Famous Quotes & Sayings

Todd Braisted

Refugees attempting to build the blockhouse on the remains of the fort never mounted ... cannons although they may have had at least one with them.

John Loose

Recognizing the many uncertainties about the broader economy, we are carefully walking the line between realism and optimism, ... Although it appears that our revenue stream will improve as the year plays out, the pace and timing of recovery is uncertain.

Tania Graves

Really what it is is focusing on businesses that are core to our strategic plan. These lines of businesses, although profitable ... would thrive better with a company that is more focused in those areas.

Preston Sturges

Paris Singer had vastly more to do with shaping my character than Mother had; although Mother made innumerable sacrifices for me, and Paris Singer made none. I wanted to be like him.

Charlie Glavin

Our October downgrade was based on concerns that are manifesting themselves now, although current conditions are actually worse than we feared,

D. James

Our objective is to make it easy for our customers and members to understand their benefit and get their prescriptions filled. Although some new enrollees may not have received their plan enrollment cards, we want to reassure them that Wal-Mart and SAM'S CLUB pharmacists are ready to help them right away by using the information on their plan enrollment forms.

Richard Hatch

Some of the most amazing human beings on the face of the planet go to sci-fi conventions, although I'm sure a few of them wouldn't admit it.

Henry Blodget

Our preliminary conclusion is that, although Microsoft is not out of the woods, it will be slightly more free to compete on its own terms than we expected it would.

Bob Morton

Our pitch is top-class and the lads enjoy playing on it. I'm sure we are a better team at home although I'm not making any excuses for last Saturday's unexpected defeat at Tow Law Town which was only our third in 29 games.

Mike Williamson

Regardless of the results, we played outstanding in the first. We played at both ends of the ice, shot the puck finally. We didn't get rewarded, but there's not many times you won't if you keep playing like that.

Jim Brandt

Rebecca is within 7 points of qualifying for state and Alyssa is with in 20 points. I see both of them qualifying at GNAC in Hastings.

Tomasz Beer

Reasons for this trend are not really known, but may include a desire to do something rather than do nothing on the part of both physicians and patients. Unfortunately, these men may be enduring significant side effects for an uncertain benefit.

George Washington

Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle

David Wade

Real strength is telling the truth when troops are being killed, and one year later a lot of Americans realize John Kerry had it both right and consistent about Iraq and this president's still got it dead wrong.

Vinny Testaverde

Really, you just hold your breath and hope that he's okay and that it wasn't a concussion. I kind of had one eye on him and one eye on the field because it was obviously a critical situation for us to win the game there. But I guess you could say that we lost on both ends today - losing Wayne and the game.

Andy Reid

Reggie is well deserving of his Hall of Fame induction. In my mind, he will go down as the greatest defensive end in NFL history. He was a great teammate and a fun player to coach. As good as a player as he was on the field, he was an even better person off the field. He left a lasting legacy, both in the NFL and in the community.

Andrew Yang

President Chen has been constrained by both the opposition parties and factions in his own party. I would say President Chen has done a mediocre job on foreign policy, and an equally mediocre job on domestic policy.

Allan Hoffenblum

President Bush is in California for specific reasons that do not involve Governor Schwarzenegger, and the governor is involved in a special election that has nothing to do with the president. Both are having political problems now, so other than cordiality, there's really no reason for them to be together.

Adolfo Perez Esquivel

Reflection is only a partial understanding of truth if it does not translate itself in practice into commitments to the common good and justice. Truth is not mere abstraction but something to be done and is only apprehended when this is realized.

Praveen Khandelwal

Our movement shows what people, united for a common cause, can do even without the support of political parties.

George Simpson

Such gradual transformation is also fairly well exemplified for subfamilies and occasionally for families, as the groups are commonly ranked.

William Teague

Our results suggest that waves in excess of 90 feet are not rogue waves but actually are fairly common during hurricanes.

Michelle Thomas

Our goal isn't to dumb down the rules. It's to use some common sense in what we regulate.

Jaipal Reddy

Our friendship was for a common cause- secularism.

Vladimir Putin

Our two countries share a common position on the international strategic balance, ... In the world today, in the international situation, this position is very important.

Arthur Doyle

Our young friend makes up for many obvious mental lacunae by some measure of primitive common sense, remarked Challenger.

Ron Logan

Right now the competition is such that zero fee in the first year is the most common thing you'll see.

Bill Condon

From its inception by Michael Bennett, 'Dreamgirls' has always been an epic story with an ensemble cast. I didn't change that. The screen version remains, really, a group story.

C. S. Lewis

The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.

Lascelles Abercrombie

But the development of human society does not go straight forward; and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process, the series a recurring series - though not in exact repetition.

Kris Holden-Ried

I love period pieces. It's where my skill sets lie, with the horseback riding, the sword fighting and the accents. I love that world, and I love working on those big, epic shows. That's what I hope to find myself in, in the future.

Richelle Mead

I wouldn't know how to write a weak female character. I read so much epic fantasy growing up, where you have these sword-wielding, in-your-face warrior maidens.

Al Gore

Humanity is sitting on a time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet's climate system into a tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced - a catastrophe of our own making.

