Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Durkan

We want to see a credible report telling us there is no current or ongoing illegal activity from the IRA.

Andy Brough

We have seen continued bid activity and earnings have been reasonably robust. The market has had a great run in the first quarter.

Dan Dinges

We have secured the rigs necessary to complete our program, a program that focuses on more development activity and less risk. The current forecasted activity level calls for 391 wells, with increased activity in each region including expanded drilling on each of the acquisition plays purchased in 2005.

Wade Estep

We were also receiving a wellness program, sort of a physical activity program. We were going to try to set up some sort of physical activity program, but that didn't really materialize.

Randy Williams

We've seen a sharp decrease in phishing site activity since deploying the TippingPoint anti-phishing filters, and block more than 9,000 phishing attacks per hour.

Niklaus Wirth

The creative activity of programming - to be distinguished from coding - is usually taught by examples serving to exhibit certain techniques.

Jim Craig

There is a lot of activity in Europe at this moment and we are focusing on that.

Vladimir Putin

There is a long-felt need to confer legal status onto the activity of Cossack units, ... Today, the Cossack movement is reviving.

Larry Johnson

There is clear, unmistakable evidence that the level of terrorist activity that has killed and injured people has soared to unprecedented levels since we invaded Iraq.

Darrin Zeer

When everyone is really busy and feeling stressed out, often the time with your partner is one of the first things to get bumped. Stretching with your loved one turns the tables on the rat race, allowing you both to be in the moment and renewing your connection.

Dave Richardson

The fact is, however, that everyone in the sport wants to see more international cricket than this bare minimum. International matches raise essential revenue for the boards, provide significant income for the players and excitement for supporters. One of the main reasons the original FTP was introduced was to ensure regular cricket for all Full Members, many of whom had never previously had any certainty in their forward planning. What this new FTP does is maintain the guarantee of a regular schedule while allowing members to modify their program to meet specific requirements they may have.

Ashwin Sanghi

Writing a mystery is like drawing a picture and then cutting it into little pieces that you offer to your readers one piece at a time, thus allowing them the chance to put the jigsaw puzzle together by the end of the book.

Ted Cruz

We ought to be allowing the private sector to pursue every form of energy because the energy of the future, it's not going to come from the government picking winners and losers.

Ed Koch

Twelve years ago, if someone attacked me, I wouldn't let them get away with it. I'd take them on. I now perceive my job to include allowing people to vent their rage.

Randy Lerner

We want to build the club on our attendances. We don't want to pay all our TV money straight out in transfer fees and wages. We have to invest in developing Villa Park, allowing us to generate our own revenue streams.

Ly Sovann

We are not allowing them to touch the others and are keeping them in one place.

Michelle Lee

We are not allowing the current shortfall to impede the process.

Eric Williams

We are not allowing people back into the site right now.

Joe Bienasz

We have nice kids; they really get along with each other.

Steve Spurrier

We have some building to do. If you're not controlling the line of scrimmage, it's going to be tough. You have to at least break even along the line and obviously we're not doing that.

Ehud Barak

We have so many other things to do, rather than to be deployed along the border for another generation or two, ... It's time to make a decision. I feel the opportunity is clear also to President Assad.

Lindy Ruff

When you see a guy hit his head that hard, you're worried about one thing: a concussion. But he had nothing along that line.

Kurt Sanger

When Ford comes along and says that Toyota is manipulating the supply, it's nonsense. Toyota developed it all. Toyota does a lot of it in-house. Someone is pointing a finger at Bill Ford saying, Why don't you make more hybrids? So he has to point the finger at someone else.

Caroll Spinney

When he first started - Jim Henson, who created Bid Bird and Oscar - he said Big Bird was just a big, goofy guy. And it was - a script came along and I said, 'I think Big Bird would be much more useful to the show if he were a child learning all the things we were teaching in the show.' And so he didn't know the alphabet, even, for instance.

Marcus Tubbs

We wanted to win this game, and we knew what would come along with it,

Mo Charlo

We've still got some work to do. But I think as far as coming along, we're coming along pretty well. We're starting to get back to playing Nevada basketball.

