Famous Quotes & Sayings

Todd Post

Regardless of how legitimate it looks, it's a fraud. No government agency or company is going to ask for sensitive information over e-mail.

Bob Lohn

Recent information and further analysis leads our agency to conclude that the Southern Resident killer whale population is at risk of extinction, and should be listed as endangered. By giving it protection under the ESA, we have a better chance of keeping this population alive for future generations.

Bill Johnson

Release of the draft environmental impact statement represents a significant milestone in the review process. This document gives the public a detailed look at the project and its consequences. There's also the opportunity to provide feedback for agency consideration.

Ken Perrotte

Spending the hard-earned dollars of a constituency that supports a state government agency with license purchases, registration fees and other forms of revenue generation requires the utmost integrity and ethical circumspection.

Donnie Smith

Some of the original members of the agency said they can't remember anything as big as this all the way back to 1951. Even though this weather pattern is normal for Tennessee, it's just not this intense normally.

Jack Wilson

Some guys look forward to their free agency years so they can go to a contender. To me, that's what I'm doing. I believe in what this team is doing.

Eric Brown

Our students have benefited greatly from the enhanced curriculum made possible by the generous Texas Education Agency grant.

Dan Riedinger

Our general feeling is the agency should give us a chance to comply with the current standard.

Brad Jones

Our work was awarded based on performance, certainly not political connections. We went through the process with -FEMA, the agency awarding the contracts, and we have always followed the scope of the work and done it to the best of our abilities.

Charles Rogers

Overall, Graves is a good person, ... I just hope the stress from upstairs isn't so tough on him that (it hurts) the relationship with the wide receivers. He's going to have pressure. He's got three No. 1 picks. ... But hey, he knew the assignment when he came.

Joe Gibbs

That was a tough assignment there. That kind of tells you the reason why people fight so hard for home-field advantage. That was a tough environment today, and that's the way it's supposed to be.

Brandon Jenkins

That was my assignment not making it so comfortable for him.

Robert Williams

It doesn't become an assignment anymore. It becomes a passion. All of a sudden, they get connected to that story.

Troy Vincent

I don't have a selfish bone in my body. I understand that moving on is part of the nature of this business. My assignment was up in Philadelphia. I did exactly what I was supposed to do there. It's not bittersweet at all. I feel exactly the same way I have for my 13 years in the NFL. You don't like watching two other teams going to the Super Bowl. But I'm overjoyed for them.

George H. W. Bush

I don't know whether or not the press corps realizes it, but his is a challenging assignment, dealing with you all on a regular basis, and I thought he handled his assignment with class and integrity ... It's going to be hard to replace Scott.

Rachel Sklar

I wrote small stories here and there, then bigger ones. Some were even written for money. I signed up for a writing class and snuck my first assignment on a yellow legal pad in a partner's office while he read through my memo.

Ron Shelton

Joe's assignment was to keep an eye on him and be a role model, ... Joe never saw him, except at the ballpark. The idea of a wild, young pitcher who's out of control rooming with a veteran gave me the dramatic possiblity.

Terry Ryan

He's been in a couple of these situations recently, and there's nobody that feels more grateful for getting this assignment than he. He's been close a couple times, and I'm sure he was wondering if it was ever going to be reality. But it was a matter of time. It was just inevitable. All he needed was the right mix.

Carla Peterson

Rebecca wears her heart on her face. She has been working on that skill for awhile. She has competed with it before. Everything came together for her with that.

Deon Thompson

Reggie really sparked us off the bench. He came in with his head focused on helping us win this game.

George H. W. Bush

President Bush, testing the mic at the GOP convention:'Four score and seven years ago. We have come here to dedicate a portion of it as a final resting place. ... My fellow members of the press corps, especially the camera man, tax relief is on the way ... don't spend it all in one place.'

H. Hart

Our players left everything on the field. When they came off the field, they were spent. I was watching them come through the tunnel going to the locker room. I just really hurt for them because the effort was just terrific. It was like two heavyweight fighters through the overtimes refusing to go down.

