Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dennis Hastert

Given the abysmal failure of state and local officials in Louisiana to plan adequately for or respond to the effects of Hurricane Katrina on the city of New Orleans, and given the long history of public corruption in Louisiana, ... I am not confident that Louisiana officials can be trusted to administer federal relief aid.

Tony Ward

Tough talk ahead of the encounter proved to be just that with the second-half performance abysmal in the extreme.

Robert Hayes

The (poll) numbers suggest an abysmal program. This benefit was designed to make it impossible for consumers to understand it.

Kim Petersen

We've spent barely $700 million in federal grants to U.S. ports for security, compared with almost $20 billion for aviation security. And most important, we are doing an abysmal job in assisting ports in the developing world in improving security to even minimal acceptable standards.

Lisa Wathne

We're pleased that they (USDA inspectors) did go out there but still feel cautious about this situation because the regulations that the USDA enforces are minimum, and I emphasize minimum. In cases where they declare that there are no violations of the Animal Welfare Act, animals can still be languishing in really abysmal conditions.

Sen. Hanabusa

No extension should be granted to the city and its operator (Waste Management of Hawaii) because of its abysmal record.

Ken Duckworth

Some good things are happening even in abysmal states.

Brendan I. Koerner

Skyjackers had a pretty abysmal success rate - once you commandeered a plane in American airspace, your odds of a happy ending were slim. After the epidemic ended in 1973, what folks tended to remember most about the skyjackers was their futility.

Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.

Having been kept pretty strict in prep schools, I guess I couldn't cope with all the freedom at Yale. I had a wild, wonderful time, got abysmal grades and was bounced out in my freshman year. I then came back the following fall as a repeating freshman, lasted until April and got bounced out again - for the same reason.

Richard Rogers

Architecture is measured against the past; you build in the future, and you try to imagine the future.

Rick Perlstein

Richard M. Nixon honestly believed in his bones that an organized conspiracy of liberal media insiders had literally been plotting against him ever since he broke Alger Hiss in 1948 (he never shifted course, and lost his soul).

Robert Walpole

And therefore, for the sake of my mater, without any regard for my own, I hope all those that have a due regard for our constitution and for the rights and prerogatives of the crown, without which our constitution can not be preserved, will be against this motion.

Robert Mueller

In order to be successful against each of these threats, we have to have a presence overseas, work closely not only with our counterparts in the law enforcement community, but also with the intelligence community.

Kurt Student

The secondary attack was made against The Hague. Its aim was to get a hold upon the Dutch capital, and in particular to capture the Government offices and the Service headquarters.

Kristin Cast

I don't watch 'Glee,' not that I have anything against it. Whenever I miss the first few episodes, I won't watch the series.

Marcy Kaptur

I wholeheartedly support the aspirations of the Ukrainian people for a democratic, free and just society where the rule of law prevails without corruption or government violence directed against citizens.

Larry Foote

Man, he could he play some ball. I never got to play against him in football, but I watched him play my high school in basketball. He dominated. He led his team to the state championship. You knew back then he had all the talent to be a great one.

John Locke

Man... hath by nature a power .... to preserve his property - that is, his life, liberty, and estate - against the injuries and attempts of other men.

George Scalise

Semiconductor sales in April are continuing the steady growth exhibited in the first quarter of this year, another sign that the industry is rebounding from 2001,

Mark Hendrickson

My goal is we break camp April 3. I may not take the same route as everybody else but I'll be ready for it.

Mark Hendrickson

My goal and their goal is on April 3 I'll be ready to go. I'm just taking a different route.

Petr Sykora

No, I don't want to go. I'm a Ranger. I'm playing with a little bit of an injury. All I'm worried about is March, April and the playoffs.

Paul Godfrey

Next to April 7, 1977, this is going to be the most exciting opener. There is a special sense of excitement around the city. For the first time since I've been here, we have a competitive team that can play into September, God willing, they all stay healthy.

