Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isaiah Thomas

Larry Brown thought Steve Francis was a Larry Brown type of player.

Isaiah Thomas

I would still like to get more athletic and have players that can really cover what's going on in the game.

Isaiah Thomas

We decided to either try trades or just go with older players. If you do that and let contracts expire you can be in the lottery for about four or five years and expect your fans to be patient.

Italo Calvino

Nature in America does not arouse powerful emotions in me.

Rick Perlstein

America was founded on the fissure between slave states and free states, so these huge fault lines are just built into the American project. How we repress them, express them, deal with them, talk around them, think through them, don't think through them, is fascinating to me.

Rick Perlstein

Call it Camelot's revenge: the class of court scribes who made it their profession to uphold a make-believe version of America free of conflict and ruled by noble men helped Nixon get away with it for so long - because, after all, America was ruled by noble men.

Robert Strauss

If you increase the sales tax... everybody would be taxed.

Robert Strauss

It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired - you quit when the gorilla is tired.

Robert Sheckley

I was forever reading outside of the field as well as in it.

Alexandra Paul

I really believe in non-violence, but I also believe in a short of resistance that has to be respectful.

Italo Calvino

I don't believe chance can play a role in my literature.

Italo Calvino

I change my method and field of reference from book to book because I can never believe in the same thing two times running.

Italo Calvino

Personally, I believe in fiction because the stories I like are those with a beginning and an end.

Peter Jennings

Whatever you may think of Mrs. Clinton as a character, I think she believes quite strongly in public service.

Richard Rogers

I don't believe in the ownership of work.

Rick Perlstein

What does it mean to truly believe in America? To wave a flag? Or to struggle toward a more searching alternative to the shallowness of the flag-wavers - to criticize, to interrogate, to analyze, to dissent?

Robert Fisk

We are constantly trying to cope with what our fathers or our grandfathers did. I wrote the book 'Great War of Civilization,' and my father was a solider in the First World War which produced the current Middle East - not that he had much to do with that - but he fought in what he believed was the Great War for Civilization.

Robert Palmer

I believe that my music is just about feelings, and the style is just a side effect.

Robert Sternberg

Leadership and civic engagement are an important part of the Tufts education, ... People often get themselves into power who are very bright, but not necessarily wise, and maybe even foolish.

Brian Callaghan

No one community is immune to it. We try to be vigilant and on top of our responsibilities. Fire, police, youth leaders, churches, different civic groups, parents, schools, and the kids themselves all have the responsibility to keep kids safe. We all own it.

Eddie Quinn

Number one, that civic center's got to go,

Carolyn Bricklemyer

She's a wonderful mother and role model through her faith and civic involvement and a very special grandmother. She has five grandchildren, and each of them think they're her favorite.

Marta Tienda

Significant educational investments will not only foster improvements in their health status, civic engagement and economic productivity, but also contribute to U.S. prosperity.

Georgia Zern

This would be an excellent program for civic groups.

Wole Soyinka

We Nigerians must reclaim our sovereignty, our civic entitlements.

Kendall Wall

We're really seeing the results now of what we've been marketing for two years. They're not the kind of events that get a lot of attention, but they're the kind of events that actually make a lot more money for the civic center.

Doug Dittko

We have two concerns. One, the civic and environmental community was not part of the process and two, we don't feel the town did the extensive search they should have done.

Albert Schweitzer

There is no higher religion than human service.

MaryEllen Elia

Luckily, in this community, we have a pretty good working relationship with all of those entities.

John Best

Making a left turn onto Sawmill Road (from Sawmill Forest) is difficult if not downright dangerous. The last thing this community needs is another fatality due to shortsightedness.

Richard Opper

Lewistown is not unique in having contamination problems, but what is unique is the way the community faced up to the issue. They got together and faced it head on.

James Browning

Look what's happened to our community we're starting to come back and not just Rome but this whole region. Look what happened with BRACC, the grant today. Ladies and gentlemen we've been kicked, beaten, and bloodied, and now it's our turn to come back and with this team of people with the governor, and lieutenant governor it's impossible for us to fail,

Mike Kearney

Last year was the first year that the community 100 percent funded it on its own. So we put some of that away, and would like to eventually start an endowment ... but we're just so happy that we finally crested the hill and that we are well on our way.

Dan McAllister

Last year we raised $140,000; but our goal this year is to raise $250,000 to ensure that the neediest and most deserving students get what they need to graduate and become successful community members.

Ted Kennedy

Many in the scientific community are concerned that the president's decision will delay development of cures for dread disease for many years, at the cost of countless lives and immeasurable suffering,

Henry Hubble

Many in the investing community weren't expecting these earnings.

John Danforth

Let the investigation go forward, ... The investigation has to be comprehensive, all the evidence has to come out, there has to be full cooperation with the investigation by all parties.

