Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Osterholm

Recent clinical, epidemiological and laboratory evidence suggests that the impact of a pandemic caused by the current H5N1 strain would be similar to that of the 1918-19 pandemic,

Phil Dow

Rebuilding in the Gulf Coast will be a major focus following the destruction caused by hurricanes in the region. This is yet another demonstration of how resilient the economy has been since Sept. 11, 2001.

Pankaj Mishra

Ordinary Muslims in Europe, who suffer from the demoralisation caused by living as perennial objects of suspicion and contempt, are far from thinking of themselves as a politically powerful, or even cohesive, community, not to speak of conquerors of Europe.

Larry Craig

Our letter has caused movement, but I'm not sure where that movement will lead.

Doug McCrary

Our pressure got to them. Our press caused them some trouble." ()

Dean Rahas

Our pressure forced them to make some mistakes. We were able to jump to a 10-0 start with our pressure. We also caused them to take a lot of contested shots.

David Trimble

Our view is that the review should be tightly focused on something -- that is, focused on the key issues that have caused the difficulties, primarily on decommissioning and also on the question of devolution,

Alan Williamson

rise in inflationary pressures caused by higher energy prices.

George Miller

Republican leaders are shamelessly exploiting the devastation of Hurricane Katrina and the disruption it caused to our energy supplies to promote their long-sought radical energy policy ... (and) devastate vast amounts of America's most prized environmental possessions,

Barry Ritholtz

Regardless of whether this upcoming release shows inflation today, given the supply shock to oil, we're expected to see inflation move higher in the next few months. It would certainly put a fork in the concept that the Fed has the opportunity to pause.

Tomohiko Taniguchi

Regarding these issues, certainly what is most important is to preserve and enhance the peace and stability of the Taiwan Strait.

Dave Vining

Record wise, I knew we would have a winning record coming into this season, but I figured maybe we'd finish around 14-8. We had good kids, seven with experience, but we did much better than I thought we would. We did great, a lot better than expected. I certainly can't complain.

E. B. White

Real world, certain positions come with certain perks, and I'm not opposed to having certain perks as long as there's no hint of impropriety

Fernando Martin

Real will have 99 percent of its squad ready by June 30, that's for certain and will have a new coach in two weeks.

S. Walker

Regrets? Well, certainly I regret that I did that which got me into jail, ... Other than that, no. I've had a very roller coaster life, very roller coaster. And except for that -- which, of course, I regret exceedingly -- boy, no, I don't have any regrets.

Gene Luen Yang

Religion and culture are two important ways in which we as humans find our identity. That's certainly true for me.

Anne Sinclair

Parts of the city have been waiting for their turns for years, and their turn has finally come. I'm not certain that there's a sense on City Council to change direction.

Scott Skiles

Paul pretty much has his way with us the whole night. There are certain rookies who come into this league and are ready to play and he is definitely one of them.

Mark Nardone

Sure it's frustrating. I'm not so sure that Big Red doesn't have something to do with that. It's not like we had all these breakdowns. I'd have to go back to the film to see exactly what we were doing. But sure it's frustrating.

Mickey Blatnik

Our pressure was effective, and that's exactly what we wanted to do. We wanted to make them play our game because we knew we couldn't let them settle into the half-court set.

James Mansinger

Our pitching was really good today. Zane has pitched well all season long, and It's always been there for Clayton. We've just been waiting for him to figure it out, and in his last two starts he's done exactly what he did today. Derek Ward also threw a strong inning for us, and Justin Wells did just what we needed him to do.

Kiki Vandeweghe

Overall, I think that the past incidents, sometimes it's not exactly what it's perceived to be.

Brian Smiley

Overall, there's nearly 2,000 inspection stations in the province of Manitoba, they know exactly what is loose and what isn't loose. They know the guidelines in the inspection handbook, so they follow it.

Shane Black

Robert would come in and read just for the fun of it, and I'd be like, 'Hey, that's exactly what I had in mind,'

Bruce Raynor

Roger is exactly right, and it's an issue worth fighting for.

Spike Jonze

I'm hesitant to make grand statements because I feel like that it's not exactly what I'm writing about.

Kevin Quinn

Mekenzie's running strong. I think Mekenzie's strength today was in the hills and knowing exactly where the hills were on the course.

