Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Perlstein

Why was Barack Obama attractive to people in 2008? If you think about Barack Obama, there's all this anxiety about society, just kind of wracked by centripetal forces - the idea that the center's not holding, no one can talk to each other, the idea of a political system that's broken.

Ronald Kessler

I like a challenge. The fact that these are secret organizations, and also very important organizations that can engage in abuses that are so important to our national security - all that attracts me.

Paul Jennings

Like any other sort of fringe activity, you find that people are attracted to it because there's something that it fulfills that their daily life doesn't.

Chip Brown

Like dogs, bicycles are social catalysts that attract a superior category of people

Peter Graves

Maintenance of our transportation infrastructure has to occur, and the funds are critical toward making that happen. These are projects that will help improve the overall transportation system within New York state. It will attract new business. We view this as very important for New York state and its communities.

mucor dedaliv

Love in the peace of the blessing in the inheritance with a god in the worship of the man and an attraction in neatness is a GOOD MARRIAGE.

Hermann Hesse

Love must not entreat, nor demand. Love must have the power to find its own way to certainty. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract. Your love, Sinclair, is attracted by me. When it begins to attract me, I will come. I will not

Juthamas Siriwan

Last year we targeted 13,8 million but unfortunately, because of the tsunami, we were only able to attract 12 million.

Edward Jones

Many of the leading technology companies have shown solid sales and earnings growth since the economy began to improve in late 2001. While technology earnings have continued to grow and the stocks have remained flat or even dropped, we believe the prices of many of these companies are more attractive than we have seen in a long time.

Ronald Kessler

While most Americans know about the Boston Tea Party, few are aware of the Liberty Tree and how important it was to fanning the flames of rebellion that led to the revolution in 1775 and the Declaration of Independence.

Rohit Shetty

Film making is an expensive, as well as a serious business. We should be able to entertain our audiences, who are fully aware of what they want. Every filmmaker has a different point of view and presents facets of society.

Marco Brambilla

I think that in a weird way, as technology gets more sophisticated, people have become less aware of it. It's become part of our day to day life. We're seeing large-scale projection mapping, like on buildings. There's video everywhere. It's much less noticeable that we're actually looking at technology.

Joe Nolin

We're not certain at this point, but we are aware of the opportunity and we might have a use for it on the beach.

Michael Haneke

Manipulation is constant in the media. Even the images of 'reality' on television are manipulated. The difference in this film is that the manipulation is there to make you aware that you are being manipulated, that you can be manipulated.

Robin Bowen

Life is about becoming more aware of who we are and how we fit into the world, not how the world has told us who we need to be. Ultimately, everything changes, and if you stop changing, you stop growing.

Chris Clarke

Major League Baseball helped kicked this off during the World Series when this was fresh on everybody's mind. Unless you are living in the Gulf Coast, you are probably thinking about other things other than families down there and what they have to go through. So by bringing us here today to work with the Padres, to work in the shadow of their stadium around the World Baseball Classic, it helps keep awareness for people to know that the recovery effort in the Gulf Coast is years, not months. We have to be there today, tomorrow and beyond and Major League Baseball has been a big part of that.

Ken Starr

Major decisions during the Lewinsky investigation have not been easy. And given the hurricane force winds swirling about us, we were well aware that no matter what decision we made, criticism would come from somewhere.

Richard Katz

Let's not kid ourselves. The entrance into the Big East Conference was primarily the result of positive visibility and awareness of the nationally ranked basketball teams under Bob Huggins . . .

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.

Sumner Redstone

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

Robin Munro

Major disasters involving heavy loss of life have just shot up. It's in direct correlation to profits and production. They're ignoring safety in the interest of bringing the coal up to the surface.

Steve Largent

Maintaining a successful, consumer-friendly recycling program continues to be a top priority of the wireless industry. So please recognize Earth Day 2006 by taking your used wireless products out of the sock drawer and bringing them to the wireless carrier store near you to be recycled.

Anne Mulcahy

Maggie is an exceptional leader with a proven track record of bringing innovative, technology-based solutions to market. Her experience and strong leadership skills will serve Xerox and its shareholders well and complement the outstanding talent serving on our board.

Ali Noorani

Let's leave our flags at home. Let's make sure we're bringing the American flags.

Edward Davis

Lessons for Tomorrow: Bringing America's Schools Back from the Brink.

Chuck Robbins

Many of the technologies we're bringing out lend themselves to managed offerings. They are, by definition, complex, and customers are looking for expertise from our partners.

Lorraine Pino

Many of the new businesses that are coming downtown are bringing a new energy.

Larry Martin

Last year we expanded. But to do it in the time frame we have got and do it right? This seems to be the right amount.

Kozo Yamamoto

So long as there is a solid framework in place, it's up to the BOJ.

Lamar Butler

One I'm going to keep in my pocket wherever I go. One I frame and keep it on my wall.

Mark McNulty

I feel like I've been playing well, and being back at Oak Hills should put me in a good frame of mind.

