Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Colby

Reform often seems only the dislike of the blase for the people with animal spirits

Zhou Min

Reasons for giving up the animals are various including moving home, not wanting the pets to distract the kids' study or simply because the dogs were too old or owners had no more patience for raising pets.

Erich Fromm

Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world more successfully; the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man.

Matt Prescott

Our real goal here is that the shareholders care about animal rights and that the company moves toward that goal.

Cherie Owen

Our main focus is to move the long-term animals. We've had some of them a year.

Todd Nims

People have been known to contract balis from simply feeding raccoons in their backyards. So obviously, your chances go way up if the animal is living with you.

David Attenborough

People knew that animals were nocturnal but they didn't really know what they did because they couldn't see it.

Phil Coleman

People love giraffes. There are plenty of zoos out there who want giraffes. People expect to see those kind of animals at the zoo. It's what they are familiar with.

Deborah Franklin

People look at animal control officers as being big bad people. To me this shows them taking care of what people should be taking care of with their pets - spaying and neutering that is. It shows they have white hats instead of black hats.

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.

Irene Toner

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

Mike Rodriguez

Our recommendation should be to start one facility that could handle about 100 people and see how it works. If successful, it could be duplicated in other areas of the county.

Ravi Pawar

Patrolling in markets and crowded areas has been intensified and posters and leaflets are being put up educating the public to be careful about suspicious packages.

Gary Mar

Part of managing Alberta's parks and recreation areas is ensuring the proper enforcement tools are in place, ... We did a comprehensive review and have brought the penalties for violating parks regulations more in line with penalties for offences under other Alberta laws.

Charles Hood

Parts of the city have become a target-rich environment for human remains. We're just now getting into the areas that experienced the most rapid inundation.

Peter Johnson

Paul was an excellent journalist and excellent educator, and he did a great job of combining those two areas in the Native Media Center.

Kevin Hartman

I think there are goalkeepers who can get three shutouts in a row and still not get opportunities, just because it is so hotly contested. I've been in and out of camps for a long, long time and whenever I get opportunities to play, they are obviously things you relish and you celebrate those.

Brian Hutchinson

Kurt works hard in practice, he goes to camps and puts forth the effort. He also has a lot of natural ability.

Simon Wiesenthal

I was over four years in different camps with people from 15 nations: Jews, Gentiles, Gypsies, communists. Through this experience, my view on the Holocaust and the whole problem of Nazism is a lot different from Elie Wiesel, who was only six months in camps and only with Jews.

Ron Redmond

Living conditions in spontaneous camps are an ongoing concern. Our technical mobile teams have been fixing latrines, bathrooms and communal kitchens in 50 of these camps so far.

Jerry Bovee

I think officiating will improve with the change in this position. We expect them to be fully operational by July, but we'll be working with him at camps probably as early as June.

Anthony Stewart

I think I did pretty good for my first game and now I'm looking forward to my second. I just have to keep working hard and hope things work out. I spent two training camps here, so I knew everyone. This is a good group of guys who have always made me feel welcome. This wasn't like getting called up onto a new team.

Brad Davis

I'd always heard big-league camps are relaxed and easy. He's making me better and that's what I want.

Dan Butler

There are so many different camps about what being gay means. The danger comes when each one is so rigid that it sees itself as the true picture.

Robert Matsui

I was six months old at the time that I was taken, with my mother and father, from Sacramento, California, and placed in internment camps in the United States.

Gale Kaufman

Last year he was adamant that public employees were destroying the planet. ... Now he's into infrastructure. Tell me how he got there? It's a long way from the first sentence to the second sentence.

Stanley Williams

The only thing that I was doing was destroying my own kind,

Steve Scott

I feel disgusted that he would have anything to do with the Olympic movement after nearly destroying the Olympics.

Aamir Khan

Because they want more advertisements, they are destroying what is a very important part of the society - news reporting. It is wasting important national space that should be used in a more productive manner.

Al Williams

I have a gut feeling we are slowly, inch by inch, destroying quality education for all students.

Ed McMahon

You can grow without destroying the things that you love.

Marguerite Valois

Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and strengthening the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.

