Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dan Donegan

When it comes down to vocals, I want to hear something that's going to be melodic. David's always had those animalistic instincts of making those gut sounds, or whatever you want to call it. But he's developed a really strong singing voice.

John Murtha

When I talk to the troops, I get a different story (than from those who call for continued military involvement). I get a story that we need to have a plan. And from the families, an outpouring from the families,

Steve-O

When I was a kid, I loved a heavy metal band called Motley Crue. I was thirteen when they came to my city, and I called every hotel in the Yellow Pages asking for a room by the name of their manager in hopes of meeting the band. After two or three hours of calling hotels, I got through, and the manager's brother answered the phone.

Dick Gephardt

You don't lock into a ten-year family budget. You take it a year at a time - maybe even six months at a time. And then if the income really comes in the way you hope it does, then you can make some of those expenditures that you've been waiting to make. We think that same principle should apply to the national family we call America.

Hamish Brewer

We remain confident in the prospects for earnings expansion in 2006 and will discuss this in more detail during our normally scheduled earnings call on Jan. 23.

Tedd Cain

We're standing in unity with the national movement. But we're not actually calling for everyone to miss work or not go to school.

Jeff Berry

We responded to a call on a sawdust fire in the wood column shop. The call came about 10:30 p.m.

Dan Glickman

We're spending today, depending upon which agency of government, significantly more money on fire preparedness and treatment than we were spending in 1993, ... I think the real issue is that we have a situation that has been unparalleled in the last 50 years right now, and that has to do with what I call 'the perfect storm' phenomenon of weather and fuel loads.

Dave Cook

We respectfully call on Jill's captors to exercise justice and mercy and let our innocent colleague go free.

Kelsey Lavender

We've always had that problem. Throughout the year, that's what we've been fighting. We've tried to cut down on turnovers and, obviously, we didn't do that once again.

Wale

When we were in D.C. my daddy used to cut his hair with a bowl. Crucial. If you're African, Haitan, Jamaican or even more poor than the people in the project, you'll know about that.

Allison Baver

When I was in fourth grade, my family, we used to always go to the roller skating rink. There was this cute boy there that I liked. It kind of influenced me to keep going.

Ken Henderson

We're making less money now than we did 30 years ago. If they have to pay more, they're going to have to cut back somewhere else.

Edward Norton

We're so hung up on this notion that we have some obligation to help the struggling black man, you know. Cut him some slack until he can overcome these historical injustices. It's crap. I mean, Christ, Lincoln freed the slaves, like, what? 130 years ago. How long does it take to get your act together?

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.

Ray Smutko

We're going to stick a tree trunk in the ground, with about 6 feet sticking out. The Gatlin gun operator will spray across it several times and try to cut it in half.

Marios Maratheftis

We're going to see significant sterling weakness this year. Although the Bank of England is on hold for now the pressure is building for rate cuts in the second half of the year.

Hilly Kristal

We're going to fight. We deserve to be here. If they padlock the club, we're going to cut the locks.

Tim Birkhead

The human eye has long fascinated lovers, artists and physicians. The ancient Greeks dissected eyes, but struggled to understand how they worked, unclear as to whether they received or emanated light.

Tavis Smiley

He was an authentic American hero whose work will be respected and dissected for years to come. This media empire is still number one and still 100 percent black-owned.

J. J. Johnson

Our coaches had a hell of a game plan. They dissected them like no other. We were prepared. All we had to do was go out and execute.

Paul Tidwell

Every phase was poor last year. Not average, but poor. It's something we dissected as a coaching staff and the whole staff had input and comments.

Sendhil Mullainathan

Time can be dissected easily: an hour can be cut up in many ways. Fifteen minutes on this memo, a five-minute walk to another meeting, 30 minutes at that meeting and then 10 minutes debriefing. Oh, and maybe a quick phone call on the walk to that meeting. The busy are expert at dissection: that's how they make it all fit.

Mike Hermann

Greg did a really nice job out there; He was in control from the beginning. He really dissected the course. I was happy he was able to tie the school record.

Gary Warman

We basically got dissected there's no other way to put it. We weren't that bad, they were really that good.

