Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dan Mullen

Whenever you capture information, there should be checks and balances. It's certainly important to bear security in mind whenever you're working with databases.

Robert Redford

We were at 10,000 feet in Utah and I was running out of gas. I was in boots that were leather-soled. The bear was closing in. Now, he's supposed to be playing. Once I started to run, he got really excited. Pretty soon he was chasing me. And I said if this guy gets me, his idea of play is going to be the end of me. So I threw the rifle out and got on that tree so fast. Now, once it was done, I mean, I was sweating bullets. I said, not again. Not again.

Charles Caleb Colton

Some are cursed with the fullness of satiety; and how can they bear the ills of life when its very pleasures fatigue them?

Eliza Cook

The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture ought below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.

Tom Hougaard

There is no doubt that the recent rally is fueled by a lot of short covering from bears thinking the New Orleans debacle would cause jitters on Wall Street.

Bobby Wallace

When I met his dad (Chuck), we talked about Toby, but that didn't have any bearing on me hiring him.

Roy Harper

When I was 15, I was wearing sandals and corduroys, Guernsey, striped pullover, a beard that was hardly there, shades and a beret, and the goal was hanging out.

Ricky Gervais

I fought a bear once. But it started crying, so I let it off.

Gary Miller

The United States' gasoline industry, as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita demonstrated, is remarkably fragile. And the process of how oil is pumped from the ground, turned into gasoline and distributed to consumers is complicated.

Erin McKean

Most consumers don't have a good metric for deciding on whether the dictionary they want to use is a good one... so they flip the book over, then go to the back, and it says, 'Over 250,000 entries.' And they go, 'Great, this dictionary must be awesome!'

Eliot Spitzer

We are hearing from consumers who are saying 'I called in an order, I placed an order online, and it wasn't executed timely,' and as a result they lost money,

Lynn Jurich

Consumers used to think they had to compromise with solar. It was, 'Okay, I'm doing the right thing for the environment; it's cool to see the panels. I have to compromise on the cost and convenience side.' And now they no longer have to. On the cost side, it's cheaper, and on the convenience side, we set it all up.

David Joy

The persistence of high oil prices can't be lost on the Fed. Consumers have to pay for higher energy even though it's volatile. It is a real cost.

James Carrick

We are seeing a gentle recovery going on in retail sales at this stage, which I expect to get stronger going forward. The pickup in the housing market should have a general wealth effect, making consumers happier to go out and spend.

Leo Hindery

would be one of the greatest displacements of high-quality (cable) programming -- one of the rudest things I can ever, ever imagine for consumers in this country.

David Krell

When the markets get frothy they can disappear. When the markets are frothy is exactly when consumers need them.

Marshal Cohen

Until they're able to prove that consumers are going to respond to the changes, the Street is very nervous. It's a very big undertaking to convince the country that a national Macy's is better than regional department stores.

Mary Roach

When I'm done with a book, I always give it to someone with expertise in the topic and tell them to flag all of my stupid mistakes.

Edward Norton

I don't flatter myself - I'm not a scientist, I'm not a conservation expert.

Ben Nicholson

I'm not an expert, but I want to be.

Ben Stein

I don't really consider myself to be a personal finance expert compared with some others. There are quite a few that know a lot more than I do.

Laurie Colwin

Cooking is like anything else: some people have an inborn talent for it. Some become expert by practicing, and some learn from books.

Cathy Freeman

I'm not a marriage expert, quite clearly.

Bjorn Lomborg

Im no expert on American politics.

Damon Lindelof

I look at myself more as a storyteller than a screenwriter, as pretentious as that may sound, but that's what really attracts me to TED Talks. For me, the really effective ones are being presented by expert storytellers.

Carol Sanders

Whenever you're looking at something like this, it's important to get as many experts in the field to help you.

Scott McKenzie

I knew I didn't have the right name for a singer. Having a name that nobody could pronounce was hardly an asset.

Wang Yuanhong

Therefore, the previous mechanism can hardly mirror the true situation.

