Famous Quotes & Sayings

Christine Karbowiak

We want to set the record straight. At no time during yesterday's meeting between Ford and Bridgestone/Firestone, did any representative from Ford ask us to recall tires or replace any tires. They did not ask us to join with them on a recall or a replacement program. They told us they had made absolutely NO decision concerning our tires on their vehicles. Comments by Ford to the contrary are inaccurate.

Louis Navellier

My advice to the average investor in 1988 is to be patient and think long-term. It will take 18 months for confidence to get better and, in the meantime, this is absolutely no place for short-term money.

Louis Stokes

Nowhere, absolutely nowhere, has there ever been a hint, not even a whisper, that a Black person was involved in the assassination of the president. But that's the kind of thing you have in this movie.

Pamela Atkinson

The poverty here is real, there's absolutely no doubt about it. If you can help them gradually take those steps out of poverty, you're going to fix many things.

Jack Straw

The people who will finally decide will not be the British Government or the Spanish Government, but the people of Gibraltar in a referendum, ... That was a solemn undertaking given in 1969 to the people of Gibraltar. We absolutely stand by it.

Terry Teachout

The 'Podunk Times' is not going to have a good dance critic, I absolutely promise you that. There's just not enough dance there.

John Whitehead

We've already recognized that it is absolutely essential for British children to learn other languages and we will be working hard to put further strategies in place to ensure this.

Walt Dabney

We've absolutely been existing day to day. We haven't bought any equipment. We haven't filled full-time jobs.

Eric Schmidt

We believe that the decision that we made to follow the law in China was absolutely the right one.

Alan Rickman

I knew with Snape I was working as a double agent, as it turns out, and a very good one at that.

David Morse

I just figured, "If I can do theater, agents will find their way."

Casey Affleck

I moved out to LA, got an agent, started auditioning. I didn't know anything about how it worked. And since I was really bad, luckily, I didn't get any of those parts.

David Hunter

The perception is if two products are side by side, with one labeled as chemical-free and one not, the chemical-free product will go for a higher price. The main reason Australia has implemented the use of biologicals as control agents is because of the very high market price for organic beef in the Japanese market,

John Davies

We've all discussed the facility needs by the county. There may be a need to lease facilities in the interim, before we build. We're asking for the purchasing agent to be given the authority to negotiate a lease agreement.

Max Weber

The modern view of criminal justice, broadly, is that public concern with morality or expediency decrees expiation for the violation of a norm; this concern finds expression in the infliction of punishment on the evil doer by agents of the state, the evil doer, however, enjoying the protection of a regular procedure.

Nonso Anozie

As soon as I started acting in England, I got unusual roles. Although I'm 6 foot six, and agents might standardly cast me in tough guy roles or the big guy in the back, I've been very blessed to do roles that makes them think twice about how they're gonna cast me.

Newt Gingrich

What the president should recognize is that the American people are tired of thousands of pages of regulations, of audits they don't understand by agents they can't talk with from a bureaucracy they can't control,

Herman Edwards

We were approached by his agent at the Senior Bowl. We visited - a very short visit. We haven't heard from his agent at this point in time. I haven't heard from Terrell.

Charles Stross

An important factor to note is that it's rare for anyone to sell a first novel written before they turned 30-35; long-format fiction tends to require a bunch of experience of human life that takes time to acquire. So your average mid-career novelist is in their forties to fifties!

Charles Stanley

If a person becomes content with what is average, minimally acceptable, or satisfactory, she will rarely exert the effort or work toward something that is truly excellent or outstanding.

Alan Guth

Space is certainly something more complicated than the average person would probably realize. Space is not just an empty background in which things happen.

Alan Greenspan

I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Refuse to be average.

Chip Kelly

Last time I checked, there is no 'Hall of Average.'

David Cross

I'm pretty happy. I obviously have complaints about things, but for the most part, I'm on the above-average side of happy people.

Buddy Rich

Average band with a great drummer sounds great, great band with an average drummer sounds average.

C. J. Cherryh

Average people didn't analyze what they thought: they thought they thought, and half of it was gut reaction.

Rick Rashid

The personal and informational connections made possible through computing and communications technology are becoming ever more critical to economic, educational and social progress,

Bill Ward

We are losing students because they are becoming discouraged. It's hard to keep their interest when they don't have the facilities to practice.

Tom Kendall

We are seeing a lot of non-traditional investors in commodities, such as mutual funds and pension funds, becoming interested in commodities such as platinum because they want to diversify their portfolios.

Wenonah Hauter

We strongly support efforts to make shellfish safe for consumers, but irradiation clearly is not the answer. The FDA is just throwing one problem on top of another - and this is becoming an illogical pattern.

Ryan MacMurchy

We started building back slowly and becoming that team we were before Christmas again, the No. 1 team in the nation. This weekend, especially, there was no doubt in our dressing room. We had no doubt. We knew it was ours for the taking, it was our tournament to lose.

Ernie Els

Where it used to be kind of the most fun of all the majors, it's becoming the hardest one now. Over four days of competition, it's going to narrow the field dramatically. You will be doing good to break par on the back nine.

Liya Kebede

There are things that I will always shoot, but now that the modeling and acting worlds are becoming very close, you can do a little bit of one and more of the other.

Luis von Ahn

As humanity goes online, it's becoming an extremely advanced, large-scale processing unit.

Li Bingbing

I started out as a music teacher; I never planned on becoming an actress.

Don Howe

The others had contracts that were up during the course of the year.

Dave Lewis

We are pleased to have Henrik and Daniel under contract for another year,

Joy Bacon

We were arrogant, we thought we were safe because we had our production contracts with the big studios. Now we have to look at new ways to grow.

David Davies

Whether that leads to a contract is another matter entirely.

