Famous Quotes & Sayings

T. E. Lawrence

Rebellions can be made by 2 percent actively in the striking force and 98 percent passively sympathetic.

Michael Moskow

Participants in the markets are working actively to figure out alternative distribution routes and alternative transportation systems to move their products,

Mark Mershon

Park actively lobbied UN officials to establish the program, while extracting millions of dollars from profiteering Iraqi officials for his efforts.

Al DiGuido

Our latest research confirms a major change in consumers? behavior as it relates to the way they choose to interact with the brands they love and trust. For retailers with a credit card offering, this represents an enormous opportunity to craft relevant, timely e-mail communications that not only save costs but generate incremental revenue opportunities and customer satisfaction. The retailers who fail to capitalize on this opportunity will soon find themselves losing market share to those who are more actively offering and promoting this service to their most loyal of customers.

Charles Hazlewood

People like Aphex Twin, Jason Pierce, Jarvis Cocker and William Orbit are actively showing their interest in a wider field of music. Jarvis and I met on a benefit for an extraordinary man called LaMonte Young, the father of minimalism, who worked with John Cale and shared a loft with Yoko Ono.

Steve Lowry

People have petitioned to come into Yorktown, and we are actively working with citizens to make that happen.

Gary Bettman

People make too much out of the term drop-dead date. But, at some point, as a practical matter, it's clear that there isn't enough time left. Whether or not it's Friday night or Saturday morning or Sunday afternoon, if we aren't actively engaged in drafting documents this weekend, I don't see how we can have a season.

Paul Tagliabue

Our focus has been on doing the right thing in terms of the Saints games, and we will be very actively involved with respect to the future. But that will be at a future date.

Paul Grogan

Our cost structure is actively causing people to leave and making it difficult to recruit people.

Phil Crane

Re-examining all of the federal departments and agencies and whether they should exist is the next great battle for conservatives.

Philip Ruddock

Relevant agencies are currently assessing the statements made in the video but at this stage indications are that it is authentic,

Michael Gallagher

President Bush's committed focus on wireless as a catalyst for technology growth is paying dividends. His leadership resulted in the historic agreement of the Department of Defense and other agencies to open up the frequencies, as well as the passage of key legislation a year ago that will make the 2006 auctions a reality.

John Anderson

Passage of C will be no windfall but it will help these agencies stay even. It is merely a catch-up tactic to keep agencies running.

George Morris

Our long term goal to develop local offices in strategic points around the country. The Northeast Corridor is home to many well established technology and manufacturing companies and our unique position as one of the only technology specific design and interactive agencies makes us a terrific match for that area.

Joel Sawyer

Our local agencies have done a good job of stretching dollars. Obviously, this is going to help.

Azzam Tamimi

People in the community are agonizing and asking, 'What could we have done to prevent this?' ... We've been working very hard over the past four to five years liaising with the authorities . . . with various agencies organizing and supervising youth activities. And still this has happened.

David Waller

State wildlife agencies face tremendous challenges attempting to conserve declining wildlife and dwindling habitats, while meeting skyrocketing wildlife conservation education and recreation demands -- all on a shoestring budget.

Keith Jackson

Sponsored research is funded primarily by federal government, state agencies and private organizations.

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.

John Whitacre

Our 1999 results reflect a year in which we established a solid foundation for the future.

Francisco Costa

Rio was a period of my life, and then, poof, I'm gone. I was very young living here, just kind of floating. New York was a foundation for everything I do today. Rio was the bridge.

Azzedine Alaia

The foundation of beauty is the body.

Arsenio Hall

You never get rid of something that has a positive foundation.

Hillary Clinton

I want to work with my husband and my daughter on our mutual foundation interests.

Larry Russell

It gives (students) a good foundation for the rest of their lives.

Alonzo Church

I was generally interested in things of a fundamental nature. As an undergraduate I even published a minor paper about the Lorentz transformation, the foundation of (special) relativity theory.

Ariel Sharon

foundation and cornerstone for the great opportunities which lie before us.

Jonathan Spira

Knowledge sharing and collaboration are a key foundation of research and development.

Dave Roberts

Regardless of what our record is, the goal is to make the playoffs. If you win 100 games and you don't get to the postseason, what good is it? I guarantee you every single team that wins more games than us this year would like to be in our position.

