Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gary Bass

Regardless of where you work or live, the changes affect you and your community. This is about knowing what's in the air we breathe and water we drink.

Bill Cheney

Regardless of what happens to energy prices and interest rates, homebuilding is going to happen and that's going to affect the national statistics but not by a huge amount ... it sort of disappears in the context of the national economy.

Jeff Morris

Refineries lost a lot of money. In fact they lost money for most of the 1990s. People chose not to spend on refineries. So what's affecting us now is that we're behind the investment curve and it will take us five to 10 years to catch up.

Jack Smith

Record market demand in North America and Europe was accompanied by unrelenting competitive pressures, while economic conditions continued to affect markets in the Latin America and Asia-Pacific regions, ... We're particularly pleased that GM Europe improved its profitability during the period, and that both GM Latin America/Africa/Middle East and GM Asia Pacific were profitable, a significant improvement over the first quarter last year.

Nazir Ahmed

Relief has been exchanged for Kashmiri villagers affected by the quake on both sides of the border,

Jo Bonner

President Bush, Secretary of State Rice, and several cabinet level officials have visited Alabama's Gulf Coast in recent days to tour the devastation and to offer their continuing support and prayers for everyone affected by the storm.

John Stanton

President Bush needs to stop playing politics with public health. We need a stronger standard dealing with fine particle soot pollution that affects the health of millions of Americans.

Wade Henderson

President Bush has dug in his heels by refusing to release relevant documents from Roberts' time as a top political appointee and dragged his feet on releasing thousands of other records. This is no time to hide the ball. Given that the next chief justice will affect the lives of all Americans, the Bush administration has a clear obligation to the public to provide the Senate with everything it needs to fully review Roberts' record.

Ignacio Bunye

President Arroyo has instructed the Cabinet to conduct dialogues not only with the oil firms but with all affected sectors, including workers, small and medium enterprises, manufacturers and transport groups among others, that are affected by this crisis.

David Padgett

Regardless of whether I'm in foul trouble, we just didn't play well as a team. Kentucky outplayed us in every area. They were just the better basketball team today and anytime that happens, it's not going to leave a good taste in your mouth.

Jimmy Tubbs

Our record could be worse. But anytime you get a full deck of players, you should be excited about it. We didn't have that early in the year, and now we do.

Joe Gibbs

Pass protection didn't look good, and we looked sluggish. Anytime you don't do well it's a concern, but it is the first time out and we had a lot of people in there.

Dennis Wiese

Our long-term goal here is to build a processing facility. We don't look for that to happen anytime soon.

John Pelphrey

Our turnaround this year was extremely dramatic, in turns of wins and losses. This is going to happen anytime you go through the building process.

Richard Seymour

Rodney's tough as nails and anytime a guy like that goes down in pain on the field, you know there's something wrong.

Rose Rougeau

Retail gasoline prices have gone up 15 cents in the past two weeks. The increases can be traced to investor speculation leading to higher prices for both crude and wholesale gasoline. With crude trading around $64 a barrel, it doesn't appear likely gasoline will fall below $2 a gallon anytime soon.

David Kramer

I will debate Don anyplace, anytime between now and the election.

Laurynas Mikalauskas

I was just trying to get a rebound and get my hands on the ball. Anytime you deflect a ball, good things can happen.

Howard Stern

Regardless of how much money I make, this product costs a lot of money to put on. I don't think it's asking too much to ask people to pay 43 cents a day (to listen to satellite radio for the $13 a month fee to subscribe to Sirius).

Clarissa Estes

Refuse to fall down. If you cannot refuse to fall down, refuse to stay down, lift your heart toward heaven like a hungry beggar, ask that it be filled and it will be filled. You may be pushed down. You may be kept from rising. But no one can keep you from lifting your heart toward heaven-only you. It is in the middle of misery that so much becomes clear. The one who says nothing good came of this is not yet listening.

Horace

Refrain from asking what is going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Eric Sanders

Reese Morgan (a Hawkeye assistant coach) came and talked to me and Chris Aldrich and asked us to walk on there,

Ken Jefferson

Recognizing that, in light of this incident as well as some previous incidents with persons impersonating officers, we're subject to be asked for that and we have the patience that we need to calm that person down.

Thomas Malthus

Reason interrupts man's career and asks him whether he may not bring beings into the world for whom he cannot provide the means of subsistence.

Martha Smith

Related to that, the Marshallese at the same time send a lot of protests to the United States. They ask that the tests be stopped.

Jerry Krause

Reinsdorf told me, 'You have an invitation to a press conference on Monday. The new manager of the White Sox asks that you be there,' ... Ozzie never forgot to this day.

Nigel Hamilton

Regularly, customers asked for a book on Greenwich, and there was none. After all, Elizabeth I was born there. The Observatory is known all over the world; the Royal Naval College is there. So I decided to do it.

