Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vint Cerf

We're not confident that the funds will be made available and we don't want to rely on them, ... The GIP decided we should provide some certainty.

Erin Campbell

Like any brand-new statewide program, there are details that have to be worked out, and that's what is going on right now. We're very happy that we were able to get this program started ... and available to seniors and lower-income Vermonters to make sure they have enough fuel to heat their homes this winter.

Janet Reno

making all necessary documents and personnel available to the committee.

Mari Adam

Make sure you have other cash resources available equivalent to three months living expenses.

David Hewson

Low light demanded 'fast' film, usually ISO 400 or higher; the fastest available would be about ISO 1000. When the sun was bright, you would reach for ISO 64 to avoid the burned-out look of overexposure.

Scott Johnson

Losing the premier half-back in the northern hemisphere was a blow. He has injured his AC joint and he certainly won't be available next week, that's for sure. The boys who have come back from the Lions tour have had a hard year and he will be glad of the rest.

Ken Roshaven

(Lopez) wants to keep it at a number so she can have contact with everyone. She and DiMarco will make themselves available to those playing in the tournament and will be very hands-on.

Ed Goren

Lou was looking forward to working the Series, but family comes first. He still might be available if the hurricane turns left or right.

Eli Segal

Many small businesses do not have the knowledge about what incentives are available to them.

Isabella Rossellini

When I was a teenager, I thought maybe I'll be a filmmaker, making film documentaries. My dream when I was a girl was I would be hired by 'National Geographic' or work with David Attenborough, but it didn't happen. I became a model.

Malorie Blackman

I remember, when I was at school, we would have a 10-minute storytelling session where we'd all sit on the floor cross-legged, and the teacher would read. It became something we all really looked forward to. That was part of the reason I grew to love stories.

Cherie Blair

Like every mother, it's my children; that's the first thing that makes me really proud. For my own part, it would be when I became a Queen's Counsel in 1995. I was the 76th woman ever to become a Queen's Counsel, so it was still a pretty rare thing.

Andy Stern

Let's be clear -- state employees and other voters in New Hampshire take a huge risk by supporting him. Wesley Clark has a life-long pattern of support for national Republicans whose policies have been disastrous for public employees, and that is a track record that raises huge doubts about what he would do if he ever became President.

Paul Dowling

Lending to businesses became the flavor of the month about 18 months ago. It's a direct consequence of heightened competition in the industry after mortgage lending slowed.

John Ortberg

Love of learning led to monasteries, which became the cradle of academic guilds.

Arthur Hamlin

Love made the team, but James and I saw we weren't going to get a uniform. We didn't see the need in sitting the bench our senior year, so we became their No. 1 fans. We didn't have cars back then, so we would thumb rides to the away games.

Rep. Detert

Last year we did this bill, and it became a train. This year, we hope to just have a home run.

Shannon Hawrylo

Last year, we made a breakthrough because we became the closest-knit group since I have been on the team. That really helped, being together. We came together a little late though. Near the end, we had some really good races, but had we done better, we would have been in the nationals. That was not cool, but at least we are taking a step forward.

Richard Rogers

I love cities, I spend most of my life talking about cities. And the design of cities does have an effect on your life. You're lucky if you can see trees out of your window and you have a square nearby, or a bar, a cornershop, a surgery. Then you're living well.

Albert Schweitzer

The city of truth cannot be built on the swampy ground of skepticism.

Liu Xiaoming

Major cities around the world have spent more than a decade or two trying to solve this problem. Some big cities still face this problem.

Stephanie Stilson

Let's look at these 99 other places (honored) and see what kind of education they provide. What do cities that really excel in education do?

Rudi Giuliani

Let's now make this kind of a permanent condition for New York City, that New York City is one of the safest large cities in America, and let's keep it that way,

Thomas Heywood

Seven cities warred for Homer, being dead,/ Who, living, had no roof to shroud his head.

Chris Paulitz

Sen. Hutchison is very impressed with the progress the cities are making, but it is too early in the process to discuss an endgame.

Joseph Rykwert

Mixed use is what cities are all about. If you don't have mixed use, you don't have cities.

