Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Adams

Like every issue, it has been actively discussed at the technical level and the point now is to get everyone in a room together to review what has been done.

Roy Brown

Make good choices, set realistic goals, develop pride and respect in yourself, be active in your community and become a good role model for someone.

Susan Walvius

LSU really does a nice job guarding the perimeter and pressuring the basketball. The one thing LSU does different from other teams is they have extremely active hands on the ball. They get a lot of deflections and play the passing lanes. Teams tend to throw (ball) away because it looks like the passing lanes are open.

Patrick Campbell

Let's just say we will be very active in discussions with suppliers in trying to hold the line here.

John Harbaugh

looks OK, but again, I don't think he's at 100 percent. So that's still part of the process, whether he'll be active or not. It looks like he has a chance, but he still has to get better.

Steve Kolenda

Last year's group was probably more active than ever. It was probably the last one that disagreed with selectmen.

Joseph Addison

Learning is pedantry, wit, impertinence, virtue itself looked like weakness, and the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice.

Naomi Hasegawa

Many investors are reluctant to trade actively before the central bank starts its two-day meeting Wednesday.

Hideo Mizutani

Share prices ended weaker. This is because of lingering concerns about a lack of active inflows of funds from offshore investors.

Alan Evans

Man, he's just one of our idols. I've been listening to Scofield since I was a teenager. One thing I always respected about him was you never knew what his next album would be like. Even today, he still pushes the envelope. For someone to take that kind of approach with his music and then show interest in playing with us is really inspiring.

Lars Ulrich

Let's see, I think the first thing we gotta to do is obviously, like you guys were expecting, is we gotta tank Jethro Tull for not putting out an album this year. Ha, Ha!!

Dexter Holland

Selling another 10 million albums is not a priority. Putting out something you're proud of is.

Kaskade

Mix CDs are interesting. I'm known more for my artist albums and less for my mix CDs.

Keith Burns

Obviously, we weren't happy that the album wasn't coming out, ... But we said, 'If it's going to be delayed, then let's take the time to go in and find some better songs.'

Felix Rodriguez

On first album, we were more inspired by 80's bands. We were kids. We were like 18 years old, pretty naive. I think that album was a lot about going out, partying - the new album is more about what we've been through.

Scott Weiland

One thing that has really influenced me with Bowie where I've taken an approach from him is how he changes from album to album and has always modified his sound and his appearance. I think that's an important thing.

Kyle MacLachlan

My first album was The Doobie Brothers... 'Captain and Me.' You always remember your first!

John Legend

My first album, 'Get Lifted,' was a hip-hop soul album that had some of its roots in the church, as far as the sonic choices, in the way that I sing and write songs. I have always had that as part of my background and part of my influence when I am making music.

Italo Calvino

Bringing a child into the world makes sense only if this child is wanted consciously and freely by its two parents. If it is not, then it is simply animal and criminal behavior.

William Lennon

We're not bring these charges to be popular, we're bringing these charges in order to stand up and take on public corruption head-on.

Sumner Redstone

Li is clearly a pioneer in bringing innovative partnerships to the Chinese people.

Guy Hohenhaus

Lifting the last remaining hold order at Pimlico is a positive that things are coming to a close there. We will continue working with all parties involved to monitor the situation and bring it to a conclusion. We thank the owners, trainers, and staff for their diligence in practicing prudent bio-security measures and their patience as we work through this science-based process that will make sure the remaining horses test negative before they will be released from the detention barn.

Sathya Baba

Life would be stale if there were no trials and difficulties. It is these difficulties which bring out the human values in man.

Steve Mitchell

Let this be a starting point for us in renaming B Street a starting point for us to come together as a community all nationalities, bring it down to the human level.

Jim Johnson

Luckily, we had some engineers along. They just love that kind of scenario -- troubleshooting on the fly. That's what brings us joy in our work is fixing something and carrying on, instead of just being shut down.

John Strand

Luna Energy is a neighbor that brings tax revenues and new jobs to our city and county.

Buck Martinez

Luis Gonzalez has the respect of everybody in baseball, and his opinion is very valued. He's always been a character guy that we respect a lot. We felt that he brings everything we want on this team.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

For me no good food is illuminated without acidity.

Isabella Rossellini

I would like to be forgotten. What's so good about being remembered?

Rick Perlstein

Whatever you think about his intelligence, what's unquestionable is that Reagan had extraordinary emotional intelligence. He could sense the temperature of a room, and tell them a story and make them feel good. And that's more fun, right? It's more fun to feel good than feel bad. That's part of our human state.

Robert Kazinsky

There is nothing harder than working 50 pages a day, working 16 hours a day, trying to be good with only shooting rehearsals.

Robert Klein

What makes a good nanny? A good nanny is someone who really wants to do the job. Someone who loves children, who really values what she does and, of course, is valued by her employer.

Malorie Blackman

A good book is a good book. End of story.

Chuck Reed

We're not doing as good a job recycling as we want to.

Darin Strauss

Like all writing rules, the injunction to start with the trouble can be broken, and it should be sometimes - if there's good reason.

Phillip Bloch

Like any guy, he needs a great jacket, good shoes, and good jeans.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Before we can make friends with anyone else, we must first make friends with ourselves.

Deepak Chopra

A few moments of inner peace and quiet allows the brain to reset itself. You become more centered as this happens, since the brain is clearing out distractions and too much "cross talk."

Ellsworth Kelly

I have a sort of inner sense for scale.

Tom Stoppard

I don't draw on my inner life in my work.

Mariah Carey

You really have to look inside yourself and find your own inner strength, and say, 'I'm proud of what I am and who I am, and I'm just going to be myself.'

