Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Boucher

reestablish a certain sense of local authority and policing without involving the remnants of the regime or the torturers who once plagued the lives of ordinary Iraqis.

John Chiang

Past initiatives have made it difficult for California taxpayers to settle with the government when only one tax authority offers a settlement plan. This program provides an incentive for many taxpayers who were steered towards flaky shelters to come clean.

Steve Erickson

Part of the process of reading is constantly hitting the pause button, and now and then the rewind button, to ponder a word that's been chosen by the author as exquisitely as the filmmaker chooses an image or a sound editor chooses a sonic clue - the tolling of a bell in the distance to evoke memory, for instance.

Gilles Duceppe

Paul Martin's government has lost the moral authority to govern.

Chuck Hall

Our local redevelopment authority is going to get together very shortly, and they're going to have to set some goals and objectives about what they want done.

Steve Kessel

People have told us it's a way to both sample new authors and stay in touch with beloved authors between books.

David Conyers

'Star Wars,' 'Doctor Who,' 'Forgotten Realms,' even 'Firefly' and 'The X-Files' have shared world novels and other media. I can't help but notice these settings have large shelf space in bookstores, so their publishers and authors are getting something right.

Dave Morris

Standing out as a writer today requires more than a bright idea and limpid prose. Authors need to become businesspeople as well.

A. N. Wilson

Someone at the federal level should have that authority.

Tina Deese

Our offense, for the second day in a row, really saw the bell well. Our middle of the order is really producing early on in the season.

Nicholas Burns

Our message is clear as a bell to the American private community ... Get out of Zaire before you find yourself in harm's way.

Lori Brumbach

Our most popular design perfect for the belle of the ball.

Chris Lowell

Kristen Bell is one of my best friends. I've had the pleasure of working with some really great people, and Kristen is just a beautiful, talented young lady.

Cory Lidle

That's the typical David Bell play -- on the run, and you knew it would be on target. It was a really good thing to see.

Shawn McDowell

I was really pleased with our first half. The belly play was good to us and they couldn't stop our fullback in the first half with Mitch and Josh. That's where we had Harrell in the second half. I'm disappointed we didn't score on our second series after we got first-and-goal, but I started improvising and sort of got cute. I should have stayed with what we were doing.

Alex Rodriguez

It gave us a little fire in our bellies to get going a little bit.

Kyle McSlarrow

It is important to take stock of where we are in 2006. In the last decade, the Bell monopolies have all but wiped out their telephone competitors; they have swallowed their long-distance competitors; and with the announcement of the AT&T-BellSouth merger, they are on the verge of recreating Ma Bell. And only one competitor really stands in their way: the cable industry.

Christopher Shays

I will tell you, I fly less because my knowledge of the system is better than the general public. And I think we endanger the general public by not checking the cargo in the belly of an aircraft.

David May

Someone in the church, who chooses to remain anonymous, contacted me because they have a trucking company and wanted to take a trailer full of stuff to hurricane victims on the Gulf.

Steven Gerrard

I was watching Wayne Rooney before the game, he is like a dog on a lead at the minute, we can let him off on Wednesday if the manager chooses to pick him.

Romola Garai

I think one of the reasons I've done so much period work is because I feel so depressed by how society chooses to represent women in contemporary work.

Prince Charles

If only because he chooses to spend time with her rather than getting up to things he shouldn't.

Peter Kelly

I felt having one person, one vote would be all-inclusive, but if this is what they decided, it is the executive that chooses the process,

Nancy Parrott

If a patron chooses to purchase tickets through a third party, they do so at their own risk.

Steve Slifer

If the Fed chooses to do something less than that (half-percentage point), then you're going to have this major disappointment in the financial markets.

Steve Johnson

If the individual chooses not to report on the return the government doesn't often find out about it,

Clive Sinclair

If someone like my father chooses to criticise Israeli policies, it's not because he is a self-hating Jew, but because he is not prepared to live in a state of self-denial.

Robin Reynolds

Svetlana is one of the most electrifying players on the Tour. Svetlana has, over the past couple of years, emerged as a real contender in women?s tennis, and we are delighted that she has chosen the Cup as one of her tournaments.

Joe Tiller

Our players are students, and it's important that they interact with their classmates. The Grand Prix motto is 'students helping students,' and I think what our players have chosen to do relates nicely.

Jay Marshall

Our field inspectors were writing everything down and nothing was being captured. So we were looking to do performance management and live data capture. The PDA was chosen over a laptop because it was cheaper.

