Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Waller

The point here is that the (US) administration has been very thoughtful in making sure that all aspects of the trip go well,

S. Walker

We have to get better in the mental aspects of the game, ... That's true for both the pitchers and hitters. The pitchers can't be giving up hits on 0-2 counts like we have, and the hitters have to find a way to get the runner over when he's on second with no outs.

Henry Selick

When you're writing, it's all up to you, and you don't have to make any compromises. And when you're directing, there's this intense pleasure you get from working with all these really talented people, and pooling the efforts towards a common goal. I like all the aspects of film-making.

Andy Robinson

We were awful. We performed poorly in all aspects of the game. It was all about silencing the crowd. But we either kicked poorly or knocked the ball on.

David Perlmutter

When we are exposed to a real or perceived threatening situation, powerful things happen in the brain to memorialize aspects of the event, including all manner of associated circumstances like where, when and how it occurred.

Dr. McKinlay

We found that on I.Q. and other aspects of brain function, as well as kidney function, the group that received the mercury-based amalgam was exactly the same as those that received a composite.

Johnny Thomas

We can depend on so many different people. We've got so many different aspects of our game that we can go to and get the job done if one of us has an off night.

Andrew Wright

Very few people bring up the University House anymore. This is especially true for students who are not from the immediate area. We focus on the positive aspects of Eastern, not something that happened two or more years ago.

Justin King

We fail to see why further investigation of these aspects is required.

Tim Manning

We want to take every possible step to crack down on fraudulent attempts to get a driver's license in New Mexico.

Joseph Massey

The other stores don't seem to be hit like they are -- there was an attempted break just a week ago, ... I'm not sure if what they sell is more attractive.

Thomas Lee

The persistent efforts to develop the accreted land are unconscionable, ... Any such attempt will be vigorously opposed by the association and its members.

Leila Janah

The perception in Silicon Valley is that if you dress well, you couldn't possibly be smart, or you're in P.R. but couldn't possibly run a company. I remember briefly attempting the Adidas and jeans and sweatshirt over T-shirt look, but I realized I was trying to dress like a young tech geek, and that just wasn't me.

Paul Mason

The point comes where there starts to be a disconnect between the attempts to rapidly jack up those prices for faster MIPS and IBM's desire to push the cost of MIPS down,

John Roberts

unprecedented attempt by Congress to structure the office of the president.

Donald Borut

We believe that provisions in the proposed legislation regarding reformulated gasoline are back-door attempts at invalidating state laws banning the use of methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE), a known carcinogen.

Neal Hersh

We believe that Mr. Baldwin has severe emotional problems. Mr. Baldwin's lawyers attempted to cast terrible aspersions toward Kim rather than focusing on the main issue, which is his daughter.

Bruce Barbour

We are attempting to offer the program statewide.

Clifford Jordan

We want to serve our state and our country, that's basically it.

Lukas Haas

I was in Kansas for about a month, and we worked most of the time in a very small town, so it felt like the production basically took the whole town over. In a way, we were the Martians in Kansas.

Louis Navellier

I'm from Berkeley, California, so I'm fully trained in socialism and all, but basically what they teach you there is markets are efficient and we can't beat them, so we might as well index.

Louis Sachar

'The Cardturner,' while it has bridge in it, you certainly don't need to know how to play bridge to read it. It's basically a book about relationships - between Alton and his great-uncle, and Alton and his friends, and how it changes his life.

Jim Myers

The other team played better than us today. That's basically what it came down to.

Michelle Wie

The positive energy I received from the crowd was awesome. I felt like I basically knew half of the people in the gallery.

Andy Watson

The personnel in the support offices know they are doing their jobs well when they never hear about themselves, because that means Soldiers have their food, equipment and issues squared away, ... If you look at the basic needs of Soldiersfood, shelter, a means to survivethen you realize that a Soldier cant eat, communicate, or have the equipment they need to do their job without logistics having a hand in the operation.

Tom Coughlin

The personality of the quarterback, he has a large plate and he is going to lead by example and by his play. That's basically where our football team is. Our players do rally around Eli and his play and that's the position he has taken and that's the way it should be.

