Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Crawford

Regarding the lack of atmosphere a Premiership grounds, it is staggering that this comes as a surprise to anyone. What do you expect when a ticket costs an average seven minimum wage working hours, or one day's work? When only lawyers and bank managers can reasonably afford to attend matches do not expect the camaraderie of the working man's club in the stands

Jerry Flanagan

Recent mergers have given the industry a strangle hold over the health insurance market. With fewer pressures for efficiency and no government oversight of rates, insurers have been given free rein to spend more of our health care dollars on overhead, profit, and administration. The last decade of HMO mergers has taught us that when fewer HMOs dominate the health care market, quality goes down, premiums go up, and patients get short changed. Already, 45 million Americans are uninsured because they cannot afford to pay the insurers' ransom.

Mark Cunningham

Reliable, efficiently delivered crude oil supplies are needed by area refineries to maintain affordable gasoline prices for the residents of Utah.

Tina Fey

President Bush unveiled his new economic stimulus plan this week. It was reported that if the plan passes the president himself would save $44,000 in taxes, Dick Cheney would save $327,000, and you could afford to take the whole family down to Burger King to pick up job applications.

Tracey Schmitt

President Bush believes that the promise of Social Security fulfilled over the last 70 years ought to be a promise we keep for future generations. Scoring political points by shirking responsibility for tomorrow's seniors is not a birthday party Americans can afford to attend.

Diane Terry

Our parents cannot afford the resources wealthy parents have such as books, magazine and newspaper subscriptions, computers or educational games.

Nicolas Retsinas

Our own sense is that a lot of this (trend) is driven mostly by economics. In certain markets where affordable housing is scarce this is much more common.

John Leonard

Parrish has all this nice stuff. Of course, they can afford newer stuff if they don't have to pay $70,000 for a new chief.

Joan Miles

Parents who think that affordable health coverage for their kids is an impossible dream should explore CHIP as a solution.

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.

Jack Schweers

Regardless of who we're playing, we want to play as good as we can this time of year. We had a good practice (Monday), and we hope to be at our best (in the sectional).

Paul Bush

Regardless of whether you're looking at grapes, apples, cherries or any kind of fruit, you'll get the best color around here.

Rick Barnes

Regardless of what people are saying, N.C. State has not offered me the job. Texas is one of the best jobs in the country, and I'm happy here.

Kevin Marsh

Regardless of how I played, this was the best week of my life. It would have been the best week of my life if I had finished up on Wednesday, really. Being here for the first time you just want to soak up the experience as much as you can. But it also makes you hungry to get back, and prove that you really do belong.

Gloria Estefan

Regardless of culture or language, they really enjoy the album. And that to me, is the best thing.

Laurieann Gibson

Recently, Lady Gaga was motivated to take the helm of the creative direction of her career and as such I decided to step away. I am extremely proud of her, and in stepping away I wish her all the best.

Jim Shannon

Rebounding and defense were big keys for us. They're much bigger than us, but we more than held our own on the boards. And we got after them on defense. It was our best defensive game of the year.

Bob Myers

Rebecca and Christina are probably two of the best girls in the state; there's a very good chance they'll place in the top five at states. Those girls are just great leaders. I think we're going to win it all. The girls we have are good, they have two great leaders to follow.

David Pottruck

Recent trading volumes are propelling the company to its best quarter ever in terms of revenues and profits.

Jacques Chirac

reflection, which I shall devote to explaining to my fellow citizens what my feelings are on this crisis and the means to remedy it.

Bob Taft

Recent, severe increases in gasoline prices in my state are, to say the least, baffling. Our citizens are demanding, if not complete answers, at least some rational justification for this dramatic price increase.

Randall Terry

Our policies are immoral. This has nothing to do with helping the citizens of China. This has to do with fattening the wallets of American big business.

Wayne Gray

Our quality of life of our citizens is impacted by the tourism economy that we have,

Jim Turner

Ordinary citizens have to look at their income as opposed to their expenses and determine where they're going to make cutbacks, ... They just decided they needed more money and raised taxes.

Charles Albert Gobat

Ordinary citizens are obliged and, if need be, compelled by force to meet their commitments. But let higher obligations of an international order be involved, and governments repudiate them, more often than not with a disdainful shrug of the shoulders.

