Famous Quotes & Sayings

T. E. Lawrence

Rebellions can be made by 2 percent actively in the striking force and 98 percent passively sympathetic.

Tom Wilson

Our relationship with Sterling Bank & Trust has been active for many years. They have steadily increased their involvement with us and have shared in our successes. This naming rights agreement puts the Sterling name and brand identity on a club that will set the standard for luxurious, upscale hospitality in Detroit and, for that matter, all of professional sports. Sterling has made a substantial investment in our new addition and we are confident that they are going to receive a great return.

Michael Moskow

Participants in the markets are working actively to figure out alternative distribution routes and alternative transportation systems to move their products,

Mark Mershon

Park actively lobbied UN officials to establish the program, while extracting millions of dollars from profiteering Iraqi officials for his efforts.

John Berlin

(Paul) is a great person. She's a great athlete, a great competitor, a very good student. Everybody likes her. She is active in the school. She is just a great kid.

Al DiGuido

Our latest research confirms a major change in consumers? behavior as it relates to the way they choose to interact with the brands they love and trust. For retailers with a credit card offering, this represents an enormous opportunity to craft relevant, timely e-mail communications that not only save costs but generate incremental revenue opportunities and customer satisfaction. The retailers who fail to capitalize on this opportunity will soon find themselves losing market share to those who are more actively offering and promoting this service to their most loyal of customers.

S. Walker

Our last compensation discussion detailed a proposal that on average would have made Nate one of the five highest paid active NBA coaches,

Elizabeth Smith

Our mission and outreach group is very proactive. Rob Ingram was very active and very involved in the affairs of the children. He always wanted to do things for them.

Robin Pearson

Our message is that we not only want the community to be physically active the day of Step Up Florida, but to make physical activity a way of life. Remember 60-a day the Florida way.

Sam Hollenbach

Regardless of what was said, personally I think I need to improve. That's kind of the outlook I'm trying to stick with. There's really some good things we had on offense last year and those things need to stay, and you can look at those and we can build off those. He's been very specific with me on things I need to improve.

Todd Davison

Regardless of losses, people are going to build close to the water. Our program does not dictate land use.

Hosni Mubarak

regain their rights and build their independent state on their national soil with Jerusalem as its capital.

Jim Bowden

Recently, we denied another organization the opportunity to interview Dana because we view him as vital component of this franchise as we build for the future.

Idotha Neal

Rehab is occurring all around us. However, there is a significant funding gap keeping the buildings from being financially viable for high capacity developers.

Joel Staff

Reliant is committed to supporting our customers and the communities where we do business. That's why when Royce Builders approached us to help this family, we gladly said yes.

Joey Spatafora

Reliable power to this building is a chronic issue.

Robert Greenwald

Releasing the film in theaters will only build upon the largest grassroots mobilization in the history of film distribution. 'Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price' is the story of one company using its power to destroy the fabric of American life, and it is important to us that as many people as possible see it.

M. Wolfe

Preserving these historic schools builds pride and a sense of place in communities.

Carl Tobias

It is a strong endorsement. The question is: How relevant is it? Someone who was on the 3 rd Circuit for a decade and a half and has done a good job is likely to get this rating.

Margaret Burns

Jermaine Gaines pled guilty to illegal possession of firearm and was sent to five years without parole by (Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Lynn) Stewart.

Brian Swanson

That will prevent circuits from overloading when power is restored.

Criss Angel

I worked 18 years to become an overnight success. Now MagicPlace.com will short circuit that process for people.

John Lloyd

I can't see Tim Henman as the sort of player who hangs around the tennis circuit ranked 30 or 40 in the world,

Fernando Alonso

It is a circuit with good memories for me,

Jonathan Lipnicki

I work free-weights and do circuit training with my trainer 4-5 times a week. I also train in Brazilian Ju Jitsu several times a week.

M. Hopper

If the 9th Circuit says, 'The sky is blue,' they ( the Supreme Court ) would want to review the decision and actually say the sky is gray.

Ayrton Senna

There are no small accidents on this circuit.

