Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chelsea Peretti

When I was little, people would ask what my favorite color was, and I never knew. I find it's really hard to make decisive 'best' answers on what the 'best' of something is.

Edward Kennedy

We're going to support the servicemen and women, ... But when you're asking for the tens of billions of dollars in reconstruction, we're entitled to the answers to those questions.

Michael Franc

What they know is that the actual answers to increase supply or take down demand offer no quick fixes.

Larry DiRita

What he's doing is elevating the perspective of the leadership of this department and asking: 'I don't know the answers to these questions, but they're on my mind and I want them on your mind too.'

Scott Taylor

We got within two in the fourth, but they made some plays and they hit their foul shots. It seemed like we'd get four points and they'd get five. They had the answers tonight.

Tom Hall

We are getting a lot more 'yes' answers (to invitations) this year. We worked very hard to get some good films, some recognizable actors and directors.

Stephen McCausland

What sparked this? A lot of work remains before we have any answers, and some of those answers we may never get.

Tim Roemer

We're going to have a plethora of questions for the FBI and for Justice. And I'm not sure they are going to have any good answers to those questions.

David Sommers

We're expecting some answers back in the weeks and months ahead.

Jeff Brown

We've asked Yahoo to use their filtering to prevent piracy, not for profit. We tried to discuss it with Yahoo.

Ben Sherwood

We've asked Tony to stay with 'GMA' through the end of November so that he can participate in our 30th anniversary celebrations. He has generously agreed,

Ken Warwick

We've asked this question ourselves time and time again.

Elliot Diringer

We've asked the OPEC nations to keep an open mind about increased oil production, and we continue to believe an increase is good for both producing and consuming nations.

Bill Stenger

We've asked them to slow down and think this thing through a little bit better.

Kathi Moore

We've asked them to give us the details on the spill, what happened, how it happened, what caused it, what they've done to contain and control it.

Tom Slater

We've asked them repeatedly to produce a lease. A lease shows that there will be a continuity of care, that they'll be there, and not just on a month-to-month basis.

William Daley

We've asked the lawyers to work overnight to draft some documents, and we'll be back in the morning.

Kevin Rampe

We've asked the jury so much, and they've given so much more, ... We're very excited about the jury's selection.

John Patrick

Working with the Internet2 community, we will be building more powerful applications that will be feasible only on a backbone like Abilene. We hope this will lead customers into the next era of e-business as these applications migrate over to the commercial Internet.

Chaka Khan

I'm a woman and I'm a backbone...everybody needs one.

Bob Barr

It is high time for some congressional oversight backbone.

Jonathan Tisch

We're interested in supporting workers who are the backbone of the industry.

Brian Schweitzer

Good ideas are the backbone of good government.

Edwin Soeryadjaya

Power plants are an infrastructure backbone that I want to be seriously involved in; this is because the country is rapidly developing and has high demand for electricity.

Charles Spurgeon

The backbone of the preaching of Christ is a conviction of the truth of Christ.

Betty White

I have the backbone of an eel.

Bear Grylls

My Christian faith is my backbone

Delos Smith

We boosted economic growth in one quarter, but that doesn't mean it's sustainable. We still have a long-range view that the economy is changing, and consumers will have to adjust to it.

Margaret Beckett

We believe we can reach the 20% target with support from all sections of the economy and society.

Kikuko Takeda

What's on peoples' minds is the possibility of a slowdown of the U.S. economy given the accumulation of rate hikes in the past year and a half and on higher oil prices,

Masatoshi Sato

U.S. stocks have settled down, but data on the economy is getting worse. Investors are increasingly worried the U.S. economy will fall off a cliff and pull Japan over with it.

Laura Wright

With the higher energy prices, the economy overall has stayed stronger than we would have thought.

Peter Cardillo

We're in uncharted times here, both for the economy and for the stock market. Some of the old rules just don't apply to global economics and to the global mechanism of how things are working.

Mark Vitner

We're just now realizing how badly off the economy was in the second quarter, ... The wider trade gap, along with the weakness we saw in the business inventory numbers that came out this week and weaker construction spending, will probably result in a second-quarter revised GDP number that will be zero or even slightly negative. It will be an eye-opening number, but it's no more worrisome than what we've seen.

Robert Brusca

We're getting sort-of mixed results with what is happening in the economy.

David Woo

We're getting a bit nervous about being dollar bears. In the midst of hawkish rhetoric from the Fed and strong economic growth, there's a definite risk the dollar's momentum can push it further.

Tim Scott

When I was in the 9th grade I was flunking out of high school. And that's why I'm so encouraged by the fact that America is the place where opportunity and American exceptionalism is alive and well.

Kacey Giammanco

When it became clear that the season was about to be cancelled, I encouraged Meghan to explore CSUMB. Thankfully, that will work out for her, and she will play there this season.

Kobe Bryant

When we all walked in, you could feel their spirits being uplifted, like they felt very encouraged and happy that we were there. It was just real cool to see that. To be able to go back (to New Orleans), play a game there and be able to uplift them again, that's special.

Rebecca Johnson

We found that being responsible for a pet, such as committing to walk a loaner dog, encouraged people who did not own dogs to walk more often and for longer periods.

Keeley Hawes

We're not an acting family, but my parents have always encouraged me.

Chinua Achebe

A budding writer wants to be encouraged.

Gladys Pozza

The perception is that religious education is just for children, but that's not the case. It would be unfair to leave the adults out. It's for the whole family, the community. We're always encouraged to have everyone join in and grow in their faith.

