Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Randall

We want the pedophiles to give it a thought, that they might be dealing with the police, ... And if we can stop them ... then we are serving our purpose.

Michael Defensor

We want to set this up properly because we are dealing with a military hierarchy and I might set it up wrongly.

Harry Treadaway

'The Night Watch' is a beautiful story about the pains of dealing with what you are.

Charles Sumner

We have never dealt with the dollars we are dealing with today,

Don McClure

We've still had some issues with people trying to drive around the barricades. VDOT and the sheriff's office have been helpful in dealing with those issues.

Jim Stuart

What we're really dealing with is the success of our city. It's ironic if you think about it.

Brandon Short

What happens on the field is its own world. The stuff those people are dealing with is their lives in the real world. They're separate worlds. We're trying to do everything we can to help those people who have been displaced. Some of them are right here in Charlotte. But when it comes to football, we've got to be ready to play.

Victoria Vaynberg

We are getting over sicknesses and dealing with injuries. So at this point we know what we need to do.

Jeff Themm

We're going to have a special section, with signs, to let people know they are dealing with farmers.

David Suzuki

Other things, like capitalism, free enterprise, the economy, currency, the market, are not forces of nature, we invented them. They are not immutable and we can change them.

Matthew Smith

The perception that the U.S. economy is a runaway freight train is mistaken -- things are slowing.

John Davidson

The ongoing issues are the strength of the economy and whether or not the pace of the recovery is in fact slowing down. One of the important things this week will be to see the extent of the damage.

Sidney Taurel

We are seeing a very resilient economy and one that seems to be growing in every part of the world. Just about every region is growing and it's very encouraging.

Shahab Jalinoos

There are some fears that the post-war U.S. economy still finds it hard to go back into full gear.

George Rose

We're in a global wine economy now. If you're out of grapes, you're out of grapes.

David Rosenberg

When you think of all the fiscal and monetary stimulus we've had, we should have the economy growing at 5 or 6 percent. The fact that we're not is the story.

Helen Sharman

The government will see that human spaceflight is useful - for science and the economy - and inspirational.

Patricia Russo

We have seen China's economy growing at 8-9% over the past few years and in particular within the telecom industry there has been rapid developments in technology and innovation enhancements,

Trot Nixon

We started off sluggish. But we fed off our fans.

Charles Lindbergh

From now on, depressions will be scientifically created.

David Hockney

I'm fed up with being bossed around.

Diane Swonk

We have seen a softer tone in their write-ups. I think there is a real sense that the Fed is going to stay on the sidelines.

Jason Chaffetz

We have seen an outrageous increase in the size, scope, and intrusiveness of the federal government.

Fran Quigley

We have no idea. We will never know, because so much being done by the federal government now is shrouded in secrecy.

Trevor Hoffman

When your horse is out there and pitches his butt off, my job is to nail it down, ... We would've liked to have fed off Jake's energy. The kid threw the heck out of the ball.

J. Horton

We're making history again. Never before have we supported so many state and federal missions.

Larry Wachtel

We remain in a stimulus vacuum and the underlying motif this week will be the Federal Reserve meeting next week.

Charles Spurgeon

I do not know when I am more perfectly happy than when I am weeping for sin at the foot of the cross.

Alan Bennett

A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.

Chinua Achebe

If I hold her hand she says, ‘Don’t touch!’ If I hold her foot she says ‘Don’t touch!’ But when I hold her waist-beads she pretends not to know.

David Sedaris

My feet are completely flat, but for most of my life they were still shaped like feet. Now, thanks to bunions, they're shaped more like states, wide boring ones that nobody wants to drive through.

David Mitchell

Leaves turned to soil beneath my feet. Thus it is, trees eat themselves.

Dave Barry

UNIVAC: a device, which contained 20,000 vacuum tubes, occupied 1,500 square feet and weighed 40 tons; there was also a laptop version weighing 27 tons.

Bruno Latour

Be not the one who debunks but the one who assembles, not the one who lifts the rugs from under the feet of the naive believers but the one who offers arenas in which to gather.

Bryan Stevenson

Once we had a rail station in Montgomery that connected to Columbus and went all the way up to Virginia, slave traders could transport thousands of slaves at a fraction of the cost than they could transport by boat, and certainly by foot. And that's how Montgomery became such an active slave-trading space.