Kevin McKidd

'Grey's' is just a machine. I wasn't really prepared for the epic nature of how popular the show is.

Marie Lu

My first three manuscripts were epic fantasy - like high fantasy - and then the fourth one was a historical fantasy about Mozart as a child. I still have a soft spot for that one!

Naomi Cooke

She is great subject matter for a play. It is an epic story.

Larry Walker

Reggie? Good luck. Congratulations. ... You guys win the championship down there?

Lydia Lenker

Re-election doesn't lead us. These are good issues.

Gregg Hostetler

Recognition is always good for the program. I think they have to prove it to me.

Jane King

Realtors should be all over this. It's a good product.

Joe Torre

Reggie was one of those guys who knew how good he was and let people know how good he was. Some players resented that during those times.

Stephen Hadley

Our relationships are in good shape. This is not a trip where the president has to come with a deliverable or an initiative.

Carl Pettersson

Pars are good. I had a good round going,

Mark Brunell

Patrick is a great guy and a very good player,

Doug Higgins

Patrick did a good job and we moved some guys around on defense. We started to play a little more solid.

Joe Marshall

Some of us would prefer to run in the afternoon, actually. But we won't get into that here, will we darling?

Mark Thompson

Our preference would be to have a seven-day recovery.

Bud Grebey

Our strong preference is to have our striking workers return to work.

Joe Flanigan

It doesn't bother me to work with so much green screen. I prefer real settings obviously.

Greg Chappell

It did not remain confidential though I would have preferred it to have remained so. What else can I say at this stage?

Johan Reinhard

I'd much prefer that they not be displayed, just because of all of the headaches.

Oscar Lua

I wouldn't be comfortable. I prefer the laid-back, California-beach style.

Richard Ayoade

I actually prefer night shoots to days. I prefer being up. It's easier for me. I'm more of a night person.

Kaley Cuoco

I actually like to sing on 'Rock Band.' I prefer to take the mic.

Michael Moorcock

I come from an almost wholly secular background and have no quarrel with religion.

Cato Elder

From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.

Robert Frost

I've had a lover's quarrel with the world

Luc de Clapiers

We often quarrel with the unfortunate to get rid of pitying them.

John Milton

I must not quarrel with the will Of highest dispensation, which herein, Haply had ends above my reach to know.

Mahatma Gandhi

God turns His back on those who quarrel among themselves.

Tim Franklin

I welcome the competition. It makes you sharper and better. I don't take any reader for granted.

Noah Cowan

Just tell your readers they can come down and see anything and it should be good,

Kathryn Stockett

The first book you write because of the way it makes you feel. The second one you can't help but wonder how it's going to make the reader feel.

Lee Siegel

The Web critic relies on his or her readers for attentiveness and approval.

Barbara W. Tuchman

I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning until the end.

Christina Baker Kline

I think a lot of readers are looking for a book they can talk about.

Nancy Kress

As a writer, you must know what promise your story or novel makes. Your reader will know.

Tobias Wolff

The reader really has to step up to the plate and read a short story.

Sarah MacLean

There is a whole generation of romance readers and writers who suffer from what I like to think of as 'Thorn Birds' Fever.

Jim Boeheim

I think there should be an expansion. Whatever seems to fit.

Mark Tacchi

That was the first time, other than the medley (relay) that we've put Libby (O'Brien) on anchor. Starting her just wasn't working. When Krissy (Brown) starts, that seems to spark her. We get more out of it all the way around with Krissy starting and Libby on anchor.

Fergal Murray

That?s the one everyone seems to go straight for.

Jimmy Baron

I was very concerned, but he seems to be fine.

Jim Smith

I tell them it's the future. It seems to be where truck tires are heading.

R. Robinson

I think just watching (tape of) the team we're going to play there seems to be more urgency, there's more awareness, more attitude.

Robin Wright

I think just by watching him, like, 'Let's get on with it. Let's just shoot the scene, and we're done,' which seems logical.

Randy Ready

(Johnston) has been hot. Anything he touches right now seems to work out for him.

Jay Haas

I'd like it to go back to no carts. It just seems right. It seems like if spectators can go out and walk, we can, too. It's part of the competition.

Lena Headey

I think I look slightly like a horse. Hand on heart, I think I'm pretty average.

Ted Dexter

I think we are all slightly down in the dumps after another loss. We may be in the wrong sign... Venus may be in the wrong juxtaposition with somewhere else.

Michelle Gomez

I'm always slightly worried if I do a film and we're filming it in Luxembourg. I know it's going to go straight DVD.

John Godfrey

I'm always for a weakened Conservative party, slightly or massively,

Simon Doonan

Her style is gorgeous, provocative and ever so slightly deranged.

Rainer Guntermann

If anything it was a slightly more hawkish spin (than we were expecting).

China Mieville

'Kraken' is set in London and has a lot of London riffs, but I think it's more like slightly dreamlike, slightly abstract London. It's London as a kind of fantasy kingdom.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

I am slightly shocked to have gone as far as I have.

Chris Rock

I'm severely overrated. I'm just above a hack. That should be the name of my new DVD: 'Chris Rock: Slightly Above Hack'.