Famous Quotes & Sayings

Traditionally, people who are trying to smuggle narcotics into the country stick to one type. But we've been seeing an increase in the attempts to bring in what we call a mixed load.

Toyota is unfairly and illegally attempting to interfere with every business owners' fundamental right to sell his or her enterprise.

Miranda Hart

However much I might have yearned to be one of The Beautiful Ones, particularly at those ghastly school discos, where any desperate attempt to impress the opposite sex lead to at best deep humiliation, I now feel extremely blessed that I wasn't.

Nina Garcia

I firmly believe that 90 percent of the confusion that women feel when they are attempting to put together an occasion-specific ensemble is caused by fear: fear of breaking the 'fashion rules,' fear of violating some long-forgotten tradition, or the basic fear of looking bad.

Your company is probably going to get hacked. The velocity and complexity of hacking attempts has skyrocketed, with companies routinely facing millions of knocks on the vault door.

Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to recapture the romance of the era without all the sociopolitical ugliness.

We probably did foul them a lot, but 37 attempts to 10 attempts is a fairly large disparity.

Ray Brown

Well, I think that I've been learning how to, attempting to learn how to write for a trio. I've sort of taken a page out of Duke Ellington's book. I watched Ellington over the years and it didn't matter who got in that band, he found out what they could do good and then he wrote for them.

I thought we did take a step forward tonight. If we connect on a couple more shot attempts and don't give the ball away at some inopportune times, I think it's a different ball game. We just have to stay positive and try and continue to build some momentum at the end of the season.

I think we have overall the kind of things that are necessary, but since we've never made this attempt before it is kind of iffy. But I think if we get that far in the process we'll set the table for 2012.

I think what Congress is attempting is outrageous.

Tom O'Brien

I think that comes about from never attempting to fail. There's times he'd go out in practice, and I'd say, If you don't throw five interceptions today, you didn't have a good practice.' You have to learn as a quarterback what you can and can't throw.

I think a lot of the guilt in the play is what the father feels because of the failure with his first son. He uses cloning in an attempt to start over again.

P. J. O'Rourke

Arguing, in the sense of attempting to convince others, has gone out of fashion with conservatives.

David Whyte

Stop trying to change reality by attempting to eliminate complexity.

We're not going to attempt it, we're going to do it.

We're not engaged in any improper attempt . . . to get proprietary information.

We actually prohibited the attempt by Visa to impose a similar rule in Europe,

To bring it up now, as an attempt to gain leverage and a better settlement during the divorce, is just reprehensible.

We're attempting to help people move through the pilgrimage from being victims to being victors for the Lord,

We're attempting to drive a wedge between red state senators and liberal interest groups.

We're attempting to contract for materials, such as rock, super sand bags, cranes, and also for modes of transportation like barges and helicopters, to close the gap and stop the flow of water.

Eric Adams

We should never as a city attempt to put profit over public safety. Public safety must be at the top of the list of those services that should be the last to be cut.

We shot better in the first half, but played better defense in the second. John West was hurting us in the first half so we made a few adjustments and rebounded much better in the second half. We didn't let him get many second chances in the second half and we put a hand in their faces when they attempted three-pointers, too.

Gary Bauer

Liberals need to take the advice they routinely give to conservatives: that there are consequences to their divisive rhetoric, and that in their attempts to score political points, they are also inciting violence.

The periods between my 11th and 18th years remain the most vivid in my memory because this was the time of my first attempts at experimentation, which might never have been made had I lived in the city. I made hazardous investigations of the principles of flight, launching myself from the tops of haystacks with a homemade glider.

We've hit 100 more free throws than other teams have attempted this year. That's what we try to do. ... It makes a game that's difficult to defend.

Deb Caletti

To be a writer is to connect and to play and to attempt to see clearly and understand. It astounds me regularly that feeling things deeply and writing them down is basically my job description.

Davey Havok

As far commercial success, I don't think that's a focus but it's not that we don't enjoy that. It's not something you can attempt and achieve.

While it is horrible that some children who take antidepressant medications commit suicide, putting the blame on medicines that help treat millions of persons with mental illnesses is irresponsible and is a blatant attempt to frighten parents, children and patients. There are risks to antidepressant treatment, but the risks of untreated depression are worse.

Without programs like this, it would be nearly impossible for our department to upgrade to modern technology for our volunteers to be able to effectively communicate between not only themselves, but other departments as well. This is a crucial update that we have been attempting to complete since the county first started talking about upgrading their systems a few years ago.

With the company retaining all this information forever, it was just a matter of time before law enforcement would attempt to get data. It finally happened.

Luis Gutierrez

We watched the U.S. citizenship immigration services web site in March. They had six million, two hundred thousand hits, and two million people downloaded applications for citizenship. So what we're doing is attempting to help people in that process.