Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Crutcher

Adopted. Big Deal; so was Superman

Jason Kilar

We're simple-minded, the team at Hulu, which is, we think if we can obsess over quality and build a better mousetrap, that good things will happen. Users will adopt the service, advertisers will see great value in it, and that's what we're seeing.

Rodney Atkins

There's a book called 'The Shack' - it had a lot to do with me coming full circle, meeting my birth mother. Awhile back, my birth mom and my adopted mom came to my show together, and it was pretty surreal.

Rodney Atkins

You may not know it, but I was adopted as a baby by my wonderful parents, Allan and Margaret Atkins of Cumberland Gap, Tenn.

Rodney Atkins

The way I heard about The American Giving Awards was from the people that I work with. My publicist and I had a conversation a while back about wanting to really get involved more and more. We've been working with the National Council for Adoption with the children's home that I was adopted from called Holston Home.

Ronnie Musgrove

The issue of equal rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals has vexed politicians for decades. I have my own cloudy history with the issue, having supported a law in Mississippi that made it illegal for LGBT couples to adopt children. I believed at the time this was a principled position based on my faith.

S. Jay Olshansky

I'm not sure the least educated members of the population are missing out on the advances in medical technology as much as they are adopting harmful behavioral habits that shorten their life.

Kris Gopalakrishnan

Enterprises are just starting to adopt and integrate the iPad into their networks, but this is accelerating, and that's an opportunity for Infosys.

Mahmoud Abbas

Here, I declare that the Palestine Liberation Organization is ready to return immediately to the negotiating table on the basis of the adopted terms of reference based on international legitimacy and a complete cessation of settlement activities.

Frank Skaggs

We also want to express our thanks to the two Chambers of Commerce and the SBA District Office officials for providing the space for the Disaster Loan Assistance Centers. The many courtesies extended to our staff have been greatly appreciated.

Julie Hall

We're looking at ways we can provide the skills and assistance that will best help China to investigate these cases and hopefully confirm some diagnosis.

Jim Gerlach

Low-income seniors who choose to enroll in a drug discount plan will receive $600 of Federal assistance in 2004 and 2005 to further defray the costs of their medications.

John Scofield

legal assistance from Democrats trying to cover up a report that would tar them.

Randall Ellis

Legacy reached out to HIV-positive evacuees, but often initiating treatment was delayed because of fundamental flaws in the prescription drug assistance program of the CARE Act.

Daniel Anderson

Lee was out cold for four minutes, and the video will clarify how late Sean was tackled - if you call it a tackle. I was very disappointed in the assistance given to the referee.

Rick Robertson

The people of Michigan are generous in their concern and assistance in times of need. We pull together as a community to help in any way we can.

Tim Blenco

We have a scholarship program that provides financial assistance to those who need it and never turn people away due to their inability to pay set fees. In 2005, the North Central Florida YMCA provided close to $750,000 in financial assistance to children and families, over $82,000 of which was utilized in Bradford County.

Jeff Smith

We have a real concern right now with the assistance we're getting from FEMA on temporary housing.

Ellen Gilchrist

The Mississippi coast is not like south Florida, but it always seems warm enough for sandals and short-sleeved shirts, except for now and then.

Eugenie Clark

It would be nice if we didn't have to drill for oil in the gulf. We have this shallow continental shelf on the west coast of Florida, and it would be a real disaster if we had a major oil spill there. It would be wonderful if we could find some other source of energy.

Ben Folds

Off the coast and I'm headed nowhere

Theodor Mommsen

If, as the emperor Augustus says, from his time the coast of the ocean from Cadiz to the mouth of the Elbe obeyed the Romans, the obedience in this corner of it was far from voluntary and little to be trusted.

James Vincent McMorrow

My first record was made in Termonfeckin, which is a small town on the north-east coast of Ireland. I had been in London, but it didn't click. So, at home, I didn't think about making something, just whether something could be made. There was no grand plan.

John Williams

Obviously we're not a coastal city, but we felt (the fair) could be a nice service to the community. We saw that people on the Gulf Coast were not prepared.