Steve Lyle

Our programs generally have emergency response components to them.

Pete Piringer

It had all the components of a real improvised explosive device, minus the explosives in this particular case.

Eric Harris

Harris described as components of his explosive devices.

Bill Belichick

Josh has been one of the key components on our offensive staff. He is very well respected and we look forward to him taking on the coordinator role.

Elena Medo

Human milk has 100,000 different components and we only really know what a few thousand of them are and what they do.

Richard Peterson

If some of the troubled Dow components got into line, the Dow could go to 12,000.

Mary Taylor

The purpose of the forums is to stimulate thinking and discussion about how communities can incorporate innovation and technology as components of their economic growth strategies.

Jimmy Williams

One of our focuses is learning how the components were obtained and the devices made,

Keith Freeman

Obviously, Western played very physically. They really did a terrific job of defending us and defending the key components of our offense. They're to be commended for being able to do that. They did a great job.

Donny Osmond

Regis really turned the genre around, didn't he? He put such a cool factor on the whole game-show genre, ... Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.

Don Bowers

People have got to cool it. People have to not think it's the last gallon of gas they are going to get, ... Get gas normally. Let us get it straightened out. If people start easing off a little bit, prices will come down.

Orlando Bloom

Steve McQueen is my style hero. He's just cool, isn't he?

Martha Hunt

Stella McCartney is just the coolest show to do. I love the collection. I love the setting. All of her stuff always feels so fresh.

Tony Tavares

Some of the lobbying firms are getting cool feet.

Peter Gleckler

That cooling penetrated into deeper layers of the ocean, where it remained for decades after the event. We found that volcanic effects on sea level can persist for many decades.

Dale Stewart

Our fans are good, old rock fans. There's no trendy posing, trying to look cool and wearing the latest Hot Topic shirt. We got kids in jeans and T-shirts who want to get a drink, listen to hard rock and have a good time.

Marian Gaborik

I'm honored and I'm happy ... it's cool.

James Adams

We've tested all of the products ourselves. Hemp is the Ferrari of clothing. It's not itchy like wool and it's warmer in winter and cooler in summer.

Alexandra Adornetto

Literature has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. I can't think back before a time that I didn't love writing and reading. When I was really young, my mother would read poems to me. I loved Edgar Allan Poe - I am sure I didn't understand it, but I loved it.

Martin Jol

I did not even see it, I was watching Edgar Davids. The lad was going down then standing up and for me there's no problem.

Peter Hutton

(Jockey) Edgar (Prado) said she was sharpsharper than he expected her to be,

Ross Lynch

My favorite poem ever was 'Annabel Lee' by Edgar Allan Poe.

Samantha Shannon

My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left high school, which has always been very special to me - it was the novel that introduced me to dystopian fiction. I'm also influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, Dickens, John Wyndham and Middle English dream-visions.

Dan Wilson

To be one of 30 nominees is quite an honor, and to have Edgar win it last year and Jamie the year before makes it even more meaningful,

Rick Smolan

I wonder if 50 years from now we'll look back, and maybe Julian Assange will be the hero and J. Edgar Hoover will be the enemy of the state.

Martin Jol

We have a terrific young squad but we lack a winning mentality which you can only get through experience. He has the mentality to help us make a big step. Everybody tells me we have the players, but we have to prove it. Away from home we have to do better. Edgar can help us.

Ray LaHood

What I told Edgar is I would write him a big check, ... I didn't offer to give him all my money.

Avi Rubin

People have jumped on the electronic voting bandwagon, thinking that will solve the problems, ... But these systems are largely untested.

Peter Lilley

Physical money possesses greater risk than electronic money or even gold.

Linda Ronstadt

I can't really walk well. The muscles don't get the electronic signals from my brain, not that there's anything wrong with the muscles themselves. It's just my brain.

Philippe Petit

I hate all electronic things that are supposed to help the human being. You don't smell, you don't hear, you don't touch anymore.

