Famous Quotes & Sayings

Julie Regan

We want the (partnership) agencies to think outside the box for the next regional plan, but we're also not looking at changing the rules overnight to throw the community into chaos.

Patricia Brown

We want to talk about outcomes for the people who benefit from the United Way and how just a few dollars out of a person's pay can help improve the community. We have spent a lot of time here talking about improving our campus and building new buildings, but we can't lose sight of the fact that every community needs a safety net nonprofit agencies that support the needs of the people who live there. There are numerous United Way agencies around our campus, and one way to ensure that East Baltimore's safety net is both available and thriving is to invest in the United Way.

Jim Allison

The potential is there for a California solution. I think other rail transit agencies around the state would be interested in our results.

Susan Anderson

We appreciate all that the commissioners do to help us and other agencies throughout the county. We know they have a difficult task in responding to all the funding requests.

Samuel Bodman

We've also begun working with other agencies on planning, even before the storm came ashore, and have been in close contact with the state and local authorities assessing the overall impact of this storm on our nation's power infrastructure,

Thad Cochran

We're in preliminary discussions already with the administration on when that money will be needed, when will it be considered by the Senate, when the request will be submitted, ... These are issues that we are working hard to resolve to be sure that federal agencies, agencies that have the responsibility of responding to this disaster, have the funds they need to do it and do it right and to do it quickly.

Herb Trimpe

There's something about dealing with government agencies that makes you feel like a criminal.

David Rose

Whether we like it or not, all three of the rating agencies have a view of overlapping debt. They are going to have that when they calculate our debt.

Jon Fleischaker

What happens is, you get public agencies using that as an excuse, to withhold information that has nothing to do with Homeland Security.

Alan Watts

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

Alan Rickman

I do feel more myself in America. I can regress there, and they have roller-coaster parks.

Alan Grayson

The Republican health care plan: don't get sick ... The Republicans have a back up plan in case you do get sick ... This is what the Republicans want you to do. If you get sick America, the Republican health care plan is this: Die quickly!

Alan Grayson

If you get sick, America, the Republican health care plan is this: Die quickly.

Alan Greenspan

Skilled shortages in America exist because we are shielding our skilled labor force from world competition. [Visa quotas] have been substituted for the wage pricing mechanism. In the process we have created [a] privileged elite whose incomes are being supported at non-competitively high levels by immigration quotas on skilled professionals. Eliminating such restrictions would reduce at least some of the income inequality.

Alan Ball

I guess in America we're so sold on this ideal of the perfect, well-adjusted family that is able to confront any conflict and, with true love and understanding, work things through. I'm sure they do exist, but I never knew any of them.

Al Sharpton

I cannot imagine where we would have been without BET. Many like me who operate in black America can only get our balanced story told nationally on BET talk shows.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

There is no doubt that America is a superpower of the world and we cannot ignore them.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

America is laughing her way to Hell.

Liz Boyd

The potential impact to Michigan can be huge. Like everyone else, we are keeping a close eye on the unfolding situation and trying to assess how large the impact may be.

Anita Foster

We are going to start damage assessment this morning and decide how to help families determine whether it's safe to go back home.

Jack Straw

We are awaiting the police assessment of the video,

Robert Irwin

When you walk into a room, you assess it instantaneously, habitually, before you're even aware of it. I mean, you make sure there's not a hole you're going to fall into, but mostly you're not even aware of what you're thinking.

Andrew Kirk

When you take a person with dementia and you put them in a car and drive them for four hours to come for an appointment, they're not really at their best when you assess them. Some people get more confused or even a bit agitated,

Mark Cuban

Having the ability to be brutally honest with yourself is the greatest challenge you face when creating a business model. Too often we oversell ourselves on the quality of the idea, service, or product. We don't provide an honest assessment of how we fit in the market, why customers will buy from us, and at what price.

