Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Walpole

It has from the beginning been carried on with as much vigor and as great care of our trade as was consistent with our safety at home and with the circumstances we were in at the beginning of the war.

George Diller

Liftoff of space shuttle Discovery, beginning America's new journey to the moon, Mars and beyond,

Ian Roberts

Let's begin looking at it now. Let's not wait until the last minute.

Russell Henderson

Let us make a demonstration on behalf of all those who have lost homes in our city, and in more than 1100 cases, lost their lives because the security we paid for was not there to begin with.

Adoniram Judson

Let us die as soon as possible, and by whatever process God shall appoint. And when we are dead to the world, and nature, and self, we shall begin to live to God.

Sandy Smith

Make it a priority and if you have little kids, start right at the beginning so they know there is no other way of doing it.

Connie Allen

Luckily, Chelsea hit those free throws at the end. If we would have made them at the beginning, it wouldn't have been that close, but we made them when it counted.

Tony Cox

Mailers are sensing that customers are ordering later and later, and responding by putting more catalogs in the mail at the beginning of December.

John Rooney

Let's have a good season, that's it. That's all I've said from the very beginning. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

Rick Perlstein

Bill de Blasio was swept to the New York mayoralty on the promise of getting Gracie Mansion out from under the thumb of corporate elites.

Ronald Kessler

Pension funds, endowments, and private investors trust Mitt Romney's former company Bain Capital enough to hand it billions of dollars in assets.

Manmohan Singh

Our foreign-exchange reserves when I took over were no more than a billion dollars; that is, roughly equal to two weeks' imports.

Marcy Kaptur

For me, appropriations bills are the glue. These are the bills that must move, no matter what, to keep the government functioning as a reliable element of our society. The Appropriations Committee shouldn't be the most political place to be; it's the place where we have to make the institution function for the country.

Frank Ostini

Life is very good. We've been blessed. It was a one in a billion chance of this happening to us and we were lucky that it did.

William Lerach

Let's be direct here. These books were cooked by Lay and the other top executives who put hundreds of millions of dollars in their pockets, while the employees of Enron were victimized and hundreds of thousands of other investors lost billions of dollars.

Tom DeLay

Make no mistake, this $10.5 billion is initial relief,

John Boehner

Make no mistake, a 'yes' vote on the Democrats' health care bill is a vote for taxpayer-funded abortions.

Al Gore

Make no mistake about it. The leadership of Bill Clinton is making a huge difference for the children and the families of America,

I. Stone

If we don't get it now, folks, after two major events, we're not getting it, ... The harsh reality is that our delegation in Washington is incredibly weak.

Erin Ferguson

Where else can you see a delegation from Nigeria, a delegation from Texas and all of our state officers all in one place?

Loyola Hearn

We can send that size of a delegation to Estonia and the question is, for what? Why do we need 40-odd people there?

Charles Lee

We're hopeful that Florida's congressional delegation will nip this one in the bud.

Doug Snyder

We look forward to sending a strong delegation to the first USA National Games.

Fayssal Mekdad

The fact that the U.S. delegation used its veto is something extremely regrettable.

Mary Ford

We recognize that it's a very high number, ... But I guess part of introducing this package and doing it unified in our delegation is to say this is an unprecedented natural disaster, a national tragedy. And it's going to take an unprecedented response.

Toni Jennings

I wish someone would tell the Brevard delegation that administration fits function.

Joseph Kamotho

It is more towards the Kenyatta aloofness. It is delegation without taking responsibility. Ministers are contradicting each other. They are issuing statements that endanger the nation. But the President is quiet. It is not a good trend.

Ugo Betti

Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

Seamus Mallon

Let me describe it as a momentous meeting. It was a good, workman-like meeting.

Jeannie Thompson

Moments like this are why you get into coaching. The girls have such a passion for the game, and to be a part of this team in a moment like this: There are really no words to describe it, just seeing how much fun they had and how much they enjoyed being out there tonight.

Alexandra Orlando

I can't describe what happened. Everything is very vivid within my mind. I knew I could get good results, I was sure of my skill, but this... Well, this was more than I expected. It was a surprise for me, too.

John Prezzia

I can't really describe it. I just always knew I could win.

Felicia Lofton

I can't even describe the feeling I'm feeling right now. The girls have worked so hard. We've had our ups and downs, but the girls finished strongly. We set a goal to win a state championship and we did it.

Dick Cheney

I can think of a lot of words to describe Senator Kerry's position on Iraq; ""consistent"" is not one of them.

Brad Dean

I can't give you one term to describe us today. There is such a mix of visitors.

Bill Gates

Four or five years from now, you will wonder when somebody called up to get technical support how they just used the phone to try and describe what was going on with their PC.

J. M. Roberts

Magazines tell you you should be a size zero. Excuse me I don't want to be a zero about anything.

Jacqueline Whitmore

Many times, all it takes is a glance or a gentle 'Excuse me,' and you turn back and watch the movie.

Ned Collins

Maybe we were a little overbought after yesterday. That scared some people and they started taking profits ...With stocks trading at this level, people are looking for any excuse to worry.

Larry Pellegrini

My guess is the lateness of the session will be used as an excuse to just not stand up for it.

Jason Ritter

I do exercises on my Wii. It's nice to have games that keep you active. It's an excuse to play video games.

Jalen Rose

When you're 0-4, things just aren't going your way. We're just not getting it done, our record indicates that, and I'm not going to make any excuses for it.

