Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dean Ryerson

We have seen an increase in pregnant students coming into the university clinic. Our clinic also hands out free condoms, and we have seen an increase of students asking for them.

Jimmy Neal

We have to go through the city manager, so we will send him a letter (today) asking for a meeting.

Imad Moustapha

Whenever the United States came to Syria asking us for assistance ... we immediately engaged with the United States,

Imad Moustapha

Whenever the United States came to Syria asking us for assistance, on issues they wanted our assistance ... we immediately engaged with the United States. This has included our support for the elections in Iraq, our securing the borders. We have done everything possible to secure the borders between Syria and Iraq.

Carol Williams

When you saw Dwayne in his front yard, you saw Shawn. Dwayne always came by asking for Shawn, until Shawn went missing. They used to just hang in the yard, laughing and joking.

Jason Klein

We want shorter contracts, because the times change. And we haven't had a pay raise since 1997. That's what this whole strike is about is unfair labor practices. We're asking for a livable wage.

Michael Ramsey

We want her on the stand. We will put in all the notes from those meetings. They'll show that (Enron) was a well-run organization and a lot of people were asking righteous questions. They demonstrate an intelligent corporation in action.

Agnes Repplier

There are many ways of asking a favor; but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit and invention.

Marcy Forman

We were asking for provisions, but we didn't have provisions. But we knew with the number of people walking the streets in the city that we clearly had to provide shelter.

Mike Pence

We have no higher stewardship, no higher calling than to come onto this floor and into this chamber and make the tough decisions.

Gary Condit

When folks start calling my dad a murderer or suggesting my mom and dad had something to do with the disappearance, that's too much, too far, unfair and it's wrong,

Wing Goodale

When it was first installed, you could hear the calling of long-tailed ducks in the background.

Thomas Edward Brown

Literature is my calling To hold up the mirror to my countrymen comes natural to me; and in the open field of invention I am not without hopes of giving them pleasure.

Roberto Benigni

When I was a little boy, I was reading Dante and I was saying to myself 'Bravo, Dante, Bravo.' It's so beautiful, the music, the sound, the meaning. I felt like calling him by phone, like a friend.

David Sedaris

I felt uncomfortable calling myself a writer until I started with 'The New Yorker,' and then I was like, 'Okay, now you can call yourself that.

Gabrielle Zevin

I hadn't ever felt any particular calling to be a novelist, and I clearly remember telling a friend of mine about six months before I started work on 'Elsewhere' that I would never write a novel.

Genderen Stort

We are not calling for an inquiry at this point in time.

Andrew Spence

We are not calling for a blockade, but if oil companies decide they cannot send out lorries while there is a public presence at their site, then that is a matter for them.

Monica LeMoine

What the school hoped to do for these kids was to hold them accountable for their actions, which they'd never really had before.

Tyler Brand

We wanted to try and hold them under 15 points in the first half. We got out in the passing lanes, got some steals and were able to get our offense going off that.

Dan Nobbs

When it was hit, I knew it was going to be trouble. I saw it leave the infield, I knew it was gone. So it was one of those things, especially on a 0-2 count, you want something that is he going to nibble at and not really get a hold of.

Norm Bruemmer

We're just stronger in singles. We couldn't hold Elliott back anymore.

Francis Frank

We are going to hold the province to that now.

Lindsey Williams

We are holding out that something might develop. We are remaining hopeful that we can come up with a resolution prior to the 31st.

Janis Joplin

If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.

Dave Sanchez

We started today in third. We just couldn't hold on to that lead.

Jim Johnson

We're infiltrating runoff back into the water table, keeping pollutants out of the urban streams and holding the runoff back.

Raymond Domenech

We have reviewed the tape of the match and there were many situations in which we looked anything but comfortable. They put us under a lot of pressure and we were lucky to win.

Gail Simmons

When I diced vegetables, it was painstaking work to make sure that every single piece looked the same: 1/4-inch cubed for small, 3/4-inch cubed for large. It's a matter of practice and precision.

