Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Washington

Our own Country's Honor, all call upon us for a vigorous and manly exertion, and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world. Let us therefore rely upon the goodness of the Cause, and the aid of the supreme Being, in whose hands Victory is, to animate and encourage us to great and noble Actions...

Jimmy Carter

Our nation must be fair to the poorest among us, so we will increase aid to needy Americans to cope with rising energy prices ... .

Donald Rumsfeld

Our military is making a significant difference in providing relief and aid and help and compassion for those who have suffered,

Chris McDonald

Our priority is to get much needed aid to those undiscovered communities as soon as possible.

Billy Hunter

Our goal is to collectively raise and contribute at least $1 million in aid to the victims.

Vernon Ehlers

Our first priority must be to get to the people and ensure their safety, ... There is no question that the situation is an enormous challenge and we must get this aid to the areas in need as quickly as possible.

Stephen Greene

Our crew has an impressive record of generosity. Once again, Bonhomme Richard has come to the aid of people in need. Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families, and we hope this humble contribution will make a difference.

Ross Walker

Overall, consumer demand looked pretty robust in Q4 -- aided by ongoing price discounting -- but significant doubts persist in terms of the extent to which demand will hold up in 2006.

John Davis

Really, we were six or seven years into the AIDS epidemic at that time, and I think it was a move that offered an acceptance. You know, sometimes movies are great because I think they can precondition society for acceptance, and I think when they do that we're really at the statesmanship level of film-making.

Alan Wright

Refineries in Texas did not take a direct hit from Rita, but the energy grids in that area were effected, and power has not been restored to those refineries.

Richard Preston

Redwoods have an enormous surface area that extends upward into space because they have a propensity to do something called reiteration. A redwood is a fractal. And as they put out limbs, the limbs burst into small trees, copies of the redwood.

Mike Shockley

Recommendations included changes in several areas of energy expenses.

Gerry Fleming

Reggie has done a lot of things away from the play as far as his defensive play and his play without the puck. He's been in areas and made some big plays without the puck as well.

Bob Noun

President Bush's proposed budget will not have an impact this year. The current situation is we still have to lay off between 30 to 40 employees. But we are encouraged by the areas that were covered by the president.

Stephanie Williams

Preserving farmland and preserving the farming enterprise must go hand-in-hand. By working with Cumberland County Economic Development, we are able to help ensure that area farms become preserved, and remain competitive, for generations to come.

Irene Toner

Our policy is to call for a general evacuation in areas that might be prone to Category 3 impacts.

Hassan Nasrallah

Our policy is clear, we are fighting in an area that is still under occupation in Lebanon. And beyond that area, we are on the defensive.

Mike Ruddock

Our passing, tackling, lineout and tackle area play all need to be improved,

Daddy Yankee

Reggaeton means the same thing to Latino youth as hip-hop does to African-American kids. We didn't have artists to look up to before. But the young kids now, they're looking at Daddy Yankee and Tego Calderon and Ivy Queen like kids in the American 'hood look up to 50 Cent or 2Pac. I'm representing for my culture and my people. It's their music.

Susan Barnes

Our lives are so hectic today. I don't care what we are, artists or whatever, people need to come and enjoy it.

Pam Walker

Our legal folks say we don't have copyright clearance. Graphics artists are working on it as we speak.

Karen Hughes

Our music and film industries, our artists and entertainers create very powerful impressions, sometimes good, sometimes bad, but they're always, always powerful.

Richard Browne

Spike Jonze and his peers were contributing to the culture in as meaningful a way as any of the artists they were working for. The paradigm shifted to the director being the artist.

Benjamin Jones

Some of (the young people) have been exposed to a culture that suggests that in order to have fun you need to use mood-altering substances. They're getting those messages from hip-hop artists and many other ways. This is one of our efforts to try to counteract those messages.

Adam Kluger

Pitbull is great with brands. Endorsements with hip-hop artists work because hip-hop artists typically set the most trends... It's every brand's goal to be seen in the mainstream, and hip-hop music has become mainstream music.

Steve Lynn

Reducing render errors enables our artists to run more test renders within the given schedule and can result in a better final result.

Damon Albarn

Manchester is the centre of Britain, we're only ever going to do this once so it makes sense to do it somewhere in the middle of the country. London gets all the gigs. It's time to do something a bit different to readdress the balance. We're very excited to be getting all the guests artists together in one place for these shows.

Kathy Emerson

Part of revitalizing downtown is supporting the arts and the artists, ... I would like to see downtown Richmond come back to life. Richmond is always on the verge . . . it's time to go beyond that.

Dennis Dubrow

Our larger goal is to create a new arts district on Fourth Avenue.

Linda Piper

Our mission is to provide quality arts and entertainment for our community.

Dana Gioia

People have to recognize that the arts are a major industry and need to be at the table for the recovery plan, ... There is no way for these local economies to recover unless we invest in the cultural life. Culture was Louisiana's second-biggest economy, right after oil. These organizations have suffered enormous losses.

Rhonda Berg

Our goal is to expose the community to a variety of fine arts and crafts.

