Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mahmoud Abbas

Here, I declare that the Palestine Liberation Organization is ready to return immediately to the negotiating table on the basis of the adopted terms of reference based on international legitimacy and a complete cessation of settlement activities.

Dawn Brown

Life in our family changed when we adopted him. It has been challenging, but very rewarding.

Cheryl Crates

Last year there were eight versions of the budget (the ninth version was passed by the board of education) ... This is version four. We'll probably do four or more of these (budgets) until it's adopted in September.

Joseph Estey

Miranda is in theory a very simple concept that has actually become pretty complicated, ... The fallback should be, you should have a form that's been legally adopted through the prosecuting authority.

Carine Roitfeld

Monsieur Saint Laurent was pathologically shy, and he made the Saint Laurent woman in his own image. Like her, I am shy. And to protect myself, I adopted something of an androgynous look, just as his women did.

Steve Wingfield

My hopes are that people will take some time out to watch this broadcast and see first hand how great the needs are of our adopted city.

John Deane

No president that I can find in the history of our country has really ever adopted a policy of expanding presidential powers for the sake of expanding presidential powers. And I think that's what we have going on.

Allen Boyd

For years, the Blue Dogs have stressed the need for a rainy day fund in the event of disasters such as Hurricane Katrina and 9/11, ... Unfortunately, this concept, which is adopted by most families and businesses, has eluded many members of Congress and the current administration.

Charla Baker

If a county adopts a sewage ordinance, then it is governed by the county and the state doesn't send inspectors in, ... That's why the state doesn't inspect our systems here. ...What our ordinance states is that we adopted the Missouri State Sewage Law.

Zdenko Tomanovic

Mister Milosevic said there were attempts to poison him in the prison.

Pranab Mukherjee

Militants have made about five infiltration attempts since the October 8 earthquake, including two on a single day,

John Gurdon

My first attempts to transplant nuclei in Xenopus were completely unsuccessful, because the Xenopus egg, unlike those of other amphibians, is surrounded by an extremely elastic membrane and jelly layer that make penetration by a micropipette impossible.

Charles Jules Henry Nicole

My first attempts to transmit typhus to laboratory animals, including the smaller species of monkeys, had failed, as had those of my predecessors, for reasons which I can easily supply today.

Patrick Page

more of what I know about me. I think you live more and become more familiar with the workings of your own mind -- the darkness in it, the narcissism -- and the desperate attempts the ego makes to cover that up.

Rick Sherlund

may be the twist that makes this more successful than other attempts to erode the (Microsoft) Office franchise.

Brad Cashman

If any private school coach attempts to recruit from a public system, or vice versa, that will be in clear violation of our new bylaw and could result in a hearing or penalties.

Ehud Barak

I have always said that when we go forward, there will be attempts to torpedo the process.

Brian Levine

Traditionally, people who are trying to smuggle narcotics into the country stick to one type. But we've been seeing an increase in the attempts to bring in what we call a mixed load.

Rick Perlstein

Bill de Blasio was swept to the New York mayoralty on the promise of getting Gracie Mansion out from under the thumb of corporate elites.

Ronald Kessler

Pension funds, endowments, and private investors trust Mitt Romney's former company Bain Capital enough to hand it billions of dollars in assets.

Manmohan Singh

Our foreign-exchange reserves when I took over were no more than a billion dollars; that is, roughly equal to two weeks' imports.

Marcy Kaptur

For me, appropriations bills are the glue. These are the bills that must move, no matter what, to keep the government functioning as a reliable element of our society. The Appropriations Committee shouldn't be the most political place to be; it's the place where we have to make the institution function for the country.

Frank Ostini

Life is very good. We've been blessed. It was a one in a billion chance of this happening to us and we were lucky that it did.

William Lerach

Let's be direct here. These books were cooked by Lay and the other top executives who put hundreds of millions of dollars in their pockets, while the employees of Enron were victimized and hundreds of thousands of other investors lost billions of dollars.

Tom DeLay

Make no mistake, this $10.5 billion is initial relief,

John Boehner

Make no mistake, a 'yes' vote on the Democrats' health care bill is a vote for taxpayer-funded abortions.

Al Gore

Make no mistake about it. The leadership of Bill Clinton is making a huge difference for the children and the families of America,

Kurt Schrader

At the end of the day, if it looks like you're not going to get paid, you might be willing to compromise to make sure that budget actually comes out. It's not all about your extreme point of view.

Peter Lynch

We're not budgeting for it to do that. We think that it is possible that into our coffers you could probably push 8 or 10 million (euros) EBITDA ...but I think it's probably not the right thing to do in this period of consolidation.

