Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Fronstin

People make the assumption that their cost of living will go down when they retire, but if you have a lot of health care issues, your cost of living could go up.

Richard Bohling

State and federal forestry officials granted that money with the assumption that they were dealing with legal entities, which they were not. We need to make sure there are no liability issues.

Michael Nutter

Somehow, someway, for some people there's an automatic assumption that a mayor who is African-American or some other elected official has to support another African-American.

George Pipas

Our base planning assumption was not predicated on unemployment going down,

Doug Brown

Our assumption was this was a legally taken bear in a hunting season in another state. It just wasn't disposed of properly.

Jeff Henley

Our assumption is that the U.S. economy will continue to improve, at least gradually, but technology spending will not show significant improvement probably for another six months.

Jeff Slayton

I think there's an assumption . . . the education stops when you leave the classroom.

Andrei Popov

The American side deliberately distorts facts related to a visit to Minsk by U.S. and EU representatives. We proceed from the assumption that Belarus and the United States have relations of their own, determined by a whole set of different factors. That's why we suggested separate visits. We hope our American and European partners will demonstrate in deed and not in word their constructive attitude towards cooperation with Belarus.

Rob Daviau

The assumption with Trivial Pursuit is never that one person would know all the answers, because it would be a very short game. The assumption is that one person should know half the answers.

Stuart Oken

Our passion - our reason for founding Elephant Eye - is the creation of strong book musicals that not only entertain a wide audience but also strike an emotional chord,

Vince Vaughn

Part of the reason I did this is I love interacting with the audience and it's live, and I love to see people, go places and interact with people, ... In doing movies, you're sort of on a set, doing scenes, but there is a big part about getting up in front of a crowd and interacting that I really enjoy and haven't done in a long time.

Ian Mckellen

People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.

David Newman

Our goal is to diversify the audience coming to the U.S. Open and make it as fun and entertaining as possible,

Gurinder Chadha

Our films have the ability to tell global audiences who we are, and this is something the government should feel compelled to protect. My film, 'Bend it Like Beckham,' for example, would not have been made without the backing and support of the U.K. Film Council.

Todd Wagner

Our core business strategy is to create new opportunities for the consumer, ... what we¹re doing has never been done before. As studios and exhibitors search for ways to retain audiences frustrated with the theatre experience, we believe the competitive solution lies in increasing value for customers.

Ashton Kutcher

Our core audience is into the Web, so we felt it was natural for us to reach youth culture online.

Sepp Blatter

Over a billion people will see this on television. Fantastic for Trinidad and the World Cup. The audience will go wild.

James Baker

Our autumn programming promises to be our strongest line-up to date. We're confident that Sky One continues to bring the best from the US with 'Weeds' set to mirror its emphatic US reception from audiences and critics alike, 'Threshold' exhibiting the potential for an 'X-Files' style cross-over success and returning series 'Nip/Tuck' and 'The 4400' continuing to captivate audiences.

Jack Schweers

Regardless of who we're playing, we want to play as good as we can this time of year. We had a good practice (Monday), and we hope to be at our best (in the sectional).

Paul Bush

Regardless of whether you're looking at grapes, apples, cherries or any kind of fruit, you'll get the best color around here.

Rick Barnes

Regardless of what people are saying, N.C. State has not offered me the job. Texas is one of the best jobs in the country, and I'm happy here.

Kevin Marsh

Regardless of how I played, this was the best week of my life. It would have been the best week of my life if I had finished up on Wednesday, really. Being here for the first time you just want to soak up the experience as much as you can. But it also makes you hungry to get back, and prove that you really do belong.

Gloria Estefan

Regardless of culture or language, they really enjoy the album. And that to me, is the best thing.

Laurieann Gibson

Recently, Lady Gaga was motivated to take the helm of the creative direction of her career and as such I decided to step away. I am extremely proud of her, and in stepping away I wish her all the best.

Jim Shannon

Rebounding and defense were big keys for us. They're much bigger than us, but we more than held our own on the boards. And we got after them on defense. It was our best defensive game of the year.

