Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Goldberg

Recent hurricanes like Katrina showed it doesn't make sense to develop to that extent on barrier islands.

Bill Cheney

Record or near-record trade deficits spark howls of concern about the threat posed to the economic expansion, but like inflation, the trade deficit's bark has been far worse than its bite. April's deficit, another near record, simply shows that we are still importing like there is no tomorrow.

Todd Heap

Relative to last year, I'm very healthy, ... I'm happy about that. Obviously I just came off of two surgeries, and I'm barely five, six months off of shoulder surgery. But I've put in a lot of time and a lot of work to be playing now at the level I'm at.

Donna Myers

Relatively few people even recognize that there are beef ribs. However, when Texans talk ribs, they are, as a rule, talking beef which is no surprise from Texans, who consider all barbecue to be beef.

Rebecca MacKinnon

President Barack Obama's administration sometimes finds itself at odds with members of Congress who oppose nearly everything the United Nations does on principle.

Rafael Ramirez

Our position is that we must evaluate a cut of between 500,000 and one million barrels per day (bpd).

Corky Palmer

Patrick throws strikes, and that's what you want in that role. Barry will start there for now.

John Bollinger

Part of the reason the January barometer works so well is a statistical faux pas. It uses January to predict the year, not the following 11 months.

Lauren Dougherty

Part of the magic of looking at Barbie is how she smiles at girls from her box on the shelf. And when our little girls open up that package, they want her to be in pristine condition, with neat hair and clothes all in check.

Peter Callero

Management is taking a very hard line, refusing to compromise. We are open to compromise, and unless they do, we will have a strike.

Charles Schumer

I think there will be a compromise on the Patriot Act.

Max Starks

That's their way to control the tempo of the game, but when you do that you compromise your coverage, You have man-to-man coverage every play, and they can't do that all day. Teams will eventually jump out of it or we are going to be a passing team, because we can do both. We're two-dimensional.

Jed Bernstein

That's the sixth compromise offer we have made in the last seven days, and the musicians' union has made none.

Lindsey Kildow

I was really looking forward to the race because I know I can do well on this hill. But I really wouldn't want to compromise my health by racing in conditions like today.

Carol Davis

I think a good compromise was reached. Now the only thing to do is heal. Now we try and find peace and use it for something positive in our lives. I want us to be happy again.

Jill Gerber

I think this was a compromise that everyone could live with.

Chris Hill

I am confident they want a solution. The problem is, they want it on their own terms, and they are going to have to compromise on that.

Jill Taylor

I always wanted to get married in the fall. So we made a compromise.

Peter Capaldi

Recently, I dreamed that I returned home to find my wife had married Ray Winstone. They were kind and let me stay, but the whole thing was awkward.

Dana Gleason

Our packs are for people who truly use the gear and don't just read the magazines and dream about it. And it will last 15 to 17 years. The material has a lifetime guarantee.

Harry Aleo

People love the horse, and that's what it is all about. This is something that money can't buy. I've owned horses for 27 years, and you dream of something like this. But I never dreamed that I'd have the wonder horse.

William Shakespeare

Stay we no longer, dreaming of renown, But sound the trumpets, and about our task

Romesh Gunesekera

Sri Lanka is an island that everyone loves at some level inside themselves. A very special island that travellers, from Sinbad to Marco Polo, dreamed about. A place where the contours of the land itself forms a kind of sinewy poetry.

Ed Howell

Stanford has always been my dream. Being able to play volleyball at the next level is a dream come true.

George Bernard Shaw

Some men see things as they are and say, ''Why?'' I of dream things that never were, and say, ''Why not?''

James Farrior

Our goal is to try and get our offense a few extra possessions ? we did that today. It's a dream come true, but it's not over yet ?we've still got one more game.

Henry David Thoreau

Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake.

Dan Hill

I'm highly distractable, and I have too many things on my mind very often. When I'm driving in the city, it drives me so crazy - the city traffic and the parking - I just take cabs everywhere.

Roger Sherman

I think that's what drives the price up historically. That's what happens in many cases.

Bill Richardson

Latent fingerprints were found on the scene, and on the external wrappings of the drives themselves.

