Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kerry Greenwood

A publisher saw one of my historical novels and thought I would write an admirable detective story, so she offered me a two-book contract, and I grabbed it.

Edmond Rostand

It is at night that faith in light is admirable.

Nick Burgess

Nick England did an admirable job. The kid that he wrestled had pinned by him before at the Thomas Worthington tournament (Feb. 4) and Nick lost by decision in the sectional.

Mary Montagu

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

Pete Boone

He had three or four years of experience in his one year. If you go and look at the things he had to do ... he had to dismiss players, had to dismiss a coach. So many of the things he had to do, a lot of coaches go two or three years without having to do. I think he has done an admirable job in growing at such a fast rate.

Rick Santorum

He has quite an admirable record of race relations in Mississippi and got the unanimous support of the African-American community in Mississippi, including the NAACP.

Helmut Kohl

What especially touched me was the fact that despite his personal experience, he never became bitter, and carried on in an admirable and just manner,

Dave Pugliese

I got into the guys a little bit at halftime. We came back nicely in the second half. The defense was great and I thought we did an admirable job all the way around.

Doug Marrs

He's a different dimension, we thought (McClanahan) did an admirable job being put in the situation he was placed in the last time, but J.T. wants to run the ball. It's nice to have a quarterback that wants to run the ball.

Rebecca Asman

We've always had animals around. We have always loved animals, and wanted to help them.

Steve McCulloch

We're spread thin. There are a lot of animals coming in. We're remaining on alert.

Rick Souza

We're social animals, we're spiritual and we like to have fun. With my (construction) teams, when we go we do all three.

Lisa Williams

What they really need, if there are lots of animals living in a very close facility, are people who are experienced in handling a variety of animals to walk them, feed them, love them - just provide basic care,

Curtis Barfield

We go until we finish - usually between 10:30 to 12. It just depends on how many animals we have and how hot the bidding is.

Dawn Rogers

What's ironic is that when we found ourselves coming together on these rescues, none of us knew the other had been abused. We discovered our common bond only after we started caring for the animals.

O. Henry

Usually animals die within seven days after getting to that point.

Tim Adams

Working with groups like that and working with the rescues as well as adopting animals out is (how) we work to find these animals homes. The key to the whole overpopulation issue is spay/neuter, though. That's what it comes down to is we've got to really push the spay/neuter concept because that's what will begin to drop these numbers.

Doris Birnbaum

Working here, you fall in love with the animals and are always tempted to bring them home. But at our house, we've reached our limit.

Jamie Dixon

We've always thought he was a very good player and always believed in him. He just happened to play on some very good teams behind some very good players. Last year, he developed and got better. He played in a lot of big games against a lot of good people.

John Foley

We've always been second in Rochester behind Nazareth in lacrosse, but I think we've proven we can play with them.

Don Brady

When we were behind by 12, they could have said it's not our night. They could have decided on something else. They didn't and did a great job.

Nick Vitucci

When we were 12 points behind Wheeling, we never doubted ourselves and always believed we could do it.

Ellen MacArthur

When I was out there I was never ever alone, there was always a team of people behind me, in mind if not in body.

Orrin Hatch

We're starting out $36 million behind but we don't need as much as the front-runner,

Jeff Bezos

We're standing behind the transaction with our own pocketbook,

Marlon Cook

We're sort of a little behind on it, but we're dealing with it as quickly as we can.

Mark Perry

We're going to see a period of real public stability, but there's going to be maneuvering behind the scenes,

Michael Novacek

We respect people's beliefs, and conversion is not necessarily our goal. We hope that every visitor will have a clearer idea of what Darwin did and, for that matter, what science means.

Al Tompkins

What's new is that entire newsrooms that once were one thing are totally different. The conversion of the traditional newsroom to the VJ newsroom is different.

Jimmy Duval

Yahoo is very concerned about conversion right now. We do everything we can to trace conversion for our merchant. That means experimenting with things like one-page check-out or multi-page check out. The flexibility for customers to make that choice can change conversion. The design world is waking up to conversion.

Dmitry Medvedev

The Government will not abandon the free conversion of the rouble

Charles Caleb Colton

The most zealous converters are always the most rancorous when they fail of producing conversion.