Ehud Barak

Maybe I made a few or maybe many tactical mistakes, ... but I did not make a mistake in the very essence of what I've ... chosen to do, namely to leave no stone unturned in order to find a way to put an end to this conflict, at the same time to be open-eyed enough to realize that it takes two to tango.

C. S. Lewis

You have not chosen one another, but I have chosen you for one another.

Mike McGee

I was kind of surprised. I'm from a small Division III school in Bangor, Maine. I would have thought they would have chosen somebody from a Division I school or something like that,

Patrick Craven

I think they can be judged by the company they have chosen to keep.

Elizabeth Smith

It is a privilege for the museum to be chosen to host the 2006 induction ceremony.

John Garamendi

It is a market leader. It has chosen to keep its rates high, ... Until they reduce their rates, the rest of the industry is not going to jump in.

Fred Thomas

Some guys probably ain't got no homes. We ain't got a place to play yet. And we ain't got any real clue as to what's going to happen from here on out. What we've got, though, is each other. And, I guess, that we're going to find out real soon if that's enough.

Jeff Gundy

That coach has no clue what he's doing. That's what I say when I look at myself.

Don Bryant

Most public safety folks don't have a clue what's going on with the agricultural side.

Amy Grant

Just didn't know what was gonna happen to us, just didn't know where we were gonna go. Didn't have a clue as to what we were gonna do next,

Tim Sanders

I was on the sideline when one of our kids turned to another and said 'Coach told me I was supposed to be in on the PAT team, but I don't have a clue when I was supposed to go in, ... I turned my head an smiled. You can't take anything for granted.

Karla Gamble

I still have no clue why that happened. But I'm a shooter, and I have to shoot better in the regional.

John Crowley

I write in expectation that readers want to participate in a kind of two-sided game: They are trying to guess what I am up to - what the story's up to - and I'm giving them clues and matter to keep them interested without giving everything away at the start. Even the rules, if any, of the game are for the reader to discover.

Judith Miller

Junk stands and antique markets are the perfect place to pick up clues about the history of a country, region or town.

Jimmy Johnson

I don't have a clue what took place tonight, ... We had problem after problem. If it's meant to be, it's meant to be.

Richard Preston

Redwood time moves at a more stately pace than human time. To us, when we look at a redwood tree, it seems to be motionless and still, and yet redwoods are constantly in motion, moving upward into space, articulating themselves and filling redwood space over redwood time, over thousands of years.

John Hagel III

Passion and true passion is actually very unpredictable. It heads in unexpected directions because it's constantly seeking out new challenges. But what's really interesting is that passion ultimately is necessary for sustained extreme performance improvement.

Mark Schultz

Stability is the number one thing you need to be successful in anything. I constantly had the rug pulled out from under me. I think people were jealous of me. I think people saw me as this guy who could conquer the world.

Alice Englert

Some of us don't have the energy to be as incredible and riotous and fantastic as Emma Thompson. You're constantly just lapping up her incredible hilariousness.

Kelly Redmond

We've talked about this whole thing of Eskimos having 31 names for snow. If you live in a dry climate, you probably have 31 names for drought. When you are constantly faced with something, each instance matters.

Safaa Ibrahim

I think there is an 'us versus them' mentality. There is a frustration that we have to constantly defend ourselves. I'd rather not be on the defensive. I'd rather just educate people about our faith.

Manuel Pellegrini

I think the referee constantly made mistakes, he didn't notice when our players were pulled as well as several fouls.

James Comey

Just as our adversaries and threats continue to evolve, so, too, must the FBI. The key to this evolution lies with our greatest assets: our people and our partnerships. Every FBI professional understands that thwarting the threats facing our nation means constantly striving to be more effective and more efficient.

Ladonna Somers

That was not possible at the hospital. There was no place for Regan to lay down and take a nap. And the oncology ward is constantly full.

Frank Moss

State and Homeland Security are still resolving if this will be a proximity or distance read.

Rob Parish

Our goal going down there was to be within striking distance of top (4A) team in the state.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

My senses of space, of distance, and of direction entirely vanished. When I looked for the ground I sometimes looked down, sometimes up, sometimes left, sometimes right. I thought I was very high up when I would suddenly be thown to earth in a near vertical spin. I thought I was very low to the ground and I was pulled up to 3,000 feet in two minutes by the 500-horsepower motor. It danced, it pushed, it tossed. . . . Ah! la la!

Becca Fitzpatrick

I was tired of admiring your legs from a distance.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Tell me what's going on here. Why can I hear your voice inside my head and why did you say you came to school for me?" "I was tired of admiring your legs from a distance.

