Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ronald Kessler

Complex man that he was, J. Edgar Hoover left nothing to chance. The director shrewdly recognized that building what became known as the world's greatest law enforcement agency would not necessarily keep him in office.

Kate Nauta

Luc Besson, the writer and producer, saw my picture at an agency and wanted to meet me.

Heather Wilson

Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Santa Fe National Forest told your agency not to set the fire, ... I'd like to know why they went ahead and did it.

Norm Dicks

Several panels of scientists, both within the agency and outside of it, have concluded that hatchery fish can cause harm to their wild counterparts.

Dore Gold

Much of the U.S.-Israel strategic relationship is classified, particularly in the area of intelligence sharing. There are two direct consequences from this situation. First, most aspects of U.S.-Israel defense ties are decided on the basis of the professional security considerations of those involved. Lobbying efforts in Congress cannot force a U.S. security agency to work with Israel.

John Thompson

Motorola designed this integrated suite of emergency dispatch applications in a highly configurable format, giving each public safety agency the flexibility to configure business rules and display options to meet their individual needs.

Jack Miller

One out of every four of us will need a United Way Agency and some in the next year, ... It doesn't matter what your income, your age, or your circumstances.

Guy Tauer

One temporary agency was up 9 percent and one up about 17 percent. But I don?t know what companies were using their help.

Andrew Bennett

One of the things that attracted me to this agency was David and his vision. He's committed to investing in intellectual capital and thought leadership.

Isabella Rossellini

When I was a teenager, I thought maybe I'll be a filmmaker, making film documentaries. My dream when I was a girl was I would be hired by 'National Geographic' or work with David Attenborough, but it didn't happen. I became a model.

Malorie Blackman

I remember, when I was at school, we would have a 10-minute storytelling session where we'd all sit on the floor cross-legged, and the teacher would read. It became something we all really looked forward to. That was part of the reason I grew to love stories.

Cherie Blair

Like every mother, it's my children; that's the first thing that makes me really proud. For my own part, it would be when I became a Queen's Counsel in 1995. I was the 76th woman ever to become a Queen's Counsel, so it was still a pretty rare thing.

Andy Stern

Let's be clear -- state employees and other voters in New Hampshire take a huge risk by supporting him. Wesley Clark has a life-long pattern of support for national Republicans whose policies have been disastrous for public employees, and that is a track record that raises huge doubts about what he would do if he ever became President.

Paul Dowling

Lending to businesses became the flavor of the month about 18 months ago. It's a direct consequence of heightened competition in the industry after mortgage lending slowed.

John Ortberg

Love of learning led to monasteries, which became the cradle of academic guilds.

Arthur Hamlin

Love made the team, but James and I saw we weren't going to get a uniform. We didn't see the need in sitting the bench our senior year, so we became their No. 1 fans. We didn't have cars back then, so we would thumb rides to the away games.

Rep. Detert

Last year we did this bill, and it became a train. This year, we hope to just have a home run.

Shannon Hawrylo

Last year, we made a breakthrough because we became the closest-knit group since I have been on the team. That really helped, being together. We came together a little late though. Near the end, we had some really good races, but had we done better, we would have been in the nationals. That was not cool, but at least we are taking a step forward.

Paul Turner

We're not dismayed in any way, we're building but it's a slow build right now.

Peter Steinbrueck

We're not building the public transportation system that we need.

Ben Howland

We're not building a program, we're following the leadership of John R. Wooden. He's the one that built this program. It will always be his program.

Abe Reichental

We're not building a future for a few years, we're building for a lifetime.

Steve Harrison

Let's be a little creative about this before we start building three- and four-story circular structures. This is Beaufort.

Stuart Butler

Let people try what they want in their states, providing it meets certain standards. It will mean diversity. It's also a way of building consensus over time of what needs to be done, something you can't do if you go nationally initially.

Claudio Reyna

Luckily, the doctor is one of the leading guys in Europe and I'm happy to be seeing him and getting the problem cleared up. Within six to eight weeks, I'll be completely back up and running and three weeks after the surgery, I should be jogging and building it up until I'm back.

