Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Thune

We prayed a lot about it as did a lot of other people and finally concluded that this was something that we needed to do.

John Sergeant Wise

When I first concluded to print the book, I made an honest effort to construct it in the third person.

Mark Harrad

Well, we're not looking at it right now. There have been many economic studies of various kinds, and all past studies have concluded that a true a la carte pricing system would be very negative for the consumer they would pay more for far less.

Tony Juniper

We are not taking an ideological view ... We have analysed the pros and cons ... and we have concluded that (nuclear power) is the wrong answer.

Alan Dershowitz

The jury concluded that Fuhrman planted the glove.

Marion Blakey

We have simply concluded that the gap between us is too large to continue these negotiations.

Michael Cohl

We have received the deposit money from Hong Kong and the band's lawyers have a signed contract having concluded negotiations last week.

Michael Seraphin

Results were mixed at best. The only thing they really concluded was that they could reduce the prevalence of the disease but not eradicate it.

Neal Shapiro

Reflecting on all of this, I've concluded that it's time to move on to a new challenge,

Nancy Grace

You see, some lawyers have the talent, have the charisma, but no discipline. They come into court unprepared, without having done their research.

Steve Kniley

We presume if someone comes in with the winning ticket they've signed, we presumed they've won, and unless we get a court order to the contrary, we don't get involved.

Virginia Henley

I did a great deal of research to write 'The Irish Duke.' Since all the people in this Lords of the Realm series are real historical characters, everything had to be authentic. I researched Woburn Abbey, where my heroine lived, and everything about Barons Court in Ireland, which was the ancestral home of Abercorn.

Lemuel K. Washburn

The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent more women to the grave than to the courts for a divorce.

Praveen Khandelwal

We had a positive interaction with Joshi for around 45 minutes and he said that any formula to stop sealing has to be within the court directive.

Elizabeth Gillies

If someone's being less than courteous to you, I don't think you need to pay any attention to them.

Suzi Babos

We didn't play the way we wanted. We had the momentum going on Friday so it was really frustrating. And it seemed to be the same problem on the other courts that lost.

Chris Heagarty

The only big races that all North Carolinians will have to judge will be our court races. And they should be interesting.

John Jones

We set a good foundation early with conditioning and weights, and we're still on it. Every drill I don't tell them it's conditioning, but all our drills are geared toward running up and down that court as fast as you can.

David H. Murdock

If someone paid me a million dollars to drink a glass of milk, I wouldn't do it; maybe that's because I don't need the money.

Chuck Schumer

The vast majority of the people employed by Wall Street are the secretary who goes in to work on the Long Island Rail Road, who makes fifty, sixty, seventy thousand dollars a year.

Regina Brett

If no one shopped on Thanksgiving Day, the stores wouldn't open. End of story. I say we all take the pledge and stay home. Thanksgiving is a day to give thanks for what you have, not to save a few dollars to get more.

Dyan Cannon

They offered me millions and millions and millions of dollars to write books about Cary. That was between us. That was private. I'll always love him.

Susan Isaacs

I hate when people say, 'Oh, they laughed all the way to the bank.' That's nonsense because the most cynical, unhappy people are Hollywood screenwriters. They earn hundreds of thousands of dollars a year for work that's never made.

Kimora Lee Simmons

We've all heard these statistics that teachers at times go into their pockets in the tune of several hundred dollars a year to pay for school supplies and materials. It's not normal.

Neill Blomkamp

I like where we're going with technology and global integration, but the fact that corporations and dollars rule everything in our lives, I don't like it. This isn't the Hollywood I wanted to be part of.

Andrew Nikiforuk

When governments run on petro dollars or petro revenue instead of taxes, then they kind of sever the link between taxation and representation, and if you're not being taxed, then you're not being represented.

John Parker

Those are going to take major dollars (to repair) that the legislature did not give to us this last term,

Ken Anderson

We played 13 tonight and they all rose to the occasion. We kept working and fighting to make this happen. I'm proud of these girls.

Joe Biden

Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It's self-defense. It's patriotism.

Le Corbusier

You don't start a revolution by fighting the state but by presenting the solutions.

Johnny Gonzales

We did what we had to do to win. We are fighting for that third playoff spot and the kids worked hard for the victory.

Jim Brandt

We are not engrossed in total sunshine, but we're in good shape. We have a pretty good set of sunshine laws. The problem is fighting off exceptions. Every time the Legislature meets, there are exemptions considered. Accumulation of exemptions is our great potential problem.

Alan Cohen

You empower what you fight.You withdraw power from what you release.

Alan Cohen

The purpose of life is not to fight against evil and misfortune; it is to unveil magnificence.

Debbie Kolosh

When you're out fighting a fire for hours and hours with nothing to eat, nothing to drink, maybe before you left you didn't have your breakfast, its a great place for them to be able to get something.

Shalrie Joseph

We didn't play our best, we didn't finish our chances, but this team never quits. We keep fighting to the end. We never give up until the final whistle blows.

