Famous Quotes & Sayings

Banners were flying. People had applauded for half an hour. He just broke down and wiped his eyes on the only thing available - the yellow stage curtain.

David Blunkett

Back in 2003, when I was home secretary, I introduced the victim surcharge on offenders to substantially expand the support available and, I hoped, the protection of witnesses who were brave enough to come forward.

(Index funds are) no different than an IBM. They trade just like a stock and are available to anyone.

Donald Rumsfeld

increase the number of special operations forces available for missions worldwide, while expanding their capabilities in some key areas.

In 1960, I enrolled in the chemical engineering program at UNAM, as this was then the closest way to become a physical chemist, taking math-oriented courses not available to chemistry majors.

Martin Jacques

In my experience, there are plenty of bad middle-class parents: those who put their own lives and careers before those of their children and make precious little time available for their offspring, preferring instead to hire in childcare and shower them with the latest and most expensive gadgets.

Leonard Mlodinow

In all our perceptions, from vision to hearing, to the pictures we build of people's character, our unconscious mind starts from whatever objective data is available to us - usually spotty - and helps to shape and construct the more complete picture we consciously perceive.

Roy Blunt

I'm not at all shy about reaching out to people on the outside, ... You don't do that only by looking at what resources are available to you in the building.

Alex Rodriguez

I know what kind of a crazy competitor I am. If I'm in Lakeland in March and my country is playing Japan in the semifinals in Arizona, I know I'd want to be there. I'm the best guy available to help the team.

Mike Burns

I knew there were spots available when I signed. There are a lot of guys here battling for them. Good competition makes for a better team.

I like the fact the information is readily available and you can get it without having to leave your home.

I like the fact that I don't have to do a lot of planning; I can go online and see what's available and sign up. It's pre-arranged.

I'll be using my charitable funds taking care of these individuals nobody disputes are in need. But will there be resources available in six months, not only for them, but the regular members of our community?

I'm confident, I'll stand by them, that they did a thorough job with what they had available to them.

I'm certainly hopeful that we will have this money available to us this summer.

I'm available by appointment also if those hours don't work. I'm pretty flexible.

I'm anticipating that it will quickly become a service available in many communities in our province,

If the president is serious about ending our oil addiction, he needs to commit to accelerating the solutions available today, like stronger fuel-economy performance standards for all vehicles, hybrid vehicles and clean-burning fuels made from plants grown by American farmers.

If there's anything available in aviation, they've probably already beaten down the door on it.

If somebody decided to use their best pitcher on Tuesday, he might be available on Saturday. Otherwise, I think everyone will be out (of pitching) by then.

If Phase 2 trials are just beginning, it will likely be several years before a vaccine could be available for use in this country.

Stuart Pearce

I only have 13 senior players available for Saturday, so I will have to juggle things about and bring a few youngsters in.

If you drew a circle around Baton Rouge, you'd have to go pretty far out to find any venue that had available hotel rooms to handle an event of this magnitude. There just aren't enough rooms, even as far as Shreveport and Lake Charles, and you can't come in from too far.

If you do that, you keep the pool of available money that can be stolen small enough so that it's not really worth going to jail for. I'm very realistic.

If you don't want to see it, there's a door and someone taking money. Don't avail yourself to either.

James Hill

If you feel organic is the way to go, that option is available to you in Colorado.

If you know your life chances are greatly reduced, should you be in a position to take out life insurance if that knowledge is not available to the insurers?

If you only have 15 percent of the work force available for the jobs, where are the rest of the workers going to come from? ... A vast majority of the construction workers on this project will be from out of town in Los Angeles.

If you look at the ecological circuitry of this planet, the ways in which materials like carbon or sulfur or phosphorous or nitrogen get cycled in ways that makes them available for our biology, the organisms that do the heavy lifting are bacteria.

Rachel Carson

I recognized the need for certain parts that were not available in the open market.

I love the Plymouth library. I went to the history room and read the book on the 20th century history of Plymouth and thought it was great. I read they were going to do a second book. I hadn't thought about that case in years, but it all came back. I read what was available on it and realized we needed a more balanced treatment.

I'll listen to anything on anybody. That's just the way it is. I'm not going to put up with it. Enough is enough. I'm going to explore all options (on his entire roster). I'm not going to sit still. Everything that is available to us, we're going to go after.

Dave Goldberg

I just find that people can waste a lot of time in meetings, so I try to restrict meetings to the minimum that they need to be. But I have lots of time in my day where I am available to have informal conversations, where I grab someone to talk, and people can just walk up to my desk and talk to me.