Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeff Walters

Manhattan has a lot of hills that's the area where we have the most troubles.Be careful driving if it takes you on hilly parts. And if you can't try and wait until we've treated them because we do put most of the hilly streets at the top our list on treatment.

Peter Stoessel

Like any other area where art has progressed, Native artists shouldn't be boxed in by tradition.

Philip Dunne

Like any conurbation, you have the run-down areas where you wouldn't put the dog in,

Bruce Campbell

Make no mistake: given the dearth of black suppliers in key areas such as panel beating, tow-truck operators and the like, the charter targets will not be easily reached.

David Thompson

Make good choices and keep God at the center of your life. He's got to be the main focus. I grew up in a Christian household, but when I got away from that I made some bad choices and it caused me a lot of problems in all areas of my life.

Tom Reilly

Lying just behind the reception area lay a woman who had been shot dead as she stood. Just off to the side was the receptionist, who was also shot,

Richard Shelby

Let's hope the area will be calm. But we're all concerned,

David Frum

Liberals did well, and not only in the 'Michael Moore' precincts, but also in a lot of areas where their scandals should have hurt them more.

Stephen McCausland

Lewiston-Auburn has probably been the area that's been hit the hardest by bank robberies.

Robin Chase

There is a group of entrepreneurs pushing the envelope, government officials that are making significant changes despite the odds, and visionary writers, academics, and colleagues whose work confirms, amplifies, and stretches my own thinking.

Andrew Feinberg

We're not contradicting the view that genetic changes occur in the development of cancers, but there also are epigenetic changes and those come first.

Norman Cousins

Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis -- once that crisis can be recognized and understood.

Mike Freeman

Luckily, very few changes were made over the years.

Cindy Moore

Making minor changes in your lifestyle is doable for most people.

Wu Xiaoling

Making interest rates and the foreign exchange rate market-oriented to reflect supply/demand changes in the market has always been a goal that we have pursued.

David Perlmutter

Making changes in the fast food that makes up such a significant part of the American diet, even if the numbers aren't impressive, will have important health up sides.

Joan Didion

Life changes fast, ... Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.

Chris McGinnis

Lots of changes are the nature of the beast.

Chris Beard

I don't think a comparison of the raw count of vulnerabilities is representative of the security of a product,

Roy Romer

This nation has been drifting back in comparison with the rest of the world for the last 20 years in education.

Dennis Felton

Yeah, I'd say there's no comparison in athleticism.

Pierre Schaeffer

Take a sound from whatever source, a note on a violin, a scream, a moan, a creaking door, and there is always this symmetry between the sound basis, which is complex and has numerous characteristics which emerge through a process of comparison within our perception.

Peter Riegert

A movie is a filmed rehearsal in a way. The audience doesn't know that because you're taking out the things that don't work. There's no comparison to the theater because it's live. But making a movie is just as challenging and exciting, I find. A movie is pure process. The theater is the result of process.

Peter T. King

Well, first, the situation in Afghanistan is much better than it was. But there is no comparison between Afghanistan and Iraq. Iraq has a bureaucracy, Iraq has wealth. Iraq has an educated class of people who are positioned to come in and take over.

Gerry Harvey

I think the main thing you measure your success by is what you do in comparison to your opposition. If you're in an industry where you're the leader, then you're performing very well.

Jack Straw

I think you ought to say so, otherwise your comparison is entirely worthless.

kim booher

Lack is relative in comparison to what others posess. All things are not equal and never shall be on this planet

William Williams

Life is valuable -- when completed by the imagination. And then only.

Kris Mayes

Legislators will debate the issue of how much the program should be funded. So we're waiting for the funding process to be completed and we just don't know when that will actually occur.

Quentin Crisp

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Sathya Baba

Love is essential to become a complete human being.

Rajendra Dahal

Last year there were many who welcomed the king's move. But now the same people are opposing the king's government. It's a complete turnaround.