Mike Sweitzer

We have a young make up with three sophomores and six freshmen on this team. But we also have a great deal of experience to go along with the youth.

Mike Harper

We have seen an average increase of about 6 percent this year over last year. The growth we have seen is driving up the value of property throughout the county. Of course, you have some areas that have seen more increases than others, but just about everyone will see an increase in their taxes paid.

Chuck D.

We have to guide growth into areas where we have planned infrastructure, or the individual developer has to kick in the cost to provide the infrastructure.

David Piper

We have so many other areas with road and drainage needs, I have a problem with that. I've been working day and night to get Somerset Lane and Pine Avenue paved. You get to the north end of Pine Avenue and it looks like a Third World country.

Carson Palmer

We were better in some areas this week and worse in some areas. We still have two more games to get sharp. There's still a lot of areas we need to fix up.

Paul Horne

We've staked out as our business model to operate in those areas of the IT industry where research can make a difference, which is pretty nice for the research team.

Tim Miller

We've spread out a little bit father. We're actually going to be putting some people in areas that we've already searched. There may be a foul odor there today that wasn't there three days ago. We're actually looking in the sky for buzzards.

David Spence

We've selected those areas because that's where we think most of the demand for the service will come from,

Giancarlo Fisichella

The fact it is a street circuit means there are some traffic lines on the asphalt, so it we get any rain, then you have to choose the line very carefully because these areas are slippery. It can make for a difficult Grand Prix.

Elizabeth Morse

The problem with showers and thunderstorms is that you can drop quite a bit of precipitation in a short period of time. Half an inch of rain in 30 minutes is going to be a real problem in some of the areas where we already have standing water.

Adam Ereli

We've seen the reports of comments attributed to other party officials.

Tom Noonan

I tend to be very private. It's easier for me. When you're acting, you're very susceptible to comments that somebody makes, so if they know something is going to happen on the show, and they say something, it can actually throw you off. So I tend to not share things with anybody.

Adam Cole

What we're likely to get is no move but all the comments suggesting that there will be a move next month.

John Keats

Shakespeare led a life of allegory; his works are the comments on it.

Peter Cardillo

Mr. Greenspan's comments support equity gains, ... And investors may have turned around their view of Intel.

Peter Cardillo

Mr. Greenspan didn't say anything new but his comments were one of the reasons we saw this early spurt take the market up and wane in the afternoon. But when it's all said and done, what the market is really grasping for here is some really good earnings in technology stocks.

Greg Bensel

Mr. Benson did write a message Sunday night to the commissioner expressing his concern about the incident that occurred following the game. It was an emotional and distressing situation and very unfortunate for him and his family. His comments to the commissioner relayed his frustration and at this time he has not yet made a decision on his plans for this weekend's game.

Trent Duffy

Mr. Aristide has resigned his office and has left the country. And now the Haitian people are involved with grasping democracy and moving forward on an interim government. And that's where the focus should be right now. And any comments that would stir up more division are not helpful, as the Haitian people move toward a greater democracy.

Ralph Kauffman

Many members' comments expressed concern about the continuing rise in oil and gas prices.

Dave Morrison

When you're watching a high-def broadcast, and you see a (standard) commercial come on, it looks like someone put a sheet over your television.

Gurinder Chadha

When you're told that as a filmmaker of colour, the stories you want to tell aren't commercial enough, then you start thinking, 'I'm going to tell them anyway.'

Bob Harms

The cranes are easily disrupted. What we're trying to do is prevent the kind of activities, such as commercial and industrial activities, that could interfere with the cranes.

Shane Richardson

The reality is Suncorp holds 52,000 and Telstra holds 82,000. The commercial reality is unless the Queensland Government is willing to put in a lot of money to make it happen, it can't happen.

Treat Williams

Yes, I am a pilot. I am a flight instructor and a commercial pilot.

William Brownfield

Venezuela and the U.S. are natural commercial partners, and this will not change.

Tequan Richmond

I started home school around sixth grade, but I'd only done a couple of national commercials. I remember I had this Spalding commercial with Paul Pierce from the Celtics, and I used to go to school, and people made fun of it. It wasn't even cool to be an actor; you got made fun of.

