Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gary Bongiovanni

Part of it is fate and just random, but it's also fueled by the fact that last year was such a bad year for the industry. This year, a lot of acts were reluctant to go out right away,

Peter Liguori

Our original films tend to go after an issue or chew on a nerve. But this movie, more than anything, defined for us an almost Greek-like version of drama and a dramatic question of: Can a man redeem himself? In this instance, can a man who's been convicted of the most heinous of human acts redeem himself?

Ismail Haniya

People have the right to defend themselves in the face of these acts by the occupation.

Kofi Annan

Such acts of provocation and vandalism will not deter the U.N. mission in East Timor from fulfilling its obligations,

Jim Lucas

Surf City, to me, is a state of mind, ... and the fact we have to go to the Legislature and legislative acts to either do it or not do it ? it?s somewhat disappointing. But I?m glad in one aspect that it?s like, ?Let?s just drop this thing.?

Atharva Veda

Stay away from evil deeds and indulge in virtuous ones, surrender totally to the will of God. A man, who acts thus, is inevitably blessed with immortality.

W. S. Gilbert

Our by-laws require us to include anyone who acts in a film into our ranks, but when we tried to find a loophole to keep these three individuals out, we happened upon another surprising regulation.

Mike Viola

Robby acts like he's no better or different than, say, a sophomore on the team.

Geno Auriemma

Renee is making a real case to be the starting point guard. She makes things happen. She makes plays. She's assertive. She acts like she's a real good player and that goes a long way into believing you're a real good player.

Alan Kopit

Regularly using liquid savings to cover normal expenses may indicate you are not planning properly. If you find yourself doing that, you should reassess your overall budget strategy.

Paul Gaffney

Our obligation is for the right budget for our schools.

Willy Koppel

Our materials budget for the current year is $19,500, which is the lowest it's been in many years. The proposed budget that you have presented to us is $10,000 for the year.

Dennis Taylor

Our No. 1 goal is to restore budget cuts, and No. 2 is financial aid.

Richard Stein

Our mission is to create the right condition for learning with affordability and quality. Hopefully residents will see that. This budget is not going to be an easy task.

Adriane Berg

People immediately think budgeting means getting rid of the things they love the most.

Gary Ambrose

People have to minimize the use of home equity for short term financial needs. Get your budget in order. Home equity lines of credit are for long-term financial needs. They were not meant to buy cars and trips and fuel overspending.

Jeff Denham

State employees and other Californians are facing tough times right now, ... We've seen state budget deficits over the last several years. The timing for a legislative pay increase isn't right.

Robert DiClemente

State and local budgets can be corrected by small changes in the relative growth rates of spending and tax revenues, rather than by jarring policy initiatives.

Jaroslaw Kaczynski

Regardless of who will finally win this race between Law and Justice and the Platform, the road to change will be open.

James Browning

Regardless of what time you change or move or do anything, if it's for a positive effort, it's always a good day to do it.

Ali Larijani

Referring Iran's file to the Security Council won't change the Iranian stance about uranium enrichment. It serves no one's interest.

Roger Enrico

Recent changes in the home video market got us and others in our industry by surprise,

Will Whitehorn

Recent acquisitions coupled with further structural changes being made to the group, will provide a good platform from which to generate further growth in the next financial year.

Scott Reed

Regions is a big contributor to this community, and there have been some changes in the community. We just feel like this would be the time to reassert ourselves.

Karen Finney

President Bush's refusal to recognize that it's time to make a change and fire Secretary Rumsfeld is symptomatic of his administration's incompetent and failed leadership.

Frank Degen

Previously, someone like a plumber, who may have run his office from home and had a secretary there, could not take this deduction because he provided goods and services outside the home. Of course, the IRS realized the inequity there and changed the rules.

Liz Boyd

Our position hasn't changed and we would expect her to veto this legislation just as she did before. It's a divisive piece of legislation. The suburban communities and the city need to work together on these issues.

Erich Roeckner

Our research pointed to rapid global warming and the shifting of climate zones. Our climate models predict warmer and drier summers for Europe, with warmer and wetter winters.

Ronnie Mamoepa

Our principal objective remains the need to create a climate for free and fair elections in Zimbabwe so that the Zimbabwean people can speak through the ballot.

Jacqueline McGlade

Our resilience is quite low in the face of climate change,

Fred Taylor

The $64,000 question about the climate is why is it so different? Why is it so hot and why is the pressure so high?

