Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Collins

October first is just another step towards collecting more taxes. It's voluntary. A lot of retailers won't start until after the holiday shopping season. It'll be a gradual effect.

Yuuki Sakurai

My favorite is Sumitomo Metal. They have a good seamless pipe technology. I was wondering about 5 to 7 years ago why this had not been evaluated in the market. They are finally collecting the fruit of this technology.

Everett Tucker

Now we are a lot more efficient at collecting and aggregating spend information by supplier, by commodity, by customer, by product.

Mike Doyle

For Robb, it's a lifetime endeavor. He's been collecting ever since we were kids.

Jodi Kantor

One of my favorite stories is from Obama's first campaign: Michelle Obama was out there every day, collecting signatures and supervising the other people who did. If you were supposed to get 300 signatures and you only got 299, you had to face the wrath of Michelle.

Bill Claybrook

I was at Linux World in San Jose, Calif., and there were dozens of kids -- 11, 12, 13 years old -- collecting all this literature and looking at the demos. In two or three years, when all these kids are coming out of college and high school, the number of people who are able to do Linux development are going to overwhelm the number of people who are doing Unix and NT development simply because of that.

Pat Ross

I was supposed to be collecting the mail for a neighbor next door. One day I forgot, and Dennis started holding it so it didn't pile up.

Michael Patrick Hearn

I guess I never grew up. I was still reading kids' books in high school and college. I was always interested in writing or illustrating children's books, and I started collecting out-of-print books when I was about 10 years old.

Bob Ayers

Some nation states prohibit the police from collecting information on their own citizens. But they don't prohibit their own intelligence organizations from collecting information on their own citizens.

Isabella Rossellini

I always say that in my career as an actress, I've always worked with people like David Lynch or Guy Maddin or Peter Weir who are considered not mainstream directors and that could be because they are like my dad. They are pioneers, and pioneers, by definition, invent something new.

Rick Perlstein

What is considered 'conservative' and what is considered 'liberal' changes in any given era.

Janet Prust

Mandatory reporting simply means more scrutiny in all of the practices around reducing infection. Sterilization is considered a sentinel event around surgical site infections. So for a facility to be able to document and prove that they did all of those things the right way via an electronic record keeping system is a tremendous value for a facility.

Caroline DeWaal

Many more of these plants should be considered failures.

Stephen Harper

Mr. Martin is campaigning in Montreal, which was considered not too long ago the strongest set of Liberal ridings in the country. That's an encouraging sign. Indications on the ground are good everywhere.

James Rubin

Mr. Dahoumane is considered to be a potentially dangerous terrorist and is still at large.

Ken Dychtwald

No one considered whether a life without work would be satisfying or sustainable.

Neal McCarthy

My epiphany happened in Guatemala. I was looking to do some volunteer work and considered taking a job planting trees. But then I thought if I was serious about this I could go to London, get an IT contract and pay them to get 200 people to plant trees.

Cecily Strong

My drama instructor suggested I try comedy. I was resistant at first because I considered myself a serious actor, but of course I fell in love with it.

Anton Schutz

Mack is not going to sell damaged goods. If he can fix it, he'll get a higher price.

Bob Crawford

Last year, we had a kind of historic season of damage and fires, so what we're seeing now troubles us a lot,

Shlomo Yosef

Sharon was in a life-threatening situation because of intestinal damage and as result doctors decided to operate.

Tom LaSorda

Second, we need to set some reasonable and fair limits on damages in product liability cases.

Elizabeth Blackburn

Medicine has been successful by treating diseases in a very specific way once the damage is done. But telomere length integrates a lot of factors together and gives you an overall picture of risk for what is now emerging as a lot of diseases that tend to occur together, such as diabetes and heart disease.

Bill Gates

No one should think that shareholder value would be preserved ... Microsoft would be greatly damaged by this kind of split.

Johannes Ullrich

More often than not, a patch will actually do more damage than good if you roll it out too quickly without testing it first.

Randy Lert

(Money managers) expect the Fed to stop raising rates before short-term rates inflict any significant damage to economic growth.

