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.

Fred Eckhard

I think he's been consulting with a number of member states at the highest level, and he's expected to make some decision soon.

Steve Morgan

He is resting comfortably and consulting with the doctors, ... We are hopeful that he recovers quickly.

Mark Smith

I think it's a good idea. Just because you retain them for consulting doesn't mean you will get good advice.

Nevada Democrat

I look forward to consulting with the president on the O'Connor seat. Justice O'Connor has been a voice of moderation and reason on the court and should be replaced by someone who, like her, embodies the fundamental American values of fairness, liberty and equality.

Erik Frieberg

We're consulting on how you become better at your software development processes.

Edward Weston

Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk.

Katie Hafner

The story of the Web starts in 1980, when Berners-Lee, a young consulting physicist at the CERN physics laboratory near Geneva, grew frustrated with existing methods for finding and transferring information.

Harry Reid

You don't need a lot of consultation if the person you're consulting with listens to you. So we'll see.

James Rubin

We have been in touch with senior levels of the Italian government to express our view that Ocalan must not go free, and we are concurrently consulting with the Germans, the Italians and the Turkish authorities regarding these reported developments,

Lorraine Abercrombie

Our market is not characteristic of the nation in so many ways, but one of the more unusual facts is that we are continuing to see increased sales activity, while many others are not.

Jerry Martin

Our major focus is on continuing to work together. The more they are familiar with each other's facilities, the easier it is to make tremendous strides.

Steve Hines

People in the healthcare sector are continuing to see good job opportunities.

Gregory Mankiw

Such a decline would be an unwelcome headwind for the continuing recovery but it would not reverse the upward trajectory that we've been on,

Jordan Cox

Spiritual momentum comes in continuing to do the things we know we should. If we stop, it will take far more spiritual force than if we keep moving.

Andrea Koncz

Starting in 2004, we started to see salaries rise again. In 2002 and 2003 we saw a lot of decreases because of the economy, but it's really good news that we're continuing to see increases.

Joel Sawyer

Our state is spending more than it ever has before on higher education. At the same time, tuition is continuing to increase by double digits year after year.

David Burks

Our taxes are continuing to go up and up and up.

Alex Beuzelin

Overall, in the short term this is not going to deter the Fed from continuing its measured rate tightening campaign,

Shane Oliver

Recent economic data has been on the soft side. There is nothing in the recent run of generally soft numbers that would support another rise in rates by the Reserve Bank.

David Mozina

Recent data in Japan suggest that the risk is Japan will end its quantitative easing sooner. That is lending some support to the yen.

Ram Bhagavatula

Relative to what was the first estimate of GDP, this data was a little worse and that's going to make the third-quarter GDP a little worse, to around negative 1.2 percent.

Mark Stevens

Organizations want to scan a wide variety of documents at high-speeds, but also ensure data integrity. The AS3690 can scan just about any type of document in the mailroom, eliminating extra hands and steps in the process. Not only does this improve efficiency and reduce costs, it's also more secure.

Henry Scott

People just extrapolate off the last data point.

Robert Sinche

Some of the recent data we have been getting is decidedly more upbeat. The market looks at this as interesting history, likely to be revised up in future months.

Hidenori Karaki

Some of the Kmart issue was worked in during the previous session. The data out of the U.S. still points to an economic recovery.

Jeff Swanagan

Some of the top aquariums in the United States, none have had two months of over 300,000 attendants. When we see this kind of data we're getting, we're not even in peak season yet, it tells us we're more than an aquarium.

E. Hurley

Someone once said that recovering data without the application is like reading without glasses -- you've got the book, you've got the words, but you don't know what it means.

Carmen Balber

Patients aren't doctors. Patients don't have medical knowledge. It's (the doctor's) job to find out what's wrong with you. It's their responsibility, not the patient's.

John Schaeffer

Some of these doctors have been in practice 20 to 30 years, ... And then there's even some questions, if it's a new technology, can they even learn it comfortably?

Bill Engvall

I told my wife I'm afraid to go back to the doctor because I'm afraid they're going to look at you and say: 'ma'am, just sell him for parts. It's like that old car that as soon as you fix one thing, something else goes out on it.

Bill Cosby

I can't even talk the way these people talk. 'Why you ain't?' 'Where you is?' Everybody knows it's important to speak English except these knuckleheads. You can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth.

Carrie Fisher

I went to a doctor and told him I felt normal on acid, that I was a light bulb in a world of moths. That is what the manic state is like.

Juan Garcia

I think they should have known and explained more to the doctors and everyone.

Bill Vaughan

It is the duty of a doctor to prolong life and it is not his duty to prolong the act of dying.

Bertrand Russell

My doctor said to me afterwards, 'When you were ill you behaved like a true philosopher. Every time you came to yourself you made a joke.' I never had a compliment that pleased me more.

Kyle Wright

It got pretty sore. The doctors said it should be fine.