Greg Anderson

Let's face it. In most of life we really are interdependent. We need each other. Staunch independence is an illusion, but heavy dependence isn't healthy, either. The only position of long-term strength is interdependence: win/win.

Manouchehr Mottaki

If at the upcoming meeting of the IAEA heads a decision is reached on referring Iran's nuclear file to the UN Security Council, the government of the Islamic Republic, in accordance with a parliamentary resolution, will be forced to end its voluntary cooperation with the IAEA.

Zeng Qinghong

To promote Sino-Indonesian cooperation accords with our fundamental interest as important developing countries,

Dave Murray

I was surprised and disappointed when the cooperation stopped. We were excluded from the most critical part of the effort.

Benjamin Franklin

If we do not hang together, we will all hang separately.

Jiang Zemin

China-Russia strategic cooperation has become a positive factor stimulating the multi-polarity of the world,

Jack Straw

I look forward to the full cooperation of Syria in form as well as substance, ... but I have to say after what I've heard I'm not holding my breath.

Eric Clark

I felt it was important to give law enforcement an opportunity to let us know what they were doing in a friendly environment and for us to share with them our concerns. It's going to take cooperation from all of us to solve the problem though. We have to step up and help them help them us.

David Scurto

Make sure you have the willpower of your elected officials and the people.

William Jones

Leon has influenced more lives, I think, than probably any single elected official in this region.

Marie Wilson

Maybe we can actually use this show to get that tippy point over and have a woman elected to office.

Laurent Gbagbo

Of course, because he was elected in October 2000 and in principle his mandate runs until 2005.

Shashi Tharoor

When I grew up in India, telephones were a rarity. In fact, they were so rare that elected members of Parliament had the right to allocate 15 telephone lines as a favor to those they deemed worthy. If you were lucky enough to be a wealthy businessman or an influential journalist, or a doctor or something, you might have a telephone.

Oscar Fonseca

From this moment forward, Oscar Arias has been declared officially elected as president of Costa Rica.

Davy Crockett

I would rather be beaton and be a man than to be elected and be a little puppy dog.

Fred Jordan

I feel this is taking a step backwards. An employee of a person who is an elected official could have his opinion swayed.

Michael Hendricks

Somebody finally had the intelligent idea to remember that Harper isn't elected yet. That seemed to secure everybody. They quieted down and the subject hasn't come up again. Just that one shot.

Eric Knight

Miles of roads are also being enhanced to support the operations of the new space launch facility.

Yajur Veda

One should always be soft spoken so that it enhances brotherhood and affection.

John Lind

One of our objectives under our mission of encouraging millions of Americans to pray for the President is to enhance the prayer experience of the individual member or visitor. We remind them to pray every day.

Peggy Liddick

Monette enhances our team, she isn't our team.

Mark Roberts

Nudity, in the right way, can enhance a film or a TV program or a TV commercial. If it's done tastefully it can make it more of an interesting product.

David Adelman

On an ongoing basis, manufacturers are raising prices because they can. It enhances profitability, largely because there are few incremental costs, and consumers' response to a higher price is relatively modest.

Michael R. Bloomberg

Since the period of the threat now seems to be passing, I think over the immediate future we'll slowly be winding down the enhanced security,

Keith Fox

This study demonstrates that improving the safety of therapy leads to enhanced long-term survival for patients.

Victor Koo

The enhanced features of our ad products would require sufficient understanding from our sales force, advertisers, and agencies. To facilitate this, we have held multiple training sessions internally and road show events externally.

Mallory Ortberg

I have a lot of faith in the power of joking to make something thoughtful.

Albert Schweitzer

No ray of sunlight is ever lost, but the green which it awakes into existence needs time to sprout, and it is not always granted to the sower to see the harvest. All work that is worth anything is done in faith.

Ben Braun

Leon is a smart guy. I have faith in Leon, in his decision-making process.

Sathya Baba

Let the different faiths exist; let them flourish and the glory of God be sung in all the languages and in a variety of tunes.

Ari Fleischer

Scott had the faith and the trust of the president, and that's the most important ingredient.

Missy Elliott

Missy is still going to be Missy. Whatever I get on, it's still me. If I do a record with Madonna or Mariah Carey, even if I did a record with Faith Hill, it's still going to be a Missy record.

Mother Teresa

Much more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated many times in haste and without attention.

Joe Carnahan

My hope, my real hope, is that whatever you hold in your heart, whatever you truly believe, and you've put your faith in, that that's what 's waiting for you. I think that'd be wonderful. You know what I mean? I think that would be the culmination of the life of the devout, or the believer.

John Edwards

My faith informs everything I think and do. It's part of my value system. And to suggest that I can somehow separate and divorce that from the rest of me is not possible.

