Famous Quotes & Sayings

It's in a temporary home. It will be adopted to a family whenever that group decides the time is appropriate.

It's clearly a strategy -- Trujillo has said from his first day in Australia that regulation is a prime focus, he's adopted a confrontational style and both he and the government are playing hardball,

It's amazing. Everybody's adopted this child as their own.

They will probably be laggards. They want something mature and will be slower to adopt than the very high and very low end.

They've really adopted a team atmosphere. It's hard to do in golf because someone doesn't pass you the ball, but they're so close that they don't want to let each other down.

Hugh Laurie

There's the clown in House, there's an adolescent in him, a child, a playful side. There's also a tormented self-destroyer as well. I get the best of all possible worlds.

There was a real sense of solidarity among the neighboring states, a desire to see this work and send a signal to all the Afghan factions that they were no longer to receive assistance if they did not adopt this accord.

These phones deliver the same digital still camera experience as Cyber-shot. It is only now that we felt we could adopt the reputable Cyber-shot brand.

Roger Clemens

These people in greater Metropolitan Houston wanted him to play and recruited him, and it made a difference, ... And people seemed to totally and completely understand that he was doing it for the city and the community. And they've never forgotten that. So they adopted him, and he adopted them. And it hasn't hurt that he's performed remarkably for two years.

This is a valuable contribution to the Linux community that will help open-source developers benefit from Novell's research to create a better, more user-friendly desktop, ... Usability is a key requirement in order to drive the Linux desktop into the mainstream. This ... will help break down some of the barriers to mainstream Linux adoption on the desktop.

William Cowper

Once more I would adopt the graver style - a teacher should be sparing of his smile.

William Cowper

Once more I would adopt the graver style -- a teacher should be sparing of his smile.

Wayne Smith

Not only is no-till good for the soil and environment, it can also help facilitate adoption of carbon emission reductions by companies. Companies will pay farmers to reduce carbon through no-till conservation practices.

Igor Ivanov

Not necessary at present to adopt any new resolutions.

A child that is free for adoption or may become free for adoption would likely be placed in our home before it would be placed in a home that was not adoption motivated. This prevents the child from being moved from place to place unnecessarily. If a child in our home does become adoptable, we would have the first opportunity at adoption.

It's much ado about nothing in some respects,

It's much ado about nothing. Both companies will emerge with no damage.

education will be a theme in the next presidential election. It's one thing that this country is not doing well enough. Several states are going to be adopting new textbooks. This company has spent a lot of money to prepare, so you're going to go into a period of rising revenues, declining costs and powerful positive profit growth. And it's selling at 13 times forward fourth quarter earnings.

Everyone has his own take on the book, to which the movie is faithful. Rather than embracing any interpretation, we're remaining neutral, adopting the Switzerland approach.

Everybody's nice to me, they treat you real nice, I got an adopted family,

Rand Paul

The biggest thing I've learned from my dad is he's had adoring crowds of 8,000 at Berkeley, and 6,000 at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University. That's an amazing feat to have people coming out in one of the most liberal universities and one of the most conservative.

It still remains to be seen whether you're going to get mass-market adoption to buy a song that costs twice as much as it does to buy it on a PC.

David Rakoff

It's the false moral component behind blind animal love that so frosts me. The faulty logic that believes that the capacity to adore a nonhuman creature is somehow a purer form of love.

It looks like right now the flat-panel displays are being adopted by the higher-end appliances. On the low-end appliances, you may always have knobs and dials.

It was in the Christian spirit. They just contacted us and kind of adopted us,

Sean Kelly

It's a chicken or the egg principal. Carriers and brokers are asking 'who is going to adopt this first. 'Who is going to be the leader to build an ACORD XML interface?' The risk is the first one out there is going to have to find a partner to do it with to try to get some type of ROI.

It's a bittersweet victory because people are ready for curbside this year. We have a crisis on our island. We are running out of landfill. Why not adopt it this year? There are recycling companies ready to go.

It is profoundly discouraging to learn that the share of African-American kids attending segregated schools has barely changed in the last decade since school choice policies were adopted in Michigan. We should all be concerned about the kind of society we are creating, in which more than half of African-American students in Michigan go to schools in which virtually none of their classmates are not also African-American.

I told (Lucas) I'd adopt her for the day. I said we'd pass the hat and see if we can come up with a ticket for her, which, seriously we're doing.

It's a little harder in June, because this is an especially back-end loaded quarter. But even so, $6.4 billion to $7 billion is a fairly wide range, and since they've been doing this mid-quarter update, they have adopted the practice of narrowing it down.

It will be interesting to see if Seoul's urban vocabulary of numerous, ever-present interactive screens will translate to other cities such as Beijing, London, and New York. It will also be intriguing to see if smaller cities and towns adopt aspects of Seoul's screen culture throughout Asia, Europe, and North America.

The voters have expressed their desire for change and much-needed accountability by passing the strong mayor initiative, ... The voters' mandate cannot be carried out in an atmosphere where high-ranking officials are more concerned with defending their past mistakes than in adopting needed reforms.

Pete Domenici

They want us to adopt this while we're here fighting over a Clinton budget that increases spending beyond anything that President George W. Bush would recommend,