Famous Quotes & Sayings

I met a lady there from Buffalo, Mo., and I shared about the mission trip we took to the Ukraine last year and how I had saw a little girl there who I wished I could take home with me, ... That's when she told me she knew a lady who worked for an adoption agency and how they bring these Russian kids over to stay with host families for a couple of weeks.

Emmylou Harris

I just adore him, ... He follows his heart. He must be pretty smart in business. He loves his life and that's a wonderful thing to see. So many people are the beneficiaries of his passion, his love for this music. I don't think there's another festival like this in the world.

Jon Favreau

I just adored 'Shaun Of The Dead.' That's a true mashup. That's a real Romero-era zombie movie and a real Gen X indie comedy. That was before zombie movies were cool, before 'Zombieland' and 'I Am Legend,' and now it has become a whole sub-genre.

I hope they adopt the advisory maps as recommended. I think it's the right thing to do to protect the city.

Mahmoud Abbas

I hope that they will change their position in future. I try night and day to convince them to adopt my policies, which are moderate. If they do not, they will end up totally isolated, and thus incapable of accomplishing their mission.

I never expected to get a podium at our first race back. I hadn't seen the bike before practice on Thursday, and it has taken all weekend to get back in the groove. But thanks to Adolf and the team for helping Phil and I get back into the championship, and we're now looking forward to Assen.

Jean Kerr

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want - an adorable pancreas?

I'm thrilled to be taking over Green Arrow. What I adore about the Arrow is his recklessness. He'll shoot off on an impulse, dispatch someone if they deserve it; his heroism is instinctive.

Infrastructure is clearly a critical process for adopting hydrogen fuels. There's certainly going to be places where hydrogen won't be existing for a long time, but the petroleum infrastructure is just about everywhere now.

IMPARTIAL, adj. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy or adopting either of two conflicting opinions.

Kathie Gifford

I'm just getting a chance now to do interviews with people in a way that I never did before when I was sitting with Regis, whom I adore by the way. ... We used to do six-minute interviews at the most. I sat with Sybil for over an hour. She cried about Elvis. She cried about her own children, and a health scare.

If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar.

Jeffrey Donaldson

I have not heard a viable alternative to what I have put forward, and the reality is that the (power sharing) strategy that we adopted in May has failed,

Ruth Pitter

I had to be intellectually satisfied as well as emotionally because at that time of life one doesn't just fall into it in adolescent emotion, and I was satisfied at every point that it was the one way and the hard way to do things.

In 1995, Lotus Notes was an alternative to the Internet, used solely within enterprises. Since the Lotus Notes business model was to give away Notes client software, while charging for the server software, it was reasonable to assume that Mr. Barksdale had adopted this strategy as well.

I never heard people speak about segregation as some great cross that they were bearing. They just went on about their lives. Some of them had good contacts with white people that they were serving in someone's home. Sometimes those white families almost effectively adopted you.

Richard O'Brien

I'm very happy to sit in the genre of make believe and fantasy. It's where I'm happiest. It appeals to the eternal adolescent in me.

I'm tired of straight people playing drag queens. Why can't drag queens play drag queens? They're talented, they're fabulous, they're gorgeous! ... To Wong Foo (Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar) ? I could've puked with the exception of John Leguizamo. He's brilliant, and I adore him.

Tony Bennett

I'm the kid of baby boomers, and the baby boomers listened to rock-and-roll, not thinking that Sinatra and Bennett were cool. I discovered this music on my own, which is why I really adopted it as my own music.

Martin Jacques

After the Meiji restoration in 1868, Japan adopted an expansionist and colonial attitude towards its neighbours. It sought to identify itself with the West and looked down upon the Asian continent as backward and inferior. For most of the next 70 years, Japan was at war, mainly with its neighbours.

Anytime we have seen people try to accelerated adoption by lowering price, they have gotten their heads cut off.

Service level agreements are one of the most critical factors for success in managing services since they clarify the business and contractual obligations between the provider and enterprise, thus laying the foundation for mutual trust between these partners. Unfortunately, many organizations are facing huge barriers to adoption because of traditional implementation approaches.

Julius Genachowski

Small businesses were slower than large businesses in adopting broadband. One of the reasons was they were concerned with putting their customer lists online or in the cloud.

Rob Conway

Although mobile spam is a relatively small problem compared with spam on fixed networks, unsolicited text or picture messages can exploit and offend mobile users. The widespread adoption of this code of practice will minimize these messages and reinforce the mobile industry's reputation for providing secure and trusted services.

A man practices the art of adventure when he breaks the chain of routine and renews his life through reading new books, traveling to new places, making new friends, taking up new hobbies and adopting new viewpoints

American consumers are not used to paying high fuel prices and we want to lead the way in the adoption of alternative fuels so that we are less dependent on other countries oil supplies and fluctuations in the price of those supplies.

Lester Brown

They have also been adopting fuel efficiency standards for automobiles in China.

It was a simple decision, really. The circuit was just too tight and we're improving it to maintain Long Beach's status as the premier street race in America. It will not only make for better racing this year, but will provide much more excitement when standing starts are adopted for the Champ Car World Series in the future.

Pope John

I urge you to adopt a policy of zero tolerance for all offenders, whether they have abused one child or adolescent or many, whether past, present or future.

The worldwide adoption rate of large-screen HDTV sets by consumers has increased significantly over the last year. There is now an enormous opportunity for consumer electronics manufacturers and Hollywood studios to supply consumers with high- definition media players and movies. As a result, we anticipate strong movie title and media player introductions in 2006.

They also receive all the resources that come with belonging here and there. ... Hopefully it will inspire some other gyms in the area to adopt one as well. I hope to extend the challenge to other facilities in the area.

The widespread adoption of broadband and the continued advances in personal computing technology are finally making it possible for the collective creation of an online world on a realistic scale.

The whole thing was much ado about nothing. At the end of the day, I pay taxes, too. I treat everyone fairly.