Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nazir Ahmed

Relief has been exchanged for Kashmiri villagers affected by the quake on both sides of the border,

Jo Bonner

President Bush, Secretary of State Rice, and several cabinet level officials have visited Alabama's Gulf Coast in recent days to tour the devastation and to offer their continuing support and prayers for everyone affected by the storm.

Ignacio Bunye

President Arroyo has instructed the Cabinet to conduct dialogues not only with the oil firms but with all affected sectors, including workers, small and medium enterprises, manufacturers and transport groups among others, that are affected by this crisis.

King Abdullah

Our relationship with India is not related with Pakistan. Both the countries are friendly countries with great ties. The relationship between us and India is not affected with regard to any other country.

Ted Kulongoski

Oregon has stood by ready to help at any time our fellow citizens affected by this terrible tragedy,

Joe Johnson

Our normal average is 104 sales a month, and we're going to probably end up September with 165, ... And 37 percent of our sales are coming from areas affected by Hurricane Katrina.

Jim Sparks

Our membership is pretty aware that we're not affected until January.

Steve Riley

Our music has been affected a lot by them. With the younger generation, our music has had an effect on them. It's all about the domino effect people have on one another.

Karen Kayser

People have been particularly affected because of the salt water flooding the farmlands, which has left them unable to produce crops. They lost their livelihood even though they may not necessarily have lost their homes.

Stuart Fischoff

People have this sense that they're not just watching the death of a city, they're watching the death of a whole culture, and that's far more engaging than just the aftermath of a hurricane, Escape From New York.

Marianne Williamson

Our task, in the aftermath of September 11, was and continues to be the transformation of the effects of evil into something beautiful and good.

Martin George

Our fuel costs remain a real burden. The price of oil hit a record high of just over 70 dollars per barrel in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

Buddy Jewell

Just as we did for our fellow countrymen in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on September 11th, ... I encourage everyone in this great nation to roll up their sleeves and contribute as best you can to help our brothers and sisters along the Gulf Coast. It is in times like these that we as Americans have the opportunity to show the world one of the things that makes our country great...our compassion.

Paul Tagliabue

That was a decision that I made. The priority in this region had to continue to be recovery and rebuilding from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

Paul Hoolahan

I think it's obvious, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, we are faced with some formidable challenges. It's difficult to go forward when you are ejected from your home venue. ... First and foremost in our thinking is that we want - in every way possible - to conduct our event in the state of Louisiana.

Pat McCutcheon

I think something changed for us in the nation in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. We had dirty laundry that we didn't know about (and) that dirty laundry happened to be most exposed in Louisiana." ()

Jim Beaver

'Life's That Way' was an extraordinarily difficult book to write, because it wasn't written as a book. It was written as a journal of events that were happening as I wrote it, without the space or time either to digest or analyze those events and without the hindsight and peace that writing in the aftermath would have provided.

Jerrold Nadler

I witnessed firsthand what happens when the federal government fails to protect public health after disaster strikes, ... The long-term impact on human health -- and public confidence in government -- is devastating. Sierra Club's report is a wake-up call that it could happen again, and I confess that I am concerned for the rescue workers and residents facing the aftermath of the Katrina Hurricane. We need a full investigation of what happened at Ground Zero and what our government plans to do in all future emergencies.

Harry Reid

President Bush has dropped the equivalent of 100,000 dirty bombs on America, ... All Americans should be concerned, not just because he lied to me or the people of Nevada and indeed all Americans, but because the president's decision threatens American lives.

David Letterman

Last night the United States dropped four 2,000 pound bombs on Saddam Hussein. I don't know anything about explosives, but, my God, do those things even need to explode?

Roger Entner

The application of prepaid phones for nefarious reasons, is really widespread. For example, the terrorists in Madrid used prepaid phones to detonate the bombs in the subway trains that killed more than 200 people.

Carolyn Maupin

I wonder if he hears the bombs of the soldiers and their rifles.

Julie Gold

From a distance, We all have enough, And no one is in need,And there are no guns, no bombs and no disease, No hungry mouths to feed - God is watching us, God is watching us, God is watching us, From a distance

John Styers

I had lived and worked in London, and was familiar with the Tube stops where the bombs went off,

Bill Shuster

It is clear that terrorists, whether using a plane to kill innocent Americans or exploding car bombs in the Middle East, do not fight fairly.

Davis III

He's a very, very good player. When he wants to hit it long, he just bombs it out there. He's got great hands and putts very well. I don't think he missed a whole lot of putts he had to make, maybe one.

Jane Yolen

If a parent wants to talk about slavery or wants to talk about countries where bombs go off, they need to have a way - a setting - to have that conversation. And there are wonderful books out there for those kinds of conversations.

Steve Goodman

Stanford every year rejects two-thirds of the applicants with perfect SATs. You're dealing with an enormous population growth in the last 20 to 25 years, plus the number of freshman seats at William and Mary and UVA hasn't really materially changed.

