Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hiltrud Breyer

We want to show the red card to forced prostitution. It has nothing to do with fair play, it's a crime.

Jim Farmer

We knew they had a great team out there, and though we got way ahead, we knew that they would come at us today, ... Twenty-one years after doing this, the guys are so excited. The way they set about their task, it was in the cards from the first day.

Abhi Talwalkar

Ultimately, the shareholders will be the report card for what we're doing.

Steve Loucks

The other thing we're doing is making sure the customers pay with credit cards so they can get their money back more easily if the tickets can't be used.

Judy McDonald

We usually just play cards - there's always a card game going on. Or we sit around. Sit around and talk.

Sandy Prince

We are a full service florist with fresh-cut flowers, silk arrangements, balloons, table decorations, cake-a-grams, plush, greeting cards and candy.

Ken Hammond

We are looking for the owners of the cards to find out how they last used them,

Luke Mitchell

I do weights and work out different body parts on different days. I don't do cardio - I did too much in my tennis-playing days!

Dan Casey

When you think of the person who goes to Disneyland and spends $500 and puts it on the credit card and their interest rate is 15 percent (debt) ... the person that puts it in the credit union is getting 4 percent (gain). The difference is close to 20 percent.

Gene Johnson

It isn't the same as it was. What students could casually say 10 years ago, they know that if they get into those kinds of conversations (today), they're going to be facing pretty dire consequences.

Stan Sexton

He casually comes to the (3-point) line and launches.

Thorne Smith

Quite casually I wander into my plot, poke around with my characters for a while, then amble off, leaving no moral proved and no reader improved.

Jonathan Galassi

When you're in the throes of writing, I find, the lessons you've casually imparted to others are not in the forefront of your mind. Which may be good or bad. Probably both.

Josh Homme

When it's time to make music, that's about getting lost for me. To be a control freak is not half as good as being a freak who's casually in control. You're feeling around in the dark for something that feels good.

Francis Bacon

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.

Maxine Waters

The power to impeach a president should not be casually used to remove a president and overturn an election simply because we don't like him or his policies. The constitution is on trial, and we hope that we will uphold the constitution and the civil rights of everybody involved.

William Shatner

At that point, looking remarkable healthy, the skunk gave me the finger (I swear!) and casually strolled back into the woods.

Maulik Pancholy

I use my iPhone as an alarm, so when it goes off, I pick it up and casually scroll through whatever emails may have come in while I was asleep.

Alan Bennett

Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.

Alan Cook

Ultimately, they still had to sell. You have to give them credit for realizing they weren't going to last much longer trying to keep the building.

Tim Ebner

The one thing you saw today was a flow, it was up-and-down. When you play that way at that speed and that tempo, things are going to happen. They got the game-winner off one of our guys' skates but that's a credit to them because they got the puck to that point. Some days the bounces go your way and some days they don't.

Fernando Clavijo

The other team played hard; they executed a great free kick. You have to give them credit. We suffered some injuries but you have to give the credit to the team that played well.

Karen Hill

The people who have the weakest credit histories are in great danger of falling into a predatory environment.

Dick Wilcox

We struggled for rhythm the whole game. That's to their credit. We didn't play great but again, credit their defense. We had that one spurt, but they shut us down and we couldn't quite get over the hump.

Jay Wright

We struggled, and a lot of that credit goes to Marquette. But we finished it off, and that's a sign of a really good team.

Robert McKinley

We're in an environment right now where there's a lot of strain in the profitability of credit cards, ... Issuers are looking to hit you with fees and those sorts of things.

Jon Murphy

We started hitting shots. You credit the guys for not panicking at halftime (and) sticking with it.

Morris Gleitzman

Kid's culture is often dismissed as superficial, like high fibre McDonald's, but it's so much more important than that.

Peter Guralnick

I think Elvis was dismissed because of his popularity,

Gary Link

I won't surmise from that that we've been 100 percent dismissed from the committee, because as soon as I would surmise that, I would misinterpret what someone had said to me. But that's accurate. We will not be involved in any of the meetings.

Raul Garcia

I did not know. If I would have known, I would have dismissed him immediately.

Chuck Palahniuk

Once religion has been dismissed by primarily an intellectual class of people, we lose the really useful social functions of religion... What replaces it might be worse than what we throw away.

David Raskin

These similarities can't be dismissed as mere coincidence. He was in the middle of it, just like he told you from the witness stand.

Eddie Fierek

It's done. He was dismissed from the team on Monday. We're going to move forward.

Steve Smith

He actually dismissed the whole team and he showed us he wasn't playing. We haven't had a problem since.

John Silvia

You could have dismissed it six months ago as a one-time hit,

David Potts

We are looking to be respectable in our division and make the league playoffs again, ... We have a good nucleus of returning players and plenty of experience gained from last year?s run in the league and district playoffs.

Tim Mueller

There are some exciting things happening in the park district, and I'm having a lot of fun. I love the work, and being a part of what the park district provides for the community. It keeps me going.

Chuck D.

We started off slow and then put it together to get our scoring going. It's good to be 3-0 at this time in district play.

