Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Delahunt

Brick and mortar businesses - and the communities that depend on them - cannot continue to bear an unfair sales tax burden from which their on-line competitors are effectively exempt.

Joe Girardi

I was the grunt. I used to carry the bricks and cement. I remember when my father gave me my first $100 bill. My eyes were huge.

Vince Carter

It felt like I was playing with a ton of bricks on my chest.

Greg Owens

It doesn't make any sense whatsoever. I'm just trying to improve myself and go forward in my career and you get brick walls built up all over the place.

Les Newman

I think having the names on bricks makes the statement that the community cares about people who serve this country.

Linda Brown

He could have been killed if that brick hit him in the right place. The message is that the homeless in DeLand are vulnerable, that they are not any better than what happened to Mr. Roberts in Holly Hill.

John Barlow

I fought it hammer and tong, but the drummers had inoperable bricks in their head about it. What's worse is that they now want to remove all Dead music from the Web.

Wren Elhai

Getting in touch with Iraqis has not been the insurmountable challenge it seemed to be at the start. You run into more brick walls trying to get someone in the U.S. military to talk to you.

Buster Perkins

I had hit a brick wall. I had gotten injured, and my grades were failing and I had to do something.

Peter Norden

Previously, Pope John Paul has taken a position on capital punishment . . . and given clear teaching on the value of all human life, not just innocent human life.

Gale Kaufman

Part of it is he doesn't have a lot of capital with his own party's leadership. Part of it is he just doesn't understand the process or care to engage in the process.

Kevin McFarland

Our main goal is to go downstate as a team. We definitely have to capitalize on the opportunity we've got.

Michael Butler

Our New York office put us closer to the private equity community. The San Francisco office offers greater proximity to the venture capital and growth equity communities.

Clayton Christensen

Optimizing return on capital will generate less growth than optimizing return on education.

Clayton Christensen

People in private equity complain that they have so much capital and so few places to invest. But you have lots of entrepreneurs trying to raise money at the low end and find that they can't get funding because of this mismatch. I think that there is an opportunity there.

Paul Kasriel

Sustained economic growth is dependent on profit growth. Without profits, there will be no new hiring of workers and no new capital spending.

Bill Curry

Split shipments are not always bad. We look for an optimum inventory level instead of having every item in every distribution center. It can be a better use of capital to occasionally do a split shipment instead of stocking every item in every center.

Jeff Suppan

Some of these games, it's hard to come up with an explanation. They were able to capitalize on my mistakes and put together some good at-bats, and I didn't make pitches.

Scott Segal

Just because you are a big landowner doesn't give you the right to dump your garbage on the little landowner.

Jane March

I was very ambitious. It all started because my first boyfriend dumped me when I was 14. I'd always wanted to be a model and thought, 'Right, he's going to see me everywhere.' I was relentless in my pursuit of modeling. It was revenge.

Sue Shipman

Get yourself an envelope, regular or large, dump in at one time. Get it all in one place.

Gordon Bethune

For some reason TSA thinks that dumping out our passengers' underwear at the gate after it has already been dumped out at the security screening checkpoint makes TSA look like they are on top of things.

Robert Crowder

He was obviously not a very good pilot because he dumped the helicopter when he got out of the facility,

Kelly Turner

I was going to the dump when my wife called to tell me about the fire. We were going to watch football today.

Peter Steele

If we're going to be dumped into, say, goth metal or something like that, I really don't mind being called that.

Peter T. King

If we have another 2,000 people killed, I want Nancy Pelosi and George Soros, John Conyers and Pat Leahy to go to the funeral and say, 'Your son was vaporized because we didn't want to dump some guy's head under water for 30 seconds.'

David Heil

If that happens, that oyster will not come back ever unless you dump oyster shells,

David George

Our products overcome two essential forces in the world: gravity and weather.

Cory Booker

Our platform emphasizes that a vibrant, free and fair market is essential to economic growth.

Daniel Barenboim

It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.

Philip Crosby

Just being honest is not enough. The essential ingredient is executive integrity.

Kofi Annan

I think it was essential that he paid the money.

Sathya Baba

It is not enough, nor is it essential that you should repeat the name of Rama loudly; respect it in the fullness of love and admiration.

Antonio Costa

It is essential to pool our resources because we have fires in Portugal, but tomorrow there could be others in Spain, in Italy, in Greece.

Wallace Wattles

It is essential to have good tools, but it is also essential that the tools should be used in the right way.

John Loos

It is essential for Durban to expand its industrial capacity.

Joshua Greenbaum

Oracle has tremendous problems being industry expert. SAP has had more success at that end.