Preston Burch

Scrapping hardware that is three-quarters complete is, I think, sinful,

Dana Perino

Security measures were thoroughly reviewed, including intelligence matters, I do know that at the end of the day, when the process was completed and the transaction was approved, homeland security questions were resolved.

Jeff Lemire

Self-publishing worked for me. Being able to put your work in print, even if it's a tiny print-on-demand print run of a dozen or so copies, shows publishers and editors a completed piece of work and that you can follow through on a project.

Mahmud Abbas

So far the elections have gone calmly and smoothly, and I hope that they will be completed without incident.

Marcy Kaptur

That level of trade deficit throttles real growth in our country and continues the unfortunate path of selling out America. We are not winning the global trade war, we are losing it badly.

Howard Dean

Sending delegates to the convention only continues to energize our party. Fight on in the caucuses; we are on the ballots,

Melissa Wagoner

Senator Kennedy has real environmental and economic concerns, and the federal government continues to lack a national policy and process to guide offshore alternative energy development.

W. Hull

Security continues to be a top priority for America's public transportation systems and transit systems will remain vigilant.

Ed Bryant

Miss Lewinsky continues to be, in her own way, an impressive witness.

David Quammen

One of the things that's particularly nefarious about Ebola is that it continues to live in a dead person for some period of time after death. A person who's been dead for a day or two may still be seething with Ebola virus.

Brian Reynolds

My gut tells me that spreads and yields are still too high to see a flood of deals. But if the market continues to improve, we will be at a point where a pickup in deals would be feasible.

Like I

My hope is that he continues to be a mystery and not become predictable.

Kathleen Taylor

Now with 68 luxury hotels and resorts in 31 countries and more than 20 properties in development, Four Seasons continues to strengthen its position for the present and future. Our strategy continues to focus on obtaining long-term management contracts with owners and investors who share our vision, and who are ready to invest in our future.

Anthony Coley

New Jersey is no dumping ground. The Delaware River is to be treasured and protected, not mistreated and ignored.

Kim Brechtel

We were in Delaware for Thanksgiving weekend and needed to find a place to watch the game. You should have seen the looks on people faces when I walked into the Hooters there.

Pat Kennedy

We knew Delaware would be desperate. They were struggling, and when you're struggling, teams are scary like that.

Don Parsley

We do some good work in Delaware and we have some great wrestlers. We'll able to showcase our kids to a quality audience.

Andrew Miller

I'm very upset to see it go, but I want to do this event in Delaware and specifically Wilmington. It's where I grew up, and I think it was filling a void.

Vince Trombetti

Delaware is young like us. It's pretty evenly matched, and I think the team that wants it more is the team that is going to come out on top.

Pat Clatchey

Delaware is getting a heck of a point guard and a quality young man.

Robert Cohen

It's surprising to me that Delaware just lets the vendor do it by themselves,

Nell Minow

In the post-Enron era, we have seen reforms from just about everybody -- from the Congress, from the (Securities and Exchange Commission) and from the stock exchanges, ... Everybody has stepped up to the plate except for the Delaware courts.

Jerry Costello

Maintaining clean, safe water remains one of our greatest national and global challenges and responsibilities.

Donald Fagen

September 11, on a global scale, and my mother dying, on a personal level, were the two major things that got me thinking about all of this.

John McGreevy

One of the attractions for us is Mark's interest in global Christianity.

Thomas Friedman

Al Qaeda is nothing more than a mutant supply chain. They're playing off the same platform as Wal-Mart and Dell. They're just not restrained by it. What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain. That's what we're up against in Iraq. We're up against a suicide supply chain.

Yoshihiro Maruyama

For Xbox, Japan really is a key, important market in the global strategy that we have,

Ron Redmond

From a global perspective, refugee is a neutral term.

Michael Ignatieff

When we say, even in a global village, that all politics is local, we mean that national sovereignties are the only reliable source of political authority.

Nicholas Burns

If we're to maintain our position as a global power, we need a power like India.

