jim Williams

Roger's been running for a year and a half. And there hasn't been an unkind word said.

M. Wolfe

Replays and reruns are running out of steam,

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets himself be tamed.

Bede Griffiths

I liked the solitude and the silence of the woods and the hills. I felt there the sense of a presence, something undefined and mysterious, which was reflected in the faces of the flowers and the movements of birds and animals, in the sunlight falling through the leaves and in the sound of running water, in the wind blowing on the hills and the wide expanse of earth and sky.

Becca Fitzpatrick

If you keep running from me, you're never going to figure out what's really going on.

Becca Fitzpatrick

The Patch I knew didn't run from anyone.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I personally believe Patch scared the pants off normal, and it took off running for the far side of the world.

Becca Fitzpatrick

After a long day, my favorite way to unwind is by going running. Not exactly the most relaxing activity, granted, but I always imagine I'm sweating out all the things weighing on my mind.

Becca Fitzpatrick

You’re impinging on my private space,” I said, inching backward. Patch gave a barely-there smile. "Impinging? This isn’t the SAT, Nora.

Barry McGuire

You may leave here for four days in space, but when you return it's the same old place.

Cecil Taylor

Rhythm is the life of space of time danced through.

Carrie Fisher

As we all know, there is no underwear in space.

Carl Sagan

By looking far out into space we are also looking far back into time, back toward the horizon of the universe, back toward the epoch of the Big Bang.

Bernard Berenson

In figure painting, the type of all painting, I have endeavoured to set forth that the principal if not sole source of life enchantments are Tactile Values, Movement and Space Composition.

Antoni Tapies

A cross could be a shape for expressing something spacious, such as the coordinators of space. That could be called its first significance or its first relevance.

Geoffrey Canada

It is important to have permanent safe spaces in Harlem.

Josh Smith

I'd like to see how space is. I'd like to float.

Phyllis Maxwell

I let her up here as long as she will tolerate it.

Gary Mickelson

We do not tolerate discrimination in the workplace.

Jim Yonts

We will not tolerate the kind of behavior.

Michael Chertoff

We will not tolerate lawlessness, or violence, or interference with the evacuation,

Kevin Marino

It's improper, it's unwarranted and I will not tolerate it.

Pete Williams

At least as long as we can tolerate each other.

Jane Rule

Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate.

Mike Ditka

In life, you get what you tolerate.

John C. Maxwell

We tend to get in life what we are willing to tolerate.

John Hull

Our starting point then was trying to find a way to incorporate mean reversion into the HoLee model.

Wilson Alvarez

I'm here trying to do it one more time. I'm doing it for my kids. I'm doing it for my wife. I'm doing it for my teammates. So they can all say you've still got it.

Bebe Neuwirth

Anything that I do, I try to make it as good as I possibly can.

Beck

With my own music, I try to get away from things that are familiar and things that would be easy for me to go to.

Beck

I would love to do an electronic record. There's just so much to see and do and try. And life goes by.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I wrinkled my nose, trying to figure out what he smelled like. Not cigarettes. Something richer, fouler. Cigars.

B. B. King

I don't try to just be a blues singer - I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.

Billy Corgan

I was trying to be this person who is cool, eternally rocking.

Billy Corgan

I'd reached a point where there was a direct conflict between what I was trying to be and who I really was.