Famous Quotes & Sayings

Angela Allen

Regardless of how this 'report' ranks New York, our city is the most generous jurisdiction in the country when it comes to addressing the needs of at-risk and homeless citizens.

Antonio Szabo

Refined product fundamentals are quite strong and likely to pull up crude prices. If one adds to all this the possibility of continued 'hot' news from Iraq, Iran, Nigeria and Venezuela, crude prices are likely to rise next week.

Don Mitchell

Recently we added another leading U.S. semiconductor manufacturer to our MAGELLAN(R) System customer base,

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.

Bob Davidson

Receiving the Excellence in Claims/Loss Prevention Award three times in the past five years demonstrates ABF's commitment to proper cargo handling. We recognize that each pallet, carton or box is a critical part of our customers' business and that loss, damage or delay harms that business, ... The low turnover among our conscientious, experienced employees, coupled with management emphasis and training, results in the best claims experience in our industry. When specific problem areas are uncovered, we use focus groups and the ABF Quality Process to address the root causes; we typically involve our customers and dock employees in this effective problem resolution process. This approach has positioned ABF as the premiere LTL carrier when it comes to delivering shipments on time, intact, and damage free.

David Gordon

Recovery is a long process. There can be four, five or more relapses before an addict gets clean. Parents get tired, disgusted and depressed. They lose faith in 'cures' and grow wary of treatments.

Ben Bernanke

Reconstruction is going to add jobs and growth to the economy,

David Cole

Recognizing that the No-Build alternative fails to address the long-term congestion problem, we believe that only the N8c and N2 alternatives are realistic prospects for a solution,

J. J. Johnson

Steve is an accomplished senior executive with a rich skill set, including consumer brand building, media, marketing, operations, people management, finance and technology. He also brings a great blend of start-up and high-growth business experiences.

Scott Cooley

Some of the higher-turnover areas, like small blend funds and mid-cap growth funds, have a problem delivering comparable returns to their peers when too much money flows into the fund.

Mark Howard

Our preferred alternative will be somewhat of a blend or a combination of those.

James Patrick

Our team is a blend of skilled underclassmen and seasoned veterans. We need to continue to improve and grow as a team to reach our goals for the 2006 season.

Cindy Fitzgerald

Our strength is individual talent. Our weakness - and it?s something we have to work on - is blending that talent into a team as strong as we can possibly be.

Robin Reynolds

Our 2005 player field will feature the perfect blend of both solid veterans and rising stars. This year, fans will be able to see some of the most exciting players in women's tennis today.

Sally Drucker

Pine is porous, and you have to work it in and blend it for a uniform look. A good finish is the hardest part.

Bret Boone

It is a tough road now. We've been calling this a poor start, but how much longer is it just the start to the season? When does the start blend into the long road of the season?

Michael Walsh

Just build a classic horseshoe of wood and plaster, and fill it with statuary and curtains, then sit back and savor the beautifully blended results.

Clive Davis

Rod gets more and more comfortable in the genre with each album, and that's why he won his Grammy for the third 'Songbook.' On Volume IV, Rod inimitably captures wonderful classic standards, breathes new life into them and makes them his own.

Matt Strauss

Players Network has positioned itself as a leader in gaming entertainment through established marketing relationships within the gaming industry and the creation of original programming that captures the essence of the gaming lifestyle. We are pleased to offer this added-value television programming exclusively to our On Demand subscribers.

Ratu Gavidi

It captures a unique sense of wisdom and leadership and draws an inspiration that lifts the spirit.

Richard Danzig

It captures a sense of what extraordinary history this has through the old ships, the tall ships. At the same time it emphasizes the extraordinary present-day relevance of naval power. Seventy percent of the globe is water, and we're able to operate from the sea everywhere. The Navy really is everywhere for America.

John Lasseter

I have met a lot of top chefs around the world during my travels. Each one of them has said 'Ratatouille' is their favorite movie and the only movie that truly captures what they do.

Joey Sato

He has that smile that just captures people. He's early to practice, smile on his face, 'How you doing, coach?' He's the last guy to leave, smile on his face, 'See you tomorrow, coach.' He's that way no matter how the day has gone. He is just a great kid. He makes everyone around him happy.

Dave Henderson

We can make anything with sand. People like it because it captures the kid in them.

Edward Hirsch

One of the things that distinguishes poetry from ordinary speech is that in a very few number of words, poetry captures some kind of deep feeling, and rhythm is the way to get there. Rhythm is the way the poetry carries itself.

Robert McNamara

Coercion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.

Michael Brown

Paula, the federal Government did not even know about the convention centre people until today.

Sergei Kiriyenko

Such a centre may also involve other countries, which seek to use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.

David Hamilton

Ottawa Congress Centre is one of a kind in the City of Ottawa. The wage comparisons that we use, we think we pay fair wages and we think we've made a fair offer.