John Cornyn

means we're in for a roller coaster ride.

Jack Lavin

Shipments come in from the west coast that are sent directly to the Midwest and then distributed throughout the rest of the country.

Adam Cohen

Ultimately, it will go to help the hurricane victims in Bloomington and also be transported down to the Gulf Coast region to help the victims down there.

David Brin

The village is coming back, like it or not.

Barney Frank

Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.

Audre Lorde

stoicism and silence does not serve us nor our communities, only the forces of things as they are.

Armstrong Williams

Therefore the great mediator of any community is human morality.

Arnold J. Toynbee

So-called racial characteristics are not really racial at all but are due to the historical experiences of the communities in question.

Antonio Villaraigosa

We in Los Angeles, who have ourselves been helped to stand up - to recover and rebuild after a disaster - want to help the families and communities of the Gulf Coast,.

Jim Jarmusch

Wayne, New Jersey, ... And shooting in it was very depressing. Because everyone has the same stuff, you know? The same TV, the same cars, their kids dress the same. But then the people in the community were really, really nice to us. Very enthusiastic and kinda lovely. But before that human connection, it was just depressing to me, to be in that kind of hermetically sealed community. I think a lot of people actually live in places like that, more and more.

Linda Lewis

We also want to find out what the community wants here.

Karen Burk

We also understand that it's a competitive marketplace and our customers count on us to have the 'hot' toys at the top of their holiday lists and to be the low-price leader in their community for those toys.

Scott Thompson

We have a really great team and we are excited about this opportunity to help people who have been devastated by Katrina,

Richard Fisher

We are pretty devastated to lose a student in that circumstance.

Steve Patterson

We were, and are, devastated by the loss.

Garrett Lucash

We were devastated when it happened, but as soon as we could we made a positive out of a negative. We had more time to work on more things and new tricks and regroup.

Gary Neville

We were devastated last week because of what happened to Alan. He can't be here today but this victory is for him.

Pat Summitt

Obviously, we are devastated by the loss of Alexis.

Jim Hendry

Obviously, he's going to be out a while and he's a good player. I'm sure he's devastated today because he's a total team guy who's integral to what we want to accomplish.

James Shuler

I am totally devastated with the way things went down. You play hard the whole game, we hung in there and the guys gave it their all.

James Shuler

I am totally devastated with the way things went down. Sometimes things happen like that.

Charles E. Wilson

The prices of raw materials do not fluctuate directly with the labour cost of producing them.

Thomas Perez

When we lift the wage floor, it not only betters the lives of those whose wages are directly affected, it also lifts the economy as a whole.

Jim Carroll

She called me directly and is doing fine. We were glad to see her on TV this morning. She is in good health and we are pleased about that.

Barbara Perry

She completely represents this ideal. Janie has worked tirelessly to make Salisbury a cleaner, greener and better place to live. In fact, much of our community's recent success can be attributed directly to Janie.

Krista Clark

Sheltered Paws has found homes for 12 dogs in the past two months. I directly helped with two. That's kind of how I look at it: If everyone does a little bit, collectively, we can make a big difference.

Rivers Cuomo

Most of the songs I write are just very directly from my life. I don't have a big imagination. Whenever I tried to write from fantasy, it comes out sounding really fake.

Frank Torres

Many Spaniards kept journals and pointed out some specific sights directly related to the San Pedro Valley. And the San Pedro River runs right through there. It would only make sense that they would follow the river.

Jerry Wainwright

Shooting percentages can be misleading. Their steals led directly to baskets. I think they've done that all year. They're terrific open-court players.

Milan Mandaric

We're still expecting a response from Sheffield United to give us a green light to talk directly to Warnock.

Condoleezza Rice

We are very focused on hoping that these negotiations do succeed,

Ben Jackson

Last year we were focused on going to states and this year we're more taking it one game at a time,

Bruce Thompson

The program has been under way for three years now and has focused on the development of equipment-testing techniques, so they may be used for longer periods time safely.

