Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ariel Sharon

Regardless of the job Shimon picks, it is crystal clear he will be a full and central partner in the diplomatic process.

William Hague

Our relationship with the United States is central to our foreign policy and ought to be one of a deep and enduring partnership.

Sumner Redstone

Partnerships with Chinese companies are central to our long-term strategy.

David Potter

Our objective over the next several years will be to exploit the opportunities presented by our central position in these fast-growing markets, ... The scale of investment will continue to hold back profits.

Bruce Baum

Our listening interests are very different from the interests of the Central Valley or East Bay.

Xia Bin

Such a combination of steps will help relieve pressure from a rebound in investment, increase the sensitivity of the central bank's (monetary) adjustments and reduce the banks' interest income losses.

Robert McKillop

Some of the plays on central Tokyo were starting to look quite expensive, and we diversified as a way of trying to pick up some Nagoya and Osaka exposure.

Harley Lee

Our goal is to ensure that there are no undue effects on existing uses, scenic character, and natural or historic resources in the area. This project will provide critically needed renewable electricity through Central Maine Power's existing transmission lines.

Jeff Gray

Our first priority will be forming a plan for the south central neighborhood conservation and commercial revitalization plan. We are hoping to start with this plan by 2006.

Andrew Martin

Our mission is to provide every last opportunity for a person to turn his or her life around. We don't give up easily. These men exemplify the true spirit of Christmas - looking inside yourself and finding hope.

Tim Smith

(Spring break) is getting to be another Christmas.

John Heavener

Some of the upscale retailers and those who sold electronics were way up - some 30 percent. Some of the traditional department stores and low-end department stores may not have even made 5 percent. The week before Christmas may have made the difference for us (in Georgia).

Caroline Sunshine

Our family's special holiday tradition is going over to my grandparent's house on Christmas morning. My grandma cooks a big breakfast, and I love hearing her tell old funny stories.

Britt Beemer

Overall, the moderate-priced stores such as J.C. Penney, Sears and Wal-Mart had good traffic levels. We think luxury sales were probably flat this past weekend because more people said they decided to go away on vacation before Christmas this year than last year. So this could have impacted spending on other high-end items.

Richard Hastings

Retailers know that many people will wait until after Christmas for the big purchases. So they don't want to go too far into the holidays with excess inventory that they eventually will heavily discount.

Richard Hastings

Retailers have very big orders from vendors ready for delivery right before and right after Christmas. They want to look really, really good. That's when they come out with the richest displays of winter merchandise, and it culminates with Valentine's Day.

Ed Perkins

Resorts generally are starting to feature Christmas, New Year's packages that include some kind of holiday entertainment.

Kurt Barnard

Remember, there are still over 2 million unemployed workers and over 5 million are on part-time jobs. Christmas will be moderately better simply because last year was so bad. But unless this jobs picture improves, it's hard to say that the retail industry has finally turned the corner.

Suzanne Somers

I was actually going to be a chef before I got sidetracked. I used to make deserts for restaurants as a young teenage mother to make money.

Viggo Mortensen

I have never been in a natural place and felt that was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.

Jim Bell

He's done a wonderful job as far as when he's represented Desert Vista High School.

Thomas B. Macaulay

He . . . felt towards those whom he had deserted that peculiar malignity which has, in all ages, been characteristic of apostates.

Sorin Cerin

There is no greater desert than that of life.

Benito Mussolini

I am not a collector of deserts!

Paul Murphy

Mount Desert is a key member of our partnership. We would hate to see that partnership dissolve.

Will Johnson

So it's a celebration of our new release, and the fact that we're old. But desert plants are old and beautiful.

Edward Abbey

Why do I live in the desert? Because the desert is the *locus Dei*.

Frank DeBernardo

Our field is so completely saturated that the only way we'll be able to play Thursday's game is if it stays dry today.

Bible Bible

I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.

Sandy Close

Korean dry cleaners need Korean media to grow their businesses.

Andy Nash

That would put us on the dry side of the system.

Trinny Woodall

I went on Accutane, which is very strong. Your sebaceous glands dry up, you can't exercise, and you have very dry lips. But it was a miracle, and it worked.

Mitch Hedberg

I was walking down the street at 3am, and I passed a dry cleaner. The sign in the window said -"Sorry, We're Closed". You don't have to be sorry. It's 3am. And you're a dry cleaners. Its not like I was gonna come back at 10 and say "Hey man, I was here at 3 and you guys were closed... somebody owes me an apology.

Paul Desmond

I think I had it in the back of my mind that I wanted it to sound like a dry martini.

Ryan Howard

Just keeping it real. I was at home. I think they were taking it out and were just getting ready to dry it.

Ken Hill

Minds are like flowers. If you let it sit there without soaking anything up, it will dry up.

George Taylor

I think it will keep raining well into March. I also think spring is going to be relatively mild and dry.

Jerry Conway

Because of the mild weather we've been having there's no ice, and the seals now have to find an alternative place to pup.

Mike Scioscia

I think you can characterize it as a mild surprise that we are here.

Karen Goodman

She's very mild in her speech, but she's hard-working.

Democritus

Magnanimity consists in enduring tactlessness with mildness.

Robert Webb

Ed Miliband is obviously a mild guy. I don't expect him to pretend to be a pugilist.

Phil Klay

I don't want to act as though my deployment was particularly rough, because it wasn't. I had a very mild deployment; I was a staff officer.

Darrell Smith

After the groundhog, they predicted a more mild winter. The storm took me by surprise.

Hitoshi Oshitani

If there are many mild or asymptomatic cases, we may have missed many cases.

Jon LeCroy

I think they're relatively cheap. What we saw was a big run-up toward April, and now we're seeing a little more profit-taking.

Jordana Spiro

I don't think you always get to see a woman on TV who is relatively neurosis-free and, while looking for a relationship, isn't man hunting and isn't cloying and isn't a fashionista.

Victoria Jackson

Sitcoms are relatively clean. There's not much nudity.

Kevin Huck

We have a relatively young team with Keith Overton (160-pounder) the only senior starter.

Paul Sagawa

So it's relatively significant that they said flat-to-down.

David Brewer

When they are available, they are relatively inexpensive.

James Anderson

I think a target for 280-290 will put us in a relatively safe position.

Charles Browne

We are going after some relatively strong growth.

Ian Hart

I was relatively technically adept. I can edit and wire up a light.

Bill Hicks

Been on what I call my Flying Saucer Tour--appearing in small Southern towns--in front of handfuls of hillbillies.

Audra McDonald

The authentic Gullah dialect is actually very clipped, and so it would sound almost Jamaican and be very odd to an American audience's ears. It's not the typical Southern dialect that we're used to.

Carroll Quigley

To this day the Arab influence is evident in southern Italy, northern Africa and, above all, in Spain.

Samantha Bingham

Many, many of them are from southern Louisiana.

Chita Rivera

Southern California, they have been amazing. They're totally with us.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

One identity is as a television writer, which is very classically Southern California, but another of my personae is as a New Yorker cartoonist.

Conrad Aiken

I'm not in the least Southern; I'm entirely New England.

E. O. Wilson

I grew up as a Southern Baptist with strict adherence to the Bible, which I read as a youngster.

Doris Lessing

When young I did my best to undo that bit of the British Empire I found myself in: that is, old Southern Rhodesia.