Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sean Howard

We acknowledge everything from the food-stamp fraud to the van accidents. A lot of those legal problems came from growing pains and oversight. But Bishop Jefferson is making the necessary adjustments for anything that is under his watch.

Jim Talent

Working with Troop A, we were successful in getting the Senate to approve a plan that would protect our first responders and prevent highway fatalities, ... Dozens of police officers and fire fighters have lost their lives in accidents that should have been avoidable. Our initiative instructs the Department of Transportation to develop model legislation that will increase awareness and help save lives.

W. S. Gilbert

With the lack of institutional knowledge, you could end up with more injuries and catastrophic accidents to some of the employees.

Willie Williams

With the high price of heating this year, we could see more accidents. But I would love to be proved wrong about this.

William Dement

We're beginning to realize that drowsiness or sleep deprivation, fatigue, is beginning to outstrip alcohol as a cause of accidents in transportation, particularly on the highway,

Jenson Button

Manic. The whole day's been manic with the weather. Rain, traffic, accidents. It was a hectic session. It was mad for us trying to get a lap time in.

Chaim Potok

Life is like the blink of an eye. What is that worth? Nothing. But the eye that blinks - that is something. I guess I blinked, on accident. Sometimes, though, I have found accidents to be the most fortuitous events in my life. You meet the one person who reminds you what you are, what you do, how to be happy.

Pat Brown

Like all manufacturers of consumer products, Cooper has lawsuits filed against it for a variety of reasons. Unfortunately, car accidents occur and there can be fatalities. We hardly believe plaintiff attorneys are in a position to judge the quality of our products or the quality of our manufacturing facilities.

Austin Hill

Like all freedom, this can be abused or used for good, ... we don't outlaw cars because people sometime have accidents in them.

Jiang Zemin

The people will always remember him, ... We have 1.2 billion people, but the life of every Chinese person is precious.

Sean Wargo

We are projecting an increase in sales of MP3 players to $4.5 billion in 2006, with 30 percent of all MP3 players sold having video playback capability.

Saparmurat Niyazov

We are prepared to supply 30-40 billion cu m of gas to China.

Shripad Tuljapurkar

We studied different countries around the world that are representative of different situations and took a look at where they'd end up. One thing that happens right away, which nobody seems to have thought of, is that the total global population increases dramatically. From an original projection of 8 billion we end up topping out at 10 to 11 billion. In many countries, this would have an enormous, and not necessarily positive, impact. For example, the idea that China would go from 1.5 to 1.8 billion, just because of this, is a bit frightening.

Bob Gammage

There are businesses in our state that make billions and pay no taxes at all.

Peter Feinstein

We're interested in watching the next phase of high-rise condos going up, and we're interested in seeing how the Stardust comes together with their new $4 billion product. We have cash flow we can sit on while we're watching the market.

Jeff Kinney

We're incredibly excited to welcome the 500 millionth Poptropican into our virtual world. When we started in 2007, we never could have imagined that we'd see a day when half a billion avatars inhabited Poptropica.

Sy Montgomery

We split from our common ancestor with the octopus half a billion years ago. And yet, you can make friends with an octopus.

Byron Dorgan

We spin around the Sun with 6 billion of us and somehow through divine providence we landed right here right now.

James Thompson

Unprecedented natural gas prices are causing the price increase.

Jon Huntsman

We have resources, yet, were dealing with imported oil prices that are causing pump prices to go through the roof.

Jeb Bush

There is deep concern about this storm causing more flooding in New Orleans,

Jim Pringle

Last year was particularly mild. This year is closer to normal snowfall. I wouldn't be overly concerned with the late spring snowmelt causing flooding.

Frank Keating

severely compromised, causing undue hardship on livestock owners.

John Humphrys

So he was let out, went to Houston and started causing problems there.

O. J. Simpson

So, it may be that SARS is causing a slightly different or a slightly less severe form of illness at this point.

Wanda Jackson

So, it happened pretty fast, but, it is causing a lot of stir, which thrills me that people still remember the songs.

Paul Curlander

What we have seen is less than expected end-user demand. We don't know what is causing it. If I were to guess, I would put weak sales of (Lexmark-branded printers) on top.

Melanie Hall

She's been the glue. She's always doing the little things crashing the boards, making the big stop, setting the screen that gets the girl open. I can't say enough about her.

Paul Baca

Nobody expected us to be here, crashing the party. It's hard for me to express in words right now how proud I am of these girls. I'm especially proud of the seniors. When they were sophomores they went through a particularly hard season and stuck with it. Now, two years later, they're in the Sweet 16. It's a special group of seniors.

Chris Leshinski

Girls were crashing nets, (making) good crosses and we were able to finish.

B. F. Skinner

I don't think we're crashing their party. We're part of this. You might as well get used to this. There are some new people in town, and you'll hopefully welcome us with open arms.