Ken Stringfellow

Our relationship, musically and friendship-wise, came to a halt for a couple of years, ... Slowly those doors opened again, and we had an opportunity to do some shows in Spain and took the chance to experiment over the course of a year or so. I spent some time repairing my friendship with Jon, and then we were probably open to anything at that point.

Eve

Originally, after 'Tambourine' came out, another record was supposed to come out, but I had issues with my record label at the time, which was Interscope. We couldn't agree on a record, so that took some time. I had to leave them and find a new label.

Joe Kuhn

Parker kept us in the game prior to halftime. He came out and hit a couple of big 3s for us during the first half. We might have been out of it early were it not for Dustin.

Barry Trotz

Parker came over the glass, and your first reaction is one of disbelief. Witt turns around, and his first reaction is to swing back. I don't like that trade-off. ... Parker is a marginal player for San Jose, and Witt is really starting to do some good things for us.

Doug Scheidt

Park did a great job. They came out really ready to play and I thought coach (Josh Wolf) did a really good job of having them just enough fired up, but just enough under control and calm. I thought they exhibited that in the game, and we didn't.

Wendy Kopp

Imagine how different those classrooms could be if hundreds of Nigeria's most talented recent graduates and professionals channeled their energy not only into the country's banks, but into making education in the country a force for transformation.

Kyle Bordelon

It initially started with three classrooms ... but subsequent to that we got other reports in other parts of the buildings.

Doylene Fuqua

I think the classrooms suffer with half-time teachers.

Beth Wood

Monies raised from the cruises will go to support the non-profit organization's efforts for traveling the country to provide floating classrooms to students,

O. J. Simpson

Now that I've come to UC, I realize how supportive this university is of the military, ... ROTC classrooms are new and the programs are well funded. People really seem to care.

Brett Nelson

So far the community response has been great. We just got a large donation from the Audubon Society and we have donation jars in all the classrooms and around the community.

Shane Davis

We open our classrooms up and they come in and study. These students are the most driven I've ever seen when it comes to this sort of thing.

Carol Huffman

I think we're on the right track. We can now finally have classrooms at the schools, where we can collaborate with other classrooms and interact with other teachers.

Trevor Montgomery

But some of the classrooms you go into, you feel like you're stepping back in time.

Kofi Annan

Reform is a process, not an event and we are going to continue after the summit

John Chambers

recovery continues to gain momentum on a global basis.

Robert Milton

Recognizing the significant progress we have made, there is no room for any complacency and we must continue to pursue efficiencies throughout our businesses.

Philadelphia Fed

Price pressures remain but continue to show a moderating trend.

Jorma Ollila

Our position in the fastest-growing market in the world continues to be strong.

Ed Colligan

Our Palm OS customer loyalty is extremely high, and we intend to continue to earn that loyalty with great Palm OS-based products,

Anna Rozenich

Our reduction is taking longer than anticipated. We continue to make progress in our testing because we want to make sure we get it right for our customers.

Joseph Farah

Our rankings, relative to other sites, rise and fall over time, ... But our traffic continues to grow ? at a pace even faster than the explosive Internet itself.

Marc Andreessen

Organizations spend hundreds of hours and hundreds of thousands of dollars installing and implementing huge servers, new Web sites and applications. They have to continue to do that, but they also have to clean up the mess of the '90s.

Thomas Lynch

It is not enough to be a corpse any more. Now, you have to be a politically correct corpse.

Dan Walters

I'd like to thank the Marine Corps for everything they do to protect our country,

Elie Wiesel

From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me.

Robert Harris

I think it's great for them to come out and give their time and give some support and some acknowledgement to the Marine Corps and the base. I think it's awesome.

Larry Fitzgerald

He's a great person to be around, ... He's a great influence on not only me, but the whole receiving corps and this whole football team. He's going to help us out in the locker room and he's definitely going to help us out on the field.

