Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Teeter

We need people out talking about the President, explaining, agreeing with and praising his actions.

Donald Evans

Let me tell you the basic fundamental principle by which we sit down and negotiate agreements with our friends: nobody wins unless we all win.

Jeffrey Vanderbeek

Let this definitive and final agreement leave no doubt that the New Jersey Devils will start the '07-'08 season at this world-class, state-of-the-art facility. This means the Devils are satisfied that the city of Newark will fulfill its obligations.

Gerry Adams

make it very very clear there is no way forward except the Good Friday agreement.

Rich Levin

Major League Baseball looks forward to signing a lease so that Washington's baseball fans can enjoy watching their team in a new, state-of-the art stadium. We believe it is important for all parties to honor the terms of the agreements that were made.

Rich Levin

Major League Baseball has not yet been provided with the filings made by the D.C. Sports & Entertainment Commission with the City Council last Friday, nor the text of the legislation passed by the Council last night. We are very concerned about what we heard during the debate, and we need to read the materials and the legislative language so we can determine whether they are consistent with the agreements between Major League Baseball and the city.

Jay Foley

Make them prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that they actually had an agreement and a contract with this individual.

Michael Specter

Lyme disease is the most commonly reported tick-borne illness in the United States, and the incidence is growing rapidly. In 2009, the C.D.C. reported thirty-eight thousand cases, three times more than in 1991. Most researchers agree that the true number of infections is five to ten times higher.

Harry Reid

Let's have a real investigation and a vote here in the Senate. What the president has agreed to is no review.

Kris Gopalakrishnan

Continuing on my theme of backing inclusive innovations, I am optimistic of the success of Uniphore. Man-machine communication is one of the more complex problems to solve. Uniphore's vision lends possibility of finding a solution to this very difficult problem, and the company has already made substantial progress.

Edward Carpenter

Making a choice is like backing a horse-in a hundred years, they may decide you picked wrongly.

Byron Dorgan

Seniors should not be coerced into an HMO in order to get drug coverage, ... Is the White House Backing Away from a Comprehensive Medicare Drug Benefit?

Kelsey Lavender

Mentally we know we can beat (teams) and we have confidence in ourselves. Our coach is backing us up.

Tiger Woods

More than the length, it's the fact that every ball is backing up. Every ball picked up mud. That's the hardest thing in the world. You can have length, and you can have longer shots to the green, but if you don't have a clean ball, it makes for a very difficult golf shot.

Mark Obrinsky

Mortgage rates have dropped, yes, but a weak economy means people lose jobs or feel insecure in their jobs. Some potential buyers may end up backing off from a purchase. When the economy picks up after a slowdown, interest rates usually rise, but that doesn't stop people from buying.

Robert Tompkins

Ned was trying to get (the boys off him). I jumped in at the last moment as they were backing off and pushed them off, ... I physically lifted (Ned) out of the water and carried him out. He would have drowned if I hadn't been there. He was unconscious and under the water.

Jim Corridore

Obviously oil backing down a little today allows investors to focus more on the relatively strong earnings performances last week.

Charles Portis

I always go backwards when I am backing up.

Dick Gephardt

Frankly, in my view, they have been captivated by their special interests.

Susan Tsu

I was so captivated by the hats and the stories of the women. And then, City Theatre called.

V. E. Schwab

I was fourteen, watching 'The Princess Bride' for the 254321th time, captivated by Wesley and Inigo dueling on the cliff-top. I had never held a sword in my life, but I phoned my mum and said, 'I want to learn to fence!'

Daniel Hope

When I was a boy, the only thing which captivated me as much as music was the night sky.

Sue Monk Kidd

I'm always captivated by stories of women who find a way to be daring - misbehaving women.

Bob Balaban

But obviously as television began, it so undercut movies that he was trying to think of a way to combine seeing these special things, and the fact that people were just captivated by the magic box.

Andy Robinson

The series has captivated the nation and I hope that everyone involved with the win enjoys the celebrations that will deservedly follow.

