Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Specter

Throughout the United States, at the dawn of the Progressive era, dozens of laws and regulations were established to empower police officers, public-health officials, and even the armed forces to vaccinate at will, and, if necessary, at gunpoint.

Jay Francis

We started pulling on the line, and this huge gator pops up on the surface. Martin was armed with a .22 magnum pistol. He shot it a few times in the head, but the gator kept submerging and resurfacing. Then the main line snapped and the gator was free-lined. It took about 21/2 hours for us to subdue it.

Melanie Hill

We are looking in the future to expand it to other branches of the armed forces.

Li Bingbing

Illegal killings of elephants are being linked to organized crime and the funding of armed militia groups. Many consumers in Asia do not realize that by buying ivory, they are playing a role in the illegal wildlife trade and its serious consequences.

Nicolas Maduro

President Chavez has always been a loyal friend of Gaddafi, assassinated in the crudest way possible. Europe should think about the bombings and the destruction of Libya that filled the country with terrorists. Who's truly ruling Libya's military and sending thousands of armed men to fight in Syria? It's Al Qaeda.

Donald Rumsfeld

We're not going to re-implement a draft. There is no need for it at all, ... The disadvantages of using compulsion to bring into the armed forces the men and women needed are notable.

Muqtada al Sadr

The main reason for the armed resistance is the American military presence.

Fouad Siniora

We expressed our views that the presence of armed personnel and armaments outside the camps is not necessary and not helpful, ... As for the presence of armed personnel within the camps, this is going to be looked at in order to organize it.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

To our men and women in the armed services, the huge and deep core of your loyalty has earned the nation's accolade.

David Strickland

If something is bothering you, keep it to yourself.

Louise Leakey

With the discovery of Zinjanthropus at Olduvai Gorge in 1959, my grandmother Mary Leakey pioneered the research in East Africa with my grandfather Louis. Many more spectacular fossil finds have since been made, both in Africa and elsewhere, by many researchers driven to understand our past.

Lisa Cholodenko

Wendy and I both wanted kids, but since we were pushing 40, the clock was ticking.

Maajid Nawaz

I care not to debate which came first, Islamism or anti-Muslim bigotry; suffice to say that both feed into each other symbiotically.

Mackenzie Astin

There is a healthy fraternal rivalry, but nothing serious and we both have been looking for a project to do together. I guess he may direct me in a project some day.

Richard Cohen

The other side said (there are) 799 federal and state laws mandating the use of English. ... We would say those kinds of laws are not at issue here. I think that English is the official language of this country in a practical sense already. And I think that most people who come here both learn English and want to learn English.

Ben Folds

The other reason Rufus and I are great together is that we're both really lazy. The rehearsing, the sound checks -- he's actually worse than I am, and that's something. To get us to do anything other than sit in our dressing rooms is a challenge. Who knows what will happen?

Duncan Chase

The potential is unbelievable with both those girls.

Tarun Das

The potential is huge for them both in sales and production.

Jim Rice

We want to see it cleaned up. There?s no reason to have lead on the ground.

Edmund Daukoru

We've already played this gimmick, ... We want to play clean so we don't even raise the ceiling.

Lil Mama

Lauryn Hill might have cursed a couple of times in her music, and Missy Elliot definitely just doesn't care. I'm really more inspired by their creativity more so than just the cursing. I'm really impressed by clean music.

Bob Newhart

You do a clean show and it's over and the audience have enjoyed themselves and you've enjoyed yourself, and you haven't had to resort to shock.

Barry Bonds

I'm clean, I've always been clean.

Bertolt Brecht

From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.

Carol Leifer

My stand-up act is very clean.

Martin Lee

We have to get all that cleaned out.

Charlie Parker

It's just music. It's playing clean and looking for the pretty notes.

Gerhard Schroeder

We want to send a clear signal that the region can very much rely on the fact that we are not just talking about providing assistance, but that we really want to help, and will help,

Chogyam Trungpa

Things get very clear when you're cornered.

Lorraine Toussaint

I love to see how a character unfolds off the page in a project. I don't always know how the character is going to turn out, even with the script being there. It's not always clear where that character is going to take me. Or where I will take them.

Douglas Altabef

The potential is that there could have been a surprise that could have influenced the Fed next Tuesday, and clearly that hasn't happened. But employment is a lagging indicator. So the report is not a reflection of where the economy is going, but where it's been.

Peter Varney

The position remains as we have clearly stated it on many occasions.

Erik Friedly

The people who were involved in this, it's still pretty clear in their minds. Jim Sullivan is one of the big ones.

