Recent Quotes - page 5

Along with you, I have witnessed the unfortunate rise in gasoline prices that has accompanied the summer driving season and the more recent spike in prices due to Hurricane Katrina. (Bob Ney)
There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it is time we understood that progress has nothing to do with the chronology of an idea. View quote
Barbara Amiel
In my own recent String Trio I attempt to superimpose two quite different sets of formal strategies, both of which, ultimately, refer back to historical precedent. View quote
Brian Ferneyhough
When I say I hate nostalgia, I hate things set in the recent past where everything is shiny and new. View quote
Chris O'Dowd
The irony of the Supreme Court hearing on these cases last week and of the outright hostility that the Court has displayed against religion in recent years is that above the head of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is a concrete display of the Ten Commandments. View quote
Cliff Stearns
With the recent news that the State of Florida has agreed to purchase 181,000 acres of U.S. Sugar land, we have an historic opportunity for our larger restoration efforts and for the people of Florida. This too will not come without difficult challenges, but it reminds us that anything is possible. View quote
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Personally, I've found one of the more stimulating ways of playing in recent times has been to kind of move outside the free improvised area and work with people who are probably improvisers but they have a particular way of working. View quote
Derek Bailey
Like many Americans my thoughts and prayers are with the people of London. My deepest sympathies are extended to those who lost a loved one in the recent terror attacks. View quote
Doc Hastings
I like to watch many things, especially strange films and something recent, not just the story. View quote
Dario Argento
There have been, in recent years, many Asian American pioneers in the public eye who've defied the condescendingly complimentary 'model minority' stereotype: actors like Lucy Liu, artists like Maya Lin, moguls like Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh. They are known, often admired. View quote
Eric Liu
Actually, it is a fact that I've been doing more writing than playing in recent years. (Gerry Mulligan)
A Congressional Budget Office report released as recent as June 2004 says the system will be able to pay full benefits until 2052, and 80 percent after that. View quote
Grace Napolitano
The development of new instrumental and vocal idioms has been one of the remarkable phenomena of recent music. View quote
George Crumb
Over recent years, urbanisation, globalisation and the destruction of local cultures has led to a rise in the prevalence of mental illness in the developing world. View quote
Iain McGilchrist
Despite Arizona's remarkable growth in recent years, we have met the current federal health standards for ozone pollution and the Environmental Protection Agency recently approved our dust control plan. View quote
Jane D. Hull
After pop art, graffiti is probably the biggest art movement in recent history to have such an impact on culture. View quote
Jeffrey Deitch
The UN Commission on Human Rights, whose membership in recent years has included countries - such as Libya and Sudan - which have deplorable human rights records, and the recent Oil-for-Food scandal, are just a few examples of why reform is so imperative. View quote
John Linder
Obama has seen to the passage of the most radical legislation in recent American history and so-called 'progressives' should be thanking him for it - even as many of the rest of us rear in horror from its implications. View quote
John Podhoretz
In light of the recent controversy surrounding foreign management of U.S. Ports, a thorough review of foreign management of U.S. airports needs to occur. View quote
Jon Porter
I spend up to two hours a day on correspondence. Hearing from fans on the Internet and being able to directly respond to the fan base is exciting. You can cut out the middle man like the fan club... before a recent appearance in Tyler, Texas, I had fans reaching out on MySpace offering their lake house, Mavericks tickets. It was amazing. View quote
Josh Henderson
Compared with the thousands of years in which human life has been on this planet, Christianity is a recent development. (Kenneth Scott Latourette)
You cannot have companies where many of the largest ones lose money indefinitely without someone finally waving the white flag, and IBM is the most recent example of that. View quote
Kevin B. Rollins
One more recent novelist to come along is Cormac McCarthy. Him, I like. View quote
Leslie Fiedler
Gay culture is surviving and thriving. Some activists believe the recent rise in homophobic violence might be a gauge of the success of positive gay images. View quote
Lance Loud
Recent studies have revealed that children 8-10 years old are being diagnosed with Type II diabetes, high cholesterol, and high blood pressure at an alarming rate. View quote
Lee Haney