Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ronnie Musgrove

Important state legislative races and statewide elections for offices like Lt. Governor and Attorneys General are often overshadowed by gubernatorial and federal elections.

Arlen Specter

Look, the president can discharge all 93 U.S. attorneys for no reason at all, but not for a bad reason.

Leonard Peltier

What Bill Clinton did to us was cruel. The White House gave my attorneys indications that there was a good chance for my clemency to be granted. I had to prepare myself for being released because there was no sign that my petition would be denied.

Louise Slaughter

Rove and his attorneys can parse the words all they want, but it is now clear that while Rove may not have given a reporter Plame's name, he clearly identified her by telling the reporter that Joseph Wilson's wife was a CIA agent.

John Gleason

The extent of that obligation is something that all attorneys are very nervous about. It makes us have to make the call of whether or not there was a violation, and in certain cases that's difficult.

Mark Ferguson

Six times more attorneys than you would normally see.

Brian Chase

Many attorneys didn't want overseas assignments because they were negatively impacting their chances for becoming partner back home.

Robert Russell

Some attorneys have said they won't practice anymore. There's a lot of concern out there.

Carter Phillips

We are pleased to welcome these two accomplished attorneys to the firm. Bill and Jim both have impressive track records handling the increasingly complex regulatory and litigation issues that are critical to our client base. I look forward to their contributions to the continued growth and success of our energy practice.

David Bradley

I invented it, Bill made it famous.

Eric Raymond

Way too many obvious junk patents have been issued for things that are obvious to any engineer, and those are being used to suppress competition. I don't see this bill fixing that.

Denis Leary

Bill Murray doesn't do anything. He barely shows up at the movies he says he's going to do.

Kid Nichols

I consider Billy Keeler, Mike Tiernan, Ed Delihanty and Larrie La Joie the toughest hitters I had to pitch to, but I did not dread them. Remember, Hughie Duffy was a member of our team, so I did not face him. In my opinion, Duffy was the greatest hitter.

Kevin Love

I was talking to Coach Wooden after I had signed at UCLA and over the summer, and we used to talk all the time. The thing is, talking to Bill Walton, once you throw in your two cents, he throws in the other 98 cents. He will not stop talking, I'll tell you what.

Kevin Love

I'm kind of a dirty guy, a little Bill Laimbeer-ish. Those are the guys I used to watch growing up. I used to watch Karl Malone; now I watch Boozer and Elton Brand and try to emulate those guys as much as possible because those guys are about the same size as me.

John P. Kotter

The world has 6 billion people and counting. We need to help 500 million people become better leaders so that billions can benefit.

Charles Schumer

When you put together a prescription drug bill that puts the pharmaceutical and insurance industry first, and the recipients way down at the bottom, of course you're going to get one big mess. And we have it.

Seth Shostak

We can no better imagine what will be happening on the moon 500 years from now than Columbus could imagine contemporary Manhattan. Except to say that it will be a place familiar to billions of people.

Ron Wilson

We actually got right down to the wire on both kills. I think maybe we let our guard down a little bit.

Jack Berry

We always hate to see employees move out, but we're always seeing movements, both in and out.

Atharva Veda

Wealth comes naturally to a person, who is endowed with both these qualities.

Plato

Wealth and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent

Kourtney Kardashian

My mom and both of my grandmothers have always been into fashion, so it's been around us our whole lives.

Kevin Rose

Since news breaks on digg very quickly, we face the same issues as newspapers which print a retraction for a story that was misreported. The difference with digg is that equal play can be given to both sides of a story, whereas with a newspaper, a retraction or correction is usually buried.

Kevin Kline

I vowed I would never do a commercial, or a soap opera - both of which I did as soon as I left the Acting Company and was starving.

Kathleen Battle

Wynton and Christopher were really great experiences for me because they are both very gifted artists.

Kathleen Sebelius

There's a digital revolution taking place both in and out of government in favor of open-sourced data, innovation, and collaboration.

Arn Tellem

When you're an agent or a lawyer; its about service, not for yourself, but for your clients

Brian Donohue

When the only defense you have is one of extreme emotional disturbance, you have to put your client on the stand.

Harold Williams

We're constantly working on ways to enhance the product and the user's experience. Giving clients more time to process and transmit their deposits to BB&T is just one more way we're doing this.

Andrew Barrett

Lycos would provide 60 percent of the revenue and is only getting 40 percent of the combined company, ... We are advising our clients to take profits.

