Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Seymour

Recreational opportunities are our biggest draw. We have river activities and an aquatic park. The birding trails are in the same category, ... We need to use our natural resources. We need to play the cards we have.

Steve Thompson

Recreational fishing is a long-standing, valid activity in the park, and we recognize that. But the park has a dual mission, to protect resources and provide for their enjoyment. If you don't protect the resources, it'll prevent the enjoyment.

Caroline Fredrickson

Regardless of what happens with this agreement, Congress can, and must fix the Patriot Act to better protect the privacy and freedom of ordinary Americans. At the same time, until the Bush administration stops the illegal NSA program to spy on Americans and stops ignoring the rule of law, any reforms to the Patriot Act could be ignored under the extreme philosophy of power embraced by this president. No matter the result of the Patriot Act, we hope all senators involved in these negotiations will resist pressure from the administration. Congress must restore the rule of law and insist that innocent Americans' rights be protected against the overreaching of the White House. We can, and must, be both safe and free.

Steve Pearce

Regardless of the true source of these incursions, the Mexican government must not evade its responsibility to help us stop illegal activity on the border. I hope that this letter will lead to a more productive partnership toward that goal.

Jason Schenker

Regardless of how large the draws are expected to be, especially in gasoline, seeing the actual numbers will be a shock.

Wayne Harris

Regardless how little it grows, state government does act as a stabilizer. Tallahassee will be less affected than other markets.

Charles Scott Sherrington

Reflex inhibition acting against a reflex titanic contraction may diminish the contraction in one or other or all of several different ways.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

REFLECTION, n. An action of the mind whereby we obtain a clearer view of our relation to the things of yesterday and are able to avoid the perils that we shall not again encounter.

Antoine Halff

Refinery activity has been very depressed because of damage caused by hurricanes last year and deferred maintenance. There was a huge surge in imports after last year's storms but that has ended. At the same time refinery activity has not recovered.

Cassie Johnson

I went to Los Angeles for a photo shoot. I went on 'Cold Pizza.' They did my makeup and hair.

Johnny Rivers

James was back there on a vacation, ... He was one of my favorite guitar players. I had written this song ('I'll Make Believe') that everyone said sounded like a good song for Ricky Nelson. I gave it to James. He took it back to Los Angeles and then called me and said, 'Hey, that song you gave me, I played it for Ricky and he likes it. He's gonna record it.' I went, 'Wow.' That was a big deal at the time because Elvis was in the Army and Ricky was the top guy.

Rick Ross

James Packer was spotted around a Scientology campus in Australia, has made frequent trips in Los Angeles where Scientology is headquartered, and reportedly spent time in Scientology counseling sessions in Sydney ù and Tom Cruise is his pal. Practically everything that Tom Cruise does has some connection to Scientology. The thinking is that Cruise has groomed this guy to be a big giver to follow in Cruise's footsteps. After all, Tom Cruise is the biggest giver Scientology has.

William Frey

The 300 millionth will be a Mexican Latino in Los Angeles County, with parents who speak Spanish at home and with siblings who are bilingual.

Maulik Pancholy

I watch TV on my TV pretty exclusively. However, when I'm on that long flight between Los Angeles and New York, a great way to pass that time is to download movies on iTunes and watch them on my laptop.

Antonio Villaraigosa

Literacy is crucial to creating job opportunities, supporting workers and their families and eradicating poverty in our region, ... Literacy must start in homes and classrooms by giving the children of Los Angeles the best education possible to enable them to pursue their goals and become engaged citizens. I am committed to assembling the resources needed to build the skills of our workers and our children.

Pat Bowlen

I was here the last time around with the Coliseum, so I'm not real optimistic about the Los Angeles Coliseum.

Britney Spears

I think I may just go to Los Angeles and record a little bit. But other than that I just plan to hang out.

Steve Cram

It all felt very new and exciting, ... The Olympics had been hit by a series of boycotts - in 1976, 1980 and the upcoming Games in Los Angeles - whereas the Worlds at last featured all the best athletes from both the Eastern Bloc countries and the West.

Chet Faker

I think the most-played record in our house was the 'Big Chill' Soundtrack - so Smokey Robinson, Aretha Franklin, the Temptations, Otis Redding. I think that's where I got my love for a good hook, a good soul hook - really smooth and warm and from the heart.

Patterson Hood

It in no way denies the horrible things that happened in the South during the civil rights struggle, ... The KKK and church bombings - all of those things did happen, but at the same time there were people like my father making Aretha Franklin records, these southern white boys who made their living playing on some of the best soul records ever made.