Patric Verrone

This list and the films on it are meant to be scrutinized and criticized, dissected and collected, viewed and reviewed. They are the literature of our industry and the legacy of our union.

O. Singh

The more we dissected into things and learned more about the ears and eyes, I felt it was amazing.

Jim Lee

Tom's financial expertise was extremely important in our business. He got us through some tough times and I selfishly wanted him to come back to us.

Wen Jiabao

We respect not only professors and experts but also technologists who have their own inventions,

Jose Andres Puerta

When we are trying to come up with new health laws, you bring doctors, you bring experts in medicine. In urban planning, you bring the best architects. How it is possible that when we are talking about the way we are going to feed America, no chef shows up in the room?

Thuy Trang

When we are on the set, there are always experts there to choreograph the moves and improve your form so you look good for the camera.

Melissa Pavlicek

We would still oppose the price cap law. I can't imagine that tinkering with it will affect the underlying consensus by experts against this.

Subra Suresh

We bring to the table expertise in measuring the strength of materials at the smallest of scales.

John Brill

We bring in outside instructors because we don't have the expertise on our staff. It is a way to offer affordable recreation.

Mark Ellis

We bring a unique fusion of medspa and business development expertise to market for our clients, ... In close conjunction with the client, the character, style and ambiance of each medspa are in perfect alignment with the elements of its unique community and target market. Passion for an early success manifests itself in the way we usher the client through the construction phase making sure that the architect, contractor and client work together cohesively.

Thomas Conway

U.S. Steel has operations in Serbia. We sent our safety and health technicians and experts over there for a couple of weeks. There shouldn't be differences in safety at steel mills regardless of what country they are in. U.S. Steel hasn't resisted that.

Gretchen Rubin

Don't keep excessive amounts of anything. Those glass vases that come from florists. Those ketchup packets that come with take-out food. A house with two adults probably doesn't need fifteen mismatched souvenir coffee cups.

Molly Antopol

Writing a story is pretty all-consuming for me - it feels a lot like method acting, and for the eight or twelve or fifteen months that I'm working on a story, I'm constantly thinking about how my narrator would react to whatever tangled situation I'm in.

Kate Winslet

There were nineteen years between my grandparents, and I was in a relationship for five years from the age of fifteen to twenty with a man who was thirteen years older than me who remains one of the loves of my life, and he passed away when I was twenty years old.

Carlton Cuse

As we began working toward the finale of 'Lost,' I knew there was no possible ending that was going to be universally loved, and I accepted that. We ended the story the way we wanted it to end, and we stand by it. On my Twitter feed, I still get ten to fifteen positive comments for every negative one.

Jane Austen

No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be a heroine... But from fifteen to seventeen she was in training for a heroine...

Bo Burnham

For fifteen cents a day you can feed an African, they eat pennies.

Dave Barry

Japan has a low crime rate, unless you count the fact that approximately every fifteen minutes the entire Cabinet gets indicted for taking bribes.

Carl Sagan

There is much that science doesn't understand, many mysteries still to be resolved. In a Universe tens of billions of light-years across and some ten or fifteen billion years old, this may be the case forever. We are constantly stumbling on new surprises

Aaron Sorkin

This is a time for serious people, Bob, and your fifteen minutes are up.

Tom Jordan

When we were asked to go down there and help, the city only had four hours to make a decision, ... They said at the time that they couldn't send the men or the truck because of budget constraints and I respect that decision.

Chelsea Peretti

When I was in New York, I got to see Joan Rivers do an hour of material, and it blew my mind. I don't remember how old she was at the time, but she just had this edgy hour that had so much funny stuff in it, and she was so fearless. If you only watch her on the red carpet, you don't get a sense of what a legendary standup comedian she is.

Justina Machado

When I was in my 20s, I used to go crazy. I used to work out two or three hours a day, like cycling; I was never anorexic, just picky. When I was in my 30s, I'd go back and forth, now that I'm 41, I'm like, 'Whatever, man!' For the most part, I just do a regular workout.

