Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Wright

Refineries in Texas did not take a direct hit from Rita, but the energy grids in that area were effected, and power has not been restored to those refineries.

Richard Preston

Redwoods have an enormous surface area that extends upward into space because they have a propensity to do something called reiteration. A redwood is a fractal. And as they put out limbs, the limbs burst into small trees, copies of the redwood.

Mike Shockley

Recommendations included changes in several areas of energy expenses.

Gerry Fleming

Reggie has done a lot of things away from the play as far as his defensive play and his play without the puck. He's been in areas and made some big plays without the puck as well.

Bob Noun

President Bush's proposed budget will not have an impact this year. The current situation is we still have to lay off between 30 to 40 employees. But we are encouraged by the areas that were covered by the president.

Stephanie Williams

Preserving farmland and preserving the farming enterprise must go hand-in-hand. By working with Cumberland County Economic Development, we are able to help ensure that area farms become preserved, and remain competitive, for generations to come.

Irene Toner

Our policy is to call for a general evacuation in areas that might be prone to Category 3 impacts.

Hassan Nasrallah

Our policy is clear, we are fighting in an area that is still under occupation in Lebanon. And beyond that area, we are on the defensive.

Mike Ruddock

Our passing, tackling, lineout and tackle area play all need to be improved,

Nancy Foster

Participants will also tour the home of a member of the South Carolina House of Representative from the early 1900s,

Matt Baker

Past Carolina teams may have folded when we get down like that. Not this team. No one got down. We just got down to business.

Mary Williamson

Our mathematics test scores are going to be late in coming, and we won't have that information in time for parents to make a timely decision about whether they want to transfer their children. The state of North Carolina has requested that the federal government switch the sanctions for this year only.

Eunice Newcomer

People in South Carolina really loved Otto Reynolds.

Mike Easley

People in North Carolina are more used to these type storms. If you heed the warning and don't put yourself in peril, it makes everybody's work easier.

Steven Smith

Our primary goal is to form a high-performance sales organization to better serve our customers and our market throughout those North Carolina properties.

Roy Cooper

Our work to keep North Carolina safe is making a positive difference,

Gabe Norwood

Our coaches have preached that the whole way through the tournament: Just have fun. There's no pressure on us. In earlier games, we could have lost by 30 to Michigan State and North Carolina and everybody wouldn't have been writing about us, and we would have just went home and this would have been done with. But we don't feel any pressure now that we're here. We can just go out and play.

Nancy Vinson

That was so important as far as water quality and habitat and public views. People come to South Carolina to enjoy these gorgeous marsh views.

Richard Pasch

Right now what we're forecasting is for it to become a tropical storm and move into the northern Gulf of Mexico.

J. Taylor

If all the steel is heading to the Gulf for rebuilding because of (Hurricane) Katrina, it could increase our costs.

Bill Zollars

Many of the local programs funded by United Way will play an important role in helping hurricane victims who fled the Gulf Coast, and have at least temporarily relocated here.

Diana Nyad

The highs were high, the awe, I'm not a religious person, but I'll tell you, to be in the azure blue of the Gulf Stream as if, as you're breathing, you're looking down miles and miles and miles, to feel the majesty of this blue planet we live on, it's awe-inspiring.

Norman Schwarzkopf

This gulf war syndrome thing is truly unfortunate, and I've met some of the vets who have this. These are my guys, and I feel terrible about it.

Terry Francl

The port of New Orleans, the Gulf of Mexico and Mississippi River system are the heart of the logistical transportation system for our exports.

Richard Knabb

We're looking at a major hurricane in the east-central Gulf later this week.

Andy Serkis

There's a huge gulf between people who can afford to go to drama school and those who can't.

Bill Parsons

You just can't watch it on TV and get a feel for the devastation that I've seen down here on the Gulf Coast. It's just unbelievable,

Scott Baker

Regardless of who I'm facing, if I'm going to be nervous it's not going to help the situation.

Herman Sanders

Reed just made the shot. We said in the huddle to make sure we knew where he was on the last play. We tried to help on Chad, but he kicked it out and we couldn't recover.

Pedro Marquez

Our relay team did well. We just need to work on passing the baton, but that's something that we can work on and improve on. Also, not looking back while we're running will help out.

King Abdullah

Our relations with India will help Indo-Pak relations.

Brian Rooney

Oregon has a lot of in-migration, which helps to keep the unemployment rate (higher).

Lee Janzen

Part of his learning process is helping other guys.

Rob Gorman

Part of what we're about now is trying to help people come up with their own recovery plans.

Nathan Thompson

Paul Wellstone was a person who really would have liked to see something like this happen. Projects that help people in need are what he wanted; it's really fitting.

Sam Loeffler

Our lyrics are about a lot of things. They are not very introspective. For example, the song 'Panic Prone' is about drugs, this idea about kids getting drugged up and medicating themselves and whether to help people or not help people at all.

Donna Roberts

Our main fundraiser is the gala. We raised $200,000 during the gala and our hope is to raise $50,000 here today.

E. O. Wilson

Our losing streak ended, so hopefully the Leafs' will end theirs (tonight).

Jim Eastin

Our line has been our strength so far. We get after people and stay after them. Our season is not over. Hopefully the kids understand that.

Jeanette Siemens

Our leadership was well represented and we hope it will be again.

Dan White

Our members look for leadership from us and hopefully they'll take our advice. The majority said they liked what Culver had to say and that's where the endorsement went.

