Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ivette Mendez

Reforms are clearly overdue and we believe an independent monitor along with the federal investigation are the catalysts to provide them.

Bill Cline

Records are made to be broken. My hats off to them...somebody will probably come along and break theirs.

Lynn Franco

Recent turmoil on Wall Street and in worldwide financial markets, along with continuing layoff announcements, have not dampened consumer confidence,

Greg Knapp

Really, when all is over and done with, people will judge a quarterback by wins and losses. That's the best criteria you can have. Sure, we want him to improve his completion percentage. We'd like for him to complete every pass he throws, but you have to be realistic. This offense develops, for many young players, from the inside out. We're moving along at just the right pace.

O. J. Simpson

Reggie, Michael and J.D. are coming along well. I'm really proud of how the three of them look thus far in the season. The other ones are learning. Most of the other ones, this is their first year, but they've got good basics and good mechanics, so I think we'll improve as the season goes.

John Browning

Our recent experience, particularly with solar, has given us the expertise and confidence to develop new products and markets alongside our mainstream business,

Eric Lindquist

Patients breathe. If you've got a lung tumor, the patient's going to move, so the tumor is going to move. You have to have an intelligent robot capable of moving along with the target. So this robotic system really expands radiosurgery for use throughout the body.

David Pepper

Part of getting along well is ... to put what was a good race behind us. We're going to work closely together. To move the region forward, you need a county commission that can really work closely together. Frankly, before the race, Mark and I always had a good relationship and we have a good relationship now.

Jeff Halpern

Part of what we're trying to do is get pucks to the net and outwork teams along the boards, something we'd like to build on. But now pucks are just going to the net. Some of the time when we're getting a lot of those chances we're trying to get second and third opportunities. It's really just getting the bounces.

Idotha Neal

Rehab is occurring all around us. However, there is a significant funding gap keeping the buildings from being financially viable for high capacity developers.

Harry Wadsworth

Some of our buildings got a little wet from the hurricane, but it was sporadic.

Sam Roberts

Our buildings are all safe. The changes are nothing big at all. The report reflects well on the maintenance staff.

Jeanette Woods

We need the custodial staff because of the square footage we have in the buildings. It's kind of a waste of money if you fix buildings up but you don't maintain them.

Brian Anderson

We'll also operate a clubhouse and skilled-care facility. These different types of construction can be more or less spread out and the heights of the buildings will also be different.

George Ferguson

It is a shining example of what 99% of PFI-funded buildings are not doing.

Andrew Arrington

It is an arson because someone has burned down buildings but because we don't have all of the evidence we're still considering what the charges will be.

Kathy Sierra

That was quite an experience right there, ... We went to New York the year after it happened. It was weird, because there was just like a big ol' gap in between all these buildings and you could tell where the damage had been done.

Chris Browne

It is nothing like it used to be, ... All these buildings were once growing concerns. That was the engine that drove the economy back then.

Loren Thompson

Part of the story on space radar can't be told because it concerns the most sensitive missions of government satellites.

Ehud Barak

Peacemaking must be a two-way street. Each side must take into consideration the concerns and sensitivities of the other,

Adam Ereli

Our objective, ... is to help relieve the suffering of the North Korean people, despite our concerns about the North Korean government's policies.

Kiran More

Our middle-order is very strong. We have some concerns only with the opening slot.

Kevin Caron

Oracle had gotten to valuations that it probably didn't deserve yet and the sell-off is a reflection of concerns over valuations. It's still a very good software company. We expect a little slower revenue growth but overall, they are an impressive company.

Peter Gioia

Survey respondents are facing flat job growth figures and are mirroring the concerns expressed in other surveys about the national economy, which has slowed considerably from solid growth in the first three quarters of 2005. Purchasing managers are displaying mixed signals looking forward into 2006.

S. Walker

Some of the concerns out there about CPI hitting 3% at least in the short-term look overdone. Unless we get another surge in oil prices, this may well mark the peak.

S. Walker

Some of the concerns out there about CPI hitting 3% ... at least in the short term look overdone,

Carrie Cunningham

Some of the concerns of the nursing students are difficult to see how the merger would create new synergy. Between faculty and increase opportunity for interdisciplinary teaching and research. This would hurt our resources. Our programs are so dissimilar and grants and gift funding are very specific.

Jill Stelfox

Patent infringement is a reality in the wireless space. It's an operating distraction, yes. There are only so many fights that you can pick. Though in a way, it also has a value because it ultimately shows people the value of what's being developed in this space and how important it is.

Romesh Wadhwani

I think the tradition of philanthropy is far better developed in the U.S. than in India, as is the whole notion of giving away 50% of your wealth while you are still living and not waiting till you're gone.

Leo Kottke

It is another universe. ... It's encouraging to find out that you can still flex. I did have the hunch that I had probably developed some rock-hard habits by now. But it's not like that at all.

