Famous Quotes & Sayings

Katie McGrath

My friend once sculpted me a bust of Admiral Ackbar from 'Star Wars.' He's my favourite character in the films after Han Solo. He's that goldfish-type alien in the white costume. 'It's a trap!' I'm a big geek.

Gore Vidal

Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel's thriller 'Seven Days in May,' later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House.

C. Wright Mills

The nearest the modern general or admiral comes to a small-arms encounter of any sort is at a duck hunt in the company of corporation executives at the retreat of Continental Motors, Inc.

Simon Newcomb

On the retirement of Admiral Sands in 1874, Admiral Davis returned to the observatory, and continued in charge until his death in February, 1877.

David Vitter

On the positive side, I'm very impressed so far with Vice Admiral Allen,

Bob Giuliani

I didn't know what to do. I'd never seen an admiral before.

Christopher Columbus

At sunset Martin Alonzo called out with great joy from his vessel that he saw land, and demanded of the Admiral a reward for his intelligence.

Susan Collins

Vice Admiral Thad Allen is a strong choice, ... He is a highly respected leader who should be very effective in improving the coordination of assistance for the hundreds of thousands of individuals and their families who were affected by the hurricane.

Michael Chertoff

Vice Admiral Allen is doing an exceptional job, and he has my full support in the important work ahead,

Mike Holmgren

Patience. I thanked Paul for being patient with me in a rather volatile business, to allow your coaches to build something and to believe in them. You don't always see it as much as you should in this business, and he has been great for me. With the patience Mr. Allen has shown me, he gave me a chance to stand on the podium.

Darrell Jackson

Stacey did a good job and she had an outstanding defensive performance behind her. Cynthia Allen made three spectacular catches in the field. She made those catches you don't expect from your players, but you are happy to get them.

Bruce Missett

I think the most encouraging part of what they're doing is that they have had now a certain amount of incremental time since Allen came on board to upgrade the executive suite, so to speak. The people are very experienced people that have a better sense of how a centrally managed business works.

Jerry Kill

It is amazing what Allen has done for us this spring, as far as learning our offense. And he is a tremendous athlete -- one of the best on our team.

Dick Vermeil

Jared Allen was very special. He has such an unbelievable motor. You expect him to run out of gas, and he just keeps humming.

Sammy Knight

Jared Allen played a great game for us, ... He was all over the field making plays.

William Jarvis

Jim Joel, Lord Howard de Walden, Nicky Phillips and Mrs Doris Allen were very hard to replace. The times are changing and we're moving with it. We're getting up back up there.

Maurice Cheeks

Kyle got beat a couple times, but he can change the game. He spreads the floor and gives Allen more room to operate. They have to make a decision who's going to beat 'em.

Victoria Sublette

It is impossible to think there is any other search firm as completely in tune with who we are in Allen and the good things we're trying to do for the kids as the Horn, Smith and Wood team would be.

Mark Hogan

Our new guys are going to have to hit well, because we're full of new guys.

Michelle Theall

Our mission is to inspire and inform women to live life to the fullest through outdoor adventures.

Dan Brooks

People meant a lot to her. She always wanted to touch people. Maria was just full of life. She had a lot of heart.

Audrey MacLean

Starting a company is like going to war. You can't do anything else but be fully engaged. You have to be insanely, passionately, nothing-can-stop-me committed.

Paul Horsnell

Some of these refineries will not be back to full operation, perhaps well into next year.

Tim McGillivray

Some of our schools are more full than others, so you can't always place them at their neighborhood school.

Alex Smith

Our school system needs a fully funded gifted program.

Peter Schnorr

Our goal is to get a full day -- 10 hours -- of active, pen-down writing.

Richard Clarke

Our goal is by the third week in October to open the full 20.9 miles of road for travel.

Frank Bennett

Part of it was to support the facility,

Hank Aaron

I'm here to support the commissioner and tougher drug penalties.

Kim Coble

We need a much more supportive infrastructure for farming.

Carl Sagan

Our concern for the future can be tested by how well we support our libraries.

Art Alexakis

Success to me is being able to do what I love, make a living at it and to support myself and the ones I love.

Homer Thompson

I was always in support of the coach.

Debbie Smith

I think the winds are changing. We're all tired of supporting the scandals.

Michael Campbell

I think it's the Polynesian connection. I have a lot of support here and it's wonderful.

Rafa Benitez

I was with our supporters at the end. I could see him but he didn't want to.

Bergen Evans

The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all.

Antoine Rivarol

There is even the dignity of vice.

Matt Mullenweg

Just because someone uses Twitter doesn't mean they shouldn't use WordPress, and vice versa.

Dan Rather

I don't want to be argumentative, Mr. Vice President.

Juvenal

No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap

Benjamin Disraeli

What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.

Elfriede Jelinek

Vice is basically the love of failure.

Augustus Hare

Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.

Dev Hynes

Yeah, I associate every sound with a color and vice versa.

John Nersesian

Rebalancing doesn't work every time. It works over time.

Mac McCabe

Our participants can work just as well as you or I.

Romesh Gunesekera

Sri Lanka is a part of my background: it's not where I live, but it's what I want to explore. And I find it works very well to explore through fiction.

Jim Coyne

Some of the work is in dispute. Hopefully, it will be settled.

David Frum

Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us and now we're discovering we work for Fox.

Barry Ritholtz

The market is going to love it. The market always seems to applaud major mergers, even though the vast majority of them don't work out and don't increase shareholder value.

David Burnett

Well a little disappointed but we'll work with what we have to work with.

Bill Cosby

There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right.

Big Pun

I'd rather sell reefer than do pizza delivery.