Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jerry Greenfield

The reality is that most companies are not about any values at all - they are about making money. It is extremely rare for a business to stand for anything because most businesses don't want to alienate potential customers, and if you believe in anything you are going to alienate someone.

Tariq Ramadan

The great majority of Americans do not know much about Islam but nonetheless fear it as violent, expansionist and alien to their society. The problem to overcome is not hatred, but ignorance.

Elliott Abrams

George McGovern and his supporters committed what, in a two-party system, are capital crimes: they did not compromise, they took hard ideological positions, they alienated a large portion of their party's traditional supporters, and they lost - very, very badly.

Eric Balfour

'Skyline' is an alien invasion film that really takes an interesting look at the genre. The writers did an amazing job of creating a new take at how life from other planets come and plan to invade Earth.

Joseph Thorndike

When you talk about a tax plan that has to make it through Congress, you can't alienate the blue states, because you need a lot of red votes in blue states to get it passed.

Roy Cervantes

We're handling it as a suspected alien smuggling case.

Alexa Vega

I always think it's hard for any young actor to make that transition to more grown-up roles. Because you don't want to alienate your audience who has been supportive of you for so many years, so you kind of have to tiptoe through that process.

Rick Oltman

What we're saying is the law needs to be applied. The law needs to be followed and that means the law for everyone, not just the illegal alien Mexicans but people who are here illegally from Europe and from around the world.

Bill Paxton

Stop your grinnin and drop your linen

Carol P. Christ

In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal.

Carlos Ghosn

At the age of 20 I bought a used Fiat 127. This was the only one I could afford!

Alan King

You know you are getting old when people tell you how good you look.

Charles de Gaulle

Old age is a shipwreck.

Charles Simmons

When a person feels disposed to over estimate his own importance, let him remember that mankind got along very well before his birth, and that in all probability they will they will get along very well after his death.

Jane Houlihan

The fact that PFOA can cross the placenta from the mother to child is very troubling, given the fact that this is a chemical that is broadly toxic and linked to birth defects in lab animals.

Zell Miller

when I counted the candles on my birthday cake and cringed.

Susan B. Anthony

The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain.

Brandon Boyd

I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.

Charisma Carpenter

I'm a mixed breed and hope to live longer because of it.

Sharon Kay Penman

Many people don't know that New Jersey is a fertile breeding ground for writers, some of them quite renowned. And I would wager that most would be truly startled to learn that the star in the Jersey firmament is - drum roll here - Newark.

Chris Hurt

Perhaps this is signaling a reversal of the longer-run trend of the breeding herd moving away from the eastern Corn Belt. In 1990, 27 percent of the U.S. breeding herd was in the eastern Corn Belt. That portion declined steadily to a low of only 17.2 percent in 2004.

Val Kilmer

One out of 100 citizens of the U.S. is going to prison, and it's not that the system is making criminals, it's that it's making criminals better criminals. We're breeding them like rats and it has to change.

Lisa Wathne

One very obvious indication elephants don't do well in captivity is the fact that zoos are having so much trouble breeding them.

Adam Schiff

Democracies are poor breeding grounds for terrorism and war.

Joschka Fischer

We were in opposition to the decision to go to war. But after the war happened, it was clear that you could not sit and look-there would be a breeding ground for terrorism or a new collapsed or failed state named Iraq!

Aristotle

Some animals utter a loud cry. Some are silent, and others have a voice, which in some cases may be expressed by a word; in others, it cannot. There are also noisy animals and silent animals, musical and unmusical kinds, but they are mostly noisy about the breeding season.

Dorothy Corkille Briggs

The surest route to breeding jealousy is to compare. Since jealousy comes from feeling less than another, comparisons only fan the fires.

Bonnie Williams

We want to promote the Red Cross as well as recognize the extraordinary deeds of our neighbors.

Sartaj Aziz

We have never crossed the Line of Control,

Mike Huckabee

What the Red Cross needs now more than donated goods is cash, ... This is shaping up to be one of the worst natural disasters in U.S. history, and it happened to our neighbors in Louisiana and Mississippi.

Kyle Beatty

The fact that it is fast moving would limit things like damage from rain fall. But the fast movement contributes higher wind speeds and means it will be fairly strong when it crosses the state.

Art Hogan

There are a lot of cross currents today. And there is talk that one of the big hedge funds is going under the waves.

Carl Tannenbaum

There are a lot of cross currents out there ... but overall the report suggests the job market is still doing pretty well.

Stephanie Scalessa

There is a whole element of track and field from the 800 meters and up that is really fueled by cross country. In those events, we weren't having much of a showing. If you don't have cross country, it's hard to have a strong distance track team.

Temple Grandin

I like to cross the divide between the personal world and the scientific world.

Scott Robertson

waiting until the end of the year and crossing our fingers and hoping that our students will pass.

Stanley Hauerwas

The problem with the U.S. foreign policy is that we're just so unbelievably powerful. And when you've got that kind of power, it's very hard not to use it.

