Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Beakes

Luckily we have a supply of paper ballots we use for absentee voting. We were able to use the ballots as backup.

Elliott Abrams

If you said to people you can cast a secret ballot on whether to turn back the clock and have Morsi in power again, I don't think very many people in Washington would turn back that clock.

Kent Carper

There is a likelihood that will happen. I would say that it's better -- most likely than not that it will be on the May ballot, But it won't be on the ballot where you vote for the house of delegates or whatever, it'll be a separate piece of paper.

Craig Keeney

This process actually gives the voters with returned ballots an opportunity to privately revise and then recast their ballot.

Richard Armitage

There are ways to pursue political change. In a democracy, it's through the ballot box. There are other ways, and many democracies have many different systems of democracy.

Carrie Meek

More black voters than white voters had their ballots discarded, no matter what kind of voting system was used. Punch card ballots cheat voters, and they are much more likely to cheat African-American voters.

Frances Johnson

Since there is only one race going on, counting will begin immediately, ... Generators and lanterns will provide light for the staff counting the ballots tonight.

Dana Doiron

She took them out and put them in a reconstituted ballot box and then continued with the election.

David Dill

With the paper-based system you can see the ballots being marked, you can see them going into a ballot box, if you have good laws you can go watch them count the ballots, and with electronic voting all of that stuff is hidden inside the machines.

Bengie Molina

We're baseball players. We don't need guys telling us, 'Hey, you need to hurry. Hey, you need to do this. Hey, you need to step up.' We are professionals, we can do that without anybody telling us. I'm OK with it, but we need to do it on our own.

Barry Bonds

I was a momma's boy. I didn't get anything from Dad, except my body and baseball knowledge. The only time I spent with him was at the ballpark.

Barry Bonds

When I finish playing, I think I'd like to coach college baseball

Barry Bonds

I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball.

Barry Bonds

Baseball is just my job.

Barry Bonds

I don't know what you guys say, but at home, life is way different from baseball.

Barry Bonds

I don't know if steroids are going to help you in baseball. I just don't believe it. I don't believe steroids can help eye-hand coordination [and] technically hit a baseball.

Barry Bonds

It's a relief now to be able to stand next to my godfather and finally feel like I've accomplished something in the game of baseball.

Barry Bonds

Serra High school, to me, was my most enjoyable time for me in my entire life. That was the only time I was free. We just played baseball because it was fun.

John McConnell

We always felt like medical records would be a huge business because that's the biggest expense health care has in moving information. It's just taken a long time for the business models, the products to meet the need." ()

Kerry Condon

You think when you start getting jobs that it'll get easier, but that's the biggest lie ever. It gets harder. You have to put in more work. I wish it were the casting couch days because it'd be a lot easier!

Jamie Oliver

We're in a situation now where weight and extreme weight and heart disease is the biggest killer in this country today.

Chris Villarrial

When I came in 10 years ago, some of the biggest guys were at 300 pounds. Now I'm facing D-linemen at 350, 370. You have to get heavier as the years go, because everyone else is getting bigger, faster, stronger. You have to do it to keep up.

Martin Reynolds

When the market is going strong, meeting demand is often an issue, even for the biggest chip makers.

Peter Graf

When the market consolidates, people (put) their investments into the biggest pile. Which open-source technologies are mature enough to survive the wave that's coming? Linux--absolutely. Eclipse? Yes. Mozilla? Most likely.

Toni Tennille

The biggest surprise to people is that I sang background on Pink Floyd's 'The Wall' album.

Tina Brown

It's one of the biggest fibs going that American newspapers are now being forced to give up their commitment to investigative reporting. Most of them gave up long ago as their greedy managements squeezed every cent out of the bottom line and turned their newsrooms into eunuchs.

Charmaine Bell

We're shocked because we have high expectations for ourselves. The biggest key is to get everybody involved and play together.

Tania Kotsos

Low inflation is bullish for bonds in Hungary and therefore for the forint. We could see some gains in the currency on anticipation of a lower-than expected inflation figure.

Eric Massa

Here's a news flash: No soldier gives his life. That's not the way it works. Most soldiers who make a conscious decision to place themselves in harm's way do it to protect their buddies. They do it because of the bonds of friendship - and it goes so much deeper than friendship.

Thomas Perez

Involvement in my kids' sports teams is something I have made time for over the years. I've also been able to coach all three of them in baseball and basketball, something that has strengthened our bonds and given me indescribable joy. I wouldn't trade it for anything.