Kurt Barnard

Rebates are wonderful to the extent that they are executed, regardless of the deficit.

Tom Masters

People have been quite dissatisfied with the extent of consultation that has taken place.

Anthony Chukumba

I was a little surprised that the fourth quarter guidance at the mid-point is a little weaker than people were looking for ... but to some extent that?s nit-picking.

Robert Herzfeld

The allegations are despicable, ... The suspects will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

Matt Mullenweg

I think it's really important for the independent web to have a platform, and to the extent that WordPress can serve that role, I think it's a great privilege and responsibility.

Dr. Roberts

I think time will tell to what extent he recovers from this.

Jim King

I think to the extent that property values go up out there it will have nothing to do with the arena.

Norman Mineta

I think that's just a swag and so to that extent I don't think that will be the case.

Paul Williams

It is likely that many of the organizations reporting an intrusion did not realize the duration, extent or severity of the intrusion, or detected only a portion of multiple separate intrusions during the reporting period.

Jon Brion

Some people are more fluid than others at just being themselves and recognizing what's good about themselves.

Jenny Lewis

I can't imagine how people will react to my music. For me, it's a really fluid process from one record to the next, but it's really up to the listener.

Howard Schnellenberger

He's done well. He's gotten a lot of work and shown he's fluid more than quick.

Eric Gagne

I was fluid today but I didn't throw enough strikes.

Jed Whedon

One of the things that's fun about TV is it grows, and you set goals and aim towards stuff, and one of the writers has an idea, and you say, 'Ooh, that's so much cooler. Let's do that instead.' It's so much more fluid and organic that way, and that's the most fun part about it.

Spencer Roecker

We did what we had to do. It was not a very fluid game, but we needed a win and got it.

Sean Booth

We're more into sort of fluid structures that are simultaneously the most efficient, the most beautiful, and the most engineered. You know what I mean? We like the balance you can get in there.

Tom Halbmaier

I think we never got settled down and got in a fluid motion.

Mark Adams

We were standing around offensively. We were not as fluid or crisp as we were in the first quarter. There was some hesitation there. I'm not sure I know why. It just happens.

Nicky Hilton

Paris is really young at heart - I'm the older one in the relationship. I'm always telling her not to do stuff. If she's wearing something really silly, I'm like, "Don't go out wearing that.

Gerard Warren

Part of me is still in Cleveland. But that's the past. My heart and my mind are in Denver.

Dan Savage

Our people love this product. They put their heart into their work every single day.

Mike Scioscia

Our starting rotation has been the heartbeat of our club,

Vincent Millay

Pity me that the heart is slow to learn / What the swift mind beholds at every turn.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Nothing comes of severity if there be no leanings towards a change of heart. And if there be natural leanings towards a change of heart, what need for severity?

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.What is true is invisible to the eye. It is only with the heart that one can see clearly.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

People where you live," the little prince said, "grow five thousand roses in one garden... yet they don't find what they're looking for... They don't find it," I answered. And yet what they're looking for could be found in a single rose, or a little water..." Of course," I answered. And the little prince added, "But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.

Alan Furst

One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.

Johnny Depp

I wasn't obnoxious or precocious but I was curious. There were a lot of practical jokes. I got on her nerves basically. I pissed her off quite frequently.

Mark Lowe

My nerves are still frazzled. I can't talk without stuttering, muttering and mumbling.

Daniel D. Palmer

Pressure on nerves causes irriatation and tension with deranged functions as a result. Why not release the pressure? Why not adjust the cause instead of treating the effects? Why not?

Alexander Payne

Joe E. Lewis said, 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And that is how I feel about a film being well-received.

Delia Smith

If I was a Mayor, I would sort the traffic out and that includes public transport. The traffic jams really get on my nerves.

Edna Ferber

Emma McChesney was engaged in that nerve-wracking process known as getting things out of the way. When Emma McChesney aimed to get things out of the way she did not use a shovel; she used a road-drag.

Bella Heathcote

I usually have a drink before a carpet because I find them really nerve-racking. Usually a tequila. An upper!

Charles Bukowski

Food is good for the nerves and the spirit. Courage comes from the belly – all else is desperation.

