Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cheri Cihak

Regardless of what the state law says, parents should not allow their teen to ride with other teen drivers, nor should they be allowed to transport other teens in the first year of driving. It's tempting to be lured by the convenience of having other options for getting kids to and from school and practices, but the risks are just too great.

Neil Roberts

Referee says you're allowed to do that once. Each guy is allowed to do that once, what can you say - that's what the referee says. You're allowed one shot apiece, and I guess if you use 18, 20 guys, you're allowed 20 shots like that.

Brian Nick

Re-electing Senator Byrd will allow him to continue to preach his blame America first agenda.

Christian Marclay

'Record Without A Cover' was about allowing the medium to come through, making a record that was not a document of a performance but a record that could change with time, and would be different from one copy to the next.

Janeen Koconis

Really, what's happening at its most profound level is that (a) folded piece of paper is allowing for a link or a bridge or a connection between the person sending and the person receiving it.

Abdul Raoulf

Rejecting Islam is insulting God. We will not allow God to be humiliated. This man must die.

Dean Schnurr

Previously, we had hall monitors who weren't allowed to physically intervene in altercations or do a lot of the things our current safety officers are able to do.

Rosemary Wyse

Our research focuses on the oldest stars, and probes the earliest phases of the evolution of our home galaxy, the Milky Way. The unprecedented sample available with RAVE will allow me -- and now, with the release of this data, others -- to test ideas of our origins laid out by various cosmological theories.

John Stewart

Our position is this is something our customers want, and since when does a government tell companies how to market? We hope our government will come to its senses and allow us to do this.

Alan Wright

Refineries in Texas did not take a direct hit from Rita, but the energy grids in that area were effected, and power has not been restored to those refineries.

Richard Preston

Redwoods have an enormous surface area that extends upward into space because they have a propensity to do something called reiteration. A redwood is a fractal. And as they put out limbs, the limbs burst into small trees, copies of the redwood.

Mike Shockley

Recommendations included changes in several areas of energy expenses.

Gerry Fleming

Reggie has done a lot of things away from the play as far as his defensive play and his play without the puck. He's been in areas and made some big plays without the puck as well.

Bob Noun

President Bush's proposed budget will not have an impact this year. The current situation is we still have to lay off between 30 to 40 employees. But we are encouraged by the areas that were covered by the president.

Stephanie Williams

Preserving farmland and preserving the farming enterprise must go hand-in-hand. By working with Cumberland County Economic Development, we are able to help ensure that area farms become preserved, and remain competitive, for generations to come.

Irene Toner

Our policy is to call for a general evacuation in areas that might be prone to Category 3 impacts.

Hassan Nasrallah

Our policy is clear, we are fighting in an area that is still under occupation in Lebanon. And beyond that area, we are on the defensive.

Mike Ruddock

Our passing, tackling, lineout and tackle area play all need to be improved,

Yo-Yo Ma

Our (nation's) cultural strength has always been derived from our diversity of understanding and experience.

Koichiro Matsuura

Managing water is as much cultural as technical, reflecting how peoples and communities relate themselves to nature.

John Bolton

Management reform is not a one-night stand. Management reform is forever. What we really need is a cultural revolution in terms of reform at the United Nations,

Akira Kurosawa

Japan does not understand very well that one of its proudest cultural achievements is in film,

Donald Harrison

Jazz is cultural music in New Orleans. It's part of the fabric of everyday life, and everybody knows the music. It's always going to be a part of it.

Jane Fonda

The '60s may be idealized in the movie from a cultural point of view, but the decade was all about discord and a big generational split that was very painful.

Bob Dixon

I think that was a contribution to the community, an enlightening cultural exchange,

Jay Chism

It is important that a good sales staff know which product works on what pest. It is also important for retailers to know when to recommend good cultural practices. Not every problem in the home landscape can be cured from a pesticide bottle.

Sam Brownback

I think the next president needs to lead on cultural issues and experience, particularly on foreign policy.

Jan Wright

I think he gives us a little window into what it took to be a pioneer in terms of the material cultures and the thought processes that went into voting and where he gave his business.

Edward Hirsch

There are still many tribal cultures where poetry and song, there is just one word for them. There are other cultures with literacy where poetry and song are distinguished. But poetry always remembers that it has its origins in music.

Desarae Garland

I expected a lot of parties, different cultures and seeing people sticking with others from their hometown.

