Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lapo Elkann

The Cinquecento was an engine of motivation at Fiat. It refurbished the image of the entire company. It's a symbol for the company, but it's more than that. It's a global Italian symbol, as Mini is a global British symbol and the Beetle is a global German symbol.

Mort Walker

I took Beetle home thinking that after the Korean War was over, I would have to take him out of the Army. I thought, well, what am I going to do with him?

Bob Simpson

The premier struck his MLA committee on the pine beetle in the fall of 2001, and that committee deemed the infestation a catastrophic event that demanded immediate attention. Here we are in the fall of 2005 and the Campbell Liberals are just beginning to implement a plan.

Jerry Peterson

I've never had a bug problem before the pine beetle problem on my trees.

Jeff Berino

Summit County had a wildfire problem before the beetle, we certainly have a significant problem with the beetle right now and we're going to have one after the beetle disappears.

Rick Newton

It's not going to end the mountain pine beetle epidemic by any means.

Ferdinand Piech

The new Beetle cannot deny its origin and the magic of its shape, ... We believe the new Beetle is not just another car.

Jeremy Robinson

When I was ten years old, I saw a big, fat beetle get squished. I don't recall the circumstances, but that's not important. It's the result that stuck with me. The beetle's thick, viscous insides so closely resembled a crushed blueberry that, to this day, I can't eat raw blueberries without feeling nauseous.

John B. S. Haldane

God has an inordinate fondness for beetles.

Steve Sullivan

We have said from the beginning that we are taking responsibility for this incident.

Tom Daschle

We have said form the beginning that if he would work with us we could reach a bipartisan compromise, ... He chose not to, and he got beat.

Jay Wright

We've still got until the end of the month, beginning of March, until they let him make a decision. I think he's getting more realistic about it. When I have to make a decision, I'm going weigh in my decision. He's working, he's enthusiastic.

Mike Kendrick

We were beset with all sorts of problems from the beginning when we launched in Marrakech, but they were all political.

Kurt Ruth

We were a lot closer than we were farther away, and I'm proud of our effort. Rancho Verde is no slouch. At the beginning of the season, I knew it would be a dogfight twice. One went their way and one went our way.

W. S. Gilbert

We were to welcome our new minister on Sunday. We will still do that, but in the hall. This will have to be a new beginning - a new beginning, a new building. It's a tough way to start a ministry.

Teri Cruse

We have pretty much our whole team back. With all those players back, it wasn't a teaching year at the beginning of the year, but a refining year.

Mickey Levy

We've seen data from various sectors showing the economy is beginning to stabilize. Not only employment, but the manufacturing sector as well. And holiday retail sales, consumption and housing look OK. So, we have all these powerful stimulants that are going to contribute to growth as 2002 unfolds.

Alan Nevin

The reality is, Bakersfield is just at the beginning of its growth pattern.

Larry Wall

Mr. Campbell paints a very rosy picture. It sounds too good to be true because it is too good to be true.

Matt Link

I can't fault my defense for that. Campbell just scored on shear strength, size and determination.

Bobby April

The only thing I was concerned about is it looked to me from the sideline like (Thomas) might have chopped Mark Campbell to cause the pileup, which is illegal. If he didn't do that, then the kid made a great play.

Marilyn Brewer

John Campbell refuses to stand in front of the very people whose vote he wants,

Sven Eriksson

I talked to Sol Campbell and he wants to be at the World Cup, that's for sure.

Tom Owens

God took her out of the misery. David Campbell exposed it for what it was.

Debbie Williams

We made some adjustments at the half and started running our offense. Campbell played hard and showed a lot of heart. They had nothing to lose. We knew it was going to be a tough game and that they live and die by the 3-point shot.

Curtis Higgins

We sure do hope to see Fort Campbell again. I just mentioned that to my kids -- if they're No. 1, we're No. 1-and-a-half, and we hope to see them again. It will mean more next time.

Rusty Granacker

Some of the younger guys like (freshmen) Mike Campbell and Jeff Gabriel really stepped up today and filled in nicely. I don't mind so much that we take penalties because we have good penalty killers.

John Kramer

We have no money, so the committee will have to go out and raise it, period.

John Luckhardt

We were trying to go hard to get guys in here for competition. Instead of one guy, we may go by committee to try to replace Antoine.

Mike Long

The creation of the committees are moving forward and led by competent individuals. This will be seen through.

John Davies

We're just trying to help these offices. All we're interested in is trying to help these offices with their needs. The committee can only make recommendations. But you're either gonna have to buy, lease or build.

David Tennant

Twitter! It's like being stalked by committee!