Edward Gibbon

To maintain the harmony of authority and obedience, to chastise the proud, to protect the weak, to reward the deserving, to banish vice and idleness from his dominions, to secure the traveller and merchant, to restrain the depredations of the soldier, to cherish the labors of the husbandman, to encourage industry and learning, and, by an equal and moderate assessment, to increase the revenue, without increasing the taxes, are indeed the duties of a prince . . .

Bill Nye

I understand that you take the Bible, as written in English, translated many many times over the last three millennia as to be a more accurate, more reasonable assessment of the natural laws we see around us than what I and everybody in here can observe. That, to me, is unsettling.

Paul Tagliabue

We have to have a sober assessment of what kind of rebuilding and defending new investment of the Superdome if any makes sense. These are all complicated decisions.

Allan Urlis

We want them to call us, so payment arrangements can be made, so they can be put in contact with any assistance that's available.

Jarrod Agen

We want to stay cutting-edge, we want to pull in the private sector who has the technology and the resources to assist us with ... state-of-the-art equipment we will need to secure the border.

Noriyuki Suzuki

The possibility of North Korea making a (positive) decision increases somewhat if economic assistance is dangled in front of their eyes.

Marian Edelman

The persistent and growing high level of child poverty reflects conscious and misguided choices, ... How can the Bush Administration and Congress give enormous tax breaks to the wealthiest Americans who have benefited most from the economic recovery while threatening to cut the budgets for Medicaid, Food Stamps and other programs that assist poor children who continue to be left behind?

Grant Woods

The people who have been in this devastation don't have anything. They don't have their homes anymore. They don't have any of their belongings. They basically got away with the clothes on their back and little else so I'm sure whatever assistance they can get they're very glad for.

Paul Anderson

The people who draw up the plans should be able to execute the plans. Now we have one office taking in grant applications, reviewing emergency plans by state and local governments and determining where federal assistance should go, yet FEMA is tasked with managing the response and marshalling the assets.

Paul Anderson

The people who draw up the plans should be able to execute the plans, ... Now we have one office taking in grant applications, reviewing emergency plans by state and local governments and determining where federal assistance should go, yet FEMA is tasked with managing the response and marshaling the assets.

Bryan Brown

We are prepared to provide help in any way we can to those Fair Grounds personnel who need economic assistance and housing.

Rodrigo Rato

We are prepared, as in the past, to provide financial support by augmenting existing programs or by providing new financial assistance to countries that experience drought-related balance of payments needs.

Alan Moore

All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day." The Joker - The Killing Joke

Al Roker

If I was having a bad day, eating was like self-medicating. But if you abuse food, you still have to use that substance that you abuse every day. You have to learn to use it responsibly.

Chris Cleave

The only bad days as a writer are the ones when you are too cowardly or too lazy to sit down at the keyboard and give it everything you have.

Chris Bangle

Designers think everything done by someone else is awful, and that they could do it better themselves, which explains why I designed my own living room carpet, I suppose.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity, to reduce them to objects of pity. This has never been clearer than in the view of Africa from the American media, in which we are shown poverty and conflicts without any context.

Chesty Puller

Where the hell do you put the bayonet?

Cathy Freeman

When I'm in a bad mood, I don't listen.

Casey Affleck

I have a very bad relationship with mice.

Michael Steele

You know, conservatism is not a bad thing. It's not a pejorative.

Edith Wharton

What a shame it is for a nation to be developing without a sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.

William Daley

We're hopeful that there will be progress. The fact of the matter is that the banana dispute is about defending the rules-based system of the WTO, ... We've gone through two panels. We've been successful. There must be a conclusion to these types of cases. They cannot go on forever. The losing party can't keep looking for further relief if they lose the panel.

Kacy Catanzaro

Usually I like to work out in the morning before I eat. After the workout, I like to eat a banana and definitely some oatmeal for a little bit extra boost.

Sergey Galitsky

When we cut the price for bananas by 1 ruble, we sell 100 tons a day more... There are people who live within their budget.

Maryann Jakubczyk

We had no idea who he was. But he took on this project and he?s got the kids here all going bananas about it.