Aaron Neville

Success to me is being together as brothers and still looking out for each other.

Martin Short

Steve got his first job in comedy as a writer on the 'Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour' because he was dating one of the dancers. Oh, by the way, Steve, Tommy Tune says hi.

MC Hammer

Some people call God, some people call Allah; I want to see the fruit of the love, I want to see the love, the love to help the brothers who may not be as fortunate as us.

Julie Tanner

Our clients at Christian Brothers Investment Services don't want to profit from certain things and we want to see things change in corporate America.

Alvin Starks

I want your ... brothers and so on to kill my so-called family and friends. (T)hat's the whole purpose for killing you.

Al Unser

I think they'd be very proud of what we've done. We honor them as they were fantastic human beings. My folks were the greatest folks a man could ever want, and my brothers were terrific. I wish and hope that they looking down on us would be very happy with what we've accomplished.

Paul Sanders

I watched it last year, and I loved the competition and how much the brothers get into it, so I decided to join in on the fun.

Arabian Proverb

Live together like brothers and do business like strangers

Phil Bronstein

I wish we had the movie rights to this deal, ... It's like Citizen Kane meets the Sopranos with Marx Brothers thrown in.

Farrell Quinlan

Our position has been that employment of immigrants is a federal issue, and it deserves a federal response. But if the federal government doesn't act, you're going to see the states try to fill the void.

Steve Harmison

Paul Gascoigne is a North East legend who deserves everything he gets from a function like this.

Bus Cook

Steve deserves to be treated better after he's done so much for them.

Tom Duxbury

Stardust has performed flawlessly these last seven years ... and deserves a rest for a while.

Pat Summitt

I think this team deserves a No. 1. Now, whether we're going to get it or not, that's up to the committee.

Ezria Parsons

Jess is so smooth and quiet, I hardly know she's scoring that many points. We know she's going to go out and get hers, regardless. She deserves that because she works for it.

Nancy Keenan

The American public deserves answers. Her record is so thin we don't know anything about her.

Steve Downie

That was huge by Dawson. He stepped up for this team. He deserves it because he works so hard for us.

Publilius Syrus

It is not every question which deserves an answer.

Greg Oden

Our relationship is real. It's no fake. He's down to earth, and I'm down to earth. We'd never have a falling out over money.

Rob James-Collier

Particularly with internships, you have to work for a year with no money. How on Earth are you going to finance that?

Kenny Perry

Somehow, I've got to come back to earth here.

Marcus Aurelius

Rest lightly on her earth, for she trod never heavily on thee

Richard Allen

Most seismologists are surprised, and frequently skeptical, that you can predict the magnitude of an earthquake before it has ended,

C. S. Lewis

You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve," said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth. Be content.

Carl Sagan

Philosophers and scientists confidently offer up traits said to be uniquely human, and the monkeys and apes casually knock them down -- toppling the pretension that humans constitute some sort of biological aristocracy among the beings on Earth.

Carl Sagan

If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go

Shaukat Sultan

It is a national tragedy. This is the worst earthquake in recent times.

John Potter

Regardless of where they are, we'll move their mail to them, ... My message to everybody is, if they are relocated, please inform us.

Nile Easton

Our plows get stuck in traffic just like everybody else because we're just idling with the rest of traffic.

Rich Rodriguez

Pat's got a different gear and I think everybody saw that.

Alfee Reft

Passing a float-serve is not easy, and he has a good one. We know he has a good serve. Everybody knows he has a good serve. But you can't come into a game letting that be your whole mentality. You have to focus on all aspects.

Mark Peterson

Paul Warner's a great guy. Everybody likes Paul Warner. But he votes wrong every time it comes to family issues. He says it has to do with limited government and that ideology. His ideology gets in the way of families in our neighborhoods.

John Grahame

Our main goal down the stretch here is to have that consistency. Everybody played well and intense.

Tyleen Tausaga

Our lineup is, like, mean. (Batters) 1 through 9 can hit. So if everybody hits on the same day, we should be unstoppable.

Frank Michalowski

Our No. 1 goal is to get as many as we can to state. Second, we want everybody to get a personal-best or season-best times.

Kerwin Forges

Our league is pretty deep. Everybody's got a good team. Everybody plays hard. It comes down to who plays the hardest.

Sherwood Boehlert

Our voice is being listened to now more than it has in the past.

Tessa Thompson

I am multiracial, and I went through different phases - at one point, I listened to Wu-Tang and hip-hop, and then the next year I listened to Joni Mitchell.

Bob Davidson

One of the things we try to do (is) have people that try to listen, ... As our people sat and listened to her story - we realized (her) situation.

Heidi Klum

Maybe he listened to what we'd been telling him.

