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.

Jeremy Heimans

One example of 21st century activism we are engaging in is All Out, a first-of-its-kind global movement to advance the interests and rights of LGBT people. All Out is bringing together people of all identities to build a world in which everyone can live freely and be embraced for who they are.

Jose Andres Puerta

One thing that makes me very happy is to see the growing activism among chefs in America. Chefs like Tom Colicchio, Bill Telepan, and Rachel Ray and food writers like Michael Pollan have gone to Congress, indeed sometimes even have testified before Congress, have lent this support to Mrs. Obama's effort to combat childhood obesity.

Tawakkol Karman

I discovered that wearing the veil is not suitable for a woman who wants to work in activism and the public domain. People need to see you, to associate and relate to you. It is not stated in my religion to wear the veil; it is a traditional practice, so I took it off.

Dixon Osburn

There are many buses ahead of us yet. As we continue to confront inequality and segregation in our country, we still have the stellar example of Rosa Parks' gracious activism to guide and inspire us.

Arlen Specter

I am concerned about the Supreme Court's judicial activism which has usurped congressional authority,

Gunter Grass

For me, writing, drawing, and political activism are three separate pursuits; each has its own intensity. I happen to be especially attuned to and engaged with the society in which I live. Both my writing and my drawing are invariably mixed up with politics, whether I want them to be or not.

Alex Steffen

One of the most unfortunate side effects of the urban activism of the '60s and '70s is the belief that development is wrong and that fighting it makes you an environmentalist.

Eve Ensler

I've been involved in social activism my entire life, and I would argue that many people involved in social activist movements have done very little work on themselves.

Ben Horowitz

Shareholder activism works when activists understand something about the characteristics of the business that the board doesn't.

Kojo Annan

I feel the whole issue has been a witchhunt from day one as part of a broader Republican political agenda.

Joe Flaherty

'SCTV' was the concept of a group ensemble doing satirical things. 'Saturday Night Live's sketches were broader than ours, more universal.

Mark Zandi

So far, the surge in oil prices has yet to do any significant damage to the broader economy. We may see some softening in the consumer spending numbers soon, but unless that translates into a weaker job market, the economy should be able to weather these higher energy prices.

Randall Baumberger

Mirage is clearly an industry leader in loudspeaker sound quality and design. Mirage's premium speakers complement our industry-leading home entertainment selection, and we're excited to offer an even broader selection to our customers.

Larry Johannessen

Newer teachers also have a broader perspective on literature.

Brad Wilkerson

give everybody a broader sense of where they can come in and get involved and have a chance to purchase some great items for a great cause.

Evan Osnos

For years, China expected foreign companies not to publicly voice their complaints about hacking or intellectual-property violations in order to protect their broader interests in the country.

Benjamin Franklin

for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

Brian Schott

From a safety and family-friendly standpoint, it was no longer an event that felt good to us. We also wanted to look at an end-of-season event that could have broader participation.

Italo Calvino

I am more and more convinced that literature is made up of works, genres, schools, discussions, problems, collective work in order to solve certain problems.

Italo Calvino

For the critic, the author does not exist; only a certain number of writings exist.

Isabella Rossellini

I live my everyday life as a person, and I react to my photos from a certain distance. When I look at a photo, I detach myself and look at it as a product - not as me, Isabella.

Rick Perlstein

In the rest of the industrialized world, your boss can't fire you unless he or she can give a good reason. In America, with certain exceptions, your boss can fire you for any reason at all or for no reason at all.

Robert Kazinsky

Being a 'hunk' is going to do great things for my love life, and I'll get a lot more offers. But I'll certainly never see myself as one.

Robert Mankoff

There's public humor, and there's private humor, and they're all appropriate in their own way, and you shouldn't - just as you wouldn't have a megaphone and say certain things that you would say around your friends - things that are perfectly all right within your close social group with whom you share a certain context.

Roger von Oech

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.

Kevin Mitnick

I don't know the capabilities of our enemies. But I found it quite easy to circumvent security at certain phone companies throughout the United States. So if an inquisitive kid can do it, why can't a cyberterrorist do it?