John Mulvihill

One of our goals was to talk to all the cities and see if we could convince everybody to do kind of a regional facility.

Derek Loomis

We're not concerned with what those people think about what we're doing.

Bill Walker

We're not concerned with numbers. (The way the word gets out) is that I tell you, (and) you tell someone else.

Salvation Army

We're not concerned or scared about not being able to offer them shelter, ... (However), it puts us in a position of being scared of what we are going to be able to offer them, whether we are going to be able to keep them in the same way that we have been able to. We don't know that.

Bertrand Russel

Life is a brief, small, and transitory phenomenon in an obscure corner, not at all the sort of thing that one would make a fuss about if one were not personally concerned

Evan Katz

Making things feel real is one of our primary concerns in the way we write it. And it's one of the gifts that the actors who do the show really have to make ridiculous situations feel real.

George Pauli

Levels like that with benzene, our only concern would be lifetime consumption.

Masaki Iso

Low rates have supported equities globally, so investors are concerned interest rates will rise further.

Gary Crum

Last year, we had a concern about people in nursing homes who were at high risk and decided to allocate some of our vaccine to them, ... This year, the nursing homes seem to be in very good shape.

Rick Baughman

Last year we were all really concerned about his health. He always wanted to know if he could do anything. But then he bounced back and was there for the kids this year.

Mike Williams

Last year was the most violent year so far, and that gave pause, especially given the fact that a lot of the European countries think that the United States is trying to dump the Afghanistan counter-terrorism mission on them.

Stuart Law

Many of these countries don't yet have good resale markets.

David Gilmore

Many of these countries are struggling to match rate hikes by the Federal Reserve,

Michael Driscoll

Many OECD countries already have 60% participation in higher education,

Claire McCaskill

Many countries struggle and never get to the point where people have faith that laws are executed fairly.

Daniel Tieken

So far, we have people from 21 different states and five different countries - including Japan, Singapore and England - looking at participating in The Great Scavenger Hunt.

Leo Bokeria

Milosevic could have been cured with the help of a surgical operation. Such operations are performed in many countries now.

Martin Jacques

Move beyond the educated elite, and the great majority in most countries outside Europe don't speak English.

Nicholas D. Kristof

Neither Western donor countries like the U.S. nor poor recipients like Cameroon care much about Africans who are poor, rural and female.

Bob DuPuy

MLB is a special, but fairly priced, family fare.

Rhianna Pratchett

My journalist sensibilities have guided me toward the types of projects I've gone for, even though the projects have been fairly diverse. It always has to have that interesting to attract me, I think.

Daniel Stern

My life is fairly normal. I didn't wake up one morning and find out that I'm suddenly a star, with people clamoring at me. I feel like I'm moving up the ladder just a little, which is fine.

James Vincent McMorrow

More often than not, changes had to be made in order for a song to make sense, and by the end of it, it would just be something different. Lyrically, I am usually fairly confused until something is finished, and then it makes perfect sense to me.

Adam Lamberg

Memorising my lines is actually something I do fairly well. I look at it a few times and it is pretty much there. When your shooting on TV, they do it in such a way that it is pretty easy.

Dr. Chauvet

No one wanted to loan me anything. My numbers were small because I was just starting. I used all my savings, and my parents loaned me money. I was able to pay them back fairly quickly.

Grant Williams

News Corp's fairly firm so it's taking some of the red out the index.

Andy Roberts

When you put your heart and soul into something for 10, 15 years, it's a career. You do it in the hopes you can be fairly evaluated and make it to the major leagues.

Kylie Minogue

I have always had a separate walk-in wardrobe, so I have the luxury of a fairly sparse bedroom.

Don Cooper

Mac needs to come into spring ready to get a lot of innings. I'm not going to say he's our long guy or our seventh-inning guy or a spot starter, but he is a reliever right now until further notice.

Bruce Springsteen

Let's take the good times as they go, and I'll meet you further on up the road...

Milan Khatri

Low interest rates have really been powering these markets. The ECB is worried it is signaling inflation further down the line, but in the U.K. you have had very strong house-price rises, and no real pickup in general price inflation.