Marc Maiffret

Obviously these things (fixes) are experimental in nature but considering the options of being vulnerable or at least having a fighting chance--well, I think you get the point. Again, this is just another mitigation option until Microsoft releases their patch, which last was scheduled for April 11th, or 16 days from now.

John Worcester

We had been in touch with them, and it looked like in April 2003 it was going to be sold. It happened a few times. We finally decided we can't continue to wait until it gets sold.

Jia Youling

From April to May outbreaks happened and 3,771 cattle were culled, including those infected and those in the same herd.

Sandy Duncan

From that point, we would include the community in the process and hopefully we able to hire someone at our April meeting.

Italo Calvino

In 'Cosmicomics,' I came close to science fiction - I was inspired by cosmological subjects and the workings of the universe and invented a character who was a sort of witness to everything that was happening inside the solar system.

Isabella Rossellini

I grew up in Italy, and our country is a country of great agriculture and food produce. It wasn't like I was urban and only knew about high-heeled shoes and purses and never knew where my eggs came from.

Richard P. Feynman

Quarks came in a number of varieties - in fact, at first, only three were needed to explain all the hundreds of particles and the different kinds of quarks - they are called u-type, d-type, s-type.

Robert Mueller

If you look at the 19 hijackers who came to the United States in Sept. 11 to commit those acts, if you'd looked at them before they got onto a plane, you could probably say the same thing. There were various levels of expertise, various levels of competence.

Mamie Van Doren

I came to Hollywood determined to follow in Jean Harlow's footsteps, but I was determined not to die young. My hope was to endure. And endure I have.

Mamata Banerjee

We are from the very middle class family. We have not come from the English medium school. We came from our regional languages school.

R. Robinson

Man, I came back (Thursday) and must've spent an hour and a half looking for it. But no luck.

Roger Friedman

Like all these great legends of R&B, when disco came in, it really impacted their careers.

Kibwe Trim

Life is progressive and I knew my career was about to end. I came to the United States when I was 17 and didn't know much about basketball. Sacred Heart helped me to grow up and now that my career is over I just have to take it in stride and keep going.

Virginia Satir

Life is not what it's supposed to be. Its what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.

Leo Drollas

Frankly, we couldn't cope with the loss of Iranian oil.

Greg Sorbara

Ontario industries withstood the impact of that fairly briskly, ... are able to cope with where the dollar is right now.

Johanna Siguroardottir

I have always worked hard, and seeing so many Icelanders make tremendous efforts to cope with difficult tasks and decisions inspires me.

Craig Mottram

I don't know what kind of shape he will be in and how he will cope with the hills around the course, but I'm all right and looking forward to making it a fourth success.

Twiggy

From as far back as I can remember, I was always insecure about my looks, whether it was my flat chest, my skinny legs, or how to cope with my body as it changed. With hindsight, I can see I was different. I was given a body that worked for photographic modelling and a photogenic face.

Steve Breen

When I first started as an editorial cartoonist, I was terrified on a daily basis. Filling that hole the next day, knowing that tens of thousands of people were going to expect something funny. There is still that pressure, but you kind of learn how to cope with it a little better.

Lee Kuan Yew

I've got one grandson gone to MIT. Another grandson had been in the American school here. Because he was dyslexic, and we then didn't have the teachers to teach him how to overcome or cope with his dyslexia, so he was given exemption to go to the American school. He speaks like an American. He's going to Wharton.

Vicki Arroyo

The picture they paint ? much higher sea levels with mind-boggling implications for entire communities, populations, and economies ? is sobering. It's hard to imagine how governments and individuals will cope with sea level rising at rates of up to a meter per century.

Alexandra Adornetto

Some say we can't choose who we fall in love with; love chooses us. Sometimes people fall for the complete antithesis of everything they believe they're looking for.

Claude Pepper

Life is like riding a bicycle: you don't fall of unless you stop pedaling.

Brad Folta

Life is like Parachuting, as we fall through the air, we pray to god the chute opens.

Aimee McPherson

Lift up your heads, ye people, lift up your faces, too, open your mouths to sing His praise, and the rain will fall on you.

