Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Webb

The POW camps of North Vietnam were packed with Air Force and Naval Academy graduates. The six midshipmen in my Naval Academy class of 1968 who served as liaisons between the Marine Corps and the Brigade of Midshipmen later suffered nine Purple Hearts in Vietnam, and one man killed in action.

David Williams

We appreciate the tremendous support and generosity from La Petite Academy's children, parents and associates, which has enabled us to grant the heartfelt wishes of nearly 400 children nationwide so far. With Gary leading the way, I believe without a doubt that La Petite Academy will reach its truly impressive goal.

Nathan Sawaya

The team behind 'The Lego Movie' approached me. They wanted to do something extra special for the Academy Award performance of best song nominee 'Everything is Awesome.' They had seen my earlier version of a Lego Oscar statue, and I was happy to take on the challenge.

Neville Marriner

So I think we got together as the Academy to give ourselves that sort of responsibility and to play well.

Chet Gladchuk

Whether we visit South Bend, or the game is played on the East Coast, it is of great interest to our collective national audience of Irish fans, Naval Academy alumni and the Navy family at large, ... Two institutions with similar values rekindling a lengthy and well-respected relationship make this game special.

Patrick Knapp

When we went up to see her play, Kelly needed to work on her skills. She needed to get stronger, needed more experience, and Blair Academy certainly helped her do that.

Neil Giuliano

We're extremely disappointed it didn't win best picture. We certainly aren't going to paint the entire academy with a broad stroke, but maybe there was some conflict in some members' minds. Still, the movie got tremendous recognition, and we're very pleased with that.

Mike Flanagan

We're excited to be able to partner with the Naval Academy and play host tithe Army-Navy doubleheader. We think it will be fun for fans of both the Midshipmen and the Black Knights, and it will be especially rewarding for players on both teams to experience playing at Camden Yards.

Richard P. Feynman

I don't understand what it's all about or what's worth what, but if the people in the Swedish Academy decide that x, y or z wins the Nobel Prize, then so be it.

Humberto Moreira

We want them to get precise, objective information so they can pass it along to their other loved ones.

Luke Bracey

You can make movies and not particularly get along with the people you're working with but, when they say 'Action,' your job is to make it look like you're in love.

Mohsin Hamid

For people who are at the bottom economically, the world is becoming a harder and harder place. And yet the incentives to become rich are so great because enormous amounts of wealth are being accumulated. And so those two things, that carrot and stick, are beating people along this trajectory of trying desperately to move up in the world.

Andy Reid

We appreciate all that Corey has done for this organization over the last five years. With the great amount of depth and talent we have along the defensive line, we chose to give Corey and opportunity to sign with another team.

George Fellows

We are proud to expand our support of junior golf by extending our relationship with the Junior World Championships. Our sponsorship of this prestigious event, along with our ongoing support of high school and college programs around the country, further demonstrates our commitment to the players who are the future of this great game.

Richard Waugh

We've all heard horror stories about a proposed concrete barrier about to be dropped in the center lane along Southgate. The center median is necessary, but it won't be the concrete type used in highway construction projects.

Gary Tucker

We are pleased to announce that Little Sioux Corn Processors, L.P., plans to construct an ethanol plant at a location south of Akron, Iowa, along Highway 12.

Glen Sather

We are looking to develop the next generation of great Rangers players, ... Our goal is to continue to improve as the season moves along and to continue to develop the many great young prospects we have now.

Ricky Stokes

We are looking forward to working hard and having a winning season. This should be an exciting team and brand of basketball. I think we will all have a lot of fun along the way.

David Miliband

I've committed myself to serve my constituents in South Shields and I have committed myself to British politics.

Louis Leakey

I kept an open mind on the question of whether a hominid had been present in Europe in the early Pleistocene.

Louis Leakey

I felt that in time simple stone tools would be found in early Pleistocene in England.

Louis Leakey

At Olduvai, for 20 years, Mary and I had investigated and made a general survey of the overall geology.

Louis Leakey

I have examined the stomach contents of seven aardvarks.