Sam Veda

Peace and prosperity prevails when citizens are law abiding.

Robert Stewart

Our only intent was the safety of the survivors and the citizens of this state.

Bertie Ahern

Such a proposal would show citizens the EU was working in their interests.

Kofi Annan

Reform is a process, not an event and we are going to continue after the summit

John Chambers

recovery continues to gain momentum on a global basis.

Robert Milton

Recognizing the significant progress we have made, there is no room for any complacency and we must continue to pursue efficiencies throughout our businesses.

Philadelphia Fed

Price pressures remain but continue to show a moderating trend.

Jorma Ollila

Our position in the fastest-growing market in the world continues to be strong.

Ed Colligan

Our Palm OS customer loyalty is extremely high, and we intend to continue to earn that loyalty with great Palm OS-based products,

Anna Rozenich

Our reduction is taking longer than anticipated. We continue to make progress in our testing because we want to make sure we get it right for our customers.

Joseph Farah

Our rankings, relative to other sites, rise and fall over time, ... But our traffic continues to grow ? at a pace even faster than the explosive Internet itself.

Marc Andreessen

Organizations spend hundreds of hours and hundreds of thousands of dollars installing and implementing huge servers, new Web sites and applications. They have to continue to do that, but they also have to clean up the mess of the '90s.

Joshua Greenbaum

Oracle has tremendous problems being industry expert. SAP has had more success at that end.

Kevin Haggerty

People in the industry feel it's more of a privacy enhancer because it's such a secure way of identification.

Buster Brown

It is a touchy subject. But in any industry there is a surplus of unusable goods. What do you do with them?

J. Horton

It is an industry that probably has too much capacity. It's probably too fragmented.

Halle Berry

I think it was a shift in the industry for the people of color.

Alan McCoy

I think that's pretty important from a reputable, well-known independent steel industry analyst." ()

Randeep Hooda

I think I'm the only professional horse rider from the movie industry. Strangely, I've seen no men from the industry at equestrian events. Though I've seen some ladies like Diya Mirza and Lara Dutta at the race course. Women, by the way, make superior horse riders.

Larry Ellison

I have been working more, ... That's true, and the reason I'm working more is this is an extraordinary opportunity. My industry and in fact, every industry soon is going through this tectonic change.

Glenn Johnson

I didn't lose that fight, ... I walked away because of promotional disputes. That was hard, after being in the industry so long. But the older you get, the more you learn the business.

B. R. Ambedkar

Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.

Carol Riley

If it wasn't for St. Vincent's, we couldn't get any medicine at all.

David Williams

He was proud to tell you that he practiced medicine for 52 years.

Charles Babbage

To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.

Bill James

Professionalism in medicine has given us medial miracles for the affluent but hospitals that will charge $35 for aspirin.

Elizabeth Blackwell

To her [Florence Nightingale] chiefly I owed the awakening to the fact that sanitation is the supreme goal of medicine its foundation and its crown.

Elizabeth Edwards

I don't expect to get yesterday's medicine. If I can help it, I'd like to get tomorrow's medicine.

Eliot Spitzer

It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy.

Deepak Chopra

Modern medicine, for all its advances, knows less than 10 percent of what your body knows instinctively.

Jim Lord

Reasonable people have to find that reasonable line.

Stephanie Laurens

Real people are never central characters in my works.

Tom Tremont

Really, what people want is more simplicity in their life. They want a sanctuary.

Jyoti Amge

Regular people should not underestimate people who are small. In every aspect, they can do the things that normal people can.

Robert Hamilton

Our policy is to let our people know first.

Alex Halavais

Part of it is it's a really safe place for people to talk about this.

Hanya Yanagihara

Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.

Joel Edgerton

Particularly when you're making a movie of a book, people are always waiting with their knives - you know?

Jack Horn

Part of the problem, ... is there are so many more things that can be done for people - drug therapies are better, but more expensive. And there are more and better scanning technologies, which are also more expensive.

Dana Taylor

Robby is fast, very powerful and has a quick shot.

Becca Fitzpatrick

You belong to the biblical race of Nephilim. Your real father was an angel who fell from heaven. You're half mortal." The boy's dark eyes lifted, meeting Chauncey's. "Half fallen angel." Chauncey's tutor's voice drifted up from the recesses of his mind, reading passages from the Bible, telling of a deviant race created when angels cast from heaven mated with mortal women. A fearsome and powerful race. A chill that wasn't entirely revulsion crept through Chauncey. "Who are you?

