Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Bush

The possession of a controlled substance was an off-white rock-like substance,

Kirk Lewis

We are proud of the student who reported this. Students and staff are reacting just like we want. We tell them to take control of their campus.

Howard Eisen

We are at full control of a completely healthy spacecraft.

Dusty Baker

There are some guys who have the nod because of experience. There are some guys who have demonstrated better control and better stuff than others. We'll see how they do the last couple weeks of spring and how they do when they go to Triple-A or Double-A.

Bayan Jabr

There are some forces out of order, not under our control, and not under the control of the Ministry of Defense.

Jake Delhomme

We still want to control the clock. Hopefully we're a smarter team now.

Rafa Benitez

We started off by controlling the game and were well organised and in the second half they did put some pressure on us but then we controlled the game at the end of the game,

Sharon Allen

We started covering their inside. We really wanted to control that at the end. When that happens a smart team does what? They go outside, and that's exactly what they did.

Zach Day

We spent most of the night trying to control the water from damaging our room,

Lina Wertmuller

I've always been an angel. Sometimes I transform into a witch only because the filmmaking demands it.

Li Shufu

In this fast-developing world, particularly in the fast-transforming China market, we really need to take this opportunity and offer a modern interpretation of Scandinavian design which fits people's demands perfectly.

Brian Moss

We're so far behind, in terms of what the market demands today, that this is something that needed to be done.

Bill Cowher

When we come here, there will be a lot of demands on many of these guys. (The goal) is to come here and prioritize things and try not to get out of the routine, and understand that Wednesday, Thursday, Friday is just like a regular game.

Matt Busby

United is no longer just a football club; it is an institution. I feel the demands are beyond one human being.

Bruce Goldstein

We're hoping that these farmworkers will become part of the labor movement. We're hoping that the newly legalized workers will join labor unions to make demands on their employers for better wages and working conditions.

Dag Hammarskjold

Life demands from you only the strength you posses. One feat is possible -- not to have run away.

Ken Starr

There is no excuse for perjury - never, never, never. There is truth, and the truth demands respect.

Marilynne Robinson

When I lecture, under almost all circumstances, I write a new lecture for the occasion. It helps me think. It helps me make demands of myself that I would not otherwise make.

Margaret Atwood

In the desert there is no sign that says, Thou shalt not eat stones.

Baltasar Gracian

There is no desert like being friendless.

Edward Abbey

Why do I live in the desert? Because the desert is the *locus Dei*.

Edward Abbey

What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.

Will Johnson

So it's a celebration of our new release, and the fact that we're old. But desert plants are old and beautiful.

Paul Murphy

Mount Desert is a key member of our partnership. We would hate to see that partnership dissolve.

Viggo Mortensen

I have never been in a natural place and felt that was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.

Arthur Symons

The desert of virginity Aches in the hotness of her mouth.

Albert Camus

Our reason has driven all away. Alone at last, we end up ruling over a desert.

Lorraine Bracco

I was jumping out of my skin. It was horrible. I was all over the place, because I'd never been in front of a live audience. That's a whole other element in the play, the audience.

Christopher Bailey

There are some elements over there that I feel once there is light and activity...they will go away.

Anton Corbijn

There are some elements of digital photography that I don't really like, such as the fact that you see the results immediately.

Lydia Leonard

Television's so quick, and there's so many other fun elements to it, but you don't get such good scripts and the time to really make much more three dimensional characters.

Billy Gibbons

Having a visual element to your band is a good thing.

Denise Levertov

The poem has a social effect of some kind whether or not the poet wills it to have. It has a kenetic force, it sets in motion...elements in the reader that would otherwise remain stagnant.

Charles Garfield

The one element that stands out most clearly among our peak performers is their virtually unassailable belief in the likelihood of their own success.

Beth Orton

From the beginning, I wanted to make dance music with a human element to it.

Nathaniel Rateliff

There's this element of surprise when you're writing songs, like it's something outside of you that you get to be part of. And it's just exciting. And that's why I keep writing - because I like that feeling.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

It is scarcely possible in most places to get anyone to attend a meeting where the only attraction is God

Randy Nixon

We want to see people come to this meeting who want to work, who want to see it happen.