Turner Gill

He's kind of had some flashes. He'll have a great day and then he'll have some days that are not so good. But it was great to see him come back today in a game-type environment and make some plays for us. We've got to have guys in the receiving corps to step up and make plays for us.

Studs Terkel

If it weren't for the warm grates we would've had 80 frozen corpses down there during the big blizzard.

John Barry

My intent is not to point the finger. I still have a high regard for the corps. Holding back the Mississippi River isn't an easy thing to do. They've done an extraordinary job at flood control, and that's what makes this all the more devastating. I'm sure the corps is devastated, too. They know people put their faith in them and that faith was betrayed.

Giles Foden

The history of ideas is littered with the corpses of those who have tried to define culture.

Andy Reid

Releasing players that have worked their tails off for the team is one of the toughest days for me,

Anne Coates

Preview days are the worst days of your life.

David Stevens

Or, from time to time, I've spotted people a few days until we can get something worked out.

Dana Williams

Our office has 30 days to make sure this petition is significant.

John Mattos

Our next twenty days are our rest days. We get to fine-tune all the little things we have maybe done wrong and concentrate on the those we've done right.

Roy Blumberg

Oracle is putting pressure on the technology stocks, but the Dow was up for seven days in a row before yesterday. The market was more than due for some kind of a sell-off.

Ellen Wheeler

People invite these families and actors into their homes five days a week,

Judy Tenzer

Sports is like life you have good days and not-so-good days, ... We always think about the what-ifs. We are making some adjustments with the ad....Andy will still be visible.

Lauren Pelletreau

Some of these 4-pass products may not have all 4 days left on them.

Ellen Wheeler

Our staged emergency turned into a real life emergency.

Anthony Williams

Our first priority is to be able to respond effectively to the emergency situations as they arise,

Daryl Miller

Rescue here is not guaranteed. Our motto has been: your emergency may not be our emergency.

David Paulison

Please, please don't go back until the local emergency managers tell you it's safe to go back.

Dave Liniger

We'll actually wear the suits on the way up. Well make sure we're stabilized and the temperature of the capsule is OK. Then we'll take them off and save them for an emergency -- some sort of pressure leak -- and then we'll be wearing them on the way down.

Martha Chavez

I think they should have let the parents know right away and sent an emergency memo right away.

David Ramsay

It is a medical emergency so these people really need to be removed.

Martin Schulz

Japan is out of the emergency room and normal monetary policy has returned. Japan will try to keep interest rates as low as possible.

Mark Hammond

The Achilles' heel of emergency management is lack of interoperability.

David Marin

Re-branding FEMA doesn't fix the problem; it just puts a new acronym on it.

Bob DiBiasio

Our female market demographic research showed there were 200 percent more women watching Indians games last season. Grady is the big reason. It's manifested in the 'Mrs. Sizemore' T-shirts.

Mike Ross

Our volunteer fire departments know their needs better than Washington, D.C. They need more flexibility on spending grant money from FEMA and Homeland Security.

Serena Williams

I'm here to play female tennis. I've never been involved in men's tennis. . . . I wouldn't be tempted.

Carrie Fisher

Females get hired along procreative lines. After 40, we're kind of cooked.

Michael Chiklis

I was actually a little nervous when the female horse got shot,

Alaina Huffman

I think the type of actor I am, I tend to play strong leading female characters. The shows I've been on happen to be science fiction genre.

Angelle Sampey

That was awesome. I was really hoping it was going to happen (having three female winners).

Carrie Underwood

I was hoping for new female vocalist and that's all I was really hanging my hopes on. This is a monumental moment for me, a milestone in my life and my career.

Richard Cobb

On the supply side, we are about the same as after Katrina and before Rita.

Hal Rogers

I think it's time we thought about having Katrina bonds,

Richard Falkenrath

I think this issue, Katrina and our government's response to it, should be looked at by an independent commission,

Stacy Brown

I'm still waiting on official Katrina evacuee demographics. I think that it's going to be pretty useful data, because it will serve as a source of how many people can potentially become homeless.

