Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Greff

Louisiana's performance in the wake of the hurricanes is impressive. Statewide results are receiving a strong boost from construction crews and other personnel in the region for the post-hurricane reconstruction. We think displaced gamblers from the Mississippi Gulf Coast are also driving growth.

Jennifer Duffy

Lott's re-election is something close to a sure thing, but if he had vacated his seat, the contest to replace him would have been very competitive, giving Democrats a boost in their efforts to pick up seats in November.

Bob Enos

Scott's presence gave a big boost to the team.

Dave Carlson

Most will boost their prices over a period of time. They'll do it daily.

Alan Rifkin

Net-net, the change is expected to boost earnings on a continued operating basis.

Martin Rees

One of President Obama's first acts was to give a massive boost to America's scientific community.

Jenny Taylor

One important thing in the application process for sellers will be to verify that their items are produced locally and are from those counties. The Farmer's Market is for the nature and well being of the local community and for those producers trying to boost their business.

Hideaki Kurimoto

Money is gathering into the real-estate business. The trend will help boost profits of property companies and banks.

Stephen Ahn

New models will help boost sales in overseas markets this year as they did at home last year.

Mallory Ortberg

A lot of my creative energy is spent coming up with a concept that, once I get it, I feel like it writes itself.

Rod Wright

We're not coming out here to just hang with those guys and hopefully we can win the game in the fourth quarter. We want to dominate. That's not been said about USC.

Chipper Jones

We're not coming out here to go home after the first round. That would be a supreme disappointment.

Kurt Melton

We're not coming out at halftime with the intensity we need.

Herman Cain

We're not coming into Virginia to be a one-note Johnny.

E. B. White

We're not coming here with any false illusions.

Leinaala Lopes

We're not coming back until it is safe and secure.

Doug Holmes

Mandatory dues. Not only that, they were coming in there telling me you need to do this, you need to do that.

Susan Cohen

Life is lived in a circle. The dates keep coming back to you. People say, 'Move on.' But that implies a straight road taking you somewhere else. Nothing can take you out of the seasons of the years and the dates that recall your life. And since we were a happy family together, we had many happy days and those days are now sad days.

Dag Hammarskjold

Life demands from you only the strength you posses. One feat is possible -- not to have run away.

John Frame

Scripture nowhere divides worship up into a series of independent 'elements', each requiring independent scriptural justification. Scripture nowhere tells us that the regulative principle demands that particular level of specificity, rather than some other.

Richard Holland

Meeting today's and tomorrow's demands for safe, fresh water requires everyone's efforts, from isolated village communities to global industries and world leaders. Solutions need to be as diverse as the threats. The key will be in finding solutions that view meeting people's needs and nature conservation as compatible, not conflicting, aims.

Zalman Shoval

Now they want to say, 'What the previous administration put on the table, OK, we take that and let's start and have further demands and have further concessions from Israel,' ... That's not the way to do business.

Marilynne Robinson

When I lecture, under almost all circumstances, I write a new lecture for the occasion. It helps me think. It helps me make demands of myself that I would not otherwise make.

Zoran Djindjic

Getting all our seats is not enough to satisfy Serbia, ... Our demands go far beyond.

Jamal Crawford

I felt overwhelmed by ticket demands and people wanting something from me. I said, I've got to get me a home team.

Dave Farrell

She still has some things to learn. I haven't pushed her to be a team leader because she is playing with juniors and seniors. But her position kind of demands it.

Austin Hill

If this is true, it could potentially be a very serious problem for Intel. It could lead to demands for a recall of the chip,

Fred Silva

We still have the problem that governors like to do stuff.

Andrew Grossman

This nation's health-care problems are, in no small part, about Wal-Mart. Should governors take up Scott's offer for him to visit their states, we are sure he will hear just that.

Kim Kalama

We went through two governors already, and now we're working on the third one.

Mike Volesky

Sometimes the governors of Montana and Wyoming agree, and sometimes they disagree. There's still a long way to go in the process.

Gary Johnson

I had a 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' experience as governor.

Rich Harris

It's not a one-to-one correlation between the positions. There are things that mayors can do that are specific to their city. Governors don't always have the luxury of a one-size-fits-all solution.

Steve George

The various governors are meeting with troops from their states.

Horace Walpole

Our supreme governors, the mob.

Robert Frost

Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. A poem may be worked over once it is in being, but may not be worried into being.

Ivan Feinseth

Mills is in a very hot sector, but they have a negative return on capital.

Maria Sharapova

Mentally it was pretty tough, when you know you've got a very patient opponent and you know that it's really hot out there.

