Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter King

We want to provide very significant tax incentives for businesses to locate there, incentives for housing, and attempt to minimize as much of the red tape as possible by creating one central clearing house for government programs,

Kenneth Frazier

We have said from the beginning that we do not intend to roll over in these cases when people bring insubstantial cases to court in an attempt to collect money improperly from Merck,

Dan Senor

We have no group that's claimed responsibility. It could be any number of groups attempting to operate inside Iraq.

Piero Fassino

We have never proposed a tax increase. This lie about tax hikes is a desperate attempt by Berlusconi to rake in some votes...

Gladys Bettis

What the Rams did to him was wrong. It isn't that they traded him. But they put the word out that he was a bad guy in an attempt to justify the trade. But it took people in Pittsburgh about five minutes to realize it was untrue. But Jerome was miserable over what happened in St. Louis, until he had a chance to get out there and prove the Rams wrong.

Maurice Cheeks

We want him to get offensive opportunities - no question. I think that he can get more opportunities in running the floor, getting early post up which he did. Tonight was a little unusual where he had more than a number of attempts at dunking the basketball going to the rim so I think that's a little bit unusual.

Richard Thompson

We were attempting to restore the culture of Britain for the British, ... But the English, in particular, aren't comfortable with their own culture. To be taken seriously, it has to come from somewhere else. So we remained a cult band.

Bill Daly

The fact that only one of the six proposals actually contemplated a salary cap exposes the union for its true motivation - to do everything necessary to precipitate a fight in an attempt to preserve the status quo.

John Williams

The fact of the matter is (Brazil's) currency had to fall. The whole (Brazilian) economy and interest rates were being held hostage to the currency. You had to keep interest rates high, and therefore hammer the economy in an attempt to hold the currency up.

Mark Warren

Since the USA frequently brings cases before the ICJ for binding judgments, it would be extraordinary indeed if the USA were not to comply with the final decision of the court in this case.

Malcolm Sharp

Wayne and I are trying to keep an even keel and talk to our boys a lot, more than we normally do. This has been a real binding event. It kind of keeps your perspective.

Peter Selley

Without this edition, eighteen of Shakespeare's plays including some of his most famous like Macbeth, The Tempest and other plays would have been lost for all time. It's the only surviving source for eighteen of Shakespeare's plays. With regard to this particular copy of the first folio, it's remarkable because it's preserved in it's original seventeenth century binding. There's no other copy in the world in private hands preserved in a seventeenth century binding complete with all it's text leaves.

Malcolm X

My black brothers and sisters - of all religious beliefs, or of no religious beliefs - we all have in common the greatest binding tie we could have. We are all black people!

David Gross

When I was at Berkeley, the framework of quantum field theory could calculate the dynamics of electromagnetism. It could roughly describe the motion of the weak nuclear force, radiation. But it hit a brick wall with the strong interaction, the binding force.

Roger Toussaint

We, of course, will do everything possible to keep it out of binding arbitration.

Virginia Postrel

By binding image and desire, glamour gives us pleasure, even as it heightens our yearning. It leads us to feel that the life we dream of exists, and to desire it even more.

Ban Ki-moon

All nuclear material in weapons programmes must be subject one day to binding international verification.

Lysander Spooner

When a man says he is building a house for himself and his posterity, he does not mean to be understood as saying that he has any thought of binding them, nor is it to be inferred that he is so foolish as to imagine that he has any right or power to bind them, to live in it.

Becky Hammon

We have to get to the offensive glass. We didn't crash the boards when we should have. We settled for jumpers instead of getting to the line.

Richard Tillis

We were billed at the end of the last fiscal year, and I've toyed with this for quite some time. I've just need to get direction from the board to see if you all see something I don't.

John Biggs

The creation of the special committee reflects the serious commitment by all of our trustees to ensure that the J. Paul Getty Trust, its board and each of its members and employees meets all legal requirements as well as the highest ethical standards while carrying out the trust's mission,

Javier Solana

There is a willingness on the European side to return to the negotiations. In November, there is another meeting in Vienna with all the heads of the countries that form part of the board of the International (Atomic) Energy Agency.

Susan Russell

The people leading the split claim they are representing people in the pews, but these are the same people who in 1954 would split the church over our support of Brown v. Board of Education and who would have split the church in 1976 over the issue of women's ordination. The issue now is gays and lesbians -- it's all part of the same struggle.

Trinny Woodall

I can't remember a time when I didn't love fashion. As a child, I was always particular about what I'd wear. I remember feeling most aggrieved that I had to put on a dull uniform to go to boarding school.

Tony Hawk

When I was around eleven or twelve, my board got hung up on the top of a bowl, and I got a concussion, and I knocked my teeth out. That was the first time that I got seriously injured, and I was taken to the hospital in an ambulance, and my parents briefly doubted.

Pig Miller

We know Gary will go to the boards and will press. We've got to turn it into our style of game and get out and run.

Paul Proctor

Ultimately the change has to come from the board down.

Edward Snowden

The consent of the governed is not consent if it is not informed

Vicki Saporta

We're seeing more and more informed consent laws passed that are politically motivated, with items in there trying to dissuade women from having abortions, rather than being politically neutral and giving women true risks and benefits.

David Rose

When we have consent decree with the city, we've got an obligation to ensure compliance, ... We've got to do what we can to enforce it.

Charles Canady

Meaningful, constitutional parental consent laws are designed to help and protect minors. Today, we are voting to uphold those laws.

Chen Yunlin

People will not be satisfied if their wishes are not met. They will not consent to prolonged obstruction of cross-Strait links.

Jack Straw

only if the Iraqis themselves consent to the process.

Joseph Conrad

The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.

