Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Alterman

Recently released government economic statistics covering 2010, the first year of real recovery from the financial collapse of 2008, found that fully 93 percent of additional income gains coming out of the recession went straight into the wallets and purses of the top 1 percent.

Bob Taft

Recently, I saw firsthand how the Emerald Ash Borer is destroying our vital ash tree resources, ... We appreciate these additional federal dollars, and I will continue to work with the Ohio Department of Agriculture to pursue further funding for 2006.

Bill Johnson

Relative to the overall statewide timber harvest, the net addition is relatively small. There is an effect, but it's a small one and it can be easily mitigated.

Lester Crawford

Previous shortages highlighted the need for additional influenza vaccine manufacturers for the U.S. market,

John Nestor

Our own high end estimate was between 1,000 and 1,200 - there may be additional advisors who aren't signing up and adopting a 'wait and see' attitude.

Gary Spear

Our overall crime rate would have changed dramatically, if you take out those additional vehicle burglaries.

Jason Willett

Organizations are realizing they can move opportunities into the virtual realmsuch as mentoring or fundraisingand get more people volunteering regardless of location. They can save space in-house, which may make room for an additional staff person or volunteer, and they can take advantage of skills and resources that may not be available in their own community.

Jason Willett

Organizations are realizing they can move opportunities into the virtual realmùsuch as mentoring or fundraisingùand get more people volunteering regardless of location. They can save space in-house, which may make room for an additional staff person or volunteer, and they can take advantage of skills and resources that may not be available in their own community.

Walt Dabney

Parks, in addition to being quality of life components, in a place like Texas are huge economic generators.

John Capel

Red, white and blue, coming around the corner, all in stride, all in unison, it was just something amazing to see.

Tim Shea

Reggie has done an amazing job with this program. I remember coming here five years ago. I called it a friends-and-family crowd. You could announce the crowd as quickly as the starting lineup. There were two people heckling us behind the bench. I think they were homeless people.

Cory Doctorow

Previously, such jottings might have been kept in the author's notebook but something amazing happens when you post them online. Readers help you connect them, flesh them out and grow them into fully-fledged books or blooks.

Selena Ho

Our players have done an amazing job of wanting to get better. We are a young team and now they have to step up.

Rory Freedman

Parma is an amazing Parmesan cheese substitute made from walnuts. It tastes like a dream and is healthy, to boot!

Drake Bell

Paul McCartney would be the end all, be all. To work with Paul would just be amazing.

Corey Gleason

Our offense was pretty amazing for how cold it was.

Noah Cowan

Our lineup reflects the amazing diversity of production from around the world.

Hugh Panero

Oprah Winfrey is a prolific force in our culture whose unprecedented achievements in television, film, publishing and philanthropy will bring an amazing radio experience to the XM nation of subscribers.

Barbara Mikulski

Regardless of how you feel about whether Plan B should be available in the community, the fact is the FDA decision should be based on science, not cultural controversy,

Janet Napolitano

Reduction of Highway Patrol presence should always be a last resort, and should not be undertaken without an exhaustive review, in consultation with the Governor's Office, of all available alternatives,

Charles Bakaly

Our position has always been to use all available legal means to gather full and truthful testimony for the grand jury as expeditiously as possible.

Steve Santarsiero

Part of their charge will be to ultimately find alternative revenue streams, and there are some out there. For example, the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission this past year floated a (multi-million-dollar) bond that was available to communities up and down the Delaware River for various road improvements.

Robert Meyer

Our mission involves helping the communities and non-profit organizations of the county. We want to partner with communities and non-profit organizations to help them with programs and projects that might otherwise not be available to the individuals, families and visitors to our county.

John Frederiksen

Our message is that Windows Me is a timely upgrade. Our focus between now and the end of year is really about communicating the great products that are available today.

Bryan Wiedmeier

People have been to the modern facilities. The expectation set is higher. And new technologies exist that weren't available when we built our facility.

