Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kit Williams

Recreating the South Pointing Chariot is particularly challenging because none of the original technical drawings remain in existence.

Ali Abdullah Saleh

Regarding Syria, we already call for dialogue between Syria and all parties concerned, in order to avoid any kind of escalation in the region which may expose the whole area to chaos.

John Fahey

Regarding fame, fortune and Oregon I do wish I had more money.

Mary Morrison

Recent experience in Latin America illustrates that governments remain central to infrastructure provision. Not only is public funding sometimes indispensable, but the state has an essential role to play in partnering and overseeing private operators and protecting consumers.

Norman Schwarzkopf

... Recalling back to Operation Desert Storm, I can't help asking myself: Wouldn't it be great for our armed forces and for America if we could have another commander-in-chief named George Bush with Dick Cheney on his team?

Ronald Reagan

Recession is when a neighbour loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.

Jonathan Gilbert

Reinventing the wheel is sometimes the right thing, when the result is the radial tire.

George Miller

President Bush should immediately realize the colossal mistake he has made in signing this order and rescind it and ensure that America puts its people back to work in the wake of Katrina at wages that will get them and their families back on their feet.

Carl Pope

President Bush nominated someone who has consistently opposed protecting public health and public lands. American families deserve an interior secretary who actually values our natural heritage. America deserves someone who will promote safe energy policies that protect sensitive lands and wildlife habitat, instead of giving over our public lands to developers and the oil and gas companies.

Tom Jackson

President Adams will inform the University Council of his decision on the resolution April 25.

Phil Sorensen

Our position is we're expecting to be prepared and ready to go by April 24.

Mary Dickson

Our media blast date will be April 1, and will include billboards all over Florence and Darlington, and heavy radio advertising.

Ian Shepherdson

Our measure of core sales, which excludes autos, gas and food, rose a pitiful 0.1 percent, the worst performance since April and impossible to square with Mr. Greenspan's assertion last week that the economy is regaining traction,

David Gleason

That contract was signed back in April before a lot of the things that subsequently have taken place, ... That 7.3 cents is frozen for three years under that contract and were in the first year. So, at this point, I think that everybody that is participating in that consortium is fairly confident that we have a good price for electricity.

Keith Foulke

I will be ready Opening Day, there's no doubt in my mind. I'm stronger now than I have been in four years. April 3 is a lifetime away.

Jim Nantz

I will never forget April 13, 1986. It was my first Masters, and just as it ended, (CBS analyst) Ken Venturi drove me back to the CBS compound and said, 'Jimmy, you may be lucky enough to broadcast 50 Masters, but you'll never live to see a greater one than the one you saw today.' I think he was right.

Scotty Davenport

I think the most important thing is that we're 8-7 in the conference. It's the toughest Division II conference in the country. We're probably going to get five teams in the NCAA Tournament. But more than that, I'm proud of them. From April 29 the day I got the job until now, we're playing our best basketball. That's how you build a program.

Frank Thomas

Last year, I came back too early. This year, I'm following orders and taking it one day at a time. I want to be ready on April 3.

Curt Bladt

Our objective this week is to get through healthy. If we get the game in hand early, we've got about 78-80 guys who we can start bringing in. We can play a whole lot of kids.

Jonathan Ornstein

Our lawyers feel these guys were trying to pull out all the stops from bringing our low fares to the marketplace and felt the suit was necessary. Frankly, I always view lawsuits as negative energy, and a lot of time spent on lawyers' pay with very little good coming out of them. But it's clear these guys were willing to pull out all the stops and so we felt we had no choice.

Larry Ellison

People like you are supposed to expose this stuff, ... People like us are just trying to help. I never knew that we were doing any of this stuff, but if Microsoft is creating front organizations, I feel very good about bringing that information to the public.

Greig Gailey

Such a risk is unacceptable and bringing forward waste stripping is considered a prudent response.

Melvin Watkins

Surely, they hear what's going on around campus or whatever and the Internet. Our kids have done a good job, at least as far as we can see, of not bringing that stuff to practice. ... Coach (Snyder) has done a good job of saying, 'Let's stick with the task at hand.' Some of those things we can't control, and we're not going to worry about, and I think our kids will follow suit in that.

Mat Iandolo

(Stephanie) is one of our emotional leaders in terms of bringing energy with intensity to matches. Even though she hasn't been 100 percent physically yet, she has certainly helped us in terms of her intensity and energy.

Steve Mitchell

Our progressive resumption of work at the construction site has continued to go well and we've been bringing more people to site during the week.

Clay Jordan

Our special teams were super. I mean we gave up a (long) kickoff return, which was not good. Before (that), on our punt team, (Sean) Droese kept them pinned up all night. Our punt protection was good because they were bringing a lot of people.

