Famous Quotes & Sayings

Xue Donghua

We have not been able to contact her. The U.S. Embassy and the Red Cross are not allowed to visit her. We have no idea if she is in good health.

Vladimir Ryzhkov

We have no doubt that the elections in Belarus were not free. There are some 7,000 polling stations in Belarus, but representatives of opposition candidates were allowed to be election commission members at only three stations, which prevented them from monitoring the vote.

Claudia Vercellotti

When you see a priest on trial for murder who is allowed to wear his priest garb, we think he creates an undue bias.

B.J. Ryan

When you score a lot of runs ? and we scored a lot of runs early in the year ? that makes up for a lot of things. It allowed everybody who was going out there to pitch to relax. Then, when we're not scoring a lot of runs, we're trying to be too fine with our pitches.

Jim Boyle

When FCC starting gun goes off on Monday and indeed (joint ownership) is allowed in the top 100 markets, they can formalize deals that have been discussed, ... Even with these gains, there's still some room for these stocks to run. For a number of months, investors weren't sure if regulators were going to come to a decision in June.

Ben Hatfield

We were trying to get them good information and in the process of being cautious, we allowed the jubilation to go on longer than it should have.

Peter Katz

We've seen what happens to other cities like Detroit, where public housing is allowed to run down to the point where the most (expeditious) thing to do is to implode the building and start from scratch.

Jaime Stewart

We have had a few key errors that have allowed the other teams to score runs. We have only been outside for four games (before last Wednesday) ... so I have to believe that with more time playing on a dirt field that we will fine-tune the defense and we will eliminate those errors.

Tim Hayes

The fact that New Zealand is a natural resource-based economy, and not a service-oriented economy, has allowed the market to benefit from rising world commodity prices and also has insulated it from the global economy.

Bill Cowher

What the team did in the 1970s was kind of put Pittsburgh on the map. It became a city of champions, and you had the Pirates winning and the Penguins winning.

Mark Clarke

When he first started he had mostly an alpine background. Then he expressed an interest in skiing cross country. There were some learning years but he became a very good skier. He was a real treat to work with.

Steve Mariucci

We were a sick team at the start of it, and then I thought we became a banged-up team as well, ... A third of the team is feeling like it should be in bed. We need a bye right now. It was a long preseason. And now we're a little banged up on top of that. I just need to get these guys a break.

Braylon Edwards

We have so many guys who can make plays. We worked on getting a hard outside move because they like to go with the first move. We worked on it so much it became second nature. It was just like practice.

Morris Gleitzman

When I did finally live in the Dandenongs, the mountain ash forests became an important part of my life.

Julie Burchill

When I moved out of London 13 years ago, I found a whole other reason not to drive. This was because my new husband Dan, unlike my dad, did drive, and this became a great source of fun and adventure.

Jamaica Kincaid

When I moved out here to California, I became obsessed with geology. It's impossible not to be interested in the earth if you live in a place like this. I started to read a lot of geology, much to the horror of my friends.

Tamsin Greig

When I was 17, a neighbour I knew well died of cancer, and I became au pair to her three little girls. In circumstances like that, when you can't really help, I think it's a human response to do something beyond oneself. So I did a sponsored parachute jump for Cancer Research. It was exciting and ridiculous.

Clete Oaks

When I was 16 and 17, I used to follow the fire trucks on my bike. I was able to follow because they spilled water when they turned corners. When I turned 18, they changed the bylaws to let me volunteer, but I couldn't ride the trucks until I turned 21. I volunteered for the fire department for 37 years until Blue Ash became a village and they bought two trucks.

Kathy Baker

I heard Tony Bennett say that when you're a big deal early on, you have to maintain that level forever, and it's very scary. You have to keep hitting those home runs, turning out hits.

Andy Gibbons

We're happy with our quarterback play and Paul Bennett emerging at tight end. Our defense had a good day. We gave up 217 yards but I think 130 of those were on two plays.

Gary Naftalis

Mr. Bennett welcomes the opportunity to face these charges in a court of law and to clear his good name.

Donna Kelly

but the question of what to do with Bennett now is a whole different issue.

John Barry

Frank Sinatra did 'Born Free', Tony Bennett did 'Walkabout,' but you have no control over who does what, really. So you just hold yourself responsible for the stuff you do, and then get filthy rich on all this stuff that other people have done.

Harry Reid

I look forward to joining forces with Sen. Bennett as we work to protect our states, the West and the nation.

Philip Hoffman

I have known Bennett a long time, ... I know a lot about him and he knows a lot about me, and I never doubted he would make the best film possible.

