Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ronald Reagan

When you see all of the smoke billowing up from the Democrats, ladies and gentlemen, I'd follow the advice of their nominee: Don't Inhale .

Charles de Lint

The trouble with advice is that it's usually something you don't want to hear.

Richard Boucher

We have plenty of warnings for American citizens around the world, and it's just advice to people to tell them what to expect. And governments do that because they have an obligation to their own citizens.

Mr Howard

We have reissued our avian influenza travel bulletin and travel advice and we have helped the Indonesians with medications in relation to this and we're in very close contact with Indonesian authorities,

Bob Whitley

There are a lot of bargains out there. The best advice is pick up a phone and call a travel agent right now, before you lose the opportunity. Some tour operators' products are available up to 24 hours before leaving.

John Williams

There is considerable appetite for specialist advice delivered by dedicated senior bankers who have no product conflicts.

Ricky Gervais

The best advice I've ever received is, 'No one else knows what they're doing either.

David Puttnam

There's always a miasma of misinformation emerging from the higher education sector as to which are the 'best' courses to take. My advice would always be to ignore the perceived wisdom and look for the most reliable evidence on the ground.

Byron Katie

all the advice you ever gave your partner is for you to hear

Carlos Ghosn

Synergies are not only about cost reduction. Synergies can be access to markets, exchange of products, avoiding overlaps, exchange of best practices.

Ben Howland

We want to recruit the very best players in the country. That's why we're here right now: We have great players.

Anne McLellan

We want to reassure the president and the people of the United States that we are their best friends and their neighbour, and we will be there to help them in a situation that truly is without parallel in our country or theirs,

Jerry Colangelo

We want to quicken the game. We think these changes are the best way of doing it.

Ritchie McKay

We want to put our best players on the floor at any given time. Some teams happen to be guard-oriented like us.

Juergen Klinsmann

We want to push that back. It would be best for us to work with a large group of players for longer. Hopefully, we'll have time until shortly before the tournament.

Richard Clarke

We want to provide the best possible entertainment for our fans and that means creating a winning team and maximizing their chances of success.

Sam Cowart

We have to get to the point where we find out what we do best and execute it to a 'T,'

Parry Aftab

We have to get our kids to utilize the best Internet filter, and that's the one inside their heads.

Rob Sheffield

Watching the evening news in 2011 is a strange time-travel experience. 'The CBS Evening News,' 'ABC World News' and 'NBC Nightly News' haven't changed their style over the decades, still going for that old-fashioned mix of voice-of-authority pomp and feel-good fluff. The difference is that people aren't watching.

Scott Bakula

Years ago, I did a CBS audition. I was nervous. They introduced me as 'Scott Bakoola.' Not a good sign. I also didn't get the show.

Jim Carter

One thing I feel sure of is that the standards CBS has set in the past will be maintained.

Andrew Tyndall

CBS News has already righted itself...It turns out they had all the talent they needed in house.

Leslie Moonves

CBS is very pleased to have forged this partnership with Mitsubishi that will give American television viewers their first sustained exposure to high-definition television, ... This agreement, which allows us to present the majority of our primetime lineup in the highest definition television format, represents the most significant step any network has taken in HDTV and further establishes CBS' leadership in the transition to digital broadcasting.

Brad Adgate

CBS is obviously dealing from a position of strength. They've already renewed 14 shows, which is more than half of their prime-time schedule.

Ed Martin

CBS is doing really well and looking like an extremely classy network. It doesn't want to thoroughly humiliate itself.

Paul Jackson

CBS has already picked up the format for this spring, and we're also spending a few hundred thousand dollars making our own broadcast-quality pilot of the all-new Catchphrase.

Tim Winter

CBS had no intention of abiding by the terms of its own consent decree after it aired 'Without a Trace,' which had generated outcry from thousands of families. CBS should comply with the consent decree it signed and, if it's true to its word, should ensure that all its employees who were involved in the re-airing of 'Without a Trace' are suspended.

Charlotte Simonsen

We have never marketed ourselves as a Danish product, we see ourselves as an international brand.

Agnes de Mille

To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.

Agnes de Mille

Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.

Agnes de Mille

Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.

Agnes de Mille

The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.

Agnes de Mille

If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs - don't pay any attention to its politicians.

Agnes de Mille

Dance constitutes a true recapturing of... freedom and childish play.

Agnes de Mille

The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one's feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously.

Agnes de Mille

When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience. I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.

Jim Davis

We were trying to get someone to drive in and if he could look for someone to take an open shot.