Jia Qinglin

Last year, President Hu Jintao and President Jacques Chirac exchanged visits successfully, which further boosted the development of bilateral ties,

John Edward

So long as he leaves open the prospect of even further rate increases, however, he won't get it.

Paul Tracy

Obviously we've had some run-ins this year and I've come out on the short end of the stick but that only motivates me further for next year,

Mark Regev

No one on the Israeli side has ever said that disengagement goes further than Gaza. Let's be very clear, this was a unilateral Israeli step.

Brian Nelson

More money should come in to the sector in anticipation of further consolidation.

Sam Stovall

We might have a little further to go on the downside,

Mikko Hypponen

Online crime is practically always international, because they almost always cross traditional national borders.

Mystikal

I did my thing with Jive. I was a national recording artist, but I had run into a wall.

Emma Udwin

From now on, there will be no more payments through the National Palestinian Authority.

Foster Friess

On the national security front, Rick Santorum is superior to any candidate I know.

Paul Wolfowitz

If we're not true to our principles, we're not serving our national interest.

Charde Houston

She has two national championships under her belt. She has to be like that.

Mark Souder

If this is a cohesive national policy, it is embarrassing,

Tom Golisano

If we go by the National Popular Vote, we'll get more people voting.

Shinzo Abe

A robust economy is a source of national strength for Japan.

Karina Lombard

I don't wear perfume, and I rarely wear jewelry.

Brandon Boyd

Very rarely is there any confusion as to when a painting or a song is finished. You just know when it's done.

Stewart Butterfield

I rarely in a working day go more than 10 minutes without looking at Slack.

David Harsanyi

If the library's rarest frequenters are the ones we'd like to see in them the most, then libraries are failing.

Albert Einstein

I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.

David Horsey

We need to work for a day when police shootings are rare and not the stuff of our daily news.

Donald Trump

I'm a believer in the polls, by the way. Rarely do you see a poll that's very far off.

Dick Cavett

It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.

E. B. White

This was a scary and rare occurrence, not a pattern.

Billy Wilder

I had one life. And what did I do? Wasted it in some palooka preliminaries in Spain, just before Hitler and Chamberlain warm up for the main event.

Andy Murray

I didn't practise it loads when I was at the academy in Spain, but when I got on the ATP Tour it's something I dedicated a lot of time to.

Ilse Hartung

I've been teaching 22 years, and I've never been to Spain. I'm from a Spanish-speaking country, but Spain is very important.

Gwyneth Paltrow

I had my first bowl of gazpacho when I was fifteen in Spain, and the impression it made was a lasting one.

Mario Monti

If Spain goes under, Italy will come under even more scrutiny.

George Papandreou

If we were the problem, it would be very convenient - kick Greece out, everything's fine. What would happen to Spain, what about Portugal, what about Italy, what about the whole of the euro zone? We need more cooperation and less simplification and prejudice.

Rafael Nadal

I live where I would like to live. I live in Majorca, Spain, and I am not sure there are better places.

Mariano Rajoy

Spain is facing an economic situation of extreme difficulty, I repeat, of extreme difficulty, and anyone who doesn't understand that is fooling themselves.

Manolo Blahnik

Everything is global now. It's not London, it's not Spain, it's not Italy - everything is everywhere. So you have to be everywhere, I guess.

Charles Dickens

The bearings of this observation lays in the application of it.

Alan Greenspan

History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities.

Edmond de Goncourt

Statistics is the first of the inexact sciences.

David Hockney

The thing with high-tech is that you always end up using scissors.

Arthur Eddington

Human life is proverbially uncertain; few things are more certain than the solvency of a life-insurance company.

Arthur Eddington

It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory.

Arthur C. Clarke

When all else failed, you had to rely on eyeball intrumentation.

Arthur C. Clarke

It was one thing to have guessed it, another to have had that guess confirmed beyond possibility of refutation.

Edmund Burke

An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.

Steve Sanger

If there is an impact, it is not yet visible to us,

Thomas Merton

There is in all visible things - a hidden wholeness.