Natalie Cole

I was determined to create my own identity. My first hits, in fact, were straight-up rhythm and blues. My voice was compared to Aretha Franklin's - though, for my money, no one compares to Aretha.

Mick Jagger

Network television, they are always worried about how many times you are going to say f--- on the air. We had a bit of a crisis this morning when they heard Aretha Franklin was going to strip during 'The Star-Spangled Banner.

Bobby Womack

You knew the difference between Barbra Streisand and Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles, straight away. Now everyone sounds like each other, and I don't think that's right.

Elton John

To me, she was as good a singer as Aretha Franklin in her own way, and completely timeless.

Raini Rodriguez

I am in love with old school funk and soul music. That's what I grew up listening to, and I want to bring that style back with my music. I love artists like Stevie Wonder, Donna Summer, Aretha Franklin, Michael Jackson, Earth, Wind, & Fire, Bruno Mars, Justin Timberlake, and more!

Jess Glynne

My sound comes from my inspiration, which is people like Aretha and Jay Z and Kanye, as well as everyone from the Whitneys and Mariahs to Destiny's Child and Usher. They all inspired me growing up.

Ben Sopranzetti

We're a party band. We do mostly covers we play anything from Aretha Franklin to Jackson Brown to Pink.

Daddy Yankee

Reggaeton means the same thing to Latino youth as hip-hop does to African-American kids. We didn't have artists to look up to before. But the young kids now, they're looking at Daddy Yankee and Tego Calderon and Ivy Queen like kids in the American 'hood look up to 50 Cent or 2Pac. I'm representing for my culture and my people. It's their music.

John Cusack

Our parents more or less just kind of wanted us to pursue our passions. Whatever they would have been, they would have helped light the fire. They are very liberal, artistic people, but they didn't force us into acting. They let us find our own ways.

Keith Davis

Parks was a man of perhaps unparalleled artistic talent.

Susan Baker

Paul Kellogg has been a beloved and visionary leader of City Opera and we will miss him deeply. During the past ten years we have been fortunate to have had the benefit not only of his extraordinary artistic sensibility, his wise counsel and his inspirational leadership, but also of his impeccable human values, warmth and charm. That said, we cannot help but understand that he wishes to have more personal time after many years of service to the arts and we salute and thank him for his formidable accomplishments and significant contributions both to City Opera and to opera in general. Paul Kellogg's vision for City Opera has charted our course for the coming years. We are grateful beyond measure and will miss him profoundly.

Susan Barnes

Our lives are so hectic today. I don't care what we are, artists or whatever, people need to come and enjoy it.

Pam Walker

Our legal folks say we don't have copyright clearance. Graphics artists are working on it as we speak.

Karen Hughes

Our music and film industries, our artists and entertainers create very powerful impressions, sometimes good, sometimes bad, but they're always, always powerful.

Stephanie Szostak

People in fashion treat it as a business... I guess Hollywood is a business, too, but you talk about story: you talk about a more artistic world than in fashion.

James Hunter

People often think that every artist in that realm had the same qualities. If I want emotional intensity, I'll listen to Little Willie John, but if I want some pyrotechnics, I'll go to Jackie Wilson. It's not all the same emotional level, that stuff, which people make the mistake of thinking it is.

Mel Vollman

Some of our guys know them. They kind of walked through their playoffs with some high-scoring games on their end and kind of blew teams out. So I figure they'll have a well-oiled offence.

Sonya Harris

Our free throws kind of blew it for us, too. We just stepped it up and we knew we had to let them know we could play with them. We gave them a good game.

Atticus Shaffer

I was just sitting in Target, just getting over my cold. I blew my nose and I see these people looking at me and kind of whispering and pointing. Finally, I went, 'Is everything okay? Did I do something wrong? Do I have a booger on my face and no one's telling me?' I'm just not used to it.

Ray King

I think they lost control of the game early. Holliday was hit on purpose. But Eli's wasn't on purpose, and right then and there they blew the call. They shouldn't have thrown Matt Morris out right there. It wasn't intentional. We hit their guy the other day, they hit our guy. It's over with. The umpires tried to take control of the game and they blew it by tossing Matt Morris right there, and that takes away from the game.

Erron Kinney

That was atrocious. It hurts. We just handed them the game We had the game under control. We were executing, doing the things we needed to do and it was just like the levee broke and there it was. There are no excuses. We blew it.

Bob Littlefield

I think it was a media-generated phenomenon. You guys blew that out of proportion.

Charles Hall

I think it?s why this blew up, to some degree.

