Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kathleen Blanco

States are not in a position to absorb additional costs of this magnitude,

Lauve Metcalfe

We need reinforcement of these ideas. We absorb different things each time we hear them, and it's an opportunity to share what you've learned with others and build a sense of community.

Barry Alvarez

We'll absorb Jamie's loss and move forward and, to be honest with you, I'm not going to get real wrapped up in it this week. I have one other priority that sits a little higher than replacing Jamie, as valuable as he was, and I have a lot of confidence in the people that I have that we'll be able to absorb it for the short-term until we find a replacement. But I'm not going to let it be a distraction.

Charly McLoughlin

I think these kids got it now. I think they have really gotten the concept on defense; the offense has been good, but not consistent all year long, and I think they got it this week. It's what happens with kids, and it's what happens with good teams that practice hard. Sooner or later, they absorb what you're trying to teach them, and instead of doing what you tell them, they do what they know how to do.

Palitha Kohona

It is a more than unfortunate act. I think the government still has to absorb this. I think there will be some heart-searching.

Rhys Ifans

I think that Liverpool's particular modern history lends itself to the cinema better than London in many ways. When you go to Liverpool, you absorb that whole sound and humour.

Jonathan Chen

It is impossible to absorb the vastness of the sky. But taking an in awe attitude towards it helps opening our minds.

Diane Swonk

Like what the Fed has suggested, the U.S. economy was more than strong enough to absorb the blows of Katrina. The labor market is still pretty resilient.

David Calhoun

I testified why I thought it was important to keep this funding. A 25- to 27-percent decrease next year would just be devastating to our community development department and what we are trying to do. On top of the city general-fund problems we're having, there would be no way to absorb these cuts.

Jay Safier

People, in general, don't like to get letters addressed to them from the Internal Revenue Service, even if it's as simple as not signing your return or not dating your return.

Dave Watson

I think dating is a showcase for how fun television can be.

Sam Yagan

I think for marketplace businesses, and when you think about online dating, it's not a social network. It's not a place where you go to talk to people you already know; it's a place you go to interact with someone you've never met before.

Chris Snyder

I'd be pretty embarrassed if I met my girlfriend through speed dating.

Dylan Penn

I can't imagine dating someone famous. I try to stay away from that as much as I can.

Kevin Sorbo

I was an actor first. The whole modeling thing happened because I was dating a model.

Charles Jencks

If you look at Gothic detailing right down to the bottom of a column or the capital of a column, it's a small version of the whole building; that's why, like dating the backbones of a dinosaur, a good historian can look at a detail of a Gothic building and tell you exactly what the rest of the building was, and infer the whole from the parts.

Kiesza

I was a weird teenager. My mother was actually worried because I didn't have any interest in dating in my teenage years. I had all this desire to pursue my passions like ballet, then sailing, then music, so I didn't have any emptiness to fill.

Aziz Ansari

I've never done online dating.

Frank Fish

Regarding the volume of weapons, it's directly in proportion to the number of students that we're training. We don't have a stockpile of weapons that we've just cached up here to use later for some foul purpose. These weapons are used specifically for this particular client.

John Connor

reflect some guarded optimism in the direction the market is taking.

Ken Walsh

Our No. 1 job was to hire the most dynamic, energetic director that we could (for the job), and we feel we got our No. 1 free agent.

Ralph Kauffman

Our members seem to have digested the energy price increases, and so the direct effect of energy price moves is less.

Jake Barton

People learn more if they're learning in directly engaging ways.

Tai Hui

People have more faith in Hong Kong's logistics. Low value products are shipped directly out of Shenzhen to the world, higher value products come out through Hong Kong. It's the guarantee of safety.

Sophie Turner

Stephen Daldry would be a director that I would love to work with as well as Peter Jackson, Tim Burton, and I'm very lucky to have worked with Isabel Coixet, who is also one of my favourite directors.

Susan Davis

Stamford is proposing a low-volume program. Stamford's program would have a direct impact on St. Vincent's program.

Susan Davis

Stamford is proposing a low-volume program, ... Stamford's program would have a direct impact on St. Vincent's program.

Brian Taylor

Regardless of the numbers the general tone of the market is dollar negative. You've got people jumping on the bandwagon.

JoEllen Kenney

People in McKeesport saw what happened in Duquesne when they lost their library because of the lack of funding. I would get envelopes with a dollar in them. The residents didn't want to lose their library.

Sunil Reddy

Surely the dollar makes pricing more competitive for U.S. companies. But it's more a noise factor than anything else on a short-term basis.

Hans Trousil

Some homeowners will be paying a few dollars more a year while others may have a tax decrease.

Glenn Kaplan

Our plans are to keep it completely as a golf course. We've put in multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars into the course, and for the last year and a half we've been operating it successfully as a golf course.

Stephen Meyer

Our tax dollars are being used to help a lawmaker get re-elected.

Tim Mooney

Our goal is to get more efficiency into the dollars that are being spend on education.

Malik Rahim

Our goal is only to help them in their recovery effort, help them get their lives back, and yes it is political, because we should not have to do it. our tax dollars should be at work.

