Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlie Daniels

The news is not about news anymore. It's about protecting some people, destroying others and shoving a socialist agenda down the collective throats of America.

Charles W. Pickering

If a catastrophic event wipes out a large portion of House members, America needs to know this body, elected by the people, will be quickly and legally reconstituted and will continue to function.

Alan Watts

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

Alan Rickman

I do feel more myself in America. I can regress there, and they have roller-coaster parks.

Alan Grayson

The Republican health care plan: don't get sick ... The Republicans have a back up plan in case you do get sick ... This is what the Republicans want you to do. If you get sick America, the Republican health care plan is this: Die quickly!

Alan Grayson

If you get sick, America, the Republican health care plan is this: Die quickly.

Alan Greenspan

Skilled shortages in America exist because we are shielding our skilled labor force from world competition. [Visa quotas] have been substituted for the wage pricing mechanism. In the process we have created [a] privileged elite whose incomes are being supported at non-competitively high levels by immigration quotas on skilled professionals. Eliminating such restrictions would reduce at least some of the income inequality.

Alan Ball

I guess in America we're so sold on this ideal of the perfect, well-adjusted family that is able to confront any conflict and, with true love and understanding, work things through. I'm sure they do exist, but I never knew any of them.

Al Sharpton

I cannot imagine where we would have been without BET. Many like me who operate in black America can only get our balanced story told nationally on BET talk shows.

William Powanda

We know clearly from the orientation that Pat and I do that the clinical staff are coming to Griffin because of the approach to patient care. It's the reason they went into their professions when they were in school.

Andrew Wilkinson

Ultimately, if employees are given the choice to watch key matches it may result in reduced absenteeism and a more responsible approach to personal workloads.

Paul Tagliabue

ultimately how maybe we can approach the construction of a stadium and eventually, possibly having a team back in operation in Los Angeles.

Charles Kennedy

The point never to lose sight of is to be guided by the correct thing, as you see it. It's the only way to approach such profound matters and retain your integrity.

Mike Greene

The point is not to lecture. We approach this from the premise that U.S.-China relations are good and we're committed to making them better.

Michael Stern

We are pleased to be able to work so closely with Brian, his team of trainers and coaches, and especially the elite athletes that look to TEST Sports Clubs to improve their performance. Our cutting-edge approach to athlete nutrition matches is a perfect complement to TESTs approach of using science and creativity to open new horizons for elite athletes.

Lawrence Byrd

We are at the beginning of the road. In order to grow we need to change the way we approach the way we do business.

John Kilduff

We are at levels that in the past several years had caused gasoline prices to approach the $1.70-type national average record levels.

Lee Bermejo

As much as I enjoy seeing other guys do the superhero approach to the Batman universe, personally my own vision falls a bit left of center.

Mike Bundy

We want the Norton area to be able to support itself.

Tom Hansen

We want them to test the waters. We want to see if other areas are attractive to us.

S. Hughes

We want the kids to learn about working on yachts, crewing them, marine electronics, boat building and design, interior design and engine repair. Since we have many brokers in the area, we will even have people teach them how to sell yachts. There are so many areas they can pursue.

Robin Pearson

We want to think of ways to promote the parks and bring in more visitors to see the area and spend time here. We need a plan, a strategy.

Thom Ciarniello

We want to start branching out. It's really a brave move for us because we're used to being around our area here, and to step out is really big. But I look forward to it.

Jim Richards

We know what areas we need to improve on defensively and what areas we need to improve on offensively,

Nancy Idland

We know both Steve and Rock have lots of fans in the area and we hope plenty of them will turn out to enjoy a great performance this Thursday night.

Donald Rumsfeld

vehicles operating without appropriate armor in areas outside of protected compounds.

Tony Meola

Ultimately, everyone who opens up a Red Bull in this area is going to figure out they're associated with a soccer team.

Kennie Sims

We are looking for the next Paula Creamer of the Bay Area.

Robert Boone

We wanted very specifically to meet the needs of the people of Bay Saint Louis, not what we thought they might need.

Tom Albertrani

We've always felt he would be a better horse around two turns, and he trained better going into the Tampa Bay Derby than he did the Sam Davis.

Gene Cofiell

We're starting at the Bay Bridge and will be airing travel advisories on the radio.

Julie Brough

We're stalled. When you see oil prices back up to their high, you've seen gold hovering around $600 US, people are making some really good money and I think there's a lot of people who are just taking the opportunity to crystallize some gains which is keeping the market at bay a little bit right now.

