Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Goldstein

Regardless of what this document is, why is the E.P.A. ignoring its well-reasoned conclusions? And what does this say about the ability of the E.P.A. to compel G.E. to do anything?

Janet Rayfield

Regardless of results or performance, the ability to interact and impact the young student-athletes involved in the Chicago SCORES program was a great opportunity for all of our student-athletes. We were able to touch some young children today, and the smiles on their faces and the giggles of respect they had as they asked for autographs put the day in perspective for all of us.

Chris Kouns

Regan is a very tough and tenacious defender and should compete for playing time very quickly after her arrival on campus. She has good 1 v 1 defending ability and plays a very simple game, which does not often lead her to many mistakes. She is tough to beat, which can help us in the center of our defense and also has the versatility to play on the left side as a man marker.

Jamal Qureshi

Refiners are already going to be feeling a bit of a pinch in their ability to provide supply, and importers as well.

Merrill Lynch

Recent disruptions of crude oil production in Nigeria and tensions between the West and Iran over its nuclear program... have contributed to concerns about OPEC's ability to supply the market.

Jim Brown

Our research indicates that employing enhanced collaboration technologies in product development can have a significant impact on a company's ability to innovate and meet their product development targets. The real world stories presented at the ITS events offered excellent examples of how leading manufacturers are leveraging open design collaboration capabilities such as JT technology to streamline communication throughout their supply chains and bring innovative products to market faster.

Josh Bersin

Our research-based approach distinguishes the Learning Leaders Program from other industry recognition programs. The benchmark criteria that will be used to evaluate submissions is based on years of quantitative and qualitative research and endorsed by our panel of senior industry advisors. Our research database, by far the largest and most comprehensive source of information related to enterprise learning, gives us the ability to rigorously assess organizations against peer performance in more than 21 different dimensions.

Tom Butts

Our panel of editors and columnists walked the show floor in search of innovative and ground-breaking new products. The products we selected made the cut-they demonstrated their ability to help advance the acquisition and dissemination of entertainment media in each category reviewed.

Jerry Calhoun

Our overall offer included several provisions to enhance job security. Still, we continue to believe that job security depends on our ability to improve quality and productivity.

Patrick Surtain

regains the form he had a couple of years ago.

Brian Champion

Reese, he's always competing. He left some pitches up in the first couple innings and we made some blunders. ... But he stayed within himself and kept battling, kept competing.

Winston Justice

Our relationship is very, very close. He visited me a couple of times when I was suspended and he helped me through the whole process.

Rich Rodriguez

Pat, when he goes in there it's like he's been there the whole time. He managed the game well, made a couple of big plays.

Jay Mergenthaler

Our main goals are to finish over .500 and to win a couple of tournament games.

Shahid Ghori

Our leaders have been receiving threats for the past couple of months and we had informed the government about it, but no security was provided to our leaders.

Chauncey Billups

Our last game was Tuesday, so I had a couple days to soak it in. That's when it kind of hit me that I made it. I'm an All-Star. It's still a little surreal right now. It's something that I always wanted.

Steve Massey

(People need to) stop irrigating their lawns. This time in the winter, you don't need to be watering the ground around your home but every couple of weeks.

Harold Evensky

People have historically benefited from a couple of different types of immediate annuities.

Michael Huff

People love to criticize him for being too nice, but he has loosened up around us. Now here we are playing for a national championship. He must be doing something right.

David Beckham

Me? I would love to be famous in America. I like the American people and I like the way they look up to Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods . I'm sure they criticize their stars occasionally but it doesn't reach the point where they ever put down their own people and their own stars. That's what's nice for me.

Michael Robinson

Jay has helped me a lot. Those people that criticize him really don't know what they're talking about.

John McCormick

It is infinitely easier to criticize than to create." ()

Jim Tracy

I was harshly criticized for the decision to make Eric Gagne a closer,

Toni Thorn

I think if you're willing to criticize then you should be willing to serve. You have to put yourself out there and find your own community.