Steve Buyer

My great fear is that future presidents will now flaunt the law in a more egregious manner ... and that's how they'll defend impeachments in the future, ... Damage was done.

Gary Cooper

Lower prices are likely to stimulate increased demand, but to what degree is unknown.

Gene Sperling

Many of the members of the faculty who oppose him have never fully appreciated the degree that he is someone who is very open to criticism, to reconsidering his positions, to frank discussion.

Markus Persson

'Minecraft' is to a large degree about having unique experiences that nobody else has had. The levels are randomly generated, and you can build anything you want to build yourself.

Joan Ganz Cooney

My degree was in education, but the idea of being a teacher lost out to being a reporter. I worked at a newspaper for a while, then went to New York and worked in PR at RCA and NBC, and at 'The United States Steel Hour,' a drama series.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

MORE, adj. The comparative degree of too much.

Leslie Miller

Obviously there was some degree of disappointment, especially with Venezuela and our counterparts a like,

Timothy Noah

The pathological degree to which former Vice President Dick Cheney operated in secrecy led to government abuses that we'll probably spend years learning about.

Diane Neal

My older sister has all her degrees in theater, and I couldnt stand the theater geeks!

Ted Leland

I can't imagine taking another job in sports, ... I have no interest in professional athletics. Pacific happens to be a place I have two degrees from and I think I can help.

Alfred de Vigny

Let us dream that once upon a time have lived men stronger and greater, who were more determined for good or for evil; that does us good.

Don Norman

Legislators in each state must determine whether or not regulation is necessary to protect their constituents.

Adoniram Judson

Love to Jesus is a sure title to the greatest possible happiness; for Jesus is omnipotent and has determined to make his friends happy, and surely will not forget a single one in whose heart is enkindled one spark of love.

Rich Thompson

Many races were determined by less than half a second in another exciting, full-house meet.

Mike Singletary

So I understand that you have to set goals and maybe when you start out, you're not as good as you're going to be, but if you really work, you can get better and you determine that. So ... I'm never going to quit on a player.

Daniel Costa

Much of the world's weather is determined by what happens in the Antarctic, so understanding the Southern Ocean is a key to understanding global climate.

Jon Gruden

Matt's lower back flared up, ... We think he'll be OK. Whether or not he starts, we'll determine that later in the week.

Tommy Amaker

One possession here or there was going to determine this game for either team. Dee's three-point play late was somewhat of a dagger, but he's done that a few times.

Jacque Vaughn

One play like that, even if it's a five point swing, shouldn't determine the outcome of the game.

Craig Whelihan

Like every football team, NFL or arena, you want to start out with a win. It puts everyone in a good frame of mind. It kind of shows you where you're at early in the season. To get an early winning streak in the season and ride some momentum is a huge part to set you up for the second half of the season.

Mike Bauer

Luke Harman did a great job of finding Davin and Sam early and that really opened things up inside for Maurice and Casey.

Joe Horvath

Losing those early matches all in a row just tore our morale in two. I'm surprised that we were able to fight back as much as we did at the end of the meet.

W. S. Gilbert

Last year was pretty much another freshman year for me, and early on I was fine. But then once we got into conference, in those pressure situations, sometimes I guess I got too nervous.

Joey Galloway

Last year, with the early injuries, we started shuffling some guys around and that's tough. It's tough to be successful that way.

Ron Noedel

Last year what happened is we jumped on them early and got her frustrated. Today was a whole different story. We couldn't get to her today and she just got really strong.

Ronald Vincent

(Leggett) was throwing three pitches for strikes, and getting his changeup and curveball over early in the year is difficult. We have to make adjustments and see it a lot of times.

Steve Wammer

Leah had a great year. She had some injuries early and we had to kind of watch her a little bit. But by the end of the year, she was on top of her game.

Mark Hamilton

Sean threw fantastic. It was good to get him some early runs. We've started stringing together those timely hits, and it helps the pitching staff.

Robert Hass

I would say Gary Snyder, who is from my part of the world as a poet and environmental thinker, will be read just as Henry Thoreau as John Muir will continue to be read.

Jochen Zeitz

Let's recreate the equivalent of the Met Ball in Europe and, rather than for the museum, give the money to environmental causes.