John Gallagher

One very important secondary set of skills people learn is how to manage a large-scale project with a globally distributed team, usually made up of people from different cultures and different countries,

Eden Sher

I would love to be able to see as much of the world as possible, and volunteering, doing things in another community, living with a host family, are really effective ways to learn about cultures different from your own. And also to not feel lazy.

Gloria Steinem

Rich cultures, patriarchal cultures, value thin women, like ours; poor ones value fat women. But all patriarchal cultures value weak women. So for women to become physically strong is very profound.

Orhan Pamuk

We should not judge Islam by terrorists. All civilizations and cultures produce terrorists. Every time there is a flag-burning, killing, or provocative films, I'm worried, not because something radical will happen, and this time, some people are killed. We're very sorry for that.

Brian Sewell

Thatcher knew nothing of the European customs and cultures with which we were allied,

Andy Garcia

When I met him, he seemed to me a humble man who spoke through his music, and that's the way he's always been, ... He dedicated his life to his music and his art, which transcends cultures and even age.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

REASON, v.i. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire.

Sharon Cannon

Part of it is a desire for lifelong learning. Part of it is for a job requirement. Part of it is for educational goals. Some of it is to earn more money.

Bill Watterson

Such is American business, I guess, where the desire for obscene profit mutes any discussion of conscience.

Christine McVie

Suddenly the desire to write tricked back into my life again, not that I would want to tour or go on the road. Once you have been writing all of your life, it is part of what you do. What else do you do?

Paul Jewell

Overall, I thought we were more than worth a point, we showed great determination and desire not to lose the game.

Ken Williams

Our ultimate desire ... was to keep this team intact. It may turn out that someone overwhelms us with an offer for Jose.

Dennis Hastert

out of respect for the office of the presidency and for a desire to hear about the state of our nation.

Debra Roberts

Remove the shackles from me and set me free, free to be the woman you desire me to be.

Thomas Bauer

Reserves can't have any role in earnings targets or the desire to meet an earnings target.

Dave Jones

Reckless driving is operating a vehicle in a speed or manner likely to endanger other drivers.

Paul Saleh

Recent strength in monthly revenue, coupled with solid subscriber additions, is driving excellent top-line growth in our business.

Ray Tyson

Our researchers are working out a ranking system now. This is an important category, though, if you do a lot of night driving or if your vision is starting to diminish.

John Dilling

People just aren't paying attention. They're driving too fast and not paying attention.

Nate Robertson

Some of these guys, they're still driving home. They're not even home yet and they're finding out all this news. I've been part of this system for three years, and it's a shock to you. It's tough.

Mercedes Pascual

Our results do not mean that temperature is the only or the main factor driving the increase in malaria, but that it is one of many factors that should be considered.

Mary Barra

Our goal is to make General Motors the most valuable automotive company. Clearly, that is having sustainable profitability and driving great returns for our shareholders.

Ron Bersani

I think there are a small number of very powerful members of the House who have never supported increased penalties for drunk driving and they don't support them now.

Alex Turner

Last year at this time, we were driving around playing shows near Sheffield. Now, it feels like we'll at least have a go at it.

Bill Ritter

People in government are not using that legitimate power of government to protect the environment.

Larry Campbell

Some people can put up with the pressure of being locked up in a maximum-security environment with a large number of prisoners, and some can't, ... You really don't know until you put them in that situation. I think his size will be a great help to him.

John Lynch

Our state's beautiful natural environment is part of why we all love and live in New Hampshire. It is also one of our state's most important economic assets.

Charles Stiles

Our focus and goal here is to provide a safer and more secure environment for our consumers, and restore some trust in the e-mail inbox.

John Butters

Overall, the preannouncement environment is still positive but if this round of warnings continues, that's a red flag,

Michael Robinson

Reruns is not located in a typical retail environment. People are expecting to see a lawyer's office, not a kids' shop, in that part of town.

Bill Hilf

Managing Linux in a mixed environment ... at Microsoft? A look inside the Linux/Open Source Software Lab at Microsoft.

B. F. Skinner

Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?

Andrew Barrett

Well, as long as they're able to keep the pricing environment, ... If they can keep a moderate pricing environment in this competitive landscape that they're in, they can get that stock probably back up to 55, maybe even up to 60.

Connie Mack

received specific assurances from the president of the United States that force would not be used in the middle of the night. Clearly, that pledge was broken.