Tom Johnston

We've spent so many hours trying to get drunk drivers off the road in so many ways. It makes you really mad to see that, after all that, people still do it.

Jared Bernstein

We've seen we can drive the economy at 4 percent unemployment with strong productivity gains. I won't be satisfied until we're back there. Many working families won't be either, I'd guess.

Greg Tacon

The facilities are great, the kids are great, but there's an underlying pressure that's there and nobody talks about it. That's the way it is, and it sucks. We all want to win, but the kids and the relationships are why we do this. If it's the winning that drives us, I don't want to be part of it.

Erwin McManus

The reality is that every human being is placed on this planet, and one of the things that drives humans is their need for meaning, and if you can make every job meaningful, then you will guarantee that every job will be done to its highest level of excellence.

Kyrie Irving

When I'm playing the 1-guard, teams do a great job of just loading up and preparing for my drives and preparing for my three-point shots.

David Richards

We set out 10 years ago to improve safety for competitors and spectators. We've not seen a driver killed for 20 years almost,

Timothy Noah

What is the engine that drives economic growth in an ideopolis? The university.

Sgt. Carr

We're just telling folks not to drive if they don't have to.

Charles Dickens

I distress you; I draw fast to an end.

Sarah Monette

The fountain of youth is like the monkey's paw in the W. W. Jacobs story. It never ends well.

Tom Guiry

I work in a hospital as a patient transporter to make ends meet for my three kids.

Tom Mison

Actors always lie about horse-riding, and it ends terribly. I can horse-ride... ish.

Brian Eno

Also something that you don't have to listen to from beginning to end - you can enter at any point and leave at any point.

Diane von Furstenberg

I can honestly say that I understand women very well. If you understand yourself, you understand women, because, in the end, all women are the same.

Michael Meacher

We did fail last night. It is a tragedy, but it's a reversible tragedy and we will now put together those last final loose ends that we didn't have the time to do last night.

Kofi Annan

Time and again, when member states and the governments are faced with an insoluble problem, and they're under pressure to do something, that something usually ends up being referred to the U.N.

Alan Moore

Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends.

Joe Gibbs

We have a smart football team, and they understand,

Mike Tice

When you're trying to win a playoff-caliber football game, you need to have all three parts play at that level. Not only the level of play-making ability, but also the level of poise and the level of intelligence or smartness.

Mike Shula

We want guys here we've got guys here who want to have people looking at them and wondering what our football team is about.

Alan Sillitoe

I realized it might be possible to do such a thing, run for money, trot for wages on piece work at a bob a puff rising bit by bit to a guinea a gasp and retiring through old age at thirty-two because of lace-curtain lungs, a football heart, and legs like varicose beanstalks.

Alan Sugar

I did not come into football to make money. I had already made millions.

Alan Sugar

There is a lot of luck in football. Following England is like following Wycombe Wanders or Leyton Orient. You hope for the best and hope you are lucky.

Alan Shearer

I've got a great life that I really enjoy. But there is something chewing at me inside: that adrenaline rush from football, I miss that.

Alan Shearer

I didn't watch cartoons, I was too busy playing football.

Alan Shearer

I have never wanted to go abroad before but you can never say never in football.

Carlos Beltran

I play because I know I can play the game, so it's their decision whether or not they want to keep me or they wanna trade me. Whatever decision they make, I will understand it.

Carl Crawford

I want to develop every base of my game-stealing bases, hitting, being a better fielder.

Chris O'Brien

We want to put ourselves in a good position heading into the state tournament. Every game is important. We haven't lost at home this season (6-0-1). We like playing at home. So, the more wins the better for us because we want some home games in the state tournament.

Graham Cluley

We have seen a large increase in these types of Trojans targeting online gamers, as role-playing games have become a big business.

Martin Corry

We have said every game we want to keep on improving, and we did not do that.

Randy McClure

We have to have a great game rebounding. We have to keep them off the boards." ()

Jennifer Faliero

We have to have a game plan to move forward.

Vin Blaine

We have to go out and win the game and win convincingly too.

Rudy Gay

We have to go in with one thing on our mind - win the game as a team. A lot of good things will come from that.

C. S. Lewis

Edmund, give a special goodbye to Trumpkin for me. He's been a brick.

Chris Hamilton

We have sat down and done the figures, and the result is that there has been an increase of just under 10-per-cent on last year's sales. We're not up in purely money terms, just on ticket sales, but it's good news for the club.

David Bennett

We have to have a good week of practice. We've got to get back to fundamentals.

Craig Beesley

We have to go up there tomorrow and play good ball.

