Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Alterman

Recently released government economic statistics covering 2010, the first year of real recovery from the financial collapse of 2008, found that fully 93 percent of additional income gains coming out of the recession went straight into the wallets and purses of the top 1 percent.

Bob Taft

Recently, I saw firsthand how the Emerald Ash Borer is destroying our vital ash tree resources, ... We appreciate these additional federal dollars, and I will continue to work with the Ohio Department of Agriculture to pursue further funding for 2006.

Bill Johnson

Relative to the overall statewide timber harvest, the net addition is relatively small. There is an effect, but it's a small one and it can be easily mitigated.

Lester Crawford

Previous shortages highlighted the need for additional influenza vaccine manufacturers for the U.S. market,

John Nestor

Our own high end estimate was between 1,000 and 1,200 - there may be additional advisors who aren't signing up and adopting a 'wait and see' attitude.

Gary Spear

Our overall crime rate would have changed dramatically, if you take out those additional vehicle burglaries.

Jason Willett

Organizations are realizing they can move opportunities into the virtual realmsuch as mentoring or fundraisingand get more people volunteering regardless of location. They can save space in-house, which may make room for an additional staff person or volunteer, and they can take advantage of skills and resources that may not be available in their own community.

Jason Willett

Organizations are realizing they can move opportunities into the virtual realmùsuch as mentoring or fundraisingùand get more people volunteering regardless of location. They can save space in-house, which may make room for an additional staff person or volunteer, and they can take advantage of skills and resources that may not be available in their own community.

Walt Dabney

Parks, in addition to being quality of life components, in a place like Texas are huge economic generators.

D. James

Some people are going to be happy. We covered the spread (which was 15 points, for those who keep track of those things).

Wladyslaw Anders

Our standards covered with glory, we are facing the greatest tragedy of our nation.

Zach Keene

Our girls stepped up and hit the big shots. When (Macomb) covered up on the outside, we went to the inside. We just had that 1-2 knockout punch whether it was from the outside or the inside. Then if we drove, we stepped it up and hit free throws.

Josh Byrnes

I think there's strength in numbers. And I think that we've covered ourselves with the rotation just by virtue of the fact that there's strength in numbers.

Theo Epstein

I think there are a lot of factors, ... One is the first round, it's only five games, you do have that off-day, and then you look at sort of how the rest of your staff is constituted. We think we're covered in a variety of situations. Obviously, if we play four 15-inning games, we're going to be scrapping. I think, realistically, we're in pretty good shape with what we have with our 10 guys. I think we're more likely to go with 11 in subsequent rounds.

Skyler Green

I think Tennessee's defense played very well tonight. They covered us. They pressured us. They did everything they were supposed to do. They played a great game, and we just couldn't finish them.

Skyler Green

I think Tennessee's defense played very well tonight, ... They covered us. They pressured us. They did everything they were supposed to do. They played a great game, and we just couldn't finish them.

Anthony Shadid

I think Syria is often covered by phone. You have to talk to activists. You have to try to read the tea leaves. You have to talk to government officials. It's remote-control reporting in a way.

Andre Holland

I studied acting in NYU's graduate program, in which we covered everything from Ibsen and Chekov to August Wilson and David Mamet.

Gary Williams

Our passing was excellent in the second half and we really executed. I was really proud of our team play, and we have to play that way down the stretch.

Chuck D.

Paul's worked extremely hard and has shown excellent play in practice and in scrimmages. Paul will probably get that opportunity at another time.

Gordon Strachan

Some of the football was excellent today, which the wee man would have liked. It is the first trophy I have won and the first as a new group so, hopefully, there will be more. When the second goal went away, I knew that was us on the way.

Gordon Strachan

Some of the football was excellent today, which the wee man would have liked.

Chris Collins

Some of that comes from offseason training. They do an excellent job in the weight room,

Chris Schuster

Our pitching staff has been excellent all year.

Jared Ingersol

Our pitchers did an excellent job of throwing strikes and getting outs when we needed them.

Todd Wilkinson

Our pitchers did an excellent job. I am very pleased. We made several adjustments in trying to pitch to their outstanding hitters. We did a good job of that.

