Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Gates

Life is not fair; get used to it.

Bill Gates

Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.

Trip Hawkins

Lower labor costs and tax benefits have, for example, caused publishers like EA, UbiSoft, and others to move more production to Canada.

Robert K. Greenleaf

Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much.

Gus Hall

Mobilize people to vote and to re-elect Clinton as the only way to defeat.

Joan Blades

Moveon is not a one-way broadcast media. The Internet, when used best, is a two-way media. We have a forum in which people can post comments and those comments can be rated. We get a sense of what people feel most passionately about.

David Rockefeller

Mother also loved Asian art, but she preferred the ceramics and sculpture of earlier Chinese and Korean dynasties, as well as Buddhist art.

Bill Veeck

McGraw had been a great friend of my father's in the days when McGraw was managing the New York Giants and my daddy was president of the Chicago Cubs.

Gordon Getty

Maturity? There are things that come with experience - managing your craft. What I've picked up since my earlier music is not profundity.

Ozzie Guillen

Last year, we took a lot of heat in Chicago because they always say,

Barry Ritholtz

Maybe the reason the VIX has dropped so low is that the options guys in Chicago are so exhausted from watching the Cubs,

Daniel Clowes

When I close my eyes to draw I always think Chicago in 1975.

Radim Vrbata

If Chicago was a Stanley Cup playoff team, I might not be here. I want to show I can play. I'm just glad I'm here. I'm trying to prove I'm a good player.

Bob Wickman

The pitching is a big core. You look at the Chicago White Sox, what they did last year, the New York Yankees, when they were in their heyday, they had pitching and that's what wins championships. You're very seldom going to slug it out with a team in the playoffs.

John Parsons

On that particular day, the incidents occurred while we were transporting people to Chicago for a work day.

David Schwimmer

I love directing. It's something I started doing in theatre when I was in university in Chicago and I started a theatre company right out of college and was directing for many years.

Mike Royko

Show me the worst school districts in Detroit, New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, and I'll show you parents that shouldn't be raising a Chia Pet, much less a child.

John Cruickshank

Since our voluntary reporting of the problem, the Chicago Sun-Times has been committed to make fair and equitable restitution to our advertisers.

August Wilson

Many is the time I looked at my daddy and seen him staring off at his hands. I got a little older I know what he was thinking. He sitting there saying, "I got these big old hands but what I'm gonna do with them?

Richelle Nice

Scott Peterson was Laci's husband, Conner's daddy -- the one person that should have protected them.

Lisa Hall

So Mama would have to sneak out and meet Daddy and go jitterbugging.

Roy Barnes

My daddy used to say, 'Have you ever wondered why two stores sit side by side, and one makes money and the other doesn't?' And at 14 or 15 I didn't care, but he'd always tell me anyway. It was management. And what's true for a store is true for the governor.

Robby Albarado

I worked his daddy out of that barn.

Richard Miller

I feel that my daddy and his family were the first family of Trade Street.

Xavier Amador

She was enjoying being with Charles. There was nothing relevant to her other than Charles. It's like a little kid being overwhelmed by daddy putting a hand around you.

Sherri Shepherd

As the oldest I was a daddy's girl and loved him with all my heart. My daddy had holes in his shoes so that he could pay for my photography classes, you know what I mean.

Bryan Ferry

I will be putting out a fragrance - I'm following in the great steps of Puff Daddy.

Jay Leno

Magic Johnson, former basketball player, may run for mayor of L.A. in the next election. Remember the good 'ol days when only qualified people ran for office like actors and professional wrestlers.

Alice Wonderland

Mad Hatter: No wonder you're late. Why, this watch is exactly two days slow.

Thomas Powell

Life accumulates. The difference of accumulating days that we are proud of versus days for which we are regretful is in controlling our thoughts in each moment.

Phil Davis

Last year we had restaurants out of food two days after the event. This year we've even heard of a group that is planning a White Squirrel wedding.

S. Hughes

Leave on time at least two days a week. If you never have any free evenings you'll grow resentful.

Gene Madden

Several days of nice, moderate rain is what we need to put out the flames.

Joe Girardi

Seventeen days in you can't keep making the same mistakes. You can't just work your butts off and throw it away because you want to do too much.

Burmese Proverb

Seven days is the length of a guest's life

Tom Marryott

Senior days are different. You never know what's going to happen because it's such an emotional day. It was good to see all three of them play well.

Margaret Lee Runbeck

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

Albert Schweitzer

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

David Grayson

Life is too brief. I had a friend whom I intended to know better. Yesterday he died.

Jamaican Proverb

Make a friend when you don't need one

Bill Bradley

Lowell has been a friend for many years. He is someone I respect. I think he is someone who is respected in American life as a stand-up guy,

Dennis Flynn

Leroy Marsh and John Friend made me what I am today,

John Jamison

Mike is a guy who trusts his friends.

Olindo Mare

Matt was a good buddy. He got hurt, though. I don't think it really mattered, friendship or no friendship. You can't punt when you're hurt. That's why they got Donnie, and Donnie had a good game.

