Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tim Ghriskey

Regardless of the outcome of this case, today's ruling is going to mean a market share loss for Blackberry and a gain for Palm.

Pam Schnurr

Releasing ferrets is one thing, but getting the population to produce young is the first critical step in creating a self-sustaining black footed ferret population.

Chris Rock

Relax, you only have to be nice to black people for two more hours.

Michael Niemira

Part of the reason was that retailers built sales momentum by offering deep discounts leading up to Black Friday,

Darrell Butler

Our kids work hard on defense. We left this field last night at 6:50 p.m., and if you looked at your clock, it was pitch black -- and that's the night before a day game. That's how much these kids care.

Ben Chappell

People need to know about the person who saved black people's rights.

Robert Rowe

Some of those reports are filed and then go into a black hole. Other times there are no reports. The processes were there, but just because they're in place doesn't necessarily mean that people are going to follow them.

Michael Miller

Some of this is just simply fashion, what's cool and what people like. Black fits nicely in a lot of decor, and it looks cool and slimmer.

Lee Peterson

Our prayers go out to the families of the deceased, ... Hopefully this will help black people realize the folly of depending on the government or leaders and serve as a notice to avert future tragedies in other cities.

Greg Erwin

Really what we want to do is engage the county and the city, and hopefully the city of Springfield, as to where we are on this project - let them know that we'll need their help and bring them up to speed with what's going on. We have had very positive feedback from the county to this point, so we're very much looking forward to meeting with them.

Laura Campbell

Relieved is a strange thing to say - you really don't feel that. It kind of brings everything back. It's a different kind of grieving.

Vishal Wanchoo

Our relationship with MP4 demonstrates GE's continued commitment to personalized healthcare by providing transformational medical and information technologies to bring our customers closer to their patients.

Wade Henderson

Organizations like those who have set up these protection initiatives are trying to sound the alarm. We want the country prepared to bring these elections systems under heightened scrutiny.

Michael Laws

Patched gang members are criminals...that's what they are, that's what they do...they exist for no other purpose but to bring mayhem and disorder.

M. Wolfe

Pastor's School brings more than a million dollars in tourist money to Northwest Indiana.

Rob Portman

Pascal Lamy will bring a new aggressiveness to the job,

John Rogers

Pay By Touch is changing the way the world transacts. We are truly honored to showcase our innovative payment service at The Tech, because it brings this significant payment shift into perspective. More consumers will have an opportunity to experience a revolutionary technology that we expect will become common practice for everyone within the next few years.

Matt Kane

Paul has been a nice surprise. He grew up playing goalie and brings a lot of experience.

Tim Schuldt

Regardless of how things are going, it's prudent for us to see what the market will bear. We've had a couple of calls to say other parties are interested in our rights.

Diane Watson

Refugees' calls up to mind that people come from different lands and have to be taken care of, ... These are American citizens.

Diane Watson

Refugee' calls up to mind people that come from different lands and have to be taken care of. These are American citizens,

Steve Groene

Release them in a safe area, where the law enforcement can find them. Call the help line, let them know they can be found. Please, we need the safe return of those children,

Amy Olson

Our rent calls have really gone up. People pay their heat and can't pay their rent, or pay their rent and can't pay their heat.

Jonathan Kozol

Our political establishment refuses to use the word 'segregated.' They call the schools diverse, which means half black, half Hispanic, and maybe two white kids and three Asians. 'Diverse' has become a synonym for 'segregated.'

Jennifer Beals

Originally, I got a phone call from Campbell Scott saying that he was doing this movie and that there was this part that he wanted me to play in it.

Mike Flanagan

Pattern modeling is very useful and a major step, but users don't always conform to those patterns. For example, when there is a specific event like a traffic jam or a big rugby game there is a big spike in mobile phone calls in a concentrated area. Traditional network design can't cope with those changes in network usage very well.

Dave Schultz

Pat has kind of worked his way into some minutes because he's relentless. We call him a kamikaze because he's fearless out there, so Grinnell's style fit him perfectly.

Thomas Johnson

relative calm in about 80 percent of the city as residents carry out their usual routines.

Harold Brooks

Pat had a knack for taking on the most difficult kind of assignments and making it look easy. She had a wonderful skill and wisdom for calming everyone down and making them play well together.

Roger Hawk

Part of reason we delayed having this meeting for three years is that the city went through a learning process on traffic calming issues.

Gerry Adams

People need to calm down. What did people expect the IRA to say?

Paul Morris

Stacey (Manning) always stays calm when the pressure is on,

Maxwell Maltz

Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Steve Bartos

That could've been our worst half of offense of the year and it's a one-point game. We prepared for in-your-face, man-to-man pressure, and we still played like we were down 20. We were too jumpy. We didn't have any calming influence on offense.