Sathya Baba

Life is a mirage; It comes from no visible rain; It falls into no recognizable sea.

Colleen Laukka

Love is pure like the fresh fallen snow unencumbered by yesterday's debris.

Gary Brown

soft on high-ranking government officials. Can you imagine the fallout if they didn't look into it?

Brian Lowery

Mental toughness was the key. We were doing a good job of getting out and being where we wanted to be at the mile mark of races but would fall back in the middle part of the race. We did a good job by not falling back today (Thursday).

Sam Baker

My knee brace is falling everywhere. My shorts, everything is falling around. It's not fun.

Sandra Sanchez

Many people think that they just simply are not following the steps. There are no legal channels.

Madeleine M. Kunin

Many businesses oppose any government mandates, even if they are already following them.

John Emerson

Only 50 of the 220 possible panels would have resulted in the same ranking of the skaters following the short program.

Chad Lindberg

My advice for upcoming actors is to never give up. If it's in you, keep following your dream no matter what. Perseverence is the key.

Hu Jintao

More and more Americans are following with interest China's progress and development. Understanding leads to trust. I hope this will help you gain a better understanding of China.

James Fenton

No poet is required to write in stanzas, or indeed in regular forms at all. Coleridge's 'Dejection: An Ode' has a rhyme scheme and sequence of long and short lines that goes without regular pattern, following the mood and whim of the poet. Such a form is known as an irregular ode.

Anita McLane

Obviously it's a big game because of the rivalry and the region title on the line. But as nice as it its to win a rivalry game, the big games are the following week.

Carl Lackey

We had been following him for over two years. He was doing a lot of damage.

Viktor Yushchenko

Freedom and truth are returning to Ukraine following today's decision.

Isabella Rossellini

I've had a lot of 'aha' moments, but the big 'aha' about growing older is the mental freedom.

Charles Gargano

Let's keep in mind that the world, the region, everyone was looking for how we rebuild the Freedom Tower and for what it represents in the rebuilding process.

Carl Sandburg

Men of ideas vanish first when freedom vanishes.

Mike White

My favorite thing is being able to follow my inspiration, and the freedom of being a writer is hard to beat.

Mohammed Habib

Maybe after the president wins elections, as we're sure he will, the freedoms that we've seen for the Brotherhood over the last year will be taken away.

Marsha Blackburn

New Hampshire is one of the birthplaces of American freedom and independence - a place with a love and a passion for liberty.

John Wilmot

...Natural freedoms are but just:There's something generous in mere lust. (A Ramble in St James Park)

John Wilmot

...Natural freedoms are but just: There's something generous in mere lust. (A Ramble in St James Park)

John Wilmot

Natural freedoms are but just:There's something generous in mere lust.

Will McKinney

Man, did the freshman come through with the game on the line.

Brittany Davis

Last year, we were disappointed because we didn't get in, but I think it has been good for us. From our freshman year to now we've learned.

Donna Mechley

Megan is out right now and Lindsay has been playing since she was a freshman on varsity. Mindy (a 6-foot-1 right-side hitter) gives us a lot of height up front.

Darrel Mitchell

My freshman year, he was a tough cookie. I would just sit back and watch him and laugh, and I don't think he would like that.

Jeff Horner

Getting through screens. If you look at me my freshman and sophomore years, it was tough, but as you get older, it gets easier. You learn ways to get through screens new ways.

Tony Young

Freshmen don't make moves like that. So (Mullins) graduated today. He isn't a freshman today.

Justin Turner

Freshman year, not too many people knew who he was until the Miami game, when he went 7 for 7.

Ryan Klesko

Freshman and sophomore years are over for these guys. It's time to go. We have the offense. Pitching is big.

Sam Morgan

On the girls side I was very pleased with performances by Jameson as well as sophomore Trish Bredar and freshman Tricia Crowe. They were surprises today.

Gerald Wilson

My grades weren't what they should have been, so they sent me back to the ninth grade. I was glad, because I wanted to study music, and Cass Tech was second only to Juilliard. We studied all kinds of music, harmony and orchestration.

