Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Barnhart

Regardless of the number of participants we have on May 30, and I'm confident it will be 33, we will have again for at least the second year in a row, one of the deepest and most competitive fields in the history of the Indianapolis 500 with more cars, more teams and more drivers capable of winning than this place has had in past history.

Janet Reno

regardless of the conclusions that the department has reached concerning Microsoft's conduct, as of yet no court has found that Microsoft has violated the antitrust laws; to the contrary, the recent decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has raised serious questions about the validity of the department's antitrust suit against Microsoft.

Peter Goelz

Regarding some of the issues raised by Mr. Salinger in recent days, they are again a combination of falsehoods and claims that are only partially based on the truth and, when taken out of context, are completely misleading.

Donald Walker

(Reed) is a guy that all he wants to do is play defense, ... Even when we're running our first-team offense against our scout team defense at practice, he wants to be out there. He just never quits. He has played with confidence the first one-and-a-half games, which makes him that much better. Our defense as a whole needs to gain that type of confidence.

Wayne Richardson

Reece worked a little bit today on the side, and his arm feels real good. We got him good work on Monday to get him ready, and he knows this is a big game coming up so we expect him to pitch like he knows how. He'll be up against a good, hard-throwing arm with whoever Benton goes with, but we've got confidence in our guy.

Sean Miller

Recently against us, if you're that guy that can't make a 3, you usually knock a few down. It was good to see that percentage come our way.

Lawrence Eagles

Recently a former aid, giving evidence against him, said he was running short of funds. Therefore, if he was the instigator of the attacks on the US, another sponsor was likely to be involved.

Jamie Dixon

Rebounding is our biggest fundamental. It's our biggest emphasis. We didn't get it done against DePaul.

John Shoffner

Records and style of play go out the window. I think we match up well against them.

Janet Reno

regardless of the conclusions that the department has reached concerning Microsoft's conduct, as of yet no court has found that Microsoft has violated the antitrust laws; to the contrary, the recent decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has raised serious questions about the validity of the department's antitrust suit against Microsoft.

Donald Walker

(Reed) is a guy that all he wants to do is play defense, ... Even when we're running our first-team offense against our scout team defense at practice, he wants to be out there. He just never quits. He has played with confidence the first one-and-a-half games, which makes him that much better. Our defense as a whole needs to gain that type of confidence.

Wayne Richardson

Reece worked a little bit today on the side, and his arm feels real good. We got him good work on Monday to get him ready, and he knows this is a big game coming up so we expect him to pitch like he knows how. He'll be up against a good, hard-throwing arm with whoever Benton goes with, but we've got confidence in our guy.

Sean Miller

Recently against us, if you're that guy that can't make a 3, you usually knock a few down. It was good to see that percentage come our way.

Lawrence Eagles

Recently a former aid, giving evidence against him, said he was running short of funds. Therefore, if he was the instigator of the attacks on the US, another sponsor was likely to be involved.

Jamie Dixon

Rebounding is our biggest fundamental. It's our biggest emphasis. We didn't get it done against DePaul.

John Shoffner

Records and style of play go out the window. I think we match up well against them.

Ryohei Muramatsu

Recent rises in yields of Japanese government bonds, combined with this emerging uncertainty over prospects for US interest rates, are expected to weigh on the US currency against the yen in the near term.

Martin Laurendeau

Recently, we have played very well against Mexico. We will work hard over the next two months to prepare for this contest and give ourselves the best chance to win.

Cheri Cihak

Regardless of what the state law says, parents should not allow their teen to ride with other teen drivers, nor should they be allowed to transport other teens in the first year of driving. It's tempting to be lured by the convenience of having other options for getting kids to and from school and practices, but the risks are just too great.

Neil Roberts

Referee says you're allowed to do that once. Each guy is allowed to do that once, what can you say - that's what the referee says. You're allowed one shot apiece, and I guess if you use 18, 20 guys, you're allowed 20 shots like that.

Brian Nick

Re-electing Senator Byrd will allow him to continue to preach his blame America first agenda.

Christian Marclay

'Record Without A Cover' was about allowing the medium to come through, making a record that was not a document of a performance but a record that could change with time, and would be different from one copy to the next.

Janeen Koconis

Really, what's happening at its most profound level is that (a) folded piece of paper is allowing for a link or a bridge or a connection between the person sending and the person receiving it.

Abdul Raoulf

Rejecting Islam is insulting God. We will not allow God to be humiliated. This man must die.

