Famous Quotes & Sayings

Les Miller

We've asked the governor to suspend the gas for one month to give a break to the citizens of Florida.

Ron Abramovich

We've always said spring moisture would make or break our water forecasts.

Diane Sollee

When we were saying it doesn't matter in the '60s and '70s and '80s, we didn't have the experience of enough kids in a culture when families were breaking down. It was just our best guess.

Brendan Shanahan

When we were playing with the lead, it forced them to open up a little bit. The onus is on us to break the trap.

Steven Bell

When we were doing that final lap I felt like I was going to break down.

Tamar Kvaratskhelia

When we went into the spring break everyone was exhausted from matches, school, and tests, and it was really bad. Now everybody is feeling really fresh, and over the break we got to sleep, so that was good.

Phil Klay

When I was in Marine training I memorised 'The Waste Land,' which was a significant experience in terms of really breaking apart language and thinking about how the different voices in that poem function.

Michelle Ferry

When I was a freshman I came off the bench and just gave the other post players a break when they needed it.

Brian Rolston

We're making our breaks now. When we are all on the same page, we can play with anybody.

Alan Foreman

We're starting to find that investors in particular are measuring their risks carefully and are not afraid to put their money to work at this time.

Charles Lee

We're going to take a careful look at the result to determine if there's any issue. I think that it raises a red flag. We have to look at that carefully to determine if there's something here.

Erik Autor

We're going to monitor this situation very carefully over the next several months. This is a case where what happens in Washington can have as much effect on cargo as what happens on the docks.

Niklas Savander

When we carefully considered the requirements of our customers when developing these devices, two clear new trends emerged: the need for IT departments' to have a secure and manageable platform, and the need for devices to support a variety of employee preferences and different working styles.

Hermann Hesse

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

Alice Lichtenstein

What's really important is that we carefully look at what our lifestyle patterns are, our eating patterns are, make small changes and make sure those changes that we make can be maintained on a daily basis.

Jack Straw

We're going to listen carefully to what the president has to say and we'll take it from there,

Jack Straw

We're going to listen carefully ... and make an assessment from there,

Jean Charest

We're going to carefully prepare this mission. It's not easy to go to a country like India where we don't have a presence.

Brian Cashman

We've always considered Roger a Yankee. If he decides to play, he'll give us the courtesy of an audience. We'll have to take a look at it when the time comes.

John Lasseter

When I was a freshman in high school, I read a book about the making of Disney's 'Sleeping Beauty' called 'The Art of Animation.' It was this weird revelation for me, because I hadn't considered that people actually get paid to make cartoons.

Jason Lamb

When we bought this place we were told this wasn't considered a flood zone. So if I had to pay more for insurance I would be a little upset.

Jim Shepherd

When we asked participants which vendors would be considered in 2006 for their ERP purchases, Microsoft Business Solutions led the pack. Our research indicates that there will be a huge surge in ERP spending in 2006. With companies of all sizes growing their ERP budgets, this is bound to be a banner year for top vendors in this space.

Niklas Savander

When we carefully considered the requirements of our customers when developing these devices, two clear new trends emerged: the need for IT departments' to have a secure and manageable platform, and the need for devices to support a variety of employee preferences and different working styles.

Beatrice Mongo

We found that one firefighter was considered inactive because he doesn't come to all the meetings, but he still fights fires. He would still be eligible to vote. To my mind, if you're risking your life to fight our fires, you should get to vote.

Don Brownlee

We found mineral grains that are considered very high-temperature minerals -- they normally form under extremely high temperature conditions. And yet they were collected in a comet, the Siberia of the solar system.

Masatoshi Kikuchi

We believe this should not lead to the start of a bear market or be considered as the bursting of the bubble.

Majora Carter

What's popular in places considered ghettos - whether that's the inner city or Appalachia - is having a decent quality of life.

Laura Schuler

We've asked her to dress for the games and she's been doing well in practice and proving herself. She knows that as a backup you need to be ready, and if she's called upon to go in, she's ready to go.

Brian Finnerty

When we were down this morning, I was worried about some bargain hunting and window dressing coming in; but it certainly did.