David Nicholls

I applied for the University of Life. Didn't get the grades.

Xiao Yaqing

The quality of the bauxite is lower than the top grades in Australia, but it's much better than those in China.

Nikki Reed

My mom and I would make bracelets and necklaces, and I would sell it in the first, second, and third grades because that was my lunch money.

Gov. Carcieri

We are going to know what is going on with learning in grades 3 to 8, and we are testing for that, so the light will shine.

Jim Lampe

There are 20 grades of turkey breast available. We use the top of the line.

Paul Morse

There's some guys looking at him, so he needs to get his grades in order. There are people that want him. He's just got to get the test score to get in.

Shane Voss

We monitor their grades throughout the season, and provide a (mandatory) study hall.

S. Hughes

The tool we're talking about takes more than grades into account.

A.J. Feeley

Last year, things were a little different than they are now, ... I guess if you're going to look for reasons, look for excuses, I guess you could say those.

Joe Hart

Modern technology ... I guess it does do some good.

Ferdi Heyneke

Monday was a very big day but the market is volatile and I guess there was some profit taking but industrials and some insurers are stable.

Joe Torre

My guess would be that this would be it.

Bob Mann

My guess is you can see this over and done within perhaps no more than a year.

R. Inge

My guess is that we'll see a strong opening here on the back of our strong resource market. We are a nation of rocks and trees.

Phil Dow

My guess is that value will have its day,

Dawn Willey

My guess is that's going to be an $8- to $10-million building.

Yossi Sheffi

My guess is that nobody is talking about this. I don't see a real level of preparedness within companies. In many ways, I don't think they even know what to do.

Jamie Shea

Milosevic is in the corner, and that's where he's going to be kept by NATO until he throws in the towel.

Tyler Perry

My first show was called 'I Know I've Been Changed' in '92. I tried to do this show for years and years. It kept failing over and over and over again. Every time I went out to do the show, nobody showed up. I was like, 'What is this about?'

Mickey Rourke

I didn't have a childhood, really, because I worked my whole life and... other reasons. So when I had some success, I went ballistic. That was my childhood, and the party kept going on.

Martha Grimes

I don't think I could have just kept writing the 'Richard Jury' books. It wasn't that I was bored or dissatisfied. I just had to write something else.

Orlando Cabrera

The pitching is what kept us in games, but if you're not hitting, you're not going to win,

Colin Farrell

On shooting American Outlaws: I kept saying 'Bang bang' and they kept having to cut.

Eddie Ho

I was running and taking pictures. I just kept pressing the button.

Greg Genske

I wouldn't say that. I'd say he's kept an open mind.

Neil Roberts

If we had kept it up at that pace it would have been 88-2,

Nas

Hip-hop lasted and survived all these years that you have to give it credit. Even though it's not up to people's expectations anymore, its still here, and that's says a lot.

Frank Thomas

You know, it was a heated discussion. Lasted for a while. But, I think everything that needs to be said was said.

Mark Harris

What Madonna did with that song was to make the visual sell of the song maybe even more important than the song itself. And that was a revolution that has lasted for 20 years and counting.

Will Grace

JLo-so karen hows married life?Karen-well it only lasted 20 minutesJLo-Oh is that short?

William Glass

People were horrified. Some of the principals started crying. It must have lasted for 20 minutes just watching and listening to the commentators. We spent another 20 minutes working out what to do, and then we went to the schools.

Joe Schwarz

Is there some frustration in that this has lasted now significantly longer than people thought it would at the onset? Yes, that frustration is there,

Jerry Spinelli

When I was growing up, the first thing I wanted to be was a cowboy. That lasted till I was about ten. Then I wanted to be a baseball player. Preferably shortstop for the New York Yankees.

Donna Thompson

Just because it's lasted 50 years ? and there are some pieces out there ? doesn't mean you should play on it.

Sherrie Williams

I just wish it would have lasted longer.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Let us not go over the old ground, let us rather prepare for what is to come

Alvin Wyatt

McCloud is the quarterback for this week. He's the quarterback we're preparing to go with.