Vincent Jackson

Man, hopefully I'll be playing me, on offense, working with the offense,

Shawn Chacon

Man, he is in a zone. You hope he stays that way for a long time.

Don Daniels

Let's look for a year like last year and hope it doesn't happen. That's all we can do.

Johnny Damon

Let's hope so. We've still got to play well.

Andy Robinson

Lewis is distraught and disappointed and we hope it can all be sorted out.

Boris Said

Lowe's is my nemesis. I didn't qualify for the Memorial Day race there, but we have tested at the track since and hopefully it will be a different scenario this time around. After today, I just can't wait to get back on those ovals.

Boris Said

Lowe's is my nemesis, ... I didn't qualify for the Memorial Day race there, but we have tested at the track since and hopefully it will be a different scenario this time around. After today, I just can't wait to get back on those ovals.

Tony Bush

lot of lives to be lifted up, lot of hope to be restored.

Wade Duty

Louisiana is undergoing a moment of revision and hopefully reconstruction, and by Friday, we will know what the shape of things will be.

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.

Mary Mark

Make the most of your money. Use your local talent and try to have something for everyone's taste.

Mike Adams

Occasionally, you'll find a little tool. It all tells a story. I can show you some rocks that they used as a local source of materials.

Nathan Moss

I got to thinking of the school system, especially our local school here.

Ryan Julison

She wants to support her local tournaments. We're disappointed, but we understand.

David Dunn

Since Sept. 11, the local police, our role has changed, ... Before, we were worrying about burglaries, thefts.

Dick Reed

If they have to do everything from Riverside, I don't know how we'll manage local emergencies.

Victor Lin

If we could get support from the state and from these local companies, there is no reason why it would not stay here. I see opportunity in Iowa.

Michael McDonald

We have to work with a lot of other local agencies, and that takes time.

John Desmond

We need to use the local option. We're at that point.

Mikko Hypponen

Online crime is practically always international, because they almost always cross traditional national borders.

Mystikal

I did my thing with Jive. I was a national recording artist, but I had run into a wall.

Emma Udwin

From now on, there will be no more payments through the National Palestinian Authority.

Foster Friess

On the national security front, Rick Santorum is superior to any candidate I know.

Paul Wolfowitz

If we're not true to our principles, we're not serving our national interest.

Charde Houston

She has two national championships under her belt. She has to be like that.

Mark Souder

If this is a cohesive national policy, it is embarrassing,

Tom Golisano

If we go by the National Popular Vote, we'll get more people voting.

Shinzo Abe

A robust economy is a source of national strength for Japan.

Julie Warner

Most actors in my position, at 47, you want your annuity show. You want your Marg Helgenberger role on 'CSI.' But that's like winning the lottery. So you try and keep yourself sane.

James Franco

My favorite role ever was Alien in 'Spring Breakers'.

Caroline Williams

Now we all know what our roles are now, each person. we're all working together better.

Eleanor Robson Belmont

An actor rides in a bus or railroad train; he sees a movement and applies it to a new role. The whole garment in which the actor hides himself is made of small externals of observation fitted to his conception of a role.

Marc Morial

She was singular in the role that she played, and she can't be replaced.

Philip Ruddock

I don't know that there is a role to look at departmental matters.

Ayumi Hamasaki

I understand it's my role to realize people's dreams.

Tanya Fischer

I just want to keep at it. I can't wait to see, after years of being around, the roles I can play when I'm a crazy old lady.

Laura Osnes

That's the joy of getting to be an actor - getting to play all kinds of different roles and showing so many different sides of yourself.

Rick Comer

Secure the ball, get it out and don't pivot with it because they're pressuring us.

Matt Emmons

Basketball made me happy to be tall. And more secure about myself than I ever would have been without it.

Kai Holm

If we take a look at security right now, this place is probably the most secure place in the world.

Larry Wade

We always look at how secure the berth is and what it can withstand,

William Shakespeare

The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure.

Bob DuPuy

We haven't secured it in other stadium deals,

Michael Gray

It would secure ounces that they desperately need to secure.

George Herbert

Nothing secure unlesse suspected.

Francis Chan

There's no sense in improving your marriage until you are secure with God.

Walter Salles

The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.

Nancy Astor

My vigor, vitality and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from.

Al Jardine

I like to be surrounded by harmonies and fullness and richness and vitality

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

Making money is marvelous, and I love doing it, and I do it reasonably well, but it doesnt have the gripping vitality that you have when you deal with the happiness of human life and with human deprivation.

David Hilbert

Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts.

Charles Bukowski

But she projected vitality - you knew that she was there.

David Whyte

The price of our vitality is the sum of all our fears

George Bernard Shaw

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

Justin Tuck

This camp, being my first, it's a vital one.