Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anne Crowley

We have no indication that any of the information's been misused. We went back and monitored activity in accounts since the theft, and we find nothing to indicate there's any unusual or suspicious activity.

Charles Stanley

Sin and accountability aren't popular messages. Yet being trendy and well liked is not the point. We're here to carry out the work and mission of God, even when doing so is uncomfortable.

Glenn Haberbush

We've seen some gyrations in expectations due to the whipsaw that we've seen in the economic data. We're looking for two more increases. At that point, the Fed must be a little bit cautious and take into account the lagged effect of previous rate hikes.

Lenny Goldberg

The fact that Hollywood productions use famously creative accounting is no reason to compromise a basic principle of our tax system.

Mark Vitner

The problem with the November employment numbers is hiring for the holiday season. It's hard to get a gauge of what it's going to be. They do a seasonal adjustment to the number to account for that, but the seasonal adjustment causes wider swings. And this year Thanksgiving came later in the month, so hiring might have started after the November data was collected.

John Stumpf

When I wake up in the morning, the first thing I look at is the checking account report from the day before. I love checking accounts. I dream about them.

Milton Pedraza

We set out to measure 25 brands in this growing hospitality category. However, in the minds of ultra-wealthy consumers, the Destination Club industry is still in its early stages of development. This is indicated by the dramatically low consumers awareness, rendering a large number of brands unable to be rated for lack of a reliable statistical sample. The category is populated with new brands with highly generic brand names. Many names are quite similar, generating a significant lack of differentiation in the minds of consumers. In this highly fragmented category, few brands have generated sufficient awareness, or differentiation, to make a strong impression on the wealthy. This accounts for the tight variances in scores across most dimensions on luxury status.

Samuel Goldwyn

No agency is better than its account executives.

Terry Hayes

I've read and traveled a lot in the Middle East, and I built on eyewitness accounts of horrific executions that would shape a boy's character and beliefs if he watched his father die that way. These are the stuff of which nightmares are made.

Dinaw Mengestu

The fact that I have always been deeply invested in politics, and African politics in particular, inevitably played a role in my first novel and, of course, in my decision to write about a handful of particular conflicts in Africa as a journalist.

Durado Brooks

The fact is, African Americans have not benefited equally from the improvements that are making a difference.

Aasif Mandvi

I think I would like to see more roles for South Asian performers that are more inclusive and part of the American Diaspora, the American tapestry, perhaps the way that African American and Hispanic roles have developed.

Toyin Odutola

My identity is not based on performance; it's based on something that's pre-determined by someone else, and I don't even understand what that is because I'm an African who came to America.

Todrick Hall

Now I've devoted my life to making sure that I can be a trailblazer for any other African American kids or any other gay kids or any other kids that just feel weird or uncomfortable and have their own issues and don't know how to express themselves. I want to be like a beacon for those kids now.

Erik King

Don't say you want to be an actor and not know how to read a script. Don't give up 15 minutes before the miracle comes. Everyone's career ebbs and flows, especially if you're African American. That's the time to dig in and keep your instrument sharp.

Erik Hersman

The emergence of a hardware product from an African company marks a phase-change point for tech invention. The BRCK shows that great ideas can come from anywhere, that innovation comes from solving real problems with constrained resources.

Eric Holder

While he was in the service, in the South and in Oklahoma, he was refused service at a couple of places where he was in uniform, and was told that African Americans, blacks, Negros, were not served. And in spite of that, I've never known a man who loved this country more than my father did.

Kandyse McClure

The very first role I ever played was as a 17-year old South African girl who dreamed of being a star and left home to meet her mother in the big city so that she could pursue that dream. I left South Africa and met my mother in Vancouver and not long after that was given the opportunity to perform on the stage and have people chant my name.

Tom Shales

Making music on TV used to be as common as commercials. In the '60s and '70s, prime time was stuffed with variety shows headlined by such major and treasured talents as Carol Burnett, Red Skelton, the Smothers Brothers and Richard Pryor, who had a very brief comedy-variety hour on NBC that was censored literally to death.

