Famous Quotes & Sayings

Graydon Carter

Issues such as transparency often boil down to which side of - pick a number - 40 you're on. Under 40, and transparency is generally considered a good thing for society. Over 40, and one generally chooses privacy over transparency. On every side of this issue, hypocrisy abounds.

Perfect throw, right on the money. It all boils down to execution. When you execute, that's the result.

I respect him as an athlete. That's what our relationship boils down to.

Mike Riley

What it boils down to is the student's discipline and their right to privacy. Therefore if your child is involved in an incident on the bus, the camera is going to have other children on the tape and their rights would be violated if you as a parent came to view your child and everyone else was visible.

Jennifer Harbury

What it boils down to is he will not be released unless he confesses to a crime he did not commit. It's probably the worst civil rights case facing the U.S. government right now.

What it boils down to is duplication of services. We already have charter schools that serve the same need.

Doug Stanhope

I used to do boiler room telemarketing for a living, like hardcore fraud stuff that gets busted on 60 Minutes every week.

Peter Jacobsen

Winning tournaments is all great, these guys have all won tournaments. But what it boils down to is having the opportunity to walk the fairways with your heroes, with the true champions of the game.

We've given consideration for all sorts of alternatives, ... and what it boils down to is pig eradication was the only answer. While that might have been a difficult decision, it was nonetheless the right decision.

We are falling behind. We have boil water warnings - 300 to 500 at any given time,

What you do next hasn't changed. You cook it and cook it and cook it and cook it some more to boil away the excess water.

We're playing good defense, but our offense is struggling. They hit some big shots at the end, and that's what it boils down to.

We hear this a lot from customers, and I don't think it's a North-South thing. We're in New York now, and it's still boiling hot. ... Even though the fall clothes look beautiful, psychologically, you can't be bothered trying them on.

We've seen them play three times. We know each other pretty well. It all boils down to who can handle the emotions of the game and who is more fundamentally sound.

Lance Gross

I met Tyler Perry and we did 'House of Payne' and a movie. We've done a couple other films since then, but it all boils down to the work. I'm a work-a-holic, which is why I think that I've been successful. If you tell me no, I'll work even harder!

Tift Merritt

You can always boil down the life of a musician to touring, playing, and writing.

I live in New Orleans, because it's the strangest city in the United States. It has the highest murder rate in the country, the highest incarceration rate, and often we have to boil our drinking water, but there's nowhere else remotely like it.

When it all boils down, I know where I'm going to be, the fans know where I'm going to be, other teams know where I'm going to be and I know my teammates damn-sure know where I'm going to be. That's all the matters.

Janis Joplin

Women to be in-a the music business give up more than you'd ever know. She's got kids she gave up. Any woman gives up home life, an old man, probably, because you're so crazy on planes and runnin' and you never find 'em egain. You give up, you give up a home and friends, you give up children and friends, you give up an old man and friends, you give up any constant in the world except music. That's the only thing you've got man, after you boil it down, the only thing you got left in the world is that music, man. And, so for a woman to sing, she really needs to, or wants to. A man can do it as a gig, 'cause he knows he can get laid tonight.

We've all played some tough teams and not played up to our potential. I think the district season will boil down to home court advantage, trying to get the higher seeding for the district tournament.

Brian McDonald

Westmoreland County, under what's provided by federal law, has to change their voting machines anyway. What it boils down to is there are two types of laws here. ... From our standpoint, it's pretty cut and dry. The federal law says what it says.

We're talking about complicated transactions here, so the prosecution's challenge is to boil it down to simple fraud. Essentially, what they're saying is that this is about misleading and deception.

Jimmy Johnson

With 'Survivor' - I didn't get any sleep, there was no food, we had to boil our water... plus, it was physically taxing during the day. That's what made it more difficult than three-a-day practices.

Jeremy Lin

I think I've always been a player who's done better in the second half, who's done better in the fourth quarter. That's the fun time to play, when everything you've worked for the whole game boils down to those last few possessions.

This is just a reminder of what's out there. It boils down to if the officers use good judgment or not in deciding to shoot or not to shoot.

Steven Sinofsky

I like a good cliche because it reminds you that much of management practice boils down to things you need to do but often forget or fail to do often enough.

There's so many big plays that he's in the middle of. I think if you try to boil it down to how many points or assists he's averaging, you miss the point in how well he's played this season.

The trade deficit widened to a record in September, as expected. But it wasn't the oil story we were all looking for. Instead, it boils down to Boeing and Airbus, with the European firm holding the cards this time around,

They present a big challenge for us, but it's not so much what they're going to do as what we do. Really, it just boils down to execution, staying on blocks, giving the runners a consistent chance to have lanes, and things like that. We have to finish blocks.

Mario Cuomo

If you were Merlin and you had taken a young boy with a fragile build and dipped him into the cauldron of boiling juices from lizards' insides and produced a knight with the biggest, broadest sword ever seen, you wouldn't have a better miracle than Giuliani produced by 9-11,

In fact, that isn't smoke, it's steam. Once you have your sap, you boil it down for hours to make the syrup. When the sap is running, we boil all night. If you tramp into the woods to a sugar shack, by tradition, you are offered a taste.

Michelle Wie

I guess what it boils down to is that the women who are eligible to actually qualify have their own agenda, and trying to get to the 36-hole qualifying probably isn't very high on their list,

Tom Bergeron

I think, number one, it has to be funny, ... We genuinely like and respect each other for what we cumulatively bring to the party. I think ultimately it boils down to the chemistry of the people involved.