William Shakespeare

Thou shalt not stir one foot to seek a foe.

Alan Watts

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

Alan Rickman

Acting is mostly about listening. If you just focus in on what the other person is saying, acting takes care of itself to quite a large extent.

Al Oerter

As long as I can concentrate and remain somewhat calm, I can normally do very well.

Al Ries

Good things happen when you narrow your focus

Akon

Any album that you pick up of mine, you know it's an Akon album. The guests are very limited, and you get to really feel the experience. You get the Akon experience when you get the albums. I always want to make sure that stays the way it is. I don't want to flood the album to where you lose focus on why you bought it.

Chris Christie

The message [of Donald Trump] is that that type of thing happening. Let's focus on what happened.What happened was the murder, the murder of this person pushing a stroller, it's unacceptable in an American city to continue to have this level of violence and the level of violence in Chicago is unacceptable.

Chris Albrecht

The expensive ones are for Starz. No. We decided, as part of our Encore strategy, to broaden and strengthen and help focus the Encore plexus by adding original programming.

Chin-Ning Chu

Whenever your mind is totally absorbed in whatever activities you are performing, your mind will remain calm and content.

David Rusenko

To gain paying customers you'll need to focus on attracting the right followers, and not just on attracting the most. Communicate often with useful information to increase your value, and focus on pitching your product in a genuine way. Make sure you have a professional web presence, and with any luck, you should start noticing your efforts pay off.

Jeff Bell

We've always planned on gasoline being over $65 a barrel,

Maryann Keller

We've never been in a market like this, where gasoline prices are cheap. It's a world that's very hostile to small cars.

Alexandra Paul

The only way people are going to change their car buying habits, and the only way government will get behind alternatively fueled vehicles, is if gasoline prices continue to go up.

Robert Sinclair

There is a lot of gasoline infrastructure in New Jersey.

Larry Wachtel

Low-end consumers, the ones that spend every penny of their paycheck, are really hurting with these gasoline prices.

Michael McNamara

The overall number did perk up at the end of the month. Higher gasoline prices did help a bit.

Bill Richardson

The projections that the futures market is making are that you're going to see gradual decreases in gasoline prices,

Craig Pennington

People will still watch gasoline because of maintenance and subsequent specification changes.

Pat Fagan

I'd like to give you $100 (in gasoline money) for whoever gives you the buses.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The higher you go, the fewer women there are.

Dave Chappelle

The higher up I went, the less happy I was.

Louis Gossett, Jr.

I was president of the schools in junior high and high school, got a scholarship to New York University, played a little basketball, and was a celebrity.

Shinzo Abe

The other side has not responded to any of our requests regarding the abduction issue, so it is highly regrettable.

James Browning

The potential profits are so high there's a win-at-any-cost mentality.

Mark Thompson

The perception is that it's too high end, too futuristic, but I think we will see prices and use models to support it.

John Connaughton

The people who pay the highest income tax are also the most mobile. They simply leave North Carolina.

John Remington

We are always trying to look for unique ideas, and we wanted something new for New York. We thought that hey, it's an island, let's do something on the water...New Yorkers have pretty high expectations.

Marty Natalegawa

We've always been on a high state of alert. The perpetrators of the previous bombings are still very much at large and the risk is still very much with us,

Dave Sanchez

We started today in third. We just couldn't hold on to that lead.

Jim Johnson

We're infiltrating runoff back into the water table, keeping pollutants out of the urban streams and holding the runoff back.

Joe Torre

We're in a situation where we can't be thinking about holding our own. We have to make an impact. The only way we can do that is by winning the first game.

Kevin Towers

We're not going to rush him. We're not going to hold him back, either. But I'd like to see him get more innings at the professional level.

Dwane Casey

We always hold out hope. Mathematically we're still in it. Every time we walk out on the floor, we're playing for something and we're playing for improvement.

Monica LeMoine

What the school hoped to do for these kids was to hold them accountable for their actions, which they'd never really had before.

Tyler Brand

We wanted to try and hold them under 15 points in the first half. We got out in the passing lanes, got some steals and were able to get our offense going off that.

Brian Fuentes

Unfortunately I wasn't able to hold the lead. But Scott did once we scored again, so that's awesome.