Chris Buck

Luckily, I went to school at CalArts, and then ended up here at Disney, starting in the Animation Building and working my way up. I started as an animator, and then did character designing and storyboarding, and eventually, directing.

Jeanne Miller

Maggie had a lively spirit, full of fun and humor. The building will certainly be emptier without her.

Kyler Hall

We're not disappointed in A.J. at all. He's our teammate and he's our brother. You never want to see one of teammates get in a situation like that. I haven't had the chance to speak with him, but I would like a chance to before the game, just to let him know that we're all with him. I'm pretty sure he knows that already though.

Dick Vermeil

We're not concerned about the playoffs. Right now our concern is playing well Saturday. That's all that matters. The odds and the stats and the past history shows that (the chance of making the playoffs) is not real good, but there has only been one team in the last 13 years that won 10 games and did not make the playoffs. We have a chance to win 10, but you can't do that until you win No. 9. For us, it's all about Saturday.

Mike Conners

Life is like a hand of cards. You have to play the hand you're dealt, you can't win by folding, and sometimes you must take chances in order to win.

Scott Sickau

Like I always tell my girls, a lot of people always wish they could go do something but they never get the chance of doing it. I may never get rich, but it's like getting on the back of a stallion with no saddle. You get on and hang on and see where it's going to take you.

Oronde Gadsden

Like everyone else in here, I hope those two moves are the moves that help us get past that playoff level to the next level. They had a chance to get Ricky, and they went out and did it. And it's like everybody says, we're going to ride him until the wheels fall off.

Dick LeBeau

Make no mistake, they've got a great quarterback. It's not easy to hold him under 20. Our guys did that and it gives you a great chance to win. It was the execution of our players. They did a great job with their timing.

Phil Simms

Make Denver make the decision here. In other words, put pressure on Mike Shanahan. What's he gonna do? Is he gonna run it and maybe waste a down because it might not gain a lot of yards, or does he take the chance and throw it and if it's incomplete it stops the clock. That's what the Patriots are hoping for.

Carlos Zambrano

Luck is something you always need to have. We have more chance than the Cardinals. They don't have some of the players they had last year, like Matt Morris. We have to start winning the first month, as many games as possible. We have a good team. We have everything.

Frank Sinatra

Luck is only important insofar as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it

Jin Zhong

Lee grew up and had his education in Japan, he has a strong Japan complex and must trust Japanese health system more than Taiwan,

Alan Williamson

Sentiment towards the precious metals complex remains overwhelmingly bullish.

Jamie Cullum

'm really proud of 'Sad, Sad World' because it manages to state a very complex paradox of an emotion that I experienced when I had children, which is this great happiness and this great intensity, but with that intensity comes a deeper understanding of the world.

S. Iyengar

My guru had stern discipline, ... Gradually a fear complex grew in me.

Chris Bates

Newer complexes generally go for higher rents than older ones.

Mary Bravo

When the objects were presented in a sparse array, search times to find the target were similar for displays composed of simple and complex objects. But when the same objects were presented as dense clutter, search functions were steeper for displays composed of complex objects.

Donald Tusk

If there's one country that can be trusted to understand the complexity of history, it's Israel.

Toni Tennille

Any woman can be a siren one minute and in pigtails the next. I am a very complex person with more than just the one facet that television played on.

Tina Brown

Obamacare is the wildly complex Rube Goldberg contraption it is because getting the legislation through Congress required so many political tradeoffs and so many unavoidable deals with so many vested interests. But that's no excuse.

Isabella Rossellini

My father's films are often very slow for the modern audiences, which are used to a lot of editing. It's the audience that watches the film instead of the director dictating the reaction he wants from you.

Dennis Quaid

My interpretation of a strong director is someone who knows their story.

Alex Graves

No director directs 'Game of Thrones' without reading all the episodes and knowing what's going on. All the episodes are written in advance, so you can do that, which is an important point.

Michael Brown

No. No. I'm still the director of FEMA.

