Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

Magpie, n.: A bird whose thievish disposition suggested to someone that it might be taught to talk.

James Austin

Last year, we had a shortage of 2-year-old birds from the poor hatch in 2003, so we didn't have a surplus of those birds to carry over. The fact that there was a shortage of 2-year-olds to hunt last year meant more pressure on the older birds, so that cuts down the carry over on those, too.

Atharva Veda

Learn a lesson from the birds. They feed those who cannot fly far. The bird relieves the itch of the buffalo by scratching it with its beak; they help and serve each other with no thought of reward.

Kent Hall

Many of these birds were raised in captivity. They lost their fear of humans and people should not feed them.

Joan Heller

Many people feed their birds but don't know exactly who is coming to their feeder. This is a good time to find out who these birds are.

John Atkins

Sentiment is somewhat ingrained now regarding bird flu, but there is not a sea change taking place. People suspect there are risks on the horizon but not so material just yet.

Milan Brahmbhatt

So far the impact of bird flu outbreaks has been isolated to the poultry sector and some farm households and has not spilled into the overall economy.

Ann Veneman

So it's very important that we have an education program for families about how to protect children if they have sick birds around their homes.

Jeanne Fair

Minks are susceptible, and of course, pigs will be important, as well. They're sort of a mixing vessel. They have receptors that are similar to birds but also to humans.

Mathieu Kassovitz

Like anywhere, we had to make people understand that we were there with good intentions, and that we were there with respect. We started making contacts with the people in the neighborhood three months before shooting began, so that everyone involved was comfortable.

Leonard Bernstein

Life without music is unthinkable. Music without life is academic. That is why my contact with music is a total embrace.

Mahdi Hadi

Lets play the political game of contacts and dialogue,

Julie Gerberding

Lots of people are at risk. It's not too late to get vaccinated, ... And we really want people to keep looking for vaccine, to contact the providers.

Bertrand Russel

Love, children, and work are the great sources of fertilizing contact between the individual and the rest of the world

David Berg

Lay is making eye contact with the jury, and they're not looking away from him, which is a very good sign for Lay.

Eric Knight

Shareholders who wish to vote their shares should contact their custodians as a matter of urgency.

Philip Vannatter

May I finish my answer, please? ... Again, any person that has personal contact with a murder victim is a potential suspect until they are eliminated, until the investigation is completed. He may have taken something out of context. I have no recollection of making that statement.

Augusto Pinochet

more personal, high-level contact between Riggs officials and Pinochet than previously described.

Richie Adubato

We're not dead yet, ... The fat lady hasn't sung yet. She was spraying her throat there for a while but she didn't sing. We still have a chance.

John Gibbons

We're not dead yet, but we're tired. In the end if we hang in there, it's because of the way they go about their business. If we don't it's because we're not good enough, yet. But it won't be because of lack of effort or lack of preparation or lack of heart.

Bill White

Like a dead skunk in the middle of the road, it stinks to high heaven,

Walter Raleigh

Love is a durable fire in the mind ever burning; never sick, never old, never dead from itself never turning.

Julie Morgenstern

Leaving work a half-hour early makes you work as if you're on a deadline all the time.

Helmut Kohl

So many dead ... It's a tragedy, ... Excuse me, but I must return home right away.

Irish Blessings

May you get to heaven a half hour before the devil knows you're dead

Granth Sahib

Meditate on your Dear Lord, and be dead to the world; renounce your love of duality

Gregory Campbell

One man with 100 loyal friends is a lot stronger than one man with 1000 dead enemies, but only the former knows it, and only the latter cares.

Newt Gingrich

Less than 10% of our analysts of North Korea are fluent in Korean.

Jane Hirshfield

One reason to write a poem is to flush from the deep thickets of the self some thought, feeling, comprehension, question, music, you didn't know was in you, or in the world.

Jed Whedon

One of the things that's fun about TV is it grows, and you set goals and aim towards stuff, and one of the writers has an idea, and you say, 'Ooh, that's so much cooler. Let's do that instead.' It's so much more fluid and organic that way, and that's the most fun part about it.

Dani Shapiro

One of the stranger things about me is that I was raised as an Orthodox Jew. I went to a yeshiva until I was thirteen years old and spoke fluent Hebrew.

Jenny Lewis

I can't imagine how people will react to my music. For me, it's a really fluid process from one record to the next, but it's really up to the listener.

Eric Gagne

I was fluid today but I didn't throw enough strikes.

Maria Sharapova

I was sick, down with flu and an upper respiratory illness.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

I love clothes, and yes, we go out, but it's not like I'm walking around all day in a negligee with fluffy mules.

Jason Streets

She was outstanding. Lindsay had the flu and it was questionable that she would even play.

Barbara Boxer

Let's not rewrite history, it's too soon for that,

Nadia Boulanger

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.

Delphine Arnault

Louis Vuitton has a long history with collaborations.

Pankaj Mishra

Many writers from the suburbs of history, such as Ireland and Argentina, produced more original work than their counterparts in the United States; they still seem to.

Kim Anderson

Many thanks for your part in our history.

Frank Hadden

Scotland's history has been one or two occasions of tremendous over-achievement, and I am hoping this is the start of one for us.

Ronald Reagan

Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

Guenter Verheugen

May 1 will be a milestone in the history of Europe,

Grant Fairley

One of the weaknesses of our society is that history is still news to most people.

Michael Moore

L.A. - talk about a cruel city: Patients are forcibly removed from hospitals.

Richard Mansfield

If anything we'll be able to see more patients and provide more services.

Eleanor Smeal

Many family planning clinics and - and programs that service women have refused now to take women's - United State's money because they feel that it would be unethical, and it could injure their clients even more, their patients even more. That has to be changed.

Sandra Sanchez

She spreads her love; the patients really respond to her.

Rocky Peterson

I could see we started off intense, but tight. We were patient offensively, but not aggressive.

Chris Hall

We plan to send 25 patients a week by the end of this year.

Gary Brown

when a patient does not respond to treatment appropriately.

Ivar Giaever

You need to be curious, competitive, creative, stubborn, self-confident, skeptical, patient and be lucky to win a Nobel.

John Ross

The patients that are now in the waiting room and the ones that are in ambulance stretchers can't come into their departments because there's actually no place to put them.

Gabrielle Zevin

For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'

Phil Garner

I thought we were going to him today, but they told him (Saturday) he could not play. I suspected that was going to be the case.