Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ron Wyden

Oregon's fishing industry is a critical part of our state's economy, and it will benefit in many ways from this Federal support approved today, ... The dollars included in this bill will also go toward improving Oregon's tsunami readiness, while also giving a boost to our state's cutting-edge oceanic research for the benefit of Oregon and the nation as a whole.

Maria Miller

Our office has no objection to work release, as long as it is approved by the administrators at the Wayne County Jail.

David Piper

State statutes protect people who have property. And there were many, many, many rooftops approved before we became a city.

Yvette Barr

Our principal, Bernard Rogers, approved the project after I presented him with the outline of what, how, where and to whom Gautier High School students would donate their items. Soon donations of books, bears and buttons (coats) started coming in. Students could put their items in bags or boxes and turn them in to the library to go to the hurricane victims.

Brian Griffin

Our plan right now is to proceed with our timetable as it was approved by the board of directors, which indicated April as the time for putting the shovel in the ground.

John Travolta

I will be doing DALLAS. I heard LARRY (HAGMAN) approved of me. We were in PRIMARY COLORS together and so it was sweet for him to give his seal of approval.

Kevin Marsh

The 7.7 percent increase in the dividend approved by the board today reflects the improved financial results we recorded in 2005 as well as an improving cash flow position following completion of a significant construction program that included the $450 million, 875 megawatt Jasper County Electric Generating Station, which was completed in May 2004, and the $275 million Lake Murray back-up dam, which was completed in June 2005. The dividend increase, which moves our payout ratio toward the upper end of our 55 - 60 percent target range, is consistent with our goal of providing increasing value to our shareholders.

Ed Murphy

The approved final plan for the project contemplates on-lot sewer systems.

Leslie Miller

It is not FDA approved to skip periods on the ring, ... but this study and other studies using the oral contraceptive are finding that for many women this might be an option.

Howard Stern

Regardless of how much money I make, this product costs a lot of money to put on. I don't think it's asking too much to ask people to pay 43 cents a day (to listen to satellite radio for the $13 a month fee to subscribe to Sirius).

Horace

Refrain from asking what is going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Marla Crago

Patients who come in asking about this treatment are usually at the end of their rope. This is a good last resort for people like Alicia and it's a good first line of defense.

Gene Russianoff

Pataki's got to make up his mind. If he keeps asking the feds for billions for both . . . New York will wind up with nothing.

Kathleen Blanco

Our local governments are recovering, but many are on the verge of financial collapse. I'm asking the federal government to help pay the regular-time salaries of these essential public employees during this emergency period,

Steve Brozak

Our military is being stretched too thin, to the point of being broken for the foreseeable future. We are asking too much and not giving enough, and we are certainly not any safer than before September 11.

Cindy Morrison

People have been calling, asking all kinds of questions about the weekend, which is great. With the nice weather we're getting, I have good reason to believe everything is going to be fabulous.

Denise Barrett

People have been calling and asking about replanting to replace the trees that were destroyed. They looked at what trees did well and which would hold up better next time.

Eric Swensen

People have been asking our guys to compete in these tournaments. I think the program has a reputation.

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.

Todd Boyd

particular culture and, until that culture is changed, you're not going to see any drastic changes in overall representation.

Mario Pescante

Parliament doesn't intend making changes to the law,

Al Coates

Particularly in the first period, he made two or three key saves that if one or two go in, maybe changes the outcome of the game. He was really good, especially when he needed to be.

Bill Daly

Our league has never qualified individual records over our 90-year history, despite many significant changes in the rules and the way the game was played. (That's) including varying lengths of schedule and different rules for regular-season overtime.

Alexander Bennett

Our mission is to restore the site to that condition, in 1746. That clearly means some fairly major changes to the site.

Alice Lichtenstein

People need to make fundamental changes - they don't have to be drastic.

Frank Brunner

Regardless of what decision is ultimately made regarding the school, we realize there is merit in holding onto that site. One day a new elementary could be located there.

Joe Browne

Regarding Sunday's games, we will make no decision today. We'll gather information and speak to several parties within the next 24 to 48 hours.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

RECONSIDER, v. To seek a justification for a decision already made.

Stephen Harper

Our party will make those decisions in our own way and in our own time,

Shane Matthews

Patrick is their future. I will be supportive about whatever their decision is.

