Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dave Barry

UNIVAC: a device, which contained 20,000 vacuum tubes, occupied 1,500 square feet and weighed 40 tons; there was also a laptop version weighing 27 tons.

We feel that we have contained the fire.

Bill Stewart

We won't be able to have this fire contained until we can plow a line around it. We've got all kinds of problems with the blow-down from Ivan. It's slowing us down.

Sergey Lavrov

On a number of occasions, the documents shown to us were forged, in particular, they contained fake signatures of Russian officials,

Seba played well for the last 20 minutes and our game went to pieces when we stopped marking Theodore. We contained him for 70 minutes but being the quality player that he is, he made us pay for it.

We discovered the material in the event guide was culturally insensitive and contained errors.

Robert Collier

Your real self - the 'I am I' - is master of this land, the ruler of this empire. You rightfully have power and dominion over it, all its inhabitants, and all contained in its realm.

Alan Greenspan

Thus our baseline outlook for the U.S. economy is one of sustained economic growth and contained inflation pressures. In our view, realizing this outcome will require the Federal Reserve to continue to remove monetary accommodation.

We've been working on keeping the outside contained and working our responsibilities,

We did discover some materials, and they've been sent away for analysis. We're not prepared to speculate on what was contained in the vials.

But we did a good job of keying on the other guys who might have hurt us and contained them.

Ellen Willis

By continually pushing the message that we have the right to gratification now, consumerism at its most expansive encouraged a demand for fulfillment that could not so easily be contained by products.

But as the Pope has a long arm, which might reach me in France, I have gone a little out of the way to tell him the plain truths contained in these pages.

Grant Heslov

When you look at a film like 'The Ides of March' or 'Good Night, and Good Luck' even, those are really contained pictures.

It contained a lot of generalized ideas, but it seems like just his thoughts about what the G-7 should discuss.

It is a good sign that the virus is contained to these two provinces.

There is no evidence that terrorists use Mexico to cross into the United States. There have been comments to that regard, but not one of those statements has contained hard evidence.

We take this very seriously. We are responding very aggressively. We have it contained at this point.

Kate Christensen

Iggy Pop has a voice that's somehow simultaneously self-mocking, wild, precise, amused, righteous, cool, contained and bold. I don't know how he does what he does.

We have contained the fire with no property loss whatsoever.

Pranab Mukherjee

There is prima facie evidence of violation of clauses relating to use of undue influence and agents/agency commission, as contained in the contracts of Anti-Material Rifles (AMR) signed in 2002,

We've got to get him stymied and contained somehow, and then we can pin our ears back and focus on getting Henry as uncomfortable as possible.

The provisions contained in this plan will ensure that the United States has the infrastructure necessary to meet energy needs through future decades, easing dependence on unpredictable foreign oil markets, and creating thousands of new jobs for American workers.

There is nothing contained in this indictment that the U.S. government did not have

The original patent didn't have dimensions and contained just enough information to obtain a patent and make competitors sweat." ()

It is difficult to imagine more extreme race hatred than was contained in the material which was seized during this meticulous inquiry.

Law enforcement is in total control of the situation. It is a hostage situation. It's contained to one room of the hotel. Our guests and employees have been evacuated from the immediate area.

We know that there has been some excellent work by governments and nongovernmental organizations in the wake of the tsunami -- the speed and scale of the response meant that lives were saved and many predicted outbreaks of epidemics were contained -- but it is not enough.

We have the names of the officials who gave the orders and those who executed them. Everything is contained in these documents,

We had to stop the run, keep (David) Johnson contained and not let them hit the long bomb. Today, it went well. The way I look at it, we're 4-0 and two more wins we're in the state playoffs. If we keep winning we'll make the Prep Bowl, but I don't look forward to playing them again.

We finally stepped it up in overtime and contained them pretty well.

Most of it was contained in our containment system, but some entered into the channel.

Dick Bennett

We have not contained point guards at all.