Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Wright

Refineries in Texas did not take a direct hit from Rita, but the energy grids in that area were effected, and power has not been restored to those refineries.

Richard Preston

Redwoods have an enormous surface area that extends upward into space because they have a propensity to do something called reiteration. A redwood is a fractal. And as they put out limbs, the limbs burst into small trees, copies of the redwood.

Mike Shockley

Recommendations included changes in several areas of energy expenses.

Gerry Fleming

Reggie has done a lot of things away from the play as far as his defensive play and his play without the puck. He's been in areas and made some big plays without the puck as well.

Bob Noun

President Bush's proposed budget will not have an impact this year. The current situation is we still have to lay off between 30 to 40 employees. But we are encouraged by the areas that were covered by the president.

Stephanie Williams

Preserving farmland and preserving the farming enterprise must go hand-in-hand. By working with Cumberland County Economic Development, we are able to help ensure that area farms become preserved, and remain competitive, for generations to come.

Irene Toner

Our policy is to call for a general evacuation in areas that might be prone to Category 3 impacts.

Hassan Nasrallah

Our policy is clear, we are fighting in an area that is still under occupation in Lebanon. And beyond that area, we are on the defensive.

Mike Ruddock

Our passing, tackling, lineout and tackle area play all need to be improved,

Daddy Yankee

Reggaeton means the same thing to Latino youth as hip-hop does to African-American kids. We didn't have artists to look up to before. But the young kids now, they're looking at Daddy Yankee and Tego Calderon and Ivy Queen like kids in the American 'hood look up to 50 Cent or 2Pac. I'm representing for my culture and my people. It's their music.

Susan Barnes

Our lives are so hectic today. I don't care what we are, artists or whatever, people need to come and enjoy it.

Pam Walker

Our legal folks say we don't have copyright clearance. Graphics artists are working on it as we speak.

Karen Hughes

Our music and film industries, our artists and entertainers create very powerful impressions, sometimes good, sometimes bad, but they're always, always powerful.

Richard Browne

Spike Jonze and his peers were contributing to the culture in as meaningful a way as any of the artists they were working for. The paradigm shifted to the director being the artist.

Benjamin Jones

Some of (the young people) have been exposed to a culture that suggests that in order to have fun you need to use mood-altering substances. They're getting those messages from hip-hop artists and many other ways. This is one of our efforts to try to counteract those messages.

Adam Kluger

Pitbull is great with brands. Endorsements with hip-hop artists work because hip-hop artists typically set the most trends... It's every brand's goal to be seen in the mainstream, and hip-hop music has become mainstream music.

Steve Lynn

Reducing render errors enables our artists to run more test renders within the given schedule and can result in a better final result.

Damon Albarn

Manchester is the centre of Britain, we're only ever going to do this once so it makes sense to do it somewhere in the middle of the country. London gets all the gigs. It's time to do something a bit different to readdress the balance. We're very excited to be getting all the guests artists together in one place for these shows.

George H. W. Bush

Recovery is going to take years. We need to help these Gulf Coast communities and, of course, the great city of New Orleans get back on their feet. The job is too big, too overwhelming for any one group.

John Grant

Reasonable people in the city of Oceanside would say, 'Great, get rid of that old trailer park,' ... don't like it, (but) they're going to have to move.

Paul Eisenstein

Our readers really stepped up with some insane street names. We learned a lot about the byways of this country, not to mention the collective sense of humor of city planners everywhere.

Felicia Londre

Patricia's move to Kansas City sent shockwaves through the scholarly world. People wondered why she was 'throwing away' her career. They didn't understand it.

Victor Batarseh

Our message is that tourists are still welcome. This is a peaceful city and there is no reason they should not come.

DeJuan Blair

People have been overlooking the City League like crazy for years. It's good that we got here. Hopefully we can win it.

Sunny Mindel

People know him as the man who was the leader of an urban renaissance of the city that was deemed to be ungovernable. His legacy is sustained by the accomplishments as leader of New York City for eight years.

