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.

Khalil Gibran

Life is indeed darkness save when there is urge, and all urge is blind save when there is knowledge, and all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love.

Don Henley

Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Proverb Don't look back, you can never look back.

Bible Bible

Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.

Mexican Proverb

Love is blind - but not the neighbors

James Graham

Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Helen Rowland

Love, like a chicken salad a restaurant has, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.

Nicolas Sarkozy

Many people living in these neighborhoods suffer. But nothing can excuse such useless, such blind violence like we saw,

Mike Halpert

So it's definitely better than blind luck, but a long way from where we'd like to be.

Robert Brown

One stiff blind horse, his every bone a-stare,/ Stood stupefied, however he came there: / Thrust out past service from the devil's stud!

Richard Rogers

You have to modernise; you have to change - you can't just be traditional for the fun of being traditional.

Richard P. Feynman

We do not know where to look, or what to look for, when something is memorized. We do not know what it means, or what change there is in the nervous system, when a fact is learned. This is a very important problem which has not been solved at all.

Robin Chase

There is a group of entrepreneurs pushing the envelope, government officials that are making significant changes despite the odds, and visionary writers, academics, and colleagues whose work confirms, amplifies, and stretches my own thinking.

Marc Benioff

You can do things in every part of the world. You can do things in every discipline. You can do large things, you can do small things. But it takes a while to figure out what you actually want to do. And it changes. As you change your interests and desires in philanthropy change, I think you have to be open to that change.

Mahesh Bhupathi

I think that tennis has been in a place for many years without any change. Davis Cup and Fed Cup has always been a very exciting platform for players because it is such an individual sport, and we get to play a team competition. We love being part of a team.

Manolo Blahnik

I think of each new season as an evolution, not a change in style.

Andrew Feinberg

We're not contradicting the view that genetic changes occur in the development of cancers, but there also are epigenetic changes and those come first.

Bob Combs

We're not contemplating any change for our competitions.

Norman Cousins

Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis -- once that crisis can be recognized and understood.

Kevin Mitnick

A lot of companies are clueless, because they spend most or all of their security budget on high-tech security like fire walls and biometric authentication - which are important and needed - but then they don't train their people.

Laura Bullock

Let's put it bluntly. If rail would be profitable, private companies would be doing it already.

Michael Atmore

Let's wait and see how the two companies mesh. They can learn from each other, if they're smart.

R. Halloran

Libya has been a fairly easy place for these companies to deal with, and I think they welcome the opportunity to get back and be able to operate there again.

Richard Bernstein

Lower quality companies are dramatically overstating their growth rates by using pro forma earnings.

Mark Greenberg

Lots of companies talk about having a long-term focus. At Liberty, they really do.

Promod Haque

Lot of technology companies in India are hoping for better relationship with the US.

Alan Ackerman

Lots of money has moved to the sidelines, ... People are not comfortable with the uncertainty ahead, made up of the fact that many of the tech companies keep lowering their guidance.

Eric Chaney

Laying-off permanent workers is so difficult and costly that companies have a strong preference for temp jobs, even if it is at the expense of productivity. When labor protection has become excessive and unaffordable, as it is in France, labor market institutions must be reformed.

Marc Faber

When you have a perfect free market, it's difficult to predict the future. But when you have a market that is disturbed by government manipulations and money-printing, it's impossible to make any predictions.

Ali Naimi

make it more difficult to overcome these bottlenecks in the system.

Alain Resnais

Luck, I never looked to make difficult movies on purpose. You make the films you can make.

Clinton Case

(Lewinsky) doesn't sound crazy. She sounds fragile, as if she is in an extremely difficult spot.

Tim Bates

Last year, we could hit the ball. That was our strength. We had inexperienced pitchers, but what is nice is that they're back. We left them in at difficult times last year so they could learn and they have improved because of it.

Don Cooper

Let's face it, it's very, very difficult to get our work in. The disappointing thing is that it looked like we were going to get our five innings in.

Yoshimasa Maruyama

Less than 250 seats and things could get difficult for Koizumi.

Maria Garcia

Learning English is the most difficult part, and I hope I can do it because I really want to become a citizen. I?m happy for my friends and I hope I can do it, too.

Bradley Skolnik

Many of these folks are in very difficult straits. There are several investments where the investor has used their entire life savings and incurred enormous hardship as a result. It's truly heartbreaking.

Rodel Natividad

Life. You either live with or live without.

George Lucas

Luke, there is no try, there is either do or not do.

Linda Todd

Many of them left in a hurry and either forgot their prescriptions or their prescriptions have run out. No one anticipated they were going to be stranded here this long or that they would be unable to get their medications (through prescription transfers).

Bill Bray

Many of the founding fathers either traveled through or at some point stayed here in our city.

Nobu Matsuhisa

Many chefs are either technically or artistically better than me, but I know my food has soul.

Daniel Brodsky

Mr. Magee, in retrospect, would've been far better off in a penitentiary. He would've either been in a minimum-security institution by now or he would be living in the community.

Stan Domin

Maureen is either really hot or really cold. When she's on she is really on though.

Sathya Baba

Meditate on me either with form or without form, that is pure bliss.