Skip Bertman

This is history-making. In a hurricane-laden year, people needed something uplifting and spiritual. I think these teams have captivated the entire country. I am proud of the women, and I am proud of the men.

Isla Fisher

When your parents divorce, it makes you grow up fast. I'd urge parents to strongly consider working things out. I'd work things out and I'd definitely stay put.

Isabella Rossellini

I always say that in my career as an actress, I've always worked with people like David Lynch or Guy Maddin or Peter Weir who are considered not mainstream directors and that could be because they are like my dad. They are pioneers, and pioneers, by definition, invent something new.

Rick Perlstein

What is considered 'conservative' and what is considered 'liberal' changes in any given era.

Janet Prust

Mandatory reporting simply means more scrutiny in all of the practices around reducing infection. Sterilization is considered a sentinel event around surgical site infections. So for a facility to be able to document and prove that they did all of those things the right way via an electronic record keeping system is a tremendous value for a facility.

Kay Vandervort

Life isn't easy. We've all had situations where we needed emotional support from a friend. Consider if you did not have a friend to hold your hand when times got tough.

Cliff Robertson

Look, we want freedom and we want liberty in this country. But we've also got to have the guts to stand up and run a tight ship in America. Morality is now a word that many people consider very square and outdated. But if we don't stand up for it, we deserve what we will get in the end - unprincipled anarchy.

Alan Young

Last year set a new kind of standard, ... I think it does influence, especially when you consider how few people turn out to vote.

Caroline DeWaal

Many more of these plants should be considered failures.

Bill Coleman

Many people consider salary negotiations a negative thing, something to be avoided.

Blake Ress

Many of the people in the legislature send their kids to private schools and I think they would defend them, defend the current system. I don't know that we've done enough research where we can defend this before the legislature or in court. If we're going to go this way we better have some facts to back our decision.

Herbert Hainer

Many of our current efforts will now focus on turning around the Reebok brand.

Cindy Clark

Several teachers also go to training all year long. Even in the summer, they go to week-long training sponsored by different groups. We want them to keep up with the current research.

Atul Lele

Momentum is on the mining companies' side, at least for the short term, as current commodities prices feed through to earnings.

Mark Levine

Mr. President, please reject the Left's current efforts to influence your selection. Your political enemies wish you ill.

Xiao Qiang

Much more relevant is current affairs, social and political news. You don't necessarily have to touch taboo areas.

John Robertson

Much more inflation. Because this government is always going to be printing its way out of its current difficulty.

Robert Gruber

Most wine importers hedge about 12 months; in other words, to the end of the current price list.

Norihito Kanai

Mazda, like other automakers, is benefiting from the weaker yen. Currently they don't have many new models, but next fiscal year starting in April, they will release new SUV models in the U.S., which should help its earnings and sales.

Charles Carlson

No one thinks of them being overwhelmingly important, but our relationships with them have been really intensive and extensive over the years.

Kristanna Loken

I did extensive training and through that worked with a nutritionist, so I put on about 15 pounds of muscle mass.

Paul Powers

Because of the extensive damage, there are many isolated outages that take more time to restore.

Rubin Carter

I have mandated to our staff to get out and meet coaches. They need to see our logo. They need to know that we are out doing extensive evaluations on their players academically and athletically. FAMU will be visible.

John Eklund

She does have a pretty extensive history. But she's never been a violent person.

Kim Cattrall

A pilot is like the most extensive dress rehearsal you can ever imagine, because the writers are learning about the actors, the actors are learning about the characters.

Jack Sanders

The property was so extensive that he hired his own private 'police force' to patrol it.

Jerry Costello

We have an extensive system of highways, ports, locks and dams, and airports.

John Hall

We'll see what happens, ... We don't really know how extensive it is, so we'll wait and see.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

For in the first place the American people could not have been swept too fast and too far in this movement without enough alarms being sounded to be heard and heeded.

Busch Series

Man, I had no idea what to expect. These guys are awesome. This is a farm team.

Buster Keaton

Life is too serious to do farce comedy.