Ehud Barak

the perception in the world was that they tried to strangle us. In Lebanon we violated this basic rule and we were unable to hold what we took.

Danny Martin

The other side of resurrection is about changing the world. It's not just about yourselves.

Greg Abbott

We are pleased to have a chef of such stature share our vision. Dale's Kitchen gives our technology wonderful exposure throughout the foodservice and packaging industries. The Fresh Flow(TM) Tap is changing rules.

Don Worstell

We struggled formulating a game plan and I thought about changing to something different. But we haven't played that way all year. We needed to do what we do and if we have to we will make adjustments.

Al Edwards

When you talk about changing the rules, that takes time, and it always involves more than just a committee.

Lisa Graff

Being a writer can be a very lonely profession, but having a network of people who can sympathize with everything you're going through - from contract issues to the terror of changing your novel from past- to present-tense - is an invaluable asset.

Bernadette Perez

What he's doing is completely changing my life.

Jim Dyke

What has become clear is this really isn't about protecting kids. This is about changing television. A politically active, savvy group of Americans has figured out a way to make TV in their own image.

Shaun Donovan

What's really different here is that we are changing the rules. We're saying the developer who wins is the one with the most affordability.

David Cummings

Unless the service stations decide to cut their margins in order to continue selling fuel, over $1.40 will shock a lot of people into changing the way they use their car.

Brian Tracy

The future belongs to the competent

Frank Middleton

She has now determined (Kirk) is competent to stand trial. That is not an issue,

Jesse Smith

Since he has no prior record and obviously this was the result of some form of Alzheimer's, I would hope he would be placed on probation in the event he's found competent to stand trial. I would be very surprised if he were sent to prison. It's a sort of freak occurrence that someone this old gets involved in something like this. He's the oldest person I've ever had to represent.

E. B. White

She is a warm and considerate woman. We knew she would nurture our children. I'm unable to understand why a competent teacher was removed at this critical time.

Cass Sunstein

She is unquestionably an intelligent person and a competent lawyer. But she's had very little experience in constitutional law.

Ulla Bock

She made it to the top, also because there was a vacuum of power and she was her party's only hope. But she is nevertheless highly competent and fit for the office.

William Graham Sumner

We are to see the development of the country pushed forward at an unprecedented rate by an aggregation of capital, and a systematic application of it under the direction of competent men.

Nico Rosberg

My dad is a great manager. He's not just competent - he's very clever.

Lauren Willig

My official field was Tudor-Stuart England; I also considered myself reasonably competent when it came to Renaissance and Reformation Europe.

Kevin Campbell

The only reason we would go forward with this concept is for the historical preservation of the property.

Paul Turner

The Powergen Cup is a great new concept for us and one everyone at the region is looking forward to,

Madison Jobe

Where the Mike's concept started was in smaller towns and has continued to develop in smaller towns, and we have done well with that.

Max Weber

The so-called 'materialistic conception of history,' with the crude elements of genius of the early form which appeared, for instance, in the 'Communist Manifesto,' still prevails only in the minds of laymen and dilettantes.

Nick Woodman

A really important thing when you come up with a concept is that you solve a pervasive problem for people, and you don't try to create a new way to do something that isn't necessarily broken.

Niger Innis

Long before gun control was touted as 'common sense' measures, the concept was promoted as a means to keep ethnic populations in an unequal position while assuaging the fears of whites.

Hans Tietmeyer

We want to reach an overall concept in the foreseeable future,

Ollanta Humala

We want more investors to come, to rescue the concept of corporate social responsibility. We will be a government that respects foreign investments, that has a profound respect for private property and freedom of expression.

Nell Newman

Extinction was a difficult concept for a 10-year-old.

Lina Wertmuller

I've always been an angel. Sometimes I transform into a witch only because the filmmaking demands it.

Li Shufu

In this fast-developing world, particularly in the fast-transforming China market, we really need to take this opportunity and offer a modern interpretation of Scandinavian design which fits people's demands perfectly.