Michael Jackson

Many organizations were initially scared of the Internet and email. Now there's hardly a workplace on the planet that doesn't have an Internet connection.

James Gleick

People worry about Twitter. Twitter is banal. It's 140-character messages. By definition, you can hardly say anything profound. On the other hand, we communicate. And, sometimes, we communicate about things that are important.

Seth Meyers

I'm a terrible grocery shopper. I hardly ever do it. And if I do, there's never more than three things in the bag.

Arthur Conan

I hardly looked at his face. His knees were what I wished to see.

George Soros

I hardly knew the man's name, ... He really invented me. He needed me for his political purposes, so I'm a figment of his imagination.

Martha Stewart

I hardly ever go there anymore. I don't miss it.

Stephen Hawking

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was able to reason

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.

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.

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.

David Sedaris

I went from having 50 listeners to 50 million listeners.

Buddy Guy

I can't learn nothing from listening to me. That's something I already know.

Jane Asher

Listening to my regular favourites - Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and so on - I always feel, quite misguidedly, that nothing can be too bad if such beauty and brilliance exists in the world.

Carol P. Christ

Symbol systems cannot simply be rejected; they must be replaced. Where there is no replacement, the mind will revert to familiar structures at times of crisis, bafflement, or defeat.

Carlos Mencia

If you ask me right now, you've seen the last of Mind of Mencia. I don't want to be a one-trick pony. I would rather walk away and do more movies, comedy and even some dramatic roles.

Carlos Castaneda

Anything is one of a million paths. Therefore you must always keep in mind that a path is only a path; if you feel you should not follow, you must not stay with it under any circumstances.

C. S. Lewis

I hope I do not offend God by making my Communions in the frame of mind I have been describing. The command, after all, was Take, eat: not Take, understand.

C. S. Lewis

For his mind was full of forlorn hopes, death-or-glory charges, and last stands.

Michael Sands

We want our product to stick in the minds of consumers.

Agnes Martin

When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts. You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.

Agnes Repplier

It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.

Aaron Sorkin

If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.

Lisa Gansky

For most jobs, especially those in the digital economy, there is no objective standard for being 'qualified.' If you and the team you're working with think you're qualified, you are.

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.

Todd Rundgren

If I have an opportunity to do something safe or something challenging, I'll often choose the latter. Sometimes, the objective is to submerge my viewpoint with the artist.

Larry Davis

We're going to take it very slowly. Our objective is to see if it's possible for him to be ready Opening Day.

James Baker

There are no uniform, objective standards here. It's all subjective,

David Trimble

Our principal objective is ... to see the administration re-formed but re-formed on a sound basis.

Steve Holeman

Our staff objective for the spring is always to prepare for the fall. We wanted to work with the team in different systems and with a variety of players in different positions - a lot of experimenting. That being the objective, I think we had a successful spring.

Mike Tyson

My objective is to be the ultimate professional.

Carlos Mesa

It is a resignation that has one objective and that objective is to let the Bolivian people know that this is genuine,

Jonathan Adelstein

I was stunned by the scope. The public has a right to know who is trying to persuade them.

Action Bronson

I'm a piece of work, man. I will do what I want, at all times, always. Nobody's going to persuade me one way or another. I can't be persuaded. I take criticism, I listen, I analyze, but at the end of the day, I make the decisions. Because that's the way I started, and that's the way I'm going to finish.

Holliday Grainger

I come from a very loving, stable background where I've been persuaded to just be myself and anything is possible.

David Horowitz

I wouldn't be persuaded to be here if it wasn't for 20 years of being on campuses and seeing this.

Geoffrey Robertson

He was persuaded that, for Puritans, there could only be one King, now and for ever,

David Horowitz

I would not be here if I weren't persuaded by 20 years of walking around campuses and seeing this.

Paul Vincent

Is there anything the magistrates can do to persuade you to pay?

John Reed

I'm persuaded it can work. Our sense is it's well worth doing,

Mark Jacobs

They persuaded me to give it a shot.