Brian Peters

We are also moving forward with our plans to lease eight branch sites in Hillsborough, Pasco, Polk, Pinellas and Manatee counties, marking our entrance into Hillsborough, Pasco and Polk counties and increasing our presence in Pinellas and Manatee counties. These eight new locations, which we expect to open in 2006, will bring Coast's branch total to 20 offices in the greater Tampa Bay area. While these new locations will temporarily decrease short- term profitability, they should provide solid contributions to earnings in future periods.

Gerald Goodman

With the new scheduling ... Tampa Bay is a big winner, absolutely. Was there a happy medium? Yes and no. We would have gotten a fall date (had there not been a move to the spring). There would have been PGA Tour golf here. But not at the level it's going to be now.

Katherine Anderton

The proximity of the Bay Area's 7 million residents places our local parks under intense pressure from residential development on their boundaries. Such development disrupts the natural rhythm of the forest.

Thomas Francis Meagher

The glory of the old Irish nation, which in our hour will grow young and strong again. Should we fail, the country will not be worth more than it is now. The sword of famine is less sparing than the bayonet of the soldier.

Charlie Daniels

Make sure to be honest with yourself, about if that's really what you want to do with your life - to make music. It takes a commitment - a tremendous, thick-skinned commitment of being the first one to get there and the last one to leave, doing what you want to do even if you have to work twice as hard as anybody else ever did.

Charles Taylor

To know who I am is a species of knowing where I stand. My identity is defined by the commitments and identifications which provide the frame or horizon within which I can try to determine from case to case what is good, or valuable, or what ought to be done, or what I endorse or oppose. In other words, it is the horizon within which I am capable of taking a stand.

Charles Dickens

He did each single thing as if he did nothing else.

Charles Stanley

Each of us will eventually give away all our earthly possessions. How we choose to do so, however, is a reflection of our commitment to the kingdom of God.

Al Sharpton

It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That's where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts. We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn't get the mule. So we decided we'd ride this donkey as far as it would take us.

Tim Sanders

We want them to have that local commitment to the community, and that's a big part of our request for proposals. We're not looking for Wells Fargo out of San Francisco.

Frank Hadden

We want to try and pinch some of their ball. Nathan has a long term commitment to playing for Scotland.

Chris Alexander

I'm totally in favour of meeting our Paris commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But I don't think we should do that by making ourselves uncompetitive.

Hali Robinson

Ultimately, our commitment on the defensive end pulled it out for us.

David Berkowitz

We want them to focus on customers and business, but they have to go to London.

Sanjay Gupta

We want to take a much more proactive step and give our customers further peace of mind.

Robert Johnston

We want to substantially put greater emphasis on customer service and customer satisfaction. We really want to revitalize the spirit of the organization. It needs to be a much greater competitor.

Maxine Clark

We know what the (Friends2BMade) customers like: They like pink, pink and pink, and they like purple, purple and purple.

Craig Beilinson

We know customers can't just flip a switch and move to a new OS. We want to make sure they simply deploy the pieces they're ready for, when they're ready for them.

Shane Evangelist

We know Blockbuster Online customers love the value and flexibility the free in-store movie rentals offer, so we decided to give them even more.

Peter Graf

Vendor consolidation is a major trend that forces customers to consolidate their IT (information technology) landscape, ... They're redrawing their landscape without those smaller vendors who they see as being most at risk.

Joe Ivers

Vehicles that engage customers immediately upon first sight tend to keep those customers around to learn more about the vehicles.

Alex Czajkowski

Vegas is where all our customers go. But you can't just jump on a plane to Vegas every time you want to place a bet.

Chris Pelchen

We are looking forward to further developing the list structure through the AFL National Draft and are encouraged by the prospect of having five picks inside the top 22.

Miguel Nicolelis

We started all this research way back in the early 1990s, developing a technique that allows us to record the electrical signals produced by neurons simultaneously.

Lord Samuel

Where there are two Phd's in a developing country, one is head of state and the other is in exile.

Adam Mansbach

When it comes right down to it, developing a critical sensibility about parenting isn't really about disapproval; it's about honing your own sensibilities, figuring out how you want to parent.

Carlos Ghosn

We're going to see at best, stagnation in the market, ... Most of the growth will come from the developing countries.

Robert Zubrin

What they're really developing is equipment to do a rational space station and a Moon programme later,

James Wolfensohn

We are also looking economically at an 8 trillion dollar economy, in the developing world growing seven to eight times in the next 50 years and the rich world 2 1/2 times. These are dramatic shifts.