Brian Moss

We're so far behind, in terms of what the market demands today, that this is something that needed to be done.

Bill Cowher

When we come here, there will be a lot of demands on many of these guys. (The goal) is to come here and prioritize things and try not to get out of the routine, and understand that Wednesday, Thursday, Friday is just like a regular game.

Matt Busby

United is no longer just a football club; it is an institution. I feel the demands are beyond one human being.

Bruce Goldstein

We're hoping that these farmworkers will become part of the labor movement. We're hoping that the newly legalized workers will join labor unions to make demands on their employers for better wages and working conditions.

Dag Hammarskjold

Life demands from you only the strength you posses. One feat is possible -- not to have run away.

Ken Starr

There is no excuse for perjury - never, never, never. There is truth, and the truth demands respect.

Marilynne Robinson

When I lecture, under almost all circumstances, I write a new lecture for the occasion. It helps me think. It helps me make demands of myself that I would not otherwise make.

Dominic Raiola

We're not going to put more emphasis on it now. We should be doing that already.

Joan Bonvicini

When we got here at shoot-around today, I felt good and I knew they felt good. I think the key thing was, we didn't put the emphasis on Stanford. We put the emphasis on us and playing our butts off and having fun.

David Collins

Unfortunately it looks like another hurricane is ready to go through Florida over the week-end. I think there's going to be another emphasis to generate donations.

Kevin McGuff

We're similar defensively. They place more of a heavy emphasis on the (3-point shot), but we are probably quicker and more athletic.

Ken Watanabe

I have no sense of myself as a sex symbol at all. But the meaning of sex symbol might be a little different in Japan to elsewhere. The Japanese version seems to come with a stronger emphasis on a sort of grownup or mature male charm. And if that's the case, then I guess I'm happy to hear it.

Kevin Bardsley

We really kind of put a lot of emphasis on the schools -- and that's when Brennan went missing,

David Liebersbach

Losing this natural hazards emphasis for FEMA is getting to be quite a concern.

Romeo Travis

Last year, we got pounded on the boards. That was the emphasis from everybody on this team, from top to bottom.

Brad Hopkins

So many people put so much emphasis on the Pittsburgh game,

Charles Sturt

One of the greatest objections which families have to New South Wales, is their apprehension of the moral effects that are likely to overwhelm them by bad example, and for which no success in life could compensate.

Alan Watts

Philosophers, for example, often fail to recognize that their remarks about the universe apply also to themselves and their remarks. If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so.

Byron Katie

Any stressful thought that you have about the planet, for example, shows you where you are stuck, where your energy is being exhausted in not fully meeting life as it is, without condition.

Liza Minnelli

I thought maybe, just by never preaching, never doing any of that stuff because it doesn't work. By just maybe the power of example and some laughs, maybe somebody might go take a walk.

David Hilbert

Begin with the simplest examples.

Dick Costolo

If there's ever an example of the importance of making bold bets and focusing on what you love, it's Twitter.

Jerry Green

We have to get used to being examined and poked and touched.

Cheryl James

There are a lot of good things that we can do. Maybe my example can help someone.

John Gagliano

We're so proud of him. He's been a great leader and a great example for the other kids to follow. It's great for the program.

Clint Hurdle

We want to see his command, we want him to utilize his pitches, ... We also want to see him use his two-seam fastball and sinkerball.

Fisher DeBerry

The other team had a lot more Afro-American players than we did and they ran a lot faster than we did.

Ken Hitchcock

We started off fast and we kept it up.

O. J. Simpson

We started fast and did some good things early.

Bob Baffert

When you've got a 20-horse field and a fast pace, anything can happen out there.

Logan Pearsall Smith

There is one thing that matters, to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Bill Murray

Here's the thing, you just have to drive a lot faster, and if you don't get there, we're both fired.

Herman Edwards

We have to have a different mind-set - that was established today in our meetings, ... I think our players took hold of it and did a good job of practicing. It was a pretty fast practice, guys moving around where they were supposed to go.