Jeff Joerres

The outplacement industry has gone through much more of a severe downturn than anyone, including us, would have anticipated.

David Stern

We couldn't get enough Jeremy Lin material in the NBA store fast enough. And when we did, it was just gone in minutes.

Feist

Since I was 19, I've always gone where there was a reason to be. Maybe I'll be lucky and there'll be a reason to go somewhere tropical for a while.

Felicity Kendal

I am used to looking good. In a way, if I thought I looked like the back end of a bus, I probably wouldn't have done 'Strictly Come Dancing' and gone out there in public.

Drew Barrymore

The way things have gone in my life, sure, I could have been a bitter person. But I just find bitter people really un-fun, you know? And who wants to be that person?

Lora Jackson

We probably settled for too many outside shots. But if more of those had gone in, we'd have been back in the game.

Bill Powers

We probably could have gone with three Peewee teams but the problem was we had so many returning players we would have to tell some kids they couldn't play on their old teams,

Gary Nelson

We operate our own port facilities. We haven't gone that route, and we don't intend to.

Brandon Schnittker

When I fumbled, the first thing I thought of was Ryan and what he's gone through.

Yoko Ono

The thing that would most improve my life is 27 hours in a day. I could meet all my deadlines.

David Steinberg

Being a lawyer in New York sucks because you're working eighty, sometimes a hundred hours a week.

Bill Cosby

I don't spend my hours worrying how to slip a social message into my act.

Rick Pitino

I give myself 24 hours after a loss. After that, I'm totally on to the next game. But for 24 hours, I'm not a happy man.

Dries van Noten

When I get very stressed, I make jam. I like things that produce a quick result, because fashion has such a long lead time. With jam, you start, and two-three hours later, you have 36 little pots, all full.

David Fincher

For a romantic comedy to be three hours long, that's longer than most marriages.

Al Pacino

You do get very tired sometimes, when you're sitting around for hours in movies. You get depleted.

Carl J. Lindner, Jr.

I'm working over 80 hours a week and have to keep on track.

Debbie Coffman

We are not neglecting penmanship, but we have prioritized it in its proper order in the big picture of literacy. If we are in school for six or seven hours a day, it can't be an hour.

Randy Mayes

When I first started, I said 'Yes, sir and no, sir.' Now, the lawyers say, 'Yes, sir and no, sir.' Now, we're even older than most of the judges.

Jonathan Todd

Whether or not the new transaction will have to be re-notified will be something that the parties and the lawyers of the parties will have to study very carefully. If, for example, it is a different type of transaction it might have to be re-notified.

Angela King

Women were professors, lawyers and judges. They were journalists, writers and poets.

Michael Schirp

Our lawyers are looking at it. We'll see if anything can be done.

Joel Holliday

Why would I need to sue? The lawyers are saying we're in a bind. We didn't lose money.

Judith Kilpatrick

Toward the 1890s, you start seeing more lawyers who are homegrown. Still, for many years, they couldn't get training in the South.

Michael Jackson

took place in a proceeding where neither my lawyers nor I ever appeared.

Joseph Tate

We told her lawyers it was not coerced. We are surprised to learn we had anything to do with her incarceration.

Cindy Sheehan

Lawyers in Washington (D.C.) are working on that right now. It should be filed next week.

William Lashner

I write novels with a lawyer as the hero, no matter how oxymoronic that might sound.

Dennis Franchione

The only ranking that really matters to us is how we feel about this class, and we feel like we have another good, solid class.

Adrian Moss

The past means nothing. It really doesn't matter until you get out there and play.

Simon Cowell

The past is the past, no matter how successful it's been. For me, it's only tomorrow that's interesting.

Nick Jonas

The one mentality I've always tried to have is that no matter what stage in your career that you are in as a musician or a performer or a songwriter or whatever, there's always more to learn.

Cynthia Ozick

Profound subject matter can be encompassed in small space - for proof, look at any sonnet by Shakespeare!

Paul Hawken

Really, the proper study of economics is fulfilment, not consumption... It doesn't even matter if it's a green product or a green house... It's still consumption. What matters in this world is the fulfilment of people's needs and the fulfilment of their aspirations.

Camille Little

We played well when it mattered and pulled it out, and that's all that mattered.

Cal Nichols

We plan to play a season no matter how that happens.

Simon Cowell

I'm not sure who has the right to say that you have better taste than somebody else, because essentially what you're doing is calling millions of people morons.

Ban Ki-moon

The United Nations has a proud record of helping millions of people in mine-affected countries.

Nandan Nilekani

I'm in politics to make the lives of millions of Indians better.

Malala Yousafzai

I have learned so much from Nelson Mandela, and he has been my leader. He is a perpetual inspiration for me and millions of others around the world.

J. A. Konrath

We all need to focus on our writing. Because the millions of readers out there don't care about your blog.

Katy Perry

I want to sell out arenas and sell millions of records.