Bob Myers

Rebecca and Christina are probably two of the best girls in the state; there's a very good chance they'll place in the top five at states. Those girls are just great leaders. I think we're going to win it all. The girls we have are good, they have two great leaders to follow.

David Pottruck

Recent trading volumes are propelling the company to its best quarter ever in terms of revenues and profits.

Mary Tillman

Pat chased this guy down and ended up chipping his teeth.

Rakpong Chaisuparakul

People may chase telecom and energy shares that suffered the most due to the controversy.

Marshall Cohen

Retailers have been looking for growth for the past several years, but frankly, they've been looking in all the wrong places. Department stores had given up on this customer to chase after the youth market, and while 40 may be the new 20, these women want to dress differently.

Robert Yates

Just get it in the Chase and we would start working on stuff. I tell you what, I like this format but I'd just like to be on the inside of it. One year ago is when our problem started. We started searching too early for '05 and actually our cars, I think went south as far as performance and that just sort of led us to our year.

Jeff Parsons

Kohler was huge for us in the early going. They went to a 1-3-1 with a chaser on Frank and Welsh so they were leaving Nate open on the perimeter. I told him he would have to step up and make some shots and he did. He obviously does not play like a freshman.

Elliott Sadler

I think Dale is just upset that we're all trying to race to get into the Chase and he's not going to take it anymore, and I'm not either, ... We've had a couple of guys run over us this year and we're going to stand our ground and we're not going to take it anymore.

Jason Keller

That's the problem, ... We need our own Chase to keep people interested.

Dave Cassaw

I was really happy that it was our defense that keyed (the victory). Obviously, Chase made some big plays, and other guys did, too, but the (defense) was big.

Atharva Veda

Like the deer's delusion, this world is false; and yet, beholding it, they chase after it.

Jacques Chirac

reflection, which I shall devote to explaining to my fellow citizens what my feelings are on this crisis and the means to remedy it.

Bob Taft

Recent, severe increases in gasoline prices in my state are, to say the least, baffling. Our citizens are demanding, if not complete answers, at least some rational justification for this dramatic price increase.

Randall Terry

Our policies are immoral. This has nothing to do with helping the citizens of China. This has to do with fattening the wallets of American big business.

Wayne Gray

Our quality of life of our citizens is impacted by the tourism economy that we have,

Jim Turner

Ordinary citizens have to look at their income as opposed to their expenses and determine where they're going to make cutbacks, ... They just decided they needed more money and raised taxes.

Charles Albert Gobat

Ordinary citizens are obliged and, if need be, compelled by force to meet their commitments. But let higher obligations of an international order be involved, and governments repudiate them, more often than not with a disdainful shrug of the shoulders.

Sam Veda

Peace and prosperity prevails when citizens are law abiding.

Robert Stewart

Our only intent was the safety of the survivors and the citizens of this state.

Bertie Ahern

Such a proposal would show citizens the EU was working in their interests.

Gail Dudack

Really what the markets have been struggling with is: What is the direction of the economy and therefore corporate profits.

Kimberly Caughey

PC sales are strong and this quarter shows it. And Microsoft still has room for growth in the corporate segment.

Matt Smith

Our objective was to select an anti-spam and anti-virus provider that complimented our overall corporate strategy of continually providing our customers with 'best-of-breed' solutions. Another key criteria for our search was to implement a solution that would be easy to manage and administer.

John Matelski

Oracle has done an excellent job integrating PeopleSoft and JD Edwards customers, not only into their overall corporate support structure, but also their Fusion application strategy as well.

Darren Dopp

People like Eliot because he's a fighter, not a quitter. If Mr. Weld thinks Eliot was too tough on corporate crooks, he is out of touch. If he thinks New Yorkers want a patsy for governor, he's wrong.

Eliot Spitzer

People like Eliot because he's a fighter, not a quitter, ... If Mr. Weld thinks Eliot was too tough on corporate crooks, he is out of touch. If he thinks New Yorkers want a patsy for governor, he's wrong.

Greg Myers

Our problem was that we did not receive the corporate sponsorships this year that we have in past year, ... That represents $1,500 right there.

