Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Ryan

We're so dependent on foreign capital that, if you could see any weakness in the dollar it could come on Friday with the trade numbers. If we see a sharply above consensus reading for trade, there could be some concern about the sustainability of that trade gap and that could certainly weigh on the dollar.

Tracy Perkins

What we're really doing is running a modern airline with classic airplanes. Our maintenance efforts have to go well above and beyond what an airline with new airplanes has to do. It's quite a challenge.

Gene Lamont

When we got above .500, we still had a chance. But we just haven't been able to score runs, and we really hurt ourselves.

Andy Davidson

We wrestled above our seeds. It was totally a team win. If someone doesn't do his job, it doesn't happen. It's as simple as that.

Hermann Hesse

What I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity.

Roy Moore

What happens when government puts itself above God? ... Amen.

David Mackay

We go up just into space - space is most commonly accepted to be 100 kilometres above the earth's surface, and we go up just beyond that to about 350,000 ft.

Samuel Daniel

Unless above himself he can / Erect himself, how poor a thing is man.

Doug Aitken

We're moving into an era when things are dematerialised and much more holographic. Floating above the physical world and the geographic map, there's another landscape that's constantly changing - something like a cloud - of communication, information, exchange and commerce.

Kelsey Lavender

We've always had that problem. Throughout the year, that's what we've been fighting. We've tried to cut down on turnovers and, obviously, we didn't do that once again.

Wale

When we were in D.C. my daddy used to cut his hair with a bowl. Crucial. If you're African, Haitan, Jamaican or even more poor than the people in the project, you'll know about that.

Allison Baver

When I was in fourth grade, my family, we used to always go to the roller skating rink. There was this cute boy there that I liked. It kind of influenced me to keep going.

Ken Henderson

We're making less money now than we did 30 years ago. If they have to pay more, they're going to have to cut back somewhere else.

Edward Norton

We're so hung up on this notion that we have some obligation to help the struggling black man, you know. Cut him some slack until he can overcome these historical injustices. It's crap. I mean, Christ, Lincoln freed the slaves, like, what? 130 years ago. How long does it take to get your act together?

Gerry Fleming

We're getting too cute, too fancy (with passes). That's what happens when you got new guys coming into the lineup that are skilled players playing with guys who are skilled players. Everybody wants to show off and show how great they are and how fancy they can make things happen. As a result, we turned the puck over and we all looked like we had no idea what we were doing.

Ray Smutko

We're going to stick a tree trunk in the ground, with about 6 feet sticking out. The Gatlin gun operator will spray across it several times and try to cut it in half.

Marios Maratheftis

We're going to see significant sterling weakness this year. Although the Bank of England is on hold for now the pressure is building for rate cuts in the second half of the year.

Hilly Kristal

We're going to fight. We deserve to be here. If they padlock the club, we're going to cut the locks.

M. Wolfe

We've always taken pride in having a convenient, interactive Web site, and the new design follows through on those initiatives.

Janet Jackson

When we were growing up, all of us kids were vegetarians. No one had asked me to stop eating meat - I just noticed everyone else around me had stopped, so I followed the crew.

The Vikings

When we were 1-2 after the Providence game, our players that following week re-dedicated themselves, ... You don't get better on Friday, you get better on Monday through Thursday, and that's what these guys have done.

Kevin Wright

You don't know what to think. You don't know what to do. You just do what you're told. You're getting yelled at from all different directions. You're being pushed and shoved everywhere. You just follow whoever's in front of you, and do what you are told. You don't really think about anything.

Bruce Reed

We remain hopeful that Glock and other manufacturers will follow Smith & Wesson's lead,

Capt. Conway

We responded to the hurricanes with between 200 and 250 medical, security and logistic support personnel as well as aircraft from the Army and Air Guard sides. This was huge for us because it came two weeks after the BRAC decided to take us off the base closure list, which would have taken the C-130s used to help following Katrina.

Craig Thompson

We're going to reach all four corners of the country. We're going to be able to follow Mountain West sports the way no one else has been able to follow Mountain West sports before.

Rick Oltman

What we're saying is the law needs to be applied. The law needs to be followed and that means the law for everyone, not just the illegal alien Mexicans but people who are here illegally from Europe and from around the world.

Helen Rowland

What a man calls his ''conscience'' is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.

Thomas Massie

My house is solar powered. I tell Republicans, you can hate the subsidies - I hate the subsidies, too - but you can't hate solar panels. These are rocks that make electricity, so they are incapable of receiving your hate.

Ewa Kopacz

To those who are incapable of presenting the historic truth in an honest way, I want to say that Poland was not a perpetrator but a victim of World War Two.

