Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rahul Dravid

We want to put the players under pressure. (But) not in terms of results that come naturally, but in terms of achieving different goals they have been set.

Jane Burke

The fact is you cannot have great schools without the involvement of the entire community, but this information does not tell the whole story, ... We need to look carefully at the data. It is great to be number one in the state, but we mustn't forget that our work is truly about individual children, and until each individual child is getting what he needs, we cannot rest. We know that there are still students who are not yet achieving to their maximum ability.

Trevor St. John

Jazz music and, more specifically, jazz musicians, are my artistic heroes. I want to be the Thelonious Monk of acting. He had no concern for how well he was received. He played whatever he wanted whenever he wanted. He just wasn't interested in achieving the good opinion of his audience. That's the Holy Grail of acting; of any art form.

Pam Slaton

We did not ask for it. They knew about us. They were impressed at how an orchestra our size was growing and achieving professional status.

Hector Ruiz

We deserve to have a significantly larger share of the market than we already have. The only thing that's keeping us from achieving those numbers are the illegal, monopolistic actions of our competitor.

Richard Kelly

We are pleased with the progress toward achieving our earnings growth objective. We are reaffirming our 2006 earnings guidance of $1.25 to $1.35 per share.

J. Taylor

We are pleased with the financial performance and operational improvements that are demonstrated by our first quarter financial results, ... Our eighth consecutive quarter of double-digit sequential revenue growth and net earnings in the quarter of $2.8 million reflect a continuation of the momentum that was generated last fiscal year and put the company on pace to achieving our annual guidance.

Neville Isdell

This quarter we made further progress toward achieving consistent top-line growth in our business. It completes a transition year in which the company delivered solid unit case volume growth that was well balanced between carbonated soft drinks and noncarbonated beverages.

John Roth

This program did not have any impact on the final results for 1998. We are on target for achieving results that are in line with our guidance for 1998 and 1999.

Ayad Allawi

Whenever the results of the investigation come to the surface, then the time will be suitable to talk about forming the new government.

Matt Mullenweg

Whenever there's a new form of media, we always think it's going to replace the old thing, and it never does. We still have radio, however long after TV was introduced.

Trevor Hohns

We have rejigged the one-day side to what we hope will provide a range of options to take on a formidable World XI side, as well as forming the nucleus of the 2007 squad for the World Cup.

Kim Clijsters

There are a lot of good players here this week, but Amelie is in form and playing well so she will be tough to beat.

Tori Amos

I'm driven by the idea of characters and the song-cycle form is similar to a musical.

David Knopfler

I'd make a terrible practitioner of any religion in any formal setting.

Chad Harbach

The novel has always been the form that incorporates other forms. For me, it has always been the ultimate medium.

Mutula Kilonzo

We are going to ignore it because it has no value. It is pure nonsense and the former president will go on with ordinary life.

Gary Wolf

Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.

Carl Andre

What I made depended on what I found on the street. At least in the beginning, my materials came from the street.

Charlotte Bronte

After a youth and manhood passed half in unutterable misery and half in dreary solitude, I have for the first time found what I can truly love--I have found you.

Charlotte Bronte

I could not unlove him now, merely because I found that he had ceased to notice me.

Myles Brand

We have resolved all differences. We found a way to go forward. This is a significant agreement.

Bill Taylor

The process has been reviewed, and it's been found to be safe.

Kyle Waters

We used to send out material before school started but we've found that just being visible gets the word out.

Tony Goldwyn

I view the whole thing as a collaboration. As an actor, I always found that to be the most freeing thing, when the director would collaborate with you, so that together you'd come up with something exponentially better.

Tim Tebow

When your identity is found in Christ, your identity never changes. You are always a child of God.

David Selby

I never found it frustrating not speaking.

Alan Sugar

I find it strange that Gisela Gschaider a 1974 immigrant from Germany is on the brexit panel telling us British what we should do .

David Whyte

When I'm working with German audiences, I will call on my Rilke and Goethe in the original.

David Aebischer

We are going to have to win over Germany and Italy, that's where we focus.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

For us, genocide was the gas chamber - what happened in Germany. We were not able to realize that with the machete you can create a genocide.