Greg Robinson

Making decisions all the time leaves less time to reflect. At the time I'm knee-deep in budgets, so today I just walked . . . through classrooms. I see the faces of the kids to clear my head. It helps them to be visible to me.

Alan Greenspan

Lower budget deficits are the surest and most direct way to increase national saving. Higher national saving would help to lower real interest rates, spurring spending on capital goods so as to put cutting-edge technology in the hands of more American workers,

John Petterson

Many companies are very conscious about budgets today. So the $35 to $100 price points are very popular with corporate accounts.

Ed Loyd

Securing farmers' and ranchers' viability is always a top priority for the USDA. We'd need to find budget offsets.

Clay Richards

Sen. Menendez has a 6-point lead in his race for re-election mainly because New Jersey is a Democratic state more fed up with the Bush administration and the war in Iraq than it is with high taxes and the budget crisis at home.

Gail Wilensky

Medicare is growing at a rate of 8.5 percent per year, the federal budget at 5.2 percent and the gross domestic product at only 4.8 percent,

Peter McKenna

Net revenues for the year are up on earlier budget predictions by more than 2 million.

Robert Klein

I did the first HBO special ever in 1975 at Haverford College. Cable was new then: HBO was a Time-Life entity, with maybe 400,000 or 500,000 subscribers and maybe 50 employees.

Richard Greenfield

makes sense strategically, because it gives a cable component to what investors are viewing as the boring, unexciting growth side of the post-split company.

Kevin Rudd

Mr. Downer read none of the cables which were relevant to this scandal.

Darren Star

Network's rating dependent. A show might not stick. A lot's timing. Like, my Bradley Cooper in 'Kitchen Confidential' didn't always work. Cable supports young shows. TV Land, which you can find on Hulu, Amazon, iTunes, wanted 'Younger.' They came to me.

Steve McMahon

One factor that commonly comes up in towns that install wireless early is that they didn't have something like DSL available. We have DSL, now we have cable modems, now we have several options. Sometimes the good enough is the enemy of the better. The fact that we've got good enough for most people slows it down.

Steve MacDonald

Now you have hundreds of networks that have customers that are demanding original programming. All of these cable networks have some level of original programming.

Rhea Seehorn

I didn't have cable when 'Breaking Bad' started, so I came to it late and kept waiting for a friend to watch it with, and could not find a single person who was not already into Season 3 and didn't refuse to start watching it from the beginning.

Matthew Felling

I can't see a demand for a cable tier with no sports programming nor any of the big three cable news networks.

Gene Kimmelman

The prices are soaring. With the end of final government oversight of cable rates, the prices will continue to soar, because most consumers do not have a choice. There's only one cable company in their community.

Bill Burton

Leadership in Congress isn't just about the personalities; it's about policies and priorities.

Gary Ruskin

Leadership by example has never been a forte of the United States Congress. We see more of 'Do as I say, not as I do.' This is just another example.

Dave Camp

Serving in Congress is the great honor of my professional life. I am deeply grateful to the people of the 4th Congressional District for placing their trust in me.

Kevin Bishop

Sen. Graham recognizes the importance of having an ILS at the Aiken airport. He continues to work with state and local officials to ensure Congress and the FAA recognize this priority,

Tony Fratto

Secretary Snow will be personally engaged on working with Congress. He's been a strong voice on this for some time.

Nan Aron

No one is talking about filibuster at this point. It's much too early.

Christine Gregoire

Only a national settlement passed by Congress will be able to give us the public health gains that we really need if we want to stop the problem significantly of underage smoking,

Winslow Wheeler

My guess is that you will never hear a peep about this as they debate the bill, ... Wastrels of Defense: How Congress Sabotages U.S. Security.

Michael Marsh

My guess is, it's going to face a tough go in Congress. It really isn't being received very well in the industry.

Damien Mason

Lee crossed the line, but everybody does some wrong, and he has been very supportive of people in the community.

Philipp Lahm

Obviously we will be keeping our fingers crossed for Cologne. It would be great if we can win the title in front of our own fans.

Jerome Bettis

Of course, it crossed my mind. But that thought was short-lived. Fortunately, it's not (my last play).

Martin Gramatica

New England was nice enough to move (the workout), that was very nice. Plenty of teams would have crossed me off the list and moved on to the next guy.

David Gergen

When he hung up on Nancy Reagan, that's when he crossed his final threshold.

Robert Hale

From what I've been able to determine, he crossed the line and Rafael was just simply protecting himself.

Rob Kelly

I wouldn't go that far. Let's just say it's fingers crossed for that one, we face a very big test there.