Claire Buchan

Our focus is on ensuring the SEC has the resources it needs...so that it can go after corporate corruption and fix the system so that abuses do not occur in the future, ... We view this as something that can be viewed as a distraction from those important goals.

Robert Scoble

Our corporate policy is, be smart. We don't talk about things we don't know about.

Stephen Harper

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

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.

Klaus Baader

Such a government would have a huge majority in the lower house and should face few difficulties getting the upper house on side, but such a government would be likely to be racked by divisions and would probably find making policy decisions difficult.

Richard Dyer

Some of the legal decisions have kind of handcuffed us, because we can see some of the people are deteriorating, but we don't have the right to intervene,

Keith Richardson

Some of the decisions we made were tough.

Clay Norton

Our philosophy is to have an offense for every defense thrown at you. We try to respond to whatever we see. We just like to keep it simple. (Kennedy) is getting better, and he's having better decisions to make.

Joe Waters

Our species are having a big impact on this planet, and there are some very big decisions that have to be made. Hopefully, we can get some answers.

Bob Jacoby

Robert made some big decisions in that game and we only won, 13-12. He really matured into a quarterback and could really read the defenses.

Tony Scott

Regardless of what the press said, she never saw the finished product because she died before. But she saw more than half the movie and she said she loved it.

David Garza

Part of me died when he died. You've got a 17-year-old who went to his grave for something he did not do. Texas murdered an innocent person.

Patrick Patterson

People have died of exposure in Lansing who are homeless.

John Howard

Our role here, the battlefield is here to commemorate the fighting and the soldiers who fought and died here.

Cindy Heuer

Right up to the end, the grandchildren visited him in the nursing home. But we were lucky enough that he died at home, with the family around him.

Michel Bonnardeaux

Residents told us that some people had died and others were injured but we do not have any figures yet.

Robby Krieger

Jim died in 1971, and the problem of trying to replace him was insurmountable at that time. But after 30 years or so goes by, it doesn't seem so insurmountable.

John Lloyd Young

My mother died of cystic fibrosis before I knew her. I was two years old, and I don't remember her. I do remember, though, when it was just my father and me, before he met the woman who would become the mother who raised me, before my younger sister, Gillian. It was just the two of us, and he was my whole world.

Kurt Cobain

My mother died every night...it's safe to say, don't quote me on that.

Ronnie Bond

It all flows through her. We knew that going in, but she did a heck of a job. She's a good player.

Robert Parker

There are technical ebbs and flows in the market and this is a technical bounce.

Cynthia Ozick

I find that writing comes from the three fingers. The thumb, the index and middle fingers. It flows out of the pen. Real writing comes out of your hand, for me, anyway,

George Eliot

How will you find good? It is not a thing of choice; it is a river that flows from the foot of the invisible throne, and flows by the path of obedience

George Harrison

Life flows on within you and without you.

Jorge Gonzalez

Volume has recovered but it's still not that high, we still don't see a lot of foreign flows or institutional funds pouring into the market.

Radhanath Swami

One who loves God sees everything in relation to God. Therefore, their love flows spontaneously toward everyone, at all times, everywhere. They even love those who wish them harm. If you love God, you can't hate anything or anyone. If the love one offers is met with hate, it doesn't die; rather, it manifests in the form.

Charles B. Rangel

It's morally wrong, and economically self-defeating, that so much wealth flows upwards towards the richest of Americans, while millions work full time but still can't provide for their families.

Tom Young

We have some very good streaks. But we don't have the self-confidence to get ourselves past when things start to go bad. When they start to go bad, they seem to go worse. Right now, that's a big hurdle for us, to stop flows from occurring.

Kristin Chenoweth

Reese said she was really sad she didn't get to see me do Wicked . All of our friends say we are the other.

Thomas Jefferson

Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none.

Abdoulaye Wade

States have no friends, they only have interests.

Georg Cantor

started to tell his friends that he had not been the inventor of the ideas about infinity that he had published. He was merely a mouthpiece, inspired by God to communicate parts of the mind of God to everyone else.

Randy Thomasson

Our friends' weak language has stumbled and fallen.

Abdullah Gul

Our friendly relationship of mutual understanding with the United States will go on, ... One should not limit it to a motion.

