Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louis Navellier

I almost always recommend investors get fully invested, since it's better to put your money to work than to let it simply track the rate of inflation.

Louis Leakey

The majority of people in Angola were not provided with any kind of schooling and were completely illiterate, very badly paid, and treated almost as slaves.

Mika

As a teenager, in my songbook, I used to script what my lighting would be like. I used to dance in my roo;, it was like putting myself in a trance, and making myself feel good about things, almost like a private ceremony of begging people to like you.

Michael Strahan

I hate leg exercises. I hate one-legged squats. I hate the hurdles and the split squats. I hate all the leg exercises. I know they help me, and I'm able to move around and don't have knee problems, and my hip doesn't hurt anymore, but when my trainer tells me I have to do them, I almost feel like my body goes into convulsions.

Mohsin Hamid

Nothing good gets written without the writer suffering along the way, in my opinion. Writing should be a pleasure, but unless you feel almost broken many, many times in the journey to a novel, you haven't pushed yourself hard enough.

Madhur Bhandarkar

After 'Chandni Bar' there was a shutdown of such bars in Mumbai. After 'Page 3' people started avoiding such events. 'Traffic Signal' exposed the money flow through the mafia. I'm not apologetic about the brutal truth in my films. Almost 70% of my films are based on reality, and 30% I fictionalize or change to suit my film.

Margo Rodriguez

The percentage of fat in this product here is almost 50 percent fat. But it's turkey. But because it's turkey, we think we're doing a great job.

Kris Janowski

We are pretty much approaching the line of an almost Serb-free Kosovo, which is an extremely sad phenomenon. One exodus is following another.

Chuck D.

We've already talked to people and it's completely safe, ... And with the exception of a few odds and ends, we're almost done.

Bryan Greenberg

I would never attach myself to a brand that doesn't represent me.

Dan Murphy

The other way is to stay on TV to be work more toward the product placement strategy. In other words, insert your brand into a particular show.

Isadore Sharp

The power of a global brand name is more important and valuable today than ever before.

Mayor Newman

The people who spoke before, we do have a record of that, it's sworn testimony. Unless they have something brand new to say, we really need to limit (the public comment time). We don't need any philosophical comments. It has to be pertinent to what's being requested.

Alfred Kahn

We are proud to promote Carlin West to this new position. She has had a hand in the success of many of our most popular properties. Since joining 4Kids more than 12 years ago, Carlin has demonstrated a valuable, diverse skill set including identifying exciting new kids' properties, brand positioning and much more. We look forward to expanding her responsibilities in this new role.

John Fry

We are proud to forge this partnership with the PGA TOUR and Las Vegas Founders Club to support a great, entertaining tournament that has a long history of supporting worthwhile charities in the Las Vegas area. The PGA TOUR is one of the great brands in sports. We are particularly excited to be in a position to help the tournament support its traditional charities, as well as one of our favorite non-profit organizations, the American Institute of Mathematics.

Bruton Smith

We are pleased to report strong earnings growth during a period of rising interest rates and a competitive industry environment. Our results reflect the combined effect of our improved brand mix and the successful execution of our key operating initiatives.

Maria Cantwell

We're talking about a 20-cent difference in the same brand of gasoline in two different locations,

Ludwig Tieck

He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy.

Alan Perlis

LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The true follower of Christ will not ask, "If I embrace this truth, what will it cost me?" Rather he will say, "This is truth. God help me to walk in it, let come what may!"

Chris Christie

We're telling small-business owners that not only are we going to raise their costs by a buck and a quarter, but we're also going to raise it with these cost-of-living adjustments. Here's what's going to happen: They're going to have to lay people off.

Jeff Campbell

The positive news is we're making progress on the cost front, led by painful concessions by our employees and suppliers, ... The tougher news is while the revenue environment has improved, it's still depressed by historical standards.

Ed Bolen

The person who decides is dictating why the costs are what they are.

Scott Magruder

We are proud of it. We put a lot of work into it. It did cost a little more, but it was worth it.

Rajiv Dube

We are looking to establish quick gains, though it is too early to quantify what the cost savings will be.

Ron Jones

We spent the last few weeks talking about how good the team's effort was and tonight was the first time that we didn't play with the effort that I felt we should have. We did some of the same things that have cost us games this year but it just looked like the energy level disappeared in the second half.

Nathan Myhrvold

The Internet is the ultimate vanity-publishing medium, and therefore, the ultimate place for those of us who like to watch. The Internet can reach an audience at lower cost than any medium before it.