Barbara Ryan

The only company which is a clear growth vehicle in our view is Schering-Plough.

Grover Cleveland

Unswerving loyalty to duty, constant devotion to truth, and a clear consciencewill overcome every discouragement and surely lead the way to usefulness andhigh achievement.

Sean Tipton

We are pretty clear that egg freezing is a pretty experimental technology and should only be offered to patients in that context. We think there might be a rush to offer this service before it's completely reliable.

Natsuo Kirino

It's a very confusing experience living as a woman in Japan. If your husband is white-collar, the wife is blue. Even if you marry a person of status, the wife inevitably remains a rung below.

Daniel Goleman

Sheree Conrad and Michael Milburn bring a much-needed sanity to that confusing and unruly terrain, our sexual lives/

Elizabeth Scott

Sometimes being me is very confusing.

Aristotle

To say of what is that it is not, or of what is not that it is, is false, while to say of what is that it is, and of what is not that it is not, is true.

Kameron Loe

Last year was a little confusing because I wasn't sure if I would be a starter in Triple-A or a reliever in the big leagues. I think I'm more efficient this spring because I'm just starting. I've always been a starter up until last season.

Nelson Wolff

The policy is confusing to the public, ... I think the policies ought to be the same for all precincts.

Ian Anderson

Most of what I've written songs about are things that come out of the confusing emotional, spiritual and psychological period of time when you're going through puberty.

Lorde

I find a lot of feminist reading quite confusing and that often there's a set of rules, and people will be like, 'Oh, this person isn't a true feminist because they don't embody this one thing,' and I don't know, often it can be a gray area, and it can be a hard thing to navigate.

Brad Williams

I don't know, why am I called the opposite of what I am? It's very confusing to me.

David Joy

The persistence of high oil prices can't be lost on the Fed. Consumers have to pay for higher energy even though it's volatile. It is a real cost.

James Carrick

We are seeing a gentle recovery going on in retail sales at this stage, which I expect to get stronger going forward. The pickup in the housing market should have a general wealth effect, making consumers happier to go out and spend.

Steve Stanley

While many will be disappointed that we will not necessarily see huge upward revisions to payrolls ... a significant upward revision to wages would also be a positive development, as it suggests that consumers have more firepower than we thought.

Janet Jenkins

We've become a customer service department for some of these companies. So many consumers can't seem to resolve their issues with telephone companies.

Michael Gallelli

We've always tried to give consumers what they want, not what we feel they need,

Bill Gates

We're going to gain a lot of share here. We're going to make a lot of consumers happy.

Kurt Barnard

We found out, from talking to consumers and store operators all over the country, that low-dollar items went very fast. Forget about high-end items.

Jonas Persson

We find consumers very reluctant to pay for new services at all. Corporations are more willing to pay for new services. And from corporations, come consumers who have gotten used to using the services at work.

Scott Hoyt

Year over year, the data shows, this will be the strongest holiday season since 1999. But because consumers have been spending since September, there's not much pent-up demand. Consumers have already spent up demand.

Chris Bennett

People will come to your site because you have good compelling content. You need to hit it from all angles: blog posts, articles, graphs, data, infographics, interactive content - even short pictures when you Tweet.

Joseph Battipaglia

The positive tone has more to do with the economic data that showed some signs of life in the economy. We've got through the Enron debacle and some selling that represented investors looking to lock in profits earlier on. Now we're starting to get a serious picture of what next year looks like, and it's probably the first serious step toward an upward move in the market.

Dean Turner

We are seeing a shift from the destruction of data to the theft of data. They are going from hacking for fun to hacking for fortune.

William McDonough

There are data saying that the economy is starting to recover, and there are data saying that it tends to be weak,

Lewis Platt

We're integrating voice and data services on one platform -- with a single management interface and a single link to the Internet,

Dee Hock

Making good judgments when one has complete data, facts, and knowledge is not leadership - it's bookkeeping

Eben Moglen

Everybody is connected to everybody else, all data that can be shared will be shared: get used to it.

Edwin Powell Hubble

A scientist naturally and inevitably ... mulls over the data and guesses at a solution. He proceeds to testing of the guess by new data-predicting the consequences of the guess and then dispassionately inquiring whether or not the predictions are verified.

Charles Francis Richter

If the assumptions used in calculating energy are changed, then this seriously affects the final result, even though the same body of data might be used.

Alejandro Toledo

I think that was the right thing to do. If we would have participated, we would have participated in a fraudulent process.

Alan Moore

That pompous phrase (graphic novel) was thought up by some idiot in the marketing department of DC. I prefer to call them Big Expensive Comics.

