Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Greff

Louisiana's performance in the wake of the hurricanes is impressive. Statewide results are receiving a strong boost from construction crews and other personnel in the region for the post-hurricane reconstruction. We think displaced gamblers from the Mississippi Gulf Coast are also driving growth.

Jennifer Duffy

Lott's re-election is something close to a sure thing, but if he had vacated his seat, the contest to replace him would have been very competitive, giving Democrats a boost in their efforts to pick up seats in November.

Bob Enos

Scott's presence gave a big boost to the team.

Dave Carlson

Most will boost their prices over a period of time. They'll do it daily.

Alan Rifkin

Net-net, the change is expected to boost earnings on a continued operating basis.

Martin Rees

One of President Obama's first acts was to give a massive boost to America's scientific community.

Jenny Taylor

One important thing in the application process for sellers will be to verify that their items are produced locally and are from those counties. The Farmer's Market is for the nature and well being of the local community and for those producers trying to boost their business.

Hideaki Kurimoto

Money is gathering into the real-estate business. The trend will help boost profits of property companies and banks.

Stephen Ahn

New models will help boost sales in overseas markets this year as they did at home last year.

Sherri Murrell

Mandy Close is a senior who's playing hard and knows how to win.

Anton Corbijn

Mandela is just the eternal man. You want that man to be around forever. It's the closest thing we have to God, I think. He's the father of mankind, almost.

Ivan Seidenberg

Like all companies, we are closely monitoring the economy, but what we see at this time indicates we can hit our target for full-year revenue growth,

Rich Brooks

Make no mistake about it -- it's a very serious competition and a close one.

Geoff Ogilvy

Luke is a great player. He's probably not overdue, but close to due.

Lucy Jones

Magnitude doesn't tell you damage. If it's not that big or not that close to people, it's not that bad.

Mike Patton

Let's just say we're closer musical friends now. A lot of these people are strangers to me. They were out of sight but very much in mind.

Jordan Reese

(Liberty's) always good competition to go against. It just sucks to coming so close and falling just a little short.

Les Brown

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

For me no good food is illuminated without acidity.

Isabella Rossellini

I would like to be forgotten. What's so good about being remembered?

Rick Perlstein

Whatever you think about his intelligence, what's unquestionable is that Reagan had extraordinary emotional intelligence. He could sense the temperature of a room, and tell them a story and make them feel good. And that's more fun, right? It's more fun to feel good than feel bad. That's part of our human state.

Robert Kazinsky

There is nothing harder than working 50 pages a day, working 16 hours a day, trying to be good with only shooting rehearsals.

Robert Klein

What makes a good nanny? A good nanny is someone who really wants to do the job. Someone who loves children, who really values what she does and, of course, is valued by her employer.

Malorie Blackman

A good book is a good book. End of story.

Chuck Reed

We're not doing as good a job recycling as we want to.

Darin Strauss

Like all writing rules, the injunction to start with the trouble can be broken, and it should be sometimes - if there's good reason.

Phillip Bloch

Like any guy, he needs a great jacket, good shoes, and good jeans.

Mary Stillinger

Mr. Guardia had an invitation to the White House. He went to the (presidential) inauguration. Every indication was that he was a reputable, upstanding person.

Bill Bixby

So, I work on instinct and start probing with remarks and I have an indication of what the person is like before they even open their mouth.

Bryan Whitman

I don't have anything to suggest that is accurate. I have no indication that there are any unaccounted for personnel.

Wade Pogany

I don't have any indication that's happening. It is possible, sure. Any school could do that.

Jerry Klein

I don't have any indication at all, really, one way or the other.

Shyam Saran

I do not see any indication yet that there could be joint operations.

Oliver Purnell

We still have every indication that James Mays will be returning this summer.

Pokey Chatman

Today was a strong indication of us getting better as a team. Several key players got some rest and some reserves got some playing time before getting into the SEC.

Mark Carmon

We don't have any indication that this has spread offsite.

Robert Mueller

As I said before, there are often disagreements as to what a particular set of facts mean. That is not at all unusual, and one shouldn't read into it more than is there.

Jill Soloway

So many features at Sundance seemed to be powered more on the director's need to be a director than any particular story.

Alison Goate

One particular allele of this polymorphism was being transmitted to alcoholics in these families.

Dorothy Sanders

One team tried to put a box-and-one on Monica. Another team tried to double-team the post. Each time somebody tries to shut down one particular player or area, the other parts of the team have stepped up.

Jeffrey Bryant

One who has never been tempted with a particular sin can never feel proud for staying pure of it.

Sergey Lavrov

must be aimed at making this happen, not making any threat which at this particular stage is not appropriate.

Samuel L. Jackson

She has been in here several times before but that particular day I don't remember her.

Warren Littlefield

The writers and actors on 'Friends' were notoriously particular about what made it onto the air.

Sean Booth

It's claustrophobic, and I think it is to do with the amount that we're exposing people to one particular point.

Asia Argento

Most of the time nothing much is required of directors, which is a pity.

Bruce Douglas

We are required to do it. We have to do it.

Marilyn Moon

We are not in a situation where we are required by desperation to make structural changes.

Ronald Hill

When you research companies, they now have a statement on Y2K compliance, which they are required to give you,

Beck

I hadn't done much rapping in a while. I really wasn't sure I was going to do that any more. For a couple years I thought I was done with that. It wasn't really required of me.

Evan Osnos

To Confucius, harmony was consensus, not conformity. It required loyal opposition.

Fred G. Gosman

Teenagers who are never required to vacuum are living in one.

William Amelio

In this industry, it's required of us to be best-of-breed in terms of operational efficiency.

Winston Churchill

It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

Winter blues are cured every time with a potato gratin paired with a roast chicken.

Bob Holthus

When you put up a million-dollar purse, naturally, you're going to try to win it.

Chris Frantz

You don't want to spend much time in Germany or even France in the winter unless you're in the Alps.

Chris Evert

When I was younger, I was a robot. Wind her up and she plays tennis.

Charles Spurgeon

I would sooner be holy than happy if the two things could be divorced. Were it possible for a man always to sorrow and yet to be pure, I would choose the sorrow if I might win the purity, for to be free from the power of sin, to be made to love holiness, is true happiness.

Charles Spurgeon

Without the Spirit of God, we can do nothing. We are as ships without wind. We are useless.

Charles Peguy

It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses.

Dick Van Dyke

I have also heard and read various accounts of why they [Sheldon Leonard and Carl Reiner] liked me. My favorites? I wasn't too good-looking, I walked a little funny, and I was basically kind of average and ordinary. I guess my lack of perfection turned out to be a winning hand. Let that be a lesson for future generations.

Diane Lane

I take comfort that aging happens to everybody. It's part of life. Aging offers great lessons in dignity, since the indignity wins in the end. Yes, it bothers me when I have lines or puffiness or droops. But it connects me with the human race. Like weather bringing people together, aging brings people together.