Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ron Wyden

Oregon's fishing industry is a critical part of our state's economy, and it will benefit in many ways from this Federal support approved today, ... The dollars included in this bill will also go toward improving Oregon's tsunami readiness, while also giving a boost to our state's cutting-edge oceanic research for the benefit of Oregon and the nation as a whole.

Maria Miller

Our office has no objection to work release, as long as it is approved by the administrators at the Wayne County Jail.

David Piper

State statutes protect people who have property. And there were many, many, many rooftops approved before we became a city.

Yvette Barr

Our principal, Bernard Rogers, approved the project after I presented him with the outline of what, how, where and to whom Gautier High School students would donate their items. Soon donations of books, bears and buttons (coats) started coming in. Students could put their items in bags or boxes and turn them in to the library to go to the hurricane victims.

Brian Griffin

Our plan right now is to proceed with our timetable as it was approved by the board of directors, which indicated April as the time for putting the shovel in the ground.

John Travolta

I will be doing DALLAS. I heard LARRY (HAGMAN) approved of me. We were in PRIMARY COLORS together and so it was sweet for him to give his seal of approval.

Kevin Marsh

The 7.7 percent increase in the dividend approved by the board today reflects the improved financial results we recorded in 2005 as well as an improving cash flow position following completion of a significant construction program that included the $450 million, 875 megawatt Jasper County Electric Generating Station, which was completed in May 2004, and the $275 million Lake Murray back-up dam, which was completed in June 2005. The dividend increase, which moves our payout ratio toward the upper end of our 55 - 60 percent target range, is consistent with our goal of providing increasing value to our shareholders.

Ed Murphy

The approved final plan for the project contemplates on-lot sewer systems.

Leslie Miller

It is not FDA approved to skip periods on the ring, ... but this study and other studies using the oral contraceptive are finding that for many women this might be an option.

Chris Viale

People often turn around and charge up their credit cards again.

Tom Williams

Our gift cards are used as Christmas gifts and are especially popular as gifts from parents to students.

Michael Parker

It is another form of back door compulsion in the same way that ID cards have been bolted on to passports.

Gilda Carle

Jewelry wears thin. Flowers die. But cards get kept and gestures remembered. Ultimately, what is important, what people remember isn't the expense but the expression, and it's meaningfulness.

Gerry Gerlach

That was her old system ? she didn't need a computer. We used to use thousands of those cards for ordering. She always had that dedication to the business.

Mary Smith

That was a leap year, and he didn't run away. We're enjoying being with each other in our retirement. We never get bored. We play cards together, do crosswords and he likes to cook.

John Edward

I think it's not enough. The problem is there are still not going to be enough green cards available.

John Gay

It goes very far in recognizing that you can't send (the undocumented) home and that they do deserve permanent status and a path to citizenship. But there have to be enough green cards there for this to be a meaningful opportunity.

John Carroll

I worked for Knight Ridder for 18 years and I know the Detroit Free Press was part of the company's pride back in the old days. Now it seems, viewed from the outside, that these papers are like cards in a deck: you shuffle them, you deal them, you fold them, and the meaning of them as an institution in the community seems to have been lost.

Tony Pearson

Recent data on retail sales, dwelling approvals and credit suggests the economy entered 2006 with improved momentum in domestic demand.

Chris Coleman

Paul Jewell has done a tremendous job and deserves to be manager of the season. They have been superb and Paul has got to take credit for that.

Mike Adras

Our offense wasn't very good tonight. It's a credit to (Montana) for playing wonderful defense.

Charlie Smith

Our offensive line, we've been working on it. The offensive line position, when you're in the film session, all you point out is the bad, but when they do well, that's what they're supposed to do. They don't get the credit they deserve.

Derek Moyers

Our offensive line, they get zero credit. We felt up front we could do some good things, and we did.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

People may live as much retired from the world as they like, but sooner or later they find themselves debtor or creditor to some one.

Dave McDermott

Sure it's a disappointment, but the kids didn't give up. Give them credit for fighting back and making a run at them.

Brian Norberg

Stevens really played well. The credit goes to them; they whipped us.

Mike Ryan

Spreads have come back a bit. We're starting to see demand for credit issues as well, and I think it's a positive development.

Jack Billion

States with a life only policy do fairly well economically.

Gerald Massey

Some of those standards are fairly onerous even to sophisticated, highly litigious businesses.

James Peterson

Out of all those variables that people talk about, you can really narrow that down to a fairly small list.

Adrienne Freeman

On the valley floor, it's probably compacted about six inches and that's fairly significant.

Mike Bryan

I thought we were fairly sharp. We haven't been practicing too much this week because we've been resting...This bodes well for Indian Wells.