Mark Swartz

Our goal is to calm people down as quickly as possible and make this the worst-case scenario,

Chad Campbell

I was able to follow in his footsteps. It was nice to see the wind calm down so we could make some birdies.

Kofi Annan

Reform is a process, not an event and we are going to continue after the summit

John Chambers

recovery continues to gain momentum on a global basis.

Robert Milton

Recognizing the significant progress we have made, there is no room for any complacency and we must continue to pursue efficiencies throughout our businesses.

Philadelphia Fed

Price pressures remain but continue to show a moderating trend.

Jorma Ollila

Our position in the fastest-growing market in the world continues to be strong.

Ed Colligan

Our Palm OS customer loyalty is extremely high, and we intend to continue to earn that loyalty with great Palm OS-based products,

Anna Rozenich

Our reduction is taking longer than anticipated. We continue to make progress in our testing because we want to make sure we get it right for our customers.

Joseph Farah

Our rankings, relative to other sites, rise and fall over time, ... But our traffic continues to grow ? at a pace even faster than the explosive Internet itself.

Marc Andreessen

Organizations spend hundreds of hours and hundreds of thousands of dollars installing and implementing huge servers, new Web sites and applications. They have to continue to do that, but they also have to clean up the mess of the '90s.

Richard Bush

Steps that promote a reduction of tensions, steps that promote cross-strait dialogue and steps that promote peace and stability in this region are good.

Margot Wallstrom

Plan D is about debate, dialogue and listening. It is a means of harnessing political ideas to generate change,

Wolfgang Petritsch

I will not hold any dialogue with extremists who use violence,

Penelope Cruz

It felt like there is a dialogue between these two movies and these two women. They could be friends and have a lot of things in common, but are different versions of the same girl.

Thandie Newton

I think I'll probably write something, a family drama. I'm good at frame works and plots, but my dialogue is atrocious. It gets very over-wrought. My husband's a writer and his dialogue is brilliant, so, I'm very often his script-editor, so I think we'll probably write something together.

Pierre Pettigrew

He is ultimately a man of distrust. Mr. Duplessis engaged in the same dialogue of distrust toward Ottawa.

Ted Baker

Given that we're starting on Sept. 2 and the NHL pre-season doesn't start until two or three weeks after that, we'll be able to dialogue with the NHL about things we're seeing in our games that will hopefully help everyone.

Li Zhaoxing

China-US relations have, on the whole, maintained stability and growth. Dialogues and exchanges at the various levels have improved mutual understanding and mutual trust,

Erin Healy

It is a dialogue to discuss realistic, comprehensive immigration reform. We are in the consultation phase.

Tom Kloza

It is not a name that the public has an association with. In fairness to them, it is Russian-owned but U.S.-managed.

Jack Dunn

For us it's a fairness issue, it's a justice issue, and it's a legal issue.

Teresa Heinz

I fight, and have fought, for political freedom, for justice and for fairness and freedom of speech.

Eric Smith

I think we should go back. In fairness I don't think they should get two years of free taxes.

Dick Gephardt

We can take an important step today back to the politics of respect and trust and fairness and forgiveness,

Dennis McMillen

Fairness is so important because some sponsors are very generous.

William Shakespeare

Fair thoughts and happy hours attend on you.

Michael R. Bloomberg

We really should in all fairness get some help,

William Shakespeare

Speak, my fair, and fairly, I pray thee.

Plaxico Burress

Our offense has to go out and be crisp, be sharp. We have to do everything we can, not so much to pick up the defense, but to give us some momentum heading into the playoffs.

Don Thompson

I think we are heading toward a military dictatorship.

Maureen Allyn

I think we are heading into the worst of it. Investors think there we're heading towards a recovery in the next six months and I hope that they are right, but I just don't see the valuations for a huge rally going forward.

Steve Alford

I think he'll be okay. We can get him a lot of rest heading into the weekend. Hopefully he'll be okay.

Jack Baker

I still think we're heading higher. The long-term types like me should sit tight. I don't really see any major problems. The only thing I don't like, of course, is still the narrowness of the advance. But, on the other hand, the Russell hit another high.

James Kelly

I'm still pleased with our effort. We are playing better each week and that is what we need heading into district.

Veronica Rood

I'm so excited. We're heading toward where we want to be state.

Ed DeChellis

Just looking at the numbers shows we're heading in the right direction.

Mike Hawkins

Goals seem impossible only when you are not heading toward them.

Greg Collins

Preserving the agricultural land out in that part of Visalia has been important to me since 1975, and I haven't wavered from that position for 30 years.

John Roberts

Roe v. Wade is the settled law of the land, ... It's a little more than settled.

Kamika Smith

Rocks were landing right on the viewing area.