Mallory Ortberg

It certainly was unusual growing up with two fairly well-known pastors as my parents.

Richard Peterson

Next week looks kind of low, ... We're headed into the late summer, pre-Labor Day drought for deals.

Christopher Dell

Neither drought nor sanctions are at the root of Zimbabwe's decline.

David Johnson

We need to monitor this drought situation very closely.

Stan Cliburn

With the talent we have here, that's a real, real good possibility that we're going to end that drought in '97 when the Red Wings won their last championship. I'm the man to do it and I think I can back it up.

Maxwell Gaylard

We need external assistance. It is not a dry season or a drought period, it's a drought.

B. R. Hayden

We're right on the edge of going into a drought period. If there's no change, we're likely to see a drought this spring.

John Tracy

Having year after year of drought really puts a lot of pressure on the whole system. This year it looks like we're over that.

Jim Hayes

We've been through a snow drought up until March.

Catherine Pearce

Extreme weather events, drought and rising sea levels threaten the lives and livelihoods of millions of people around the world. Negotiators must remember this as they enter these talks.

Robert Hass

I would say Gary Snyder, who is from my part of the world as a poet and environmental thinker, will be read just as Henry Thoreau as John Muir will continue to be read.

Jochen Zeitz

Let's recreate the equivalent of the Met Ball in Europe and, rather than for the museum, give the money to environmental causes.

Bruce Reznik

Lorena really is the environmental candidate. She's somebody I've worked with on environmental issues for the past six years, on state and local issues, and she has proven her leadership.

Jerry Ray

Many of the Florida environmental groups have come to see us, and they wanted this approach.

Beth Zimmerman

Many of the environmental modifications of interest to women are so fundamental that I expect them to improve the shopping experience and sales potential for all consumers, regardless of gender.

Jostein Gaarder

No day is alike - I do many other things, and I'm very active in the environmental movement.

Maurice Strong

One of the things that I've always thought I would like to do is to develop an environmental index. Then people can measure their own environmental performance on an index as they do in other ways.

Dennis Weaver

When we realize we can make a buck cleaning up the environment, it will be done!

Denis Hayes

We got everyone's attention, but we didn't solve any environmental problems.

Scott Adams

One "oh shit" can erase a thousand attaboys

Robert Rodriguez

My father did not want us to have an accent. It was a different era than it is today, where having a second language is a competitive advantage.

Mike Gascoyne

We had a very successful test with the TF105B, which features a different front suspension from the TF105, ... We had a problem with the power steering at the previous test, but here at Silverstone we were able to eradicate it.

Abdullah Ocalan

The stage has been reached where our armed forces should withdraw beyond the borders It's not the end. It's the start of a new era.

Jimmy McKinney

If we have a great tournament and we happen to win the tournament then we erase all the negative things that have been going on, especially the losing part.

Paul Allen

I felt like I was part of the new era of the Seattle Seahawks,

Kelvin Garnett

I felt for these kids after that football game. Hopefully we can erase some of disappointment in basketball.

Jonathan Swift

Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudices, eradicate virtue, honesty, and religion

Greg Boyle

The margins don't get erased by simply insisting that the powers-that-be erase them.

Kyle Cooper

Mother Nature is going to be huge in the next several weeks. Long term I think we're headed to $30 to $35, but I don't think we're doing that yet. We have a lot of winter left.

Terry Trippler

If a Northwest plane headed to Minot has to return to Minneapolis-St. Paul and an American plane has to return to Dallas, which one will hit the (local) news? That's the reality Northwest has to handle.

Steve Hofstetter

I don't know what it is about the open road that makes it so appealing. Maybe it's because when you're headed somewhere, you don't have to be where you've already been.

Tony Crescenzi

Treasury yields look headed to 5 percent by the May 10 (Federal Open Market Committee) meeting and possibly 5.25 percent by the June 29th.

Mark Kulda

We were kind of in the middle of the road. We're in the top 20 and probably headed to the top 15.

Jim Ledford

Yes it's true. He's headed to Oklahoma State.

