Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Wright

Refineries in Texas did not take a direct hit from Rita, but the energy grids in that area were effected, and power has not been restored to those refineries.

Richard Preston

Redwoods have an enormous surface area that extends upward into space because they have a propensity to do something called reiteration. A redwood is a fractal. And as they put out limbs, the limbs burst into small trees, copies of the redwood.

Mike Shockley

Recommendations included changes in several areas of energy expenses.

Gerry Fleming

Reggie has done a lot of things away from the play as far as his defensive play and his play without the puck. He's been in areas and made some big plays without the puck as well.

Bob Noun

President Bush's proposed budget will not have an impact this year. The current situation is we still have to lay off between 30 to 40 employees. But we are encouraged by the areas that were covered by the president.

Stephanie Williams

Preserving farmland and preserving the farming enterprise must go hand-in-hand. By working with Cumberland County Economic Development, we are able to help ensure that area farms become preserved, and remain competitive, for generations to come.

Irene Toner

Our policy is to call for a general evacuation in areas that might be prone to Category 3 impacts.

Hassan Nasrallah

Our policy is clear, we are fighting in an area that is still under occupation in Lebanon. And beyond that area, we are on the defensive.

Mike Ruddock

Our passing, tackling, lineout and tackle area play all need to be improved,

Richard Robinson

Record-breaking sales of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince drove significantly higher results in children's book publishing and distribution and for the company overall,

Robert Molleda

Relative to most of the country, it's still rather mild, but when people book Florida vacations, they're not expecting temperatures in the 40s.

quran quran

Or have We given them a book before it so that they hold fast to it? / Nay! they say: We found our fathers on a course, and surely we are guided by their footsteps.

Wayne Dellinger

Part of the reason I wrote the book was that so many people were leaving their jobs (to invest in foreclosed homes), and they had no idea of what they are doing.

Oprah Winfrey

passports to new and exciting worlds... and I know that I would not be the person I am today had it not been for my love of reading.

Malorie Blackman

Part of my job as Children's Laureate is to visit schools and talk about my love of books and stories and encourage them all to do it as well - to read, to write, to never be afraid of their own voice. Because we all have something to say.

Gunter Thielen

Our major acquisitions and joint ventures ... will be shown on the books for the second half of the year,

Martin Luther

Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time.

Andreas Scheuerle

Order books are full and people are operating closer to capacity, so that companies are building up employment again.

Dr. Hines

Spider is New York bound and ready to go. He understands the importance of this fight and is taking it very serious, despite the short notice.

Charles Grassley

Some of their recommendations are bound to be politically unpopular.Ê Cutting the home-mortgage interest deduction is an example.ÊBut it's important to have a comprehensive starting point that will get everyone talking and thinking,

Charles Grassley

Some of their recommendations are bound to be politically unpopular.  Cutting the home-mortgage interest deduction is an example. But it's important to have a comprehensive starting point that will get everyone talking and thinking,

Rick Warren

Our goal is to stay within the boundaries of God's plan for us.

Michael Polanyi

Responsible choice in a convivial setting controls the indeterminate powers of intelligence and sets the boundary conditions for their applications.

Bill Clinton

We need a new spirit of community, a sense that we are all in this together, or the American Dream will continue to wither. Our destiny is bound up with the destiny of every other American.

Carrie Fisher

I'll never be known for my work with boundaries.

John Davidson

I think there's also bound to be a lot of hesitation until the election is over,

Charles Dickens

That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But, it is the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it, and think how different its course would have been. Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.

Jim Collins

He confined her to residences and hotels within Montgomery and Prince George's counties.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

HABEAS CORPUS. A writ by which a man may be taken out of jail when confined for the wrong crime.

Risa Stewart

Gyms deal in sweat. It's OK to be stinky. But in a confined space, like a spinning room, it can be unbearable. You do need to monitor yourself.

Jim Jenkins

He's a crippled man. He has one leg. He's had his spleen removed. He's been confined to his house this entire time.

Hosni Mubarak

We live in a world in which all realize the suffering is not confined to one party and the flames of this conflict extend to all.

