Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Cox

The proceeds go into a scholarship fund that is administered by the Goldsmith family. A large portion of the money is distributed to local charities on an annual basis through an application process.

Hamish Bowles

When I was 14, I entered British Vogue's annual talent contest and got a special mention. I went up to London to meet the editors and wrote about it in my high school magazine.

Greg Murtha

We'd get snow and rain, and then a lot of rain. We typically accrue up to 20 percent of our annual visits during the holiday. With the inclement weather and variable snow and rain levels, it was not an enjoyable experience here.

Dave Lindimore

We want to stress that the order of these projects isn't set in stone. The list is an estimate, and after annual inventory of streets, priorities will change.

Gary Thayer

The personal consumption expenditure (PCE) price deflator was revised from 0.7 percent annual rate to 1.0. That's still very low, but it was revised upward instead of downward. There is possibly some building inflationary pressure, but it's still very benign.

James Matthews

We are seeing annual bonuses, which used to be reserved for the professional-level employee, being used more broadly in lower levels in the organizations, represented in our study by the manufacturing employee.

Charles Wilson

This principle of annual improvement in real wages based on technology we also hold to be neither inflationary nor deflationary.

Robert Walzel

We've tried to combine ongoing things, such as the annual Scholarship Concert, into the Mozart concerts.

Timothy Noah

Why does Medicare have such difficulty accommodating a cut - no, wait, a trim to its annual spending increase - of two measly percentage points? Two words: baby boom.

Gene Orza

The fact of the matter is, the Japanese have to establish the fact that they can draw fans to games other than when Japan is playing. If we hold a final in Japan that winds up being Cuba playing the U.S., I have no good feeling about what kind of attendance that would be. That's my point.

James Turner

We are pleased to confirm our attendance of the next two American Le Mans Series races. At the moment, we are working extremely hard to secure the sponsorship to enable us to compete in the full series and we have some very exciting partnerships under discussion. As always, we are delighted to be back in the US where the fans give us a warm reception and the racing is well-promoted.

Steve Whalen

We're here talking about child safety seats. I'm impressed with the attendance and we've talked to lots of parents and grandparents.

Lex Luger

When I saw that Wrestlemania had broken an indoor attendance record, I just walked into a wrestling office, Championship Wrestling in Florida, during the offseason, and they introduced me to Hiro Matsuda, who became my mentor... and the rest is history!

E. O. Wilson

We've become a lot more efficient in documenting enrollment and attendance over the years. We think it's working well now.

Bud Selig

Setting the all-time attendance record for a second straight year shows that baseball's popularity is greater than ever, ... We are living in baseball's golden era.

Mitchell Rhodes

Secondly, we expect parents to be in regular attendance in a church to continually influence raising and upbringing of the children,

Jerrod Lockhart

We're hoping for stellar attendance at the events. I can't say enough about what it means. Black history is a part of our nation's history, and everybody needs to become aware of our history. I hope people will come out and support the events.

Scott Brewer

My school attendance record is a little periodic. Going to school here is no problem once you get into the swing of things.

Joe Girardi

We have to get one of our center fielders going. They are young, and it's a tough game, but we have to get them going.

Dee Price

We have to follow that project. That has to be done before the community center gets done.

Dave Hilliard

We have to finish. We missed a breakaway, we had two center shots and we had one that hit the post. If we make those, the game is over.

Chuck D.

We have no intention of returning to the Pepsi Center. And we've told the Pepsi Center people that.

Paul Bauer

We have never been 5-0. One thing I can say about this team is we have been in some close games, but find a way to win. I am real proud of the kids tonight because we played without (senior running back Nate) Robinson for most of the fourth quarter. A lot of our offense centers around him, but the kids stepped up.

Tim Taylor

When he gets going, he?s extremely powerful. He loves physical contact. He?s strong on his feet, has a low center of gravity and accelerates into hits with his knees bent.

Mike Curtis

We were trailing by 13 points when our center Brook Crane went down with an elbow injury. We rallied and got to within three points, 26-23, before we were forced to foul and they made their shots.

Andy Rooney

We've sent a man to the moon, and that's 29,000 miles away. The center of the Earth is only 4,000 miles away. You could drive that in a week, but for some reason nobody's ever done it.

Abdallah II of Jordan

And as an American colleague said to me several months ago, he said, 'I think the challenge in Jordan - and, again, this is for the rest of the Middle East - we need to define what center is. And once we can define what center is to a Jordanian, then we can decide what's left and what's right of that.

Thomas Mallon

One's politics are part of one even when one is writing. But if I want to say anything about the state of civil society, I will write an essay. The responsibilities you feel as a novelist are literary ones, I think, not civic ones. And I think politicians are interesting to write about.

Nicholas Kristof

You no more have the right to risk others by failing to vaccinate than you do by sending your child to school with a hunting knife. Vaccination isn't a private choice but a civic obligation.

E. O. Wilson

She just embodied the generation of civic duty. Her zeal and passion never stopped. This isn't like a phase she grew out of.

Robert Sternberg

Leadership and civic engagement are an important part of the Tufts education, ... People often get themselves into power who are very bright, but not necessarily wise, and maybe even foolish.

Carolyn Bricklemyer

She's a wonderful mother and role model through her faith and civic involvement and a very special grandmother. She has five grandchildren, and each of them think they're her favorite.

Vaclav Klaus

But the Civic Forum has put me in a very visible position, and I expect that I will be in the parliament after the June elections.

Eddie Quinn

Number one, that civic center's got to go,

Jim Calhoun

I don't want our kids playing the scoreboard because, quite frankly, we won't always be here at the Civic Center. In the second half we matched baskets and we won by five. I don't think we should do that. We should take more pride in what we're doing.