Brian Platter

I was surprised, because I was assuming that either the no-limit would raise conversion so high that it would win, or that just keeping the threshold high, which would keep the average order value high, would win. I didn't expect the middle.

Theodor Mommsen

In the Roman commonwealth, even on the conversion of the monarchy into a republic, the old was as far as possible retained.

John Hackney

We need to make some birdies today. Our birdie conversion rate was not very high.

Antoine Halff

If it's not rhetoric it's an effort to recapture the share of the oil cut that they gave away to deep conversion refiners,

Shawn Scobee

We're just starting to hit the crap out of the ball.

Tim Parmeter

The only downside was that we started the second half with the same crap we've been doing. We had turnovers on our first four possessions, and all a sudden, our lead goes from 18 to 11.

Bea Arthur

You know, I spend most of my life turning things down. There's a lot of crap out there.

Brian K. Vaughan

I just make crap up more than anything else.

Keith Fraser

Very few bass, lots of sturgeon. It has been the best sturgeon winter in many years. But weather is so crappy you can't always fish for them.

Charles Stross

I wrote two million words of crap. Maybe I'm just a slow learner .

Bryan Robinson

If we're going to put that kind of crap on film, let's do it now. Hopefully this is a wake-up call that we haven't arrived, we haven't done jack.

Stephen Colletti

I'm the type of guy if there's a haunted hotel in town, I'm staying there and will stay up all night waiting to get the crap scared out of me.

Rob Manuel

In 1995 I decided to stop eating meat. I could never really quite explain why; I think it was something to do with watching a documentary where they cooked a cat and partly because I had a really crap job working for Wolves Poly and felt my life was slipping away. It definitely wasn't anything to do with any 'vegetarian month'.

George McGovern

We remember his sturdy idealism and his devotion to public good.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Men who refuse to worship the true God now worship themselves with tender devotion.

Chanakya

Offspring, friends and relatives flee from a devotee of the Lord: yet those who follow him bring merit to their families through their devotion.

Grover Cleveland

Unswerving loyalty to duty, constant devotion to truth, and a clear consciencewill overcome every discouragement and surely lead the way to usefulness andhigh achievement.

Caroline Kennedy

I have a lifelong devotion to public service.

Benjamin Haydon

Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.

Clark Blaise

Indian standards of artistry, and Indian standards of humanity, and Indian standards of love, and of family, devotion, commitment, stand for me as the standard for how one should behave.

Lester B. Pearson

I am grateful for the opportunities I have been given to participate in that work as a representative of my country, Canada, whose people have, I think, shown their devotion to peace.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Love of Mary and devotion to her are a sure sign of obtaining eternal salvation.

Lisa Smith

We've always done trivia. It's tradition. And we also have football bingo, a food contest and plenty of Dollar Store prizes. It's kind of like another holiday for us.

Mark Hyman

When it becomes a revolutionary act to eat real food, we are in trouble.

Mary Roach

When I was a kid, I hated everything. I was really skinny, and I'd have a milkshake with an egg in it. Growing up, I ate, like, five different foods. I was not an adventurous eater. But as soon as I left home, that all changed and from that point on, I've been a pretty enthusiastic eater of new and strange food.

David Singer

Tom's has a strong heritage and solid reputation in the snack food business, and we believe that this opportunity will make our company stronger. The transaction developed quickly, and we are still developing our plans. In the near term we intend to continue business as usual while we develop a plan to effectively meet the needs of our customers and consumers. We are confident that the combination of increased sales and operating synergies will create value for Lance, Inc. stockholders.

David Berkowitz

We're making very good progress, but we're not stopping there. We're working with manufacturers to reduce fat and sodium in things like salad dressing ... and we're going to continue to work to make the food taste as good as it can taste.

Bill Lovette

We're making this investment to help meet continued, strong demand for refrigerated and pre-cooked bacon. The project is another example of the technology and food safety improvements we've initiated to position our processed meats business for future growth. For example, we've invested almost $15 million in our deli meats plant in Buffalo, N.Y., over the past two years.

Shane Rattenbury

We're making an assessment of our food and fuel and our own energy levels, it's very exhausting being in small boats in such a hostile environment.

Randy Clark

We're going to feed people as long as we've got food, ... It's been like a miracle, we'll run out then here comes another truck.