Pierre Littbarski

I think they are very strong in the centre so we put some extra player there.

Richard Rogers

I'd be very happy for an Architectural Centre put together on Virtual Lines. In terms of a Virtual Centre - I think that's part of it.

Graham Rix

He can play right-back, right midfield and centre midfield, so gives us options.

Sophie Hannah

My favourite Friday treat is to drive out of the centre of Cambridge, where we live, and go for a swim at the health club I've just joined out in the countryside at Quy. It's a lovely pool, inside a converted barn. Usually it's just me and a couple of other swimmers there.

Damon Galgut

I first went to India because of my interest in yoga, hoping to go to the Iyengar Centre in Pune for a while. That didn't work out, but I ended up on a beach in Goa, writing.

Phil Carlson

Friday night in Sauk Centre was a rough night. We started off playing tough but did not convert on key free throws once we were in the bonus. This led to some momentum for Sauk, and they capitalized.

Bill Fennelly

I thought we were a little intimidated inside. They were guarding us one-on-one and daring us to go to the basket. We missed way too many inside shots.

Claude Debussy

It is our duty to find the symphonic formula which fits our time, one which progress, daring and modern victory demand?

Jeff Trumbauer

He was a guy where we weren't daring him to shoot, but he wasn't probably the most threatening guy on the floor. He did a nice job and hit some big shots.

Harvey Weinstein

Last year, when 'Black Swan,' 'True Grit' and 'King's Speech' all grossed over $100 million, it gave studios and independent financiers the confidence to make daring movies and not do the same old you-know-what.

Cynthia Weil

The main reason he wanted to be a recording artist was because it gives you much more freedom in your writing. You only have to please the artist and the artist is you so you can be more daring and experimental.

Gail Sheehy

I do think women can have it all - but not all women. If you take daring steps and are smart about it, you can probably have it all. But you might have to wait a while.

Jim Calhoun

We have weaknesses; we know that. So we have to become an execution team, particularly on a team that comes up and ball-pressures us, a team that says 'beat me off the dribble.' And you can, but they're daring you and trying to take you out of your offense.

Kevin Burbach

We were just taking what they were giving us in the first quarter. I think they were daring us to shoot (from outside).

Bayard Taylor

The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Hu Jintao

Regardless of person or political party and regardless of what he or it has said or done, we are willing to hold talks on developing cross-Strait relations so long as he or it recognizes the 'One China' principle and the 1992 consensus,

Billy Beane

Paul has seen the ups and down of developing young players and trusting the three, four years they've had in the minor leagues and discounting their first few months in the majors. Developing young players can be a lot of fun, but you've got to have the discipline to live with their mistakes and understand their trend line isn't always going to go straight up.

Chris Jones

Our (pitching) coordinator always talks about developing a winning attitude.

Dwane Casey

Our trend the whole year has been developing a rhythm in the first quarter. Then once (Kevin Garnett) comes out we kind of get off kilter.

Dan Glickman

Researching and developing these technologies now will help save the major studios and other motion picture producers and distributors money in the future,

Jim Greenwood

Malaysia is an important market with a strong interest in developing its biotechnology industry.

Becky Dyer

We now have peer tutors. They're developing relationships with each other.

Pat Riley

I think they have great respect for New Jersey. They are a very effective team right now and they're developing a lot of confidence.

Gerald Galloway

It is an important part of the U.S. economy, and it's even more important in the developing world. You have to be able to provide water for agriculture.

Eric Kanagy

Part of the excitement about these 24-hour festivals is seeing where they will go. It will be interesting to see how everyone survives it.

Sheryl Lehr

Our plan was, if we want people downtown, we're going to have to do some fun things and generate some excitement and interest.

Betsey Johnson

There is an excitement about having nightmares.

Ned Yost

I think there will be a lot of excitement in spring training next year.

Ricardo Clark

Just from the talk in the city, I think Sunday is going to be a good day to experience what the season's going to be like and see the excitement in the fans. They'll get to see what our team is about and I think we're going to have a good season here.

Bill Bryson

The great failure in education, much of the time, is the lack of excitement and stimulus

Tim Schuldt

I think this shows how much excitement people have for this team and these players.

Mark Rein

It doesn't generate as much noise and excitement as Microsoft and Sony will, but Nintendo always seems to have a great product line and make a lot of money.

Phil Garner

It does generate a lot of noise and it's a lot of fun. And I think we play for that. We play for that excitement and that noise. It helps us a little bit.

Lizzo

I'm not a girl who started getting into music and using my femininity to get attention. When I was getting into it, it was all pure skill.

Monica Bellucci

Wherever I go, I am Italian. The way I talk, the way I eat, the way femininity is important to me. The way I love Italian food.

Gwendoline Christie

I don't know, so much of women's femininity is tied up with their hair.

