Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kit Williams

Recreating the South Pointing Chariot is particularly challenging because none of the original technical drawings remain in existence.

Ali Abdullah Saleh

Regarding Syria, we already call for dialogue between Syria and all parties concerned, in order to avoid any kind of escalation in the region which may expose the whole area to chaos.

John Fahey

Regarding fame, fortune and Oregon I do wish I had more money.

Mary Morrison

Recent experience in Latin America illustrates that governments remain central to infrastructure provision. Not only is public funding sometimes indispensable, but the state has an essential role to play in partnering and overseeing private operators and protecting consumers.

Norman Schwarzkopf

... Recalling back to Operation Desert Storm, I can't help asking myself: Wouldn't it be great for our armed forces and for America if we could have another commander-in-chief named George Bush with Dick Cheney on his team?

Ronald Reagan

Recession is when a neighbour loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.

Jonathan Gilbert

Reinventing the wheel is sometimes the right thing, when the result is the radial tire.

George Miller

President Bush should immediately realize the colossal mistake he has made in signing this order and rescind it and ensure that America puts its people back to work in the wake of Katrina at wages that will get them and their families back on their feet.

Carl Pope

President Bush nominated someone who has consistently opposed protecting public health and public lands. American families deserve an interior secretary who actually values our natural heritage. America deserves someone who will promote safe energy policies that protect sensitive lands and wildlife habitat, instead of giving over our public lands to developers and the oil and gas companies.

Peter Lewis

Regardless of its geographic origin, people quickly began to notice that the pox traveled from one person to another. They sometimes blamed transmission on common and morally innocuous practices - drinking from a common cup, kissing friends in church, following a syphilitic comrade on the latrine.

Diana Aviv

Our past research shows that adults are twice as likely to volunteer if they began participating when they were teens.

Steve Snyder

Our operations benefited from good but not great market conditions. Electricity prices and spark spreads, particularly in Alberta and the (U.S.) Pacific Northwest were reasonably strong in January and February but began to trend downward in March.

Ralph Friedgen

Our defense was on the field too long, and they began to wear down as the game went on.

Yang Yang

Starting in 1999, I began to join some of the international meetings. Through these activities, I have broadened my horizon to a large extent.

Courtney Pratt

Our results reflect the softening in North American demand and pricing that began in the third quarter of last year and that has continued well into 2005.

Ross Miller

Ours began in 1938 in the Methodist church for the Boy Scouts.

Chris Riddell

Roald Dahl worked with other illustrators, but it was only when he teamed up with Quentin Blake that the chemistry began to fizz. Quentin Blake is Britain's greatest living illustrator and has that special talent all the great illustrators have, of unobtrusive brilliance.

Kate Christensen

Reminded of what a diet really is, I began eating more slowly, being more conscious of when I was full. I started to enjoy my buckwheat bread with goat cheese and pureed butternut-squash soup as a response to real hunger.

E. Hicks

Jeff Marcus is one of the most successful and dynamic executives in media-related industries today,

Mark Showalter

It is more evidence that our solar system is a dynamic place, somewhere very active.

Bill Bradley

. . . I think I do understand the dynamics

Scot Pollard

I think (the style of play) is working for us right now. The dynamics are there, we just have to keep from getting selfish and keep playing the right way.

Colin Trevorrow

'Jurassic Park' was able to get away with big, dynamic filmmaking that might be out of place in another kind of story.

Brad Childress

I don't feel we're struggling to run the football. I think we've been in some games with different dynamics where you weren't comfortable standing there thinking, 'I'm going to run it between the tackles.' That probably wouldn't be a good thing to do if you're down 17 or 20 points.

Phillip Fulmer

I don't know that we have been as dynamic offensively as I thought we would to this point.

Dave Hakstol

He's a dynamic force for us right now offensively.

Dusty Perdue

We lost that one in the first quarter. Their press was dynamic and they were just quicker than us.

Lindsay Davenport

I want to win this title again. I think that you are really, at the end of the day, judged on how many Grand Slam titles you have, and probably how many titles you have.

Buck Showalter

I was happy with the outing, as I was with his last one. We had opportunities to make the grand slam not matter.

Ernie Els

I'd like to win the Masters and the PGA and complete the career Grand Slam.

Goran Ivanisevic

He is strong in the head. You can't win a junior Grand Slam and knock out the world's No. 25 player in your first senior tournament if you're not strong in the head.