Howard Archer

Our Sunday lunches have been an excellent flagship because that is often many people's first experience of our menus.

Chris Lehane

Our policy proposals, when they're analyzed, are responsible, reflect experience and show some real thought.

Justin Phinisee

Our past and history has given us experience so we know how to respond.

Henry Spencer

Past experience, on the shuttle and the Titan rockets, suggests that large multi-segment solid rockets have a probability of failure of 0.5 to 1 per cent.

Jim Anderson

Particularly with low socio-economic status, my experience is, such students never realized that testing was important,

Joel Edgerton

Part of me wonders what it would have been like to have had my first experience of India in a normal way, rather than through the eyes of a film.

Ilian Evtimov

Our maturity and experience showed. We finished this game like you're supposed to.... We made plays.

Carl Howe

People have experience with the real world. For most people, the Internet feels insubstantial.

Mark French

People leave this whole experience really knowing more about their community.

Mario Hernandez

People here were frightened. By experience, they know that if they see the water receding, it's just concentrating, to come rushing back in furiously.

Saeb Erekat

Refugees, Jerusalem, borders, Jewish settlements and water are issues reserved to the final-status talks between the two sides and nothing should pre-empt or pre-judge the outcome of the final status talks before they begin.

Daymond Langkow

Recently in the last month or so, offensively we've seemed to find a groove and we've been better. We've finally got something going and we just want to keep it going and contribute.

D. James

Our record is totally misleading. We're a final four team. There is talent in this program. The one thing I told the players is that I don't want to see nothing short of a state championship right now.

Saurav Ganguly

Our record in finals is an issue we're trying to forget about and tomorrow is a new start,

Lee Hamilton

Our recommendations are good, and they're urgent, ... they are not intended to be a final solution and they need to be deliberated.

Mike Woodson

Our locker room is very excited. I think any time you play this team (Boston), they're well-coached. They've got a lot of offensive weapons. For us to come in and play a solid game, and finally finish a game, (is satisfying) because we've been playing pretty well as of late.

Tom Buffenbarger

Our negotiators worked aggressively for more than two years, ... Now the most important people involved in these negotiations, our members, will have the final say.

Darcie Breidel

People have big smiles on their faces, and we're glad winter is finally back.

Clair Costello

Sure, we're disappointed to lose. But (making) the final 16 isn't so bad.

Frank Tyger

Success won't just come to you. It has to be met at least halfway.

Gillis Triplett

Success is restricted only from those who restrict themselves from success.

Elizabeth Bowen

Some people are moulded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

'Men have forgotten this truth,' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.'

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

Joe Godinho

Parker looked real sharp and was real aggressive.

Liz Walton

Some of these wonderful little stops were not things that we looked for the same way.

Chad Johnson

Our press looked very good. At times it seemed like we could turn it on when we wanted to and be up by 20.

Fernando Pisani

We never looked at it like that. We just said, 'Let's keep playing like we're playing.' We played a patient game.

Mike Snyder

We never looked at aerial or ownership maps. I do that on purpose because I don't want to know. I don't want to be influenced.

David Gant

I whipped them all. They looked like grasshoppers.

Wendy Hall

I think they looked like they had a little doubt. They looked a little lethargic at times.

Roy Blumberg

I think they're probably somewhat disappointed. They probably looked at their portfolio and said, I didn't do as well as the Dow. I made money, but I'm kind of disappointed.

Rick Adelman

I think the Spurs are going to play the same no matter who's out there. When I looked at the tape, I thought it's possible they'll send a message and (upgrade) it to a flagrant foul, but I had no idea they would suspend him.

Chad Johnson

I will get an opportunity to play again. Why? Because this is the NFL and there's always second chances.

Tom Benson

I don't know what the NFL would have done if San Antonio hadn't taken us in.

Mark Campbell

It is addicting almost, ... For some reason, I feel like I have to watch the NFL Network. My wife is always asking, 'Isn't there anything else on but football?'

Julian Bailes

I think the NFL is seriously studying this; there's more recognition,

Romeo Crennel

He never said anything and he never complained, ... I'm very respectful of what he has done for the NFL and for the Giants.

Al Davis

Once a Raider, always a Raider.