George E. Pataki

September 11 wasn't just aimed at destroying the two towers and killing thousands of people. It was aimed at dividing us and frightening us and taking away our freedom and taking away our confidence,

Rick Perry

If you're looking for a slick politician or a guy with great teleprompter skills, we already have that. He's destroying our economy. I'm a doer, not a talker.

Sandra Anderson

Part of it is due to lack of rainfall.

Brian Ainsworth

(Starter) Ike (Martinez) was getting tired. He was losing velocity on his stuff. So right now we only have the two pitchers due to all the injuries.

Nita Lowey

Stand up, delink paying the UN dues from family planning. Don't let this issue be hijacked by an extremist group in the Republican party, ... Late Edition.

Roger Cursley

Some of the sectors that have gone so far like miners and the oil stocks are due to come back a little, and it doesn't take much in those big sectors to take the index down.

David Briggs

Our pattern has been a tough month, followed by a good one, and it looks like we're due for a good one.

Sigve Brekke

Our sales and profit should grow due to higher subscribers this year.

Damien Newton

Our roads and streets are getting less safe. A lot of it's due to reckless driving, and we should be reversing that trend by having stricter enforcement.

Donn Walker

Our understanding was that this was an emergency landing due to engine trouble.

Danny Smith

Robinson is due for a major revival. We have to provide a reliable source for people.

Igor Luksic

Regardless of our ambitions to become part of the E.U., we have to keep in mind that Turkey is also a very strong voice that can represent the needs of our region in wider terms in global platforms.

Shane Oliver

Our market will be largely hostage to what's going on globally this week.

Silvio Berlusconi

It is an historic meeting of global significance.

Steve Shaw

The 3GPP really legitimized UMA. It's no longer just a vendor-driven initiative; it's now a global effort.

Bill Gates

It has been a great year for global health to get more visibility. The more people know about it, the more they want to act.

Nauman Barakat

It is not 9/11 in its devastation or its impact on global demand. Therefore this sell-off will be very temporary.

Thomas R. Insel

I was sure I was going to be a doctor of global health or tropical medicine in some underdeveloped country.

Quincy Jones

Seattle is like a global gumbo, a melting pot with all kinds of people - the rich, the poor, white people, some Chinese, Filipino, Jewish and black people - they're all here.

Yoshihiro Maruyama

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

Ian Campbell

Reliable high-speed Internet service is probably my No. 2 requirement in a hotel, right after hot water.

Robin Oakley

such a hot potato that it was dropped.

Julie Smith

P. I. on a Hot Tin Roof: A Talba Wallis Novel,

O. Winston

Red Hot and Righteous: The Urban Religion of the Salvation Army.

AJ Pierzynski

We need someone to get hot. It seems like everyone is not hot at the same time. We need something to get it back. It's been kind of a letdown.

Matthew Smith

The 30-year is the hot IPO of 2006.

Hank Harris

That's the thing about these songs, they're not about hot licks. They're about the stories. It was tempting to do these songs very modern. But I kept them very minimal.

John Wolkonowicz

That's the hottest part of the market right now.

Christopher Kubasik

That still seems to be the hottest market.

Richard Midgley

Regardless of whether we won or lost last Saturday, there would've been a lot of pressure going into this week.

Jackie Williams

Recovery is a miracle. It lasts for a life time.

Sam Burns

Recessions usually last about a year. That would place the end around March or April.

John Buchanan

Our record over the last while has been pretty well exemplary, with just the odd incident.

Samuel Johnson

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

Roger Short

Part of the time we do go around in pairs, but these pairs don't last a lifetime.

Jay Bly

Our line play versus the run is going to be a key. We're going to have to play disciplined on defense. No matter what offense someone plays, if you get whipped up front, you're not going to win. We saw that when we looked at last year's tape, but we've made some adjustments.

Lee Salem

Our only regret is that it didn't last longer. That was Bill's decision.

Patrick Stewart

Our last words were, 'Be safe. I love you,' ... He said, 'I will.'

Scott Creel

Some of the theaters' seating was literally underwater, and those seats will have to be removed and replaced.

Wayne Shelor

Right there, right on the curb, literally right there.