Steve Gantt

(Main Street) is such a confined space. You're going to have conflicts when you have groups of people working that closely.

William Safire

Stop worrying about the 'dumbing down' of our language by bloggers, tweeters, cableheads and MSM thumbsuckers engaged in a 'race to the bottom' of the page by little minds confined to little words.

Katie Hafner

Unlike most divorced parents, whose interactions are confined to the topic of the kids, people still sharing a house have to talk about clogged sinks and moth infestations.

Malcolm X

When we see that our problem is so complicated and so all-encompassing in its intent and content, then we realize that it is no longer a Negro problem, confined only to the American Negro; that it is no longer an American problem, confined only to America, but it is a problem for humanity.

Terry Garcia

The artifact itself and its contents were in danger of being lost forever.

David Watters

I think the contents of the encyclopedia will offer surprises to even a born-and-bred New Englander. New England is much more than the traditional taciturn Yankees, town meetings, and maple syrup. It is an important region not only for its past, but the present and the future.

Peter Conrad

Facts have long since upstaged fiction, and the novelistic imagination now contents itself with documenting incidents it wouldn't have the temerity to invent.

Neal Goldman

We are actually using the news to dynamically generate this table of contents in real time.

Arup Patnaik

Looking at the contents of the locker, it does not seem like the work of a small gang.

Jack Grubman

I have said a number of inappropriate, even silly, things in a few private e-mails that have been made public over the last few months. The contents of these particular e-mails, while personally embarrassing, are completely baseless.

John Sulston

In order to protect the market value of a proprietary database, the owner must prohibit redistribution of the contents - otherwise, the information would quickly leak out and be widely known.

Saudi Arabia

The other contents of the Prophet's room are preserved and none of them were lost since the entry into Mecca and Medina by the late King Abdulaziz,

Nicholson Baker

What sugar-packet manufacturer could have known that people would take to flapping the packet back and forth to centrifuge its contents to the bottom, so that they could handily tear off the top?

Bob Iger

Our parks are the No. 1 tourist destinations for every continent where we have a presence,

Tracy Morgan

I love animals, but I don't want to talk to them. I'd rather be able to talk to other people on other continents and understand them.

Jochen Zeitz

Obviously, South Africa is our most important market, but we are also gradually increasing our presence throughout East and West as well as North Africa. It is a continent with a lot of potential which we plan to tap into.

Yaya Toure

I represent my country, but I also represent the continent of Africa when I play in Europe. That's why it's important to try to achieve something big.

Yelena Baturina

The Garden of Wonders project encompasses the knowledge that Be Open has accumulated over the years of work on different continents and different spheres.

Yanis Varoufakis

Bankruptocracy is as much a European predicament as it is an American 'invention.' The difference between the experience of the two continents is that at least Americans did not have to labour under the enormous design faults of the eurozone.

Omar Bongo

The resources of our continent attract, more than ever, the interests of rich countries.

Kabir Bedi

The life of an actor is very hard irrespective of the continent you are in. It is doubly hard when you are only eligible for minority roles.

Djimon Hounsou

One of the things I find extremely challenging about the continent of Africa is that when the immediate needs and the social needs of people are not met, that kills dreams, and it's all about survival.

Elizabeth Caroscio

Our outfield will be quick. They cover a lot of ground and they all have pretty strong arms.

Mike Riley

Pass defense starts with a rush and then good solid coverage down field after that. We feel we have a lot of good people who can take us where we want go.

David Southern

Part of my role is to extend the reach of Hearts, ... In our outlook, we're not just a Scottish football club. We're now getting more and more UK coverage than at any time in our recent history and also more European coverage.

Bill Ferguson

Our magazine isn't covering shuffleboard; we're covering people who are still grabbing surfboards even though they're 60 or 70 or older. The people who've seen this magazine love it. Through word of mouth alone, we've already generated more than 7,000 sign-ups on our website.

Bill Davis

People knew in this area, or should have reasonably known, or been told, that their standard homeowner's policy did not cover storm surge or flooding.