Z. Sheppard

Our credo is friendship. It's the comradeship, more than anything else, that I enjoy.

Gary Asay

Representative Myers has been a true friend to the pork industry, has always been willing to listen to our concerns, and has been a leader on many important issues related to the pork industry.

James Gomez

Playing three sports he made a lot of friends. He's a popular kid on campus.

David Trimble

Recovery would be very simple -- let the prime minister put the information he has in the public domain,

Chris Berman

Part-time information and full-time opinions can be very dangerous.

Ron Nichols

We need (the community's help), ... We need all the information we can get.

Taizo Nishimuro

We need more updated information and better disclosure.

Pete Erlenbach

We never provided them with information that said they were being annexed.

Alfred Delucchi

Just for your information, we went through 17 witnesses this week, ... So, it wasn't a total loss.

John Miller

That's the kind of information that has to be passed on to the locality because they have the most important vote in determining what kind of protective measures to take.

Schoolboy Q

I think that's what most of us rappers do too often. We put too much information in some of our albums that could actually be on the next ones.

Emily Johnson

Lately, at least once a week, an organization is contacting me to try to get information about the program and get brochures,

Richard Midgley

Regardless of whether we won or lost last Saturday, there would've been a lot of pressure going into this week.

Jackie Williams

Recovery is a miracle. It lasts for a life time.

Sam Burns

Recessions usually last about a year. That would place the end around March or April.

John Buchanan

Our record over the last while has been pretty well exemplary, with just the odd incident.

Samuel Johnson

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

Roger Short

Part of the time we do go around in pairs, but these pairs don't last a lifetime.

Jay Bly

Our line play versus the run is going to be a key. We're going to have to play disciplined on defense. No matter what offense someone plays, if you get whipped up front, you're not going to win. We saw that when we looked at last year's tape, but we've made some adjustments.

Lee Salem

Our only regret is that it didn't last longer. That was Bill's decision.

Patrick Stewart

Our last words were, 'Be safe. I love you,' ... He said, 'I will.'

John Shaw

Our offer is the most valuable and the most straightforward, ... Our record of performance is significantly better than Royal Bank's.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I swear to you, Nora Grey, on this day, from now and forever, to give myself to you. I am yours. My love, my body, my soul—I place in your possession and protection.” He held out the ring, a single offering, a binding promise. ~ Patch + Nora

Jon Brayshaw

I will offer no preconceived solutions. The worst thing in the world is for the first selectman to tell them what to do.

Harry Reid

The amendments were being offered by people who didn't want the bill.

Scott Strasemeier

I think people would feel differently if he didn't feel like he made a mistake. He apologized right away. He offered his resignation.

Prince Charles

I'm shattered and horrified, and the least I can do is to come here and offer my sympathy and support.

Mike Casey

I did what they wanted, and they offered it, so I think I have it coming,

John Richardson

There are so many different ways they can do it, we're offering as much as we can.

Sheldon Lee Glashow

From 1958 to 1966, I was in exile. I just wandered around teaching, waiting for an offer from Harvard.

Jesus Dureza

Our panel of 22 officials are here for the meeting. I think we are on the right track.

Ann Coulter

The tolerant liberal suddenly becomes very intolerant when their official religion is challenged.

Dave Freudenthal

The safest course for public officials is simply to throw all of the money in a sack.

Mark Spitz

The officials I was with, I don't know if they were unaware, but they didn't say anything to me. The whole thing turned into what did I see and what did I know.

Tom LaBonge

I don't like to see public officials attacked,

Ian Mckellen

If I say often enough that I'm going to be in 'King Kong,' I'm hoping that Peter Jackson will take the hint.

Andrew Adamson

I actually talked with Peter when I was scouting locations. We stayed up until 2 in the morning.

Doug Anderson

He was a smart man, he went to my partner, Peter Vogel. Now I can die.

Nick Licata

Whatever Peter wants, I am with him. He understands the complexities and subtleties of planning.

Ken Hitchcock

Whatever Peter decides, he'll have our support. He's not going to play if he's not 100 percent.

Michael Stipe

My iPod that was programmed by Peter Buck. It has 7,000 songs hand-picked for me by him.

