Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Harris

The only question you have to ask is do you want to play against him?

The politicians would have laughed if we would have requested money for protection against armed robbers before 'The Scream' and 'Madonna' theft.

The policy does not discriminate against any brokerage model, including discount brokers.

The police think it was a hate crime, and I do believe that. I mean, they might have hate against me, but that's them.

The police have promised not to do that again and we will demonstrate at every point in this visit.

The police has filed an appeal with the Delhi High Court against the acquittal of all the accused.

Ian Roberts

The police asked me if I could broach it with Arron, that they had this information and would he make a statement and would he be prepared to go to court to press charges against these men,

Ryan Newman

The point that should be driven home, if we have repeat offenders or the situation happens time and time again with a certain individual, there's something more should be done than suspension.

J. August Richards

The pilots I did test for, I was the only black actor testing against white actors for parts that were written white.

The picture is vastly improved from that of two or three years ago due to the fine work done by EAC, NIST, and state and local governments. The states are working as fast as they can against deadlines coming up in early 2006 and most are making solid progress towards those deadlines.

The overall picture in September is one of negligible decline in manufacturing activity. Production registered significant growth, with nine industries reporting greater output. Deliveries of commodities were somewhat slower. However, commodities appear to be in ample supply as once again the short supply list is vacant.

The overall message of the report remains positive. The evidence that I have seen convinces me that we are poised to make dramatic gains against cancer in the near future.

Thomas Hudson

The overall foundation of the program is getting better, ... When he got here, most of the players were Hughes' players. He had to fight against the team. Now, he's got most of his guys. The attitude is better, you see the recruiting getting better, you see the facilities getting better, and the discipline is better.

The overall case for Australian dollar weakness is still in place with a steady interest rate outlook in Australia and a diminishing interest rate spread against the U.S..

The people against whom I defended my country in the war ... have an interest in silencing me and cannot be interested in treating me.

The penalty against us was the turning point of this match. After that the Guineans came back fully into the match. But we have nothing to be ashamed of because, like it was against Tunisia, they stood their ground.

The patients raised many issues the committee will have to grapple with. What we are talking about here is a drug that unequivocally works, and works very well. We have to weigh that against the risk.

Condoleezza Rice

We will continue to work together in our common fight against terror.

Brooke Adams

I go through periods where I don't shop at all, and then I go crazy and buy everything in sight. I never know what to wear, and I'm at my worst before an audition. I pull everything out of the closet, throw it on my bed. I'll get entirely dressed and then take it all off again until I'm in a kind of frenzy.

Bart Chilton

Nobody wants to be against technology, but I think that regulators should not - and people should not - assume that faster is always better in markets. We need to question technology to insure that markets continue to perform their fundamental purposes.

In commendably seeking to protect freedom of speech, we must not lower our defences against the evil of racial and religious intolerance.

Brandon Flowers

'Human' was controversial within The Killers way before it was controversial to the rest of the world! It caused some problems within the band. Not to throw anybody under the bus, but it was pretty much me and Dave against Mark and Ronnie for a little while. We were standing up for the song.

Beeban Kidron

Everything serious in the world is well approached by humour. It's a powerful and often quite subversive tool. I suppose there is an argument that could be made against me for being frivolous, but I do think a laugh is a very generous thing to give.

Beeban Kidron

The thing that upsets me is the ubiquitous use of reward technology, which uses our evolutionary biology against us.

David Wenham

I'd love to work with the people who really got the film industry going again through the '70s: Peter Weir, Bruce Beresford, Gillian Armstrong, Fred Schepisi.

David R. Ellis

They do think it is a big summer movie and that's why they want to give it a great chance, but they don't want to go up against Spider-Man 2 or some of the other big movies, the $100 million films that are coming up.

David Chase

I said it's a cold universe and I don't mean that metaphorically. If you go out into space, it's cold. It's really cold and we don't know what's up there. We happen to be in this little pocket where there's a sun. What have we got except love and each other to guard against all that isolation and loneliness?

Chris Frantz

We get these overzealous young men and their girlfriends. It's happened occasionally where one of them will lean up against the front of the stage and the guy is behind her, and it starts off as just dancing and then it gets into something more.

Chris Matthews

They were unable to stand up and say: 'Here's our policy. It's Unite the world against terrorism.'

I wanted to get into films, and my parents were against it. I convinced my mom, and finally she convinced my dad. My dad then felt, who best to launch his son than him? So he launched me, and here I am.

Judith Butler

When Zionism becomes co-extensive with Jewishness, Jewishness is pitted against the diversity that defines democracy, and if I may say so, betrays one of the most important ethical dimensions of the diasporic Jewish tradition: namely, the obligation of co-habitation with those different from ourselves.

John C. Calhoun

So long as the Oregon question is left open, Mexico will calculate the chances of a rupture between us and Great Britain, in the event of which she would be prepared to make common cause against us. But when an end is put to any such hope, she will speedily settle her difference with us.

Alice Walker

I think that I do feel that my nature is to express what this self, this particular self at this time, experiences in the world. And that is so organic - I use this metaphor a lot but I'll use it again - it's like a pine tree producing pine cones, or a blackberry bush producing blackberries - it's just what happens with this being, now.