Erica Mann Jong

Life has no plot. It is far more interesting than anything you can say about it because language, by its very nature, orders things and life really has no order.

Jason Breiholz

Making it as far as he did was incredible, and getting there and winning one match is incredible with the top 16 in the state.

Mike Levine

Licensees have gone as far as they can go,

Don Mattingly

Looks like he's just starting to tune it up a little bit. Hideki, he's just so solid as far as his work. He never gets out of his program. His work is the same if he's going good or if he's going bad.

Victor Murphy

Last year was really phenomenal as far as rainfall goes. This year, total opposite. It's feast or famine.

Charlie Brown

Last year was a record year for us as far as we can tell.

Condoleezza Rice

Lebanon has to be free of foreign interference. This is an issue of national sovereignty for Lebanon, and Syria has to respect that,

Adam Ereli

sends the wrong signal to foreign investors and could negatively impact Russia's role in the global economy.

Christopher Low

So far, the refunding has been a mixed bag. The three-year saw little foreign interest and had a low bid-to-cover, but the 10-year went a little better yesterday.

Henry Chan

One thing that tended to surprise a lot of people this year is that the market was going up on the back of very little net foreign inflow.

Fawaz Gerges

Neither spin nor propaganda will do. And what the studies show is what's needed is a radical transformation of American foreign policy

Ignacio Bunye

Further meetings were held by the two foreign ministries and this is the result.

Joyce Banda

I don't remember a single day during the time I was minister of gender, foreign minister, vice-president and president when I saw anything on the part of the men that indicated they were undermining me.

David Davies

The price of a foreign holiday is a requirement to be put on the national identity register.

Kate Grenville

Australia lives with a strange contradiction - our national image of ourselves is one of the Outback, and yet nearly all us live in big cities. Move outside the coastal fringe, and Australia can feel like a foreign country.

Kristin Cast

I've gained fans, fame, fortune, but I don't feel different. Am I supposed to?

Linda Howard

She grew three inches (to 5foot-7) and gained 30 pounds.

Sarah Robinson

I have gained back much more than what I lost in Katrina.

Kim Il-sung

I don't know what can be gained from it.

Natalie Morales

One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.

Tony Stewart

We did what we needed to do; we gained some points here. A 43-point lead with three races is no cakewalk, by any means, but I'm leaving here with a smile on my face.

Tony Stewart

We did what we needed to do; we gained some points here, ... A 43-point lead with three races is no cakewalk, by any means, but I'm leaving here with a smile on my face.

Anna Louise Strong

I have very little hope that any permission can be gained for your organization. However, I shall place it in a special folder with similar applications and raise the question from time to time with such people here as may have authority.

Alexander Groschke

The pressure for consolidation is unavoidable and has gained new momentum.

Octavio Paz

The truth is that the history of Mexico is a history in the image of its geography: abrupt and tortuous. Each historical period is like a plateau surrounded by tall mountains and separated from the other plateaus by precipices and divides.

Dennis Farina

I love England and the historical aspect of it.

Alison Weir

I feel very strongly that where the facts exist, a historical novelist should use them if they're writing about a person who really lived, because a lot of people come to history through historical novels. I did. And a lot of people want their history that way.

Ed Harris

I don't have the luxury of the firsthand historical knowledge that you have. You'll probably find the same thing with the board.

Virginia Henley

I love to read history books, which is where I get my ideas. I also read historical romance for pleasure.

Ismail Haniya

We are optimistic that our people will go to vote in this historical event.

Nicolas Berggruen

I was living in Paris, which is a very beautiful, very wonderful place, but a tight place as a city, a tight place culturally. Its people are very brilliant, thoughtful, the place functions, but it's a historical place in some ways, like a big museum.

Lauren Willig

I never sat down and said, 'I'm going to write historical fiction with strong romantic elements.' It was just the way the stories went.

William Gibson

I don't think nostalgia is a healthy modality. But nostalgia and a sense of history are not the same thing. Nostalgia is a dysfunction of the historical impulse, or a corruption of the historical impulse.