Mark Peterson

Maybe the weather was just so hot it didn't feel like summer was over yet. I don't know.

Susan Blake

maybe before it's too hot but not cold.

Tina Brown

The first black president was a hotter plot line than the first woman president.

Elizabeth Bowen

rudeness to Mrs. Dosely was like dropping a pat of butter on to a hot plate - it slid and melted away.

Jenna Morasca

On my season of 'Survivor,' the tribes were split: a tribe of men versus a tribe of women. Even though the women kicked the men's butts at the first two challenges, we were a hot mess at camp.

Tamara Tunie

I was the first African-American woman to play Maggie in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.' It was at the Virginia State Theatre, and we turned Richmond upside down.

Steve Frank

Minnesotans don't know him. And so he will have a problem in terms of increasing his name recognition and visibility.

Chris Burns

She had been suffering increasing amounts of pain.

Gail Kelly

I have certainly been very front footed about increasing our gender representation at Westpac.

Nawal El Saadawi

When you have increasing power of religious groups, oppression of women increases. Women are oppressed in all religions.

Robert Adams

What's really increasing more than anything is that we're getting more kids to take the SAT. That in and of itself means more kids are considering post-secondary education, which is tremendous. That's what they need to do.

Robert Williams

We started increasing power at 8:30 yesterday (Saturday) morning.

Neale Donald Walsch

I think in metaphysical terms, I would call that increasing the speed of the vibration of life.

Terry Chapin

I think that (packed byline) is an increasing trend when you get real large-scale issues like this. No one person knows how to put it all together.

Larry Beets

He's been effective, and his speed is increasing because he's getting used to the rotation.

Troy Bell

Obviously we have some issues to iron out.

Dean Young

A poem should be odd as a small cast-iron platypus.

Elinor Glyn

Would you please publish the enclosed manuscript or return it without delay, as I have other irons in the fire.

Abdul Kalam

Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.

Graeme Dott

I got some luck in the last frame, which I thought was ironic because I thought I might win then.

Mark Zalin

I didn't get a preseason to iron out our lineup. We were playing matches before we had an official practice.

Alexandra Adornetto

It was ironic how love could awaken them to the wonders of the universe, while at the same time confine their attention to one another.

Gregory Miller

We know that arsenic likes to stick to iron oxides, various kinds of rust,

Rich Harden

You did see a little of everything. That's why I need more games. I still have to iron out some mechanics. That's the big thing.

Italo Calvino

Politics is marginal, but literature moves along by indirection.

David King

Let's just say we were pretty disappointed when Coastline Brewery moved downtown.

Marilyn Praisner

Let's stop going around and around. Let's move it.

Kit Hale

Sellers may not be able to move quite as quickly with the transaction, but prices still remain solid.

William Proxmire

Move over, $7,000 coffeepots! Stand aside, $400 hammers! We now have the $792 doormat!

Richard Rosenbaum

move on to the next stage of his life.

Chris McCarron

One real misconception, that I realized shortly after I moved out here, was that this was a vacation for the riders,

Tom Bradley

Obviously, we're going to have to move some personnel around and make some adjustments.

Walt Kuver

Of course, the commissioners need to be reassured that this move will be risk-free for the county.

Elizabeth Bowen

writers do not find subjects: subjects find them. There is not so much a search as a state of open susceptibility.

Paul Mills

We are part of the United States now, but we don't want to be submerged and lost.

Barack Obama

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we've got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

Nguyen Van Thieu

But the United States did not keep its word. Is an American's word reliable these days?

David Hume

...interest is the barometer of the state...

Eden Sher

I live in a constant state of hyperbole.

Carol Moseley Braun

I was very productive as a senator for my state.

Madeleine Albright

I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.

Madeleine Albright

I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me.

Edsger Dijkstra

It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.

Sathya Baba

If one student is bad, only that student is affected. But if one teacher is bad, hundreds of students get spoiled.

Tom Callos

When the student is ready, the teacher appears. Likewise, when the teacher is ready, the students appear.

John Boyles

I have a vision for the way students can be represented.

Kevin Knight

I'd like to see every student be a part of their school, whether they are in sports, band, drama, or any other ac-tivity,

Annie Dillard

When I teach, I preach. I thump the Bible. I exhort my students morally. I talk to them about the dedicated life.

Edward Hirsch

There's been no poet, no great poet in the history of poetry who hasn't also been a great reader of poetry. This is sometimes distressing to my students when I tell them this.

Paul Kohn

We're going to take a look at all the qualifications that all of the students bring.

Kelly Shackelford

What they're trying to do is treat them like they're not a student club. They are a student club.