Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin Freeman

I love watching Billy Bob, just as a punter anyway. I like his work. But working with him is really easy and really straight-forward. He's immediately good. He doesn't have to work up to it. He doesn't make your life difficult. He listens. He's a very good listener, in terms of his acting.

Jim Les

I'm a big Bill Self fan and I enjoy watching his teams play. I've probably seen too much of them.

Ruth Reichl

I loved writing fiction. I mean, once I found the character, or the characters, and knew who they were and knew their back-stories, it really - I mean, I went into my studio every day, thinking, 'What's gonna happen to Billy today?'

I'm sure there are some people who have heartburn with some parts of it. But that's true of a lot of bills we vote on.

Adam Everett

I'm sure he's getting a billion phone calls. I'm sure he's savoring the moment.

I'm sure Jimi didn't tell Billy Cox everything. Their sort of revisionist history of things has to be taken with a grain of salt.

I'm tired of hearing the board be blamed for everything that happens in the town when it comes to snow, ... I hold Bill Keegan responsible for whatever happens with this.

Douglas Brinkley

Influenced by Pete Seeger and the Weavers, McLean proudly wore the mantle of troubadour in the early 1970s, when 'American Pie' topped the Billboard charts, and has never shed the cape.

In general, you could say our freeways are in much better shape than they used to be. (The California Department of Transportation) has spent $6 billion since 1969. There's been a huge state investment.

That's over 3 billion more pounds of meat. Exports are likely to go up only 600 million pounds this year.

That's the $4 billion question. If the governor is right, it's a huge deal. If he's wrong, it's going to be a terrible thing.

That's so people don't get walloped with gigantic, unmanageable bills when they need the heat.

That's a big deal that all three of us came out of a small town like that, ... I talked to Bill like two or three days ago, and O.J. calls me every once in a while. We keep in touch.

That's a good feeling, to save your clients two billion dollars.

That means about 10 billion birds and it is very difficult for the government to monitor their health status. It is an enormous challenge.

Philip Nelson

That puts a spotlight on how thin margins are for farmers. Input costs keep increasing, especially for fuel and natural gas. Yet we have sub $2 (per bushel) corn prices. The $2 billion may be a daunting number, but it shows the farm program works in years of depressed farm prices. That's how it's designed to work.

It's much weaker, but the size of the storm tends to grow. Even a category 3 could cause $25 billion in damage.

It's still a great bill and it allows us to do what we want to do.

David Vitter

It's not a perfect bill but it's a good, solid bill worth passing,

Paul Wolfowitz

It's not an exaggeration to say that 1.2 billion people living in extreme poverty need a result from Hong Kong,

Bob Graham

Education needs to be a national priority, particularly getting class sizes down and hiring more teachers and helping with school construction, ... He's been emphasizing the importance of a patient's bill of rights for those people who get their health care from an HMO (health maintenance organization) and a prescription medication benefit. These are not ideas that just were sprung on in the last few days.

Dennis Miller

Economists predict that this year's federal surplus will be $120 billion less than predicted in January. The missing $120 billion was reportedly last seen on a date with Congressman Gary Condit.

Roger Waters

Each small candle lights a corner of the darkWhen the wheel of pain stops turning And the branding iron stops burningWhen the children can be children When the desperados weaken When the tide rolls into greet themAnd the natural law of science Greets the humble and the mighty And a billion candles burning Lights the dark side of every human mind

Peter Oppenheimer

Each point of market share means $2 billion in top-line revenue.

Drew Bledsoe

Everyone knows Bill challenged this team to get to 5-3 at the bye. It's a team with strong character that will respond when challenged.

Every one of our pumps runs on electricity and in 2005, our electric bill was $13.6 million more than in 1995.

Everyone in Gary and Lake County is getting extremely high bills and, in some cases, they exceed people's monthly income.

Every new dollar coming in is already spent and then some. I liken it to a guy who gets a raise and then gets home to see the bills just keep piling up.

The big picture is that there's a billion (mobile) phones worldwide and an increasing percentage of them are playing back video.

The big news really is that, because flash is an integral part of cellular phones and those are shipping in such high volume, the next billion units is only going to take two years to get to.

It's better for the environment, we get to keep billions of dollars cycling through our economy instead of going to countries that aren't particularly friendly to us and by the way, it's cheaper,

David Allen

It's Bill who's there at the center every day and it's Bill who has hustled and made all the bookings. He's devoted a lot of time to the center.

It's critical that our people know about this. It's a very one-sided bill that would effect us for a long time.