Meles Zenawi

We have no intention of playing fast and loose with this document, with the OAU process, ... We only hope that this time around the other side really means what it says.

Michele Patenaude

We're in a much better position than we were. This helps us to maintain the professionalism of our jobs and serve our students better.

Lisa Vidal

I'm involved with Children's Hospital Los Angeles. I love anything that helps and improves the life of children.

Richard Boucher

We find it very interesting and useful to talk to somebody with firsthand experience. Obviously, it helps our thinking.

Rory Bremner

I have late onset ADHD. I take on too much and end up spinning plates, but it's entertaining, and it helps you make quick connections if you're a comedian, if you have a brain that can dance around too much.

Fernando Torres

Let's hope what we've done this week helps us to get something positive in our next games.

Justin Huber

Levi's been more of the outside guy; I'm more of the inside game. That helps us out a lot. It helps keep each of us rested and ready to go.

Thomas Mars

I think every artist needs a rule that's stupid but that helps him, like a deadline would.

Tom Rath

Positive defaults protect you from yourself - and that helps you to make decisions in the moment that are better for your long-term interests.

Masaaki Higashida

Signs that the U.S. stock scene is improving really helps lift spirits at home.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.

Bill Coleman

We are a very safe community. His primary responsibility is keeping us safe.

Ted Carpenter

What we're seeing is the reflection of two developments -- first of all, the U.S. military being more and more into a force-protection mode, keeping its military personnel as unexposed as possible to fighting.

Bob McNair

We're going to look at any and all options. Whether it's keeping the pick or trading or whatever.

Susie Gardner

We?re back to preparing for each opponent and keeping a routine going. Right now, we?re really out of our motivational gimmicks.

Ashwin Sanghi

I was always taught that book keeping was more relevant than book reading. The only thing worth reading was meant to be a balance sheet.

Jeremih

When I look for a woman, I look for one that's real - that's keeping it 100. I rather someone know that they're sexy and not show it.

Daniel Ellsberg

But it is important always to keep in mind that the danger of harming humans is not connected only or even mainly with telling secrets, there can be great danger in keeping secrets.

Barry Erwin

She is talking about keeping those cuts. It's a smaller state financially and population-wise for some time.

Chace Crawford

Really, I'm pretty laid-back, always cracking jokes.

Ed Widdifield

When I was laid off I didn't even know what a resume was.

John Browning

We remain well on track to meet all the new targets laid out in July.

Hassan Adams

We laid it on the line. I have no regrets.

Bart Schouten

She's laid back, but we all know she can step up when she wants to. In the big competitions, she always skates well. She WILL skate well at these Olympics.

Scott Winfrey

She completely laid out. She saved us three runs.

Tim Johnson

So far, we've laid 5,000 tons of rock and about 300 yards of grout.

Pete Rose

A team will take on its manager's personality. If it's a laid back manager, you'll have a laid back personality. The players will see that if it's OK for the Manager to be laid back, then you'll have a laid back team.

A.J. Hawk

Yeah, but I don't think they would respect me if I just laid down and not play hard.

Elizabeth Thornton

There are times when we are just not very kind to ourselves. The problem with our negative thoughts is that the latest science has revealed that thoughts are very powerful, even impacting us physically.

Sheherazade Goldsmith

When I'm in London, I get a veggie-box sent up every week, with the latest pickings.

Tony Blair

Though there may be pockets of resistance, the idea that this is some kind of tactical retreat is just the latest Taliban lie. They are in total collapse,

Venus Williams

No, I don't really watch the news. In some ways, I'm very unaware of the latest happenings in the world. I kind of leave it like that because sometimes it's better not to know.

Lawrence Dallaglio

Well, the latest news is that things are going as expected,

Patrick Lawler

What we saw is a modest slowdown in our latest quarterly data, but in the past we've seen slowdowns of this magnitude completely reverse in short order.

David A. R. White

We partner with movies that stand for more than the latest bestseller.

Chris Beard

We're strongly recommending all users upgrade to the latest version.

Chuck D.