Elizabeth Thornton

Most of us know when we are about to react emotionally. We can feel it. Often there is a brief warning before the amygdala hijack. For some of us, it is butterflies in the stomach; for some, it is an increased heart rate, and for others, it is a feeling of agitation.

Kage Baker

A generation before, it had been sagebrush and coyotes; a generation later, it was a burgeoning movie town. But for that brief idyllic time in 1910, Hollywood looked like the perfect place for a successful writer to settle down, build his dream house, and maybe do some gardening.

Michael Wilson

We had brief discussions with the SG and his entourage.

Italo Calvino

I'm only a novelist on occasion. Many of my books are made up of brief texts collected together, short stories, or else they are books that have an overall structure but are composed of various texts.

Franz Kafka

Persons who write a 10,000 word document and call it a brief

John Abraham

My greatest strength as an actor is that I follow my director's brief completely. The film is always the director's visual baby.

Malcolm Wilson

I hated my brief fame. We had TV vans camped outside my house, reporters hounded me... people i'd know for years started treating me differently.

Jason Robert Brown

I find I like the spotlight for a very brief period of time... and I sort of need it. But then, the minute that it's done, I have to sort of go hide. So I was never really meant, I think, to be a performer for a living.

Caitlin Kittredge

Dean flashed me a smile that promised rule-breaking and breathlessness.

Penny Wright

So many students today use the Web as a source of information. There's going to be an interactive feel; the dean is actually talking to the students from the Web site.

Mike Blake

She toured nationally with Jimmy Dean when he was playing music instead of making sausage. She's still got it, too.

John Edward

Unless I missed something, Governor Dean still has not said he was wrong. Were you wrong, Howard?

Ken Block

My heart goes out to Dean and Ginger both. We have a long history with them, and we hope for the best.

Tyler Hansbrough

I expected to play well, but it's kind of shocking that I'm playing this well. I never expected, as a young guy, to come into the Dean Dome and drop 40.

Michael Weston

My interest in theatre started in high school, mostly because my dean forced me to do it. I was creating trouble in the hallways, so he demanded that I do something with my spare time.

Justin Timberlake

The thing is that my idols have always been the types of guys who could do anything: Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Sinatra, Dean Martin; and when you look up to people like that, you don't accept that you need to be compartmentalised.

Baruj Benacerraf

In 1970, Dean Robert Ebert offered me the Chair of Pathology at Harvard Medical School. I moved to Harvard because I missed the university environment and, more particularly, the stimulating interaction with the eager, enthusiastic, and unprejudiced young minds of the students and fellows.

Gilbert Herdt

On one hand there is no association between mental illness and homosexuality. On the other hand, we also know that gays and lesbians have higher levels of stress problems.

Matt Williams

People judge gays before they meet them. They're really good, as you can see.

Damon Romine

These representations on reality television have really broadened people's perceptions of gays and lesbians.

Edmund White

Originally I was opposed to gay assimilation and targeted gay marriage as just another effort on the part of gays to resemble their straight neighbours.

Edmund White

AIDS had won gays sympathy; they no longer seemed the privileged brats that the general populace had resented in the 1970s.

Rick Garcia

I know that he has said things in the past that have been offensive to some groups of people - gays, in particular to Jews. But I think that the invitation from the Nation of Islam to Jews and to gays may be a step in the right direction. I took it as such.

Barack Obama

I think what you're seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gays and lesbians and transgender persons are our brothers, our sisters, our children, our cousins, our friends, our co-workers, and that they've got to be treated like every other American. And I think that principle will win out.

Robert Brown

We're still a youngish program. We're having to grassroots our tennis. We're laying the groundwork and being patient.

Steve Levy

We want to make this a grassroots effort.

William Greene

We're a grassroots organization. We're not funded by big donors. If we're sending 2 to 3 million e-mails a week, paying a penny per e-mail will price us out.

Roger Baldwin

With large numbers coming, we will support the grassroots organization within our normal programs.

John Linder

I have seen the times when the grassroots has moved the Congress. We listen way more often to our constituents than the lobbyists. And the grassroots are going to have to do it.

Ed Perlmutter

They are the heart and soul of their communities. It's grassroots politics at its best.