Matt Suter

It got louder and louder, like 10 military jets coming at us. Suddenly there was lots of pressure inside the house. The front and back doors that were both locked came off their hinges and blew out.

Brian Moorman

Last year, I sat my helmet on the field and it blew over and the wind blew it down the field. If the wind is going to blow hard enough to blow my helmet around the field, that's bad. I should be a charter member of weather.com . I look at it every single day.

Anne White

That was going to be our Franklin Street.

Sally Sondesky

Franklin used to come out and visit Joseph Galloway. Joseph was a Tory; Franklin was for the independents.

Gene Stamm

Franklin has to be No. 1. There is no issue that is greater. Something has to be done and I'd like to see this move forward.

I. Stone

We competed with them really well at Franklin and we are one of the only teams out here that can keep up with that up and down pace. We had to come out here and just give it our all.

Bob Hofman

We couldn't put them away. Wayne Franklin had a great second half. I thought we did a real good job defensively in the first half on him, but their scheme in the second half did a great job of getting him more touches.

Lynda Resnick

I feel like everything I ever did in my life led me to the Franklin Mint.

Jean Craighead George

I met senators, diplomats and the President of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Jim McPhail

I'm very pleased. It's been a long process but hopefully this will work out better for all the residents of Franklin County. And this will be a positive step to solve some of our problems. The problems will not be solved overnight. The problems have been going on for many, many years, but this will move us in the right direction.

Matthew Stewart

Benjamin Franklin maintained that every star is a sun, and every sun nourishes a 'chorus of worlds' just like ours.

Ray Allen

Jason Kidd throws funky passes all the time. He has a lot of assists, but he also has a lot of turnovers. You've got to take some chances.

John Gibbons

He's good. He's got a good arm, and he's got that funky fastball.

Ricky Barnes

Now that was a funky course. You could get some wild bounces at that place.

Roger Morris

Without sulfites, wine may smell and taste funky or re-ferment in the bottle. Many distributors and shop owners are consequently reluctant to stock wines made without sulfites.

Chris DiMarco

You always see some funky golf shots. I've seen some between-the-legs shots and stuff you don't normally see.

Rex Rankin

We don't have a lot of antiques, and I like to mix and match comfortable sofas with funky items on the walls.

Armando Johnson

We know Sean High has a target on his back. They were running some kind of funky zone, kind of like a box-and-one, where they would shadow (High) everywhere.

Benjamin Booker

New Orleans style is funky - it's just as experimental as the city. There aren't any rules. If you want to wear a polka-dot shirt and some crazy pants, you can get away with it there.

Paula Abdul

I loved the arrangement, and I loved that you made it your own. You are one funky white boy.

Beck

Every band I knew or played with had flyers and properly-recorded demos and contacts; I couldn't even get a gig.

Matthias Platzeck

I will do everything to pay back this gigantic offering of confidence.

Allan Carr

I went to Montreal. My first gig went very badly. They just weren't laughing at anything. I found out they were a load of Christians, and it was a gig to raise money for a new church roof.

William Bryan

Gigantic troubadour, speaking like a siege gun / Smashing Plymouth Rock with his boulders from the West.

Kristy Curry

I talked to her on the phone (Saturday) and she had a little giggle in her voice and I knew she'd be OK.

Alex Turner

I get nervous about gigs sometimes, but not with records - I always get excited.

Nicholas Hoult

I'm not one of those people who sits around knowing all bands and going to gigs all the time.

Tom Stoppard

When I was a reporter in Bristol, which I was between the years 1954 and 1960, the newspaper would get tickets for whoever showed up to play a gig at the big hall down the road, so I saw some wonderful people. The Everly Brothers, for example.

Dan Hawkins

My favorite is still the one that I started off with, which is a Les Paul Standard. I've played that at every gig I've ever had. And that's my starting point in the studio.

Sam Bush

Jean-Luc is my violin jazz hero, ... So to have him come out and play that tune with us at Telluride was just a freakout.

Renaud Vabres

Jazz in New Orleans - that's what the world loves.

Claude Nobs

I was working in the local tourist office and I said to the manager, 'We should do something to make Montreux known in America. Let's do a jazz festival!

John Reynolds

I do a lot (of business) with local jazz players.

David Pierce

Kelsey plays the piano, and he's also a tremendous singer. I'm classically trained, and he's more of a jazz improvisatory pianist. So, we don't usually sit down and play together.

Chuck D.

I had just seen the movie 'Young Man With a Horn' about jazz musician Bix Beiderbecke. So I told him I'd take one of those.

Ethan Iverson

I think the jazz musicians have had less problems than people who feel jazz should be just one thing.