Karan Johar

I am incapable of directing a film like 'Agneenath.' I can do only what I am good at, so I would have been the worst choice to direct it. It has aggression, action and an inherent violence in it - things I am not capable of directing in my films.

Matthew Stewart

We are all equal not because we partake in some peculiar nature or because we share in the same credo of unreasoned beliefs, but because we take it that no thinking being is incapable of seeing reason.

Alan Watts

Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.

George Parnham

Only one mental health expert testified that Andrea knew that what she was doing was wrong, and that was the celebrated Park Dietz. Every other mental health expert ... testified that she was either incapable of knowing what she was doing was wrong or did not know what she was doing was wrong.

Thomas Frank

Concerns about the size and role of government are what seem to leave reformers stammering and speechless in town-hall meetings. The right wants to have a debate over fundamental principles; elected Democrats seem incapable of giving it to them.

Rob Lowe

After my parents' divorce when I was 4, I spent weekends with my dad before we finally moved to California. By the time Sunday rolled around, I was incapable of enjoying the day's activities, of being in the moment, because I was already dreading the inevitable goodbye of Sunday evening.

Mary Montagu

I give myself sometimes admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it

Will Holman

We've asked management that question (when a new contract would be imposed) and they haven't given us an answer. It could be immediately or they could use it for additional leverage at the bargaining table.

Richard Foreman

We've always respected Israel's right to defend itself, including going after armed groups and armed men in some of these areas. But we've always said they need to do that in a manner which has the utmost care to avoid harm to civilians, particularly when they're conducting operations in heavily populated areas. And we've said that often results in tragedies and numerous deaths. And that appears to be what's happened again.

Dan Beck

We've always had an aggressive e-commerce strategy. Since our first Web site in 1994, we realized a Web site was more than just a corporate brochure. It had to be an advanced business tool providing everything companies need to design, print and manage their documents online.

When we were growing up, old man jenkins would never fail to come out every morning to nail tadpoles to a wheel, spin it around and around, like a wheel of fortune, and then say, "Tadpoles! Tadpoles is the winner!" We all thought he was crazy, but then, we had some growing up to do.

Stacy Adams

When I was manning these gates with the military, we had between 20 to 25 officers. But the normal operation for this management is 10 to 14.

Gerard Houllier

When I was manager (of Liverpool) in England the national team coach was much more understanding.

George Burley

When I was manager at Ipswich and Derby, if we took 3500 to away matches that was good. To take over 6000 is unbelievable. The fans appreciate the effort the players are putting in.

Steve-O

When I was a kid, I loved a heavy metal band called Motley Crue. I was thirteen when they came to my city, and I called every hotel in the Yellow Pages asking for a room by the name of their manager in hopes of meeting the band. After two or three hours of calling hotels, I got through, and the manager's brother answered the phone.

Elvis Presley

When I was a child, ladies and gentleman, I was a dreamer. I read comic books, and I was the hero in the movie. So every dream I ever dreamed has come true a hundred times...I learned very early in life that: "Without a song, the day would never end; without a song, a man ain't got a friend; without a song, the road would never bed -- without a song." So I keep singing my song.

Joseph Kamotho

We want the President to take action now as the leader of the Government and not a few ministers to defend him.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

I know where there is more wisdom than is found in Napoleon, Voltaire, or all the ministers present and to come - in public opinion.

Nasser Jawdeh

We are proud that the Arab foreign ministers meeting in Khartoum decided to adopt the Jordanian initiative.

Adam Sieminski

We believe that the oil ministers are inclined to defend a $55 per barrel floor in the near term.

Billy Sunday

Some ministers say, 'If you don't repent you'll die and go to a place the name of which I can't pronounce.' I can! You'll go to hell!

Bertie Ahern

Mr Brown is a politician of exceptional experience and ability, and I am sure he will discharge the office of Prime Minister with distinction

Lajos Kossuth

Upon this the Hungarian ministers resigned, but the names submitted by the president of the council, at the demand of the king, were not approved of for successors.

Charles Spurgeon

Light physical is said by Solomon to be sweet, but gospel light is infinitely more precious, for it reveals eternal things, and ministers to our immortal natures.

DeForest Kelley

You see, I was the son of a baptist minister.

Scott Walker

We've always had the rallying cry of, 'Hey, nobody out there thinks we can do it,' and that was fun. We've never really had a star player, and there's never really been a case of 'So-and-so didn't produce and that's why we're losing.' So it might take a little adjustment, but I think we're definitely a lot better team with him.

