Famous Quotes & Sayings

While gasoline was clearly the main driving force behind the market on Friday, there is little doubt that the Middle East tension also provides some upside momentum for crude.

There are programs like this all over the nation. The premise behind it is improvement of the self ... improvement of the community.

We don't think only men can be powerful and strong. Behind the heads of the Mafia, the leaders of culture, there are always very strong women. European culture is a matriarchy, especially in the south. The women have a lot of power.

Dee Dee Myers

Obama seems like he tries to talk everyone into what he believes - and that's part of why we elected him, because he's a calm, reasonable guy - but behind that, there has to be some fight. You have to be able to take a few punches and throw a few punches.

Eamonn Walker

I'm shy, and I can hide behind my acting and discover the truth about myself because it's cathartic in that way. But I tend not to read reviews.

Ridley Scott

The word 'religion' is only a label. What lies behind that, the most important thing of all, is the word 'faith'. You either have faith, or you don't have faith, or you have degrees of faith - and if you have degrees of faith, then you become agnostic. You're kind of in-between, or you're on the fence.

Barton Gellman

Given the volume of PC sales and the way McAfee runs its operation, I imagine there must be thousands of phantom subscribers - folks who signed up once upon a time and left the software behind two or three computers ago.

Barton Gellman

Ghostery lets you spy on the spies in your computer. For each web page you visit, this extension uncloaks some - but not all - of the invisible tracking software that is working behind the scenes.

We came out a little bit flat and got behind pretty big early in first half. We did a nice job and had a much better second half.

We only estimate meters if we can't get to them because they're behind a locked gate or if the weather prevents us from doing that and in this case, yes, the meters were read.

We obviously tried to put that tough streak behind us. We're ready to get some momentum rolling into the tournament.

Dick Gephardt

We obviously should pass a resolution by saying that we stand behind the troops. I would hope that we do not take up impeachment until the hostilities have completely ended.

Rick Hoffman

We obviously had to be convinced that the city was behind this before we put out our money to do this,

Michael Anderson

When kids move around a lot their grades suffer. Studies show when a student moves three or more times during elementary, they fall over a year behind in reading scores. In eighth grade, they're four times more likely to drop out of school.

Stephen Baldwin

When you do what I've done - the normal Hollywood way, where you let people do things for you - and then you make certain choices where you have to learn to do it for yourself, which is how you should do it, it caused me to get way behind in stuff. I wouldn't change a thing because it's been a very important learning thing.

Mike Bibby

Every win from here on out is big for us. We knew Utah was right behind us, and this would have been a devastating loss for us if we would have lost this one.

Firms like Toyota, Honda and GM have to quickly firm up plans for their small cars, or they're going to fall behind even more.

Finally, the governor's behind it. He was the only one who hadn't signed on.

Fifteen people have died and about 60 are injured. The blasts were pretty big and I do not rule out a terrorist hand behind it.

Fidler did some good things for a while, but he's got to get in the weight room this summer and strengthen his upper body. He's clearly behind the other two (quarterbacks).

Larry Smith

Finding out what a community will enjoy, will support and get behind takes expertise. These people will be able to provide a better, more organized plan than we could've come up with.

Falling behind by 20 points really hurts. When you try to come all the way back, you're going to be exhausted at the end. But the good news is, we had guys come off the bench and help us and we didn't quit. We could've folded and lost by 30 or 40 points, but we kept battling, we kept fighting.

Ivan Lendl

Every time I won the Grand Slam for the first time, it's more special than the others, and the ones behind that were not too shabby either.

Joe Nieuwendyk

But just like we've put the losses behind us, we have to put this behind us, too.

But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about behind them: so they were before Judah, and the ambushment was behind them.

Andy Serkis

Actors' performances in films are enhanced in a million different ways, down to the choice of camera shot by the director - whether it's in slow motion or whether it's quick cut - or... the choice of music behind the close-up or the costume that you're wearing or the makeup.

Mohamed ElBaradei

My sister-in-law works for a group that supports orphanages in Cairo. She and her colleagues take care of children left behind by circumstances beyond their control. They feed these children, clothe them, and teach them to read.

Eminem

I was going to McDonald's and Taco Bell every day. The kids behind the counter knew me - it wouldn't even faze them. Or I'd sit up at Denny's or Big Boy and just eat by myself. It was sad. I got so heavy that people started to not recognize me.

Chuck Palahniuk

What is the real purpose behind the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus? They seem like greater steps toward faith and imagination, each with a payoff. Like cognitive training exercises.

Paul Ince

The good thing about the international break is that it gives me time to get a proper game in behind closed doors or in the reserve team and build up my match fitness,

The governor's initiatives are running behind but he still has a chance to turn opinion around.

The good news is that they're a step closer to putting this behind them.

The good news is that the economic assumptions behind our IT forecast are holding up.