Famous Quotes & Sayings

Katie McGrath

My friend once sculpted me a bust of Admiral Ackbar from 'Star Wars.' He's my favourite character in the films after Han Solo. He's that goldfish-type alien in the white costume. 'It's a trap!' I'm a big geek.

Gore Vidal

Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel's thriller 'Seven Days in May,' later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House.

C. Wright Mills

The nearest the modern general or admiral comes to a small-arms encounter of any sort is at a duck hunt in the company of corporation executives at the retreat of Continental Motors, Inc.

Simon Newcomb

On the retirement of Admiral Sands in 1874, Admiral Davis returned to the observatory, and continued in charge until his death in February, 1877.

David Vitter

On the positive side, I'm very impressed so far with Vice Admiral Allen,

Bob Giuliani

I didn't know what to do. I'd never seen an admiral before.

Christopher Columbus

At sunset Martin Alonzo called out with great joy from his vessel that he saw land, and demanded of the Admiral a reward for his intelligence.

Susan Collins

Vice Admiral Thad Allen is a strong choice, ... He is a highly respected leader who should be very effective in improving the coordination of assistance for the hundreds of thousands of individuals and their families who were affected by the hurricane.

Michael Chertoff

Vice Admiral Allen is doing an exceptional job, and he has my full support in the important work ahead,

Michael Carliner

Rebuilding occurred over years, just in the normal course of events -- I don't think we'll have a building surge here.

Max Heindel

Religion has been terribly tarnished in the course of time, its pristine purity has long since vanished under the regime of creed, and it is no longer Catholic, that is to say, Universal.

Steve Squyres

Our requirement for how far we should be able to traverse over the course of the mission, was 600 meters. These hills are five times that far away. OK, so don't sit here and think, 'Oh, we're going to go to the hills.' We're going to go 'toward' the hills.

Wesley Clark

Staying the course is not a strategy, it is just a slogan. ... We have a long way to go before victory, or at least some measure of success, is assured.

Wesley Clark

Staying the course is not a strategy, it is just a slogan,

Peter Uihlein

St. Andrews is the Home of Golf and the greatest course in the world. Any time you can win at St. Andrews would be special. It's every golfer's dream to win out here.

Dave Long

Some of this we'd like to do fairly soon and some of this could be done over the course of the year.

Chris Young

That course is a lot like The Highlands. But regardless, as long as you hit it straight, hit the fairways and putt, you'll score well, and I think we'll do that. During a 56-hole tournament, the top teams usually come to the top.

Chuck Morton

Our price per credit hour is about $110-$115 less than the state schools. So you go to a state institution and try to get into graduate school, it's probably about $350 per credit hour so you're talking about a thousand dollars per course as opposed to $690 per course that we have here. So we think we have a viable product and there is a viable market out there for our product. And we think we're doing the right thing. We're upholding the standards of the institution, just looks good all around.

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.

Danielle Brown

I was mad. They already made one run that shouldn't have happened. But we put our heads together and picked up the defense. That's where everything starts.

P. J. Harvey

I think so. They seem to have their heads wither they need to be.

Bob Carnes

I was working as a bookkeeper during the day and making jigs in my kitchen at night. I would mold the heads on the stove one night and tie 'em up the next night.

Marcus Williams

I think it would be the same way if we were No. 4 or No. 20. I think Connecticut is Connecticut. They're going to want to take our heads off.

Charles Stross

I don't do villains often enough. There are two approaches: give them sympathetic, reasonable motivations for doing the most unspeakable things, or get inside heads that are interestingly broken.

Harold Prince

I feel so much more comfortable when I'm working on material which makes other people scratch their heads and ask, 'You're going to make a musical out of that?'

Paul Franklin

Keep your heads up, boys. This is your job. Don't let these (suicide bombers) intimidate you. We're here for the right reasons.

Brett Hawke

I don't think we'll shave our heads but we'll be pretty mean on the day, that's for sure.

Nina Alimpic

If it's not going right, we just stayed quiet. We wormed our way into their heads and sort of messed with their minds.

Gary Jones

Suddenly you've got this big-screen, movie-screen, home-theater experience, wherever you are.

Kate Winslet

I don't know why I'm suddenly playing nasty people. It is very fun, though, and it isn't real, at the end of the day.

Sam Worthington

I think if they suddenly cut away and you realize there is a stunt guy, you're out of the movie.

Donita Stewart

She is very independent, and suddenly she couldn't do the things that she's always done.

Gillian Armstrong

It only happens once - that an actor is suddenly recognised as the star they are.

Elizabeth Warren

I was 30 before I realized, you know, that I probably was an accident. These things just suddenly hit you one day.

Feist

When I wrote 'Mushaboom', I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first.

Charles Nelson Reilly

I was 24 yesterday. Suddenly you wake up, and you get on the elevator, and there's a mirror there. And you look in the mirror, and you're an old man.

Clarence Thomas

My grandparents had died in 1983, and suddenly my brother is out jogging before Mass, and he dies.

Branko Ivankovic

Our players, when it's tough and hard, can do anything.

Sebastien Caron

Somehow, we always make it interesting. It was tough in the end, but we'll take it. It doesn't matter.

Felipe Alou

That could make it tough on him. It's a possibility.

Tyler Arnason

We've talked, and we've come to the understanding that he wants more from me. It's been a tough year on all of us.

Todd Galloway

I was just trying to be tough and find it.

Pierre Pettigrew

It is a very tough lobby. You have my sympathies, Condi,

Paul Collingwood

Kumble is a world-class bowler. He is tough to play on any wicket.

Bob Lutz

That was a tough one for them to lose.

Paul Mainieri

That was a tough decision, but I think I would have done the same thing.