Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Honore

Sometimes it takes a wake-up call, doesn't it, to alert us to the fact that we're hurrying through our lives instead of actually living them; that we're living the fast life instead of the good life. And I think, for many people, that wake-up call takes the form of an illness.

Phil Neville

There is only one Alex Ferguson, but there are similarities,

Jack Cole

When you kick in a door, all it does is alert them that someone is coming that they don't want to see,

David Davis

This report reinforces our call for a clearly understandable and public system of alert and threat levels, like they have in America.

There has been the realization by criminals that, from time to time, persons mail bills and other payment remittances using residential mailboxes. They just hoist the red flag on the box. But while the red flag is an alert to the postman, it is, unfortunately, an alert to certain thieves.

Sammy Hagar

When Eddie and Alex got wind of what was going down with my greatest hits record, they called my attorney. They thought something was up.

We knew Kyle and Alex were hitting some big shots. We knew they were feeling pretty good. We wanted to get it in to them.

We will give Alexander and his family all of the support they need as they go through this decision making process.

We would ask the Interpol head office in Lyon, France to issue a red alert notice on Zhang Du. Once the notice is issued, it would circulate among the 186 Interpol offices. When he is found in their jurisdiction, and if allowed by their laws, they could arrest him or an information would be forwarded to the requesting party as to his presence thereat,

David Whyte

Alertness is the hidden discipline of familiarity.

Frederica Mathewes-Green

The devil's main purpose is not to scare us, in a horror-movie way; when we're scared of him, we're alert to him, and that might undermine his plans. Instead, he wants to quietly, subtly lure us into stepping away from God.

Douglas Conant

When providing people with the direction and expected behaviors, you need to be alert to the fact that they will hold you accountable. People want to know if you are walking the talk. They will be watching your every move and you need to be one in the same... every minute of every day.

Mark Boal

Film-makers are always going to be interested in making movies that plug into society around them. That's what a vibrant, artistically alert community should be doing. After all, it would be sad if we only made films about alien robots.

Peter Beard

I'm learning that human pressure on wildlife is becoming increasingly dangerous. You've got to be more alert because more animals have been pushed around, wounded, subjected to human harassment, ambushed, all kinds of stress. When they attack, it's totally predictable.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

Travis Alexander was a good guy. Was he a saint? No. But he was somebody who was really, really invested in helping other people and making this world a better place. Everything he did, even the car he drove, was a sign of him trying to be a force for good in this world.

When I saw that, I had been planning on issuing this for a while, so I thought now would be a good time to get the alert out while it's fresh on everybody's mind.

We needed to get a bucket there. We were trying to get Alex some touches and Darius stepped up. It was good to see Darius, as a senior should, go out and make a play for us.

James Patterson

You know, I remember watching Morgan Freeman when he did the two Alex Cross movies, and he's so confident that he's going to knock the scene dead. And I'm really confident that I can tell a good story now, so I just don't worry about things.

Kaui Hart Hemmings

I wasn't creative enough to imagine my first novel becoming a film directed by Alexander Payne. Nor did I consider the possibility of seeing Hollywood stars moving through my personal version of Hanalei town: going to Tahiti Nui, rehearsing a scene in front of my cousin's cottages, driving the snaky roads.

David Murray

I would like to take this opportunity to thank Alex McLeish for his achievements, having secured seven trophies in four-and-a-half years.

Most of the players are Alex McLeish signings and we want to do well for him, as well as ourselves,

When you're listening to the Internet, the discussion is taking place in real time. We're able very quickly, sometimes in a matter of days, to pick up on what consumers are saying. If there's certain issues, like safety recalls or any mention of a boycott, we can set up an alert, so that we can alert a company or a brand so they can be on their guard and be ready to react, if that's what it takes.

We had five kids with two fouls in the first half. But we were able to keep it close until the second half, and then kids like Sam, Alex and Jessica took control.

You are always alert to if there is an exception, and my mind is open. In the case of Zach, I don't really think it is at this point.

Jon Gruden

We've got some young guys contributing here for the first time in a long time. Guys like Mike Clayton, Carnell Williams, Alex Smith, a lot of these guys are not only playing, they're starting. So this team needed an injection of young players.

Robert Zoellick

The Congress has had an uneasy relationship with banks and bankers since Alexander Hamilton. It took the United States until 1913 to set up a central bank. The Federal Reserve earned its hard-won independence over years of effort.

We realised after seeing Poseidon that CCTV technology is designed to revisit an incident that you have recorded, not to alert you to an incident,

We got excellent pitching. Seven hits and two earned runs for the day. That's the best game Alexander has pitched in two years here. Hopefully, we'll turn it around.

We have steps in place before and after scanning to check this kind of thing. The machine will alert anytime that there's a mark that seems strange to the machine.

... We have some other juniors who are capable if they have all the other things in line. D.C. Alexander is as talented as anyone we have. We're playing him at wide receiver.

We can't wait to get it going. It gives us things we need to make sure we can alert the public in a variety of ways with cell phones, text messaging, and tying into our current outbound calling system.

We got to move kids around and some played well, like Alex Garneau sweeping. In these type of games if you don't go into four touch or whatever, you're kids don't look good and they don't play well.

We have a total of 38 families here in Williamson County. We probably have such a large number here because of the interstate. Other surrounding counties have considerably fewer evacuees. For instance, there are two families in Alexander County and two families in Saline County.