Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sergei Lavrov

The Americans have taken the course of confrontation and do not assess their own steps critically at all.

Jeff Zucker

It gives me great pleasure to formally give Steve the full reins of this critically important division at this crucial time.

Robert Rubin

It is critically important, not just for Japan, but for the rest of the region and the rest of the world, that that take place.

Phil Hughes

I'm still very worried. He's still critically ill. It's not good.

Mel Martinez

I look forward to your tenure as chairman, ... When you are confirmed, as I'm sure you will be, it's critically important that you be independent. I think you realize that.

Dr. Shannon

He remains critically ill. We're still in the process of trying to stabilize his system.

Tony Vecchio

Her loss will be felt not just here locally, but world-wide due to the critically endangered status of this species.

David Novak

Humility is going to be critically important for him. It's going to be horrendous. It's going to be excruciating for him.

Roger Williams

He had a disturbed night but he is still very alert, very sedated on the ventilator. He remains critically ill but fairly stable.

Yo-Yo Ma

Our (nation's) cultural strength has always been derived from our diversity of understanding and experience.

Koichiro Matsuura

Managing water is as much cultural as technical, reflecting how peoples and communities relate themselves to nature.

John Bolton

Management reform is not a one-night stand. Management reform is forever. What we really need is a cultural revolution in terms of reform at the United Nations,

Akira Kurosawa

Japan does not understand very well that one of its proudest cultural achievements is in film,

Donald Harrison

Jazz is cultural music in New Orleans. It's part of the fabric of everyday life, and everybody knows the music. It's always going to be a part of it.

Jane Fonda

The '60s may be idealized in the movie from a cultural point of view, but the decade was all about discord and a big generational split that was very painful.

Bob Dixon

I think that was a contribution to the community, an enlightening cultural exchange,

Jay Chism

It is important that a good sales staff know which product works on what pest. It is also important for retailers to know when to recommend good cultural practices. Not every problem in the home landscape can be cured from a pesticide bottle.

Sam Brownback

I think the next president needs to lead on cultural issues and experience, particularly on foreign policy.

Martin Winterkorn

Regardless of whether we are in an upturn or a downturn, our goal is to ensure the Volkswagen Group reaches the top of the automotive industry.

Tim Frank

Our policy . . . does not require a player to take a drug test at any point during a game, and we will ensure going forward that no testing is conducted during this time.

David Emerson

Part of what we're doing right now is to ensure that what we do doesn't make matters worse.

Ramalinga Raju

Our marketing expenses will go down too. We are taking a stand where we would be guided by what opportunities it brings, whether it preserves our margins or whether it ensures higher growth. There is a range of things that we can do to structure these deals.

Rob Conway

Our goal is to ensure that in future, every notebook will be SIM ready.

Dayle Stewart

Our crews are ensuring that their trucks are stocked with all the equipment that they might need. We're going to ensure that all the trucks have been fueled and are ready to go at a moment's notice.

Bob Goodlatte

Our trading partners need to understand that we will do everything possible to ensure the competitive position of American farmers and ranchers,

Jon Postel

reserved for infrastructure purposes to help ensure stable operation of the Internet.

Scott Baker

We need something better than peaker plants to ensure energy. I think we can do better.

Ashton Irwin

Wearing green underwear today, I feel like a frog.

William Joyce

I raised frogs every spring in our house from tadpoles and by end of summer our house was overrun with frogs.

David Hare

When they speak, dead frogs fall out of their mouths.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog.

Donnie McClurkin

It's a poor frog that doesn't praise his own pond! - Donnie McClurkin

E. B. White

Humor is like a frog. You can dissect it to see how it works, but by then, it's dead.

E. B. White

You can dissect a joke just as you can a frog. But it tends to die on you.

Brian Tracy

You cannot eat every tadpole and frog in the pond, but you can eat the biggest and ugliest one, and that will be enough, at least for the time being.

Beth Orton

When I was really young I used to collect frog spawn. I made a pond out of an old sink and I loved to spend hours watching the frogs grow.

Matt Perry

I think of it like, if I am surviving in the wild, how do I get around? Like a mountain lion, jumping rock to rock.

Matt Campbell

I didn't like jumping 16-8, but winning is always good.

Ryan Giggs

I do not want to be on the pitch when they are jumping around celebrating winning the league.

Aaron Nida

He (Cordell) is right where he should be. He is jumping well and I think he is going to continually improve.

Andre Woolfolk

I was stuck in between picking it up and jumping on it. When I saw a lineman coming, I tried jumping on it and he bounced me right off it.

Cameron Diaz

I'm always jumping on a plane somewhere. With my lifestyle, I'm all over the place.

Carson Kressley

Challenge yourself, jump off the deep end and learn to swim.

Archie Shepp

You get a show where people are jumping up and dancing, but it's not a critical event in the sense of profound catharsis. Essentially it's celebratory.

Devron Bostick

Last year, we were still jumping around at this time.

Horace Engdahl

I think he is unassailable from a literary point of view, ... On the other hand, there may be some people who think he's too established.

Ian Mcewan

Something is missing in our culture. We can't quite celebrate the scientific literary tradition.

Aberjhani

Literary genres and techniques tend to take form in one's mind somewhat the way computer templates provide form for different computer tasks.

Siri Hustvedt

It's not as if I've been unlucky. My books have been published and reviewed. I haven't lived through terrible literary suffering!

Andrea Hirata

I think what matters most in literary work is the context, not the text.

Paul Theroux

Japan, Germany, and India seem to me to have serious writers, readers, and book buyers, but the Netherlands has struck me as the most robust literary culture in the world.

Jeffrey Eugenides

One of the reasons I like Barthes more than other writers of that ilk is because he had a literary quality.

Ellen Potter

I resisted children's writing for a long time. I saw myself as a writer of literary fiction. But I had so much more fun writing kids' books.

Tawni O'Dell

I write literary, not commercial, fiction - or so I've been told by my publishers who are proud I write literary fiction but secretly wish I wrote commercial.