We never received the latest version of the principles. I think they were waiting to see if we were still going to participate, which they now know.

Charles Dickens

New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing.

Charles Caleb Colton

Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure the infirmities of the body.

Charles Caleb Colton

As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is adverse to talent to be consorted and trained up with inferior minds and inferior companions, however high they may rank. The foal of the racer neither finds out his speed nor calls out his powers if pastured out with the common herd, that are destined for the collar and the yoke.

Charles Caleb Colton

Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent; for wealth, although it be a far less efficient source of power than talent, happens to be far more intelligible.

Charles Caleb Colton

Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.

Charles Stross

You know, if I tried to change the minds of everyone who I thought needed changing, I'd never have time to do anything else.

Charles Spurgeon

When filled with holy truth the mind rests.

Charles Spurgeon

We are in a wrong state of mind if we are not in a thankful state of mind.

James E. Faust

Secularism does not accept many things as absolutes. Its principal objectives are pleasure and self-interest. Often, those who embrace secularism have a different look about them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life's objective is life itself.

Rudolf Steiner

Only when I follow my love for my objective is it I myself who act.

Sean Smith

We started picking up the pace and that's the type of team we are.

Edwin Way Teale

For observing nature, the best pace is a snail's pace.

Bil Keane

Time goes by at such a pace,it's funny how it's easy to forget her face

Arthur Golden

of course the pace of change never slows, even when we've convinced ourselves it will.

Christopher Hill

We are going to have to pick up the pace if we are going to get there,

Dennis Stock

At the incredible pace most of us live, the arrested image becomes of maximum necessity.

Brett Lee

I am keen on helping Indian bowlers but I am not seeking a full-time role. But yes I am really keen on helping out pace bowlers across the world,

Augustus

What is done well is done quickly enough.

James Devlin

We have to play our pace and not the other team's.

China Machado

I'm practical. I see something, and I do it.

Holly Tachovsky

She would not sugarcoat it for you. It was always very practical and real-world.

Baruch Spinoza

In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.

Bruce Graham

What we need to do is sell this idea (to the town). It's not going to sell as a 'Save the Church' (proposal). The way we need to present it to the town is to find a sensible, practical use for this structure.

Rick Snyder

But as a practical matter, Detroit's the sports city in the country.

John Taylor

From a practical standpoint, most Americans don't live there.

Barry Schwartz

Practical wisdom is what's called for in situations that have a moral dimension to them.

Al Jarreau

My mother and father come from that post-Depression, middle-of-World-War -I kind of thinking that says, 'Find a practical job. You know what I mean, Mr. Big Shot? So, you can sing a song ...'

Paul Hubbert

Theoretically, they still have time to do it, but from a practical standpoint, I don't think they are going to let it happen.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is curious that we pay statesmen for what they say, not for what they do; and judge of them from what they do, not from what they say. Hence they have one code of maxims for profession and another for practice, and make up their consciences as the Neapolitans do their beds, with one set of furniture for show and another for use.

Alan Watts

Breathing is important in the practice of meditation because it is the faculty in us that is simultaneously voluntary and involuntary. You can feel that you are breathing, and equally you can feel that it is breathing you. So it is a sort of bridge between the voluntary world and the involuntary world — a place where they are one.

Alan Moore

With science, ideas can germinate within a bed of theory, form, and practice that assists their growth... But we as gardeners, must beware... for some seeds are the seeds of ruin... and the most iridescent blooms are often the most dangerous

Alan Hovhaness

There is nothing like practice.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

If (the West) shows its rigidity by making unjust decisions and putting their threats into practice, the Iranian people will not be the only ones to pay the price.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God's justice stands forever against the sinner in utter severity. The vague and tenuous hope that God is 'too kind' to punish the ungodly has become deadly opiate for the consciences of millions. It hushes their fears and allows them to practice all pleasant forms of iniquity while death draws everyday nearer and the command to repent goes unregarded. As responsible moral beings, we dare not so trifle with our eternal future.