Michael Roth

There is no doubt that 2005 was a challenging year for our company. The organic revenue decline was marginal and we will continue cycling through a number of client losses during the next two to three quarters.

Sanjay Kumar

Clients do not expect the infrastructure to be any less reliable just because the service is being delivered from an offshore location; thus, the uptime requirements justify the expense.

Karl Numinen

Obviously we're disappointed with this decision. My client has instructed me to explore our legal options.

Nigel Dennis

One thing you learn fast, when working freelance, is that lots of things do not pan out - projects get canned, clients don't pay, and so on.

Hutton Wilkinson

She also was the first decorator to sue her clients for non-payment. And she won.

Mary Bravo

When the objects were presented in a sparse array, search times to find the target were similar for displays composed of simple and complex objects. But when the same objects were presented as dense clutter, search functions were steeper for displays composed of complex objects.

Donald Tusk

If there's one country that can be trusted to understand the complexity of history, it's Israel.

Toni Tennille

Any woman can be a siren one minute and in pigtails the next. I am a very complex person with more than just the one facet that television played on.

Steve Lindsey

We're confident in the work being done, but every flight I've been on, something unexpected happens. You get used to it. It's a complex and dangerous business.

Jin Zhong

Lee grew up and had his education in Japan, he has a strong Japan complex and must trust Japanese health system more than Taiwan,

Elliott Abrams

America's relations with complex Middle Eastern states such as Egypt are often difficult.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

My work as a screenwriter has influenced my fiction. Writing screenplays forces you to consider many elements regarding story structure and other narrative devices that can be used to enhance the infinitely more complex demands of a novel.

Jim Yong Kim

Look at the problem of drug-resistant TB in the world. Look at HIV in the world. What's going to be required for everybody in the long run is the ability to do complex health interventions in poor settings.

Laura Wasser

I'm known for having crazy shoes. I have a total Napoleon complex - I'm only 5'4", and every heel I have is four inches or more.

Phil Drosdick

We accomplished our goal this season, which was getting to the state tournament. I'm proud of that. These kids worked really hard this season, and we continued to improve all season.

Tina Brown

I'm impressed with how 'Newsweek's' outstanding staff has continued to put out a lively, well-informed magazine after the departure of their tireless editor, Jon Meacham.

Lionel Anderson

Madison's height took us out early in the game but we never quit. We continued to play our game. It is what we do. We play basketball.

Dan Popowics

Lowe's has had a lot of momentum as it expands into the Northeast and other areas. Americans continued to spend on their homes, with the kicker here being the warmer January that drove more traffic into stores.

Nancy Connelly

Losing those players really hurt us. In the second half, we continued to play on, but couldn't score. It was a good team effort, and a very disappointing loss. I felt as if we could have come out on top if not for the injuries.

Ralph Connor

Last year she ran 16:59 here. She ran faster here than last year and last week. It's a good time on this course and she continued to show that she is one of the better runners in southwestern Indiana.

Ralph Connor

Last year she ran 16:59 here, ... She ran faster here than last year and last week. It's a good time on this course and she continued to show that she is one of the better runners in southwestern Indiana.

Naomi Wolf

Let's dare to release our immature fantasies of a magically faultless U.S. system and a magically protected election process. We have been lucky as a nation, but sometimes continued luck depends on action.

Lawrence Hargrave

The plane is simply abstracting the power stored in the wave by a distant gale, and using it to counteract gravity. And if the work be continued long enough, or a multitude of planes be continually drawing on the reservoir of power, the wave must inevitably be flattened.

Cindy Murphy

We had a very good first game. We had perfect serving. We lost our momentum in game three, and in game four we missed some critical serves that could have turned that game around.

Tom Stoppard

I don't look at my work in a critical or analytical way; I just don't think of myself objectively. It doesn't interest me.

Italo Calvino

Now you mustn't think that I don't have any ideas for novels in my head. I've got ideas for ten novels in my head. But with every idea I have, I already foresee the wrong novels I would write, because I also have critical ideas in my head; I've got a full theory of the perfect novel, and that's what stumps me.

Mike Schroepfer

Luckily we do not have any known use of this exploit, but it is fairly critical if there were to be (an attack), so this is a recommended download.

David Carroll

Liberia is an important piece of the regional puzzle. This election comes at a critical moment.

John Wicks

Losing that lead was critical as it gave them momentum to open the second half.

