Famous Quotes & Sayings

We're looking at all the state parks throughout the system, because they all have needs. It would take much more than that (amount) to address all the needs we have in our state parks system.

Jennifer Williams

We're looking at added volatility this week because of the September 11th memorial Wednesday, George Bush addressing the U.N. and Greenspan speaking Thursday.

Emmitt Smith

My father is Emmit and my grandfather is Emmit, but I wanted something extra so I could separate my Emmitt from the rest of them. Even though on my birth certificate it has one T, I just added the extra T for me.

Bob Sheppard

My purpose in public address and in speech is really encapsulated in three C's: clear, concise, correct. No overblowing rhetoric or anything like that. As simple as possible: clear, concise, correct.

Burning Spear

People have been listening to Burning Spear for a long time now, and they know who I am and what I stand for. Yes, I do address many of the same ideas from album to album, adding only a little different flavor or coloring. Yes, the message has remained virtually the same because the issues haven't gone away yet.

Bryce Dallas Howard

When I was seven, I was allowed to be an extra in 'Parenthood,' which was amazing. But then I kind of got addicted to it, and my parents didn't want me to want to act. They felt that would be putting your kid in an adult world.

The real test of any governmental agency's priorities is reflected in what it budgets to address a particular issue, not rhetoric.

The real offense here was in the producers' decision to add insult to injury by turning a contestant's gender expression into the butt of a joke.

The real odd thing here is that we're existing gambling facilities in this state and we offer all those things now. It's just now we're adding another product and all of a sudden we have to have these restrictions. Something about it doesn't seem right.

There are a lot of other great players in the tournament of course in addition to Manny, which is one of the reasons Manny would probably want to play, with the talent at that level. But I haven't spoken with Manny himself, and, in fact, I think I spoke to one of his representatives as late as yesterday and he hasn't ruled out playing. What he decides is really ultimately going to be up to him though.

There are many simple things online merchants can do to keep customer satisfaction numbers high. Part of it is clear product descriptions, and clearly addressing the things that make customers uncomfortable shopping online, like security, shipping charges and returns.

There are many people who have added to the success of the organization.

Diane Ackerman

Cicadas, buckling and unbuckling their stomach muscles, yield the sound of someone sharpening scissors. Fall field crickets, the thermometer hounds, add high-pitched tinkling chirps to the jazz, and their call quickens with warm weather, slows again with cool.

Howard Rheingold

As for Twitter, I've found that you have to learn how to make it add value rather than subtract hours from one's day. Certainly, it affords narcissism and distraction.

Chick Corea

I came along in the '60s having absorbed as much as I could up until then and added my own tastes and search into the equation. I guess that's how I see 'Now He Sings, Now He Sobs' in relation to the development of jazz in general.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

We certainly could have voted on making the middle-class tax cuts and tax cuts for working families permanent had the Republicans not insisted that the only way they would support those tax breaks is if we also added $700 billion to the deficit to give tax breaks to the wealthiest 2 percent of Americans. That's what was really disturbing.

Dee Dee Myers

You can't leave out half the world's experience and expect to address all the problems. Women communicate differently and process information differently, which leads them to resolve conflicts differently.

Howie Mandel

I once called construction companies to bid on an addition to the school library so that there would suddenly be people outside, measuring the building. 'Who authorized this?' the principal would ask. The answer: 'Howie Mandel.'

Hilary Mantel

Like many people, I am addicted to the physical act of reading.

Francis Parkman

The great medley of Oregon and California emigrants, at their camps around Independence, had heard reports that several additional parties were on the point of setting out from St. Joseph's farther to the northward.

Ridley Scott

I always shoot my movies with score as certainly part of the dialogue. Music is dialogue. People don't think about it that way, but music is actually dialogue. And sometimes music is the final, finished, additional dialogue. Music can be one of the final characters in the film.

We believe the committee was able to make significant gains in addressing the economic concerns that our members have including their retirement concerns.

Henry Blodget

We believe the comments on PC demand add weight to the view that the PC cycle may have bottomed. However, we believe it is still too early to 'call the bottom' -- especially if emerging weakness in European IT demand dampens prospects for a PC rebound there.

E. Stanley Jones

When we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code, but a character.

Duane Michals

All good children's books, I think, address metaphysical issues in some kind of way.

With pension funds and individual investors keen to address the lack of commodity exposure in their portfolios, the re-discovery of this ancient and not-so-alternative asset class should help sustain the first great commodity uplift in three decades.

With over $8 billion available before the Perry tax plan is even considered, any school finance plan that leaves our children's schools and their teachers out of the equation just doesn't add up.

With cable stock prices under pressure, business slightly less robust than previously thought, and market concerns about debt loads, now might not be the ideal time for additional mergers,

With both federal and local help we can address a problem in our community and provide a better life for these individuals.

Larry Johnson

With a portfolio this size, you just do the fringe things, no biotech or emerging markets, ... This is a finite pool of money that they won't add to so go plain vanilla with your investments and hopefully you'll return 8 percent a year.

John Cullen

With a plan, we could address issues in a comprehensive way, instead of case by case.

With any addiction like gambling, it becomes the central feature of the person's life. Everything else hangs on it.

Ralph Friedgen

With an added year of maturity, both physically and mentally, I would think Melvin would make an immediate impact. He can really run for a big guy, has tremendous acceleration coming off the edge.