Al Davis

Why should I talk to you? I don't know where you're from.

Al Davis

We would rather be feared than respected.

Brett Favre

In the NFL a lot of times everyone gets caught up in the business side of things. For them it's all about money and it really leaves a sour taste in your mouth.

Gene Upshaw

Our number has to start with a six.

Jose Ramos-Horta

Such a structure would also raise a number of problems: first of all, which Timorese to pay compensation to? It would open a can of worms in terms of who was really a victim and who was not.

Scott Morris

Surprisingly, there are actually a number of useful resources already working on Linux.

Brendan Wilders

Overall, my putative numbers will come down just slightly.

Tony Batista

I'm here, that's what I can say. I know for sure the numbers are going to come. You just have to wait, but I know at the end of the season the numbers are going to be there.

Barry McCaffrey

So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.

Barry McGuire

You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't. There's just no rhyme or reason.

B. F. Skinner

If the world is to save any part of its resources for the future, it must reduce not only consumption but the number of consumers.

Bhumibol Adulyadej

It could be argued that, in Thailand, many foreigners have come and gone, and the number of people who are considered to be Thai have traveled abroad in a great number.

Mike Lambert

I wish he was younger or the Olympics were this year. I wish he picked me up earlier, but he didn't think too much of me then.

Jeff Buttle

If we can make it through the Olympics without any scandals, we'll be all right.

Sara Parson

One of my friends went to the Olympics in '04. So a lot of us are working towards getting on the Olympic team as well.

Laure Manaudou

Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.

Eric Shanteau

Getting to the Olympics was, has always been, my swimming dream since I was 8 or 9 years old. You know, right after I started swimming it was, 'I want to make an Olympic team. That's where I want to be.'

Evan Sayet

At the Olympics in China, every color was represented... and that was just the drinking water.

Michael Johnson

Too many people try to put these championships on a par with the world championships or the Olympics but they are not -- never have been, never will be.

David Letterman

Vladimir Putin said the tanks that you see rolling through the streets are just part of the closing ceremonies of the Olympics.

W. S. Gilbert

I saw rowing in the Olympics and I said, 'I want to do that. That's my sport,' ... I had always been a swimmer, but when I saw rowing, I said, 'That's it.'

Tom Daschle

I think that it is important for us to have an independent commission, as I've said now on several occasions, but it truly should be independent,

Rob Kardashian

I won state cross-country competitions several times during high school.

Reinhard Selten

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

Hilary Clinton

he could have made that statement several weeks earlier, in time for the holidays.

Edward Gramlich

I think it is more than several weeks for me!

Brian Archer

It could be several weeks before we know the damage,

Matthew Lillard

There are several times when I walked into a room and just felt like such a sham. That's the problem with auditioning.

Mayor Hassig

There are several threads here of futures you can choose.

Luiz Scolari

There are several teams, and one of them could be Corinthians.

Pete Carroll

He's been to the mountaintop, so to speak,

Source Unknown

He who does not say too much has too much to say.

Ben Jonson

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things.

Teodoro Casino

This is unfortunate because the Speaker turned back on his words. He stabbed us on our backs.

Harvey Kronberg

The speaker is weaker today than he was a week ago.

Horace

Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.

Tom DeLay

advising the speaker and the leadership. I worked the votes, did it all.

Heath Ledger

I am not a public speaker and never will be.

Jill Sobule

I was very inspired by the videos of the crowds at the Palin rallies.

Shakira

My videos represent the artist in me very well, but not the kind of woman I am.

Lilly Singh

I know one of the reasons I first started making Youtube videos was because no one looks like me.

Tyler Oakley

I knew I could make a living doing my own videos instead of making them for someone else.

Owen Benjamin

I have a ton of videos on MySpace and YouTube.

Ed Oxenbould

My friends and I often film videos when we get together and hang out, and they're usually just silly situational videos just for our own amusement.

Todrick Hall

The number one question I'm asked as a YouTuber every day is, 'How can I get my videos out there; how can I make my videos go viral?'

Chad Hurley

I basically watch videos online all day long.

Robert Battle

I wanted to be an Ailey dancer. I would watch Alvin Ailey videos over and over, and I'd picture myself doing that. I was obsessed with it.