Klaus Schulze

Then, in 1983 I went on a very long concert tour all over Europe.

Peter Bichsel

Writers lock up themselves into their language. I locked up myself into my language situation, where only new high German is spoken.

Douglas Sirk

Ross Hunter was my assistant on Take Me to Town, He was a young man, an actor before that, and learned a lot on the picture. During shooting, Goldstein left, and Ross was most pleasant. He never interfered.

Douglas Sirk

I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart.

Douglas Sirk

But I always wanted my characters to be more than cyphers for the failings of their world. And I never had to look too hard to find a part of myself in them.

Sharon Stone

Nobody took me too seriously but I was grown up even as a baby.

Sharon Stone

I'm not trying to make myself look like a girl because I'm not a girl anymore. I'm very happy about being a grown woman.

Karen Finerman

Protect yourself like you would your cubs - as a grown woman, you're no one's cub anymore.

Shavo Odadjian

We've all grown up not the same, but with very similar morals and values. We know how it is. We know not to talk about anyone's mother and sister.

Chris Fecera

We started small with one store in Birdsboro, which was probably a 5,000-square-foot garage, and it has just grown over the years.

Peter Horvath

We started small and have grown through this tremendous effort.

Regg Simon

We started out very solid back there, then got young real quick. Now our young guys have grown up. I like where we're at right now.

Larry Fitzgerald

When you think of Peyton Manning, you think 'ambassador.' The game has grown exponentially during his career because of him and what he means to our game, not only as a football player but as a humanitarian.

Dorothy Allison

My sisters, we didn't like each other as kids. We were scared of each other, I think, but we've grown to love each other. It was fun to write about these sisters who were supposed to hate each other but really don't.

Kevin Brownlow

To me, film is a religion. I don't expect to get paid to make it, but I do expect total dedication.

Kathleen Sebelius

If your voices are not heard, you can be sure that many others will be - in particular those who are paid to present a point of view, and often do it most effectively.

Maurice Williams

Whenever you see your quarterback on the ground, especially rolling around in pain, it's not good. We get paid to protect him. That's what we want to do and when we don't, our week is long.

Christopher Plourd

She paid it all off, but somebody never picked up on that.

John Schwartz

Legally, this is referred to as an increase. There's no two ways about it on the ballot. However, if you look at the preamble, it says this proposal would reauthorize the levy. That tells taxpayers this is something they have paid before.

Robert Reich

What someone is paid has little or no relationship to what their work is worth to society.

Andy Irons

On my waves I just did as many turns as I could and it paid off.

John Hopkins

If a student has already paid tuition for his or her university, that's it, we don't take any money,

Mark Chmura

I didn't do it to grandstand. I'm being paid to render an opinion. That's essentially what I did.

Carre Otis

Eating disorders, body dysmorphia and a general dissatisfaction with one's life and body seems to ail too many young people.

Carol Roth

Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.

Carol Kane

I don't feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people.

Carol Kane

That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.

Carol Leifer

They're all sources of material. What I love about what I do, the more you talk about your life, there are so many people who have similar experiences.

Carol Shields

I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people.

Carol Moseley Braun

All I really want to be is boring. When people talk about me, I'd like them to say, Carol's basically a short Bill Bradley. Or, Carol's kind of like Al Gore in a skirt.

Carol Moseley Braun

My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.

Carlos Beltran

I don't want to be hiding from people. It would be difficult to be recognized everywhere, so that I couldn't do things ordinary people do.

Carol Leifer

There were very few women comics when I started out doing stand-up. But I always saw that as a great advantage.

Charlie Crist

I was a Republican, and I saw the activists and what they were doing; it was intolerable to me.

Orlando Cabrera

When I did that I said 'Wow,' ... I got the video, and when Tejada saw the play when he got out, he started clapping.

Brian Wilson

I met Paul in 1967, Ringo in 1985, and I saw George Harrison in a nightclub somewhere in L. A. I never met John.

David Sedaris

If you stepped out of the shower and saw a leprechaun standing at the base of your toilet, would you scream, or would you innately understand that he meant you no harm?

Gabrielle Zevin

My grandparents used to bring me books every time they saw me.