Kevin Haggerty

People in the industry feel it's more of a privacy enhancer because it's such a secure way of identification.

Buster Brown

It is a touchy subject. But in any industry there is a surplus of unusable goods. What do you do with them?

J. Horton

It is an industry that probably has too much capacity. It's probably too fragmented.

Halle Berry

I think it was a shift in the industry for the people of color.

Alan McCoy

I think that's pretty important from a reputable, well-known independent steel industry analyst." ()

Randeep Hooda

I think I'm the only professional horse rider from the movie industry. Strangely, I've seen no men from the industry at equestrian events. Though I've seen some ladies like Diya Mirza and Lara Dutta at the race course. Women, by the way, make superior horse riders.

Larry Ellison

I have been working more, ... That's true, and the reason I'm working more is this is an extraordinary opportunity. My industry and in fact, every industry soon is going through this tectonic change.

Glenn Johnson

I didn't lose that fight, ... I walked away because of promotional disputes. That was hard, after being in the industry so long. But the older you get, the more you learn the business.

John Morrison

Regular Montanans are the ones who need help, not big insurance companies. We need to be passing laws with the consumers' interest in mind, not the special interests.

David Anderson

Our offense waited until the sixth inning to come alive, but at least it did and put some insurance runs on the board.

J. Horton

Some of the larger-ticket items needed to be looked at by the insurance company.

Rick Whatley

Our road service insurance is what we are so well known for.

John Corlett

I think the public's primary consideration when they shop for insurance is price.

James Carter

He said I don't know what I'm going to do because I don't have any insurance and I said you're going to start rebuilding now, because I'm volunteering my services right now.

Kathleen Sebelius

I've spent my career fighting the worst practices of insurance companies.

Brian Cashman

We will need choices, You always do. It's somewhat of an insurance policy. He's also prepared to go to Triple-A.

Gary Johnson

I reject the insurance model. I think we should have a free-market approach to healthcare.

Vanessa Friedman

For women you would not want to leave your shirt undone, so that if you lean over you reveal something you did not want to reveal,

Gino Guyer

From here on out, we've just got to lean on each other and push each other and be there to support each other.

Mike Garcia

If we're not there on the routine basis, some will get relaxed a bit. They'll lean toward getting away from (meeting standards). We just don't have the manpower to be there as often as we should.

Emanuel Steward

He'd lean over and whisper to me that this is never going to leave Detroit. He made me promise.

Rodney Atkins

But I have vertigo... I lose my equilibrium easily. I can lean out to look at something and just keep leaning and not realize I'm about to fall.

Natalie Imbruglia

Since childhood I've always had a tendency to lean towards melancholy. My sisters suffer from it too, so maybe it's a genetic thing. But none of us has ever been on medication.

Axl Rose

I'm in California, and that usually leans Democratic, and that's usually where I lean anyway... I would lean Democrat; I would lean Obama.

Josh Silver

I think that most artists are leaning towards fragile idiots.

Jack Wilson

We have a very young starting rotation and I think it's important that they know they can lean on our offense to score some runs and take some pressure off them.

Bob Denver

Our lives will never be the same without him,

Tracie Beasley

Our lives are so full. For people to get outdoors and recreate is so important.

John Powell

Our lives are shaped by those who love us and by those who refuse to love us

Simon McBurney

Our lives are a sequence of things. When we're alive, they're continuing, just as my words now are an improvisation. So the idea of 30 years is actually quite nebulous. It's impossible to encapsulate it. All you can do is go: 'what next?'

Harry McDonald

Our mission is to see if it lives up to its promises.

Keith Hampton

Some men and women have had their lives ruined.

Adriano Moraes

Rob is a legend. He's been saving lives for 30 years and never missed a season.

Toba Beta

Man will never be stronger nor independent if he lives under perpetual motivation of others.

Chris Lom

We need more tents and we need better logistics if lives are going to be saved.

William Joyce

Recent volatility in raw material prices, however, makes first quarter forecasting difficult.

David Zucker

Sure, we'll be working on Scary Movie 5 , but we'll wait until the material swells up in the next year. There will be enough movies out there to pick from.

Caroline DeWaal

Physician-education material like this is a long time coming.

Chuck Ewings

That was probably because of materials. After the hurricane, materials went up.

Francis Bacon

When he wrote a letter, he would put that which was most material in the postscript, as if it had been a by-matter

John Grisham

We have the crime of the century every six months. So for people like me who enjoy, you know, taking these stories and writing about them, the material is endless.