Marion Nestle

What this does is to turn food into medicine, ... Omega-3's occur naturally in food like fish, chicken and eggs, and plants to a lesser extent. Why do we need to get it from bread?

Bob Romeo

We've averaging 61 points per game, but the thing that makes me the proudest about this team is its defense. We've held teams to an average of 31 points per game. A lot of players get to play (as a result of big leads), and that means the kids on the bench are doing a good job defensively as well.

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.

Mike Turner

We've always tried to play all of the good teams. If we're going to be one of the good teams we've got to play the good teams.

Gene Johnson

We've always tried to have a good mix of stuff on our albums -- something that's fun, something that's very radio friendly, something that's going to touch someone's heart, maybe even something that's pop influenced. More than ever, on the 'Completely' album, we wanted to show more than one musical side of Diamond Rio.

John Mackey

We've always tried to be good citizens in the communities that we do business in.

Jamie Dixon

We've always thought he was a very good player and always believed in him. He just happened to play on some very good teams behind some very good players. Last year, he developed and got better. He played in a lot of big games against a lot of good people.

John Carr

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

Joe Hudak

We've always played well here. We're a good club, and I think we're trying to show we can play with other good clubs. We're certainly not intimidated.

Adam Ereli

We've always made clear that truces are good only insofar as they go, and that's really not very far.

Jill Malko

We've asked her to do things that she didn't anticipate. She has played all these roles because of all the injuries. But she's the type of player that can play anywhere on the field and that's pretty hard to find.

Rich Miller

We've always said that's probably the widest mound in the league ? and maybe all of baseball. I really think the mound is too wide. That ball by Heintz was hit hard and then it hit the side of the mound. But that's not what lost us the game.

Chris Lynch

We've always reached the hardcover buyer more than the paperback buyer.

Bob Morton

We've always known the destructive powers of hurricanes. The difference now is that we have that much more information. It's that much harder to ignore.

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.

Jim Crumlish

When we were losing, going into practice every day was tough. You go in every day to practice knowing that it will be brutal. And when you are losing, it's that much worse. You don't get to see the benefits of all your hard work, as you do when you're winning.

Jermaine Spencer

When we went in the locker room, we said we weren't pushing. We weren't getting as hard after them as we should. In the second half, we brought the fight to them. Instead of backing down and letting them do what they want to do, we made them step up and play -- play defense and make tougher shots.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

When I was out in Georgia doing photographs, I found myself trying to undo my own sense of composition. I'd think, 'Why do I want to take it like this? Is it because I want to take a beautiful picture?' It's quite hard to try and undo it.

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.

Ian Forrester

When it comes down to racing like this, ... you have to ignore all friendship and just get down to business.

Peter Gabriel

We wrote a little manifesto with just some ideas on how this digital revolution could transform music-making itself, and that is the part that people have generally ignored so far. They've been totally preoccupied with the business side of it, but not so much with how the new formats - or the freedom of formats - could change the nature of what exactly is created.

Michael Specter

It doesn't seem to matter how often vaccines are proved safe or supplements are shown to offer nothing of value. When people don't like facts, they ignore them.

Wade Henderson

We applaud the five judiciary members who voted their conscience and took a principled position in opposition to the nomination of John Roberts to be Chief Justice of the United States. However, we are profoundly disappointed that the committee, as a whole, ignored compelling evidence against his nomination.

Bertrand Russell

Every sane and sensible and quiet thing we do is absolutely ignored by the press.

Benjamin Graham

Always remember that market quotations are there for convenience, either to be taken advantage of or to be ignored.

Mutula Kilonzo

We are going to ignore it totally. It has no value. That is nonsense.

Mutula Kilonzo

We are going to ignore it because it has no value. It is pure nonsense and the former president will go on with ordinary life.

Kathryn Prescott

Just because we don't recognise someone from an area of our own lives, somehow it has become easy to simply ignore them and walk away.

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.

Gregg Laskoski

You don't know with 100 percent certainty that you'll be coming back to the home you left. So you should take essential papers, insurance policies, both home and auto, and any other irreplaceable items, including family photos. Keep them in an appropriate watertight container.

Jim Hawkins

We remain very excited about our recent acquisition of Bio-logic Systems. We have made great progress in the integration of Bio-logic, including the successful combining of our two sales and marketing organizations. We are also making significant operational changes to the organization that will make their operations more efficient. We remain very confident that the acquisition of Bio-logic will be accretive to our earnings in 2006 and beyond.

