Famous Quotes & Sayings

Viktor Yushchenko

The plot . . . involved discussion of the ownership of one of the major Ukrainian TV channels and in order to bring about this, the prime minister acted in such a manner,

Robert McGowan

We've acted properly in this office, ... I understand the pressures and I understand this group just wants to pay less taxes. If you want to be an assessor and can't take the heat, don't do the job.

Bill Harrison

We acted properly and with integrity in all Enron matters, ... We have not knowingly assisted Enron or any other company in misrepresenting facts about their financial condition.

Kofi Annan

We acted on the report as soon as it came out, ... This is not the end. It is the beginning and we'll act on the other branches of the report as they come out.

Glory Slater

We acted like social services, just giving the ball away.

Carlos Ramirez

We acted in the best interest of the institution, ... Our intentions were good and we didn't think we were in violation of our lease. We have always had good relations with the schools and we want to maintain that relation - it's important for the community.

Giselle Davies

We respect the CAS decision. The IOC had acted at the time based on advice from WADA that the substance was prohibited.

Javy Lopez

When we'd lose a game we acted like nothing happened, not the end of the world. We'd leave quietly and come back like nothing happened the day before.

Jagmohan Dalmiya

We feel the Board should have acted against Chappell as per the rule book. And they should not have limited themselves to giving a mere piece of advice to him.

Jill Hazelbaker

We're doing exceptionally well. I think Menendez will need every penny in his war chest to defend his record of corruption.

Larry MacPhail

I should contribute generously to the war chest of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. But, I do not contribute at all.

Brenda Strong

She put the gun to the man who has raised here since she was four years old, pulled the trigger, and when he didn't die quickly enough, she put it to his chest and pulled it again.

Alcaeus

The Arcadians were chestnut-eaters.

Jorge Cantu

We play with pride. And the other thing is, wearing Mexico right on your chest means something. All the Latin people are watching. All the American people are watching. Everybody's watching.

Brooke Burns

I've been a swimmer and a diver for quite a while. It was something that I think I got too comfortable with, and I dove into my black-bottomed pool and hit the slope from the shallow end to the deep end. And I had a chin to chest paralyzing break.

Ryan Klesko

Nine times out of 10 he hit you right in the chest (on throws).

Connor Rabinowitz

I was scared. I mean, no one's going to get excited when someone tells you they're going to have to cut your chest open and take out your heart.

A. Johnson

No one's sticking their chest out. There was no hooray, hooray. People are satisfied. But we want to be elated. And we're trying to get there.

Donald Trump

You don't get a standing ovation and get boos, by the way. They don't go hand in hand.

Luciano Pavarotti

It is not always a matter of wild ovations and legendary performances. Sometimes you are just happy to get through an opera without trouble.

Jerry Kramer

To have that kind of ovation, that happens very seldom for a lineman.

Martina Navratilova

I hit some great shots in my lifetime; now I hit a decent shot and I get a standing ovation.

Mark Knopfler

I'm also getting an Ovation Legend, because I like them so much.

John Waters

To me, bad taste is what entertainment is all about. If someone vomits while watching one of my films, it's like getting a standing ovation. But one must remember that there is such a thing as good bad taste and bad bad taste.

Michael Caine

The standing ovation threw me... to be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something.

Satya Pradhuman

The point is, we're not out of the woods yet,

Michael Vickers

The point is to stop it (illegal immigration), and if we have to do it ourselves, we're going to do everything we can to stop it.

Craig Martin

The point is to get it right, not necessarily to get it done early.

Father Thomas

The point is that we are not at a place yet where we can say one way or the other.

Livan Hernandez

The point is, it's now or never. You try to make the playoffs.

Jan Egeland

The point here is it could have been avoided. It didn't have to reach these proportions.

Jim Clarke

We are at the point where we have succeeded in accomplishing what we wanted to do.

Tom Renney

We have to get to the point where he thinks he could play, and I don't think we're at that point.

Michael Ondaatje

You're getting everyone's point of view at the same time, which, for me, is the perfect state for a novel: a cubist state, the cubist novel.

Ben Nelson

We're going to run like we're 10 points down,

Dave Garza

We're going to put some big points on the board.

Zeus Kerravala

What they're trying to do is to take IP communications to another level. Every vendor has the same vision, but they're all at different points to getting there.

Brad Hemphill

When we can get big points out of her, it helps.

Andy Reid

We feel that we have the quality to get the three points and we want to win the group.

Joe Kines

We didn't want to give up that touchdown at the end, but they had been scoring about 80 points a game, and to give up 10 ain't too bad.

Kelly Golob

Scoring points has never been a priority. It's always been the team's success.

Chris Wielgus

She was phenomenal. The score at the end had Rutgers with more points than Dartmouth, but there's no way we were losers.

Dave Wharton

She's just an all-around swimmer. We try to utilize her wherever we have any weak points in the meet.

Mike Parker

Levees would have been higher, levees would have been bigger, there would have been other pumps put in.

Torii Hunter

Sometimes I get so pumped up, I get a headache. I get woozy. I get dizzy. I like that feeling, I don't know why.

Billy Corgan

The ideology of the Smashing Pumpkins was ultimately more valuable than the music of the Smashing Pumpkins. That's what critics can't put their finger on.

Kayla Parker

She is someone who pumps you up when you're down. She kind of makes everyone around her play better.

William Empson

My heart pumps yet the poison draught of you.

Dave Ramsey

You need some quick wins in order to stay pumped enough to get out of debt completely.

Ryan Diggs

We were all pumped up at the start of overtime. I thought we had the momentum. I was never nervous.

Adrian Rogers

You can't sweeten the well by painting the pump.

Gary Pearson

We told them, 'You need to get this pumped out now,' and they were not willing to do that 'now.

Charles Handy

You have to stand outside the box to see how the box can be re-designed.

Joe Farmer

We're standing by, waiting for them to tell us what to do.

Norma Aviles

Wake up. See what's happening. Today it's me, tomorrow it could be you standing here. It's a place you don't want to stand.

Bruce Lee

We have more faith in what we imitate than in what we create

Dr. Seuss

Whats the point of fitting in, when we were meant to stand out?

David Levithan

I'm always standing on the edge of something bad.

Cindy Gallop

I like to stand out and make a statement.

Holly Derrick

We told her, just standing there, in the street. It was bad.

Tommy Tuberville

I get off the bus, and he's the first one I see, this 18-year-old standing there crying. It takes you back.

Charles Dickens

Try to do unto others as you would have them do to you, and do not be discouraged if they fail sometimes. It is much better that they should fail than you should.

Charles Spurgeon

Dear friends, whenever you want to understand a text of Scripture, try to read the original

Charles Spurgeon

The great reason why we have so little good preaching is that we have so little piety. To be eloquent one must be in earnest; he must not only act as if he were in earnest, or try to be in earnest, but be in earnest.

Alan Watts

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

Alan Watts

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

Alan Watts

Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.

Alan Parsons

That Beatle euphoria has always been there, and it's hard to be in a room with a Beatle and try to be totally natural. You never shake that off.

Alan Moore

I try to do things in comics that cannot be repeated by television, by movies, by interactive entertainment.

Alan Arkin

Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then introducing another theme, incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.