Everett Tucker

Our goal is to manage every penny of every dollar that we spend with our suppliers, be they raw material suppliers, freight suppliers, or indirect. We want to touch every penny.

Nariman Behravesh

Record-high energy prices did not spill over into the rest of the economy.

Toby Chaudhuri

President Bush's energy program won't help lower gas prices or slow global warming.

Scott Nichols

Participation in this league has been outstanding this season. Our numbers have more than doubled in the last three years, and it is great fun to have all that new energy in the league.

Kathleen Hogan

Partners like USAA Real Estate Co. are national leaders in energy efficiency.

Gary Grandbois

PCs have a lifespan and energy that we keep thinking is going to weaken, but it doesn't. We are still looking at double-digit growth in PCs.

Seimone Augustus

Our offense was not as effective. I would not say our energy level was low. But, it was not tip top. I felt I needed to do something to step up my game.

Kevin Wright

Our live show is very entertaining. It's energy filled. We love to banter back and forth with the audience.

Spencer Abraham

Our national energy policy will stress the need to diversify America's energy supply,

Mike Duffy

Starting now, farmers need to think more cautiously about their energy use.

Joshua Shapiro

Refinery shutdowns will have a big impact on gasoline prices, ... and that's a tax on consumers.

John Kadar

Our response time for these adjustments in gas prices should be very quick.

Kevin Forbes

Right now our wholesale prices are so high we're going to be sucking in gasoline from everywhere. Which is what we want.

Derek Halpenny

Rising oil and gasoline prices are negative for the dollar.

Josh Young

Plain and simple, we need more natural gas in this country.

James Williams

We now have too much gas and we still don't have all of the Gulf production back on line.

Sung Sohn

We notice it every day -- when we go to gasoline stations, we pay more,

Bill Engvall

Last time I had a flat tire, I pulled my truck into one of those side-of-the-road gas stations. The attendant walks out, looks at my truck, looks at me, and I swear he said, Tire go flat? I couldn't resist. Said, Nope. I was driving around and those other three just swelled right up on me. Here's your sign.

David Keith

I went to the pre-pay mode last night, and might keep that rule in place until the gas price starts to trickle down, maybe by Thanksgiving or so.

Ray Staver

Our kids worked real hard in the second half on defense. I thought where they really hurt us was with screens. They are a very physical team. They play physical.

Peter Henning

or a very short sentence in a halfway house.

Charles Phillips

Oracle is halfway to Fusion. One year later, half the job is done and it's the toughest half.

Fran Drescher

Surgery is half the race, but you have to go for the follow-up or do yourself a major disservice.

Larry Harris

Starting off the second half of the season, we knew that this was going to be a big week for us and now we're 0-2.

Natasha Burton

Overall, 2005 saw higher numbers of shoppers on the High Street than in 2004, though this camouflages what was a challenging second half of the year for most retailers.

Donald Brownlee

Our capsule is half the size and one-fourth the mass of Genesis,

Brent Cox

Many African-American students are half American Indian as well.

Chris Landsea

Most seasons we are going to get a hurricane hit the U.S. and probably more than half the time we will have a major hurricane hitting the U.S. as well.

Michael Gallagher

Our only ladder truck is more than 20 years old. Have you ever heard of metal fatigue?

John Taylor

People have been overwhelmed by the graphical performance, but I haven't heard it described in those terms,

Michael White

People heard it but couldn't see it. It passed probably 400 yards (meters) from my house. There was so much lightning and rain I didn't see anything.

Gerard Warren

Sure, I heard it and you take it personally. But you don't let it get to you. In Denver, they were willing to give us another chance. You use it as a motivator.

Gerard Warren

Sure, I heard it and you take it personally. But you don't let it get to you.

Tiger Woods

Other than that, it was really quiet where we were. I wish I could have heard what was going on.

Kelli Johnson

Playing as much as I was, then going from that to not playing every day for the first time in my life was pretty frustrating. I didn't really know what was going on, I never really heard anything. I'm shocked.

Stephanie Kraft

I'm hurt and disgusted. I feel like we disrespected the community. We heard from teachers. We heard from parents. We heard from employees. Overwhelmingly, everyone wanted a later start date. No one wanted to start the seventh or the ninth.

Andrea Yates

I was listening to the radio and they were playing some music in my cell. I heard a voice through the music.

Matt Osborne

Parks was open, just sitting there. It was just a scramble and then just a little jump shot.

Kenny Williams

That could be part of the explanation, ... That maybe we did jump out there and then lose that edge.

Persian Proverb

Risk - If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he doesn't know how wide it is, he'll jump and six times out of ten he'll make it.

Persian Proverbs

Risk -- If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he doesn't know how wide it is, he'll jump and six times out of ten he'll make it.

Stan Heath

We need a big jump there. Our team should be a plus-five rebounding team.

Rick Thomas

I was a little nervous, because it's a big jump from the JV up to the varsity.

Matt Harpring

I was just getting some open shots. I was just taking the jump shot when I had it.