William Kircher

The thing about working with Peter Jackson is that, at the end of the day, he is a passionate artist.

Chris Van Allsburg

Peter Rabbit's not a rabbit. Peter Rabbit is a proxy for the child who reads the book, and they imagine themselves in the rabbit's position.

Dave Walker

Peter is not recovering from (plantar fasciitis), and we need him because hes our No. 1 runner,

Nancy Kotowski

Our schools are very pleased with the results.

Richard Parsons

Overall, I'm pleased with the results from most of our businesses,

Patricia Morehart

Please pray for my family, that we get through this.

Tommy Johnson

Please get down off the wall-bars, stay off the seats,

Mark Nicholas

Please don't make me out to be a cad

Kelly Svebek

I think they (teachers) are real pleased overall. This time of year, there's a lot of wondering.

Atharva Veda

That which pleases His Will has come to pass; no one else can do anything.

Marc Walters

That was a real big win for us. I was real pleased with how they played. They were businesslike.

Rob Parish

I was really pleased with that considering we raced all 5A teams.

Ulysses Yannas

Olympus has no printing capability. Opal and Onyx would give them the printing capability.

Dennis Potter

Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.

Brad Goreski

My childhood bedroom had wallpaper that was printed with clouds and rainbows.

A. J. Liebling

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

John Powell

We've joked we should just print it on the form.

Andy Serkis

Gollum's never really gone too far away from me because he's indelibly kind of printed into my DNA now, I think.

Ruth Bernhard

I was a very, very careful printer when I used 8-by-10 film. I probably spent more time on printing than anything else. The more the prints were appreciated, the more time I spent on them.

Joe Wiegand

We are not printing a newspaper. We are doing a television advertisement.

Karl Lagerfeld

There is a softer, romantic tough by some of the prints and by the colors. It's not harsh. Some is body-conscious. Some is completely fluid.

Stephen Blythe

Releasing it to the public would not be the right thing to do.

Dean Laidley

It is not for public consumption, but we have a lot of work to do this week.

Pat Gillick

He's a blue-collar guy. And he's somebody that the public will like.

Charles Ray

Her public service announcement for us went out all over the nation,

Larry Nixon

He's always done things no one's surprised at, whether it's for publicity or by accident.

Tom Davies

He's going to have to give an explanation somewhere for how it got into his system, ... His public explanation is that he doesn't know how it happened.

Amanda Martin

If anything, we are going to see more and more things shielded from public view rather than fewer; that's been the trend.

Yvonne Johnson

I go for public safety ... for public health.

Dick Bronson

If we're in trouble, this should tell us, and it should be done in a public way.

Larry Peck

It doesn't get much better than that. It's phenomenal. Those ratings rival those of the majors.

Ted Sarandos

What I didn't want to do is get into a ratings race with television because really, for them, it matters. For me, it doesn't.

Nancy Pelosi

I don't spend a lot of time thinking about the ratings of Congress. I really don't.

Regis Philbin

They could have had Regis back this year if they wanted. Ratings were pretty high.

Drew Lachey

In terms of TV and for the ratings that the show gets, it's ridiculous.

Tom O'Neil

It's possible. There are ratings spikes for shows that win the top awards, ... The Emmys.

Marc Ganis

Ratings are down because ratings are down for every network.

Paul Holmes

They put on Ernie Dingo and their ratings went UP!

Noah Cowan

Just tell your readers they can come down and see anything and it should be good,

Lee Siegel

The Web critic relies on his or her readers for attentiveness and approval.

Christina Baker Kline

I think a lot of readers are looking for a book they can talk about.

Sarah MacLean

There is a whole generation of romance readers and writers who suffer from what I like to think of as 'Thorn Birds' Fever.

Khaled Hosseini

Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing it.

Binyavanga Wainaina

I like the idea of readers feeling a familiarity, whether it's with Africa or childhood.

Barbara Park

There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.

Amy Bloom

I find my readers to be very smart, and there is no reason to write dumb.

Dionne Bromfield

The papers are only going to show what they want the readers to see. It's all propaganda, to be honest.

