Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dick Durbin

may be a very competent individual. But how in the world can we get to the truth of the question as to what went wrong with Hurricane Katrina -- how can we really hope to discover the incompetence that led to all this human suffering and devastation -- if the administration is going to investigate itself?

E. P. Thompson

Now that John Thompson is successful, ... I find it very difficult to fire him because the pigmentation in his skin is white. Besides, he's competent and he's my friend.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

I would rather have five energetic and competent enemies than one fool friend.

Frank Middleton

She has now determined (Kirk) is competent to stand trial. That is not an issue,

Jesse Smith

Since he has no prior record and obviously this was the result of some form of Alzheimer's, I would hope he would be placed on probation in the event he's found competent to stand trial. I would be very surprised if he were sent to prison. It's a sort of freak occurrence that someone this old gets involved in something like this. He's the oldest person I've ever had to represent.

Nelson Mandela

I realized quickly what Mandela and Tambo meant to ordinary Africans. It was a place where they could come and find a sympathetic ear and a competent ally, a place where they would not be either turned away or cheated, a place where they might actually feel proud to be represented by men of their own skin color.

Nico Rosberg

My dad is a great manager. He's not just competent - he's very clever.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

We are right now going through the process, and it is -- as you know, it's always very important that we appoint the right person and the most competent person, the person that really is skilled and has the experience,

William Graham Sumner

We are to see the development of the country pushed forward at an unprecedented rate by an aggregation of capital, and a systematic application of it under the direction of competent men.

Bob DuPuy

MLB is a special, but fairly priced, family fare.

Rhianna Pratchett

My journalist sensibilities have guided me toward the types of projects I've gone for, even though the projects have been fairly diverse. It always has to have that interesting to attract me, I think.

Daniel Stern

My life is fairly normal. I didn't wake up one morning and find out that I'm suddenly a star, with people clamoring at me. I feel like I'm moving up the ladder just a little, which is fine.

James Vincent McMorrow

More often than not, changes had to be made in order for a song to make sense, and by the end of it, it would just be something different. Lyrically, I am usually fairly confused until something is finished, and then it makes perfect sense to me.

Adam Lamberg

Memorising my lines is actually something I do fairly well. I look at it a few times and it is pretty much there. When your shooting on TV, they do it in such a way that it is pretty easy.

Dr. Chauvet

No one wanted to loan me anything. My numbers were small because I was just starting. I used all my savings, and my parents loaned me money. I was able to pay them back fairly quickly.

Grant Williams

News Corp's fairly firm so it's taking some of the red out the index.

Andy Roberts

When you put your heart and soul into something for 10, 15 years, it's a career. You do it in the hopes you can be fairly evaluated and make it to the major leagues.

Kylie Minogue

I have always had a separate walk-in wardrobe, so I have the luxury of a fairly sparse bedroom.

Deyon Pitter

My generation was taught to go to school, get an education, get a job and live happily ever after. Do you see the problem?

John Updike

My generation was maybe the last in which you could set up shop as a writer and hope to make a living at it.

P. J. O'Rourke

My generation of Americans was the first to really care about racism and sexism, not to mention the I Ching, plus, of course, the Earth.

Jeremy Paxton

My generation have had it good, and I am really troubled by what we have done with it.

Lindsey Graham

If being intelligent, brilliant, a superb lawyer, the greatest legal mind of your generation and well qualified is not enough, what is?

Rocco Landesman

one of the most important American playwrights ever. I think his work is going to speak to generation after generation of theatergoers.

Patrick McGowan

We openly talk about wilderness in this administration. We are not scared of the word. We use it openly. And I think the next generation of users is going to come to Maine for wilderness experiences.

Karl Inderfurth

We have lost touch with a generation of Pakistani military leaders.

Vinod Khosla

You know, one of the great things about most renewable technologies - not every technology, but many of them - is the jobs have to be local. When you're talking about a power plant and power generation using solar thermal technology, the jobs will be where the plant is.

Jim Carrey

Second year in a row -- what's going on here, man? ... I'm the establishment I once rejected. ... I'm the Tom Hanks of the Golden Globes.