Anthony Mix

I have a big frame but I'm leaner now. I'm faster.

Ahmad Fawzi

If we come out of this meeting with a framework for the process for a political transition, then we will have succeeded. This is the first step in a long road toward establishing good governance in Afghanistan.

Dale Peterson

To try to frame us as anything but public golfers of San Diego, I reject that notion.

Steven Sinofsky

Management, at every level, is about the effort to frame challenges, define end states, and allocate resources to navigate between them.

Sophia Amoruso

EBay gave me the framework to discover I was an e-commerce entrepreneur. I touched everything, from shipping to logistics.

Derek Bailey

I'd like trios and quartets actually, but I like duos because a lot of musicians who I like playing with like playing duos.

Kathleen Blanco

We have a lot of talent in Louisiana, ... For years, our musicians have had to go to Nashville or New York to record.,

Robert Moog

I'm an engineer, ... I see myself as a toolmaker, and the musicians are my customers. They use the tools.

Bill Dixon

If musicians don't do any music, then there isn't any music. Musicians are very tricky and can be quite elusive.

Z. Sheppard

The sad thing is so many of the musicians have died.

Donald Harrison

The musicians will come back. It's going to take a long time, but New Orleans can actually be a better place because of this.

Robert Brown

The rest may reason and welcome; 'tis we musicians know.

Scott Baldwin

This is only the second time Tommy has been here in Texas for something like this. Normally, musicians of his reputation work with college-level students; we're very fortunate.

Joe Horn

None of us will give up. Trust me.

Jake Green

None of us want to leave. We're really pointing for this District.

Richard Ross

None of us want to be here Saturday night.

Mike Enzi

None of us wants this premium ultimately to be enacted into law.

David Stockman

None of us really understand what's going on with all these numbers

Roy Williams

None of us really thought that we'd be at this level.

Brett Bushong

None of us read it. We didn't want to tamper with it. We just wanted to respect them.

David Chase

None of us on the show, ... ever thought it would do anything.

Mathias Kiwanuka

None of us know if we'll ever play another down.

John Calipari

Let me tell you, we played well. Don't think we didn't play well, we're not much better than they.

Dan Dersam

Leah played exceptionally well in the first half. In the second half, they did everything but tie her shoes together to try and stop her.

Colin Cushman

Megan played great. We're a young team, so I'm not too surprised that we had some problems.

Michael Lehmann

My first movie, 'Heathers,' had played at the festival, so I had a little bit of a Sundance connection, but I didn't really know about the Labs.

Scott Rolen

No different than any other year. Played it the same as every year, no swings the first time out.

Jim Tressel

Obviously, it was a different scenario than we've played under recently.

Robert Price

We had been at Warehouse C-11 in Atlanta, where we had played before,

Rafael Nadal

For sure I didn't play 100 percent. But he played very good, too.

Roberto Luongo

From my standpoint it's disappointing. I think I could have played a little better.

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.

Cher Lloyd

I like to experiment a lot, I just like to make myself look different to everyone else. Shopping at all different places from vintage to high-street, and then I just put it together myself.

Charlotte Ronson

Once I graduated from NYU, I started making custom vintage tees for my friends and it just took off from there.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other. I may credit the seductive influence of an old vintage upon the narrator for the beginning of it, and my own skeptical incredulity during the days that followed for the balance of the strange tale.

Bridget Hall

I love to find a great vintage secondhand shop.

Britt Ekland

I used to collect vintage clothing - exquisite lace dresses, embroidered shawls and ornate jewelry - but that's just not me any more.

ASAP Rocky

I don't like new cars; I'm into vintage cars - there's a Jaguar E-Type in the 'Goldie' video.

Alicia Keys

I have this vintage Harley-Davidson motorcycle jacket. When I put it on, it has this supercool feeling to it.

Douglas Coupland

I get verklempt if I see a vintage TI-30 or TI-54 calculator. But I don't think I'd want to use one.

David Boreanaz

I like old cars, old watches, anything with a vintage, antique kind of a feel to it. I'm just more in tune with that than anything else.

Chris Evert

I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people.

James Garner

There are younger directors, and anybody over 30 is ancient to them, because they're not that old.

Daisy Ridley

Carey Mulligan and Felicity Jones are two of my favorites. I'm not so much younger than them. I like that. It's kind of aspirational.

Liam Hemsworth

As the younger brother, I think you always have crushes on your older brother's girlfriends.

Patti Smith

My siblings were a bit younger than me, and I was always entertaining them and making up stories.

Bianca Lawson

I am so lazy. I really don't have a regimen. When I was younger I used to be into cardio and taebo and step-orobics and hiking. Lately, I haven't done anything at all. I'd like to get into yoga, but I've been really bad.

Tamara Ecclestone

When I was younger I wanted to be a gymnast, but they have to be quite short - I was tall.

Martin Parr

I like to keep in touch with younger photographers. It's important that a younger generation comes up and questions the assumptions made by old farts like me.

Margaret Spellings

I'm encouraged... we're on the right track, especially with younger students,