Famous Quotes & Sayings

Malin Akerman

In '87, I was about 9 years old, and so at that point I was wearing, like, fluorescent green T-shirts and acid-wash jeans and leg warmers, and my hair was in a ponytail with a scrunchie and I had the teased bangs that were up in a rainbow shape. It was crazy.

LK Advani

Main problem of Bangladesh was its culture of denial by the government by not acknowledging how can the problem be solved,

Jeff Gibson

Less is more when it comes to color and annuals. Choosing a single color pattern carries a more dramatic visual impact than mixing and matching. And you can get more bang for the buck in terms of color and coverage by breaking the normal rules for potting and planting annuals that call for spacing them widely apart.

Mike Montgomery

McGrady just goes bang, bang, bang and hits those shots. (But) the odds, I guess, have to come back to you at some point.

Craig Allen

My first three years I battled injuries on and off. It's nice to be able to go out with a bang in my senior year.

Eric Takamura

More bang for your buck. So we could potentially remove 80- to 100-thousand tons from our waste stream, versus mixed recyclable is only estimated at 24,000 tons.

Sheikh Hasina

Now we have decided to go back to bargain people's demands as we don't want to give the government and ruling Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) a chance to ignore them any more.

Jose Andres Puerta

When I came to El Bulli, right away I knew I was becoming part of something incredible. It was like watching the Big Bang happening right in front of me.

Paul Moroney

When the jockey hops off and tells you the horse feels bang on, you get a good feeling about it.

George Domenech

Many of the skippers said it was more like sailing in a real regatta. Rarely do you get to use all three sails, but we did this time. The wind created havoc as all boats came to the line for the starting gun.

Irish Sayings

Nodding the head does not row the boat

Paul Taylor

One of the stranded mariners even told the sailors that other boats had passed by without stopping to help.

David Tucker

Obviously when the boat has gone over it has taken in water and then it has taken in more water - enough to sink it.

Britani Dunbar

My Dad used to draw boats all the time and I've found his drawings in my grandparents' attic. I found one picture he drew of hockey players.

Chip Foose

My dad used to design cars, boats and vans, ... I would sit next to him from the time I was 3 and copy what he was doing. I continued doing that until eventually it was easier for him to tell me to draw it than have him draw it.

Chris Taylor

My dad was a working man on the canals, one of the last people to take a boat through the top locks. Now we have nowhere to visit him. I am very upset.

Pat Smith

When the MTA tells us to begin, we will begin. The boat is there and we are ready.

Mark Helvey

We won't have enough observers for all the boats to fish at the same time.

Paul Turner

We're not dismayed in any way, we're building but it's a slow build right now.

Peter Steinbrueck

We're not building the public transportation system that we need.

Ben Howland

We're not building a program, we're following the leadership of John R. Wooden. He's the one that built this program. It will always be his program.

Abe Reichental

We're not building a future for a few years, we're building for a lifetime.

Audrey Lewis

Like any other marketing campaign, you want to build up your profile.

Chaz Bickers

Like any company that's going into negotiations, we have made plans for any possibility. That said, we can't make airplanes without our team members there to build them.

Steve Harrison

Let's be a little creative about this before we start building three- and four-story circular structures. This is Beaufort.

Stuart Butler

Let people try what they want in their states, providing it meets certain standards. It will mean diversity. It's also a way of building consensus over time of what needs to be done, something you can't do if you go nationally initially.

Claudio Reyna

Luckily, the doctor is one of the leading guys in Europe and I'm happy to be seeing him and getting the problem cleared up. Within six to eight weeks, I'll be completely back up and running and three weeks after the surgery, I should be jogging and building it up until I'm back.

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.

Roger von Oech

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.

Mallory Ortberg

It certainly was unusual growing up with two fairly well-known pastors as my parents.

Drew Goddard

Like anything, I think there are some wonderful found footage movies, and there are some less good. Certainly when it's done well, I really love it. I really love it as a genre.

