Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Toups

We know we are heading to Baton Rouge and they are the No. 5 team in the state. We will have to be ready to play. We are very familiar with them because we play them every year. They are well coached and very experienced. We are excited about moving on in the playoffs to take our shot at them.

Paul Mott

Of course, if there are people who need to get that money refunded, then we will work to get that done. For those in Louisiana, especially in Baton Rouge, we're going to offer a presale opportunity for the Baton Rouge games. In our communication with them, we will explain what we are proposing.

Gary Stratton

New Orleans is, of course, our next thrust, and we're going to have to have to staff recovery efforts down there, but it'll be a different kind of recovery effort, ... We'll be supporting the EOC in Baton Rouge with temporary communications until the National Guard can get in.

Paul Hoolahan

I can't say with any level of confidence today that it won't be played in Baton Rouge.

Michael Chertoff

Get yourself into that command center in Baton Rouge!

Pokey Chatman

She's the child that Baton Rouge raised. To see her on this stage is a compliment to her.

David Marschall

Since the hurricane, there is a new 'normal' in Baton Rouge. We have become Louisiana's largest city. We went from 350,000 to 600,000 in a few days. There is gridlock at many intersections as New Orleans people struggle in a new city. There have been rumors of increased crime, desperate people wandering the streets.

Jim Haslett

I'd like to have them here because we're practicing here, ... But I think we owe it to the state and the region to play a couple games in Baton Rouge if we can.

Brian Bethune

The overall momentum in construction remains solid. We expect this pattern to continue, with public and commercial construction taking the leadership baton in 2006 as housing starts ease back moderately.

Alexandra Paul

I really believe in non-violence, but I also believe in a short of resistance that has to be respectful.

Italo Calvino

I don't believe chance can play a role in my literature.

Italo Calvino

I change my method and field of reference from book to book because I can never believe in the same thing two times running.

Italo Calvino

Personally, I believe in fiction because the stories I like are those with a beginning and an end.

Peter Jennings

Whatever you may think of Mrs. Clinton as a character, I think she believes quite strongly in public service.

Richard Rogers

I don't believe in the ownership of work.

Rick Perlstein

What does it mean to truly believe in America? To wave a flag? Or to struggle toward a more searching alternative to the shallowness of the flag-wavers - to criticize, to interrogate, to analyze, to dissent?

Robert Fisk

We are constantly trying to cope with what our fathers or our grandfathers did. I wrote the book 'Great War of Civilization,' and my father was a solider in the First World War which produced the current Middle East - not that he had much to do with that - but he fought in what he believed was the Great War for Civilization.

Robert Palmer

I believe that my music is just about feelings, and the style is just a side effect.

Cy Thannikary

Legislators failed. We decided to take the process out of Trenton. If we leave it to legislators, it will never happen.

Lee Miller

Last year was the first year we did this. We started talking about it four years ago, ... Last year, we decided to head it up and make it a project.

Jim Haslett

Last year was a hard year on myself and all the coaches, and really the whole city. So I decided that if I didn't get a job, or the right job, that I would probably sit out a year and see if I could get back in the next year.

Brad Soderberg

Last year, we played 12 games that were decided in the last 90 seconds, and we lost 11 of 12. If we win a game when we're not playing well, it's a step in the right direction.

Frank Guzzetta

Many of our guests have expressed a need for more time to decided if their purchases are right for themselves or their gift recipients.

Raekwon

So for me, I had to get something going to promote the new project that I got. I decided to come with the 'Lost Jewelry' EP, which is a mixtape but it's more sexier because it's all fresh music.

Tina Shipp

So many left when Dennis came, and then not much happened, so a lot of people decided to stay this time.

Jim Haslett

My kids enrolled here, but we've decided they're going to go back with my wife. They're going to go back around the first of October, when school starts.

Edwina Ashe

My first year at Salem State, 1998-99, I decided I needed to get used to my surroundings so I didn't play basketball.

Sandra Sanchez

Many people think that they just simply are not following the steps. There are no legal channels.

Madeleine M. Kunin

Many businesses oppose any government mandates, even if they are already following them.

John Emerson

Only 50 of the 220 possible panels would have resulted in the same ranking of the skaters following the short program.

Chad Lindberg

My advice for upcoming actors is to never give up. If it's in you, keep following your dream no matter what. Perseverence is the key.

Hu Jintao

More and more Americans are following with interest China's progress and development. Understanding leads to trust. I hope this will help you gain a better understanding of China.

James Fenton

No poet is required to write in stanzas, or indeed in regular forms at all. Coleridge's 'Dejection: An Ode' has a rhyme scheme and sequence of long and short lines that goes without regular pattern, following the mood and whim of the poet. Such a form is known as an irregular ode.

Anita McLane

Obviously it's a big game because of the rivalry and the region title on the line. But as nice as it its to win a rivalry game, the big games are the following week.

Carl Lackey

We had been following him for over two years. He was doing a lot of damage.

Viktor Yushchenko

Freedom and truth are returning to Ukraine following today's decision.

Darren Benitez

Lesson for me: no leave things in the car, trust nobody.

William Stafford

Leave sound in an emptyhouse in its own room there. . . .

Deion Branch

Leave it up to him, and he comes through perfect every time.

Granth Sahib

one does not even know how long you will stay here; you have no hint of when you shall leave

Thomas Colasanto

None of these vehicles are abandoned. Many leave them here in the winter and then take them out during the season when they can use them. They pay us to store them here during the winter.

Steve Wilson

No one saw them leave together, but he's gone, and so is she.

Benjamin Franklin

One today is worth two tomorrows; never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

Dane Hansen

Montana scares me a little bit. I leave Montana, but it's always with me.

Leon Harris

Next time, I'm not going to leave any witnesses.

