Famous Quotes & Sayings

Italo Calvino

Although I am small, ugly and dirty, I am highly ambitious, and at the slightest flattery, I immediately start to strut like a turkey.

Laura DiDio

Mainstream Linux deployments are on a steep upward trajectory. Although they will not replace Windows, co-existence will be the order of the day.

Suzanne Fields

Mahmud Abbas is not Thomas Jefferson. The spirit of Patrick Henry has not emerged in Lebanon. Although more than a 140 Syrian intellectuals have protested Syrian troops there and signed a public statement opposing the occupation, these intellectuals are not in the league of our own Founding Fathers.

Robbie McEwen

Leon Van Bon led me out perfectly, but I started the sprint too early, couldn't finish it. Although I was going for a stage win, the intermediate bonus sprint and the green jersey gives me a lot of self confidence.

Samuel Butler

Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.

Jon Heacock

Louis made a couple of good catches out there, although he did drop the first one we threw to him.

Tim Condon

Looks like a people plan as opposed to a business plan. The emphasis seems to be improving peoples lives by improving social infrastructure. I don't know if there are enough goodies to have an impact on financial markets although if the whole country feels better it would be good for markets.

Tod Tamberg

Many of the victims direct all their anger at Cardinal Mahony. It's unfair and somewhat misdirected, although understandable.

John Woods

Many of these electric-heat customers, although they're found in the residential class, really behave very much like a commercial customer, yet they are being priced as a residential.

Rick Perlstein

When downed American pilots were first taken prisoner in North Vietnam in 1964, U.S. policy became pretty much to ignore them - part and parcel of President Lyndon B. Johnson's determination to keep the costs of his increasingly futile military escalation in Southeast Asia from the public.

Jay Rasulo

Like Disney's other theme parks and resorts around the world, Hong Kong Disneyland will offer the excitement of a day and night full of magic and begin what we hope will be a lifetime full of memories that will touch the hearts of millions, ... We will put a new face on family entertainment in Asia and bring smiles to the faces of all who come to visit us.

Andrew Gowers

Lex is one of the most important calling cards. It's very popular in the States and has an increasing name in Asia and Europe. We now produce more Lex online because the world is going online.

Steve Grossman

Let me be clear, the audit did not single out Asian Americans as Asian Americans.

Barry Hyman

Liberty is a compelling opportunity to penetrate or consolidate Europe, Asia and South American cable markets, but since it trades in the U.S. and it is dollar denominated, the foreign benefits will be somewhat muted.

Robert Niles

Let's face it. The obsession that the industry, especially cable channels, have to stories about missing, pretty white girls has gotten a little ridiculous. I don't know that the solution, though, is to start covering every missing black, Hispanic and Asian woman, too. Perhaps this is a moment for editors to take a moment and say, hey, wait, are we really doing the right thing here?

Haruhiko Kuroda

Minister Miyazawa told me that Japan's foreign exchange policy was unchanged, and that excessive weakness of the yen was undesirable for the Japanese economy as well as for the Asian and world economy,

Yasushi Fujibayashi

Mr. Tsurumi focused on those who lead their lives independently without being caught up in the frameworks of the state. And he presented the structure of Southeast Asia through things like shrimp and sea cucumbers.

Paul Newman

McDonald's new Asian Salad plus Newman's Own low fat Sesame Ginger salad dressing is a marriage of taste - just like mine.

Frank Murkowski

Let us hope the hard drives are found. We don't need another crisis at our nuclear weapons laboratory.

Donald Rumsfeld

Let me be clear. We have the forces, the capabilities and the intention to fully prosecute the global war on terror while responding to this unprecedented humanitarian crisis here at home,

Linda Johnson

Many of us find that at a time of crisis, you search for God's help.

Don Reeves

Several poor crop years and some family health problems had put us into a financial crisis. We were looking at selling out and moving into town.

David Metz

None of those issues are really at a crisis point. No single issue is crying out to be fixed.

Michael Green

One who in a crisis forgets nautical language and shouts: 'For God's sake turn left!'

Susan Faludi

One thing that has struck me so far about the presidential election is how much it's a father-son story, which I think is very telling, because so much of the men's crisis is that they feel there's nothing being handed down, that there's no patrimony,

Kenneth Roth

Moral squeamishness shouldn't stand in the way of finding solutions to this terrible crisis.

