Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Ashkenaz

States are eventually going to save billions of dollars under the new program. And that's why very few states decided to join this lawsuit, despite requests for them to do so.

Joel Fuhrman

Out of one pocket we pay billions of our tax dollars to support the production of expensive, disease-causing foods. Out of the other pocket, we pay medical bills that are too high because our overweight population consumes too much of these rich, disease-causing foods.

Michael King

Ring tones will be a nice little revenue bump for carriers going forward but it's not as if there will be billions and billions of dollars in their pockets tomorrow,

Jeff Bingaman

Reducing the federal government's massive energy waste offers enormous opportunities to save taxpayers billions of dollars for decades to come and improve the environment, ... We're starting to make progress, but there's no excuse for this much waste when leading companies in the U.S. energy-efficiency industry are willing to provide the money for improvements at no up-front cost to taxpayers.

John Challenger

I think companies will spend billions of dollars over the next several years building their e-commerce structures, and these dot.com employees will be leaders in helping them do that,

Alan Rosling

The $3-billion investment in four projects will employ thousands of people and generate billions of dollars of foreign exchange for Bangladesh.

John Williamson

That would still leave Ottawa with billions of dollars to spend on roads and infrastructure.

Harry Reid

It is his runaway budget and trade deficits, billions spent on tax giveaways, backwards-looking energy plan designed by and for special interests, and inaction during this country's health care crisis that have created a myriad of problems for our children's generation.

Mark Harris

Like medieval peasants, computer manufacturers and millions of users are locked in a seemingly eternal lease with their evil landlord, who comes around every two years to collect billions of dollars of taxes in return for mediocre services

Ken Lisaius

Our policy is not to discuss ongoing legal proceedings.

Blair Horner

(Pataki does) not view it as a way of discussing the issues of the state. It's about his image. He pounds away on themes: He's tough on crime. He's tough on taxes. He's tough on regulations. I would expect they stick to the formula.

Chris Caballero

Part of the discussion is to have a softer approach.

Michael Molligan

Our normal watering restrictions were put in place during the severe water shortage of the early 1990s. But over time we have discovered that to water more than twice a week is wasteful and does no more good for the vegetation. So what once were water-shortage restrictions are now regular and in-place year round.

Daya Master

Our leadership is considering it but we have to discuss many practical things with the Norwegians.

Viktor Yushchenko

Our memory must become a warning for those who want to sow discord in our multiethnic family,

E. O. Wilson

Sure we should discuss it. But we didn't.

Mike Ditka

Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.

Brian Kennedy

Sure, it was discussed in meetings. But it was never really taken seriously.

S. Walker

Some haven't used theirs in a long time, but they've got one. They need to dust it off and use it.

Carl Sagan

We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam

Dr. Thorpe

That was most surprising to us - the impact of the dust cloud.

Alan Trammell

That's the only way to do it because there's no magic dust for times like this.

Steven Milunovich

I think this Internet gold dust can be sprinkled around a bit.

Tim Howard

I don't get a lot of time with my children. My time is precious, and time with my two kids is like gold dust to me. I can't get that time back.

Jerry Spinelli

Ideas come from ordinary, everyday life. And from imagination. And from feelings. And from memories. Memories of dust in my sneakers and humming whitewalls down a hill called Monkey.

Nishi Silva

Fragrance of breeze,novel smell of dust after a drizzling,tin tin sound of squirrels,dried leaves floating with the wind... want me to feel I must sense all the possibilities of aesthetics during this moment of living.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Fresh from brawling courts/ And dusty purlieus of the law.

Yiddish Proverb

Surrounding yourself with dwarfs doesn't make you a giant

Yiddish Proverb

Surrounding yourself with dwarfs does not make you a giant

John Challenger

The places where it's really going to hit is government and teachers. Governments are going to be unable to pay for the promises they've made. Pensions for teachers and government workers just dwarf what we see in the private sector.

Richard C. Armitage

Tolkien made dwarf sign language because, you know, it's too loud to talk in the mines.

Ben Folds

My idea is to play with the people who you know want to get it right. Then it's fun and easy to record, and you can get down to details, like taking out cymbals so the verse doesn't dwarf the chorus, something like that.

Robert Burton

I say with Didacus Stella, a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself

David Spears

That's a huge project. This one will dwarf that, in terms of scope, impact and right of way.

Charles Lada

This new planet may just be the tip of the iceberg. Red dwarfs may be a fertile new hunting ground for finding planets, including ones similar in mass to the earth.

Ann Veneman

A whole generation has never known a world free of HIV and Aids, yet the magnitude of the problem dwarfs the scale of the response so far.

Richard Jerram

Price rises are gradually feeding down the production chain.

John Baybutt

Steven will feed anybody. It's whether they want to go to it and finish it that makes the difference.

Lisa Smith

Some of the feedback I got was very violent. I had two girls come to my room. I had threats of violence messaged to me. People stopped me on my way to class. I was told my self-worth in about 20 words or less.

Shannon Stewart

That'd be nice to play with him and hopefully feed off him, and he can feed off me.

Dr. Bastian

Overall our feedback has been good. We're hopeful.

Willy Rampf

Robert will play an important role. On Friday morning he will already be able to make the first comparisons and feed us valuable information with regard to tyre choice.

Robert Bennett

Remember, this is for two people. We're trying to feed them, not fatten them.

Tony Dorsett

Players are different today. They don't understand that it's a privilege to play this game. It's an honor. You have an opportunity to make a lot of money. But when you're complaining about only making $7 million to feed your family, nobody has sympathy for that. You're going to turn people off.