Barry Lopez

The wolf exerts a powerful influence on the human imagination. It takes your stare and turns it back on you

Bill Crawford

All of life presents itself as a cycle of cause and effect. When this cycle is negative, there are three ways to change. You can change the cause, change the effect, or choose the most powerful option become the cause!

Bill Crawford

The most powerful times in our lives can be the time between times, or life's transitions that give us the opportunity to choose.

Bianca Jagger

People in the U.K. cannot understand whether Blair has lost his mind or whether his ambition to be the second-most-powerful man in the world made him lose his mind.

Bianca Jagger

I don't need an overpowering, powerful, rich man to feel secure. I'd much rather have a man who is there for me, who really loves me, who is growing, who is real.

C. S. Lewis

What assurance have we that our masters will or can keep the promise which induced us to sell ourselves? Let us not be deceived by phrases about 'Man taking charge of his own destiny'. All that can really happen is that some men will take charge of the destiny of the others. They will be simply men; none perfect; some greedy, cruel and dishonest. The more completely we are planned the more powerful they will be. Have we discovered some new reason why, this time, power should not corrupt as it has done before?

Carrie Fisher

I have a mess in my head sometimes, and there's something very satisfying about putting it into words. Certainly it's not something that you're in charge of, necessarily, but writing about it, putting it into your words, can be a very powerful experience.

Uwe Reinhardt

Price (in the Swiss system) doesn't matter, because it's set by these negotiations.

Toni Simonetti

Suffice it to say that the price of the stock is an important part of the equation.

Kate Joncas

Some of these prices are pretty hefty. Who are these people?

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Although human life is priceless, we always act as if something had an even greater price than life... but what is that something?

Ashton Kutcher

I learned what a Birkin bag is from the price tag. You'll never forget what it is once you've paid for one.

David Briggs

I think (stock) prices have run up anticipating a recovery but I don't think the recovery's here yet,

Mike Fitzpatrick

It is not surprising that prices are retreating.

Jack Cox

I feel sorry for the (homeless) people. But what price do we pay?

Christopher Murray

Just like in real farming, you want to sell when prices are high.

Chris Ellis

Out here, we all have something in common. Now I'll be here for our senior season.

Bill Shuster

President Bush has a record of cutting taxes, has provided a prescription drug benefit for seniors, has upheld the Second Amendment and remains committed to stopping liberal activists judges who are redefining marriage.

Bill Cosby

For college seniors there should be a week of being allowed to cry. Just break down and cry because you are scared and don't know what's next.

Bill Cosby

In America ... the seven ages of man have become preschooler, Pepsi generation, baby boomer, mid-lifer, empty-nester, senior citizen, and organ donor.

C. S. Lewis

Whatever men expect, they soon come to think they have a right to; the sense of disappointment can, with very little skill on our part, be turned into a sense of injury. (senior devil speaking)

Cara Bortz

I was just thinking, this is the end of my senior year.

Dustin Villepigue

I was wondering what he was doing there. I didn't have the ball. Then he swung at me, but I didn't swing back because seniors aren't supposed to retaliate.

Ebonie Halliburton

He wanted us to concentrate more. He wanted us to show more senior leadership. I think we did that tonight.

Bill Hybels

Your culture will only ever be as healthy as the senior leader wants it to be.

Brett Ellis

Some of them are $40,000, and they've been sitting there for 120 days.

Mariella Ruocco

Somehow they sensed the seriousness of the situation and they stayed in the car.

Pierre Lacroix

That day was like sitting on the ice. Now we're sitting in the whirlpool.

Jaswant Singh

Other than sitting and talking to Pakistan, we can't do much more,

Laveranues Coles

Well, all I can say about that situation is, things come to the surface,

Bill Richardson

we'll all end up sitting in the dark.

Bill Bryson

When you sit in a chair, you are not actually sitting there, but levitating above it at a height of one angstrom (a hundred millionth of a centimetre), your electrons and its electrons implacably opposed to any closer intimacy.

Rahul Gandhi

I will speak to you tomorrow and till then I will sit there (among the delegates).

Ice Cube

I think the worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing. You have to get it out in the open. You have to talk about it.