Jonathon Hamilton

None of these are material to this transaction.

Aaron Copland

I don't compose. I assemble materials.

Edward Abbey

The very poor are strictly materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic.

Ed Goren

Present me a team, and I'll give you a story line.

John Burton

I was actually present when she was examined. She wasn't pregnant. I know she wasn't pregnant.

Ryan Evanochko

That was just the shot that presented itself. I tried to take my time and find an opening.

Carlos Delgado

That's the way it should be. It's not just the present. It's the present and the future.

Shimon Peres

I think this is the end of the present government,

Michael Watkins

I think the superintendent makes the recommendation, presents it and we vote on it.

Chief Bender

I do not want my name to be presented to the public as an Indian, but as a pitcher.

Sheridan Samuels

I am here to work. I will have to work with the present administration because they are in charge.

Nicole Perrot

The only thing I thought about was: Just stay in the present, ... This is my first win. It's special.

Dee Snider

I tested the waters on producing a record, but I'm more of a creative guy. I can't get into minute details.

Marlon Wayans

I got written out of 'G.I. Joe' and was like, 'Welp, I'm going to go back to what I do: writing and producing comedy.'

Kate O'Mara

I enjoy producing because the show becomes your baby.

Randy Lascody

This time of year, these fronts are ineffective in producing a lot of rain.

Garry Garner

We've been producing those since at least 1969.

Tony Robinson

There's some truth to it. We do a lot of talking but we aren't producing anything.

Oliver Kahn

I am relaxed about the situation now. If I play, I try to concentrate on producing my best.

Damian Lewis

Producing is a world of compromise and actors are utterly spoiled all the time.

Scott Davis

You're not producing them to eat; you're producing them to breed.

Steve Gunderson

Reclaimed water is not raw sewage, but it's still unauthorized.

O.J. Mayo

That could be right. (Kansas State) could be a possibility. At the same time, we don't want to go to a raw program.

George Ferguson

The approach, in fairness, should be to renegotiate the contract, so that we don't end up with raw sewage from Sumas in the Sumas River again,

George Ferguson

The approach, in fairness, should be to re-negotiate the contract, so that we don't end up with raw sewage from Sumas in the Sumas River again,

Jonas Jennings

He reminded me of myself in college; just raw, raw talent,

Marvel Smith

He's got the kind of speed you can't coach. He's a raw talent.

Rick Hohenthaner

I always thought she was one of those raw talents that when she would get a stage to be on would shine. ... I know without a doubt, softball's her life.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Blanching the cloves removes the harsh and bitter bite of raw garlic.

Albert Einstein

Gradually the conviction gained recognition that all knowledge about things is exclusively a working-over of the raw material furnished by the senses. ... Galileo and Hume first upheld this principle with full clarity and decisiveness.

Bert DuMars

Some of our systems are 20, 30, 40 years old. We need to modernize them, and it's not cheap.

Gary Anderson

We need a better dredging system that we have now.

Jim DeMint

I think they'll make this a competitive thing that will get the system better and better by the week,

Paul Otellini

I think you'll see very aggressively priced systems out there.

Mike Claffey

Fortunately, the weather did end up cooperating, and it's all systems go.

Ram Dass

As one individual changes, the system changes.

Bob Ray

We have to have a system for response.

Chuck Wilson

We have all new duct work and a new heating and ventilation system in there, so we won't be using the old system,

Lance Lyttle

We've got to have just one system . . . it's a no-brainer.

Eddie Vedder

I learned so much about music by playing this little, miniature songwriting machine [ukulele], especially about melody. The motto is less strings more melody.

Eddie Vedder

I had a $1.50 from playing the ukulele after owning it seven minutes. I thought, "Hmmm, this has some possibilities."

Arthur Koestler

There is an abundance of ancient place names in the Ukraine and Poland, which derive from 'Khazar' or 'Zhid' (Jew).

Ben Linder

Anything you can do needs to be done, so pick up the tool of your choice and get started.

Dario Argento

When I was five. That's when I started to love film.

Cindy Crawford

Most of the reason I work out now is not for the external - it's for how I feel. I find working out gives me more energy. I started eight days after he was born.

Angela Merkel

The G7 and former G8 group has always viewed itself as a community of values, the annexation of Crimea, which is a blatant violation of the principles of international law, and the events in eastern Ukraine are serious violations of these common values.

Brigitte Bardot

I started out as a lousy actress and have remained one.

Al Jourgensen

Everyone reaches their point in time where either they die or they get sick of doing drugs. It started getting debilitating. I enjoy my music a lot better than my drugs.