Tom Carter

Our focus will continue to be on bringing innovative, effective and user-friendly presentation products to market on a regular basis, just as we always have.

Kathleen Hohl

Regardless of the number of men we ordain to the priesthood each year, that number does not keep pace with the number of priests who retire from the ministry. As a result of fewer priests, the need for well-trained lay ministers is even more important.

Graeme Edge

(Rehearsal's) mostly to get the sound and lights up and knock a few cobwebs off.

Jon Peck

Our report can only reflect the numbers provided to the state. There are larger communities that reported fewer than some smaller communities.

Karen Hoem

Our overall goal this year was to make the playoffs. It's been a few years since we've been there.

Chris Shaw

Our question mark is in the back. We lost a few and our goalie. We are young in the back, but talented,

Ken Goldstein

Part of the real story here is that, through July, producers were still getting more output, with fewer labor hours put in. Productivity in the third quarter is probably going to be stronger than in the second quarter, confirming the idea that, while the stock market's not in good shape, the overall economy's not that bad.

Markus Persson

PC gaming has always been strong, and I see it surviving for quite a few more years. It will be around for at least as long as people use PCs.

Brad Radke

Our offense is much improved. We had a few guys who had down years last year. They'll help out more.

Chris Liddell

Our market share remains broadly where it was in the last few quarters, ... It's a monetization issue, and that is something we're going to have to reverse in the future.

Matt Cressman

Paul worked his butt off tonight. I thought he had waited too long to pass it, but he timed it just right and Mike finished it for us.

Jesse Jackson

Part of our mission is to finish unfinished business.

Sean Foster

Steve played fired-up tonight. He was taking hits and still finishing plays inside. When he can score inside it opens up things for our shooters.

Jerry Wainwright

Statistics point to what happened in this game. We had problems finishing plays where we had the size advantage, and it was painful at the free-throw line.

Karl Malone

Starting off my career, I wasn't a good free throw shooter, and I worked at it and worked at it, and now I want to go up there and shoot free throws, and now... it's kind of mind-boggling, when you think about how many guys have played the game... when I finish playing and I look back on it, I think it'll be huge. Right now I'm still playing the game, it's kind of tough to really stop and think about it.

Catherine Lee

Some of the prongs are not down on the stone. The stone setter didn't finish his job.

Brent Eddy

Our team score was good enough to finish third but we still think we can improve our numbers.

Jim Sandusky

Our strength is hitting and offense. We've been moving kids around the infield and outfield and still finishing where they fit in.

Byron Dorgan

Our soldiers are prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice for their country, and we must do our part. And that means voting for the funds they need to finish the job.

Jeff Lyons

I'm hoping we'll have this continual glide path of rates going up and everything comes into equilibrium nice and easy.

Nick Hancock

I'm hoping we'll have 100 participants, or more, this year.

Dusty Baker

I'm hoping we don't need him. We'll worry about Wednesday when we get there.

Rick Branaghan

I'm hoping we come back sharp. We've been able to work on some things.

Frank Beamer

I'm hoping we can get to that point.

John Greer

I'm hoping to make it in an hour 10, hour 20 minutes.

Steven Lee

I'm hoping to get a good, solid plan.

Lance Berkman

I'm hoping to do as little as possible. I'm sure I'll be doing a lot of rehab and trying to take it easy, not doing as many outfield drills.

Bob Tigro

I'm hoping this will not be the last debate.

Richard Midgley

Regardless of whether we won or lost last Saturday, there would've been a lot of pressure going into this week.

Jackie Williams

Recovery is a miracle. It lasts for a life time.

Sam Burns

Recessions usually last about a year. That would place the end around March or April.

John Buchanan

Our record over the last while has been pretty well exemplary, with just the odd incident.

Samuel Johnson

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

Roger Short

Part of the time we do go around in pairs, but these pairs don't last a lifetime.

Jay Bly

Our line play versus the run is going to be a key. We're going to have to play disciplined on defense. No matter what offense someone plays, if you get whipped up front, you're not going to win. We saw that when we looked at last year's tape, but we've made some adjustments.

Lee Salem

Our only regret is that it didn't last longer. That was Bill's decision.

Patrick Stewart

Our last words were, 'Be safe. I love you,' ... He said, 'I will.'

Benoit Mandelbrot

Some mathematicians didn't even perceive of the possibility of a picture being helpful. To the contrary, I went into an orgy of looking at pictures by the hundreds; the machines became a little bit better.

Shawn Levy

If it was going to be unique, if you're going to make a robot movie in 2011... it had to be different, and it had to be about more than its machines and more than its action.