Ryan Donovan

She will have a heavy global travel schedule as well.

Bob Collins

Looks like it's not going to have a big impact for our area,

Jay Sekulow

left open the possibility that we will see a marriage statute in Vermont that will impact this kind of arrangement or this kind of relationship.

Nastassja Kinski

Movies with Marilyn Monroe really had an impact on me.

Ron Lamberty

One of the things plants look for when they locate, they want to be somewhere where they won't impact the water supply. They usually try to locate at places where there is plentiful water.

Mark Kalwinski

More people means more revenues for the city, but it does impact on residents' quality of life.

Jim Delany

Money is important. People here (in Indianapolis) don't mince words when they talk about a $10 million impact (on the local economy). We're not going to go somewhere where we have to take less money.

Dennis Franz

I'll miss the comments from the people on the street who love the show and who have felt its impact on the culture. I won't miss the shooting schedule, though!

Dean Smith

Given the fact that we are in a capitalist society, we still do not want to overlook not only what a corporation produces and its profitability but also how it impacts the environment, touches human life and whether it protects or undermines the dignity of the human person.

Mark Shapiro

From a level of mental toughness and competitiveness, he has kind of reframed the standard for all of us in this organization. He made a big impact on our young starting pitchers.

Dave Ramsey

Success is a pile of failure that you are standing on.

John Maynard Keynes

It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.

David Sedaris

I just looked at the pattern of my life, decided I didn't like it, and changed.

David Duchovny

Larry Grobel's interviews are informative and insightful without being pandering or intrusive. You get the sense at all times of both intelligence at work-the interviewee's and Grobel's-both inspired by the encounter.

Charlie Munger

The harder you work, the more confidence you get. But you may be working hard on something that is false.

Louis C. K.

Expensive quality work doesn't cost more - it pays.

Benjamin Franklin

Acquire Riches by Industry and Frugality.

Brian Tracy

Perhaps the very best question that you can memorize and repeat, over and over, is, 'what is the most valuable use of my time right now?'

Ali ibn Abi Talib

Contentment is a wealth that is never exhausted

Bradley Campbell

New Jersey stands ready to proceed with a seven-state agreement. This is going to go forward.

John Tortorella

New Jersey must be a very disciplined team considering all the time we spent in their end zone.

James Saxton

New Jersey is simply more vulnerable than most other states,

Karl Rove

From a lot of places in New Jersey you could see the towers,

De'Shawn Singleton

I was scared at one point. There was one point where I was thinking about not even playing any more because if I go to Jersey City, I'm going to have to get a job.

Jon Corzine

I have a very optimistic view of where New Jersey can go, ... My opponent has presented a more negative view than is necessary.

Tammy Blanchard

I was born in Jersey City and raised in Bayonne, New Jersey. It's a town that's next to Jersey City, and I'm still there!

Chris Christie

It's not that I'm universally loved. We know I'm not in New Jersey. But what they do say in New Jersey is, 'We like him, and we think he's telling us the truth.' I think we need to have that type of politics on the national level.

Kelley Heck

We're really pleased with the response and proud that New Jersey residents take so much pride in their state.

Dmitry Oleynikov

There are people working on things like a pill that can be swallowed to take pictures, but that's passive technology. These robots can actually go in and do something.

Jim Caviezel

I think you can't be passive in making this film - or in watching it.

Bob Walsh

I thought they turned up the pressure defensively in the second half, and we were too passive with the ball. But that's what you get when you are as young as we are.

Phil Jackson

We talked about how passive they were in the first quarter.

Rob Hummel

I've been too passive (on offense) and I thought about that a lot on my visit to N.C. State.

Brian Posehn

What I think makes people nerds is just being obsessive. I think that's what nerdiness really is - its people who don't just passively like something, they get passionate about whatever they like.

Sarah Vaughan

It puts us in a passive place sometimes, but it can also put (women) in a powerful place.

