Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard P. Feynman

Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, 'But how can it be like that?' because you will get 'down the drain,' into a blind alley from which nobody has yet escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that.

E. Hurley

So far, we've been able to either change companies or negotiate a price down ... But it has gotten to be more and more difficult and takes more and more effort. Sooner or later we're going to be in that blind alley and not be able to get out of it.

Jason Calacanis

My first company produced 'Silicon Alley Reporter' magazine, where I held the dual titles of CEO and Editor.

Lesli Andrews

Solid waste ordinances say put bulky items in the alley and we'll come pick it up. We say if you put bulky items in the alley, you'll get a letter and a citation.

Jim Andrews

We have a lot of customers that depend on us for their products and if we have to deliver them out a back alley door, that's what we'll do.

Danny Saenz

We get complaints from people that certain properties are not being kept up. We look into it, and once we find the owners we send them a notice asking to pick up their garbage, debris and brush and their alley ways and ask them to place any garbage in its designated area.

Jim Burns

The problem was that it went down the alley for about six blocks and the whole alley was full of debris. We had to clear it out first before we could get in there. Then we had to replace every pole in a six-block area and string new wire. They are still putting up poles.

Julianne Moore

When I was seven, these kids in the alley behind our house in Omaha called me Freckleface Strawberry. I hated my freckles, and I hated that name. I thought it was humiliating in the way that only a seven-year-old could hate it.

Tracy Hickman

'Wayne of Gotham' is very much a father-and-son exploration. We've always seen Thomas Wayne through the years as this figure carved in marble; this perfect man. The only thing we really know about is that he died in that alley outside of a theater. But every son has to confront the reality of his father at some point in his life.

Robert Kazinsky

I'd watched every episode of 'True Blood' from the very beginning. The show's characters were in my blood, so when I started, I was really prepared. I made sure I wasn't the new guy asking stupid questions on his first day.

Rohit Shetty

Jokes apart, people are constantly asking me, 'What are you doing for the industry?' When one makes a blockbuster, you plough back money into the industry. If my film makes 100 crore, I'm not taking the entire sum home! It gets distributed between the exhibitors, distributors, producers and actors.

Kris Gopalakrishnan

With a traditional human resources system, we would work with a company, select the product, customise and implement the system, and our job would be over. Some companies are changing and asking why do they need to own the HR system when they can connect to an Internet service and pay as you go?

Toba Beta

Let us think for a moment about alien, regarding possibility of the existence of other civilization beyond our dear planet earth. We probably conclude that it's all just hoax, or some rumors issued by ruling government for some purpose. Now, we can contemplate a bit about it by asking this simple rhetorical question, 'How could possibly people be able to think about something unknown, which have never been popped out in human minds at all?'

Pat Burke

(Legislators) are reinventing the wheel, making it square and asking us to do it for them.

Walter Isaacson

Louisiana lost its credibility by asking for everything. Now it is our job to say, we have some reasonable priorities for spending and we are going to be sensible and frugal about it.

Cindy Walker

Lots of people have been calling asking about converting their oil-heated homes to propane-heated homes,

Barry Alvarez

Many times they were trying to run with a linebacker on him, which is very difficult, if you're asking a linebacker to play run support and also play the tight end.

Michael Casserly

Many boards are asking superintendents to be messiahs.

Donald Judd

Well, I am not interested in the kind of expression that you have when you paint a painting with brush strokes. It's all right, but it's already done and I want to do something new.

Tyra Banks

I am intimidated by that eyeliner in a pot. You have to take a brush and wet it and then dip it in and get it straight. It's just a mess.

Erik Jensen

I was going to finish out the season, see if I got picked up and try to get into a training camp for next year. Give it one more shot. If that didn't happen, kind of brush up the resume and go find something else to do.

Jim Thome

I look forward to it. It's like brushing your teeth.

Amber Margarejo

She's hateful right now. She can't do anything for herself. ... She's a very independent person. She can't brush her hair.

John McArthur

Some customers will put out the brush fire but miss the forest fire. Customers need to think about how to get the data off an archive when the technology is no longer any good and onto new stuff without too much pain.

Martin Shkreli

I did sleep on the floor of my office sometimes. I didn't brush my teeth as often as I should have. I think my hygiene has improved quite a bit.

Samuel Adams

It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.

Tom Brady

After the first day of practice, there's not one guy who's playing at 100 percent or who feels great. Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day - it just hurts.

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.

Bob Curran

Last year, we had 3,000 wells drilled but fewer than 20 complaints. These complaints are for all types of issues, including water, noise and surface impacts.