David Eisenberg

Like a detective, Melinda traced this fibril-forming property down to a little peptide. Nobody expected that 1 percent of the protein could have the essence of the whole protein and could form fibrils on its own; I certainly didn't expect that. There were only seven amino acids in that fragment. Rebecca later found the peptide could be cut to only four amino acids and form fibrils.

Drew DiPippo

Making the tournament has certainly been our focus. We have a tough road to get there, but it's our focus and goal and we're going to keep plugging towards it.

Tim Deal

Macs still present a price premium on the consumer side. That will always be an issue to many consumers. However, for those where technology and differentiation by innovation is the key purchasing factor, this certainly does remove that obstacle.

Keith Gumbinger

Leveraging yourself out at a time when (home) prices are very high certainly could set you up for difficult times.

David Pierce

Let's see... how old am I? I'm definitely in my 50s... and I've certainly always been in my 50s. I could be older than that... but I'm not willing to face that.

Robert Rainy

The earlier practice of the Church had been more or less to employ in worship under the presidency of the pastor or pastors, the gifts of the congregation.

Bret Tuetken

Like everyone else, they wanted to take Hope and Maria out of the game. I told the girls earlier today that someone is going to get open shots.

Omar Abdullah

Let them repeat what they have already told the prime minister in earlier meetings but they must show their presence.

Kevin Parker

Looks to me like we'll have to light it earlier than we thought.

Tracy Mullin

Many stores opened earlier than ever before and retailers offered unbelievable sales and discounts to get people shopping.

Jeffrey Grau

Online sales are growing at a healthy clip, even though sales may have pulled back somewhat from the robust pace seen earlier this year.

John Ryan

One time when I was working, earlier in the night we had been given notice by the UP to be on the lookout for a gentleman who was possibly stealing bikes. It was around 2:45 in the morning that we actually saw him. As soon as we went to radio it into base, the UP surrounded Epsilon (where we saw him at).

Richard Carmona

More teens are using marijuana at earlier ages, ... We really need to stop these trends.

Matthew Ashford

Now we go out to eat earlier - at 5 p.m. instead of 9 p.m. It's better that way, especially when you have little kids who want to run around.

Tom Izzo

Let's not anoint us as a finished product yet. But I like the steps we're taking.

Hale Irwin

Let's put that in perspective, ... I finished an hour before the leaders. It wasn't like that putt sent me into the playoffs. Heading into the 11th hole, I wasn't even in the top 15.

Scott M. Gimple

Lots of shows are written completely in the writer's room. And I wouldn't say 'The Walking Dead' is that way. There are three levels to it. There's us in the room. The writers going off by themselves. And me working with the writers on a finished script.

Karl Dorrell

Look, we're not a finished product by any means and we're still in that shadow, ... But we are gaining some momentum.

Brandy Williams

Last year was hard, because we had just finished playing another hard game the night before. We really wanted to go this time.

Laurie Kelly

Last year we were the No. 3 seed and my players were happy. This year they were mad that they didn't finish higher.

Lynn Murray

Last year, we went 10-0 non-conference. It was huge because we did not have the same strength of schedule that we have this year. Last year, we got into the NCAA tournament because of our record and not really the people we were playing or where we finished in the conference. As a team goal, we are trying to get to the same place we were last year.

LaMont Jordan

One magazine had me finishing with 975 yards,

Ben Howland

Obviously, we're real pleased to get the win. That was a great finish for us. It's really just a testament to the character, the toughness, the heart of our players to have the never-quit attitude. I'm really, really proud of them.

Italo Calvino

Sometimes I try to concentrate on the story I would like to write, and I realize that what interests me is something else entirely, or, rather, not anything precise but everything that does not fit in what I ought to write.

Jacqueline Leo

Life isn't a 24/7 merry go round. If it were, you wouldn't get the 7 hours of sleep necessary to keep you fit and sane.

Richard Turner

Madonna is a pretty good rider and very fit and agile. Being thrown off is just one of the risks of riding.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Many ingredients are called 'earthy,' but none comes as close to fitting the bill as buckwheat. I'm mildly obsessed with the stuff.

Deon Thompson

Sean May, I like how he plays. We've got the same style. It's a good fit for me.

