Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Alterman

Recently released government economic statistics covering 2010, the first year of real recovery from the financial collapse of 2008, found that fully 93 percent of additional income gains coming out of the recession went straight into the wallets and purses of the top 1 percent.

Bob Taft

Recently, I saw firsthand how the Emerald Ash Borer is destroying our vital ash tree resources, ... We appreciate these additional federal dollars, and I will continue to work with the Ohio Department of Agriculture to pursue further funding for 2006.

Lester Crawford

Previous shortages highlighted the need for additional influenza vaccine manufacturers for the U.S. market,

John Nestor

Our own high end estimate was between 1,000 and 1,200 - there may be additional advisors who aren't signing up and adopting a 'wait and see' attitude.

Gary Spear

Our overall crime rate would have changed dramatically, if you take out those additional vehicle burglaries.

Jason Willett

Organizations are realizing they can move opportunities into the virtual realmsuch as mentoring or fundraisingand get more people volunteering regardless of location. They can save space in-house, which may make room for an additional staff person or volunteer, and they can take advantage of skills and resources that may not be available in their own community.

Jason Willett

Organizations are realizing they can move opportunities into the virtual realmùsuch as mentoring or fundraisingùand get more people volunteering regardless of location. They can save space in-house, which may make room for an additional staff person or volunteer, and they can take advantage of skills and resources that may not be available in their own community.

Gary Walker

Patients will be notified with additional information (soon).

Chris Brathwaite

Part of this process is looking at staffing needs going forward. We believe the changes will allow stores additional flexibility ... to serve our customers.

Frank Fish

Regarding the volume of weapons, it's directly in proportion to the number of students that we're training. We don't have a stockpile of weapons that we've just cached up here to use later for some foul purpose. These weapons are used specifically for this particular client.

Jake Barton

People learn more if they're learning in directly engaging ways.

Tai Hui

People have more faith in Hong Kong's logistics. Low value products are shipped directly out of Shenzhen to the world, higher value products come out through Hong Kong. It's the guarantee of safety.

Chris Chiames

Our preference is to reach a resolution with the pilots directly and not involve outside parties.

Jeff Parrill

Our games start at 6 p.m.. Parents get off work and come directly to the games. Whether it's a hot dog or hamburger, this is where they get their dinner.

Wayne Patterson

Korean immigration to Mexico in the spring of 1905 led directly to the Japanese takeover of Korea six months later.

John Barrett

It is much worse if someone is working directly with the witnesses to shape their testimony.

Carol Woods

I think people here are omni-vigilant, ... Our guidelines are so strict. If a problem is uncovered, it goes directly to the auditor's office and is investigated.

Ted Dailey

It doesn't happen every year. It is directly related to the weather conditions.

Eric Haxthausen

Our research shows that most drivers of new large pick-ups use them for commuting and personal trips.

Phil Jackson

Our particular team right now is not a team that does well resting on any kind of sense of accomplishment. We still have to drive ourselves and drive the team forward.

Todd Martin

part of it is driven by low interest rates, part of it is stimulation by governments to get people to start spending more.

Lawrence Eagles

Part of the recovery overnight (in the price of oil) may have been due to anti-Israeli protests in Jordan, where 30,000 protestors had to be driven back from the boarder by security forces,

Brandon Curtis

Passengers will know that if there is a problem on the bus, the driver isn't disconnected from help.

Michael Hara

Our objective is to drive towards 60 percent. We will try to make that this year.

Charissa McAfee

Our number one recommendation is to have a plan before you go out. Designate a driver who doesn't drink. Use cabs.

Sam Keller

Our offense is so good, that's all I can say. We can drive down on anybody.

Lawrence Summers

Our national savings rate is still far too low, driven by a personal savings rate that is not where it should be,

George H. W. Bush

I will tell you that I'm pleased with the last two days. We have made a good beginning. And I emphasize beginning, because there's a lot of work to do,

Sonny Rollins

I guess fortunate that I'm still around and I emphasize I guess because you never can tell what musicians would be playing had they been around as long as I have.

Jeb Bush

I can't emphasize enough to the people in the Keys that a hurricane is coming,

Kelvin Sampson

Kevin is the epitome of a student-athlete. He has all the values we really emphasize here.

Stephen Hadley

I think the point that we need to emphasize here was, allegations now that the president somehow manipulated intelligence, somehow misled the American people are flat wrong.

Curtis Martin

Herm doesn't waste his words too much. It was necessary. To have him emphasize it and put the responsibility on us, I think was important.

Kevin Hall

He's going to emphasize that this needs to be the year we get something done.

Ben Horowitz

I emphasize to C.E.O.s, you have to have a story in the minds of the employees. It's hard to memorize objectives, but it's easy to remember a story.

Steve Spurrier

Hopefully, we can get some things going to help emphasize the point that here's how we expect you to play and if you don't, the other guys are going to play, even if they're not as talented,

John Anderson

He is very motivated for his players' welfare.