Theodor Mommsen

The language of the land in the Parthian empire was the native language of Iran. There is no trace pointing to any foreign language having ever been in public use under the Arsacids.

Edwin Soeryadjaya

We know our responsibilities to our investors, and one of our challenges has always been preventing foreign investors from thinking that Indonesia is not a good place to invest.

Katinka Barysch

The perception is that foreign investment is not good for jobs.

Rahim Safavi

We are producing these missiles and don't need foreign technology for that.

Jose Rizal

Perhaps the great American Republic, whose interests lie in the Pacific and who has no hand in the spoliation of Africa, may someday dream of foreign possession.

Wang Jianlin

Foreign politicians don't have resources - or limited resources. It's useless dealing with them.

Slobodan Milosevic

Since foreign military intervention or a war are out of the question, other means of destruction of Yugoslavia are being mentioned -- psychological, media and political pressures.

Tim Jones

She is representing this trend of foreign students or people who are visitors to the province who are running into problems.

Virginia Postrel

The whole point of movie glamour was - and is - escape.

Guy Gavriel Kay

I don't know a writer who doesn't feel some sense of glamour and magic and a complex, wistful sadness emanating from the expats of the twenties in France. Some of the sadness, of course, is that we weren't there.

Martin Brodeur

People like the glamour and the glamour with Scotty is his hits. That's what they remember. They don't want to talk about him taking the puck away from Jaromir Jagr with one hand or anything like that.

Patty Fox

I think we're going to see a return to the Hollywood glamour era. We're going to see more variety than we've seen in the past.

Nate Turner

People have started to jump on the bandwagon. (But) we don't look at the glamour of it. We look at the part of how it helps the program.

Rick Elice

We never knew their story because they were from Jersey, and because they were blue-collar high-school dropouts ? Italian kids with no glamour quotient at all,

Becki Newton

Glamour is fun! Spending time to get ready isn't about being fussy; it's about taking care of myself.

Amy Schumer

Let's all just follow the lead of Glamour, and join forces and lift each other up.

Colm Toibin

People's interest in glamour and clothes and nylon stockings and all those things were, when I was a little boy, the sort of world that I listened to.

St. Gregory The Great

Whatsoever one would understand what he hears must hasten to put into practice what he has heard.

Jacques Chirac

It is necessary to hasten a return to calm,

Linda Duessel

The performance of dividend-paying stocks has more to do with the fundamentals in their industries.

Martin Broughton

The pleasing performance has been accompanied by the usual perplexing developments on the regulatory front,

Raymond Hack

We are proud of the performance of our team in the first leg.

Anthony Chukumba

When you strip everything out, the performance is pretty much as expected.

Brandon Sanderson

The best performances, are those that can be performed once.

Brian Tracy

How much we like ourselves governs our performance.

Bob Gunton

I actually acted onstage before I'd ever seen a live performance, and I loved it.

Katsuhiko Kodama

Softbank's poor performance is especially weighing on sentiment.

H. Hunt

She stays cool. She pulls out the big performance on the big day.

Caitlin Thomas

A lot of warm vulgarity is incomparably preferable to a little bit of pinched niceness

Diane Kruger

Above all, I dislike vulgarity.

Mark Badgley

So it's just not about, you know, vulgar nudity,

Barbara Stanwyck

There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.

Arthur Miller

... vulgarity has no nation.

E. M. Forster

Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.

Cyril Connolly

Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life.

Mark Twain

There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.

Oscar Wilde

No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime.

Charles de Gaulle

What do you take me for, an idiot?

Charles Caleb Colton

Shakespeare, Butler and Bacon have rendered it extremely difficult for all who come after them to be sublime, witty or profound.

Charles Simmons

Euphonic and harmonious expressions, forcible and just expressions, profound and comprehensive expressions, and especially apt and witty expressions, each have their specific influence upon different minds, and their common influence upon all minds.... It is therefore high time our most valuable aphorisms and paragraphs were put in order for frequent perusal, and for handy reference, as the circumstances of life call up subjects.

Charles Spurgeon

The friend of God must not spend a day without God, and he must undertake no work apart from his God.

Ricky Gervais

Most people sitting at home aren't cool, successful, witty Hollywood stars, but they all worry about what people think of them when they faux pas.

Susan B. Anthony

Every woman should have a purse of her own.

Dave Barry

A long memory is the most subversive idea in America. A tautology is a thing which is tautological. A witty saying proves nothing, but saying something pointless gets people's attention. If your kids look like you, it's hereditory. If they look like the neighbor, it's the environment. Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.

Dave Barry

What I think is that the F-word is basically just a convenient nasty-sounding word that we tend to use when we would really like to come up with a terrific-ally witty insult, the kind Winston Churchill always came up with when enormous women asked him stupid questions at parties.

Dave Barry

You will never find anybody who can give you a clear and compelling reason why we observe daylight savings time.