Pacific Quotes

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"John Wayne had enormous appeal for the public, but I did not find him appealing in the least. I think my charms were lost on him too. He was going through marital problems, which kept him in a bad humor all the time. Duke was at odds with the director and could be a bully, particularly with a gay publicity man, who seemed to draw his wrath at every turn." - On Operation Pacific (1951)

- Patricia Neal

I`ve just got a new house in Pacific Palisades. It`s really cute.

- Claire Forlani

I still want to be an actor for hire, but I can also see myself as a hard-driving producer. A person can have both, and I don`t think you have to be male to do that. I understand why a lot of actresses are producing now; I understand how seductive it is and how hard it is not to have control. It`s like if you were keeping kosher and then one day you had... bacon! You`d just be like: This is nuts! I can`t never have suckling pig! I have to have it! Or if you flew coach all the time and then one day you got on, like, Cathay Pacific First Class, where there`s a whole apartment on the plane that`s yours? You couldn`t possibly go back to coach! You`re ruined! (On becoming a producer of "Sex and the City" (1998), in which she stars.) (Vogue - August 2003 - "The Busiest Girl In Town" by Steven Meisel)

- Sarah Jessica Parker

Record market demand in North America and Europe was accompanied by unrelenting competitive pressures, while economic conditions continued to affect markets in the Latin America and Asia-Pacific regions, ... We`re particularly pleased that GM Europe improved its profitability during the period, and that both GM Latin America/Africa/Middle East and GM Asia Pacific were profitable, a significant improvement over the first quarter last year.

- Jack Smith

I spent five years in England, I went over there with my mother in the show South Pacific and I just love it. I go back there three or four times a year. I joined the American airforce because the Korean war was going on at one time and I got my call up papers and I was supposed to report back to the United States and get my ass shot off in Korea which I didn`t think was a smart idea and not only that I couldn`t understand what the war was all about, I guess a lot of people could at that time but I still can`t even more than I can the Vietnam war, so anyhow I enlisted in the American airforce and I was stationed in London for four years which was pretty good because I never gave up my civilian apartment in St Johns Wood. I got married, met a Swedish girl there, we`ve been married 46 years now.

- Larry Hagman

No matter where I`m going, I feel like I`m leaving something behind. Every time I get on a plane, I cry. The flight attendants on Cathay Pacific must think I`m mad.

- Maggie Cheung

There are all kinds of letters and protests that come from, not surprisingly, Japanese fishermen, the fishermen`s wives; there are student groups, all different types of people; the protest against the Americans` use of the Pacific for nuclear testing.

- Martha Smith

It`s one of the largest financial fraud cases to come out of the Pacific Northwest in a generation.

- Patrick Murphy

I go to St. Matthews in Pacific Palisades, an Episcopal Church.

- Stephen Collins

I joined the Navy hoping to be submariner and ended up in the sub service aboard a tender in the Pacific.

- Tony Curtis

I began playing in the Pacific Coast Indoor Tennis Championships.

- Tracy Austin

The trip reinforced my suspicions that, despite my Pacific Rim heritage, I`m about as American as you get. (explaining that he feels no particular affinity for Asia and does not want to live there)

- Brandon Lee

Pacific has quietly grown with key retail customer partners to become the leading salad and fresh-cut fruit and vegetable provider to supermarket delis in the western United States.

- Bruce Taylor

Grain cars are already in high demand, and were before the hurricane hit. There is not a lot of extra capacity to move grain over the longer routes to the Pacific Northwest.

- James Valentine

We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and we`ve been in wars ever since. We`re not a pacific people.

- James Lee Burke

I think we swam real well. It`s the best competition we`ve faced since the South Pacific Mini-Games in Palau. There are really good teams from Japan and Hong Kong. They brought real strong swimmers, and we suited up real well. I`m really pleased.

- Michael Stewart

Most of the time people leave to follow leaders. Coldwell Banker became too corporate. Pacific Union became too corporate. A lot of agents go into real estate because they can be independent contractors and they are trying to get away from the corporate feel.

- Sue Smith

Martina`s comeback performance has been outstanding and our fans will really enjoy watching the competition and the level of play she is bringing back to the game. As a former champion of the Pacific Life Open, we wish her all the best here.

- Steve Simon

We are always striving to enhance the overall experience of spectators at the Pacific Life Open. The addition of the Tennis! Link service will give fans an extra viewing dimension on the Stadium court while keeping them informed of results as they happen.

- Steve Simon

It was very fortunate that our three Pacific Fleet aircraft carriers - Enterprise, Saratoga and Lexington - missed the Pearl Harbor attack.

- Jack Adams

The Pacific seems to be more active than you would see in a normal year. One low-pressure center after another is making its way across the Pacific. These are really intense storms.