Chogyam Trungpa

We must begin our practice by walking the narrow path of simplicity, the hinayana path, before we can walk upon the open highway of compassionate action, the mahayana path.

Chogyam Trungpa

The emphasis on practice is because it is the only time in your life you can steer your karmic situation.

David Korten

As long as you have a system that is based on the rational that if you are making money you are thereby making a contribution to society, these financial rogue practices will continue.

David DeFazio

Many of the statements (appeared) to have been provided to her.

Paul O'Grady

I can eat beef, provided it's minced in disguise. I couldn't eat a gammon steak. Forget it.

Joseph Kabila

Whatever happens, if there are summits we will be there, provided it takes place after the funeral,

David Livingstone

I am prepared to go anywhere, provided it be forward.

Al Jourgensen

I'm an all-or-nothing guy. When I'm working, I work, work, work, work, work, and when I'm not, I'm the laziest sloth this planet has ever provided us.

Michael Burgess

When Medicare was first enacted in 1965, it provided coverage for hospitalization, doctor visits and surgeries, but there was no coverage for prescription medications.

Tom Kenny

There has been a lot of testing done on the racking strength provided by different types of spray foams, ... And the strength provided by closed-cell foams can be substantial.

Tom Zilla

I thought it provided a lot of justification for making the improvements.

McGregor Scott

Trends in communications and convergence provided a one-two punch.

Clint Hurdle

We have as many questions as we do answers. We have in-house candidates.

Michael Vick

We're going to sit down and talk about everything, ... I've got a lot of questions for him. I'm going to spend all the time I can with him.

Susie Wisniowski

We're going to have to come up with some sort of strategy. There are just so many questions.

Joseph Grundfest

There are a lot of complicated questions to answer.

William Allan

Those are all questions we are going to be talking about with the commission.

Colin Falls

I don't think it's mental, I just think that questions our toughness.

Cecil Ratliff

I don't have to repeat anything this year. I tell him what to run and there's no questions about whether it will work or not. He's a senior now and much more confident, a leader.

George Daley

I would say they also raise more questions than answers.

Larry Sabato

He is very sharp. No one has any questions that he is well-qualified.

David McCullough

If everyone is special, then no one is. If everyone gets a trophy, trophies become meaningless.

David Rudisha

It's something special to break the world record at the Olympics.

Carl Hiaasen

Like Richard Price and the late, great Elmore Leonard, Matt Burgess is one of those cool, quick and funny writers who can turn a seemingly routine crime caper into something special.

Mark Cuban

Everyone tells you how they are going to be "special", but few do the work to get there. Do the work.

Charley Pride

As far back as I can remember, the radio held a special fascination for me.

Bobbi Brown

Beauty is the result of realizing what is special about you and not focusing on the things you don't like.

Eddie Marsan

I'm not one of these actors who can make a bad script good. Some actors, a script can be terrible, and they can bring something to it and make it really special. I can't.

Frederic Bastiat

There is not a tool, an implement, or a machine that has not resulted in a decrease in the contribution of human labor. Labor is not made permanently idle [though]; when replaced in one special category... it turns its attack against other obstacles on the main road to progress.

Edward Furlong

Jim Cameron used to call me 'Special Ed.'

David Guetta

Everything I make as a producer, I visualize it as a DJ first. And all those beats, I test them as a DJ.

David Deutsch

Where we have good, testable explanations, they then have to be tested, and we drop the ones that fail the tests.

David Deutsch

The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests.

Bryan Shelton

I would expect an extremely high percentage of the chickens would test positive. Our poultry industry clients wouldn't like that.

Eartha Kitt

I have to keep testing myself.

Arnold Bennett

The test of a first-rate work, and a test of your sincerity in calling it a first-rate work, is that you finish it.

Edwin Land

The test of an invention is the power of an inventor to push it through in the face of staunch-not opposition, but indifference-in society.

Bill Nye

Evolution is a theory, and it's a theory that you can test. We've tested evolution in many ways. You can't present good evidence that says evolution is not a fact.

C. S. Lewis

The universe rings true whenever you fairly test it.