Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ron Anderson

We have to fly legal, which is 1,000 feet over populated areas, and we cruise a little over 100 mph. Kids who have been in commercial flights say that this is so different because you can see the cars and people and cows below. It absolutely amazes them.

James Rubin

We have no illusions about China's desire to acquire sensitive information and technology for military uses by many different means. It is absolutely not true that we downplayed any evidence of this. We took the issue seriously, as our actions demonstrate.

Richard Blumenthal

We have no idea what the legal basis is for these claims, ... There seems to be no legal or factual basis for these claims since the state has played absolutely no role in this internal church dispute. ? We really, essentially, have no idea what they mean by this claim.

Gerhard Schroeder

What the prime minister has said about the close, personal relationship which I have with this country is absolutely correct. That has always been the case and will always remain the case.

Susanna Kearsley

When you say that you write romantic fiction, there are a lot of people who have an image in their mind of the 'bodice ripper.' It's the one term that most romantic fiction writers absolutely hate because it has no bearing on what people are writing.

Karen Allen

We have backed off the big push to get computers in primary grades, ... We do have things where kids use technology before they leave fifth grade. But previous studies of the introduction of technology at other schools haven't shown a huge value in learning as a result. When we put something in the classroom, it absolutely has to further what kids need to know. I just don't want to go off in a tangent in one direction without being completely clear that it will pay off for all the kids.

Jim Puckett

We have had absolutely no discussions about it. All that I and the public have seen was the preliminary presentation. This continues to be public money, and we should have the opportunity to be involved with making decisions.

Bob Holthus

There are a lot of complicated estate tax matters to consider but I think the children are going to keep Lawyer Ron, at least through the Kentucky Derby. Mr. Hines absolutely didn't want to sell this horse. This was his Derby horse.

Mike Christian

There are a lot of anti-huggers. Usually it's because they are more introverted and shy or their family wasn't particularly affectionate. But everyone - absolutely everyone - in the right surroundings enjoys a good hug.

Jose Theodore

When you start you lose your focus, you don't play as well. You can't get distracted by good publicity or bad. You have to make sure you do your job and that's what he's been doing.

Kristin Gore

It's all discipline and schedule for me. I mean, it's very easy to get distracted by the real world and things that intrude constantly, and it takes dedication to live totally in your head and be tuned out.

Daniel Loeb

Whether we own shares for the short-term or long-term, it's a red-herring issue that incompetent management uses to distract people from the real issues, ... In this case, the issue is that Ligand is beset by Robinson's and Maier's incompetence and failure.

Aristotle

The greatest threat to the state is not faction but distraction

Michael Hirschorn

We're most impressionable when we're 12 to 24 years old, so that what we wore, what we watched, what we listened to has greater import at the time, when you had yet to be distracted by things like jobs and families.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Music is usually resorted to as a form of self-therapy when you?re not involved enough in what you?re doing so that part of your mind needs to be distracted from what otherwise would become boring.

Theo James

Read more. Read every time you go to bed; read in the day - because at least, reading a book, you can't be distracted by anything else.

Bill Halter

When campaigns use one-word labels, typically it's meant to distract and destroy.

Thomas Kean

There are many things that people think have been done that simply haven't been done. Our leadership has been distracted in this country. Some of the failures are shocking.

Raymond Moore

We have assembled one of the most powerful strategic tennis partnerships possible, and this will ensure that the event stays here for many years to come. We look forward to working with them to improve and enhance this already terrific tournament.

Bill Gates

The potential for all these exciting devices, smart objects and services to enrich and enhance the way we live is truly amazing.

William Winkenwerder

We are prepared to provide a significantly enhanced effort, a major effort, if needed,

Nicolas Roeg

I've never tried to enhance my reputation. Never moved upwards from one thing to another. That sort of thing is of no interest to me at all.

Carl Icahn

We're happy that value for all shareholders is enhanced through this offer.

Michael R. Bloomberg

Since the period of the threat now seems to be passing, I think over the immediate future we'll slowly be winding down the enhanced security,

Eric Knight

Miles of roads are also being enhanced to support the operations of the new space launch facility.

Bill DeWitt

We felt it was an investment in the franchise, and it would enhance not only 1997 but also future years.

Tommy Hilfiger

review various strategic and financial options to enhance long-term shareholder value.

Ed Koch

If you listen to Giuliani, it's like nobody did anything to improve the city except him. I'm not part of the history. Bloomberg's not part of the history. It's like, he did it. He's the only one. That's why he's a little crazy.

Eve Plumb

I never wanted to do reunion shows for the sake of a reunion show. I've done all the 'Brady Bunch' stuff except for the Variety Show, but when a talk show wants us all to get together for their sake, it's not interesting to me.

