Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eli Pariser

We need to fix the Bush prescription drug plan that subsidizes big pharmaceutical companies at the expense of senior citizens. We need to stop the oil companies from obscene profiteering, which reduces the standard of living for so many Americans. As usual, this Administration prescribes the same quack medicine for all our ailments: tax breaks for the richest Americans and the largest, most profitable corporations.

E. O. Wilson

We haven't gotten any breaks on replays, so I don't know what I was expecting.

John Parsons

The problem really was the spring breaks in St. Joe County and LaPorte County. That really did overwhelm the system.

Those dogs were his pals. Hearing the news was like a 500-pound weight hitting me in the stomach. It breaks my heart. He was one of the most caring, honest, ethical people I've met in my 59 years.

Those dogs were his pals, ... Hearing the news was like a 500-pound weight hitting me in the stomach. It breaks my heart. He was one of the most caring, honest, ethical people I've met in my 59 years.

Those are the breaks of the game and you have to play through them. We just didn't have it today in the right places, and they did.

We'll look at it on film and make corrections, but he is a back that breaks tackles. When we look at it, it's a missed tackle, when they look at it, they say he made the guy miss. He's a pretty good back.

Doug Collins

We capitalized on a few rebound opportunities, fast breaks and transition buckets. It came at the right moment.

We played real well this morning and the game could have gone either way. We had a couple tough breaks down the stretch.

We had four or five three-on-two fast breaks where all three guys were running next to each other. We were in general not wide enough.

We have a great relationship with Rhodes for teacher recruitment when we're hiring for 2006 and four more years to come. Our program is so challenging it's not for every teacher when they teach 7:30 to 5 weekdays and three Saturdays a month with no long summer breaks like at other public schools.

We've had four tournaments this year, and, if we just have a couple breaks go our way, we'd be qualified for state already. We've been four or five strokes out every time, and that's not much when you have five golfers.

Jim Calhoun

We're not a team that breaks you down off the dribble. We have to do it in other ways, on the full-court break or with our power game inside. (Wednesday), South Florida took us out of what we should have run. We stopped setting screens, stopped doing some of the things we're capable of doing.

We're really happy. It's tough to come to Camden and win. They're a well-coached team and they play hard, and tonight the breaks went our way and we were able to come out on top.

Lisa Vanderpump

Music makes or breaks an atmosphere. It helps to create the mood and also is a very important aural cue; simply shut off the music when you want people to leave.

I thought we wrestled well. A couple of breaks go our way and we would have won the whole thing.

Alex Tanguay

I felt like we certainly got a lot of breaks and have been very fortunate. They're a very good hockey team and this series could easily be 2-1 the other way. But we're getting the bounces right now, we're skating well, and for us to be successful we have to keep working harder and harder.

If electricity breaks down, you have to repair a power station, you can't just send an e-mail.

If Iraq breaks up, we tend to think it will be in nice, neat parts. There seems to be no way we can ever repair this.

Bud Selig

He's had a remarkable career. Whatever happens, happens. We're going to let nature take its course. Commissioners don't sit around and say, 'I hope this guy breaks it or not.

He worked hard all game and he got his breaks off hard work.

J. R. R. Tolkien

He who breaks a thing to find out what it is, has left the path of wisdom.

He's coming in and out of his breaks really well. He's always been a very sudden player, Brandon, in terms of getting in and out of his breaks. ... That's where you obviously create the most separation, is right out of the breaks.

Jason Silva

Movies have these transcendent moments where everything is just right, from the dialogue to the music to the lighting to the narrative context; everything is just perfect, and something magical happens - the film breaks through the screen and does something to you.

McNeill is a junior and he's gotten a lot better. He has a great mid-range jumper. He makes or breaks them.

Steve Spurrier

Obviously, we want to be in the top half every year, and maybe some year everything breaks right and we put together a team that can win it. That certainly is our goal for the future.

Obviously, we have to rebound a little better. It was just the little things, and they got a couple of breaks here and there.

John Gage

The PlayStation, $300 with a DVD-player and it runs Linux and Java, it's huge. Why would you ever put a PC someplace? It breaks all the time. You would spend more time fixing it than teaching (how to use it). These things (the PlayStation consoles) are designed for 12-year-olds and are really powerful.

We've been playing good, we just haven't caught any breaks. Hopefully we saved all the breaks for the end of the season.

Failure to push the budget through could be the straw that breaks Mori's back.

Barack Obama

But let me perfectly clear, because I know you'll hear the same old claims that rolling back these tax breaks means a massive tax increase on the American people: if your family earns less than $250,000 a year, you will not see your taxes increased a single dime. I repeat: not one single dime.

Barack Obama

Now you have a choice: we can give more tax breaks to corporations that ship jobs overseas, or we can start rewarding companies that open new plants and train new workers and create new jobs here, in the United States of America.

Jim Davis

We had some chances, I just didn't think we got any breaks tonight.