Lucie Morillon

People kind of wonder what's going to happen during the summit, especially for journalists who would try to cover freely what's going on there.

Mark McClellan

People need to start by understanding what kind of coverage they have now.

Kylie Jenner

People have to be sensitive to - I hate using the word 'celebrities' - people in the spotlight. Because there's so much more than what you see on the cover of a magazine.

Benjamin Franklin

Squirrel-like she covers her back with her tail.

Christopher Hill

Patience has been exhausted and we need to see a pullback of the (Serbian) security forces, whose only purpose at this point that we can see is to be in opposition to the general public there.

Rick Carlisle

Part of the problem was that Jermaine was sick (Monday) and he was really exhausted in the first half. I know his physical situation contributed to some of his struggles. We just didn't have the luxury of sitting him much tonight.

Tony Blair

Our fault has not been impatience, the truth is, our patience should have been exhausted weeks and months and even years ago,

Jeff Ackermann

I'm happy, but I'm tired, exhausted and emotionally drained.

George Allen

I'm hoping we can use some of the money for more rehabilitation for her so maybe help her with her balance, ... I've exhausted everything I have trying to do that.

Winston Churchill

The Americans will always do the right thing... after they've exhausted all the alternatives.

Bobby Perry

I think somebody sniped me from up in the rafters. No, I was exhausted and I just tripped over my feet.

Joe Johnson

I was exhausted out there. I just do what I can for our team to get a win.

Allan Houston

I exhausted everything, ... If it was supposed to happen it would have happened. It just was not supposed to and I'm comfortable with that.

Kim Kardashian

Meeting people at my fertility doctor's office who are going through the same things I'm going through, I thought, 'Why not share my story?' It's been really emotional.

Jennifer Kopp

It's a mixed blessing. Some people just got a lot of soil and fertility and some people lost it.

Jeffrey Passel

Even moderately high levels of fertility translate into large numbers of births.

Mike Ford

Recently, the news has been filled with big jackpots and winners. Wouldn't you love to be part of the winning?

Isaiah Swann

Rebounding helped a lot - me being able to get the rebound and just push it and have Todd (Galloway) fill the lane instead of me filling the lane all the time. We should be interchangeable.

Edward Leamer

People moan and groan, but they still go to the pump and fill up their big SUVs.

Susan Young

Our staff are going to that gas pump every day and filling their tank to get to their patients.

Kevin Streveler

Overall, I was very happy. We had some good performances, and some kids look like they are ready to fill some spots on our roster.

Trinity Shepherd

Our trips nearly always fill up. We could take twice as many as we have room for. Probably more than that.

Larry Coker

Other than receiver, I think we filled our needs pretty well.

Colleen Hartman

Right now, what we know about Pluto could be written on the back of a postage stamp. After this mission, we'll be able to fill textbooks.

Mark Cunningham

We need some green space, we need some agricultural land. To fill it up with hotels is just insanity.

Steve Helton

Rebecca finds a way to score. She has always been known as a shooter, but she's improved so much, and now she finds ways to score.

Shawn Amos

Susan Boyle having a meltdown is not controversial. It's human for a 48-year-old recluse to get a little wigged out when she finds herself on the world stage overnight.

James Klein

Survey after survey finds people are underestimating what they need for a financially secure retirement.

Brian Donahue

James just finds a way to help us win. I didn't think we really went to him enough on offense, but he made big plays.

Sara Foster

I think modeling is interesting because every season, what the modeling world finds beautiful changes. Like Kate Moss, she was 5'6" and was so thin and had no curves, and that was in for a while.

Vernell Crittendon

He wanted to be remembered for the good times in the past, rather than the situation he now finds himself in.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home

Mike Hathaway

He is probably the grittiest quarterback I've seen. He finds a way to get it done.

J. C. Watts

For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do

Abraham Lincoln

Our strife pertains to ourselves - to the passing generations of men; and it can without convulsion be hushed forever with the passing of one generation

Becca Fitzpatrick

This was it. Together. Forever. As we left it all behind, the sun warmed my back, lighting the way before us. I knew of no better omen.