Shanen Boettcher

There is a lot more to providing a biometrics platform than what the consortium is focused on.

Stanley B. Prusiner

From the point of view of many scientists, gods represent an explanation for the unknown. Scientists are focused on trying to understand the unknown, so there is a fundamental conflict. That said, some scientists find religion useful and perhaps even fulfilling.

Karl Hobbs

We're just trying to follow our dreams. That's it and that's all we're focused on. We can't tell you about anything in the past.

Diane Tuller

We have as good a shot as anybody. We just have to get focused on the court, not the arena.

Robert Esche

My first thought? You can't write it. I'm focused on seven games. I'm focused on leaving this one behind.

Peter Rohde

Obviously we're focused on not getting players rubbed out, but at the same time we don't want to make them too gun-shy.

Source Unknown

Wealth is what gives you the right to preach about the virtues of poverty.

Jennifer Warnes

In a song, you have to have a lyric that gives us new ideas on how to live, a lyric that makes us feel, and a melody that gives you some kind of body response and emotional response.

Suzanne Isidor

When I look at it on paper, it can look scary, but watching them play every day gives me confidence.

Suzanne Isador

When I look at it on paper it can be scarry that we're so inexperienced. Seeing them play every day gives me a lot of confidence.

Tina Brown

Owning news makes you important; it gives you a seat at the table.

Mick Foley

Love wrestling? On October 1st, Spike TV gives you more of what you love! Total Nonstop Action.

Lawrie McKinna

Losing Nick is a big blow, but it gives other players in the squad an opportunity to show us what they can do.

Cameron Russell

I work hard, but my modeling career gives my views undeserved attention.

Lark Voorhies

I thrive with fashion and shopping and imports and things like that. It gives me a rush. I love Barneys New York and Neiman Marcus and all the top-of-the-line houses.

Bill Zollars

Many of the local programs funded by United Way will play an important role in helping hurricane victims who fled the Gulf Coast, and have at least temporarily relocated here.

Bill Maher

There is good news. Scientists sent a probe down there in the Gulf of Mexico today and they found traces of seawater.

Richard LaBounty

We bounced back after a tough loss to Gulf Breeze. I'm very proud of our approach.

John Herrlin

Unless the winter is polar, Gulf of Mexico natural-gas output will be back.

Sophie B. Hawkins

I am so proud to be partnering with Waterkeepers, who are the voice for the Gulf Coast's waters.

J. Taylor

If all the steel is heading to the Gulf for rebuilding because of (Hurricane) Katrina, it could increase our costs.

Diana Nyad

The highs were high, the awe, I'm not a religious person, but I'll tell you, to be in the azure blue of the Gulf Stream as if, as you're breathing, you're looking down miles and miles and miles, to feel the majesty of this blue planet we live on, it's awe-inspiring.

Norman Schwarzkopf

This gulf war syndrome thing is truly unfortunate, and I've met some of the vets who have this. These are my guys, and I feel terrible about it.

Bill Parsons

You just can't watch it on TV and get a feel for the devastation that I've seen down here on the Gulf Coast. It's just unbelievable,

David Riesman

There is evidence that young men in the big law firms, although they still work harder than most of their clients, do not glory in putting in night work and weekend hours as they once did.

David Hockney

Every good artist I know, I always think works hard, we're working all the time.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I try to work hard. I'm really proud of what I get to do as a living. I still pinch myself. But I also know it's a craft, and I can get better at it and learn every time I do it. So I try to work hard no matter what the task is.

Derek Fisher

You have to work hard at things.

Derek Jeter

It doesn't take talent to work hard.

Derek Jeter

I think it comes easy to work hard. I was always taught, don't short-change yourself. Keep working to get better.

Derek Jeter

I love it when people doubt me. It makes me work harder to prove them wrong.

Dee Dee Ramone

It's very hard to tour.

Deepika Padukone

I don't think you need any kind of backing here in the industry. I think what you achieve in your life is the result of your own talent and hard work.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

God sent you here to prepare for a future greater than anything can imagine.