Santiago Cabrera

My English teacher always gave me scripts for plays, but I was into sports. My friend said there were small parts I could go up for, but the director gave me the part of Mozart, which was kind of the lead role. From then on I just loved it.

Bill Conti

Music is anti-intellectual. It's non-literal, and you have to find out what makes the director happy. You want to let someone hear what you're thinking about. Because if you get to the stage, and the director says "I wasn't thinking like that," then your score won't be in the movie.

Scott Ellis

My acting experience has been a benefit. What I learned from directors is how to listen to and talk with actors. I know how they think and what they need.

Joshua A. Norton

Now, therefore, the Directors of the company are hereby ordered to see that precautions are taken to make travel on said railroad perfectly safe by using a screw with at least twenty-four inches diameter.

Michael Posner

When I was at the Toronto Film Festival this week, I saw this wonderful Brazilian film called House of Sand. Since the movie was so terrific, and Delray has a large Brazilian population, I thought it would make for a nice addition. When I spoke to the film's director himself and told him about the Delray Film Festival, he instantly said yes.

Ross Lynch

My favorite poem ever was 'Annabel Lee' by Edgar Allan Poe.

Martin Jol

I did not even see it, I was watching Edgar Davids. The lad was going down then standing up and for me there's no problem.

Charles M. Schwab

As the train rounded the curve, the great smoking stacks of the Edgar Thomson works, the flaming converters belching forth, made such a vivid impression upon my youthful mind that it will never fade. I thought I had seen the very acme of what might be accomplished in an industrial way.

Peter Hutton

(Jockey) Edgar (Prado) said she was sharpsharper than he expected her to be,

Ray LaHood

What I told Edgar is I would write him a big check, ... I didn't offer to give him all my money.

Rick Smolan

I wonder if 50 years from now we'll look back, and maybe Julian Assange will be the hero and J. Edgar Hoover will be the enemy of the state.

Alexandra Adornetto

Literature has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. I can't think back before a time that I didn't love writing and reading. When I was really young, my mother would read poems to me. I loved Edgar Allan Poe - I am sure I didn't understand it, but I loved it.

Albert Pujols

Mike Matheny, Fernando Vina, Edgar Renteria, Mark McGwire and Darryl Kile... before he died. Those guys took me under their wing and taught me the way to play the game the right way.

Dan Wilson

To be one of 30 nominees is quite an honor, and to have Edgar win it last year and Jamie the year before makes it even more meaningful,

Warren Haynes

Making that record was one of the greatest musical moments in my life,

Angelina Jolie

Second to my children, spending time with refugees and other persons of need around the world has been the greatest gift, ... It's been the greatest life lesson I could ever receive.

Mary Wittenberg

Monday is the start of two races. One of the races will be over in 2? hours. The other race to be the world's greatest marathoner won't be over for 18 months.

Justin Gatlin

Maurice is one of the greatest competitors in the world. However this is a new era, the young guys are coming.

Gerald Curtis

One of his greatest opportunities now is to push agricultural reform,

Sally Schneider

One of my greatest joys is when someone like your wife takes one idea or one piece of a recipe and does it her way. That's what I'm encouraging.

George Granville

Of all pains, the greatest pain Is to love, and love in vain.

Mike Perez

One through six, they really hate to lose. They all are very competitive. They may not be the greatest practice players, but in matches, I know they are going to get it done.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Music, of all the liberal arts, has the greatest influence over the passions

Gail Porter

I have a problem with cleaning. It's my release. I get up at 6 A.M. and clean and hoover and mop everything. Then I feel better.

Jude Wanniski

Will GWB be the (Herbert) Hoover of his age?

John Sherman Cooper

I met Mr. Hoover socially. I never talked to him about anything connected with his work. We just met him.

Richard P. Feynman

With the exception of gravitation and radioactivity, all of the phenomena known to physicists and chemists in 1911 have their ultimate explanation in the laws of quantum electrodynamics.

Karen Cason

Let it be known you are a lackey, a crony...

French Proverb

Many are esteemed, only because they are not known

Jennifer Robinson

McGill is a university known around the world for a lot of things, mostly for the quality of our students and our professors and the successes of our research and teaching.