Matt Benefiel

I would be lying if I said that an undefeated season has not yet crossed my mind. Running the table would be great for our school.

Meredith Grey

I wish there were a rulebook for intimacy. Some kind of guide to tell you when you've crossed the line. It would be nice if you could see it coming, and I don't know how you fit it on a map. You take it where you can get it, and keep it as long as you can. And as for rules, maybe there are none. Maybe the rules of intimacy are something you have to define for yourself.

Paul Bloom

We are naturally moral beings, but our environments can enhance - or, sadly, degrade - this innate moral sense.

Ken Bacon

We have not degraded it to that point. But we're only in the second day.

Ed Bond

What we're doing is to rehabilitate these lands. There is no evidence that clear-cuts degrade watercourses.

Charleen Scott

Red-skinned potato salad? Seriously, could you degrade my people anymore?

Booker T. Washington

I will not permit any man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

Dan Glickman

Without those services, the system will degrade over time.

Suzanne Somers

You can manage cancer. You don't have to be degraded by humiliating treatments and protocols. And in some cases, you can be cured of cancer.

Michael Sata

Every hour I spent on manual work, every hour I was humiliated in England or degraded has helped me because that's the same way other people feel in the townships here. People are still walking long distances and are working long hours.

Frank Bertoldi

It would be impolite to Pluto to degrade it to something less.

Christie Hefner

Magazines have not been distributing digital subscriptions for very long. The traction for digital magazines has come in the last year and a half.

Christie Hefner

Magazines have not been distributing digital subscriptions for very long, ... The traction for digital magazines has come in the last year and a half.

Tuna Amobi

Media operators that do not have a well- articulated digital strategy do so at their own peril.

Eric Scheirer

Neither digital security nor lawsuits will stop Internet theft of content.

David Card

On one hand they're suspicious of them because of how big their market share is and the fact that they have that uniform pricing. On the other hand, they legitimized the digital music business.

Padmasree Warrior

I have 1.4 million followers on Twitter. I get very interesting, sometimes very diverse input from my followers. So it's sort of like this water cooler, digital water cooler, if you want to think about it, where you go and you listen to conversations that are happening that perhaps will shape your thinking.

Don Scardino

Studios are so used to digital now, and there is a mythology that it's cheaper. But it's really not cheaper. For instance, digital is great for night exteriors; everybody knows it's a video tap, so it's very responsive to light. So you can go out at night, shoot with digital, and it's gorgeous, beautiful to look at.

Robert Campbell

This work has to do with the measurement of time. Everything in the digital world is measured down to a 30th of a second.

Jason Gould

The proliferation of alternative news outlets has made the competitive landscape more intense for local broadcasters. Digital strategies must now be integrated into everyday operations or news organizations will be quickly outpaced.

Kris Gopalakrishnan

Engineering college students should be encouraged to start entrepreneurial ventures in their second year itself. It is safer to fail while in college.

C. K. Williams

My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a different thing.

Alex Thiermann

French authorities should be encouraged for reporting this so quickly and this allows them, as well as local farmers, to take extra monitoring precautions.

Richard Baker

I was surprised to learn that Puccini wrote The Marriage of Figaro, but much encouraged by the substantial support for the teaching of music in schools.

Doug Thornton

I'm a little more encouraged after walking through it a second time.

Terry McLaughlin

I'm a lot more encouraged than I was a year ago or even a few months ago.

S. Truett Cathy

I have always encouraged my restaurant operators and team members to give back to the local community.

David Bell

I feel great today. I?m really encouraged by the way I feel right now.

Jim Simpson

I feel encouraged by our latest news of the steps the mayor is taking.

Mark Cooper

Losing competitors in this highly-concentrated industry is disastrous.

Gustav Humbert

Last year was a record year for the whole industry and for Airbus in particular.

Michael Callahan

No one industry can tackle this (dictates of a country's government) on its own.

Paul Ballew

I can't say I'd be surprised if industry ran 17 million units in April. Would I be surprised if it ran at 18? Yes I would.

Shaw Wu

From an industry perspective, consolidation is good. For Maxtor and Seagate, I'm not so sure.

Peter Bell

I don't think we're ever going to have no-one in the whole industry ever involved in it.

Juthamas Siriwan

When there was the tsunami last year, I thought that was the end of the tourism industry but we recovered very fast, in only six months.

Kathleen Walters

One of the nice things about tissue is we are not losing market share. We are No. 1 in our industry and we intend to stay there.

Ken Johnson

I work for an industry that's kind of misunderstood.

Tom McCall

Extraordinary measures were required and I realize that not all of these steps were popular.