Marco Brambilla

Usually, the energy in elevators is so awkward; I mean, I can't imagine the politics in the ones in the Conde Nast building.

Gabriela Sabatini

When I finally held the trophy, it was just how I imagined it would be.

Jan Block

No one ever says I CAN imagine losing two sons. They always say they CAN'T imagine losing two children.

Ken Warwick

One, we don't need to these days. There's a queue from the record companies, as you can probably imagine because we have 30 million people-plus each week tune in, and so we don't need to go hunting, as it were.

Jenn Lyon

My goal was simply to be a working actress. I never imagined myself on Broadway.

Ronaldo Ronaldo

Sincerely, I didn't imagine anything like this and I'm surprised because I don't see any reason for a controversy,

Steve Jobs

Motorola did the phone. I could imagine other products in the future.

Brian Dawkins

Mentally, I just can't imagine what he's going through right now. But he's tough. He's going to push through this. I'm sure he'll do whatever it takes to get back.

David DeLong

Older workers are not as motivated by income but by meaning.

Bill Gates

Don’t tax my income, tax my consumption.

Desiderius Erasmus

Frugality is a handsome income.

Dan Ariely

It was shocking to realize how many low-income Americans don't have savings accounts.

Houssaye Houssaye

Friendship lives on its income, love devours its capital.

John Hollyer

From one period to the next, investors could see some income swings.

Deborah Smith

And to improve access to the UK publishing industry - I'm hoping to set up an internship or work experience for someone from a low-income background, as soon as we have the funds. While we don't have the funds, we won't have an intern.

Elbert Hubbard

To have a full stomach and fixed income are no small things .

Ed Pastor

To say that I'm enjoying a millionaire's lifestyle-well, I can tell you, I guess a millionaire's income doesn't go very far these days.

Al Yankovic

I'm just a no-good, scum sucking, nose picking, boot licking, sniveling, groveling, worthless hunk of slime.

Alanis Morissette

The joke that you laid in the bed that was me.

Alanis Morissette

I sabotage myself for fear of what my bigness could do.

Jim Puckett

When you're a cash-strapped school system, you're going to go to the lowest bidder. The lowest bidders are the ones who are going to export.

Bob Schnorbus

We had been projecting an (annual) sales rate of 16 million vehicles in September. If I take out a third of sales for only a two week period, you still come out with an eye-popping 13.3 million sales rate; 13.3 million is about as low as sales ever get.

Danny Davis

like a dance: how low can you go.

Paul Chan

Lowering the marginal salaries tax rates is welcome and will go some way in relieving the pressure on the middle class.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

LAZINESS, n. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.

Lee Kuan Yew

If you are going to lower me into the grave, and I feel something is wrong, I will get up.

Jeff Burton

We're going 200 mph. We're not thinking about being safe or we wouldn't be going 200 miles an hour.

Jason Biggs

Anyone wanna buy my Malaysian Airlines frequent flier miles?

John Rhys-Davies

We live in a modest system, a galaxy called the Milky Way. If we named every star in the Milky Way and put them in the Hollywood telephone directory and stacked those telephone directories up, we'd have a pile of telephone directories 70 miles high.

Bob Burns

No one here cared. It's all the (people) 60 to 80 miles up the river...Trojan was probably one of the safest things we had around here.

Paul Levitz

Most of us never got more than 100 miles from our houses. That the school pulled this together is astounding.

Bruce Donald

Seventeen miles of the proposed 25 miles of the greenway are completed.

Rose George

Shipping is so cheap that it makes more financial sense for Scottish cod to be sent 10,000 miles to China to be filleted, then sent back to Scottish shops and restaurants, than to pay Scottish filleters.

Steve White

We want more people using the trail systems. We've got miles of trails. Let's use them.

Bruce Robinson

You can't be a 20-mile a day eater if you're just a 5-mile a day runner.

Shari Brill

Moderate successes are good, because if they do better than the shows they replaced, it's still a success for the networks.

Marc Johnson

Moderate strategies in the past had moderate results.