Angelo Wright

He'll come in, sit down with those guys, see where they're headed and if it's a fit.

J. Taylor

We're on the right track and headed in the right direction. Unfortunately, we're out of track.

Anthony Chan

I think we're headed in the right direction.

Richard Garnett

Liberal justices like Thurgood Marshall and Ruth Bader Ginsburg think as highly of him as someone like Clarence Thomas. I think that's a testament to the respect he enjoys.

Tom Wolfe

I read somewhere that writers, as they get older, become more and more perfectionist. Which may be because they think more highly of themselves and they worry about their reputations. I think there's some truth to that.

Todd Rundgren

People have always said that I could have been a highly successful pop artist, if only that were my intention. It never was. My original intention was to be a kind of behind-the-scenes participant in music, to just be a record producer and engineer. And I made a record for myself just so I could have an outlet for my musical ideas.

Bob Wallace

I can't speak highly enough about the program,

Julianne Moore

I was somebody who was not athletic. I was highly imaginative; I loved to read, and I loved nothing more than being in a story... I didn't want to play ball; I wanted to imagine something and read something.

Donna Jones

She was a quite a lady. And a leader. Everyone spoke so highly of her.

Rose Rosetree

She's highly self sufficient. She needs her own space and her own life, her own things, her own identity.

Jane Harrison

To be womanly is one thing, and one only; it is to be sensitive to man, to be highly endowed with the sex instinct; to be manly is to be sensitive to woman.

Howard Warren Buffett

There are more living organisms in a tablespoon of highly organic soil than there are people on the planet.

Barbara Boxer

Let's not rewrite history, it's too soon for that,

Nadia Boulanger

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.

Delphine Arnault

Louis Vuitton has a long history with collaborations.

Pankaj Mishra

Many writers from the suburbs of history, such as Ireland and Argentina, produced more original work than their counterparts in the United States; they still seem to.

Kim Anderson

Many thanks for your part in our history.

Frank Hadden

Scotland's history has been one or two occasions of tremendous over-achievement, and I am hoping this is the start of one for us.

Ronald Reagan

Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

Guenter Verheugen

May 1 will be a milestone in the history of Europe,

Grant Fairley

One of the weaknesses of our society is that history is still news to most people.

Jose Cano

Makes me nervous. I want him to get a hit right now. I don't want him to go down. I want him to stay here forever.

Retief Goosen

Luckily, it doesn't really hurt me when I hit the ball. I know it's there, but it's nothing serious.

Larry Gispert

Life could be very, very different if we get hit by a major hurricane.

Bob Murphrey

Leon and James hit some big shots ? they did what they are supposed to do.

Yvette Girouard

Leslie Klein hit her first home run in two years. She looks like she's back and she loves softball.

Curt Schilling

Seven of the 11 hits were on fastballs,

John Major

September the 11th was a huge shock in the United States. It was the first time you had been hit at home in your own territory by terrorist on this scale.

Jim Lushine

Mother nature still has us in its sights. I hope it just wings us rather than hitting us in the gut.

Dan Gandin

McArdle hit some big shots for us in that first half. He really kept us in the game.

Robert Wilson

What interested me was dance - the way that it was constructed with time-space constructions, and that it was abstract. I always thought: 'Why couldn't theater be that way? Or an opera?'

Jacqueline Novogratz

Leaders can get stuck in groupthink because they're really not listening, or they're listening only to what they want to listen to, or they actually think they're so right that they're not interested in listening. And that leads to a lot of suboptimal solutions in the world.

Jim Newberry

Many of the interests the students have are similar to the interests of the community.

Akifumi Uchida

Many market players already think the ECB will raise interest rates in March and then several more times later this year.

Doug Booth

Many times I go to professional venues and it's just the pros playing with very little involvement or interest by the community. I didn't see this here.

Mario Cuomo

Scott Stringer has a record of standing up to special interests and getting results for the people of Manhattan. I know a real reformer when I see one and Scott Stringer is the real deal.

Kenji Johjima

Seattle had interest in me first. Out of respect for them, I wanted to sign here.