Rob Gooch

I thought we were a little slow getting it going. Once we got it going with Reno Gilbert, we played fairly well.

Michael Specter

Just because you read a report in the 'New York Times,' the 'Economist,' or, yes, 'The New Yorker' doesn't make it true. But we do know that a few people have evaluated that story with what strikes me as fairly objective standards of reason.

Thomas Haden Church

Last summer when we were preparing for the movie, I actually kind of wanted to stay fairly uninformed about it. As we went through the process that we do in the movie, I wanted to be a little wide-eyed.

Chris Lee

That was tough for me to get situated because I was back and forth (between positions) the whole season. Now, I'm fairly secure at defense.

Jim Volk

People like the plan. It doesn't mean that the Dow's going straight to 9,000, but this could be relatively helpful for the market.

Ronnie Brown

I think it was still helpful having someone else in the backfield.

Arlen Specter

I think we can get materials which will be helpful to us,

Andrea Martin

I was intimidated at first, ... But everyone was very helpful and kind.

Patricia Wright

One of the things I think we were helpful in doing was getting some exposure.

Scott Weiss

One of the stated values at IronPort was 'work/life balance,' but I wasn't living it. I was rarely home. And when I was home, well, let's just say I wasn't particularly helpful or cheery.

Charlize Theron

She's very private, but she was incredibly helpful to me,

Bootsy Collins

We had no idea how well-connected he was in the industry. And he has a terrific relationship with Snoop, so that was very helpful as well.

Ashley Wagner

Covergirl is my sponsor, and they have been so helpful in supplying me with their wonderful products. I love their blush, mascara and lip gloss.

Ron Fournier

Part of the problem is voters know relatively little about Romney. And some of what they know about him complicates his task: Romney has a history of flip-flopping on issues, he's extraordinarily wealthy, and he can be tone-deaf about what moves voters. He just doesn't seem comfortable in his skin.

Jacob Reitan

Our message is: Learn from history and end religious-based repression.

Will Rogers

Statesmen think they make history; but history makes itself and drags the statesmen along.

Jack Turner

Spice: The History of a Temptation ... maddeningly disorganized but intriguingly varied and rarely dull.

Xinhua Agency

Some Japanese politicians stick to their wrong view of history and try to justify their country's past military misdeeds. Those Japanese politicians should stop their fallacies, give up their wrong views, and return to the right track of mending fences.

Viktor Yanukovych

Our victory will open a new page in the history of Ukraine. We are ready to work together with any political party.

Bernard Beckett

Many scholars have complained of our tendency to see history only in conflicts, but I am not convinced they are right. It is in conflict that our values are exposed.

Bernard Berenson

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Brad Lidge

I think they're professionals and they're going up there and looking for something and trying to hit it. I don't think they're thinking too much about the history of us, but if they are and it can work to my advantage, that's great.

David Martin

Our study was performed on patients with moderate to severe fibromyalgia. It's my speculation that if acupuncture works for these patients with recalcitrant fibromyalgia -- where previous treatments had not provided satisfactory relief -- it would likely work for many of the millions of fibromyalgia patients.

Stephen Gallagher

Reduced liquidity in the markets is likely to result in a wider swap spread.

Mark Collins

I think this particular time, it's more likely we'll be successful.

Ben Halliburton

I think we are likely to remain in a trading range for some time.

Lawrence DiRita

It is likely we will get down to the baseline after the election,

Sen. Nass

It is likely to not be successful when we come back in January. This is a promise that may not be kept.

Scott Provancher

It is likely that we will not get all the way to our end of the season.

Gennaro Castaldo

I think come the weekend it is quite likely that retailers will be sold out and will be waiting for the next allocation.

Charles Jules Henry Nicole

It did not seem likely that I was destined to undertake research on typhus.

Carlos Ghosn

Our objective is to maintain the successful momentum of the team.

Jim Hall

Stay plugged in. Maintain the strength of the Chamber.

Zhang Qiyue

Our stance is to maintain peace and stability, and to reach settlement through dialogue,

David Pringle

It is not enough to preserve open space. We need to maintain it.

David Heyman

It is its own universe. But we try to maintain a real normalcy about it.

Junichiro Koizumi

I will try to maintain the postal network, which is people's important assets, and see to it that no inconvenience will ensue,

Jeff Garcia

I am going to do everything that I can to maintain my physical strength, maintain my physical conditioning. I'll even sit on my butt and throw the football, just so I can keep that motion intact.

Cate Blanchett

I find that the skills and the muscularity required to be on stage, you need to keep those up - I do, personally, in order to maintain your ability to perform on screen. You don't want to always be working in the one medium.

John Tortorella

It better not be hard. We have to maintain it.

Ryan Holmes

Payfirma has revolutionized the payment process, consolidating mobile, e-commerce and in-store payments under a single solution, much like HootSuite did for social media.