Susan Ertz

Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

F. Stone

Let's just say it would be in the millions of dollars,

Mike Burkett

So many millions of people don't feel like their vote has any meaning. There is no reason why younger people can't be a unified force.

Evangeline Lilly

My son was three months old when I started filming 'The Hobbit,' and I was still breastfeeding.

Nostradamus

In England, one without a trace of Royalty will master. Twenty months he will rule; twenty months he will bleed the lands, then his end comes quickly.

Rich Marcello

We probably have another 18 months or so until we get it done.

Audrie Pattenn

Three months may seem like a long time, but really, it's not enough time.

Bill Ryden

We are really working on the perfecting part of the sport. Sometimes it takes months to fine-tune.

Melina Kanakaredes

When you're the lead actor in a drama, you have 2 1/2 months at the end of a season to do other projects, and everything has to get done in that time.

Zach Galligan

An actor is working steady if he's active four to six months a year.

Shelli Rushing

We'll have another public workshop here in three months or so to start talking about getting into more specifics about the plan. We're supposed to wrap up the plan by the end of the year.

Alan Trammell

Losing gets old. It's just been a heck of a month, to be honest with you.

Ivern Ball

The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Samuel Butler

And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.

Terry McGowan

We preached all week don't look past these guys. Once we got behind, we started pressing. We weren't relaxed.

Stacey Phillips

We did what it took to win. Everyone is a little worn out from the past weekend, but we still pulled through for the win.

Alan Cohen

Revisit your past only to recognize how far you have come.

Alan Cohen

View the past as your enemy, and it will be an albatross. View it as your friend, and it will give you wings.

Alan Cohen

You change the past when you change the way you see it.

Pearl Jam

Where have they been the past 10 years?

Dick Cheney

I have argued in the past, and would again, if we had been able to pre-empt the attacks of 9/11 would we have done it? And I think absolutely. We have to be prepared now to take the kind of bold action that's being contemplated with respect to Iraq in order to ensure that we don't get hit with a devastating attack when the terrorists' organization gets married up with a rogue state that's willing to provide it with the kinds of deadly capabilities that Saddam Hussein has developed and used over the years.

Billy Corgan

You just reach a point sometimes with somebody where it just doesn't work.

Kaui Hart Hemmings

Hawaii is so complex; there are so many points of view, and there are so many experiences to see and to find.

Kristy Curry

We had a point to prove. We made a statement. We were tired of overtimes. We had something to say and we said it.

Jeff Gundy

When he (Alston) was not healthy, or out for a while, and we were without a true point guard, we were much more plodding. We want to be up the floor, which is what he does best.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

There has to reach a point where you've said enough.

Anthony Wollschlager

We didn't put up the points we wanted to. Obviously, there are still things we need to work on. Over the summer we're going to get this thing right.

Paul Guen

We are having discussions but we have not yet reached the point where we sign a contract.

Javier Solana

We still have points on which we are separated, but we are making progress,

Tony Catanzaro

We actually had more points then they did in the second half, but we were terrible in the first.

Bob Boughner

When the votes come in, the results will speak for themselves.

Gordon Campbell

We can't look at the results we've had and say those are the results we want.

Hariadi Wibisono

We got the results back from Atlanta, and they were positive.

Aaron Mokoena

We must win. No other result will do.

Gustav Humbert

We're very satisfied with the test results and are on target.

Edward Gibbon

Rational confidence [is] the just result of knowledge and experience.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

If you don’t find the time, if you don’t do the work, you don’t get the results.

Jason Terry

We accomplished most of our goals, and now it's time to put it all together. The results will be sweet if we do.

Romeo Crennel

When we get the results on that, we'll let you know.

Felix Feneon

If Monsieur X spent an eternity studying treatises on optics, he would never paint 'La Grande Jatte.'

Lisa Bonet

I spent a lot of time feeling alienated and rejected.

Peter O'Toole

Omar Sharif and I spent nine months in the desert, day after day for nine months.

Joe Battista

We've spent the whole week working on defense. Everything we've been doing has been working on defense.

Roger Wilson

We've spent more time at the tent than at the games.

E. O. Wilson

We've spent a lot of time together. If it works out, it would be great.

George Chapman

We've spent $300,000 and it doesn't look much different.

Emma Thomas

We've spent almost ten years of our lives making 'Batman' films.

Libba Bray

I grew up doing theatre and spent a long time as a playwright. I still think very visually when I write.

Don Miguel Ruiz

For thousands of years, there have been lies about being gay or not being gay. If you know they're lies, you're free.

Eddie Compass

thousands of people, who want to voluntarily evacuate at this time.

Mark Schultz

Wrestling will be around forever. It's been around thousands of years. It's going to be around till the end of time.

Ron Redmond

There are tens of thousands in there who are probably going hungry,

Jake Shulaw

He's doing a lot more wrestling now. But sometimes it comes back because he's drilled in thousands and thousands of times.

Kay Nehm

There will be thousands of dead. You will all think of me.