Will Rogers

Mayor Scott and I go to the same church. He's a friend of mine ... I just think I can provide stronger leadership.

The Eagles

New Orleans Saints-New York Giants at Giants Stadium.

Wellington Mara

Giants ownership has left at least $150 million of team net worth on the table.

Kate Forsyth

The ogres and witches and giants of fairytales stand in as metaphors for those obstacles that we all face in our own lives.

Barry Bonds

I feel great. I'm just doing what the Giants tell me right now. I don't want to make any predictions about the future, but I feel like I'm getting closer. The swelling is pretty stable.

Tom Atkins

You know, they just don't make big movie stars the way they used to, maybe because the system has changed, the studio system, but it's sad to see people like Jimmy Stewart go, all the giants of the past.

Al Pacino

[Marlon] Brando's a giant on every level. When he acts it's as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.

Dennis Miller

Even the best psychiatrist is like a blindfolded auto mechanic poking around under your hood with a giant foam "We're #1" finger.

Beth Moore

The giant step in the walk of faith is the one we take when we decide God no longer is a part of our lives. He IS our life.

Bill Murray

You don't have to have all this film stock, you can work faster, and you don't need a giant crew. It's great.

Isabella Rossellini

There is often a great disparity between a director's personal style and the movies he makes.

Kristy Swanson

I can't ask for every movie I make to be great and brilliant. I can only try.

Mallory Ortberg

In the hands of a passive-aggressive person who wants to abdicate responsibility for things, texting is a great tool. You can really go nuts.

Malorie Blackman

Being the Children's Laureate has been educational, sometimes hectic, but most of all, great fun.

Jerry Reinsdorf

Like I said, Dennis has been of great value to our team.

Danny Kaye

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.

Danny Kaye

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.

Scott Peck

Life is difficult. This is the great truth, one of the greatest truthsit is a great truth because once we see this truth, we transcend it.

William Congreve

Let us be very strange and well-bred: Let us be as strange as if we had been married a great while; and as well-bred as if we were not married at all.

John Gunn

You look towards the organization and the people managing the money.

Robert Kiyosaki

Managing your own property can be a full-time job.

Phil Jackson

You have to be able to psychologically help your players, support-wise, be in touch with them, so I think managing people is very important.

Tom Brookens

When I played for him at Evansville, I wasn't the only one who thought the next stop for him would be managing the Tigers.

Joe Paopao

My primary role is really the on-field product, which is our players, ... Most of my managing priorities are there, and rightfully so. That's enough on my plate.

Mickey Arthur

We'll have to keep managing that throughout the test match ... he'll be fine.

Mike Moser

We wanted to concentrate on those businesses, and not worry about managing real estate.

Olivia Mitchell

When it comes to managing their portfolio on an ongoing basis, participants were otherwise occupied.

Ryan Fitzpatrick

Anything managing other people's money would be nice, ... Hopefully, I won't have to put it to use for a while.

Mikhail Fradkov

On inflation, the president took note: things are bad.

Thomas Friedman

Presidents grow up in the White House. The times shape the man.

Dee Dee Myers

President Clinton intentionally created a structure that was a little loose. And one that kept him a little in the center. He didn't want one person filtering all the information that went to him. He had always operated with a lot of information coming in and a lot of stuff going out.

Dikembe Mutombo

I am not in politics. 'President Mutombo?' No, no, no. There has never been a politician in my family, and I am not going to try to be the first one.

Eleanor Clift

If you look at where presidents come from, they're former governors or senators.

Eliot Spitzer

The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon shook our nation to the core. Americans were deeply frightened, sad, and angry, and they rallied around a President who, at the time, showed impressive certitude and calm.

Elena Kagan

I do not espouse the unitarian position. President Clinton's assertion of directive authority over administration, more than President Reagan's assertion of a general supervisory authority, raises serious constitutional questions.

Abdul Kalam

The President's post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.

Abraham Lincoln

I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to.

Ron Wood

Mick says, Would you join the band? I say to him, Mick, you know I'd be there in a New York minute.

Jack Reynor

My favorite thing about New York is the view, the skyline.

Nas

N.Y. hip-hop is ok, but we gotta become brave again; we have to be brave enough and do something new - that's what New York is about... New.

Antonio Sabato, Jr.

I'm a Laker fan, always have been. And the New York Yankees, for sure.

Josh Pais

I live mostly in New York, but I teach in both New York and L.A.

Gina Rodriguez

I can live in L.A. as a struggling artist. I cannot live in New York as a struggling artist.

Tamara Tunie

I'm Irish on St. Patrick's Day. I'm Italian on Columbus Day. I'm a New Yorker every day.

Ira Glass

Honestly, like, I'm a superfan of the 'New York Times,' but I know nothing about how they put it together, and I really don't care.

Samira Wiley

I'm a big lover of Shakespeare. In fact, the only plays that I've ever done professionally in New York have been Shakespearian.