Bill Bryson

There seemed to be a mystifying universal conspiracy among textbook authors to make certain the material they dealt with never strayed too near the realm of the mildly interesting and was always at least a long-distance phone call from the frankly interesting.

Bill Bryson

Every twenty minutes on the Appalachian Trail, Katz and I walked farther than the average American walks in a week. For 93 percent of all trips outside the home, for whatever distance or whatever purpose, Americans now get in a car. On average the total walking of an American these days - that's walking of all types: from car to office, from office to car, around the supermarket and shopping malls - adds up to 1.4 miles a week, barely 350 yards a day.

Bill Bryson

Distance changes utterly when you take the world on foot. A mile becomes a long way, two miles literally considerable, ten miles whopping, fifty miles at the very limits of conception. The world, you realize, is enormous in a way that only you and a small community of fellow hikers know. Planetary scale is your little secret.

Patrick Stump

(Wentz) just gives me lyrics and phrases and sentences and ideas that are just kind of disembodies from any song, ... I'm his word editor and he's my music editor.

Michael Wolf

I think there is a real value in an editorial point-of-view and in editorial curation, and in putting together an entire narrative around a set of topics is important.

T. S. Eliot

I suppose some editors are failed writers; but so are most writers.

Dan Jacobs

Johnny Quads is at the top of his field as a writer, editor and a player. His hiring means we are raising the stakes in the world of poker publishing.

Bill Schneider

He is the owner and editor of (a prominent) investment magazine, ... Staying in the race would not be a good investment.

Hanya Yanagihara

From 1999 through 2001, I was an editor at a now-defunct magazine about the media industry called 'Brill's Content' that eventually merged with a now-defunct website about the media industry called Inside.com.

Andrew Marr

I think it requires leadership from editors and senior broadcasters to try and turn that around and back off the position where we are opinionated first, and come round to the facts later,

Howard Rubenstein

He's always loved being a newspaper editor and writer and publisher.

Madonna Madonna

Glossy magazine editors would kill for that interview

Sufjan Stevens

I was working on several states simultaneously. The tone of the music for Illinois seemed much more exciting and challenging to me. The music itself seemed to evoke a very big character.

Mike Fazio

If the goal of the mural was to evoke interest, than I think it?s already a success.

Theo Van Gogh

One should not evoke violence by acting fearful.

Sarah Hall

One of the things I try to do with my writing is try to evoke the spirit of the place. I think these things imprint on the landscape and the culture.

Kaskade

Music evokes a lot of different emotions and triggers different senses.

Blake Lively

Scents evoke very, very powerful memories, whether it's the scent of someone that you know and someone that you love, or if it's a meal that your mother made.

Christopher Moore

Nothing evokes the prurient like puritanism.

Stephen Sisson

The things we read in scary stories are just using our imaginations to evoke a feeling. And sometimes that feeling is happiness or sometimes that feeling is surprise and sometimes that feeling is the spooky scary feelings of Halloween.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The wittiest authors evoke a barely perceptible smile.

David Twohy

I'm always coming back with too much footage. Most filmmakers do, but I'm always surprised that it keeps happening to me.

James Tobin

I think the filmmakers and I were interested in telling stories that weren't well known,

Marc Blucas

If a filmmaker and I don't get along, it's four weeks of your life, so, whatever. With TV, it's six years.

Julie Gonzalo

I admire a lot of Spanish filmmakers and actors. I grew up watching a lot of Spanish films and novellas, and there's just so much talent out there.

Colin Trevorrow

I was going to go and do what I should do as a filmmaker and make slightly larger films each time, learn my craft, make mistakes and solve them.

Scott Rice

Meeting all the other filmmakers has been such a blessing,

James Ransone

Music is a very, very powerful tool that filmmakers use to sway people into emotions that they intend you to feel.

Jeremy Thomas

My advice to American filmmakers is to marry a European. I'm not kidding. Otherwise they don't qualify for international co-production treaties.

Jonathan Mostow

Making a movie is difficult enough to sort of have a premeditated length that you're going for. I don't know a single filmmaker on the planet who does that.

Megan Schwab

Our practice is really structured this year. So, we'll have a time for hitting and a time for fielding.

Pete Dunn

Our pitchers were just horrible, horrible pitching with the lead. Everything you shouldn't do with a lead, we did. We started pitching from behind, walking people, hitting people.

Rex Walters

I'm hitting the road tonight to find some players.

Darren Clarke

I'm hitting it nicely and I'll try to keep it going. There are a lot of people who want to win this a lot more than I do. I would love to do it myself, but it's not that important.

Charles Coody

I think they accomplished that. All the players are hitting the same irons they did 20 or 30 years ago.