Mary Fetchet

Katrina should be enough to wake people up.

John Metz

Katrina produced a catastrophic storm surge, it was one of the worst we've seen in this country,

Kim Stewart

Katrina knocked us down, but it's not going to keep us there. I think things should be a lot faster.

Peter Morris

Katrina is like a very large pile of stones on top of a mountain. Standing by the pile of stones it's a big pile. But when you're looking at the mountain, it's not going to be that dramatic.

Mark Zandi

Katrina is going to muck things up; it's just a question to what degree.

H. Hunt

Our management team and operational infrastructure have been strengthened during 2005 and we now have the structure in place to move towards profitability.

Jeff Siegel

Our traffic management is substantial and works quite well.

Steve Sampson

Management has never told me that, but regardless of what management's expectations are, my expectations are to win the trophy,

Richard Windsor

Management has been very slow to recognize there's a problem and do anything about it.

Peter Drucker

Management by objectives works if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.

Peter Drucker

Management by objectives works if you first think through your objectives. Ninety percent of the time you haven't.

Lawrence Miller

Management offered a strategic update with no real surprises.

Richard Ratner

Management is going to have to take it. I'm sure it will go through. People will think it's mean, but the alternative would be pretty ghastly.

Howard Davidowitz

Kohl's is struggling badly. Not only are the not meeting sales targets, there are several questions swirling about recent management changes,

Kenneth Langone

People making $1 million a year are not going to do anything different if they pay more taxes.

Aaron Parchem

We've trained and trained and trained, preparing for this opportunity to do something special. But never in a million years did I think I was going to be sitting up here in this situation. It's just an unbelievable feeling.

Kevin Connolly

James Van Der Beek and I go way back. We were in the movie 'Angus' together in 1994 or 1995, so I've known him for a million years.

Eric Christensen

The $2.3 million is not even a token sum. It's ridiculous.

Larry Anderson

I think the $12 million is just way out of the way,

Andrew Grove

I will take any kind of developments so long as those tens of tens of millions become twice as many.

Larry Sabato

He could have made millions in the private sector.

Mary Schmidt

There are so many millions of people you can't otherwise reach.

Kelly Osbourne

I never thought in a million years I'd be that healthy girl who wakes up every morning to exercise. After being called 'cherubic and chubby,' I'm rocking a bikini!

Peter Bart

Or, if it opens on three screens, it's going to stay on those three screens for much of the summer. He's not going to be pushed around like most studios are pushed around.

Mark Aaron

Our New York flagship store is staffed and open for business.

Tom Peterson

Our middles are very good. We passed really well and that opened things up for our offense.

Anders Igel

Our acquisition strategy is still very much the same as before, but we are opening up our thinking a little.

Chris Cornell

Rock will always have CBGB, whether it's open or closed.

Tom Thompson

We've tested oodles of time, but we're going to do it anyway. We'll pretend like we're open for business.

Tom Thompson

We've tested oodles of time, but we're going to do it anyway, ... We'll pretend like we're open for business.

Heath Miller

I was able to get open and Tommy got me the ball,

Marscilla Packer

I was just trying to get open, and when I got an open look I shot the ball.

Michael Rubner

Our coatings have the potential to provide the first permanent solution to the fogging problem,

Charles Elachi

Now we have a permanent scientific presence on another planet.

Albert Carlson

Obviously, some temporary stuff would have been pulled out, but anything permanent would have stayed, and we would have benefited from that.

James Connaughton

We are doing what we said we would do. We are on track. Stay tuned for the planning and construction of the more permanent barrier.

Charles Elachi

We really do have a permanent presence around that planet.

Mark Rey

The quickest way to provide permanent protection is through the development of state-specific rules, not by resuscitating the 2001 rule,

Stephen Hess

This may be something that is not as permanent as it may look at the moment.