Michael York

It's a question of why they come for your advice. Whatever I tell you, it doesn't matter, it is completely irrelevant in a way. I know so many actors who were discouraged and put that aside. You will get half-baked opinions.

Reg Keys

The people who will be his judge is not God, it will be the families of the bereaved British soldiers and it will be the families of the bereaved innocent Iraqis who have all been slaughtered in this totally unnecessary conflict.

Davina McCall

The people who go into that house are a cross section of British culture. They're not freaks.

Mike Parker

We are pleased to be able to enter into a contract that will secure the maximum return on the British taxpayers' investment and cement the continued leadership of Westinghouse in the nuclear energy field through the stewardship of the Toshiba Corporation.

Bob DuPuy

We want to stay in Washington. We're very pleased with the reception that people in Washington gave to the team. We're continuing to work with the mayor, we're continuing to work with the council and we're hopeful that we can get it done.

Rich DiPentima

The point of this whole thing is to look at your continuing operations within your infrastructure.

Monte Shaw

We are proud to welcome Corn, LP as the 21st ethanol plant in Iowa. This plant is a showcase of the continuing innovation and improvement in the ethanol industry.

Giles Morgan

We're in continuing dialogue and we're hoping it'll be resolved as soon as possible.

Ted Saskin

We spent the last four days in small group meetings continuing to review and negotiate various systemic and economic issues. The two sides will resume small group discussions on Monday in Toronto.

Diane Forden

Where is our National Guard when we need them? Theyre over in Iraq, ... Why is our government continuing to pursue the wrong priorities?

Bob Graham

We have no intention to let this incident preclude us from continuing those flights.

Charlie Munger

The name of the game is continuing to learn. Even if you're very well trained and have some natural aptitude, you still need to keep learning.

Jim McCafferty

This theme is continuing and not just in the mining stocks, but in any related sectors. This is a macroeconomic trend.

Dave Foley

The potential is enormous but it's up to us to really develop that leisure-oriented market.

Gunter Thielen

We are prepared for an IPO. Bertelsmann has developed strongly in the last years and increased its profits considerably.

Brian Clodi

We've always been able to score. We've got to more defensive-minded. We've got to develop that mean streak.

Alistair Darling

We are looking forward to working with these authorities to develop practical solutions to congestion problems and support the development of a national road pricing scheme,

Chris Pelchen

We are looking forward to further developing the list structure through the AFL National Draft and are encouraged by the prospect of having five picks inside the top 22.

Greg Poland

We still use 1940s technology to develop influenza vaccines.

Miguel Nicolelis

We started all this research way back in the early 1990s, developing a technique that allows us to record the electrical signals produced by neurons simultaneously.

Lord Samuel

Where there are two Phd's in a developing country, one is head of state and the other is in exile.

Gerhard Schroeder

Where it is necessary, programs will be further developed with public discussion,

Derek Leathers

We're doing everything we can to give them the newest trucks on the road. We think our fleet is one of the newest out there, and that's something drivers appreciate.

Christian Horner

The pit stops were fast and it was a strong, disciplined performance. The drivers did a superb job and I'm pleased with the result.

Ernie Irvan

Man, I remember those nasty turns, and how hard it was to judge them. That's what made it so difficult, and the reason the drivers are always so competitive. I always said if you could win at Stockton, you could win anywhere.

Aaron Anderson

We needed a solution that would get all the right information to the drivers as quickly and as cost-effectively as possible.

Bill Richardson

She said, 'We need truck drivers and National Guard,' ... I'll get moving on it.

Beth Gibbons

We're hearing stories. Our drivers are telling us they're seeing a lot of new faces.

Tom Johnston

We've spent so many hours trying to get drunk drivers off the road in so many ways. It makes you really mad to see that, after all that, people still do it.

Steven Wieting

Many of the understandable sources of recovery have been expended in the first half of 2002, leaving growth drivers into 2003 a mystery.

Alex Salmond

Our internationalism is the driver of our nationalism.

Barry Trotz

We're in pretty elite company. I told the team that if we can do something special, go for it.