Lucille Roybal-Allard

During consideration in the Education and the Workforce Committee this year, Democrats and Republicans worked constructively together to improve the delivery of Head Start services to the target populations.

Keith Allen

We are going to set up a committee of three members from the Land and Development Committee and three from the speedway to sit down to try to work out some of the issues. That's where we're at.

Jim Nussle

We're going to work with the committees and see what's doable.

Ahmed Qureia

This problem is finished for now, but there will be a committee and a procedure for dealing with this kind of matter.

Steve Holloway

She is a playmaker. At halftime, she told her teammates to follow her and she would lead us back. We have demanded a lot of her as far as being a leader, and she has taken this team on her back.

Malcolm Gladwell

I don't understand, given the constraints physicians have in doing their job and the paperwork demanded of them, why people want to be physicians. I think we've made it very, very difficult for them to perform their job. I think that's a shame.

Peter Riegert

It never occurs to me that acting with a superstar is something to worry about. I figure the bigger the better because more will be demanded of me.

Sidney Blumenthal

Ken Starr's prosecutors demanded to know what I had told reporters and what reporters had told me about Ken Starr's prosecutors. If they think they have intimidated me they have failed. And if any journalist here or elsewhere wants to talk to me, I'll be glad to talk to you.

Jim Zorn

He could have lashed out or just gone in the tank or been so frustrated and demanded a trade. That's not how Matt reacted.

Kasan Mulyono

Residents only demanded a larger quota of local workers, and we have met that.

Liana Liberato

Every role that I have taken on has demanded some kind of emotional range. I really, really would love to do a comedy, but that opportunity really hasn't opened up.

D. James

To treat a ''big'' subject in the intensely summarized fashion demanded by an evening's traffic of the stage when the evening, freely clipped at each end, is reduced to two hours and a half, is a feat of which the difficulty looms large.

Pedro Medina

The suspect demanded to know the location of the vault and demanded the manager open the vault,

Bob Tucker

We have motor escorts in other places - maybe two (officers) to take us to a main event - but not for practices, players' dinners, and other events like we have here.

Steve Jocz

We were trying to joke around as much as possible. Well, as much as you could in that . . . eventually it got really not funny.

Geoff Coulson

We've seen worse, but I'm sure there are people in parts of Toronto who were not happy to see any rain after the events of Aug. 19.

Darren Dopp

We've seen this in other industries we've investigated. There's a moment where everyone is frozen with self-examination, and then things improve. These reforms will eventually expand opportunities for artists.

Roland Swenson

We've seen big events go down very fast.

Wendy Cheung

There are a lot of events happening this month and we hope lots of people will come to them.

Trinny Woodall

When I was 18, my mum gave me all the clothes she'd had made at the famous haute couture fashion label, House of Worth, in Paris. Of course, I eventually trashed them all.

Karen Mitchell

We use more than 1,000 volunteers just on this event. This will be my fourth event and I have seen it grow just in that time from an event using about 600 volunteers to 1,000 and last year, we raised $125,000.

Umberto Eco

Today, political events are nullified unless they're on TV.

Carre Otis

I had dropped out of school and was a runaway, so I didn't have family to fall back on if I didn't work. I didn't have a lot of other options of making money other than modeling.

Carol Leifer

My kind of gay, meeting a woman and falling in love, is a different experience because it wasn't anything about 'Oh, I've always been gay and I'm breaking the chains.

Carlos Castaneda

The humbleness of a warrior is not the humbleness of the beggar. The warrior lowers his head to no one, but at the same time, he doesn't permit anyone to lower his head to him. The beggar, on the other hand, falls to his knees at the drop of a hat and scrapes the floor to anyone he deems to be higher; but at the same time, he demands that someone lower than him scrape the floor for him.

C. S. Lewis

Each time you fall He'll pick you up. He knows your own efforts are never going to bring you anywhere near perfection

C. S. Lewis

Humans are amphibians...half spirit and half animal...as spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. This means that while their spirit can be directed to an eternal object, their bodies, passions, and imaginations are in continual change, for to be in time, means to change. Their nearest approach to constancy, therefore, is undulation--the repeated return to a level from which they repeatedly fall back, a series of troughs and peaks.

C. S. Lewis

The bolt of Tash falls from above!' 'Does it ever get caught on a hook halfway?

C. S. Lewis

The event of falling in love... in one high bound it has overleaped the massive wall of our selfhood; it has made appetite itself altruistic, tossed personal happiness aside as a triviality and planted the interests of another in the centre of our being.