Terry Zwigoff

When I went around promoting 'Crumb,' there would be days I'd wake up in, like, Houston or Cleveland, and I'd step outside the hotel and get no idea where I was. It all looks the same: one big corporate, consumer theme park. It's all, 'Here's the Starbucks, and here's the Gap, and we'll go over to Banana Republic and the Cineplex.'

Dick Vitale

When you can go on the road and get 35 at Kansas with the rock-chalk Jayhawk crowd going bananas and you make big plays to help your club leave with a win on the road like that, you've got talent. So, he's got talent.

Rose George

Seafarers are used to being exploited. At sea, the captain moans at chandlers who supply ships with green bananas that will never ripen; at fruit that goes moldy obscenely fast; at sub-standard meat.

Nalo Hopkinson

I am Amaxon Corazon Junia Principia Delgado the Third, and I bent over my meal and wept luxurious tears into my green banana porridge. It was a perfect decoction, and it now would not satisfy me.

Barbara Morgan

We've already taken several truckloads of donations to the convention center. We've become a real central donation place.

Barbara Morgan

We've already taken several truckloads of donations to the convention center, ... We've become a real central donation place.

William Bass

We've already got 13,000 homes planned in Central Oahu, and traffic is just unbearable. We'd like to see some requirements put on the development, now. Maybe they will have to make more concessions.

Pavich Thongroj

There are certainly problems in the scoring system. Still, these are not grounds to rush back to the central entrance exams.

Amanda Thompson

We're interested in hearing about supply chain and logistics ideas and problems from central Indiana manufacturers. We have resources to offer them in terms of the expertise of our professors and good students for internships and employment.

Charles Lee

Whether you know it or not, or like it or not, you are planning the future growth of Central Florida.

Don Aaron

We would remind people that the Central Police Precinct is headquartered at the GEC. The police presence will be strong.

Dannel Malloy

We found that Central Americans and Hispanics are somewhat reluctant to send their children off to school as early as Anglo-Americans born in this country. There are some cultural differences.

Diana Ross

It has always been, and still is, my intention to build a playground in Central Park.

Rep. Caruso

We want to see what he was thinking at the time. He's the one who received the employment. Was it something that he sought? Was it something that the companies offered to him?

Louis Navellier

There's a lot of companies that profit from a weak dollar.

Michael Specter

When people say they prefer organic food, what they often seem to mean is they don't want their food tainted with pesticides and their meat shot full of hormones or antibiotics. Many object to the way a few companies - Monsanto is the most famous of them - control so many of the seeds we grow.

John Nolan

The other thing the Internet and overall technology are enabling us to do, quite honestly, is streamline our internal costs, and that's a big deal. We're using the Internet just like a lot of companies to try and drive down costs administratively and then leverage that infrastructure to enhance our core products and offer Internet-related products outside our mainstream.

Ron Carey

The Post Office and the other companies can't manage the volume, ... They shouldn't be dictating; they should be negotiating.

Jim Keyes

We are pleased to join the global companies listed on the world's most prestigious stock exchange, ... Our NYSE listing marks an important milestone for 7-Eleven and will raise our visibility with the financial community.

Ryan Thompson

There are companies that will rent furniture for houses on sale.

Harvey Eisen

There are companies that in my mind are obvious takeover candidates,

Victor Lazarovici

There are companies making money consistently, even at lower gold prices. Panic is the last thing you want to do.

Louise Bourgeois

Even though what I do does enter the market, it doesn't interest me. I am exclusively concerned with the formal qualities of my work. It is about the need and the right to self-expression.

Linda Johnson

The people who voted yes understood the issue, and that is really what we are concerned about. I think it speaks for itself.

Bill Nygren

The people who own Internet stocks are taking on a very high level of risk. Myself and most of the other managers at the conference are concerned about people who own and trade those stocks not understanding the risks they're taking.

Subodh Kumar

We are seeing a pullback on stocks because many investors are concerned with the outlook for interest rates and with the economy at the start of 2006. The rebound in oil in the past couple of days is also hurting some stocks, especially the ones related to consumer spending, such as retailers.

