Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gordon Brown

We have said very clearly that not only is the rebate justified, but if in the national interest it was necessary to do so we would have to use our veto.

Charles Prince

We have said pretty clearly that our focus is on extending the franchise transactions.

Red Berenson

We have to have a good game tomorrow. When the smoke clears on Sunday, we'll see what our situation is. But if we don't, I don't know that we deserve any.

Marty Heires

We have no intention of doing what they seem to be trying to prevent. Right in our application we state very clearly we have no intention of opening branches.

John Emery

We have never looked at exiting that asset. I want to be perfectly clear on that.

Ed Wade

We want our fans to be excited. We're giving them a lot of reason to be excited. But we clearly understand that you play the game on the field. That's what it's all about.

John Terry

We were a lot of points in front and we've dropped a few - we lost to Fulham and a couple of results didn't go our way. But we are still fighting. We are seven points clear and any team would take that at the end of the season.

John Devine

We have product and distribution plans to fit each of those brands, ... I know there's a lot of speculation about what we're doing and that's fine. But I want to be clear we do not have plans to drop any brands.

Gareth Davis

We've spoken to Steve at length and made it very clear that we would like him to stay. It's an ongoing process, and my expectation is that it will be a few days before we know one way or the other.

Jerry Martin

We have no control over price, which is determined by the market forces and refiners. We're eliminating the supply shortage, and hopefully that will stabilize prices.

Kevin Potter

We have no control over lines that are being used for the Internet or someone's talking with grandma for an hour. This showed the system works as it should.

Jerry Simmons

We have no control of the money, it goes into the state general fund. We need local matching dollar to qualify for (some forms of) state funding.

Lindy Ruff

We've shown a ton of grit, a ton of character. We didn't have a lot of quality chances, but we got in control play. We sent a message that we were going to come, we were going to be relentless.

Carl Schmid

The extreme right wing won, once again. That is only one part of the party, but they control the party.

Michael Laine

The fact is that we just don't have control over those assets, and we're never going to,

Stacey Quandt

The fact is that cyber criminals are opportunistic and will seek any means to take control of users' systems.

Doug Wilson

The reality is that we can't control where people are moving into. There are pains with the growth. I wish growth didn't have an impact on families, but it does.

Walt Kuver

There is a lot left to learn and get under control and document.

Rob Blake

We have to get points in every game. We'll take this point and we're not satisfied, but we'll definitely take it after being down with 7 minutes left.

Jerome Bettis

Whenever you go into a situation where it could be your last play, there's a sense of desperation. I definitely feel it, and I try to encourage my teammates and lead by example. It doesn't matter how we do it, all that matters is we get it done.

Wade Redden

Whenever something needs to be done, it seems like he's the guy who's out there, leading the way. He's definitely a candidate.

Julian Gardner

We were belted in the set pieces by a NSW team that was definitely up for the game.

Lisa Nash

We've seen some very heavy trading today, which could be related to the news. Once the news broke, there definitely was an increase in trading.

John Margarita

The extra week helped us since we're a young team, but the guys are definitely ready to start playing for real. We'll see what Ophelia brings, but they've got the turf down there and we're expecting to play regardless.

Olli Jokinen

We've still got Krajicek and Bouwmeester as well. You definitely need four guys on the power play, maybe even three units during the year.

Janet Baird

We've still got a long way to go, but making it back to state is definitely in the back of their minds. Hopefully, we'll improve enough to make a run at it.

John Campbell

There is a lot of good quality music being made and from this tour and the touring we've been doing over the 10 years there has definitely been a big pickup in people showing up, especially in girls 18-24.

Ron Miller

The reality is the local school districts are the ones who are enforcing them already.

Kelly Avants

We had been told by other participating districts to expect an initial enrollment of 500 students.

Lisa Jackson

She gave me all the names of the school districts and told me to apply.

Woody Smith

Last year we had one senior, and this year we have six. Last year, we learned a lot from the Southeast game (final season loss) and the players want redemption. Our goal is to win districts and put something together in the playoffs.

Peter Erben

Last year, there were a number of districts where the vote did not take place. This year we hope we can do it in all of them,

Chris Mack

There are school districts that show a ton of success with demographics just like ours. Let's go see what the heck they're doing.

Michael Rogers

There are school districts that are trying to find minorities because of the populations they serve, and our staff works to make those connections.

Peter Shannon

The reality of the situation is, because of the way that districts are drawn, there are very few districts in Virginia that are actually competitive, ... Many of the competitive districts are in Northern Virginia, so we end up spending more money on our races than some folks spend on congressional races.

