Famous Quotes & Sayings

Conan O'Brien

People just can't go on with an awards show like nothing happened.

Cheryl Rhoden

Our awards are purely voted on by writers, so you're getting what the writers think are the best-written films of the year. Ironically, we parallel closely with the Oscars.

Robin Pollard

Restaurants are critical partners to the Washington wine industry because the restaurant is where consumers often have their first wine experience. The Washington Wine Restaurant Awards program recognizes those establishments that exhibit strong support of Washington wines with innovative and educational promotions.

Carrie Fisher

I get lots of awards for being mentally ill. Apparently, I am better at being mentally ill than almost anything else I've ever done. Seriously - I have a shelf of awards for being bipolar.

Scott Wallace

It is always gratifying to be able to make education happen. Awards like this one at Whatcom Community College are a fundamental part of our partnership program to improve the educational opportunities of low- and moderate-income individuals and families in the communities where U.S. Bank operates.

Robert Altman

I think these awards are wonderful. Cinema should get more international. The fine boundary lines don't really exist any more.

Tom Tucker

Last summer we received a phone call from the Department of Justice requesting medals commemorating the fallen police officers and firefighters who died trying to rescue people during the 9/11 attacks. We did that order in record time. They know they can come to us and get high quality awards in the shortest time you can expect - but sometimes physics does limit some things.

Rick Nelson

The 2006 Best in Test Awards honor companies that introduce a new product that brings a significant technological advancement to the market in the test industry. Our editors selected Credence's Sapphire D-10 for this award because it combines a high-speed switched data network, FPGA-based flexibility, and high-density CMOS integration to enhance throughput and efficiency for testing a variety of consumer electronic devices.

Andrew Jackson

I think this is the best way to end the senior year. The awards just keep coming. After the final game ... now it's a couple months down the road. We're still receiving awards for what we've done.

Stephen Greene

Regulators can't regulate the banking sector by themselves. They need the market.

Stephen Greene

Regulators can't regulate the banking sector by themselves, ... They need the market.

William Warlick

Relative to the bankrupt carriers, this is a fairly strong liquidity position, but obviously they face cash flow pressures.

Pat Lewis

Relationships with our customers have never been better. We made the investment into their emotional bank accounts, and they are paying the dividends with their increased frequency and ticket averages. It truly is a win-win relationship.

Stephen Walters

Parts of the economy are still doing well, with mining booming and that's generating jobs. I do think that employment growth will slow this year and that will be enough to keep the central bank on the sidelines.

Dana Hurst

Our loan officers were seeing women coming into the bank struggling to be successful in business. We realized we weren't seeing a lot of men coming in with struggles.

Karen Rugen

Our lead banks support the plan and we believe the plan is in the best interest of our other lenders, so we expect to get all the approvals we need.

Paul Foster

Option market makers and hedgers are pricing in the possibility of (Delphi) filing for bankruptcy before October 17.

Keith Leggett

People need to choose the risk and savings instruments that are right for them. If a person is very risk averse, then bank deposits are very attractive.

Sara Anderson

Our parents kind of looked at different magazines and talked to people they knew and kind of looked at colleges that were ranked high in the Midwest.

Jake Plummer

Passes that I threw in college up the middle of the field that were complete were now intercepted and coming right back at you. It's the quality of players. They don't let you make many mistakes.

Mike Stoops

Sure. You would have liked (more production). Rickey has practiced well and is getting in shape. That comes from playing and not being in the system. It is difficult for junior college players to come in and make a huge impact early on.

John Junker

Sure, it's a challenge, but if you love college football this is something you want to be involved in. Our people are really excited about it.

Joni Finney

States have no idea about the knowledge and skills of their college graduates.

Helen Haugh

State College was small then. You more or less knew everyone.

Jocelyn Price

Stephanie is a great all-around player who will most likely play outside hitter for us. She has solid fundamental skills needed to play college volleyball, and has a good feel for the game. With experience under her belt, Stephanie will become quite a student of the game.

Jon Barber

Some of these (junior colleges) come in and don't even think we should be on the same field as them.

David Atlee

Some of the college towns that we operate in in the Lower 48 do this every year.

Jerome Bonnafont

President Chirac expressed his hope that the international community would show solidarity with Lebanon on the economic and financial levels.

John Burness

President Brodhead has had a positive influence on town-gown relations. Duke's relations with the Durham community actually have been far stronger than one might have guessed from recent media reports. I suspect that's why despite all the tensions the media describe, the community has not splintered but, in fact, has come together during the current crisis.

Albert Carlson

Our position is that we want to protect community services, and there's no need to privatize or make cuts if there is no economic crisis in the city.

Joy Redding

Our paper actually the community's paper will cover eight years of local history each month using headlines and pictures from community archives.

Beth Martin

Parks are very important. Ours are used for many different events, including family gatherings and other community social events.

Jennifer Wagner

Passover is one of my favorite times of the year. This is when the whole community and family gets together to remember who we are and why we are here.

Charlie King

Part of what Mediacom is trying to do is become part of the economic development plans of our communities,

Adrienne Worthy

Part of the focus is educating people about the day-to-day work we do at Legal Aid. ... We've raised our profile in the legal community in terms of the work we do and how we are a big part of the justice system.

