Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Wallace

We have seen a continuation of the hotel recovery in almost all areas of the world helped both by higher occupancies and higher rates,

John Quinn

We have to get out of this rut of letting teams hang around and get back in the game. It's almost like we're playing from behind when we have the lead. We just have to finish out games better.

Dirk Nowitzki

We have to find our sense of urgency a little bit earlier. We gave up almost 70 in the first half. It looked like we just went through the motions.

Gary Milhollin

What the tapes show is that between the first gulf war and the second gulf war, Saddam Hussein had not lost his appetite for, or interest in, weapons of mass destruction. To the contrary, he was almost obsessed by them.

Mark Dindal

When everybody feels pretty good about themselves, and you have Champagne coming out of the water fountain, it's almost like we've got to burn the place down.

Duane Wallace

When your power bill is almost half of what your rent is it creates a real problem.

John M. Smith

We were at the cruise ship greeting all of our visitors as they departed, and almost everyone of them had just wonderful things to say about the city, about the volunteers, and I mean it was just...it was incredible.

Melissa Elmer

We were almost tasting it. Girls that went through it took it pretty hard. It wasn't easy to come out on the losing end of that match.

Russ Suemnicht

We were almost reluctant to go that way. But we knew we needed to follow the trend. New country was beginning to cross over into rock, which was creating a new style of music, and it caught on very heavily.

Marwan Muasher

This will only strengthen our resolve to find a solution to all the problems of the region.... (We) express our sympathies to the victims of the terrorists inside Saudi Arabia and our condemnation of this act.

Jamal Qureshi

This really comes down to what can Saudi Arabia do.

Billy Joel

Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania.

E. O. Wilson

Since theological propositions are scientifically meaningless, those of us of pragmatic disposition simply won't buy such dubious merchandise. . . . Maybe -- remotely -- there might be something in such promotions, as there might be something in the talking dogs and the stocks in Arabian tapioca mines that W.C. Fields once sold in his comedies, but we suspect that we recognize a con game in operation. At least, we want to hear the dog talk or see the tapioca ore before we buy into such deals.

Kevin Kerr

Nigeria is the major driver behind the price rise. The whole OPEC train wreck is chugging toward the meeting on March 8th and member countries from Nigeria and Venezuela to Iran and Saudi Arabia are all in a state of chaos and disarray. Not to mention the fact that they all have some gripe with the U.S.

Tony Nunan

Only Saudi Arabia has surplus capacity, and if its oil flow should be disrupted, it could bring a hopeless situation.

Bible Bible

Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and threescore and six talents of gold; / Beside that which chapmen and merchants brought. And all the kings of Arabia and governors of the country brought gold and silver to Solomon.

Nicholas Kristof

Girls' education is no silver bullet. Iran and Saudi Arabia have both educated girls but refused to empower them, so both remain mired in the past. But when a country educates and unleashes women, those educated women often become force multipliers for good.

Guy Caruso

I don't have any specific concerns about Saudi Arabia at this time.

Jia Qinglin

We shall stick to the policies of 'Hong Kong people governing Hong Kong,' 'Macau people governing Macau' and a high degree of autonomy.

Jia Qinglin

We shall stick to the policies of ' Hong Kong people governing Hong Kong,' ' Macao people governing Macao' and a high degree of autonomy.

Suzanne Collins

When I got out of undergrad, I had a degree in theater and telecommunications. My first job, I was a news reporter for the local stories for NPR. Then I was a country-western DJ. I did data entry for a yearbook company. In my mid-20s I went back to grad school at NYU, and I specialized in playwriting.

Sue Monk Kidd

I got my Bachelor's degree in nursing and worked nine years - even taught nursing in a college - before I stopped and said to myself, 'This is not who I am. I am not really a nurse inside. I'm a writer.'

David Alan Grier

I had done the sitcom thing to lesser and lesser degrees of success.

Eric Balfour

To whatever degree you have as a celebrity or notoriety, there are people who see you as an opinion leader.

Eric Kandel

Psychoanalysis has a degree of unreliability about it. You will never know whether you've found the truth. You may find a subjective truth, but you don't know.

Kathleen Rose Perkins

I graduated with a degree in musical theater and no skill in anything else to make money; I wish I had gotten a massage therapy kit or something where I could have made my own money.

Jane Austen

Yes, I found myself, by insensible degrees, sincerely fond of her; and the happiest hours of my life were what I spent with her.

Ed Koch

If you listen to Giuliani, it's like nobody did anything to improve the city except him. I'm not part of the history. Bloomberg's not part of the history. It's like, he did it. He's the only one. That's why he's a little crazy.

Eve Plumb

I never wanted to do reunion shows for the sake of a reunion show. I've done all the 'Brady Bunch' stuff except for the Variety Show, but when a talk show wants us all to get together for their sake, it's not interesting to me.