Steve Yzerman

Regardless of how the game is played, there will be low-scoring games, and good teams have to win 1-0 or 2-1 (in the playoffs).

Terri Sullivan

Record wise we want to get back on track, so we know the opportunity is there to play games and do something with them. At this time of the year we're looking to play as many games as we can.

Ray Allen

Records are always made to be broken. I have a long way to go, games to play, threes to hit. The key is getting to playoff basketball.

Mike Rucker

Records and things like that are made to be broken. The odds can come out on a game and you might be the underdog. Is that saying that the underdog wins? No. I don't think we put a whole lot of stock in that.

Rick Stansbury

Reggie needs to not always look for the 3-pointer. He's got to play off that dribble, take it to the hole, which he's done more lately. A mid-range game opens up the 3-point shot. It makes him a more versatile player. And he needs to be a screener, because screeners get open. But it's getting better.

Lana Ross

Our region is tough. We're going with the same lineup to give our players a lot of at bats. Right now, we're sore. We've played a lot of games with a little rest. Our pitchers are doing just enough and Maple Woods is a good team.

Jacques Rogge

Organizing the Games is never easy. But I am glad the fundamentals are sound.

Scott White

Oregon and Washington State are the most physical, hardest-fought games every year. You always have to pick it up a notch when you go play at Oregon.

Wesley Moultrie

Our requirement would be that the tobacco firms in the U.S. maintain a high level of liquidity.

Andy Roberts

Our replacement technicians are highly trained and experienced mechanics.

Greg Aiello

Passions run high this time of year. The main thing is, Pittsburgh won the game. It could've been worse.

Ron Vos

Passing out flyers at a shopping mall or hoping somebody sees a poster doesn't get through to today's jaded, image-bombarded, media-savvy young consumer. Street marketing is practically an old strategy now, so the stakes are much higher when it comes to getting your message across.

Janice Miller

Part of Planet Digital's mission is to provide people with the highest standard of hands-on training possible,

Jim Keller

Our low power, high performance technology is very well suited to that.

Tom Phillips

People I know in the administration have a very high regard for Nathan,

Kathleen Murray

People have to reschedule their weddings for many reasons. You don't want to be left high and dry.

Mark Waggoner

Supplies really aren't a problem. Consumption over the holidays is usually a little higher than normal but production has been keeping up.

Brad Anderson

Just being out there hunting is really cool,

Bertrand Russell

Civilized life, if it is to be stable, must provide a harmless outlets for the impulses which our remote ancestors satisfied in hunting. In Australia, where people are few, and rabbits are many, I watched the whole populace satisfying the primitive impulse in the primitive manner by the skilful slaughter of many thousands of rabbits.

Bertrand Russell

Civilized life has altogether grown too tame, and, if it is to be stable, it must provide a harmless outlets for the impulses which our remote ancestors satisfied in hunting.

Rachel Brown

That was just part of the life, hunting and fishing.

Bruce Sutter

I was planning a hunting trip next year if I didn't get in this year. I didn't need to be around the phone, I can tell you that.

Bill Gottschalk

I don't have time to fish. I take my time off in the hunting season.

Chris Carter

Hunting whales is like hunting tigers (or) gorillas. New Zealanders regard it as unjustifiable,

Joe Lewandowski

Hunting revenue is not growing. It's pretty much staying flat.

Billy Baldwin

If they really want to make some changes, then it's treatment that we're looking at. Not witch hunting on the industry.

Paul Charles

Our market share has risen to record levels on the most competitive routes in Europe.

Chris Dwyer

Stable water levels are really important for management of vegetation.

Rory Fitzpatrick

Playoffs are always a big jump. I've been through it at different levels and in the NHL.

Billy Corgan

For someone who's had the level of success I've had, there's been very little critical review of my work, which is pretty fascinating.

Bill Sienkiewicz

If you're going to establish a certain level of unreality than you have to deal with it

Benoit Mandelbrot

I went to the computer and tried to experiment. I introduced a very high level of experiment in very pure mathematics.

Michael Holland

I think we are down to levels were people have said enough is enough.

Ned Yost

I think we all were (impressed). There's some reason why he has jumped three levels in a year and a half. You could see why today.

Greg Miller

He just sets new levels of expectations for himself.

Big Sean

I ended up getting a lion chain. I had to make my own mascot - I want to start my own dynasty eventually.