Ahmed Qorei

Please protect this land. It is for you and yours to protect.

Larry Kelly

Pierre said, 'If he can get clearance, give us a shout and we'll see what the lay of the land is at that point.

Barry Lopez

The land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.

Barry Lopez

We keep each other alive with our stories. We need to share them, as much as we need to share food. We also require for our health the presence of good companions. One of the most extraordinary things about the land is that it knows this—and it compels language from some of us so that as a community we may converse about this or that place, and speak of the need.

Barry Lopez

The land is like poetry: it is inexplicably coherent, it is transcendent in its meaning, and it has the power to elevate a consideration of human life.

C. S. Lewis

I can promise you none of these things. No sphere of usefulness; you are not needed there at all. No scope of your talents; only forgiveness for having perverted them. No atmosphere of inquiry, for I will bring you to the land not of questions but of answers, and you shall see the face of God. (pg 40)

Alan Furst

One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.

Johnny Depp

I wasn't obnoxious or precocious but I was curious. There were a lot of practical jokes. I got on her nerves basically. I pissed her off quite frequently.

Mark Lowe

My nerves are still frazzled. I can't talk without stuttering, muttering and mumbling.

Daniel D. Palmer

Pressure on nerves causes irriatation and tension with deranged functions as a result. Why not release the pressure? Why not adjust the cause instead of treating the effects? Why not?

Alexander Payne

Joe E. Lewis said, 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And that is how I feel about a film being well-received.

Delia Smith

If I was a Mayor, I would sort the traffic out and that includes public transport. The traffic jams really get on my nerves.

Edna Ferber

Emma McChesney was engaged in that nerve-wracking process known as getting things out of the way. When Emma McChesney aimed to get things out of the way she did not use a shovel; she used a road-drag.

Bella Heathcote

I usually have a drink before a carpet because I find them really nerve-racking. Usually a tequila. An upper!

Charles Bukowski

Food is good for the nerves and the spirit. Courage comes from the belly – all else is desperation.

Christopher Hill

get parties together to push the process forward.

Ahmed Hussein

Because we are not the only parties in this meeting, we can't predict the outcome.

Emile Sheng

I think it shows the differences between the parties are pretty big.

David Gibb

I don't think it's productive for the parties to snipe back and forth.

Emma Roberts

I like to go to parties if I know who's going to be there, and if it's people I want to be with. I don't just go to go. And I always drive myself, because I hate being stuck places - there's nothing worse that going out and then being stuck!

Joshua Hoyt

The political parties have to understand that this is something that is not going to disappear.

Karen Finney

We should not be throwing parties at a time when we've got serious problems.

Alessia Cara

I don't really dance. I don't drink or smoke. Being at parties is very awkward.

Jan Pronk

The parties sometimes are talking, and a day after, they're shooting.

Joseph Domenech

It is going more and more toward the Western part of the world.

William Benet

One speck within vast star-space lyingAwoke, arose, resumed its clothing,And crawled another day toward dying.

Clint Eastwood

I think 'Dirty Harry' was probably sensitive toward the victims of violent crime.

Jane McGonigal

We are moving towards a new form of collective intelligence.

Rand Paul

I think a policy of isolationism toward Cuba is misplaced and hasn't worked.

Preity Zinta

I am very reactive towards everything. There are some who don't react at all, they absorb everything quietly, while I'd go all out and show my expressions. This is not part of some tamasha I do; I do it because it's part of my personality. To each his own.

Maurice Cheeks

We still have a long way to go and we're still working toward that.

Bill Guerin

(When) you have a year like I've been having, you just want to contribute. I don't think I'm there yet, but I'm working toward it.

William Massey

We are working toward being an energy-independent facility.

Bill Cosby

Brown versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person's problem.

Carrie Chapman Catt

White supremacy will be strengthened, not weakened, by women's suffrage.

Carrie Fisher

I'd like to wear my old [cinnamon buns] hairstyle again - but with white hair,

Bertrand Russell

The white tails of rabbits, according to some theologians, have a purpose, namely to make it easier for sportsmen to shoot them.

Heidi Klum

I don't know why we work, my husband and I. We just do. We are black and white - yin and yang.

Charles Barron

I want to go up to the closest white person and say: 'You can't understand this, it's a black thing' and then slap him, just for my mental health.

Billy Boyd

I like people like Ani DiFranco, a band called Elbow, of course John Lennon, George Harrison, Barry White. I have a lot of different influences and hopefully they all come together and make some sense.

Ayn Rand

She knew that she could not have reached this white serenity except as the sum of all the colors, of all the violence she had known.

Ben Goldacre

Science has authority not because of white coats or titles, but because of precision and transparency: you explain your theory, set out your evidence, and reference the studies that support your case.