Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tim Pawlenty

Our country has been asleep at the switch on these things. The basic economics are that the supply of fossil fuels is limited and the demand is outstripping the supply. It's a recipe for continued crisis if we don't start changing our ways.

Larry Haverty

Management is not asleep at the switch. Anything you can do to move the needle in that direction is terrific for shareholders.

P.K. Shaw

It is a shame that when we have a good dream we are asleep at the time.

Paracelsus

That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it.... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself. - The Dream Game

Mike Schafer

That was a critical one when it was 3-2. We kind of fell asleep a little bit ... that was the game. They played very well. I have to tip my hat to their hockey team.

Dennis Goldford

That's the question. Is there corruption involved? Some improper exchange of favors or anything like that? We don't know that yet. Or is it at best evidence of incompetence -- somebody was simply asleep at the switch?

Jon Sakoda

Last year, instant messaging was the sleeping giant, and companies were literally asleep at the wheel. This year, people are awakening to the problem, but haven't necessarily come up with solutions.

Randy Scyoc

I was happy with way we played defense in the first half. In the second half, we sort of fell asleep a little bit and didn't box out sometimes, and they crawled back in the game.

Pascal Lamy

I am half asleep but the negotiations are wide awake.

Dennis Hastert

Some have said that we should not have this debate. I disagree,

Jeff Burton

Our sport, for one reason or another -- and we could debate for hours about why -- is not as diverse as it needs to be. I don't think it's from a lack of trying.

Tony Blair

Robin was an outstanding, extraordinary talent - brilliant, incisive in debate, of incredible skill and persuasive power,

Laura Bullock

It is a time to gather information. It is not the time to debate anything.

Tim Johnson

The American people in general won this debate.

Ann Richards

I was really pleased ... we were all really nervous going into this debate and I thought that John Kerry knocked it out of the ballpark,

Paul Lopez

It gives the debate a megaphone, it gives the march a megaphone.

Luis Macas

I think we are getting stronger. We've opened the debate on these (free-trade) subjects, and the indigenous movement is showing its power again.

Michael R. Bloomberg

I think two debates are fine for this cycle.

David Joy

Part of the reason we see inflation rising next year is the dollar. Clearly, there is upward pressure on prices because of the falling dollar.

Robert Parker

Parts of them have fallen and the rest of them have the potential to fall as well,

Blake Powers

Our line has done a great job of protecting me and we've got some really talented receivers on this team. I try not to think much about all of the numbers. I'm just trying to get better every week, and if I can do that everything else will fall in place.

Frank Mauro

People in the middle are sort of treading water. People at the lower end are still falling behind.

Frank Griswold

Such thinking -- in which the responsibility for repentance, restoration and healing falls exclusively on one side of a disagreement -- is not the way of reconciliation laid out for us by the Scripture.

David Walton

Sports movies are a genre that I really respond to, but they can be done really poorly and really fall short. The good ones are just so good and inspiring and make you feel good.

Scott Favre

starting to get 50-, 60-mph winds, and the phones are going in and out. Tell Brett everything's OK. A tree did fall on my aunt's house, which is right by Mom's, but everyone's OK.

John Davidson

Some of that risk has been taken off the table. That can be seen in the falling price of oil and a rise in equities.

Kristen Barry

Some games my shots are off. But if I keep shooting, I know they'll fall in.

Patty Sheehan

Pat played wonderful pressure golf in front of them.

Bode Miller

People in the U.S. will watch anything if it's put in front of their face over and over again. I like to see what's possible, more than anything.

Richie Sambora

Stand on the stage in front of 15 people or 15,000. Have them look up to you and tell you how wonderful you are, and if you don't think that's a great feeling, okay, then you're unlike me.

Bill Belichick

Some of the things we had problems with the first two weeks I thought we did a little better. I thought the 'fits' were a little better in the front seven.

Evan Walters

Our team seems to produce well in front of a hostile crowd. It just spurs our adrenaline.

Keith Tiemeyer

Our saying this year is we have to take something away from other teams. And that's what we did tonight. If we keep doing all the things we need to do all year long, we're going to keep taking games away from those teams in front of us.

John Conte

Our system of justice is not and should not be a system of frontier justice,

Andy Emanuel

Our three ECC games were all one-goal losses. We still have our goals in front of us in terms of trying to make the state tournament and win the ECC championship.

Ben Wallace

Right now, that's what we're playing for. We're not worried about who they put in front of us or who we've got to play this week or next week. We're just trying to win every game we possibly can.

Jim Lord

Reasonable people have to find that reasonable line.

Stephanie Laurens

Real people are never central characters in my works.

Tom Tremont

Really, what people want is more simplicity in their life. They want a sanctuary.

Jyoti Amge

Regular people should not underestimate people who are small. In every aspect, they can do the things that normal people can.

Robert Hamilton

Our policy is to let our people know first.

Alex Halavais

Part of it is it's a really safe place for people to talk about this.

Hanya Yanagihara

Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.

Joel Edgerton

Particularly when you're making a movie of a book, people are always waiting with their knives - you know?

Jack Horn

Part of the problem, ... is there are so many more things that can be done for people - drug therapies are better, but more expensive. And there are more and better scanning technologies, which are also more expensive.

Thomas A. Edison

Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.

Neil Baldwin

Our revenues are down about 20 percent from prior years.

E. Hicks

Over 90 percent of phones really do not really have vulnerability.

John Bradley

Over 60 percent of runners are from Utah,

Robert Straus

Right now, tech stocks are about 20 percent undervalued. While I wouldn't be surprised if some profit-taking took place, we still see a lot of upside.

Ashton Kutcher

I would say I'm 90 percent collaborative in everything I do, and 10 percent of the time I just make the call.

James Thrash

That's what it was, 75 percent of the offense?

Roger Clemens

I was pitching 100 percent at this time of year regardless.

Giulio Andreotti

I thank God, ... I was more than 99 percent certain.

Bill Burr

Being a stand-up comic, this isn't a stepping-stone for me; it's what I do, and this is what I'm always going to do. And even if I do a TV show, the only reasons to do a TV show is to get more people to know me to come out to my stand-up shows.

Ike Taylor

I watched TV for two days, and then after that I just couldn't watch any more.

Silas Weir Mitchell

'Grimm,' I think, is a unique show in a lot of ways. There is certainly nothing on TV that looks like 'Grimm'.

Rachel Tucker

I did a reality TV show in London called 'I'd Do Anything,' and when I got put in the program, they said, 'What is your ultimate dream?' and I said, 'Broadway.'

Mary Karr

I think the problem with visual media like TV is that they're reductive.

Bill Mitchell

He will when he watches it on TV later.

Azita Ghanizada

TV and film has defined my entire life.

Rocky Carroll

My first venture into TV was a half-hour sitcom on Fox called 'Roc.'

Ed O'Brien

I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.

Willie Parker

Man, watching Jerome all day long, he just is what he is.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

I was kind of amused, and shocked. At first I was watching it with my children. Then I said 'Children, OUT!

Stacy Keibler

I think there were a lot of women out there watching and voting, and there were a lot of men out there watching, but not voting.

Sandra Bullock

I feel like I always have someone watching my back.

Alan Trammel

He's a keeper. We'll be watching him for years.

John Huber

We're just going to be watching and monitoring.

James Farrior

Yeah, he's watching his weight all right. Watching it expand.

Rhett Miller

We'd probably be watching 'Dora the Explorer' or something.

Hugh Johnson

We're all watching the same stuff. Like sheep.