Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Adams

Like every issue, it has been actively discussed at the technical level and the point now is to get everyone in a room together to review what has been done.

Roy Brown

Make good choices, set realistic goals, develop pride and respect in yourself, be active in your community and become a good role model for someone.

Susan Walvius

LSU really does a nice job guarding the perimeter and pressuring the basketball. The one thing LSU does different from other teams is they have extremely active hands on the ball. They get a lot of deflections and play the passing lanes. Teams tend to throw (ball) away because it looks like the passing lanes are open.

Patrick Campbell

Let's just say we will be very active in discussions with suppliers in trying to hold the line here.

John Harbaugh

looks OK, but again, I don't think he's at 100 percent. So that's still part of the process, whether he'll be active or not. It looks like he has a chance, but he still has to get better.

Steve Kolenda

Last year's group was probably more active than ever. It was probably the last one that disagreed with selectmen.

Joseph Addison

Learning is pedantry, wit, impertinence, virtue itself looked like weakness, and the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice.

Naomi Hasegawa

Many investors are reluctant to trade actively before the central bank starts its two-day meeting Wednesday.

Hideo Mizutani

Share prices ended weaker. This is because of lingering concerns about a lack of active inflows of funds from offshore investors.

David Wyss

Natural gas is definitely a problem. If we have a mild to normal winter, we are OK. But if we have a colder winter than normal, we just don't have enough natural gas.

Todd Crawford

I would guess that the next 20 winters will be colder than the last 20.

Jennifer Schack

We'll see a few flurries late tonight and some colder temperatures.

Tony Nunan

Though there seems to be a lot of crude around, the long-term view is bullish. The U.S. Northeast will get colder and people may be concerned with middle distillate supplies.

Tony Nunan

Though there seems to be a lot of crude around, the long-term view is bullish, ... The U.S. Northeast will get colder and people may be concerned with middle distillate supplies.

Malik Peiris

What the study finds is that the impact of influenza in this case, on hospitalizations in Hong Kong ... is very similar to that documented in colder countries.

Andrew Morris

If it gets colder than expected then we could see interruptions and prices could go higher.

Tetsu Emori

If winter is colder than expected then prices could rebound quite sharply.

Bruce Miller

Right now the colder temperatures and higher humidity have really reduced it so we are going to be able to contain it and start establishing control lines to get a handle on this thing.

Robert Frost

Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. A poem may be worked over once it is in being, but may not be worried into being.

Ivan Feinseth

Mills is in a very hot sector, but they have a negative return on capital.

Maria Sharapova

Mentally it was pretty tough, when you know you've got a very patient opponent and you know that it's really hot out there.

Mark Peterson

Maybe the weather was just so hot it didn't feel like summer was over yet. I don't know.

Susan Blake

maybe before it's too hot but not cold.

Tina Brown

The first black president was a hotter plot line than the first woman president.

Elizabeth Bowen

rudeness to Mrs. Dosely was like dropping a pat of butter on to a hot plate - it slid and melted away.

Jenna Morasca

On my season of 'Survivor,' the tribes were split: a tribe of men versus a tribe of women. Even though the women kicked the men's butts at the first two challenges, we were a hot mess at camp.

Tamara Tunie

I was the first African-American woman to play Maggie in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.' It was at the Virginia State Theatre, and we turned Richmond upside down.

Robin Kramer

Several major police incidents were not in any 100-day plan. Hurricane Katrina wasn't in any 100-day plan. The DWP power outage was not in any 100-day plan.

Dave Barry

one of South Florida's most vital natural resources, a relentlessly sane voice in a howling hurricane of hypocrisy, hokum and hype.

Robert Twilley

New Orleans won't be safe from another storm like Katrina until we restore this hurricane buffer.

Gene Edwards

If a hurricane starts barreling down on one of our refiners, we have procedures in place, ... and if it looks like we will have a big power failure, we will shut down the refineries.

Matt King

One of the recommendations is you may need to water the trees more after a storm or hurricane for quite a while until it's able to put new roots out.

Kerry Emanuel

I was skeptical that the increase (in hurricane intensity) would be sufficient to observe by now ... (but) the increase has been much more than we would have guessed.

Rob Young

I have been doing hurricane research for the better part of 20 years now, and there was nothing unusual to me about any of the satellite imagery of Katrina, ... It's laughable to think it could have been manmade.

Peter May

The political reality is that seismic safety, like hurricane protection, is not a mass politics issue,

Michael Olivier

Unless you're shooting a film called Hurricane , you won't want to come to New Orleans, but we have 54 other parishes.

Edmund White

Most writers tend to get worse rather than better. I'm determined to be one that gets better.

Timothy Noah

Moderates tend more than ideologues to be other-directed types who respond to external pressure.

Emily Mortimer

I'm always drawn to the thing I think I can't possibly do, because I tend to be better when I think I can't possibly do something than I am when I'm pretty sure I can do something.

Chris Adrian

My natural tendency is to write about zombie bunnies, but one of my first writing teachers got incorporated into my writing superego, and I keep hearing his admonition to make things feel more real the weirder they get.

Anthony Hopkins

I tend to get bored quickly, which means I must be boring.

Idina Menzel

I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.

Bryan Cogman

I tend to work in coffee shops. I need to get out of the house, and, well, I need the coffee.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

All actors tend to be the same messed-up people.

Kat Edmonson

When I tend to belt, it kind of reminds me of like a more '60s girl doo-wop kind of belting.

Prince Royce

I think when you translate songs, you lose the real essence and the meaning.

Antonio Munoz Molina

Many of the books I read, I had to read them in French, English, or Italian, because they hadn't been translated into Spanish.

Timothy Simons

If you're going to go to an audition, you don't want to go in trying to force yourself into some archetype that has been thought up by a director and translated by a casting director.

David Pogue

I'm the know-nothing. I'm curious, I try to be entertaining, I try to translate the techno jargon, but in the end I'm the audience's representative.

John Roos

In running Wilson Sonsini, it's all people-to-people skills. Those people-to-people skills translate into diplomatic skills.

Norman Lear

Ratings translate into corporations, corporations that need a profit statement this quarter that's larger than the last.

Robert Fitzgerald

There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know.

Deepak Chopra

What will really make you attractive is not working on your weak points but embracing them.

Abraham Lincoln

Weakness is what keeps driving us to God, by the overwhelming conviction that there just isn't anywhere else to go.

Olga Kurylenko

You know it's harder to be a girl in this world because we're the weaker sex.

Edgar Friedenberg

All weakness tends to corrupt, and impotence corrupts absolutely.

Benjamin Netanyahu

Peace is purchased from strength. It's not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

If we would induce others to act virtuously, it will prove more effectual to show them their capacities than to expose their weakness--to attract them by a fairer ideal than to terrify them by pictures of misery and shame.

Benjamin Franklin

Willows are weak, but they bind the Faggot.

Barbara Tuchman

If power corrupts, weakness in the seat of power, with its constant necessity of deals and bribes and compromising arrangements,corrupts even more.

Blaise Pascal

What amazes me the most is to see that everyone is not amazed at his own weakness.