Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Fitton

Jesse Jackson attempted to use every legal trick at his disposal to have this case dismissed, and he failed. This trial is a major step in holding Jackson accountable for his actions.

Landscape projects are expensiveespecially if you'd like to do a nice landscape like they are attempting to do all over campus.

Foster Friess

I think culture precedes politics, and I think the attempts to try and legislate people's behavior... isn't going to be productive until the culture decides what they want to achieve.

That was the turning point. They were trying to slow the game down early on. We switched some things up in an attempt to get the pace faster. We came up with a number of steals and turnovers and cashed in.

That's a very good week. You can imagine the kind of money they spend in their attempt to try to get this stuff through.

Scott Horowitz

I think aggressively touching the moon is an understatement. What this mission buys is an early attempt to know what some of the resources we're going to have ... we know for sure that for human exploration to succeed we're going to have to essentially live off the land.

Roy Moore

I think it was an attempt to control the election.

I think it's their attempt to stay out of Chapter 11.

I think this is their latest attempt to change the subject. Once again, rather than having to take responsibility for their own policies, they are lashing out, looking for other people to complain about.

It is obviously in the interest of Sovereign management to attempt to avoid a shareholder vote until after shareholders have been deluded.

Tom Rath

I think some of what you are hearing now is an attempt on his part to re-establish his bona fides with that group,

It is Microsoft's first attempt at the high-end UNIX server market with an NT product.

It is just an attempt to see if they can break the deadlock.

Bruce Feiler

I was wading waist deep in the freezing, raw sewage of Jerusalem in some quixotic attempt to discover how King David had captured his capital,

Litigation is completely inappropriate and unfounded in light of the ongoing discussions between the company and all our bottlers to respond to a major customer's request for the benefit of everyone. We are extremely disappointed that a few individuals are attempting to hijack those discussions.

Laura Schlessinger

My mother shut all her family out of her life over the years, though we made several futile attempts to stay connected. May God rest her soul.

I will use the next few days to speak to my club owner and attempt to resolve the situation.

Val McDermid

I won't be attempting to write Jane Austen-style prose - that would be suicidal. But I will attempt to bring the highest level of my own prose, and to make it sparkle.

I think most people see through that and see that as a desperate attempt to silence people, to make people believe their voices won't matter. There's nothing un-American about it, or not supporting our troops, or anything like that.

I tell my guys the more shot attempts we get each game, the greater our chances of winning.

Michael Vick

I think Greg Knapp needs to know that. He needs to know exactly what type of talent he's working with. ... You've got to be creative. There's no reason I should be passing for only 2,300 yards for the season. My passing attempts per game (24.2) are not even that high. I hope it's not that they don't believe in me, because I believe in me.

I think it would be significant campaign finance reform. It would be a serious attempt to deal with what we believe is the most common avenue for special interest contributions.

It is difficult not to regard this incident as an attempt by some Ukrainian forces to aggravate the situation surrounding the Black Sea Fleet through various provocations.

It is fairly predictable that the non-settling states would distort information gathered in the deposition process in their attempt to undermine the settlement reached by Microsoft, the Department of Justice and a bipartisan group of states,

Bruce Hoffman

It is exactly the strategy of the terrorists to create a vacuum of disorder and lawlessness, and the way to do that is to attempt to eliminate precisely the dedicated civil servants like the prime minister, the president and the senior members of the interim government.

I'm still upset. We got a bunch of bad breaks (a couple of incorrect scorecards and an ineligible player). We came out today and attempted to finish on top. But Geneva played solid from top to bottom. I'm looking forward to next year.

Emmett Kelly

I don't feel 'funny' inside when I'm this hobo character. I'm a misfit (as Weary Willie). Life is passing me by. Maybe it's Willie's attempt at a little dignity in spite of everything that tickles folks.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

I don't attempt to be a poker player before this crowd.

I am aware that police attempted to enter those rooms and I am now about to leave this news conference to learn the whole story.

I am going to attempt to see him again.

I am, it is safe to say, not a practical man. The few attempts I've made to hammer in a nail have ended in broken thumbs, burst pipes, and water spraying everywhere with the house on fire.

Dom Capers

I believe we have our most talented group. We have attempted to stay consistent in following the plan. We have improved each season and I think this will be the most competitive team we've had.

I believe that there are certain contexts in black communities as a sign of belonging and an attempt to remember that history will be written away.