John Cassavetes

Commercial movies have no feeling, no sensitivity. Most people tell me people won't understand films with feeling. But everyone can feel.

Joy Fielding

I'm writing exactly the kinds of books I like to write. And they're the kinds of books I like to read. They're popular commercial fiction. That's what they are.

Jim Bush

The possession of a controlled substance was an off-white rock-like substance,

Rafa Benitez

We started off by controlling the game and were well organised and in the second half they did put some pressure on us but then we controlled the game at the end of the game,

Gillian Anderson

To my detriment sometimes. I can be very controlled - too controlled. It spills over into my life, and that's when it gets difficult.

Rick Hall

She got us out of a lot of jams. This is two games in a row where she controlled the game. The offense hasn't come through to give her support, yet.

Paul Thompson

She got hot when we needed her to. But she ran the floor well all night, she controlled the offense, she played good defense and showed me a lot of leadership on the floor all game long.

Mary Becker

She really stepped it up and controlled the pace of games. She started to find herself in our offense and create a little bit. She's a real good passer.

Kathy Leitke

She is very sound, very controlled in the box. She has good strength, good power. She has a good eye for the ball. She's a very disciplined hitter at a young age.

Ben Bernanke

Low marginal tax rates are supportive of economic growth. I would submit that we would want to look very hard at government spending - make sure it's controlled - before we raise taxes, which, in turn, would have negative impacts on the economy.

Julie Roberts

Leadally, we won the game in two areas. We controlled the speed of the game. Panmure like to play it very fast but we worked hard to settle that down and we won it in the goal circle.

Vic Lawson

We want to put elected representatives in Bradford County and our state representatives on notice that their jobs now depend on property tax relief for the residents of Bradford County, that lip service now is not going to get any of them elected any more.

Steve Smith

We want to provide appropriate education for all students, no matter what the student needs. I think all of the districts in the county are really making a concerted effort to serve kids as much as they can in the regular classroom.

Paul Tesi

We have saved the county millions since its inception.

William Bailey

We have no credible or reliable information that it's valid, ... We contacted our county gang unit, the State Police gang unit, and they have no information to verify this.

Al Sevier

Whenever (the county commissioners) see that, they acquiesce and kowtow to the numbers of voters. It's mob democracy.

Larry Hopkins

When you say county farm today people wonder what you are talking about.

Ann Wilson

We want people to gather, have fun and get to know local artists. Young couples and professionals are important to this scene because they know what's cutting edge and spread the word to others. Once people step into our activity, they realize there's a lot of talent here in Polk County that many others haven't yet experienced.

Joe Thomas

We were trying to get a feel where they will do the job in the county meet. I wanted to find out what we have. I just want them to go and do their best.

Mike Wright

We've won three games in a row with Cocke County up Monday and we've got a little momentum, which is what we're looking for heading into the district run.

Carol Moseley Braun

Bush is giving the rich a tax cut instead of putting that cut in the pockets of working people.

Carol Vorderman

I drive a tiny Toyota iQ. I'm quite frugal and often cut my own hair.

Carl Andre

The wood was better before I cut it, than after. I did not improve it in any way.

C. S. Lewis

For every one pupil who needs to be guarded against a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the slumber of cold vulgarity. The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts.

C. S. Lewis

And that's why, when they want to get rid of anyone, they usually bring him down here (like they were doing with me) and say they'll leave him to the ghosts. But I always wondered if they didn't really drown 'em or cut their throats. I never quite believed in the ghosts. But those two cowards you've just shot believed all right. They were more scared of taking me to my death than I was of going.

Agnes Varda

I made a braid because Chinese old people, they say that the God will take you by the hair to join you with - but God didn't take me, so I cut the braid.

Charlie Dent

There's a need to reform Medicare, but not a need to cut a half trillion dollars out of Medicare.

