Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Regan

We want to totally reconfigure this model so that the purchasers have available information before they make a purchase. Our concern is how soon can consumers get the info how soon can NMVTIS get the information. If we're dependent on federal agencies, we're not going to get it as fast as if the private sector is allowed to leverage that info manage it and interpret it and send it back out.

Michael Weatherly

I had done a couple of plays, but I was a clueless boob. 'Cosby' allowed me to have something on my resume that was real and then the producers of 'Guiding Light' let me play a preppy killer just the following month. Suddenly I had two gigs on my resume that made me look like a real actor, although I was far from it.

Julie Andrews

The pleasure is in being allowed to play in so many different sandboxes.

Rich McKay

We've allowed those things to creep back. They are not necessary and should not be allowed.

Alan Curbishley

We've allowed him to go out on loan because he needs to play some first-team football,

Sol Trujillo

We, U S West, are not allowed to be in the long-distance business today. But we wanted to make sure that we could bring the benefits of services of companies like Qwest to our customers.

Michael Holton

We started to get some defense stops and that allowed us to run.

John Ramunno

We started out well, and then when we made substitutions and allowed them to get stuff going.

Andrew Booth

We stopped running and played at a slower tempo, which allowed them to sag in and double team.

Jay Wright

We've won games that way. We've shot poorly and then got on the offensive boards and played defense. They were just too good.

Marcus Aurelius

The perfumes at our board last night - Were exquisite, I won't deny it, But we were starved, we were outright, For meat, could no how come by it

Paul Hodgson

The perception has been growing that it is better that there be a clear line of distinction between the people the board hires and the people hired by the corporation.

E. O. Wilson

The plight of the children on board this ship serves as a timely reminder that slavery and bondage are still realities in the world.

Kerry Killinger

We are pleased to welcome Regina to our Board of Directors. She is a nationally recognized leader in the legal, corporate, and nonprofit communities. Her leadership skills and commitment to promoting economic advancement for all complement the Board and make her a valuable addition.

David Wood

We usually send out information to board members to get their feel for whether we should disseminate information further.

Todd Tripp

We struggled on offense, but we kept playing defense and kept getting stops. I thought we controlled the boards and our defense was good tonight.

Fred Jacobs

There are board members who do not acknowledge the serious problems going on, and I do not know why,

Tim Dorsey

When you want something dumped you would point to the board operator, indicating to hit the button. I would say we use the seven-second delay button often. Everybody does. It's pretty standard in the business.

Charles Stross

The Magician's Land is a triumphant climax to the best fantasy trilogy of the decade.

Charles Spurgeon

He that buildeth his nest upon a Divine promise shall find it abide and remain until he shall fly away to the land where promises are lost in fulfillments.

Alan Bennett

I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.

Akhenaton

When you are risen on the eastern horizon You have filled every land with your beauty... Though you are far away, your rays are on Earth.

Akhenaton

Everyone has his food, and his time of life is reckoned.Their tongues are separate in speech,And their natures as well;Their skins are distinguished,As thou distinguishest the foreign peoples.Thou makest a Nile in the underworld,Thou bringest forth as thou desirestTo maintain the peopleAccording as thou madest them for thyself,The lord of all of them, wearying with them,The lord of every land, rising for them,The Aton of the day, great of majesty.

Chinua Achebe

If the clan did not exact punishment for an offense against the great goddess, her wrath was loosed on all the land and not just on the offender. As the elders said, if one finger brought oil it soiled all the others.

Chief Seattle

Humans merely share the Earth. We can only protect the land, not own it.

Chief Joseph

The earth and myself are of one mind. The measure of the land and the neasure of our bodies are the same

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

This is our world, although the people who drew this map decided to put their own land on top of ours. There is no top or bottom, you see.

Dave Barry

Never board a commercial aircraft if the pilot is wearing a tank top.

Alan Shepard

You know, being a test pilot isn't always the healthiest business in the world.

Chesley Sullenberger

Each generation of pilots hopes that they will leave their profession better off than they found it.

Craig Ferguson

My pilot's license. I'm proud of that.

Brandon Jay McLaren

You read a lot of pilots during pilot season, and not all of them really grab you.

Adolf Galland

And most of these pilots were lost during the first five flights.

Anna Torv

Every first episode of a season has been crafted like another pilot.

Dinesh Keskar

There is a tremendous shortage of pilots in India.

John Hotard

Today we have 2,077 pilots on the sick row.

Holly Holm

There's no single person on this planet that's worth more than the other. Know your worth. Be confident in yourself.

Edward James Olmos

Chiapas is probably the main concern I have right now for the planet.

Barry Commoner

Nothing can survive on the planet unless it is a cooperative part of larger global life.

Bill Walton

Greg Ostertag is one of the top centers on this planet!

Lloyd Edgecombe

The planes were very old. I think the plane was overworked.

Jim Watzin

LRO, in all respects, is a unique and challenging planetary mission.

Billy Mays

Stuck in the plane on the runway. You can always count on US Air.

Ann Druyan

We batter this planet as if we had someplace else to go.

Willie Aames

There is no other person on the face of this planet that I would rather sit and talk to than my wife.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.

Charles Caleb Colton

When all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so.

Charles Caleb Colton

When all moves equally (says Pascal), nothing seems to move as in a vessel under sail; and when all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so. He that stops first, views as from a fixed point the horrible extravagance that transports the rest.

Charles Caleb Colton

Some men are very entertaining for a first interview, but after that they are exhausted, and run out; on a second meeting we shall find them flat and monotonous; like hand-organs, we have heard all their tunes.

Charles Dickens

He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two.

Charles Dickens

I took a good deal o' pains with his eddication, sir; let him run in the streets when he was very young, and shift for hisself. It's the only way to make a boy sharp, sir.

Charles Studd

Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell, I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of Hell.

Charles Stross

My gut feeling is that SF as we know it today is actually a heavily propagandized field that grew out of a specific set of cultural trends running in the USA and Europe between 1918 and 1950, during the post-imperial modernization period.

Charles Stross

Humans are not as unsophisticated as mulch wrigglers, they can see the writing on the wall. Is it any surprise, that among the ones who look outward, the real debate is not over whether to run, but over how far and how fast?

Bob McIntyre

I feel we're safely in the state tournament.

Daryl Miller

Sometimes it is problematic how many climbers you can safely put on that ridge.

Cynthia Price

The situation has been successfully and safely resolved.

Scott Wilson

You can safely say the town is interested.

Earl Butz

Food is a tool. It is a weapon in the U.S. negotiating kit

Cher

Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes.

Arthur C. Clarke

The dinosaurs disappeared because they could not adapt to their changing environment. We shall disappear if we cannot adapt to an environment that now contains spaceships, computers — and thermonuclear weapons.

Samuel Butler

Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.

Dianne Feinstein

When the gunman realizes that nobody else is armed, he will lay down his weapons and turn himself in ... that's just human nature.

Walter Benjamin

We need to be weapons of mass construction, weapons of mass love. It's not enough just to change the system. We need to change ourselves.

Adolf Hitler

If freedom is short of weapons, we must compensate with willpower.

Abu Bakar Bashir

The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.

Aldrich Ames

The national security state has many unfair and cruel weapons in its arsenal, but that of junk science is one which can be fought and perhaps defeated.