Mike Ross

Redistricting and a broken, polarized Congress have made it tough to be a moderate in Congress.

Steven Wood

Any slowing in sales will reveal moderate overbuilding.

Lucy Jones

Northridge was a moderate earthquake, and it wasn't an urban hit; it was a suburban hit.

Carl Tobias

Specter is the key, and then it comes down to moderate Republicans and where we were in May.

John Sebastian

You're seeing it go down to more moderate homes.

Kyle MacLachlan

I did a little movie called 'Touch of Pink,' where I played a Cary Grant-type guy, which I thought was a lot of fun, and I thought I was moderately successful in my own interpretation of Cary Grant.

Hanna Rosin

Studies show that recipients of Section 8 vouchers have tended to choose moderately poor neighborhoods that were already on the decline, not low-poverty neighborhoods.

Jim Graham

Security is a cat-and-mouse game, it's an ongoing process.

Efraim Levy

If they don't get their sales up, it's not going to be enough. There is going to be ongoing restructuring.

Russell Ahr

There is an ongoing investigation. This isn't over.

Joschka Fischer

There is an ongoing debate about the reform of the U.N. system.

Saxby Chambliss

has been ongoing throughout most of the year.

Bill Vaughan

Salvation includes an ongoing transformation in your life.

Stephen Urban

That work (surveying) is still ongoing and I'm awaiting the results, Urban said.

Virginia Kice

We have an open and ongoing investigation so we're not talking a lot about it.

Craig Johnson

We perceive this to be an ongoing threat that will be there for many years to come.

David Rockwell

Every project is an opportunity to learn, to figure out problems and challenges, to invent and reinvent.

David Rockefeller

This present window of opportunity, during which a truly peaceful and interdependent world order might be built, will not be open for too long - We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order.

David Heyman

If you make a good first film and audiences respond, than hopefully you'll have the opportunity to do a sequel.

David Heyman

I look forward to having the time and the opportunity to take on new challenges, but I'm also aware that I've loved every minute of the 'Potter 'experience: to make films for an enthusiastic audience and work with great material.

David Icke

Life constantly presents the greatest opportunity brilliantly disguised as the biggest disaster.

David Brainerd

My soul often mourned of more time and opportunity to be alone with God

Arnold Schwarzenegger

As you know, I'm an immigrant. I came over here as an immigrant, and what gave me the opportunities, what made me to be here today, is the open arms of Americans. I have been received. I have been adopted by America.

Bengie Molina

I was very nervous, excited, and happy to be given the opportunity to even be in the major leagues.

Benazir Bhutto

The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.

David DeFazio

Many of the statements (appeared) to have been provided to her.

Sgt. Devine

She said she had no idea which town she in. Fortunately we were able to provide this type of intervention before a catastrophe occurred.

John Gregg

Ultimately there could be two providers in Portsmouth, ... one step at a time.

Megan Crandall

When you turn it on, it will recognize that that vehicle turned it on - date, time, everything. It essentially provides accountability.

Martin Seligman

I strongly disapprove of torture and have never and would never provide assistance in its process.

John Barnett

We're being called on to provide services we don't have,

Bobbi Koppel

We're able to provide a lot of opportunity. These are the things that students see the most.

Andrew Krepinevich

If they're not ready to provide security, there could be a regression.

Gary Bartlett

If they provide some information, they may not have to come.

Larry Rice

We'd get some sort of relief rally, ... And then we'd have a sobering up.

Susan Manning

Since this play is about six women from Louisiana, we wanted to do something for the relief effort.

David Crystal

Swearing makes an excellent relief mechanism

Kathleen Blanco

There doesn't seem to be any relief in sight,

Ann Brashares

Sometimes it is a relief to be invisible

Susanne Beauregard

I think it was a relief to her.

Cindy Shaw

Some of this is just a little relief rally,

Phil Flynn

We are not completely out of the woods yet, but we saw a lot of relief yesterday (Tuesday) and that trend is continuing,

Jochen Behle

We are sorry that it had come to this. It's a relief for Evi now.