Walt Frazier

Red would get in your face. But not in the press.

Bill Shankly

Chairman Mao has never seen a greater show of red strength.

Bernadette Peters

I don't smoke, I don't drink much, I don't eat red meat. I stay out of the sun.

Arsene Wenger

The background looks like a lot of red cards.

Arsene Wenger

Of the nine red cards this season we probably deserved half of them.

Roberta Anding

Just as there are more antioxidants in red wine versus Chardonnay, the same is true for beer.

Wendy Larry

I wish I had my red shoes on. There's no place like home. There's no place like home.

Rain Bojangles

It is better to be redundant than remiss.

Daron Rahlves

I'd like to be wearing the red (leader's) bib in downhill.

Stacy Flores

He did nothing wrong. He was just a victim of retaliation for reporting a crime.

Anna Olson

There is no fabrication of snow reporting here. We have a reputation, if anything, for underreporting.

Randi Miller

Our independent, critically-minded spirit of reporting and editorializing aren't going anywhere. Their spirit symbolizes Boulder, and Boulder's where we're staying.

Mack Brown

It's unprofessional for someone to be reporting something that's not factual.

Jonathan Miller

Speaking for me, it's just another one of those reporting requirements. It's not that big of a deal.

Jed Connelly

I think it's well served to be cautious.

Andy Roddick

Had I rolled through that one 6-3, served it out, who knows?

Gore Vidal

For the record, I'm a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.

Gwynne Shotwell

Consolidating to the point of monopoly has never served the consumer - ever.

Robert Grosseteste

And if strangers come to supper they shall be served with more according as they have need.

Phil Klay

I'm not anti-war. I served in a war, and I served proudly. But just or not, necessary or not, war is the industrial-scale slaughter of other humans.

Kim Cattrall

If I didn't work in television or film, if I didn't have the right look, I never took it personally. Because there was always the theatre. I'm not a nihilist, I'm an optimist. And that has served me well in this profession.

Lindsay Davenport

It was a tough match. I served well and didn't get a break, that was the important thing.

Thomas Morgan

I don't think we are well served by hammering away at the same issues. We try to look at a variety of issues.

R. Ingram

Mr. Smith was the first person in the door, so to speak,

Mark Goddard

The question I always get is, Why didn't you throw Dr. Smith off the Jupiter? I get that all the time.

Bill Donovan

Tubby Smith always went out of his way to be friendly. He had me in his office. He would talk to me while we waited. He always made me feel at home.

Gideon Sam

I just want to say thanks very much Graeme Smith for that wonderful win.

Jonathan Toews

I never cook. My favorite place to eat is Smith & Wollensky in Chicago.

William Cowper

And the first smith was the first murderer's son.

Billy Corgan

These days you're not just competing with the tedium, you're competing with the cellphone.

Cameron Russell

I haven't done the profoundly impactful work many TED speakers have.

Sam Brownback

I enjoyed working with Ted Kennedy.

Sam Harris

I'm the Ted Bundy of string theory.

Ray LaMontagne

My backstory is so tedious.

Bill Condon

It's in the nature of television to restrain the spontaneity of a live event. Things become more and more prepackaged.

John Street

I think they've been unfairly treated, ... You don't need to be in the Superdome, you look at the television and you can see it.

Sharon Thomas

I watch television and I cry, and then I watch television and then I cry, and then I go on.

Annabella Sciorra

I don't have a television, so I don't know what they do,

Rick Baker

I think you've been on television plenty, Ed,

Aaron Harberts

Gretchen actually used to work at a television station.

Bille August

I wanted to make Jerusalem as feature film. But we couldn't finance it only through theatrical release, we couldn't get all the money we needed. We had to get some money from television. So we said, ok, let's do it both ways. So we did it in four parts.

Chris Elliott

Somehow, by just continually pestering the general public by appearing on television, they accepted me and wanted more.

Carol Burnett

The audience is never wrong.

Bob Enos

We've tried surgery, medications, and nothing has changed.

Tom Daschle

We've tried all the voluntary options, ... They have all failed. We know what we've got to do.

Joe Novak

We've tried A.J. at fullback and other types of things.