Nelson Chamisa

It is an unfortunate and surprising incident. We were surprised to be told to go back when we had not violated any immigration laws. We did not jump the border.

Herb Stratford

I think there is so much going on in this building, it's so beautiful, people don't really find them. They don't jump out.

Tim Henman

Our media is possibly the worst in the world.

George Shinn

Rod said that (Scott) had a problem with one of the players for something Byron said to the media.

Micah Knorr

I'm here to win a punting competition, not a media competition,

Bill Sienkiewicz

Nothing is really media driven or committee driven, so you can actually just produce something

Bill Cosby

Let me say this: I only expect the black media to uphold the standards of excellence in journalism and when you do that, you have to go in with a neutral mind.

Bianca Jagger

I find it disturbing that the media keeps referring to my marriage, since I got divorced in 1979. But the media never wants to let me forget.

Carrie Fisher

I've never been that uncomfortable talking about it. Things come out [in the media] about me. When it's out, it's someone else's version of what's the matter with me. I want it to be my version of what it is. My recourse is to do my version.

Carl Sagan

One trend that bothers me is the glorification of stupidity, that the media is reassuring people it's alright not to know anything. That to me is far more dangerous than a little pornography on the Internet.

Bethany Hamilton

Learning how to deal with people and their reactions to my life is one of the most challenging things... people staring at me, people asking rude questions, dealing with media, stuff like that.

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.

Kate Joncas

Some of these prices are pretty hefty. Who are these people?

David Briggs

I think (stock) prices have run up anticipating a recovery but I don't think the recovery's here yet,

Mike Fitzpatrick

It is not surprising that prices are retreating.

Christopher Murray

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

Tim Noest

If it doesn't get there, prices will rise again. They may not be able to find the ships.

John Eade

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

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.

Jim Reese

The prices are up because no one has wheat.

C. S. Lewis

A recovery of the old sense of sin is essential to Christianity. Christ takes it for granted that men are bad. Until we really feel this assumption of His to be true, though we are part of the world He came to save, we are not part of the audience to whom His words are addressed.

Aimee Mann

In the '70s, everybody thought drugs were just good times. People didn't really know about drug addiction, or that such a thing existed. When I grew up in the '70s I thought you had to take drugs. It was almost like I didn't think you had a choice.

Ayn Rand

Do not let your fire go out.

Bryant H. McGill

Acceptance is the road to all change.

Bryant H. McGill

It will feel impossible; like you are dying inside this is your soul crying out for life. It may take everything you have; every ounce of will and strength. You will lose a part of yourself trying to save something essential and innocent. And when you have given everything, you will recover and you will be set free, and you will discover there was even more in you than you ever knew.

Bryant H. McGill

You cannot save people from themselves. All you can do is stand firmly in your hopes for them, with compassion.

Bryant H. McGill

You cannot save everyone. Some people are going to destroy themselves no matter how much you try to help them.

Brion James

I prayed to God for help and I put myself in a recovery house called Studio 12. It was for people in the business and you didn't have to have any money to go, which was good because I was broke.

Baha'u'llah

Regard ye the world as a man's body, which is afflicted with diverse ailments, and the recovery of which dependeth upon the harmonizing of all its component elements.

Shaharyar Khan

We have seen these reports and we are trying to find out whether he has said these things.

Gary Mickelson

There have been reports of higher-than-usual absenteeism at some locations.

Mickey Loomis

We've had firsthand reports that it's a mess.

Arthur Helps

Vague injurious reports are no men's lies, but all men's carelesness.

John Felmy

What you have is an important set of steps in terms of these are high-temperature, high-pressure facilities. And that's if you have not had any damage, and we know from preliminary reports that's not the case.

Tony Fratto

We're always willing to talk about how to make reports like this as useful as possible.

Susan Johnson

In Illinois, there are very scattered reports of true influenza.

Mark Berman

If the reports are accurate, it will be devastating.

James Atlas

I had no reports which described him as a stud,

Ryan Hansen

Our nemesis all year has been our rebounding.

John Devine

Overall, 2002 will be a very challenging year for the industry,

Beck

I've been practicing for years, trying to figure out how to record an entire band live.

Beck

I'm always working on my own music, too. I've been working on a record for a few years.

Beck

I have for four years now been ringing the bell. Economic Holocaust is coming. Economic day of reckoning is coming.

Beck

I'm more critical of my songwriting than anybody, but I've worked really hard in the last five to 10 years to improve.

Barry Ritholtz

It is important for investors to understand what they do and don't know. Learn to recognize that you cannot possibly know what is going to happen in the future, and any investment plan that is dependent on accurately forecasting where markets will be next year is doomed to failure.

Barry Lopez

Over the years, one comes to measure a place, too, not just for the beauty it may give, the balminess of its breezes, the insouciance and relaxation it encourages, the sublime pleasures it offers, but for what it teaches. The way in which it alters our perception of the human. It is not so much that you want to return to indifferent or difficult places, but that you want to not forget.

Babatunde Osotimehin

The United Nations has been in the Great Lakes Region and Sahel for 50 years, mostly investing in peacekeeping. NOW is the time to invest in young people!