Newt Gingrich

One morning, just like 9/11, there's going to be a disaster. I have yet to see the United Nations do anything effective with either Iran or North Korea.

Ellen Gerton

Maggie has worked really hard and her skills have gotten so much better.

Rick Forney

Life as we know it in New Orleans and Tulane has changed. We have leaned on each other and gotten support. And there may be a stronger resolve than there has ever been.

Grant Billmeier

Losing Kelly and Donald, that's a huge loss. They got us 18 wins. Without those guys, I don't know if we would have gotten 10. They were leaders on and off the court. I'm real thankful for that.

Scott Young

Last year, we couldn't have gotten away with playing him inside. He's strong enough now that he does OK even when they get two hats on him.

Brandon Roy

Last year, with a No. 1 seed, we might have gotten a little relaxed. Now everybody's hungry. I think we have more fight.

Jon Bolin

Last year we were the hunters and other teams were our prey. This year we haven't gotten our hunter instinct back, but I think it's coming.

Keith Snoddy

Sebastian has gotten more aggressive, and he's done pretty much everything we have asked.

Tom Schrader

Sentiment had gotten so bad. People are wanting to start get back in.

M. Hopper

My kids have been unbelievable with the heart they've shown. And that's why we've gotten this far.

Michael Long

Macquarie is stalling for time. There's always the opportunity to raise the offer later on.

Angel Guzman

Let's see what happens. Everything is on standby. It's about showing them we are ready -- no matter if it's now, later this season or next year.

Mats Sundin

Milestones you look back on later in your career,

Tad Hutcheson

Maybe we can make it work later on.

James Corden

No one could have predicted on day one of rehearsals, that a year and a half later we would have shot a film and all be living in New York. It was surreal.

Duane Campbell

Maybe later on in life I will run for the track championship, ... But right now, I just want to race.

Tom Stoppard

In Chekhov, everything blends into its opposite, just fractionally, and this is sort of unsettling. And that's why you end up 100 years later asking, 'Is that moment tragic or comic?'

Bob Moore

We won't have anything until later today. I don't think it's career-ending.

Dascha Polanco

I was raised in New York and then moved to Miami in my teenage years, returning to New York later on.

Olusegun Obasanjo

We need to negotiate with other groups, unless our objective is to prevent any decision.

John Findlay

If they don't give us the information, we can't negotiate properly with them,

Mark Shapiro

If we can't get something done by the end of spring training, we'll stop. We will not negotiate during the season.

Madeline Albright

We are not going to negotiate with him,

Keith Rothfus

I'm a transactional lawyer; I negotiate all types of things, but with a particular focus in software licenses.

Al Lenza

We'd like to get to a point where the kiosks could actually negotiate the compensation a passenger will get and rebook the flight.

Mark Russell

We were able to negotiate terms outside the quoted rate.

Robert Kiyosaki

It's tough to negotiate from a position of weakness.

Mike Boyd

Unions don't give in easily. It's going to be ugly, and Parker can't do much about it but negotiate with the winner.

Mark Sullivan

Many are wondering how prices could go up so quickly after the hurricane.

Tom Kloza

One would wonder what the prices would be if it had actually been cold.

Pete Domenici

My constituents think somebody is rigging those prices and that they are getting ripped off.

Richard Williams

Now the question is 'What is the right price for the shares?'.

Jack Cox

I feel sorry for the (homeless) people. But what price do we pay?

Michael Gartenberg

The price sounds reasonable and should resonate with consumers,

Jim Reese

The prices are up because no one has wheat.

Cherry Hill

The prices are like the Energizer Bunny: They just keep going and going up,

John Simley

If we're going to make this work, the price must be transparent to the consumer.

Dr. Nabarro

Frankly, there will be a pandemic, sooner or later.

Jim Loehr

She's going to come out when she's ready, probably sooner than later, and set the world on fire,

Kristen Staab

To me, the sooner the better. At least with the trial it will all be over.

Ryan Callahan

We know we have to win at least one here (in London) and we would like to do it sooner than later.

Ashleigh Brilliant

Sooner or later, I'll be punctual.

Brian Jacques

Death comes to us all sooner or later. We cannot escape it.

Steve Ball

I would sooner go back to, if you want to vote you have to come here and vote.

Bob Woodward

He made the point, which is right: I should tell him more. More is better. Sooner is better.

Alice McDermott

A good writer sells out everybody he knows, sooner or later.

Mark Philippoussis

Obviously, I'll do whatever it takes to get back,

Reggie Williams

I feel free. It just takes time sometimes.

Mark de Mori

Sexy boxing is something that takes away from the brutality of boxing.

Ben Crenshaw

I don't know where this week is going to lead, but I've had so much fun. I'm just going to kind of see where it takes me.

Jack Toney

Timing matters. It typically takes a week or so, but after the sessions begin, it could take longer.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

As an audience member, if I go to a film, and I am watching two actors, and they're kissing, and it looks like they don't even want to be kissing, it just takes me out of the film.

Evan G. Galbraith

There's something about the Foreign Service that takes the guts out of people.

Randy Pausch

Smelling a crayon takes you right back to childhood. When I need to go back in time, I put it under my nose and take another hit.

Orlando Bloom

It takes obstacles to learn, grow, be better.