Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ronald Kessler

Complex man that he was, J. Edgar Hoover left nothing to chance. The director shrewdly recognized that building what became known as the world's greatest law enforcement agency would not necessarily keep him in office.

Kate Nauta

Luc Besson, the writer and producer, saw my picture at an agency and wanted to meet me.

Heather Wilson

Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Santa Fe National Forest told your agency not to set the fire, ... I'd like to know why they went ahead and did it.

Norm Dicks

Several panels of scientists, both within the agency and outside of it, have concluded that hatchery fish can cause harm to their wild counterparts.

Dore Gold

Much of the U.S.-Israel strategic relationship is classified, particularly in the area of intelligence sharing. There are two direct consequences from this situation. First, most aspects of U.S.-Israel defense ties are decided on the basis of the professional security considerations of those involved. Lobbying efforts in Congress cannot force a U.S. security agency to work with Israel.

John Thompson

Motorola designed this integrated suite of emergency dispatch applications in a highly configurable format, giving each public safety agency the flexibility to configure business rules and display options to meet their individual needs.

Jack Miller

One out of every four of us will need a United Way Agency and some in the next year, ... It doesn't matter what your income, your age, or your circumstances.

Guy Tauer

One temporary agency was up 9 percent and one up about 17 percent. But I don?t know what companies were using their help.

Andrew Bennett

One of the things that attracted me to this agency was David and his vision. He's committed to investing in intellectual capital and thought leadership.

Isabella Rossellini

I think I was always interested in animals. If a man likes a woman, you know, he might discuss business, but there's a part of his brain that is looking at the girl coming in and checking the girls. I do the same with animals.

Isabella Rossellini

It's a new business for me to be a filmmaker.

Rick Perlstein

Social conservatism, business conservatism: the one side constitutes the other, like some infernal Mobius strip.

Robert Osborne

In a business like the movie business, you're going to have a lot of people competing. Somebody is always coming behind them who wants their job. Being an actor is like being in quicksand: whatever you do, it disappears very quickly. You have to keep reminding people.

Robert Osborne

I grew up in a small town where I went to the movies a lot and fell in love with all these people. I also fell in love with the movie business. So all I saw were actors on the screen so I thought, well, that's what I have to be if I want to be a part of the movie business.

Ronald Kessler

Hiking taxes on the so-called wealthy would help send us into a recession because so many small businesses report their income on individual tax returns. If taxes are raised, they will be less likely to be able to hire new workers and make new capital investments.

Kevin Mitnick

What happens with smaller businesses is that they give in to the misconception that their site is secure because the system administrator deployed standard security products - firewalls, intrusion detection systems, or stronger authentication devices such as time-based tokens or biometric smart cards. But those things can be exploited.

Marc Morial

The mayor has got to work closely with a wide variety of people, his city council, state legislature, governor, business community, labor community, president and the congress in order to be able to do this.

Daniel Callahan

Like business and journalism, these are unregulated professions in an uncredentialed field,

Richard Rogers

You have to modernise; you have to change - you can't just be traditional for the fun of being traditional.

Richard P. Feynman

We do not know where to look, or what to look for, when something is memorized. We do not know what it means, or what change there is in the nervous system, when a fact is learned. This is a very important problem which has not been solved at all.

Robin Chase

There is a group of entrepreneurs pushing the envelope, government officials that are making significant changes despite the odds, and visionary writers, academics, and colleagues whose work confirms, amplifies, and stretches my own thinking.

Marc Benioff

You can do things in every part of the world. You can do things in every discipline. You can do large things, you can do small things. But it takes a while to figure out what you actually want to do. And it changes. As you change your interests and desires in philanthropy change, I think you have to be open to that change.

Mahesh Bhupathi

I think that tennis has been in a place for many years without any change. Davis Cup and Fed Cup has always been a very exciting platform for players because it is such an individual sport, and we get to play a team competition. We love being part of a team.

Manolo Blahnik

I think of each new season as an evolution, not a change in style.

Andrew Feinberg

We're not contradicting the view that genetic changes occur in the development of cancers, but there also are epigenetic changes and those come first.

Bob Combs

We're not contemplating any change for our competitions.

Norman Cousins

Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis -- once that crisis can be recognized and understood.

Robin Chase

There is a group of entrepreneurs pushing the envelope, government officials that are making significant changes despite the odds, and visionary writers, academics, and colleagues whose work confirms, amplifies, and stretches my own thinking.

Andrew Feinberg

We're not contradicting the view that genetic changes occur in the development of cancers, but there also are epigenetic changes and those come first.

Norman Cousins

Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis -- once that crisis can be recognized and understood.

Mike Freeman

Luckily, very few changes were made over the years.

Cindy Moore

Making minor changes in your lifestyle is doable for most people.

Wu Xiaoling

Making interest rates and the foreign exchange rate market-oriented to reflect supply/demand changes in the market has always been a goal that we have pursued.

David Perlmutter

Making changes in the fast food that makes up such a significant part of the American diet, even if the numbers aren't impressive, will have important health up sides.

Joan Didion

Life changes fast, ... Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.

