Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ronnie Chappell

Our goal is to make the refinery as safe as we possibly can. We are disappointed by the citations. We disagree with the substance and characterization of many of the alleged violations.

Craig L. Thomas

It is being alleged that the Federal Government is 'cutting' spending. In fact, we are not 'cutting' anything. Defense spending under this budget would rise by 4.3 percent over last year. Other discretionary spending would also rise.

Katherine Harris

The alleged improper return of absentee ballots by third parties does not, in and of itself, constitute a basis for invalidating all of the absentee ballots cast in Bay County,

Eleanor Norton

The amount and depth of the torture that's been alleged and corroborated leaves no doubt in my mind that what we saw was a staged interrogation,

John Manning

That study is the most definitive resource we have to show Minnesotans how rare insistences like the one being alleged are.

Shakira

I was unaware of the dispute in Brooklyn, ... I would never knowingly wear any clothes or support any company who produced clothing with alleged wage and labor violations.

Kofi Annan

I am especially troubled by instances in which U.N. peacekeepers are alleged to have sexually exploited minors and other vulnerable people,

Ta-Nehisi Coates

I feel some need to represent where I'm from. But ultimately, I think my only real responsibility is to - as much as possible - interrogate my own truths. This is to say not merely writing what I think is true, but using the writing to turn that alleged truth over and over, to stress-test it, in the aim of producing something readable.

Philip Morris

Given the decision to decertify in a case also based on alleged fraudulent misrepresentations to consumers, we think it is clear that this court will decertify

Linda Lingle

Regardless of the legal basis of the decision this is not a just decision,

David Obey

Recent news reports suggesting that the CPB increasingly is making personnel and funding decisions on the basis of political ideology are extremely troubling.

Tim Purpura

Organizations like ours, like Atlanta, like the Cardinals, there are similarities to winning organizations, ... You have that focus that it's about winning, only winning. You have to have higher expectations than other people. And sometimes, you have to flush guys out of your system that might not buy into it, that might put their stats first, rather than winning. In those types of organizations, guys like that don't last, and they kind of self-select themselves out, and you end up being able to win on a consistent basis because you keep the guys who buy into that.

Leigh Ross

Our offense knows it has struggled lately, but we're still of the opinion that seeing good pitching on a consistent basis by playing such a tough non-conference schedule will continue to make us better for our MAC run.

Jamie Jackson

People make too much out of whether we're inverted or not. It's as if when we're positive by a couple of basis points, everything is OK, but if we're negative by a basis point, somehow the laws of nature have been violated. The reality of it is the curve is just flat.

William Frey

People make moves largely on the basis of they've got jobs somewhere, housing costs. But lifestyle, people generally don't take that into account. If you have an opportunity, stay there for a couple of weeks. Sit down and talk to people who have just made that move. Find out what issues they have.

Ned Riley

Some of the governors are going to challenge another 50 basis point (half a percentage point) reduction that many people would like. I think they'll be guarded in their commentary and that may be one of the catalysts for the market to correct.

David Velasquez

Our program is about improvement on a weekly basis and today we had a dozen kids (in the girls meet) that really improved.

Neal Hunter

Our product provides comfort, convenience, safety, and savings, while contributing to the reduction in global energy consumption. We believe we must deploy our technology on a rapid global basis to help relieve the pressures on our energy infrastructure.

Paul O'Neill

Harvey said that people are going to certify, and if they falsely certify, it's going to be fraud, and they're going to go to jail, and we think that's the right step,

Casey Luskin

Students will learn more about evolution, not less as some Darwinists have falsely claimed.

Arlen Specter

Regrettably, you need homeland security, and I think you are going to need it if not forever, for the foreseeable future,

Kenny MacAskill

Our message to the Scottish Diaspora this New Year should be to come home to Scotland.

Francis Thompson

Spring is come home with her world-wandering feet./ And all the things are made young with young desires.

Judah Friedlander

Stand-up is kind of like my home base, and doing stand-up in New York is what I like doing most.

Mike Rogers

Some of those old homes made it through a lot of hurricanes,

Bill Henderson

Someone from home will be praying for you,

James Augustine

That'd be the best. To do it at home on Senior Night, to do it with Dee. It would be a special night.

Taylor Twellman

Our first home match is going to be difficult, and we know that better than anybody,

Nick Russo

Residents of these temporary homes need to practice safety first at all times.

Lillian Carter

Regarding Men: When they stop lookin', They ain't worth havin'.

Jesse L. Martin

Real men know how to listen, and real men know how to be honest.

Jennifer Taylor

People have had that old mentality that (child care) is just like a baby-sitting service.

Saeb Erekat

start thinking in the mentality of a partner.

Raoul Walsh

Some men are all right in their place if they only knew the right places.

Steve Erickson

Overall I think I'm playing a lot better. I've worked a lot more this year and I'm more confident. I'm mentally stronger.

Kevin Simpson

Over 20 women have called wanting to be a mentor to a young lady.

Nicole Vaidisova

Physically I was well, mentally I was well. I just never got into my rhythm.

Shane Montgomery

Most of the pressure we saw Saturday we had seen before. We just had some mental breakdowns. You see that sometimes in your first game.