Ifzal Ali

We are already witnessing major strains in many of our developing countries,

Richelle Reilly

We're going to have to keep developing our perimeter skills and shooting.

David Suzuki

Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile.

David Suzuki

Each of us now has 2.27 kg (5 lbs) of plastic embedded in our bodies.

David Suzuki

The fact of the matter is that today, stuff-selling mega-corporations have a huge influence on our daily lives. And because of the competitive nature of our global economy, these corporations are generally only concerned with one thing - the bottom line. That is, maximising profit, regardless of the social or environmental costs.

David Suzuki

In nature there is no such thing as waste. In nature nothing is wasted; everything is recycled.

David R. Brower

There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place!

David R. Brower

It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it.

William Shakespeare

Nature does require her times of preservation.

Nikolaas Tinbergen

The majority of autists - as well as their parents - seem to be genuine victims of environmental stress.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I have a private plane. But I fly commercial when I go to environmental conferences.

Dale Brown

It always filters down to the purchasers of goods, food products and construction products,

Donna Hughes

I don't think it's going to do anything to protect kids. It's not going to make filters work any better.

Jim Christian

Confidence, I think, is something that spreads throughout the team. When they see one guy playing with confidence, it kinda filters to the next guy, and so on.

Stephen Colbert

He's the master, ... It's admirable. I watch him with my mouth open and think, 'How does he do it?' If I could only have a scrap of that. If only I could take all filters off my mouth, it would be so great.

Jason Mraz

Everything in my life really filters down to the music.

Natascha McElhone

Scribbling things down is my therapy. I filter later.

Roy H. Williams

Most ads are ignored because every customer has a mental filter that evaluates and dismisses both of these languages of Ad-Speak with a single question: What are they not telling me?

Simon Mainwaring

There is an overwhelming amount of information available to us all on the web each day, not to mention what is shared with us by our family, friends, fans, and followers. This necessitates the need to filter through all that information and to decide for ourselves where to put our attention.

Warren Buffett

We really can say no in 10 seconds or so to 90%+ of all the things that come along simply because we have these filters.

Bruce Dressel

We've always been at the forefront of trying to deploy this kind of stuff.

Mike Crosthwaite

I don't think people realize the role that La Costa played in the history of the PGA Tour. It really was at the forefront of professional golf being a venue and what that offered.

David Scharf

I think today's announcement was not a major catalyst. Even though the headline reads very well, it probably had not been on the forefront of the minds of investors as a real issue.

Rob Enderle

We're right now at the forefront of another major change.

Michael Fitzpatrick

While Iran seems to be going back and forth on the use of oil as a political weapon, that issue will probably remain in the forefront for the near term, at least.

Sherrod Brown

Young people have been at the forefront of every great social movement in our country's history.

Terry Jicinsky

This speaks very well of Las Vegas. It shows Las Vegas remains in the forefront of people's minds.

Kari Appler

It's a good time of year. Legislation is at the forefront of people's minds.

Christopher Shays

This is a bittersweet day for me, ... I would have liked my Republican Party to be in the forefront of this issue.

Matt Koff

We knew they'd come at us with pressure. I think our weakness is being able to handle the pressure.

Tommy Maddox

We know where we want to go, and we know what we have to do to get there. I think sometimes you have to be reminded of that. You can take those situations and use them for a positive note, if you handle them the right way.

John Wilkins

The possibility of jail for that long; I don't think he could handle that, ... I'm sure it was drugs, mixed somewhat (with) coming-off effects, withdrawal. That would be tough on me ? to do something, then all of a sudden realize what I had done.

Allen Pritchett

We have to handle the road and crowd.

Brandon Lincoln

We were trying to stay poised; that was our main focus, to handle their runs. They're a talented team, so we knew they were going to have some game-changing runs in them. When they had those, we tried to remain poised and handle them as well as possible.

Nia Long

I have a beautiful son, I don't regret it, I'm very proud of the way that we handle our relationship and the way that we keep our son first and that's our priority.

Kristen Perezluha

We're going to handle this investigation with the utmost integrity, as we would with any investigation.

Mary Curtis

We're doing everything we can to handle the increasing numbers.

Mark Richt

We feel better about it today than we did going into the game. We still have to see how they do with tighter coverage. Boise State played mostly soft coverage, not much press at all so no one had to worry about getting off a jam or redirecting or that kind of thing. We'll see how they handle a little more pressure.

Leila Janah

I wish the city of San Francisco, bastion of liberalism, were more innovative when it comes to how to spread the wealth.