Tiesto

I think the indie-rock world is very creative. They're always looking for something new, and I think of all the instruments we have in the world, the ones that are the most creative and interesting are the electronic ones. There are so many sounds and plug-ins you can use.

Eric Gould

He was interested in a project with an electronic pulse,

Larry Wachtel

I also like Tandy ( TAN : Research , Estimates ). They sell all the electronic gear that is so exciting on the dip.

J. Hoover

We can get electronic test results back within 24 hours, ... Teachers will be able to use the results right away to help with the curriculum.

Atsushi Osa

The profit outlook is especially good for makers of electronic components. Sales will rise by at least 5 percent, and that will probably lead to profit gains of at least 10 percent.

Mike Alden

I wouldn't term it all as a directive. He just talked to him to kind of gauge how things are going.

Ben Holmes

Semiconductors have sort of come on in terms of the number of filings. Now we have to watch these things price in order to gauge if there's any life in this group.

Billy Porter

If you gauge how you're doing on whether somebody is responding vocally or not, you're up a creek. You can't do that; you kind of have to be inside of your work and play the scene. And tell the story every day. Tell the story. Tell the story. Regardless of how people are responding, I'm going to tell the story.

Brian Murphy

We always try to gauge what's happening with the wind but you can't always tell when it's going to pick up like that.

Rob Davis

This will be a gauge of our progress.

Deion Sanders

Right now, I've got to gauge my body, ... You know, two-a-days are pretty tough on me professionally and athletically. I don't feel fatigued or sore. I just want to make sure we don't get to that point.

Bobby Brockman

We're going to get a gauge of where we're at and what we need to work on.

Pauline Frommer

Unfortunately, it's very hard to gauge if you're getting a savings.

Allard Baird

We're better. If you want to gauge it, you gauge it at the end of the season. As long as we stay healthy, we're a better club.

Kevin Starr

Mission Revival red-tiled roofs glowing carmine in the sunset.

Dan Castellaneta

Let us all bask in television's warm glowing warming glow.

Alexander Pope

How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!

Dane Cook

Sometimes, like we all do, I look at myself in the mirror. Sometimes I cry. Like a really hard cry like you just watch yourself cry but then you're done and you're just glowing and you're staring at yourself.

Andrew Greeley

There is good news in the data the strongest support for priests is to be found among the younger generation.

Ann Beattie

I like a lot of Margaret Atwood, I like much of Alice Munro. Again, if you were to ask me about male writers, there's often a novel I admire, but not all of their works.

Ansel Adams

The skies and land are so enormous, and the detail so precise and exquisite that wherever you are you are isolated in a glowing world between the macro and the micro.

Ricky Gervais

If you pay attention to good critics, you have to listen to the bad. So you have to ignore them all really. You can't just cherry pick the glowing ones.

David Brainerd

I longed to be a flame of fire continually glowing in the divine service and building up of Christ's kingdom to my last and dying breath.

Quincy Jones

That will always be my music, man. I play 'Kind of Blue' every day -- it's my orange juice. It still sounds like it was made yesterday.

Magdi Yacoub

If I wasn't going to be a surgeon, I wanted to be a farmer or grow oranges or something like that. I grow flowers now - orchids. That is something that I find very interesting.

Stephen Brady

We'll go out and make it safe, electrically. If the orange cones are there, then we have been out there.

Darren Criss

I like orange and blue together, but I would never wear them.

David Letterman

Martha Stewart is getting out of prison so today the terror alert was raised from orange to pesto.

Anthony Burgess

There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie and Dim, Dim being really dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar making up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening.

Anthony Burgess

Welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, well. To what do I owe the extreme pleasure of this surprising visit?

Anthony Burgess

If he can only perform good or only perform evil, then he is a clockwork orange—meaning that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with colour and juice but is in fact only a clockwork toy to be wound up by God or the Devil.

Ann Aguirre

He'd said the sun could burn me. It certainly looked angry enough, all orange and glowing mad.

Joan Roscoe

It is like a documentary because she has it written day-by-day and incident-by-incident. She was a professor of English. Her writing is wonderful, wonderful writing.