George Taylor

The Antarctic is really a puzzle. A lot more research is needed to understand the degree of climate and ice trends in and around the Antarctic.

Jim Sweeney

I think we are entering a watershed era where we can expect high levels (of oil prices) not just for a transitory period, but for an extended period. We are still dominated by the traditional sources of energy. If you want to deal with global climate change, you must come to grips with oil used in transportation and coal used for electricity generation.

Margaret Beckett

It is imperative that we find new ways to cooperate and develop a shared understanding of how the world can respond to climate change.

Mike Nichols

I don't know that a political climate - as long as it's still a free country - makes much difference in the film world.

Duane Grant

Idaho is perfect because of our climate. We have a drier climate and we can then supply dry straw for the first plant.

Michael Levine

Patients who have this procedure understand that their shoulder may not do what it did when they were in their twenties, but now they have greater movement and freedom from pain, ... That equates to making a significant difference in our patients' lives.

George Nessman

(Spicer) outfought our players for space in the paint the first half. That was a big difference in the first half.

Ara Parseghian

Some of the old timers might be offended but they have to understand personnel now. You have 250-pound guys who can run the ball. The difference between skill positions is dramatic.

Randy Bennett

Somehow, we've got to make shots. Those little things make a big difference in a game like that.

Mike Knuble

Our power play hasn't really done that well of late, but I think we should be proud of the difference we made.

Rick Hendricks

Our son placed a great importance on doing one's part to help others. He had a passion for making a difference in people's lives, which is exactly what Levine Children's Hospital will do for families of this region.

Chris Kennedy

Our goal is to make a difference over there and help people that need to be helped. If one life is saved then we've done our job.

Steve Alford

Our three starting guards got outscored (by Iowa State's guards) 48-29. If you look at assists-to-turnovers, which has a lot to do with guard play...that was probably the difference in the game.

Mike Cahill

Other than in individual situations, it really doesn't make much of a difference when you graduate. Graduating early is not something I would encourage someone to go through all the great effort it takes to make it happen just for that reason.

Scott Goslin

Registration will be lower than it was in the fall. We will also have T-shirts instead of jerseys for the uniforms, and that will make them not as expensive.

Dale Shull

That's what I think about when I'm running. Instead of just running for 15 minutes, that makes me go for 30 minutes. I think about being a four-time state champion.

John Bennett

I wish my son could have known her instead of telling him stories about her.

Stephen Harper

I think Mr. Martin is making a mistake talking about issues no one wants to talks about ... and instead not telling people why they should vote for his party.

Andy Roddick

I thought he played great, let's get that out there right now. He really took it to me so I was playing reactive instead of active.

Jamie Kennedy

I'd like to be a wounded leading man. Instead of a pillar of strength, I'd be the scared one.

Robert Webb

I don't do much to keep in trim - I try to walk places instead of driving whenever I can, but I really ought to do more.

Klaus Allofs

He could make the same experiences with Werder instead of Bayern.

Ken Hill

Sometime I write a song off a central idea, instead of emotion.

Thomas Flynn

It'd be that much more if we didn't have some of the conservation measures we have here,

John Proctor

There are similar security measures to those of online banking.

Raila Odinga

Kenyans should rise and stop this draconian measures by a dictatorship government.

Kevin Shelley

I'm insisting, quite unapologetically, on the need to have these appropriate security measures in place to protect the voters, which is my principal charge.

Tom McCall

Extraordinary measures were required and I realize that not all of these steps were popular.

Michael Clarke

We used sophisticated security procedures and measures to make sure only people who are supposed to be on the network can get onto the network.

Chris Gibson

We have a lot of safety measures in place already, so I feel pretty comfortable with those,

Li Yizhong

We've met unprecedented safety pressures and all in all, all the iron-handed measures should be implemented thoroughly.

Sudhir Kumar

We have taken all measures to see that passengers are not affected. Security has also been tightened.

Chamlong Srimuang

Our rally will persist until the prime minister quits.

Edward Seaga

I think the reception that the queen has received says something different than what the prime minister is saying.

Jens Stoltenberg

I think I would rather be a prime minister than a taxi driver.

Mr Howard

I don't for a moment think that the Prime Minister can stop it by the wave of a wand,

Ron Krumer

The Prime Minister is still in a serious but stable condition.

