Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Seymour

Recreational opportunities are our biggest draw. We have river activities and an aquatic park. The birding trails are in the same category, ... We need to use our natural resources. We need to play the cards we have.

Steve Thompson

Recreational fishing is a long-standing, valid activity in the park, and we recognize that. But the park has a dual mission, to protect resources and provide for their enjoyment. If you don't protect the resources, it'll prevent the enjoyment.

Caroline Fredrickson

Regardless of what happens with this agreement, Congress can, and must fix the Patriot Act to better protect the privacy and freedom of ordinary Americans. At the same time, until the Bush administration stops the illegal NSA program to spy on Americans and stops ignoring the rule of law, any reforms to the Patriot Act could be ignored under the extreme philosophy of power embraced by this president. No matter the result of the Patriot Act, we hope all senators involved in these negotiations will resist pressure from the administration. Congress must restore the rule of law and insist that innocent Americans' rights be protected against the overreaching of the White House. We can, and must, be both safe and free.

Steve Pearce

Regardless of the true source of these incursions, the Mexican government must not evade its responsibility to help us stop illegal activity on the border. I hope that this letter will lead to a more productive partnership toward that goal.

Jason Schenker

Regardless of how large the draws are expected to be, especially in gasoline, seeing the actual numbers will be a shock.

Wayne Harris

Regardless how little it grows, state government does act as a stabilizer. Tallahassee will be less affected than other markets.

Charles Scott Sherrington

Reflex inhibition acting against a reflex titanic contraction may diminish the contraction in one or other or all of several different ways.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

REFLECTION, n. An action of the mind whereby we obtain a clearer view of our relation to the things of yesterday and are able to avoid the perils that we shall not again encounter.

Antoine Halff

Refinery activity has been very depressed because of damage caused by hurricanes last year and deferred maintenance. There was a huge surge in imports after last year's storms but that has ended. At the same time refinery activity has not recovered.

Jack Schweers

Regardless of who we're playing, we want to play as good as we can this time of year. We had a good practice (Monday), and we hope to be at our best (in the sectional).

Paul Bush

Regardless of whether you're looking at grapes, apples, cherries or any kind of fruit, you'll get the best color around here.

Rick Barnes

Regardless of what people are saying, N.C. State has not offered me the job. Texas is one of the best jobs in the country, and I'm happy here.

Kevin Marsh

Regardless of how I played, this was the best week of my life. It would have been the best week of my life if I had finished up on Wednesday, really. Being here for the first time you just want to soak up the experience as much as you can. But it also makes you hungry to get back, and prove that you really do belong.

Gloria Estefan

Regardless of culture or language, they really enjoy the album. And that to me, is the best thing.

Laurieann Gibson

Recently, Lady Gaga was motivated to take the helm of the creative direction of her career and as such I decided to step away. I am extremely proud of her, and in stepping away I wish her all the best.

Jim Shannon

Rebounding and defense were big keys for us. They're much bigger than us, but we more than held our own on the boards. And we got after them on defense. It was our best defensive game of the year.

Bob Myers

Rebecca and Christina are probably two of the best girls in the state; there's a very good chance they'll place in the top five at states. Those girls are just great leaders. I think we're going to win it all. The girls we have are good, they have two great leaders to follow.

David Pottruck

Recent trading volumes are propelling the company to its best quarter ever in terms of revenues and profits.

Djibril Cisse

Our relationship is a professional one. We have no problems. If he works hard for the team he can play more games, but it depends also on his team mates.

Marek Belka

Our rate moves will have an impact on the economy in 2013. Whether we raise or lower rates depends on how the economic situation develops.

Steve Hunter

Some fungicides don't hurt the bees. It just depends what kind the farmer uses.

Glenn Tasker

Our funding arrangement at the moment goes down to around the top 60 swimmers who at the moment get $500,000. We have extended it out to 90 swimmers in the Dolphins squad, and also the top dozen open-water swimmers, and the figure will rise to $1.1 million in the first year, and then increase in the years following. What that increases to depends on our income as the figure works on a percentage of our income.

Frank Hayes

Planning teams need to establish the priorities of the project. It depends on how well a school's internal groups are set up.

Arthur Lewis

We need no elaborate statistical proof that trade depends on prosperity in the industrial countries.

Achim Steiner

We now know that 15 of the world's 17 largest fisheries -- where the world depends on its fish -- are either at full exploitation level or in fact, declining.