Suze Orman

You must trust yourself more than you trust others. Pay attention to your inner voice - it will tell you if how and in what you are investing is right for you.

Pauline Trigere

Fashion is what people tell you to wear. Style is what comes from your own inner thing.

Steven Page

Those of us that have the opportunity to have a mouthpiece, then let's keep talking about it. Right now if you look in the newspaper, there's a lot of meaningless stuff. A lot of stuff about the inner workings of Parliament and nothing about what we can do to make the world a better place.

Gretchen Rubin

One of my most important 'Secrets of Adulthood': Outer order contributes to inner calm.

Alexandra Adornetto

Sometimes you meet a person and you just click-you're comfortable with them, like you've known them your whole life, and you don't have to pretend to be anyone or anything.

Italo Calvino

I'm afraid I don't think I really have a life on which something can be written.

Roger von Oech

Either you let your life slip away by not doing the things you want to do, or you get up and do them.

Kurt Andersen

I think we tend to be kind of ahistorical, and think that life as we are living it in the moment is all we know.

Marcy Kaptur

I view myself as someone who is always trying to make life better in practical ways and putting the pieces together to do that.

Malorie Blackman

A film of my life would never happen!

Mamata Banerjee

I have seen in my life, I have struggled so much. I did not get support from anyone.

Albert Schweitzer

Late upon the third day, at the very moment when, at sunset . . . there flashed upon my mind, unforseen and unsought, the phrase 'Reverence for Life'.

Albert Schweitzer

Reverence for life . . . does not allow the scholar to live for his science alone, even if he is very useful . . . the artist to exist only for his art, even if he gives inspiration to many. . . . It refuses to let the business man imagine that he fulfills all legitimate demands in the course of his business activities. It demands from all that they should sacrifice a portion of their own lives for others.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Time is a resource that is non-renewable and non-transferable. You cannot store it, slow it up, hold it up, divide it up or give it up. You can’t hoard it up or save it for a rainy day—when it’s lost it is unrecoverable. When you kill time, remember that it has no resurrection.

Benjamin Franklin

On being asked what condition of man he considered the most pitiable: A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how to read.

Daniel Handler

He looked like the sort of person who would tell you that he did not have an umbrella to lend you when he actually had several and simply wanted to see you get soaked.

Dan Ariely

Rainy day savings are incredibly important, because from time to time, bad things happen. And if you're not prepared for that, it's going to be really terrible.

Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan wasn't a big star early on; it was the release of his Greatest Hits album in 1967, and the mainstream success of the stoner anthem "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" ("Everybody must get stoned!"), that really put him on the mainstream map.

Bai Ling

You have to accept the storms and the rainy days and the things in life that you sometimes don't want to face.

Douglas Coupland

You can't get mad at weather because weather's not about you. Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life.

Dodie Smith

Stew's so comforting on a rainy day.

Thomas Fuller

Change of weather is the discourse of fools.

Kevin Mitnick

I keep my stuff updated all the time. Being in the security industry, I keep up to date with securities.

Lisa McGiffert

When you read stuff like this, you wonder who you can trust.

Dominic Monaghan

I like learning new stuff, and continuing to educate myself as best I can.

Aaron Carter

My favorite thing about being famous... it's not really as big of a deal as everybody says it is. Being on the road is tough, doing interviews, and all the stuff. It's still pretty tough.

E. B. White

I wish they had stuff like this when I was little.

Troy Williamson

I feel pretty good. There's still a lot of stuff that I need to work on. I'm just trying to get better as I go along.

Chad Cordero

I did stuff I thought I'd never do, ... It was totally unexpected.

Kevin Federline

I don't know. Why does all that stuff come out?

Roderick Wilmont

I don't know what's going on. I'm here to play, that's all. I see the stuff on TV. I know as much as you all know.

Yul Brynner

Now that Im gone, I tell you; Dont smoke. Whatever you do, dont smoke.

William E. Conway, Jr.

If I'm going to create 1,000 jobs, or 10,000 jobs, or whatever the number is, wouldn't we all be better off?

Phil Kessel

I don't have to worry about it right now. I'm just going to go out there and play and whatever happens, happens.

Alexandra Adornetto

Xavier: They, whoever they are, shouldn't have control over our lives. I'm not about to lose you. I've been through that before, and I'll do whatever it takes to make sure it doesn't happen again.

John Erwin

We'll do whatever we can do to assist,

Mike Singletary

The No. 1 thing is you want to be able to win the game, and we're going to do whatever we have to do to win the game.

Byron Katie

Whatever it takes for you to find your freedom, that's what you've lived.

Anderson Hernandez

Yeah, I think I have a chance. I'll do whatever they want me to. I'll be ready.

Pat White

We're going to play to win, that's all I can tell you. Whatever it takes.

Benjamin Franklin

One Mend-fault is worth two Findfaults, but one Findfault is better than two Makefaults

Melissa Etheridge

No, I didn't worry. But it was worth it.

Susan Smith

If we have enough people, it will be worth it.

Source Unknown

When the well's dry, they know the worth of water.

Chris Fecera

We actually renovated it so we could show about $20,000 worth of merchandise here.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.

E. F. Schumacher

Economic policies absorb almost the entire attention of government, and at the same time become ever more impotent. The simplest things, which only fifty years ago one could do without difficulty, cannot get done any more. The richer a society, the more impossible it become to do worthwhile things without immediate payoff.

E. F. Schumacher

The richer a society, the more impossible it becomes to do worthwhile things without immediate pay-off.

Denis Waitley

You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest.