Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Ross

Our volunteer fire departments know their needs better than Washington, D.C. They need more flexibility on spending grant money from FEMA and Homeland Security.

Re-branding FEMA doesn't fix the problem; it just puts a new acronym on it.

Michelle Paver

I saw myself as a trailblazer in the 1980s as a female lawyer in the City. It was exciting, as women were outnumbered by men five to one. But while I had this sense of trailblazing, in reality, I wasn't pushing boundaries; it was just a personal myth I'd created, as I was doing a job I wasn't enjoying.

Nationally, she is probably the most successful female CEO. She was a big winner in a male-dominated world.

Look at our station. We have two shows our 5 p.m. newscast has two female co-anchors and our 5:30 p.m. show has two female co-anchors.

Michael Chiklis

I was actually a little nervous when the female horse got shot,

Alaina Huffman

I think the type of actor I am, I tend to play strong leading female characters. The shows I've been on happen to be science fiction genre.

Carrie Underwood

I was hoping for new female vocalist and that's all I was really hanging my hopes on. This is a monumental moment for me, a milestone in my life and my career.

Susan Collins

I tend to think that FEMA should stay at DHS.

Carol P. Christ

If we do no mean that God is male when we use masculine pronouns and imagery, then why should there be any objections to using female imagery and pronouns as well?

Barbara Mandrell

Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, Dolly Parton and I were the first female headliners, where we would book our own opening acts. Before that, it was a standing joke that it was more like we had 'pretty little girl singers' opening for a male headliner.

Action Bronson

When I think of influential females in hip-hop, my mind goes to Foxy Brown, hands down.

The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces.

to mate with females who would waste their reproductive potential.

Even here, a male with more testosterone, that's better nourished, and displays all the good genes a female should be interested in will still have a better mane than the guy with a ratty mane next to him.

Rachel Cusk

Female hysteria is a subject I'm very fond of. I always try to bring it in somewhere. For me, it is the finest part of the line between comedy and tragedy.

FEMA is working aggressively to fill the remaining positions.

David Paulson

FEMA is going to be here. We're not going to leave Mississippi until we're done.

FEMA has promised us 100 percent reimbursement on our expenses. The governor said he didn't want to hear about one human need that did not get met because of the paperwork.

John Dingell

FEMA has lost its way. FEMA has been submerged in a sea of bureaucracy,

FEMA didn't have any food for those people in Gretna. They didn't give me any food. I didn't have any water. My obligations are to the people of Jefferson Parish.

FEMA can be turned around. But I don't think it can be turned around within Homeland Security.

FEMA will be there for years working on this.

FEMA still does not know any more about what it was doing last week than it was a month ago, ... an incompetent agency.

FEMA said we needed to show an ID or a PG&E bill, anything to verify our previous address.

Eleanor is more vibrant than any female icon in our own century,

B. F. Skinner

At the maximum occupancy level, this equates to $416,000 per evacuee. We understand that FEMA terminated the lease and returned the improved property to the Joint Powers Authority.

William Shakespeare

Cupid is a knavish lad, Thus to make poor females mad

We spent a lot of time trying to understand the new FEMA rules. That has not been a satisfying experience.

We are still administering the program at this time. But we are in discussions with FEMA as to when and if a transition in administration will occur.

Julie Burchill

We are used to female writers who use their private lives as unmitigated material being somewhat hormonal; this somehow 'excuses' what might be seen as a highly unfeminine ability to turn their personal upsets into money.

We are trying to get a feel for what is available. We are not going to run shelters for a long time. We are going to try to get people into housing options, or FEMA may try to get them back to their home states.

Gwendoline Christie

Vita Sackville-West is one of my favorite female icons. She was a writer and a prolific gardener, but she also had a relationship with Virginia Woolf, and she was married to Sir Harold Nicolson. She was a woman who lived outside of norms.