Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Latham

He is trying to exploit their naivete, not knowing all the things that happen in Canberra and all the things their dad would be up to, just as no politician's children would know every single thing that the politician does at work,

Alan Vest

He has been a decent player in the past, having progressed through the Institute of Sport in Canberra but things have not worked out here. Daniel has got an opportunity now to get sorted out with perhaps a Victorian State League team and get himself back to fitness and show another A-League team that he is worthy of a contract for next season.

Judy Horacek

While Melbourne and Sydney fight about who wears Australia's cultural crown, Canberra just gets on with it.

John Connolly

We'll definitely look to have a public training session of some description and while it's too early to say where we'll be training, this is certainly something the people of Canberra and surrounding region can look forward to.

John Connolly

We'll definitely look to have a public training session of some description and, while it's too early to say where we'll be training, this is certainly something the people of Canberra and surrounding region can look forward to.

John Henry Carver

In Canberra my vision of what could happen in nuclear physics really depended on the big successes we might have had in the particle physics area.

Judy Horacek

Canberra was my home for many years, and there's a lot to love about it. It has a small population with a strong sense of community and is top-heavy with interesting, highly educated, socially progressive people - the opposite of the stereotypical image of dull public servants.

John Connolly

The Canberra winter should provide the perfect conditions to prepare for the Eden Park Test. Already this year we've looked at spending more time in Test match cities and preparing in the conditions we can expect on match days.

Councilman Lopez

Our own people are going to other cities because we can't provide our own fields.

Jenny Williams

Our New York office, ... went to all the major music cities and said, 'Do you want to show us?' Cleveland got the most petitions and raised the most money.

Susan Williams

Sports as economic development has been a good deal for Indianapolis. It's now become a critical economic measure for our city, which we have to retain. Lots of cities are looking at this and want what we have.

Giovanni Peri

Our work shows that cities with more diversity -- more immigrants -- in the work force exhibit higher productivity for the American-born employees.

Laura Bush

Out of this rubble is going to come some good, ... Out of this devastation is going to come new cities and new hope.

Jim Bennett

Pinellas is probably a huge headache because you have 24 cities and the county that they have to negotiate with.

Barry McGee

That's immediately how I gauge how healthy a city is-by the amount of tags. It's just in direct competition with advertising. It's still one of the last things that hasn't been corrupted.

Billy Corgan

I often have deer on my property and there's a fox and owls. You're not going to see that in the city.

Bethany McLean

No city embraced privatization more eagerly than Chicago, where I live.

Mark Oline

Recent incentive programs have established lower market pricing that makes GM increasingly vulnerable to volume declines which could occur as a result of a decline in economic conditions or simply a sustained falloff following recent industry sales spikes.

Pierre Beaudoin

Present market conditions do not justify the launch.

David Phillips

Our reputation as the great white north, the land of ice and snow, may be at risk here because what we have seen is rather anomalous weather conditions for the last year particularly.

Peter Reith

Part of the process for SingTel will be to get a guarantee that those export licenses will be granted, and it will be one of the conditions placed on the sale,

S. Hughes

Optimism remains, and the conditions supporting stock gains through the end of the year are still good. The economy continues to recover and the interest rate environment is still good, but I have to think that March could be a challenging month.

Kaoru Yosano

People need to know what kind of economic conditions will ensue for their businesses. The BOJ has the obligation to explain policy clearly.

Robin Prunty

States are in much better financial conditions than several years ago.

Gene Blaum

State crews were out by noon on Saturday, and snow was sticking on the grass by about 3 p.m.. Conditions on the roadways were good until 7 or 8 p.m., when the temperatures started to go down.

Guus Hiddink

Some of the squad were there four years ago so they know what to expect, they have experienced the conditions they will be playing under.

Barry Lopez

Eden is a conversation. It is the conversation of the human with the Divine. And it is the reverberations of that conversation that create a sense of place. It is not a thing, Eden, but a pattern of relationships, made visible in conversation. To live in Eden is to live in the midst of good relations, of just relations scrupulously attended to, imaginatively maintained through time. Altogether we call this beauty.

Ann Voskamp

I think the fall in Eden was ultimately a failure to give thanks.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

We have not the innocence of Eden; but by God's help and Christ's example we may have the victory of Gethsemane.

Dean Koontz

This world, which has the potential to be Eden, is instead the hell before Hell. In our arrogance, we have made it so.

George Meredith

Sweet as Eden is the air, / And Eden-sweet the ray.

Sherman Alexie

A lot of people have no idea that right now Y.A. (young adult). is the Garden of Eden of literature.

Henry Ward Beecher

There was never such a gigantic lie told as the fable of the Garden of Eden

J. R. R. Tolkien

We all long for Eden, and we are constantly glimpsing it: our whole nature at its best and least corrupted, its gentlest and most human, is still soaked with the sense of exile.

Mark Twain

Wheresoever she was, there was Eden.

Rosevelt Colvin

Regardless of who's on the field, the guys are required to perform at a high level. So, regardless if it's Richard or if it's a rookie, you're expected to get the job done.

Van Velde

Regardless of the reason, we have the right to expect better from such a prominent member of the Iowa State community.