Charles de Lint

I wouldn't like to live in a world where everything's as cut-and-dried as most people think it is

Charles de Lint

You've got to spread out as far as you can, cut down a whole forest, irrigate a whole desert, just to make sure that you won't accidentally stumble upon a place that's still in its natural state.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Arc, amplitude, and curvature sustain a similar relation to each other as time, motion, and velocity, or as volume, mass, and density.

Carolyn Porco

We have never seen anything like this before. There are spiral structures in the rings, there are gravity and density waves, but they are completely different things,

Ernie Cox

We can't make this work by transferring density from someplace else. We just can't do it.

John Jones

We could increase the density and go up, but they won't do that.

Mark Brown

If we can finance the parking garage, we can have greater density of development.

Dwight Kroll

Land is at a premium in the area. We're going to be seeing a trend in these higher density developments.

William Frey

I think low density is the attraction. People would rather make a long commute and have a big yard and a big house.

Ernie Cox

We need the increase in density to make the development a reality. We can't make it work without transferring density.

Ernie Cox

We have to have the increase in density to make a workable town.

Stephen Chick

We've seen some existing home sales figures starting to look weak or negative. That's usually followed by a slowdown in sales at Home Depot or Lowe's after a six- to nine-month lag.

Bob Chase

The fact is a lot of our local associations have been willing to look at alternative pay schedules on top of existing plans.

Mayor Ralph

What we did was expand existing areas. We didn't go out and include a new one. When you say smart growth, that doesn't mean no growth.

Richard Boucher

We're not going to provide any quid pro quos for North Korea to live up to its existing obligations.

Michael Hooper

We have a path replacement and extension program going on here. There's an existing path there that runs in the greenway that needs replaced, which we will be doing, and possibly extending it a little further. This extension will stay on the park grounds.

Tom Schoewe

We have just under 1,000 projects in the pipeline for the U.S. alone, or three years worth of future growth planned. We'll do it through new stores, through acquisitions and by growing sales in our existing stores.

Michael Grice

We're looking for ways to reach out to new students, existing students and faculty, and a large part of this will be with marketing,

Kumar Mangalam Birla

It's not a good idea to always look for new frontiers, especially when you have opportunities in your existing businesses, in your own backyard.

Julie Bishop

We preserve the status quo, preserve existing systems.

Carlos Ghosn

India is definitely one of the markets where we can expect growth and a potential to do well.

Charles Dickens

There might be some credit in being jolly.

David Baker

We've seen incredible growth in the past two years.

Ho Chen

The outlook for 2006 is quite robust as we are looking for the growth momentum to be maintained. The main reason for the higher fourth-quarter numbers was the manufacturing sector.

Mitchell Corwin

Walgreen remains on a steady growth path, relatively unabated by industry or competitive threats.

David Rusenko

Word-of-mouth marketing is a crucial component of organic growth for startups and one of the primary ways that Weebly has grown to over 15 million customers.

Jane Addams

The new growth in the plant swelling against the sheath, which at the same time imprisons and protects it, must still be the truest type of progress.

Janet Yellen

Productivity growth, however it occurs, has a disruptive side to it. In the short term, most things that contribute to productivity growth are very painful.

Alan Greenspan

All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It's only a question of degree.

Tom Bissell

I view myself as a fiction writer who just happens to write nonfiction. I think I look at the world through a fiction-writer's eyes.

Bret Easton Ellis

...if you're alone nothing bad can happen to you.

Byron Katie

Everything happens for me, not to me.

Bryan Ferry

I can never predict what's going to happen.

Ed Koch

It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.

Elizabeth Mitchell

I was a complete, total nerd... I loved the idea that the underdog wins more often than not. And I don't know if that happens in life. But I want it to.

Eckhart Tolle

True change happens within not without

Ashley Smith

You are the center of your universe, and you can make anything happen.

Brian Urlacher

I see things as they happen pretty quick, and I just go hit it.

Mark Patterson

Whenever someone takes a lesser role in the operations, it's not too uncommon to see this type of thing.

Marjorie Gubelmann

When you're young, you worry about what other people think. The older you get, the less that matters.

Donald Sterling

When you're winning, anything you say has value. When you're losing, the less you say, the better.

Katrina Kelner

We were already worried about the 2004 paper and this doesn't make us any less worried.