Matt Clement

I think people criticize his hitting, but this guy's as good as you're going to get at shortstop.

George Bernard Shaw

It does not follow . . . that the right to criticize Shakespeare involves the power of writing better plays. And in fact . . . I do not profess to write better plays.

Bruce Kasman

Greenspan's shift to a 'don't criticize what you don't understand mode' signals that the low level of long-term interest rates will, by themselves, not be a factor pushing the Fed towards more tightening.

Rod Proffitt

Parking was a little easier this summer. A lot of our traffic is RVs. When they're not around it's pretty noticeable.

Orrin Hatch

People haven't done things that, perhaps in retrospect, you can say that maybe they should've done, ... Its always easier to criticize.

James Fox

People in groups do things that they wouldn't do on their own. ... and certainly, once the idea is planted, it is easier to perpetuate.

Lori Jones

Some foods are easier to turn to fat than to use as fuel.

Chance Wheeless

Our problem this year is we play down to some teams and up to others. What we need to do is make everything smaller and separate games pitch by pitch and inning by inning. That makes the big picture easier to handle in the long run.

Leigh Ross

Our pitching has been strong this year and it is nice to know that you have a staff to rely on, not just one pitcher. When you have strong pitching and good defense, it is easier to win games. To now have our offense wake up will be very good for us.

John Monks

Our secretary read the story and told us about it. His prison tattoos are actually easier to remove than professional ones.

Melissa Slone

Our role players have really improved. If we can get points from our other three starters, that just makes it easier for Tamara and Megan.

Johnathon Jones

Our big men really stepped up. It makes it easier for the guards.

E. B. White

Part of it is because our volunteers are awesome. They are very reliable. Everything went smoothly. Every volunteer who said they were going to come did. This is our eighth time and we have learned a lot.

Michael Nutter

Part of the problem in politics is that people only look at the next four to eight years: kick the can down the road and say, 'Hey, it's the next person's problem.'

John Olver

Our offense is more of an offense by committee, and no one player stands out with eight players within a point of each other.

Mark Shapiro

Our offense got going after he moved to third. We moved him from ninth to eighth to sixth to third, which is a rough responsibility for a player in his first year in the big leagues, and he hasn't blinked.

John Robertson

Our low steel is at 58 eight feet high,

Lynn Hobbs

Susan was wonderful and we really miss her a lot. We feel glad she was with us for seven or eight years. But people want to move on and up.

Marc Saltzman

Success here at E3 is essential to start the momentum for a game's sales. It tells retailers what to stock their shelves with for the next six to eight months, especially for the holiday season. And with revenues that now rival Hollywood, it's really do or die.

Marc Saltzman

Success here at E3 is essential to start the momentum for a game's sales, ... It tells retailers what to stock their shelves with for the next six to eight months, especially for the holiday season. And with revenues that now rival Hollywood, it's really do or die.

Martin Rees

Stars that become supernovae start off at least eight times heavier than our sun. They're so short-lived that, even if they have planets, there is unlikely to be time for life to get started. The surface is 40,000C and, as a result, the colouring will be extremely blue.

Johnny Damon

Regardless of the reaction, I felt the fans wanted to see that.

Dan Fellman

Releasing select sequences of Superman Returns in IMAX 3D marks a groundbreaking moment in movies. This film is going to give fans an opportunity to be immersed in a major live-action motion picture like never before.

John DeMarco

Parker was so overpowering, and so good on his feet, he could take you down and pin you all in one move. It was different than what everyone else was doing, and the fans wanted to see him.

Neal Schon

Our original fans really had a hard time. But then we gained a whole slew of brand-new fans that outweighed the initial fans.

Gerard Way

Surrounding myself with fans makes me feel like I'm not going throgh it alone.

Bill Furlong

Steelers' fans are rabid about posters. They're selling for $24. Seahawks posters are more in the $14 range.

George Steinbrenner

Our team played hard, but we let our fans down. We will do better.

Chris Gratton

Our sport's regrouping here after the lockout and heading into the Olympics on a positive note with getting some fans back. Obviously, this is news that you don't want to see.

