Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Fitzpatrick

Really what they're doing is declaring that their view of the video is that it is not definitive. And that's almost by definition true. If there are a few people who say, 'I don't know if I can tell what that is,' then it's not definitive.

Sung Sohn

Our research shows the jobless rate is the best indicator of monetary policy, ... They have almost perfect correlation.

David Reilly

Our population base that's over 65 is almost double the state average. Obviously, we are particularly vulnerable to reimbursement cuts to Medicare.

Gary Pinkel

Our recruiting was almost over by the time we played our bowl game. Everything's so much faster now and it's amazing how quick things go.

James Grady

Patrice and I have taken in almost the same amount. We're almost neck and neck.

Katrina Otto

Patients have assessment and contact with a medical professional almost immediately when they walk in.

Michael Greco

Our laws and attitudes on immigration have been almost schizophrenic. At times we have thrown open our nation's doors virtually without limit; at other times we have tried vainly to build walls - legal and physical. Today our laws reflect that confusion.

Jerry Siegel

Our nation has paused to reflect on their special brand of courage in the face of almost unimaginable hardship and abuse,

Ed Farmer

People need to be a little more lenient with him. There is a lot being thrown at him. There's no fear, which is good, and he's doing a nice job with the analysis. We're trying to work in the play-by-play, and people might think it's easy, but it's not. It's not molecular science, either, but it's not easy. And he's getting the pacing. It's almost a poetic measure of speech. You get the rhythm, and people get into the rhythm with you. I'll be very surprised if he isn't doing two innings of play-by-play by the end of the season.

Richard Boucher

Reconstruction work is not possible while the fighting is going on or while the insurgents have been in charge of the town. But once it's back in government hands, we'll be able to get on with these projects very quickly.

Denise Bottcher

Reinforces the notion that she's not in charge and LA (Louisiana) needs to be federalized.

Joseph Annotti

Regulatory modernization would keep states in charge of regulating insurance, but create a set of federal standards that would eliminate price controls and controls over policy forms.

David House

Our partnership with Costco is a giant step forward in our strategy to increase retail coverage and charge volume and to expand the number of customers we serve.

Bonnie Musfelt

People just don't realize, yeah, we get charged for this stuff.

Karl Rove

People have raised an issue about security. That is entirely appropriate. But upon examination, it's not the company that's in charge of security, it's the United States' government that's in charge of security.

Owen Davis

Staples no longer charges these shipping damage fees and hasn't done so since May 2002. The issue is solely about whether Staples must be registered to sell the shipping damage coverage as regulated by the state insurance code.

Avery Johnson

Some of our players have made fun of our charge drill. But when you see them taking more charges in the game, it doesn't seem so silly.

R. Robinson

Robinson later retracted his insane cannibalism charge ? but said that he stands ''behind everything else I wrote without reservation.

Donna Thompson

Some of the playground equipment that's out there has been there for 50 years.

Dale Flatt

Some of the other ones, the equipment is very expensive and hard to get a hold of. Typically you would do a soil scraping. But, we wanted something that was non-evasive.

Gene Madden

Some of the medium bulldozers can't get in and the heavier bulldozers are having trouble. That stretches our equipment even further.

Jack Boyle

Our first priority was to get all of the students' equipment out of there, as much as we could, for two reasons: to salvage it; we couldn't just rip it down, it was all their equipment, and to see if we could save the structure.

Scott Simons

Our feeds quit because of the equipment failure.

Juliana Hatfield

Playing a show is a monumental hassle. You've got to schlep all your heavy equipment into the van, then you've got to drive for five hours, then you have to schlep all the heavy equipment out of the van, onto the stage, set it up, do the sound check, hang around for three hours, then play the show, which is incredibly draining.

Rebecca Mercuri

Really, it's going to be 2006 before we see any really updated equipment with updated standards.

Lance Wilson

Managed services vendors are primarily the major wireless infrastructure equipment vendors.

Mark Hunter

We've talked to our guys about taking equipment off. We tell them not to do it. I don't know why they do it.

Donald Evans

Regarding your first question on the free trade agreement, as I said earlier, we are going to be very sensitive to the needs of Morocco.

Denny Green

Reggie has shown he can play tackle, guard and center. I think if it (unrestricted free agency) goes the way we want it to go, then I think that's the way we would go play the season, with him at left guard.

Master Kwon

Relationships flourish, when individuality,freedom and growth are respected.

Zoltan Torok

People just lived better and better. It was like a free lunch for voters.

Conan Stevens

Success is the freedom to do what you want, with whom you want, when you want, wherever you want.

Courtney Taylor

Success is having two things: a little more free time than you know what to do with and a little more money than you know what to do with,

Tim Floyd

Stanford stayed tough. They made their free throws when they were needed.

Jim Wilson

Some of the property owners took the free lights and installed them at their own expense.

Mike Davis

Our plan was to miss the second free throw at 0:00.8. Since it went to two (seconds) we had to make the second free throw. At 2.1 a lot of things could happen in that situation.

Mark Hogan

Our new guys are going to have to hit well, because we're full of new guys.

Michelle Theall

Our mission is to inspire and inform women to live life to the fullest through outdoor adventures.

Dan Brooks

People meant a lot to her. She always wanted to touch people. Maria was just full of life. She had a lot of heart.

Audrey MacLean

Starting a company is like going to war. You can't do anything else but be fully engaged. You have to be insanely, passionately, nothing-can-stop-me committed.

Paul Horsnell

Some of these refineries will not be back to full operation, perhaps well into next year.

Tim McGillivray

Some of our schools are more full than others, so you can't always place them at their neighborhood school.

Alex Smith

Our school system needs a fully funded gifted program.

Peter Schnorr

Our goal is to get a full day -- 10 hours -- of active, pen-down writing.

