Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gary Bass

Regardless of where you work or live, the changes affect you and your community. This is about knowing what's in the air we breathe and water we drink.

Bill Cheney

Regardless of what happens to energy prices and interest rates, homebuilding is going to happen and that's going to affect the national statistics but not by a huge amount ... it sort of disappears in the context of the national economy.

Jeff Morris

Refineries lost a lot of money. In fact they lost money for most of the 1990s. People chose not to spend on refineries. So what's affecting us now is that we're behind the investment curve and it will take us five to 10 years to catch up.

Jack Smith

Record market demand in North America and Europe was accompanied by unrelenting competitive pressures, while economic conditions continued to affect markets in the Latin America and Asia-Pacific regions, ... We're particularly pleased that GM Europe improved its profitability during the period, and that both GM Latin America/Africa/Middle East and GM Asia Pacific were profitable, a significant improvement over the first quarter last year.

Nazir Ahmed

Relief has been exchanged for Kashmiri villagers affected by the quake on both sides of the border,

Jo Bonner

President Bush, Secretary of State Rice, and several cabinet level officials have visited Alabama's Gulf Coast in recent days to tour the devastation and to offer their continuing support and prayers for everyone affected by the storm.

John Stanton

President Bush needs to stop playing politics with public health. We need a stronger standard dealing with fine particle soot pollution that affects the health of millions of Americans.

Wade Henderson

President Bush has dug in his heels by refusing to release relevant documents from Roberts' time as a top political appointee and dragged his feet on releasing thousands of other records. This is no time to hide the ball. Given that the next chief justice will affect the lives of all Americans, the Bush administration has a clear obligation to the public to provide the Senate with everything it needs to fully review Roberts' record.

Ignacio Bunye

President Arroyo has instructed the Cabinet to conduct dialogues not only with the oil firms but with all affected sectors, including workers, small and medium enterprises, manufacturers and transport groups among others, that are affected by this crisis.

Adam Timmerman

Reggie was a great guy to have in the locker room and really meant a lot to us as a team, both on and off the field. He helped me, personally, with my faith, and I looked up to him the whole time. He was too young a man to have this happen to him. I think that anyone who knew Reggie knows that he is in a better place.

Jeremy Hermida

Reggie has probably the most raw tools of anyone I've played with.

Christopher Dunn

Our position is that the police should aggressively investigate anyone whom they suspect of bringing explosives into the system, ... But police searches of subway riders without any suspicions are presumptively unconstitutional.

Wayne Blanton

Our position is that statewide, the school board has a budget and allocates money to all schools in their district. We don't want legislation, the courts or anyone else telling us where to spend portions of (the districts') budgets.

Leonard Downie

Our policy is to immediately notify the authorities if we come into contact with anyone we know has committed a serious crime or threatens to harm anyone, including themselves. Until this young man was arrested and identified, we did not know who he really was or whether he had committed any crime.

Beth Kseniak

Our red carpet is probably bigger than the Oscars red carpet because the photographers know that everyone will come to the party, and everyone who's anyone does come.

S. Hughes

Part of this day really is a celebration of all of the work the motorcyclists have done. They've worked all year long - they don't let anyone off the hook.

Charles Schumer

Part of the president's job is to make sure his staff obeys the laws and he should make sure that anyone indicted in this dastardly outing of a covert operative is immediately dismissed from the White House,

Gary Galloway

Our main objective was not to get anyone killed while trying to save somebody.

William Jenkins

Regionalism presented some obstacles in the past, ... But the boundaries are beginning to disappear and we have this wonderful, intellectual synergism.

Fran Foley

Part of the plan from the beginning was to take pressure off the draft. The plan is coming together.

Jay Grymes

Parts of the state have been suffering for quite some time. In the southern third of Louisiana, the dry spell goes back to the beginnings of 2005, and even sections of northern Louisiana have been dealing with dry weather over the past 12 to 15 months.

Chris Whitney

Our number one priority is to identify the patients. We are beginning to go through records now, but it's like looking for needles in haystacks.

Scott DeJong

Our offense wasn't good toward the end and we just wanted to pull it out. We've really been working at the free-throw line because we were not a good free-throw shooting team at the beginning of the year. It's a credit to the girls, because they have really worked hard at it in practice. You can tell when they step up there they think it is going in.

Dennis Hastert

Our long national nightmare might not be over, but who knows -- maybe it's the beginning of the end of it.