Dean Schnurr

Previously, we had hall monitors who weren't allowed to physically intervene in altercations or do a lot of the things our current safety officers are able to do.

Rosemary Wyse

Our research focuses on the oldest stars, and probes the earliest phases of the evolution of our home galaxy, the Milky Way. The unprecedented sample available with RAVE will allow me -- and now, with the release of this data, others -- to test ideas of our origins laid out by various cosmological theories.

John Stewart

Our position is this is something our customers want, and since when does a government tell companies how to market? We hope our government will come to its senses and allow us to do this.

Trent Duffy

President Bush believes that we need to explore new methods of deriving new lines that would not result in embryos being destroyed. He feels that we should push the envelope of science in a way that does not cross fundamental moral and ethical lines.

Trent Duffy

President Bush believes Chairman Greenspan is doing an excellent job, We don't speculate on personnel decisions.

Alan Greenspan

President Bush believes Chairman Greenspan is doing an excellent job.

Donna Shalala

(President Bill Clinton) believes that we can get comprehensive legislation this year, with or without (tobacco companies), ... Meet The Press.

Luis Figo

Our president has always said it was his intention to sign the world's best players - and he believes it makes good business sense.

Pat Goss

Our team believes that everyone can play well. Everyone hasn't shown it at the same time. If three or four guys play well this week, and the other one or two play OK, then the only hope the other teams can have this week is false hope.

Allan Mayer

Robert believes in our system of justice, and he looks forward to his day in court. He's confident that when all the facts come out, he's going to be shown to have not been guilty of any crime.

Kim Sears

Rep. Hefley believes that military service can be a noble career.

Timm Bechter

Management stated that it believes 2006 will be the year of explosive growth in IP (Internet protocol) solutions and it is well positioned for this trend,

Orrin Hatch

Regenerative medicine is pro-life and pro-family. It enhances, it does not diminish human life. ... If encouraged to flourish, it can improve the life of millions of Americans and could lead to new scientific frontiers not now in sight. So I urge my colleagues in the Senate and the American public to support this bill that opposes human cloning but promotes regenerative medicine using nuclear transplantation.

Hiroyuki Hosoda

Regardless of when the vote takes place, the government will continue to make the greatest efforts in getting the bill through, ... Whatever happens, it's only a matter of days.

Tim Johnson

President Bush has stated that the patients' bill of rights legislation ... is dead on arrival, ... If the president can't bring himself to sign a true patients' bill of rights, then he should let it become law without his signature just as he did when he was governor of Texas.

Dick Gephardt

President Bush has not yet lived up to his promise to be a reformer with results, ... During the campaign, he said he would fight for bipartisan bills with strong support from all Americans. But instead of putting people first, too often he has put special interests first.

Bob Bennett

President Bill Clinton has less rights than any citizen of the United States,

Manuel Pangilinan

Our net profit number is likely to lie north of 30 billion pesos -- another historic high for PLDT and for any other Philippine corporate.

Marsha Blackburn

Our nationwide hearings made it clear that Americans considered border security a matter of national security and this bill reflects that fact.

Jim Cooper

Our nation suffers when Congress fails to pay America's bills on time.

Tom DeLay

Our members want us to continue, the speaker wants us to continue to negotiate, and so does the Senate, so we're going to continue to negotiate and see if we can get a bill in December,

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Our nation can't give in to the coercion of some bully countries who imagine they are the whole world and see themselves equal to the entire globe.

Alex Rocco

Playing gangsters is great. They usually dress you sharp. And you have a license to pretty much bully anybody. I mean, I wouldn't dare do that at home. My wife will give me a back hander.

Carrie Vaughn

He's a bully. I love bullies. They have such big, shiny red buttons to push.

Mike Knezevich

It is never right to bully those who are weaker or less numerous - just because you can.

Felicia Stockford

I don't know what he hopes to accomplish. It's just a bullying process, and I just refuse to be bullied.

Stephen Hegarty

For years now, we have taken a pretty hard line on bullying because it is a serious problem.

Michael Hanson

Bullying takes so many different forms that, frankly, it's hard to recognize all the time. But it is very important for us to deal with this.

Sue Tucker

Bullying is never about you. You have the right to explore who you are.

Joseph Wright

Bullying is a public health problem (tied to) the larger issue of youth violence in this country.

Dennis Hastert

Some have said that we should not have this debate. I disagree,

Jeff Burton

Our sport, for one reason or another -- and we could debate for hours about why -- is not as diverse as it needs to be. I don't think it's from a lack of trying.