Helio Castroneves

People might see an opportunity, but I hope people are more patient a little bit, ... This is the last road course, but there is nothing I can do. It's out of my control.

Peter Jensen

Sure there are things that are discouraging. But I'm never going to lose hope.

Bart Schouten

Sure, some words have been exchanged. They've been talking about training together next year, and I hope they still feel that way.

Ben Tate

Some of the linebackers tell me what they're going to do. Steve Gandy told me he was going to put the 'boom' on me -- knock me out. I just laugh. I don't know if we're tackling or not, but hopefully we are. I get to show what I can do a little bit.

Scott Hand

Our North American operations remain a vital base,

Lena Headey

Really, I still just think of myself as a Northerner, ultimately. It's in my DNA. I'll always have those Northern qualities. We can be mischievous. We can be bold.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

RED-SKIN, n. A North American Indian, whose skin is not red --at least not on the outside.

Kevin Bianco

I think this is a win for everyone in North Bergen.

Chelsea Cain

I'd lived in Portland on and off for a decade before I'd even heard of Vanport. It was this town of 20,000 people that washed away from north Portland.

Jamie Bell

I'm a hard-mouthed northeastern lad. That's me - the Eminem of Northeast England.

Tom Parsons

If American or Northwest don't go along, fares will roll back.

Darrell Jackson

I don't think people really give the Northwest a lot of respect.

John Williamson

Hopefully, this will be used by all of the county. It's more than just North High.

Mark Ambrose

From a team standpoint, it's a rebuilding year.

Doug Thornton

I think it could be a symbol for the rebuilding of New Orleans.

Jalen Rose

I don't think it's a total rebuilding situation.

Kim Badley

For us, it is a rebuilding year. I would like to say we are just reloading, but, unfortunately, we are rebuilding.

Terry Gray

We thought this was going to be a rebuilding year.

Mike Milinkovich

We're rebuilding our Web site at Eclipse.org and we're using PHP,

Tim Cox

We have one big step to go (in the rebuilding process), and I think this is the year for it.

Dave Eggers

He must trust, and he must have faith. And so he builds, because what is building, and rebuilding and rebuilding again, but an act of faith?

James Lewis

We spent a lot of time rebuilding the trust of our donors. We had to transform it back to a place of recovery, because we were in recovery as well.

C. S. Lewis

A recovery of the old sense of sin is essential to Christianity. Christ takes it for granted that men are bad. Until we really feel this assumption of His to be true, though we are part of the world He came to save, we are not part of the audience to whom His words are addressed.

Aimee Mann

In the '70s, everybody thought drugs were just good times. People didn't really know about drug addiction, or that such a thing existed. When I grew up in the '70s I thought you had to take drugs. It was almost like I didn't think you had a choice.

Ayn Rand

Do not let your fire go out.

Bryant H. McGill

Acceptance is the road to all change.

Bryant H. McGill

It will feel impossible; like you are dying inside this is your soul crying out for life. It may take everything you have; every ounce of will and strength. You will lose a part of yourself trying to save something essential and innocent. And when you have given everything, you will recover and you will be set free, and you will discover there was even more in you than you ever knew.

Bryant H. McGill

You cannot save people from themselves. All you can do is stand firmly in your hopes for them, with compassion.

Bryant H. McGill

You cannot save everyone. Some people are going to destroy themselves no matter how much you try to help them.

Brion James

I prayed to God for help and I put myself in a recovery house called Studio 12. It was for people in the business and you didn't have to have any money to go, which was good because I was broke.

Baha'u'llah

Regard ye the world as a man's body, which is afflicted with diverse ailments, and the recovery of which dependeth upon the harmonizing of all its component elements.

Mark Ellis

Sure, we had a lot of injuries. But a lot of teams have injuries. We can't use it as an excuse.

James Allen

Some of the teams have been pretty tough.

Milan Brown

Other teams just were not going to let him do what he did.

Hadji Diouf

I think the wrong teams are going to the World Cup.

Tony DeMuro

That was the way we want to see it end. It couldn't be any better than that with three teams going after it.

Brad Joyner

I think it was huge. (Rocky Mount) is going to be one of the better teams in the conference.

Brian McCloskey

I think it?s very important we were here. That?s how teams grow." ()

Nate Robinson

I think we're one of the better teams (in the state). But we won't know about a lot of the teams until the end of the year.

Henry Hall

I do not think many teams will win at Elgin so I will take the draw.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Language is the source of misunderstandings.

Carl Sagan

The vast distances that separate the stars are providential. Beings and worlds are quarantined from one another. The quarantine is lifted only for those with sufficient self-knowledge and judgment to have safely traveled from star to star.

Bill Bryson

I turned to my own bunk and examined it with a kind of appalled fascination. If the mattress stains were anything to go by, a previous user had not so much suffered from incontinence as rejoiced in it. He had evidently included the pillow in his celebrations.

Bill Bryson

I love the feeling of being anonymous in a city I've never been before.

Bill Bryson

Traveling makes you realize what an immeasurably nice place much of America could be if only people possessed the same instinct for preservation as they do in Europe.

Bill Bryson

What is it about maps? I could look at them all day, earnestly studying the names of towns and villages I have never heard of and will never visit...

Bill Bryson

I could spend my life arriving each evening in a new city.

Bill Bryson

Perhaps it's my natural pessimism, but it seems that an awfully large part of travel these days is to see things while you still can.