John Whitehead

We are going to open up Monday at 7 a.m. and we are going to stay open until 12 p.m. Tuesday. After that, we are going to reopen Wednesday at 7 a.m. and have our grand opening just as we had planned and stay open for 24 hours.

Elena Dementieva

I feel much stronger now and I know what it takes to reach a grand slam final. I just feel I need to take one more step and I think I can do that this year.

Thierry Fremaux

If 2005 was the year of the return of the grand authors, 2006 will be all the opposite.

Graham Cluley

Globally, we have a grand total of zero reports of damage.

John Cornyn

I wouldn't want to speculate as to what's happened or not going to happen with regard to the grand jury, ... I simply don't know. In fact, I would suggest that none of us know, since it's supposed to be a confidential proceeding, by law.

Michael Chapman

Some kind of historical use for the tribe would be ideal, but we don't have the resources, ... We'd probably want the property with the main building, but that'll be very competitive.

Diana Gabaldon

Some people are just mad about the historical aspects; they feel as though they're living in a different time or they're learning something,

Romesh Gunesekera

We live in a world which is changing very fast. What seems contemporary now will be historical in two years.

Luis Restrepo

It is a very important thing that the historical structure of the BCB has been demobilized.

Bertrand Russell

All the important human advances that we know of since historical times began have been due to individuals of whom the majority faced virulent public opposition.

Laurent Fabius

I think really this time it's a historical moment,

Lynn Coady

I still find the idea of a research-heavy or historical novel daunting. That's something I've had in mind for a while: like, would you research for a year and then start writing? I sit down, and I just don't know how to write it.

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.

Kelly McBride

Journalists' notes are incredibly useful for historical perspectives.

Malorie Blackman

We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.

Rob McClure

I was a bit of a goofball. I was always silly. I think that lends itself to being an actor.

Kofi Annan

I think the report speaks for itself and he will have to speak for himself,

Chris Byrne

I think this will really help. Look at what Target has done in establishing itself as a resource for consumers. Toys R Us is struggling to become a destination for toys so it makes perfect sense.

Dave Thomas

It is important to us that it had proven itself in the FRC market.

Eugene Volokh

It doesn't limit itself to defamation. The principle is the same, whether it's libel or discrimination.

Thomas Lynch

Usually a poem takes shape accoustically - a line or a pair of lines will repeat itself in my ear.

Terry Teachout

I suspect that most playgoers don't understand how inexact a science literary translation is. Even the simplest of lines may lend itself to multiple renderings.

Bill Brooks

He's a big fella. It just doesn't lend itself to the symmetry of the park,

Elliot Mintz

Janet is merely one of a number of witnesses and there is no allegation whatsoever that Janet has violated any law.

C. S. Lewis

When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love them.

John Webster

We are merely the stars tennis-balls, struck and bandied which way please them.

Theodore Bikel

No doubt, unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed by mere declarations.

Lord Salisbury

Many who think they are workers in politics are really merely tools.

Charles Hodge

Our first remark on this subject is that the ministry is an office, and not merely a work.

Adolf Hitler

All those who are not racially pure are mere chaff.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

Agrarian reform should not merely subdivide misery, it must raise living standards. Ownership raises the farmer from his, but productivity will keep him on his feet.

bell hooks

Blacks who lack a proper killing rage are merely victims.

Douglas Brinkley

One of the things I learned in editing 'The Reagan Diaries' is to never say what Reagan would do, because he surprised people.

Rick Perlstein

Ronald Reagan never did much to make abortion illegal. He did, however, deliver videotaped greetings, fulsome in praise for his hosts, to antiabortion rallies on the Mall.

Dan Kaiser

We had to take two schools out of the Reagan area.

Douglas Brinkley

Reagan was a pure liberation, free-and-fair election American.

Walter Kirn

We're on Twitter with one side of our personality, and Facebook with another, and LinkedIn with another side of our personality, and we're toggling between them. That's just a version of what an impostor does: shifting from one side of their personality to another with lightning speed.

Ken Wilber

The truth is an arbitrary, shifting, culturally relative, and historically molded phenomenon.

John Krasinski

I'm a sucker where I love shifting tides.

Matthew Rhys

I'm 33 now and I seem to have hit a fitness plane. Shifting the wobbly bits isn't as easy as it used to be.

Saul Berman

Value is shifting from those that produce the content, to those that deliver the experience of consuming it.

Veronica Roth

That is death - shifting from "is" to "was.

Lindsey Graham

Is this Watergate or Peyton Place? I don't know.