James Woods

I think that the economy, and the political system, has literally become such a disaster I don't know if it's possible to save it.

Matt Brown

I was working literally in the streets of the neighborhoods and I saw what people were up against,

Bill Turnage

He literally got it with 10 seconds to spare.

Daniel Petrocelli

He literally could have conducted an examination (by) putting a prop up there.

Drew Houston

With something like Dropbox, it was immediately like, 'Wow, this is literally something that anyone with an Internet connection could use.' Everyone needs something like this; they just don't realize it yet.

Skip Snow

It could be literally thousands. It could be a number I don't want to know. It could be scary.

Sabrina Carpenter

I get inspiration from literally everything and anything. I take inspiration from people, relationships, stories, and I take inspiration from movies I see, books I read and songs I hear.

Phil Zepeda

Our relief is not going to be a matter of weeks and months, but probably much longer than that.

John Phelan

Our message is that suffering years of misery to remain super-skinny is not going to have a big payoff in terms of a longer life.

David Friedman

People no longer seem shocked by expressions of overt bigotry,

Erick Young

Stars we're looking at here are prior to the formation of planets, we think, but it's not going to be very much longer in astronomical terms before planets start forming.

Eric Kuzmack

Some of the things you monitor no longer mean the same thing.

Kevin Hare

It is a slow time of the year, so I will probably not feel it until spring time. For a significant number of my customers, it will take longer for them to get to me.

Robert Williams

Jan Case, our store manager, she's been here longer than I have. She's been here since 1968. Twig Canfield has been here now for 12 or 13 years.

Bruno Seraphim

The Argentine question has in part been resolved, at least in the very short term, so shares no longer need to price in that question.

Alberto Fujimori

It is no longer a possibility or an option.

Martin Straka

I can't say it in the paper what I told him.

Sarah Silverman

I'm always writing; I'm always jotting things down on paper or making notes in my iPhone. Then I'll make myself sit down and kind of shape it up, but there's really no other way to practice other than onstage.

Frank Dagostino

I don't want to be in the paper 15 years from now about the Trump tower leaning. This isn't a 15-story building. We have to make sure we test enough.

Tony Brown

If it weren't for her, we'd be up to here in papers, as much paper as we generate.

Marcus Trufant

We're not worried about getting the big-time stuff in the papers and magazines. We're just trying to win ballgames.

Rick Santorum

One piece of paper ... doesn't tell me a whole lot,

Dirk Benedict

My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper in front of me and the time to fill it.

Anthony Pratt

When we sell paper in Asia, we sell them things such as their corrugator rolls as well as paper.

Wayne Smith

Seats and papers have come to the surface.

Paul Anderson

We never thought or suspected that these plants would have a problem. Somebody should be doing time for this; that's the way I look at it.

David Cole

I think the Moraine plant is probably going to continue, and get considerable investment.

Mark Wiley

I wouldn't be putting out young plants just yet.

Jim Leonard

There aren't very many hydro plants we can upgrade left.

Vince Green

When they say plants are closing, they're going elsewhere. And it's not just China; it's Tennessee, Texas, more business-friendly states.

Scott Baker

Obviously, because of when this all happened, securing power was a concern. However, I think the time of the peaker plant has passed.

Mark Ploger

The plants are in a weakened state. Moisture is the key. We need rain.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

Plants live; how much they feel and enjoy, who shall say?

Gene Detroyer

What we have to do is get the plant inspected.

Tom Wilson

Some of them, quite frankly, are nothing more than a driveway.

Kevin Spacey

'The 24 Hour Plays' is a quite brilliant, exhilarating event for everyone concerned.

Mary Kelly

The (anti-virus) system worked, which was quite a relief.

Carl Jacobs

That was quite a ride. We'd be thrilled to repeat it.

Tom Miller

That was quite an accomplishment for us. This is a very tough tournament.

Paul Johnston

That's the really big trend, ... Year 2000 has been the big thing that has really worked quite well.

Steve Griffin

That suggests to me there is something quite clandestine going on or something strange.

Terry Grant

I was quite shocked when they called me.

Carol Patterson

I was quite disappointed the vote went the way it did.

