Famous Quotes & Sayings

John A. Logan

Legally, ... purchasers of goods over the Internet have always been required to pay sales tax on their purchases, but as a practical matter, many haven't, and this will be seen as a tax increase.

Peter Thompson

I would have thought maybe that's the sort of information we might be hoping to get from people who are actually moving hazardous goods through our jurisdiction. We have some pretty tricky areas, particularly in West Vancouver. You're right in the midst of residential.

Vajira Premawardhana

If they are going to run a higher deficit, then they will have to resort to higher borrowings, pushing up interest rates and fueling inflation. Whenever there's inflation, spending on manufactured goods comes down.

Noreena Hertz

Child labour may be distasteful to westerners, but does boycotting goods made with child labour improve or exacerbate the lot of third world children? Trusting the market to regulate may not ultimately be in our interest.

Evan Kohlmann

You have some from poor families, some jobless. You also have individuals that come from wealthy families, that come from a life of privilege and substance and material goods and material wealth.

Bob Evans

When goods are in transit, somebody's got money invested in it. The sooner the delivery, the sooner you get your money for it.

Sally Potter

When goods are down, and you're selling used, you have to price a lot cheaper,

Charles Dickens

Money and goods are certainly the best of references.

Ricardo Garcia

We're going to do it a little different. We're going to trade goods for services.

Tina Brown

Was it always so hazardous for women in the public eye?. . . . When a woman is the subject the vortex of venom reaches a spinning climax.

John Stewart

We then made sure that the remnants of the RPG were no longer hazardous to the ship or the passengers,

Wolfgang Ketterle

Auto emission is hazardous and has to be controlled.

Michael Hernandez

Fortunately right now, McAllen has no hazardous materials passing through.

Charlie Gill

It can be hazardous going out on a test drive, even if you do get a driver's license.

Tom Murphy

We're concentrating on hazardous reduction in the interface.

Dave Williams

That's probably the most hazardous situation we still have out there.

William Fannin

Run into, like you said, hazardous chemicals, or anything like that, you know when you come on the job like that.

Jeff Scott

The biennial reports provide the EPA, the state and local communities with important information on what hazardous wastes are in their communities.

Josh Homme

Making people uncomfortable is one of my hobbies. I'm always hoping that half the people get the joke and the other half are the joke.

Augie Garrido

Let's not make it anything that it wasn't. I was just hoping he would do what he did. That's all.

David Baker

Last year we had about 160 people. This year, we're hoping for 200.

Jason Williams

Scoring is up around the NHL, so I'm not going to think too much about it. But it's obviously it's a milestone I was hoping to reach.

Tim Nelson

Maybe we did stop something from happening. I was hoping I was wrong, because being right -- we saw what being right was -- 9/11.

Dwight Tankersley

One of the things I'm hoping for next year is that this is a smooth transition.

Paul Giemza

Obviously you're disappointed when you lose to your rival. We're just hoping that our team can rebound (today) and play like we know we're capable.

Michael Hein

No one really wants to step up and tackle this. They're silent on the issue, hoping that it will go away. They're not accountable themselves, but they're enablers.

Alexander Silbiger

One would think that with what little time she had left she would want to do other things. She was hoping to be able to teach this year.

Major Owens

Those involved in the program are interested in how to use photography, videos, the Internet, film, and anything related to communications and transmission of information in the most up-to-date modern ways.

Jim Turner

share that information with their constituencies using public-information channels.

Edward Tufte

Second, simply use PowerPoint as a slide projector rather than an information tool.

Janis Karpinski

Military intelligence interrogators, however, their goal is to get information, to save lives, to stop the war, to find Saddam - whatever the information is going to be used for, at whatever cost.

Peter Parr

My information is that he should be right for week one.

John Whitaker

Obviously, we want to get more information to verify these things.

Ted Morgan

More people are using the Internet and searching for information and things to buy, and they want to know where these places are.

Jim Bishop

Now the task was to get quantitative information about how much iron there was and about its chemistry. A year later, we had the results we needed that pointed to the continental margin as the source of the iron.

James Green

Next to his own writings, this is the most important source of information about him. There are discoveries to be made here.

Donald Trump

Let's see how Buchanan does and then maybe we'll step in,

Michael Schaffer

Maybe you need to look at your student evaluations.

George H. W. Bush

Maybe you know something I don't know. I've been working,

Larry Brown

Maybe when you play Miami, you need 36 fouls in the middle; I don't know,

Chris Shelton

Maybe when the season is over, I can realize what I did to start the season and that I did something special. Right now, it's about getting some wins.

Evan Needham

Maybe when I'm not playing well I can get sick of golf. But then I get back into it again.

Donald Lowe

Maybe what we'll find is that you really need a combination of two tests, again, because not one test does everything for everybody.

Sam Singer

Maybe we should trade in our supervisor for somebody up in Seattle.

Brian Urlacher

Maybe we shouldn't get a bye week anymore.

Ian Paisley

I was telling the truth, I said I was very, very worried. At that time I was in the midst of trying to get a way whereby this would not happen. And it has happened. My words have been proved to be right.