Gerald Lucas

There are some fears about inflation but people are even more concerned about what's happening in the corporate credit market.

Matt Durgin

We're not going to make an issue of it. We're more concerned who we're playing, not where we're playing.

Donald Trump

We have a special site, a special location. We have a neighborhood that at first was concerned but now has embraced us for the most part.

Todd Jaeger

We have some chain-link fences that are kind of high in back of the high school and we're concerned about kids getting hurt, so it's kind of a double-edged sword there.

Charlie Haden

I just see myself as a human being that's concerned about life.

Jesse Jackson

We want the people resettled and the damages paid for lives lost and lives injured.

Gary LaGrange

The outcome is not good. Yesterday, I thought the damage could have been worse; but today, I'm not so sure.

Li Bingbing

The threat of extinction is more real than many realise. And the damage done to elephants directly leads to destruction of the ecosystem.

Carrie Ann Inaba

I love the show 'Damages!' I am truly addicted.

Cherrie Moraga

To assess the damage is a dangerous act.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

If a woman is really injured by her marriage, she should sue under the employer liability act. She should claim damages--not alimony.

Bill Vaughan

I would say the damage here is much more [than the tsunami], the magnitude of the calamity here is much more

Barry Gibb

Unknown to myself, I damaged all my joints.

Tasnim Aslam

When they turn into violent acts, we also damage our image.

John Lilly

When you talk about effects of (winning that game), in any one year it doesn't have that great of an effect,

Paul Brennan

We found protective effects with at least weekly consumption of cruciferous vegetables,

Roman Romanenko

Throughout the history of spaceflight and the study of effects of exploring to human, space environment to human body, we have accumulated enough knowledge to be able to move over to the next step: getting ready for interplanetary missions, for interplanetary exploration.

Richard P. Feynman

The extreme weakness of quantum gravitational effects now poses some philosophical problems; maybe nature is trying to tell us something new here: maybe we should not try to quantize gravity.

Eula Biss

The risk of getting Hep B from a blood transfusion is a tiny number, but it's a bigger number than the risk of side effects from the vaccine.

Jim Egan

We really don't know what population effects have in terms of water quality trends.

Iris Chenault

She's tired today because she didn't get enough sleep without the machine. That's one of the side effects you don't get a good night's sleep.

Michael Douglas

We did the first one as good as you can. You can't make the special effects any better. There was no reason to do it. They offered it to me years ago, and I just saw no reason to do it.

Bogan Durr

We are going to throw it into a big pile on the ground and everyone has to walk through it and really see the effects of what they are doing.

Wolfgang Bernhard

When we export to the United States, to the NAFTA region, we lose three-digit-million numbers, ... That raises questions about our European production facilities.

Hamid-Reza Asefi

We regard the European proposals as an initial and not the final proposal.

James Monroe

In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, not does it comport with our policy so to do. It is only when our rights are invaded or seriously menaced that we resent injuries or make preparation for our defence.

Anna Lindh

major step forward toward the integration (of Macedonia) into the European Union.

Kevin Crossley-Holland

There are Arthurian legends in 14 or 15 medieval European languages. They are the product of no one time or place. On the contrary, in sum they represent a tremendous mine of human understanding, rather as the Bible does.

Elaine Sciolino

When Pope Francis touched down on French soil for the first time in his papacy with a visit to the European Parliament in Strasbourg last November, Ms. Royal was the senior French official there to greet him.

Donald Tusk

The government has been repairing Poland's image and its relations with the European Union and the world.

Hu Jintao

We hope to see European Union plays a more important role on issues pertaining to Europe and the world as a whole,

Suzanne Fields

Many of the Europeans who want Israel to go away don't even know why they do. Nearly a third of those interviewed concede they have no idea what the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is all about. It's enough to know that Israelis are Jews.

John Eklund

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

Jack Sanders

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

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.

Paul Powers

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

Charles Carlson

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

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.