George Fox

People have no clue there are 100-percent or 97-percent down mortgages they can qualify for. What the buying public needs to do is sit down, put a financial plan together and see what products are available out there.

Rafael Benitez

Suspending the players for two games and leaving them available for the final would be enough because it was not a serious incident.

Jack Schweers

Regardless of who we're playing, we want to play as good as we can this time of year. We had a good practice (Monday), and we hope to be at our best (in the sectional).

Paul Bush

Regardless of whether you're looking at grapes, apples, cherries or any kind of fruit, you'll get the best color around here.

Rick Barnes

Regardless of what people are saying, N.C. State has not offered me the job. Texas is one of the best jobs in the country, and I'm happy here.

Kevin Marsh

Regardless of how I played, this was the best week of my life. It would have been the best week of my life if I had finished up on Wednesday, really. Being here for the first time you just want to soak up the experience as much as you can. But it also makes you hungry to get back, and prove that you really do belong.

Gloria Estefan

Regardless of culture or language, they really enjoy the album. And that to me, is the best thing.

Laurieann Gibson

Recently, Lady Gaga was motivated to take the helm of the creative direction of her career and as such I decided to step away. I am extremely proud of her, and in stepping away I wish her all the best.

Jim Shannon

Rebounding and defense were big keys for us. They're much bigger than us, but we more than held our own on the boards. And we got after them on defense. It was our best defensive game of the year.

Bob Myers

Rebecca and Christina are probably two of the best girls in the state; there's a very good chance they'll place in the top five at states. Those girls are just great leaders. I think we're going to win it all. The girls we have are good, they have two great leaders to follow.

David Pottruck

Recent trading volumes are propelling the company to its best quarter ever in terms of revenues and profits.

Christine Jacobs

Our relationships with GPOs represent a major new distribution channel for Theragenics' products and reinforce our position as a leader in the brachytherapy marketplace,

Gordon Haff

Particularly with this kind of niche, this isn't really so much about the box, it's about channels and go-to-market. It's about setting up distribution and supply partners more than it is about the right box.

Aaron Woods

Our long term goal is to see a satellite office in the North Channel area, but it won't happen without community support.

Travis Bradberry

Staying composed, focused, and effective under pressure are all about your mentality. People who successfully manage crises are able to channel their emotions into producing the behavior that they want.

Roger Farah

Our strategy to elevate the product and to refine the distribution channels is really paying off.

Patrick Lo

Our supply constraints also resulted in the company's inability to replenish the channel towards the end of the quarter. Compared to the end of 2004, we ended the year with significantly fewer weeks of inventory in the channel in the U.S.

Joseph Flowers

Restaurants are moving in the direction that consumer packaged goods manufacturers and retailers took some years ago. Continuous measurement and evaluation of marketing channels such as television, radio, internet and print and in-store promotions is either in practice or under consideration at a number of leading restaurant chains.

Nancy Christensen

Redid it (basement) for a place for them to go. They have a lot of energy and talent. You have to channel that.

Andy Duncan

I will not let Channel 4 become another Sainsbury or M&S.

Peter Selley

Relatively complete copies of the Folio in contemporary or near contemporary bindings very rarely come to the market. This sale will be a truly exceptional event.

Jacques Chirac

Our relationship is going to be long and no doubt fruitful. As far as our views on the France-German relationship and the demands of European construction are concerned, we were in complete agreement,

Eric Wicks

Patterson tries to complete the pass instead of running the ball. So I was depending on him to throw the pass. It was a big read.

Michael McKean

Part of it is what it's always been -- the vicarious thrill of seeing people who are much richer and more famous live lives that are wonderful, even if they are complete fakes. I think people simultaneously worship and despise celebrities.

Rachel Miner

Part of the excitement of doing independent film is the complete unknown of what lies in store for the film's future.

Larry Ellison

Oracle applications are ideally suited for rapid implementations because our e-business suite is complete and integrated -- no application customizations are required,

Robert Mayer

Some of the questions to determine you are who you say you are make it tedious to complete. The program also has crashed on some consumers before they could complete it.