Michelle Malkin

While Obama, the olive-branch poseur, has called for a restoration of 'civility' in Washington and liberal elites whine and whinny about the need for 'no labels,' class-warfare demagoguery has metastasized unchecked.

Mamata Banerjee

I don't think the elite class is only speaking the good English.

Dan Glickman

Shutting down illegal file swapping networks like Elite Torrents is an essential part of our fight to stop movie thieves from stealing copyrighted materials.

Chuck D.

The fact is this is an elite group of individuals. The fact is we want an elite group of individuals,

Bob Blecher

Last year was the first time Patrice had to be a leader on the field. This year, being a senior and one of the area's elite players, I think she's more willing to take on that responsibility.

Becky Lofstead

We're kind of capitalizing on last year's run to the Elite Eight.

Chris Bosh

To be a part of the world's elite instead of the just league's elite is a little more special.

Gloria Reuben

Mountaintop removal coal operations enrich only a handful of elites while impoverishing everyone else in their proximity.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is far better to borrow experience than to buy it.

Chogyam Trungpa

One has to taste an experience for oneself and find out if the thing is genuine or helpful. Then, before discarding something, one has to go further, so that one gets firsthand experience.

Lukas Haas

It was a wonderful experience to work with Sylvia. She pushed me to be more powerful with my acting, and she told me scores of the most incredible stories I've ever heard. She is amazing.

Lorraine Toussaint

I hope that whenever my daughter has a negative experience, I'm there to talk about it and remind her how we feel when it's done to her so that she doesn't do it to others.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The person who has lived the most is not the one who has lived the longest, but the one with the richest experiences

Mike Cisco

We've all had experience to this point, which has been good.

Diana DeGarmo

West Side Story. It's a totally new experience for me. I've always loved theater.

African Proverb

We start as fools and become wise through experience

Dan Brooks

When you've got talent from top to bottom, everybody's playing to count. It's a tremendous experience to play without that mental cushion.

Lee Ryan

I've learnt a lot over the years, but I'm still quite outspoken. And no matter how much media training you put me through, I don't think I could be anything but.

Cyril Connolly

Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turn before we have learnt to walk

Sarah Snook

I've learnt that there's acting for film, acting for theatre, and acting for an audition.

Mary Quant

Many of my friends are chefs, and I learnt to cook watching them.

Charles Glover Barkla

As an Englishman, permit me now to say with what pleasure I learnt of the election of Professor Planck and Professor Stark to the Nobel Prizes for the years 1918 and 1919.

Natalie Cole

I feel enough distance from the person I used to be. I'm not ashamed about my life anymore, because I've learnt from it.

Rupert Sheldrake

I learnt about plants from my father, who was a herbalist and an amateur microscopist.

Andrew Strauss

We have learnt what it takes to win a series in India.

Mo Ibrahim

From my father, I learnt kindness and how to talk straight.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that can enjoy the intimacy of the great, and on no occasion disgust them by familiarity, or disgrace himself by servility, proves that he is as perfect a gentleman by nature as his companions are by rank.

Charles Dickens

Missionaries are perfect nuisances and leave every place worse than they found it.

Charles Stanley

No matter how far we may wander from the Lord’s perfect will for our lives, we are always welcome back.

Charles Spurgeon

If you wait for a perfect church, you must wait until you get to heaven; and even if you could find a perfect assembly on earth, I am sure they would not admit you to their fellowship, for you are not perfect yourself.

Charles Spurgeon

Take up your own daily cross; it is the burden best suited for your shoulder, and will prove most effective to make you perfect in every good word and work to the glory of God.

Alanis Morissette

In a perfect world, there would be no censorship, because there would be no judgement.

Alan Chadwick

If you obey the technique to perfection, that technique will become invisible.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Perfect love knows no because

Chogyam Trungpa

Why don't we just expand ourselves into our perfect form, our perfect being?

Jose Rebimbas

Sure, in any profession you always want to reach the pinnacle of that profession.

Gary Koenig

It's undying. It's the pinnacle of rock 'n' roll.

