Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mary Doria Russell

When we were 15, my girlfriend Ruth Kaplan and I applied to the Universidad Ibero-Americana in Mexico City. We were accepted into a program that placed us with a lovely Mexican family. We lived with them for six weeks while studying Spanish poetry and Mexican anthropology.

David Lambert

When I was in Taiwan, we were there for about 8 months, and I was 11 at the time, so it was definitely a culture shock. But it was a really interesting time to be there. I didn't entirely realize how different it is from the States. I just accepted it because I was there and my parents needed to be there.

Angeles Mastretta

When I was in my 20s, I wanted to be tough. I discovered that I didn't want to be the woman I was raised to be - a good, traditional wife. When I went out in the world to find a husband, I found that husbands weren't ready to accept the kind of woman I was going to be.

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.

Craig Pletenik

We're making some of the best academic improvement in the state, and we've got a bureaucratic blunder that we're trying to correct, and the state won't accept the correction.

Ian Shepherdson

We remain relatively optimistic about the housing market, but we do accept that activity fell sharply in the immediate aftermath of Sept. 11,

Manmohan Singh

We remain hopeful that solutions acceptable to all sides will be found.

Darrell Butler

We're going to tie ourselves to his wagon and let him pull us around. He's our leader and he's really matured and accepted that role.

Lester Bangs

What this book demands from a reader is a willingness to accept that the best writer in America could write almost nothing but record reviews.

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.

Dennis Phillips

We're going to pay user fees for water and sewer and it's my understanding the burden of extension lines will be on the shoulders of the developers, not the city,

Robert Cooper

We're going to have to get the money somewhere, and you'll have to shift that burden from property tax to sales and income tax, but I think it can be done.

Cheryl Richardson

There is nothing heavier than the burden of potential

Cher

I'm not gonna become Ann Bancroft or Meryl Streep and have all the burden that being a "serious actress" entails.

Charles Baudelaire

So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, be endlessly drunk.

Charles M. Schulz

There is no heavier burden than an unfulfilled potential.

Charles M. Schulz

There is no greater burden than great potential.

Bob Schaffer

Reducing the tax burden is necessary to produce economic growth.

Jimmy Palmer

We applaud the efforts of Best Buy in helping to relieve some of the burden of recycling the unprecedented amount of electronic waste generated by Hurricane Katrina on the Mississippi Coast. While recycling electronic waste takes more time and labor, this effort is about protecting human health and the environment.

Ken Warwick

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

David Corbin

We've asked the city to continue its consideration of the project until April. We want time to look at our options with regard to Holiday House specifically and our overall employee housing needs in general. At this point, we want to go back and revisit our full employee housing goals.

Joan Berry

We've asked for a meeting with the sheriff numerous times, and he never has any time or even the courtesy to return my phone calls. This is very upsetting to me.

Nitin Nohria

We've always treated the historical context of a particular time as a kind of sidebar to any discussion about business leadership. But we've found that context is far more salient than we ever imagined.

Brian Hill

We've always said there's something better down the road waiting for you. It wasn't the right time or the right place.

Drew Goddard

We've always idealized youth and then destroyed youth. That has happened since the beginning of time, and I'm fascinated by why we do that.

Scott Rolen

We've always had a tough time playing them.

Andy Watson

We've always had a plan. As the years go along, you revise it every year, every six months or as needed. Every time there's a structure change, you have to update the plan, and with environmental changes.

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.