Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Wright

Refineries in Texas did not take a direct hit from Rita, but the energy grids in that area were effected, and power has not been restored to those refineries.

Richard Preston

Redwoods have an enormous surface area that extends upward into space because they have a propensity to do something called reiteration. A redwood is a fractal. And as they put out limbs, the limbs burst into small trees, copies of the redwood.

Mike Shockley

Recommendations included changes in several areas of energy expenses.

Gerry Fleming

Reggie has done a lot of things away from the play as far as his defensive play and his play without the puck. He's been in areas and made some big plays without the puck as well.

Bob Noun

President Bush's proposed budget will not have an impact this year. The current situation is we still have to lay off between 30 to 40 employees. But we are encouraged by the areas that were covered by the president.

Stephanie Williams

Preserving farmland and preserving the farming enterprise must go hand-in-hand. By working with Cumberland County Economic Development, we are able to help ensure that area farms become preserved, and remain competitive, for generations to come.

Irene Toner

Our policy is to call for a general evacuation in areas that might be prone to Category 3 impacts.

Hassan Nasrallah

Our policy is clear, we are fighting in an area that is still under occupation in Lebanon. And beyond that area, we are on the defensive.

Mike Ruddock

Our passing, tackling, lineout and tackle area play all need to be improved,

Alan Siegel

Our national purpose, not our party differences, must define the American Brand. We must change the conversation from one centered around what defines our differences to one that hangs a lantern on what binds us, supports our collective well being and makes us all stronger and more productive as a result.

David Warrick

Our schools haven't started their food drives yet and we're kind of in a bind right now to get decent food baskets together for those who are in need.

John McCain

On the subject of Osama bin Laden... we will track him down. We will capture him. We will bring him to justice, and I will follow him to the gates of hell.

Carl Sagan

Any sufficiently crisp question can be answered by a single binary digit-0 or 1, yes or no.

Bethenny Frankel

I didn't binge when I was pregnant.

David Skorton

I will have open meetings, open forums, an open-door policy and calling bingo in the dorms at night, trying to get the students to talk to me and tell me what's really on their minds.

Pankaj Mishra

I think subsuming political and economic conflicts into some grand 'clash of civilisations' theory or 'the West versus the rest' binary is a particularly insidious form of ideological deception.

Rose George

I think about what's going down my sink. So I won't pour oil down my sink. I won't - if I'm cleaning a pan, I'll wipe it and bin because I've seen - I've been down sewers.

Brian Dawkins

I watched Bing Crosby and Abbott and Costello yesterday. Two old classics.

Jerry Anderson

Our match on Friday will be a good indicator for the post-season.

Jim Gilligan

Steve had a really well-pitched game. He was hitting his spots much better than he did last Friday (in a no-decision in the Cards' 8-6 series-opening win over Nicholls State). I'm really proud of him.

Bill Womack

Our pitchers did a real good job Friday and we scored runs to support them.

Gary Moody

Our sophomores who are going to play are going to develop. I don't feel good about starting a sophomore unless he has already shown he can do the job for us. All they lack is that Friday night experience.

Bob Blake

(Roberson will) be ready to play Friday ? at least, that's what she says. But the other kids are also stepping up, picking it up because we've got other players out hurt. They're doing a good job.

Bobby Hauck

Jason's got an injury that guys have played with in the past. We're going to treat him through the week, and try to let him throw Thursday and Friday and see if he can go Saturday.

Gary Wagher

Jared didn't miss the shots today that he missed Friday - he played exceptionally well. The kid from Quincy didn't play as well - he was trying to hit it too hard. But Jared did a good job of staying patient and under control.

Bill Hicks

If you want to understand a society, take a good look at the drugs it uses. And what can this tell you about American culture? Well, look at the drugs we use. Except for pharmaceutical poison, there are essentially only two drugs that Western civilization tolerates: Caffeine from Monday to Friday to energize you enough to make you a productive member of society, and alcohol from Friday to Monday to keep you too stupid to figure out the prison that you are living in.

Ray Tanner

That was really impressive. I told him after the game, I don't know that he's a Friday night guy yet, but he just got closer.

Dan Rooney

Paul knows how to lead. It's that simple.

Fisher DeBerry

People know my heart, my team knows my heart,

Jessica Williams

Our team knows how important this weekend is. This series could put us back on the top or back to the bottom.

Rick Barnes

P.J. will make sure every knows about it.

Pat Summitt

I think this team knows what they have to bring.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

On ne sait jamais! One never knows!

Stephen Pagliuca

We need someone in Washington who knows how to build jobs from the ground up.

Bible Bible

I will give thanks to thee for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are Thy works, and my soul knows it very well.

Graeme Souness

It is a situation where no-one knows how long it will last for,

Craig Bradley

Parking here is worse than on many other large campuses.

Tom Daschle

That cozy, permissive relationship has to end, and he in large measure has orchestrated that over he last 18 months,

Jeff Davis

Our players, because they travel a lot, are not shocked at tournament time playing away from home. The larger leagues that play between themselves are surprised come tournament time because they're seeing pitchers they've never seen before.