Keith Jarrett

Jazz is there and gone. It happens. You have to be present for it. That simple.

Jeremy Davenport

New Orleans is where jazz was born, and jazz is my passion.

Andy Robinson

People have got lots of opinions and when you're losing those opinions come out even more.

Ryan Kalil

Sure, we're losing some important guys, but we're going to be good.

Todd Swindall

Some of them (the evacuees) are in a little better shape than others. Some of them lost every single thing they had.

David Harris

Some of us lost our houses, so the whole team moved into the school. We're tightly-knit, we're like a family,

Lori Miller

Our family's outcome is better than the increasingly-heart-breaking losses experienced by many families.

Mark Jones

Our thoughts are with his family, who have suffered this tragic and untimely loss of a loved one.

Ashleigh Cole

Rivalry or no rivalry, I think we would have lost this game.

Roger Germann

Rod is worried about votes 20 years ago, but we are about to lose $13 million for traffic safety.

Camille Little

Remembering that we lost to Maryland before was pressure on us.

Tim Winship

I think it's pretty much inarguable that the value of frequent-flyer miles is on the decline.

Kevin Green

It is not going to be like Texas, where we would move you hundreds of miles away from where you reside.

Kyle Busch

Literally, I swear we could run 600 miles on this tire, I don't think we're going to need pit stops, the tires are going to be that durable.

James Logan

I'd just say make sure you go 10 miles per hour, then 40.

Allan McNish

I don't do much driving - about 5,000-6,000 miles a year. And most of that is to the airport and to the racing circuits.

Dirk Benedict

I have my routine. I'm running 3 or 4 miles a day.

Torii Hunter

He was throwing gas. He was throwing 96, 97 miles an hour.

Bob Burns

No one here cared. It's all the (people) 60 to 80 miles up the river...Trojan was probably one of the safest things we had around here.

Mark Calcavecchia

Obviously, money is not an issue. They don't need the money, which is nice to be in that position. But it's just golf, you know? It's not a marathon. It's not the Ironman out here, swim 26 miles or something. It's just golf. Take next month off.

Anders Igel

Our acquisition strategy is still very much the same as before, but we are opening up our thinking a little.

Mark Buehrle

I think I'll be ready for Opening Day. I could go right now.

Jana Lindsey

It hasn't sunk in yet and probably won't until the Opening Ceremony.

Mike Gonzalez

I feel like I'm right where I need to be. I feel like I'm really sharp right now and ready to pitch in a regular-season game. I wish opening day was tomorrow.

Barry Bonds

If Opening Day was tomorrow and I had to go out there, I'd go out there. It's what I get paid to do.

Brian Roberts

I think, without a setback, I don't see why I won't be ready for Opening Day. I haven't really put that much thought into Tuesday yet.

Bill Cowher

If we were opening up (the regular season) tomorrow, I think that's the way I'd go,

Dan Hedges

If they come away from your opening statement confused, you're in big trouble for the rest of the trial.

Anthony Geary

I have friends in France who are artists. I go to gallery openings and things like that.

Barry Mann

A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.

Cecil Taylor

Sometimes when it goes really well, you wonder, who's that at the piano?

Cecil Taylor

I try to imitate on the piano the leaps in space a dancer makes.

Cecil Taylor

To me, the piano in itself is an orchestra.

Anton Rubinstein

The pedal is the soul of the piano.

Bill Bruford

The piano is kind of my second instrument.

Eddie Van Halen

The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument.

Ahmad Jamal

I have looked to the Steinway piano since I was three, not only as my ideal choice of an instrument. But, as a responsive and ever reliable friend.

Dennis Wilson

All I need is a big surfboard and a piano.

Rajon Rondo

Patrick played great. That was a big key.

Michelle Connors

Some of those teams (we played during the season) are here today. It proved very valuable to their efforts. I'm just super proud of them.

Stan Heath

Our team played very well at Alabama. That was one of our better road games. We could have made better choices. Where do we go from here? We go to Auburn and get a win.

Dan Kumetat

Our whole team played well. Our whole team contributed.

Don Williams

P.J. played well and he played hard. He played well all year for us.

Nell Fortner

I think this team has played very hungry. I'm really proud of their focus.

Brad Ellebracht

We never really played with any urgency throughout the game.

Chuck Amato

I was just totally disappointed with the way we played defensively.

Bud Selig

I think they played a very constructive role.

Russ Jones

Our rates only go up once a year, and that's in June.

Charles Nelson

Overall, the story is that uninsured rates are relatively stable.