Cassie Johnson

She bonds with Donny because he's experiencing that for the first time. At first, she's in it for fun. In the end, she realizes she can't live without him.

William Adams

With the physical trade still quiet because of the summer slowdown, the markets seem to be at the whim of the funds, so more exogenous issues such as the equities, oil, bonds and the dollar, or any other event that impacts the funds, needs to be watched closely.

A. Hodge

Ultimately it will not have an impact, ... (The sanctions) will be counterproductive because (they) will degrade the bonds of cooperation that exist between the U.S, Europeans, Japanese and other major trading and investing countries around world.

Norihisa Takao

We've already anticipated the increase in consumer prices. It is not a reason to sell bonds any more.

Bill Hornbarger

Obviously the data today was very supportive of bonds. The unemployment report caught everyone by surprise. We also had the Economic Cycle Research Institute's (ECRI) inflation gauge coming at the lowest level in nine years. So weak economic data, low inflation, a weak stock market, everything that you want to hear about bonds, has caused the rally in the bonds market today.

David Waller

Revenue bonds are different. It is not a tax bond. It is paid completely out of revenues from the district, and what we'll use it for is to improve the infrastructure of the district.

Kathryn Lasky

In terms of the Japanese royal family, they were considered the direct descendants of a god. They are regarded as all-powerful and possessors of unimaginable wealth, and yet they are, more often than not, literally prisoners of tradition.

Jacques Pepin

For everyday, we like Beaujolais, Grenache or Syrah, and we like a lot of it! It's a family tradition: We would never consider having a meal without wine.

Rob Andrew

When he is fit we will consider him - but we are letting him recover at the moment.

Rob Andrew

When the medics come to me and say he is right, we will then consider him for selection, but not before. We aren't putting a time limit on it - it will happen when it happens.

Tao Lin

I think I've written about family and things in 'Taipei' which could be considered Asian culture.

Taron Egerton

I've never considered myself to be a fashionista type of guy.

Timothy Noah

The United States is a country where practically everybody considers himself middle class.

LaMont Jordan

We're considered a high-powered offense. Last time I checked, high-powered offenses don't get held to (20) points.

Salmon P. Chase

The President then proceeded to read his Emancipation Proclamation, making remarks on the several parts as he went on, and showing that he had fully considered the whole subject, in all lights under which it had been presented to him.

Mamata Banerjee

I don't think the elite class is only speaking the good English.

Bob Blecher

Last year was the first time Patrice had to be a leader on the field. This year, being a senior and one of the area's elite players, I think she's more willing to take on that responsibility.

Chuck D.

The fact is this is an elite group of individuals. The fact is we want an elite group of individuals,

Gerald Wallace

We have a problem understanding that just because we are up 12 or 15 with 3 minutes to go, that doesn't mean the game is over. We just can't do this if we expect to win and be one of the elite teams in the league.

Dan Glickman

Shutting down illegal file swapping networks like Elite Torrents is an essential part of our fight to stop movie thieves from stealing copyrighted materials.

Barry Trotz

We're in pretty elite company. I told the team that if we can do something special, go for it.

Curtis Sanford

Obviously he's on fire. Even the games I've watched on TV, he seems to be getting points every night. He's an elite player.

Mark Romanek

I always wanted to be a feature filmmaker and tried to treat that experience as some sort of elite film school where I could learn the craft, and got paid to learn the craft.

Mike Dunleavy

But we haven't played any of the elite teams,

Publius Tacitus

Love of fame is the last thing even the wise give up

Joanna Lumley

People have always tut-tutted about actors stepping out of line politically. And I can sort of see it because what you've got your fame for is not being someone who can influence things, so it's cheating.

Edward R. Murrow

Fame is morally neutral.

Edward Norton

Fame is very corrosive and you have to guard very strictly against it.

Jay DeMarcus

Mohegan Sun Walk of Fame. It's been an incredible ride, and our fans have been a big part of it.

Dave Chappelle

I love being famous - it's phenomenal.

Dave Chappelle

Being famous is great, it's not like bad or horrible or anything.

Gil Brandt

When you say 47 percent out of the first 10 picks made the Hall of Fame, that's a high percentage.

Charles Sumner

No true and permanent fame can be founded, except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.

Audrey Hepburn

My greatest victory has been to be able to live with myself, to accept my shortcomings. I'm a long way from the human being I'd liked to be, but I've decided I'm not so bad after all.