Greg Gilchrist

I think there's all kinds of possibilities. It probably depends on how some of the other races play out. Two or three spots he could land in, and it's possible he could wind up with nothing. If we win, we'll put it on everybody else. I don't have a vote; I've got enough on my hands.

Greg Gilchrist

I think there's all kinds of possibilities, ... It depends on the way some of the races turn out.

John Snow

Rebuilding efforts will give GDP (gross domestic product), jobs and our overall economy a lift by the first quarter of next year,

Thomas Delare

Ordinary Iraqis, domestic entrepreneurs and foreign investors have all been waiting for stability, predictability and greater security.

Mihir Vora

Some of the money the domestic mutual funds have raised will also come into the market now. That's one reason why the market refuses to go down.

Ian Shepherdson

Overall, solid domestic final demand, but the second quarter will be much weaker. We expect growth to slow to 3% or less, led by a sharp slowing in consumption.

Stephane Deo

Our view that the domestic economy will improve this year is very much on track. We saw already that investment growth is starting to kick in and that will support consumption eventually.

Xiao Tian

Our athletes' performance in Turin will help us forge partnerships with more international and domestic companies.

Margita Thompson

most rigorous protections in the nation for domestic partners.

Trent Lott

It is a worry about maintaining a domestic industry, which I think has national security implications,

Erik Autor

Larger U.S. retailers have recognized for a number of years that the domestic market is mature. In order to grow sales, they have to look outside of the U.S.. China, however, is a big emerging opportunity.

David Simons

I think our show is the most elaborate in terms of what it is trying to say about the American city. I'm proud of what we're trying to address.

Kevin Oh

For such elaborate traits to evolve, you have to have mating patterns where everyone wants the same thing.

Elizabeth Nosek

His menus were very simple. They were not overblown and elaborate in the Victorian sense. You could taste the freshness and quality.

Russell Smith

The only pleasurable part of taking the subway, as everyone will agree, is concocting elaborate fantasies about what it would be like to be married to the most interesting strangers you see there.

Sean Booth

We're quite into graphics that are simultaneously two- and three-dimensional. But I can't really elaborate any further because it's not something - we haven't really perfected it.

David Chang

When I first started to cook, I would cook these elaborate meals, but I rarely cook at home now.

Paul Provenza

We didn't shoot it like a real movie, ... We never set up lights, we didn't do anything elaborate with sound, we never did makeup or anything like that, because every time something like that happens, it's another layer of artifice.

Kenneth Choi

When you're working on a huge, elaborate set that took months to create, and you're surrounded by hundreds of extras, you better remember your lines and know what you're doing in a scene!

Manish Agarwal

We knew they were going to come and had made elaborate arrangements for it.

Gigi Sohn

pleased to see many of the pro-competitive features of the draft.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

Laughter is an interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

Laughter -- An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.

Devon Bostick

I have been writing since 11th grade, and have a few features that have almost gotten off the ground. I really want one of my features to come to life.

Jeff Pulver

We are going to offer enterprises an opportunity for real instant collaboration and features that they can't get from the regular phone network.

Chris Stokes

I feel that I will be more of a feature director, and I will go away completely from videos. I want to do features and have written several of them. I'm looking to be more like a Steven Spielberg.

Matthew Stewart

One of the distinguishing features of anything that aspires to the name of science is the reproducibility of experimental results.

Romy Schneider

I wish to present myself in front of the camera, each time under the features of a different woman. I would like to live and apprehend the problems, the conflicts, the feelings and the impulses of women radically different from me.

Donovan Campbell

Ms. Willey features very prominently in our filing today.

Lindsay Sanderson

Regan is going to be a great addition. He's a man and can go to the net. He also has a rocket from the outside. He'll be a big threat to the other teams.

M. J. Rose

Recognize that the great majority of us aren't trained actors and entertainers. Usually, it's not our faces, our bodies, our personas or our stage presence that sells our books. It's our stories, our visions and our voices.

Brian Smith

Reid just had a great tournament. Pinning the No. 1 see and the No. 3 seed - just great.

Anatole France

Religion has done love a great servive by making it a sin.

Douglas Laycock

Religion and morality are playing a greater role than they did 20 years ago.

Nadia Petrova

Our parents made great sacrifices and that is the main reason why many of the Russians are at the top today.

Tiki Barber

Our quarterback is playing so great right now. You can see how he's improving exponentially each week.

Source Unknown

Ordinary people think merely of spending time. Great people think of using it.

