Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aunjanue Ellis

I don't think that a vote for Barack Obama is a symbolic thing. I think it's much more than that. It's not just a black man. It's not just a feel-good vote. It's the idea of electing someone who really does want to make a difference.

I don't think I got a bargain. I think it is a bargain to have saved it. If it was gone, you wouldn't have anything.

Mal Peet

I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.

Frances McDormand

I don't know how you can clean someone else's toilet. I can barely touch my own.

I met women behind bars who exposed me to a life I never knew. Some of them told me they feel like they'll never get out of the cycle of crime.

If oil prices were to stay at $35 a barrel throughout 2001 or if they were to escalate to $40 a barrel or over, then the impact on inflation and world growth would be more significant,

Ken Carter

I hadn't been going to church, ... You know, sometimes you get busy. But I was really looking forward to coming today. I barely slept last night thinking about it. This incident really restored my faith in God. It closed one door but opened another.

Meredith Monk

I had a number of interests that were all strands of my childhood. I come from a musical family - I'm a fourth generation singer. My mother was a commercial singer and my grandfather had been a bass baritone who came from Russia to the United States, so music was very strong in my family. I loved to sing; even before I spoke words I was singing melodies.

I'm working on regaining the strength in my leg so I can stay on my feet to do all the work a barber has to do,

In effect, online brokerage today is where e-retail was five years ago. Until the industry figures out how to overcome the barriers to moving online, the online brokerage category will struggle to increase satisfaction of its customers.

Joe Dumars

I never even thought about the Hall of Fame as a player. Really, all I thought about was trying to play to a bar that players before me had set.

In America, diner food or roadside barbecue is the best road food, but I am not a fan of eating while driving - too messy.

Cheech Marin

I'm the go-to guy for Mexican priests. I'm the new Barry Fitzgerald, except with a Mexican accent.

Sean Thomas

I'm the college educated, know-it-all barber who instigates a lot of the arguments in the shop.

Jen Lancaster

I'm not thin, but I'm strong - plus my balance is such that I can navigate a flight of stairs with a basket of laundry and a stack of Pottery Barn catalogs, vaulting over cat-and-dog hurdles, never once spilling my coffee.

Gwen Ifill

I'm happy to break down barriers and be a role model, but I don't want that to be the only thing people talk about. At some point, you have to move past it... . I try not to play into it. I've had this job for a while.

O. Henry

I'm hoping. I've tried to carry myself that way because the struggle was much more than just breaking the color barrier in baseball. It was everything.

Tom Wilson

In the first year of our relationship with Rock Financial, we set the bar for what a presenting sponsorship is all about,

John Hiatt

In the end, it's not going to have very much impact. We've closed the barn door after the horse is gone.

In the depth of the near depression, that he faced when he came in, Barack Obama and Democratic leaders in Congress provided 'recovery funds' that literally kept our classrooms open. Two years ago, these funds saved nearly 20,000 teacher and education jobs - just here in North Carolina.

In the current landscape, many industry players are going after a slice of the potential mobile e-mail market. Nokia is going after the full 650 million corporate e-mail inboxes. We want to knock down the barriers to mobilizing the entire corporate e-mail market.

Grant Wood

In the house itself, the gable is much lower than in the painting -- you can only stand up just barely at the apex.

Instead, we get up to 50 million barrels of oil.

Paul Dirac

In such a theory a bare electron would be inconceivable, since one cannot imagine the end of a piece of string without having the string.

Fernando Alonso

In Spain, three years ago, there was no coverage for the races. Now we have 7 million people watching the race and Barcelona is completely full.

In our industry, it's not unusual to receive a box with up to a dozen bar code labels on it from the manufacturer. The scan tunnel can differentiate the right bar code we need.

Bill Richardson

In our meetings with oil producing countries, we simply and forcefully made our case that increased production is in the interest in both producing and consuming nations, ... We made the point that the world is consuming 75 million barrels per day, and it is producing 73.

In normal downturns, you lose some big players. This industry was not built for $62 a barrel oil.

Nomar Garciaparra

I just threw the barrel at it, tried to drive it. Fortunately for me I got lucky and it went out for me.

Brad Shaw

I just thought they were kind of sleep-walking through the first five or 10 minutes. There were a few things we really wanted to focus on. One of them was driving the net and it's hard to do when someone's going 75 or 85 percent speed effort. I want to make it a habit to practice that way and sort of raise the bar a little bit in that area.

Mike Fisher

I just need to get the strength back because I can barely shoot the puck.

Charles Clarke

I regret that on the question of the level of the bar at which prosecutions can be brought ... that the government lost tonight.

I remember pubs in Ireland, and it's kind of loud in there. Music sessions are without amplifier, etc., unlike a lot of taverns and bars in the United States. It is loud with people talking to each other. What's neat about (Oregon Trader) is it isn't overbearing, and people can sit and yak with each other.