Warren Haynes

Making that record was one of the greatest musical moments in my life,

Bryant H. McGill

There are amazingly wonderful people in all walks of life; some familiar to us and others not. Stretch yourself and really get to know people. People are in many ways one of our greatest treasures.

Gerald Curtis

One of his greatest opportunities now is to push agricultural reform,

Sally Schneider

One of my greatest joys is when someone like your wife takes one idea or one piece of a recipe and does it her way. That's what I'm encouraging.

George Granville

Of all pains, the greatest pain Is to love, and love in vain.

Mike Perez

One through six, they really hate to lose. They all are very competitive. They may not be the greatest practice players, but in matches, I know they are going to get it done.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Music, of all the liberal arts, has the greatest influence over the passions

Michael Flatley

My heart is saddened with the news of the Pope's passing. He was truly the greatest man on the planet, the nearest to a saint.

Audrina Patridge

I love Halloween and dressing up. I usually have at least three costumes.

Dee Snider

Halloween is huge in my house and we really get into the 'spirits' of things. A few years back, my wife was frustrated with the same old stupid sound effects tape we would play, which ends with the theme from 'Ghostbusters' and 'Monster Mash'. I told her that Halloween is way too cool a holiday to suffer through this every year.

Dee Snider

Halloween is huge in my house and we really get into the "spirits" of things.

Charles R. Swindoll

You won't find God at the Seminary and you won't find wisdom in the halls of intellectualism.

Charlie Sifford

Man, I'm in the World Golf Hall of Fame. Don't forget that, now. I'm in the World Golf Hall of Fame with all the players. That little old golf I played was all right, wasn't it?

January Jones

I went to a party at the Playboy Mansion once. For a Halloween Party. And everyone wasn't in costume, or if they were they were little bunnies or something, and I went as Michael Jackson.

Thomas Perez

The Labor Department's Hall of Honor recognizes men and women - like Cesar Chavez, Helen Keller and the Workers of the Memphis Sanitation Strike - who have made invaluable contributions to the welfare of American workers.

Thomas Lennon

Yes, I am complimented on my work in Kids in the Hall once or twice a week. It's a nice feeling.

Brian De Palma

I don't see scary films. I certainly wouldn't go see my films.

David Hume

History is the discovering of the principles of human nature.

David Hume

Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular. Its chief use is only to discover the constant and universal principles of human nature.

Benazir Bhutto

What is not recorded is not remembered.

Blaise Pascal

The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it.

Kjell Magne Bondevik

Villa Grande has in many ways symbolized an important, but less than pleasant, part of our history.

Tansy Rayner Roberts

History is more interesting than most people think.

Tom Rachman

I went to the University of Toronto to study the history and theory of film, in the back of my mind thinking I'd go to NYU film school and see if I could make a career of it.

Todd Rundgren

I don't have a long history of hit singles of my own. I had a few, and I had a little hot streak in the '70s, but I've had a lot of success producing other people.

Barbara Boxer

Let's not rewrite history, it's too soon for that,

David Henry Hwang

Death with honor is better than life... life with dishonor.

Antonio Villaraigosa

The great thing about our system of democracy is when they call you for jury duty, you have to come... It's an honor and a privilege. I was called and I've got to be here.

Diana Gabaldon

And if your life is a suitable exchange for my honor, why is my honor not a suitable exchange for your life?

Blaise Pascal

Those honor nature well, who teach that she can speak on everything.

Alexandra Fuller

Surely until all of us own and honor one another's dead, until we have admitted to our murders and forgiven one another and ourselves for what we have done, there can be no truce, no dignity and no peace.

Dick Cheney

We are here to honor the memory of seven lost explorers,

Calvin Coolidge

We want wealth, but there are many other things we want very much more. Among them are peace, honor, charity, and idealism.

Bryant H. McGill

True freedom is where an individual's thoughts and actions are in alignment with that which is true, correct, and of honor - no matter the personal price.

Larry Miller

The real idols . . . are the people who work for Polk Works. I'm honored by this.

Dian Fossey

It was their individuality combined with the shyness of their behavior that remained the most captivating impression of this first encounter with the greatest of the great apes.

Billie Joe Armstrong

Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.

Alexis de Tocqueville

One of the happiest consequences of the absence of government...is the development of individual strength that inevitably follows.

Jim Balsillie

lends itself to an individual in a corporation or a small group.

Arthur Koestler

The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million.