Chris McGinnis

Lots of changes are the nature of the beast.

Gary Bettman

My feeling is contracts should always be honored,

Sam Reed

More than half the states that will miss the voting-equipment deadline will have signed contracts with vendors.

Ken Fields

We have signed contracts with several counties and that's a step that's required.

Jason Varitek

Given all the people's contracts that are up, we've got to get somebody in there. We've got to find a way to right the ship. And we've got to start from the top down.

John Gomery

Given that contracts were issued as early as November 2000, the moratorium, if it did occur, was of a very short duration,

Jim Caswell

One of the reasons that they feel like they can reduce the exclusive-use contracts . . . is that they've got higher-speed, more mobile and larger-capacity payloads in the contract stream now.

Tom Adams

Signing one of those (long-term) contracts is extremely pessimistic. What they're offering is peace of mind at a huge premium.

William Hecht

The prospect of favorable new energy contracts for PPL as existing long-term contracts expire, in conjunction with sharp increases in forward wholesale energy prices over the past six months, led us to increase our long-term earnings forecast.

Bob Bowlsby

Those contracts are usually about the worth of the ink they're written in (though).

Isabella Rossellini

I've had a lot of 'aha' moments, but the big 'aha' about growing older is the mental freedom.

Alan Trammel

Like a lot of guys, Pudge has tried to do too much. Yes, he's a free swinger -- to a limit. This year he has expanded his zone.

Jim Woodring

Like a lot of freelance cartoonists, when any opportunity like that comes along, I have a hard time saying no, whether it makes sense or not.

Dutch Proverb

Life is a gift, but you do not get it for free

Anthony Smith

Make free throws. I told the girls, 'Let's make some free throws and don't foul.' That's how I felt. Let's make those free throws, and B.T. and Miranda made two of them. Not just one of them, but two of them, and that was great.

Shelly Smith

Lunch is provided, poles are provided; everything is free at this event.

Charles Gargano

Let's keep in mind that the world, the region, everyone was looking for how we rebuild the Freedom Tower and for what it represents in the rebuilding process.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and painfully as to find someone to worship

Ross Baker

So long as he is a free man, still a member of the House and participating in the conference, his influence is going to remain considerable.

Roy Williams

Let's be honest, we made shots. When you make shots, the whole game looks prettier.

Paul Maguire

Let's be honest, this is a game where The Citadel gets a nice paycheck.

Werner Erhard

Life is a game. In order to have a game something has to be more importantthan something else. If what already is, is more important than what isn't the game is over. So, life is a game in which what isn't is more important than what is. Let the good times roll.

Reggie Torbor

Luckily we all can play a lot of positions or we'd be in trouble right now. But we can't send the commissioner a letter and say, 'We've got some people hurt. Let us play Wednesday.' The game is going to go on.

Gregg Bahen

Lucky for us, games are played on the field. It was a physical game and our kids are going to be sore tomorrow, but, without a doubt, they'll be happy tomorrow.

Craig Faire

Mackenzie played phenomenal here. She really stepped up her game.

Bussy Adam

(MacKenzie) has been stringing great practices together. He had a great game last Thursday and then (Saturday) he got started a little slowly, but then he got into his groove and started to shoot better.

Matt Strophy

Mackenzie got the game ball. This was her first game back from an MCL/ACL tear in August.

Jena Torres

Let's just say we've had a lot of five-inning games this year.

Alexandra Fuller

People who disagree with His Excellency, the President for Life and 'Chief of Chiefs,' are frequently found to be the victims of car crashes (their bodies mysteriously riddled with bullets); or dead in their beds of heart attacks (their bodies mysteriously riddled with bullets); or the recipients of some not-quite-fresh seafood (their bodies mysteriously riddled with bullets).

Albert Schweitzer

Where principles and heart stand in conflict with each other, let us make the law of the spirit free from the law of principles.

Albert Schweitzer

When people have light in themselves, it will shine out from them. Then we get to know each other as we walk together in the darkness, without needing to pass our hands over each other's faces, or to intrude into each other's hearts.

Albert Schweitzer

Don't let your hearts grow numb. Stay alert. It is your soul which matters.

Albert Schweitzer

If there is anything I have learned about men and women, it is that there is a deeper spirit of altruism than is ever evident. Just as the rivers we see are minor compared to the underground streams, so, too, the idealism that is visible is minor compared to what people carry in their hearts unreleased or scarcely released.

Sathya Baba

Make your life a rose that speaks silently in the language of the heart.

Sathya Baba

Make the heart big and the mind pure.

Lois Frankel

Lela is the heart and soul of this city, ... And she is a... well, let's put it this way: She's an independent, strong-willed, very innovative person.

Source Unknown

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

Vincent Jackson

Man, hopefully I'll be playing me, on offense, working with the offense,

Shawn Chacon

Man, he is in a zone. You hope he stays that way for a long time.

Don Daniels

Let's look for a year like last year and hope it doesn't happen. That's all we can do.

Johnny Damon

Let's hope so. We've still got to play well.

Andy Robinson

Lewis is distraught and disappointed and we hope it can all be sorted out.