Phil Singer

Paul Hackett's statesmanlike decision will help us win one of the most important Senate races in the nation.

Paul Clarke

People here have been making their decision earlier over the last few years. And, by the fourth event, people were tired of evacuating.

Mary Adams

People make decisions that undermine their goals every day.

Jackie Kruszewski

People never know who their state legislator is. They're kind of obscure people who are in Richmond making decisions for us, and if they get 10 letters on one subject, then that's a big deal.

Michael R. Bloomberg

I think it's time to see what the marketplace really wants, and perhaps we can better accommodate that,

Orhan Pamuk

I think perhaps it is a generational thing,

Todd Hamilton

I'm so excited, I probably won't sleep for two or three or perhaps seven days,

Jose Sulaiman

I think that perhaps this has more to do with physiological aspects, I don't know,

Claire Tomalin

I would perhaps like to go back to writing small books about obscure people.

Lloyd Carr

Obviously, there is a sense of urgency about this week that's very special, that perhaps is different.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

Wentworth Miller

When I've had my periods of unemployment, I'll get these e-mails from my father: 'I've read that the LAPD has a reservist program. Perhaps that's something you'd be interested in taking a look at.'

Alexander McCall Smith

You're always told by your publisher that you must only write one book a year and some years you should perhaps write none at all.

Sathya Baba

Stay by me and keep quiet. I will do the rest.

Doctor Who

Rest is for the weary, sleep is for the dead.

Alain Vigneault

Rest is as important as anything else right now.

Rodney Melville

I will look for ways to restrict testimony.

David Bell

The Astros aren't going to win the rest of the way. We have a chance.

Ed Nemec

I think we are a much better restaurant today than we were one year ago.

Jay Hakkinen

I think this will live with me for the rest of my life.

Dwayne Hickman

Little did I know then that I would be tied to that role the rest of my life!

Robert Lang

It does get you going for the rest of the season.

Jason Tapp

I don't think I've ever had a three-game scoring streak before.

Ray Allen

For most of us, when we see them scoring fast, we feel like it's all right to do the same thing on our end. It doesn't get any better.

George Gwozdecky

If we did, it wasn't a scoring chance. I'm not disappointed at the loss, I'm disappointed in the way we performed.

Billy Donovan

He hasn't had big scoring nights. But he's also done other things.

Mike Ward

She did things for us that will not show up in the scoring column.

Jeff Ackermann

I think we're a better scoring team than we showed tonight. I know we're a better shooting team than we showed tonight.

Brent Norberg

We've got to get some more scoring out of other guys.

Mike Eaves

Three of them (in the second period) were Grade-A scoring chances.

Rick Anthony

We are scoring in bunches and getting them from everywhere.

Bert DuMars

Some of our systems are 20, 30, 40 years old. We need to modernize them, and it's not cheap.

Gary Anderson

We need a better dredging system that we have now.

Jim DeMint

I think they'll make this a competitive thing that will get the system better and better by the week,

Paul Otellini

I think you'll see very aggressively priced systems out there.

Mike Claffey

Fortunately, the weather did end up cooperating, and it's all systems go.

Ram Dass

As one individual changes, the system changes.

Bob Ray

We have to have a system for response.

Chuck Wilson

We have all new duct work and a new heating and ventilation system in there, so we won't be using the old system,

Lance Lyttle

We've got to have just one system . . . it's a no-brainer.

Lleyton Hewitt

I won't be watching the women's final, that's for sure. I'm not into women's tennis any more.

Jeff Smith

He wants to get tennis going in the valley, especially with juniors.

Kim Clijsters

For me, tennis is important but it's not the most important thing in my life.

Billie Jean King

I used to be told if I talked about my sexuality in any way that we wouldn't have a tennis tour.

Billie Jean King

For me, losing a tennis match isn't failure, it's research.

Chris Evert

Of all my achievements in tennis, I'm probably as proud of my record on clay courts as any of my Wimbledon, U.S. Open or French singles titles.

Chris Evert

Training the body to obey the mind as I have done differs from the more conventional method of getting the mind to obey the body.

Arthur Ashe

Martina's like the old Green Bay Packers. You know exactly what she's going to do, but there isn't a thing you can do about it.

Elena Vesnina

I felt tight from the beginning of the match to the end. I couldn't relax.