Jefri Sirait

Maybe they're waiting for the situation to stabilize. But, whatever the reasons, the electricity crisis puts us at risk.

Dennis Green

Seattle blitzed us a few times, but what really hurt us was dropped passes. I've said it before -- dropped passes and penalties will send out your punter, and that's what happened.

Richard Bove

Mr. Oken may have lost some credibility with analysts when the bank's net interest margin dropped dramatically,

Randy Johnson

I feel like I'm 24 again. I had the game taken away from me last year. I feel rejuvenated. I've got peace of mind knowing that the knee is fine, and I'm looking forward to going out there because it's like I dropped off the radar. I was a pretty good pitcher before last year, you know.

Hannah Hottle

If we get there, who knows how much time we could drop? I know when I was a freshman, I dropped tons of time just being in that environment with all those great runners.

Corey Patterson

I fell at the last minute, ... I didn't see it real good off the bat. It was raining out there and it was a tough play, but it dropped in.

Ronald Allen

She's just an angel; she dropped from heaven,

Garrett Gomez

She handled the track OK, but she wasn't skipping over it. I let her settle and took my time. I knew there was a lot of speed and when I dropped her in at the three-eighths pole, it was just a matter of finding a spot for her. I did and she did the rest.

J. Horton

I didn't want to just stand there and get hit out of nowhere, so I dropped my gloves. I was protecting myself, I guess.

Cameron Edens

I didn't want to go if we couldn't go as a team. Plus I had been missing a lot of school and if I had missed any more, they could have dropped me from some classes, and I didn't want that to happen.

Bill Gates

Software is redefining how people do things, ... We're nowhere near what we can do.

J. Lewis

Near the end of the year, we always run short.

Todd Rundgren

I write in a very strange way. Things are very fragmentary for a very long time, and then they come together very quickly near the end of the process.

Ben Bakker

Get near the stage and make a lot of noise.

Tony Haffer

For rain fans, it's going to be a nearly perfect day.

Gary Roberts

Nearly all our blokes are locals, but a lot of them work out of town during the week,

English 15th Century Proverbs

Near is my kirtle, but nearer is my smock.

Stephen Flynn

If I had to rank in order 10 things I'm worried about as it relates to security in our ports, the ownership of the lease of a terminal here in the U.S. is near nine or 10 on that list.

Jane Stewart

She was working at McDonald's near Fowler and Nebraska and said I should come to work there. I was about 20.

Christopher Shays

More is going to rest on his (Hastert's) shoulders,

Laura Harper

When they were about to say it, I was chanting, ?C. Lang,' with the rest of the team.

Jim Tutwiler

I would be surprised if it stays on the site rest of the day.

Bill Stoneman

I wish he were here with the rest of the guys.

Becky Sarro

She's made some vibes that it isn't something that she wants to do for the rest of her life, so we'll see.

Rex Ryan

If we can do that the rest of the season, that would be super.

Dennis Dacus

If they had (Johnson) it would be them and the rest of us.

Shayne Ward

I have been to see a specialist and they have told me that singers often suffer from this problem, but that it's nothing to worry about and that I need to rest my voice for a week or so.

Steve Relford

I'd just like for him to suffer for the rest of his life,

Audrey Tautou

What we wear is the shell of who we are.

Charlie Munger

Bernie Ebbers and Ken Lay were caricatures - they were easy to spot. They were almost psychopaths. But it's much harder to spot problems at companies like Royal Dutch [Shell].

C. S. Lewis

Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- to be sucked back -- into it?

Mike Casey

Basically, we're trying to stop the shell game.

Bettie Page

Young women say I helped them come out of their shells

Ashley Tisdale

I know I come off like a very outgoing person, and yeah, I'm outgoing, but there's also a part of me that still likes to be in my little shell sometimes.

Cassandra Clare

There was something about Jace, though, that made her want to push him, crack that shell of cynicism and make him admit her believed something, felt something, cared about anythinng at all.

Eva Zeisel

My work is very bodily. It's not a shell, but a body.

Quint Davis

It was touch and go for most of the time. If Shell and our other sponsors had not come through, it would not have been possible. It would have just been too much.