Charles Johnson

wasn't a professor here, he was only a student here.

Alex Hernandez

We have to look at race more often. And the professor seems to like to talk about race.

Todd Solondz

When I was making Storytelling, I couldn't watch while the violent sex scene between the student and the professor was being shot. It was too intense.

James Cronin

In 1971 I returned to the University of Chicago as Professor of Physics.

Pankaj Mishra

Tenured professors are more prone than the rest of us to think that the university is the universe.

Charles Johnson

(Brown) wasn't a professor here, he was only a student here.

Wystan Hugh Auden

A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.

Roe Hye

There is no way but that Professor Hwang has been involved.

John Mara

I will walk away from this project rather than put a roof on it.

Jennifer Connelly

I'm so happy in the projects that I'm able to make, to be involved in projects like this. This isn't always where it was at for me, I started working when I was a kid. I'm just a different person now, I'm 30. I started working when I was 11 and it's a different ballgame.

Jacques Chirac

We are going to put in place our project for multipurpose frigates,

William McDonough

I can think of no more important project than this one because its ambitions are so high.

Corey Reynolds

I think you can spread yourself way too thin way too easily, so when I'm trying to create, I'm trying to create ideas for projects and have a vision for other people.

George Lucas

I have hundreds of projects that I want to do, and I'm running out of time - so they'll never get done, I'm afraid.

Steve Ford

Had the residents not done (what they did), the project would not have been what it is,

Barbara Jones

We had been talking about doing more projects together.

Megan Smith

We very much use a prototyping model, play with ideas, and then get stuff started that way, which is how the greatest projects get started.

Gene Taylor

I was there ? and I didn't recall seeing you there,

Paul Cavalluzzo

I don't ever recall receiving any instructions with respect to caveats being down,

Mark Baldassare

He was able to do it two years ago in the recall election, and that's what he's trying to do again.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.

George Thompson

I thought volume trends were good. And the recall seems to be a thing of the past.

Rudy Langford

The recall failed. Let's have another recall on (Election Day) May 2.

Douglas McGrath

Truman Capote: In which various friends, enemies, acquaintances and detractors recall his turbulent career.

Anna Akhmatova

I know beginnings, I know endings too, and life-in-death, and something else I'd rather not recall just now.

Don McLean

Do you recall what was revealed the day the music died?

Ellen DeGeneres

What goes up must come down, which is why I don't wear tube tops.

Michael York

No one has developed active tuberculosis.

Woodrow Wilson

The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.

David J. C. MacKay

It sounded like a very loud vacuum cleaner behind us.

Baruch Spinoza

Speculation, like nature, abhors a vacuum.

Dennis Ritchie

Sometimes when you fill a vacuum, it still sucks.

David Bohm

Deep down the consciousness of mankind is one. This is a virtual certainty because even in the vacuum matter is one; and if we don't see this, it's because we are blinding ourselves to it.

David Sedaris

If I'm stuck, I get up from my chair and I wash windows. Or... clean the bathroom. Or vacuum the attic. There's always something to be done.

Clare Boothe Luce

Nature abhors a vacuum, even in the heads of statesmen.

Derek Morris

He's like a big vacuum -- he smothers everything.

Ezra Pound

Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.

Bill Gates

There's a vacuum there that we are benefiting from immensely.

M. Thompson

When they're still on a ventilator and under a warming blanket,

Sven Butenschon

He would do it before a game, like when some of us would warm up in the gym.

Bill Burns

Usually when you're interim CEO, you just kind of warm the chair.

Catherynne M. Valente

I burn, I freeze; I am never warm. I am rigid; I forgot softness because it did not serve me.

Mike Hargrove

I probably would not use him for more than one inning. And if I got him warming up in the bullpen, I'd want to get him in the game.

Emeka Okafor

It made me feel real special, all warm inside,

Geoff Coulson

The weather has been pretty amazing. It's much warmer than normal.

Irving Berlin

I've got my love to keep me warm.

Spider Robinson

It's always coldest before the warm.