Brian Callaghan

No one community is immune to it. We try to be vigilant and on top of our responsibilities. Fire, police, youth leaders, churches, different civic groups, parents, schools, and the kids themselves all have the responsibility to keep kids safe. We all own it.

John Baldwin

We want to put our mark on the sport and push pairs figure skating to next level.

Derek Hall

We have security in the building. No alarms were sounded. We're trying to figure out what happened there. There was no forced entry, no vandalism.

Ron Beard

When he figures out how incredibly good he is, he'll be unstoppable.

Bob Filner

The FAA's job is to figure out a way to make the airspace work,

Alan Paller

There is a wave of people looking for infected machines. We are getting into the second wave of infections. We haven't figured what they are doing. But we are seeing a very big wave of scanning.

Roger Wyer

When I figured out I had to write a book, I wasn't afraid.

Brandt Jobe

When I did hit a fairway, I three-putted. Go figure that one out. It doesn't make sense. Strange game.

Damian Loeb

When I'm not painting, I'm Oujia-boarding with my photos. I'll sort through my pictures, put them in different folders, and come back months later to one in particular and try to figure out why I took it.

Aasif Mandvi

I figure if people don't want to make the distinction between a Muslim and a terrorist, then why should I make a distinction between good scared white people and racists?

Sharon Stone

Nobody took me too seriously but I was grown up even as a baby.

Sharon Stone

I'm not trying to make myself look like a girl because I'm not a girl anymore. I'm very happy about being a grown woman.

Karen Finerman

Protect yourself like you would your cubs - as a grown woman, you're no one's cub anymore.

Shavo Odadjian

We've all grown up not the same, but with very similar morals and values. We know how it is. We know not to talk about anyone's mother and sister.

Chris Fecera

We started small with one store in Birdsboro, which was probably a 5,000-square-foot garage, and it has just grown over the years.

Peter Horvath

We started small and have grown through this tremendous effort.

Regg Simon

We started out very solid back there, then got young real quick. Now our young guys have grown up. I like where we're at right now.

Larry Fitzgerald

When you think of Peyton Manning, you think 'ambassador.' The game has grown exponentially during his career because of him and what he means to our game, not only as a football player but as a humanitarian.

Dorothy Allison

My sisters, we didn't like each other as kids. We were scared of each other, I think, but we've grown to love each other. It was fun to write about these sisters who were supposed to hate each other but really don't.

Enrico Colantoni

I'm a hockey fan; I watch hockey, and I listen to the news.

Jason Bay

I tried hockey, but it never stuck.

Alain Vigneault

We're trying to work on Sami to get through that and shoot the puck. MacInnis shot the puck all the time. If there was a fool who wanted to stand in front and break an ankle, tough luck.

Alain Vigneault

Guys, I don't want to tell you half-truths, unless they're completely accurate.

Alain Vigneault

You can't control the opposition, but you can control how you play, your energy level, your intensity on the ice. That's what we're going to do.

Al Michaels

People didn't know the difference between a blue line and a clothes line.

Al MacInnis

The first thing I noticed about him was that he was born the same year I was drafted. ... That's a pretty scary thought.

Chris Chelios

When no one else signs me.

Chris Chelios

It takes brains. It's not like a forward, where you can get away with scoring and not play defense. On defense you have to be thinking.

Robert H. Connelly

The programs were more about 'reallocating sales' than stimulating demand.

Jack Toney

The programs are coupled together by their funding.

Chris Mitchell

There is a lot of support for youth programs here.

Tim Vonville

We don't want to be adversarial but we see these programs that are adversarial to the students.

Eric Cantor

We as Republicans understand that we have got to protect these... entitlement programs - these entitlement programs for our seniors today. And we have to sit down and have a discussion. We need more ideas on the table.

Bill Walker

Those are the kind of programs we would like to see subsidies shifted into.

Christopher Hill

Our view is that stopping their programs is simply something they have to do.

Fred Siget

Some of the programs I wrote there are still running maintenance free.

Kevin Eastler

We stay in touch pretty regularly, via e-mail or the phone. He'll send me programs and I'll tell him how I'm feeling. He'll give me paces and whenever we have the opportunity, we'll get together.

Jeff Buttle

I don't think it will be enough. And that's fine. I'm skating better now.

Katarina Witt

Competitions make me nervous. When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating and not, 'I have to do this to win.' I forget it is a competition.

Priscilla Hill

He has no idea what his skating does to people.

Michael Peca

Our success comes with skating and being aggressive.

Debi Thomas

I watch a lot of professional skating, and I am really looking forward to going to nationals.

John McDonald

These docks are water-soaked. When it freezes, it turns into a skating rink.

Michelle Kwan

Skating has given me so much that it's priceless.

Nancy Kerrigan

Even now I can't describe why I love skating so much.

Nancy Kerrigan

I get to see the different sides of skating now which involves not only competing, but entertainment.

Jane Addams

The things that make us alike are stronger and finer than the things that make us different.

Jane Austen

She was stronger alone…

Janet Jackson

When you hear bad things about yourself, just put your energies into something else; it's no good crying about it. Just put it into your music - it'll make you stronger.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

A concept is stronger than a fact.

Jane Goodall

You better not mess with chimps. They are much stronger than humans.

Bob Marley

I went deep inside myself. I had time to explore my beliefs and because of that I'm stronger. Bob Marley (March 1981)

Adam Pine

We've always had it in us. The men's team will keep getting stronger and stronger.

Ai Weiwei

If you don’t act, the danger becomes stronger.

Bill Richardson

Whether you are a Democrat or a Republican, our nation is stronger when we are respected throughout the world