Famous Quotes & Sayings

We are producing more jobs than the labor market has workers for ... we're desperate for immigration,

Kathleen Blanco

When folks who are desperate are trying to get home, it just makes it more difficult for us to get to folks whose lives are in danger.

Nate Corddry

Coffee shops are everywhere, especially in Los Angeles, chock full of sad sacks desperate to make sure their screenplays make it into the right hands... or any hands, for that matter. The one thing that makes a coffee shop truly great, though, is charm.

We're getting desperate for help because some of our substitutes are not always available.

We're fortunate in having Lost, Desperate Housewives and My Name Is Earl but it is fiercely more competitive out there than ever before. This May you'll see a feeding frenzy.

Jonathan Sacks

(Yahoo) is now so desperate over the fact that they are losing several experienced software engineers with years of experience in the mobile industry, that they are now taking the exact opposite legal position.

Let's not forget those folks that are in such desperate need,

When you're a desperate team, you do whatever it takes.

Ashleigh Brilliant

I'm not yet desperate enough to do anything about the conditions that are making me desperate.

Tubby Smith

We've been in a desperate situation. (The 0-2 start) was a wake-up call.

David Bailey

In New York, everyone's desperate for success, desperate for money and desperate to be accepted, but in London they're more laid back about things like that.

Caroline Lucas

What we have seen in the last six months points to the desperate need for a Green alternative to be heard.

William Booth

But what is the use of preaching the Gospel to men whose whole attention is concentrated upon a mad, desperate struggle to keep themselves alive?

Boo Weekley

I played the mini-tours for a lot of years, and man, you see some weird things out there. There are a lot of desperate people, strange personalities and marginal players, and with that you're going to see some cheating.

Trent Hunter

We're not giving up in here. We've raised our level of intensity and we have to be desperate every shift. And we've been able to do that.

Ben Shapiro

When people are desperate or wealthy, they turn to socialism; only when they have no other alternative do they embrace the free market. After all, lies about guaranteed security are far more seductive than lectures about personal responsibility.

Katharine Isabelle

I grew up on my dad's sets, but I was never star-struck or desperate to be famous. I grew up being a worker. It took me a long time to realise that my work ended up being seen by people. As far as I was concerned, I was just in the family business.

We're at this point right now where we have to get it going. There's nothing really than can discourage us anymore. We're a desperate team, and I think we kind of showed that desperation.

Holly Black

The problem with faerie gifts is that they always come with a price, which is why they are made by the desperate and the foolish.

We were a desperate team out there. We needed a win. Defensively, offensively, we just never gave up. We never gave up. Everything they did we countered.

Brian Gionta

We played a little desperate in the third period. We didn't play with that desperation in the first and second period.

Sean Astin

There was a combination of not wanting to look a gift horse in the mouth, but also really not wanting to be stuck in Lord of the Rings for the rest of my life, and being desperate to kind of make sure that I could do something else with my life.

People want to leave an estate when they pass on. They hold on to the desperate last.

I was so proud of them in Switzerland. I would've been disappointed if he wasn't disappointed because that means he's desperate to play.

One night, our captors took us downstairs, sat us in front of the TV, and showed us the life of Jesus on DVD in Arabic. But these are the people who shot Tom Fox in the head. People are very complex. Also, I think they wanted to keep us happy, so that we wouldn't try any desperate escape.

Phil Jackson

Obviously when the threes aren't going it's time to stop shooting them. We kept going to it and got desperate at the end trying to hit home runs. We can't do that.

One thing the riots have shown is that these kids are desperate for attention. We're trying to tell them that you matter most when you vote, that's when politicians have to start listening to you.

''My country, right or wrong'' is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying ''My mother, drunk or sober.''

Tim Bajarin

What we really are desperate for is next-generation content.

Monsanto is desperate to recapture royalties from its GM seeds, and terminator is the perfect solution because it would be able to biologically ensure that farmers have to return to the market every year.

Given Coty's outstanding track record in the fragrance market, the Desperate Housewives scent is guaranteed to be a hit with women everywhere.

I have lads here who have played for Dunfermline or who played under Davie at Livingston and they are desperate to get through. They want this tie and they want to have a go at Dunfermline. But we are not under-estimating Huntly.

Jacques Chirac

I feel very well, and I was starting to feel desperate to leave, ... Time was starting to drag, especially at lunch time. I am very happy now to go and eat.