Cardinal Richelieu

Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him

Camille Paglia

I don't remember the fat women. Can we leave the fat women out of this? Excuse me, I have to go to the toilet.

Gretchen Rubin

When we're trying to form and keep habits, we often search - even unconsciously - for loopholes. We look for justifications that will excuse us from keeping this particular habit in this particular situation.

Leigh Crawford

Like everyone, I wish Katrina would have never happened. But, you can learn a lot through experiences like this.

I. Stone

Many scenarios had been run prior to Katrina years ago, and with that type of storm, the scenarios should have been taken seriously.

Paul Gillmor

In the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, our nation has been put under considerable fiscal pressure.

David Vitter

We'll only victimize the victims of Katrina all over again.

Jack Reed

We're about see a second tidal surge from Katrina and Rita,

Mary Fetchet

Katrina should be enough to wake people up.

John Metz

Katrina produced a catastrophic storm surge, it was one of the worst we've seen in this country,

Kim Stewart

Katrina knocked us down, but it's not going to keep us there. I think things should be a lot faster.

Peter Morris

Katrina is like a very large pile of stones on top of a mountain. Standing by the pile of stones it's a big pile. But when you're looking at the mountain, it's not going to be that dramatic.

Nicholas Sparks

You know, I do do the laundry in my house!

Bruce Feiler

There is profundity to explore, but also laundry to do.

Amy Ryan

I know how to separate my own laundry.

Jude Law

In a way it was like washing your laundry in public and, yep, there you go, you've seen my underwear. And now I feel like there's nothing left, you've seen it all and I can get on.

Jerry Seinfeld

You'll fold faster than Superman on laundry day

Jenni Allen

The first question was a laundry list explanation of peoples' activities.

Kesha

I do my laundry on a weekly basis.

Corinne Kowpak

The laundry room will be expanded and much nicer.

Lindsey Vonn

I find folding laundry very relaxing.

Swae Lee

Man, I listened Nas and B.I.G growing up. I listened to both of them when I was younger for sure.

Ryan MacCarthy

Scott and I can't be everywhere. But now we're trying to take that list to the world.

Mal Pancoast

Set up the listening. Prepare who you are talking to for what you want them to hear. Get people to listen as a possibility rather than a problem.

Bobby Anglin

Mr. Romero was an ex-Marine, and Brandon loved to listen to his stories about being a Marine.

Bob Davidson

One of the things we try to do (is) have people that try to listen, ... As our people sat and listened to her story - we realized (her) situation.

Steve Hackett

One minute you're listening to ones idea of what they think you ought to be and then the next thing, you start listening to yourself.

Kamanda Ndama

Music is philosophy. Every chord, every word tells a story. If you listen you will know its meaning.

Heidi Klum

Maybe he listened to what we'd been telling him.

Phil Fontaine

No one wanted to pull the plug before. That tells me they are listening and they see us as an important issue.

Victor Shum

Louisiana refineries can process that, but they are shut down.

Mickey Loomis

If we can uplift anyone, obviously that's worthwhile to us. We're representatives of the people of Louisiana and the people of New Orleans.

Wes Brown

Love the show 'Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives.' Being from Louisiana and a big outdoorsman, I'm a big fan of 'Duck Dynasty' as well.

Andy Kopplin

We are providing ways to keep homeowners as homeowners. You can successfully rebuild South Louisiana with the package we have proposed.

Bob Jones

We were still getting some oysters from waters in Louisiana and Texas and those may stop as soon as Rita makes landfall.

Steve Cleveland

I think you've got to look at Nevada, Utah State and Louisiana Tech immediately.

Kathleen Blanco

Rita has Louisiana in her sights and we must move,

Robert Jackson

Refugees have come up from Louisiana and have located in Quitman County, Coahoma and Tunica,

Robbie Berg

We are urging all residents from south Texas to Louisiana to keep watch.

Long Nguyen

Could be better. Need steak. Pork chop, maybe.

Tim McAfee

This is not about the pork rinds. It was never about the pork rinds. We investigated things that are quite serious.

Tim McAfee

This is not about pork rinds. It was never about pork rinds. This is quite serious.

Muhammad Ali

Before I became a Muslim, I ate pork and chased women--but all that stuff stopped.

Brian Riedl

It's about time lawmakers sacrifice pork projects that essentially serve as taxpayer-financed re-election advertisements.

Harvey Fierstein

Pork was in 1971, and I stopped hanging out at The Factory by like 1973.

Josh Henderson

I'm such a foodie. If I see a pork chop, I'm eating it.

Phil Gramm

I'm carrying so much pork, I'm beginning to get trichinosis.

Jon Johansen

Basically, if I have no intention of using a service then I won't bother reverse-engineering it.

George Wald

The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one.

Ban Ki-moon

We are using resources as if we had two planets, not one. There can be no 'plan B' because there is no 'planet B.'

Aerin Lauder

I think every woman should be using a foundation, whether it's liquid or compact.

Tom Jenkinson

This current round of gigs, I'm just doing it using pure electronics.

Lucy Liu

When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt.

Alan Chambers

One of the many evils this world has to offer is the sin of homosexuality. Satan, the enemy is using people to further his agenda to destroy the Kingdom of God and as many souls as he can.

Bernard Meltzer

Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.

Nathan Thompson

I think using this lumber makes it very unique.