Andrea Dworkin

Only when manhood is dead - and it will perish when ravaged femininity no longer sustains it - only then will we know what it is to be free.

Jill Soloway

If there's a woman who is exhibiting her femininity or performing her femininity, it's always seen as meant to pull in the male gaze.

Amy Locane

I realized early on that I always hated girls who used their femininity to get what they wanted.

Jill Soloway

Femininity in and of itself - and the feminine - can be not only privileged, but honored or worshipped.

Jill Soloway

I've been writing about misogyny for 20 years and trying to understand what femininity means for my entire career.

Stefano Gabbana

It's a kind of femininity that is different from before. The military look, but in a romantic way.

Source Unknown

Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

Valerie June

My signature fragrance would be herbal - basil mixed with rosemary and coriander. Some big stars have got perfume lines that smell really bad. They've got it all wrong.

Blake Lively

I first started wearing fragrance when I was thirteen or fourteen, and the smell was candy-like. They were in very colorful bottles, like turquoise and pink. By the time I was sixteen or seventeen, it got more girly and more floral.

Natasha Poly

I like Dolce & Gabbana's fragrance Light Blue - it's my everyday perfume.

Steve Jones

I love that rose. It has an intense fragrance -- an 'old rose' smell.

Rita Ora

For me, a fragrance is another way of leaving an impression on somebody.

Rachel Zoe

I would do fragrance. I'm a fragrance fanatic.

Jeb Bush

Please don't go outside until the storm has completely passed because the west side of the storm will be as strong and intense or maybe even worse.

Dan Phillips

I was kind of joking around with it. I was saying, 'We should be intense runners and shave our legs.' We thought it would be funny. I was the first one to take a swipe.

Chris Kennedy

It got pretty intense there. It started getting a little heated.

Renee Miller

(Future Cities) is a very intense project. It involves teachers, parents and the community.

Brandon Low

It actually motivated me more. It was an intense match already, but that made it even more intense.

M. Wolfe

I think it's going to have even more intense scrutiny than usual from markets.

James Hong

He's a very intense guy. He needs to be working on something all the time.

Douglas Coupland

For whatever reason, I tend to get reporters who are maybe in the middle of intense therapy, and they turn what's supposed to be a professional interview into therapy for themselves.

Yannick Noah

He has just lived through the most intense moments of his life. He is still away in his cosmos.

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.

Jessica Simpson

The point of launching a maternity line, for me, was to do something different.

Lori Smith

(We were) launching until about 10 p.m. (Saturday).

Jerry Colangelo

That is for the purpose of (NBA Properties) launching sponsorships (in China).

Rod Shealy

As a part of our campaign, we're launching a series of real-people, paper-plate dinners.

Supachai Panitchpakdi

It is unclear whether a round of international trade talks can be launched in 2001, so it wouldn't be right to set a timetable for launching the round now.

John Hanson

All we're launching is a 1/2-ton. We're going to have a 1/2-ton vehicle that will tow more than 10,000 pounds. That will be quite a statement.

Andrew Young

If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.

Miley Cyrus

I'm pretty outspoken.

Lea Michele

I am a very outspoken person, and if something makes me uncomfortable, you will know that it makes me uncomfortable, but that's as far as it goes.

Poppy Montgomery

I'm outspoken and I'm headstrong.

Sharon Tate

I guess I'm too outspoken.

Tim Tebow

It's OK to be outspoken about your faith.

Duane Starks

Starks said. ''I just think we executed more in the second half.

Colin Cushman

Standish in the second half, that's the story right there. She's the real deal.

Mark Teixeira

That could be it exactly. The first day, I didn't sleep at all. The second day, yeah, a little bit.

Mike Caldwell

Our possessions were about 10 seconds long. Theirs were for about 40 seconds long.

Nancy Keller

We now have a new tool we can use to find secondary metabolites that are of pharmaceutical interest.

Ron Gardenhire

I think the second time around we'll see where we're at here.

Acie Law

That's the second time today someone's done that.

Brenda Frese

I think it was like 10 seconds after the game.

Greg Thompson

I think it's who comes in second place.

Mike Ledsome

I'm so thrilled for him. It's so great.

Graeme Murphy

I'm thrilled at the moment because our audiences, you know, they... the demographic is 50% male.

Tom Kloza

I can tell you traders aren't thrilled by that idea.

Michelle Monaghan

I can't imagine anything more debilitating, anything more challenging, anything more thrilling than to get on a stage and do any kind of play. It is such a vulnerable place for any actor to be in.

Harold Lewis

Bart is just thrilled to come back home.

Christopher Little

Ms. Rowling is thrilled to have been vindicated so clearly,

Frank Nelson

She's not real thrilled about me being away so long, but she's very understanding.

Roz Foster

We had no idea it was still there. We were thrilled to find it.

William Feather

The only thrill worth while is the one that comes from making something out of yourself