John Landgraf

There is a lot less overt bigotry in America.

Celso Senise

There is a lot less money for high-risk investments and no liquidity. The polls are not enough.

J. C. Watts

The popular things become more popular and the less-popular things get less popular.

Cael Sanderson

Unless you continually work, evolve, and innovate, you'll learn a quick and painful lesson from someone who has.

Dan Savage

There are so many people out there with less shame talking about their problems.

Jason Bruffy

Whenever we are not doing a show in our main theater or after the main show, we will do things down here.

Mike Black

We were trying to maintain where we were at (down by 10), but when you can't score it makes it really hard. Chesterton started playing better on offense, and we played worse.

Jamie Bamber

When I'm living in L.A., I'm mainly a jeans, vintage T-shirt and Nike high-tops guy.

Al Crellin

Ultimately, we only need one operations center, but for now we will maintain two.

David Heymann

We still maintain that travel is not to be interrupted in the world at this point of time.

Gretchen Rubin

I always feel calmer when I exercise. In fact, that's probably the main reason I exercise.

Sanyo President

We have high-end range refrigerators which are mainly meant for the urban areas.

Kate Bush

One of the main reasons for wanting to perform live again was to have contact with that audience.

James Lasdun

Writers tend to write stories as a kind of holiday between novels, or as preliminary steps towards a novel. Stories just don't often make up a writer's main body of work, and that's not because they don't see the market for it.

Carlos Ghosn

You have to listen to the people who have a negative opinion as well as those who have positive opinion. Just to make sure that you are blending all these opinions in your mind before a decision is made.

Carlos Castaneda

The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary man takes everything as a blessing or a curse.

Agnes Repplier

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.

Charlie Chaplin

Over the years I have discovered that ideas come through an intense desire for them; continually desiring, the mind becomes a watchtower on the lookout for incidents that may excite the imagination.

Stephen Baker

Even though I'm retired for some years now I still have something positive to say to kids. And they still listen.

Brian Weiss

Journey into the beautiful dream that is life...the end is only the beginning.

David Allen

There is a light at the end of the tunnel, but the way out is through.

David Allen

A vision of a desired future allows you to engage and identify immediately in your focus with an improved condition. It changes what you perceive and how you perform NOW. It's not about achieving something in time. It's rather about the quality of choices you are making in this moment - what you choose to perceive, feel, and do. It's about getting the most out of your experience.

Dave Chappelle

I got a lot of positive people around me.

William Stewart

We want to teach you how to prevent them,

Ashley Judd

You have so much power to bring awareness, prevention and change.

Bill Gates

Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.

Alexei Navalny

The questioning is a stupid formality aimed exclusively at preventing us from speaking at the demonstration.

Marco Rubio

The primary goal of the War on Terror is to prevent an attack from happening.

Gore Vidal

To prevent the theft of 'Ben-Hur's sets, guards were prowling the back lot long after production had been shut down.

Dr. Paulos

No brace is perfect. No brace can prevent every injury, but they do help.

Ada Yonath

My neighborhood didn't really encourage women, though it didn't prevent women from progressing, either.

Marianne Williamson

It's a fraction of the cost to prevent a war than prosecute a war.

Abbas Zaidi

We have proposed Karachi as a Test and a one-day venue.

Eric Hausler

What's proposed in New York is not competitive.

Marty McOmber

This wasn't a surprise. This is why we proposed the legislation.

Christo

Some of the projects we've proposed over the years have been refused. But we never do other people's ideas; our ideas come out of our two hearts and our two heads.

Howard Miller

I think what he's proposed is accommodating It's gorgeous.

Stephen Byers

The proposed merger...might result in a substantial lessening of competition,

Hans Eichel

Everything I proposed and much more still will be done now,

Edward Hennessey

There was no relationship, there was a proposed relationship,

Khaled Mashaal

They proposed this. Our reply was clear. We told them that we already have had two recent experiences regarding the truce that were not encouraging.

David Richard

I worry about the stigma -- especially in rural areas.

Erin Matson

In rural areas, this can be very serious.