Mahmoud Abbas

The parliamentary election will take place in all of the homeland districts on Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2006,

Mike Gillespie

This was as hot as it's ever been. We made big shots when we had to.

Janice Dickinson

I was hot and I knew it and it went to my head.

Janet Maslin

[On the movie "American Hot Wax:] A plot so thin you could thread a needle with it.

Bruce Campbell

Genres pop up and get hot and then they die down.

Andre Owens

We're looking for a win, because we want to be as hot as we can be going into the tournament. We have to look at it that way.

Delta Burke

And sometimes, when you feel low on yourself, that's just when you have to go out there and be photographed or do a scene where you're hot stuff. You're always working on it.

Tina Brown

The first black president was a hotter plot line than the first woman president.

Neil Peart

If I have to travel, I'm going to travel my way and travel in the real world. And I'm going to have conversations every day with people in rest stops and people in gas stations and people in hotels and diners. That nourishes me.

John Gibbons

We're going to give this a go. That's our plan. If somebody is really hot and we're trying to win games, it may come down to that.

Carlos Fuentes

By its very nature, the novel indicates that we are becoming. There is no final solution. There is no last word.

C. S. Lewis

Here at last is the thing I was made for.

C. S. Lewis

Ah, poor Pole. It's been to much for her, this last bit. Turned her head, I shouldn't wonder. She's beginning to see things.

Jimmy Johnson

We have to find some speed and turn things around. Thankfully, we had a strong start to the season, so this last month we really didn't have to race our way in. But we've got to find it in a hurry.

Agnetha Faltskog

Abba's last tour was a success but awful for me.

Joe Minucci

We were at the lowest of lows last year. We couldn't get any lower. This year we are looking to make a playoff push, and trying to win the division.

Alan Rudolph

It's always been my formula to get the next picture set up before anyone's seen the last one.

Charles Dickens

Remember, to the last, that while there is life there is hope.

Charles Simmons

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

Caitlyn Jenner

I'm so happy after such a long struggle to be living my true self. Welcome to the world, Caitlyn. Can't wait for you to get to know her/me.

Lorraine Bracco

I'd be like, 'You're a young, vibrant woman. Where are you?' I realized that I had been living in denial.

Michael Franti

I'm not an idealist. I know we're not going to be living in a world that's peace and love all the time. But we can live in a world where we kill each other a lot less.

The Talmud

There is no pity for a man who moans about living in one town and does not move to another.

Sathya Baba

There is no living being without the spark of love; even a mad man loves something or somebody.

Peter Russell

The principal artists' rooms are so big that in New York 12 people would be living in them,

Axl Rose

In general, I usually don't really go by or live my life by a clock, and outside of touring, I don't really ask anyone else to. It's not out of lack of respect for anyone or intentional.

Carol Lewis

Throughout history, when our national security has been threatened, we have responded by reducing liberties, ... we ask: We not only want to survive, but survive living under what conditions?

David Duchovny

I was about 26 or 27 and it was imperative that I make a living right away and it's hard to make a living on stage, so I started in television and film.

Richard Herring

We have seen a lot of momentum buying,

David Shields

Momentum, in literary mosaic, derives not from narrative but from the subtle, progressive buildup of thematic resonances.

Alan Greenspan

In an economy that already has lost some momentum, one must remain alert to the possibility that greater caution and weakening asset values in financial markets could signal or precipitate an excessive softening in household and business spending.

Debbie Casto

We've got a very aggressive, trapping style of defense. And we get a lot of turnovers out of it. We've been able to get momentum with turnovers and score in transition.

Arthur Keith

Human nature, as manifested in tribalism and nationalism, provides the momentum of the machinery of human evolution.

Ben Gordon

When we go down to Miami, we've got to keep the snowball going. We've got momentum going. We've got confidence. So we've got to keep it up.

Ben Gordon

When we go down there, we've got to keep the snowball rolling. We have momentum right now. We have confidence. So we need to keep that up.

Ken Klee

Momentum switches in a heartbeat, ... I thought we were taking it to them, then there was one extraordinary play by their guy. ... I'd like to have it over again.

Earl Weaver

Momentum is only as good as tomorrow's starting pitcher.

Cornelia Otis Skinner

mosquitoes were using my ankles as filling stations.

David Lynch

Music as background to me becomes like a mosquito, an insect. In the studio we have big speakers, and to me that's the way music should be listened to. When I listen to music, I want to just listen to music.

Source Unknown

Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

You know the beauty of driving one of these? (Wulf) No. (Cassandra) You can swat a Daimon like a mosquito. (Wulf) Well, since they’re both bloodsucking insects, I say go for it. (Cassandra)

James Wright

If the water is turbulent, the mosquito larvae won't make it to the top to suck in air,

Prince Philip

You have mosquitoes. I have the Press.