Soenarko Artanto

Our original plan from the beginning is chasing these two masterminds. After the recent incidents our hunt for them has been stepped up.

Mark Howard

Our offensive line has come a long way since the beginning of the season. They are finally starting to come around and get a handle on what we are teaching them.

Bill Morrow

Our legacy of innovation is beginning to return. Customers will see the value of this phone.

Tom Knight

Refining problems are behind the higher prices today, which have pushed Gulf Coast cash prices extremely high

Woody Allen

Recently there has been a lot of controversy between the countries, and I would hope that now the two countries could put all that behind them and start to build on what really has been a great friendship,

Damon Galgut

Real obsession needs an unconscious motivation behind it.

Javier Aguirre

Real Madrid is in a mess because it's suffering really high pressure and demands. We must take the initiative because we're at home, we're only a point behind and we can make history.

John Hughs

President Bush's speech relieved some fears that war is imminent, it boosted the overseas markets and gave us a little short-covering rally at the open, but I'm not that impressed. There's nothing behind it,

Jim Folkman

Our reputation is behind this. We want to make sure that when a house reaches a certain standard that it does perform at that level.

Chris Baca

Our players play a physical type of game. Some teams aren't used to that and don't like it, and feel we are playing dirty. But they were pushing our players from behind and knocked down a few.

Mike Beaumont

Patrick pitched well. He just didn't have anything behind him.

Kenny Gray

Payne had moments where he struggled with his control, but he pitched well. He had good defense behind him and that was good enough to get the win.

Michael Chambers

Our goal is to limit the number of distractions from what is proving to be an enormously successful winter season for Canadian athletes.

Geddy Lee

Other times, I'll just sit with the lyrics and, basically, the lyrics will inspire me to write a particular melodic part or vocal melody.

Steve Butler

Rising commodities prices definitely contributed to the fortune of the Canadian dollar today. Commodities have been a positive factor for the Canadian dollar in 2005 and the market expects good news to continue this year.

Nadeem Esmail

Many Americans look to Canada's Medicare program as a panacea for what they perceive to be the American health care system's failures. These wonderful visions of Canada's socialized health program tend to ignore the very real costs that system imposes on Canadians in need of medically necessary care: long wait times that can stretch into months or even years of painful and detrimental delay. The reality is that Canada's Medicare program is a model for no one, not even Canada.

Michael Shanks

We never thought the show would last this long.

Klete Keller

I was a little nervous. I didn't expect the Canadians to be so close.

Jennifer Heil

I was a little disappointed but hopefully they will raise the Canadian flag, not the American flag (at the official medal ceremony).

Michael Shanks

I think the writing on the wall is definitely there this year that this is probably our last year.

Jim Shepherd

I think there would be an awkwardness to say the least for a Canadian company to walk in the door and say where do we go from here.

Rosevelt Colvin

Regardless, if we said it 10 times a 1,000 times, if Rodney's out there or if Rodney's not out there, whoever's out there -- 11 guys -- we play team defense,

Claude Julien

Price is showing things at 18 guys don't usually show until their second or third year as pros.

Chris Snee

Part of it was their scheme, part of it was us not doing our assignments, and part of it was guys just getting beat.

Romeo Crennel

Part of the reason we wanted to get veteran guys in here is because of the experience,

Bill Ball

Our nine seniors, a lot of those guys have made tremendous sacrifices. Every team has scorers, but you've got to have guys willing to play roles, and that's what we've had.

Doug Aplin

Our kids worked hard for everything they got this year. I would love to get the first half back in the finals, but that is the sport. Every day, every single day, these guys showed up for practice and worked hard to succeed.

Marc Bulger

Sure it worked. We played with more of a sense of urgency. I know the message he was trying to get across, and he did it well. He went at us hard on Wednesday and Thursday, but I think we understood. Guys picked up their game. He knocked some sense into us, and hopefully we can maintain it.

Jeffrey Cohen

Steve and his guys are more strategic partners than mere contractors.

Torii Hunter

Spring training is a (time) to get to know your team. We've got new guys on our club, and you don't even know these guys.

Shinzo Abe

Surveys like this are also conducted by other countries. We should handle this calmly under international law.

Chad Campbell

Sure, it's going to be a long day, but I think it will be more mental than physical. We don't have to run around there tomorrow. So, while it's going to be tough walking around this course, we'll handle it.

