Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kelly Rogers

We want to reach our goal to get a banner this year, ... Our school has never won a league or district title in girls basketball. We're working hard to get one.

John Hope

We have sat on the river bank and caught catfish with pin hooks. The time has come to harpoon a whale.

Michael Cullen

We have said throughout the campaign that New Zealanders would pay for National's tax cuts through higher mortgage and interest rates and today's statement from the bank bears that out,

Pam McCoy

We have not banned it (soda) because we have not seen any hard data. If people are calling this a public health crisis then we should require that only 18-year-olds can buy soda." ()

Louis Reigel

We have no information that this case relates to identity theft or bank fraud.

Brian Bell

We have no idea if we're going to be a band next year.

Daniel Broby

We have moved from can General Motors go bankrupt to when will it go bankrupt. This is a dangerous company because of its size.

Ed Yardeni

When fixed-income investors conclude that the central bank isn't going to raise rates any time soon, ... there tends to be a convergence of rates.

Ken Hitchcock

We were banging around it so hard in the second that I felt, even though we were down 4-1, that if we made it 4-2 early (in the third), which we did, if we kept going we could still tie up the hockey game and maybe win it. We had a lot of good chances, but we didn't finish and then they scored the fifth goal.

Tom Peters

I had no idea what I was doing when I wrote 'Search.' There was no carefully designed work plan. There was no theory that I was out to prove.

Jeff Lemire

We want to take our time with 'Descender' and let the story unfold at its own pace. But we have carefully planned each world and worked to give each its own look and feel. And each of the 9 core worlds will play a role in the series.

Steve Squyres

There are cliffs the rover could fall over and die if we aren't careful. We are gong to proceed carefully and methodically.

Lee Byung-hun

Hollywood has a longer pre-production period and they juggle shooting schedules more carefully for each cast. In Korea, we shoot day and night without much break.

Dallas Salisbury

Workers should think about it very carefully and go through a very clear evaluation.

Nabil Sha'ath

watching carefully the unfolding political developments to see its consequences on the peace process.

Erik Autor

We're going to monitor this situation very carefully over the next several months. This is a case where what happens in Washington can have as much effect on cargo as what happens on the docks.

Niklas Savander

When we carefully considered the requirements of our customers when developing these devices, two clear new trends emerged: the need for IT departments' to have a secure and manageable platform, and the need for devices to support a variety of employee preferences and different working styles.

Alice Lichtenstein

What's really important is that we carefully look at what our lifestyle patterns are, our eating patterns are, make small changes and make sure those changes that we make can be maintained on a daily basis.

Jose Andres Puerta

Meat, to me, it's slightly boring. Hold on, I love meat too, but only once in a while. You get a piece of meat, and you put it in your mouth, you chew, the first five seconds, all the juices flow around your mouth, they're gone, and then you are 20 more seconds chewing something that is tasteless at this point.

Lynn Coady

Occasionally, chewing over some random letter writer's dilemma, I'll find myself imagining scenarios where the problem could be sidestepped by an innocent fib or series of evasive manoeuvres. Then, I slap myself on the wrist.

Brie Larson

For some reason, chewing gum for me gets my brain going.

Norm Hewitt

We patched it up with chewing gum and Scotch tape.

Andy Behrman

In my most psychotic stages, I imagine myself chewing on sidewalks and bulging and swallowing sunlight and clouds.

Rene Redzepi

I can tell you one of the most surprising ingredients I've ever found. Perhaps five years ago on a beach I saw this herb that looked exactly like chives. I put it in my mouth and started chewing and, surprise, it tasted exactly like coriander.

Nicholas Hoult

I'll eat anything. I ate antelope once in Swaziland. I didn't know what it was until I'd started chewing it. Everything tastes like chicken though doesn't it? It wasn't bad.

Lisa Stevens

He's a climbing fiend. He's climbing all over the rocks, or he's climbing on his mother. And when he's not climbing on her, he's chewing on her. . . . She lets him treat her like a giant chew toy.

John Glenn

just going down to the corner to get chewing gum.

William Ohlemeyer

Mrs. Whiteley never smoked a pack of cigarettes that didn't have a health warning on it that was written by the surgeon general.

Conrad Veidt

I am indifferent if my spinach is leaf or creamed; if I work to fatiguing point or spend days doing nothing; if I smoke fifty cigarettes a day or none at all; if it rains or shines; if the dentist hurts, or the shoe pinches, or I secure a bargain.

Dan Becker

Nuclear power is a dangerous energy source that creates more problems than it solves. Switching from dirty coal plants to dangerous nuclear power is like giving up smoking cigarettes and taking up crack.

Matt Myers

Today, they spend far more money plastering convenience stores with their imagery, paying convenience store owners to put cigarettes near where kids will see them.

Rand Paul

Michael Brown's death and the suffocation of Eric Garner in New York for selling untaxed cigarettes indicate something is wrong with criminal justice in America.