- John Lindsey

The nation did not begin to realize the extraordinary possibilities of the vast Western territory until its attention was thus suddenly and definitely concentrated on the Pacific by the annual addition of over fifty million dollars to the circulating medium.

- John Moody

The close relationship between railroad expansion and the genera development and prosperity of the country is nowhere brought more distinctly into relief than in connection with the construction of the Pacific railroads.

- John Moody

The public conviction that a railroad linking the West and the East was an absolute necessity became so pronounced after the gold discoveries of `49 that Congress passed an act in 1853 providing for a survey of several lines from the Mississippi to the Pacific.

- John Moody

The States which form the northern border of the United States westward from the Great Lakes to the Pacific coast include an area several times larger than France and could contain ten Englands and still have room to spare.

- John Moody

Well, I think breathing life into the Endangered Species Act, taking those wolves back into Yellowstone, restoring the salmon in the rivers of the Pacific Northwest.

- Alain Senderens

Secondly I would like to make continuous efforts of stabilising cross Strait relations, eventually reaching peace across the Taiwan strait and stability and security in the Asia Pacific region.

- Alan Heap

California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort.

- Alan Sandals

Water, water, everywhere, Atlantic and Pacific. But New York City`s got them beat, Our aqua is terrific!

- Albert Rauch

I was the deputy Chairman of the Democratic Union of the Pacific, and we started at 8 I think and I was called to the telephone and to be told there`s a coup, the government has been overthrown - it was round about 9, 10 when the Parliament sat they had done then.

- Allen Harris

Sometimes I like to play the soundtracks to famous musicals so we can all sing along. South Pacific is one of my favorites. Our neighbors must hate us.

- Alta Charo

As long as the sun rises over Ontario and sets over the Pacific, I will dedicate myself to bringing the people of Oregon what they want and need most - an era of hope, change, and economic renewal.

- Andrew Aran

Simultaneously with the establishment of the Constitution, Virginia ceded to the United States her domain, which then extended to the Mississippi, and was even claimed to extend to the Pacific Ocean.

- Andrew Norwood

This is an exciting day for ING,`` said Fred S. Hubbell, chairman of ING Americas and ING Asia/Pacific Executive Committees.

- Andy Hedrick

The emergence of China is driving fundamental change in the Asia-Pacific region. This process will provide an opportunity for Brunei Darussalam to re-position itself within the regional economies.

- Angila Golik

The Pacific solution has been an outstanding success,

- Anna Melun

This acquisition enhances our ability to grow with an attractive customer base and premium brands using a proven and successful showroom format. Utilizing the existing store format, we expect to expand the number of stores in order to capitalize on the rapidly growing high-end segment of the U.S. appliance market. Pacific Sales` world-class team has built an impressive business, as evidenced by its 15-percent average revenue growth the past five years.

- Annemarie Matulis

I think we can save reefs in the Caribbean and the Pacific. But we need proper water treatment systems throughout the world and large enough networks of marine reserves.

- Anthony Qaiyum

Pacific really missed their libero.

- Antoine Colonna

Pacific played better in game three, I thought. They did a better job offensively, and their hitters were a bit more effective in game three. I felt like we got careless serving and gave up chances to score points. It seemed like whenever we served the ball in, we were effective. They weren`t passing all that well. We just needed to get the ball in play.

- Antoine Colonna

It wasn`t the Mayflower. It wasn`t the Love Boat. But it brought us to this magical country and reunited our family, so it was beautiful to me, ... Faith, hard work and the kindness of new friends carried my family forward and made it possible for me to become the first Asian-Pacific-American woman to serve in the Cabinet of a president of the United States.

- Antonella Notari

It`s interesting to me that the questions assume that because I`m Asian-American and Pacific islander that I`m an outsider. But I`m not an outsider to the culture. In hip-hop, you either have something or you make way for someone who does. If you don`t have it, step out and learn. I feel I`ve had to earn my stripes.

- Arnaud de Borchgrave

We knew Europe and Asia-Pacific (future orders) would be difficult, but not to the extent the company just reported.

- Arthur Benson

There is no shadow of protection to be had by sheltering behind the slender stockades of visionary speculation, or by hiding behind the wagon-wheels of pacific theories.

- Ashley Reynolds

We still see more value in the Asia-Pacific region than in the U.S. market, where people are still panicking over inflation. On a 15- to 20-year basis for a country like Japan, which has had years of market turmoil, there is certainly still room to run.

- Barbara Buckley

Asians are tired of waiting for Washington to start an Asian process. That`s what this summit shows. In 1990 our (US) mental map of Europe changed drastically (when the Berlin Wall fell). But that has not happened since 1945 in the Pacific.

- Barbara Buckley

Previous research has shown that every spring there are massive dust storms in Asia that transport soil eastward to Japan and across the Pacific to the United States. Now we`ve found that sulfate and organic aerosols are also present, and in roughly the same amounts,

- Barbara Pratt