Cheryl Ferguson

Our booths vary from arts and crafts booths, to homemade purses, honey, knitted items, different food vendors, roasted peanuts, funnel cakes, fried twinkies, and much, much more.

Alex Perez

Just getting nominated is insane. We'll find out if we're selected in April. That will be two weeks in Scotland at the largest arts festival in the world. It's a great honored just to be considered. Representing the United States would be a big thing.

Dennis Crawford

Just as important as the music itself are to create community pride, encourage and support the arts in Fulton County and promote tourism.

Dana Gioia

The arts need social recognition. The money will come if people think it's important.

Nicki Harrington

People need to understand that even though we struggle to maintain facilities with limited funds, we have always been able to maintain an excellent education for our students.

Ramon Alexander

Our students are simply being priced out of an education. We do feel that with the surpluses in the state higher education should be a No. 1 priority, a top-notch priority.

Michael Levine

Our teacher education system is not geared up for producing these teachers. We need to figure out some incentives.

David Circle

Our goal is to make sure all students have a quality music education.

Larry Jansen

Our goal has always been to raise money for the state and public education. It's the reason the lottery exists.

Kevin McCarthy

Outside of the family, education is the greatest determinant of social mobility.

Jordan Goodman

Plan to finance your own retirement, help your parents and fund your children's education.

Barry Lopez

You can't learn anything from saguaro cactus, from ocotillo. They are just passing through; their roots, their much heralded dormancy in the dry season, these are only illusions of permanence. They know even less than you do.

B. B. King

No one can take it away from you.

Lee Janzen

Part of his learning process is helping other guys.

Rick Ruffin

Our movement on breaking, it wasn't good. We weren't helping John out, so I don't want to pin it on him.

Brad Hemphill

Rochelle (Rocha) and Darlene stepped up tonight. Brooke Bingham is still helping us off the bench, as well.

Shawn Chacon

I'm happy. Being in a race and helping the team, I don't think I could have written a better script.

Peter Byrne

I'm impressed. I thought we would have had more of a subtle day, but the financials are up strong, so that is helping us out here.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.

Beck

There are a lot of technical studio things I've learned or figured out, and I feel like I could use those things to help other people with what they're doing.

Bill Engvall

Just when I think the human race has been lost to the what about me people. I see the best we have to offer helping others.

C. S. Lewis

I pray because I can't help myself...

Tami McLaughlin

Our name has been around for quite a while now.

Dirk Koetter

Other than the running back, a lot of those are just names on a paper.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Stop crying. You're giving archangels everywhere a bad name." Patch to Pepper

Becca Fitzpatrick

..."Good, because I need your help." "Help is my middle name." I was pretty sure she'd already told me bad was her middle name, but I kept my opinion to myself.

Azzedine Alaia

I have been offered the highest paid contracts in the world. I refused them all. It's not my thing. I don't want to cheat people. And there are certain people I am allergic to. I even intervene when I don't like a customer; I rush in and check all the names. If I don't like them, I don't take them.

B. R. Ambedkar

Justice has always evoked ideas of Equality, of proportion of compensation. In short, Justice is another name of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity.

B. R. Ambedkar

The Hindu civilisation is a diabolical contrivance to enslave humanity. Its proper name would be infamy.

B. B. King

The crowds treat me like my last name. When I go onstage people usually stand up, I never ask them to, but they do. They stand up and they don't know how much I appreciate it.

Bill Simmons

Anytime someone calls you and identifies themselves with their full name, odds are it isn't someone you want to talk to under any circumstances.

Earl Blumenauer

Part of what needs to be going on,

Hal Mumme

Paul Dombrowski is a tremendous competitor. If he wants to play at the next level, he needs to be a slot guy, a running-back-type guy.

Cheryl Smith

Some of the teachers and the administrators are part of the problem. The federal, the state just needs to come in and take over, not just Hillside and Southern, the school board, the administrators, all of it.

Scott Benedict

Someone needs to step up to the plate and offer him a scholarship.

Dan Daly

Our position would not be that we don't need to do anything. The status quo is not appropriate. Something needs to be done.

Steve Zeller

Our secondary still needs some work. We weren't making the reads on the ball.

J. C. Watts

Our team is pretty unique because we're all so close. If you're scared to do a trick, you know you have to do it because the team needs you to do it.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I need to brush my teeth. And I need a shower." He grinned, hopping off the bike. "Now that is an invitation.

Barry Ritholtz

Salesmen always need something to sell.

Carrie Fisher

I like performing. I like partnering with an audience.

Tori Kelly

I think in 2016 I'm going to focus on performing a lot more and doing as many shows as I can. There's plans to tour more, and that's where my heart is - doing the live shows.

Dale Decker

There are SMA pavements that have been down for 10 years, and there's no rutting. It's performing well when done properly.

Monica Keena

I got off not bad, actually. because I went to LaGuardia HS of Performing Arts, which is really well-known. and there were often talent scouts there.

Charles Saatchi

I find the theatre faintly embarrassing for the actors performing on stage. It seems rather showy-off in an undignified way.

Laura Marano

When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. It's exhilarating!

Laurie Geigel

We don't know if we're going to be performing on a stage or a classroom.