Eric Rignot

We did not look at one or two glaciers. We looked at all of them.

David Strathairn

There are biographies, I looked at a lot of photographs of him, I heard his voice over and over and over again. You get in there and get to know the man by all of those pieces of information.

David Parry

We stopped for some plays that weren't worthy of being looked at.

Herb Trimpe

When I looked at the other artists when I first started at Marvel, I was surrounded by giants. It was very intimidating.

Carrie Zaitz

When I looked through that first telescope my paradigm shifted up course. I realized it was a really big universe and I wanted to know all about it.

Jason Terry

When I looked at the mistakes I made in the playoffs, it was more because I was indecisive. This year, I'll be more deliberate, more assertive.

Dustin Moskovitz

The first time I looked at Yammer, I thought I was on Facebook. Work is not a social network, with serendipitous communications and photo collections. Work is about managing tasks and responding to things quickly.

Chad Whitworth

We have to get better the next two weeks and come out ready to work and execute.

Alan Kulwicki

First you learn to drive fast. Next, you learn to drive fast in traffic. Then, you learn how to do it for 500 miles.

Charlie Chaplin

3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, 7 is a prime, 9 is the next prime after 8.

Michael Robinson

The process has been enjoyable, but at the same time, there is so much uncertainty. One day people are telling you you'll go in the second round. Next day people will say second day.

Ricky Gervais

The next time someone is critical of you, just take a moment to consider their life. Then smile to yourself.

Susan B. Anthony

I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.

Bram Cohen

It's always hard to predict what's coming up next. My main guess is that content creators will increasingly start using BitTorrent to distribute their own work directly.

Djuna Barnes

The very condition of Woman is so subject to Hazard, so complex, and so grievous, that to place her at one moment is but to displace her at the next.

Dhani Jones

Pretty much any place that I haven't been is the next place I definitely I want to go.

Carre Otis

Eating disorders, body dysmorphia and a general dissatisfaction with one's life and body seems to ail too many young people.

Carol Roth

Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.

Carol Kane

I don't feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people.

Carol Kane

That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.

Carol Leifer

They're all sources of material. What I love about what I do, the more you talk about your life, there are so many people who have similar experiences.

Carol Shields

I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people.

Carol Moseley Braun

All I really want to be is boring. When people talk about me, I'd like them to say, Carol's basically a short Bill Bradley. Or, Carol's kind of like Al Gore in a skirt.

Carol Moseley Braun

My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.

Carlos Beltran

I don't want to be hiding from people. It would be difficult to be recognized everywhere, so that I couldn't do things ordinary people do.

Randy Huth

We used to have a singer but he didn't work out and we never replaced him. We all do vocals on the record, and live, we, me and Joel, split it up.

Ellen Bogard

We're going to replace them all just to make sure.

Robert Reich

We don't have to sit by and watch our meritocracy be replaced by a permanent aristocracy, and our democracy be undermined by dynastic wealth.

Kevin Phillips

Obviously, we are not going to be able to replace these vans with one bus. It's going to be a two-to-one ratio.

Alan Alda

No one can replace a unique person like Peter.

Thomas Schaaf

We can't replace Miro, but we have to put that aside.

John Garber

We're never going to replace the radiologist, and that's not the intent,

Lois Lowry

As female hormones decrease, they're replaced with an overwhelming urge to grow delphinium.

Doug Cole

Other things can be replaced ... but not photos.

Ron Williams

We have approximately 600 to 700 trees uprooted and down,

Larry Moore

When we get some rain, we're going to have a lot more trees fall.

Angela King

Trees can't do their thing unless they are in the right spot.

Kerry Johnson

We didn't even know what trees are here, ... They've got trees there. What we have are twigs.

Larry Hawkins

This beautiful, established canopy of trees is just gone. It's just firewood.

David Brown

It went through trees before it got into the city.

Jason Rogers

I like the trees here a lot more than other areas.

Bubba Watson

I know how to get out of the trees pretty good.

Bob Ross

A lot of times we can get trees out without scarring other trees.