Emma Brooks

We started off a little slow, but we picked it up. We just executed the way we practiced. It's good to start district off on a positive note.

Tommy Aldridge

We started four sophomores that year and we played in a national tournament in Tennessee. When we went into the lobby where the teams were, it looked like a lobby of WNBA players. We split our games in Tennessee (going 2-2) and I was proud of that. We went 22-12 and won the district championship.

Cynthia Zea

We start district Tuesday. The games we missed out on are games you just won't get to prepare.

Mike Loyd

We've got a week off now for tests this next week. I don't especially like having a week off before the district tournament, but that's the way it is. We'll practice a lot. We need to keep on this roll we've been on.

Terry Harris

We've got a super tough non-district schedule, and it can't do anything but help us. We know we're gonna make some mistakes because we've got some young ballplayers. Hopefully it'll get us ready come district time.

Kevin Ford

What the school district is doing here . . . is prohibiting a student from quoting the Bible.

Tawny Toering

When I was in elementary school I always looked up to high school students.

Todrick Hall

I was introduced to theater by a teacher that found me when I was in elementary school. She tested me for the Gifted and Talented program, started taking me to see the 'Nutcracker Ballet.' I got involved.

Raven Goodwin

I went to elementary like any other kid, but I was just always a little different. I had that sparkle, and everyone told my mom, 'She needs to be on TV, acting.'

Andy Miller

I think (the center) will be very interesting for elementary school kids, especially.

Sharon Anderson

We met last year and talked about the state requirements (on elementary and middle schools), and we all felt that it was a matter of time before High schools were involved in that.

Megan Smith

I think it's so important in preschool and in kindergarten and elementary school that we're not biasing ourselves.

Robin Lord Taylor

My whole life, I heard, 'Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg.' It's all I heard throughout elementary school.

Julie Brown

I think I knew I was funny in Elementary School. I think most funny people realize it when they're young. It tends to come out of stress or trauma - something that makes you want to be funny.

James Tobin

I was born in Champaign in 1918. From the neighborhood elementary and intermediate schools, I went to the University High School in the twin city, Urbana.

Wen Jiabao

We respect not only professors and experts but also technologists who have their own inventions,

Thuy Trang

When we are on the set, there are always experts there to choreograph the moves and improve your form so you look good for the camera.

Bjorn Lomborg

Im no expert on American politics.

Carol Sanders

Whenever you're looking at something like this, it's important to get as many experts in the field to help you.

Edward Norton

I don't flatter myself - I'm not a scientist, I'm not a conservation expert.

Robert Ballard

So, I'm able to network experts on demand, when I need them.

Damon Lindelof

I look at myself more as a storyteller than a screenwriter, as pretentious as that may sound, but that's what really attracts me to TED Talks. For me, the really effective ones are being presented by expert storytellers.

Ben Stein

I don't really consider myself to be a personal finance expert compared with some others. There are quite a few that know a lot more than I do.

Charles Grassley

We heard much higher numbers today of the stimulus package from our two experts than I anticipated we would hear. In other words, if you're going to do something, it better be something significant enough to get the job done.

Bob Wise

We've also had our anti-terrorism task force for several years. It has worked with the FBI and the ATF as well as our law enforcement.

Ronald Kessler

One of my books, called 'Moscow Station,' revealed that a KGB archivist had defected from Russia to the FBI. And I knew that he was safe, and revealing this would not jeopardize him. But nevertheless, the FBI started a leak investigation.

Jim Kleissler

I thought we had a great rally and a peaceful march. We really just wanted to come out and say peace is something that's part of America, and we're not going to let the FBI intimidate us.

Alvin Sykes

Our whole objective was to have the FBI come in and lead an investigation. We will know the truth.

Slade Gorton

I don't know where those 70 field investigations were. The FBI didn't put them anywhere. Nobody in Washington knew about them.

Louis Freeh

I am the leadership, and if I am not doing a good job in that regard, then you ought to get a new FBI director,

Emily Lyons

We are thankful that he has been caught, thankful to the police and the FBI and the ATF and the media that has kept his picture and his name out there,

Rebecca MacKinnon

The Patriot Act, passed overwhelmingly but hastily after 9/11, allows the FBI to obtain telecommunication, financial, and credit records without a court order.

Vincent Schiraldi

The American public is not going to want the FBI profiling their kids.

Bertrand Russell

Every sane and sensible and quiet thing we do is absolutely ignored by the press.

Joe Schwarzer

Mitchell was a tireless promoter of airspace, but he ignored military protocol,

Steve Ross

I think they said they were looking to read the law more aggressively than it has ever been read before. It was a mistake for them to pursue this matter. They ignored the original intent of the statute.

Patterson Hood

Most everything on it is real new. Lord knows I've got a backlog of songs, but when we went into the studio I pretty much ignored it. Everything else we've written since we started recording.

Alexa Von Tobel

Money shouldn't be worshiped and it shouldn't be ignored.

Agatha Christie

Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

Bonnie Raitt

People say, 'Gee, you don't really do political music.' Well, I sing a lot of songs about how men and women and lovers treat each other, and none of us want to be talked down to or belittled or ignored or disrespected... So I'm proud to be a feminist.