Steve Bellino

With the inventories where they are, and prices were they are, they don't equate. It's geopolitical tension that's holding us up right now.

Charles Dickens

"There is no deception now, Mr. Weller. Tears," said Job, with a look of momentary slyness, "tears are not the only proofs of distress, nor the best ones."

Charles Dickens

"I know quite enough of myself," said Bella, with a charming air of being inclined to give herself up as a bad job, "and I don't improve upon acquaintance..."

Charles Stross

I wanted an agent who would actually sell stuff. After two British agents failed comprehensively, I was reading Locus (the SF field's trade journal) and noticed a press release about an experienced editor leaving her job to join an agent in setting up a new agency. And I went "aha!" - because what you need is an agent who knows the industry but who doesn't have a huge list of famous clients whose needs will inevitably be put ahead of you. So I emailed her, and ... well, 11 years later I am the client listed at the top of her masthead!

Charles Stross

What I read: while I'm writing, I tend to go off reading fiction for relaxation - especially the challenging stuff. It's too much like the day job.

Alan Watts

It's time to question a job or career move when it seems like most energy is devoted to making things appear other than what they really are.

Alan Parker

Film-making is a physically hard job.

Alan Patricof

I got my first job the old-fashioned way: I took an elevator to the top floor of many buildings and walked down floor by floor on the stairs going into every firm and asking the receptionist if she knew of any jobs available.

Alan Rickman

One thing I will say - my job gets harder and harder. The more you understand about what you are capable of, the less the instrument can do it physically. It's an inverse equation, if that's the right phrase. I just slammed those two words together. It sounded right.

Alan Rickman

I have a photograph at home of Fred Astaire from the knees down with his feet crossed. It's kind of inspiring because it reminds me his feet were bleeding at the end of rehearsals. Yet when you watch him, all you see is freedom. It's a reminder of what the job is about in general, not just being in musicals.

Ron Hays

We're sending stuff to Katrina through America's Second Harvest. We're supporting the network.

Leigh Crawford

Like everyone, I wish Katrina would have never happened. But, you can learn a lot through experiences like this.

Jack Reed

We're about see a second tidal surge from Katrina and Rita,

Maya MacGuineas

There is a window where nobody will be willing to say 'no' to anything as long as it has a Katrina label on it.

I. Stone

Many scenarios had been run prior to Katrina years ago, and with that type of storm, the scenarios should have been taken seriously.

Mary Fetchet

Katrina should be enough to wake people up.

John Metz

Katrina produced a catastrophic storm surge, it was one of the worst we've seen in this country,

Kim Stewart

Katrina knocked us down, but it's not going to keep us there. I think things should be a lot faster.

Peter Morris

Katrina is like a very large pile of stones on top of a mountain. Standing by the pile of stones it's a big pile. But when you're looking at the mountain, it's not going to be that dramatic.

Charles Caleb Colton

Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by others, will ascribe it to sinister and interested motives if they can.

Charles Spurgeon

The gospel is not for you who can save yourselves, but for those who are lost.

Alan Greenspan

When trust is lost, a nation's ability to transact business is palpably undermined.

Chris Cornell

And I'm lost behind The words I'll never find And I'm left behind As seasons roll on by

Cale Yarborough

If he'd just crowded me down to the side of the asphalt, I'd have been OK. But when he ran me completely off the racetrack, I lost it.

David Castillo

When you've lost something, and you find it again, it has so much more meaning.

Kyle Petty

When you've lost a son, there's no price you can put on safety for the driver.

Lewis Carroll

‎You're not the same as you were before," he said. You were much more... muchier... you've lost your muchness.

Charley Reese

Credibility, like virginity, can only be lost once and never recovered.

Ira Glass

The atheist market is a very overlooked and powerful market, it turns out.

Kat Graham

It's important for me to just be myself - in fashion. A lot of people overlook that side of me because they're scared of it, but that's just who I am.

Chris Harrington

Personally, no, and I would say no for the rest of the team. There's no way we can. It's a one-and-done deal, and there's no way you can overlook a team.

Kathie Brown

I don't want it overlooked just because he was homeless.

Pete Asadourian

You can never overlook a team in this conference. You can never do that.

Corey Lessard

We had a lot to prove in that game. The second time we overlooked them. They played better and we played worse.