Jim Hamilton

We aren't dedicated as well as we should be. Bennett can place well and Ryan Fisher did well at the Gateway Invitational. He was our No. 2 man at one time.

Don Meyer

We don't have a set of formal recommendations. What Sen. Bennett has been saying publicly is that it wouldn't hurt to have a few days of food on hand, a little bit of cash.

Bob Lennon

We have a solid five and some good competition for those sixth and seventh spots.

Mark Dunkerley

We have no problem with competition. We are happy to take on competitors. But it's a different story when you are playing poker with somebody who's already seen your cards.

Shi Yinhong

We have never before seen so much economic competition, and we have never seen American officials at such senior levels express concern about China's military buildup,

Jacques Herzog

We wanted to win this competition because we are huge soccer fans and because we knew that there are a few things that haven't been done, like the use of light and the use of color,

Paul Buck

We have pretty good competition between about 10 guys,

Jack Foley

The process is working, but we still have to judiciously select our new markets and the ones where we expand. It's a matter of timing and restraint to let the major competition get out of the marketplace.

Taylor Lautner

I'm a big fan of all those singing competition shows.

Dusty Baker

Walker is probably the front-runner for that position. But he knows he has some competition for that job.

Jim McNerney

Ultimately the final contract remained within the requirements of our No. 1 negotiating principle, which is enhancing our competitiveness,

Carlos Fuentes

Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me.

Charlie Gonzalez

Diversity for the sake of diversity is not an accomplishment or a step forward. It's what you bring to the table.

Charlie Chaplin

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.

Jeff Burton

The fact is, our sport is not as diverse as it needs to be.

Tracy Morgan

I have a pretty diverse audience, and that makes me happy - laughter is universal, and I don't differentiate between people at all. Why should I? People are people. There's no reason why one person can't relate to any other person on this planet in some way or another.

Jason Alderman

Until divers go down and actually examine the rigs and engineers can make estimates on the repair times, we just won't know.

David Puttnam

What is certain is that plurality and diversity are not, and never can be, a natural 'byproduct' of unregulated market forces.

Cary Fowler

At the Global Crop Diversity Trust, we work to conserve the diversity that will allow the adaptation and evolution of our agricultural crops in the context of climate change and other challenges.

Cary Fowler

Perhaps it matters little whether the international community chooses to celebrate crop diversity, but it profoundly matters that the international community takes action to conserve it.

Ed Nelson

When I'm out there people say I'm not a scorer. I still have it in me. But we have a whole group of people that can score. I've got to do the things that sort of make us a championship team, diving for loose balls, using my size under the basket. That's what I have to do.

Timothy Ferriss

One of the great things about stargazing is that it's immediately at hand for so many people. You know, you could get into scuba diving or bird watching, but the stars are always up there.

Laurie Graham

The terror dementia sufferers must feel is unimaginable, but the techniques they use to hide their difficulties - the ducking and diving and keeping the world laughing - are perfectly understandable.

Jim Allchin

Security is a big thing. Safety and security has been a diving factor in this release all along. We know what we need to do to in order to make this system one that people are going to be able to feel safe and secure when they get it.

Loren Smith

We faced all the Big Ten schools and they really showed themselves and represented Eastern Michigan well. I think they opened people's eyes up to what Eastern Michigan diving is all about.

Atharva Veda

MAN is flying to the Moon and diving into the Sea; but he does not know how to live on Earth with his fellow men in Love and Peace. He moves towards the Moon for fear others may reach there before him and dives through the Sea to strike terror, himself terrified of others!

Carlos Silva

I hate to see losses like that. I want to see the team play like the one we had last year, that was always playing hard and diving for balls.

Doc Sadler

One play in the second half summed up this entire season. We were up by 20 and we had three guys diving on the floor for a loose ball.

Bill Engvall

I'd like to see the Amazon rainforests before they're all gone, and also the Galapagos - that's another one I'd like to do. I'd love to go diving in those areas. Basically, places, like, that are kind of going away, and I'd like to see them before they all become condos and high-rises.

Carlos Beltran

I know there are a lot of expectations of me, and I will do the best I can.

Carlos Castaneda

It was stupidity that forced us to discard anything that did not conform with ourself - reflective expectations.

Johnny Damon

We have to go out and expect to win every game. I think everyone knows it's our job.

Steve Ballmer

We have no plan in place. We don't expect that to happen.

Kiran More

We have named him in the team. We expect him to be fit. Let us wait till tomorrow.

Stephen Reitman

We have moved to expectations of a loss of 100 million euros for the fourth quarter of this year from Chrysler, whereas we had previously been expecting a small profit.

Jamal Mayers

When you're up 5-3 going into the third period, you expect to win. They won because they worked harder than we did. It's as simple as that.