Tony Dungy

We want to see if we can get that done, ... So our focus is winning the first one. This is a very critical two-week stretch for us.

John Broughton

We are at a very critical stage in our negotiations,

Pat Sullivan

We're in that critical time that people can be rescued, ... If we don't get out thereto and do it now, then they're going to die.

Edward Everett Hale

Make it your habit not to be critical about small things.

Dave Wannstedt

We have no room literally to spare. Every game, every day is critical to us.

Willie Williams

We have multiple critical injuries and multiple serious injuries and some minor injuries,

Thomas Galvin

Whenever the department suffers a fatal fire, we take a constructive, critical look at the event.

Bill Walton

Health is the most critical thing in our life. With your health anything is possible, without it you can't do anything.

Judd Rose

While many people think that we as reporters are whining and that this is a time of war, we are really the conveyors of truth in a very critical time and people need to know that truth.

Mohammed Habib

The others have refused due to personal problems that have to do with home, children, breast-feeding or husbands.

Steve Crawford

We stand for liberty. We stand for due process of law. And yet we're keeping someone locked up and away from his family that has been found not guilty. It's embarrassing. We need to do something about it.

John Fitzgibbon

We have seen an increase in postponements or cancels due to market conditions. That's now starting to become more commonplace than it was three months ago.

Kevin Doll

We're speculating that the shooting may have occurred from a moving vehicle. Due to an ongoing investigation and no eyewitnesses to the shooting, we're still piecing this together.

Mark Trakh

What makes her so tough is that she's so athletic. But you know, she's due for an off game.

Paul Christopher

This suggests the economy is due for a slowdown, much like the one we had in 1995,

Katherine Young

We knew we wouldn't be able to use the Garland lot as of last year due to all the construction. We had started thinking of alternative locations then.

Freddy Adu

We knew we were due to just explode and have a lot of goals in one of these games sometime soon. It's a really good feeling.

Kevin McCloud

Luckily I have never missed a day's filming or work due to asthma.

Yo-Yo Ma

A composition is always more than the sum of its parts. In other words, a really good piece of music is more than itself. It's sort of like a prism, which you can see from each facet a single totality.

Tatum O'Neal

I felt privileged to be a facet of such a jewel in the crown of American cinema.

Marisa Berenson

When I get in front of a camera all my fears and my inhibitions just go away. As a model, I feel that I am acting, too, playing different parts and showing different facets of myself.

Vusi Mahlasela

Faith is a really important part of my life and inspires me in all facets of my life, including my songwriting and my singing.

Kevin Burton

I hate the term 'match' because I want to 'better' people. But in terms of intensity, we couldn't even match them until it was 32-8. Georgetown was dialed in at every facet of the game tonight.

Shinobu Asagoe

I feel that I've improved in every facet of my game and am finally able to play my own style of tennis,

Jim Shannon

I can't say enough about how well we're playing, especially our bench. We played well in just about every facet tonight. And we shot the lights out. We were hitting from everywhere.

Ben Mendelsohn

I think difficult characters are very rewarding to do. They often have facets to them and this and that.

Fred Funk

I don't want to rest on my laurels. I still feel like I'm learning a lot about the golf game and the swing. There are so many different little facets of golf that there is always something to learn.

Bill Laswell

I think everything's experimental whether you like it or not. I think that people who do generic pop are experimenting with cliches. It's no less than I am experimenting with noise or unknown music - until you say, 'This is my song, or this is my composition' - it's all experimental, whether you like it or not.

Nadine Smith

When you have a generic policy that says 'all,' it's the same as having no policy at all. We should be moved to action, but also disciplined so that what we do is good, not just feel-good.

Carrie Preston

I tend to play every color in the Southern rainbow, and the challenge is to make each character different so I'm not doing any generic 'Southern acting.'

Bo Ryan

We are so generic in our first practice,

Peter Cordingley

We are very keen to see generic versions of this anti-viral drug available, but we will not pressure Roche to do so (relinquish its patent).

Alison Goldfrapp

They seem to have these personalities that are very generic and so I can't really relate to them. I suppose I can't really relate to it on a personal level at all, because you never really understand where the personal comes into what they do.

Albert Rauch

If you had a generic Lipitor, it would be harder for Vytorin to compete. When you have a generic out there, you start worrying about therapeutic substitution.

Merrill Lynch

In our view, the risk of negative ruling was largely factored into market expectations with the timing of a generic launch being the main issue.