Michael Leavitt

Our preparations are not yet complete nor are they adequate,

Stephen Jones

Our goal is to complete it (jury selection) sometime this month, to start evidence and opening statements by the end of the month -- that's the judge's goal and we are all working toward that.

Steve Squyres

Our speed of travel is driven as much by survival as by discovery.

Kurt Adams

I'm impressed with the innovation of the students. They seem to always impress me with their understanding of scientific principles. There is a general love of science and discovery here.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.

Carl Sagan

In a lot of scientists, the ratio of wonder to skepticism declines in time. That may be connected with the fact that in some fields-mathematics, physics, some others-the great discoveries are almost entirely made by youngsters.

Carl Sagan

We have entered, almost without noticing, an age of exploration and discovery unparalleled since the Renaissance.

Bill Bryson

There are three stages in scientific discovery. First, people deny that it is true, then they deny that it is important; finally they credit the wrong person.

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Whenever I found something remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people be informed thereof.

Bertrand Russell

The solution of the difficulties which formerly surrounded the mathematical infinite is probably the greatest achievement of which our age has to boast.

Mark Geragos

I think, just by the discovery and where the remains were found tends to, I think ... exonerate Gary,

Jack Crumbliss

Our new offense gives us a triple option that enables us to better utilize our personnel and hopefully keep our opponents off balance.

Krish Krishnan

It enables the seller of the stock -- that is, management -- to price the issue right. It also enables management to pick the right investor.

Graham Walker

It enables the replication to keep going and tolerate the damage, even though it doesn't get rid of it.

Matt Ridley

I thought journalism would enable me to be a mile wide and an inch deep.

Donald Rumsfeld

have made extensive use of the underground construction, which enables them to do things such as development and storage and, indeed, even launching from underground hidden silo areas.

Kip Winger

A producer should only be there to enable an artist to be himself.

Harriet Lamb

Only as we expand the market can we enable more and more producers to come in.

Tim Ryan

Luis does all the things that enables your team to be successful.

David Selby

That's the reason support for the National Endowment of the Arts is so important. It enables those ventures that aren't viable commercially to be done.

Marian Bromell

People have heard about them or seen them practice. All of Franklin is waiting to see them. They've been featured on the morning broadcasts.

Lee Warren

That was Mr. Holbrook's suggestion. With the lack of hotels in the area, you have to have a place where a featured performer, or artist-in-residence, can stay.

Michael McGrath

Listeners are treated to more than just Rowland on the hook of the song. She is featured on the bridge, as well.

Micky Adams

Kevin has been nursing a groin strain so that is why he has not featured in the last two games, but he is ready to come back into the squad for Preston.

George Dagnino

He has an outstanding work ethic. He was a second-team all-league last year and was our leading tackler. He is also going to be one of our featured backs.

Andrae Crouch

I started singing by default, I think. Because there was a guy in the group that thought the group wasn't going to ever be anything. And I was getting ready to record, and I'd never recorded my voice. It was always other people that I featured because I thought they did a much better job.

Eden Riegel

One of the first major storylines that 'All My Children' featured was Erica Kane, a rebellious daughter, and her mother, sort of a matriarchal type, who was trying to guide her daughter to a safer place.

Miriam Toews

'Irma Voth' is my sixth book, but it's only the third time I've featured Mennonite settings and characters.

Stuart Miller

We were able much like a newspaper would to respond immediately. We were one of the featured memorials on Yahoo.

Jay Wright

It actually looked a lot worse than it was. It's much, much better than they initially anticipated.

Clint Hurdle

I think initially we need for him just to go out there and get outs, then we'll find a job a for him.

Tim Nance

I think it's much better than what I initially thought. We were very, very fortunate.

Sam Heughan

I actually got an initial sense of how big 'Outlander' was going to be on Twitter. We're all on there to help promote the show and also interact with the fans.

Vince Carter

I wouldn't mind it. Initially it would be like.