Tomokatsu Mori

Recent gains suggest to me that shares are rising too fast and it's natural to expect selling.

Peter Volk

Our rescue workers are expecting not just seriously injured people, but also people suffering from hypothermia.

Andy Fisher

Our outlook as we go forward into '06 is that we expect there to be a good IPO market.

Gary Thomas

Patients expect pharmacists ought to know about this thing. My God, it's your business!

Paul Jury

Part of the reason why Willingham didn't have a long tenure is because he followed a mediocre coach, ... You can't follow years of mediocrity and expect to get top high school recruits. The UW will have the same problem.

Tim Connelly

Part of the reason why Stephanie was so successful last year was that she knew she had to step up. Molly wasn't going to be able to get it done and Stephanie looked at the situation and said 'I'm going to get it done.' She's been a great leader ever since she's been here. Last year, she finally had all the pieces together where she could do it on the track, too. What I expect of her isn't any more than she expects of herself. She expects to improve.

Dan Jones

Pay-TV needs top-level football as much as football needs Pay-TV's revenues, and therefore we expect broadcasting revenues for the 'best properties' to hold their values.

Joe Godinho

Parker looked real sharp and was real aggressive.

Liz Walton

Some of these wonderful little stops were not things that we looked for the same way.

Chad Johnson

Our press looked very good. At times it seemed like we could turn it on when we wanted to and be up by 20.

Fernando Pisani

We never looked at it like that. We just said, 'Let's keep playing like we're playing.' We played a patient game.

Mike Snyder

We never looked at aerial or ownership maps. I do that on purpose because I don't want to know. I don't want to be influenced.

David Gant

I whipped them all. They looked like grasshoppers.

Wendy Hall

I think they looked like they had a little doubt. They looked a little lethargic at times.

Roy Blumberg

I think they're probably somewhat disappointed. They probably looked at their portfolio and said, I didn't do as well as the Dow. I made money, but I'm kind of disappointed.

Rick Adelman

I think the Spurs are going to play the same no matter who's out there. When I looked at the tape, I thought it's possible they'll send a message and (upgrade) it to a flagrant foul, but I had no idea they would suspend him.

Jim Collins

Regular radio can't match the scope that we can. Even if and when they do go digital, we offer nationwide service and 120 channels. They just can't scale to that level.

Massimo Moratti

Mancini will stay with us ... Adriano will have to play well in the remaining matches (of the season) and should stay with us too.

Mark Riley

We never thought about winning nine matches in a row. If we just do the little things properly, it should be enough -- it will be enough.

Todd Cheney

That was a swing match for our team, because it really turned the momentum.

Eric Osmer

That was where the match swung. We just got on a roll after that. Nobody was going to stop us.

Brock Waughen

That was the big match for me to get through. I did it.

John M. Smith

That was real important, those two wins there. Maybe in the big picture at the end, those two matches might have made the difference.

Bob Kluba

That was a match in which nothing went right for us.

Jim Butler

That's two matches in a row that they have come through for us. That's kind of why I have them back there.

Richard Wing

Parking in particular is a problem for us at the south campus.

Bob Hartwig

Parking (at South Medford) is an issue, especially with the stadium there.

Steve Frank

Parker comforted them. He was quiet and gentle. He was what they needed.

Evelyn Smith

Our street has become a parking lot. That's what it is.

Rick Moore

People who try to do the right thing and not park their RVs in the street have very little alternatives within the city.

Pablo Mastroeni

I think the misconception is that you play a new team, a new franchise, and you think it's going to be a walk in the park when they have nothing to shoot for,

Andrew Spano

It is one of the safest parks in the world.

Joseph Lowery

I was here when Rosa Parks started and I just wanted to be here when she departed,

Tim Smith

I?d like to get this person ID?d. I want to find out what they were doing in a parking garage.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.

B. J. Novak

Perfect. Why was this so hard to find?”The other type of perfect is the type you never could have expected and then could never replicate.

Azzedine Alaia

Perfection is never achieved, so you need to go on working.

Cecelia Ahern

Nobody's life is filled with perfect little moments. And if it were, they wouldn't be perfect little moments. They would just be normal. How would you ever know happiness if you never experience downs?

Cecelia Ahern

You all looked so happy together in the photograph. You looked like the perfect family. Is there such a thing anymore because if there is, my happy little unit was definitely not in the queue when they were handing out the titles.

Bill Bryson

Most of the time I am sunk in thought, but at some point on each walk there comes a moment when I look up and notice, with a kind of first-time astonishment, the amazing complex delicacy of the words, the casual ease with which elemental things come together to form a composition that is—whatever the season, wherever I put my besotted gaze—perfect.

Anton Corbijn

Grain is life, there's all this striving for perfection with digital stuff. Striving is fine, but getting there is not great. I want a sense of the human and that is what breathes life into a picture. For me, imperfection is perfection.

and City

I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it.

Kevan Barlow

Regardless if it's Terrell Owens or Marvin Harrison, we are going to prepare the same way.

C. S. Lewis

Whatever you do, He will make good of it. But not the good He had prepared for you if you had obeyed him.