Jim Hueber

I think he is really driven. I think it is really important to him to do what he feels like he has to do to be as good as he can be. He wants to do everything right, I think that is what drives him. He doesn't want to make a mistake.

Richard O'Brien

The only thing that really drives me is to try and sort myself out and find some kind of psychological and spiritual growth within me.

Antoine Walker

He's going to stick his nose in there. And he's probably the heart and soul of their team because he does all the little things on the floor that drives players on other teams crazy.

English 15th Century Proverbs

Hunger drives the wolf out of the wood.

Jerramy Stevens

If we had a short field, some of those drives would have been scoring drives. We just played on the wrong side of the field today.

Ron Hamm

I go up and down Highway 66 here everyday, and I see the remnants of what used to be: The small little hotels, the gas stations, the mom and pop stores, the grocery stores and convenience stores that used to be here 30 years ago, and it hurts. The population is increasing in the area, but everyone drives to Barstow.

Michael Leunig

Stay away from excellence at all costs; it stinks.

Alan Alda

Others will step in and do his job with excellence. But no one can replace the unique person that was Peter.

Timothy Roemer

Fs and Ds and incompletes aren't the American ideal and the American standard of excellence, not when it comes to protecting our people. We can do better. We must do better than that.

Martin Scorsese

He represents the American tradition of excellence and honesty and integrity. In a sense, he was the Steven Spielberg of his time.

Charles Vest

We must have excellence, but we must also have accessibility to that excellence.

William Blake

Mechanical excellence is the only vehicle of genius.

Dave Ramsey

Just keep taking the next step and keep having excellence in the ordinary.

Dave Ramsey

Be an evangelist with your excellence.

Aristotle

Happiness is the utilization of one's talents along lines of excellence.

David Phillips

Some of the results will be sure to surprise you.

Lee Scott

Our results were not up to Wal-Mart standards,

Takashi Oya

Results were just as strong as we expected.

Mark Hurd

Results have been inconsistent. The stock has been volatile, if not disappointing.

Antoine Lavoisier

In performing experiments, it is necessary... that they be simplified as much as possible, and that every circumstance that could complicate the results should be completely removed.

Jason Kenney

I think the result is positive, and the dividend is a real bonus.

Andrew Johnson

I think that's been a really important, big step in the U.S. having more competitive results internationally.

Glen Taylor

I think Sam is a closer, which is what we could have used right now. Sam could do that. The results are Sam is probably having a better year than Marko is having.

Joe Escobedo

It doesn't take 18 months; it doesn't take 18 days. The results were immediate.

Henk Potts

Standard and Chartered could be vulnerable to a takeover.

Sophie Lowe

I think I've actually had a pretty standard upbringing. My parents are really normal, so I've always had them around to keep me grounded.

Diana Ross

Just because I have my standards they think I'm a bitch.

Craig Mathias

If that had not happened, we would probably not have had an 11n standard this year.

Aimee Mann

If your standards are low, you're going to stop pretty early on in the process.

Eliot Spitzer

I have disappointed and failed to live up to the standard I expected of myself.

Iris Apfel

I get very involved with my things, and they are not standard equipment.

Amber Heard

I have always been very rebellious and gone against the grain. I've always challenged the standards set before me.

Shane Richardson

We'll be making sure it's up to standard ... we'll make sure before we go there.

Joel Grey

I think there's nothing like live theater. Everyone wants to be part of it. So why not try it.

Marvin Demoff

I think he wants to play one more year.

Kristy Gaudiose

It is exciting. It is something everyone wants to be a part of.

Ray Allen

He wants to be better. He wants to be the best. But don't worry about that. Those things will come.

Paul Shefrin

He wants this to be the coming-out party.

Michael Whitcomb

He wants it to be an upscale, low-key place in the neighborhood.

Glen Taylor

He is very, very competitive and wants to win.

Carolyn See

'Gillespie and I' is a deliciously morbid, almost smutty story, a compendium of inappropriate wants and smarmy desires.

Sam Claflin

I think it's every actor's dream to play a character that's really odd, and you know no one wants to play himself.