Terry Teachout

Charles Ives was writing radically innovative music, but nobody performed it, and nobody knew about it.

Nick Hanauer

Diversity is America's most valuable resource. It is what makes us the most innovative nation on Earth.

Tadashi Yanai

At Uniqlo, we're thinking ahead. We're thinking about how to create new, innovative products... and sell that to everyone.

Jack Bicknell

They have an innovative offensive scheme that is tough to defend, ... Defensively, they have some tough blitzes for us to pick up.

Renzo Rosso

E-mail represents one of the most innovative technologies of recent years.

Michael Palmer

This is a unique program and a national model for being a very innovative program.

Steve Ballmer

It's top priority for us to be an innovative company,

Sen. Hill

If you had not signed it, the public would know Innovative finances. The PSC, to some extent, is responsible for Innovative not providing quality service that Virgin Islands residents deserve.

Bill Coleman

We are a very safe community. His primary responsibility is keeping us safe.

Daniel Ellsberg

But it is important always to keep in mind that the danger of harming humans is not connected only or even mainly with telling secrets, there can be great danger in keeping secrets.

Stuart Backerman

There is no merit to the allegations, Michael is innocent. This is in keeping with what we've said all along.

Ted Carpenter

What we're seeing is the reflection of two developments -- first of all, the U.S. military being more and more into a force-protection mode, keeping its military personnel as unexposed as possible to fighting.

Bob McNair

We're going to look at any and all options. Whether it's keeping the pick or trading or whatever.

Susie Gardner

We?re back to preparing for each opponent and keeping a routine going. Right now, we?re really out of our motivational gimmicks.

Miley Cyrus

I am not very good at keeping secrets at all! If you want your secret kept do not tell me!

Ashwin Sanghi

I was always taught that book keeping was more relevant than book reading. The only thing worth reading was meant to be a balance sheet.

Jeremih

When I look for a woman, I look for one that's real - that's keeping it 100. I rather someone know that they're sexy and not show it.

Lawrence Lindsey

We have rising real incomes for households, leading to rising real consumption. That looks unlikely to be disrupted,

Theodor Mommsen

Under the Julian and Claudian emperors, the Parthians seem to have been the leading power at the mouth of the Indus.

Klaus Steinbach

We have proved our leading position in the world.

Mark McCormack

I was just leading out J.J. and Page, but we opened up a gap." ()

Michael Wallace

I think they needed to do it. They might as well do it now while they have a leading position.

I. Stone

I think there's some real fundamental support for the Governor, ... He's as tough as an old rope, and he'll be leading this state for a long time.

Santiago Cabrera

How you look is part of what acting is, but the way I look at it, every actor is a character actor. Someone once told me at a casting, 'You're a character actor in a leading man's body,' and I can live with that.

Frank Kimmel

He was a grizzly, old veteran, just a real hard-nosed racer, ... He would run all day long, and then all of a sudden with 20 (laps) to go, you would look up and he would be leading the race.

Bob Gilder

He can smell the Schwab Cup, ... and can smell being the leading money winner. And that's where he's headed.

Edward Kennedy

Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management.

Benjamin Franklin

Anger and folly walk cheek by sole.

Guy Dolle

Unfortunately, my son is not on the management team.

Ben Horowitz

Your employees know each other better than they know you.

Eliot Spitzer

Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit.

Nobuyuki Idei

So far, Sony management has no reason to make any revision in sales targets for the PlayStation,

Mitsuo Kinoshita

Getting overseas staff to share our views on management and quality is very difficult. But that task is urgent.

Jack Sebbag

From a management standpoint and a cost-reduction standpoint ... you can now with a single console, with reduced costs, manage all these point products with just one resource and one just one technology.

Mark Horstman

From a management perspective, if it surprises you that someone leaves, it's because you weren't in touch with them.

Alan Moore

That pompous phrase (graphic novel) was thought up by some idiot in the marketing department of DC. I prefer to call them Big Expensive Comics.

Al Ries

Strategy and timing are the Himalayas of marketing. Everything else is the Catskills.

Al Ries

Marketing is what a company is in business to do. Marketing is a company's ultimate objective.

Al Ries

Marketing is not selling. Marketing is building a brand in the mind of the prospect.

Al Ries

A branding program should be designed to differentiate your cow from all the other cattle on the range. Even if all the cattle on the range look pretty much alike.

Akio Morita

All you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing.

Joe Veltri

We know how important the truck market is.