B. B. King

May I live forever. But may you live forever and a day.

Billy Corgan

Time is never time at all. You can never ever leave without leaving a piece of youth. And our lives are forever changed. We will never be the same. The more you change, the less you feel.

Carrie Snodgress

I don't see myself being an actress forever.

Bernard Arnault

A good product can last forever.

Pierce Brosnan

I will forever be a Bond. It's a small group of men who've made this role. Someone said, More men have walked on the moon than have played James Bond.'

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

We are forever responsible for that which we have tamed.

Bill Vaughan

There is no occasion for our rejoicing at a foe's death, because our own life will also not last forever.

John Brunner

I have always found fact infinitely more interesting than myths and falsehoods.

Blaise Pascal

The God of the infinite is the God of the infinitesimal.

Tom Stoppard

The possibilities are infinite with new writing; every time you open a new script, there's no limit to what it might contain.

David Bowie

The end comes when the infinites arrive.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Christianity preaches the infinite worth of that which is seemingly worthless and the infinite worthlessness of that which is seemingly so valued.

Edgar Allan Poe

I am walking like a bewitched corpse, with the certainty of being eaten by the infinite, of being annulled by the only existing Absurd.

Hippolyte Taine

I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.

Gianni Agnelli

All the technology of our production was still pre-War. They were sort of '38, '39 and the War had been stable and so we were infinitely behind whatever had been going on in the United States for instance.

Craig Brown

Monopoly may also end in tears, but its tensions are cruder, lacking the infinitely subtle shadings of irritation and acrimony provided by Scrabble.

Ann Beattie

That's what I mean; if your writing doesn't transcend the era, then it would really seem to be only of very limited sociological importance.

Niels Christensen

It is more a squaring of positions than suddenly people seeing anything positive about the dollar. Intervention has a limited and short-lived impact. It has not started an uptrend in dollar/yen.

Robert Hurwitz

It allows for Tony winners and other people with limited availability to take part,

Ivan Lathouders

But because of the limited information, we do not really know why that is the case.

Patrick Walsh

His mind will be perfect. He will not have any problems there. He is limited from doing a lot of physical things until he's a little stronger.

Joe Harsel

Historically, this sort of retirement living has been limited to the wealthiest in a community. The way that we do it makes it within the reach of that retired schoolteacher.

Larry Davis

He did very well. It was a limited workout, but there was no soreness and pain.

Tim Palmer

We can make better use of very limited resources to prevent outbreaks of these epidemics.

Jeff Smith

We're on a limited budget. And I think we've spent every nickel of it.

Beck

The limitations are limitless.

Zharmakhan Tuyakbai

Every year he strengthens his own, limitless power. Mr. Nazarbayev is moving toward the status of a dictator.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Limitless is your potential. Magnificent is your future.

Haley Reinhart

Music continues to remind me that its boundaries are limitless.

James Cash Penney

Our very living is selling. We are all salespeople.

Kathy Acker

i am a limitless series of natural disasters and all of these disasters have been unnaturally repressed.

Clint Hurdle

He very well could, if he pitches well enough, ... That's been mapped out for him, told him he could have that opportunity.

Jennifer Aniston

You just wake up one day and you start to feel like, 'Yeah, I think I'm open to that now.' It's not mapped out. It just sort of happened.

Mike Harris

We really won't know what that will entail until the time comes when we can get it mapped out.

Meg White

Every second is mapped out and he has this total childish fascination with color and shapes and sequences.

John Forbes Nash, Jr.

I was on the mathematics faculty at M.I.T. from 1951 through until I resigned in the spring of 1959.

Mary Callahan Erdoes

I was a mathematics major and really into math.

William Booth

If any of them that come through the program are having trouble in math, I'll tutor them. (Teaching) is the most important thing I do.

Alvin E. Roth

I've always been interested in using mathematics to make the world work better.

Clive Granger

I preferred to use mathematics in some practical fashion and thought that meteorology sounded promising.