Tracey Anders

It will take a grassroots effort. The more small groups we can meet with, the better off we'll be.

Mark Rodgers

There's a heavy, heavy grassroots component. It's happening on a nationwide basis.

Robert Rich

This is a very grassroots movement. Most of my promoters are people like Allan who just want to help out.

Richard Stice

But what worries me is that you're going to see pressure on gross margins as film declines.

Anna Kendrick

I heard people saying they were going to become millionaires by the time they were 25 - that's gross and obnoxious, but in California it's looked on as an asset.

Brent Sutter

The players thought it was pretty gross because my leg was just black. I limped around until the end of January.

Laurence Gilman

To say we're unhappy with the performance of the team is a gross understatement.

William Carpenter

To say I find these results unacceptable would be a gross understatement,

David Johnson

I would suggest there's some sloppiness here. Neither mere negligence or gross negligence will suffice.

Sam Craig

There are multiple revenue streams, so theatrical gross is important because it signals the subsequent revenue through home video rentals, sales of DVDs, pay television and others.

Errol Flynn

My problem lies with reconciling my gross habits with my net income

Larry Ceisler

We have offered $2 million to start out with, and then every year going forward, a percentage of our gross with a minimum of $500,000.

Laila Ali

I never intended to box forever, and always planned to move on to do other things.

Mark Twain

Write without pay until somebody offers to pay you. If nobody offers within three years, sawing wood is what you were intended for.

Neil Peart

If I go play golf with the guys, it's intended to be a joke.

Dorothy Young

She looked so beautiful. I was so moved. I intended to say a prayer, but I forgot.

Sarah Churchwell

'Sesame Street' was a pioneering educational T.V. show, intended to help underprivileged children. But even those of us middle-class kids spoilt for pedagogical choice couldn't get enough of it.

Mike Jones

I don't think it is right to use the petition system when you have no intention or likelihood of prevailing. That is not what the system was intended for and to misuse it now is reckless.

Richard Menicke

I had intended to race three in the varsity race.

Courtney Pratt

If other people see it differently, they'll see it the way they want to see it, but that's not what it's intended to do.

Edgar Ramirez

I majored in political communications, so I intended to be a diplomat.

Alan Lewis

Failure comes when you don’t listen. You can’t put something out there and assume it’s great. It’s up to us to make sure we’re listening to improve our chances for success-if not this time, next time.

Charles Stanley

Yieldedness is vital in listening to what He has to say.

Charles Spurgeon

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

Derek Lam

There is a long list of negative news today,

Ray Soudah

There is a long buyers' list and a short sellers' list.

John Orton

We set up a wiretapping operation in a flophouse where we listened to their conversations, which were in German, and then translated and recorded the conversations of the Nazi spies,

Brian Eno

Listening to something is an act of surrender.

Bret Easton Ellis

The numbing lists of things you were supposed to have as an American to make you happy, which ultimately, of course, don't. Those aren't the things that make you happy.

David Amram

When you are accompanying someone, you are listening to them the way you listen to a Bach Chorale, where four parts are going on at the same time, all of which are gorgeous melodies, all being played simultaneously.

Tom Connelly

What he had in mind was something in the government, but he never mentioned FEMA.

Kathleen Kenyon

It has been mentioned that in Trench I there is evidence of three successive stages of these defences.

John Panciocco

I was shocked. I didn't know anything about the cyst. He never mentioned it and I never really noticed it.

Debra Pegram

We've never mentioned our record at all. I know that a lot of people probably talk about it, but we just worry about trying to get better for our next opponent.

Father Thomas

I already have plans, Stephen, ... but thanks for the offer. Are you sure you have time for pizza, Mark? I thought you mentioned a project you had to work on tonight.

Mark Fallon

I thought they were great, but I didn't think much about them until this year when another teacher mentioned remembering them.

Pat Summitt

I don't think I've mentioned it to the players one time,

Mamata Banerjee

We have talked about the infiltration problem but not mentioned any community.

Dave Jones

(The team title) was mentioned in practice. We want to go out and win it, get the second one. Most of us feel we can do it, too.