Johnny Mathis

Little did I know the excesses this life can lead you into. I used to smoke and drink. I gave up cigarettes 35 years ago, drinking six years ago.

Laurent Fournier

We stayed 30 minutes in the corridor, ... We were then put in two small rooms with stewards smoking cigarettes next to us and (radio station) NRJ conducting interviews 10 meters away. It's not an excuse (for the defeat), but it's very annoying.

Ken Jones

Employees are the ones who kind of get stuck with the consequences. ... Ironically, a large percentage of our staff smokes cigarettes but that's completely out of our hands.

Tom Vincz

A lot of folks are surprised to realize you can't purchase cigarettes tax-free over the Internet.

Mark Recchi

We have to get better at it. That's one are where we really, really have to get better. Not enough desperation. Once we get that we'll make it a lot easier on ourselves.

Brad Soderberg

Whenever you have a five-man that makes free throws, it makes it a lot easier because he's going to get fouled the most. He's been working hard and it's paid off for him.

Brian Durocher

We want opponents to know we are going to put up a fight. Unfortunately, we made it a little easier for Maine. We should have extra motivation the next time out.

Tom Rath

Make it easier to do things that increase your wellbeing before you have to make a choice because a lot of our choices, though they seem small in the moment, have a big effect.

Brian Eno

Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven't been made easier technically.

David Allen

It's easier to change directions if you are in motion.

Odette Annable

I'm kind of in between organized and messy, so if I have the right things to keep me organized, it's easier for me to stay that way. If I don't have the right tools, I'm a train wreck.

Ted Ligety

When I grew up, I had a lot of fun ski racing with my friends. We pushed each other, and this made it easier to work hard.

Amanda Martin

This will probably be the only experience I'll have being on a team because it's such and individual sport. I kind of find it easier to get pumped up. You're going to have matches where a player isn't as the same level as you are, but it's still a lot of fun.

Guus Hiddink

We have picked a squad that is flexible and will be able to adapt,

Lesley Nicol

As an actor, you never know where the work's going to come, so you have to be flexible about it.

John Bolton

We're looking forward to Monday, ... We are prepared to be flexible on format and process.

Tim Vine

So I said to the Gym instructor "Can you teach me to do the splits?" He said "How flexible are you?". I said "I can't make Tuesdays".

Bruce Lee

Have no rigid system in you, and you'll be flexible to change with the ever changing.

Michael Spencer

Because of the unique (layout) of the property we are able to be flexible in multiple party venues.

Ben Bernanke

I do not subscribe to any rigid and mechanical rule ... I intend to be flexible and to learn from experience.

Ben Bernanke

With such an uncertain outlook, the new statement must be flexible enough to leave officials with several options for future action.

Craig Maurer

TS2 provides a much more flexible platform for the issuers.

Steve Huling

We have to find some high jumpers. We graduated two seniors who did very well.

John Cena

My most string-beanish, I guess, is when I was 15 years old. From 15 to 16, I went from 155 pounds to 215. By the time I graduated from high school, I was between 235-250.

Solange Knowles

We are already paying bills, having responsibilities most people don't have even when they're 24 and haven't graduated from college.

Patricia Lessnerkraus

She graduated from high school with perfect marks.

Frederica Mathewes-Green

After I graduated from college, while traveling around Europe, hitchhiking, doing the tourist thing, I went into a church in Dublin.

David A. R. White

My parents... has always wanted all their kids to go to at least one year of Bible college after high school. I always knew that I was on my way to Moody Bible Institute when I graduated high school.

Blake Lively

I should hope I dress differently at 25 than I did when I graduated high school. I hope I never stop changing.

Hugh Jackman

I wanted to be a lawyer. Then a journalist. Actually, I graduated from university as a journalist.

Paul Vosburgh

When Jason Meyers graduated (after the 2003 season), we wondered who would take over. Mark Robinson stepped up and took it to another level.

Diablo Cody

Vodka Redbull: Upper meets downer in an effervescent hybrid of bubble gum and junkie piss

Dan Flynn

I was just walking up to the workshop one day and I plucked two gum leaves and I put them on the table and started playing with them.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Sure thing, Gumdrop. -Scott

Dave Grohl

The best time for gum is just before getting onstage. I need a minty-fresh microphone.

Alice Cary

I sit where the leaves of the maple and the gnarled and knotted gum are circling and drifting around me.

Chris Noth

It's terrible. We're starting to look like Hong Kong, or Singapore at worst. Pretty soon you won't be able to throw a piece of gum on the street.

Cathy Nonas

After all, you have to take gum out in order to eat.

Paul Schneider

I'm just happy when directors make a movie that is really sentimental but without being maudlin or saccharine or too much like Chewels gum. I don't want to be involved in a movie that's too much like a piece of Chewels.

