Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kyle Cooper

Refiners don't buy crude oil to look at it. Once units are back on line we are going to see them produce a huge amount of petroleum products.

Joe Barton

Releasing an equivalent amount of oil from the reserve for a short period of time will help keep fuel supplies adequate, not just for the Gulf Coast area, but for all the United States.

Dan Bartlett

President Bush gets his briefings from commanders on the ground. He has reason for his optimism because of the enormous amount of progress we have made.

David Keating

Our research showed that a significant amount of people were planning to shop later in the season. That attributed to continued increase in sales through Christmas and the weekend after.

Victoria Morgan

Paul brings a tremendous amount of experience on the administrative side as well as the creative production side.

David Downing

Patients shouldn't freak out over it, ... but should be cognizant of it if they really want to minimize the amount of mercury the might potentially be getting.

James Murphy

Past food service bid processes have lasted between nine and 12 months. During this process, a considerable amount of time is spent upon gathering input regarding service and price preferences from various elements of the campus. These inputs are then balanced and included in the bid specifications.

Matt Ward

Part of the reason his music was so inviting to me is the amount of history in it.

Bob Daniels

Part of our problem was Northern; they played a dynamite game. But because of the sheer amount of time we've had off, you can't duplicate the intensity of the game. I felt we were going up hill all night.

Jeff Bernard

REALTORS(R) in Denver already rely heavily on the Denver Board to provide the resources and support necessary to be successful in this profession. We intend to significantly increase the value of membership in DBR by applying exciting new technologies and business models to help our members be even more effective advocates for the consumer during the home buying and selling process.

Robert Mitchell

Our policies apply to work submitted to courses. Nevertheless, we expect Harvard students to conduct themselves with integrity and honesty at all times.

Calvin Klein

Part of the wonderful thing about what we do in fashion is that it really can apply to so many forms of one's lifestyle, and it is such a logical extension to be designing for the home,

Dave Morris

People nowadays think of gamebooks as rather old hat - and, after all, it was twenty years ago. In their heyday, though, they were a phenomenon, selling upwards of a hundred thousand units per title. And it's not as old hat as you might think: the same design skills I used in those days apply equally when I'm creating modern videogames.

Francis Bacon

Surely every medicine is an innovation, and he that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils.

Priya Prasad

Right now, organizations can only apply for $300 for each category. A lot of times people will only end up getting $300 when they need like $600 for a magazine.

Andy Richter

Robert called me and said, "I'm gonna be working with this guy Conan O'Brien who's taking over Letterman's show. Do you wanna meet him, maybe get a job as a writer on the show?" And I said yeah, I'm tired of eating baloney. I had started to apply for day jobs, which up till that point I had been able to avoid for three years, you know, waiting on tables or whatever.

Robert Latham

Remember, federal and state assistance is different from that of the voluntary agencies. Even if you have received help from those agencies, you also need to apply for federal and state assistance.

Doug Wilson

Most search firms try to do some type of survey to get a profile. It allows people to go through and articulate in their own words what they want in their next leader. Now, what we do is talk about the skill set and look at the people who are applying and people we know that are out there that we can pursue.

William Jenkins

Regionalism presented some obstacles in the past, ... But the boundaries are beginning to disappear and we have this wonderful, intellectual synergism.

Bill Daly

Our partnership with NASN represents a significant step by the league to re-establish its relationship with its existing European-based fans, as well as begin the process of developing new ones.

Brendan Gilfillan

Our park system is a vital system that needs to be preserved but to be sure in the long run that we have the resources to preserve it ... we have to exert fiscal restraint and begin fixing our chronic budget shortfalls.

Walter Pater

Or if we begin with the inward world of thought and feeling, the whirlpool is still more rapid, the flame more eager and devouring.

Jerry York

Patrick had a very productive career here at BC and we wish him all the best as he begins his professional career.

Nicholas Burns

Part of the purpose of my visit to Delhi this week is to work with the Indian government on a plan that would separate the civil and military nuclear states of India over the coming years, ... Once that plan has been clearly enunciated and once it has been committed to by the Indian government and we begin to see its implementation, it will be a short time before the U.S. Congress enacts the necessary legislative changes to bring this into being, and that will be a welcome moment, indeed.