B. F. Skinner

I don't think we're crashing their party. We're all part of a new league and you might as well get used to this.

Steve Adlard

He should have just eased it home instead of crashing it home.

Marilyn Oliveira

If it's a large venue where there are multiple rooms and events happening at once, crashing is more likely to happen. Crashers are often dressed appropriately already, so it happens more easily.

Peter Lerangis

I have an oval-shaped scar on the knuckle of my right index finger from crashing my hand through a light fixture while practicing Elvis Presley moves in college.

David Bowie

Songs don't have to be about going out on Saturday night and having a good rink-up and driving home and crashing cars. A lot of what I've done is about alienation... about where you fit in society.

Samuel Johnson

Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Joel Edgerton

Actors want to act; actors want to emote. It's like the emotional equivalent of tearing your shirt off and screaming to the heavens: you want to express, and you want to be seen to be expressing.

Tom Stoppard

The idea that being human and having rights are equivalent - that rights are inherent - is unintelligible in a Darwinian world.

Chris Jericho

Somebody actually tattooed my face on his arm. In a couple years, that will be the equivalent of having a Screech tattoo.

Stanley Coren

Lots of people make resolutions to try to spend more time with their dog, to try to take them to obedience class, to take them out for sports. It's the canine equivalent of promising that we're going to go out and exercise more ourselves, lose weight and be good and moral.

Michael Moss

Many of the Prego sauces - whether cheesy, chunky or light - have one feature in common: The largest ingredient, after tomatoes, is sugar. A mere half-cup of Prego Traditional, for instance, has the equivalent of more than two teaspoons of sugar: as much as two-plus Oreo cookies.

Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

Proactive giving is what you do when you've found your passion. It expresses your values, interests and concerns. It engages not just your dollars, but also your mind, time, skills and networks - the philanthropic equivalent of leaning in, rather than leaning back. Most importantly, proactive giving is something you want to do.

H. Hart

Voters can have on the equivalent of five different pairs of glasses when they judge a policy proposal.

Darrell Jackson

One of my personal goals was to tie each of the law school's minority groups with the equivalent group on the main campus,

Sarah Santana

We want them to have a full year of grieving before they volunteer.

Bob Day

The other times, we just preached at you, ... This time around, it's like you're getting christened in church. This is the full immersion version.

Justin Jeffre

We've all been living life to the fullest during our break,

Jacques Santer

We are at the end of an historic process, ... It has been a long path, a path full of successes and failures.

Ken Vaughn

We are at all full production and we have increased staff, with some openings at mines.

Mark Hansen

We split it up so the Sunday devotional is more spiritual and the Saturday show will be full of all different kinds of music so it lets people know we do more than just soft piano ballads.

Mike Sherman

We're not going to make it look pretty and say, 'Well, we've been here before,' ... We have 14 games to play and we can't panic. But I don't think you can tell them the glass is half full when it's not.

Glenn McGinnis

We have narrowed it down to those who are providing full financing.

Army Sgt.

When he first signed up, he wanted to go for the full 20 years, but we had to talk him into four. He knew the military, he knew what was involved with it the separation, the risks.

Richard Aboulafia

We have no idea how the market for very light jets will look in 25 years from now. There are several players trying to get into this market, but we really don't know what the market wants yet.

Stephen Rodrick

Peter Rodrick was one of only around 4,000 men in the world qualified to land jets on a carrier after dark.

Mike Serba

One of the big mistakes a team can make is get a one or two-goal lead and start sitting back ... while the other team has the opportunity to turn on the jets offensively and put some pucks in the net. We didn't want that.

Peter King

I also think the Jets would go after Terrell Owens .

Kelly Holcomb

I think the offensive line did a heckuva job of opening it up. We knew what the Jets were going to do to us. They really didn't present us with many problems. It was just kind of smashmouth.

Patricia Schroeder

A draft doesn't produce the people we need to satisfy our real manpower shortage. We need specialists to keep our jets flying.

Jim Haslett

The Jets, to me, are probably the No. 1 team. For whatever reason, they don't have many penalties, ... I've got to talk to Herman (Edwards, the Jets coach) about that.

Paul Tagliabue

The New York Jets are on the clock.

Gus Frerotte

It's all new to me having never played the Jets in the same conference,

Dana Keeton

We're interviewing passengers and are not saying anything more until we're sure what happened.

Derek Fisher

I am not a passenger in anything I do.

Larry Black

When we arrived, the two passengers were walking around,

Author unknown

When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car.

Anthony Foxx

Passengers want options, and when they have options, like passenger rail, they choose them.

Dave Adams

We only react when there is a threat to the aircraft, passengers or crew.

Peter Kessler

Smugglers torture, rape and shoot their passengers if they complain. It's very dangerous.

Shivraj Patil

A plan to protect passengers and railway property, often targeted by Maoist rebels, is underway.

Billy Jones

It was too dark. The passengers couldn't see the stone-throwers' faces.