Omar Epps

We're in Hollywood. I meet people like that every day.

Pat Schaumann

We staff about 4,000 meetings a year for the pharmaceutical industry.

John Lackey

When we have two jurisdictions, we have to have a meeting of the minds.

David Davies

We're going to meet up and have a training session before I go.

Tim Collins

We're doing everything we can to meet the needs of our customers, but things are going to be kind of crowded.

Amanda Brown

We're doing everything we can to meet that goal.

Robert Worthy

We're really getting into the meet of our schedule. This is really important.

Phil Orlandella

There are (contingency) plans in place for strikes.

Jim Wilkinson

We're not going to sit here and say that all the plans are perfect.

David Rockefeller

I hope the Guggenheim plan will be revived.

Joe Dumars

We have no plans to do anything with Derrick at the moment.

Charles de Lint

There is no plan, no future laid out for any of us beyond what we make for ourselves.

Dianna Agron

My back-up plan is always to take a trip. That's never a bad option. That's always a good option.

Ricky Gervais

I never had a plan. I just sort of ambled along, doing exactly what I wanted every day of my life.

Charles R. Swindoll

God's heavenly plan doesn't always make earthly sense.

Daniel Handler

Even the best plans can change if there's an accident.

Alexei Mordashov

We appreciate size, but only if it is robust growth. Just to be big is not a target.

Renee James

Security can be enhanced with hardware. You can have a software-only solution, but it can be made more robust in conjunction with hardware.

Paul Hill

Having one or two things slow us down isn't particularly unexpected. We are going to have a very robust spacecraft.

Brad Anderson

Our back-to school-season was not as robust as we hoped,

John Carroll

It will be a much more robust system and structure.

Michael Robinet

When the new vehicles arrive, you don't want too many of the old ones on the lot. I see this as a specific case, not a wide-ranging trend.

Todd Phillips

When I'm writing, I'm writing for a particular actor. When a lot of writers are writing, they're writing an idea. So they're not really writing in a specific voice.

Gustavo Torres

We are going to target them in a specific way.

Brendan Coyle

By the time you've been single for quite a long time, you can get quite specific about what you can and can't put up with.

Walter Salles

I'm much more interested in living specific experiences in films.

Neil Levine

We don't have any specific allocation for it yet.

Sara Zarr

Readers want a story, not a pattern. It's the specifics of a story that make it really ping our various reader radars.

David Gilmour

I don't like to get too specific about lyrics. It places limitations on them, and spoils the listeners' interpretation.

Chris Benz

I have specific playlists for arrivals in different cities. Tokyo skews new wave, Paris more jazz, and New York is Top 40.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them.

Chinua Achebe

Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.

Edward Hirsch

As a reader you have a task to do, you have something to do. You bring your experience to it. It's not all inherit in the poem.

Arthur Schnitzler

The principal task of friendship is to foster one`s friends` illusions.

Arne Jacobsen

That is the artistic task: To choose the best from these solutions.

Arne Jacobsen

In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture.

Michael Porter

Unfortunately, I'm an engineer. I'm always thinking about, what's the task and how do I get it done? And some of my tasks are pretty broad, and pretty fuzzy, and pretty funky, but that's the way I think.

Anton Chekhov

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

While it is good that we seek to know the Holy One, it is probably not so good to presume that we ever complete the task.

Alan Watts

Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work.

Alan Clark

Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology.

Alan Bennett

If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.

Alan Ayckbourn

A gentleman ... sleeps at his work. That's what work's for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the library? So as not to disturb me in my little nook behind the biography shelves.

Al Kaline

You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.

Akio Morita

Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.

Chloe Sevigny

I do a dance-based cardio workout infused with circuit training, and emphasizing strength and alignment.

Dave Chappelle

If I put forth a legitimate effort, then I feel like, if that doesn't work out, that's all I can do.

Dave Chappelle

I always take a relationship to the next level. If that works out, I take it to the next level after that, until I finally reach that level when it becomes absolutely necessary for me to leave.