David Morgan

We have satisfied ourselves that appropriate safety and security measures will be in place.

Kevin Shelley

I'm insisting, quite unapologetically, on the need to have these appropriate security measures in place to protect the voters, which is my principal charge.

John Proctor

There are similar security measures to those of online banking.

Raila Odinga

Kenyans should rise and stop this draconian measures by a dictatorship government.

Hosni Mubarak

We will take much tougher measures in the area,

Lance Berkman

There's not another starting rotation that measures up to ours. And then you get to the back part of the game, with (Brad) Lidge. That's who we are. We don't outslug teams; we outpitch them.

Michael Clarke

We used sophisticated security procedures and measures to make sure only people who are supposed to be on the network can get onto the network.

Moshe Sharett

I am against preventive war because it means measures by the UN against us.

Edgar Degas

Monet's pictures are always too draughty for me.

Randy Price

I find pictures of driver's licenses, pictures of Social Security cards.

Taissa Farmiga

If you don't have a Facebook, like, you're nobody. There's all of these sort of requirements now, and if you don't have all of these things - Facebook, Twitter, etc. - you're made fun of. And Twitter for celebrities... everything is just getting so personal. Pictures of yourself, of what you're eating for breakfast.

Jonathan Crisp

The pictures are indisputable, ... they don't show that she wasn't a regular kid.

Sam Taylor-Wood

I'm motivated every second by my work; it doesn't switch off. The pictures I make come from every blink of my lashes.

Jay Wright

We're going to do it nicely, so he'll do it with me and he'll be in the pictures with his classmates.

Fred Dooley

He did the right thing. So, I thought it was the right thing to do to take the pictures down.

Jake Paltrow

'La Notte' is my favorite of the Antonioni pictures and my favorite work of the master cinematographer Gianni di Venanzo, who also shot '8 1/2' for Fellini.

Jaromir Jagr

I saw a lot of pictures but I don't understand it.

Boone Pickens

Mr. Pickens is pleased to have some skin in the Barnett Shale game.

Bob Easton

Obviously, we are very pleased with (Clinton's visit).

Dominik Hasek

I can't say I'm disappointed or pleased with the process. I'd like it to go faster, but unfortunately it isn't. I suffered an injury, and it is a serious injury.

Thomas Miller

From a durability standpoint, I don't know that there's much more you can do. We're real pleased with its reliability.

Mike Hargrove

I was real pleased with how he threw the ball. He was down in the strike zone and threw well.

Rick Francis

I was really pleased with the way we played.

Nick Saban

I was pleased with the way Sage played,

Craig Faire

I was pleased with the way everyone played. We were able to get out and run.

Bob Souliere

I was pleased with the team's effort. They worked hard, unfortunately we had a poor shooting night.

Dennis Prager

The rarest of the good qualities in human beings is courage

Dennis Hastert

She has all the qualities of leadership, except followers.

Deng Xiaoping

We must firmly grasp management. Just making things isn't enough. We need to raise the quality.

Dieter Rams

Nothing works without details. They are everything, the baseline of quality

Eleanor Roosevelt

Ability is not something to be saved, like money, in the hope that you can draw interest on it. The interest comes from the spending. Unused ability, like unused muscles, will atrophy. It is tragic to realize that the majority of human beings, even the so-called educated, call upon only the smallest fraction of their potential capacity. They leave many talents dormant. They fail to develop their mental qualities. They are almost unaware of the degree of energy upon which they might call to build a full and rewarding life.

Edsger Dijkstra

The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings.

Deepak Chopra

The quality of one's life depends on the quality of attention.

David Neeleman

I really see low-fare carriers, quality low-fare carriers anyway, continuing to become more and more popular.

Aaron Eckhart

I'm always fascinated with how a person becomes a good quality person, a productive person, and how it happened to me, because I was a terror.

Chris Elliott

Somehow, by just continually pestering the general public by appearing on television, they accepted me and wanted more.

Dick Wolf

If you're going to vote on a television contract, there is a certain rationality to saying that the same structures that are applied to Health Plan participation should be placed on the right to vote on a strike.

Dick Van Dyke

You know, I'm almost out of the habit of watching episodic television now.

Dennis Potter

Television's Mr. Filth: that's me.

Dennis Prager

It is extremely difficult to do anything constructive, let alone deep, on daily commercial television, especially on a talk show.

Debra Wilson

I got an early education from television.

Dirk Benedict

Movies are movies, television is television.

Dirk Benedict

Time is money, as they say, and it was never more apropos than on a television show, where a minute is worth about $200!

Dave Navarro

As a viewer of television if there's something I don't like or find offensive, I just don't watch it.