Thomas Bangalter

The only secret to being in control is to have it in the beginning. Retaining control is still hard, but obtaining control is virtually impossible.

Jake Long

I was just tested. Someone was just testing me, and I think I passed all the tests.

Ken Lewis

I wish we had passed the school bonds.

Savvas Halikas

I think he was, 'I'm going to do this, I'm going to do this' and he hyperventilated and passed out.

James Buchanan

Greencastle took us out of our game. We passed well vs. Fannett-Metal, but Greencastle played us physical and made their opportunities.

Tim Zerull

I can't say enough about how well we passed and how well we served and how well we played defense.

Tim Powers

I have more questions than answers. I wonder, could a lot of these teachers have passed this test in the '70s?

Petr Sykora

I don't think we passed any shooting chances. He just made saves. He was the difference.

Sen Brownlee

If it had one more vote it would have passed the Senate.

Chris Clarke

I was saying, 'You've got to get up; you've got to get up,' ... He said, 'I'm getting up.' I went to get help, and when I got back, he'd passed away.

Emma Biel

I worked very hard. Just look at my hands. I'm proof that it isn't work that kills you.

Aristotle

All proofs rest on premises.

Adam Braun

I looked around and acknowledged that what you see around you is proof of what exists within you.

Adam Ereli

The proof will be in the pudding. Let's see what happens.

Jim Sluzewski

The proof will be in the integration of the transition.

John Brady

The proof is in when you look at him,

Jerry Foster

The proof is in the pudding: you have to will what you want.

Bryan Whitman

The proof is in (Hussein's) actions. That would be positive, if it's true.

Kurt Vonnegut

Music is, to me, proof of the existence of God.

Andrew Smith

Our reaction is there is nothing unexpected here.

John Montano

I went to (see) how he'd look and how he was going to react to punches.

Willie Randolph

I don't ever react to stuff like that.

Colin Lee

Jody is very, very disappointed with his reaction

Kate Warne

I think in Toronto we're seeing reaction to the Lucent pre-announcement with Nortel, which is down,

Keith Mitchell

His reaction is a little different. That's one of the reasons he's trying to go after some of those balls. Sometimes you have to know where your infield is.

Rob Blake

He's been great. He's a reaction goalie and he's been on since Day 1 through the whole season. He's a reason their team is up so high.

Martin Wright

He was just standing there -- there was no reaction from him,

Colin Morton

I would be surprised if the stock does not react pretty strongly.

Sydney Wayser

I was 17 when I released my first record. I didn't really figure out what I wanted to say, how to get a message and put it together.

David Wright

I had released all that was worst in me. It was a shame I had to kill them.

Jim Calhoun

I thought at first when he released it, it was going to be good, but it wasn't.

Jack Sheehan

He was immediately released to his place of employment.

Christian Gross

There is a JavaScript that has a lot of these things solved. Nobody's released it.

Lindsey Rice

She was just being released into a world of paranoia, and it wasn't good.

Rob Schneider

We're not getting released in Japan; I know that for a fact,

Alan Rusbridger

We're overjoyed that Rory has been released safe and sound.

Leslie Sloane

Yes, she has been released and she is doing better.

Barry Mann

Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability.

B. R. Ambedkar

For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.

Bill Condon

There's no question that Whale's movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.

Bill Crawford

The most successful form of correction is when the "other" feels informed versus chastised.

Bill Crawford

One key to successful relationships is learning to say "no" without guilt, so that you can say "yes" without resentment.

Bill Cosby

You can't compete with Walmart. But you can have smaller businesses that are successful.

Carrie Snow

Remember that the successful marriage depends on two things: (1) finding the right person and (2) being the right person.

Carrie Underwood

As far as talent goes, we had pretty much everything, and I think that's why this year was so successful.

Carl Sagan

Scientists constantly get clobbered with the idea that we spent 27 billion dollars on the Apollo programs, and are asked "What more do you want?" We didn't spend it; it was done for political reasons. ... Apollo was a response to the Bay of Pigs fiasco and to the successful orbital flight of Yuri Gagarin. President Kennedy's objective was not to find out the origin of the moon by the end of the decade; rather it was to put a man on the moon and bring him back, and we did that.

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.

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!