Gary DiCamillo

We remain on plan to begin rolling out a number of new products, including our instant single-use camera in the second half of 1998. We are confident that 1999 will be one of the company's strongest in recent years.

James Calvin

We respect the right of Native American tribes to operate commercial enterprises, and the right of licensed distributors to supply them with legal products. But in conducting commerce with non-Native American consumers, everyone in the supply chain should play by the same rules, including collecting state and local taxes.

Mitch Kupchak

We're sorry to have to let Slava go even though it was unlikely that he would've been able to play the rest of the season because of his injury. He's been a positive addition to us for six years, including helping us win two championships. We thank him for his contributions and wish him well.

Vicki Arroyo

We're going to need all forms of energy production, including more coal and nuclear. Despite the Bush administration's support for clean coal technologies, the US is not investing anywhere near what will be needed to make this work.

Gareth Peirce

We've re-emphasized our concerns that this inquiry go from the bottom to the top and leave no stone unturned. It's been a chaotic mess and what we've asked the IPCC to find out is how much of it is incompetence and negligence, including gross negligence, and how much of it may be something more sinister.

Harvey Rosenfield

What we're seeing is a tremendous increase in the number of complaints and horror stories, including fatalities, associated with the rush to corporate, profit driven health care in our country.

Keir Dullea

Kubrick never explained the ending to us, or what his intentions were. He didn't intend for it to be a predictable film.

Kevin Hall

We would work with the City folks, and see what their intentions are.

Elizabeth Mitchell

I will overlook bad behavior if I know that people's intentions are good. I have this belief that people really can do good things and that people want to be good.

Lauren London

I'm a great mother because of my intentions on being a great mother; I'm a good friend because I'm loyal; I'm a good daughter because I've hopefully made my mother proud; I'm a great human being because I accept that there's a spiritual being underneath it all. I've always been a woman of faith.

Blake Shelton

When things go wrong or dont turn out the way you pictured them in your head, you just have to go with the best intentions defense. I have a lot of good intentions.

Charles Simmons

Good intentions are very mortal and perishable things. Like very mellow and choice fruit, they are difficult to keep.

Carlos Ramirez

We acted in the best interest of the institution, ... Our intentions were good and we didn't think we were in violation of our lease. We have always had good relations with the schools and we want to maintain that relation - it's important for the community.

Phil Parkinson

If we had pulled it off it would have been the all-time Cup upset. The last thing I said to them before the game was to ruffle a few feathers and let Chelsea know they have been in a game. I think it was their intentions to keep those lads rested for Wednesday. The fact that they brought them on indicated how well we had done.

Sugar Ray Leonard

I wanted to win the gold medal and then go home and further my education in college. I had no intentions whatsoever to become a professional fighter because I had heard horror stories about former boxers who made money but, in the end, ended up with nothing. I didn't want to be one of those guys.

David Benelli

What they told me ... is they feel they were justified in their actions and they were using the amount of force necessary to overcome the situation.

Ian Telfer

We believe that the increased purchase price is justified as a result of recent increases in gold prices, the exploration success at Red Lake ... and additional synergies and tax efficiencies that we expect to arise from a friendly transaction.

Camille Pissarro

It does not astonish me that the critics in London relegate me to the lowest rank. Alas! I fear that they are only too justified!

Calvin Coolidge

Of course, the accumulation of wealth cannot be justified as the chief end of existence,

Benjamin Harrison

Lincoln had faith in time, and time has justified his faith.

Bible Bible

Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Less depends upon the choice of words than upon this, that their introduction shall be justified by pregnant theorems.

Dick Cheney

If we have reason to believe someone is preparing an attack against the U.S., has developed that capability, harbours those aspirations, then I think the U.S. is justified in dealing with that, if necessary, by military force.

Jim Bianco

What we can do is take the core rate of PPI and combine it with last week's 5 cent-an-hour jump in average hourly wages and say that inflation looks like it is a concern, maybe not a problem yet, but a concern. And the Federal Reserve was justified in raising rates and may be justified in raising rates again in the May or July meeting.

Ruth Coleman

We're so proud of the uncompromising nature of this rehabilitation.