Connor Franta

Making YouTube videos while I was in school, I was fortunate enough not to really have any negative repercussions from it. I had a lot of positive feedback from my friends, who thought they were great and thought they were funny and that what I was doing was really cool.

William Joyce

Recent volatility in raw material prices, however, makes first quarter forecasting difficult.

David Zucker

Sure, we'll be working on Scary Movie 5 , but we'll wait until the material swells up in the next year. There will be enough movies out there to pick from.

Caroline DeWaal

Physician-education material like this is a long time coming.

Chuck Ewings

That was probably because of materials. After the hurricane, materials went up.

Francis Bacon

When he wrote a letter, he would put that which was most material in the postscript, as if it had been a by-matter

John Grisham

We have the crime of the century every six months. So for people like me who enjoy, you know, taking these stories and writing about them, the material is endless.

Jonathon Hamilton

None of these are material to this transaction.

Aaron Copland

I don't compose. I assemble materials.

Edward Abbey

The very poor are strictly materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic.

Jim Haslett

Part of me says maybe it's time for a change.

Guy Kawasaki

Statistically it's probably one out of a hundred, so that means there's ten out there. Maybe twenty.

Reggie Bush

Overall, I think I proved I should be the No. 1 pick. I thought I maybe could have pushed a 4.29 out of there, but overall I'm pretty happy.

Matthew Gervais

(Research) is so meaningful and rewarding at this point I'm willing to withhold assumptions on where I'll end up. Maybe I'll find God. Maybe I'll find out science isn't for me. Maybe I'll go sit on a mountain and meditate. The ride will be worth it.

Marilyn Oliveira

Planning the nursery comes soon enough, maybe at the same time. Don't do both.

Nancy Wilson

Maybe our team was a little star struck. But the turnovers had more to do with the size differential and the quickness differential.

Charlie Whitehurst

Maybe on third down, that's where we need to be looking. He always delivers.

Frank Beamer

Maybe one practice day wasn't quite what we wanted,

Sheryl Garrett

Maybe it's a reaction to going overboard in the 1980s and 1990s, but I sense a lot of people are moving away from materialistic things (and) toward more thoughtful and meaningful holidays.

Seth Shostak

The planets and moons of our solar system are blatantly visible because they reflect sunlight. Without the nearby Sun, these planets would be cryptic and dark on the sky.

Michael Crichton

The planet has survived everything, in its time. It will certainly survive us.

Alex Van Halen

You come to the planet with nothing and you leave with nothing, so youd better do some good while you are here.

Alex Van Halen

When you leave the planet, you leave music behind.

Alice Walker

Activism is my rent for living on the planet.

Ann Druyan

We batter this planet as if we had someplace else to go.

Jan Eliasson

We usually say there is always a ‘Plan B,’ but there is no ‘Planet B’.

Eckhart Tolle

To me, inner and outer are so strongly linked that any collective change that happens within human beings, within the human psyche, inevitably will be reflected externally in what happens on the whole planet.

Edward James Olmos

Chiapas is probably the main concern I have right now for the planet.

Mary Wesley

You know what it's like to persuade a pigheaded child to do something they don't want to. If they hear the same suggestion from someone else, they'll go right off and do it.

Arthur Bloch

The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising.

Steve Brown

It was a suggestion and time will go on.

Jennifer Granholm

I have not made any suggestions about climate change. This is more about blending or shifting the conversation about the environment versus the economy. It's just such an old, outdated conversation.

Mark Twain

Women cannot receive even the most palpably judicious suggestion without arguing it; that is, married women.

Emile Coue

From our birth to our death we are all the slaves of suggestion.

Richard LeVine

All I can say is we're taking the suggestion under advisement.

Lasse Hallstrom

I love involving actors at all levels - and they have to know that I want to hear their contributions, with dialogue, with story suggestions, with script changes, whatever.

Malcolm Bradbury

If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.

Bert DuMars

Some of our systems are 20, 30, 40 years old. We need to modernize them, and it's not cheap.

Gary Anderson

We need a better dredging system that we have now.

Jim DeMint

I think they'll make this a competitive thing that will get the system better and better by the week,

Paul Otellini

I think you'll see very aggressively priced systems out there.

Mike Claffey

Fortunately, the weather did end up cooperating, and it's all systems go.

Ram Dass

As one individual changes, the system changes.

Bob Ray

We have to have a system for response.

Chuck Wilson

We have all new duct work and a new heating and ventilation system in there, so we won't be using the old system,

Lance Lyttle

We've got to have just one system . . . it's a no-brainer.

Bill Cosby

Brown versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person's problem.

Carrie Chapman Catt

White supremacy will be strengthened, not weakened, by women's suffrage.

Carrie Fisher

I'd like to wear my old [cinnamon buns] hairstyle again - but with white hair,

Bertrand Russell

The white tails of rabbits, according to some theologians, have a purpose, namely to make it easier for sportsmen to shoot them.

Heidi Klum

I don't know why we work, my husband and I. We just do. We are black and white - yin and yang.

Charles Barron

I want to go up to the closest white person and say: 'You can't understand this, it's a black thing' and then slap him, just for my mental health.

Billy Boyd

I like people like Ani DiFranco, a band called Elbow, of course John Lennon, George Harrison, Barry White. I have a lot of different influences and hopefully they all come together and make some sense.

Ayn Rand

She knew that she could not have reached this white serenity except as the sum of all the colors, of all the violence she had known.

Ben Goldacre

Science has authority not because of white coats or titles, but because of precision and transparency: you explain your theory, set out your evidence, and reference the studies that support your case.