Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joan Morris

We have seen an absolute explosion in the number of hybrids out there since about 2004.

Ron Anderson

We have to fly legal, which is 1,000 feet over populated areas, and we cruise a little over 100 mph. Kids who have been in commercial flights say that this is so different because you can see the cars and people and cows below. It absolutely amazes them.

James Rubin

We have no illusions about China's desire to acquire sensitive information and technology for military uses by many different means. It is absolutely not true that we downplayed any evidence of this. We took the issue seriously, as our actions demonstrate.

Richard Blumenthal

We have no idea what the legal basis is for these claims, ... There seems to be no legal or factual basis for these claims since the state has played absolutely no role in this internal church dispute. ? We really, essentially, have no idea what they mean by this claim.

Gerhard Schroeder

What the prime minister has said about the close, personal relationship which I have with this country is absolutely correct. That has always been the case and will always remain the case.

Susanna Kearsley

When you say that you write romantic fiction, there are a lot of people who have an image in their mind of the 'bodice ripper.' It's the one term that most romantic fiction writers absolutely hate because it has no bearing on what people are writing.

Karen Allen

We have backed off the big push to get computers in primary grades, ... We do have things where kids use technology before they leave fifth grade. But previous studies of the introduction of technology at other schools haven't shown a huge value in learning as a result. When we put something in the classroom, it absolutely has to further what kids need to know. I just don't want to go off in a tangent in one direction without being completely clear that it will pay off for all the kids.

Alan Edmondson

We've shown we can play with anyone on any given day. I think we deserve the No. 3 or 4 seed, and the sixth seed at the absolute worst.

Jim Puckett

We have had absolutely no discussions about it. All that I and the public have seen was the preliminary presentation. This continues to be public money, and we should have the opportunity to be involved with making decisions.

Scott Boras

When he got Boston's first offer, he realized that he thought of himself differently than the Red Sox did. He knew then that there was a possibility he may leave, and I don't think that he ever considered leaving prior to that.

Kypros Chrysostomides

We want improvements in the text. The intervention of France introduced some new important elements, but the general framework of the counter-declaration is not considered entirely satisfactory to our side.

Steve Rucchin

There are a lot of good teams out there, and if we want to be considered one of them, we have to show up to play for a full 60 minutes. From what I've seen the last two games, teams are sitting back, but our team is not poised enough with the puck. We seem to be ramming it down our own throats and moving it where they have their guys positioned.

Donna Abbott

We used to say that Memorial Day started the season. Now, Presidents' Day is considered the start of the season.

Tawni O'Dell

I'm a novelist, and I'm a woman, and I'm considered to be a serious author whether I like it or not.

Elon Musk

If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic - being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

Elizabeth Gilbert

I've always considered myself lucky that I do not have many passions. There's only one pursuit that I have ever truly loved, and that pursuit is writing. This means, conveniently enough, that I never had to search for my destiny; I only had to obey it.

Jennifer Lawrence

Even as far back as when I started acting at 14, I know I've never considered failure.

Laurent Brancowitz

I always considered technical musicianship as something you should be ashamed of - I don't know why.

Charles Edison

He [Thomas Edison] considered [money] as a raw material, like metal, to be used rather than amassed, and so he kept plowing his funds into new projects. Several times he was all but bankrupt. But he refused to let dollar signs govern his actions.

Michael Schultz

The expression 'livin' large' is taken from the rap vernacular, inspired by Donald Trump, who made the big dollars and flaunted them.

Tom Tryon

The reality is, we can't sustain ourselves with property tax dollars because the state is taking so much money away from counties,

David Kyambadde

We shall make an initial injection of 50,000 U.S. dollars into the project.

Shia LaBeouf

Once you make a studio 700 million dollars or so, or whatever the insane number is, then they finally seem to trust you, no matter how off-the-wall your project is.

Brian Wilson

I'd earned over a million dollars by the time I was old enough to vote.

Cindy Mydland

We know for a fact that there's a lot of medical expense dollars leaving Brookings County. A lot of them were already Sioux Valley patients, quite honestly, and they were driving to Sioux Falls.

David Mixner

Pharmaceutical companies have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in new HIV/AIDS treatments not out of altruism but because they can make up those research costs in sales.

Cher

I never cared about money. I'm not destined to be a rich woman. I'm destined to be a woman who makes a lot of money and never has any. I've made millions and millions and millions of dollars and I just spend it.

Carol Moseley Braun

People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience.

Carlos Fuentes

No government functions without the grease of corruption.

Carl Bernstein

The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; its broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.

Carl Bernstein

Public policy in the twentieth century was about protecting and expanding the social compact, based on recognition that effective government at the federal level provides rules and services and safety measures that contribute to a better society.

Ahmad Chalabi

We want to see a national-unity government for the sake of stability,

Laura Bush

We have much more work to do, ... But the people who have been hurt by this storm . . . need to know that the government is going to be with you for the long haul.

Stephen Kinzer

What the United States wanted in Guatemala - and in Iran, where the C.I.A. also deposed a government in the early 1950s - was pro-American stability.

Abu Hassan

We want salaries. We want the government to live up to its responsibilities.

Aaron Sorkin

Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument of good.

Lynsey Addario

The fact is that trauma and risk taking hadn't become scarier over the years; it had become more normal.

Steve Hall

We're still on a trend that is taking us downward.

Diane Tuller

She's only going to get better. I don't like taking her off the court.

Ron Everhart

We're just waiting to see what happens. He's taking his time.

Joseph Bruno

years and years. He was not taking anything.

Debra Shaw

Never thought I would be taking this trip again,

Martin Kelly

I am taking it more as it comes (because it was unexpected),

Slobodan Milosevic

More time has been wasted by taking away my right to self-defense.

Steve Smith

I have a one-track mind. I was not taking the hitch. I wanted to go for the goal.