Ellen Stofan

Being able to have a laboratory on Mars, being able to have some sort of sustained human presence on Mars in the future, I think, is critically important for science.

Eric Liu

True fans of the Constitution, like true fans of the national pastime, acknowledge the critical role of human judgment in making tough calls. We don't expect flawless interpretation. We expect good faith. We demand honesty.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I'm a voracious reader, and I like to explore all sorts of writing without prejudice and without paying any attention to labels, conventions or silly critical fads.

David Walton

I grew up around a lot of feminine energy.

Ben Vereen

Live stage is being made as you go along. You feel the energy. There's nothing like a live audience.

Denis Waitley

Recognize when your peak energy occurs during the day. Allocate the most difficult projects to that period. Work on easy projects at low-energy times

Bill Hybels

Your energy and the ability to energize others is more valuable than your time.

Tom Vilsack

If you think of what food is, it's the energy we use to do our daily work. I want people to know about the USDA. This is a very important department. It's not fully appreciated as such.

Alexis de Tocqueville

The world belongs to those with the most energy.

Richard P. Feynman

We get the exciting result that the total energy of the universe is zero. Why this should be so is one of the great mysteries - and therefore one of the important questions of physics. After all, what would be the use of studying physics if the mysteries were not the most important things to investigate?

Dirk Bauermann

Man, he really took over that fourth quarter. His energy was tremendous. That helped us to the win.

Viktor Khristenko

Major projects lead to a variety of reactions in the beginning, but once they are launched the reactions become positive. Infrastructure is a key part of energy security.

Ed Belbin

We had been looking forward to this game since losing that game. This is not only a big win for these kids, but a big win for the kids that have played in the past.

Edward Hale

Look up, and not down; Out and not in; Forward and not back; And lend a hand.

Craig Smith

Last year was probably the youngest team we had in six or seven years. We're a real veteran team this year and we're looking forward to this season.

James Reed

Last year, to be honest, I wasn't as happy, ... I didn't play that much last year. I was depressed, well, not depressed. It was frustrating. Now I look forward to the games. I look forward to practice. I look forward to - if I mess up, going in there and doing it better.

Joby Scroggs

Last year's game was just a battle. It was a tough, hard fought game and we're looking forward to another one - no doubt.

Michael Stoops

Las Vegas needs to move forward on this quickly ... because the issues are still out there.

James Lilley

Lee Teng-hui is a remarkable man. And as a talented politician he moved the island forward by increasing democracy, and mostly he opened up trade routes with China.

Shane Pearsall

Led by Cindy...(these) Games have been a huge step forward for high-performance sport in our country.

Paul Casey

There is a lot of golf still to be played this year and I'm really looking forward to the rest of the year.

Arthur Rubinstein

Don't tell me how talented you are. Tell me how hard you work.

Derek Bok

Ever since economists revealed how much universities contribute to economic growth, politicians have paid close attention to higher education.

Dee Hock

Failure is not to be feared. It is from failure that most growth comes.

Al Gore

I saw the logarithmic growth of computer power...

Sun Microsystems

We're going after revenue growth and customers. We're all about sharing.

Jim Clement

We're looking at growth here. We're not saying, 'No, we don't want development. My guess is it's going to happen.

Pam Dixon

Making money on identity theft is a growth industry and it's just not pretty.

David Hilal

Licensing is the story. All that other growth from services and maintenance comes from having new software business.

Jane Addams

The new growth in the plant swelling against the sheath, which at the same time imprisons and protects it, must still be the truest type of progress.

Bob Richardson

We can no longer tolerate handling prisoners in public hallways and restrooms for safety and security reasons,

Bob Williams

We're handling them in the order in which they were received.

Kevin Quinn

She's handling the pressure of the big meets really well this season.

Rick Barnes

Right now, if there's any one thing I can change, it's handling the basketball. Sixteen turnovers at this time of year just kills you.

Jay Dillon

People were very upset but were handling it well.

Randolph Bourne

Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

William Poole

From what I know of that situation, markets are handling it very well,

Jim Haslett

I got a nice e-mail from Tom Coughlin . 'Thinking of you.' How about that? He said he thought I was doing a nice job handling things. I'll tell you what I wrote him back.

J. Taylor

I'd like to thank the management for handling this issue in such a sensitive way,

Barbara Stocking

One year after the tsunami, we are seeing an impressive recovery.

Robert Reid

Monte Carlo was an impressive start to the season for the scheme participants.

