Famous Quotes & Sayings

Don Sherwood

On February 22, 1855, Pennsylvania Governor William Pollock signed the charter that created what is today The Pennsylvania State University.

Paul Allen

Neil is a proven, talented executive with the right combination of operational, marketing and customer service skills to lead Charter to the next level.

John Bolton

If the Security Council can't deal with something like the Iranian nuclear weapons program, then it's hard to imagine what circumstances the (UN) Charter contemplated the Council would be involved in.

Shawn Amos

I live in the social purgatory of the San Fernando Valley, while my eldest daughter is bused to a charter school in the fantasy land of Bel Air.

Tran Duc Luong

Humanistic values of equality and equal rights for all nations and individuals as crystallized in the principles of the United Nations Charter are mankind's great achievements in the 20th century.

Justin Trudeau

People still think there's sort of a debate around the Charter that politicos go into. And I get wrapped up in it, too, from time to time.

James Harris

We need to figure out if it's new people moving in or kids coming from private or charter schools,

Paul Kreutzer

We don't know if we can do that (a charter school) with our current staffing.

John Simmonds

We don't have enough information or expertise to supervise a finance director. We just spent two years looking for a finance director as good as (the retired) Mike McPhail. As soon as they heard (it was a charter officer), they were turned off immediately.

Harry Reid

Let's put good people on the independent commission and take politics out. Let's give it real power, and let's go to work,

Jyoti Basu

Let (the) Election Commission do whatever it likes, but we are going to win this time also.

David Swanson

Lee's commission to monitor the treatment of prisoners in US custody? Jane was elsewhere.

Tim Roemer

Many of these recommendations proposed by the 9/11 commission one year ago might have made a difference in saving lives and preventing loss of lives in this hurricane.

Nick Gardner

Many people will also want to commission their own valuations or surveys before proceeding - which will make the packs partly redundant.

Jonathan Todd

Several companies have expressed their concerns to the Commission concerning Microsoft's Vista operating system.

Bill Richardson

My initial view is positive, ... but the Federal Trade Commission does a very good oversight role of ensuring that consumers are protected.

John Breaux

None of us on the commission are running again.

Valentino Castellani

When the IOC co-ordination commission returns, we are confident we will be able to show them that everything is in place.

James Appathurai

Sofia will be an opportunity for foreign ministers to look forward to Riga. Indeed, this whole ministerial meeting is a stepping stone toward the very important Riga summit. But they will have a discussion on enlargement.

Jim Fischer

One point here is that it's very valuable for the staff to be involved in that discussion. When there's really thoughtful discussion about an issue, it seems the right thing is done most of the time.

Marty Hickman

No, no way. There's not even been discussion of it.

Johann Lamont

My granny would come out and stay with us in the winter, and we would listen to the reports from the coastal stations and have a discussion in the middle of Glasgow about what the weather was like in Tiree.

Peter Bart

When I was at MGM some years ago, I remember that there was a serious discussion of trying to remake some of the (Spencer) Tracy and (Katharine) Hepburn pictures. And that's a great idea except that they were successful because of Tracy and Hepburn.

Ariel Sharon

We had a very constructive and frank discussion of strategic issues in the interests of the United States and Israel,

Neale Daniher

We were briefed on that and that was as far as it went and we didn't have any discussion on it at all.

Dan Glickman

I have intentionally left open some of the more divisive questions, ... I think it's important to have a full national and international discussion of this issue.

John Roberts

I feel the need to stay away from a discussion of particular cases.

Richard Rogers

I cycle, which is a healthy thing for an 80-year-old to do. I rarely go further than five miles, but in those five miles I can get to 80 percent of the places I want to go.

Kevin Mitnick

I'm not a fugitive anymore. Never will be in the future. After spending five years in jail, you learn your lesson. I never want to return there.

Susie Gardner

LSU is known for their offense, but they play very good defense. Unfortunately, we've started the last four or five games like we did today.

Bill Buff

Major bottlenecks ... have grown by 40 percent -- up from 167 bottlenecks to 233 bottlenecks over the past five years.

Shaun Alexander

Mack was a 6-foot-4 wide receiver until we moved him to fullback. After five years, he was down to 6 feet. I think he's like 5-foot-8 by now.

Arnie Ball

Lewis is a young team, mostly freshmen. We know they're inexperienced, so we can't look past them. Loyola has five of their seven starters back. They're a good team, no question.

Dan Winzenried

Leah was right there with them. Leah was happy with her time. We are still looking at going under five (minutes) this year. The two mile is more her race.

Chris Schultz

Sean was a little snake-bit in the regular season. He had a lot of chances, but he only had four or five goals.

Jeff Fettig

Sears owns the Kenmore brand. We're one of at least five different manufacturers in a process that they manage. What we manufacture for them today we may not manufacture tomorrow.

Mick Foley

Love wrestling? On October 1st, Spike TV gives you more of what you love! Total Nonstop Action.

Lawrie McKinna

Losing Nick is a big blow, but it gives other players in the squad an opportunity to show us what they can do.

Dani Caron

Moving it back has really helped because it gives me more time. Because the strong pitchers just throw fastballs. I can put more movement on it now.

Granth Sahib

Meditate on that Lord, our True Lord and Master, who gives sustenance to all.

William Cowper

Nature, exerting an unwearied power,Forms, opens, and gives scent to every flower.

William Cowper

Nature, exerting an unwearied power, Forms, opens, and gives scent to every flower.

Sam Rockwell

Money is power and power gives you choice.

Lisa Abron

Now we've got to pray and hope somebody gives us a wildcard.

Pat Gillick

Nunez gives us some versatility in that he can play three infield positions and is a switch-hitter.

Arab Proverb

Make sure you have a different opinion and people will talk about you

Tao Lin

I'm not being secretive about anything. I just actually don't have opinions about society.

Ralph Bellamy

Solemnity in politicians is not only tiresome but may even mask those twin sins - self-righteousness and intolerance - for the opinions of others. If I couldn't laugh, I couldn't live, especially in politics.

Ken Perkins

We don't have an opinion or more importantly a vote one way or another. We're not thrilled with it ... but it's essentially up to the analysts.

Maj. Pettai

We have very positive opinions from the Iraqis.

Melissa Merz

We have thousands of requests for opinions. We get through the opinions as quickly as we can.

Barbara Thompson

We are disappointed in the result and are studying the opinion carefully.

Lonnie Donegan

My original opinion still stands. I don't think he should have put it out.

Charles Caleb Colton

The masses procure their opinions ready made in open market.

Angel Guzman

Now that I have this opportunity to show them that I can pitch, I have to just go out there and make pitches.

Brian Aldridge

Obviously, it does give us an opportunity to start off (conference play) with a win and not a loss,

Jeff Suppan

Obviously, if you get the opportunity that's great,

Laveranues Coles

When you're a quarterback, I think that's the most important thing for you to get the opportunity to get out and not only show the world, but show yourself and prove to yourself that you still have everything.

Chris Cuomo

We in the network world are used to having time constraints and saying only what you have already thought through 150 times, because you don't have that much expansive opportunity.

Daniel Adair

I was a hired drummer for 3 Doors; there wasn't an opportunity for me to write.

Uday Kotak

The trouble with opportunity is, it never announces when it comes. It's only after it's gone, you'd realize that you missed it.

Charles R. Swindoll

While God is not the author of evil and He never prompts or condones sin, nothing occurs without His sovereign oversight. Others may choose to do evil deeds and God's people may suffer in the short term, but He will transform the evil intentions of evil people into opportunities for the enrichment of those in His care.

Dick Van Dyke

Anyone who doesn't sing and dance at every opportunity is missing out on the joy of life.

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.

Sung Sohn

I'm not sure we will see a big revision in February; I won't be surprised if we do not.

Hillary Clinton

I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda and the manipulation of the truth and the revision of history.

Katherine Paterson

I love revisions...We can't go back and revise our lives, but being allowed to go back and revise what we have written comes closest.

May Sarton

Revision is not going back and fussing around, but going forward into the process of creation

Marianne Moore

Revision is its own reward.

Jonathan Franzen

The writer’s life is a life of revisions.

Terry Tempest Williams

Through revision, I enter the realm of the unspeakable and find the words that have eluded me.

Laurent Fabius

This assumes an upward revision of the European Budget, which is precisely what Jacques Chirac refuses to do. On the contrary, he has demanded a reduction.

Rita Dove

In working on a poem, I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process of revision I discover things