Mike Marchand

I wanted people to be more than just passive consumers. I wanted them to be part of it.

Brad Adgate

Television viewing has been, for the most part, a passive activity.

Owen Meredith

One of the sublimest thing in the world is plain truth.

Russ Anderson

I have more flexibility, more stamina, I just plain feel better. It's a wonderful thing.

Brian Billick

I can do the math. You can't trade sevens for three, plain and simple.

Ezra Taft Benson

The Book of Mormon, the record of Joseph, verifies and clarifies the Bible. It removes stumbling blocks; it restores many plain and precious things.

Robert Rankin

Yes, I have over the years done a lot of the audio books, which are just plain reading.

Rebecca Jackson

We don't have time for plain friendships, to go out or have fun. The shroud comes first.

Eric Katzman

When you think of Kraft's portfolio, it's plain vanilla right up the middle.

Thomas P.M. Barnett

Washington has a tendency to hold other powers to standards that it routinely flaunts - plain and simple.

Ann Miller

He was just plain Jim. We always called him Jimmy.

Sven Kramer

Me and Carl skate well together and twice before one of us has set a world record when we raced together.

Miikka Kiprusoff

Of course, I want to win games, but I don't think about records too much.

Tom Scholz

No one was more surprised that that first Boston record took off than the record company itself.

Arthur Vint

Now we have more recordings of us playing, which is great.

John Owen

After hearing the evidence, I will record a verdict of natural causes.

John Edward

Frankly, senator, ... you have a record that's not very distinguished.

Alexander Ovechkin

For sure, Pavel Bure was my hero. I was very young, but I remember this moment. I recorded the game.

Wayne Patterson

From all of our records and correspondence with EPD, they have done that.

Jack Straw

If and when Turkey does become a member, it will be after years of structural reforms and with a long track record of sustained and stable growth,

Dean Stanley

Christ pitied because He loved, because He saw through all the wretchedness, and darkness, and bondage of evil; that there was in every human soul a possibility of repentance, of restoration; a germ of good, which, however stifled and overlaid, yet was capable of recovery, of health, of freedom, of perfection.

Charles Spurgeon

We are all damaged goods in recovery.

Alan Mulally

We've incentivized people in the past to maybe turn their vehicles over, you know sooner rather than later. And in the United States with the squeeze on discretionary income and credit that even as the economy comes back there's probably more of a chance than not that it'll be a slower recovery on auto sales.

Camille Paglia

It's time for a recovery and reassessment of North American thinkers. Marshall McLuhan, Leslie Fiedler and Norman O. Brown are the linked triad I would substitute for Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, whose work belongs to ravaged postwar Europe and whose ideas transfer poorly into the Anglo-American tradition.

Bebe Moore Campbell

Forgiveness is the key to the recovery of the soul.

Bebe Moore Campbell

Once my loved one accepted the diagnosis, healing began for the entire family, but it took too long. It took years. Can't we, as a nation, begin to speed up that process? We need a national campaign to destigmatize mental illness, especially one targeted toward African Americans. The message must go on billboards and in radio and TV public service announcements. It must be preached from pulpits and discussed in community forums. It's not shameful to have a mental illness. Get treatment. Recovery is possible.

Arthur Scargill

We will pave the way for a transformation and roll back the years of Thatcherism...We will turn economic ruin into economic recovery, and above all pave the way for a General Election to elect a Labour Government.

Arthur Rimbaud

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

Arne Duncan

We've seen more reform in the last year than we've seen in decades, and we haven't spent a dime yet. It's staggering how the Recovery Act is driving change.

Jordan Lawley

I feel like everything after sections was just extra.

Mark Hatton

We play as well defensively as any team I have seen in this section in a long, long time.

John Roberts

When we go to a restaurant, they don't ask, 'Do you want the asbestos section or the non-asbestos section?' They do ask, 'Do you want smoking or nonsmoking?'

