Famous Quotes & Sayings

We've already completed the tests on mercury and fish and . . . so far there's nothing to alarm us,

We find it ironic and alarming that the people who protect the building are paid less than everyone else who works at the building.

We're just not getting out of bed until the fourth quarter. We hit the snooze button and the alarm isn't ringing.

Michael Buckley

Ultimately, it was the increase in the amount of cash that he was requiring that set off the alarm bells.

Kevin Mitnick

For the average home-user, anti-virus software is a must. A personal firewall such as Zone Alarm and running a program like HFNetcheck, which is a free download for personal users. It checks your system to see if anything needs to be patched. I'd also recommend a program such as SpyCop to periodically check for any spyware on your system.

Rose George

'MaerskKendal' is a rarity with its British flag, the 'LONDON' home port painted on its bow, its two British chief officers, and its portrait of the queen in the mess room, apparently common courtesy on British ships, but a little alarming to me.

Vladimir Putin

It's alarming that military intervention in internal conflicts in foreign countries has become commonplace for the United States.

When I came out of the apartment Steve was, um -- I had him in a chair. As soon as I opened the door, I was thinking that it was a false alarm or something.

Security guards at the shopping centre heard an alarm early this morning and upon investigation saw smoke coming out of the building, but could not ascertain where the fire was coming from.

She would come in real early in the morning and sleep in a booth with a wind-up alarm clock so she could get up in time to start making them breakfast.

The pattern raises the alarm, however, that these species face two challenges that increase the risk of extinction: habitat destruction, which is occurring at alarming rates in the tropics, and reduced pollinator activity.

The pattern raises the alarm, however, that species in species-rich regions face two challenges that increase the risk of extinction: habitat destruction, which is occurring at alarming rates in the tropics, and reduced pollinator activity.

Michael Crawford

I'd be totally exhausted by mid-afternoon, and I could barely climb the stairs at home. It was particularly alarming because all my life I'd enjoyed doing all my own stunts in shows, taking on every physical challenge. Yet suddenly, I'd become like a very old man. I knew something was wrong, but I had no idea what.

Leila Aboulela

When you write about a Muslim woman, like I did with my previous novels - 'Minaret', for example, which is about a woman who starts to wear the hijab - it sets all the alarm bells ringing.

Matthew Underwood

I can't start my day without hearing 'Waiting On the World to Change' by John Mayer. It's my alarm clock and my favorite song.

Sharon Stone

I think, for a long time, people just did not know what to do with me. I looked like a Barbie doll, and then I had this voice like I spend my life in a bar, and I said things that were alarming and had ideas that didn't make sense.

Tony Fadell

Nest Thermostat owners like the carbon monoxide link. If Nest Protect's carbon monoxide alarm goes off, the Nest Thermostat automatically turns off the gas furnace.

Ally Carter

Kat," Hale groaned, then fell back onto the pillows. "Funny, I didn't hear a doorbell." "I let myself in; hope that's okay." Hale smiled. "Or the alarm." She stepped inside, tossed a pocket-size bag of tools onto the bed. "You're due for an upgrade." Hale propped himself against the antique headboard and squinted up at her. "She returns." He crossed his arms across his bare chest. "You know, I could be naked in here.

Henry Cisneros

As Secretary of Housing, I do have to express alarm, signal the alarm if you will, that the potential for homelessness to grow is there.

Zadie Smith

That's the thing about fiction writers: what seems alarming or particular or perverse about them is simply the shape of their brain - they cannot be otherwise.

Policy makers want to make sure in the language of their statement that whatever they do, it's meant as insurance -- they don't want to create alarm about the state of the economy, but they also don't want to create alarm in the bond market about the end of accommodative policy,

William Cohen

Politically, economically and technologically, the world is changing at an unprecedented and sometimes alarming pace.

My first reaction is that the students weren't a part of this process. It is very alarming that we were not involved. But we look forward to working with a permanent president and seeing how they deal with the separate constituencies on campus.

Dan Green

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My doors are locked, my windows are locked. I have my house locked when I'm in it and out of it. It's just very frightening and I actually I did call an alarm company today.

Most alarming is the apparent disregard for the potential impact on the French cinema industry, which will be hardest hit if this vote is upheld. We are hopeful as this bill works its way through the legislative process, those with an eye toward fostering French cinema will prevail.

Tom Harkin

Obesity now contributes to the death of more than 360,000 Americans a year. The incidence of childhood obesity is now at epidemic levels. Alarm bells are going off all over the place. But our government has done virtually nothing.

If a landlord is insisting on getting cash, that should be ringing alarm bells for people.

Michael Brown

I don't want to alarm anyone that New Orleans is filling up like a bowl. That isn't happening.

Frank Robinson

I don't want him to carry that into the season with a tender arm, and you probably saw some throws yesterday that weren't quality throws. That was an alarm to me to get him out of there and try to get this thing right.

I don't think it's cause for universal alarm that the system is breaking down.

I feel safe for the most part, but it is kind of alarming that people is shooting other people and stuff like that these days.

Andrew Bird

In school I was painfully shy. But as soon as I had to get up in front of the class and give a book report, it was alarming - I'd suddenly be very articulate.