Tai Park

The government is either going to consent to a retrial because the jury verdict was tainted by potentially perjured testimony or the government is going to have to explain to the court why the prejudiced testimony was harmless -- in other words, that the testimony did not influence the jury's verdict.

Gerrit Smith

There is no room in our ranks for the politician, who, to secure the votes of the youth, would consent that American slavery be perpetual.

Paul Thompson

We have to go with the decision that's been made and they're going to give him a shot. I definitely want to get back out there and do what they expect me to do.

Emma Udwin

We have no intention of taking any measures that would harm the population of Belarus if a decision is taken to undertake further restrictive measures. Those measures would be targeted on those who are deemed to be responsible for elections which have been judged not to be free and fair.

Bruce Bochy

We have some decisions to make, and we need to get the staff together and talk.

Dawn Ostroff

We have some big decisions walking into our scheduling meetings with as few holes as we have.

Henry Leger

We have some big decisions on our plate.

Jeff Beeman

When you're up by four in overtime, you should win. But in that last minute, we made some very poor decisions with the ball.

Bob Woods

We want our members to be able to make a decision without being intimidated. Nothing in the letter (from Bass) is illegal, but there are subtle threats in there.

Spencer Abraham

We want fewer 'Washington knows best' solutions and more people at the local level making education decisions for America's children,

Aaron Sorkin

Decisions are made by those who show up. Don't ever forget that you're a citizen of this world.

James Blumenthal

What the studies are showing is that exercise, at least when performed in a group setting, seems to be at least as effective as standard antidepressant medications in reducing symptoms in patients with major depression,

Steve Brown

When (former Gov. George Ryan's) administration tried to roll back the sales tax, it just went into the pockets of refiners and retailers and had no effect on prices,

Bill Cowher

The extra day won't have any effect on it. We're going to have to weather the flurry that will be involved with the emotions, the speed of the game and playing a high-quality football team.

Larry Hale

We have six or seven kids who have scored more than 100 points this year. It's been pretty effective for us. We like it because you look at our scorebook, and we've had probably eight different people who have led us in scoring.

Mark Richardson

The population is increasing out here but it will have an effect on traffic that would normally come through here.

Dick Thompson

We know from experience with this drug that it is most effective very shortly after symptoms develop.

Charles Turner

Ultimately, they want a stable, a more effective relationship with their child. A lot of fathers don't know how to have that.

Ross Rubin

Ultimately, nothing is as effective as having someone on site to be able to troubleshoot.

David Brooks

The effectiveness of a group of people is not determined by their IQ but by how well they communicate.

Stuart Taylor

The fact of the matter is very few appellate judges have had reason to rule on huge executive power issues, so the track record is not that informative.

Bob Ferguson

Ultimately, we want to have the executive back in the people's building.

Dick Wolf

TIVO executives stand up and say, 'Well, we're not getting rid of commercials, but we are letting them fast forward, because people like commercials, and if they see one that they like they stop and watch it.' I mean, please.

Khloe Kardashian

Being an executive producer allows me the opportunity to create original content, and I can't wait to show my fans what we have in store on 'Kocktails with Khloe.'

Letitia Baldrige

For every rude executive who makes it to the top, there are nine successful executives with good manners.

Lesli Linka Glatter

On various shows, I've been the producing-director, the executive producer-director; and if you were working with the material you love with the right group of people, it's an incredible job to be doing.

Kenneth Edmonds

Unfortunately, a lot of executives aren't like producers, and can't hear the diamond in the rough.

Tom Courtney

She's not the first very strong executive to leave a dot.com that's had its stock go down.

Robert Reich

The 'free market' is the product of laws and rules continuously emanating from legislatures, executive departments, and courts.

Tawni O'Dell

I should have been deliriously happy. I had my dream come true. I'm a best-selling author. So why is everything in my life, including my writing, going bad?

Ernest Mandel

For us, Marxism is always open because there are always new xperiences, there are always new facts, including facts about the past, which have to be incorporated in the corpus of scientific socialism.

Carlo Ponfoort

The positive surprise is insurance in Europe, which has performed quite well, including in the Netherlands.

Robert Thompson

When you've won an Oscar, everyone is really scrutinizing what you do, including every movie you do. So if it's bad, they're noticing it more.

Kevin Lynch

With Typekit, you sign on, you pay a single subscription fee. We're including that as part of Creative Cloud.

Tyler Cowen

Most restaurants in most cities, including Washington, are at a sort of mid-level. They're somewhat trendy, or they have some sort of gimmick, or they're somewhat expensive. And they make a lot of money off drinks. I tell people don't go to most of them, unless your goal is just to socialize.

Li Yuanchao

Surfing the Internet every day has become a habit for many leaders and officials, including myself.

Vladimir Litvin

Watching how simultaneously statements are made, including at the top level, it can be understood that this is an organized campaign.

Anil Kumar

Most of the victims were local labourers, including women workers with infants and small children.

Darren Shan

You stole from a member of the undead

Nong Duc Manh

All countries, big or small, strong or weak, are equal members of the United Nations.

Brian Molko

Stef is officially the sexiest member of Placebo

Jay Dillon

The primary consideration was to protect the student himself, and protect the students around him, as well as the staff members that were there.

Steve Smith

University officials and tribe members are working together on the appeal. We were heartened by (Tuesday's) news, and we think it's the right decision. Frankly, we wonder if (the NCAA) ever read some of the original documentation we filed in the first place.

Ted Dever

When UTC took over there were 900 employees. Now there's 500 union members and soon it will be down to 350.

George Henderson

I am very appreciative the members thought enough of me to make me their president.

Marty Brown

Frankly, I don't think they've worked members very much, and then all of the sudden we get an ultimatum. It just doesn't feel to me like there's been enough groundwork done.

David Blunkett

Without the political parties and the volunteering work of their members day in, day out, we would have a very different sort of politics and society.