Tony Blair

Robin was an outstanding, extraordinary talent - brilliant, incisive in debate, of incredible skill and persuasive power,

Laura Bullock

It is a time to gather information. It is not the time to debate anything.

Tim Johnson

The American people in general won this debate.

Ann Richards

I was really pleased ... we were all really nervous going into this debate and I thought that John Kerry knocked it out of the ballpark,

Paul Lopez

It gives the debate a megaphone, it gives the march a megaphone.

Luis Macas

I think we are getting stronger. We've opened the debate on these (free-trade) subjects, and the indigenous movement is showing its power again.

Michael R. Bloomberg

I think two debates are fine for this cycle.

Frank Brunner

Regardless of what decision is ultimately made regarding the school, we realize there is merit in holding onto that site. One day a new elementary could be located there.

Joe Browne

Regarding Sunday's games, we will make no decision today. We'll gather information and speak to several parties within the next 24 to 48 hours.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

RECONSIDER, v. To seek a justification for a decision already made.

Stephen Harper

Our party will make those decisions in our own way and in our own time,

Shane Matthews

Patrick is their future. I will be supportive about whatever their decision is.

Phil Singer

Paul Hackett's statesmanlike decision will help us win one of the most important Senate races in the nation.

Paul Clarke

People here have been making their decision earlier over the last few years. And, by the fourth event, people were tired of evacuating.

Mary Adams

People make decisions that undermine their goals every day.

Jackie Kruszewski

People never know who their state legislator is. They're kind of obscure people who are in Richmond making decisions for us, and if they get 10 letters on one subject, then that's a big deal.

Chris Caballero

Part of the discussion is to have a softer approach.

John Calvert

That's the issue, whether we should suppress the open discussion of evolution. Can evolution ever be falsified if it can't be criticized?

David Longanecker

I think it's very important that we raise to a national level and a federal level a discussion about what's happening to our competitiveness.

Charles Kupchella

It has actually widened the gap and increased the negative rhetoric, ... It has not been helpful with anything at all. It's like playing two record players in a room whenever there's a discussion about it.

Bill Cowher

I will tell the players, as I've told the coaches, there will be no more questions about it, there will be no more discussion about it, our focus this week will be on the Indianapolis Colts. I don't think it will be a distraction at all and, having gone through the process myself, if anything it's inspiring to know there's an opportunity potentially for you.

Jim Tressel

I suppose when I was here 20 years ago, I don't remember much discussion about anything other than winning the Big Ten and winning the Rose Bowl.

Dick Cheney

I thought it was a good discussion of the issues, ... and we kept it to a high plane.

Jon Favreau

I don't 'handle' people. It's so much easier to manipulate actors than to really have an earnest discussion with them. It's very easy to say whatever's going to appease them and then turn around and do whatever you want to do. It's difficult to be forthright with people, because the job does not lend itself to that.

Bill Fischer

There are still some practical concerns. We don't want to violate federal laws on disclosing employees' medical records but once that practical discussion occurs we can go forward from there.

Scott Baker

Regardless of who I'm facing, if I'm going to be nervous it's not going to help the situation.

Herman Sanders

Reed just made the shot. We said in the huddle to make sure we knew where he was on the last play. We tried to help on Chad, but he kicked it out and we couldn't recover.

Pedro Marquez

Our relay team did well. We just need to work on passing the baton, but that's something that we can work on and improve on. Also, not looking back while we're running will help out.

King Abdullah

Our relations with India will help Indo-Pak relations.

Brian Rooney

Oregon has a lot of in-migration, which helps to keep the unemployment rate (higher).

Lee Janzen

Part of his learning process is helping other guys.

Rob Gorman

Part of what we're about now is trying to help people come up with their own recovery plans.

Nathan Thompson

Paul Wellstone was a person who really would have liked to see something like this happen. Projects that help people in need are what he wanted; it's really fitting.

Sam Loeffler

Our lyrics are about a lot of things. They are not very introspective. For example, the song 'Panic Prone' is about drugs, this idea about kids getting drugged up and medicating themselves and whether to help people or not help people at all.

Jim Reynolds

Part of the work involved with every hurricane is to lock the place down and make it as secure as possible, and that takes time to occur.

Chris Sisko

People need to be securing property and putting up their hurricane shutters to safeguard their homes.

Lynette Miller

Our problem with coastal storms does not end with the hurricane season.