David Parrish

We want to rebuild a strong neighborhood that's got potential. If we picked a spot that had 73 parcels and 50 homes and 40 were just falling apart, that would be a total redevelopment.

Agnes Repplier

The well-ordered mind knows the value, no less than the charm, of reticence. The fruit of the tree of knowledge ... falls ripe from its stem; but those who have eaten with sobriety find no need to discuss the processes of digestion.

Jeffrey Nelson

We have no immediate plans to run that service. What runs on our network are our services.

Lee Bermejo

Generally, when it comes to covers, I try and add elements that may not take your immediate attention but really become important the more you look at them.

Kenneth Branagh

There's always something to think about in terms of problems that are dark and important and immediate and scary.

Sergei Ivanov

We are also ready for an immediate start to official talks with the United States on SALT 3.

Shawn Boggs

She will make an immediate impact with her speed.

Keith Ayoob

People want a quick fix, ... They want immediate results.

Gregory Campbell

Nevertheless our sympathies at this time will very much be with her immediate family.

Kevin Kelly

On March 7, to get this packet of information is a little startling. Most of my immediate reaction is not printable.

George Tenet

one of the most immediate threats the United States is likely to face.

Mark Seery

When you're using quality of service to implement a priority-based system, someone is always losing.

Howard Simon

She was part of a team that did not implement policies that were protective of the right to vote. They made the right to vote more perilous.

Joe Main

Work was in progress to implement some of these protections.

Jerry Taylor

There are things teachers implement that aren't reflected in the improvement plans or in scores, ... There are things they are doing right every day.

Don Sherwood

I do not think this makes a lot of sense, and I think we should rely on the Park Service to implement the regulations that they have in place with the restrictions so that people can enjoy our parks.

C. S. Lewis

Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don't implement promises, but keep them.

E. Hicks

Without Adobe's partnership, USGBC never would have been able to implement this upgrade as quickly and seamlessly.

Mahmoud Abbas

We will put the road map on the table and say that we are ready to implement it completely,

Gerry Adams

We have got a deal. We now have to implement that deal,

Alex Pareene

'Political junkies' and liberals will watch MSNBC, and angry, old right-wingers will watch Fox.

Clint Eastwood

Liberals are not always so liberal with people who disapprove - disapprove of their point of view.

Ben Shapiro

Liberals in Hollywood can't stand when Americans resonate to conservatives on television.

Jonathan Haidt

The big breakthrough for me was, once I stopped disliking conservatives and could actually see what they were right about, they showed me a lot of things that liberals were wrong about. But at the same time, I think there are some things that liberals are right about that conservatives have trouble seeing.

Edgar Cayce

Keep the Pineal Gland operating and you will Never grow Old, You will always be Young.

Eddie Rickenbacker

I'll fight like a wildcat until they nail the lid of my pine box down on me.

Heather Brooke

I pine for a return to the type of old-school journalism and the tough newspapermen and women of the Thirties.

Tim Russell

This is the first time that I have done spring drills at Pine Tree.

Steve Lawson

Fletcher didn't have to be talked into doing what he did for Pine Mountain, ... He did it because it was the right thing to do.

J. B. Smoove

I thought 'Pineapple Express' was hilarious.

Sylvester Croom

We are talking about one of the premier teams in the country,

The Eagles

Until we prove otherwise, they're simply the premiere 3-A team around here that I know of,

Ben Bradlee

She was the premier American publisher, ... She got tested more than most of them, and she stood up with such bravery.

Jonathan Demme

We pretended it was a world premiere concert.

Merle Bishop

If we get together, this could be the premier place to live in the county.

Alan Smith

You can take a sidewards step in the Premier League, go to a team in the Championship or come to a team in League One.

Lara Giddings

Being Premier is a 24/7 job, so it doesn't create many spaces in order to be able to build relationships.

Jean Charest

It will be the first time that a premier from Quebec will go there,

Jayne Houdyshell

It's extremely exciting to be part of a world premiere here at Arena.

Rease Watson

One thing that has struck me the most is the hundreds of (electricians) out here. They're working their tails off. They're from all over the place.

Charles V

Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.

Ken Jury

It immediately struck me as being ambergris -- it couldn't be anything else.

David Hernandez

I think she struck me as being a little overwhelmed,

Susan Collins

They struck me as not the typical request.

Christine Arron

They struck her working tools, her legs, her arms, her hands.

Judy Garland

He struck me many times. He did a lot of drinking.

Patti Smith

I knew William Burroughs really well, and I was always star struck being around him. I adored him.

Terry Jorde

This has struck a nerve. Thousands of them.