Swae Lee

Man, I listened Nas and B.I.G growing up. I listened to both of them when I was younger for sure.

will.i.am

Every single song that I've listened to is in my memory forever.

Carly Simon

But when we listened to the radio, it was Bill Haley and the Comets or the Everly Brothers.

Saint Ignatius

Be slow to speak, and only after having first listened quietly, so that you may understand the meaning, leanings, and wishes of those who do speak. Thus you will better know when to speak and when to be silent.

Charlie Puth

I listened to a lot of Marvin Gaye and Motown records.

Bill Burr

Think about the amount of crap the US has done! Between slavery and the genocide of the Native Americans - if any of that had been filmed like [Adolf] Hitler, we'd never live it down.

Lynn Williams

I didn't want to do something on Native Americans or Rosa Parks and this seemed interesting.

Robert Patterson

Here, we tell the story: why the people came here, what they did when they got here, going back to the Native Americans and coming all the way forward.

R. Robinson

I didn't know much about my Native American ancestry, but as I got older I became more interested in it.

Jon Voight

When I'm near a native community, I visit it. If I hear there's a spiritual person in the neighborhood, I'll seek them out.

Cynthia Ozick

Paradise is only for those who have already been there.

Conan O'Brien

The Justice Department ruled that Native American tribes are allowed to grow and sell marijuana on reservations. This decision was hailed as a victory by Native American leader Giggling Eagle.

Gerald Vizenor

The first Western teacher of English in Japan was a Native American.

Gloria Steinem

The Native American cultures on this continent, most of them, were matrilineal, and some women were the chiefs. Societies were about balance.

Walt Harris

Our special teams is the most respected part of our team.

Sonny Rollins

What I can say is that for may years jazz musicians had to go to Europe, for instance, to be respected and to be sort of treated not in a discriminatory way. I don't think there is anything controversial about me saying that. This is just a fact.

Tom Stoppard

A free press needs to be a respected press.

Saina Nehwal

My dream is to see India as a nation of well-looked-after and respected sportspeople in all fields.

Henry Cabot Lodge

I would rather see the United States respected than loved by other nations.

Renzo Rosso

We're always trying to break the boundaries of what a 'denim brand' can be, and we want to be respected for it.

Jill Soloway

After 'Nikki' and 'Steve Harvey,' I had written on a show called 'The Oblongs,' which was pretty well respected and had a lot of 'Simpsons' writers on it. So I was a TV writer with an interesting voice at that moment.

Bill Bryson

... it occurred to me that never again would he be seven years, one month and six days old, so we had better catch these moments while we can.

Tom Izzo

That was big to have it be seven when we thought we'd be down four.

Dan Ross

I thought we'd be sixth or seventh after the first day.

Jesse Moore

He said, 'You will take the test.' So we took the test, the whole class, all seven of us.

Shane Filan

We've been together seven years and we're pretty much like family.

Mike Wilton

One trip probably would kill seven years of recruiting.

Moran Atias

My dream was to study psychology in Israel. It's a long journey - it's seven years of study.

W. Hull

Six of the seven have been contacted, and all are well.

Tom Taulli

Seven years ago Buy.com had sizzle. But this doesn't have a lot of sizzle to it.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

It's all a great mystery...Look up at the sky and you'll see how everything changes

Cecil Beaton

More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background of many shades of turquoise and azure.

Carl Sagan

I don?t feel rejected by the sky. I?m a part of it- tiny, to be sure, but everything is tiny compared to that overwhelming immensity.

Carl Sagan

Human beings grew up in forests; we have a natural affinity for them. How lovely a tree is, straining toward the sky.

Author unknown

If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you!

Anton LaVey

I visualize the day that tridents and pentagrams are thrust into the sky from church roofs instead of crosses.

Ayn Rand

The sky is like a black sieve pierced by silver drops that tremble, ready to burst through.

Carl Sandburg

Poetry is statement of a series of equations, with numbers and symbols changing like the changes of mirrors, pools, skies, the only never-changing sign being the sign of infinity.

Cameron Crowe

Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around.

Bill Cowher

Some of those games, when we took Jerome out, (Haynes) wasn't too bad.

Michael Cohen

That completely took away the bogeyman of privatization.

Jim Snyder

That was huge, it took away that 2-0 advantage.

Jerry Sloan

That was pretty big for us. It took away their momentum.

Natalie Cole

I was pretty young, but because of that first record, 'Cole Espanol,' we took our first trip - well, my first trip - to Mexico.

Vince Young

I went through all my progressions, so I just took off with it.

Steve Francis

I was trying to get to the basket, but I took what was there. It was a tough shot. I got enough arc, but it was a little strong.

Marcus Williams

I think he took that out on them.

Ashley Martin

I think he took that hard, but I don't think it had anything to do with this.