C. S. Lewis

He's wild, you know. Not like a tame lion.

Elizabeth Kenny

It is better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

Ellis Rubin

Lionel wanted to make sure he had the right to appeal.

Greg Davis

I don't know enough about Roy's numbers to be disappointed. I don't watch enough Lions games. I think Roy will be an All-Pro. If he stays healthy, he'll be an All-Pro before he's through.

Joe Torre

He's going to go in there and wrestle that lion with a penknife.

Michael Pitts

I wish there were . . . tigers and lions and elephants. Hopefully, maybe in the future, they'll have those.

Charlie Hodgson

He was the main man of the Lions tour,

African Proverbs

He flees from the roaring lion to the crouching lion. Sechuana

Scott Kaden

Our resorts have all had a very strong March, a very wintry March. The mountains are still getting significant snowfall.

Cynthia Morgan

Respondents in the mountain states -- where self-employed technologists are proportionately rare -- were the most optimistic, regionally.

Rep. Chalk

I think you all are making a mountain out of a molehill. I don't know there was anything she said that was not the truth.

E. Hicks

We may never find it. It may be on the top of another mountain by now.

Lindsay Lewis

I was relieved. We're all like 5-4, 5-5, so they're like mountains to us.

Carl von Clausewitz

A general who allows himself to be decisively defeated in an extended mountain position deserves to be court-martialled.

Sheldon Souray

Now we have a big mountain to climb, and the road is going to be tough.

Kelly Buckley

She just reminds you that you can go over that mountain and reach your goal.

Eddie Redmayne

As an actor there's a lot of scrutiny and, even when you've had success, it becomes about sustaining that success. A friend of mine described it as a peakless mountain. Even for De Niro there's Pacino and for Pacino there's De Niro.

Chad Johnson

Really, nothing. You're just putting together as much as you can. You work on whatever you're working on personally, and you just want to get out healthy.

Daron Rahlves

I was just trying to concentrate on the simple things: Putting down some smooth skiing, which I didn't do yesterday, and having fun.

Dr. Wielgosz

It is as simple as putting a measuring tape around the waist. That will give an indication.

Bubba Crosby

I was thinking about putting down another bunt.

Rajeev Shukla

I do not take up a responsibility unless I am sure of putting my heart and soul into it.

Joe Humasti

From tee to green, we're great. But our putting killed us. We really have to do a lot of work on our short game.

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

I feel very strongly about putting questions; it partakes too much of the style of the day of judgment.

Robert Bea

It didn't hold. There isn't a door, and they've got measly sandbags they're putting in to compensate.

John Madden

His team is not putting up much of a fight.

Alan Alda

I must have interviewed 600 or 700 scientists all around the world.

Taylor Wilson

If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.

Fabiola Gianotti

We will have to be very vigilant that young female scientists have the same opportunities as their male colleagues.

Alan Alda

I think it's important for scientists to speak in their own voices and not just be mediated by journalists or others speaking for them.

Thomas R. Cech

I think there is value in having practising scientists as leaders of research institutions.

Patti Smith

Artists, musicians, scientists - if you have any kind of visionary aptitude, it's often something that you don't have a choice in. You have to do it.

Richard Smalley

Administrators and scientists are excited by buckyballs for their own sake, and if they turn out to have practical applications, so much the better.

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.

Dan Jiron

State wild and scenic designation was not considered.

M. Wolfe

States can do as little or as much as they want.

Mary Parker

Our secretaries really know practically everyone who would need to be buzzed in, and if they didn't know them, they could communicate with them through this system, ... It's really state of the art.

Steve Lyle

Other states have called us, and are taking a look at it.

Brian Clodi

I want to win the state championship. That's the ultimate goal.

Elaine Chao

it is a wonderful statement about who we are as Americans.

Ron Greene

That way we can teach her what's right, not what's mandated by the state of California.

Clint Burgess

I think we can get another state championship. I think that's reachable. That's our goal. The are a lot of obstacles, but I think we can do it.

Kate Saunders

It is not unprecedented that the two will be in the United States at the same time.

Bill Shaw

We threatened them for a while. But they would come back, sometimes on their own account, sometimes on our account.

Gao Zhisheng

I've been threatened before. But this time they wanted to kill me.

Rob Bell

If your faith is threatened by something that's true, then it wasn't much of a faith to begin with, was it?