Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vonda Shepard

Starting young has definitely helped my success. All the experience I gained by touring with other players as a backing artist helped to prepare me for my own big break.

Elliott Abrams

Now in its third year in office, the Obama Administration has never championed the cause of human rights. Its slow reaction in June 2009 to the stealing of the election in Iran and the birth of the 'Green Movement' there, and its delay in backing the rebellions in Egypt, Libya, and Syria, are evidence of this problem.

Tom Brokaw

Oklahoma residents are known for not backing down from a fight in the political arena, on the gridiron, NBA courts or rodeo arenas, but in their reaction to the bombing, they knew intuitively they would not find restoration in rage.

James Robertson

When you're relying on something that uses electrical power and someone to do maintenance on the thing ... if you have a power failure that takes the station out, you run the risk of sewage backing up into homes. By putting in a gravity line we won't have to rely on electrical power to transport sewage.

Lee Ritenour

Even though there are some great keyboard players on the album, there are a number of songs with no keyboard on them and the backing is all guitar oriented. This is first time I've ever done this actually.

Tony Dwyer

We're due for a week's worth of consolidation. Just some backing and filling. Following that, we can head higher.

Alan Greenspan

I do not understand where the backing of Bitcoin is coming from. There is no fundamental issue of capabilities of repaying it in anything which is universally acceptable, which is either intrinsic value of the currency or the credit or trust of the individual who is issuing the money, whether it's a government or an individual.

Walter Martin

Who knows the minds of men and how they reason and what their methodology is? But I am not going to extrapolate from the General Conference backing out on my book and make it a personal issue.

Bernie Sanders

While commentators on Fox and right-wing radio have the backing of Rupert Murdoch, a major Republican contributor, and other conservative corporations, progressives understand that their position is extremely vulnerable.

Clay Shirky

The web's democratic in one way and distinctly undemocratic in another way. And I think a lot of the confusion about the political ramifications have to do with that one word having so many meanings. So, it's democratic in that it quite literally delivers power to the people; it, it essentially opens up participation in the public's mind.

Bruce Rauner

I've completely lost faith in the Democratic Party to truly serve the disadvantaged.

Luis Gutierrez

We need to decouple the movement for comprehensive immigration reform and justice for immigrants from the legislative process and from the Democratic Party process. They are too linked.

Nancy Gibbs

Rooting from the sidelines is the most democratic of sporting rites: no skyboxes, no tickets required, just an unabashed will to holler and wave.

Lee R. Raymond

A free economy is as essential to society as democratic political institutions. A strong market-based economy is the fertile ground for democratic freedoms that we think are important.

Bob Ehrlich

Maryland has a tradition of Democratic Party conservatism.

Ali Babacan

Those looking from Europe see Turkey as an economic success, whereas others from the Middle East see Turkey as a democratic success.

Andrew Cuomo

Whether you voted for me or not, going through the Democratic process had made me a better candidate. I am a smarter, better candidate.

Alan Greenspan

We're a democratic society. Shutting down the government should not be on the agenda.

David Goodman

(The penalty) was a misunderstanding on the second hole. I was pleased with the way I played. I didn't shoot lights out but I'm happy to be going to districts again. It's nice a teammate (Karsten Reis) made it too so I won't be going alone. Overall, I'm pretty pleased.

Denis Napthine

When you nominate for a seat, the expectation is that you serve that district and serve that seat if you are elected.

Cristina Henriquez

My mom is a translator for the school district in Delaware. She'd hear these different stories from working with families there. Those stories stuck with me.

Wake Wood

We are happy with that. We want to be undefeated in district and the state playoffs. That's what we truly want.

Ray Olive

We still have to win one more game to win the district championship.

Jack Foster

We still have some work to do to be ready for districts this week, but we will be ready.

Ann Clark

We are looking for ideas to improve upon the quality of our school district and our community.

Judd Terwilliger

We?re ecstatic. This was a satisfying district to win (because) it?s a good district. It was really survival of the fittest.

Chaka Fattah

There are no problems that exist in the District that have been solved elsewhere in the country. Whatever problems exist in this city exist other places.