Sol Stern

I think there are some people on the right who keep some distance from him, because they regard him as still radical. The techniques we developed at Ramparts live on. We deliberately tried to be provocative -- we went for the jugular, we could be nasty with our opponents.

Edmund Phelps

The 1920s and 1930s were a period of sensational productivity growth: new products were springing up all over the place, and most of those new products and new methods were developed by people who started their own companies.

Melvin Maddocks

It is one test of a fully developed writer that he reminds us of no one but himself.

Ben Kingsley

I think that the stamina, the marathon stamina that you required of your actor, I probably developed on great texts during my Shakespeare tenancy, if you like.

Jeff Ross

I was the kid who always hung back and then dropped the jokes when you least expected it. Timing was everything. My mouth sort of developed over time.

Cleve Touchberry

I think her leadership status has developed and is good. I think a lot of people knew about her, but her performance in the state championship game opened a lot of other people's eyes, too.

Christina Guerland

Rebecca stepped into a really difficult situation, and she did a phenomenal job. They really struggled with her.

Marlon Defillo

Our police officers are working under some very trying times. So it's a difficult time, but it doesn't excuse what our jobs are supposed to be.

Patrick Norman

Our music is something you have to hear. It's always difficult to describe. It's with our own slant, but it's rock 'n' roll nonetheless.

Lawrence Yun

People have been saying that for 20 years. But in San Francisco, it's very difficult to build, so there's a supply constraint. Seattle is also encountering a supply-constraint situation.

Lee Hunter

People later sent me hours of video and newspaper clippings of it, but I haven't look at them since. It was such a difficult weekend.

Lewis Altfest

People in their 40s and 50s are saving for their kids and for their retirement. They have the most difficult time saving because they have the most overhead expenses.

Pavan Duggal

Such rules have proved to be ineffective and enjoy little support on the ground. It is also very difficult to implement them.

Mike Halpert

Spring is oftentimes very difficult to forecast. Tomorrow it might snow and a weekend ago, it was 85.

Valentino Rossi

Starting from the third row will make life difficult tomorrow as it will be hard to overtake,

August Wilson

Regardless of the medium, rewriting and more rewriting is still necessary. No one gets anything right the first time, and since I don't write with a hammer and chisel, it's relatively easy for me to change. It's just words on paper. Words are free. You don't go to the store and order a pound of words, or five hundred words, and pay your three dollars. They're free.

John Papa

Records are hard to come by, especially the outdoor records. The records that have fallen this season are significant ones, and are not easy to achieve.

Jamie Langenbrunner

Patty sees the ice very well. I was trying to find a lane there so he could make as easy a pass as possible. It was a great pass by Patty.

Jason Jennings

Our offense was, to say the least, pretty impressive this whole series. It really just let us, as a staff, just relax and be aggressive. When you get nine or 10 runs a game, it's pretty easy to pitch.

Richard Sheridan

Our memories are independent of our wills. It is not so easy to forget.

Mila Kunis

People have interpretations of what you're supposed to be like. If you're unattractive and overweight, you must have a great personality. If you're attractive, then you must not be the nicest person. People are always taken aback that I'm easygoing but not necessarily stupid.

Tony Brock

People have GPS. They give their position, and they're easy to locate.

Mike Lorello

People have to realize Rutgers isn't the same team historically that they've been. It's pretty easy to tell they're a good football team.

Brian Moody

People like to pick on the Hummer, because it's an easy target,

B. F. Skinner

Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?

James Johnston

I think Landco will come up with something that's very palatable in an environmental sense, but to me any form of development is out of the question.

Jose Gasset

I am I plus my surroundings and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.

Zac Goldsmith

'Green' is likely to be a big issue in the 2008 U.S. presidential election - largely in response to George Bush's suicidal refusal to engage with environmental issues.

Zhou Shengxian

If in the past, in terms of environmental protection, we were very passive ... now there has been a U-turn.

Gisele Bundchen

I feel privileged to be a U.N. ambassador. It gives me an opportunity to use my voice to help raise awareness about important social and environmental issues.

Michael Town

From an environmental perspective, we should be responsible for our own waste.

Gloria Bergquist

I think it's an overall trend that environmental standards and safety standards are getting tighter and tighter. When you have an event like this (Firestone recall), that raises sensitivity about getting the safest vehicle possible.

Woody Harrelson

Bur I think all the environmental groups have to focus on at least one main issue together. That's the move we need to do right now.

Gigi Sohn

pleased to see many of the pro-competitive features of the draft.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

Laughter is an interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

Laughter -- An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.

Devon Bostick

I have been writing since 11th grade, and have a few features that have almost gotten off the ground. I really want one of my features to come to life.

Jeff Pulver

We are going to offer enterprises an opportunity for real instant collaboration and features that they can't get from the regular phone network.

Chris Stokes

I feel that I will be more of a feature director, and I will go away completely from videos. I want to do features and have written several of them. I'm looking to be more like a Steven Spielberg.