Kathleen Harrington

so it's in the interest of our success to do this and to label everything appropriately.

Andre Heerden

Modern people are interested in modern media, like DVDs.

Mikael Silvestre

Maybe we are relaxing too much in defense. At international level you get punished.

Bob Gansler

No one else has this specific kind of (artificial) turf. You have to up your level of concentration, because you are not going to get used to it in 90 minutes. We concentrated and strung some passes together and did well with it.

Larry Fitzgerald

My energy levels are off the charts. I can run all day, I breathe well, and I sweat a lot, so the toxins and impurities come out of my body.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

What concerns me, is the general social tendency to enforce a level, above which nothing rises and stands out.

Annika Sorenstam

I can't seem to make a putt and it's just very, very tough to be level par. I'm playing the way that I normally play here. Just nothing is happening.

Deepak Chopra

The solution is never at the level of the problem. The solution is always love, which is beyond problems.

Jason Kello

We need to meet the same level of funding.

Robert Kargon

We want to make sure that the level of student is high, and I would say we're selective, but not as selective as the undergraduate program (at Hopkins). Not yet, anyway.

M. Wolfe

On one level it is humorous, ridiculous and absurd. On another level it is scary.

Steve Sweat

We started out pretty good. But we started to go into a lull and they got some fast-break points.

John Allison

We are at somewhat of a lull in consolidation, but I think that will pick up again,

Ann Strother

We were experiencing a little lull at the time when they were going on a run. We needed to step up and make something happen.

Kent Early

We don't need a lull (this week). We need to prove to ourselves that we can play and that we're ready for the state tournament. That's our main objective.

J. M. Roberts

He's just so smooth and so fluid. He can just lull you to sleep at times.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Your lullaby would waken a drunken goblin!

Roberto Benigni

I think that sometimes only comedians can reach the peaks of tragedy.

Jeff Tedford

He doesn't go through the peaks and valleys that some people would. He just has an easy-going attitude.

Jeff VandeLoo

We've been pretty consistent. We've played pretty well all year without having a lot of peaks and valleys, which has been encouraging.

Frank Haith

Like anything you do, it'll work for a short period of time. But he's so intelligent that he's going to keep working.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

MILLENNIUM, n. The period of a thousand years when the lid is to be screwed down, with all reformers on the under side.

Michael Garnett

Getting thrown in like that is a tough way to make your debut. In between periods I talked to Dunham, and he said to go out there and relax. After that I played as I always played.

Andrew Barrett

I would be very surprised to see this spill over for a prolonged period of time.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

After a long period of not drawing, you have to, like, relearn how to draw. It's not very fun.

Neal Asher

I have had periods when I've overused a word, 'candent' being one example, but I'm trying not to do that any more.

Curtis Jackson

My work out routine is always changing. It should never stay the same for long periods of time.

Lauren Socha

I'm ready for theatre. I'm ready for dramas, period stuff, films. I want to achieve everything.

Luke Evans

I've dabbled in period films in my career, and I've enjoyed each one.

Michael Garnett

Getting thrown in like that is a tough way to make your debut. In between periods I talked to Dunham, and he said to go out there and relax. After that I played as I always played.

Neal Asher

I have had periods when I've overused a word, 'candent' being one example, but I'm trying not to do that any more.

Curtis Jackson

My work out routine is always changing. It should never stay the same for long periods of time.

Don Cahoon

We were a little too sloppy in all three periods to be able to squeak out a win.

Benjamin Walker

Don't trust somebody that don't have a troubled period.

Lauren Kellin

We usually get it done somehow. We've always been a third-period team. As soon as we put all three periods together, we feel there will be no stopping us.

Sugar Ray Leonard

When you're a boxer, there is a lot of downtime and long periods of inactivity.

Asghar Farhadi

I gained a great deal from the period during which I worked in theater and I value those things a great deal.

Lisa Stevens

He spends all his day in a tree. He comes down for short periods to play and nurse.

Edsger Dijkstra

It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.

Sathya Baba

If one student is bad, only that student is affected. But if one teacher is bad, hundreds of students get spoiled.