Jack Beven

Rita should maintain major hurricane status until landfall,

Michael Chertoff

last summer FEMA, who reports to you, and the LSU Hurricane Center, and local and state officials did a simulated Hurricane Pam in which the levees broke. ... Thousands drowned.

Michael Lomax

I went through seven hurricane seasons. We went through the drills.

Janet Callison

There are still vast neighborhoods of rubble and toppled trees everywhere. Even when you're standing there and looking, it's unfathomable how much has to be done, even seven months after the hurricane hit.

Fumihiko Kawano

Just talk of the hurricane weakening was enough to push up the dollar.

Julie Gerberding

I think it is really important to remember that when this hurricane was coming, we actually didn't know where it was going to go,

W. S. Gilbert

It is immensely satisfying to see something like that come to fruition,

Sally Schneider

That being said, I often write into recipes techniques I learned in the restaurant kitchen. There are ways of organizing your prep and so on that are immensely useful. Those are woven into all the recipes I do.

Nimrat Kaur

I run on the beach in the mornings. I've also immensely enjoyed CrossFit with Dheepesh Bhatt.

Willa Holland

I enjoyed 'The OC' immensely but I want to expand my horizons more before repeating myself.

Sarah Hall

I used to dislike bookshops immensely as a child and was won over only later in life.

Jeff Overmyer

We've improved immensely as a team with his scoring going down.

J. Paul Getty

In Japan, I was immensely impressed by the politeness, industrious nature and conscientiousness of the Japanese people.

Antonin Scalia

And what I would say now is, yes, if a state enacted a law permitting flogging, it is immensely stupid, but it is not unconstitutional. A lot of stuff that's stupid is not unconstitutional.

Patrick Dempsey

We wouldn't be able to do what we're doing without her. We love her and respect her immensely and she makes us look good.

Todd Bodine

Jimmy just does what Jimmy does, ... If he can't pass you he runs into you.

Kathy Hall

Jim is first, last and always a gentleman,

Lois Murphy

Jim Gerlach ran in his first race to say he would be an independent voice. He has not been the independent voice and leader we need in Congress.

Cole Younger

Jim and I are still receiving surgical attention, and will be the remainder of our lives.

Rory Bruer

It doesn't get much better than having a Jim Carrey movie for the holidays.

Michael Feldman

I tell people my only successful long-term relationship was with Jim Packard. He was my rock. I didn't realize how codependent I was.

Jonathan Maberry

Jim Rollins is the king of the weird science action genre.

Ron Beard

Jimmy was in the groove. He looked unstoppable.

Patti Smith

I didn't love Jim Morrison 'cause he was self-destructive. I loved him because of his work. Because of the way he merged poetry and rock-and-roll. Because he did something new.

Richard Cobb

On the supply side, we are about the same as after Katrina and before Rita.

Hal Rogers

I think it's time we thought about having Katrina bonds,

Richard Falkenrath

I think this issue, Katrina and our government's response to it, should be looked at by an independent commission,

Stacy Brown

I'm still waiting on official Katrina evacuee demographics. I think that it's going to be pretty useful data, because it will serve as a source of how many people can potentially become homeless.

Mary Fetchet

Katrina should be enough to wake people up.

John Metz

Katrina produced a catastrophic storm surge, it was one of the worst we've seen in this country,

Kim Stewart

Katrina knocked us down, but it's not going to keep us there. I think things should be a lot faster.

Peter Morris

Katrina is like a very large pile of stones on top of a mountain. Standing by the pile of stones it's a big pile. But when you're looking at the mountain, it's not going to be that dramatic.

Mark Zandi

Katrina is going to muck things up; it's just a question to what degree.

Alan Miller

Our reporter on the scene talked personally to the governor, who told her the 12 were alive.

Claudia Vercellotti

Participating in the legislative process has been personally devastating and a rude awakening. We never stood a chance.

Lee H. Hamilton

I was personally kind of discouraged with that statement. This is not a new problem.

Edie Falco

I was here when it happened. I need more time, but that's just me. I'm personally not ready for it.

Linda McCarthy

I did not know Mick personally but he was part of the town.

Nick Cave

Personally I find the story of Christ incredibly moving.

Dale Romans

I wouldn't have taken it personally even if he was. I've got more important things to worry about than what he does with his horse.

Winston Churchill

Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Judith Miller

voluntarily and personally released me from my promise of confidentiality regarding our conversations.