Elisa Zied

Moderation is boring, but it's the key. You need to watch your portion sizes and then you'll see you can fit a lot of these beautiful, wholesome, healthful and tasty foods into your diet.

Jennifer Armintrout

Move over, Helen of Troy; Jenny Trout is going to wage a war on good health and fit bodies!

Ewen McKenzie

Mat was very keen to be fit for this match, but in the end he wasn't right.

Rudi Voeller

My impressions are more than positive, all my 23 players are fit and all have been practicing well.

John Christiansen

Last year we had an accelerated program, so this year, to take an accelerated program to a higher level, it's safe to say that because of 318A.

Tom Davies

Last year, the winds were around 25 to 26 knots out of the north. This year, it was even higher winds, but out of the south.

Craig Venter

Mitochondrial DNA is in higher concentration, lasts longer, and can be extracted from bones.

Renee Ellmers

Men do tend to talk about things on a much higher level.

Susan Ferguson

More rural states tend to have higher fatalities.

Marie Wilson

More women should be running for higher office. This is just a straw poll, but it makes people think about putting a woman in the White House.

Alderman Mokros

Now we are looking at a higher price.

Ed Slott

Now the IRS fees are higher than mine.

Doug Davis

We might be in for a pause after the recent gains. We're waiting to see when rising interest rates have an impact. Higher rates in the U.S. are the key -- if the U.S. falters, the rest of the world will falter, too.

Eddie Izzard

We must have been hunters and gatherers but some of us were just waiters and hopers.

Darren Shan

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing." - Harkat Mulds (Hunters of the Dusk)

Andy Rooney

Vegetarian: Indian word for lousy hunter.

Christopher Moore

Inside, I was like: "Ha, suck my spiky rubber strap-on, vampyre hunter!

Dennis Jones

This was just too much for the hunters and the guides.

Ben Kingsley

The leaping Jaguar on the bonnet, to me, makes it look more like a hunter than something that is getting away. It's a hunter. Richard III definitely would have had a chauffeur driven Jaguar MK X.

Jill Thomas

I've ridden my whole life. I used to ride hunters and jumpers. If I wasn't at my work, I was at the barn.

Grant Morrison

Study yourself the way a hunter studied prey. Exploit your own weaknesses to create desired changes within yourself.

Mitt Romney

I've been a hunter pretty much all my life.

Jurgen Klinsmann

Lehmann, Kahn and Hildebrand have all improved this season,

Nathan Watson

Last year we improved our times at every meet. As long as we can do that I will be pretty satisfied.

Terry Taylor

My life has improved so much. Frankly, I was very grateful.

Liu Jiangyong

China-Japan relationship deteriorated rather than improved over the year, and the deterioration trend will move on.

Derek Allen

I have improved a lot. I think it's strength, age, experience, and attitude. Plus, I'm really, really fit.

Jay Freese

She's improved a lot from last year and is in a new role. Autumn's inside this year instead of being out on the wing.

Joseph Nye

She has enormously improved the Wilson School, ... I've said to my successor, you've got to look over your back.

Simon van der Meer

Since then, I have worked with the group that commissioned and improved the ring and that is now preparing the construction of a second ring to increase the p stacking rate by an order of magnitude.

Andres Nocioni

I don't care. I want to work for the team, and that's it. I don't think about improved player, sixth man. If my teammates know I'm improved, that's enough.

Shawn Garrett

Obviously we'd have liked to come here and win it the first time out. We shake it off and get ready for tomorrow.

Mary Matalin

No, no, no. Dick Cheney forbade me to waste time on his image. I would have liked to have done more.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

My goal is, of course, for this show to do well, and I would love it if people liked it.

Cheryl Tiegs

My father's name is Theodore, but that - it's always - I've always liked the name Theodore. I read a lot. It's in a lot of literature.

Bill Cowher

No, I kind of liked the ones he's had,

Stan Cliburn

Naturally, this wasn't the way we wanted to start. We would have liked to have put on a better show.

