Famous Quotes & Sayings

The amount they've collected is breathtaking, and it shows how scared they are and how much trouble they think they're in. Is this a David and Goliath fight? Yes. But there are lots of Davids out there who are suffering through high drug costs ? and remember, David won.

Michael Myers

The amount collected today won't even make a scratch in the amount that is owed.

Khaled Meshaal

Our government came as a natural result from the ballots collected from election posts in Palestinian areas. It was a fair and democratic process that the entire world took notice of. The US administration should respect the free will of the Palestinian people.

Italo Calvino

I'm only a novelist on occasion. Many of my books are made up of brief texts collected together, short stories, or else they are books that have an overall structure but are composed of various texts.

Many of the smaller nonprofits in town have incurred significant out-of-pocket expenses. My concern is that the money collected by the United Way for the express purpose of reimbursement to nonprofits be disbursed in a timely and efficient manner as Mrs. Wormington has assured me that it will be,

Many posted privacy statements are hard to locate, read, and understand, ... Further, other aspects of what have come to be known as fair information practices, like the requirement that online participants have a reasonable opportunity to see what information has been collected about them and to correct errors that creep into a database, have barely been addressed.

So far this year we have taken in 108.5 tons of recyclable versus the estimated 65.6 tons collected last year.

She stays calm and collected on the course. She has really improved her short game. Her length off the tee helps, too.

Since Liberty joined forces with Cell Phones for Soldiers in late 2004, our offices have collected over 42,000 phones providing 4.2 million minutes of calling time. The need continues, and this is a year-round project for us.

Sarah Wilson

She played a great game. She made a ton of saves and collected all the rebounds.

David Peterson

There is a possibility that they won't pay them back, or that they will pay them back at a different rate than they collected them.

The only way to do this properly is to have the state pass a law, and then have an independent agency or organization of some kind take the data collected by police at traffic stops and analyze it.

I first began to dry specimens for preservation carelessly perhaps at first, but before the season was over, I had collected between one and two hundred species.

This program only applies to sales taxes collected from this site. And the money will be sent back to Russell Lands for their investment. This program does not apply to any of the businesses that may be located on this property.

Mr Moore has come in and he is absolutely everything I wanted. He is cool, calm and collected and he scored two great goals tonight. He is poised on the puck, a good goal scorer, has a great shot, and is going to be a great addition to this hockey club.

Mr. Brokaw's successive accomplishments in broadcast journalism over the last 40 years, along with his more recent achievements in documentary reporting and authorship, have enlightened audiences, providing them with a unique perspective on our nation and its past, and stirring within them a passion about the historical events that have shaped our present day, ... Mr. Brokaw's work dovetails with the Foundation's mission - to educate, enrich, and inspire a deeper appreciation of our country's heritage through the collected evidence of its history. We greatly appreciate The Boeing Company's generous support of this tribute celebration.

Of course, in future we will integrate the fees collected on international routes and domestic routes.

My first encounter with Dawson's work was the totems. One of the things you read about William is how his wife called his work 'toys.' At one time I collected a lot of toys, and the totems appeal to me for their whimsical quality.

My great concern is that the tax will not benefit anyone because trading activity will decrease and the revenue collected by the government will therefore fall as well, and the trading will go to other markets.

Peter Greenaway

My father died. His ornithological knowledge, never collected or collated in anything like a comprehensible book - it was five suitcases and two trunks of scattered notes - died with him. A loss of knowledge. I made a film in small part reparation.

Now the Arctic Snow Goose Venture has reconstituted a working group, asked them to give a progress reports and analyze all the new data that has been collected because there are a lot of ongoing research. We'll look at all the new stuff that is out there, check the population models and make whatever improvement to the information and come back with more recommendations of where we go from here.

Obviously this is the first time anyone has ever collected money from the tobacco industry, ... It underscores the importance of continuing my leadership role and Mississippi's leadership role in getting a comprehensive (national) plan.

Rose George

China's use of 'night soil,' as the Chinese rightly call a manure that is collected after dark, is probably the reason that its soils are still healthy after four millennia of intensive agriculture, while other great civilizations - the Maya, for one - floundered when their soils turned to dust.

Kate Christensen

I never liked dolls or played house. I read and wrote, climbed trees, collected rocks, rode my bike, and befriended boys, platonically.

Corey Hart

Along the beach I never collected shells from my father's shore.

Natalie Jeremijenko

Information is not just something you download from the Web. The way trees grow and where birds choose to live are much better signs of water quality than all the data being collected by the EPA.

W. G. Sebald

In school I was in the dark room all the time, and I've always collected stray photographs; there's a great deal of memory in them.

There are bad apples, as there are in any tax system. What puts this high on the radar screen is that people who don't pay already have collected the money at the point of sale.

Considering the greater amounts of energy which can be collected and stored in suitable experimental form in capacitors, one could expect to deliver radiated energy for some time from them.

Walter Martin

What I did was, I went and collected every bit of information from Adventist publishing houses in the basic areas of doctrine covered in the book Questions on Doctrine.

Michael Raymond-James

As an actor and an audience member, it's important to remember that the future will further define the meaning of the present with a show like 'Once Upon A Time.' Sometimes we're just collecting dots, and other times we're connecting them, but you know that the dots that are collected will eventually get connected.

Michael Franks

I've always enjoyed the enthusiasm of the best studio musicians and, over the years, have collected so many inspired contributions from them.

Alafair Burke

Teaching does allow me to keep one foot in the youthful waters I tend to occupy in my novels, so I'm thankful for that. My students also remind me on a daily basis that the stories I collected during my district attorney days are actually interesting to people who haven't had that experience.