Glenn Thomas

People need to authorize that the city is not out any money. The money we refund is in lieu of money spent on infrastructure.

Kelly McCann

People in this city are starting to realize that HIV is everyone's disease.

Gary Williams

Our passing was excellent in the second half and we really executed. I was really proud of our team play, and we have to play that way down the stretch.

Chuck D.

Paul's worked extremely hard and has shown excellent play in practice and in scrimmages. Paul will probably get that opportunity at another time.

Michael Leunig

Stay away from excellence at all costs; it stinks.

Gordon Strachan

Some of the football was excellent today, which the wee man would have liked. It is the first trophy I have won and the first as a new group so, hopefully, there will be more. When the second goal went away, I knew that was us on the way.

Gordon Strachan

Some of the football was excellent today, which the wee man would have liked.

Chris Collins

Some of that comes from offseason training. They do an excellent job in the weight room,

Chris Schuster

Our pitching staff has been excellent all year.

Jared Ingersol

Our pitchers did an excellent job of throwing strikes and getting outs when we needed them.

Todd Wilkinson

Our pitchers did an excellent job. I am very pleased. We made several adjustments in trying to pitch to their outstanding hitters. We did a good job of that.

Scott Baker

Regardless of who I'm facing, if I'm going to be nervous it's not going to help the situation.

Herman Sanders

Reed just made the shot. We said in the huddle to make sure we knew where he was on the last play. We tried to help on Chad, but he kicked it out and we couldn't recover.

Pedro Marquez

Our relay team did well. We just need to work on passing the baton, but that's something that we can work on and improve on. Also, not looking back while we're running will help out.

King Abdullah

Our relations with India will help Indo-Pak relations.

Brian Rooney

Oregon has a lot of in-migration, which helps to keep the unemployment rate (higher).

Lee Janzen

Part of his learning process is helping other guys.

Rob Gorman

Part of what we're about now is trying to help people come up with their own recovery plans.

Nathan Thompson

Paul Wellstone was a person who really would have liked to see something like this happen. Projects that help people in need are what he wanted; it's really fitting.

Sam Loeffler

Our lyrics are about a lot of things. They are not very introspective. For example, the song 'Panic Prone' is about drugs, this idea about kids getting drugged up and medicating themselves and whether to help people or not help people at all.

Arlen Specter

Regrettably, you need homeland security, and I think you are going to need it if not forever, for the foreseeable future,

Kenny MacAskill

Our message to the Scottish Diaspora this New Year should be to come home to Scotland.

Francis Thompson

Spring is come home with her world-wandering feet./ And all the things are made young with young desires.

Judah Friedlander

Stand-up is kind of like my home base, and doing stand-up in New York is what I like doing most.

Mike Rogers

Some of those old homes made it through a lot of hurricanes,

Bill Henderson

Someone from home will be praying for you,

James Augustine

That'd be the best. To do it at home on Senior Night, to do it with Dee. It would be a special night.

Taylor Twellman

Our first home match is going to be difficult, and we know that better than anybody,

Nick Russo

Residents of these temporary homes need to practice safety first at all times.

Norv Turner

Physically, we matched up with Kansas City, ... We competed hard. But there are things we've got to do better. And things we are going to do better.

Bert Blyleven

I really like Kansas City Royals stadium - Kauffman Stadium.

Drew Brees

I couldn't say that was our motivation, but obviously we all knew about it. But Kansas City's 8-4 now, and we've got to go there. So there are plenty of tough tests ahead.

Colton Haynes

Kansas is very religious, very Republican, and very straight-laced. I needed to get away from that.

Herman Edwards

He's got to get his mind mentally ready to play Kansas City. We know one thing: When he is healthy, we win games.

Buddy Bell

He was probably better than we saw him over in Kansas City. He was good.