Ozzie Guillen

When we were really struggling, you didn't see guys get two hits in a game. Any time someone got one hit, one walk -- nobody could put it together. Tonight when we were hitting the ball, one guy got three hits, one had two RBIs, one had two hits, all of a sudden you don't need nine guys to get a hit -- just two or three to get a hit at the right time.

Mitchell Hurwitz

When we were making 'Arrested Development,' it was the hardest thing I'd ever done. You know, nobody was watching. We weren't getting feedback. The job wasn't paying very well. But the one thing I did feel confident about was: No one will ever be able to do this again. Because no one would be stupid enough to try.

Peter Gallagher

When I was a child, nobody I knew of ever became an actor or entertainer - it was just not something that seemed possible for regular people.

Lamar Butler

We're making history right now. Nobody can take that away from us.

James Adams

We're starting to feel like every time we step on the field nobody is going to score on us.

Kent Beck

When Pandora doesn't pay, and bars don't pay, and weddings don't pay, and nobody buys CDs or shirts or concert tickets or lessons, then the musician can't make a living making music.

Richard Lee

What we're having here isn't a demand constraint. It's a situation that nobody predicted. The No. 1 problem is construction costs and lack of skilled labor.

Brendan Donnelly

When we came in today, nobody was talking about that call.

Monica Procar

We can custom order for anybody. We have dozens of different fabric choices, and tier curtains and panels can be ordered as well.

Leigh Foreman

We are proud to play even a small part in helping our industries provide emergency shelter for the victims of this tragedy. It appears that most of the shelters ordered by FEMA have now been produced, but we do expect to see some carryover into 2006. In addition, industry sales in 2006 may increase due both to the need to replenish dealer lots that were depleted while manufacturers diverted their production capabilities to filling FEMA orders, and the permanent rebuilding of the hurricane-stricken areas.

Jerry Roberts

We've actually put on more staff and ordered more food. We've added extra security to make sure everyone's safe and having a good time.

Howard Opinsky

We are pleased the judge has ordered A.I.G. to share with Mr. Greenberg the report created under threat from the attorney general. Unlike the attorney general, the judge clearly understands Mr. Greenberg's right to review this material.

Henry Morris

where there's a pattern that's complex in a certain highly ordered way, so that it's best explained as a product of an intelligent cause. The other side says that's a code word for G-O-D. Well, that may or may not be the case.

Jonathan Turley

What the president ordered in this case was a crime.

Laurent Gbagbo

Police, gendarmes and soldiers from all branches of the armed forces are ordered to use all means throughout the country to oppose troublemakers,

David Sedaris

One thing about English-language bookstores in the age of Amazon is that it assumes that everybody has the Internet, ... I don't. I've never seen the Internet. I've never ordered a book on it, and I wouldn't really want to.

Kathryn Reith

New stuff was ordered pretty darn quickly. We're a very big (school) district, so the cash flow allows for things like that, I believe.

John Carr

We've always said controllers are like runways -- it takes three to five years to make a good one,

Jamie Dixon

We've always played three guards in certain instances over the years. A number of programs do that. Oftentimes, your smaller players are your better players. Last year, our bigger guys were our better players.

Philip Goodhart

We've always had a broader cultural coverage, particularly in the last three or four years We have short stories in every issue. We have more of an interior life. Perhaps the mistake was not to make more noise about that in the earlier issues.

Adam Rothberg

We've always believed in Dan Brown's exceptional talent as an author. Everyone in publishing knows that sometimes it takes three or more books to reach critical mass and we're happy to have ultimately sold millions of copies of his books.

Ozzie Guillen

When we were really struggling, you didn't see guys get two hits in a game. Any time someone got one hit, one walk -- nobody could put it together. Tonight when we were hitting the ball, one guy got three hits, one had two RBIs, one had two hits, all of a sudden you don't need nine guys to get a hit -- just two or three to get a hit at the right time.

Arron Afflalo

When we were down nine, it became a kind of desperation time for us. But three minutes is a long time.

Marty Schottenheimer

When I was playing, it was 10 or 12 plays that determined the outcome of a game. Now, because of the balance of talent in the league, it's come down to three or four plays a game. All you're looking for is to be in a position where you have a chance to win at the end. We haven't been able to do that, in a number of cases but we just keep chipping at it, trying to find a way to turn that corner.

Jason Peters

When I was little I'd design these dresses and show them to my family. There'd always be three or four or five (designs) on the fridge.

Justina Machado

When I was in my 20s, I used to go crazy. I used to work out two or three hours a day, like cycling; I was never anorexic, just picky. When I was in my 30s, I'd go back and forth, now that I'm 41, I'm like, 'Whatever, man!' For the most part, I just do a regular workout.