Tamara Faulkner

We're going to prevent what is still going to happen, contract procurement irregularities.

Bernie Bickerstaff

When we come to a decision, we make that move regardless of when it is. Some team could pick Kareem up at a nominal cost and still have the right (to pick up the option on his contract for next season).

Willis Reed

Yes, because the contract that they forced us into, the previous contract three years ago, in my opinion, I already gave them their raises. That's why I had a wage freeze in the first three years (of the new contract proposal).

Jay Fiedler

With my contract situation and the team moving in a new direction, it was pretty much a done deal.

Shaun Rinier

We're expecting a contract (today). The association has pretty much made their point to me, they want this resolved (today) or there could be another work stoppage.

Dave Barry

In South Florida, we have industrial cockroaches that have to be equipped with loud warning beepers so you can get out of their way when they back up.

Dave Barry

I've been checking with people back in South Florida to see if Hurricane Dennis is going to whack my house, and the consensus of the experts seems to be: No, it will not, unless it does, in which case, yes. So I'm feeling really calm over here in London.

David Talbot

While I'm critical to the Bush presidency, it's been enormously beneficial for Salon because we're seen as kind of an aggressive watchdog on the Bush White House. Particularly since Florida, our readership hit a whole new level, and we held onto those readers.

Carl Hiaasen

Disney's something to be a little alarmed about. It's not just a little theme park anymore. It's now an ethic and outlook and strategy that goes way beyond central Florida.

John Anderson

We're not going to play differently because it's Florida State. We're going to be a team that's going to steal; we're going to put runners in motion.

Billy Gardell

I chewed up a lot of Florida highway when I was starting out. Used to come to Tampa two or three times a year for about 10 years straight.

Betty White

I always tape my Christmas show in advance. That way I can spend the season of joy and goodwill with my only sister in Florida. She’s kinda a creep but she’s got a pool.

Helen Pitts

When we got her down to Florida and started training her, it didn't look like she'd lost that much.

Cheyenne Trussell

We faxed the application to about 12 other (state high school) associations, and Florida was one that posted it.

Charles Dickens

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Charles Spurgeon

His will cannot be neutral or 'free' to act contrary to his nature.

Alan Watts

As muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one of the best possible contributions to a world in turmoil.

Dell Leonard

We've won some big games at the line this year, and we've lost some at the line. We know how important free throws are.

Chogyam Trungpa

Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment.

Chogyam Trungpa

When you drop your unnecessary things, you finally can swoop and fly in vast space. It is so blue, so bright, and so nice, so airy and fresh. You can stretch your wings and breathe the air. You can do anything you want. You have experienced cheerfulness and joy, and finally the bliss of freedom occurs in you.

Dave Barry

Democracy: In which you say what you like and do what you're told.

Byron Katie

There is no thought or situation that you can't put up against inquiry. Every thought, every person, every apparent problem is here for the sake of your freedom.

Eddie Vedder

We want them to be heard for the first time when the record comes out.

Tom Renney

When you've heard from the ref once, you've kind of got to suck it up.

Tom Renney

When you've heard from the referee once that you've got to kind of suck it up and quit yapping, you should probably do that.

Charles Kuralt

You never heard anybody ask 'Elvis who?'

Ednita Nazario

It's fascinating to be in a place where no one has ever heard of me

Michelle Evans

We were at a cross-roads last week when we heard the news that Ft. Chaffee was no longer sending hurricane survivors to the area.

Dan Doherty

When we heard the news yesterday, everyone was just devastated. He made a huge impact at Pearl River in a short time 5 1/2 years.

Tom Eagleson

When we heard it was her appendix, we all thought the worst. But then, it turned out to be kidney stones.

Todd Helton

When we heard about (Barmes), we were thinking, 'That's terrible, what are we going to do,' ... Then the skipper leaves and his daughter's having seizures, and it puts it all back in perspective really quick.

Gretchen Rubin

I've always loved 'Before and After' stories, in books, magazines, and TV shows. Whenever I read those words, I'm hooked. The thought of a transformation - any kind of transformation - thrills me. And that's the promise of habits.

David Justice

This was a team that really loved each other. It's rare that you find a team that really pulls for each other, that really loves each other.

Kathryn Lasky

I loved to read, and if I could've been a professional reader, that's probably what I would've wanted to be!

Robert Krulwich

When I was a teenager, I loved political conventions.

Hunter Birckhead

She said she loved us, and she meant it.

Loretta Neigeborn

She said she just loved it here and wanted to stay.

Justin Timberlake

She had a passion for what she did, ... She loved to work and she loved to make music.

Ronald Williams

She really loved her neighbors there. She made a lot of friends there.

Angela Ross

She never complained about it. She loved those kids.

Dick Cavett

The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable.

Donita Stewart

She is very independent, and suddenly she couldn't do the things that she's always done.

Mark Woodhead

(Miller) just hoisted us up. Defensively, she got about three picks. We were down two at half, and all of a sudden we're up by five, that was critical.

Feist

When I wrote 'Mushaboom', I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first.

Nicole Ari Parker

I have one little pooch-y stomach in a picture, and all of a sudden I'm pregnant.

Charles Nelson Reilly

I was 24 yesterday. Suddenly you wake up, and you get on the elevator, and there's a mirror there. And you look in the mirror, and you're an old man.

Harry Hamlin

In those days I was mortified, because I was a serious actor in my own mind, and then all of a sudden I'm this hunk.

Gillian Armstrong

It only happens once - that an actor is suddenly recognised as the star they are.

Elizabeth Warren

I was 30 before I realized, you know, that I probably was an accident. These things just suddenly hit you one day.

Charles Dickens

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Charles Caleb Colton

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.