Johnny Griffin

Much of what was said was initially said by the cooperating witness, ... It was leading questions.

Jaime Dacey

My initial thought was that I was going to try out for the team.

David Healy

My initial reaction was, 'What took them so long?' ... They had too many brands, too many fiefdoms, and they had to simplify it. Even after they phase out Oldsmobile, they'll have too many, but I don't see them making another move for the foreseeable future.

Harvey Levin

My initial reaction was, I couldn't be less interested. I thought, I'm going to do more television. Why would I do Internet?

Josh Henderson

Original 'Dallas' fans, please come back, because it's the same show 20 years later - same drama.

Bob Reid

Planning for retirement is not something we can put off until a later date. The time to plan is now.

Judy Meyer

Just a week or two later he passed on.

Cameron Wade

It has a potential threat to property later this afternoon.

Jake Plummer

Later in the season, you don't remember how they came, you only remember it's a win.

John Wright

Later in life, you have a different perspective of what sex is all about.

Larry Beinfest

I'd like to think that we're talented but inexperienced. We'll see how that ultimately translates into wins and losses later in the season.

Brad Butler

I don't know. We'll wait and see one day when I run for office. That's one of my plans later on in life.

Ken Bacon

He (Cohen) did have tentative plans to go in June, and he has postponed any trip until some later date.

Bill Gerstenmaier

I think it's wrong to take the (May) launch period and speculate whether we will make it or not. That puts schedule pressure on the teams.

Gail Davidson

One of the two main things we had going for us was that we had no money, so we couldn't just launch into making the mould because, if we had, we would have wasted a lot of time and money,

Pierre Beaudoin

Without launch orders, we could not make a launch decision.

Wayne Hale

we would not in any conceivable way be able to launch before Saturday.

Michael Mosley

A lot of producers and creative types want to see you be you. Throw something else out there and show them where you would take this part. A lot of them are launching shows for the first time, so they've got a lot riding on this, too, and they want you to be their flight.

Paula McLain

I get suggestions all the time. People feel quite free at events or even on the street to tell me what they think I should be writing. What I've learned, though, is that this thing, this connection, has to be in place for me to be able to kind of launch into a world imaginatively.

Jim Lewis

Most of the mass is simple stuff, just wires and beams, nuts and bolts. There's just no reason to launch this stuff from the space shuttle. (The expense) would kill a program dead.

Craig David

We wanted to have a quiet launch to work out the kinks beforehand,

James Barnett

We are thrilled to launch construction of our new building.

Mark Fields

Our path is not going to linear and smooth.

Tiffany Townsend

PATH line rail schedules have nothing to do with toll-crossing charges.

Ali Moshiri

Our objective is in line with what their objective is.

Jim Darling

Our offensive line wore them down and we just ran over them.

Chan Gailey

Our offensive line is pretty young. We did not feel like it was imperative. We'll make a push for some next year, maybe one or two. I don't feel any pressure right now and I think we'll have to look and see what we have numbers-wise to work with next year.

I. Stone

Our offensive line is not near where we need it to be. Our wide receivers are better than where we've been in the past, though.

Oprah Winfrey

Stanford, Yale and NYU line up to get a seat in her class.

John Swainson

Our results for the quarter were not in line with our expectations.

Martin Brodeur

We'll be able to make a long pass because the red line is out,

John Shaw

Our offer is the most valuable and the most straightforward, ... Our record of performance is significantly better than Royal Bank's.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I swear to you, Nora Grey, on this day, from now and forever, to give myself to you. I am yours. My love, my body, my soul—I place in your possession and protection.” He held out the ring, a single offering, a binding promise. ~ Patch + Nora

Jon Brayshaw

I will offer no preconceived solutions. The worst thing in the world is for the first selectman to tell them what to do.

Harry Reid

The amendments were being offered by people who didn't want the bill.

Scott Strasemeier

I think people would feel differently if he didn't feel like he made a mistake. He apologized right away. He offered his resignation.