David Williams

Maybe it's just the old golden rule: Treat someone else the way you'd like to be treated.

Twiggy

My golden rules for looking good are to moisturise to ridiculousness with a really rich moisturiser. And I always take my make-up off before going to bed.

Richard Aboulafia

If they do this right, they are golden for a long time.

Christopher Guest

I have a half Lab and half golden retriever named Henry and then the other one, Lucy, is half Akita and half something else.

Chris Castro

This strategy makes a lot of sense for us. There's a golden opportunity for us in DVD.

Barack Obama

I will never turn Medicare into a voucher. No American should ever have to spend their golden years at the mercy of insurance companies. They should retire with the care and dignity they have earned.

Geoff Blum

Those are golden opportunities. A strikeout right there would have been better than what I did.

Stuart Appleby

We don't have that golden child. It's tricky at the moment because they're all waiting for someone to step out of the darkness.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

For me no good food is illuminated without acidity.

Isabella Rossellini

I would like to be forgotten. What's so good about being remembered?

Rick Perlstein

Whatever you think about his intelligence, what's unquestionable is that Reagan had extraordinary emotional intelligence. He could sense the temperature of a room, and tell them a story and make them feel good. And that's more fun, right? It's more fun to feel good than feel bad. That's part of our human state.

Robert Kazinsky

There is nothing harder than working 50 pages a day, working 16 hours a day, trying to be good with only shooting rehearsals.

Robert Klein

What makes a good nanny? A good nanny is someone who really wants to do the job. Someone who loves children, who really values what she does and, of course, is valued by her employer.

Malorie Blackman

A good book is a good book. End of story.

Chuck Reed

We're not doing as good a job recycling as we want to.

Darin Strauss

Like all writing rules, the injunction to start with the trouble can be broken, and it should be sometimes - if there's good reason.

Phillip Bloch

Like any guy, he needs a great jacket, good shoes, and good jeans.

Dorothy Allison

My sisters, we didn't like each other as kids. We were scared of each other, I think, but we've grown to love each other. It was fun to write about these sisters who were supposed to hate each other but really don't.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

Grownups have a tendency to talk themselves out of things, saying it will never work, but kids are fabulously optimistic.

Joe Kennedy

When we see how large the tournament has grown and how many old friends come out and support us, it really makes me, my sister and my parents so happy. All this is in memory of their two sons.

Lora Pate

She has grown tremendously from last year. She's a wise and very heady setter.

Ron Kaminski

She has grown so much. You'd think that she'd been performing for 100 years (because of her range).

Erron Kinney

I don't know anything about it. I don't really know what to say. That is a little discouraging. It could maybe be a distraction, but he is a grown man and he'll be held accountable for whatever Whatever it is we'll all rally around each other and keep fighting.

Steve Dobey

Ideally, you want these openings to be grown up some, to provide protection cover.

David Wright

You look in the stands and you see grown men crying,

Mary Pickford

It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkies instead of the other way around.

Jurgen Klinsmann

Lehmann, Kahn and Hildebrand have all improved this season,

Nathan Watson

Last year we improved our times at every meet. As long as we can do that I will be pretty satisfied.

Terry Taylor

My life has improved so much. Frankly, I was very grateful.

Liu Jiangyong

China-Japan relationship deteriorated rather than improved over the year, and the deterioration trend will move on.

Derek Allen

I have improved a lot. I think it's strength, age, experience, and attitude. Plus, I'm really, really fit.

Jay Freese

She's improved a lot from last year and is in a new role. Autumn's inside this year instead of being out on the wing.

Joseph Nye

She has enormously improved the Wilson School, ... I've said to my successor, you've got to look over your back.

Simon van der Meer

Since then, I have worked with the group that commissioned and improved the ring and that is now preparing the construction of a second ring to increase the p stacking rate by an order of magnitude.

Andres Nocioni

I don't care. I want to work for the team, and that's it. I don't think about improved player, sixth man. If my teammates know I'm improved, that's enough.

Italo Calvino

Politics is marginal, but literature moves along by indirection.