Tom Callos

When the student is ready, the teacher appears. Likewise, when the teacher is ready, the students appear.

John Boyles

I have a vision for the way students can be represented.

Kevin Knight

I'd like to see every student be a part of their school, whether they are in sports, band, drama, or any other ac-tivity,

Annie Dillard

When I teach, I preach. I thump the Bible. I exhort my students morally. I talk to them about the dedicated life.

Edward Hirsch

There's been no poet, no great poet in the history of poetry who hasn't also been a great reader of poetry. This is sometimes distressing to my students when I tell them this.

Paul Kohn

We're going to take a look at all the qualifications that all of the students bring.

Kelly Shackelford

What they're trying to do is treat them like they're not a student club. They are a student club.

Robert Osborne

I think there's something about traveling in airplanes all the time that's not the healthiest thing in the world for you.

Albert Schweitzer

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.

Jerry Costello

Make no mistake, our troops will be in Afghanistan and Iraq for a long time.

Jack Rio

So it was a valuable time for us.

Scott Ellis

My first time ever on the Tony Awards was in 1984, the year of 'The Rink.'

Anwar Robinson

One Moment in Time because I think it describes me as a person and how I felt about being on the show.

Rick DiPietro

Obviously, you're going to have jitters the first time you play in this event, but at the end of the day, it's still the same game.

Phil Lesh

Of course, in the band, we all interpreted in our own way simultaneously, so this time I'm just going to do it all by myself and see what comes out.

Denise Bottcher

No one got confirmation that she was napping. There was no time for napping.

William Benet

One speck within vast star-space lyingAwoke, arose, resumed its clothing,And crawled another day toward dying.

Clint Eastwood

I think 'Dirty Harry' was probably sensitive toward the victims of violent crime.

Jane McGonigal

We are moving towards a new form of collective intelligence.

Maurice Cheeks

We still have a long way to go and we're still working toward that.

Magic Johnson

I think that there are always goals for me to try to achieve, and I'm going to work toward those goals.

Rand Paul

I think a policy of isolationism toward Cuba is misplaced and hasn't worked.

Preity Zinta

I am very reactive towards everything. There are some who don't react at all, they absorb everything quietly, while I'd go all out and show my expressions. This is not part of some tamasha I do; I do it because it's part of my personality. To each his own.

Ryan Getzlaf

We're just working toward that now. Everyone wants to be in the same place at the end.

Katharine Graham

For more than eight decades, Washington has been my hometown. My whole orientation is toward this place.

Jane Gardam

Mum was a tremendous Anglo-Catholic. Very impressive, actually. She made me go to church for years - I still don't want to because of that.

Robert Matthews

I had many, many wonderful conversations with her about everything under the sun. She was one tremendous person.

Jim Gresh

She's just a tremendous athlete. She can do it all. She's very versatile, and she can really play any position.

Larry Coker

We need to find out about ourselves. We're going to get a tremendous test.

Chris Jordan

I think there's a tremendous amount of unacknowledged hostility in American culture.

Lloyd Carr

He has a tremendous attitude. He's very optimistic. He's very positive.

Joel Quenneville

He's had a tremendous year, I'll tell you,

Michael Foley

There is a tremendous untapped marketplace here in Mexico.

Norm Chow

I think he's a tremendous player. He's so explosive.

will.i.am

I don't follow waves or trends or emotions.

John Stayton

We are in a sense bucking the trend in most MBA programs.

C. L. R. James

It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear.

David Douglass

On the whole, the evidence indicates that model trends in the troposphere are very likely inconsistent with observations...

Daymond John

When looking at trends I always ask myself basic and timeless questions about business, and the one I seem to always come back to is, 'How is this different than anything else in the marketplace?'

David Amram

Today's trend ends up in tomorrow's landfill.

Bruce Sterling

A security cam is one small part of a much larger universe of cams. The much larger effect, socially, politically and economically, is going to come from a much larger trend.

Jane Krakowski

I've never been so on trend in my entire life.

Richard Herrington

If we see an upward trend in delinquency ratios, we tighten our lending, but we have not had to do that.