Shay Mitchell

There's nothing worse than seeing someone chewing gum on the red carpet!

Carlos Mesa

I have reached a limit in my work.

Charles Stanley

We must never limit God's ability to turn even the worst, most vile experience in our lives into something productive, beneficial and positive.

Jonathan Cheechoo

We know how they play, they're very stingy defensively. We're just going to have to match that. We have to limit their chances, try not to give them any odd-man chances, and score when we get the opportunities.

David D. Burns

Learn to accept your limits and you'll become a happier person.

Erin McKean

You can limit the number of invitations to an in-person fashion show, but you can't police the Internet.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

I still find it hard to push my own limits. I know where my limits are and that I always have to push myself.

Nayvadius Cash

In Atlanta, there's no limitation to where you can take your music. You can be as creative as you want to be.

Edmund Burke

Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.

Edward Said

You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—there has to be a limit

Todd Simmons

We have never had a problem with the nuclear reactor and it has been here for 38 years.

Alan Sugar

If there was a market in mass-produced portable nuclear weapons, we'd market them, too.

Jane Jacobs

While politicians, clergy, creators of advertisements, and other worthies assert stoutly that the family is the foundation of society, the nuclear family, as an institution, is currently in grave trouble.

Benjamin Netanyahu

The Iranian acquisition of nuclear weapons would be infinitely more costly than any scenario you can imagine to stop it.

Edward Abbey

The one great gift to humankind from our nuclear physicists has been the nuclear bomb. How can we ever thank them?

Ban Ki-moon

Nuclear terrorism is one of the most serious threats of our time. Even one such attack could inflict mass casualties and create immense suffering and unwanted change in the world forever. This prospect should compel all of us to act to prevent such a catastrophe.

Ban Ki-moon

Nuclear disarmament is the only sane path to a safer world.

Billy Connolly

The great thing about Glasgow is that if there's a nuclear attack it'll look exactly the same afterwards.

Charles Bass

U.S. nuclear technology is one of this nation's most valuable secrets, and it should have been protected.

Cher

Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes.

Calista Flockhart

The way the world underestimates me will be my greatest weapon.

Paul Davis

We've got enough guys, enough weapons to play around that and we just have to do it.

Howard Dean

Mr. President, where are the weapons that you told us about?

Earl Butz

Food is a tool. It is a weapon in the U.S. negotiating kit

Arthur C. Clarke

The dinosaurs disappeared because they could not adapt to their changing environment. We shall disappear if we cannot adapt to an environment that now contains spaceships, computers — and thermonuclear weapons.

Orson Scott Card

If words can be lethal weapons, I must provide them with an arsenal.

Dianne Feinstein

When the gunman realizes that nobody else is armed, he will lay down his weapons and turn himself in ... that's just human nature.

Walter Benjamin

We need to be weapons of mass construction, weapons of mass love. It's not enough just to change the system. We need to change ourselves.

Aasif Mandvi

Statistically there is enough voter fraud to sway zero elections.

Alan Shepard

We wanted to be in great shape, we wanted to be able to cope with zero gravity, we wanted to be able to cope with accelerations and decelerations and so on. So all of us trained so that we were probably in the best physical condition we had ever been in up until that point.

Charles Sumner

It's Christmas at Ground Zero The button has been pressed The radio Just let us know That this is not a test Everywhere the atom bombs are droppin It's the end of all humanity No more time for last minute shoppin' It's time to face your final destiny.

Bret Easton Ellis

I had no idea that 'Less Than Zero' was going to be read by anyone outside of Los Angeles, and it's - believe me, as the writer of the book I'm somewhat amused and intrigued by the idea that 25 years later it's still out and people are still reading it.

Bret Easton Ellis

Are you as much of a criminal if you don't act when there's a crime taking place in front of you as you are one of the participants? That was something that I was thinking about a lot because there are many moments in 'Less Than Zero' where horrific things happen and Clay could do something about them, but his passivity stops him.

David Allen

If you’re at zero backlog, it’s a whole lot easier to change priorities.

David Shuster

I consider part of lower Manhattan to be hallowed ground. Nearly 3,000 people lost their lives in the World Trade Center towers... and for that reason alone, our nation should make absolutely sure that what gets built on Ground Zero is an inspiring tribute to all who loved the Twin Towers, worked in them, and died there.

David Miliband

Essentially, by 2050 we need all activities outside agriculture to be near zero carbon emitting if we are to stop carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere growing

David Korten

To achieve true sustainability, we must reduce our "garbage index" - that which we permanently throw away into the environment that will not be naturally recycled for reuse - to near zero. Productive activities must be organized as closed systems. Minerals and other nonbiodegradable resources, once taken from the ground, must become a part of society's permanent capital stock and be recycled in perpetuity. Organic materials may be disposed into the natural ecosystems, but only in ways that assure that they are absorbed back into the natural production system.