Eugenie Clark

I want to be remembered as a nice person who didn't hurt people - except my ex-husbands, maybe.

Lajos Egri

No two dramatists think or write alike. Ten thousand playwrights can take the same premise, as they have done since Shakespeare, and not one play will resemble the other except in the premise. Your knowledge, your understanding of human nature, and your imagination will take care of that.

Nick Flynn

I'm not sure why working at a homeless shelter made sense to me, except that I needed to immerse myself in some sort of larger real-life situation to get me out of the cage of my mind, in some ways.

Mark Snyder

We're still learning how to practice, like everyone except the NFL,

Keith Jarrett

I don't like recording studios - except my own, which is just a little room above the garage.

Tom Wolfe

'Back to Blood' really took it out of me. While I was writing it, I just never went out anywhere, except to the gym.

Charles Osgood

There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule.

Kjell Magne Bondevik

We have to find compromises. That's the way it is in Norway.

Jo Nesbo

The myth about me as a footballer has grown: I am now the lost Maradona of Norway.

Ted Cruz

If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it?

Ted Cruz

The people who suffer in the Obama economy have been young people, African Americans, Hispanics, single moms.

David A. Siegel

The combination of Obamacare and taxes would be a disaster.

Brit Hume

Insure the uninsured. Effect of Obamacare to date: Uninsure the insured,

Bob Beauprez

When the American people elected Barack Obama and large Democrat majorities, the die was cast. ObamaCare was coming. Popular or not, constitutional or not, affordable or not, it didn't matter.

Bob Beauprez

After the Democrats shoved the 2700 pages of ObamaCare down our throats - and we did find out how expensive, controlling, and coercive the legislation was - a majority of Americans wanted the Supreme Court to toss it aside as unconstitutional.

Arlen Specter

If Romney wants to make me responsible for ObamaCare, I've said I would be proud to be responsible for it.

Timothy Noah

With its Medicaid expansion, Obamacare may turn out to be the most equality-promoting policy enacted in a generation.

Tina Brown

It's almost as if Putin is brilliant, really - he's outfoxing Obama all the time.

Oliver Kahn

I am relaxed about the situation now. If I play, I try to concentrate on producing my best.

Garry Garner

We've been producing those since at least 1969.

Randy Lascody

This time of year, these fronts are ineffective in producing a lot of rain.

Kate O'Mara

I enjoy producing because the show becomes your baby.

Marlon Wayans

I got written out of 'G.I. Joe' and was like, 'Welp, I'm going to go back to what I do: writing and producing comedy.'

Dee Snider

I tested the waters on producing a record, but I'm more of a creative guy. I can't get into minute details.

Damian Lewis

Producing is a world of compromise and actors are utterly spoiled all the time.

Tony Robinson

There's some truth to it. We do a lot of talking but we aren't producing anything.

Scott Davis

You're not producing them to eat; you're producing them to breed.

Frank Herbert

A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel.

Larry Jones

You used to spend a lot of your time with a ruler in your hand.

Katherine Harris

God is the one who chooses our rulers

Arthur Conan Doyle

Even the best of us are thrown off some- times.

Kate Michelman

Now, the gauntlet has been, I think, thrown down.

Philippe Petit

I didn't go to school much. I was thrown out of different schools, and my university is the street.

Carlo Ratti

Some trash is recycled, some is thrown away, some ends up where it shouldn't end up.

Heath Lane

We really didn't have a play at first, and we shouldn't have thrown the ball.

Alan Trammel

If someone is going to get thrown out, it should be the manager.

Rand Paul

William Lloyd Garrison was up there with Frederick Douglass being thrown off trains and going through what happened in the 1960s in 1840 in Boston.

Mike Conroy

We've had lefties thrown at us all year. We're used to it now.

Kevin McCarthy

That was thrown on us, so we'll look at it and see which way we go about doing it.

Khloe Kardashian

Once you start losing weight and seeing results, you're like, 'I want to see more!'

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I'm constantly looking to see whether I look the same as I did earlier, whether I've put on or lost any weight.

Jordin Sparks

The weight really started falling off, and I could see my muscles. It was awesome.

Cathy Guisewite

This is a business meal. The calories do not count. I am mentally labeling these as 'business calories' so my body will know they were eaten in the line of duty and will process them differently.

Cathy Guisewite

Wake me up when I'm a size 5.

Cass McCombs

Opinions only carry weight in the second or third person.

Cat Deeley

I don't feel any pressure to lose weight - and in any case, if I didn't have my food I'd be a nasty piece of work and wouldn't be able to function.

Carre Otis

My weight fluctuated when I was 30, and I did the unthinkable - I stepped out as a plus-sized model.

Chanel Iman

I drink a lot of protein shakes and do a lot of weight lifting.