Juergen Michels

That will probably keep the ECB waiting until September, rather than going for a rate rise, as a done deal, every quarter.

Roni Java

That's a very respectable rate for a rural county. We know they're trying to reach 50.

Jill Dougherty

I think one of the misconceptions is that it is fatal. If it's detected early, the five-year survival rate is 95%.

Judy Garland

Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else

Astro Teller

Going from an error rate of 25 meters in GPS to 2.5 meters is huge. Going to 25 centimeters is going to matter just as much.

Lawrence Yun

Obviously, many renters have become homeowners as rates have fallen.

Mark Langan

This rates up there as one of the worse we have ever seen.

Sathya Baba

Stay by me and keep quiet. I will do the rest.

Doctor Who

Rest is for the weary, sleep is for the dead.

Alain Vigneault

Rest is as important as anything else right now.

Rodney Melville

I will look for ways to restrict testimony.

David Bell

The Astros aren't going to win the rest of the way. We have a chance.

Ed Nemec

I think we are a much better restaurant today than we were one year ago.

Jay Hakkinen

I think this will live with me for the rest of my life.

Dwayne Hickman

Little did I know then that I would be tied to that role the rest of my life!

Robert Lang

It does get you going for the rest of the season.

Emily Wood

I was thankful I had an MRE to eat; I had a smelly, stinky room from all the water, but at least I had a roof over my head.

Bob Carpenter

One third of building, the roof peeled back and everything caved in. It was destroyed.

Albert Einstein

If you feed your mind as often as you feed your stomach, then you'll never have to worry about feeding your stomach or a roof over your head or clothes on your back.

Todd Phillips

'The Hangover' was lightening in a bottle. We're aware of that. It went through the roof all over the world.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

I don't care where I live, so long as there's a roof to keep the rain off my books, and high-speed Internet access.

Jim Harrison

The trajectory started when I was on the roof of our house looking out at a swamp when I was 19. I had written for several years, starting at about 15, but that day on the roof I took my vows and acknowledged my calling.

James Simpson

They are on the roof and need a chopper.

Rick Reed

At the end of the day, we're saving the world one roof at a time.

Sam McKenney

To have it under one roof is really a new concept.

Jeff Crowe

I think they need to sort it out.

Ben Windsor

That's the whole thing, we work well together and we're all sort of into the same stuff.

Suzanne White

That's the sort of story we need to tell.

James Mercer

I tend to write a pretty half and half split of, like, slow, morose things and then sort of more upbeat stuff.

Gordon Fischer

I think he does sort of have this patina of independence. But I don't think he is all that independent from the White House.

Glen Mathison

I think it would be irresponsible to speculate at all that this was some sort of attack.

Rudolph Penner

I think they're going to squeeze out all sorts of other spending items.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

He used to sit on my lap. I was sort of ambivalent about that. He was surviving any way he could.

Ray Stevenson

I feel like I don't exist. It's like I'm some sort of an alias.

Carrie Coon

I didn't grow up knowing actors' names, and my parents weren't theater people.

Stephen Sachs

I think it's going to be visually stunning. It's going to be a very unique theater experience,

Didi Conn

I love working in the theater.

Robert Wilson

To me, what is important in the theater is that we don't want to make a conclusion. We don't want to make a statement, don't want to say what something is. We want to ask, 'What is it?'

Freddie Prinze, Jr.

I didn't see 'Star Wars' in theaters until George Lucas re-tweaked it.

Jim Zwerg

We were having a celebration for the integration of the movie theaters when we got word of the bus-burning.

Angela Lansbury

The theater is magical and addictive.

Jane Krakowski

That's why I love doing live theater more than anything: You get an immediate reaction, whether it's good or bad.

Austin Peck

Ever since I got on Days I've been doing theater.

Jared Esala

I think the tournament MVP is going to come out of that bracket.

Kirk Triplett

That won the tournament for me, for sure.

Mark Pendleton

That's the story of the tournament for us.

Gary Bettman

If accommodations have to be made, they'll have to be made in how the tournament is scheduled.

Gary McCord

Whatever the Tour fines me, it'll be worth it." ()

Peter Wright

Lennart is getting better. This tournament is part of his recovery.

Liam Gallagher

I'm not going around touring the U.S. when I've got nowhere to live.

Adam Braun

Tourists see, and travelers seek.

Raul Hernandez

Tourism is all we have. Nobody's coming. Things are sad.

Sebastian Horsley

I consider myself to be very correct and proper: an upright citizen.

Sathya Baba

Distinguish right from wrong and be honest, upright and virtuous.

Thomas Sankara

He who feeds you, controls you