Jeff Jenkins

Our main purpose is to make sure fraternities are cooperating and making sure the Greek community is healthy.

Nicki Harrington

People need to understand that even though we struggle to maintain facilities with limited funds, we have always been able to maintain an excellent education for our students.

Ramon Alexander

Our students are simply being priced out of an education. We do feel that with the surpluses in the state higher education should be a No. 1 priority, a top-notch priority.

Michael Levine

Our teacher education system is not geared up for producing these teachers. We need to figure out some incentives.

David Circle

Our goal is to make sure all students have a quality music education.

Larry Jansen

Our goal has always been to raise money for the state and public education. It's the reason the lottery exists.

Kevin McCarthy

Outside of the family, education is the greatest determinant of social mobility.

Jordan Goodman

Plan to finance your own retirement, help your parents and fund your children's education.

Barry Lopez

You can't learn anything from saguaro cactus, from ocotillo. They are just passing through; their roots, their much heralded dormancy in the dry season, these are only illusions of permanence. They know even less than you do.

B. B. King

No one can take it away from you.

Wayne Norris

People live in their homes. People are still buying. Families are still growing.

Edie Ousley

Someone is going to subsidize the home ... and it is going to be the market-rate home buyer. Middle-income families are effectively squeezed out.

Bruce Butterfield

Our research tells us that some 5 million American families are using all-natural gardening methods.

Jamie Johnson

Our family's fortune is growing faster than ever. We're a part of a small number of American families that own most of the country's wealth. But having so much in the hands of so few can't be good for America.

Charlize Theron

I think the most important thing that I got from them was when I got to be with their families and with their children,

Matt Murphy

Jennifer Deleon is not a victim in this case, ... Thomas and Jackie Hawks and John Jarvi and their families are the victims in this case.

John Cahill

Language is a barrier, especially in health care. We see a big problem in families relying on their 10 to 12-year-old son to translate.

Phyllis Moen

That works well when one person is a homemaker, ... That frees the other person to pursue their career, the prestige, the job security. And that worked for middle-class families in the middle of the 20th century. But today, there are very few families where there's a full-time homemaker.

Jerry Howard

I think it's very, very important for all families to maintain balance. We all work hard, we want to do well, we want to achieve, but when we lose balance, then it tends to lead to something else and i think that's what happened here.

Mike Rathgeber

I am incredibly proud of this team. This is one of the most gratifying years I've had. Not one of the most successful, but one of the most gratifying.

Bill Self

For us to have the worst league start since (1983) and then go 13-3 is probably more gratifying than if we had started out 10-0.

Barry Bonds

Making the Hall of Fame, would it be something that's gratifying because of what I've sacrificed? Sure. Baseball has been a big part of our lives. We've sacrificed our bodies. It's the way we made our living.

Bob Bowlsby

This will be one of the most gratifying professional experiences you will ever have.

Keith Richard

Who is this gratifying and where were the Africans?

Auberon Waugh

We journalists like to think we are the new crusaders-it's much more gratifying than the image of the journalist pigs evoked by Spitting Image puppets.

Greg Anderson

When it's all said and done, this year may be even more gratifying than last year,

Stewart Butterfield

Slack is gratifying to work on in the same way that Flickr was. The mission is to make people's working lives simpler, more pleasant, more productive.

Patricia Stevens

He's reading Hemingway and writing his life story. It's so gratifying to see him reading Hemingway.

Sara Baker

Our music was a lot better and visual improved as well. We did better than this morning.

Steve Burd

Our strategy to differentiate our offering has resulted in broad-based sales improvement.

Kevin Daugherty

Our free-throw shooting has really improved over the last month.

Joseph Wood

Overall, there has been a groundswell of improvements in the nine years I've been here. We've seen property snatched up by investors, improved and then sold.

Sandrine Krul

Right now she's our most improved player. She's so athletic.

Stephen Straus

We noticed too little improvement in my mind to justify the use of this treatment,

Sherri Coale

I think the way she's playing right now is a testament to how much she'll improve the more she plays.

Greg Lee

I think there's a lot more room for improvement. I don't think you're ever going to be as perfect as you want to be, but we're striving to be that perfect team.

Kevin Garnett

I think there needs to be some style improvement but at the same time it has to be with in reasons.

Fred Siget

Some of the programs I wrote there are still running maintenance free.

Gennady Zyuganov

Our stance remains unchanged. (Chernomyrdin) doesn't even understand the program he has proposed.

Christopher Hill

Our view is that stopping their programs is simply something they have to do.

Lou Holtz

I think that win really turned our program around,

Jonathan Brandis

I was in a theater program when I was about 6 years old. I didn't like it as much as most actors do. Which is probably why I never went back to it.

Lisa Williams

But all you really need to get started is a software program to record audio.

Ken Buck

To me, it is clear that the Social Security program is constitutional.

Rolando Gonzalez

If we don't have the members, our program will not be as strong.

Benito Mussolini

The Socialists ask what is our program? Our program is to smash the heads of the Socialists.