Bruce Reznik

Lorena really is the environmental candidate. She's somebody I've worked with on environmental issues for the past six years, on state and local issues, and she has proven her leadership.

Jerry Ray

Many of the Florida environmental groups have come to see us, and they wanted this approach.

Beth Zimmerman

Many of the environmental modifications of interest to women are so fundamental that I expect them to improve the shopping experience and sales potential for all consumers, regardless of gender.

Jostein Gaarder

No day is alike - I do many other things, and I'm very active in the environmental movement.

Maurice Strong

One of the things that I've always thought I would like to do is to develop an environmental index. Then people can measure their own environmental performance on an index as they do in other ways.

Dennis Weaver

When we realize we can make a buck cleaning up the environment, it will be done!

Denis Hayes

We got everyone's attention, but we didn't solve any environmental problems.

Arjun Makhijani

I'm really shocked the EPA has proposed this, ... It's not a standard to protect public health. It's a standard to protect the industry's interest in Yucca Mountain.

Harold Wilson

I followed the EPA and tried to get them to go over where all the gas was poured from the radiator shop,

James Sensenbrenner

That's not the 'pennies' per gallon the White House and EPA are asserting,

Arjun Makhijani

In the proposed EPA rule, every norm of radiation protection that has been established for the general public since the late 1950s ... is to be thrown overboard,

David Boothe

The EPA is working with the industry to find out what the sources of exposure are.

Justin Dentmon

Man, I got scared real quick when I heard the news. I've never been in a situation like this before.

Jarvis Deberry

Lots of people talked about things they heard without actually seeing them.

Benjamin Franklin

Lovers, Travellers, and Poets, will give money to be heard

E. B. White

Las Vegas is the place all of us wanted to go. For the first week of the tournament there's nonstop basketball, and we heard that's the place to go.

John Freeman

Several of us had heard rumors, which persisted for a period of time.

James Carbone

Mr. Bradford was the leader of a ring. If you heard the word 'Detroit connection,' Mr. Bradford was the leader.

Kevin Kelly

(McDowell) made up his mind to vote 'No' before he heard one piece of evidence.

Robert Roach

one of the worst ideas I have heard in a long time.

William Shakespeare

One that lies three thirds and uses a known truth to pass a thousand nothings with, should be once heard and thrice beaten.

Karin Slaughter

Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'

Shay Cox

Megan had a big game. She had two big shots, and she really needed them.

Bill Belichick

Obviously, we're disappointed. We weren't able to make the plays we needed to make to win, that's why we didn't win.

Charles Seaton

One trip cock on each end was redundant. We only needed one trip cock per car.

Michael Turner

More observations are needed to find out what is going on here.

Andy Serkis

My father was interested in justice, always working for people who needed to be supported.

John Fuller

Now we are being told to stay put, because there is the possibility that our resources will be needed here.

Olympia Snowe

needed to offer a personal, passionate and sincere renunciation of racism and segregation in all its forms, and he did that.

Tallia Cahoon

When I got to Ruby, I needed to know more.

Charles Spurgeon

God's thoughts of you are many, let not yours be few in return.

Eduard Shevardnadze

I don't plan to return. I have a lot of unresolved things to do.

Rick Perry

I can't say in strong enough terms that those who evacuated that they should not return at this time,

David Nicholls

She made you decent, and in return you made her so happy

Mike Leach

On that play, we had a return on, ... I thought (Douglas) did a tremendous job.

Laurence D. Fink

When you look at dividend returns on equities versus bond yields, to me it's a pretty easy decision to be heavily in equities.

Peter Jackson

'The Return Of The King' has a conclusion.

Peter Sis

I still have an accent. But when I return to Prague, I speak the language yet do not know what they are talking about.

William Shakespeare

Ready to go but never to return.

Alexandra Adornetto

If you're worried about safety, you might like to follow my example and put on that seat belt." "The what?" Xavier shook his head in disbelief. "You worry me," he muttered.

Mallory Ortberg

I have fun going on Twitter and the Internet. I feel safe and comfortable, and I wish everyone could feel that way.