Jason Peters

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

John Travolta

When I was a kid in the 60s, believe it or not, most of you are younger and don't know that, but it was a blast to fly! You dressed up, you got in your Sunday best, women wore white gloves, you had room to stretch your legs out, you had a very nice meal, the stewardess paid particular attention to you. It was an event. It's so different today.

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.

Dave Tippett

We're going to dress the best team we can. And if one of those young guys is in that mix, that's the way it's going to be.

Kent Beck

We could talk, act, and dress funny. We were excused for socially inappropriate behavior: 'Oh, he's a programmer'. It was all because we knew this technology stuff that other people found completely mystifying.

Kaya Scodelario

I love dressing up, but I do find the red carpet thing quite stressful. When I went to Venice Film Festival last month to promote 'Wuthering Heights,' I told my boyfriend beforehand 'I will be a nightmare, I will cry, I will be nervous.' Actually once I was there, it was fine.

Bob Grimes

We would see nothing but men coming in and trashy dressed women. We just assumed that that's what it was.

Gerry Fleming

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

Brad Richards

We're just not doing enough right now. We're not trying to win games, we're just hoping. You can use a lot of fancy words but there's no other way to put it.

Houssaye Houssaye

Women of forty always fancy they have found the Fountain of Youth, and that they remain young in the midst of the ruins of their day.

Alan Jackson

I've been a lot of places, and my wife, Denise, she likes a lot of the fancy restaurants. I'm more of a basic eater. I still go into Cracker Barrel. Those are the kind of people who like the kind of music I'm making.

Charles Lamb

Dream not ... of having tasted all the grandeur and wildness of fancy till you have gone mad!

William Shakespeare

We must every one be a man of his own fancy.

William Shakespeare

Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, more longing, wavering, sooner lost and won, than women's are.

William Shakespeare

In maiden meditation, fancy free.

William Shakespeare

If ever (as that ever may be near) you meet in some fresh cheek the power of fancy, then shall you know the wounds invisible that love's keen, arrows make.

Gene Robinson

What a joy it is to have you here,

Ernesto Zedillo

United we Mexicans greet you with joy and hope, ... We receive you with our hearts in our hands.

Julianne Balmain

Work life has taken over normal life, yet it's been stripped of humor, joy and pleasure.

David Jason

Working with Ronnie was always a joy and were without doubt some of the best years of my career. The world of entertainment has lost a huge talent.

Arthur Holly Compton

Life in the twentieth century undeniably has ... such richness, joy and adventure as were unknown to our ancestors except in their dreams.

William Shakespeare

How much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping?

William Shakespeare

Good old grandsire ... we shall be joyful of thy company.

William Shakespeare

What is light, if Sylvia be not seen? What is joy if Sylvia be not by?

William Shakespeare

I wish you all the joy that you can wish.

James Sutherland

We've announced the tour program six months ahead of what we normally would and that's just (because of) the sheer demand and public interest that's out there right now.

Russ Fager

We found him just by sheer luck. I was going after some boys from England, and Barry's name popped up. We had what he wanted. Hopefully, he has what we wanted.

Gunnar Lindstrom

We believe we are in the lead by the sheer number of vehicles deployed by customers each day.

Carl Thayer

What's new is the electronic media and the sheer volume of it was exceptional.

Nicholas Meyer

We start at 25, as he begins to transform himself through sheer force of will from this asthmatic, nearsighted 125-pounder to this Sherman tank of a man, so tough that he once got shot on the way to make a speech and completed his talk, bleeding with a bullet in his chest.

Kate Reardon

I think, to me, the sheer joy of fancy dress is that it allows you to take a break from our very carefully considered and constructed identities.

Kate Winslet

I think any form of self-expression is half confidence, half sheer hard work and, maybe, a bit of talent thrown in.

Edward Herrmann

Automobiles have always been part of my life, and I'm sure they always will be. What is it about them that moves me? The sound of a great engine, the unity and uniqueness of an automobile's engineering and coachwork, the history of the company and the car, and, of course, the sheer beauty of the thing.

Thomas Mallon

Nixon had been to China. He had been to Russia doing arms negotiation. And so, he was on his way toward what happened in November, which was an electoral win with 49 states. And the sheer unnecessariness of the Watergate break-in is something that must have tormented him and his allies in all of the years that followed.