Eugenie Clark

I want to be remembered as a nice person who didn't hurt people - except my ex-husbands, maybe.

Lajos Egri

No two dramatists think or write alike. Ten thousand playwrights can take the same premise, as they have done since Shakespeare, and not one play will resemble the other except in the premise. Your knowledge, your understanding of human nature, and your imagination will take care of that.

Nick Flynn

I'm not sure why working at a homeless shelter made sense to me, except that I needed to immerse myself in some sort of larger real-life situation to get me out of the cage of my mind, in some ways.

Mark Snyder

We're still learning how to practice, like everyone except the NFL,

Keith Jarrett

I don't like recording studios - except my own, which is just a little room above the garage.

Tom Wolfe

'Back to Blood' really took it out of me. While I was writing it, I just never went out anywhere, except to the gym.

Charles Osgood

There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule.

Tom Bissell

I view myself as a fiction writer who just happens to write nonfiction. I think I look at the world through a fiction-writer's eyes.

Bret Easton Ellis

...if you're alone nothing bad can happen to you.

Byron Katie

Everything happens for me, not to me.

Bryan Ferry

I can never predict what's going to happen.

Ed Koch

It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.

Elizabeth Mitchell

I was a complete, total nerd... I loved the idea that the underdog wins more often than not. And I don't know if that happens in life. But I want it to.

Eckhart Tolle

True change happens within not without

Ashley Smith

You are the center of your universe, and you can make anything happen.

Brian Urlacher

I see things as they happen pretty quick, and I just go hit it.

Carol Roth

Men, if you are in a position of power or authority, please respectfully continue to mentor and work with talented individuals and those with promise, regardless if they are men or women.

Carol Leifer

All my other relationships with men, there was so much maneuvering and strategic decisions and stuff.

Carol Moseley Braun

It's time to take the 'Men Only' sign off the White House door.

Carol Vorderman

I have had stalkers over the years. The police deal with it but it is very scary. One man kept turning up where we filmed 'Countdown in Leeds,' which was scary. It was sad as he'd been sectioned and thought I was talking to him through the TV.

Carlos Fuentes

The women I have loved I have desired for themselves, but also because I feared myself.

Carlos Castaneda

Self importance is man's greatest enemy.

Carlos Castaneda

Man lives only to learn. And if he learns it is because it is the nature of his lot, for good or bad.

Carlos Castaneda

We are men and our lot in life is to learn and to be hurled into inconceivable new worlds.

Carlos Castaneda

The greatest flaw of human beings is to remain glued to the inventory of reason. Reason doesn't deal with man as energy. Reason deals with instruments that create energy, but it has never seriously occurred to reason that we are better than instruments: we are organisms that create energy. We are bubbles of energy.

Maury Yeston

The extraordinary thing about Irving Berlin is that he's like the American Mozart! It seems as if his songs were always there. How do you put together songs like 'Always' or 'Cheek To Cheek'? Songs of his are, frankly, perfect.

Carolina Herrera

Work doesn't seem to interfere with my life. I have time for everything, even time to be alone.

John Sacchi

We're in a situation where we just can't stop the bleeding. We keep trying to put band-aids on the wound, but nothing seems to help.

Jim Rash

When you stop thinking about something, the idea comes to you. It seems to work.

Ben Stein

I have to tell you I never in my life anticipated getting this old, this fast. It seems as if I were 25 just a few days ago.

Laurie Lee

With three kids, it seems like I'm always shelling out $5 here and $5 there,

Dan Ariely

There's something about [cyclically] doing something over and over and over that seems to be particularly demotivating.

Todd Rundgren

It seems like there are two worlds out there - one that has revolved around 'Breaking Bad,' and then the one that I've been in, which just kind of observes it from afar.

Nicole Piggott

We're going to do what we've been doing all year. It seems to be working fine.

Elizabeth Wilson

It's one thing to be talented, but the other thing is connections - with agents, with people; that's what makes a difference, and from the beginning, I've had wonderful representation.

Alan Moore

Now everything is wonderful and hazardous and nothing's hypothetical.

Alan Alda

I'm in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of the time I bother scientists about communicating.

Cheryl Strayed

Every time I read Erin Belieu work I'm pierced in that wonderful way poetry can.

Casey Stengel

It's wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn't used to like.

Bill Nye

When or if answers are found, you can be assured those answers will lead to more questions. Is the troubling or wonderful? It depends on your view of your place in nature, your place among the stars; I suppose.

Bing Crosby

You'll never be a wonderful woman or even a wonderful human being until you learn to have some regard for human frailty.

Bill Monroe

Bluegrass is wonderful music. I'm glad I originated it.

Bette Midler

If you can accept your differentness and learn to love it and encourage it, then you can be someone wonderful.