Steve-O

When I was a kid, I loved a heavy metal band called Motley Crue. I was thirteen when they came to my city, and I called every hotel in the Yellow Pages asking for a room by the name of their manager in hopes of meeting the band. After two or three hours of calling hotels, I got through, and the manager's brother answered the phone.

Dan Edwards

When I was a kid, Henryetta was 'town' to me. I helped build the Indian Nation Turnpike and spent many hours laboring in this area. I think Henryetta is a great place to be and I plan to stay here until I retire.

Bridget Diary

Tom: Well done Bridge, 4 hours of careful cooking and a feast of blue soup, omelette and marmalade.

Dennis Mannion

We're going to open the gates three hours early to allow more time for tailgating and such. I think it will be a fun experience for everyone going to the game.

Kenny Troutt

When I was in high school, my uncle, who went to the races quite a bit, got me interested. Then when I went to college at Southern Illinois University, just a few hours from Louisville, we used to go to the Kentucky Derby, and I got to see Secretariat and Riva Ridge win.

Katie Lowes

I went to NYU Tisch for undergrad, and it was amazing. My life then was extremely experimental with acting. I did crazy theater where we would be rolling around on the floor. I would be playing grandmothers, and clowns, and all this crazy stuff. Then I would be doing Shakespeare eight hours a day.

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.

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.

Charles Bullock

When I was out looking at different degrees, I felt it was the best degree to prepare me for any type of position in business with the exception of maybe marketing. The language of business is accounting.

Chris Cornell

When I was maybe nine years old, I listened to the entire Beatles catalogue, non-stop, for about a year,

Susan Minot

When I was in my teens and twenties, I could see friends expressing how radical they were, and I envied them, the way they lived, the way they dressed. Maybe there is a part of me that is reserved, even in rebellion.

Nicolas Kiefer

When it came to the important points, maybe I took too much risk. But to beat this guy, you have to take a lot of risks; you have to play at your limit.

Hideo Kojima

When I was a child, there really weren't very many video games, but I do have memories of 'Pong.' Maybe it was 'Pong.' It was a home system in Japan, so maybe it wasn't the real 'Pong.' It was just sort of a Japanese game that was similar to 'Pong.'

Dee Bradley Baker

When I was a child, I thought I was going to be a paleontologist because I loved dinosaurs. I loved monster movies and sci-fi, and then 'Star Wars' came out, and I was completely out of my mind with that, with 'Close Encounters,' and then I thought maybe I was going to go into special effects makeup, which I thought was awesome.

Dick Gephardt

You don't lock into a ten-year family budget. You take it a year at a time - maybe even six months at a time. And then if the income really comes in the way you hope it does, then you can make some of those expenditures that you've been waiting to make. We think that same principle should apply to the national family we call America.

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.

Ron Brown

We've appointed a committee to look at our needs. We post the meetings and the public is welcome to come and voice their opinion. The public is always welcome. We need to find enough property where we can build as we need. We'll get it done.

Steve-O

When I was a kid, I loved a heavy metal band called Motley Crue. I was thirteen when they came to my city, and I called every hotel in the Yellow Pages asking for a room by the name of their manager in hopes of meeting the band. After two or three hours of calling hotels, I got through, and the manager's brother answered the phone.

Norman Blake

When I was a kid I listened to a lot of punk music, but then along came Orange Juice, ... They really broadened my musical perspective. They were self-deprecating and had a great sense of humor. And they sounded like Velvet Underground meeting Al Green. They called themselves 'the sound of young Scotland,' a play on Motown's 'Sound of Young America.'

Henry Hyde

We're meeting with each other, trying to coordinate the managers, we have several as you know, and each has an assigned task, and we're busily preparing our remarks and trying to time them and make sure they are coherent and comprehensive, ... So, just the usual preparation for a trial.

Richard Miranda

We're meeting to go over laboratory test results and formulate a plan for what we're going to do about this.

Bob DuPuy

We're meeting IBAF and IOC delegates into an attempt to regain baseball's Olympic status.

Anne DiFrancesco

We're meeting because we're very concerned about the school situation in town.

Dave Minton

We're meeting an important need by offering our high-end, comprehensive real estate services to clients north of the river, which is the fastest growing area in Southwest Florida. This convenient location will benefit home buyers, sellers, commercial clients, builders and developers.