Thomas Fuller

Plain dealing is a jewel, but they that wear it are out of fashion

Lois Capps

Picking up and going on, I believe, is my way of dealing with that enormous shock.

Kelly Holcomb

Man, I've been through all this before. I know what you're dealing with here. You've got a young guy, who wants to be the guy. But we've got a team now that is ready to win. And you have to go on the field to produce. I'm just glad I got the opportunity to go play the game.

Scott Palmer

I think they all took it upon themselves to step it up this year and they have. Last year I think there was more pressure on everybody because I think people expected us to do even better than we did. This year the maturity level has come into play as Grade 12s and they're dealing with it very well.

Alan Faneca

Last year, dealing with the championship game and the 15-1 season and all the hype and everything that went with it has definitely helped him deal with what's going on now. He feels and looks like a six- or seven-year guy.

Z. Sheppard

I think dealing with all these young guys makes him feel young. It makes him feel like he can still play, that he feels like he has to keep up with us.

Geno Auriemma

The alternative would be that you're dealing with this thing all year long. A week she's good, a week she's bad, and back and forth. I'm hopeful that by keeping her out those two weeks that we got to the root of the problem and fixed it. But, again, we'll never know. We'll just keep our fingers crossed.

Robert Gruber

That was a surprise. I've been dealing with utility law in this state since 1973, and I can't recall an order like it.

Charles Grassley

Some of the things they're recommending were hot issues in the 1990s, and they were dropped after being pushed by predecessors of mine very strongly and just didn't get anywhere.

Kevin Yates

I think the meet went better than planned. Most dropped time. Some who weren't even tapered for sectionals dropped time.

Romeo Crennel

That would have helped if we would've made that play. He just dropped it, it looked like to me.

Brad Kassell

That was probably the key to the victory. Every time they dropped back to pass he was getting harassed. Those guys up front dominated.

Sarah Graham

I was pretty horrified about what I was seeing. So I looked up and started screaming at the guy, and that's why I dropped the camera.

Tom Higgins

I was pleased that he dropped the pass and we went right back to him and he got in sync.

Lynn LaFree

I was originally going to run the 100, the 220 and the 440. But there were going to be heats for the event and I didn't think I could run all three with all the heats without being exhausted. So I dropped the 220, which I probably could have won and ran the 440. As it turned out, had I won the 220 as well, I would have won the team state championship by myself.

Henry Ward Beecher

It gives one a sudden start in going down a barren, stony street, to see upon a narrow strip of grass, just within the iron fence, the radiant dandelion, shining in the grass, like a spark dropped from the sun

Caitlin Rose

I went to community college for about a year but I'd started taking music seriously by then so I dropped out.

Dean Devlin

I know I screwed up my 'Godzilla.'

Liam Hemsworth

I love New York. It just reminds me of so many movies... I look up at buildings, and feel like Godzilla should be climbing up them or something.

Jesper Koll

The big issue out there is who's going to take on Godzilla bank, i.e. the Post Office. It can turn into a problem.

Robin Williams

I met Jonah Lomu. I never knew how huge he was. I felt like a peasant in a Godzilla movie. 'Quickly! Tell the other villagers! We go now!'

Hitoshi Yamamoto

Relatively speaking, Japan looks the least uncertain market in regard to politics and the economy.

Christo

We never work on only one project because we never know if we will get permission for a project. So, for 'Over the River,' we started in 1992. I was just finishing 'The Umbrellas' in Japan and California, and I was also working on getting permission to wrap the Reichstag.

Stacey Widlitz

Japan turned positive after seven quarters of negative comparisons. That's the story here.

Junichiro Koizumi

Japan must import most of its oil from abroad. There is much that we can do for each other.

John Roos

Japan is a well-educated, technological society. It is a free society, protects intellectual property.

Masayoshi Son

Japan has the infrastructure for this kind of service, so it would be a shame not to use it.

Ed Loyd

Japan has taken a number of positive steps, but they've been small tentative steps and they've been painfully slow.

Chris Reilly

Japan hasn't seen much recovery in housing. But inflationary pressures in Japan could be very positive for properties.

Robert Bach

Japanese software will be developed. It will be a breakthrough in Japan.

Joe Glenn

Steamboat, the bucking horse, is the symbol for our state,

Arthur Hardy

I think Mardi Gras is a symbol that we're down but not out.

Lisa Mendler

Helen is a symbol of the tenacity of our people.

Paul Tagliabue

He was mythic. He symbolizes football, and, more importantly, he symbolizes leadership.

Alfred Korzybski

Who rules our symbols, rules us.

A. E. Waite

The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.

Winston Scott

This symbolizes a whole new way of doing business.

David Mamet

The popularity of disaster movies expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted at the last moment. Their thinly veiled symbolic meaning might be translated thus: We are innocent of wrongdoing. We are attacked by unforeseeable forces come to harm us. We are, thus, innocent even of negligence. Though those forces are insuperable, chance will come to our aid and we shall emerge victorious.

Allen Ginsberg

Things are symbols of themselves.