Boris Said

Lowe's is my nemesis. I didn't qualify for the Memorial Day race there, but we have tested at the track since and hopefully it will be a different scenario this time around. After today, I just can't wait to get back on those ovals.

Boris Said

Lowe's is my nemesis, ... I didn't qualify for the Memorial Day race there, but we have tested at the track since and hopefully it will be a different scenario this time around. After today, I just can't wait to get back on those ovals.

Tony Bush

lot of lives to be lifted up, lot of hope to be restored.

Wade Duty

Louisiana is undergoing a moment of revision and hopefully reconstruction, and by Friday, we will know what the shape of things will be.

Phil Garner

make your pitches, (it) doesn't matter if we walk him.

Stephen Adly Guirgis

September 11 reinforced for me that whatever I'm writing about, it better be something that really matters to me because we don't know what's going to happen tomorrow. And for me it's stories about people in pain in New York.

Willie Revillame

Mr. Lim has always been there for me. No matter where I go, he's always there to support me.

Mark Zandi

One of the things voters will have to sort out is which statistic matters more.

Lindsay Meggs

One of the things we talked about is it didn't matter about how we won, we just needed to win.

Meryl Thomas

One of the things I've always tried to do as president of the (Penn Hills) PTA is to get everyone moving in the same direction, no matter what the project was.

Jorge Posada

None of this matters if we don't go out there and play the way we're supposed to,

Sushma Swaraj

Now we can only pray in God's temple for him to get better. It is a matter of prayers and medicines. The medicines are being administered internally and the prayers are being sent from outside.

Andrew Barrett

Next week is going to be more normal, when we get back to the real matter at hand, which is earnings.

Edward Hale

No, I look at the Senators and pray for the country.

Peter Frank

Obviously, our prayers are with (Robinson) regardless of all the other issues.

Charles Spurgeon

We cannot all ARGUE, but we can all PRAY; We cannot all be LEADERS, but we can all be PLEADERS; We cannot all be mighty in RHETORIC, but we can all be prevalent in PRAYER.

Charles Spurgeon

God will hear His people at the beginning of their prayers if the condition of their heart is ready for it.

Charles Spurgeon

Prayer must not be our chance work but our daily business, our habit and vocation.

Charles Spurgeon

Intercessory prayer is exceedingly prevalent. What wonders it has wrought! The Word of God teems with its marvelous deeds. Believer, thou hast a mighty engine in thy hand, use it well, use it constantly, use it with faith, and thou shalt surely be a benefactor to thy brethren.

Charles Spurgeon

The goal of prayer is the ear of God.

Charles Spurgeon

Oh, for five hundred Elijahs, each one upon his Carmel , crying unto God, and we should soon have the clouds bursting into showers. Oh, for more prayer, more constant, incessant prayer! Then the blessing would rain upon us.

Charles Spurgeon

If He has said much about prayer, it is because He knows we have much need of it.

Charles R. Jackson

We continue to experience a steep growth curve and positive response from customers that are aggressively transitioning their procurement processes to leverage our technologies' benefits.

Diane Sawyer

Every time somebody tries to go in and reinvent what we do, it always ends up being more about technology and sets, and flash and dash, forgetting the main thing, which is interesting people saying interesting, important things.

Dennis Ritchie

For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace.

Dennis Gabor

The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by technology of yesterday.

Denis Hayes

America has the technology and resources to meet all its energy needs while safeguarding the earth's climate. The urgent question now is, 'Do we have the will?' At least one city does, and I'm proud to live in it.

Denis Hayes

We presently have the technology ... fuel cells, solar cells, hydrogen ... the opportunities are amazing for clean energy.

Dean Wareham

It's a scary question for a musician or songwriter today - what does the future hold? It is a strange time in the music business too; it feels like we are all in some kind of transitional period, stuck between old technology and new.

Dean Kamen

[Chuck's wife] was standing behind me at the time and she said, 'Chuck hasn't fed himself in 19 years. So, you've got a choice: We keep the arm, or you keep Chuck.'

Dean Kamen

In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was supposed to be important.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

I find myself hoping I can get on a TV show, and then people from Oklahoma will come to my restaurant. Then I'll be able to make enough money to open my own place.

Magnus Scheving

LazyTown' is not a TV property, but a lifestyle brand for children.

Rocky Carroll

My first venture into TV was a half-hour sitcom on Fox called 'Roc.'

Dick Wolf

And the consumer doesn't care. They don't watch networks, they watch TV shows.

Dennis Farina

I wanted to do Buddy Faro as a small budget movie. They said no. So I wanted to do it as a series of recurring TV movies, and they said no. So I agreed to do it as a series.

Debra Messing

I would absolutely be a litigator. I watch Court TV every day.

Rachel Tucker

I did a reality TV show in London called 'I'd Do Anything,' and when I got put in the program, they said, 'What is your ultimate dream?' and I said, 'Broadway.'

Ed O'Brien

I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.

Dominic West

I don't know why British actors are getting big parts in American TV shows. Maybe it's because we're cheap.