Famous Quotes & Sayings

Javier Solana

There is a willingness on the European side to return to the negotiations. In November, there is another meeting in Vienna with all the heads of the countries that form part of the board of the International (Atomic) Energy Agency.

Mark Brown

When I drive over the hill on my way home from work I can look out over my marina and the whole ocean. I know that in five minutes I'm going to be in my shorts and T-shirt on the back of my boat enjoying a scotch on the rocks. I feel like I'm on vacation every day,

We used to throw it in a boat because it was the only thing that had a trailer for us to pull.

The people leading the split claim they are representing people in the pews, but these are the same people who in 1954 would split the church over our support of Brown v. Board of Education and who would have split the church in 1976 over the issue of women's ordination. The issue now is gays and lesbians -- it's all part of the same struggle.

Ben Kingsley

When Attenborough asked me to do Gandhi it was almost like stepping off one boat and stepping on to another, even though both boats are going at 60 miles per hour.

The Prime Minister's comments have been unhelpful. He has no more right to call for the Telstra directors to talk up the interests of the company than the Telstra board has a right to talk down the interests of the company. The directors must tell it as they see it. If they are subsequently found to be misleading the market, they will be held accountable.

The P.R.I.D.E. board determines where (the money) goes. They allocate it.

We were both very, very struck with the sensitivity and reverence with which the men and women on board that ship are treating those remains,

When you consider the number of passengers on board these ships that run into the millions, cruising has never been safer than it is right now. Sixty percent of our business is cruise business.

Ken Auletta

Let's concede that most journalistic enterprises need to make a profit, and to do that, they must be like supermarkets, offering a range of choices to their customers - international news, weather, sports, business, gossip, movie reviews and results of planning board meetings. But too often, journalistic supermarkets have become specialty stores,

Leslie worked hard on the boards and defensive end. But we have grown to expect that out of her.

Many of the skippers said it was more like sailing in a real regatta. Rarely do you get to use all three sails, but we did this time. The wind created havoc as all boats came to the line for the starting gun.

Many of the Board members have been out of school for 30, or even 40 years.

Scotty writes all checks and approves all checks. There is no board oversight.

See a problem; find a solution; then tell the company that this is the way it's going to be -- get on board or else.

So far this school year I've had 21 hearings at the board office with parents whose children had at least 20 absences.

Michael Ramsey

(She) took all the raw notes of all the meetings of the board. They're better than minutes. Board minutes are notoriously dry and empty. Her notes will have a lot more color.

She was probably one of the first people to jump on board with our new system three years ago and really, what guard wouldn't want to run that type of offense.

She was great on the boards all night. But she got big rebounds in the second half.

She's just a joy. She's very smart and very in-tune with what's going on politically. She's a good sounding board and a very good friend. I'm gong to miss her tremendously.

she saw a big boat coming close and she said, 'Whoop-dee-doo. I love a rocking boat.' 

She's going to be our No. 1 fan. I'm sure it's going to be tough on her for a while to see things from the other side. She'll always be a sounding board to me. But I think she also understands and she's excited to see how the girls respond to me as a coach.

She's one of the more dominate players in our league, and she showed it Saturday. She can control the defense on the boards and get it out to our guards -- she's a force for us. Not only was she tough on defense, but she scored nine our 17 points in the second half, and she shot four of seven from the field.

She's amazing. Not only is she a board member, but she's also a very successful business woman. She is very organized and pulls it all together.

The policy of the Boy Scouts of American with respect to homosexuals is contrary to the policy of the Board of Education,

Paul Wolfowitz

The path to complete debt relief has now been cleared. We will move swiftly to give the bank's board of directors a paper outlining a compensation schedule and a monitoring system -- a process that can be completed within weeks.

Clyde Tombaugh

What you do is, you have your drawing board and a pencil in hand at the telescope. You look in and you make some markings on the paper and you look in again.

My obsession with eating out partly comes from having spent 10 long years at English boarding schools in the 1980s, where food was pretty low on the list.

Rebel Wilson

I was planning to go into law or politics. I was well known for my public speaking. I went to an all-girl boarding school with uniforms. It was very posh for someone like me who came from a world where my parents showed beagles and sold dog products out of a yellow caravan.

We have a network of contacts, where there are very few boards where we can't reach out to the CEO or key board members.

What we have on the table is a proposal and the union board will debate, discuss and vote on it within the next few weeks.

We discussed it so much with the players that there is no need for it. The executive board has the authority, anyway.

We did wage a very effective campaign to put pressure on the ABI board to do the right thing ... These contests are won or lost by how many mistakes you make. We didn't make any mistakes.