Matthew Stewart

One of the distinguishing features of anything that aspires to the name of science is the reproducibility of experimental results.

Romy Schneider

I wish to present myself in front of the camera, each time under the features of a different woman. I would like to live and apprehend the problems, the conflicts, the feelings and the impulses of women radically different from me.

Donovan Campbell

Ms. Willey features very prominently in our filing today.

Craig Bradley

Parking here is worse than on many other large campuses.

Tom Daschle

That cozy, permissive relationship has to end, and he in large measure has orchestrated that over he last 18 months,

Jeff Davis

Our players, because they travel a lot, are not shocked at tournament time playing away from home. The larger leagues that play between themselves are surprised come tournament time because they're seeing pitchers they've never seen before.

Hans Vestberg

Our take was that if we are going to support our customers, we have to help them with video distribution, whether that is iPad, TV, small screen or large screen.

Danny Shader

Overall, the situation is going nuts. We are getting a very large number of inquiries.

William Diamond

Our upholsterer teased us about the scale of the sofa. He says it's the largest sofa that he has ever made.

Sam Moore

Remember, I'm your largest shareholder. Don't screw it up,

Bette Davis

I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable... I suppose I'm larger than life.

Mike Chung

Large trucks have been so much more inexpensive recently.

Steve Clarke

He leaves a strong legacy for the country.

Stephen Hunter

I have never connected with 'Gone With the Wind.' 'Lawrence of Arabia' leaves me cold.

Tracy Kidder

I'm a little suspicious of the great, overarching view. It always leaves something out.

Gordon Roberts

He's a worker. He never misses a day. He's (in the weight room) first and leaves last.

Josh Blaisdell

We are not pleased with the outcome, it leaves a real sour taste in our mouths. But it puts things in perspective.

Coco Chanel

There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

Terence Winter

Very often at the end of 'The Sopranos' you get the feeling that its not under control, you should be very worried, and life is kind of really, really messed up at lot of times. It leaves you feeling very disconcerted. That was kind of the point of it.

Dave Tippett

I thought tactically we were pretty good, but we were a little sloppy at the end, which leaves a sour taste in your mouth.

Scott Lang

With Southern magnolias, you're talking leaves the size of snowshoes and that's a big pain.

Gary Matt

Start with just the physical qualities of the card.

Lawrence Goldstein

Physically it's very feasible, and politically it's very feasible.

Willie Anderson

Physically I'm doing good. It's going to be a while before I get that game-type conditioning and get my second wind in the game.

Willie Anderson

Physically I'm doing good, ... It's going to be a while before I get that game-type conditioning and get my second wind in the game.

Steve Hodson

Physically and mentally, you've got to be tough. We did that down to the end.

Mark McHale

That wasn't physically getting beat. It was a miscommunication deal.

Lee Bennett

It got physical and we weren't strong with the ball.

Jacques Santini

It is important for the players to relax physically and also psychologically,

Domhnall Gleeson

I tend to play 'tortured' a lot, whether it's physically or emotionally.

Ken Williams

I still have 17 pieces of shrapnel in my neck.

Jimmy Johnson

There are so many pieces to the puzzle,

Jill Buford

I don't think any one of these is the solution. It's going to be a combination of them all. This is just a big puzzle and we need to put all the pieces together.

Jacqueline Grebmeier

Here we put all the pieces of the puzzle together.

Charlie Batch

He's been able to put this together and make sure the right pieces are in place. And we were pieces of this team.

Carson McCullers

Sometimes this fellow's music was like little colored pieces of crystal candy, and other times it was the softest, saddest thing she had ever imagined about.

Aaron Copland

The melody is generally what the piece is all about.

Eddie Carbone

She puts all the pieces together. I promote the tournament, work with the players. She runs the tournament.

Barbara Kruger

The so-called language of Barbara Kruger is vernacular language. Obviously, I pick through bits and pieces of it and figure out to some degree how to objectify my experience of the world, using pictures and words that construct and contain me.

Lilly Singh

I think one of the most beautiful things about YouTube is that it makes the world a smaller place. You realize that we're all different, but we're all the same. And if you think about it, it's a beautiful concept.

George William Norris

There is not much danger of the smaller nations if the big nations will behave.

Jean Prewitt

If anything is going to get around a quota, it is those big projects. What is not going to make it in, is the smaller product.

Fred Jones

We're trying to keep it in smaller modules.

Billy Beane

Smaller markets teams, when you hit bottom, you hit with a thud.

Rick Whatley

Nothing has changed. We are just in a smaller (space). We didn't really need all that space.

Marc Galanter

The smaller the jury, the more variance you get just from the play of the numbers.

Daniela Ruah

I've met real female NCIS agents who were smaller than I am. They were very petite.

David Liston

They won't want to be taken over by a much smaller bank,

Henry George

Everybody works but the vacant lot