Sergei Ivanov

If such proposals come -- we have not yet received them -- I am sure that they will not solve the ABM issue,

Wayne Peters

We're here. We're ready. We have proposals on the table that haven't been responded to.

Pele

When I retired, at that time I had a lot of proposals to play in Europe, England, Italy, Spain, Mexico. But I said no, after 18 years I want to rest, because I want to retire.

Gordon Brown

The breakthrough is that we now have a set of proposals that are supported by the whole international community.

Robert Rubin

You've got a lot of proposals that have been advocated by a lot of people,

Alberto Martinez

That we have the organization to do it. That's what this tour is about: proving there is no front-runner in this race.

Sunil Reddy

We look at Qualcomm as a wireless juggernaut, and it's proving it can execute,

Melissa Dover

She's been proving them wrong in a lot of areas.

Don Porter

We'll be working towards the things that need to be done to our sport overall. We're not sitting on our hands, we're still working at proving things that we need to do, we know that.

Marcelo Castillo

But we're the real deal. We keep proving them wrong.

Joss Whedon

Something like 'Much Ado' happens, and even 'Avengers' happens because of the years of building connections and doing the work and proving yourself.

Randall Stephenson

You can work together. You don't have to own one. We're proving it today.

Marc Bulger

Whether it's in the playoffs or not, you have to keep proving yourself.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Recover, reform and then rebuild ... year of reform.

Mark Ambrose

From a team standpoint, it's a rebuilding year.

Doug Thornton

I think it could be a symbol for the rebuilding of New Orleans.

Jalen Rose

I don't think it's a total rebuilding situation.

Kim Badley

For us, it is a rebuilding year. I would like to say we are just reloading, but, unfortunately, we are rebuilding.

Mark Davies

If we're going to rebuild, ... let's rebuild smart.

Terry Gray

We thought this was going to be a rebuilding year.

Mike Milinkovich

We're rebuilding our Web site at Eclipse.org and we're using PHP,

Tim Cox

We have one big step to go (in the rebuilding process), and I think this is the year for it.

Sergei Krikalev

We need another shuttle and many more Soyuz's to visit the station,

Elaine Elliott

Langhorne pretty much had her way. We are what we are in terms of our size. We're not talking about shutting her down.

Rene Burri

I witnessed the building of the Space Shuttle Columbia, the first orbiter to be launched into space.

Ron Gardenhire

I won't shut him down unless he wants to be shut down.

Donte' Stallworth

I don't know what it was, ... but I know it wasn't us being shut down.

Frank Robinson

He could be shut down, or go to the bullpen,

Jimmy Epperly

Basically, Woods shut us down in the middle.

Andy Scott

He's a tremedous player. We shut him down, but everyone else scored.

Kevin Roberts

If we need to shut down, we're prepared.

Laura Gunn

We know there are more victims out there.

Johnny Jessop

They're just as much victims as we are.

Jennifer Garraway

We have to do something for the victims and that's why we do this program.

Rep. Schultheis

You don't want to make two victims from the same crime.

Cooter Failla

I wish it had been a unanimous vote but we had some outstanding candidates.

Jim Hall

I won't vote for it for any reason.

Hal Brown

I still have concerns, but I'll vote for it,

Jeff Denham

I don't know that you have the votes here today.

Steve Southerland

I think voters appreciate that I'm not sitting in the back row, waiting for my turn.

Judy Davis

I feel like the voters made their decision.

Joseph Biden

Judge, if I look only at what you've said and written ... I would have to vote 'no,'

Charles Kennedy

If you were to describe me as teetotal, on behalf of my constituency I'd have to sue; that would lose me every vote in the Highlands.

Al Sharpton

Mr. President, read our lips. Our votes are not for sale.

Jerry Sloan

I would think it would be something that would be worthwhile for him.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.

E. F. Schumacher

Economic policies absorb almost the entire attention of government, and at the same time become ever more impotent. The simplest things, which only fifty years ago one could do without difficulty, cannot get done any more. The richer a society, the more impossible it become to do worthwhile things without immediate payoff.

E. F. Schumacher

The richer a society, the more impossible it becomes to do worthwhile things without immediate pay-off.

Chuck Jones

All worthwhile endeavors are 90% work and 10% love, and only the love should show.

Rick Page

It's been a long project, but it's been a worthwhile project.

Ned Yost

It's not going to be easy. And nothing worthwhile is easy.

Mike Berry

The pursuit of strength is inherently difficult and entirely worthwhile.

Oprah Winfrey

You can't accomplish anything worthwhile if you inhibit yourself