Mike Thomas

We have to get there, but we should be on our way (to the title game). There's other good teams up there, but we should have a good shot.

Jordan Leopold

We have to get off to a good start. It's one of those things of whoever wants it the most is going to end up getting it.

James Greer

We have to get better at getting through the full-court trap. We had been struggling with that, but we did a good job when we needed it.

Siv Meisingseth

We have normal traffic today and the prospects for tomorrow are good too.

Kay Runge

Whenever you have an urban library, there are parking issues. The good thing about our new location is the nearby ramps.

Richard Aboulafia

We have no idea how the market for very light jets will look in 25 years from now. There are several players trying to get into this market, but we really don't know what the market wants yet.

Stephen Rodrick

Peter Rodrick was one of only around 4,000 men in the world qualified to land jets on a carrier after dark.

Mike Serba

One of the big mistakes a team can make is get a one or two-goal lead and start sitting back ... while the other team has the opportunity to turn on the jets offensively and put some pucks in the net. We didn't want that.

Patricia Schroeder

A draft doesn't produce the people we need to satisfy our real manpower shortage. We need specialists to keep our jets flying.

Peter King

I also think the Jets would go after Terrell Owens .

Kelly Holcomb

I think the offensive line did a heckuva job of opening it up. We knew what the Jets were going to do to us. They really didn't present us with many problems. It was just kind of smashmouth.

Gus Frerotte

It's all new to me having never played the Jets in the same conference,

Paul Tagliabue

The New York Jets are on the clock.

Bill Belichick

There's a lot of love between us -- me, Charlie, Romeo. We've been together with the Giants, the Patriots, the Jets and the Patriots again. For it to be able to end this way ... the only word I can think of is 'special.'

Alan Moore

Romantic poetry had its heyday when people like Lord Byron were kicking it large. But you try and make a living as a poet today, and you'll find it's very different!

Chloe Grace Moretz

I'm not allowed to see R-rated movies, but I did see 'Kick-Ass' because I'm in it. I'm not going to skip out on my own premiere!

Mark Cuban

I like being involved in businesses where you are kicking ass.

Chrissey Cruz

When we were little we used to say we are going to kick some butt.

Amber Brkich

What they won't know is that I can be mean, and I can be conniving, the kind of person that's going to kick you off.

Buddy Gouldsmith

Maybe we needed that kind of tail kicking to wake us up.

Dave Ramsey

Let some one else take the butt kicking on devaluation.

Kathleen Clark

Let the voters know. If they don't like it, they can kick him out.

James Corden

Louis Tomlinson, who is a member of One Direction, his mum was a chaperone on 'Fat Friends.' So Louis used to come to the set with his mum, and since I was the only sort of young person around, we would kick a football around, things like that.

Ben Wallace

There ain't nothing to worry about, because you're going to win some and you're going to lose some.

Sandra Gordon

The people of New Orleans have lost so much; we don't want to lose this.

David Millar

I was awarded 'Most Aggressive Rider of the Day', generally given to the most spectacular loser of the day.

David Korten

So, there is enormous instability in the global economy with a shift of winners and losers.

Chuck Hatfield

We want to try this to see if we can make a difference. We just don't want to lose (the students).

Newt Gingrich

When you wake up in the morning and lose 14 marines, people say, 'What's going on?'

Nick Flynn

Here's a secret: Everyone, if they live long enough, will lose their way at some point. You will lose your way; you will wake up one morning and find yourself lost. This is a hard, simple truth.

Lauren Worsham

I love rock and opera, and I love musical theater, and I don't want to lose any of that.

Norman Mineta

We're not going to lose sight of safety,

Howard Schultz

We have no alternative. This is not a philanthropic venture. We're not trying to make money, we just want to stop losing (money).

Chris Cooper

When I feel like I'm doing my best work, there is a bit of a freedom, a bit of flight that you're not so much losing yourself but you're sort of in the zone

Louis Honore

We are losing turnover of about $1.3 million per day ... So you have to multiply that by 17 or 18 days.

Chad Hitchen

We started off by losing a tough one at 103 and we rebounded well with Javier and Mariano (Portillo) having big wins.

Logan P. Smith

If you are losing your leisure, look out, you may be losing your soul

Holly Holm

I've been on the end of losing a fight, and there's a piece of my heart that has compassion towards that because I know how it feels.

Demi Lovato

The more active I am, the better I feel and the longer I can stay onstage without losing my breath.

Vini Dawson

Yeah, I remember us losing a 16-point lead.

Lindsay Whorton

Whether we're on a three-game winning or losing streak, you can understand that that's not everything.