Jacquie Small

No one would have ever known (that she was ill) because of her drive. She was in a lot of pain, and people didn't know it.

Chris Crutcher

Once a thing is known,it can't be UNknown.

Tom Stoppard

If you are well known at something else, you get points for doing stuff which lots of other people do, and much more, and they don't get any points at all. You get over-praised, over-credited.

Plaxico Burress

I can't even get a read on him or how he's feeling. As long as I've known him this year, he's been the same, no matter what. What's so special about this game?

Eddie Palmieri

I can tell you that it's just a sad day, a sad day for the Latin music industry, ... Tito was known all over the world.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

Liar, n.: A lawyer with a roving commission.

Tom DeLay

Let me be very, very clear, ... I have done nothing wrong. I have violated no law, no regulation, no rule of the House. I have done nothing unlawful, unethical or, I might add, unprecedented.

Vanessa Redgrave

Serbia has no right, under national or international law, to Kosovo.

Laura Fisher

So far, the law is working as intended.

Mickey Mantle

Mr. Mantle, do you have any observations with reference to the application of antitrust laws to baseball?

John Dingell

Mr. Pitt got in trouble. If he is not doing the job, sees to it that security laws are properly enforced, it's time for him to depart.

Lisa Gross

One reason the waiver was refused was because it's state law. And because they didn't want to set a precedent.

William Blake

One Law for the Lion and Ox is Oppression

Charles Potter

No one owns a parking spot; it's the public's right to use them, ... This law will lead to more regular enforcement of the problem. Now, using the littering law is a stretch.

Michael Slater

Let's just say that there was a settlement but, like many other creditors, I've been left out of pocket,

Curtis Haggins

Meacham could have won it with 1.7 seconds left on the clock. That would have been something.

Marc Pado

Net-net, there's probably plenty of oil in the market. OPEC left production quotas, so that's a plus for the market this morning.

Brad Faxon

Money is an important part. There's a little consolidation, and when you've got consolidation, somebody is going to get left out.

Ray Edwards

My grandmother works nights at Wal-Mart. I want to put a stop to that. That's why I left school early.

Richard Seymour

When I look back at football, I've always said to myself, 'I'd rather leave the game and have something in my tank rather than have left all of me out on the field.'

John Franco

When I left is when they started playing well,

Jon Anderson

When I left I just played in rock bands, and started playing acoustic, washed dishes, but pretty much supported myself with music,

Charles Peguy

There will be things that I do that no one will be left to understand.

Busch Series

Man, I had no idea what to expect.

Rashad Bobino

Man, I can see why they're No. 1 in the nation.

Mario Bailey

Man, he's a senior. He's worked hard, and this is for him.

M.I.A.

Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture.

Rae Rosen

Manhattan is unique; the rest of the region is more like the nation.

Toba Beta

Man has to postulate weirdness, before reaching the new science.

William Burroughs

Man has sold his soul for time, language, tools, weapons, and dominance.

Pat Connors

Man has a very poor track record when it comes to nature.

Barry Alvarez

Man did he play. I was really proud of him. . . . I really thought he played exceptional for a young kid.

Ted Nelson

The only ones those certifications are recognized by are the associations who give them.

John Eberle

The propeller sputtered and that was it ... we recognized it was an emergency.

Loretta Lynch

Everyone wants to be seen. Everyone wants to be heard. Everyone wants to be recognized as the person that they are and not a stereotype or an image.

David Boreanaz

I seem to get recognized more in London and Europe than over here in the States.

A.J. Pierzynski

Yeah, I got recognized more at home. That's for sure.

Brad Lancaster

We're 20 to 40 students away from being a Recognized district. It was close, but we're not taking any chances.

Allison Tolman

I haven't been recognized out in public or anything. The strangeness of celebrity has been relegated to Twitter, which is kind of manageable.

Robin Weigert

I remember when 'Deadwood' had first come out, there was this whole deer-in-the-headlights sense of feeling really uncomfortable with being recognized in public.

Warner Johnston

Our city's playgrounds are nationally recognized for safety.