Gail Tsukiyama

When I'm in the midst of finishing a book, I can be working around the clock.

George Allen

I think they will step down if they're indicted. I do think that's appropriate if they're in the midst of an indictment.

Adam Braun

We all have those things that even in the midst of stress and disarray, they energize us and give us renewed strength and purpose. These are our passions.

Agatha Christie

One never quite allows for the moron in our midst.

Stan Conte

I don't know how serious it is. We're still in the midst of it. We're doing some testing and will know more tomorrow afternoon.

John Fernandes

Right now we are in the midst of running down leads.

Jim Calhoun

Rankings and polls and seeds and all that stuff, in the midst of a game, they don't count. You have to make shots, you have to get rebounds, you have to play defense.

Erin Morgenstern

It is difficult to see a situation for what it is when you are in the midst of it,” Tsukiko says. “It is too familiar. Too comfortable.

Richard P. Feynman

It is necessary to look at the results of observation objectively, because you, the experimenter, might like one result better than another.

Albert Schweitzer

Do something good and someone might imitate it.

Gunther Cunningham

Let's not talk about it. I might throw up while I'm talking.

David Carr

Seven weeks might sound like a short time. But I can get a lot done in that span.

Mike Stiller

Seventy-five a week might sound like a lot of fish, but it isn't.

Robert B. Parker

Send it to someone who can publish it. And if they won't publish it, send it to someone else who can publish it! And keep sending it! Of course, if no one will publish it, at that point you might want to think about doing something other than writing.

Carol Thorp

Motorists might see prices stabilize over the next week or two, but that could only be a temporary pause.

Jerry Bruckheimer

Movies might take five-six years, sometimes 10 years to produce. For television, when you have an idea, you put it to a network and within a week or so they have an answer.

Tom Tremont

One owner pays seven times more than another might pay.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

Food is ever-changing and ever moving forward and getting more and more complex.

Kevin Connell

So it's not like we're not moving the football.

Ken Starr

moving very quickly and we've made very significant progress.

Lennart Maack

Moving up is tough because no one is the favorite.

Ron Walters

None of those people who have made that policy are moving off the scene.

Leslie Nielsen

No, no, no, Mel is very much together as a director, always moving forward.

Jim Bianco

Now that yields are moving up, all these reasons have been shoved aside, and order in the universe has been restored.

Chris Crutcher

It's a scary thing; moving on. Part of me wishes life were more predictable and part of me is excited that it's not. I think it's impossible to tell the good things from the bad things while they're happening.

Dick Vitale

Today in coaching, it's a two-way street. They can fire you whenever they want. Bottom line: It's all about what you can do to better yourself professionally. This is a better move.

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.

Desmond Soon

Let's see what sort of spreads it comes out at.

Chris Evert

My first U.S. Open I think was just very special for me because that was sort of the beginning of what was a 'Cinderella' story for me.

Keith David

Of course, I was sort of a TV junkie too.

Pat Gillick

more of a staying-in-touch, passing-through sort of thing.

Edmund White

My father was a sort of John Wayne Texan who'd worked as a cowboy when he was young. He'd participated in rattlesnake round-ups and swum with copperheads.

Andrew Niccol

I can't go into a film if I don't think it has some sort of timelessness to it,

John Eldredge

I have a call to speak, to write, to do sort of deep-heart surgery in people's lives.

Richard Matheson

I had to write about realistic circumstances. That's the way my brain works. And I think that gave me a sort of place in the field.

Ray Stevenson

I feel like I don't exist. It's like I'm some sort of an alias.

Gavin Hood

Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.

Phoebe Philo

It's been a bit tricky trying to establish a 'designer' profile and not a designer-cum-girl-around-town.

Cassie Desmone

He managed his way through a lot of tricky holes.

e. e. cummings

(existing's tricky:but to live's a gift)

Nestor Carbonell

It's tricky to do a serialized show and not lose viewers along the way because you really have to watch every episode.

Lindsay Davenport

It has been very tricky with the wind,

Isabel Lucas

I find it tricky to make plans.

Ewan McGregor

Success is tricky to deal with, both professionally and in your personal life.

Lisa Kudrow

It's challenging to get it to look spontaneous, ... That's tricky to do.

Jesper Parnevik

One swing, and everything clicked, I'll be very disappointed if I don't win on the West Coast.

Dennis Prager

If the West believed in something, it would prevail overnight. The problem is you can't beat bad faith with no faith.

Edward Abbey

Science transcends mere politics. As recent history demonstrates, scientists are as willing to work for a Tojo, a Hitler, or a Stalin as for the free nations of the West.

Mariella Frostrup

Fridays are always movie night at our flat in Kensington, West London.

Lars Mikkelsen

I think you could find some waves on the west side of Denmark, but I never tried it.

Mel Brooks

I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.

Alexander Siddig

There's enough of a willingness in the West to do sympathetic movies about Arab roles.

Ann Strother

To have all of us go somewhere, to be all on the West Coast, too, it?s going to be really neat.

Charles Marion Russell

The West is dead... you may lose a sweetheart but you won't forget her.