Edith Nawakwi

When we were fighting the third term 'King Cobra' was still in MMD. He fought all potential candidates and took them out of the MMD. He got out of MMD after 90 minutes of the game.

Arron Afflalo

When we were down nine, it became a kind of desperation time for us. But three minutes is a long time.

Lorenzo Williams

When we went to the media timeout with eight minutes to go, I just told everybody that we're down right now, but we have a run in us. Eventually, shots started to fall, we started to get stops, and we found ourselves back in the game.

Stephen Wright

When I was little, my grandfather used to make me stand in a closet for five minutes without moving. He said it was elevator practice.

Melissa Hughes

When I was in the play this summer, and Cody wasn't, we had about 30 minutes together each day.

Roland Martin

When I was in meditation, God began to speak to me, and God said, 'Roland, I have enough preachers. I need people where you are in your positions. When you are on radio, when you are on television, you speak into more people in the five minutes than some preachers speak to in an entire year.'

Todd Galloway

When it comes down to the last four minutes and games are close like that, we have won games. We have been successful. So that gives us confidence. It allows us to be poised.

Malorie Blackman

When I was a child, we used to look forward to the end of the day when we would hear another ten minutes of a story.

Michael Redd

We're starting off slow (in the fourth quarter). The first couple minutes we just floundered away. It's happened to us the last few nights. We cannot afford to do that.

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.

Ed Stewart

We're sort of waiting by the phone to hear what they decide.

Liz Carpenter

What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call.

Paul Chellgren

What a cell phone is Wednesday won't be a cell phone tomorrow. People are going to use different devices for different applications and situations.

Johnnie Carr

We would talk on the phone at night. We talked about everything, but our family life was really important. She was such a pleasant person. She was an outstanding woman.

Kanwar Chadha

We found that mobile phones and some other devices that were shipping with our GPS chips also had Bluetooth, and it made sense to provide a lower cost, lower power, and size-optimized alternative to having two separate systems.

Elizabeth Ryan

We found ourselves with no water, electricity or phone for weeks. We needed to rebuild the entire infrastructure.

Mike Fuller

United Telecom is a possibility. We still own the name. Some of our thoughts are: Do we want to present ourselves as yesterday's phone company or something fresh, a new company for a new time?

David Thompson

Usually, car credit is where most folks start their credit. They don't need to have unpaid cell phone bills.

Tim Saunders

We've asked Matt to do some new things to help us get a couple more athletic bodies into the lineup,and he's more than held his own in left field. Most catchers don't run very well and couldn't make the switch to the outfield, but Matt dominates with his quickness when he's playing hockey, and I think that's helped him make the transition.

Todd Parker

We've always played hard, but as of late we seem to be executing better on offense, being more patient and getting the ball where we need to get it. Our quickness allows us to create some mismatches.

Greg Kraft

We've always had chances for brilliance. The talent is there but it's just how quickly it comes together.

Korvotney Barber

When we were shooting free throws, I was getting off the line quicker than them, so I got in there every time and made the tips.

Sharon Hess

When we went to talk to those families, we found out that one of the families was originally from Herrin, so we were able to quickly place them in one of our vacant homes in Herrin. Our agency covers 24 counties, and if we don't have a house available, we can still help a family by making referrals.

Ciara

When I was pregnant with Future, one thing I learned quickly was, don't ever let a pregnant lady be hungry, because when I was, I was like the Tasmanian Devil!

Andrew Buchan

When I was a kid, I always had a big thing for Dannii Minogue. Initially I liked Kylie, but I quickly moved on to Dannii. There was always something more alluring about her. I think I actually wrote to her asking if we could meet.

John Clippinger

To move online security to the next level, there has to be fundamental resolve among consumers, government and business to quickly adopt a system where the individual has more control over how information about them is managed and shared. Our aim is to construct an open and widely accessible software framework that puts the individual at the centre of the identity management universe. With this framework in place, it will be easier for society to begin the migration to more secure online environments, where trusted networks can not only be easily formed, but effectively enforced. For in the end, security is not just technological, but social.

Marlon Cook

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

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.