Famous Quotes & Sayings

Italo Calvino

Although I am small, ugly and dirty, I am highly ambitious, and at the slightest flattery, I immediately start to strut like a turkey.

Laura DiDio

Mainstream Linux deployments are on a steep upward trajectory. Although they will not replace Windows, co-existence will be the order of the day.

Suzanne Fields

Mahmud Abbas is not Thomas Jefferson. The spirit of Patrick Henry has not emerged in Lebanon. Although more than a 140 Syrian intellectuals have protested Syrian troops there and signed a public statement opposing the occupation, these intellectuals are not in the league of our own Founding Fathers.

Robbie McEwen

Leon Van Bon led me out perfectly, but I started the sprint too early, couldn't finish it. Although I was going for a stage win, the intermediate bonus sprint and the green jersey gives me a lot of self confidence.

Samuel Butler

Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.

Jon Heacock

Louis made a couple of good catches out there, although he did drop the first one we threw to him.

Tim Condon

Looks like a people plan as opposed to a business plan. The emphasis seems to be improving peoples lives by improving social infrastructure. I don't know if there are enough goodies to have an impact on financial markets although if the whole country feels better it would be good for markets.

Tod Tamberg

Many of the victims direct all their anger at Cardinal Mahony. It's unfair and somewhat misdirected, although understandable.

John Woods

Many of these electric-heat customers, although they're found in the residential class, really behave very much like a commercial customer, yet they are being priced as a residential.

Lori Montag

Like I said for the past 17 years there has always been an assistant to the clerks office.

Randy Dunton

Life is a do-it-yourself project and we Jack Kevorkian-ed ourselves tonight. It was assisted suicide.

Theresa Grentz

Maggie had that twinkle in her eye today. Maggie was everywhere. She does such a great job running our offense, that if others just knock down shots, she's going to get big assist numbers. Both Maggie and Janelle, the two seniors in our back court, have stepped up their play this year.

Ray Drake

Liam (Smith) stepped up in the second half. That's kind of how he's played all year. Ben (Parker) played good defense, but his shot wasn't going in. Jon is the real quarterback of the team. He's a real point guard and he'd rather have the assist than the basket. Sometimes I wish he'd shoot more.

Jim Boeheim

Let the assistant coach come up to me and say, 'Gerry McNamara is overrated.' I'd like to see one of those guys come up to me and say that. He's been double-teamed all year, and the coaches voted him first team all-conference. The head coaches, they don't know (expletive), I guess.

Jim Gerlach

Low-income seniors who choose to enroll in a drug discount plan will receive $600 of Federal assistance in 2004 and 2005 to further defray the costs of their medications.

Mike Browning

Lou is a great, multi-talented (guy). He does great work (in sculpture). He brought his expertise from Don Haskins, used his big-man coaching. He played quite a bit with the kids. That was my first two years at the Academy; I was his assistant coach, his JV coach. When he was at the Academy, I was at Holy Ghost.

Matt Savoie

Lori Parker, one of our assistant team leaders here in Calgary has a daughter attending Kansas, who Bradley already beat this tournament so I had fun teasing her about that.

Frank Haith

Last year was our first year in the league and my first year in the league as a head coach. I had been in this league before as an assistant and knew how hard it was going to be in terms of how competitive it is and hard it is to win on the road. I think our kids are better at it after going through it one time. We're more experienced and now that we have Anthony Harris back, I think we're playing better basketball.

Robert Toombs

The North understand it better - they have told us for twenty years that their object was to pen up slavery within its present limits - surround it with a border of free States, and like the scorpion surrounded with fire, they will make it sting itself to death.

Jarrod Agen

Lucia Pinochet is currently in U.S. Customs and Border Protection custody at Dulles International Airport, pending resolution of her immigration status.

Matt Mackowiak

(Sept. 11) taught us a lot, and the northern border requires greater security and greater surveillance.

Roger Read

My feeling is it's far too fragmented a business for them to have any success finding any predatory pricing, collusion or a gentleman's agreement. The reality is California does not produce enough gasoline within its borders to satisfy demand.

Jerry Jarrell

One or more of the (forecast) models bring it on shore (along) the Georgia-South Carolina border with winds of, perhaps, 50 miles an hour.

Johnny Williams

One death on this border is in fact one death too many. We will do everything humanly possible to bring those responsible for this tragedy to justice.

