Famous Quotes & Sayings

B. C. Forbes

Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.

Eric Tolbert

What you're seeing is revealing weaknesses in the state, local and federal levels. All three levels have been weakened. They've been weakened by diversion into terrorism.

Rick Majerus

Golf is a diversion to get away from basketball, and then when he's golfing, I think his attention is diverted to plays. That's his New York Times crossword puzzle every day. This is the most enthused I've seen him in the 20-plus years I've known him.

William Rehnquist

But the greatest injury of the 'wall' notion is its mischievous diversion of judges from the actual intentions of the drafters of the Bill of Rights. . . . The "wall of separation between church and state" is a metaphor based on bad history, a metaphor which has proved useless as a guide to judging. It should be frankly and explicitly abandoned.

Mike Thompson

I have always been making art from an early age but for nearly forty years did computer programming to earn a living. I bought a house and put my wife and three children through college. Now that diversion is over so I can finally paint full time.

Maryann Gregory

Some of this is a diversion to keep your mind off what is really going to get you.

Ted Harrison

My perception is that we are headed toward a future where the surface water from the Rio Grande diversion is likely to be the dominant source of water for most communities around the Santa Fe area.

Jason MacDonald

From our perspective, the focus right now needs to be on bargaining. Anything that's not related to that is just a diversion away from the real problem, which is the need to get an agreement in place.

Brother Lawrence

Think often on God, by day, by night, in your business and even in your diversions. He is always near you and with you; leave him not alone.

John Davidson

What they say may have an impact tomorrow, but the dominant topic on investors' minds right now starts with an 'I' and it's not Intel. Both businesses and consumers are hesitant to make any moves until there's progress on Iraq.

Dan Veru

What they're doing is very smart. They're consolidating the high-yield bond industry at a cyclical low, when business is not so good now. Coming out of that they'll be the dominant player in the space.

Matt Brown

We felt like Barrett Moore was a dominant blocker and we have a lot of respect for him,

J. Hoover

We're a year older and a year wiser, and Morgan is more of a dominant player. We're a better outside shooting team, and we have one more year of playing in bigger games.

Anne Bishop

'The Others' books take place in an alternate Earth where the Earth natives have been the dominant predators throughout the world's history, and humans are nowhere near the top of the food chain. But humans are clever and resilient, if not always wise, and have made some bargains with the Others in order to survive.

Bill Wilson

We believe that Oneida will be the dominant holder of 2.5 GHz band spectrum serving 15 percent of the U.S. population.

Simon Awde

We are at a crossroads. Will one dominant player be permitted to control those conditions, or will the rules that guarantee competition on the merits prevail, to the benefit of all?

Will Sheridan

When you think about it, it's natural to double our guards because they are amazing. They are the dominant force of our offense. But when I have the open shot I take it.

Rick Jackson

We're still searching for our identity. We've got an entirely new team out there. We don't have a dominant pitcher. We don't have any home run hitters. We've got a little speed. But we've got to be able to run the bases and play a little small-ball to be successful.

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!

Jochen Zeitz

When it came to the discussion about would Harley do an electric bike, I said, 'Absolutely - this is a no-brainer.' Let's define the sound of the future.

Lois Lowry

When I was a kid in the '50s, during the Eisenhower years, everything seemed to be working fine. I don't recall as a teenager ever worrying about the state of the future world.

James T. Mccay

Tomorrow, you promise yourself, will be different, yet, tomorrow is too often a repetition of today.

Bill Lovette

We're making this investment to help meet continued, strong demand for refrigerated and pre-cooked bacon. The project is another example of the technology and food safety improvements we've initiated to position our processed meats business for future growth. For example, we've invested almost $15 million in our deli meats plant in Buffalo, N.Y., over the past two years.

Duncan Robertson

We remain deeply concerned for the future of our business and the livelihood of thousands of our staff and subcontractors.

Charles Scott

We remain confident about the Group's future prospects and are committed to returning value to shareholders.