Pat Cleland

Patrick's steadily improved all year. He keeps getting better. He was a force inside.

Dror Etkes

Our message to the government is that if you won't take responsibility to uphold the law, we will force you to do so.

Allison Davis

Our motivation was to just keep pressing and force turnovers. Our starters picked it up in the second half and considering we played without one of starters, it forced us to rely more on our backcourt.

Nazmul Hoque

Such a sudden notice to the dealers has forced them to stop selling of the fuel to the customers.

Mircea Geoana

surprised with the deployment of security forces ... without consultation of the international community.

Scott Taylor

Our press saved us and forced a lot of turnovers.

Jeff Arntson

Our plan was to punch it inside to Katie (Daly), take away the high post and force CMR to play half court. Our girls did a great job. They hung in there.

Jim Waters

Our security forces did their job and prevented something from happening that was much worse,

Steve Kolenda

We're just forming this on our own. We're just going to give people another voice.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

To get the most from agricultural resources, poor farmers' needs must come first, guiding investment strategies and forming the yardstick for gauging results.

Brent Trout

This would be another step for Boone in biotech and value-added agriculture to push that marketing niche we're forming in our community.

John Newton

I think a lot of it is a forming of attitudes. I think, primarily, they know our name but they don't know much about us.

John Irving

I think better of our behaviour as individuals than I do when we see ourselves as members of a group. It's when people start forming groups that we have to watch our backs.

Shawn Amos

'Morsel' is a perfect word. Forming those six letters on the lips and tongue prompts an instantaneous physiological reaction. The mouth waters. The lips purse.

Scott Sandelin

You always talk about a team forming an identity. You know, I don't know if we have yet. It's kind of a mystery.

Phil Hardberger

Nobody is tied to a special interest, none that I can discern, which means they are all independent, and that is so important to forming a team, because if you have somebody who is sold out to a special interest they're never going to get along.

Elizabeth Thornton

Our brains have the ability to reorganize themselves by forming new neural connections throughout our lives. This ability is called neuroplasticity.

Lindsay Sanderson

Regan is going to be a great addition. He's a man and can go to the net. He also has a rocket from the outside. He'll be a big threat to the other teams.

M. J. Rose

Recognize that the great majority of us aren't trained actors and entertainers. Usually, it's not our faces, our bodies, our personas or our stage presence that sells our books. It's our stories, our visions and our voices.

Brian Smith

Reid just had a great tournament. Pinning the No. 1 see and the No. 3 seed - just great.

Anatole France

Religion has done love a great servive by making it a sin.

Douglas Laycock

Religion and morality are playing a greater role than they did 20 years ago.

Nadia Petrova

Our parents made great sacrifices and that is the main reason why many of the Russians are at the top today.

Tiki Barber

Our quarterback is playing so great right now. You can see how he's improving exponentially each week.

Source Unknown

Ordinary people think merely of spending time. Great people think of using it.

Paul Vachon

(Parker) is a great player. She's what everyone said she was.

John Reid

Parties -- and the paramilitary groups -- have to play their part

Louis Navellier

Optimization tells us precisely how to diversify the portfolio, whether I should have 12% in semiconductors or 4% in biotech, etc., and it literally tells me how to diversify not only the industry groups but the stocks.

Ryan Julison

Some of these groups have legitimate concerns. Some just oppose development.

Jennifer Best

Some groups are worried that, if that happens, they won't have the volunteers they need.

Bob DuPuy

plans to talk to people involved with various groups he does not know. After that, we should be in a better position to make a recommendation.

Bill Dixon

Most of my recorded material has been in small group configurations. I have not released large orchestral works as recordings because it hasn't been within the realm of possibility.

Bill Peterson

I want you guys to pair up in groups of three and then line up in a circle.

Jeffrey Osborne

I think if you look back at the lead singers that left groups that didn't make it, you'll see that a lot of them were songwriters like Lionel Richie. I mean, they were able to control their own destiny.

Richard Young

I think it's human nature that we all tend to do much better in groups than we do alone.

Stacy Schiff

Insofar as there is an anxiety of influence for a biographer, it may be that each new book is undertaken in reaction to the previous book.

Craig Bradley

Parking here is worse than on many other large campuses.

Tom Daschle

That cozy, permissive relationship has to end, and he in large measure has orchestrated that over he last 18 months,

Jeff Davis

Our players, because they travel a lot, are not shocked at tournament time playing away from home. The larger leagues that play between themselves are surprised come tournament time because they're seeing pitchers they've never seen before.