Brian McCutcheon

When he gets the puck, people start to come out of their seats. It's expect the unexpected with Max." ()

Charles Dickens

We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me.

Thomas Hanke

We have no indication at the moment that anything went wrong during the production of the agent. Only an examination of the production process and the substance itself which was injected will provide final certainty.

Lamar Butler

Whenever we talk about the Final Four, you have to mention us making it to the Final Four. This is history.

Carlos Beltran

When he finally learns to exhale, and let the game come to him.

Pat Riley

We were a minute and a half away from the Finals -- big deal, ... It's about winning a championship.

Charles Dickens

All partings foreshadow the great final one.

Khaled Suleiman

There are a lot of difficulties, but finally we will succeed.

Mark Adamo

When I finally found that notion of Jo, I found the structure of the opera,

Sharon Salzberg

We live in this world of great promise, where everything seems to offer an unchanging final happiness, if we can only get enough of it. It is very intoxicating.

Linda Kilpatrick

We're just too inconsistent right now. We're not ready for the playoffs. We're not playing like we should be in the playoffs. Our players need to do a little self-analyzing before our final three games.

Doug MacGregor

We have no interest in a name on a masthead. With any partnership, you want the whole to be greater than the sum of the parts.

Bill Buckner

We want it to be a great destination year-round, make it a place to go play and stay.

Dusty Baker

We were trying everything to get him his victory. It was a great run by Greg. The guys wanted to win for him, and we left him in in the ninth to have that opportunity.

Alan Ladd

I've always had a great respect for the picture business. It's been good to me

Charlie Chaplin

There is greatness in everyone.

Charles Sumner

The true greatness of nations is in those qualities which constitute the greatness of the individual.

Charles de Gaulle

Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.

Charles de Gaulle

France cannot be France without greatness.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

Tom Whalen

We've still got a long way to go, and there's a lot we can improve on, but any time you get a shutout, you have to be happy with it.

Joe Cole

When I'm playing regularly, I feel happy and that's when I get my strength and power to go past someone, which is so important to me,

Brian Wilson

I'm doing good. I've had a slight nervous breakdown in the '60s. I got through that. And I got through the '70s. And I was in a doctor's program during the '80s and then I met Melinda and we've been together ever since. I've got a happy life.

Brian Wilson

I'm happy; I'm a happy person.

Booth Tarkington

So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.

Doyle Geddes

Ultimately, we were very happy with the second half.

Byron Katie

There's no way that a clear mind can live an unhappy life.

Buddy Valastro

Cakes are special. Every birthday, every celebration ends with something sweet, a cake, and people remember. It's all about the memories.

Jane Seymour

What I love about watercolor is that a lot of happy accidents occur.

Rachel Sklar

What's more important to 'SNL': comedy or buzz? To the writers, players and guest hosts, it's probably the former; to Lorne Michaels and the suits at NBC, it's ultimately probably the latter.

Sean Faris

Working with Michael Chiklis is a lesson in professionalism and staying focused. That's what Chiklis brings all day long.

LaVerne Knox

Phillip's done that all year. He has stepped up when Michael hasn't been in there.

Michael Cohen

I am Stephen Michael Cohen and I'm the person who is on that warrant,

John Salley

I'm a Michael Jordan fan just like everyone else. I just don't think he's the greatest player ever.

Sven Eriksson

From what I know about Michael Owen, he would never say things like that. It's not his style.

Jeff Overton

I don't even know what to think yet. Michael Putnam and I waited all summer to turn pro to play in this. Man, it was worth it.

Autre Ne Veut

My first super-worn-out tapes were Michael Jackson's 'Bad' and the soundtrack to 'Dirty Dancing.' The soundtrack to 'Dirty Dancing' is actually really phenomenal.

Joshua Malina

You can never entirely rest comfortably with Michael Black or Michael Paynes.

Gary Roberts

The potential here is significant. The NCAA is at some risk.

Corey Brewer

We're in the tournament to win it all. We won the SEC tournament, and now we want to win the NCAA tournament.

Mike Nardi

We're ready to go and we're prepared for the NCAA Tournament.

Richard Midgley

Nobody talks about the NCAA Tournament, not the players or coaches. Only you guys.

Mike Schulze

I don't know that we've seen it. But the NCAA surveys everybody. I'm not surprised they surveyed the officials about us.

Eric Devendorf

I don't know where we're going, but you've got to look up. The NCAA tournament obviously is in jeopardy. If we want to be there, then we've just got to play.

Billy Gillispie

There are a lot of teams out there that will do well in the NCAA Tournament. But there are a lot of teams that still have work to do, and we're one of those teams.