Rasheed Wallace

We were already up big, so I'm thinking that's why he did it, to get his teammates to stand up and rally off of that. It didn't work.

Brian K. Vaughan

Victor: You guys have some kind of rallying cry? You know, "Avengers assemble?" "It's clobberin' time?" "Hulk smash?" Nico: "Try not to die.

Suriyasai Katasila

The rally will go on and we won't stop unless we win.

David Briggs

This recent rally may have legs, but we're still on a downtrend.

Lucius Thomas

But rallying the troops turned it around for me to some extent.

Kate Warne

We wouldn't have seen such a strong rally if we hadn't seen most of it in Nortel.

Clark Yingst

We would characterize today's rally in the tech sector as an oversold bounce.

Jim Haslett

I think this team will rally around something like this. I really do.

Betty Buckley

Feminism - the word - can give us a handle, a rallying point, a common ground, and help us build a bridge. Why not claim the gift of the word as a place to begin?

Alan Watts

The role of the Guru is to show the person that he already has what he is looking for.

Alan Autry

I am convinced that your Mayor must take the leadership role in education too.

Chris Burke

I'd like to be the role model to teach other people who have Down's syndrome to be actors and actresses and to be themselves and not try to be a big shot.

Chloe Grace Moretz

You go up for hundreds, thousands of roles, and you get told no, no, no, so many times.

Chip Conley

Companies and leaders are role models - not just with the business community - but in the broader world.

Catherine Deneuve

I choose my roles carefully.

Cary Elwes

I take away something from every role.

Cary Elwes

I take away something from every role. I'm still learning and that's what life is about.

Caroline Kennedy

Well, the role of money in politics is pretty corrupting right now.

David Graeber

In the largest scheme of things, just as no one has the right to tell us our true value, no one has the right to tell us what we truly owe.

Dave Attell

I have no grand scheme.

James Farrior

I think our scheme is very difficult. It seems like we do a lot of different things and, if you don't play us that often and you have never seen anything that we've done, it's going to be tough.

Larry Neumann

Understand this about that scrimmage. We didn't scheme any for Jasper.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Bring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme.

Holly Black

It’s hard to come up with a scheme to thwart some other scheme you don’t even know about.

Jack Warner

They are critical, they are important, but in the (overall) scheme of things they are not mind-boggling.

Matt Hasselbeck

There really isn't a weakness I see right now. Their scheme is so sound.

Jeffrey Eugenides

She wanted out of the decorating scheme.

Jerry Green

We still have old time play time at recess, but we have structured play as well.

Kathleen Blanco

If we're going to have recovery, we're going to have to have structured government. Time is of the essence,

Charles Stross

Any replacement to the current copyright position (life plus 70 years) needs to have an answer lined up for this, and similar, messy edge cases.

Charles Spurgeon

If I knew I had 25 years left to live, I would spend 20 of them in preparation.

Alanis Morissette

I'm a bit of an alchemist sorceress. I've collected probably 1500 oils from around the planet over the last ten years. I'm kind of obsessed with the sensuality of it.

Alan Watts

...for thousands of years human history has been a magnificently futile conflict, a wonderfully staged panorama of triumphs and tragedies based on the resolute taboo against admitting that black goes with white.

Alan Mulally

Although the quality of the vehicles is tremendously improving year after year but the underlying reasons that people are buying cars have really gotten focused. It's for high quality vehicles, reliable, fuel-efficient, and safe of course.

Alan Moore

I've known a lot of people go mad over the years, and it is more distressing than people dying. People dying is quite natural, people going mad is the complete antithesis of that.

Alan Moore

It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses, and apologized to no one.

Alan Moore

It's funny, but certain faces seem to go in and out of style. You look at old photographs and everybody has a certain look to them, almost as if they're related. Look at pictures from ten years later and you can see that there's a new kind of face starting to predominate, and that the old faces are fading away and vanishing, never to be seen again.

Alan Hovhaness

I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to Arlington when I was five years old, and it was in Arlington that I spent most of my childhood.