Fran Foley

Part of the plan from the beginning was to take pressure off the draft. The plan is coming together.

Jay Grymes

Parts of the state have been suffering for quite some time. In the southern third of Louisiana, the dry spell goes back to the beginnings of 2005, and even sections of northern Louisiana have been dealing with dry weather over the past 12 to 15 months.

Pauline Flynn

Peace is possible. It begins with a vision or dream and comes through persistence, hard work and belief in ourselves.

Brent Thompson

Our primary interest is not the sports aspect. We're interested in seeing the region do this together as a cooperative mechanism. It will take three states and all the counties working together on this.

Nicki Harrington

Our counties are growing. They're projecting about a 200,000-student growth for our district territory over the next decade, and we're preparing for that.

Adam Warpinski

I think I have a new perspective, a new image, an open mind looking for new solutions and using those that have been tried in other counties and cities.

James Lee

Just because of printing schedules and corrections to ballots, every election there are a few counties that aren't ready to go.

Kevin Brady

I feel even deeper for them, hurt even deeper for them, because these were the communities and counties that first opened their hearts and homes to Hurricane Katrina victims, ... And now they need our help.

Ron Miller

Imagine the economic impact to the area, the state and the nation if no one in McLean and Tazewell counties could farm for two years. That's the kind of impact this flooding will have.

Greg Taylor

Hopefully the state can work out a system soon that more equitably distributes education resources in our state, something desperately needed by low wealth counties like Bladen,

Justin Bowser

I accomplished everything I was going for. I mainly wanted to set the wins record and win counties and regions for the fourth time. This year was definitely one of my best.

Rep. Ozment

If we don't do something this session, we don't have a program set up to deal with this long-term. And the counties are then going to be kind of just sitting there, saying, 'Boy, if this stuff starts ending up in the ditches, what do we do? Who's going to pay for that? So it ends up on property taxes.

Paul Adams

Recreation was important because we didn't have any. Here we were a water district and growing by leaps and bounds. It was too large to be governed by a county commission.

Mark Fabiani

Our position is that we want to keep the team in San Diego and we're going to do everything possible to make that happen. We will explore all of our options within the county of San Diego the minute we're (contractually) able to do so.

John Bowen

Our position is that as a matter of law it's approved. The county would have to notify us if they disagree with that.

John Benedetto

Pasco County football has gotten a lot better and you better be prepared to play well week to week or you're going to get knocked off.

Sue Tucker

Our only option is to refer people to one of the shelters in Dane County -- or to send them up to a shelter in Stevens Point. We have no place, else, to put people.

John Walsh

Sussex County is suffering maybe more than most. Kent County is having its problems. ... High gasoline prices, highway congestion, people in manufactured homes are dealing with unconscionable rental increases. Most of this can be laid at the Legislature's doorstep.

Rick Howard

Survive and move on. that's what they tell when you get to the playoffs. That's what we did (Friday). Hart County played hard and fought the entire game.

Gary Gray

Our peach crop in Chilton County in a good year is probably worth in the neighborhood of $10 million, and local growers have reported a 30-percent increase in yields as the result of information they got from the meeting. This is a very important meeting for us.

Doug Warren

Our scores have to come down (from the county meet).

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.

Rosevelt Colvin

Regardless of who's on the field, the guys are required to perform at a high level. So, regardless if it's Richard or if it's a rookie, you're expected to get the job done.

Marcelo Porto

Our market was out of the game for two days, while there were losses abroad. It has readjusted prices in a moderate way. I had expected a worse day.

Joe Eberhardt

Our model mix, which was rejuvenated in the past months, and expected higher unit sales in the future are set to increase profitability automatically.

Joel Greenlee

Overall it was a pretty good weekend for us but I really expected us to get the win over Virginia. There were about three more matches that we should have won but that's how it goes sometimes. You can't give up back points like we did late in those matches.

Jacques Rogge

Overall, it's been what we expected ? not really what we had wished.

