Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Anderson

Like all our volunteer committee chairs, Alan Silverman has devoted an enormous amount of his time to this year's AES Convention program. The workshops he has developed reflect this combination of knowledge and dedication, and we greatly appreciate his effort.

Mark Robson

Like Alan Curbishley with the first team, I have a few options at the moment which can only be good for the team,

Peter Grant

Of course, it's been a long, hard road and there has been a lot of criticism handed out, especially to Alan, and what I tried to do was do my job as best I could and support Alan at the same time.

Robert Edwards

My first ideas of human in vitro fertilization (IVF) arose with my Ph.D. in Edinburgh University in the early 1950s. Supervised by Alan Beatty, my research was based on his work on altering chromosomal complements in mouse embryos.

Jeff Carter

When I bought the business, I bought the name. Alan has taught me a lot over the years. He always made every customer feel like a friend and part of the family. He was always so good with people and so well-known in the community.

Ann Owen

I can tell you as someone who worked there, you really wanted to make sure that you knew what you were talking about before you presented something to Alan Greenspan.

Steven Wood

Given (Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's) concerns regarding consumer attitudes this development has to be seen as worrisome.

Paul Levitz

I don't think Alan was dissatisfied at the time. I think he was dissatisfied several years later.

David English

I don't think Alan did anything wrong. He relied on his accountant.

Elizardo Sanchez

Never in the history of Cuba has there been these kinds of meetings between foreigners and representatives of the opposition.

Danny Pino

Growing up seeing Desi, I thought there were Cubans all over Hollywood. I understood that dialogue, everything he said. It wasn't weird to me because that's the way my dad talked.

Chris Neil

From what we've seen and heard here, the latest trend in migrant smuggling from Cuba is the go-fast boat. For those that go the route of migrant smuggling, they leave themselves at the mercy of smugglers who don't have an interest in their safety. They are interested in the cash.

Ted Cruz

I grew up eating Cuban food all the time.

Maria Rodriguez

If they're going to read something, let it be the truth, not growing up thinking that the kids in Cuba are living happy lives and that they're free and that they have all the rights that all the other kids in the world have, which they don't.

Fidel Castro

I do not think that he is a warmonger, ... He is the only one who has dared say that Cuba has done something good.

Andy Garcia

I could talk about him all day. He's the Mozart of Cuban music,

Louie Gohmert

Most people give Kennedy a passing grade, a good grade on the Cuban Missile Crisis handling, but what they don't realize, if he had had strength, if he had showed strength before, there would never have been a Cuban Missile Crisis.

Arthur L. Herman

The lesson of the Cuban Missile Crisis is plain: Strength prevents war; weakness invites it. We need a commander-in-chief who understands that - and who won't leave us facing a foe who thinks he doesn't.

John Greene

Many of my traditional supporters, especially in the business, women's rights and gun-owner communities, have failed to step forward to help me as they have in the past. Many have simply written-off the governor's race and ceded it to the incumbent.

Dave Rice

One thing this team has never failed to show is resolve.

Rita Dove

For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about it. I failed to understand how people could fail to be moved by art.

Doug Liman

If anything, the films that succeeded this summer and the films that failed have emboldened me and filmmakers who share my sensibility that we don't want to just churn out the same old thing,

Joel Baker

I have always voted every time I could get to the polls. I failed in that regard.

Evan Price

I felt like I had failed it, like I let it down.

Marco Basten

Some moments we played well but overall we struggled with our opponents because we failed to raise the pace.

Walter Kirn

Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be hoped for.

Ramsey Poston

Shane failed to fulfill the prescribed rehabilitation program scheduled by NASCAR. As a result, Shane has forfeited his opportunity to compete.

Stuart Scott

People always talk about the nausea that comes with chemotherapy. For me, it's more like a queasiness. And it can be intense. It's an uncomfortable, gross kind of 'blech' feeling.