Francois Arnaud

Today, the Pope is only a religious figure. At the time of 'The Borgias,' he was also a political leader, a financial leader, and the head of an army. I think popes are much less relevant today than they were then.

Tom Shaheen

We're not going to induce people to play. We're not going to promise financial gain by playing the lottery.

Pico Iyer

In financial terms, my sense is that the distribution of wealth, unequal as it is, is self-perpetuating, and, especially in a linked and accelerating world, the rich get ever more quickly richer while the poor get ever more speedily poorer.

Ted Waitt

We have the liquidity and financial resources necessary to forgo short-term profits to regain long-term growth and sustainable profitability,

Jim Adams

We have the financial resources to move quickly.

Jim Hill

We need help from this body. We need someone to relieve the huge financial burden.

Bradley Belt

Unfortunately, the financial health of the PBGC is not improving,

Bradley Belt

Unfortunately, the financial health of the P.B.G.C. is not improving.

Ian Reid

We are saying to the financial institution: we will give you about $25 million every year for the period of the loan and that's really how we plan to repay it.

Jim Lovell

I didn't go into the NASA program to pick up rocks or to go the moon or anything else. I went in there because I was a military officer, and that was the next notch in my profession.

Mike Griffin

NASA has been favored by the administration, but it's still a very tough environment.

Christopher Russell

NASA did not react well to that news.

Bart Gordon

should not be done by cannibalizing other NASA missions.

Robert Zubrin

the first rational plan in any sense that I've seen from Nasa in decades.

Sally Ride

For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds.

Sally Ride

I did not come to NASA to make history.

Steve Young

Our whole strategy has been to get through the primary, get the nomination and then things will open up,

Laura Bush

Roberts' nomination was the result of surprise, not consultation,

Jerry Seinfeld

Cry when you get a Golden Globe. Then you can get an Oscar nomination.

Charles Krauthammer

This nomination is a catastrophe, ... I don't think there is a way she can end up being confirmed.

Michael Caine

God willing, even I might scrape a nomination.

Jim Bunning

I will not be able to support his nomination on the Senate floor.

Frankie Muniz

I am keeping with tradition today. After I learned of my Golden Globe nomination, I went to the dentist, so today, let's make it the orthodontist.

Howard Dean

probably the most mismanaged nomination I've ever seen by the White House.

Roger Ebert

If there is such a thing as a lock on an Oscar nomination, ... Hoffman has one.

Steven Sinofsky

While my friends were busy listening to the Talking Heads, Police, and B-52s, I was busy teaching myself to program on the Atari.

Mike Hooper

When and if there is something to say in relation to the drug testing program we will do so.

Curtis Jackson

I'll have long, straight hair, like down to my back, when I go to Heaven. And I'm not even going to work out, but I'll be in shape. It's a whole new program up there.

Dick Cheney

It's a tougher program for tougher customers.

Chris Whittle

If you could have a news program without commercials, it would be better. But is a news program with commercials better than no news program at all? My view was, I'll take the one with commercials versus no news program at all.

Bud Selig

We have the toughest program now in American sports, ... and I'm proud of that.

Mayor Lederer

Unfortunately, the program is a victim of its own success, and as result my description of it would be a program in crisis.

Dana Gioia

We wanted to make sure the program could work as broadly as possible, so we wanted to test it in more challenging markets.

Bill Walker

Those are the kind of programs we would like to see subsidies shifted into.

June Daugherty

We know we can do it. We've won on the road.

Nancy Roman

I wondered had I really oversold the Hubble. I have to admit that, since, I have been convinced that I didn't.

Valentino Castellani

We are having a party. A wonderful party.

Walter Benjamin

This planet is a wonderful place, but a vulnerable place.

Tim Williams

We are considering this halftime. He's won the first half.

William Shakespeare

O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out of all hooping.

Mike Fox

We've made a lot of advances. We won our first game, which was a big step.

Paul Terry

We have not won the Championship for more than 30 years and it is something we really want to do.

Jason Taylor

We haven't done anything yet. We won one game. Big deal.