Dalai Lama

Nothing is permanent.

Adam Marcoux

I just think it would be more professional to have permanent maps.

John Mara

I will walk away from this project rather than put a roof on it.

Jennifer Connelly

I'm so happy in the projects that I'm able to make, to be involved in projects like this. This isn't always where it was at for me, I started working when I was a kid. I'm just a different person now, I'm 30. I started working when I was 11 and it's a different ballgame.

Jacques Chirac

We are going to put in place our project for multipurpose frigates,

William McDonough

I can think of no more important project than this one because its ambitions are so high.

Corey Reynolds

I think you can spread yourself way too thin way too easily, so when I'm trying to create, I'm trying to create ideas for projects and have a vision for other people.

George Lucas

I have hundreds of projects that I want to do, and I'm running out of time - so they'll never get done, I'm afraid.

Steve Ford

Had the residents not done (what they did), the project would not have been what it is,

Barbara Jones

We had been talking about doing more projects together.

Megan Smith

We very much use a prototyping model, play with ideas, and then get stuff started that way, which is how the greatest projects get started.

Ron Messick

Lauren's so big as a player. A lot of schools are starting to take notice.

Cal Jillson

For most voters, schools are the No. 1 issue,

Anne Anderson

Situations in low-rated schools like Jasper are very frustrating,

Randy Copeland

Sir, two of those schools aren't even under our jurisdiction.

Erin Gruwell

Schools are not equal. There are still the haves and the have-nots.

David D. Burns

There is no standard 'therapeutic process,' since there are so many different schools of therapy.

Anthony Hamilton

It was very important for me to touch on things that haven't changed, like schools. I'm in Cleveland, Ohio. My lady's from Ohio, and the schools are being torn down, and they turned them into high-rise condos.

Rick Page

Right now I don't think my 5A schools would go to the Valley. But they could put us with Laredo.

Mike Babineaux

They will be monitoring the schools throughout the week. They go in and use a form, similar to the one the state uses when it does its walk through.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness.

Bud Perrone

This temporary setback can and must be overcome.

Henry Rollins

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

Suzanne Collins

If my holding out those berries was an act of temporary insanity, then those people will embrace insanity too.

Gus Van Sant

I've always been attracted to temporary families.

Napoleon Hill

Remember when your plans fail, that temporary defeat is not permanent failure.

Napoleon Hill

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination.

Napoleon Hill

You are fortunate if you have learned the difference between temporary defeat and failure, more fortunate still if you have learned the truth that the very seed of success is dormant in every defeat that you experience.

Lou Reed

It's just a temporary thing.

Nizam Idris

I would say it's more within my expectations.

Michael Mann

We're number-crunching to see what we can do within our mandate.

Jeremy Duxbury

We will have to work within the budget.

Jeffrey Smith

We work within the system. I don't want to say we're rebellious.

Kerry Bailey

Typically within two weeks, we're done with the analysis.

Roberto Azevedo

We have to learn how to work within the limits that are possible, not what is desirable.

Gary Thompson

We have very well-trained RAs and RDs within residence halls,

Checky Herrington

We should be able to energize it within one or two days.

Harry Larrabee

We're very balanced. Within games, we get spurts from different players.

John Nersesian

Rebalancing doesn't work every time. It works over time.

Mac McCabe

Our participants can work just as well as you or I.

Romesh Gunesekera

Sri Lanka is a part of my background: it's not where I live, but it's what I want to explore. And I find it works very well to explore through fiction.

Jim Coyne

Some of the work is in dispute. Hopefully, it will be settled.

David Frum

Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us and now we're discovering we work for Fox.

Barry Ritholtz

The market is going to love it. The market always seems to applaud major mergers, even though the vast majority of them don't work out and don't increase shareholder value.

David Burnett

Well a little disappointed but we'll work with what we have to work with.

Bill Cosby

There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right.

Big Pun

I'd rather sell reefer than do pizza delivery.