Christopher Shays

Some day he may be the next prime minister of Iraq, so it seems to me you want to start a relationship,

Bel Powley

I was really quite geeky at school. At one point, I wanted to be prime minister or a mathematician.

Farooq Abdullah

I want to become foreign minister of India one day and then President of India.

Nicola Sturgeon

One of Ed Miliband's shadow ministers has said he would never vote for the renewal of Trident.

Tsutomu Takebe

It is a private visit and I would like to respect the Prime Minister's visit to the shrine,

Sonia Gandhi

I don't disown our responsibility and my responsibility as Prime Minister,

Chang-Rae Lee

I often think that the prime directive for me as a teacher of writing is akin to that for a physician, which is this: do no harm.

Uzi Landau

We must not give in to the prime minister's regime of intimidation.

Douglas Hurd

If Margaret Thatcher had been Prime Minister at the time, there would have been no Treaty of Maastricht.

Ehud Olmert

Every prime minister ... has the responsibility to provide security for his people.

Brian Mulroney

If your only objective is to be popular, you're going to be popular but you will be known as the Prime Minister who achieved nothing.

Benjamin Franklin

I am in the prime of senility.

Stephen Glover

Where is our prime minister? All that can be said is that he is out there somewhere.

Errol Morris

I think an interview, properly considered, should be an investigation. You shouldn't know what the interview will yield. Otherwise, why do it at all?

Gregory Petsko

Alzheimer's disease starts when a protein that should be folded up properly misfolds into a kind of demented origami.

Jon Brion

We're so used to everything being properly manicured, like you can hear every footstep in a movie, you can hear every bit of dialogue, and everything is in its place.

Albert Murray

If it is properly done, the 'as told to' autobiography represents how the subject wants his story told.

Marie Windsor

This I regard as a classic example of my not being properly prepared for a part I very much wanted.

Michael Foreman

Drawing teaches you to look at things properly and to understand form and structure.

Russell Tovey

I came out to myself when I was about 15 or 16, and to my parents when I was 18. When you come out to your parents, that's when it's properly official.

John Ashcroft

These individuals are being restrained and properly so. They are terrorists. They are uniquely dangerous,

Mike O'Connell

Part of it was the uncertainty of not being able to sign him. If it comes to the summer and he wants to come back, we'll listen. ... I wasn't sure of which way he wanted to go.

Horst Koehler

It is a symbol of reconciliation and a sign that there should never be war again,

Peter Kretzmer

It is a strong number. There is little sign of a slowdown,

Adam Ereli

It is a sign that we are all working together.

Manny Acta

It is a sign of what we can do.

M. Wolfe

I still think we could be better, though. We showed signs in the first inning of being very good. We let up after that.

Bruce Bochy

He wanted me to sign it, ... He took it over to me.

Pam Schild

He didn't even tell us until after he'd signed up.

Peter Scobie

There are tentative signs things are slowing. It's not a foregone conclusion.

Haim Saban

Me? I don't know what you're talking about.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Dante said, “I tried talking Nora into a ride, but she keeps blowing me off.” “That’s because she has a hard-A boyfriend. He must have been homeschooled, because he missed all those valuable lessons we learned in kindergarten, like sharing. He finds out you took Nora for a ride, he’ll wrap this shiny new Porsche around the nearest tree.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I can't imagine why you're so interested." He shook his head. "Interested? We're talking about you. I'm fascinated.

Becca Fitzpatrick

You're going to have to drive off the road and park behind thoses bushes," I instructed Vee. Vee leaned forward, peering into the darkness. "Is that a ditch between me and the bushes ?" "It's not very deep. Trust me, we'll clear it." "Looks deep to me. This is a Neon we're talking about, not a Hummer.

Bill Engvall

Because we've become so ecologically minded now, they have developed a product called Rapidly Dissolving Toilet Paper. Just how rapidly are we talking? 'Cause I don't want to have to play Beat the Clock in the thicket.

C. S. Lewis

Watchin' and listenin' is the thing at present; not talking.

C. S. Lewis

There is no use in talking as if forgiveness were easy. For we find that the work of forgiveness has to be done over and over again.

Carrie Fisher

If talking were aerobic, I'd be the thinnest person in the world.

Bill Bryson

Taking a scenic route in Southeast Iowa is like talking about a good Barry Manilow album. You have to make certain allowances.