Vincent Jackson

Man, hopefully I'll be playing me, on offense, working with the offense,

Boris Said

Lowe's is my nemesis. I didn't qualify for the Memorial Day race there, but we have tested at the track since and hopefully it will be a different scenario this time around. After today, I just can't wait to get back on those ovals.

Boris Said

Lowe's is my nemesis, ... I didn't qualify for the Memorial Day race there, but we have tested at the track since and hopefully it will be a different scenario this time around. After today, I just can't wait to get back on those ovals.

Wade Duty

Louisiana is undergoing a moment of revision and hopefully reconstruction, and by Friday, we will know what the shape of things will be.

Todd Clark

Maybe we'll get a little relief rally, a little more upside, but not a whole lot, ... Hopefully I'm wrong, but we still have some strong headwinds here.

Alex Lee

Obviously when you play, you play to win. That's our goal, to go out and win the region first and then hopefully do well in the playoffs.

Bill Davidson

Only a small whiff of the smell is left and hopefully that should be the end of any problems we have with that particular stockpile.

Rafael Palmeiro

My day will come when I can say what happened. As of right now, I can't say anything. Hopefully soon.

Bob Goldstein

more schooled, more educated, a little wiser, and hopefully I can do a better job.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

There is no room for political, personal or religious ideologies in science.

Dave Ramsey

Success is a pile of failure that you are standing on.

John Maynard Keynes

It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.

David Sedaris

I just looked at the pattern of my life, decided I didn't like it, and changed.

David Duchovny

Larry Grobel's interviews are informative and insightful without being pandering or intrusive. You get the sense at all times of both intelligence at work-the interviewee's and Grobel's-both inspired by the encounter.

Charlie Munger

The harder you work, the more confidence you get. But you may be working hard on something that is false.

Louis C. K.

Expensive quality work doesn't cost more - it pays.

Benjamin Franklin

Acquire Riches by Industry and Frugality.

Brian Tracy

Perhaps the very best question that you can memorize and repeat, over and over, is, 'what is the most valuable use of my time right now?'

Ali ibn Abi Talib

Contentment is a wealth that is never exhausted

Ben Hatfield

Let's put this in perspective. Who do I tell not to celebrate? I didn't know if there were 12 or 1 (who were alive).

Bennett Hatfield

Let's put this in perspective. Who do I tell not to celebrate?

Ron Vaughn

When you put it into perspective, it's not that much.

Matthew Pinsent

I can't really get any perspective on it at the moment,

Nick Ingelbrecht

From a practical perspective, any telecom manufacturer has to have a big position in China.

Larry Brown

From my perspective, it's a big step forward.

Jonathan Burns

From our perspective, the transition is going quite smoothly overall.

Brian Smith

From our perspective it would be a positive.

Jonathan Littman

From most of these shows you get a different perspective,

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

I think we love bacon because it has all the qualities of an amazing sensory experience. When we cook it, the sizzling sound is so appetizing, the aroma is maddening, the crunch of the texture is so gratifying and the taste delivers every time.

Alexandra Paul

I don't think I miss anything by not watching television.

Alexandra Adornetto

Beth: "I don't think you realize what you're dealing with here. You can't just mess around with the forces of the universe!" Xavier: "What ever happened to free will? Or was that just a myth?

Alexandra Adornetto

What about this?" I held up a battered copy of Beauty and the Beast. "It sounds romantic." Xavier wrinkled his nose. "Disney... I don't think so." "Why not?" "Because if anyone found out, I'd never live it down." "I won't tell if you don't," I pleaded, and Xavier shook his head in defeat. "The things I do for you," He said with an exaggerated sigh.

Albert Schweitzer

The spirit of the age is filled with the disdain for thinking.

David Houghton

Lyme Timber is really thinking about conservation -- they really want that to happen. Lyme Timber is exceptional on this.

Jerry Butler

McNabb has always been nonchalant about everything; thinking things will just go away, but things just don't go away,

Jerry Glanville

When you're 17 years old, you're just thinking about girls.

Chris Elliott

I think the whole idea of me was that I wasn't going to be but that I wanted to be, desperately.