Bertrand Russell

Our individual life is brief, and perhaps the whole life of mankind will be brief if measured in astronomical scale

Busy Philipps

Freaks and Geeks' was a show where our individuality was really celebrated.

Boris Vian

Les masses ont tort et les individus toujours raison. The masses are wrong; individuals are always right.

Khaya Ngqula

She is a talented individual and we wish her well in her new ventures.

Dick Vermeil

Least likely normally to have a problem is the kicker.

Kris Carr

When our purpose is external, we may never find it. If we tie our purpose or meaning to our vocation, goal or an activity, we're more than likely setting ourselves up for suffering down the line.

Erin Morgenstern

I'm working on something that's not yet novel-shaped but is something of a film-noir-flavored 'Alice in Wonderland.' It will also very likely be a single volume story and not the start of a series.

John Hurt

One thing that is likely to make you lose touch is if you keep in touch with the past too much.

Henry Blodget

Settlement talks, if any, will likely be very complex, with multiple parties involved.

Courtney Campbell

With this type of leukemia, he most likely will need a bone-marrow transplant.

William Gerstenmaier

We're going to have to make some modifications to the tank, so that probably puts the September (launch) window into a not very likely possibility.

David Carr

We're more likely to be understanding than to be judgmental.

Cody Acree

Revenues are likely to be down but that's just normal seasonality,

Paul Villadolid

We're not producing an old-fashioned show. We're really placing traditional values in a contemporary production.

Jeremy Layman

I couldn't be more proud of such a young team placing 11th.

David Brin

What point was there in pursuing an ever-elusive popularity?

Al Gore

The presidency is more than a popularity contest.

Janie Allen

Murals were very popular then and the idea was pretty well received.

Masha Lipman

(Motherland's policies) are very, very popular with the Russian people.

Bob Beatty

She's ahead, she's popular -- she's not completely unbeatable.

Bill Pullman

The writers are pretty political and they want to get as big an audience as they can - they want the popular vote.

Baltasar Gracian

There must be something good in a thing that pleases so many; even if it cannot be explained, it is certainly enjoyed.

Todd Young

We're getting in their face. And I'm sure it's not very popular with management.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

PLEBISCITE, n. A popular vote to ascertain the will of the sovereign.

Joe Manganiello

Well, being 6' 5', pull-ups are my nemesis. I have really long arms so I have to do twice the work of someone with short arms to get the weight up there.

Grace Gealey

I am very disciplined with my skin - I tone and I moisturize my skin twice a day. I also exfoliate, and I try to get a facial, like, once every two months.

Dave Lewis

We come up every year once or twice a year.

Rand Paul

Black unemployment is twice white unemployment and has been for decade after decade.

Vic Koenning

I've never had that before, in how many years of coaching? So we've had it twice in two games, so we've got to get that squared away, too.

Phil Jackson

The win wasn't important for me, it was important for the team, ... But getting the win is twice as nice.

Aaron Krach

It was 1989, and there was a big brouhaha that he was so old and so gray. Now, we wouldn't think twice about it.

Nate Silver

Well, you know, you're not going to have 86 percent of Congress voted out of office.

Ahmed Ali

We voted for the one who can make a change,

Michelle Anderson

I voted to recall. The things she's done can't be justified.

Bob Crowder

I voted the way I thought we had to.

Nelson Mandela

I voted for myself. Even if I go to my grave, I will wake up and come and vote.

M. Hopper

I voted for Bush, and I don't have anything to disapprove of.

Paul Lowe

This is where I voted from, this is where I live, this is it.

Hon Ip

It will be like 'Survivor.' We'll see which ones get voted off the island.

Bill Nye

We need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.

Charles Rangel

The victor will be the one who gets the most voters out.

Judy Davis

I feel like the voters made their decision.

Steve Southerland

I think voters appreciate that I'm not sitting in the back row, waiting for my turn.

Lindsey Graham

We're going to need those voters in the fall.

Mark McKinnon

Voters are looking for credibility and are wary of polish. At the end of the day, it doesn't really matter which candidate can more deftly read a teleprompter.

Bob Mulholland

Voters want to know, 'What are you going to do for me in office?' That's what it's about.

Seth Rogen

I work under the assumption that, generally speaking, my taste and the taste of the Oscar voters are not one in the same.

Nelson Mandela

Our march to freedom is irreversible. We must not allow fear to stand in our way. Universal suffrage on a common voters' roll in a united, democratic and non-racial South Africa is the only way to peace and racial harmony.