Rick Soracco

Right now, we're not in a position to overlook anybody.

Bob Marlin

The sad thing is we were overlooked by the NIT. We had a better record than 37 of the 40 (NIT) teams, and we're the only team with 22 wins sitting at home.

Pamela Anderson

I'd rather be looked over than overlooked.

Bill Maher

I hear this all the time: 'Obama's policies aren't working.' He hasn't been allowed to put his policies into place.

Bridgett Williams

The policy they got is just a policy. The students are running the show.

John Whiting

The policy says any new schools being built,

Gideon Ezra

The policy of restraint is over. This is a law-abiding country, and that is how everyone has to behave.

Tessa Jowell

The policy is not wrong and... time will prove it right,

Gary Orfield

The policy is essentially a product of negotiation, of power and discretion, not law.

Nigel S. Wright

Public policy has been a passion of mine. For three decades, I've had some involvement in the political process.

Abraham Lincoln

My policy is to have no policy.

Alec Baldwin

Everything that Bush touches turns to manure in public policy.

Louis Navellier

When volume drops off, prices settle down. Volume is the force that turns stocks higher.

Ed Smith

One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.

Jim Reese

The prices are up because no one has wheat.

Cherry Hill

The prices are like the Energizer Bunny: They just keep going and going up,

Mark Sullivan

Many are wondering how prices could go up so quickly after the hurricane.

Tom Kloza

One would wonder what the prices would be if it had actually been cold.

Pete Domenici

My constituents think somebody is rigging those prices and that they are getting ripped off.

Christopher Murray

Just like in real farming, you want to sell when prices are high.

John Eade

We're probably going to see more weakness in stock prices in the near-term,

Alex North

I like what I hear as a resulting combination of these two strands... something of a combination of familiarity and, for lack of a better word, strangeness.

Bryan Callen

Its always a shock to me when I get recognized.

Bob Brown

I didn't want to be a shock absorber; I wanted to deliver the shock.

Terry Pratchett

What's so surprising about bacon? I dunno, I suppose it comes as something a a shock to the pig.

Brigitte Bardot

I am shocking, impertinent and insolent that's how it is.

Dan Stevens

I'm shocked at being recognized.

Pat Gillick

We were disappointed. At the same time, you can't say you're shocked or surprised that something like this would happen.

Astro Teller

When you attack a problem as though it were solvable, even though you don't know how to solve it, you will be shocked with what you come up with. It's 100 times more worth it. It's never 100 times harder.

Heather Stephens

She's amazing. I was shocked I was able to do that because she's so great.

John Roberts

This would be shocking even in a Third World country.

Perry Davis

She was just steady all through the game.

Wayne Primeau

He was just a steady guy. Never flashy, but he was a big part of their championship teams.

Elaine Jennings

There has been a steady stream all day.

Scott Benedict

That's what he does. He's been steady all year.

Harriet Tubman

I said to de Lord, 'I'm goin' to hold steady on to you, an' I know you'll see me through.'

Peg Stipetich

Our slowest time through the day was from 2-4 p.m., but we were still busy. It really was steady throughout the day.

Randy Thompson

Oh, my gosh, it's been pretty steady all year.

Scott Cross

He's just been really steady for us inside.

Charles Caleb Colton

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.

Charles Stanley

We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.

Byron Katie

You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer".

Bruce Tulgan

Leverage your uniqueness.

Michael Steele

We are a grassroots party. We always have been. That's been the strength of the GOP.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Confidence comes from victory, but strength comes from the struggle.

August Wilson

Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.

August Wilson

Your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel.

Jonah Lomu

Until 1998, I worked in marketing at ASB bank. I loved it.

Hector Tobar

Divorce was illegal in Chile up until 2005 or so.

Jerry Angelo

We're going to look. We'll always look until we get that solved.

Ed Troyer

We're going to keep doing it until (the problem) disappears.

Ruth Miller

Wait until you see what we have planned.

Tracey Emin

I didn't have an exhibition anywhere until I was 30. My first exhibition was at 30, and then for my first show in America, I'm 50. It's kind of all right: I'm just a slow burner.

Tom Sharpe

We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

Elle King

I started with the guitar around 12 years old but didn't learn the banjo until I was about 18 or 19.

Miles Austin

She's about 40 pounds. She just sits there until I get annoyed.