Giuseppe Gattino

Obviously, you sell more tickets for a Winter Olympics in Switzerland than in Sicily. And since we have the euro and no border checks, it's normal to see more people coming from France than from Sicily, which is farther away.

Dan Glickman

No one should use this convention to close their borders to a whole host of products.

Jonathan Katz

My gut feeling is he's more focused on the political than the economic agenda. He stresses the goal of resolving Israel's borders by 2010 a lot more than putting up a fight to control spending and pay off debt.

Paul Beaver

Much of the exhibits this year relate to counterterrorism technology or equipment used in homeland security.

Mike Quinn

None of these 12 victims was wearing a life jacket at the time of the incident. Life jackets remain the most important safety equipment that Ohio?s recreational boaters have on board.

Lee Hamilton

No one could order the troops in, they couldn't get the equipment in, they couldn't evacuate the people who needed to be evacuated, ... that was glaringly absent.

Carl Duke

When the new surveillance equipment comes out ... the better quality that we are getting ... you are going to see more and more of this ... us putting these pictures out. We need the public's help.

David Chan

For safety, the helmet is the most important equipment to protect your noggin.

Sabiha Hossain

We need better classrooms, more equipment and training for teachers.

James Donahue

The plant was shut down from about 5 p.m. to midnight, and the equipment was turned over to (complete this project),

Jimmy Johnson

I was filling in for the 25 ... I'm not the only one that's been in somebody else's equipment or with somebody else's number on the side. There's been a lot of people doing it. It's just kind of how it is.

James Whalen

I was really, really mad; really upset when it happened. It's one thing if you fall and go down, but if it's an equipment problem, like I've been having with the bindings, it really gets to you.

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.

M. Thompson

Now we really are going to Disneyland. I promised them if they won, we could go.

Charles R. Swindoll

To require God to prove that He is able and willing to fulfill His promises would be proof positive that one does not trust Him.

Ehud Olmert

A prime minister must not promise things that can't be fulfilled.

Michael Cooper

If we had him, it's a different ballgame, I promise you that.

Michael Wynne

If they testify, and we've been promised that, it is going to be one for the ages.

Russ Jewett

I don't know about his status for this weekend, but I can promise he won't be triple jumping.

Councilwoman Sanchez

We promised you a one-stop, streamlined process. We have not been able to do that for you.

Anthony Hitt

Keep every promise you make and only make promises you can keep.

Barack Obama

We will keep the promise of Social Security by taking the responsible steps to strengthen it - not by turning it over to Wall Street.

David DeFazio

Many of the statements (appeared) to have been provided to her.

Sgt. Devine

She said she had no idea which town she in. Fortunately we were able to provide this type of intervention before a catastrophe occurred.

Andrew Krepinevich

If they're not ready to provide security, there could be a regression.

Gary Bartlett

If they provide some information, they may not have to come.

Andy Brandt

If we can go out and provide a spark for our team, then we feel like we're doing on our job.

Tom Casey

If this provides them with a justification to release Jill, that would be wonderful, but we are not sure it will. We just want her released by any means.

Paul O'Grady

I can eat beef, provided it's minced in disguise. I couldn't eat a gammon steak. Forget it.

Arthur Smith

Theatricals can be irritating, but will provide a better night out than mobile phone salespeople.

Abdullah Gul

We are ready to provide every sort of help,

Stephen Jay Gould

There wasn't much technical terminology, and then, most academics are not trained in writing. And there is what is probably worse than ever before, the growing use of professional jargon.

Vinod Khosla

We like to say at Khosla Ventures, and this is one of the reasons to do what we do, we'll take technical risks that nobody else will.

Arash Ferdowsi

We want to let you use a Mac, or Windows PC, or iPad, or Android, without having to think about any of the technical details.

Michael Harris

When I am hiring, I look at the technical qualifications.

Jim Anderson

There's really not much that's technical to it,

Sylvester McCoy

There's always pressure on filming. There's the weather, people, various different technical problems. There's always pressure! And there's never really enough time for anything, really!

Nick Knight

That may well be a technical thing - it's something I will look at during the winter,

Tony Giarrusso

The scholarships don't necessarily have to be used at a university. If someone wanted to go to a technical school, or even something like hairdressing school, they could use it for that, too.

Scott Stewart

That type of technical analysts does not have a lot of value.