Mikael Silvestre

Our fans will have to be present in numbers on Saturday,

Matt Cressman

Paul worked his butt off tonight. I thought he had waited too long to pass it, but he timed it just right and Mike finished it for us.

Jesse Jackson

Part of our mission is to finish unfinished business.

Sean Foster

Steve played fired-up tonight. He was taking hits and still finishing plays inside. When he can score inside it opens up things for our shooters.

Jerry Wainwright

Statistics point to what happened in this game. We had problems finishing plays where we had the size advantage, and it was painful at the free-throw line.

Karl Malone

Starting off my career, I wasn't a good free throw shooter, and I worked at it and worked at it, and now I want to go up there and shoot free throws, and now... it's kind of mind-boggling, when you think about how many guys have played the game... when I finish playing and I look back on it, I think it'll be huge. Right now I'm still playing the game, it's kind of tough to really stop and think about it.

Catherine Lee

Some of the prongs are not down on the stone. The stone setter didn't finish his job.

Brent Eddy

Our team score was good enough to finish third but we still think we can improve our numbers.

Jim Sandusky

Our strength is hitting and offense. We've been moving kids around the infield and outfield and still finishing where they fit in.

Byron Dorgan

Our soldiers are prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice for their country, and we must do our part. And that means voting for the funds they need to finish the job.

Richard Midgley

Regardless of whether we won or lost last Saturday, there would've been a lot of pressure going into this week.

Jackie Williams

Recovery is a miracle. It lasts for a life time.

Sam Burns

Recessions usually last about a year. That would place the end around March or April.

John Buchanan

Our record over the last while has been pretty well exemplary, with just the odd incident.

Samuel Johnson

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

Roger Short

Part of the time we do go around in pairs, but these pairs don't last a lifetime.

Jay Bly

Our line play versus the run is going to be a key. We're going to have to play disciplined on defense. No matter what offense someone plays, if you get whipped up front, you're not going to win. We saw that when we looked at last year's tape, but we've made some adjustments.

Lee Salem

Our only regret is that it didn't last longer. That was Bill's decision.

Patrick Stewart

Our last words were, 'Be safe. I love you,' ... He said, 'I will.'

Earl Blumenauer

Part of what needs to be going on,

Hal Mumme

Paul Dombrowski is a tremendous competitor. If he wants to play at the next level, he needs to be a slot guy, a running-back-type guy.

Cheryl Smith

Some of the teachers and the administrators are part of the problem. The federal, the state just needs to come in and take over, not just Hillside and Southern, the school board, the administrators, all of it.

Scott Benedict

Someone needs to step up to the plate and offer him a scholarship.

Dan Daly

Our position would not be that we don't need to do anything. The status quo is not appropriate. Something needs to be done.

Steve Zeller

Our secondary still needs some work. We weren't making the reads on the ball.

J. C. Watts

Our team is pretty unique because we're all so close. If you're scared to do a trick, you know you have to do it because the team needs you to do it.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I need to brush my teeth. And I need a shower." He grinned, hopping off the bike. "Now that is an invitation.

Barry Ritholtz

Salesmen always need something to sell.

Jim Lord

Reasonable people have to find that reasonable line.

Stephanie Laurens

Real people are never central characters in my works.

Tom Tremont

Really, what people want is more simplicity in their life. They want a sanctuary.

Jyoti Amge

Regular people should not underestimate people who are small. In every aspect, they can do the things that normal people can.

Robert Hamilton

Our policy is to let our people know first.

Alex Halavais

Part of it is it's a really safe place for people to talk about this.

Hanya Yanagihara

Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.

Joel Edgerton

Particularly when you're making a movie of a book, people are always waiting with their knives - you know?

Jack Horn

Part of the problem, ... is there are so many more things that can be done for people - drug therapies are better, but more expensive. And there are more and better scanning technologies, which are also more expensive.