Jim Roberts

So far, we've not received any complaints from tenants that they are losing parking spots.

Mark Turgeon

No complaints. We had the first game on our home court. This is probably how it should be.

Tommy Tuberville

No complaints on our part. We'll go down there and play, and it will make no difference on who wins and loses.

Chris Spillane

No complaints, no regrets. The better team won tonight. They are an outstanding hockey team. We have no reason to hang our heads.

Jean Arnault

One of the very, very widespread complaints about reconstruction process today is where is the money going. There is a sense out there that resources are not fairly allocated.

Patricia McGinnis

More and more complaints are not investigated at all, or not on a timely basis.

James Neal

For years I have been complaining about this very thing. You have the power to reform and that's what we need, from A-to-Z - reform.

Sam Rainsy

The only option left is to continue our struggle in the National Assembly. We will push for our complaints to be dealt with, addressed properly,

Brian Dixon

There (are) tons of debris down there, the likes of which have never been seen. To maintain safety, we needed to limit the number of firefighters working on the site.

George Johnson

Imagine the traffic jam you've got. We're talking about several miles of debris going down the interstates.

George Johnson

Imagine the traffic jam you've got, ... We're talking about several miles of debris going down the interstate.

Mark Viator

I have been to the Ninth Ward. There is debris in the Ninth Ward, but you don't have people. We say, send the money where the people are.

Gus Melonas

With the heavy saturation, we have erosion and sloughing of the cliffs. The debris has no place to go but down.

Larry Kelly

Trees and debris and rooftops in trees into houses. We've been removing debris out of the road. Now we're in the recovery stages at this time.

Jason Green

We're doing everything we can, but the debris piles are so enormous that our searchers are very limited, ... It's just hard. It's just difficult. It's aggravating. These are the people we serve in the community. And they need us to help them.

Elliott Sadler

My spotter said there was debris everywhere, so I was just slowly picking my way through there, and the next thing I know everyone is wrecking.

Tom Jones

My worry is that if we stand down the shuttles entirely and something drastic happens on the space station, like a debris strike, for instance, the Russian support ships won't be able to respond. You can't do repairs up there without a shuttle.

Terry Brooks

One summer we played for a week at being Knights of the Round Table, using broom handles as swords and lances and metal garbage can lids as shields.

Daniel Rader

If all schools were green schools, we would recycle a lot more. If we keep on like we're going, the landfill will fill up in 14 years and we'll have to pay more for garbage and it will be bad.

Peri Gilpin

So I step out of the shower, and I look out the window, and I notice the garbage man looking right in at me. So I say, 'Did you get a good look?' and he says, 'Not completely, turn around.' Then he smiled and he was missing a tooth, and that's when the romance went right out of it.

Joshua Freeman

We needed our parks mowed. We needed our garbage picked up.

Joe Borowski

What a garbage way to lose the game.

Craig Miller

We're riding a garbage truck. Who doesn't want to ride around on the back of a garbage truck?

Mel Lastman

Where's your garbage chute, Gordo? This one's for Mel.

Billie Joe Armstrong

A guy walks up to me and asks, "What's Punk?". So I kick over a garbage can and say. "That's punk!". So he kicks over the garbage can and says, "That's Punk?", and I say, "No that's trendy!

Ashleigh Brilliant

The whole world is our dining room, but be careful: it is also our garbage can

Jamie Shea

Milosevic is in the corner, and that's where he's going to be kept by NATO until he throws in the towel.

Tyler Perry

My first show was called 'I Know I've Been Changed' in '92. I tried to do this show for years and years. It kept failing over and over and over again. Every time I went out to do the show, nobody showed up. I was like, 'What is this about?'

Mickey Rourke

I didn't have a childhood, really, because I worked my whole life and... other reasons. So when I had some success, I went ballistic. That was my childhood, and the party kept going on.

Martha Grimes

I don't think I could have just kept writing the 'Richard Jury' books. It wasn't that I was bored or dissatisfied. I just had to write something else.

Orlando Cabrera

The pitching is what kept us in games, but if you're not hitting, you're not going to win,

Colin Farrell

On shooting American Outlaws: I kept saying 'Bang bang' and they kept having to cut.

Eddie Ho

I was running and taking pictures. I just kept pressing the button.

Greg Genske

I wouldn't say that. I'd say he's kept an open mind.

Neil Roberts

If we had kept it up at that pace it would have been 88-2,

Robert Wilson

If you slow things down, you notice things you hadn't seen before.

Nick Barth

More people are starting to notice that we're here.