Richard Clarke

Our goal is by the third week in October to open the full 20.9 miles of road for travel.

George Gero

Recently, funds who were selling oil also were selling the metals, but then everything seemed to change. Investors see that there are whiffs of inflation out there.

Mel Carnahan

Preserving and protecting the state tobacco settlement funds is the nation's Governors highest priority.

Jay Vavricek

Just because you appropriate funds doesn't mean you have to spend them.

Christopher Sullivan

I didn't give a legal opinion on any of the funds in question,

Eric Schwartz

Given the magnitude of the contributions, it is inevitable that some of the funds are not going to be spent as efficiently as possible.

Brian McQuade

Funds that are highly leveraged are risky and only pay off when the markets are up.

David Li

Funds moved back into technology shares, on strengthening sentiment in the industry.

Koji Suzuki

Funds are putting more money into oil because of rising geopolitical risk about Iran. Gains in Tokyo reflect records abroad.

John Brady

Funds and trend-followers who were short are getting in the market, and that?s why it is going up, too.

King Hussein

President Assad did not give me any letter, but he perfectly knows that ... I am ready to help to serve the goal of comprehensive peace and the peace process,

Joseph Finnerty

Our overall goal is to stop this casino.

Brian King

Our overall goal is meeting the students? needs,

Viviane Reding

Participation of people in decision-making is the real goal of e-government. Governments have to do more than just release information to the public.

Caroline Shepherd

Part of the goal was not to spend more resources preparing for trial. We took him off the street. We shut down his business.

Michael Rothman

Part of our goal was to take back the medium of e-mail from spammers who have really hijacked it.

Doug Griffin

Our main goal was to stop her penetration and put good pressure on the shot.

Sue Curtis

Our main goal was just to get kids being more active, just to make sure that when they're out at recess, they're actually moving, not just playing in the rocks.

Richard Cradit

Our main goals are to grow as a team and consistently improve throughout the season, leading to a strong performance at the metro league championship, as well as the regional and state championships.

Russell Baze

Past the quarter pole, he surged, got up in the lead,

Jan Egeland

Past agricultural policies have not been good. Governments understand they must be providing long-term solutions.

Jim Schoenfeld

Some of our youngsters have progressed past our expectations.

Carl Brown

Our traffic is up significantly in the past two weeks.

Mike Shanahan

Playing the way they have on the road the past three weeks is really an accomplishment. They play big on the road.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

To grasp the meaning of the world of today we use a language created to express the world of yesterday. The life of the past seems to us nearer our true natures, but only for the reason that it is nearer our language.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Your past wouldn’t frighten me,” I said, buckling my seat belt across my lap. “I’m guessing I’d be more appalled than anything.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Keep in mind that people change, but the past doesn't.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I nibbled my lower lip. "If you could see into my past just by touching my back, you'd have a hard time resisting the temptation too." "I have a hard time keeping my hands off you without that added bonus.

Josh Duncan

It is huge. Another win provides more motivation. We'll keep going.

Tom Zilla

I thought it provided a lot of justification for making the improvements.

Paul O'Grady

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

Fred Becker

I think it's always important to think about what the other side is going to do before you do something or how the other side is going to react, and he will be able to provide that to our thought process.

Amy Gabriel

We have to be able to provide these services.

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.

Martin Jacques

The cost to Tata of purchasing Land Rover and Jaguar may have been small, but its wider symbolic significance is enormous.

Rodel Natividad

It's your temporary "wants" purchasing your unnecessary "needs".

Richard Petty

They said, 'Well, it can be done, but we'll have to do it a different way (rather than purchasing the series).' So here we are.

Tom Mitchell

It's a wholesale review of the county's purchasing code.

Emily Oster

All's fair in love and purchasing.

Geno Auriemma

I think she's taking it pretty seriously. You know, it's that time of the year.

Justin Smiley

I think he's taking it pretty well, but I know it's tough.

Bob Hunter

I thought I was going to be a reporter, taking notes,

David Jacobson

I feel like this is part of something big he is doing, ... Like taking over the world.

Joe Crawford

I feel like I'm getting better every game, more comfortable, just being aggressive, taking my opportunities.

Andrea Mitchell

I feel terribly guilty. I'm not used to taking off time at all.

Angelo Crowell

Just taking things more serious, taking a different approach. I was kind of transformed, so it's kind of cool.

Steve Smith

I have a one-track mind. I was not taking the hitch. I wanted to go for the goal.

Will Blackmon

He's calm. Relaxed. He's not nervous. He's taking control.

Ryan Hansen

Our nemesis all year has been our rebounding.

John Devine

Overall, 2002 will be a very challenging year for the industry,

Beck

I've been practicing for years, trying to figure out how to record an entire band live.

Beck

I'm always working on my own music, too. I've been working on a record for a few years.

Beck

I have for four years now been ringing the bell. Economic Holocaust is coming. Economic day of reckoning is coming.

Beck

I'm more critical of my songwriting than anybody, but I've worked really hard in the last five to 10 years to improve.

Barry Ritholtz

It is important for investors to understand what they do and don't know. Learn to recognize that you cannot possibly know what is going to happen in the future, and any investment plan that is dependent on accurately forecasting where markets will be next year is doomed to failure.

Barry Lopez

Over the years, one comes to measure a place, too, not just for the beauty it may give, the balminess of its breezes, the insouciance and relaxation it encourages, the sublime pleasures it offers, but for what it teaches. The way in which it alters our perception of the human. It is not so much that you want to return to indifferent or difficult places, but that you want to not forget.

Babatunde Osotimehin

The United Nations has been in the Great Lakes Region and Sahel for 50 years, mostly investing in peacekeeping. NOW is the time to invest in young people!