Wendy Ward

She doesn't make mistakes, and she's never out of a hole. It's very impressive to see what she's doing.

Bill Brist

She pretty much did that on her own. That's pretty impressive for a freshman.

Pat Riley

What he does that's so impressive is he sees everybody. He's a lot like (Phoenix guard) Steve Nash. He's so unselfish.

Mack Brown

I was pleased with the young quarterbacks. They've got a lot of work to do. I thought the most impressive thing was their poise.

John Collins

I don't think I've ever had so many impressive people say so many impressive things.

Dale Davis

If we make it there, the most impressive thing about that list is that most of those teams went on to win it.

Gary Cowger

What we're working on are the right things, and they're starting to yield some impressive results.

David Ricardo

Experience, however, shows that neither a state nor a bank ever have [sic] had the unrestricted power of issuing paper money without abusing that power; in all states, therefore, the issue of paper money ought to be under some check and control; and none seems so proper for that purpose as that of subjecting the issuers of paper money to the obligation of paying their notes either in gold coin or bullion.

David Horowitz

The issue here isn't whether every student is brainwashed, it's whether it is appropriate.

David Brooks

People who give money in large amount in politics are basically not altruistic.They have some issue. They have some interest.It may be preserving carried interest. But it's not altruistic.

Barry Diller

No one can solve an issue where there is no economic model yet.

Barry Commoner

My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.

Barney Frank

The issue is not that morals be applied to public policy, it's that conservatives bring public policy to spheres of our lives where it should not enter.

Barney Frank

Most people who are activists and are concerned about issues get their information from sources which reinforce their opinions and give them the facts that they want to hear.

Arne Duncan

Education is the civil rights issue of our generation.

Dick Durbin

We have a long way to go, some tough issues ahead of us, and I'm sure there will be some obstacles in the path ... But the good faith effort that's being put into this absolutely is encouraging to me and gives me hope.

Allan Houston

Let's pray for Jim Dolan. Let's pray for our organization.

Jim Sullivan

Lots of people think it was Jimmy Page who had the first fuzzbox. It wasn't, No! it wasn't me either.

Tracy Morgan

I don't have anything against Jimmy Fallon. I love Jimmy Fallon. He's my dude.

Peter Pace

None of those sources any more show us that he is still alive, ... The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer.

Angel Jr.

Since he ran in the Dwyer he started getting better and better. When he won the Jim Dandy, he was doing good. He's doing better now.

Don Samuel

We wanted very much to keep him alive. Jim wanted to learn very much about the appellate process and (have) another day in court.

Johnny Rivers

I got to see all these incredible blues players, like Jimmy Reed.

Patti Smith

I didn't love Jim Morrison 'cause he was self-destructive. I loved him because of his work. Because of the way he merged poetry and rock-and-roll. Because he did something new.

Paul Weller

Led Zeppelin would never have reformed if he or Jimmy Page were bald.

Paul Tagliabue

I don't think we'll be in litigation or that the union will decertify. But we are not making progress.

Mark Landy

If they do negotiate a lower price, they may open themselves up to litigation by essentially conceding that there has been a problem under management's watch.

Eric Kraus

I think we have resolved the vast majority of the litigation between us.

Floyd Abrams

Everything is being dropped. There is no more litigation about this.

Michael Quinn

Any specific questions as to the pending litigation we probably won't be able to answer.

Phil Gordon

It's a litigation bonanza, and it will stop business.

Tom Odell

I think I subconsciously put myself in these situations where the girlfriend isn't pleased with me. I'm useless as a boyfriend. That's how I managed to write all these songs.

Bob Easton

Obviously, we are very pleased with (Clinton's visit).

Boone Pickens

Mr. Pickens is pleased to have some skin in the Barnett Shale game.

Joanie Ewing

She had a lot of one putts for par. That's a solid round for her, and she was pleased with it.

Barney Bishop

We are pleased with the turnout. We have some legislators, but we'd like to have some more.

Stuart Rose

We are pleased with the progress we are making but there remains much to do.

Tasia Scolinos

We are pleased with the jury's ruling in this important case.

Don Horner

We are pleased with the bank's first-quarter performance.

Mitch Kupchak

We are pleased to welcome Kareem back to the organization.

Dee Dee Warwick

They told me I should be making my own records. So I figured, 'why not?

Dee Dee Ramone

All of my favorite records have vocals high in the mix, even if it's music that wasn't necessarily mainstream.