Louis Whorton

That was the story of the game. They were hitting two shots to our one. We didn't rebound worth a flip, and they doubled us on rebounding.

Venus Williams

That was an unbelievable tie-break. She just kept hitting winners but somehow I stayed in there,

Brandy Williams

It has been hard. At first, we were struggling. But then we started to come together when we needed to. We started hitting our peak at the right time, and I feel like we've done well.

Bob Jacoby

Last year, our pitching wasn't as strong. Our fielding and hitting have improved.

Steven Friedman

Some of these images from New Orleans have looked like Mozambique.

Lorrie Brown

I was just horrified. Images flashed before me of going to jail and being handcuffed and being put in a police car.

Gary Payton

I think (Stern) is just trying to get our image back.

Danny Aiello

People have an image of Italians. When I go somewhere in the world, I don't care where it is, when they look at me it's not about my intelligence. It's who can I beat up.

Dan Gilroy

The smorgasbord of images now presented to us is getting bloodier. They're becoming more frequent - almost hourly.

Sidney Jones

It could be a way of buoying up his image (to) his followers.

Derek Brewer

I don't think people want the image of an unfair playing surface. I think that is the administration's issue. We all want to be at home, we want to be at our house, but if this keeps everyone happy, then we're happy.

Francis Bacon

For the world is not to be narrowed till it will go into the understanding (which has been done hitherto), but the understanding is to be expanded and opened till it can take in the image of the world

Charles Stiles

If they get a message from a sender that has images and links enabled one day, and another one the next day where they're not, they tend not to trust that so much, or think there was an error. It sends an unclear message to the consumer.

David McDonald

Replay allows administrators to go back in time and see the application performance of their servers in detail. When they are monitoring a server and see something out of the ordinary, they can pause the server, back it up and repeat.

Shane Carruth

'The Master,' it was really important to me to go see that in the theater, but that's a very rare occurrence for me. I typically enjoy things on my laptop. I'm in bed; I can be able to pause them.

David Mamet

I go out there. I'm out there every day. [Pause] There is nothing out there.

William Shakespeare

Pause awhile, And let my counsel sway you.

Boris Yeltsin

A pause is good, but it's not enough,

Michael Darda

Essentially, he's saying that they may pause around 5 percent after the May meeting.

Mark Olson

As a result, I voted to pause in the removal of policy accommodation until more was known.

Michel de Montaigne

I do not understand; I pause; I examine.

Sarah Dessen

Stop it. Seriously. This isn't funny.' 'You're right.' A pause. 'It's pathetic.

Therese Fowler

Predictability is boring! I want a book to take me someplace I haven't been before, show me sights I haven't seen, make me ponder questions I may not have pondered before.

Socrates

The life of which meaning one never ponders is not worth living

Pat Paulsen

We have nothing to fear but fear itself...and of course the boogieman.

Viswanathan Anand

Each match I approach like a new one. The work is so immense that you don't have time to sit and ponder.

Tracee Ellis Ross

Why am I beating my hair up? Because I want it to look like something that it isn't? These are questions that I've been pondering my whole life.

Darius Rucker

Our sound is a combination of a lot of influences,

B. J. Novak

Battered Women: sounds delicious. Doesn’t make it right.

Bhagat Singh

If the deaf are to hear the sound has to be very loud

Saddam Hussein

The arguments were sound then, and they are sound now,'' said Fox.

Steve Doocy

That's what it was all about. You didn't want to sound like KLWN; you didn't want to be Top 40.

Martin Freeman

I think acting is all about the other people. Sounds like a worthy thing to say, but it's true.

Paul Briggs

It doesn't sound like you have an incubator.

Rick Christman

It doesn't sound like a lot, but they do a whole lot of work.

Timothy Chaucer

It does kind of sound like the writing is on the wall with this issue, doesn't it?

Sue Moores

Partially hydrogenated such-and-such oil,' which is kind of the kicker word for trans fats.

Bill Sterling

I think there's a one word summary out of this thing: War.

Shizuka Arakawa

I'm so surprised. I can't find the words for it.

Irina Slutskaya

I'm so surprised, and I can't find any words for it.

Toba Beta

I do not say words, which you want to hear. The words just told me, to write them down.

Bruce Bennett

He was a wordsmith. A blacksmith works with metal, he worked with words.

Horace Engdahl

He did not say many words. He was very happy.

Ron Moody

He was such a professional. ... He was always word perfect.

Mary Evans

If we have the Word let us/ say it/ If we have the Word let us/ be it/ If we have the Word let us/ DO.