Hans Vestberg

Our take was that if we are going to support our customers, we have to help them with video distribution, whether that is iPad, TV, small screen or large screen.

Danny Shader

Overall, the situation is going nuts. We are getting a very large number of inquiries.

William Diamond

Our upholsterer teased us about the scale of the sofa. He says it's the largest sofa that he has ever made.

Sam Moore

Remember, I'm your largest shareholder. Don't screw it up,

Bette Davis

I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable... I suppose I'm larger than life.

Mike Chung

Large trucks have been so much more inexpensive recently.

Brendan Wilders

Overall, my putative numbers will come down just slightly.

Tony Batista

I'm here, that's what I can say. I know for sure the numbers are going to come. You just have to wait, but I know at the end of the season the numbers are going to be there.

Barry McCaffrey

So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.

Barry McGuire

You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't. There's just no rhyme or reason.

B. F. Skinner

If the world is to save any part of its resources for the future, it must reduce not only consumption but the number of consumers.

Bhumibol Adulyadej

It could be argued that, in Thailand, many foreigners have come and gone, and the number of people who are considered to be Thai have traveled abroad in a great number.

C. S. Lewis

The first fact in the history of Christendom is a number of people who say they have seen the Resurrection.

C. S. Lewis

The Intelligentsia (scientists apart) are losing all touch with, and all influence over, nearly the whole human race. Our most esteemed poets and critics are read by our most esteemed critics and poets (who don't usually like them much) and nobody else takes any notice. An increasing number of highly literate people simply ignore what the 'Highbrows' are doing. It says nothing to them. The Highbrows in return ignore and insult them.

Cecelia Ahern

Age is just a number, not a state of mind or a reason for any type of particular behaviour.

Alan Miller

Our reporter on the scene talked personally to the governor, who told her the 12 were alive.

Claudia Vercellotti

Participating in the legislative process has been personally devastating and a rude awakening. We never stood a chance.

Paul Meyer

Success is the progressive realization of worthwhile, predetermined, personal goals.

Thomas A. Edison

Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.

Philip Gonsalves

Some of the showers could be a little heavy, but only for short periods of time.

David Beamer

Our personal reaction was one of relief, because they got it right.

Holly Hatton

Our performance was not good. We weren't in it from the beginning.

Randy Jepson

Our performance as a whole was not that bad. We weren't outstanding, but we weren't poor either.

Andrew Ference

Our second period was awful. We started to play too much of their style.

Wen Jiabao

There is still educational disparity between different regions and between rural and urban areas,

Klaus Steinbach

Those two regions have the strongest infrastructure for winter sport.

Richard Engel

Not surprisingly, in most Sunni regions there has little appetite for free U.S.-sponsored elections.

Vaclav Havel

But if I were to say who influenced me most, then I'd say Franz Kafka. And his works were always anchored in the Central European region.

Vladimir Nabokov

Nymphets do not occur in polar regions.

Sebastian Stan

Embrace your differences and the qualities about you that you think are weird. Eventually, they're going to be the only things separating you from everyone else.

Norman Cook

On top of the horror of separating from your wife, you have to go through it in public.

Joe Humasti

If you look at the scores, there's only 24 strokes separating first and sixth place. That's not a lot of strokes.

Adrienne Rich

I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from "Splittings

Harold Washington

I am not interested in splitting the white vote.

Scott Westerfeld

You're splitting?" "No sh*it, Sherlock.

Bhumibol Adulyadej

In Thailand's history there have been dissensions from time to time, but in general, unity has prevailed.

Bianca Jagger

The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.

Bill Vaughan

Flexibility is indispensable in the talks, .. Only if (the DPRK and the United States) show flexibility, it is possible to reach compromise.

H. Hunt

I don't know of it being in this county, but I do know it's in the western United States.

F. Lee Bailey

I can get a firestorm going anywhere in the United States by saying 'O.J.'

Stephen Pope

He's been the most beleaguered of any archbishop in the United States. It's like a battlefield promotion.

Blaise Pascal

Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny.

Al Green

Pakistan's being an ally and helping the United States, we ought to show Pakistan that we are appreciative for the help that's been extended.

Beth Robertson

One of the things we know is that this is a worldwide trend. It's not just in the United States.