Dick Bennett

Stanford used their inside people well. The big kid, we were simply unable to handle him.

Warren Riley

Some left because they simply couldn't handle the catastrophe.

Graeme Smith

Overall I feel I handled the pressure well.

Brendan Haywood

Right now, starting or not starting, it's the playoffs. It's about winning. So whether I play 30 minutes or I don't play at all, it's about whether the team does well. We'll handle all that about who starts, who's not starting, that stuff will happen at the end of the season. We'll talk about that this summer.

Rod Wright

Physical, physical, physical. Word on the street is that Big Ten is smash-mouth, hit-you-in-the-mouth physical football. They probably feel like they're going to be physical, and they will be. We have to be smash-mouth right back. If we play like we're supposed to play, there's no offensive line that can handle us.

Willie Randolph

Maybe I should have handled that differently. I don't know. I'm hoping a lot of the things I did now will help us in the future.

Jennifer Joyce

We'll be able to do a little better at this meet and get some more people in the finals. This doesn't seem as intimidating (as the Texas Relays). They feel well-prepared and ready to handle it.

Haim Saban

Me? I don't know what you're talking about.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Dante said, “I tried talking Nora into a ride, but she keeps blowing me off.” “That’s because she has a hard-A boyfriend. He must have been homeschooled, because he missed all those valuable lessons we learned in kindergarten, like sharing. He finds out you took Nora for a ride, he’ll wrap this shiny new Porsche around the nearest tree.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I can't imagine why you're so interested." He shook his head. "Interested? We're talking about you. I'm fascinated.

Becca Fitzpatrick

You're going to have to drive off the road and park behind thoses bushes," I instructed Vee. Vee leaned forward, peering into the darkness. "Is that a ditch between me and the bushes ?" "It's not very deep. Trust me, we'll clear it." "Looks deep to me. This is a Neon we're talking about, not a Hummer.

Bill Engvall

Because we've become so ecologically minded now, they have developed a product called Rapidly Dissolving Toilet Paper. Just how rapidly are we talking? 'Cause I don't want to have to play Beat the Clock in the thicket.

C. S. Lewis

Watchin' and listenin' is the thing at present; not talking.

C. S. Lewis

There is no use in talking as if forgiveness were easy. For we find that the work of forgiveness has to be done over and over again.

Carrie Fisher

If talking were aerobic, I'd be the thinnest person in the world.

Bill Bryson

Taking a scenic route in Southeast Iowa is like talking about a good Barry Manilow album. You have to make certain allowances.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You'll be bothered from time to time by storms, fog, snow. When you are, think of those who went through it before you, and say to yourself, 'What they could do, I can do.'

Beeban Kidron

Making a big commercial movie is hard when you think about how many of them flop.

Bebe Neuwirth

People are at their happiest if they are true to themselves. I think that applies to their chosen profession, friends and relationships. It goes for your health too. If you are true to yourself, it seems to me everything should work out pretty well

Beck

For the records I've work on over the last 10 years, I get sent the really compressed version and the non-compressed version, and oftentimes you end up going with the more compressed one because it's what people's ears are attuned to. I think the bigger problem is saturation and people being desensitized.

Beck

I do think music sounds better when it's on tape and more simply recorded.

Beck

Sometimes, I think the way the music business has been destructive and the way the fans are been put through it and try to navigate through it, so much is so foreign to what musicians would actually want to do or what would be natural to them.

Beck

I think it's interesting being American, the expectations for an American guy, and the image that has to be projected. 'Oh, I can't wear pink,' that kind of stuff. There's none of that in Europe.

Beck

I think trying to be offbeat is the most boring thing possible.

Beck

I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

Jack Purtell

I was a little worried going in, but we went in and we were the aggressor.

Bill Burr

Well probably the coolest show of that whole tour was in Germany. I had a chunk of material on [Adolf] Hitler, and I was worried about how they'd react, but they loved it.

William Morris

I was pretty worried about him for a while.

Byron Sanders

I was worried about them the whole time,

Bill Parcells

I think he kind of tweaked it a little bit. He's just not getting around. I'm getting a little worried about him to tell you the truth.

Roger Clemens

I don't know that we've ever even worried about that.

James Blake

I feel like I am getting better every week. I'm not worried about my ranking, I'm just worried about getting better.

Ron Gardenhire

But as I told you before, we're a little worried about this.

Carl Krauser

I don't think we have anything to be too worried about.