Charles Babbage

Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity.

Charles Babbage

As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will necessarily guide the future course of the science. Whenever any result is sought by its aid, the question will then arise — by what course of calculation can these results be arrived at by the machine in the shortest time?

Charles Petzold

I started out with machine code and assembly language.

Charles Petzold

Programming in machine code is like eating with a toothpick

Carol Ann Duffy

For me, poetry is the music of being human. And also a time machine by which we can travel to who we are and to who we will become.

Alan Lightman

We're plugged in 24 hours a day now. We're all part of one big machine, whether we are conscious of that or not. And if we can't unplug from that machine, eventually we're going to become mindless.

Dennis Ritchie

C was already implemented on several quite different machines and OSs, Unix was already being distributed on the PDP-11, but the portability of the whole system was new

Tom Wilson

Some of them, quite frankly, are nothing more than a driveway.

Kevin Spacey

'The 24 Hour Plays' is a quite brilliant, exhilarating event for everyone concerned.

Mary Kelly

The (anti-virus) system worked, which was quite a relief.

Carl Jacobs

That was quite a ride. We'd be thrilled to repeat it.

Tom Miller

That was quite an accomplishment for us. This is a very tough tournament.

Paul Johnston

That's the really big trend, ... Year 2000 has been the big thing that has really worked quite well.

Steve Griffin

That suggests to me there is something quite clandestine going on or something strange.

Terry Grant

I was quite shocked when they called me.

Carol Patterson

I was quite disappointed the vote went the way it did.

Dan Hill

Songs sometimes are so connected to the sociology of the time.

AJ Case

I got a team of songwriters I used to work with, and we wrote songs day and night.

Nick Cave

I would hate to think my songs were giving advice to people.

Vince Neil

If the songs aren't there and you throw a TV set out of the window, who cares?

Todd Rundgren

I don't know what the inspiration for most of songs really mean until I finish them. For the most part, I'm going for a visceral impression, and I write the words last.

Lucinda Williams

My approach to recording and all that is pretty organic. It just has to do with all the songs I wrote; go in and record them.

Gene Ween

I wrote most of these songs right before the end. A lot of these songs are about that. Even if it's not direct, you can feel the beginning of the end of the breakup in these songs.

Valerie June

I just let the songs tell me what to do - they are my guides, and they are the boss. So I am subservient to the songs, and I let them tell me what to do. I don't judge them; I just write whatever comes to me.

Neil Innes

But mostly, I wrote songs and Viv wrote songs.

Edmund Hillary

I am hell-bent for the South Pole-God willing and crevasses permitting.

Dominique McElligott

I did do an American pilot, but it wasn't shot in America, it was shot in South Africa. It was called 'The Philanthropist,' and it was for NBC.

Jose Ibarra

I think it's great. We need something on the south side.

Bill Hicks

Been on what I call my Flying Saucer Tour--appearing in small Southern towns--in front of handfuls of hillbillies.

Audra McDonald

The authentic Gullah dialect is actually very clipped, and so it would sound almost Jamaican and be very odd to an American audience's ears. It's not the typical Southern dialect that we're used to.

Carroll Quigley

To this day the Arab influence is evident in southern Italy, northern Africa and, above all, in Spain.

Timothy Tyson

Nonviolent, yes. Passive, no. He was nonviolent, but he marched through the South like Sherman through Georgia.

Samantha Bingham

Many, many of them are from southern Louisiana.

Yahya Jammeh

Apartheid was in South Africa; now it has been transferred to Palestine.

Bill Self

He'll wear a splint when he's not practicing. (On the court) he'll tape it up and be fine.

Alfonso Soriano

When I look at myself on tape I can see that, but I just didn't make the adjustments at the time.

Eddie Van Halen

Imagine if Beethoven had a tape recorder. Then you'd know exactly what he meant. Maybe he meant 'Da da da da' instead of 'Boom boom boom boom!' Who knows?

David Nicholls

Letters, like compilation tapes, were really vehicles for unexpressed emotions and she was clearly putting far too much time and energy into them.

Dave Grohl

When you're recording to tape, you usually just settle for what you have. There's not a lot of options to manipulate the performance.

Glen Hanlon

We'll watch this tape and use it as a teaching tool for our group.

Anne Lamott

We all often feel like we are pulling teeth, even those writers whose prose ends up being the most natural and fluid. The right words and sentences just do not come pouring out like ticker tape most of the time.

Albert Brooks

In my screenplays - from the very beginning I've always used tape. I talk my screenplays. And then have somebody transcribe them.

Doug Stanhope

I was 23 with a mullet doing lots of jerk-off material.I can't look at the old tapes now.