Richard Bach

Aerodynamics is mathematics for those who haven't learned to do calculus. In my case, too, for one who hasn't learned to add or multiply, at least the first time.

Todd Berrier

With 43 teams here, you do the math.

Bill Gates

In terms of mathematics textbooks, why can't you have the scale of a national market? Right now, we have a Texas textbook that's different from a California textbook that's different from a Massachusetts textbook. That's very expensive.

David Chalmers

My interests started about in science and in mathematics; I always thought I was going to be a mathematician.

Patrick Cunningham

It is a very narrow population and this is pretty much unique,

Willie Randolph

I don't think you can look at one leader, ... You narrow yourself and get into trouble when it's only one guy. Because if he isn't always there, what are you going to do?

Malik Peiris

One can narrow potential culprits and be prepared with vaccines.

Waris Ahluwalia

My go-to jeans are a straight, narrow cut from A.P.C. or BLK DNM.

Ernest Hemingway

Oak Park is a neighborhood of wide lawns and narrow minds.

Frederick Pollock

Crabbed and obscure definitions are of no use beyond a narrow circle of students, of whom probably every one has a pet one of his own.

Madeline Albright

There are gaps. We're trying to narrow those gaps,

Cassie Desmone

The fairways are so narrow and everything slopes toward the mountain.

Alan Curbishley

Once they have got preliminary discussions out of the way they will narrow it down because they want to do it before the World Cup.

Earl Blumenauer

Part of what needs to be going on,

Hal Mumme

Paul Dombrowski is a tremendous competitor. If he wants to play at the next level, he needs to be a slot guy, a running-back-type guy.

Cheryl Smith

Some of the teachers and the administrators are part of the problem. The federal, the state just needs to come in and take over, not just Hillside and Southern, the school board, the administrators, all of it.

Scott Benedict

Someone needs to step up to the plate and offer him a scholarship.

Dan Daly

Our position would not be that we don't need to do anything. The status quo is not appropriate. Something needs to be done.

Steve Zeller

Our secondary still needs some work. We weren't making the reads on the ball.

J. C. Watts

Our team is pretty unique because we're all so close. If you're scared to do a trick, you know you have to do it because the team needs you to do it.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I need to brush my teeth. And I need a shower." He grinned, hopping off the bike. "Now that is an invitation.

Barry Ritholtz

Salesmen always need something to sell.

Gene Upshaw

Our number has to start with a six.

Jose Ramos-Horta

Such a structure would also raise a number of problems: first of all, which Timorese to pay compensation to? It would open a can of worms in terms of who was really a victim and who was not.

Scott Morris

Surprisingly, there are actually a number of useful resources already working on Linux.

Brendan Wilders

Overall, my putative numbers will come down just slightly.

Tony Batista

I'm here, that's what I can say. I know for sure the numbers are going to come. You just have to wait, but I know at the end of the season the numbers are going to be there.

Barry McCaffrey

So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.

Barry McGuire

You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't. There's just no rhyme or reason.

B. F. Skinner

If the world is to save any part of its resources for the future, it must reduce not only consumption but the number of consumers.

Bhumibol Adulyadej

It could be argued that, in Thailand, many foreigners have come and gone, and the number of people who are considered to be Thai have traveled abroad in a great number.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Patience is not active; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.

Bill Cowher

Patience is a virtue. If you have the right people.

Thomas H. Huxley

Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

Guus Hiddink

Robert is on his way, but we need more time and patience,

Bernard Barton

Patience wins the race.

Bill Vaughan

Let me look upward into the branches of the flowering oak and know that it grew great and strong because it grew slowly and well.

Bill Vaughan

Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request. One must seem to hear the unreasonable demands of the petulant, unmoved, and the tedious details of the dull, untired. That is the least price that a man must pay for a high station.

Robert Browning

The are times when patience proves at fault.

Gary Russell

The range of possibilities is still pretty vast,

Kevin Krueger

Whatever he wants to do with his life...we just want all the possibilities to be there for him.

Luka Sulic

Don't wait for someone to call you up. You can do anything. You have all the possibilities in the world.