David Paulson

We're so impressed with the state we're using it as a model (for future disasters), ... It was something we've not seen in a long time. There was a unified system and the sharing of information.

Kenneth Fisher

Investors covet past improvements but also always believe pricing unimaginable future creativity and efficiency gains is Pollyannaish. And they're always wrong. Bet on it.

Chuck Todd

With the likely nominations of Barack Obama by the Democrats and John McCain by the Republicans, one of these two parties is headed for a 2009 crack-up that could prove as messy as any party civil war in recent history.

Heather Fiorentino

We're pleased with the results. We're headed in the right direction.

Doug Schoen

We are at a defining point in the Bush presidency, and all indications are that we are headed for a calamitous result and most likely failure.

Preston Manning

Where I think we're headed is a system of universal care, where everybody is covered ... with two tracks for delivery, and two tracks for payment. It's not a question of private versus public, but what mix of the two is appropriate.

Laurie Calloway

We're not good at getting on the other end of head balls. We just don't score goals like that. We scored four headed goals all year.

Karen Finerman

I applied to only one college - the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania - and was fortunate to be accepted. After graduation, I headed to Wall Street and worked as I had dreamed.

Lynn Jurich

Prior to SunRun, I was headed toward a career in venture capital and then realized I wanted to apply my knowledge of finance more directly to helping change the world.

Michael Walsh

Ultimately, the course needs to be self-sustaining. I think we're headed in the right direction.

Richard Notebaert

We have more work to do, but we believe we are headed in the right direction,

Sherry Cooper

We remain of the view that next week's rate hike will not be the Fed's last work this cycle. Indeed, they will likely eventually unwind all of last fall's crisis-induced easing.

David Resler

We're going to get some extra employment growth as people displaced by the hurricanes find their way back into the job market, and that's likely to continue in the first few months of this year.

Steve LeBlanc

We're going to experience a significant amount of flooding. We could for a short time be completely under, and then come out of it after a couple of hours. But we're more than likely to be completely flooded.

Mike Goodman

What we're seeing right now is most likely stage one, with other details to come in the near future.

Hugh Johnson

What we're seeing from Lehman is that market conditions improved through the summer, and that conditions are likely to continue improving. That's showing up in the earnings and in the detail of their reports.

Adam Cole

What we're likely to get is no move but all the comments suggesting that there will be a move next month.

Buzz Hargrove

What they're saying to us is that they are selling our jobs out to the market. We're not going to take that. Sunday or early Monday we will likely tell them that we will strike them.

Adam Mesurier

What they're likely to do is take away the mild and gradual language from the statement.

Thomas Szasz

Whenever masses of people, especially educated people, know something- and when what they know is something they greatly fear because they believe it affects virtually everything they do or want to do - then most likely we stand in the presence of a

Nicholas Burns

What has changed in the 1990s is a changed perception of the world,

Ryohei Muramatsu

Unless the market can get a firm perception that the US Fed is ending its interest rate hike cycle, the ongoing weakness of the yen may not come to an end.

Sandra Miller

Unfortunately in tourism, perception is reality. Because if a tourist or visitor perceives it unsafe they are not going to come. So we've got to deal with both. I think the reality is we have a crime problem and we have to deal with it.

Alan Hansen

It's incredible considering the public perception that he was tight fisted and he was more than prudent, and lacked ambition to take Tottenham to where the fans wanted them to be.

Alan Bishop

In terms of perceptions of the culture, most people don't think about music. They're not concerned with it. They don't take their musical legacy seriously.

Alan Autry

In fact, even the perception of a resurgence in crime can be enough to paralyze business momentum and destroy the sense of security that a vibrant and progressive city requires.

Al Ries

A successful branding program is based on the concept of singularity. It creates in the mind of the prospect the perception that there is no product on the market quite like your product.

Al Pacino

I hope the perception is that I'm an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Perception of ideas, rather than the storing of them, should be the aim of education.

