Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Williams

Where the heck is the good news?. So far, there have not been concrete signs of a recovery.

The war against terrorism should not be used to interfere with an independent, sovereign state. We need to identify concrete terrorist targets and do no harm to civilians.

Mohamed ElBaradei

We'd like to get concrete evidence as to where we go to inspect.

Christine McVie

We're going to try and do something different this time, and away from even what we expect to do. We haven't really formed any concrete plan at the moment, but whatever it is, it's going to have a twist.

We're going to get a much longer life span out of them. We're doing them with stucco and concrete foundations.

Bill Richardson

We're going to focus on two important areas: one is verification, the second is what steps are the North Koreans taking to dismantle their nuclear weapons ? concrete steps,

We're going to continue the patching of the pipes where there are cracks. Where we can, we're going to put a sleeve around it. Then, we're going to pour the concrete jacket.

Pervez Musharraf

The process is moving forward and whenever there would be a concrete and solid advancement, it would be made public,

Some concrete judgments have to be made. There is a long list of practical questions that need to be addressed, starting with which price index they should use, what the specific number or range should be, and to what time period it should apply.

Scott Peterson

She hit the ground so hard, she cracked the sidewalk and moved the concrete about four inches,

Tom Coughlin

Let's get this thing settled so we can make concrete plans about how we're going to move forward. It's not a comfortable feeling for any club. We need this to be settled and we need to move forward as a league. We need to be able to utilize all the abilities that we have in our planning.

Second, 14 years have lapsed and neither any concrete evidence of conspiracy has come forward nor are there any new revelations.

Eduardo Paes

Every time you think of a city, you have to think green, green, green. Every time you see concrete jungle, you must find open spaces. And when you find open spaces, make it so people can get to them.

We are definitely in concrete talks with the U.S. to be Frankfurt's Guest of Honor in 2008.

Grace Napolitano

We are still waiting for the president to introduce a concrete plan. He has just hinted at what he is thinking about doing, but no one has seen a proposal.

We are not going to extend the ceasefire just for the sake of extending it. We would like the Indian government to come up with a concrete solution or else we are prepared for any eventuality.

Robert Lanza

Perhaps, if science is clever enough to see, it will realize that religion may not be too far off with its concrete imagery; and that relative to the supreme creator, we humans are much like the microorganisms we scrutinize under the microscope.

We are looking for a concrete sign that Mr. Layton is ready to defeat this government,

Walter Murch

I was greatly influenced by musique concrete when I was, like, 10. I was completely mesmerized by the idea that you could make music out of sounds. So that's been a constant influence on all my work.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

Truth, which is important to a scholar, has got to be concrete. And there is nothing more concrete than dealing with babies, burps and bottles, frogs and mud.

We don't have any information on that. We've got some allegations but no concrete evidence.

Esther Rolle

We feel we have to put concrete on every inch of land. It disturbs the ecology, and it takes away the experience of a child going out into the woods and seeing all of nature.

We didn't stop construction this winter. We've got more than 12,000 cubic yards of concrete in there now. It's more than half way.

The demand for concrete has been outstripping supply for several years. We've become more steadily dependent on imports.

Mitt Romney

I hope people understand that when you tax corporations that the concrete and the steel and the plastic don't pay. People pay. And so when you tax corporations, either the employees are going to pay or the shareholders are going to pay or the customers are going to pay. And so corporations are people.

Desmond Morris

Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.

Phoenix temperatures have been going up because of the urbanization. Previously vegetative surfaces were replaced by concrete buildings, and they hold the heat.

Jonathan Katz

Politically, it will be helpful to Israel to say to the world, here we are, we have taken a concrete step here, and now it is time for the Palestinians to step forward as well. They are looking at this as a source of goodwill.

Louis MacNeice

Good poets have written in order to describe something or to preach something - with their eye on the object or the end. The essence of the poetry does not lie in the thing described or in the message imparted but in the resulting concrete unity, the poem.

Jimmy Cliff

I grew up twelve miles outside of Montego Bay. In my early teens, I went to Kingston. It was like a different planet for me. In the country, people are kind. In the city, people are hard an' cold, like the concrete and steel.

What we need to see are concrete measures aimed at getting the bureaucracy to pursue this objective, otherwise all this will be just more rhetoric.

What we need is something concrete to say whether we're at risk. That's the issue.

Esther Dyson

We decided we needed to be something concrete rather than something nebulous you couldn't negotiate with. This is an interim board. Our job is to figure out how to create a permanent system with a permanent board.