Todd Rundgren

It seems like there are two worlds out there - one that has revolved around 'Breaking Bad,' and then the one that I've been in, which just kind of observes it from afar.

Maury Yeston

The extraordinary thing about Irving Berlin is that he's like the American Mozart! It seems as if his songs were always there. How do you put together songs like 'Always' or 'Cheek To Cheek'? Songs of his are, frankly, perfect.

Debbie Johnson

No one seems to know who he is.

Tate Casey

Shannon (Desmond) is just phenomenal. When it's a big game, she seems to step up and get it done for us.

Mike Birbiglia

My last name has the word 'big' in it. It seems like a logical progression that if you shed away the Bir and the lia, I'll just be Big.

Jay Grimes

She seems like she'll come through. It's going to be a while.

Frank Sinatra

Sinatra has had a long and wide association with hoodlums and racketeers, which seems to be continuing.

John Sacchi

We're in a situation where we just can't stop the bleeding. We keep trying to put band-aids on the wound, but nothing seems to help.

Jim Rash

When you stop thinking about something, the idea comes to you. It seems to work.

Diego Della Valle

I was born and I live in a small village, where the centre of life is the square, and the small bar/cafe.

Dick Costolo

Twitter is a global town square.

C. S. Lewis

There is no neutral ground in the universe. Every square inch, every split second is claimed by God, and counterclaimed by Satan.

Carson McCullers

The theme is the theme of humiliation, which is the square root of sin, as opposed to the freedom from humiliation, and love, which is the square root of wonderful.

Edward Snowden

The majority of terrorist attacks that have been disrupted in the United States have been disrupted due to things like the Time Square bomber, who was caught by a hotdog vendor, not a mass surveillance program, not a cyber-espionage campaign.

Ben Okri

I held you in the square And felt the evening Re-order itself around Your smile.

David Sedaris

The walking tour guides one through the city's various landmarks, reciting bits of information the listener might find enlightening. I learned, for example, that in the late 1500s my little neighborhood square was a popular spot for burning people alive. Now lined with a row of small shops, the tradition continues, though in a figurative rather than literal sense.

David Morrissey

Savannah is amazing with the town squares and the hanging moss and the French Colonial houses. It's brutally romantic.

William Shakespeare

Fie, fie, how frantically I square my talk!

August Wilson

I ain't never found no place for me to fit. Seem like all I do is start over. It ain't nothing to find no starting place in the world. You just start from where you find yourself.

Joan Van Ark

When I become the village idiot, or at least, it starts to become a joke, you can't do that much longer.

Shannon Hoon

You start wanting to see a different place every day.

Scott Moody

Like I have to start from scratch, I don't have anything.

Busta Rhymes

Then i starter krompy kromp with Kroomp Krompp and the i kromped all over the Krommmmp!

Carson Kressley

Show's going well. New season starting, we're on the road.

Trey Burke

There are leaders vocally, and there are leaders by example. I think I'm starting to become better at being a leader vocally, just talking on the court.

David Collins

One way to start all over is to find a young woman and start a family.

Bobbi Brown

She's going to start recording, ... Hopefully, I will get to work with her on this album.

Dave Foley

I like the sitcom, as a structure.

Carl Jung

Our psyche is set up in accord with the structure of the universe, and what happens in the macrocosm likewise happens in the infinitesimal and most subjective reaches of the psyche

Demetri Martin

They say that structure is freedom, and in a sense it is. When you're dealing with multiple constraints, you have to figure out what you can get out of that.

Kathleen Blanco

If we're going to have recovery, we're going to have to have structured government. Time is of the essence,

Jerry Green

We still have old time play time at recess, but we have structured play as well.

A. R. Ammons

Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers.

Laura Puchowicz

We wanted to make the motel better, but renovating the old structure would just have been a humongous problem.

Phiroz Vandrevala

The structure for the subsidiary would be in place by June.

Harry Schmidt

You're going to put America's command-and-control structure on trial? ... It's not going to happen.