Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Swecker

We're just going to have to work backwards from where he was last and wherever he's been, ... He's been somewhere, and we have to go to those places and process those places and see what evidence may be at those places.

Mark Richardson

Let's look at the past 20 years - maybe you had a lot of catching up to do. You're looking backwards as your reason for not getting a settlement this time.

Todd France

Let's just look forward and not backwards and see how we can get it done now, versus why we haven't been able to see eye to eye thus far.

Alan Hunter

Lee County is perhaps a spectacular example of a backwards market. In most markets jobs come first and then housing. In Florida and particularly Lee County, the retirees come first and then the jobs and retail.

Alan Hunter

Lee County is perhaps a spectacular example of a backward market. In most markets, jobs come first and then housing. In Florida and particularly Lee County, the retirees come first and then the jobs and retail.

Kathy Baker

I've heard that kind of weird backward compliment often - 'She's so talented, but not pretty.'

Sugar Ray Leonard

I learned to run backwards from Muhammad Ali. He told me about running backwards because you try to imitate everything you do in the ring, so sometimes you back up. So you have to train your legs to go backwards.

Vladimir Putin

The point of conservatism is not that it prevents movement forward and upward, but that it prevents movement backward and downward, into chaotic darkness and a return to a primitive state.

Stephanie Dubois

We have high ideals here. We know how to provide top-quality service. It's a very difficult decision every time you take a step backward from what you've been doing.

Paul Jacobson

Wayne County and the State of Michigan offer unique opportunities for the creation of the bio-refinery model.

Robert Reich

Official boundaries are often hard to see. If you head north on Woodward Avenue, away from downtown Detroit, you wouldn't know exactly when you left the city and crossed over into Oakland County - except for a small sign that tells you.

Michael Friedman

LD 1 really has significantly impacted county governments in a way we don't really know yet,

Craig Bryson

Left-turn signals not only can differ from county to county, they often differ within a county.

Bob Newton

The outdoor warning sirens in Douglas County are being sounded at this time. The National Weather Service has issued test tornado warning.

Leroy Foster

We have arrived. Now the entire county is getting the respect.

Dan Ross

We have a pretty high standard of what we expect, and a lot of that comes from a lot of things Stark County has done.

Carlos Alvarez

We are taking this storm very seriously. We are urging Miami-Dade County residents to do the same as we learned from hurricane Katrina storms are unpredictable,

Chuck D.

We're grateful that Glynn County lets us use Selden. But, there have been a few times in the past when we've had to get off the field because one of the recreation teams was scheduled to use it.

David Hilbert

Begin with the simplest examples.

Dick Costolo

If there's ever an example of the importance of making bold bets and focusing on what you love, it's Twitter.

Alain de Botton

It would scarcely be acceptable, for example, to ask in the course of an ordinary conversation what our society holds to be the purpose of work.

Charles Kingsley

Nothing is so infectious as example.

Bill Hybels

Leadership grit begets grit. Lead by example.

Alexandra Paul

I'm very much a lead by example person.

Andrew McCarthy

Like in 'Pretty in Pink' for example, people said, 'Oh, he's so sensitive and lovely in that movie,

Callie Khouri

'Gravity' is a great example of a movie that we hope they're going to do more of. It's really entertaining, with a female star. It's not the kind of film you typically see, and gives me hope.

John McEnroe

I think the players, I put in the book for example that we should go back to wood rackets, probably they laughed at me, I'm a dinosaur, but I think that you see these great players, have even more variety and you see more strategy, there'd be more subtlety.

Bob Davies

Last year's Florida offense is very, very similar to what Urban does.

Glenn Martin

Lee County, like all of Florida especially the west coast, is booming.

Mike Schnur

We did nothing differently this week than we did last week. But as they get further away from the Florida trip, they're less tired.

Irv Lippman

The profile of the institution has risen in people's minds. People now know where we are. Not only those in South Florida but people in outer markets.

Robert Bernstein

One telling statistic is that, of the 100 fastest-growing counties, 15 are in Florida -- and that's more than any other state.

Dennis Miller

Since the bus, a lot of people go to Florida who wouldn't if they had to hire a driver.

David Lewis

Mr. Underwood has simply exercised his legal right to make a contribution as provided by Florida statutes.

Steve Hiltz

She went wheelchair skiing in Tahoe. She's very into wheelchair athletics. She went to some out-of-state tournaments in Florida ... and her foster mom said she's going to start taking tennis lessons.

Dave Barry

In South Florida, we have industrial cockroaches that have to be equipped with loud warning beepers so you can get out of their way when they back up.

David Vitter

D energy - Domestic jobs; Domestic energy; Deficit reduction.

David Rockwell

But what makes my job so great is there's no one answer that's right for every restaurant.

David Remnick

I'm a journalist - I'm not Robert Caro. I have a day job, and a pretty consuming one - a joyfully consuming one.

David Horowitz

My parents called themselves progressives. The agenda was a Soviet America...the slogan of the communist party in those days was peace, jobs, democracy. Sound familar? The communist party is the democratic Party.

David Dinkins

I went downtown as a lawyer and then I worked in a liquor store at night, as I had done all through law school. And so when I got to the point where I could give up the night job, I joined the political club.

David Dinkins

I finished law school in '56, but I was working two jobs.

David Duke

And affirmative action is a very nice term for racial discrimination against better-qualified white people in jobs, employment, promotions and scholarships, and college admittance.

David Duke

A black...gets a job with a white-owned company. He is the only black at the firm. He works hard, but he's fighting a losing battle against his genes.

David Duchovny

My whole life, Ive wanted things before I was ready. I was always pushing for the next job, the next success. I was so focused on achieving and the path that I was missing some great point about life.

Bobby Bowden

Lee was missing them so far, I had to take him out.

Tommy Dolde

Lee is really starting to sharpen everything up.

Paul Ellis

Lee has talent. It takes us 10-to-15 plays to score. It takes them one or two.

Josh Cammack

Lee has been a lot of our offensive power.

Avicenna

Leeches should be kept a day before applying them. They should be squeezed to make them eject the contents of their stomachs.

David Young

If we go to Leeds next Sunday and win we could still sneak through.

Leigh-Allyn Baker

I was named after my two uncles. Roger Lee and Richard Allen. They simply changed the spelling to Leigh-Allyn to make it more feminine.

Jussie Smollett

I think that any actor - any artist, period - would love to work with an artist like Lee Daniels.

Ryan Bayda

I thought we were moving the puck really well and really reading off each other when Lee was down low.

Eric Brown

The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I haven't written for a while. Ideas come to me and need to be written down.

Azim Premji

You have students in America, in Britain, who do not want to be engineers. Perhaps it is the workload, I studied engineering, and I know what a grind it is.

Lloyd Carr

Obviously, there is a sense of urgency about this week that's very special, that perhaps is different.

Oliver Kahn

Perhaps we will still be using this policy for the World Cup. That would be a new concept.

Juan Carlos

Perhaps we are all suffering from Stockholm syndrome,

David Brown

Perhaps this is the first step on a long road.

Ann Gerhart

Perhaps this is how she is spending her capital,

Claire Tomalin

I would perhaps like to go back to writing small books about obscure people.

Tad Williams

I've always been partial to werewolves, perhaps because there's a desperation to their plight that resonates.