Alexandra Adornetto

Sometimes you meet a person and you just click-you're comfortable with them, like you've known them your whole life, and you don't have to pretend to be anyone or anything.

Italo Calvino

I'm afraid I don't think I really have a life on which something can be written.

Roger von Oech

Either you let your life slip away by not doing the things you want to do, or you get up and do them.

Kurt Andersen

I think we tend to be kind of ahistorical, and think that life as we are living it in the moment is all we know.

Marcy Kaptur

I view myself as someone who is always trying to make life better in practical ways and putting the pieces together to do that.

Malorie Blackman

A film of my life would never happen!

Mamata Banerjee

I have seen in my life, I have struggled so much. I did not get support from anyone.

Albert Schweitzer

Late upon the third day, at the very moment when, at sunset . . . there flashed upon my mind, unforseen and unsought, the phrase 'Reverence for Life'.

Albert Schweitzer

Reverence for life . . . does not allow the scholar to live for his science alone, even if he is very useful . . . the artist to exist only for his art, even if he gives inspiration to many. . . . It refuses to let the business man imagine that he fulfills all legitimate demands in the course of his business activities. It demands from all that they should sacrifice a portion of their own lives for others.

George W. Bush

Let the others have the charisma. I've got the class.

Benjamin Franklin

Search others for virtues, thyself for thy vices.

Benjamin Franklin

Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices

Rebel Talbert

New South Wales crews are on standby to support others states if needed.

Lalit Modi

If others want to play they can. Why should we play in October?

Ronaldo Ronaldo

If we have the technology to reach the moon, there could be others who have the technology to come here,

John Cornyn

I have made a proposal, and others have made proposals, and we will work out the differences,

Akiva ben Joseph

He that wounds himself, even though he has not the right, is not culpable; but if others have wounded him, they are culpable.

Eric Hoffer

We can see through others only when we see through ourselves

John Bunyan

So he passed over, and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side.

Martin Parr

My father was an obsessive bird-watcher. The genes of observation passed down.

Tim Zerull

I can't say enough about how well we passed and how well we served and how well we played defense.

Chris Clarke

I was saying, 'You've got to get up; you've got to get up,' ... He said, 'I'm getting up.' I went to get help, and when I got back, he'd passed away.

John M. Smith

I got very hammered, threw up and passed out. After that I drank, but not very often.

Tim Powers

I have more questions than answers. I wonder, could a lot of these teachers have passed this test in the '70s?

George Pataki

We passed important laws to give the authorities responsible for investigation wide powers to defend us.

T.I.

My father passed away in 2002, but yes, we were pretty close. I loved him a lot.

Jim Calhoun

We did what we could with the schedule put before us. We passed every test.

Todd Harris

Monday-morning quarterbacking that you see at a political convention.

Dennis Prager

In a lifetime of observing and participating in political debate, I have seen a lot of meanness.

Deng Xiaoping

To get rich is glorious.

Eldridge Cleaver

With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.

Eleanor Roosevelt

...without equality there can be no democracy.

Eleanor Roosevelt

If you have any interests you can gain a wider audience for those interests while the goldfish bowl is yours!

Elizabeth Emken

I don't care what the political establishment says, Republican, Democrat - I'm a problem solver.

Elizabeth Edwards

Everybody makes personal decisions that are right for them and if you're in political life, you're used to having those analyzed.

Eliot Spitzer

The Republican argument that raising the debt ceiling encourages additional future spending is logically irresponsible. The debt ceiling has to be raised to authorize spending already approved by Congress. Despite that fallacy, the GOP has been able to score political points with its argument.

Timothy Noah

Washington is a place where politics and economics often aren't on speaking terms.

Eleanor Clift

John Kerry, windsurfing dilettante

Lena Headey

If I was into politics, I would be rich.

Elliott Abrams

Four years is a long time in politics.

Robin Wright

I don't know enough about politics. I am out of the loop.

Dan Aykroyd

Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.

Oliver St. John

Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or rather the hashish.

Oliver Kahn

This match is about sport and I separate that completely from politics.

Sergei Lavrov

A second opinion never hurts, not only in medicine, but also in politics.

William Shakespeare

She's beautiful, and therefore to be woo'd She is a woman, therefore to be won

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

This is God's work. Therefore it must be triumphant. There is no place for misgiving or despondency.

Tomas Transtromer

The language marches in step with the executioners. Therefore we must get a new language.

Bill Joy

The fundamental problem with vi is that it doesn't have a mouse and therefore you've got all these commands.

P. J. Harvey

It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore I keep reaching for instruments I don't particularly know how to play, and then I become excited.

Adam Weishaupt

The first task of the association must therefore be to form the young members.

P. J. O'Rourke

I usually agree with Rush Limbaugh; therefore I usually don't listen to him.

Estelle

A lot of scarves are made to stand out and therefore not appropriate on your head, say, at work.

Jaime Herrera Beutler

I've enjoyed programming on NPR, but 'we're broke' and therefore all spending must be reduced.

Robert Osborne

I think there's something about traveling in airplanes all the time that's not the healthiest thing in the world for you.

Albert Schweitzer

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.

Jerry Costello

Make no mistake, our troops will be in Afghanistan and Iraq for a long time.

Jack Rio

So it was a valuable time for us.

Scott Ellis

My first time ever on the Tony Awards was in 1984, the year of 'The Rink.'

Anwar Robinson

One Moment in Time because I think it describes me as a person and how I felt about being on the show.

Rick DiPietro

Obviously, you're going to have jitters the first time you play in this event, but at the end of the day, it's still the same game.

Phil Lesh

Of course, in the band, we all interpreted in our own way simultaneously, so this time I'm just going to do it all by myself and see what comes out.

Denise Bottcher

No one got confirmation that she was napping. There was no time for napping.