David Holland

One of the quickest ways to get rid of the lease payment is to get rid of your car.

Bill Vaughan

We deserve this payment by all stretches of how one would calculate it.

Allen Fishbein

There could be a series of payment shocks.

Ezra Taft Benson

Gods' payment is the best payment.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

Profit is the payment you get when you take advantage of change.

James Monroe

The payments which have been made into the Treasury show the very productive state of the public revenue.

Gene Wolfe

When a gift is deserved, it is not a gift but a payment.

Ashley Ellott

The down payment is $400,000 for the car.

Mark Ambrose

From a team standpoint, it's a rebuilding year.

Doug Thornton

I think it could be a symbol for the rebuilding of New Orleans.

Jalen Rose

I don't think it's a total rebuilding situation.

Kim Badley

For us, it is a rebuilding year. I would like to say we are just reloading, but, unfortunately, we are rebuilding.

Terry Gray

We thought this was going to be a rebuilding year.

Mike Milinkovich

We're rebuilding our Web site at Eclipse.org and we're using PHP,

Tim Cox

We have one big step to go (in the rebuilding process), and I think this is the year for it.

Dave Eggers

He must trust, and he must have faith. And so he builds, because what is building, and rebuilding and rebuilding again, but an act of faith?

James Lewis

We spent a lot of time rebuilding the trust of our donors. We had to transform it back to a place of recovery, because we were in recovery as well.

Robert Webb

My favorite series of 'Peep Show' is always the most recent one, which I can say with all honesty because I don't write it. It gets better and better.

Janis Ian

A radio show recently did a beautiful eulogy of me.

Evanna Lynch

My cats - I have Luna who's just had kittens recently and we called one of them Dumbledore. They're nice but they're not like their characters.

Bob Stoops

Typical of our recent classes, this one is well-balanced.

John Heimlich

We're not saying things are hunky-dory. All we're saying is that some of the indicators we look at and some of the recent trends are promising, and that's the first time I've used that word in a long time.

Carl McDonald

We think Aetna's results will be more than enough to sustain the stock's recent strength.

Marcia Miquelon

We've already rehearsed in the recent single-digit weather, so were ready.

Dr. Baxter

We're seeing a lot of influenza, more than in recent years. This is a very big year.

Phil Davis

Their achievements in recent years speak for themselves,

Bob DuPuy

We haven't secured it in other stadium deals,

Sathya Baba

Start the Day with Love;Spend the Day with Love;Fill the Day with Love;End the Day with Love;This is the way to God.

Steve Wilson

Some of the things offensively are starting to come together,

Jermaine Wiggins

Man, that ain't even a thought for me, ... I can't get into that world. I've been around too long to start something like that up.

Beck

Every time you go in, it's like starting over. You don't know how you did the other records. You're learning all over. It's some weird musician amnesia, or maybe the road wipes it out.

Brian Boland

I think Doug is starting to take it to another level.

Bill Budge

The power of the computer is starting to spread.

Charles Davis

That was his first start and he was sharp.

Kim Parker

That will be a big start all over for us, but you've got to start somewhere,

Neil Thompson

That way we have something to start with if you do go missing.

Robert Battle

Reflection is not something you have a lot of time for.

Amar'e Stoudemire

Swag is something that I've had for a long time.

E. O. Wilson

Springtime is the time for gazing at galaxies.

Adam Carolla

spontaneous, clever, specific, oblique and at the same time very human.

S. Walker

That could be a possibility. I'm thinking, hopefully, we can get something worked out. As of right now, we'll just take it one day at a time and see what happens.

Charlie King

Right place at the right time is all I can say about that one.

Gil Brandt

Really? I think for a long time they probably didn't have a quarterback because they were a wishbone team.

Boy George

Most psychiatrists or analysts are a waste of time

Bob Rose

We need solidarity. This is a union town, and it's time to show that.

William Bolar

He has all the tools to be great. He'll take them far.

Charles Bass

China has legally purchased high performance computers, advanced machine tools, and semiconductor-manufacturing equipment from several American companies.

Charles Babbage

At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.

Ayn Rand

Money is just a tool. It will take you anywhere you want, but you have to be the driver

Carine Roitfeld

Clothing is always a tool that helps me take a picture. But it's never about the clothing.

Alain de Botton

Literature deserves its prestige for one reason above all others - because it's a tool to help us live and die with a little bit more wisdom, goodness, and sanity.

Hon Ip

There are tools we can use. It is not true that nothing can be done once H5N1 is back into wild birds.

Edsger Dijkstra

Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes, biology is about microscopes or chemistry is about beakers and test tubes. Science is not about tools. It is about how we use them, and what we find out when we do.

Banksy

Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.