Carol Leifer

There are so many opportunities that I could've gotten before if I had just took a little more of a risk.

Carlos Fuentes

Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.

Duncan Fletcher

We want to rest Freddie whenever we can. We saw this as an opportunity the other day.

Fran Dunphy

When your opportunity comes, it's not what you do right as much as it's what you don't do wrong.

Abba Eban

Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

Aasif Mandvi

When my family decided to leave England I could not have been happier. I was sort of like - America seemed like the land of opportunity and, you know, it was Hollywood to me.

Alan Stern

Naming celestial objects is usually done by astronomers and professionals. Other people who are interested in space never get the opportunity to do that kind of thing.

Alan Rusbridger

There is this ferocious digital revolution coming along and we're in the teeth of that at the time of maximum economic disruption. There are huge opportunities there. I made the point in my supplementary statement that the Guardian is now a very considerable global player, but there are huge challenges in terms of making, of finding, the convincing business model, so I want to see Guardian journalism continue and thrive, although whether and to what extent that is in print or in digital is a sort of second order matter.

Alan Shepard

So everything turned out fine, and we were given the opportunity to go to Washington and be briefed on the project of man in space, and given the opportunity to choose whether we wanted to get involved or not.

Carlos Delgado

You've got to be smart to stay in this game. The quicker you learn, the quicker you succeed. You can't make the same mistakes over and over again.

Aaron Sorkin

Stupid people surround themselves with smart people. Smart people surround themselves with smart people who disagree with them.

Aaron Sorkin

Tell me what you think and then tell me what the really smart person in the room who disagrees with you thinks.

Alan King

My father was a dreamer - my hero. He was a smart, tough guy from Poland, a cutter of lady's handbags, an old socialist-unionist who always considered himself a failure. His big line was: 'Don't end up like me.'

Charlie Cox

We had no idea that this show [Daredevil] would be as popular as it was, but with the benefit of hindsight, one thing I can say is that I think that was a really, really smart move.

Charles Stross

Humans are just barely intelligent tool users; Darwinian evolutionary selection stopped when language and tool use converged, leaving the average hairy meme carrier sadly deficient in smarts.

Charles Stross

Life begets intelligence, intelligence begets smart matter and a singularity.

Isaac Bruce

When it was there, he took it. When it wasn't that was pretty much the end of it. It is just being a smart player.

Ricky Gervais

If you're surrounded by idiots, you're the unpopular one and the odd one out because idiots don't like smart asses.

Carl Crawford

I'm going to try to not put a lot of pressure on myself.

Lee Daniels

When you're traveling, you can take it with you. You can use it for walking and I've done that many times actually trying to find restaurants.

Aaron Sorkin

Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.

Andre Walker

We were trying to play an up-tempo game, but then we started to play their style. That is how they usually play and they were more comfortable than we were.

Brian Schmidt

We were trying to get the word out, but they were stranded.

Alan Titchmarsh

Once I was on a plane and a woman said to me, 'Now, what's the matter with my tomatoes?' And I said, 'Well, it's a bit difficult to see from here.' She took offence and said, 'I was only trying to be friendly.'

Charlotte Bronte

Jane! will you hear reason?' (he stooped and approached his lips to my ear) 'because, if you won't, I'll try violence.

Charlotte Bronte

Better to try all things and find all empty, than to try nothing and leave your life a blank.

Charlie Haden

The whole underlying theme for the new music... is to communicate honest, human values, and in doing that to try to improve the quality of life.

Carole Bouquet

Wine is connected to abundance.

Carole Bouquet

The first wine I drank, a Chateau Haut-Brion, I was 22, it was my first glass of wine, and I discovered voluptuousness. From there, I started tasting French wines, then Spanish wines, then Italian wines.

Carlos Boozer

Sometimes we win; more times than not, we don't. But that's his choice.

Carlos Beltran

I think I can play in the big leagues 10 or 15 years. But more important to me is winning-win, make the playoffs.

C. S. Lewis

But now I discovered the wonderful power of wine. I understood why men become drunkards. For the way it worked on me was not at all that it blotted out these sorrows, but that it made them seem glorious and noble, like sad music, and I somehow great and revered for feeling them.

Jane Fonda

what the right wing has done to Sheehan is despicable.

Bobby Bowden

We wanted to win our way in, but we didn't do it.

Agnieszka Radwanska

Sometimes you can really serve well and win the match because of the serve. I have the opposite thing now, so it's kind of hard. I can just really play with my forehand and backhand.

Aaron Staton

I feel very competitive with Robert Morse off-set. We often duke it out. He always wins.