Curtis Stinson

We've just got to play basketball. All that NCAA talk is out the door. We're not saying we're throwing it away like we don't care. We're just not thinking about it.

Stewart Gary

Tradition doesn't come into play in the NCAA Tournament. I would not say I'm surprised (big schools get upset) and (mid-major) teams are able to play this well.

Dr. Manniko

This year she has qualified for the Olympics.

James Garner

What was I qualified to do to make a living? Nothing. You don't need qualifications as an actor or a politician. And I didn't want to be a politician.

Elizabeth Dole

go for the most qualified people, but there's not going to be a litmus test.

E. O. Wilson

Marv is a very qualified individual, and I don't know whether that will take place or not.

Jack Warner

I still want to get (sophomore) Leah Kincaid regionally qualified in the long jump, and I would like to get the (400-meter relay) team regionally qualified.

Brenda Cleary

Right now, we're turning qualified applicants away from schools.

Tom Johnson

They're very well qualified to talk about what they're going to talk about.

David Velasquez

To have those relays qualified this time of the season is fantastic.

Pat Buchanan

There's no way this woman is qualified for the United States Supreme Court,

David Guetta

When you're too relaxed it's not good to create.

Lucy Fry

I'm a relaxed person, and I kind of just wear anything; I don't put that much time and care into planning an outfit.

Jane Campion

Only when you are relaxed can you see what's going on.

Claire Forlani

The older I get, the more relaxed I am.

Kaya Scodelario

Who doesn't want to shoot for 'Vogue?' I remember updating my Facebook status to say 'Doing 'Vogue' today', it was so exciting. I thought it would be really intimidating, and I don't like photoshoots, but that was the most relaxed one I've done.

Rebecca Stead

On Sunday, I think the most important thing for me is to just turn my brain off. The idea of not trying is the key, because that's where you're relaxed enough to let your brain make new connections.

Jamie Silverstein

I feel cool. I was surprised how relaxed I was.

Alan Furst

Seattle's support system got me through those early, difficult years. It was a very funky, very friendly, very relaxed place that had it all for a writer.

Nik Wallenda

I'm often very relaxed when I'm on the wire. There may be some tears because this is a dream of mine.

David Keith

From sixth grade on I was a real Pillsbury doughboy. Overweight, long hair, thick glasses.

Michael Mosley

In the sixth grade, I auditioned for a play called 'Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing.' I got the lead, and I was terrified, but I went and did it.

Bethany Mota

I remember when I was in the sixth grade, my friends used to come over and we would give each other blindfolded makeovers, which turned out interestingly to say the least!

Amy Pascal

I didn't make 'The Sixth Sense' because I thought the ending wouldn't work!

Evan Osnos

Confucius, who was born in the sixth century B.C., traditionally had a stature in China akin to that of Socrates in the West.

John Ferguson

This is the sixth year we've (hosted the memorial).

Carre Otis

I'm proud that today, at 43 years old, I've come to value the aging process and focus on inner rather than outer beauty.

Carol P. Christ

Beliefs and values that have held sway for thousands of years will be questioned as never before.

Carol Shields

Here's to another year and let's hope it's above ground.

C. S. Lewis

You've no idea how good an old joke sounds when you take it out again after a rest of five or six hundred years.

C. S. Lewis

Aslan" said Lucy "you're bigger". "That is because you are older, little one" answered he. "Not because you are?" "I am not. But every year you grow, you will find me bigger".

C. S. Lewis

I am only trying to call attention to a fact; the fact that this year, of this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practice ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.

C. S. Lewis

Shall I ever be able to read that story again; the one I couldn't remember? Will you tell it to me, Aslan? Oh do,do,do." "Indeed,yes, I will tell it to you for years and years. But now, come. We must meet the master of this house.

Agnes Varda

I waited for each film to become important for me. If I had no ideas for a film, I didn't do a film. So I made not that many films for fifty-four years of working.

Agnes Varda

I go back to many films that I really love. Some Bresson, some Godard of the early times, the Cassavetes of those years I love. And the early Wim Wenders. But my own films I don't watch, unless I need them.

David Lange

An itinerant masseur, massaging the politically erogenous zones.

Mark Cuban

The first cities to create friction-free enterprise zones will get a lot of entrepreneurial traction.

Robbie Tobeck

He's kind of in the zone right now.

John Gibbons

He was in command. He was down in the zone all night.

Rick Renteria

He was up in the zone a little too much.

John Goodwin

Some of that is a construction zone now,

Chris Hovan

You got to zone everything out and go out and do your assignment.

Jeb Putzier

That's where we come in. We have to get in the end zone more.

Pat Metheny

I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly