Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Lewis

Regardless of its geographic origin, people quickly began to notice that the pox traveled from one person to another. They sometimes blamed transmission on common and morally innocuous practices - drinking from a common cup, kissing friends in church, following a syphilitic comrade on the latrine.

Diana Aviv

Our past research shows that adults are twice as likely to volunteer if they began participating when they were teens.

Steve Snyder

Our operations benefited from good but not great market conditions. Electricity prices and spark spreads, particularly in Alberta and the (U.S.) Pacific Northwest were reasonably strong in January and February but began to trend downward in March.

Ralph Friedgen

Our defense was on the field too long, and they began to wear down as the game went on.

Yang Yang

Starting in 1999, I began to join some of the international meetings. Through these activities, I have broadened my horizon to a large extent.

Courtney Pratt

Our results reflect the softening in North American demand and pricing that began in the third quarter of last year and that has continued well into 2005.

Ross Miller

Ours began in 1938 in the Methodist church for the Boy Scouts.

Chris Riddell

Roald Dahl worked with other illustrators, but it was only when he teamed up with Quentin Blake that the chemistry began to fizz. Quentin Blake is Britain's greatest living illustrator and has that special talent all the great illustrators have, of unobtrusive brilliance.

Kate Christensen

Reminded of what a diet really is, I began eating more slowly, being more conscious of when I was full. I started to enjoy my buckwheat bread with goat cheese and pureed butternut-squash soup as a response to real hunger.

Andrew Martin

Our mission is to provide every last opportunity for a person to turn his or her life around. We don't give up easily. These men exemplify the true spirit of Christmas - looking inside yourself and finding hope.

Tim Smith

(Spring break) is getting to be another Christmas.

John Heavener

Some of the upscale retailers and those who sold electronics were way up - some 30 percent. Some of the traditional department stores and low-end department stores may not have even made 5 percent. The week before Christmas may have made the difference for us (in Georgia).

Caroline Sunshine

Our family's special holiday tradition is going over to my grandparent's house on Christmas morning. My grandma cooks a big breakfast, and I love hearing her tell old funny stories.

Britt Beemer

Overall, the moderate-priced stores such as J.C. Penney, Sears and Wal-Mart had good traffic levels. We think luxury sales were probably flat this past weekend because more people said they decided to go away on vacation before Christmas this year than last year. So this could have impacted spending on other high-end items.

Richard Hastings

Retailers know that many people will wait until after Christmas for the big purchases. So they don't want to go too far into the holidays with excess inventory that they eventually will heavily discount.

Richard Hastings

Retailers have very big orders from vendors ready for delivery right before and right after Christmas. They want to look really, really good. That's when they come out with the richest displays of winter merchandise, and it culminates with Valentine's Day.

Ed Perkins

Resorts generally are starting to feature Christmas, New Year's packages that include some kind of holiday entertainment.

Kurt Barnard

Remember, there are still over 2 million unemployed workers and over 5 million are on part-time jobs. Christmas will be moderately better simply because last year was so bad. But unless this jobs picture improves, it's hard to say that the retail industry has finally turned the corner.

Doug Tobin

Some of the evidence we collected at the (stabbing) scene did lead up to the trailer where we served the search warrant this afternoon. Fortunately, it ended peacefully.

Paul Formica

People who usually have their premiums collected on a Tuesday or Wednesday won't be getting the CIS person coming round.

Tom DeLay

lawfully collected from individuals who knew what they were contributing to.

Matthew Pearl

I still have my high school copy of the collected Poe - missing its covers and pretty worse for the wear.

Nick Mangold

He didn't put anything in the bank. He collected it. It's like living with a person during the Depression. It was all in a safe. Before that, he had it hidden throughout his room. I guess his grandfather does that, that's where he got it from.

Matt Flynn

I feel like, if the guys can look at me in the huddle and see a calm and collected face, that they're going to relax a little bit. The way I look at it, leadership and being that guy is, don't be someone you're not. Don't be a hoorah guy jumping around and clapping your hands if you're not that guy.

Keith Urban

It can get a little costly if you try and leave it until then to write songs. But you're writing all the time. You're collecting songs. I've had songs that have been collected over a two-year period for my next record.

Gao Hongfeng

Of course, in future we will integrate the fees collected on international routes and domestic routes.

Sarah Wilson

She played a great game. She made a ton of saves and collected all the rebounds.

Michael Symon

Recipes are important but only to a point. What's more important than recipes is how we think about food, and a good cookbook should open up a new way of doing just that.

Rick Whittington

no cookbook recipes for deciding where the cycle stands.

Aaron Sanchez

My family, we are three generations of cookbook writers,

Alicia Silverstone

One of the things that often frustrates me with cookbooks is that there are one or two recipes that are really good and the rest of them are not so great.

Isabel Gillies

Reading cookbooks will help with just about anything in your life, including heartbreak.

Jan Miller

We think it has been the No. 1-selling cookbook since 1930.

Daniel Boulud

There was no Internet, not even many cookbooks except the old reference books. So we would sit down at night, a group of six chefs, and we'd exchange recipes and each talk about how we were doing things. It was the only way to learn new ideas.

Ina Garten

Every once in a while, a cookbook comes along that simply knocks me out.

Marcus Samuelsson

I can take a lot of pride that I can launch cookbooks and there's an audience out there that supports that.

Isabella Rossellini

There are so many spiders, and their rituals, their mating rituals, their courtship ritual, can be very, very different.

Carolyn See

Life is a matter of courtship and wooing, flirting and chatting.

Teresa Medeiros

It's true that romance novels do detail the courtship phase of a relationship. We usually write 'And they lived happily ever after' before our heroine starts snoring or our hero starts tossing his socks over the hamper.

Peter R. Grant

Males transmit signals in courtship through behavioral displays.

Peter R. Grant

Almost nothing is known from hybridization studies about the inheritance of courtship behavior of females, or of their responsiveness to particular male signals.

William Shakespeare

Be merry, and employ your chiefest thoughts To courtship and such fair ostents of love As shall conveniently become you there.

Diana Gabaldon

All romance novels are courtship stories, and I'm not really interested in that,

Megan McCafferty

So much of courtship is the unspoken.

Byron Callan

Recent divestitures have created a pure-play military tactical vehicle company.

Patrick Phillips

Relaxed, definitely. Massimo was created by several friends who have a genuine passion for design, but don't have the same enthusiasm for 'pushy' retail. We're always glad to help our customers, but we understand that hovering is just plain irritating.

George Clarke

Our passing game has really improved this season, ... Tonight, we were passing around the other team, which created a lot of opportunities.

Jon Evans

Our lack of execution on offense created very quick transitions,

Jennifer Hall

Our message is of truth, love and faith in a peaceful, respectful manner. We are created by God in God's image and God loves us. Orientation is not an issue with God.

Ash Rajan

Oracle is really a leader in that B2B niche, and it's made such a splash in that new niche because it's created that niche for itself, and it's doing extremely well. Obviously, if you want to time the stock, you pick it on a day when the stock price is down, but if you're a core-holding type of a buyer, Oracle should be right at the top of your list, without eyeing the price so much, if business-to-business e-commerce is your priority.

Allan Smith

Steelcase's dedication to protecting and preserving the environment serves as a steady drumbeat throughout the company, and greatly influences what products are created, how they are created and why.

Buck Kicinski

Stats are created for sportswriters. Stats are not a measure of you as a ballplayer, and not of us as a team.

James Gregory

Steinbeck has drought and dust in the wrong parts of Oklahoma, ... And some Oklahomans and Texans didn't like the rather primitive image he created of the Joads. They felt, with some justification, it propounded an Okie stereotype.

Pat Davis

Our recent - and forthcoming - announcements are indications that we are well down the track to creating sustainable broad-based empowerment ventures.

Larry Magid

Part of the answer, ... has to do with creating support systems at home that are adequate, and part is the kids understanding that there is no free lunch.

Mike Switalski

Our offensive off-ball moment was creating opportunities today. Our sweeper (Ben Conrad) did a good job defensively for us today as well.

Mohammed Kamal

Our message is that we are creating a platform for change.

Karin Brower

Our problems in the past were creating opportunities. Now we need to finish them.

Marty Simmons

Maybe it is not scoring or rebounding. The guys are doing a good job defensively of creating good opportunities for their teammates. They are a good team to coach.

John Caudwell

I might have made more money if I had outsourced to India, and I knew I'd find it easier to hire senior managers in London. But I wanted to be in Stoke. What could be more satisfying than creating work for 3,000 people in my home town?

Bebe Neuwirth

Creating a role is an interesting thing - each show or each situation is different.

Bill Crawford

Autonomy, Purpose, & Mastery: If you are having difficulty creating the life you want, chances are one or more of these are missing.

Nora Martinez

Patty Kelly fought very hard to keep it in the family and to keep it open. She wanted to keep it part of Hoboken.

Shintaro Ishihara

Part of her must feel carefree, relieved, now that she has left the imperial family and become a commoner. I want to set up an opportunity so that she can get a taste of this.

Harris Pastides

Our medical school puts the highest percentage of graduates into pediatrics and family practice in the country.

Marion Jones

Our lives are so hectic and full, and we have a big family right now.

Mike Strauss

People need to sign up to be organ donors, but then they need to talk to their family about it so there is no question what to do with your organs.

Liz Harrison

People have passed on wonderful family trips, family reunions, missed funerals, missed weddings.

Wendy Rosenbach

People have larger tracts of land and they'll hunt it themselves or have family and friends hunt it.

Kendall Simmons

People in his family have diabetes, so he knew what I was going through, and he talked to me about it. On other teams, when they find out you have it, it's like you have a handicap and you become a liability. They don't even give you a chance.

Tommy Hutton

People may see this and judge without really knowing the stuff he's gone through the last few years. My wife and I went to see him and his family after his son died. He was very quiet. At a time like that, all you can do as a friend is just be there.

Ed Goren

Present me a team, and I'll give you a story line.

John Burton

I was actually present when she was examined. She wasn't pregnant. I know she wasn't pregnant.

Ryan Evanochko

That was just the shot that presented itself. I tried to take my time and find an opening.

Carlos Delgado

That's the way it should be. It's not just the present. It's the present and the future.

Shimon Peres

I think this is the end of the present government,

Michael Watkins

I think the superintendent makes the recommendation, presents it and we vote on it.

Chief Bender

I do not want my name to be presented to the public as an Indian, but as a pitcher.

Sheridan Samuels

I am here to work. I will have to work with the present administration because they are in charge.

Nicole Perrot

The only thing I thought about was: Just stay in the present, ... This is my first win. It's special.

Colonel Sanders

To me, my recipes are priceless.

Bob Marley

Your recipe, darling, is so tasty, and you sure can stir your pot.

Bernie Worrell

The Pigtronix Envelope Phaser pedal is a definite 'must have' for your Funk recipe cookbook......it adds definite Funkaliciousness to your WOO stew.

Dave Favre

They're all recipes from things that worked at fund-raisers.

Julia Child

Once you have mastered a technique, you barely have to look at a recipe again

Julia Child

You learn to cook so that you don't have to be a slave to recipes. You get what's in season and you know what to do with it.

Jeremy Jackson

I tested a lot of old cornbread recipes and most of them were bland or tough.

Christopher Hitchens

Evolution has meant that our prefrontal lobes are too small, our adrenal glands are too big, and our reproductive organs apparently designed by committee; a recipe which, alone or in combination, is very certain to lead to some unhappiness and disorder.

Ina Garten

I'm really a scientist. I follow recipes exactly - until I decide not to. And then I'll follow something else exactly. I may decide I could turn this peach tart into a plum tart, but if I'm following a recipe, I follow it exactly.

Tom Daschle

I think that it is important for us to have an independent commission, as I've said now on several occasions, but it truly should be independent,

Rob Kardashian

I won state cross-country competitions several times during high school.

Reinhard Selten

I did several types of work about several investigations of application of game theory to international relations.

Hilary Clinton

he could have made that statement several weeks earlier, in time for the holidays.

Edward Gramlich

I think it is more than several weeks for me!

Brian Archer

It could be several weeks before we know the damage,

Matthew Lillard

There are several times when I walked into a room and just felt like such a sham. That's the problem with auditioning.

Mayor Hassig

There are several threads here of futures you can choose.

Luiz Scolari

There are several teams, and one of them could be Corinthians.

Tom Streicher

SWAT negotiators talked to him about an hour,

Haim Saban

Me? I don't know what you're talking about.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Dante said, “I tried talking Nora into a ride, but she keeps blowing me off.” “That’s because she has a hard-A boyfriend. He must have been homeschooled, because he missed all those valuable lessons we learned in kindergarten, like sharing. He finds out you took Nora for a ride, he’ll wrap this shiny new Porsche around the nearest tree.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I can't imagine why you're so interested." He shook his head. "Interested? We're talking about you. I'm fascinated.

Becca Fitzpatrick

You're going to have to drive off the road and park behind thoses bushes," I instructed Vee. Vee leaned forward, peering into the darkness. "Is that a ditch between me and the bushes ?" "It's not very deep. Trust me, we'll clear it." "Looks deep to me. This is a Neon we're talking about, not a Hummer.

Otis Smith

We've talked with them, but we've talked to a lot of teams. I still like the team that we've assembled, but we just haven't been able to see it together because of injuries. So we're having to look at some different things. You can't just be stagnant. Like they say, if you're not getting better, you're getting worse.

Charley Casserly

We've talked to teams about the pick, and we're willing to move.

Dennis Riley

We've talked to (Pat), and he's going to get back to us.

Robert Philips

We've talked to him about opportunities within our cluster. It's really in Steve's court.