Jack Balkin

Rights are most secure when they are supported by legislative enactment,

Babatunde Osotimehin

Sexual and reproductive health and rights are universal human rights!They are an indivisible part of the broader human rights and development equation. Their particular power resides in the fact that they deal with the most intimate aspects of our identities as individuals and enable human dignity, which is dependent on control of our bodies, desires and aspirations.

B. R. Ambedkar

What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.

Bill Delahunt

If we're going to preach about democracy we're going to have to make difficult decisions. We're not going to sell our values out for basing rights, particularly when (Defense) Secretary (Donald) Rumsfeld himself noted that there were options to the base in Uzbekistan

Bianca Jagger

George W. Bush and his administration embarked on a full-scale assault on civil liberties, human rights and the rule of law, walking away from his international obligations, tearing up international treaties, protocols and UN conventions.

Bianca Jagger

I am not just a celebrity, I'm a human-rights advocate for the last 20 years.

Bianca Jagger

There is so much each one of us can do to make a difference. We are at a dangerous juncture in the history of mankind. ... We need to defend our principles and values, human rights, civil liberties and the rule of international law. If we don't our world will further descend into a state of chaos.

Bertha von Suttner

One of the eternal truths is that happiness is created and developed in peace, and one of the eternal rights is the individual's right to live.

Carl Sagan

The Bill of Rights decoupled religion from the state, in part because so many religions were steeped in an absolutist frame of mind - each convinced that it alone had a monopoly on the truth and therefore eager for the state to impose this truth on others.

Bobby Bowden

I suppose I'm like most coaches now, standing on the sideline hoping somebody asks them a question.

Alan Greenspan

I know this institution will go on doing extraordinary things, and I will look on from the sidelines and cheer.

David Katz

If you're in training for the NFL, then having Gatorade at the sidelines is reasonable,

Ernie Els

Being on the sidelines is really not my idea of fun, but that's the way it is,

Ben Howland

I was uncomfortable standing there. I'm wanting water after water out of the machine.

Tommy Tuberville

I get off the bus, and he's the first one I see, this 18-year-old standing there crying. It takes you back.

Ayn Rand

You don't know how hard I've tried to be left standing all by myself.

David Levithan

I'm always standing on the edge of something bad.

Cindy Gallop

I like to stand out and make a statement.

Holly Derrick

We told her, just standing there, in the street. It was bad.

Bruce Lee

We have more faith in what we imitate than in what we create

Charles Handy

You have to stand outside the box to see how the box can be re-designed.

Joe Farmer

We're standing by, waiting for them to tell us what to do.

Kim Coble

We need a much more supportive infrastructure for farming.

David Newhan

He's a teammate. You're supportive of your teammates.

Eric Hoffman

He's been a superb predecessor, and he's been very supportive of this rabbinic transition,

Barbara Mikulski

Martha Pope herself is a legend within the institution, and he was enormously supportive. And me and the women candidates.

Simon Van Booy

Both my parents were very supportive of me in whatever I wanted to do.

Duncan Sheik

I got a publishing deal with BMG, they were supportive, and some money to record demos

David Cassidy

I've always had a special relationship with the U.K. fans, because even when I wasn't working they were very supportive.

Andrew Rannells

Luckily for me I have a very supportive family and a loving group of friends.

Gary Larsen

We feel it's safe, we feel it's a viable technology and we're supportive of it,

Andy Fisher

Our understanding is that it is not yet in place.

Arthur Young

Resellers will need an understanding of messaging systems.

Carl Sagan

We go about our daily lives understanding almost nothing of the world.

Bill Shorten

I think they understand that what's being done is in their interests.

Bill Buford

The most important knowledge is understanding what you can't do.

Charles Jackson

I think a lot of us don't understand circumstantial evidence.

Cervantes Saavedra

It is not the hand, but the understanding of a man, that may be said to write

Emma Stone

I was very lucky with the parents I was blessed with. I don't think it could have worked out any better. They've always been so understanding of me and understanding of what I want to do.

Vince Young

Just interview. I don't feel like I have to show a lot. I think they understand me, have been watching me for a long time.