Famous Quotes & Sayings

When writing about Edinburgh, I place my characters in the parts of the city that I myself have lived in, or else know well, those being the Southside, Marchmont in particular, where I lived as a student, and the New Town/Stockbridge area where I live now and have done for the past 30 years.

When winds hit a large area of uncontrolled fire lines you really have problems. There's not much land between some of these fires and they can join together. When the fire is not contained, the situation is worrisome.

We want the underserved of our community to be included in everything the area has to offer. In addition, we want to educate people about the importance of the environment and leaving a legacy for generations to come.

This starts to broaden our footprint to include compliance reporting and alerting capabilities in the high-use areas of the Microsoft infrastructure.

Tommy Tuberville

This spring, we're going to concentrate in the area of being very physical. You can't talk about it; you can't put it on the blackboard. You have to do it on the practice field. We're going to do that this spring.

Today's data included well-known as well as surprise areas of weakness.

Today's Bay Area real estate market has all the characteristics of a relatively normal balanced market. We knew the year-ago numbers were unsustainably strong. Right now it looks like current trends will last well into 2006, with strong, but not record-breaking sales, and continued appreciation.

Orlando Bloom

Life is about balance, and we all have to make the effort in areas that we can to enable us to make a difference.

George Jones

I miss all of my old friends who have passed away. Sometimes you just don't understand why they were taken so soon. I loved and miss Johnny Cash. I miss my old buddy Johnny Paycheck, who happens to be buried in an area of the cemetery that I bought for my family.

Geoff Johns

We are finding new areas in the ocean every day. It's as alien as going to outer space.

Sam Harris

On the subject of religious belief, we relax standards of reasonableness and evidence that we rely on in every other area of our lives. We relax so totally that people believe the most ludicrous propositions, and are willing to organize their lives around them.

Azim Premji

Being in the consumer business helps us groom talent in areas like marketing, finance and logistics. We can benchmark our outsourcing business to our consumer business and its best practices.

We can't reform mandatory spending in this area until we first deal with ours. I tell my colleagues, 'Let's get the moral high ground and demonstrate that we want to make changes to our pension, and then we can deal with the big problems.'

Morrissey

We do ask for citizens to contact us with information that might lead us to methods or areas of smuggling (but) we do not endorse or condone citizen volunteer groups actually go and patrol,

Zhu Rongji

We do acknowledge that we have deficiencies in the area of human rights, but at the same time we would also say that the people in China are enjoying a level of human rights that is unprecedented in our history,

John Gibson

We would like to at some point in time. If the city is able to find some land, it has been planned for somewhere in the area of the library and public safety building.

We would like parents and all area adults to attend.

We were all sitting around at the staging area and talking to the boys from Springhill, La. We were trying to pep each other up when Jerry from Springhill said that. We're all part of history.

We've got obviously the best offensive player in the area on our team and we've got the best defensive player hands down on our team, so we're bringing back two very important pieces. But we've got to build and we've got to start from square one in terms of teaching the kids how to step up to this environment.

We demanded from the Israelis to move their forces outside the area of friction, at the entrances of our towns, villages and refugee camps -- to no avail,

We delivered another excellent quarter with strength in all areas of the business. Our strong operating results this quarter were driven by increased revenue growth, improved capacity utilization, favorable product mix and the timing of our spending initiatives.

We don't have too many problems once the signs go up. They know that if they are found in an area that is posted as no trespassing they are going to spend a night in jail.

We don't know if the cotton has been blown out, but most of the storm probably went to the east of the cotton-growing area from Pointe Coupee (Parish) north through the Delta,

We do get a lot of film buffs. I know of some people who are coming in from the Milwaukee area and other parts of the state to look at the films.

Jay Brown

The defense has more experienced guys (so) I expected them to be ahead. They still have some areas to improve upon, but I think we have the makings of a good defense.

Robert Lindsay

The decision was taken to focus resources on areas elsewhere.

Jon Kitna

The decisions he's making are awesome. He's just been so consistent, and he hasn't made any unforced errors. He's playing so well right now that we can falter a little bit in other areas and he's making up for it.

Jon Kitna

The decisions he's making are awesome, ... He's just been so consistent, and he hasn't made any unforced errors. He's playing so well right now that we can falter a little bit in other areas and he's making up for it.

The decision how and when to invest in R&D in China is a strategic choice. By investing more heavily and in more complex areas of R&D in China, an MPC can signal its commitment to the Chinese market and strengthen relationships with key opinion leaders and officials there -- thus increasing its chances of thriving in the health care market now taking shape in China.

Scott Henderson

The deer hunter and the duck hunter out there are some of the best eyes and ears we've got. We have 7,000 hunters in this same area for eight hours at a time or more in some cases.

The Denver/Boulder area has been a pioneer in our company when it comes to wind power. This is a testament that the best ideas come from our team members.

The demographics of the area (Stratham and Exeter) are perfect. What we are offering is a one-stop place for everyone with competitive pricing and a wide range of merchandising.

Marissa Mayer

We started with one of the easiest places to organize, websites. Given our talents and skills, now we're moving to other areas of information, like books, video and photographs.