Susan Backman

Residents can see the improvements made to the outside of the buildings.

John Emerich

Resist your time - take a foothold outside it

F. Schumacher

I was on the outside and I tried and there was no opportunity.

Tom Zbikowski

I think to the outside people, it's not what they expected, but it is what we expected.

Terry Wallace

I went outside and took a look and I could see it on top of the mountain.

Mark Landy

I would venture that we are now outside of gentlemanly territory,

Jovan Vavic

J.W. is very versatile can play many positions. He can set and guard, be an outside shooter and he's very fast.

Sandra Tsing Loh

Journalists are quite surprised outside their dinner parties when they hear where I live. 'Van Nuys? You still live there?' It is like saying you're from Alabama.

Lynn Coady

Here's the thing about lingerie: The only time we see it outside our own bedrooms, it is on women who are gloriously freakish in their physical perfection.

Garry Marshall

I think she's a find. She's got a shot. She's pretty, but she's not a sexpot. She can play a regular person in a film. And she's also very bright.

Garry Marshall

I think she's a find, ... She's got a shot. She's pretty, but she's not a sexpot. She can play a regular person in a film. And she's also very bright.

Kenneth Chenault

Regular feedback is one of the hardest things to drive through an organization.

Amar'e Stoudemire

I was just a regular kid in poverty, struggling.

Jerry Kelly

He runs on a regular basis, I truly don't know what his capabilities are.

Javon Walker

If it was the regular season, I could have played.

Buddy Bell

If this was the regular season, he'd play. But I don't want it to run into the season.

John Servis

He's been able to train on a regular basis, and it's been a long time since he's done that.

James Calhoun

Of course, any vote will be made in regular session.

Joe Torre

That was back when just getting to the World Series was enough.

Mike Fisher

I think it's tough (to take a 2-0 lead). The series is still tied and we know we can be much better.

Max Mosley

It is not too different from the Nissan World Series or the GP2 championship.

Max Mosley

It is not too different from the Nissan World Series and GP2 championship.

George Karl

I think he'll be able to play sometime in this series if we need him.

Thomas Perry

It was a lot of fun, and writing a series is comfortable. It's almost like having a secure job.

Phil Garner

Getting this World Series start is probably going to go a long way in getting him over the Tennessee loss.

Dylan Minnette

I was always a really big fan of R. L. Stine and the 'Goosebumps' T.V. series and the 'Goosebumps' books.

Ryan Miller

I don't want that to be the way this series is remembered.

Bebe Neuwirth

The musical stuff I'd go up for was always funny, sexy, tough-as-nails, heart-of-gold characters.

Bebe Neuwirth

In New York I was always offered the hot, sexy roles. But in L.A. I was offered the plain, dowdy roles. It says a lot about the difference between the coasts

Becca Fitzpatrick

His smile was sexy and warned of trouble, but I'd made up my mind that not all trouble was bad.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Normal and I parted ways when Pateir1ch strolled into my life. Patch has seven inches on me, operates on cold, hard logic, moves like smoke, and lives alone in a supersecret, superswanky studio beneath Delphic Amusement Park. The sound of his voice, low and sexy, can melt my heart in three seconds flat. He’s also a fallen angel, kicked out of heaven for his flexibility when it comes to following rules. I personally believe Patch scared the pants off normal, and it took off running for the far side of the world.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Vee said," I'm trying to read the title he's holding…hang on…How to Be a Stalker." "He is not checking out a book with that title." But I wasn't so sure. "It's either that of How to Radiate Sexy Without Trying.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I shouldn't have been looking at lingerie. It naturally made me think about sexy things. Like kissing. Like Patch.

B. F. Skinner

A child who has been severely punished for sex play is not necessarily less inclined to continue; and a man who has been imprisoned for violent assault is not necessarily less inclined toward violence.

Bill Condon

Kinsey was trying to study sex scientifically, get rid of the overlay of culture and religion.

Bill Engvall

Martial sex is kinda like ordering a Civil War chess set through the mail. You get one piece every four to six weeks, you don't know what kind of shape that piece is gonna be in when you get it, but you still gotta pay the handling charges.

Bette Davis

I guess I'm larger than life. That's my problem.

Bill Vaughan

Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third.

Bertrand Russell

Vanity is a motive of immense potency.

Bertrand Russell

One of the troubles about vanity is that it grows with what it feeds on. The more you are talked about, the more you will wish to be talked about.

Bertrand Russell

I have been merely oppressed by the weariness and tedium and vanity of things lately: nothing stirs me, nothing seems worth doing or worth having done: the only thing that I strongly feel worth while would be to murder as many people as possible so as to diminish the amount of consciousness in the world. These times have to be lived through: there is nothing to be done with them.

Bertrand Russell

What vanity needs for its satisfaction is glory, and it's easy to have glory without power.

Mark Adelson

From now on, only the plainest vanilla versions will be permissible, nothing elaborate.

Blaise Pascal

Vanity is but the surface.

Blaise Pascal

We are so presumptuous that we should like to be known all over the world, even by people who will only come when we are no more. Such is our vanity that the good opinion of half a dozen of the people around us gives us pleasure and satisfaction.