Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marco Brambilla

Being able to make work - if it's on your terms, and it's a good fit with the people who are supporting it - can be a very interesting exercise. When it doesn't work is when an artist just connects with a brand, and they try to take advantage of each other.

Sam Veda

Man has been exploiting the energy of fire to his advantage since time immemorial. Had it not been for this natural source of energy, all the progress mankind has witnessed would never have been possible. Not a single factory could run without it.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

MACHINATION, n. The method employed by one's opponents in baffling one's open and honorable efforts to do the right thing.So plain the advantages of machination It constitutes a moral obligation, And honest wolves who think upon't with loathing Feel bound to don the sheep's deceptive clothing. So prospers still the diplomatic art, And Satan bows, with hand upon his heart. --R.S.K.

Adrian Raine

Lying is cognitively complex. It is not easy to lie. It is certainly more difficult than telling the truth. Some people have a biological advantage in lying. It gives them a slight edge.

Adrian Raine

Lying is cognitively complex, ... It is not easy to lie. It is certainly more difficult than telling the truth. Some people have a biological advantage in lying. It gives them a slight edge.

Checky Herrington

Making public the conditions of special contracts that utilities are allowed to enter into when recruiting industry would give other states and their utilities an unfair advantage and jeopardize Mississippi's economic future.

Janet Disbennett

Madison and Natalie played (Pickerington Central's girls twice during the regular season in singles. They won both, so we had a mental advantage over them. UA was the bigger match. I wasn't even worried about the finals. The UA match is the one we wanted because anytime you can beat UA, it's big.

D.J. Owens

Lots of teams in the Big East have been giving us wide open 3s and taking away the backdoor. They did the opposite, and we really took advantage of our cutters.

St. Teresa

Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it. As soon you apply yourself to orison, you will at once feel your senses gather themselves together: they seem like bees which return to the hive and there shut themselves up to work at the making of honey. At the first call of the will, they come back more and more quickly. At last, after countless exercises, of this kind, God disposes them to a state of utter rest and of perfect contemplation.

Craig Faire

Mackenzie made Russell work extra hard for every shot.

Jason Bohn

Making that last putt gave me an extra hour of sleep tomorrow.

Peter Harding

Last year we had extra officers on the island, but these things escalate very, very quickly.

Kevin McCormick

Sebring is one of our bread-and-butter sedans in terms of providing good, solid transportation at a good price. The incentives put a little extra value on it." ()

Brendan Barber

Millions are still putting in up to an extra day a week for free.

Gareth Thomas

Of course, there is extra pressure. If we are truthful, I think all the press and everyone else would like us to go there and lose because that is what they want.

Ted Hughes

Maybe making an extra mortgage payment -- that's a great idea.

Joe Young

Fremont is a big turnaround story for us. We are investing in extra volume and increasing capacity.

Peter Beattie

The plan is to extract 7.5 million metric tons of bauxite every year in order to produce 2.1 million tons of alumina each year from the refinery.

J. M. Roberts

Scott didn't have a good day on the greens today. If he did, I probably don't win the golf tournament.

O. Singh

My level of play has dropped, not out of neglect or anything. It's just that's the way it goes. I mean, golf is a weird game.

Scott Draper

Maybe my naivety at not understanding how tough it is is a good thing, because so many golfers see it as mecca,

Annika Sorenstam

Obviously I'm very happy with my position. It was good steady golf, hitting a lot of fairways and greens and I'm putting very well.

Annika Sorenstam

Obviously I'm in a position that I want to be. I like this golf course. I had a good (round) last year on Sunday. I'm going to keep that in my mind.

Dick Van Dyke

Stan said he used to keep Hardy late, make him miss his golf game, and really get him mad.

Dennis Quaid

I can't hit a ball more than 200 yards. I have no butt. You need a butt if you're going to hit a golf ball.

Dennis Quaid

I found golf late in life, in 1990. I took some lessons and struggled. Then one day, I hit a drive that was so crisp and clean, with no vibration. There's no feeling like it. I was hooked.

Dennis Quaid

Surfing is like golf: You're always battling, and it keeps knocking you down. There are a lot of wipeouts. But when you stay with it and catch that wave, you really taste it. It's magic.

Alexandra Paul

I'm trying to practice owning less stuff.

Brad Smith

Seth Burris showed the kind of shooter he is. We see that in practice a lot, and I'm awfully proud of him.

Mike Lingle

Monday, it's back to business. Time to work. They come here every single day and practice hard. We practice like we play, and it shows.

Dennis Prager

You know what I ask Jewish liberals? 'Why don't you preach what you practice?'

Democritus

One should practice much sense, not much learning.

Deborah Smith

Alongside Han Kang, there's only one other author I've chosen to translate so far - Bae Suah. Her work is radical both stylistically and politically, influenced by her own translation practice (she's translated the likes of Kafka, Pessoa, and Sadeq Hedayat into Korean). Her language is simply extraordinary.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

With an abstract idea it is possible to enter into a relation of formal knowledge, to become enthusiastic about it, and perhaps even to put it into practice; but it can never be followed in personal obedience. Christianity without the living Christ is inevitably Christianity without discipleship, and Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.

Patrice Lauzon

I did it in the first practice, I don't have to do it again.

Carmelo Anthony

I can't even remember. To me, it's just going to be like practice. . . . I don't even look at it as trying out.

Gerald Anderson

Now our team is back to where we want it to be. We should have success like we were having at the start of the season when we were all healthy.

Russ Witzig

I can't say enough about Brandon. He wrestled really well today, and all season long.

Keith Willis

on paper, we'll be okay, but we can't play the season on paper.

Dan Grunfeld

If we keep working, anything can happen. We want to be in New York and we're going to try to make that happen. The season is still going. That's the important part.

Cate Blanchett

I look forward to the holiday season every year.

Penny Hardaway

I feel great. I can't wait for the season to start.

W. S. Gilbert

She's been killing it all season and is only getting better.

Steve Spurrier

Six and five, ... We thought 6-5 would be a wonderful season for this team.

Andrew Strauss

If we can get 370-plus I think we are very much in the game. I think there will be a result. If we keep working as we have done all season I think we can win it.

Sam Cassell

I don't think he tipped it. I just shot it short. I shot it short over a 7-foot guy.

Elizabeth Bowen

Sins cut boldly up through every class in society, but mere misdemeanours show a certain level in life.

Abraham Lincoln

If you have never failed you have never lived.

Grace Young

On short notice, we're not going to get a lot of people.

David Hamilton

She's his own daughter. He (his father) is in recovery, but at the very least, she has shortened his life.

Rachelle Lemieux

She?s been sick and she can only play in short spurts because she has trouble breathing.

Winston Churchill

Old expressions are the best, and short ones even better

Alan Woods

Short term, this is going to be bad. Long term, this may be good.

Tom Parker

I don't have a worry he'll be short of words.