Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brent Venables

Whether or not he's ready, it's irrelevant because he's going to play. There's a pecking order of what you have going into the year. He was where he was and now he is where he is. I feel comfortable with Alan and he'll be capable of helping us.

Patrick Burns

With the sheriff asleep in the office, the only way you get justice is with private lawyers like Alan Grayson willing to step up and take down these fraudulent companies. Alan Grayson showed that you can do that even without help from the government.

Rick Wakeman

There are people who think the film 'This Is Spinal Tap' is simply a very funny 'mockumentary.' Well, with Yes, we lived it. Take the hilarious scene in the film in which the bass player is trapped in a giant pod - that actually happened to Alan one night.

Jim Anderson

Like all our volunteer committee chairs, Alan Silverman has devoted an enormous amount of his time to this year's AES Convention program. The workshops he has developed reflect this combination of knowledge and dedication, and we greatly appreciate his effort.

Mark Robson

Like Alan Curbishley with the first team, I have a few options at the moment which can only be good for the team,

Lesley Ann Warren

The truth is, I would do anything for Alan Rudolph. If he asked me to stand on my head and spit wooden nickels, I would. I love him. I loved working with him.

Eddie Campbell

I'd be interested to read Gull's paper on it, and I wish Alan would put it in somewhere. It gives him a relevance to our times, which he doesn't otherwise have. Gull, I mean, not Alan.

Eddie Campbell

I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin.

Kerry Condon

My very first acting job was with Alan Parker on' Angela's Ashes,' but as a child, I had written to so many other productions just applying for any role. I always wanted to be an actress, and I did loads of acting summer schools.

Tom Izzo

The only reason I'd say no to that is because it's the type of player he is. We have other guys that can fill in in certain spots, but it's the athlete, it's the versatile 6-6, 6-7 athlete that can guard inside guys and guards, and that's where it creates some problems for us. It's not really replacing apples to apples. Anybody else that we replace him with is a completely different kind of athlete.

Roderick Wilmont

The positive today is that we just know we can play with anybody at any time. Going into next week, we'll start it all over again. Everybody will be back to 0-0.

Ron Wolf

The person I heard say it the best was Bum Phillips when they asked him about Earl Campbell. He said, 'I don't know if he's the best, but it won't take long to call the roll.' I think Reggie White is a charter member of that club right there. He was as dominating and as good a player as probably anybody who ever played the game.

Sean Rushton

The people who would know have not been talking to anybody but each other. The message broadcast by the White House up to this point has just been to focus on an orderly process for Roberts.

Jeff Haile

We've already played Lexington Catholic. We're not going to see anybody better than the teams we've already played.

James Denton

We've all been around love enough to know how lucky we are. I've never seen anybody have a cross word on the set, and I'm there a lot. All the women just got brand-new trailers, so they're happy.

Ricky Skaggs

We started the label basically to do roots-type music, whether it be Ricky Skaggs or, say, the Whites, or anybody that I feel has a heart for roots music and no real market or label that will give them an opportunity to do something like that.

Josh Miller

We started practicing the drop kick and I thought, with anybody else, you've got to be crazy. But everything he touches seems to turn up roses.

Sylvester Croom

We are a football team, and we will play as a football team this year. I'm not going to make any predictions, but we go into the season this year feeling like we can play with anybody on our schedule and have a chance to win.

Ellen Stofan

Being able to have a laboratory on Mars, being able to have some sort of sustained human presence on Mars in the future, I think, is critically important for science.

Robert Hickey

Since the 2000 guidelines, research has strengthened our emphasis on effective CPR as a critically important step in helping save lives.

Manmohan Singh

So far we have reports of 50 dead and 15 critically injured.

Mel Martinez

I look forward to your tenure as chairman, ... When you are confirmed, as I'm sure you will be, it's critically important that you be independent. I think you realize that.

Alan Greenspan

We should not be cutting taxes by borrowing, ... We should be cutting taxes by reducing the level of spending and that's an issue that I think is critically on the table.