Matt Brown

Having American refugees on American soil is heartbreaking,

Jamie Shea

We've prevented Milosevic from using refugees as a weapon to destabilize neighboring countries.

Doug Anderson

It's become increasingly indefensible to have no refugee admissions.

John Dowd

They must be treated lawfully under the refugee convention.

Michael Franti

If we do not change our negative habits toward climate change, we can count on worldwide disruptions in food production, resulting in mass migration, refugee crises and increased conflict over scarce natural resources like water and farm land. This is a recipe for major security problems.

John McCain

Bashar Assad is a major cause of the refugees which are now flooding Europe and causing such consternation in the United States.

Marco Rubio

In 2013 we had never faced a crisis like the Syrian refugee crisis now. Up until that point, a refugee meant someone fleeing oppression, fleeing Communism like it is in my community.

Bill Bryson

99.99 percent of all species that have ever lived are no longer with us.

Chris Servheen

There are so many species that need help,

Michael Crichton

We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.

Bryan Pfeiffer

There are many gull species in the world. This one is noticeably different from any gull we have in Vermont.

Jasmine Guy

We are a complex species to observe

Barry Schuler

Living in your genome is the history of our species.

Bill Nye

What happens to other species also happens to us.

Lynn Margulis

The fewer species there are and the fewer species we know about, the fewer questions we even know to ask.

Zeke Jones

I think in some spots we competed well and there were some spots where we could have done a little better.

Ben Gibbard

I've always had a soft spot for Phil Collins. He's a great vocalist.

Archibald MacLeish

History, like a badly constructed concert hall, has occasional dead spots where the music can't be heard.

Brad Thor

There are writers who go their whole lives and never hit that No. 1 spot.

Bruce Montgomery

Different VCs have different sweet spots for where they want to invest.

James Lind

They all in general had putrid gums, the spots and lassitude, with weakness of their knees.

Kurt Tsue

The surf spots are still not deemed safe.

Denny Green

Some spots you have to be a starter or it doesn't work,

Mark Twain

I was born modest; not all over, but in spots.

Robert Battle

I studied martial arts before I studied dance.

Steven Blair

We've studied this from many perspectives in women and in men, and we get the same answer: It's not the obesity, it's the fitness.

Idina Menzel

Growing up I studied classically and did lots of shows in school.

Flea

I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.

Poe Ballantine

I studied a truckload of true crime, praying for illumination, but most true crime relies on luridness and voyeurism for effect.

Edward Brooke

I never studied much at Howard, but at Boston University, I didn't do much else but study.

Marcelo Balboa

I never really studied the game. I just watched tape of who I had to cover. That was my studying.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

When you tame someone they become unique to you in all the world

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world.

B. B. King

Elvis, he was unique. And he loved the blues, it was a pity he didn't do more.

Bill Taylor

The true mark of a leader is the willingness to stick with a bold course of action - an unconventional business strategy, a unique product-development roadmap, a controversial marketing campaign - even as the rest of the world wonders why you're not marching in step with the status quo.

Bill Smith

Crystal Cruises has individually crafted each European cruise itinerary to provide a rich combination of destinations with more overnight stays and more time in ports. Whether taking a shorter seven-day jaunt or combining several unique cruises to create the ultimate European exploration, luxury travelers will enjoy the grandeur of Europe and the warmth and luxury of the Crystal experience.

Bill Condon

Because his basic idea that he got from the study of gall wasps is that everyone's sexuality is unique.

Bill Cosby

Now, Richard Pryor was unique. Many misunderstood his humor. He lit up the hallway, but they didn't understand his use of profanity. He didn't use it just to be using it; he used it in the context of his satire.

Big Sean

There's definitely a thin line between being tasteful and tacky. I feel like tasteful is very unique...it's not necessarily wearing a bunch of chains - that could be either tasteful or tacky. It just depends on how you wear them and what kind of chains they are.

Bill Vaughan

No one can bring to God what you can.

M. Thompson

When they're still on a ventilator and under a warming blanket,

Mike Hargrove

I probably would not use him for more than one inning. And if I got him warming up in the bullpen, I'd want to get him in the game.