Alexandra Adornetto

(...) I don´t want a drink. I just want to know where am I? -You´re not in Kansas anymore!- Jake chuckled at his own joke.

Warren Moon

I never thought I would be the oldest quarterback in the National Football League at one point, not in a million years. I never thought I would play as long as I did, either, seventeen years from start to finish, with stops in Houston, Minnesota, Seattle, and Kansas City.

John Alexander

We are looking at all the options. I have been to Kansas and looked at (ethanol) plants up there and how they do things.

Rich Rodriguez

Pat just seized the opportunity and made the most of it.

Stephen Farrell

Our opportunity here is to provide our patients with all of their medications as a full-service pharmacy.

Jonathan Schwartz

Stay tuned on the Red Hat-Sun relationship. We think there's ample opportunity to work together out there.

Chris Huffins

Our women are very hungry. They know they have an opportunity to dethrone Stanford this year.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Every person that comes into our life comes for a reason; some come to learn and others come to teach.

Barry Manilow

I love any opportunity I have to make music.

Barry Manilow

What we hear now is great-sounding records with great-sounding grooves and loops. And the sound of these records is irresistible, but the craft of songwriting is just about over. That's why, whenever I get an opportunity to do an album full of standards, I jump at it because I miss it.

B. D. Wong

If I were to limit myself to the opportunities that were presented playing only Chinese-American parts, I would be virtually without a career.

B. D. Wong

I remain on SVU because it is an incredible opportunity.

Stephen Blythe

Releasing it to the public would not be the right thing to do.

Dean Laidley

It is not for public consumption, but we have a lot of work to do this week.

Pat Gillick

He's a blue-collar guy. And he's somebody that the public will like.

Charles Ray

Her public service announcement for us went out all over the nation,

Larry Nixon

He's always done things no one's surprised at, whether it's for publicity or by accident.

Tom Davies

He's going to have to give an explanation somewhere for how it got into his system, ... His public explanation is that he doesn't know how it happened.

Amanda Martin

If anything, we are going to see more and more things shielded from public view rather than fewer; that's been the trend.

Yvonne Johnson

I go for public safety ... for public health.

Dick Bronson

If we're in trouble, this should tell us, and it should be done in a public way.

Ricky Woods

I think they may be the most talented team we've ever played.

Dan Hendricks

I think this is a very deep, talented group.

Jeff Bzdelik

I don't know that it was anything (SDSU) did that really factored into that. But they are just so much more talented than they have been in the past.

Thomas Needham

From what they tell me he is a smart, hardworking and talented person.

Joe Girardi

He's a talented young man. You know what, he's going to make some mistakes.

Tommy Bowden

He's as talented a tight end as we've had here in a while, but doesn't understand the tempo.

Carl Taylor

He's a very talented young man. He is really the only one that does that (voice call) especially at his age.

Jeremy Mincey

He's a very talented guy. He would have been unstoppable.

Virat Kohli

Irrespective of whether you have talent or not, one has to work hard. Just being talented doesn't mean anything; you can end up wasting it before you realize.

William Bolar

He has all the tools to be great. He'll take them far.

Charles Bass

China has legally purchased high performance computers, advanced machine tools, and semiconductor-manufacturing equipment from several American companies.

Charles Babbage

At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.

Ayn Rand

Money is just a tool. It will take you anywhere you want, but you have to be the driver

Carine Roitfeld

Clothing is always a tool that helps me take a picture. But it's never about the clothing.

Alain de Botton

Literature deserves its prestige for one reason above all others - because it's a tool to help us live and die with a little bit more wisdom, goodness, and sanity.

Hon Ip

There are tools we can use. It is not true that nothing can be done once H5N1 is back into wild birds.

Edsger Dijkstra

Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes, biology is about microscopes or chemistry is about beakers and test tubes. Science is not about tools. It is about how we use them, and what we find out when we do.

Banksy

Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.

Cy Coleman

We're doing a workshop over the first two weeks of December, I believe, with Graciella Daniele directing it.