Jeff Ackermann

We didn't win the section this year, and, after that, we set this as our goal.

Rick LaFerriere

Our section should do very well in the WPIAL. And at the state level, our section could have two or three state champions.

Richard Morris

Record stores have whole sections devoted to the chant.

Mark Johnson

We want to win every game, and Section V.

Pu Zhiqiang

This section is the most important part of the paper.

Joe Siecinski

We think we can win the section and be one of the top 10 teams in the WPIAL.

Jordan Lawley

I feel like everything after sections was just extra.

Richard Morris

Record stores have whole sections devoted to the chant.

Jack Kirby

I'm OMAC! Evacuate this section! I'm going to destroy it!

Patrick Swayze

There were wonderful sections of Winnipeg that you could play for New York easy.

Patrick Carney

There is so much good music in the U.S. and there is just a small section that gets recognised at the Grammys.

Chris Donahue

The shelf space has been shrinking. We underinvested in making sure that hasn't happened, and that's one of the things we're going to fix.

Chris Donahue

The shelf space has been shrinking, ... We underinvested in making sure that hasn't happened, and that's one of the things we're going to fix.

Deirdre McQuade

They want to make sure RU-486 is on the shelf of every doctor's office. It's really disgusting.

Eileen Claussen

Binding emissions targets for the developing nations are out of the question.

Kevin Appier

I can't see your target because of the sun, so you'll have to tell me where it (the ball) goes.

Joe Cunningham

We probably could play him at first (base); he just wouldn't be a very big target to hit.

Jon Sakoda

Worms that are traditionally targeting MSN will also target the Yahoo users,

Arthur Schopenhauer

Talent is like a marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach; genius is like a marksman who hits a target which others cannot see.

Ashleigh Brilliant

To always hit the target, throw a dart, then call whatever you hit the target.

Jean Fernandez

I always said that we had a team to target the top five.

Nick Zito

He worked well and is on target for Tampa.

Andy Gray

If you don't hit the target, you're never gonna score

Alan Bennett

If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.

Bob McDonnell

I made a fairly bold pledge that I wanted Virginia to be the energy capital of the East Coast.

Bill Jenkins

Since the turn of the 20th century, members of the Jewish community in Upper East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia have been meeting together to celebrate and worship.

Brooks Robinson

Pocahontas was the reason the Virginia colony didn't disappear, unlike some earlier attempts

Billy Campbell

The South Downs of England reminded me a bit of my Old Virginia homeland.

Argus Hamilton

The Concord Coalition in Virginia complained about pork projects and wasteful spending in the federal budget. Consider the Senate chaplain's salary. As occupations go, only mind readers in Los Angeles have fewer things to do all day.

Argus Hamilton

Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore rescinded the state's European Heritage Month proclamation for fear it would sound racist. It's too bad. Thus ends a month of celebrating the 400-year progression of our nation's British culture from wood to steel to graphite shafts.

Barbara Kingsolver

I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.

Brad Paisley

Deep down, I'm just a West Virginia hillbilly.

Deng Xiaoping

The minority yields to the majority!

Ben Jonson

Hell itself must yield to industry.

Abdul Kalam

Measuring nuclear yield depends on multiple parameters - the location and number of instruments, the geology of the area, the location of the seismic station in relation to the test site.

Charles Spurgeon

A mouthful of sea air, or a stiff walk in the wind's face would not give grace to the soul, but it would yield oxygen to the body, which is next best

Aiden Wilson Tozer

When we yield ourselves completely to God, He gives Himself completely to us.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God must do everything for us. Our part is to yield and trust

David Guterson

Everybody has a world, and that world is completely hidden until we begin to inquire. As soon as we do, that entire world opens to us and yields itself. And you see how full and complex it is.

Carlos Slim

Firm and patient optimism always yields its rewards.

Carl Jung

Like the sea itself, the unconscious yields an endless and self-replenishing abundance of creatures, a wealth beyond our fathoming.