Chris Pelchen

We are looking forward to further developing the list structure through the AFL National Draft and are encouraged by the prospect of having five picks inside the top 22.

Tom Lantos

(We) strongly encouraged them to understand that in the wake of the Hurricane Katrina, the focus of the American people will turn inward,

Kacey Giammanco

When it became clear that the season was about to be cancelled, I encouraged Meghan to explore CSUMB. Thankfully, that will work out for her, and she will play there this season.

Mary Berry

What historians will look at is her contributions in these other things. Historians will understand and explore the full dimensions and not just the perfectly made up, dignified widow.

Robert Peck

We bring our students here each year to give them the chance to explore different careers to see all the things that are out there in engineering and science.

Rob Manuel

With multiplayer, permanent death, and an ever-changing world to explore and conquer, 'A Valley Without Wind' might be the place you're looking for if you need to escape the same dreary titles.

Jay Jacobs

We're going to diligently look at our options and make the best decision for Auburn. We're going to try not to rush anything. We'll be deliberate and keep things moving, but we're going to explore and make sure we know what's best for Auburn.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

We explore our environment, more than we are compelled to utter poetry, when we're toddlers. We start doing that later. Before that happens, every child is a scientist.

Kyle Whittingham

We explored a whole lot of different avenues and decided NAU was the best available to us.

Louis Leakey

We explored about 180 miles of exposures, ranging from a depth of about 300 feet to 50 feet, before we undertook any major digging.

Kevin Teale

We're focused on stopping it right now. Maybe after we have it under control we'll explore the origins of the outbreak ... even if we knew what was causing it, it wouldn't change how we are addressing the situation.

Grant Woods

When I was a boy, we all learned the story of George Washington and the cherry tree and accepted it as gospel truth. The present, more enlightened younger generation, however, is well aware that this incident never happened, but that it was the invention of Washington's most famous biographer, the Rev. Mason Locke Weems.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

In England, theres no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain.

Charlie Munger

there are all kinds of wonderful new inventions that give you nothing as owners except the opportunity to spend a lot more money in a business that's still going to be lousy. The money still won't come to you. All of the advantages from great improvements are going to flow through to the customers.

Nathan Myhrvold

If we could create invention capitalism, that would be a helluva legacy, that would be a helluva thing to do... We could actually turbocharge the rate at which the world invents things.

Madeleine Albright

I went to college somewhere between the invention of the iPad and the discovery of fire... but I had gone to a women's college.

William Shakespeare

Nor age so eat up my invention.

Webster Thompson

We're looking for the next blockbuster new product. And visitors to http://www.gardenweasel.com can now submit their invention to us to consider taking it to the retail marketplace.

Benjamin Haydon

Invention is totally independent of the will.

Carolyn Wells

A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.

Dusty Baker

There are some guys who have the nod because of experience. There are some guys who have demonstrated better control and better stuff than others. We'll see how they do the last couple weeks of spring and how they do when they go to Triple-A or Double-A.

Charles Caleb Colton

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.

Scott Henson

I would give them the nod right now.

Dave Morris

When I mention that I'm a game designer as well as a writer, someone will nod and say, 'Ah, that's what we like about your script. The videogame feel.'

Marty Turco

When we saw him and got the nod that he was okay, we got back to work and got the division locked up. We'll take it from there.

Jeff Davidson

We've entered an era when very good, competent people aren't getting jobs. One remedy is to stand out, to self-promote. If you do, you're going to get the nod over some co-worker.

Julie Klausner

I have never been one for musicians. I know girls are supposed to go crazy for frontmen who close their eyes when they sing and nod their heads when the drums kick in, but I'm like Shania Twain with that stuff: That don't impress me much. I'll take wit and brains over the ability to carry a tune any day.

Stephen Sansweet

I did feel silly about going up to a counter and buying Chewbacca barrettes, ... The cashier says, 'I hope your daughter will love it.' You just nod and hope the red is not in your cheeks too much.

Willie Schlarman

I think it'll be very gratifying for our players to see over the course of two years we've gone from being unranked to people giving us the nod (for No. 1) as a result of our improvement.

John Bacon

When it comes down to it the city made the law and they need look at it how it's affecting college students in a negative, they're being put out on the street.

Patty Williams

When it came to his students, he really cared about us. He genuinely cared about all of us. I never doubted that.

Kurt Andersen

When I talk to college students about Spy, it's like I'm describing something that happened in the 19th century. We were very lucky. We started Spy at a time when our generation had arrived at full adulthood and wanted to connect to its anti-establishment youth.

Justin Martineau

We're going to the summit as students and community members to state our side and make our point of view known to the general community, seeing as the ONDCP isn't going to provide that perspective to the community.

Paul Dee

We're going to talk about all reasonable possibilities that deal with safety for the players, students and fans. The conference is very concerned about Wilma, and we know we can't sit around here until Friday to make a decision.

Paul Kohn

We're going to take a look at all the qualifications that all of the students bring.

Jake Lehman

What we're really trying to do is build student activism and get students passionate about their community through arts and music, and other forms of outreach.

John Hill

What this does is give us an opportunity to greatly increase the speed at which we can access the Internet, ... That's going to increase the number of ways in which our students can benefit from this technology.

Chip Taylor

When we got started, my colleague, Brad Williamson, said that we ought to get schools involved. I was skeptical that school kids could contribute, but we designed something that teachers could use to help students contribute data.