Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vladimir Putin

It's alarming that military intervention in internal conflicts in foreign countries has become commonplace for the United States.

Michael Buckley

Ultimately, it was the increase in the amount of cash that he was requiring that set off the alarm bells.

Gary Doer

We've already completed the tests on mercury and fish and . . . so far there's nothing to alarm us,

Frank Barrows

We've tried to neither overly alarm nor under-inform people.

Joyce Holliman

When I came out of the apartment Steve was, um -- I had him in a chair. As soon as I opened the door, I was thinking that it was a false alarm or something.

Rebecca Miller

We were in bed and we heard someone's fire alarm go off, started smelling smoke and looked out the window, everyone was outside, so we just rushed out and saw everything was on fire.

Lucas Sithole

Security guards at the shopping centre heard an alarm early this morning and upon investigation saw smoke coming out of the building, but could not ascertain where the fire was coming from.

Vickie Williams

She would come in real early in the morning and sleep in a booth with a wind-up alarm clock so she could get up in time to start making them breakfast.

Pat Campbell

We're just not getting out of bed until the fourth quarter. We hit the snooze button and the alarm isn't ringing.

Elliot Perlman

I like dialogue in novels. I wanted to avoid laying history on with a trowel - appearing to be lecturing, as opposed to the characters lecturing their children or students. Dialogue can humanise the story and make it go down somewhat more smoothly.

Elliot Perlman

After a while, if you're a writer, you want to start appearing in the bookstores of the place you're living in.

Kate Reardon

There's a particularly British wariness of appearing to try too hard. It's somehow distasteful. Everything should come to us seamlessly and, if you have to work at it, you're somehow a loser.

John P. Kotter

We worry about appearing awkward in a presentation. But up to a point, most people seem to feel more comfortable with less-than-perfect speaking abilities. It makes the speaker more human - and more vulnerable, meaning he is less likely to attack our decisions or beliefs.

Michael Brown

We're finding more and more people coming out of the woodwork, ... They're appearing in places we didn't know they existed.

Liv Tyler

Life excites me. I'm not talking about appearing in movies or doing interviews, but just little, normal, everyday things. Getting out of bed. Getting dressed. Making food. I find it all exciting, you know ?

Todd Sanders

I was really surprised how young appearing two of them were.

Richard Kouri

Certainly folks are appearing to be more cordial.

Robin Bhar

Base and precious metals remain in a virtuous circle with each appearing to feed off the strength of the others.

Patrick McGurn

Very few educational institutions have filed corporate governance or social responsibility proxy proposals at publicly traded companies in recent years. The reason for this is not clearalthough the general decline in campus protest efforts is sometimes cited as the cause.

Linda Edwards

We are going to have to put security fences around all of our units throughout all of our campus to keep this from happening again. That is going to be a tremendous extra expense.

Sam Marks

We've actually had someone on campus have their guide dog hit a few times last year. The dog now has messed-up hips.

Ben Digman

We're interested in doing something that expresses what the students on campus have to say. Those of us involved right now, we're not interested in doing a watered-down publication that is not a voice of the students.

Jenny Smith

Where there is a will, there is a way. There are scholarships, grants and loans that can help you pay for school; if you still need assistance, there is always campus work-study.

Steve Ball

We're happy with the progress we made, but we're not satisfied with it. The fact that they've offered this as a full-time position and with the new facility, the campus has really shown a commitment to moving to the next step. I want to continue to progress.

Rob Evans

We met with the six returning players from last year and in those meetings my staff and I went over what each of them needs to do to improve their skills and help the team, ... With the improvements that all the returning players have made by spending the summer on campus and working in the weight room, in conditioning and on their skills, we have a chance to be right where we were last year and that is competing for an NCAA Tournament spot.

Pat Doherty

Until last year, Congress was just a club; we are trying to make it more serious and more influential for the student body. We are looking to reform our committees to make ourselves more respected and more advertised. We are trying to become more visible in the community as well as make Congress more visible on campus though we know we still have a long way to go.

Andy Robinson

What we're most concerned with is that we don't want to have hundreds and hundreds of people trying to get in and out of this campus at the same time as some of these other businesses.