Paul Reid

One quarterback works from the I-formation and the other works out of the T-formation. So, right now, we have to prepare for both.

Mike Leavitt

No one in the world is ready for it, ... But we're more ready today than we were yesterday. And we'll be more prepared tomorrow than we are today.

Daniel Inouye

I am ready and prepared to work with the President, but I will not be a rubber stamp for any president.

Charles Spurgeon

Your emptiness is but the preparation for your being filled, and your casting down is but the making ready for your lifting up.

Julie Gerberding

Frankly, we're not as prepared as we need to be.

Seth Greenberg

I don't think anything in my training has prepared me for this season. I'm not sure there's ever been another season like this. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.

Senator Kerry

If anything prepares you to be president, it's being a Red Sox fan.

Peter Galbraith

I know he has considerable sway. I saw it first hand. His predecessors were visiting the leaders, repeating the talking points.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

History repeats, but science reverberates.

Arron Afflalo

When you're on the court, it's strictly about that.

Agnes Obel

I wish my parents had been more strict and made me learn more instruments.

Roman Jakobson

From a strictly articulatory point of view there is no succession of sounds.

Robert Budi Hartono

I always assign auditors to strictly supervise the businesses.

Chloe Grace Moretz

Everyone around me is so strict about keeping me grounded.

Paul DePodesta

I don't think we know that yet. We're not under any kind of strict time constraint.

Ronnie Arnold

That's strictly the principal's decision. He doesn't have to give a reason.

Nancy Hague

I'm not a competitor. I do it strictly for me.

Tom Coughlin

There was no fight. Were there discussions? There were discussions all week. I talk to a lot of guys, but that's strictly player-coach.

Robert Osborne

I think there's something about traveling in airplanes all the time that's not the healthiest thing in the world for you.

Albert Schweitzer

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.

Jerry Costello

Make no mistake, our troops will be in Afghanistan and Iraq for a long time.

Jack Rio

So it was a valuable time for us.

Scott Ellis

My first time ever on the Tony Awards was in 1984, the year of 'The Rink.'

Anwar Robinson

One Moment in Time because I think it describes me as a person and how I felt about being on the show.

Rick DiPietro

Obviously, you're going to have jitters the first time you play in this event, but at the end of the day, it's still the same game.

Phil Lesh

Of course, in the band, we all interpreted in our own way simultaneously, so this time I'm just going to do it all by myself and see what comes out.

Denise Bottcher

No one got confirmation that she was napping. There was no time for napping.

Joss Whedon

I have an obligation to do press, but I don't have an obligation to stay out dancing until 3 A.M.

Patricia Bryant

She was there until the week before she died.

Johnny Gimble

I didn't really get crazy about Bob Wills until 1940.

Michelle Wie

I didn't want to write anything on my scorecard until I made a birdie.

John Oates

I didn't make a solo album until the year 2000.

Samuel L. Jackson

It wasn't until I let go of the idea of the brass ring that it showed up, and fortunately for me, it coincided with getting clean.

Waite Hoyt

You never really know baseball until you put on a pair of cleats and get out and play it; and if you play for five years, you still don't really know what it's about.

Tracy Reese

I did not have a big view of many designers until I got to high school.

Tim Curry

I remember candy rationing until I was, like, 7.

Eileen Caddy

Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now.

Dave Mustaine

Penelope Spheeris is a wonderful lady.

Josh Groban

I got to play a real D-bag lawyer, and comb my hair really awfully and kiss Emma Stone, so it was a really wonderful day on set.

Bob Roach

She's very confident. She's well-integrated with the other kids. She's a wonderful young lady.

Lisa Hall

She did what she could with what she had. She did a wonderful job.

Sean Connery

I don't think I'll ever act again. I have so many wonderful memories, but those days are over.

Valentino Castellani

We are having a party. A wonderful party.

Walter Benjamin

This planet is a wonderful place, but a vulnerable place.

A. R. Ammons

Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.