Nicki Harrington

People need to understand that even though we struggle to maintain facilities with limited funds, we have always been able to maintain an excellent education for our students.

Ramon Alexander

Our students are simply being priced out of an education. We do feel that with the surpluses in the state higher education should be a No. 1 priority, a top-notch priority.

Michael Levine

Our teacher education system is not geared up for producing these teachers. We need to figure out some incentives.

David Circle

Our goal is to make sure all students have a quality music education.

Larry Jansen

Our goal has always been to raise money for the state and public education. It's the reason the lottery exists.

Kevin McCarthy

Outside of the family, education is the greatest determinant of social mobility.

Jordan Goodman

Plan to finance your own retirement, help your parents and fund your children's education.

Barry Lopez

You can't learn anything from saguaro cactus, from ocotillo. They are just passing through; their roots, their much heralded dormancy in the dry season, these are only illusions of permanence. They know even less than you do.

B. B. King

No one can take it away from you.

Yumi Oshima

Part of the problem is her parents live in Taiwan and she only has the Rutgers Medical Insurance. They can't transport her back to Taiwan because she is in such serious condition.

Primus Wheeler

Like the Medical Mall, this would be like no other.

John Olerud

I didn't need seven years of medical school to know what was next.

Monica Crowley

For years, Suzanne Somers has been a pioneer when it comes to alternative medical treatments.

Joseph Volpe

I think it's an opportunity for him to really take the time now, that he has the time, to look at all of his medical needs.

David Morales

He tried to obtain the proper medical treatment to treat this, and he was denied,

Fred Gordon

He had a variety of other medical problems, so part of the problem is we've been sorting through those medical issues.

Charles Barkley

There's no medical term for what I've got.

Eric Topol

Of course, the medical profession doesn't like D.I.Y. anything.

Jorma Taccone

I went to the doctor recently and she actually prescribed that I go out for ten minutes a day, I'm so depleted on vitamin D.

Irwin Winkler

We all know we have a prescribed amount of time on Earth. We just don't know how much.

John Timoney

There are prescribed ways of doing this. I know this is very frustrating and isn't satisfactory, but that's the way it is,

Thomas Edward Brown

I must be free... free to do what I like, say what I like, write what I like, within the limits prescribed for me by my own sense of what is seemly and fitting.

Joelle McGinnis

We're not going to prescribe a single product.

Libba Bray

I feel like I'm speaking with my therapist.

Kathy Deepe

There is a part for everyone. And if they don't want a speaking part, they can be on the set crew.

Jose Antonio Vargas

When I was a kid, I resented my grandparents not speaking the perfect English I wanted to speak.

Lucinda Williams

Where they're just speaking in tongues, like they're on a drug or something... Would I really do that if that's what it would take?

Kelly Clarkson

I'm terrible at speaking when I cry. Thank you so much.

Jim Hightower

So now is the time, more than ever, for those who truly value all the principles of democracy, especially including dissent, to be the most forceful in speaking up, standing up and speaking out.

Itula Mili

Sometimes, when we're together, we start just speaking pidgin and stuff like that and that's good, too.

Moliere

If you make yourself understood, you're always speaking well.

Yoko Ono

Chemically speaking or biologically, we research things, but we don't know half of them. We only know our half of it - symbolically - and we don't know ourselves more than half.

Frank Bennett

Part of it was to support the facility,

Hank Aaron

I'm here to support the commissioner and tougher drug penalties.

Kim Coble

We need a much more supportive infrastructure for farming.

Carl Sagan

Our concern for the future can be tested by how well we support our libraries.

Art Alexakis

Success to me is being able to do what I love, make a living at it and to support myself and the ones I love.

Homer Thompson

I was always in support of the coach.

Debbie Smith

I think the winds are changing. We're all tired of supporting the scandals.

Michael Campbell

I think it's the Polynesian connection. I have a lot of support here and it's wonderful.

Rafa Benitez

I was with our supporters at the end. I could see him but he didn't want to.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Language is the source of misunderstandings.

Carl Sagan

The vast distances that separate the stars are providential. Beings and worlds are quarantined from one another. The quarantine is lifted only for those with sufficient self-knowledge and judgment to have safely traveled from star to star.

Bill Bryson

I turned to my own bunk and examined it with a kind of appalled fascination. If the mattress stains were anything to go by, a previous user had not so much suffered from incontinence as rejoiced in it. He had evidently included the pillow in his celebrations.

Bill Bryson

I love the feeling of being anonymous in a city I've never been before.

Bill Bryson

Traveling makes you realize what an immeasurably nice place much of America could be if only people possessed the same instinct for preservation as they do in Europe.

Bill Bryson

What is it about maps? I could look at them all day, earnestly studying the names of towns and villages I have never heard of and will never visit...

Bill Bryson

I could spend my life arriving each evening in a new city.

Bill Bryson

Perhaps it's my natural pessimism, but it seems that an awfully large part of travel these days is to see things while you still can.