David Law

Overall, I'm happy with the job they did. I told them from day one I expected them to be in the championship game.

Jim Silver

Over $500 million last year was spent on Harry Potter toys and this year is expected to be even bigger.

Bobby Bowden

Out of all of them, he would have been the least one we expected to do what he was doing. We didn't know how he could play like he's playing right now.

Elden Auker

Pitchers today are only expected to pitch into the sixth inning.

Audrey MacLean

Starting a company is like going to war. You can't do anything else but be fully engaged. You have to be insanely, passionately, nothing-can-stop-me committed.

Alex Smith

Our school system needs a fully funded gifted program.

Ann Combs

Our view is the plans should be fully funded and that means 100 percent funded.

Mike Cooper

I think the staff is taking it hardest. Kids don't fully understand the importance of what's happening to them. I think reality is going to set in this week.

Jerry Maguire

Jerry Maguire: I am out here for you. You don't know what it's like to be ME out here for YOU. It is an up-at-dawn, pride-swallowing siege that I will never fully tell you about, ok?

Joe Biden

The American people are so much stronger, so much more resolved than any enemy can fully understand.

Russ Diamond

I think that the voters fully understand what's going on here.

Khaled Hosseini

I think that to fully appreciate baseball, it helps to have been born in the U.S.

William Ackman

I think McDonald's is doing the right thing and we fully support it.

Paul Burke

Our leadership has been out in the communities doing what they are supposed to do -- mobilizing, organizing and preventing further roadblocks.

Madeline Albright

Our message to India and Pakistan is that there should be no further nuclear testing, no deployment or testing of missiles, no more inflammatory rhetoric and no more provocative military activity,

Adam Adelman

Optimism in the numbers will be a roadblock for further gains. The upside in tech is limited.

Jim Porter

People have died. Lives have been changed. Property has been destroyed. Yet, a group of trial lawyers are using this disaster, not as a reason to help the people of this state, but instead to further their own personal agenda.

E. B. White

That couldn't be further from the truth, and I say that with emphasis.

Katharina Von

Overall it is satisfactory but we hope that there will be further improvement between now and 2009.

Jim Rees

Our visitors instinctively know that he's great. But they think he's stiff, formal, lackluster, and sometimes they use the word 'boring.' Nothing could be further from the truth.

E. Hurley

Rising oil prices are being looked at as a further weight on global growth as opposed to inflationary,

Jeb Bush

We need a little further wind at the back of this economy,

Lara Ramsburg

Regardless of when their next scheduled inspection is, the governor wants all mines to be inspected as soon as possible.

Margita Thompson

Our of respect for the will of the people, the governor will veto (the bill).

John Hoffman

Stern quotes the law, and that's correct. But obviously, if the governor of the state recommends somebody, we'd give that strong consideration.

Jeff Tittel

Overall, there's been a lot of spin and no real policy. I think the next governor should hunt for a new commissioner.

Donald Harris

I'm hoping the governor can step in and help out.

Tim Clark

The announcement by the governor is two weeks late.

Kevin Mannix

That?s the kind of governor I would be.

Jimmy Johnson

I think this offense has got a governor on it. It's called Joey Harrington.

Patrick Dillon

It doesn't matter who his running mate is, he is the one running for governor and he is the one who would wield the veto pen in office.

Charles M. Blow

While the word 'bisexual' was technically correct, I would only slowly come to use it to refer to myself in part because of the derisive connotations. But, in addition, it would seem to me woefully inadequate and impressionistically inaccurate.

Kusnanto Anggoro

In many regions, soldiers are too emotionally involved, partly because of inadequate logistics support, and of rivalry or (ineffective coordination) within the army.

Stanley Smith

We had plans for a 5,000-square-foot library, with inadequate parking.

E. B. White

The strength of the materials was inadequate to support the slope over time. It was a soil-like material, not a rock material.

David Rowland

The offers are inadequate and would entail unacceptable levels of risk.