Hans Vestberg

Our take was that if we are going to support our customers, we have to help them with video distribution, whether that is iPad, TV, small screen or large screen.

Danny Shader

Overall, the situation is going nuts. We are getting a very large number of inquiries.

William Diamond

Our upholsterer teased us about the scale of the sofa. He says it's the largest sofa that he has ever made.

Sam Moore

Remember, I'm your largest shareholder. Don't screw it up,

Bette Davis

I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable... I suppose I'm larger than life.

Mike Chung

Large trucks have been so much more inexpensive recently.

Susan Backman

Residents can see the improvements made to the outside of the buildings.

John Emerich

Resist your time - take a foothold outside it

F. Schumacher

I was on the outside and I tried and there was no opportunity.

Tom Zbikowski

I think to the outside people, it's not what they expected, but it is what we expected.

Terry Wallace

I went outside and took a look and I could see it on top of the mountain.

Mark Landy

I would venture that we are now outside of gentlemanly territory,

Jovan Vavic

J.W. is very versatile can play many positions. He can set and guard, be an outside shooter and he's very fast.

Sandra Tsing Loh

Journalists are quite surprised outside their dinner parties when they hear where I live. 'Van Nuys? You still live there?' It is like saying you're from Alabama.

Lynn Coady

Here's the thing about lingerie: The only time we see it outside our own bedrooms, it is on women who are gloriously freakish in their physical perfection.

Jon Gruden

He had some reads that he routinely makes,

Craig Brown

More and more, I find that the news reads like a particularly random game of Consequences.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

My mother reads tarot cards, actually, but I won't let her read mine.

Ian Mcewan

How often one reads a contemporary full-length novel and thinks quietly, mutinously, that it would have worked out better at half or a third the length.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

When you write, you're inside the project. You can't really think about the reception. It has to be worth it even if no one reads it.

William Shenstone

Thy verses are eternal, O my friend, For he who reads them, reads them to no end

Terry Teachout

Nobody reads a reference book to be amused, much less charmed.

Dale Lennon

If you look at our numbers, the play of our quarterbacks was very impressive. They made the right reads on their passes.

Miriam Kramer

It reads like one and it smells like one.

Mary Johnson

Without the Wheelchair Recycling Program, we can't do what we do.

Chuck Palahniuk

You have to keep recycling yourself.

Mike Quigley

I like to take out the recycling because I actually feel like I'm doing something.

Beezer Molten

Here, all waste will be viewed as a recycling opportunity.

Lewis Carroll

Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late?

Jodie Foster

I prefer to commit 100 per cent to a movie and make fewer films, because it takes over your life.

Carl Jung

Where do we live symbolically? Nowhere except where we participate in the ritual of life.

Justin Bartha

I do have rituals. I'm a fairly superstitious person.

Timothy Leary

Ritual is to the internal sciences what experiment is to the external sciences.

Mike O'Connell

Part of it was the uncertainty of not being able to sign him. If it comes to the summer and he wants to come back, we'll listen. ... I wasn't sure of which way he wanted to go.

Horst Koehler

It is a symbol of reconciliation and a sign that there should never be war again,

Peter Kretzmer

It is a strong number. There is little sign of a slowdown,

Adam Ereli

It is a sign that we are all working together.

Manny Acta

It is a sign of what we can do.

M. Wolfe

I still think we could be better, though. We showed signs in the first inning of being very good. We let up after that.

Bruce Bochy

He wanted me to sign it, ... He took it over to me.

Pam Schild

He didn't even tell us until after he'd signed up.

Peter Scobie

There are tentative signs things are slowing. It's not a foregone conclusion.

Jim Struzzi

Fortunately, traffic was stopped, so no one was injured.

Aaron Edwards

You have customers, you have traffic in the area, you have familiarity.

Ryan Seacrest

What it allows me to do is . . . be the traffic cop.

John Cobb

We want to impede traffic as little as possible.

Stacy Pak

How do you get traffic in there? What's the plan?

Brad Anderson

I live in Seattle, but I never see this much traffic clustered in one place.

Jim Capaldi

Traffic was very, very free. It was great.

Bob Campbell

(Developers) don't see the traffic because it's not there yet. But it will be.

David Williams

Right now we have to do this for our residents and we have to do something to alleviate these traffic concerns.

Carrie Fisher

I feel so agitated all the time, like a hamster in search of a wheel.

Kevin Keegan

They are not your players, they are loaned from the club. You just wheel them out for a game for England.

Benjamin Disraeli

The world is a wheel, and it will all come round right.

Bob Enos

Mike's been in a wheelchair for 30 years, and had seizures for 35.

Brandon Sanderson

There are no endings, and never will be endings, to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was an ending.

Elbert Hubbard

Wealth is an engine that can be used for power, if you are an engineer; but to be tied to the fly wheel of an engine is rather a misfortune.

Anita Desai

The wheel turns and turns and turns: it never stops and stands still.

Andrew Stanton

A major threshold is passed when you mature enough to acknowledge what drives you, and to take the wheel and steer it.

Abraham Verghese

Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.