Kelley Armstrong

We scarified a mosquito. I bet that's what did it. It was probably a virgin too.

John McCain

Being chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee is like being a mosquito in a nudist colony.

Elizabeth Gilbert

The mosquitoes here are big enough to rape a chicken.

David Walker

We have to get some movement on it shortly,

Deborah Marshall

We have no plans to move at this time.

Chris Bell

When you're trying to move away from a system that is overburdened with loopholes, you don't replace it with a system with still more loopholes.

Hans Mosesmann

We've seen the same movement (as Philips). We think this quarter is the bottom.

Jonathan Pulik

The process at this point is being re-examined on how we will proceed, but it will move forward. The project is still in the planning stages.

Malik Peiris

The real culprits who are doing the movement you probably don't see. They're probably healthy. Obviously, if they're sick, they would not be able to migrate.

Thomas Haden Church

When I moved to L.A. in 1989, the very first thing I did was this horrific pilot called To Protect And Surf.

Thomas Bangalter

Artists are overcompensating with this aggressive, energetic, hyperstimulating music - it's like someone shaking you. But it can't move people on an emotional level.

Thomas Dooley

The other thing is I don't want to move any more. I have moved so many times in my life.

Carre Otis

Eating disorders, body dysmorphia and a general dissatisfaction with one's life and body seems to ail too many young people.

Carol Roth

Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.

Carol Kane

I don't feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people.

Carol Kane

That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.

Carol Leifer

They're all sources of material. What I love about what I do, the more you talk about your life, there are so many people who have similar experiences.

Carol Shields

I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people.

Carol Moseley Braun

All I really want to be is boring. When people talk about me, I'd like them to say, Carol's basically a short Bill Bradley. Or, Carol's kind of like Al Gore in a skirt.

Carol Moseley Braun

My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.

Carlos Beltran

I don't want to be hiding from people. It would be difficult to be recognized everywhere, so that I couldn't do things ordinary people do.

Karen Woodall

The poor are not perceived as voters. You can see that's what legislators think when they make these spending decisions.

Oleg Cassini

What is more important, the reality or the perception? I am perceived to be an important designer. It's enough for me.

Umera Ahmad

The Pakistani woman's image internationally is perceived to be regressive, which is not true.

Marianne Williamson

I didn't realize that running as an independent would be perceived as a threat to the Democrats.

John Nienstedt

You have to be perceived as pure if you want a shot in this campaign.

Phil Klay

Pity addresses the perceived suffering, not the whole individual.

Yasser Elguindi

OPEC wants to be perceived as part of the solution, not part of the problem,

Lord Puttnam

The substance of what we do and how we do it is probably even more important than how that is perceived and how we communicate it.

Park Chan-wook

The atmosphere of Catholicism in Korea is quite different to the way it is practised and perceived in Europe or the U.S.

Carole Bouquet

Political debate is of no interest to me. What I want are practical solutions.

Carlos Mencia

Hurricane Katrina was caused by political correctness. I said it!

Carl Bernstein

Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.

Carl Andre

Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist.

C. S. Lewis

The claim to equality, outside of the strictly political field, is made only by those who feel themselves to be in some way inferior.

Charles W. Pickering

A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.

Charles Dickens

Keep up appearances whatever you do.

Charles Dickens

Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life.

Susan B. Anthony

I have many things to say. My every right, constitutional, civil, political and judicial has been tramped upon. I have not only had no jury of my peers, but I have had no jury at all.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

When I'm on the set, I'll come up with ideas if I'm sort of just between responsibilities, because there's a lot of sitting around on set. Invariably, though, the stuff I come up with on the set tends to be bad.

Sarah Snook

I always wanted to do some sort of action film - even a superhero movie - and when 'Lucy' came out, I was like, 'That's what I want to do.'

Lyle Bauer

What we didn't want was it to be sort of a one-hit wonder.

Nigel Kneale

You set up a story and it turns inside out and that is, for me, the most exciting sort of story to write. The viewer thinks it's going to be about something and it does the opposite.

Kiesza

I tend to sort of dive into things without worrying about risk or anything. Like, when I get an idea, I tend to just go for it and see what happens.

John Godfrey

Until they sort it out, we're not going to get in the way.

Ernie Hudson

I think it's important to find the joy in your work and the things that sort of renew that.

Paul Souza

We're sort of bucking the trend a little bit.

Desmond Soon

Let's see what sort of spreads it comes out at.

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.