Paul Simon

Time, time, time, See what's become of me, While I look around all my possibilities

Roger Turner

This route is shorter than any of the possibilities that could be used for I-3.

Steve Letro

We have to wait and see what (Ophelia) is going to do. The possibilities are endless.

Jeff Hennion

We are being presented with different possibilities all day, every day.

Marcia Wieder

The possibilities are unlimited as long as you are true to your life's purpose.

Jim Haslett

I haven't talked to Mr. Benson about any of that at all. I haven't talked about those possibilities yet. I would like to know something before the end of the season. But that's up to him.

Marcus Valerius Martial

Glory comes too late, after one as been reduced to ashes.

Rex Wilmouth

If they are making that much profit, they should reduce rates.

Leila Janah

Most of us working on poverty alleviation simply want to know, 'How much poverty can I reduce for every dollar I donate?'

Siri Hustvedt

Although sometimes the morbid is also the transcendent, the transcendent cannot be reduced to the morbid.

Carolyn Beck

We're trying to reduce that and save lives.

Roy Blunt

I'd be a lot more excited about eliminating earmarks if we reduced all of the spending by whatever the earmarks used to be, but nobody's, apparently, going to talk about doing that.

Dave Johnston

We are not trying to criminalise more people, we are trying to reduce the supply and demand.

Mitt Romney

I'd rather see the tax for innovation reduced rather than expanded.

Madonna Ciccone

When I went to Africa, I was reduced to floods of tears every day.

Becca Fitzpatrick

You’re impinging on my private space,” I said, inching backward. Patch gave a barely-there smile. "Impinging? This isn’t the SAT, Nora.

Barry McGuire

You may leave here for four days in space, but when you return it's the same old place.

Cecil Taylor

Rhythm is the life of space of time danced through.

Carrie Fisher

As we all know, there is no underwear in space.

Carl Sagan

By looking far out into space we are also looking far back into time, back toward the horizon of the universe, back toward the epoch of the Big Bang.

Bernard Berenson

In figure painting, the type of all painting, I have endeavoured to set forth that the principal if not sole source of life enchantments are Tactile Values, Movement and Space Composition.

Antoni Tapies

A cross could be a shape for expressing something spacious, such as the coordinators of space. That could be called its first significance or its first relevance.

Geoffrey Canada

It is important to have permanent safe spaces in Harlem.

Josh Smith

I'd like to see how space is. I'd like to float.

Cyril Connolly

The lesson one can learn from Firbank is that of inconsequence. There is the vein which he tapped and which has not yet been fully exploited.

Andrew Williams

If you're going to be a wannabe, make sure you 'wannabe' something great. The most shocking thing about wannabes, is they largely want to be something irrelevant, vein, or just plain petty.

Chuck Palahniuk

I ran. I ran until my muscles burned and my veins pumped battery acid. Then I ran some more.

Jim Jarmusch

I prefer to be subcultural rather than mass-cultural. I'm not interested in hitting the vein of the mainstream.

Henry David Thoreau

Work your vein till it is exhausted, or conducts you to a broader one.

Jean Racine

It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey.

George Herbert

He that is drunken * * * Is outlawed by himself; all kind of ill Did with his liquor slide into his veins.

Jean Cocteau

I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.

Holly Black

Poisonous jealousy thrummed through my veins.

Abu Bakr

When you seek advice, do not withhold any facts from the person whose advice you seek.

Warren Zevon

I remember certain lines and whose they are.

Nizam Idris

I would say it's more within my expectations.

Michael Mann

We're number-crunching to see what we can do within our mandate.

Jeremy Duxbury

We will have to work within the budget.

Jeffrey Smith

We work within the system. I don't want to say we're rebellious.

Kerry Bailey

Typically within two weeks, we're done with the analysis.

Roberto Azevedo

We have to learn how to work within the limits that are possible, not what is desirable.

Gary Thompson

We have very well-trained RAs and RDs within residence halls,

Checky Herrington

We should be able to energize it within one or two days.