Al Yankovic

Left all my Beatle records out in the sun, got a coke bottle stuck on the end of my tongue.

Alanis Morissette

I felt like I was making a record under the radar, and that is my favorite way to do anything.

Jane Austen

I am fond of history and am very well contented to take the false with the true. In the principal facts they have sources of intelligence in former histories and records, which may be as much depended on, I conclude, as anything that does not actually pass under ones own observation; and as for the little embellishments you speak of, they are embellishments, and I like them as such.

Ben Gibbard

To set the record straight for the God knows millionth time, we certainly didnt sign to Atlantic just for the money.

Cameron Diaz

If you really want to torture me, sit me in a room strapped to a chair and put Mariah Carey's records on.

Miley Cyrus

For me, the movement has to be bigger than just a record. For me, a movement represents like taking over the world.

Miley Cyrus

I don’t need the money. I don’t care if I make a dime on this. Let me make a good record.

David Rockefeller

Whatever the price of the Chinese Revolution, it has obviously succeeded not only in producing more efficient and dedicated administration, but also in fostering high morale and community of purpose. The social experiment in China under Chairman Mao's leadership is one of the most important and successful in human history.

David Hilbert

A mathematical problem should be difficult in order to entice us, yet not completely inaccessible, lest it mock at our efforts. It should be to us a guide post on the mazy paths to hidden truths, and ultimately a reminder of our pleasure in the successful solution.

David Douglas

Have the models been successful in predicting anything? They, of course, predict substantial global warming. This is not surprising given the expressed belief of some of the model builders in the global warming Hypothesis and the many parameters in the model that need to be introduced. However, the models also predict unambiguously that the atmosphere is warming faster than the surface of the earth; but all the available observational data unambiguously shows the opposite!

David Brenner

Entrepreneurs with disabilities are overwhelmingly successful.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Well, you know, I'm the forever optimist.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

You don't really see a muscle as a part of you, in a way. You see it as a thing. You look at it as a thing and you say well this thing has to be built a little longer, the bicep has to be longer; or the tricep has to be thicker here in the elbow area. And you look at it and it doesn't even seem to belong to you. Like a sculpture. Then after looking at it a sculptor goes in with his thing and works a little bit, and you do maybe then some extra forced reps to get this lower part out. You form it. Just like a sculpture.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I will not change. Because if you are successful and you change, you are an idiot.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I do the same exercises I did 50 years ago and they still work. I eat the same food I ate 50 years ago and it still works.

Al Yankovic

At this point I've got a bit of a track record. So people realize that when 'Weird Al' wants to go parody, it's not meant to make them look bad... it's meant to be a tribute.

Bill Hybels

Destructive fear must be stopped in its tracks or it will undermine the life God invites us to live.

Kate Bush

I didn't really feel that there were any filler tracks on 'The Red Shoes,' but if I were to do that album now, I wouldn't make it so long.

Carl Yastrzemski

I knew when the ball was going out (over the Green Monster). It was something I worked into the decoy, but it used to tick the pitchers off. Bill Monbouquette used to say, 'Can't you at least make it look like you can catch it?' Meanwhile, the ball would be on its way over the fence to a spot three-quarters of the way out to the railroad tracks.

Vince Evans

When I wake up, I turn it on and keep track of Augustine through the night.

Bruce Catton

And there is the headlight, shining far down the track, glinting off the steel rails that, like all parallel lines, will meet in infinity, which is after all where this train is going.

Ben Marcus

My goal, with whatever I'm working on, is to lose track of time.

David Mitchell

But no, we cross, crisscross, and recross our old tracks like figure skaters.

Buddy Rice

Its always a little different, racing on your hometown track. It makes it more special.

Diablo Cody

I have a lot of screenwriter friends and many of them have had an experience where they aren't even welcome on set during production.

John Zorn

Man, Dick Dale shreds. He's welcomed to anybody's bar mitzvah.

Ann Coulter

I'm a problem-solver, and you're welcome.

Charlie Ward

He said, 'You're welcome to come on full-time now,'

Thomas Fuller

The worse the passage the more welcome the port.

Stein Vaaler

We welcome this decision. We think this is fair.

Jason Baker

That's not the kind of neighborhood this is. This is not welcome here.

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

Thanks, when they are expressed, are often more embarrassing than welcomed

Raymond Domenech

The way we were welcomed here is just unbelievable.