David King

Let's just say we were pretty disappointed when Coastline Brewery moved downtown.

Marilyn Praisner

Let's stop going around and around. Let's move it.

Kit Hale

Sellers may not be able to move quite as quickly with the transaction, but prices still remain solid.

William Proxmire

Move over, $7,000 coffeepots! Stand aside, $400 hammers! We now have the $792 doormat!

Richard Rosenbaum

move on to the next stage of his life.

Chris McCarron

One real misconception, that I realized shortly after I moved out here, was that this was a vacation for the riders,

Tom Bradley

Obviously, we're going to have to move some personnel around and make some adjustments.

Walt Kuver

Of course, the commissioners need to be reassured that this move will be risk-free for the county.

Richard Sloan

Many studies, especially some of the older ones, have significant methodological flaws, which render the conclusions questionable.

Keith Richard

Getting old is a fascinating thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Joss Whedon

I had older brothers, and I don't think there's anything worse than an older brother. They pretty much told me the end of everything they got to see before I did.

Ryan Holmes

For an older generation of employees, social media often remains misunderstood and underutilized.

Lisa Graff

I was the typical little sister who wanted to be just like her older brother. When I was growing up, my brother wrote phenomenal stories, so I wanted to write them, too.

Bill Jones

We did not have many seniors, so most of our team is returning. We're a year older and we should be bigger, stronger and faster.

Ken Young

I was a little angry. We didn't talk for a while. But I'm older now. I realized that I was too sensitive.

Kim Weston

I don't know, the older I get, the more complicated I think I get, which is a hindrance.

Sarah Allen

We're older and a lot of people thought we were crazy. A lot of people still think we're crazy. They don't live in our shoes.

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.

John Hogan

If I had to predict, I would say that this year, 2005 to 2006, was probably the worst of it, in terms of the percentage increase. Things seem to have stabilized a little bit.

Jeff Judkins

Since I've been here, we've never had six teams in the (Ratings Percentage Index) top 60. I think that says a lot for our conference.

Abdullah A. Badawi

The question is what is an appropriate percentage of the equity,

Serj Tankian

The percentage of Americans in the prison system, Prison system, has doubled since 1985

David Hillery

The percentage of African-Americans at (SDSU) in proportion to the population isn't equal.

Walt Jocketty

I think you need to turn the roster over. I think turning a percentage of your roster over every year is healthy.

Craig Shniderman

Percentage of sales--the table contributions, which often represent about 50 percent of the table revenue--actually go up.

Jay Speer

There is a very small percentage of dealers we're worried about. But they can do a lot of damage.

Colleen Reitan

What is the total percentage of premium we spent in administrative expense? And we are under 10 percent of the premiums we spend on administrative expense.

Eric Norris

My door's always open, ... My phone is always ready.

John Ball

For sure, he would have wanted me to play. At least I got to talk to him on the phone (Saturday) morning.

Dave Morin

I don’t use a ring of any kind on my phone. This is so that I am always on offense and never defense.

Jodi Dias

On the phone we clicked. But when I saw him, I was like, 'Wow.' I got more interested.

George Torres

Since the Culpepper announcement our phones have been ringing off the hook.

John Madden

I didn't get a phone call. If you don't get a phone call, you know what that means.

Adriana Lima

If you're having dinner with friends and they're always on the phone or always texting, it's just impolite. Unless it's something important - like someone is in the hospital or something - don't do it.

Abigail Breslin

My phone is always in front of me, 24/7.

Chris Black

If someone is interested in working with me, I would much rather them email me and we sit down or get on the phone, than them look at a client list and decide if I'm worth it or not. It should be based on work, and based on how we get along. As opposed to like, "Oh, he's worked with this, this, and this. Let's go. That's fine."

Kathy Lang

Our wireless routers are indoors, while the new networks' will be outside.

Clyde Evans

Wireless is really kind of where everyone's going.

Michael Mahoney

Wireless is on fire. I don't see what slows wireless down.

Greg Gorbatenko

Wireless is not a failsafe. It's a telecommunications accessory.