Rep. Gunderson

Let's get them out there and see if they're interested. If they are, they can go through hunter's safety when they turn 12.

Jeff Dunn

Now we're here, we're safe and we're dry,

Charles R. Swindoll

The world has changed and it's going to keep changing, but God never changes; so we are safe when we cling to Him.

Dennis Prager

It does not matter what position you take on the Left, you are safe and secure. But that is not at all the case for positions that the Right take on. You are not safe and secure, so you travel with bodyguards

Demosthenes

Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There is no way to peace along the way to safety. For peace must be dared. It is the great venture.

Frank Knight

I feel safe there, ... Ive never worried about it.

Kid Cudi

I'm not that big a fan of sampling. But I feel like if I'm going to do it, I'm going to do it to where it's more of a reimagining of a track. The songs that I do utilize samples on, most of it you wouldn't even be able to tell what it was unless I told you.

Donald Brownlee

When you have the samples in hand, it's a whole different universe.

Richard Ebright

The samples can be used as seed stock for any biologist.

Dick Thompson

This is not confirmation for us. We need to have samples sent to a certified laboratory.

Paul Burns

We have the same sun and soil as Amador and much of El Dorado.

Earl Scruggs

My music came up from the soil of North Carolina,

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Pure felicity is reserved for the heavenly life; it grows not in an earthly soil.

Alexander Pope

Court-virtues bear, like gems, the highest rate, Born where Heav'n influence scarce can penetrate. In life's low vale, the soil the virtues like, They please as beauties, here as wonders strike.

Michael Donovan

Some of the soil has to go; some can be spread around the site.

Billy Graham

If your faith isn't rooted in the Bible, it will wither like a plant pulled out of the soil.

Billy Graham

Faith grows when it is planted in the fertile soil of God's Word.

J. I. Packer

The Life of true holiness is rooted in the soil of awed adoration

Martin Heidegger

I take great pleasure, every day, in seeing my work deeply rooted in our native soil.

Michael Collier

We're still in the preliminary stages of getting information.

Charles Spurgeon

A tear is enough water to float a desire to God.

Charles Spurgeon

Many people are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed; they chew the bitter pill which they would not even know to be bitter if they had the sense to swallow it whole in a cup of patience and water.

Dennis Prager

The Left needs causes like fish need water

Deborah Smith

We are all bodies of water, guarding the mystery of our depths, but some of us have more to guard than others.

Eleanor Roosevelt

All the water in the world cannot drown you unless it gets inside of you.

Eddie Vedder

I just finished touring, and I'm on a detox thing. It's a heavy detox, so nothing in my belly except water, salt, and cayenne pepper.

Eddie Vedder

I'm probably never happier than when I'm by myself in the water. What I've worked and sacrificed for is not to be on stage playing music but to surf in some secluded place. It's a grounding element. Waves don't care who you are.

Ray Rivera

We are day by day. We have no water running!

Rich Halberg

When the water recedes, you can see any buckling and contraction that wouldn't be there when it's wet.

Daniel Craig

Now, product placement, whichever way you look at it, whether you like it or you think it's disgusting, or whatever, it's what it is.

Deirdre O'Kane

I can't function if I don't have tea. I don't know whether it's psychological or a real necessity, but I just need it.

James Wallace

From our standpoint, we're being very reasonable. It's up to (RIM) whether they want to be shutdown.

Tom Woods

I don't know whether 3-3 would do for us, I don't know if 4-2 would do. But I know 6-0 would do.

Teresa Heinz

I've always worked on bipartisans, whether it's on healthcare, drug reform, et cetera. All my work is bipartisan, because what I'm - as nonpartisan actually, because I look for solutions. I'm very practical.

T. Boone Pickens

I don't care whether you use natural gas, ethanol, the battery. You can use anything, just so it's American.

Simon Sinek

Whether individuals or organisations, we follow those who lead not because we have to, but because we want to. We follow those who lead not for them, but for ourselves.

Trip Adler

We actually determine whether the book is read and make payments to the publisher based on that.

Vanessa Hudgens

You have a choice whether you want to be happy or not. I choose to be happy.