Jandy Nelson

In one split second I saw everything I could be, everything I want to be. And all that I'm not.

Roman Gutierrez

We still saw some of our inexperience today. That will be the case, but there were still some steps of improvement.

Brian May

I really thought I was pretty good before I saw Hendrix, and then I thought: Yeah, not so good.

Stephen Colletti

Acting is fun, and if you enjoy doing it, you should take it seriously and see what you can do.

Bryan Ferry

As you get older, you get a bit more serious.

Jane Austen

An annuity is a very serious business.

Alan Arkin

My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.

Chetan Bhagat

Don't be serious, be sincere.

Cher

I'm not gonna become Ann Bancroft or Meryl Streep and have all the burden that being a "serious actress" entails.

William Shakespeare

In persons grafted in a serious trust, Negligence is a crime.

Richard Caborn

We have had the pantomime. Let's now have the serious stuff.

Bryan Clay

Repercussions are serious and they will take you places.

David Hayes

There is a weakness in the system somewhere,

Ashley Montagu

The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.

Jennifer Post

We're still making improvements to the system and assessing it, but everything is being done with long-term use in mind.

Bill Belichick

There is no new system in place. I don't know what you're talking about.

Kevin Potter

We feel that the system will get the word out when it's needed.

Riley Wallace

We've got a lot of new systems going.

Ram Dass

As one individual changes, the system changes.

Chuck Wilson

We have all new duct work and a new heating and ventilation system in there, so we won't be using the old system,

Lance Lyttle

We've got to have just one system . . . it's a no-brainer.

Diablo Cody

I have a lot of screenwriter friends and many of them have had an experience where they aren't even welcome on set during production.

John Zorn

Man, Dick Dale shreds. He's welcomed to anybody's bar mitzvah.

William Jenkins

Welcome to UNO; this is their new home, ... They're going to be OK.

Gerard Way

Welcome to the new church! Can I get an 'Amen'?

Alice Cooper

Welcome to my nightmare. I think you're going to like it. There'll be some more when you come down.

Samuel P. Huntington

First of all, we haven't always welcomed immigrants.

Charlie Ward

He said, 'You're welcome to come on full-time now,'

Ann Coulter

I'm a problem-solver, and you're welcome.

Dallas Willard

The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.

Bob McDonnell

I wrote my thesis on welfare policy.

Dennis Hastert

We want to make sure that Social Security is fixed for those people who have had that promise and there's something in the future for our younger workers. And we're not about to do a welfare program.

Barney Frank

For many of those who had historically supported welfare programs in the broadest sense, it was perfectly reasonable to enact legislation in which poor people were the objects of efforts to assist them.

Adam Carolla

Welfare is monetary methadone.

Amartya Sen

I left Delhi, in 1971, shortly after Collective Choice and Social Welfare was published in 1970.

Atharva Veda

O Scholar! Work for the welfare of the nation!

Gary Griffiths

The welfare of our young is really everyone's business.

Jim Fowler

How we treat the earth basically effects our social welfare and our national security.

Mark Steyn

Absolute welfare corrupts absolutely.

Carl Edwards

Whatever it is your doing out there, don't lose hope, you just keep digging and things can work out. I'm proof.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

A reply to Olbers' attempt in 1816 to entice him to work on Fermat's Theorem. I confess that Fermat's Theorem as an isolated proposition has very little interest for me, because I could easily lay down a multitude of such propositions, which one could neither prove nor dispose of. []

Said Musa

We have much work ahead, to stand still.

Chris Garza

When you're young, you don't know why you do what you do. But 14 to 18 are the most important years. That's when you have to work the hardest.

Stephanie McGilvrey

We want her to go back to Mexico. That was all she worked for.

Trent Yawney

We've still got some work to do. It's a work in progress.

Aaron Tveit

Especially like right now, I'm not shooting a show so you get to act. You get to do that stuff, kind of treat everyone as 'All right, throw the paint against the wall and see what I can do with this and what people say.' I think it's a great mental workout because you have to ready something, learn something fast. It's good to stay on your toes and keep sharp if you're auditioning.

Alan Ladd

I'm working myself to death.

Kim Delaney

We've still got a lot of work to do.