Edward Johnson

What motivated Karen Golding to do the things we have charged, I can't tell you.

Eric Betzig

Frankly, I guess, I don't really understand why people, why so many people, are so risk averse. You know, there's always ways to wiggle your way out of any situation if you're motivated enough.

Ed Rendell

Most people are motivated by the economy. And if you've lost your job, lost your mortgage, lost your 401(k), you're angry. And if your brother-in-law has lost one of those you're angry still. And when you're angry you take it out on people who are in office. Which is natural.

Rob Childress

When A&M and Texas play, it's on. We're not going to have any trouble being motivated for the series.

Abby Wambach

I've always been motivated more by negative comments than by positive ones. I know what I do well. Tell me what I don't do well.

Anselm Kiefer

But we should also not forget the difference between what first motivated me and the work that is the result.

Grover Norquist

Historically, opposition to immigration in the United States has been racially and religiously motivated in the ugliest, nastiest way possible.

Dominika Cibulkova

When I started to play, all the coaches said it didn't make sense for me to try to play tennis because I was too small. They said I would never make it. But this was something that motivated me. I really wanted to make it.

Jim Lord

Reasonable people have to find that reasonable line.

Stephanie Laurens

Real people are never central characters in my works.

Tom Tremont

Really, what people want is more simplicity in their life. They want a sanctuary.

Jyoti Amge

Regular people should not underestimate people who are small. In every aspect, they can do the things that normal people can.

Robert Hamilton

Our policy is to let our people know first.

Alex Halavais

Part of it is it's a really safe place for people to talk about this.

Hanya Yanagihara

Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.

Joel Edgerton

Particularly when you're making a movie of a book, people are always waiting with their knives - you know?

Jack Horn

Part of the problem, ... is there are so many more things that can be done for people - drug therapies are better, but more expensive. And there are more and better scanning technologies, which are also more expensive.

Billy Corgan

Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in the cage.

Roger Sherman

We were driven off like rats in five minutes.

Gerry Spence

Why are scientists now using lawyers in laboratory experiments instead of rats? Three reasons: (1) lawyers are more plentiful than rats, (2) there is no danger the scientists will become attached to the lawyers, and (3) there are some things rats just won't do.

Harry Anderson

I'm not Hollywood. I'm a Quarter Rat. I belong here.

Henry David Thoreau

Yet, for my part, I was never unusually squeamish; I could sometimes eat a fried rat with a good relish, if it were necessary.

Jhonen Vasquez

Dear Die-ary, today I stuffed some dolls full of dead rats I put in the blender. I'm wondering if, maybe, there really is something wrong with me.

Chris Hardwick

Rats are just Ziploc bags full of disease.

Cassandra Clare

Clary wondered how many boyfriends she'd turned into rats by accident. -Clary to Isabelle, pg.245-

Ernst Mayr

There is more to biology than rats, Drosophila, Caenorhabditis, and E. coli.

Jason Wu

I happen to like selling clothes as much as creating them. It isn't relevant unless it sells.

Robin Day

I think the first things that are relevant are that things should work well; they should function.

Billy Bob Thornton

I'm not sure that I'm really relevant as a director anymore. Or as a writer, either, to tell you the truth.

Albert Einstein

Don't let the measurable drive out the relevant

Sarah Hall

I don't see that books can be written without political context - not if they're relevant and ambitious.

Frances O'Grady

There is nothing that says unions have a God-given right to be there. We have to work at it and make ourselves relevant to every section of the workforce.

John Fleming

We're not trying to be Target, we're trying to be Wal-Mart but more relevant to our customer.

Alber Elbaz

I'd rather be relevant than cool.

Makhosini Nkosi

The investigation was also conducted in consultation with the complainant and the relevant witnesses.

Carl Rogers

what is most personal is most universal

Jan Peter Balkenende

Freedom is a universal value.

Carol Moseley Braun

Im committed to universal health coverage and education.

Harold Bloom

Shakespeare is universal.

Maz Jobrani

You know, funny can be universal.

Stephen Sondheim

Musicals are so expensive to put on the stage that you have to have the backing of a corporate, you have to have Universal Studios or Disney or somebody to put in the money.

Kodi Smit-McPhee

In L.A., I live right across from Universal Studios.

John Nersesian

Rebalancing doesn't work every time. It works over time.

Mac McCabe

Our participants can work just as well as you or I.

Romesh Gunesekera

Sri Lanka is a part of my background: it's not where I live, but it's what I want to explore. And I find it works very well to explore through fiction.

Jim Coyne

Some of the work is in dispute. Hopefully, it will be settled.

David Frum

Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us and now we're discovering we work for Fox.

Barry Ritholtz

The market is going to love it. The market always seems to applaud major mergers, even though the vast majority of them don't work out and don't increase shareholder value.

David Burnett

Well a little disappointed but we'll work with what we have to work with.

Bill Cosby

There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right.

Big Pun

I'd rather sell reefer than do pizza delivery.