Drummond Money-Coutts

I would like to do things like I did in Tanzania, going somewhere and exploring a theme and investigating as well as performing for those people.

Tamara Tunie

I missed singing. I missed performing in a nightclub.

Michael R. Bloomberg

I think it's time to see what the marketplace really wants, and perhaps we can better accommodate that,

Orhan Pamuk

I think perhaps it is a generational thing,

Todd Hamilton

I'm so excited, I probably won't sleep for two or three or perhaps seven days,

Jose Sulaiman

I think that perhaps this has more to do with physiological aspects, I don't know,

Claire Tomalin

I would perhaps like to go back to writing small books about obscure people.

Lloyd Carr

Obviously, there is a sense of urgency about this week that's very special, that perhaps is different.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

Wentworth Miller

When I've had my periods of unemployment, I'll get these e-mails from my father: 'I've read that the LAPD has a reservist program. Perhaps that's something you'd be interested in taking a look at.'

Alexander McCall Smith

You're always told by your publisher that you must only write one book a year and some years you should perhaps write none at all.

Michael Heizer

I come from an academic background. I wasn't raised to be into promoting myself.

Shakira

I'm convinced that promoting sport is an intelligent way of educating our children.

Dave Kaplan

I'm all for promoting Kodiak fish. I always have been.

David Blunkett

No one is going macho, no one's trying to do this for the sake of promoting some sort of vitriolic or anti-human rights agenda,

Simon Lock

We've been heavily promoting it around the region.

Derek Sivers

Success comes from persistently improving and inventing, not from persistently promoting what’s not working.

Tom Lehrer

I'm not interested in promoting myself or revealing to total strangers anything about me. That's not my job.

Rob Thomas

Because we've spent so much time promoting the album, doing radio shows where you play one or two songs, and doing interviews, I'm all about wanting to get on the road and just play.

Wu Bangguo

I am sure your visit will go a long way to promoting the development of China-Pakistan relations.

Stephen Blythe

Releasing it to the public would not be the right thing to do.

Dean Laidley

It is not for public consumption, but we have a lot of work to do this week.

Pat Gillick

He's a blue-collar guy. And he's somebody that the public will like.

Charles Ray

Her public service announcement for us went out all over the nation,

Larry Nixon

He's always done things no one's surprised at, whether it's for publicity or by accident.

Tom Davies

He's going to have to give an explanation somewhere for how it got into his system, ... His public explanation is that he doesn't know how it happened.

Amanda Martin

If anything, we are going to see more and more things shielded from public view rather than fewer; that's been the trend.

Yvonne Johnson

I go for public safety ... for public health.

Dick Bronson

If we're in trouble, this should tell us, and it should be done in a public way.

Lyle Mangum

Region 4 is tough. I think Region 1 is the toughest, but Region 4 is right after. I think our wrestlers have fared well.

Sarah Southern

Our region is crazy. The way it is, we still have a shot to be in first place.

Roy Nash

Our first win of the year could not have come at a better time. It was our first region game.

Kathy Raymond

We've transformed what was a very regional type of tournament into a world event.

Lleyton Hewitt

I think the way that the whole region really took to tennis in that week was pretty amazing.

Richard Aboulafia

It has a big feel in a regional jet.

Jeff Jensen

Keep our water treatment plant, ... Don't go with the regional system.

Saddam Hussein

for the sake of their own people, for the region and for world order.

Ian Mckellen

When I left Cambridge, I applied to regional repertory theaters in the U.K. and got accepted by one of them... And here I am, still at it.

Azzedine Alaia

I am never sure that anythings good enough. Something that is good today will not be good tomorrow.

Bianca Jagger

Today, we talk a lot about terrorism, but we rarely talk about state terrorism.

Bert McCracken

The biggest thing I've learned is that you only have one chance. You only have today to live-but you gotta take it and make it the best you can

Arrigo Sacchi

The accent today is on results, not on how well you work. You can't build a skyscraper in a day, but you can build a shack.

Bill Vaughan

The contrast between the 1970's and today is very marked.

Rachel Kyono

I think that I wouldn't be where I am today without going through the program.

Bob Gilder

I think I made more putts today than I've made all year,

Greg Taylor

I don't get up and think today is going to be 'the' day they find something. I get up every day and think that 'someday' they will find something.

Keith Faulkner

He said I look better today than I did the day we married,

Barry McCaffrey

Experience is valuable only if it's imbued with meaning from which one can draw salient conclusions. Otherwise, experience becomes imprisoning.

Charles Seaton

What makes them so valuable is their familiarity with our system, ... a specialized location.

Alain de Botton

Our sense of what is valuable will hence be radically distorted if we must perpetually condemn as tedious everything we lack, simply because we lack it.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.

David Hare

The one thing that 'Via Dolorosa' has is no opinions. To me, curiosity is 50 times as valuable as opinion.

Alfred Marshall

The most valuable of all capital is that invested in human beings

Alice Hamilton

Everything I discovered was new and most of it was really valuable.

John Eaton

We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past.

Charles Frazier

When everything is immediately available and infinitely reproducible, nothing is valuable.