Paul Vachon

(Parker) is a great player. She's what everyone said she was.

Sarah Davis

People have been cooped up in their house all winter. They want to get out and this is the perfect weekend.

Kathleen Blanco

Start making preparations to leave now ... Prepare your family, prepare your house for evacuation.

Jim Hagan

Some legislators left the State House to join us and get on the right side of the issue,

Dan Hawkins

I might actually have them pull that house around the track.

Billy Corgan

I grew up in a house of no love or emotion - it kind of sticks with you.

Cecelia Ahern

There is absolutely nothing wrong with returning to the house you grew up in every now and again. It's good for the soul.

Carrie Brownstein

For a while I had somebody that came to clean my house that turned out to be in a band that I really loved.

Carrie Fisher

I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am somewhat nonplused by the event that is my life.

Bernard Berenson

[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.

Cade Bernsen

I'm here to observe and support the senate.

Salar Kamangar

We observed by talking with our users that there is no reason to think of IM as different from an e-mail message.

Jim Struhsaker

I would say that what we observed here was very rare.

Chris Wedge

One of the things I've observed since I was a kid, is that if you work on something long enough you'll find I, even if you're lost for a while you'll find it.

Adoniram Judson

Observe the seven seasons of secret prayer every day.

Ty Cobb

I have observed that baseball is not unlike a war, and when you come right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.

Gina Rodriguez

I've learned a lot about what kind of actor I want or do not want to be while being on set. I sit back and observe how other actors treat the totem pole of set politics.

Omar Suleiman

But the most important prevention is for people to observe hygiene.

Hideo Kojima

I always observe the people who pass by when I ride an escalator. I'll never see most of them again, so I imagine a lot of things about their lives... about the day ahead of them.

Henry David Thoreau

The scenery when it is truly seen reacts on the life of the seer.

Mitch Albom

Scenery without solace is meaningless.

Sheryl Lee

I was in Seattle and I wanted nothing more than to act, but I was so terrified of it that I couldn't even get myself to an audition. It was miserable.

Roger Staubach

I would have sworn that Indianapolis was going to go all the way. Now that Pittsburgh's in there, I think Seattle has got a shot at them.

Victoria Gonzales

We're pretty much in the driver's seat for second place now.

Teddy Atlas

Seattle doesn't look like an underdog to me.

Lyle Lovett

A woman comes to a table, and you're supposed to get up. Period. But I don't always do it. In general, you're supposed to do it every time. But sometimes you're seated against the wall, and it's awkward.

Nicolas Berggruen

Think of everything in Seattle - Microsoft, Amazon, Starbucks. Then you go down to Silicon Valley - Intel, Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter. What does New York produce?

Bruce Johnston

There are not enough seats in the steel lifeboat for everybody.

Jon Favreau

We're trying to find a seat on the bus.

Bob Hill

To me, Seattle has always been a cornerstone of the NBA. It would be shame if the team had to leave.

Duane Starks

Starks said. ''I just think we executed more in the second half.

Colin Cushman

Standish in the second half, that's the story right there. She's the real deal.

Mark Teixeira

That could be it exactly. The first day, I didn't sleep at all. The second day, yeah, a little bit.

Mike Caldwell

Our possessions were about 10 seconds long. Theirs were for about 40 seconds long.

Nancy Keller

We now have a new tool we can use to find secondary metabolites that are of pharmaceutical interest.

Ron Gardenhire

I think the second time around we'll see where we're at here.

Acie Law

That's the second time today someone's done that.

Brenda Frese

I think it was like 10 seconds after the game.

Greg Thompson

I think it's who comes in second place.

Brett Ellis

Some of them are $40,000, and they've been sitting there for 120 days.

Mariella Ruocco

Somehow they sensed the seriousness of the situation and they stayed in the car.

Pierre Lacroix

That day was like sitting on the ice. Now we're sitting in the whirlpool.

Jaswant Singh

Other than sitting and talking to Pakistan, we can't do much more,

Laveranues Coles

Well, all I can say about that situation is, things come to the surface,

Bill Richardson

we'll all end up sitting in the dark.

Bill Bryson

When you sit in a chair, you are not actually sitting there, but levitating above it at a height of one angstrom (a hundred millionth of a centimetre), your electrons and its electrons implacably opposed to any closer intimacy.

Rahul Gandhi

I will speak to you tomorrow and till then I will sit there (among the delegates).

Ice Cube

I think the worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing. You have to get it out in the open. You have to talk about it.