Gene Kimmelman

What they're doing is combining local telephone monopolies from the Rio Grande all the way to the Great Lakes plus California. These are markets that have not been opened to competition.

Kevin Jackson

We are a vibrant, growing city with a lot to offer. I think success in Rio Rancho will be success for Albuquerque.

Martin Jacques

Already 2008 has proved a tumultuous year in terms of global perceptions of China, and there are still 59 days to go until the Beijing Olympics. The tragedy of the Sichuan earthquake followed hard on the heels of the riots in Tibet and the demonstrations surrounding the Olympic torch relay.

Elisabeth von Thurn und Taxis

Our wild boar shoot at our home in Germany is always a riot because we invite lots of friends. We spend the day out in the woods, but then we get all dressed up in long gowns to dance around in the evenings.

John McCarthy

Soccer riots kill at most tens. Intellectuals' ideological riots sometimes kill millions.

Audre Lorde

The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.

Tom Taylor

Potter's House made a conscious decision to stay, even after the riots and rise in crime,

Thurston Clarke

In 1968, America was a wounded nation. The wounds were moral ones; the Vietnam War and three summers of inner-city riots had inflicted them on the national soul, challenging Americans' belief that they were a uniquely noble and honorable people.

Bob Cousy

There were riots in just about every game we played with Syracuse.

Kent Beck

I lived near Santa Cruz for ten years, and the whole time, it bothered me what an exclusionary definition of 'inclusion' was in force. Social censure was applied to those who expressed unpopular or uncomfortable ideas.

O. J. Simpson

What they have represented makes a win against them very special. We have tremendous respect for them. We also know that one win doesn't make a statement. You have to do things over time. Santa Barbara's the team that's done it over time.

Bill Halpin

What a great surprise for us beating Santa Rosa.

Kriss Costa

We believe this year will be worse because the virus is already established. Last year, Sacramento was hit hard, and now Santa Clara County has the most infected birds in the state so far.

Al Smith

No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.

Charles M. Schulz

Dear Santa Claus, just a last note before you take off. I hope you have a nice trip. Don't forget to fasten your seat belt.

Charles M. Schulz

You know, in a way, 'Dear Santa Claus' is rather stuffy... Perhaps something a little more intimate would be better... Something just a shade more friendly..." "How about 'Dear Fatty'?

James Fenkner

The only reason you'd want to own it is if you believe in Santa Claus.

Jim Beall

We are pleased to have resolved this range of complex issues. Now we can put these lawsuits behind us and move forward with providing basic public services to the people of Santa Clara County and city of San Jose.

Adam Ereli

We've asked the government of Libya to identify the source of the interference and resolve the problem. And we'll be continuing to investigate it.

Carl Safina

When I was in high school in the early 1970s, we knew we were running out of oil; we knew that easy sources were being capped; we knew that diversifying would be much better; we knew that there were terrible dictators and horrible governments that we were enriching who hated us. We knew all that and we did really nothing.

Amy Fisher

When I was a child, I played in trees a lot, ... I'm very attached to trees and trees being kind of strong and providing a source of comfort and cleaning the air and being homes for animals.

Kenneth Fisher

Windmills and solar cells are carbon-free sources of electricity. But they are costly. If you've been investing in those, give it up. That game is effectively over.

Scott Bosse

When we had abundant cheap power there is less incentive to develop alternative sources of power. Now that we face scarce electricity supplies and much higher prices, that is changing.

Jim Steets

When we first got these findings we were scratching our heads because it does raise questions about what the source (of the leak) really is.

Winston Damarillo

We wrapped all these technologies into a common platform. We took all the open source pieces, version-managed them, tested them and integrated them. Then we wrote additional technologies, such as the deployment kernel and a management console, to complete the picture.

Fadel Gheit

What he's saying makes a lot of sense. Unfortunately, the source of the comment is going to send jitters in the market.

Hayan Saad

What? He is the source of our troubles.