Kenneth Fisher

Despite its many critics, hydraulic fracturing will change the nature of energy production.

Michael Baker

what this is going to do is preserve the very best of what is the historic nature of the Lunenburg waterfront.

Peter Gabriel

We wrote a little manifesto with just some ideas on how this digital revolution could transform music-making itself, and that is the part that people have generally ignored so far. They've been totally preoccupied with the business side of it, but not so much with how the new formats - or the freedom of formats - could change the nature of what exactly is created.

John Audubon

What! Have I come here to mimic nature in her grandest enterprise - to add my caricature of one of the wonders of the world to those which I see here? No - I give up the idea as a vain attempt.

Tom Ridge

We got very specific information regarding when and what flights. It didn't quite have the specificity with regard to the nature of the attack, but there was certainly enough credibility associated with the when and the where, the date and the flight

John Whittier

Unknown to her the rigid rule, the dull restraint, the chiding frown, the weary torture of the school, the taming of wild nature down.

Nigel Harris

Universities by their very nature encourage debate, question and challenge of conventional wisdom and existing theories. We are places where knowledge is discovered. We advance existing precepts and understandings by which society currently runs. And in that context, academic staff will time to time have views that are different from the government's.

Jeanette Winterson

Very few people ever manage what nature manages without effort and mostly without fail. We don't know who we are or how to function, much less how to bloom. Blind nature. Homo Sapiens. Who's kidding whom?

Jonathan Band

Until now, there's been a lot of skepticism whether these shrink-wrapped licenses are enforceable, ... UCITA says this is a contract, so all arguments that have existed in the past go out the window. The only hope you have is that the Supreme Court will rule that it's pre-empted.

Austin O'Malley

You cannot knock a man down who will not stand up, nor argue with a skeptic.

Jason Biggs

We all approached doing a sequel with great trepidation and skepticism.

Evan Bayh

If the intelligence ends up being wrong, we need to get to the bottom of why and also there will be more skepticism in the U.S. and the world.

Jim Cooper

There is a growing unease, but all the folks I talked to support our troops, want us to win in the Middle East and still trust our military leaders to do the right thing. I think there's some skepticism of our civilian leaders.

John Grady

There is a fair degree of skepticism in the industry given some of the past failures. But we are selling services to very knowledgeable customers who are looking for services that meet or exceed their expectations in terms of quality and service levels. We are working quietly with many of those providers to achieve and surpass the metrics that they set and expect.

John Culp

It is a fairly close vote, and I would say that it is an uncommonly high turnout, showing the pilots' interest in this issue. And the close vote reflects the skepticism a lot of pilots have in management's business plan.

Hugh Johnson

I think the market has managed the inevitable profit-taking very well, but there's still a lot of skepticism out there,

Jenny Wieland

I think most of the time it's met with great skepticism because murder is a deliberate act of one human against another.

Dick Lampman

We've always had a more pragmatic view of our business. You can describe our mission in two words: technology transfer.

Linda Lightfoot

When we were dealing with the paper world and you were allowed to see the file, you could view the ideas that went into policy development. E-mail is very easy to be lost, and it is a lot more difficult to follow.

Charles Thomson

We remain of the view that the PO inquiry is policyholders' best hope for government compensation, and whatever the outcome, the inquiry should bring independence and some finality to the question of regulatory maladministration.

Ian Shepherdson

We remain of the view that the Fed's near-term objective is simply to support the stock market until consumer and business sentiment improves,

Sherry Cooper

We remain of the view that next week's rate hike will not be the Fed's last work this cycle. Indeed, they will likely eventually unwind all of last fall's crisis-induced easing.

Phil Forest

We're spending more time on our computers. Even though television viewing is up, there is still a percentage that they're losing. If they put programs on the Internet, they can capture more of the audience. That's one of the key factors driving the networks.

Ignacio Bunye

We respect the views of the former general, appreciate his sense of nationalism and share his concerns about the plight of our people. But this quixotic declaration is pathetic and unfortunate.

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.

Anne Finch

Did I, my lines intend for public view,How many censures, would their faults pursue,Some would, because such words they do affect,Cry they're insipid, empty, uncorrect.And many, have attained, dull and untaught,The name of wit, only by finding fault.True judges, might condemn their want of wit,And all might say, they're by a woman writ.