Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Hass

The Vietnam War and the Iraq war, in different ways, both made me feel like I could not not address them. I'm very doubtful about the usefulness of poetry to do that.

Robert Walpole

But I must think that an address to his majesty to remove one of his servants, without so much as alleging any particular crime against him, is one of the greatest encroachments that was ever made upon the prerogatives of the crown.

Robert Mueller

Secondly, not only have we put additional agents on counterterrorism, but we've also built up our analytical structure so that we're better positioned to analyze the information we have.

Kurtwood Smith

More of him came from my step-dad, who is now passed away. The initial creators of the show kind of based the character on their dads and then I added my dad.

Jennifer Davis

We're not doing away with free shipping, but we're adding a new option, which is free pickup. Free shipping is a promotion that comes and goes on a daily basis or a weekly basis.

Ted Roof

We're not deep enough, but we're deeper than we were last year. We've just got to keep addressing depth in recruiting and the development of the players that we have.

Kevin Walsh

We're not convinced that all the victims have been found, ... We're still reaching out for additional victims to see if there are any out there.

John Douglas

Mandate has very grave doubts as to whether the social partnership process, with its current restrictive agenda and parameters can truly address the income needs of those on middle and lower incomes, given the very narrow focus on competitiveness and wage restraint being applied to the talks by both the government and employers in terms of wages in particular.

Larry Chase

Like China, the Internet is a huge new market. It's up to you to figure out what to do with it. Use it as a prospecting tool, make connections with people, add value for your existing customers.

Robert Kazinsky

Being a 'hunk' is going to do great things for my love life, and I'll get a lot more offers. But I'll certainly never see myself as one.

Roger von Oech

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.

Mallory Ortberg

It certainly was unusual growing up with two fairly well-known pastors as my parents.

Drew Goddard

Like anything, I think there are some wonderful found footage movies, and there are some less good. Certainly when it's done well, I really love it. I really love it as a genre.

David Eisenberg

Like a detective, Melinda traced this fibril-forming property down to a little peptide. Nobody expected that 1 percent of the protein could have the essence of the whole protein and could form fibrils on its own; I certainly didn't expect that. There were only seven amino acids in that fragment. Rebecca later found the peptide could be cut to only four amino acids and form fibrils.

Drew DiPippo

Making the tournament has certainly been our focus. We have a tough road to get there, but it's our focus and goal and we're going to keep plugging towards it.

Tim Deal

Macs still present a price premium on the consumer side. That will always be an issue to many consumers. However, for those where technology and differentiation by innovation is the key purchasing factor, this certainly does remove that obstacle.

Keith Gumbinger

Leveraging yourself out at a time when (home) prices are very high certainly could set you up for difficult times.

David Pierce

Let's see... how old am I? I'm definitely in my 50s... and I've certainly always been in my 50s. I could be older than that... but I'm not willing to face that.

David Scurto

Make sure you have the willpower of your elected officials and the people.

William Jones

Leon has influenced more lives, I think, than probably any single elected official in this region.

Marie Wilson

Maybe we can actually use this show to get that tippy point over and have a woman elected to office.

Laurent Gbagbo

Of course, because he was elected in October 2000 and in principle his mandate runs until 2005.

Shashi Tharoor

When I grew up in India, telephones were a rarity. In fact, they were so rare that elected members of Parliament had the right to allocate 15 telephone lines as a favor to those they deemed worthy. If you were lucky enough to be a wealthy businessman or an influential journalist, or a doctor or something, you might have a telephone.

Oscar Fonseca

From this moment forward, Oscar Arias has been declared officially elected as president of Costa Rica.

Davy Crockett

I would rather be beaton and be a man than to be elected and be a little puppy dog.

Fred Jordan

I feel this is taking a step backwards. An employee of a person who is an elected official could have his opinion swayed.

Michael Hendricks

Somebody finally had the intelligent idea to remember that Harper isn't elected yet. That seemed to secure everybody. They quieted down and the subject hasn't come up again. Just that one shot.

Richard Garnett

Liberal justices like Thurgood Marshall and Ruth Bader Ginsburg think as highly of him as someone like Clarence Thomas. I think that's a testament to the respect he enjoys.

Tom Wolfe

I read somewhere that writers, as they get older, become more and more perfectionist. Which may be because they think more highly of themselves and they worry about their reputations. I think there's some truth to that.

Todd Rundgren

People have always said that I could have been a highly successful pop artist, if only that were my intention. It never was. My original intention was to be a kind of behind-the-scenes participant in music, to just be a record producer and engineer. And I made a record for myself just so I could have an outlet for my musical ideas.

Bob Wallace

I can't speak highly enough about the program,

Julianne Moore

I was somebody who was not athletic. I was highly imaginative; I loved to read, and I loved nothing more than being in a story... I didn't want to play ball; I wanted to imagine something and read something.

Donna Jones

She was a quite a lady. And a leader. Everyone spoke so highly of her.

Rose Rosetree

She's highly self sufficient. She needs her own space and her own life, her own things, her own identity.

Jane Harrison

To be womanly is one thing, and one only; it is to be sensitive to man, to be highly endowed with the sex instinct; to be manly is to be sensitive to woman.

Howard Warren Buffett

There are more living organisms in a tablespoon of highly organic soil than there are people on the planet.

Vincent Jackson

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

Shawn Chacon

Man, he is in a zone. You hope he stays that way for a long time.

Don Daniels

Let's look for a year like last year and hope it doesn't happen. That's all we can do.

Johnny Damon

Let's hope so. We've still got to play well.

Andy Robinson

Lewis is distraught and disappointed and we hope it can all be sorted out.

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.

Tony Bush

lot of lives to be lifted up, lot of hope to be restored.

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.

John Maynard Keynes

Regarded as a means, (the businessman) is tolerable; as an end, he is not so satisfactory

Isoroku Yamamoto

Japan has always regarded the aircraft carrier as one of the most offensive of armaments.

David Sanborn

While St. Louis is technically regarded as part of the Mid-West, it's actually - geographically and emotionally - more part of the South. I mean, the sensibility of St. Louis is really very much that of a Southern Mississippi river-town.

Katie Findlay

I don't know how to exist before 9 A.M. And without coffee, I'm not classified as a human. Actually, I could be regarded as a threat.

Sean Wilson

I don't want to come off that I'm whining about the situation, but I was disappointed. I've always regarded this as the tradition of a school.

Thomas Perls

These findings should be regarded as a warning: If you have Alzheimer's in the family, you have to take precautions.