Steven Smith

I think the schools are prepared for some reduction.

Mike Rader

That was a simple little thing to throw at them, but that's why we prepare for it.

Dan McTeague

I think they were better prepared for this.

Marc Shapiro

I wish I could tell you, ... We're cooperating with all investigations, and we're prepared to do that as long as it takes.

Billy Corgan

I think rock & roll has prepared me for a lot of flexibility.

Mike Degory

It is early. It's an excuse. We have to prepare better.

Sue Ellett

I didn't want to prepare for that, so I didn't. I just told them I was so proud of them, all the things they went through.

Gary Pinkel

He has been preparing for this season since January.

Alvin Wyatt

McCloud is the quarterback for this week. He's the quarterback we're preparing to go with.

Buddy Bell

We're going about it, quite frankly, that Zack is not going to be here in time to get ready for the rotation. We pretty much are preparing for the worst right now. That could change. I don't think it will.

Alex Pettyfer

Look, every actor has a different way of preparing or creating a character and yeah, we all are from different backgrounds.

Charli Thorne

We don't have to adjust. We've been preparing for this.

Catherine Deneuve

You're better off not preparing, because what you prepare will always be wrong.

Robert Janssen

We are preparing like this thing is going to go (to trial).

Alison Jackson

When I am preparing my 'lookalike' photographs, I think about the character of the real people, because, if the photographs are going to be plausible, you have to convince the viewer that they could have happened.

Bob Bratkowski

In my mind, we were preparing not to have him since workouts in the spring. If we did have him, it would have been a bonus.

Josh Duncan

It is huge. Another win provides more motivation. We'll keep going.

Tom Zilla

I thought it provided a lot of justification for making the improvements.

Paul O'Grady

I can eat beef, provided it's minced in disguise. I couldn't eat a gammon steak. Forget it.

Fred Becker

I think it's always important to think about what the other side is going to do before you do something or how the other side is going to react, and he will be able to provide that to our thought process.

Amy Gabriel

We have to be able to provide these services.

Andrew Krepinevich

If they're not ready to provide security, there could be a regression.

Gary Bartlett

If they provide some information, they may not have to come.

Andy Brandt

If we can go out and provide a spark for our team, then we feel like we're doing on our job.

Tom Casey

If this provides them with a justification to release Jill, that would be wonderful, but we are not sure it will. We just want her released by any means.

Craig Benson

I don't think anyone's pushing for spending limits in the campaign.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

know that there has to be a spending limit.

Jack Morgan

If they end up spending 4 or 5 weeks there, it won't surprise me.

William J. H. Boetcker

You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.

Leon Wieseltier

I was not interested in spending 10 years in the culture wars.

Carmen Busquets

I was always into fashion, and used to go on spending sprees when I was a university student in Miami. My father would be furious, but I would always say, 'It was an emergency! I had a party to go to!'

John Faso

I would look to put state spending on a diet.

Dan Cooper

We'll look at the spending cap. We have to look at the legislation that was passed.

Jason Chaffetz

Federal spending is atrocious.

C. S. Lewis

Power to translate is the test of having really understood one's own meaning.

Antoine Lavoisier

We must trust to nothing but facts: These are presented to us by Nature, and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance, to submit our reasoning to the test of experiment, and never to search for truth but by the natural road of experiment and observation.

Arne Ljungqvist

The athletes, to my knowledge, have been tested before they left.

Dan Fellman

I think this is going to be a test for the studios,

Pat Descher

Because of the hurricane, McDonald's said we could be a test market.

Steve Segadelli

If anything has tested us this year, it's been a big team.

Anton LaVey

The true test of anyone's worth as a living creature is how much he can utilize what he has.

Alex Rodriguez

I got tested a little bit. I'm still a little sore.

Luca Colajanni

He has not tested because of the rain.

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.

Carl Sagan

If the greenhouse effect is a blanket in which we wrap ourselves to keep warm, nuclear winter kicks the blanket off.

Carl Jung

The other side of midnight’s hour strikes a herald thrice rung Seer, Shadow, Sun—together they come Sixteen winters hence—the light shall be eclipsed Leaving darkness to ascend beneath a sky bleeding fire

Dave Mattson

If they keep this up for years they are going to completely wipe out winter tourism.

Chris Frantz

You don't want to spend much time in Germany or even France in the winter unless you're in the Alps.

Carroll Quigley

By the winter of 1945-1946, the Russian peoples were being warned of the dangers from the West

Brandon Jay McLaren

I would say just the weather in Vancouver in the winter can be kind of unforgiving.

Atom Egoyan

One of the huge advantages of shooting in the winter is that locations that wouldn't have been available to us suddenly were, like Yorkville. ... It's just specific streets and specific angles. I think that's what's always kind of shocking about some cities: they are really about intersections.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

Winter blues are cured every time with a potato gratin paired with a roast chicken.

Alfred Stieglitz

My picture, Fifth Avenue, Winter is the result of a three hours' stand during a fierce snow-storm on February 22nd 1893, awaiting the proper moment. My patience was duly rewarded. Of course, the result contained an element of chance, as I might have stood there for hours without succeeding in getting the desired pictures.

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!