Carl Andre

SoHo was called Hell's Hundred Acres because it was full of sweatshops - without fire escapes. Completely not up to code. Every once in a while, these buildings would burn and 26 Puerto Ricans would be killed.

Lee Kreindler

What the people on the ground saw was that line of fire proceeding back toward the fuselage. That's what they thought was a missile.

Amy Hall

When you say the name Ostertag, ... people are just spittin' fire.

Alan King

The other day my house caught fire. My lawyer said, "Shouldn't be a problem. What kind of coverage do you have?" I said, "Fire and theft." The lawyer frowned. "Uh oh. Wrong kind. Should be fire OR theft."

Charles Dudley Warner

To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world.

Charles de Lint

Under the skin, intense fires burn.

Charles Caleb Colton

A youth without fire is followed by an old age without experience.

Charles Caleb Colton

The French revolution was a .eune invented and constructed for the purpose of manufacturing liberty; but it had neither lever cogs, nor adjusting powers, and the consequences were that it worked so rapidly that it destroyed its own inventors, and set itself on fire.

Charles Caleb Colton

In most quarrels there is a fault on both sides. A quarrel may be compared to a spark, which cannot be produced without a flint, as well as steel. Either of them may hammer on wood forever; no fire will follow.

The Eagles

We want to put it on the defense's shoulders. More than anything we want to score on defense. We weren't able to do that, but we held on long enough so those guys could pick it up. They got in their rhythm and they did their thing.

Kevin Garnett

We have to hang on to our leads. We give them away like they're candy. It's frustrating. You have to understand the personnel. We have a young team. Our guys haven't been in these situations, and they're learning.

Sean Payton

We have to get some of these heavy guys up to speed quick.

Brian McClennan

We have no stars in our camp. For us to win we have to have 17 guys playing well." ()

John Tortorella

We have no problems with those three guys being in the lineup this time of year.

Rodney Harrison

We have so many veteran guys like Willie McGinest, Mike Vrabel, Richard Seymour, Larry Izzo, guys that have been in the fire. We lose those two guys (Bruschi and Johnson), but other guys have really stepped up to really meet that challenge.

Robbie Reiser

When everyone had written us out of the chase, that spurred these guys on, and we weren't going to go down without a fight.

Avery Johnson

We want our main guys to start playing now. You'll see some different looks.

Gary Tague

We were a young team that just missed on some things last year. This year, most of those guys are back.

Carlos Ghosn

You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.

Bruce Steinbecker

We have to have a short memory and be able to come back ready to play (today). We have to learn from our mistakes, and hopefully we'll get it fixed.

Arun Jaitley

We have narrowed down the differences and are hopeful of reaching an understanding very soon.

Dee Bell

We have so many weapons on this team, we hope they'll just pick their poison on defense.

Tom DeLay

What the Senate passed is a nationalized system; what we hope to pass is a federalized system.

Steve Forbes

What the Republican establishment hoped would be a runaway did not happen, ... They wanted to shut down the race.

Laura Bush

When you see all these people working on it, I feel hopeful that people will be reunited,

Don Arnold

When you're trying to recreate habitat, you do it in hopes the amphibians can use it, and you have to manage it in hopes you keep the bullfrog from being successful.

Megan Snow

We want our furniture. If we can't get our furniture, we hope to get our money back.

Charles Baudelaire

Nature is a word, an allegory, a mold, an embossing, if you will.

Dennis Lehane

What molds us is what maims us.

Bashar al-Assad

When our interests matched, the Americans have been good to us, and when the interests differed, they wanted us to mold ourselves to them, which we refused.

Al Jourgensen

It's typical of record companies. They sign you because you're unique, and then they want to put you in a mold so they can sell records.

Mike Leatherwood

This year's team has players who like to play together. I think basketball, more than any sport, you have to mold players into a cohesive unit.

Al Gore

I see myself in the mold of Rin Tin Tin. It didn't go to his head either.

Troy Polamalu

I see everything in his game. He's still one of the players who provides you with the mold about how to play the game.

David Harsanyi

The realization that you can't predict the future -- and mold it -- could only come as a shock to an academic.

David Hancock

I've been surprised just with the strength of the Hitachi name. I thought I would have to mold it.