Juan Jimenez

It's really great for those who live in retirement homes and want to save through the purchase of generic drugs.

Rosemary Mahoney

In 'A Likely Story,' I wanted to recreate the events, the mood, and the imagery of my life as a teenager. I was thirty-seven when I wrote it.

Danial Shapiro

The imagery is very much released from reality. It's not nailed down to specifics of the words. They're painting a picture, not telling linear stories.

Stephen Malkmus

I like visual imagery in my head.

Steven Bochco

Imagery is like music.

Rod Sterling

The poet, whether in prose or verse, the creator, can only stamp his images forcibly on the page, in proportion, as he has forcibly felt, ardently nursed, and long brooded over them

Kara Bunte

The outpouring of support has been amazing. People are now starting to see the images on TV and want to help.

Bruce Jackson

War is big and there are only so many reporters and only so many places for their words and images to appear. Choices are made constantly.

Nate Lowman

I make images from things I find serendipitously. I don't know what it is, but I know it when I see it. It could be from a newspaper, on the street. It could be something I fell over.

Raymond Berry

You made the impossible possible. Those images of your performances still haven't faded.

Daria Werbowy

I guess a lot of people don't realise, but I'm always playing a character when I'm working. When you're always having people's images projected on you, who 'Daria' is as a person sort of disappears.

Jon Oringer

Rex is 60 years old with 13 million images and 10 million in archive. It's the first time we've had a historic archive to work with, which is super interesting.

Dan Gilroy

The smorgasbord of images now presented to us is getting bloodier. They're becoming more frequent - almost hourly.

Charles Stiles

If they get a message from a sender that has images and links enabled one day, and another one the next day where they're not, they tend not to trust that so much, or think there was an error. It sends an unclear message to the consumer.

Ed Keon

When things seem very risky it often represents opportunity.

Twyla Tharp

My dancers expect me to deliver because my choreography represents their livelihood.

Jonathan Fox

No one represents their interests, here or in Mexico. They have to speak up and do it themselves.

Jeremy Osborne

He represents that person or that thing that everyone is waiting for.

Inder Singh

We view this as a particularly important win for Lucent as it represents its first large-scale IMS deployment with a US carrier.

Vincent Sollitto

This represents one of the more atypical inquiries we get.

Frank Taylor

That was between Rick Hamlin, who represents La-Van, and the Treasury Department,

John W. Snow

Social Security represents an $11 trillion unfunded obligation. And when I say unfunded obligation, I mean we have to come up with $11 trillion at some point to make the system whole.

Robert Clark

For myself, and a lot of other students, Gen. Powell represents what can be possible.

Tove Lo

I can't live just being content. I can't have a routine. I can't be settled because then I just get really frustrated.

Rick Barnes

We didn't want him to settle for that.

Dan Coffey

We settled down on defense. We just tried to stop them one (possession) at a time.

Jason Bumblis

We had some jitters in the first quarter. But we settled down. We always win with our defense.

Ned Yost

We want to let Rickie get settled in,

Michael Scheuer

But at the end of the day, we settled for the worst possibility -- he was there and we didn't do anything.

Josh Daniel

Now that everything is settled down, I'm really considering going out.

Tom Tierney

Give him time to settle in, and he'll do the right thing for the Diocese of Cleveland.

Howard Rheingold

Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization.

Alan Rickman

Actors are actually very supportive of each other.

Dan Murphy

We want to support the PGA and its members.

Chris Copeland

To the folks that continue to support through ups and downs... good and bad... I can't thank you...

Chris Colfer

There are ways to meet people and surround yourself with like-minded people who will support you.

David Suzuki

We now have access to so much information that we can find support for any prejudice or opinion.

Bryan Burrough

American writers, at least those of us who are fortunate enough to support ourselves in the field, are by and large a lucky lot.

Bryan Stevenson

Many states can no longer afford to support public education, public benefits, public services without doing something about the exorbitant costs that mass incarceration have created.

Camille Paglia

Not a shred of evidence supports the existence of matriarchy anywhere in the world at any time. [...] The matriarchy hypothesis, revived by American feminism, continues to flourish outside the university

Carl Levin

I am 100 percent supportive of the stand-alone bill to repeal 'don't ask, don't tell' that Sens. Lieberman and Collins have now proposed, and indeed I will co-sponsor that legislation. It is time for this discriminatory policy to end, and I am willing to pursue any effective legislative path that could lead to that result

Charles Dickens

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Charles Caleb Colton

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.