Clive Sinclair

Hinde Esther Kreitman is a forgotten literary foremother, her works largely lost, ignored and out of print.

Peter Schuyler

Could it be that all those reports coming from our own intelligence that Bush ignored was right all along? Could it be that the UN was right all along?

Charles de Gaulle

It is better to have a bad method than to have none.

Art Johnson

The point is, the Legislature has not met its constitutional requirements.

Nolan Sotillo

I met Victoria Justice once. She was so nice. I've always been a fan.

Ben Vereen

I didn't know who Langston Hughes was till he met me backstage.

Diana Wynne Jones

She was remorseless, but she lacked method.

Daniel Handler

For Beatrice, when we met, my life began. Soon afterwards, yours ended.

Raymond Kelly

We're doing a meticulous search at all possible locations,

C. S. Lewis

Where, except in the present, can the eternal be met?

Chadwick Boseman

When I met Rachel Robinson for the first time, she is a regal woman, and she was like a grandmother in that first meeting.

Bill O'Reilly

Gross negligence in handling national security is a felony.

Lee Melchionni

Whenever you can be a part of something where the number one team and number two team are playing each other on national television, it is special. How many people get that opportunity?

Russ Knocke

We were already operating under the National Response Plan.

Nerlens Noel

My goals for next year are to win a national title first and foremost.

Michael W. Smith

I sang at the Inaugural prayer service at the National Cathedral.

John Wilhelm

We've become persuaded that, after two years of trying to reform the national AFL-CIO, it is unwilling to change,

LenDale White

We're back-to-back national champions. You can't spell BCS without USC.

LenDale White

We're back-to-back national champions, ... I know you can't spell BCS without USC.

Vladimir Putin

Russian democracy is the power of the Russian people with their own traditions of national self-government, and not the realisation of standards foisted on us from outside.

Thomas Bangalter

The only secret to being in control is to have it in the beginning. Retaining control is still hard, but obtaining control is virtually impossible.

Tao Lin

I'm not being secretive about anything. I just actually don't have opinions about society.

Ralph Bellamy

Solemnity in politicians is not only tiresome but may even mask those twin sins - self-righteousness and intolerance - for the opinions of others. If I couldn't laugh, I couldn't live, especially in politics.

Nick Pisca

We talk about everything. We give our opinions and theories of everything.

John Roberts

I don't think you can read those opinions and say that these are the opinions of an ideologue,

Clint Hurdle

My opinions, I'll keep to myself. The replay speaks for itself. We'll see how it unfolds.

Anita Borg

It doesn't help to just get women's opinions and then turn them over to an all-white-male engineering team.

Maj. Pettai

We have very positive opinions from the Iraqis.

Melissa Merz

We have thousands of requests for opinions. We get through the opinions as quickly as we can.

Blair Jones

The American people have the right to protest, and the president welcomes the opinions of all Americans.

Made Pastika

We want to search things that may be overlooked. We need to search and re-search again.

Arkady Volozh

We never set up Yandex to imitate what others were doing. We've been in the business longer than other search engines and have created many original products.

Nicholas Sparks

So I put out a search for him,

Daunte Culpepper

We don't have to search for a different personality. We just have to do what we do.

Victoria de los Angeles

To search for a pianist, it is very difficult; sometimes you find one.

Chris Grinde

To go zone was just kind of searching to see. We were searching for something to be a little better.

Corey Thacker

We've done a lot of soul searching throughout the year. We had to find out who we really were as a team.

Debbie DeCarlo

I find myself searching faces, but they all look the same.

Matt Rosoff

MSN may want to sell search to AOL.

Alan Rickman

Actors are actually very supportive of each other.

Dan Murphy

We want to support the PGA and its members.

Chris Copeland

To the folks that continue to support through ups and downs... good and bad... I can't thank you...

Chris Colfer

There are ways to meet people and surround yourself with like-minded people who will support you.

David Suzuki

We now have access to so much information that we can find support for any prejudice or opinion.

Bryan Burrough

American writers, at least those of us who are fortunate enough to support ourselves in the field, are by and large a lucky lot.

Bryan Stevenson

Many states can no longer afford to support public education, public benefits, public services without doing something about the exorbitant costs that mass incarceration have created.

Carolyn Roberts

We've already established our credibility. The Legislature is very supportive of the university system and comfortable with our role.

Martin Freeman

I think I'm less gloomy than I used to be - I've got a very supportive other half.

Brian Eno

Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.

Ambrose Bierce

There would be far fewer accidents if we could only teach telephone poles to be more careful.

Chuck Palahniuk

I disconnect the telephone to keep the outside world in it's correct place.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

I go through my day remembering things like telephone cords.

Allan Urlis

The worst thing to do is not make a telephone call.

Peter Cardillo

I like American Telephone at 45 and 50,

Henny Youngman

I thought talk was cheap until I saw our telephone bill.

Michael Moore

I assume everything I'm saying in an email or saying on the telephone is being looked at.

Jesse Eisenberg

To criticize Facebook is to criticize the telephone.

Philip Sidney

I seek no better warrant than my own, conscience.