Sue Schneider

Ultimately, it will be legal, here, but how long it takes is uncertain. This is where the market is.

Henry McVey

We still like the equities market and think the S&P 500 could potentially go through 1300 this week.

David H. Murdock

North Carolina was where you could have Thanksgiving and feel like it was Thanksgiving.

Brian Sky

To our knowledge, this is the first (designated) film school in Northern Colorado.

Jamie Campbell Bower

When I was 16, I used to hang out at the Nambucca pub in North London and see The Libertines play live.

Leah Devlin

We use this work every day in North Carolina. All of these investments are not one-time. They require a sustained commitment.

Thomas Mars

In California, there is a strong tension between north and south.

Tomas Borge

If I could go, I would tell the truth to the North American people. President Reagan personally ordered my visa to be denied.

Rick LeLacheur

Sixty-five percent of our traffic comes in the northeast corner.

Lorde

I'm a Kiwi. I'm from a beach suburb called Takapuna, which is on the north shore of Auckland in New Zealand.

Tom Parsons

If American or Northwest don't go along, fares will roll back.

Jozef Stumpel

We know we can play with any team in the league. We've proven it before, and when we play hard, we play desperate, we're one of the top clubs, too.

George Smitherman

We need to look in those jurisdictions that have taken that step (to see) whether it's proven to be effective.

Ron Cosner

She has proven she can probably steal on anybody.

Jose Fernandez

If other schools question why they didn't make it and we did, they should schedule differently. We've proven we belong.

Travis Ramsey

He has made a point. he has proven what he can do.

Dave Martin

I think GamesRadar.com still has a lot to prove. IGN and GameSpot.com have proven traffic and a successful format.

Jason Taylor

I don't know that we've proven anything yet. I think we took a step in the right direction.

Patricia Marx

I write the shopping column. I think I've proven my superficiality.

Todd Pratt

I think Ryan's proven everything he can prove.

Chuck Palahniuk

You have to keep recycling yourself.

Mary Johnson

Without the Wheelchair Recycling Program, we can't do what we do.

Mike Quigley

I like to take out the recycling because I actually feel like I'm doing something.

Beezer Molten

Here, all waste will be viewed as a recycling opportunity.

Jodie Foster

I prefer to commit 100 per cent to a movie and make fewer films, because it takes over your life.

Lewis Carroll

Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late?

Tim Brewer

We've got a pretty solid team all-around. We like to get up and down the court.

Paul Woods

Shannon has always been real solid for us,

Nate Moore

We're a solid staff all the way around. It's just one of those days.

Rory Bruer

I think it's a good, solid start for us,

Mo Johnston

He's been very solid in the preseason and training and everything that he's done.

Jim Schmidt

I think it was more nerve-racking for me than for Ellie. She put together 11 real solid dives.

Lawrence Lau

He may have been transferring waste without a solid waste permit.

Bob Hartley

We need some big saves. The teams that are doing well in the standings are getting the big saves. You need solid goaltending.

Josh Pais

My process is I try to learn my lines so they're so solid I don't have to think about them or how I'm going to say them.

Dexter Scott King

Life too is precious to waste - to spend on anything but the best.

Betty White

I didn't know what Facebook was, and now that I do know what it is, I have to say, it sounds like a huge waste of time.

Diana Gabaldon

This is our time. Until that time stops - for one of us, for both – it is our time. Now. Will you waste it, because you are afraid?

Benjamin Franklin

Time is money'... Waste it now. Pay for it later!

Benjamin Franklin

The only time not wasted is wasted time.

Benjamin Franklin

Without industry and frugality, nothing will do; with them, everything.

Barbra Streisand

Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.

Charles R. Swindoll

When each elder or pastor has his will aligned with the Lord's, we waste no time arguing for our own.

Bonnie Raitt

Life gets mighty precious when there's less of it to waste

David Blair

We know we have a long ways to go with the Missoula public.

Jacob Lew

There are lots of ways to work together.

Reid Hoffman

Entrepreneurs are like visionaries. One of the ways they run forward is by viewing the thing they're doing as something that's going to be the whole world.

Mike Sanford

I feel like we've improved, and we still have a long ways to go. By far, we have not arrived.

Chris McCray

It can only go one of two ways now, up or down. I think this year we really want it." ()

Jesse Berger

For me the play is about preservation and transformation as ways of storytelling.

Devin Brown

There are so many different ways you can do that.

Rudy Gay

That will be a ways away. Whenever that happens, it happens. Right now it's just me and my team.

Colin Devine

There are ways to get around that, though.