Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Frazier

We want to see a strong public role in administering and managing the system. If the counties would wash their hands of it and say, 'We're turning it over,' we would have some large concerns.

Andy Pick

We are looking to get counties to play their young England players earlier, and the first reports from the counties are that it is working well. It also helps us to prepare in a better fashion.

Ben Beakes

We're looking forward to using the technology in November's election, and seeing that other counties have the opportunity to implement the same changes. It will eventually make the (vote) counting process go a lot easier.

M. Thompson

One of the issues that we are wrestling with in our eight counties is crisis services, and ensuring that crisis services are available. We don't have that in place yet for adults or for kids, but we're working to try to put it in place.

Ron Miller

Imagine the economic impact to the area, the state and the nation if no one in McLean and Tazewell counties could farm for two years. That's the kind of impact this flooding will have.

William Daley

Now that the legal hurdles have been cleared, the counting can resume in Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade Counties ... with these legal obstacles gone, we hope these counts can be finished in the next few days,

Kevin Brady

I feel even deeper for them, hurt even deeper for them, because these were the communities and counties that first opened their hearts and homes to Hurricane Katrina victims, ... And now they need our help.

Gary Schnitkey

No county has a 2005 deviation greater than its 1988 deviation, a year that was the worst for many counties. However, deviations for some counties in 2005 are large and in the 'second tier' of yield loses. While genetic improvements may have reduced yield losses, large negative yield deviations are still possible.

Duncan Stewart

We left insane three counties ago. This is goofball territory.

Vic Lawson

We want to put elected representatives in Bradford County and our state representatives on notice that their jobs now depend on property tax relief for the residents of Bradford County, that lip service now is not going to get any of them elected any more.

Steve Smith

We want to provide appropriate education for all students, no matter what the student needs. I think all of the districts in the county are really making a concerted effort to serve kids as much as they can in the regular classroom.

Paul Tesi

We have saved the county millions since its inception.

William Bailey

We have no credible or reliable information that it's valid, ... We contacted our county gang unit, the State Police gang unit, and they have no information to verify this.

Al Sevier

Whenever (the county commissioners) see that, they acquiesce and kowtow to the numbers of voters. It's mob democracy.

Larry Hopkins

When you say county farm today people wonder what you are talking about.

Ann Wilson

We want people to gather, have fun and get to know local artists. Young couples and professionals are important to this scene because they know what's cutting edge and spread the word to others. Once people step into our activity, they realize there's a lot of talent here in Polk County that many others haven't yet experienced.

Joe Thomas

We were trying to get a feel where they will do the job in the county meet. I wanted to find out what we have. I just want them to go and do their best.

Mike Wright

We've won three games in a row with Cocke County up Monday and we've got a little momentum, which is what we're looking for heading into the district run.

Jan Egeland

We have seen 2004 and 2005 as the years of disaster,

James Kunke

The people of Lewisville should be proud of the response we were able to put on the ground. We had everything that the disaster response required, except the disaster.

Theodor Mommsen

The defeat of the Augustan policy, as the peace with Maroboduus and the sufferance of the Teutoburg disaster may well be termed, was hardly a victory of the Germans.

Elizabeth Holmes

My father did a lot of disaster relief work, and he was always in places where there was a lot of pain.

Jared Diamond

A blueprint for disaster in any society is when the elite are capable of insulating themselves.

Niki de St. Phalle

The world has been experiencing a whole pattern of auto-destruction, whether in environmental disasters like Chernobyl or health disasters like AIDS.

Barbara Johnson

Smile...it kills time between disasters.

James Van Allen

These days, it's really been uninteresting except when disasters occur.

Rick Dickson

We're still absorbing everything that did happen. The worst national disaster in our country's history, and you're part of it.

Niki de St. Phalle

The world has been experiencing a whole pattern of auto-destruction, whether in environmental disasters like Chernobyl or health disasters like AIDS.

Rick Perry

Natural disasters recognize no state boundaries, and neither should FEMA, ... Texas is willing to work and do our part, but FEMA has to sit down and come up with a long-term, thoughtful plan.

Hun Sen

I don't know why we can stop the war but we can't stop natural disasters, these disasters make the people poorer and poorer,

Eduardo Galeano

Disasters are called natural, as if nature were the executioner and not the victim.

Rusty Schweickart

There are always natural disasters and it always seems as though the preparation is somewhat less than adequate. But we have had a series of quite substantial ones here in the last year.

Jim Furyk

You can make a lot of birdies, but there are a lot of disasters waiting to happen.

Tom Rooney

Too many families and homes remain unnecessarily vulnerable to natural disasters like hurricanes. While mitigation will never eliminate the risk to homeowners, it could reduce loss and, in many cases, save a family's home. For every $1 spent on mitigation, $4 in post-storm cleanup and rebuilding is saved.

Gordon McBean

We have an opportunity right now right after disasters while governments are more receptive to influence policy from the start.

Rohan Gunaratna

We haven't even started to think about this issue. But natural disasters shape leaders.

