Famous Quotes & Sayings

Todd Akin

We have never embraced a system in which it requires 60 votes to confirm a judge, and we should not be doing that now.

Tom Coburn

We want judges who are well qualified. Ginsburg was confirmed with 96 votes. . . . I would hate to see a double standard,

Jack Straw

very distinguished and experienced internationally. If his appointment is confirmed we look forward to working with him.

Kamal Ahmed

Ah, the pleasure, the joy - a big news story that runs and runs, that is played down by some of our journalistic colleagues, saying 'it'll never happen', only to be confirmed by the Home Secretary.

Randy Hampton

We did have a report of one in that area. We haven't been able to confirm it.

Allan Mayer

We have heard second-hand reports that the tape allegedly shows consenting adults, including someone identified as R. Kelly, engaged in sexual activity. Since we haven't seen the tape, we can neither confirm nor deny that it is in fact Mr. Kelly,

James E. Faust

I am profoundly grateful that all of my life I have had a simple faith that Jesus is the Christ. That witness has been confirmed to me hundreds of times. It is the crowning knowledge of my soul. It is the spiritual light of my being. It is the cornerstone of my life.

Bob Woodward

would only guide us and steer us. And when we would find out something, he would confirm it.

Eric Williams

We're still recovering survivors and bodies. I can tell you right now, we have 11 confirmed dead.

Chevy Chase

A flute without holes, is not a flute. A donut without a hole, is a Danish.

Michael Specter

Someone told me that they didn't want to take a flu shot because they didn't want to put a foreign substance in their body. What do they think they do at dinner every night?

Irwin Redlener

We are profoundly unprepared to manage a pandemic flu threat right now,

Tom Browning

We're starting to get some fluidity in our offense,

Charles M. Schulz

It's either the flu or love... The synptoms are the same.

Bill Maher

A flu shot just compromises your immune system.

Bob Garfield

Chain letters are the postal equivalent of intestinal flu: you get it and pass it along to your friends.

Newt Gingrich

Less than 10% of our analysts of North Korea are fluent in Korean.

Jason Streets

She was outstanding. Lindsay had the flu and it was questionable that she would even play.

Carol Leifer

Long Island - if you're from out of town, how would I describe it? Well, every girl in my neighborhood looked like Kenny G.

Carol Leifer

Obviously, at this age, I've lost people in my life. But with a parent, it's just different. I was very attached to my father and had this naive little-girl notion that he'd always be around. So I'm finding acceptance of my father's death is the hardest thing to accept.

Carol Leifer

Women in the workplace - we still have big strides to make. Girlfriend of mine just got a new job. First question the new boss asked her was if she could make a good cup of coffee... Yeah, she stormed right out of that Starbucks.

Carlos Mencia

Why did the 14-year old Mexican girl end up pregnant? Because her teacher told her to go do an essay.

Carl Andre

You can always find somebody to beat up. This goes back to the schoolyard. Most men would think, Don't chum with girls. But I chummed with girls.

Carl Andre

The girls you picked up from the bars were not the girls you took home to mother.

C. S. Lewis

All is summed up in the prayer which a young female human is said to have uttered recently: "O God, make me a normal twentieth-century girl!" Thanks to our labors, this will mean increasingly: "Make me a minx, a moron, and a parasite.

C. S. Lewis

I never heard weeping like that before or after; not from a child, nor a man wounded in the palm, nor a tortured man, nor a girl dragged off to slavery from a taken city. If you heard the woman you most hate in the world weep so, you would go to comfort her. You would fight your way through fire and spears to reach her. And I knew who wept, and what had been done to her, and who had done it.

C. S. Lewis

I have swallowed up girls and boys, women and men, kings and emperors, cities and realms," said the Lion. It didn't say this as if it were boasting, nor as if it were sorry, nor as if it were angry. It just said it.

Mikko Hypponen

But at least you know someone on your premises has an infected phone.

Vera Wang

My mother is the reason I'm in fashion. She worshiped it. Unfortunately, she infected me.

Kary Mullis

PCR made it easier to see that certain people are infected with HIV.

Daniel Blumenthal

Treatment for those infected is not very good. Many people have died,

Siti Supari

We don't distinguish between the three, ... But how they got infected is still unknown.

Babatunde Osotimehin

We reckon that about 50,000 infected people are now receiving anti-retroviral (ARV) treatment nationwide.

Maria Cheng

We know that mammals can be infected by H5N1, but we don't know what this means for humans.

David Mitchell

When insolvent, pack minimally, with a valise tough enough to be thrown onto a London pavement from a first- or second-floor window. Insist on hotel rooms no higher.

Carole King

I went to London and performed in Eric Clapton's concert at the Royal Albert Hall. I'll work with him any time he asks me.

Jane Austen

Imust have a London audience.I could never preach, but to the educated; to those who were capable of estimating my composition.

Alan Rickman

You know, London is so sprawling, and you can sometimes forget that anybody else is on a stage anywhere else.

China Mieville

London is an endless skirmish between angles and emptiness.

Charlotte Church

They never were planning to be here. All my family are going to London because they wanted to go to the big one. There was never any showdown - there wouldnt be.

Maajid Nawaz

During my teenage years as an Islamist recruiter, I moved to live in self-contained communities in the London boroughs of Newham and Tower Hamlets.

Britney Spears

I'm gonna start off somewhere small like London or England.

Camille Pissarro

It does not astonish me that the critics in London relegate me to the lowest rank. Alas! I fear that they are only too justified!

Bruce Sterling

Okay, are you really 'experimenting'? How do you know if you're really experimenting? You're working on it methodically and you're publishing the results! It's not an experiment if you don't publish the results in some verifiable and falsifiable form, okay?

Bob Riley

When money follows results - we will get more results for our money

Bill Walsh

Concentrate on what will produce results rather than on the results, the process rather than the prize.

Bill Gates

I am results-oriented.

Kirstie Alley

I've been irresponsible many, many, many times and that has resulted in my being fat.

Timothy Noah

Presidential election results in 2008 and 2012 clarified that talk radio was not, in fact, running the country.

Romeo Crennel

When we get the results on that, we'll let you know.

Edward Gibbon

Rational confidence [is] the just result of knowledge and experience.

Milwaukee Brewers

much more well-rounded as a result of the trade.

Avicii

Dance music is like a virus, it has affected so many different genres

Ron Krantz

We are considering doing virus scanning on all incoming e-mail.

Carl Zimmer

It used to be thought that only a certain kind of virus could get into our genome and it's called a retrovirus and that's a virus that might be HIV for example.

Terrence Tumpey

I worry more about the H5N1 viruses that I work with.

John Barry

We don't know whether it's going to be a 1968 virus or a 1918 virus. That's frightening, without a doubt. We need to take it very, very, very, very seriously.

Dan Brown

Only one form of contagion travels faster than a virus. And that's fear.

Lyle Petersen

The virus is here and it's going to stay.

Mikko Hypponen

I've worked with viruses for 15 years and things have been getting progressively worse. This year is going to be bad.

Nathan Wolfe

We know there are certain types of viruses that are nasty - influenza, for instance, is an area that is not a blindside. But a lot of viruses have come out of nowhere, like H.I.V., or to a certain extent SARS. Because we know we have the potential to be blindsided, we really have to investigate the unknowns.