Al Ries

Strategy and timing are the Himalayas of marketing. Everything else is the Catskills.

Al Ries

Marketing is what a company is in business to do. Marketing is a company's ultimate objective.

Al Ries

Marketing is not selling. Marketing is building a brand in the mind of the prospect.

Al Ries

A branding program should be designed to differentiate your cow from all the other cattle on the range. Even if all the cattle on the range look pretty much alike.

Akio Morita

All you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing.

Henry McVey

We still like the equities market and think the S&P 500 could potentially go through 1300 this week.

Edwin Land

Marketing is what you do when your product is no good.

Bernard Ebbers

I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching.

bell hooks

Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people's spirits.

Mohamed ElBaradei

Your economic and social development is linked to the kind of regime you have.

Elliott Abrams

The Assad regime is quite reliant on oil exports.

David Bloom

What everyone is worried about is the whole regime will disappear.

Brian Billick

The observation of this team being soft is conjecture. I know our training regimen has been sound.

Donald Rumsfeld

The remnants of the regime are going to school on us,

River Phoenix

I can’t on my own change the regime in South Africa or teach the Palestinians to learn to live with the Israelies, but I can start with me.

Tony Blair

I abhor Saddam's regime, but the basis has to be disarmament.

Piers Handling

We didn't steer away from the Karla thing this year,

Joel Kinnaman

I've learned to steer away from the wrong kind of woman for me.

Sylvia Plath

Only I wasn't steering anything, not even myself.

Allen Perry

The place was vulnerable during construction, and most of the things stolen were smaller.

Halldor Laxness

What you have stolen can never be yours.

Guy deBord

None of the activity stolen by work can be regained by submitting to what work has produced. - The Society of The Spectacle

Nathan Fillion

I'm a plethora of stolen jokes and kitschy references.

Neil Finn

What was stolen must be returned

Charles Caleb Colton

It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.

Alan Moore

As I come to understand Vietnam and what it implies about the human condition, I also realize that few humans will permit themselves such an understanding.

Chinua Achebe

If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.

David Shuster

There are a lot of folks at Fox News who bring a certain level of sophistication to their understanding of politics.

David Sedaris

This was the consequence of seeing too much and understanding the horrible truth: No one is safe. The world is not manageable.

David Sedaris

I'd always thought that I understood this, but lately I realize that what I call "understanding" is basically just fantasizing.

David Koechner

What helps you as an actor when it comes to roles is that deeper understanding of so many different fractions of humanity. Because oftentimes, even in comedy, there is conflict.

Carl Sagan

Understanding is a kind of ecstasy

Carl Sagan

The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.

David Cox

She exited the vehicle and was very frantic.

Chris Squire

We started Yes as a vehicle to develop everyone's individual styles.

Roxanne Dey

He was ramming vehicles out of his way. That's how it was described to me.

Barry Eisler

Publishing, legacy or indie, is a vehicle, and you can't opine about whether someone has chosen the right vehicle if you don't know where she intends to drive it.

Aaliyah

Romeo Must Die came at the right time. It was the right vehicle for me.

Sgt. Frevola

We were having so many headlight thieves, on high-end vehicles with halogen lights.

Ian Baxendell

An MFO vehicle was damaged. The two occupants of the vehicle are unharmed and uninjured.

James Mercer

I've always sort of felt like what the Shins is, I guess, is a vehicle for my writing.

Tom Stephens

I'm going after the highest-consuming vehicles first, because that's where the big payback is.

Roxanne Dey

He was ramming vehicles out of his way. That's how it was described to me.

Sgt. Frevola

We were having so many headlight thieves, on high-end vehicles with halogen lights.

Tom Stephens

I'm going after the highest-consuming vehicles first, because that's where the big payback is.

Ray Carter

You can't get any vehicles to come into the city, and we can't get any out.

Bo Bice

My lifes a wreck, and I love it.

Edward Everett

You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil Lay down the wreck of power to rest . . .

David Bowie

It's a compulsive need to wreck everything. You might notice there's a pattern of stripping down and building back up again throughout my life. But I guess that's how some of us conduct our lives.

Adrienne Rich

I came to explore the wreck.

Clarence Darrow

Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.

Donald Trump

[Ted] Cruz is going down. He looks like a nervous wreck.

Corey Haim

I started on the downers which were a hell of a lot better than the uppers because I was a nervous wreck.

Joan Rivers

If you're not a wreck in this business, you're not around.

George Clooney

We're always going to be a society that's going to slow down and look at the wreck on the side if the road if there is one. We're always going to do that because it's still fascinating and it's human nature.