John Hoeven

We've asked BNSF to fix these problems, and they haven't, which is why we're proceeding with our rail rate complaint with the Surface Transportation Board, ... BNSF needs to do more for our farmers and shippers.

Rodney Carney

We're so talented, so deep, we may not have even scratched the surface of how much we can get done, what we're capable of.

Celine Charveriat

What looks on the surface like a genuine attempt to move the talks forward is in fact a very clever piece of maneuvering by the U.S.,

Nancy Donovan

Unfortunately, I think what's happened is, there's been so much underground work done to prepare the surface that you don't see a lot of that from the roadway.

Sean Badding

We're just scratching the surface in Turin. The television will become more obsolete.

Augie Garrido

We're just now scratching the surface of finding our team identity. And when we do ...

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Powerless religion may put a man through many surface changes and leave him exactly what he was before.

Charles Horton Cooley

There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point.

Barry Hyman

We've accepted the fact that the earnings growth for the quarter is around 20, 21 percent year-over-year for the S&P. But there's been this behind the scenes look or under the surface look at revenue. And we haven't got the best of forecasts for the second half of the year in many companies going forward. And if you don't have that pristine look -- where you come in this earnings season totally clean -- you've gotten battered. And I can't even name more than a handful of stocks that have come through.

Susan Dunn

We've asked the congregation a lot of different things during this period, getting opinions, because we want the whole body to be working toward the same goals. And we believe that the church should get outside its walls and reach out into the community and meet needs of people that live around the church and in the same town, as well as other places beyond our boundaries.

Jim Fleming

We've always let our guys like Miguel play toward the end, but not the whole season. They all want to play for their hometown teams down there. So we oblige within reason.

Yale Hirsch

We've always had periods when something came in vogue, ... This is different because of the Internet. It keeps on going and the riches just keep astounding everybody. All the traders that come up today naturally gravitate toward Internet stocks.

Sarah Shahi

When I was in my early 20s, I looked towards exterior things to make me feel sexy - guys, clothes, shoes, etc. Now it's all about how I feel internally.

John Goodman

When I was in high school playing against those guys I really didn't feel friendly towards them at all. I tried to make myself think I hated Unionville at the time, and there was definitely a lot of trash talking. You run into those guys all the time. It's pretty important to have those bragging rights so you can walk with your head a little higher. But now that I'm out of school and you see those guys there's no hate there. I have a lot of respect for them.

Lauri Hakala

When it comes down to it we play well as a team. I think we were more consistent in the critical moments toward the end.

Vicente Fox

When it comes down to it, for Mexico, the FTAA means being able to go forward toward development, in the fight against poverty, in job creation and economic growth,

Fidel Castro

we remember forever for his deep caring, support and solidarity toward the Cuban people and our revolution.

Jeff Hamilton

We're marketing that as a personal prayer book, primarily geared toward women.

Ron Abramovich

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

Susan Vreeland

When I was nine, my great grandfather, a landscape painter, taught me to mix colors. With his strong hand surrounding my small one, he guided the brush until a calla lily appeared as if by magic on a page of textured watercolor paper.

John Parks

When I was in school 20 years ago, it wasn't all that important. And if the coach was mad at you, denying you water was something they used as punishment.

Yvonne Williams

When I was a child, I'd go down to see the water after a storm, just to see it settling down, for reassurance,

Bill Brennan

We remain concerned for the health of the public, and again urge people to heed the signs the city posted warning them to stay out of waters that may be contaminated.

Jeff Swanagan

We respect the water, and use the water. We don't just let it go down the drain. We treat this water like gold. The only water loss is evaporation.

John Marshall

We're going to talk to the voters about the issues Colorado cares about. We don't begrudge him bringing in Eastern Bloc friends, but I suspect that the cowboys down at the coffeehouse in Delta are more interested what the candidates have to say about water and health care than whether or not the president of Poland is backing you.

Paul Hawley

We're going to shoot the video in Spain, and there'll be water involved -- and I'm going to leave it at that.

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,