Dick Cheney

As long as we do things or pursue policies that don't increase the supply, then what we'll find on the other end is inadequate supply and spiking prices,

Damon Dash

Read the rich list in Forbes. When you see all these people with all different kinds of money, it will make you feel inadequate and keep you focussed.

Jack Reed

There was inadequate planning, inadequate recognition of the problem at every level.

Dr. Katz

You can't. Routine tests will not show inadequate intake.

Jay Wright

It actually looked a lot worse than it was. It's much, much better than they initially anticipated.

Clint Hurdle

I think initially we need for him just to go out there and get outs, then we'll find a job a for him.

Tim Nance

I think it's much better than what I initially thought. We were very, very fortunate.

Sam Heughan

I actually got an initial sense of how big 'Outlander' was going to be on Twitter. We're all on there to help promote the show and also interact with the fans.

Vince Carter

I wouldn't mind it. Initially it would be like.

Johnny Griffin

Much of what was said was initially said by the cooperating witness, ... It was leading questions.

Jaime Dacey

My initial thought was that I was going to try out for the team.

David Healy

My initial reaction was, 'What took them so long?' ... They had too many brands, too many fiefdoms, and they had to simplify it. Even after they phase out Oldsmobile, they'll have too many, but I don't see them making another move for the foreseeable future.

Harvey Levin

My initial reaction was, I couldn't be less interested. I thought, I'm going to do more television. Why would I do Internet?

Joe Godinho

Parker looked real sharp and was real aggressive.

Liz Walton

Some of these wonderful little stops were not things that we looked for the same way.

Chad Johnson

Our press looked very good. At times it seemed like we could turn it on when we wanted to and be up by 20.

Fernando Pisani

We never looked at it like that. We just said, 'Let's keep playing like we're playing.' We played a patient game.

Mike Snyder

We never looked at aerial or ownership maps. I do that on purpose because I don't want to know. I don't want to be influenced.

David Gant

I whipped them all. They looked like grasshoppers.

Wendy Hall

I think they looked like they had a little doubt. They looked a little lethargic at times.

Roy Blumberg

I think they're probably somewhat disappointed. They probably looked at their portfolio and said, I didn't do as well as the Dow. I made money, but I'm kind of disappointed.

Rick Adelman

I think the Spurs are going to play the same no matter who's out there. When I looked at the tape, I thought it's possible they'll send a message and (upgrade) it to a flagrant foul, but I had no idea they would suspend him.

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!

Mark Gottfried

Our options are limited, and we know that. We have very little room for error.

Paul Foster

Options have stayed robust after they reported earnings, which is unusual.

Matt Rogers

Right now my options are pretty open. Just trying to get out there and play well these first three games.

David Shore

I think these options are awful. I think they've got to throw this away and go back and look at it again.

Tom Stevens

I think that's just a reflection of what we've been seeing in terms of the options that first-time homebuyers have.

Orrin Hatch

It is important that I keep working on all options to protect our state,

Andre Agassi

I think he has better options right now.

Kim Moore

I feel like there's still some options open.

Frans Houten

There are various M&A options we will explore.

Bill Self

He'll wear a splint when he's not practicing. (On the court) he'll tape it up and be fine.

Alfonso Soriano

When I look at myself on tape I can see that, but I just didn't make the adjustments at the time.

Eddie Van Halen

Imagine if Beethoven had a tape recorder. Then you'd know exactly what he meant. Maybe he meant 'Da da da da' instead of 'Boom boom boom boom!' Who knows?

David Nicholls

Letters, like compilation tapes, were really vehicles for unexpressed emotions and she was clearly putting far too much time and energy into them.

Skip Arnold

We're having to tap into our 'snowy-day' fund.

Gregory Hines

I'm going to tap until I can't: I'll be so old, all I can do is walk out from the wings to stage center. But I'll be there.

Dave Grohl

When you're recording to tape, you usually just settle for what you have. There's not a lot of options to manipulate the performance.

Glen Hanlon

We'll watch this tape and use it as a teaching tool for our group.

Anne Lamott

We all often feel like we are pulling teeth, even those writers whose prose ends up being the most natural and fluid. The right words and sentences just do not come pouring out like ticker tape most of the time.