Andrea Walker

When they (the committee) started, I noticed they didn?t have any students on the committee,

Kix Brooks

New York actually took notice of us and it wasn't in a hokey, hay-bale kind of way.

Chris Widger

Oh, yeah, it's been noticeable for a while now,

Adam Nelson

I didn't notice the rain. I thought it was sunny all day long.

Gus Frerotte

I didn't notice Keith Traylor that much in Denver.

John Zelezny

We are required to give a four-month notice before we can go off contract.

Yuri Kochiyama

I didn't wake up and decide to become an activist. But you couldn't help notice the inequities, the injustices. It was all around you.

Ed Miliband

A company is not accountable just to its owners, but to its workers and its customers.

Vince McMahon

So, I don't know why Bret would think that he should have some right to ownership or right to usage of videotape, which is no different than any actor who performs in any sitcom or television show.

Paula Yates

I don't think that sleeping with one of the owners gives you the advantages people think it does.

Mike Jacobs

We're in for a period of uncertainty as we wait for new ownership to emerge, I really don't feel unwanted. I think there's going to be quite a lot of interest.

Eduardo Galeano

From their castle in Zurich, the owners of soccer do not propose, they impose. That's their way.

Dan Rooney

I would say we're partners with the players now. There's owners that would resist it now, but ... I really think that's the way it should be.

Bob Stevens

The owners were receptive to donating the River Queen to us if we can raise the money. If can't get pledges or make a significant impact, we'll back out.

Michael Hoffman

The owners have not been particularly forthcoming ,

Dan Walters

We recognize that this is something that our owners want.

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.

James Rubin

making excuses. Why don't they let the inspectors do their job? Stop making excuses, stop trying to politicize the operation, stop trying to pick the inspectors.

Mark Reiland

Obviously, we won the right one. We wanted to win both, but if we had to pick one, this would be the one we'd pick.

Astro Teller

Moonshot thinking starts with picking a big problem: something huge, long existing, or on a global scale.

Nick Fazekas

More than likely, if I'm not a first-round pick then you'll probably see me back here.

Natalie Cole

My father was a pioneer in so many ways. He was fearless, and I think that I kind of picked that up from him as well.

J. A. Konrath

No one was interested in picking up a midlist series, even though I have a decent fanbase and respectable numbers.

Kelly Rowan

Now we kind of have to pick up the pieces.

Martin Jol

I can't remember him picking up a ball.

Chipper Jones

I can't pick him up. He's the one guy. My nemesis.

Jim Brown

Basically, everything's for sale, with the right price. All properties are at risk.

Donald Trump

I've become very successful over the years. I think I own among the greatest properties in the world.

Jean Dellios

We look at properties before sending anything out.

Robert Irwin

I always look to see if other properties have turned around, because if you're the first in you may really get hammered,

Jim Simmons

We sell most of our properties in 30 days. What most sellers want is their property sold as quickly as possible.

Barry Sternlicht

Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.

Pete Erlenbach

We can't tell if it is public or private. So we are going to take those properties out.

Peggy Moriarty

They just don't get to use it as much as they would like. They have properties all over the world.

Junichiro Kawaguchi

Sending Minerva to the surface did not work.

Sunita Narain

Sending in the commandos sounds very hip, but it isn't the whole solution.

Ron Gardenhire

Sending him back out there, that's a little silly to try to do something stupid with a man's career. We haven't done that to him all year, and we weren't going to start today.

George Stephanopoulos

No, no. They would send it to the states, and it would be up to each state to decide.

Tom Robbins

I eat so much mayonnaise they were going to send me to the Mayo Clinic.

Danny Mills

On reflection, I think the sending off was justified.

Dan Carter

I was sending her all the way. There was no stopping her.

Marc Shaiman

I wouldn't have been able to live with myself if someone else did it. It's a very sweet valentine to musicals, but (it) sends them up at the same time.

Mike Hargrove

We'll probably send him to the instructional league. I'm not sure, but we've been talking about it.

Roger McNamee

Motorola to me in some ways is a very disappointing company,

Mike Stoops

More and more we need to find ways to get them on the field. They are very athletic, and I think they can contribute.

Mike Sanford

I feel like we've improved, and we still have a long ways to go. By far, we have not arrived.

Jacob Lew

There are lots of ways to work together.

Craig Venter

We can create new ways to create clean water.

Emma Roberts

There's not a lot of original ways to get attention in the press.

Annie Leibovitz

I've learned to create a palette, a vocabulary of ways to take pictures.

Ethan Zuckerman

I study the ways new media shapes people's perceptions of the world.

Phil Savage

There are other ways to get up there to get him.