Douglas Fairbanks

There is one thing in this good old world that is positively sure - happiness is for all who strive to be happy - and those who laugh are happy. Everybody is eligible - you - me - the other fellow. Happiness is fundamentally a state of mind - not a state of body.

Gary Allen

Nearly 60 percent of those teachers eligible for retirement do not do so because of uncertainty about pensions and health care.

Tom Angell

Murderers and rapists are still eligible to receive aid.

Carlton Fisk

I don't know what's going to happen with these guys down the road when they become eligible for the Hall of Fame, ... But I know a lot of Hall of Famers don't think what they did was right, and I'm one of them.

Barry Larkin

I think every player wants to be acknowledged for what they have done. I think every player eligible for the Hall Of Fame feels that the ultimate validation is enshrinement.

Courtney Cassard

We're trying to target students who are eligible here with the new admissions requirements.

Mike Williams

We were told by the judge a wheelchair is not an aid, and we can't keep her separate from everybody else, so she's eligible to score points. If she wins four events, then her team gets 40 points.

Yuvraj Singh

I will only think of settling down after Salman Khan, the other most eligible bachelor, plans to settle down. We are eligible bachelors, but he's the rock star, so let him get married first; then I'll think about myself.

Lee Pelekoudas

We're not surprised that he's on the list. For players to be eligible to play, they have to be on those rosters.

Sue Monk Kidd

I have an old dog named Lily, and she's a black lab.

Louise Mensch

Menshn is a play on the word mention, and in the U.S. that's how it'll be perceived. Like Tumblr or Flickr. People in the U.K. thought that I'd named it after myself.

Drake Bell

I have a dog named Steve that lives at the studio.

Frances Townsend

We've not named them, because, frankly, they don't want to be named. They are partners and we respect that, so we're not naming them.

Brendon Urie

My favorite electric guitar would have to be my Duesenberg. I've named her 'Dolores,' and she sings like an operatic menace.

Cheryl Hayashi

To borrow from the writings of a spider named Charlotte: 'Silk is terrific!'

Stanley Hauerwas

I was named Stanley because the week before I was born, my mother and father saw a movie - 'Stanley and Livingstone.'

Andy Williams

I was named after my grandfather, and he was always called Andy. I don't like it.

Colin Cooper

You'll have to wait and see. The team will be named on Friday.

Eric Fischl

My primary thing is to make a painting, not necessarily to make a painting to sell for gazillions of dollars, but just to make a painting.

David Gerke

The primary word is ?fun'; it's about fun.

Phil Palmer

The paving work will be done by Nielsen Construction as a sub-contractor and not by the primary contractors.

Bonnie MacPherson

It can't be someone's primary residence. That's very much intact.

Peter Mills

the shape of this primary is not yet firmed up.

Richard Giannini

The one thing that has been a primary priority has been facilities. That's the vision that we've got to continue. We've made tremendous upgrades since the year 2000.

James Wallace

Before you can play basketball, you need to make the grades. That's my primary concern.

Thomas Kilroy

I look at my writing as the primary activity,

Phil Wold

They need to let us know what their primary source is and if they have a backup.

Suzanne Vitadamo

She recognizes me. She's weaker but she's still trying to talk.

Lauren Lee Smith

The only place I really get recognized is at Ralphs. Whenever I'm in L.A., I go to Ralphs, and for some reason, everyone there recognizes me.

Domhnall Gleeson

I was in 'Harry Potter,' and nobody on the street recognizes me from that. Nobody on the street has ever stopped me from 'Harry Potter!'

Eric Poteet

He's not doing this for credit. He's doing this because he recognizes the need.

Carol Moseley Braun

I was very productive as a senator for my state.

Alvin Copeland

We've won state championships when we haven't won region. It's not over.

Jessica Smith

We have so many fatalities in our state from impaired drivers. This is another tool to get them off our roadways.

Mary Parsons

There are a lot of conflicting statements from the proponent.

Susan B. Anthony

Better lose me than lose a state.

Ted Nugent

Every hateful statement ever made about me is a dirty lie.

Eric Maskin

I don't want to make public statements about issues that I have not studied in detail.

Madeleine Albright

I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.

Madeleine Albright

I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me.

Joe Spraggins

We're just trying to get them all up because we want to stop another problem.

Kevin Nursick

Vehicles are being stopped and inspected as they should be.

Enrico Colantoni

You know what, I'm a big, big fan of 'Heroes,' but the day they told me that the end of the world was coming, and that day didn't come, I stopped watching.

Bob Goldstein

We're not here to stop development or impede it in any way,

Jimmy Kennedy

We've got a new attitude. We want to stop the run.

Alanis Morissette

How about not equating death with stopping?

Charles R. Swindoll

Learning more truth is a poor and cheap substitute for stopping and putting into action the truth already learned

Ed Pastor

Stopping Vieques bombing range good; sooner is better.

Jim Schaus

We're going to have three of these pep rallies here. Nothing's going to stop this team now.