Prince Charles

I'm shattered and horrified, and the least I can do is to come here and offer my sympathy and support.

Mike Casey

I did what they wanted, and they offered it, so I think I have it coming,

John Richardson

There are so many different ways they can do it, we're offering as much as we can.

Sheldon Lee Glashow

From 1958 to 1966, I was in exile. I just wandered around teaching, waiting for an offer from Harvard.

Jake Paltrow

'La Notte' is my favorite of the Antonioni pictures and my favorite work of the master cinematographer Gianni di Venanzo, who also shot '8 1/2' for Fellini.

Robert Blake

I think we actually went out to see Rosie. I think Bonny even took some pictures and we said we were settling in.

Anna Jones

The only thing I think about this is that it's big. I saw a picture (in the newspaper) and I wanted to see it.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

In politics, a picture is worth a thousand words.

Randy Price

I find pictures of driver's licenses, pictures of Social Security cards.

David Wimhurst

From that we may be able to start to get a picture of who was involved.

Courtney Green

It is a little nerve-racking when you start to think about the big picture of it. You want it to be perfect.

R. Robinson

His picture is up everywhere. His presence is everywhere.

Fred Dooley

He did the right thing. So, I thought it was the right thing to do to take the pictures down.

Joan Buyce

It broadens our portfolio so there's something for everyone.

Enrique Salem

It complements what we already have in our portfolio and makes it so we don't have to provide signatures to this technology.

Julie Daum

Most people, if they can put together a portfolio of activities, find it's very interesting rather than going back to a full-time job.

John Killian

We have the broadest product portfolio of any provider.

David Axelrod

I'm a kibitzer with a broad portfolio.

Charlie Munger

Beta and modern portfolio theory and the like - none of it makes any sense to me.

Doug Johnson

The region as a whole has significant portfolio risks. However, that being said, in any region the size of Asia, there will always be opportunities.

Mark Brunell

I'm not thinking about my portfolio in the huddle,

Larry Johnson

Don't tie up your retirement portfolio in one stock,

Beck

There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable.

Barry Lopez

Throughout the centuries we have projected on to the wolf the qualities we most despise and fear in ourselves.

Robert Dunn

We now know, he didn't have anything to do with the device. He didn't have anything to do with the attack. So what does that say about the quality of whatever the polygrapher was doing?.

Bill Crawford

Love will keep us safe when we commit to choosing the kind of qualities, characteristics, and relationships that we would recommend to someone we love.

Carrie Fisher

Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolesence.

Arsene Wenger

When you represent a club it's about values and qualities, not about passports.

Igor Shpilband

I think they just ran out of steam. I think they have the same quality of skating that the Russians do, and that it's totally comparable, but they just made some mistakes.

Bill Burr

When I was coming up the DC Improv was considered the best Improv out there. It's always been high quality stuff coming out of there.

David Waller

That would have been a water quality nightmare.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

It's all a great mystery...Look up at the sky and you'll see how everything changes

Cecil Beaton

More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background of many shades of turquoise and azure.

Carl Sagan

I don?t feel rejected by the sky. I?m a part of it- tiny, to be sure, but everything is tiny compared to that overwhelming immensity.

Carl Sagan

Human beings grew up in forests; we have a natural affinity for them. How lovely a tree is, straining toward the sky.

Author unknown

If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you!

Anton LaVey

I visualize the day that tridents and pentagrams are thrust into the sky from church roofs instead of crosses.

Ayn Rand

The sky is like a black sieve pierced by silver drops that tremble, ready to burst through.

Carl Sandburg

Poetry is statement of a series of equations, with numbers and symbols changing like the changes of mirrors, pools, skies, the only never-changing sign being the sign of infinity.

Cameron Crowe

Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around.

Louie Schwartzberg

I want viewers to see that everything is connected, even the little guys like pollinators and flowers.

PewDiePie

I'm not out to max my income. I think my viewers would call me on that right away if I did.

Marcel Duchamp

It's the viewer that makes the work.