Sam Craig

There are multiple revenue streams, so theatrical gross is important because it signals the subsequent revenue through home video rentals, sales of DVDs, pay television and others.

David Johnson

I would suggest there's some sloppiness here. Neither mere negligence or gross negligence will suffice.

Richard Stice

But what worries me is that you're going to see pressure on gross margins as film declines.

Errol Flynn

My problem lies with reconciling my gross habits with my net income

Anna Kendrick

I heard people saying they were going to become millionaires by the time they were 25 - that's gross and obnoxious, but in California it's looked on as an asset.

Brent Sutter

The players thought it was pretty gross because my leg was just black. I limped around until the end of January.

Laurence Gilman

To say we're unhappy with the performance of the team is a gross understatement.

William Carpenter

To say I find these results unacceptable would be a gross understatement,

Hiram Rhodes Revels

I was imprisoned in Missouri in 1854 for preaching the gospel to Negroes, though I was never subjected to violence.

Noam Chomsky

Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without charge, under torture, which is what solitary confinement is.

Fred Kaplan

These people are literally imprisoned in a second skeleton, ... It transforms muscles, tendons, ligaments -- connective tissues become sheathed in bone. It spans joints, locking them into place and rendering movement completely impossible.

Noam Chomsky

Obama himself has been highly supportive of Mubarak.

Timothy Noah

With its Medicaid expansion, Obamacare may turn out to be the most equality-promoting policy enacted in a generation.

Tina Brown

It's almost as if Putin is brilliant, really - he's outfoxing Obama all the time.

George McGovern

I have a very deep concern about President Obama putting in another 21,000 troops into Afghanistan with the promise of more to come.

Jill Abramson

I have heard Obama officials say more than once, 'You will have blood on your hands if you publish this story.'

Ben Shapiro

President Obama has continually put off the deadline for implementation of Obamacare thanks to hang-ups in the system.

Ben Shapiro

Obama rammed through Obamacare legislation without a single Republican vote.

Glenn Greenwald

Obama supporters pretended that his 2008 campaign was some sort of populist uprising even as Wall Street overwhelmingly supported his candidacy.

Dennis Miller

Obama better hope a kicked ass is covered by Obamacare.

Jamshyd Godrej

When there is a situation where one does not see demand for a year or two, then capex is suspended. It will reverse only when the situation improves.

Ben Horowitz

Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.

Willy Wonka

We have so much time, and so little to do. Wait! Stop! Reverse that.

Willy Wonka

So much time, and so little to do! Strike that, reverse it.

Japanese Proverb

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Javier Solana

For a long time there has been a lot of talk but not much action. I think we have to reverse that now.

Bob Hartley

It was like a photocopy (of the second period), just reverse it.

Richard Howard

Prose proposes, verse reverses.

Dennis Potter

I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.

Dee Dee Myers

My job is to be a spokesman - the spokesman, I suppose - for the President, for the White House, to do the daily briefings, to manage the press corps in terms of travel, day-to-day needs, access, interviews, all those issues.

Earl Nightingale

When the days are too short, chances are you are living at your best.

Elizabeth Drew

Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversations.

Elizabeth Bowen

Knowledge of Rome must be physical, sweated into the system, worked up into the brain through the thinning shoe-leather. ... When it comes to knowing, the senses are more honest than the intelligence. Nothing is more real than the first wall you lean up against sobbing with exhaustion. Rome no more than beheld (that is, taken in through the eyes only) could still be a masterpiece in cardboard - the eye I suppose being of all the organs the most easily infatuated and then jaded and so tricked. Seeing is pleasure, but not knowledge.

Elizabeth Bowen

Someone soon to start on a journey is always a little holy.

Elinor Glyn

I don't know how it is the most unattractive creatures of every nation seem to be the ones who travel.

Jules Verne

Ah! Young people, travel if you can, and if you cannot - travel all the same!

Joss Stone

Basically, I was a freak show. This kid with this big old voice. I was a travelling freak.