Kristanna Loken

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

Ed Pinckney

He wasn't winded at all. He looked really good. Definitely, NBA shape is different, but he had extensive weight room work. He's always working out. He's going to be 50 years old and not gain an ounce of fat. He's a freak.

Karl Gawell

There is no state with more extensive resources than Nevada.

Alan Moore

People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.

Alan Green

In the time of Mrs Thatcher the church, to give it its due, spoke out and was an enemy of the Conservative government.

Alan Greenspan

In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.

Alan Greenspan

The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.

Alan Greenspan

Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the productive members of a society to support a wide variety of welfare schemes. A substantial part of the confiscation is effected by taxation. But the welfare statists were quick to recognize that if they wished to retain political power, the amount of taxation had to be limited and they had to resort to programs of massive deficit spending, i.e., they had to borrow money,by issuing government bonds, to finance welfare expenditures on a large scale.

Alan Greenspan

We are in the midst of a once-in-a-century credit tsunami. Central banks and governments are being required to take unprecedented measures. Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders' equity are in a state of shocked disbelief.

Al Sharpton

We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

If we have any problems, it's always with the government of the United States.

Andy Troszok

We want the opportunity to work with the government on this.

Timothy Noah

Markets can do many wonderful things, which is why I'm glad to live in a capitalist country.

Ted Sarandos

When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.

Mario Zawadzki

The political situation here doesn't help, but worldwide markets are falling.

Alan Ackerman

What you've got now is world markets whipsawing. It's a letdown, not a meltdown.

Roberto Azevedo

Trade liberalization can be contagious, and the opening of markets regionally can spark progress multilaterally as well.

Hernan Cortes

This city has many public squares, in which are situated the markets and other places for buying and selling.

Carlos Ghosn

We don't know where the markets are going,

Robert Brusca

There is a reason for stock markets to be worried. But I don't think we need to talk about recession yet -- it's not on the radar screen.

Firas Askari

Obviously, a little more tepid than what markets were expecting.

David Crystal

Swearing makes an excellent relief mechanism

Susan Manning

Since this play is about six women from Louisiana, we wanted to do something for the relief effort.

Ann Brashares

Sometimes it is a relief to be invisible

Phil Flynn

We are not completely out of the woods yet, but we saw a lot of relief yesterday (Tuesday) and that trend is continuing,

Larry Rice

We'd get some sort of relief rally, ... And then we'd have a sobering up.

David Copperfield

My show is constantly evolving... new tricks are added, old ones are dropped... so it stays fresh. But it's the randomly selected participants from the audience that make it fresh and provide some of the best comic relief.

Susanne Beauregard

I think it was a relief to her.

Jochen Behle

We are sorry that it had come to this. It's a relief for Evi now.

Cindy Shaw

Some of this is just a little relief rally,

Gary Williams

We're in a tough situation right now. We'll find out what we're made of.

Herman Edwards

We're in a situation where time is of the essence,

Dennis Kavelman

We're in a situation now where you have to play it out and fortunately we have very strong contingency plans.

Deborah Norville

There is something in even the darkest situations that we can make a positive in our lives.

Beth Moore

Forgiveness doesn't make the situation OK, it makes you OK.

Gary Hoffman

We got to this situation not overnight. We're not going to turn it around overnight.

Brian Eno

I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens.

Brian Eno

Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.

Jim Roberts

This was a situation where everybody's got to step up and do what they do.

Mike Hargrove

I don't know that he was awe-struck, but he was terribly excited.

John Schneider

'Gut' was my nickname. And I was picked on terribly by many, many kids.

Antony Gormley

I feel terribly misunderstood; I feel terribly misunderstood.

Anna Chancellor

There's a certain amount of self-aggrandising with actors, and I'm terribly shy of that.

Oriana Fallaci

It must be terribly lonely to be a king instead of a man.

Phil Dinsky

There's nothing terribly wrong with it. It's going to be re-formatting it and updating a little bit.

Roilo Golez

I'm terribly disappointed with (Marcos). But that is her prerogative,

Nastassja Kinski

I'm not terribly consistent, and that worries me.