Dr. Shannon

He remains critically ill. We're still in the process of trying to stabilize his system.

Tony Vecchio

Her loss will be felt not just here locally, but world-wide due to the critically endangered status of this species.

David Novak

Humility is going to be critically important for him. It's going to be horrendous. It's going to be excruciating for him.

Jeff Zucker

It gives me great pleasure to formally give Steve the full reins of this critically important division at this crucial time.

Trot Nixon

We started off sluggish. But we fed off our fans.

Charles Lindbergh

From now on, depressions will be scientifically created.

David Hockney

I'm fed up with being bossed around.

Diane Swonk

We have seen a softer tone in their write-ups. I think there is a real sense that the Fed is going to stay on the sidelines.

Jason Chaffetz

We have seen an outrageous increase in the size, scope, and intrusiveness of the federal government.

Fran Quigley

We have no idea. We will never know, because so much being done by the federal government now is shrouded in secrecy.

Trevor Hoffman

When your horse is out there and pitches his butt off, my job is to nail it down, ... We would've liked to have fed off Jake's energy. The kid threw the heck out of the ball.

J. Horton

We're making history again. Never before have we supported so many state and federal missions.

Larry Wachtel

We remain in a stimulus vacuum and the underlying motif this week will be the Federal Reserve meeting next week.

Ian Shepherdson

Mr. Greenspan has all but ruled out a May tightening.

Ben Bernanke

the policies and policy strategies established during the Greenspan years.

Bernard Baumohl

On the other hand, Greenspan seems satisfied that his tightening has had a lasting effect. He's likely to stand pat for the rest of the year.

Richard Yamarone

Greenspan will take it away on Wednesday like everyone's saying here, but he's only taking it away momentarily, ... He's taking one and he's done.

David Briggs

Greenspan sparked a reaction. I guess people like to be verbally reassured that we can get through the oil prices.

David Jones

Greenspan is trying to level out this market, trying to put some two-sided risk in this market, to take some of that speculative froth out.

William Sullivan

Greenspan is suggesting that the recovery is going to be slow and that there are obstacles to a swift rebound.

Andrew Barrett

Greenspan is raising rates, and he is targeting the consumer. This is a natural reflection of what is happening out there.

Gabriel Jafet

The market was really just accompanying Wall Street. The ongoing uncertainty over U.S. interest rates was making investors reluctant, especially with Greenspan speaking near the close.

Chad Harbach

Another older writer that had a huge influence on me is Chekhov. More contemporarily, it's hard to say.

Lykke Li

Where I've been hasn't influenced my music. It's more what I listen to. You can find music everywhere, so moving hasn't really influenced my music, more me as a person.

Bill Johnson

Faith doesn't deny a problems existence. It denies it a place of influence.

John Malone

We have no extraordinary insight or influence in AOL, nor do we seek any,

Bela Kun

My personal influence in the Revolutionary Governing Council is such that the dictatorship of the proletariat is firmly established, since the masses are backing me.

Nobu Matsuhisa

I used to watch my mother cooking when I was a child; she influenced me a lot.

Brian Tracy

Your ability to negotiate, communicate, influence, and persuade others to do things is absolutely indispensable to everything you accomplish in life.

Boz Scaggs

My earliest influences were things I heard in my household.

Arthur Henderson

Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history.

Alan Bradley

Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.

Camille Paglia

[Sarah] Palin is solidifying her status as a bona fide American cultural heroine.

Caspar Weinberger

We must recognize that personal freedoms diminish as the welfare state grows. The price of more and more public programs is less and less private freedom.

Charley Reese

Powers once assumed are never relinquished, just as bureaucracies, once created, never die.

Charles Krauthammer

Washington is the only place in the world where a gaffe is when a politician accidently speaks the truth.

Billy Joel

I'm a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.

Dean Acheson

The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.

David Ricardo

Labour, like all other things which are purchased and sold... has its natural and its market price.

David Hume

Of all sciences there is none where first appearances are more deceitful than in politics.