Kacy Catanzaro

I've never been afraid of much, and like any normal kid, I liked to push the limits of what I could do.

Sami Abdulbari

One of the Clarksville d-lineman told me to keep it up. He liked the enthusiasm.

Luis Castillo

I would have liked to stay; I would have liked at least another year.

Derrick Byars

Man, I looked up at the clock, was that right? That was kind of weird too, looking up there and seeing they only had 30.

Sandra Lerner

My aunt looked like Lucille Ball, and everything she touched was beautiful and elegant. But I was intelligent enough to understand I would never be like her.

Carrie Zaitz

When I looked through that first telescope my paradigm shifted up course. I realized it was a really big universe and I wanted to know all about it.

Jason Terry

When I looked at the mistakes I made in the playoffs, it was more because I was indecisive. This year, I'll be more deliberate, more assertive.

Dustin Moskovitz

The first time I looked at Yammer, I thought I was on Facebook. Work is not a social network, with serendipitous communications and photo collections. Work is about managing tasks and responding to things quickly.

Jack Baldwin

From our angle, you couldn't tell if it was going to make it to the net or not. It looked like everything was moving in slow motion.

Vijay Singh

On paper it looked very satisfying but I was very disappointed with the way I played the majors.

Ryan Hamby

On the first catch, Troy kind of looked at me and grinned.

Lupita Nyong'o

I was raised in Kenya, and I always wanted to be an actor from when I was really, really little, but the first time I thought it was something that I could make a career of was when I watched 'The Color Purple.' I think I was nine, maybe, and I saw people that looked like me - Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah.

Dennis Prager

The rarest of the good qualities in human beings is courage

Dennis Hastert

She has all the qualities of leadership, except followers.

Deng Xiaoping

We must firmly grasp management. Just making things isn't enough. We need to raise the quality.

Dieter Rams

Nothing works without details. They are everything, the baseline of quality

Eleanor Roosevelt

Ability is not something to be saved, like money, in the hope that you can draw interest on it. The interest comes from the spending. Unused ability, like unused muscles, will atrophy. It is tragic to realize that the majority of human beings, even the so-called educated, call upon only the smallest fraction of their potential capacity. They leave many talents dormant. They fail to develop their mental qualities. They are almost unaware of the degree of energy upon which they might call to build a full and rewarding life.

Edsger Dijkstra

The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings.

Deepak Chopra

The quality of one's life depends on the quality of attention.

David Neeleman

I really see low-fare carriers, quality low-fare carriers anyway, continuing to become more and more popular.

Aaron Eckhart

I'm always fascinated with how a person becomes a good quality person, a productive person, and how it happened to me, because I was a terror.

Jonathan Fox

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

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.

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.

Paul Otellini

I think you'll see very aggressively priced systems out there.

Bert DuMars

Some of our systems are 20, 30, 40 years old. We need to modernize them, and it's not cheap.

Mike Claffey

Fortunately, the weather did end up cooperating, and it's all systems go.

Riley Wallace

We've got a lot of new systems going.

Alan Paller

It would have been terrible (without the widespread patching). That got a lot of systems fixed.

Ram Dass

As one individual changes, the system changes.

John Dunn

There's a lot of systems on (boats). They're complicated.

Myles Munroe

External circumstances will not change until internal belief systems change.

Robert Kazinsky

There are always things you wish you could've done better, and there are always things that you wish would've turned out a different way in terms of storyline, which you're not in charge of.

Craig Venter

Traditional ways of distinguishing populations are irrelevant in terms of genetic code.

Al Pacino

Explain to me what Italian-American culture is. We've been here 100 years. Isn't Italian-American culture American culture? That's because we're so diverse, in terms of intermarriage.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

For me to think in terms of employing security seems ostentatious.

Lars Larsen

I never think in terms of gold, currency, diamonds. I'm not clever enough for that.

H. L. Mencken

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

Yossi Beilin

We have no terms for dialogue, but we do have terms for negotiations.

Joe Mathis

We are already tapped out in terms of volunteers and staff.

Willis Reed

We would still have been here if we could have come to terms with the union.