Famous Quotes & Sayings

Justin Hayward

The problem with the Moodies is not what to play, it's what to leave out! That's always difficult. We stopped having support acts many years ago just because of that. We needed getting on to two hours; there's such a big catalog to call on.

Brad Adams

There is compelling evidence suggesting that U.S. personnel have committed acts against detainees amounting to torture or cruel, inhumane, or degrading treatment.

Samuel Smiles

The best-regulated home is always that in which the discipline is the most perfect, and yet where it is the least felt. Moral discipline acts with the force of a law of nature.

Eric Whitacre

With vocal and choral music, first and foremost, it's the text. Not only do I need to serve the text, but the text - when I'm doing it right - acts as the perfect 'blueprint', and all the architecture is there. The poet has done the heavy lifting, so my job is to find the soul of the poem and then somehow translate that into music.

Kaki King

Opening acts are hard, really hard. There's more politics involved than music, sometimes.

Karen Abbott

Vaudeville was characterized by sunny optimism, acts that were uplifting, cheerful, and clean. It provided a fanciful, magical escape, but after Black Friday, the tone of American entertainment changed almost overnight.

Robert Witt

We want the best and brightest students. I have a very inclusive definition of best and brightest. Of course that includes ACTs and test scores. But it also includes the character prospective students display. That shows there's a place for them at the university.

Maurice Healy

The position on homosexual acts is pretty well founded. It won't change until Dignity drops their rationale, which is contrary to Catholic teaching.

Tricia Nguyen

We have just as good a chance to book these acts as anybody else would.

Juan Gonzalez

We have (second-place) Southwest this coming Wednesday, then Sweetwater and Eastlake. All three will be tough, tough games, so hopefully we can finish on top and go for the No. 2 seed.

DeMarcus Nelson

We have to get better. There are a lot of things we can do to get better. This feeling that this team is feeling tonight. This hurt and this pain has to motivate us this coming week to get better and to prepare and get refreshed for the ACC tournament. We really have to come out in the ACC tournament and really have an edge and a fire in each and every one of us.

Dave Schmotzer

We have to get better at that daily grind that all ballplayers have to go through. Right now, we have too many inexperienced players being put into pressure situations and not coming through. But it's just two games, so it's not time to panic yet.

Lovie Smith

We have a stretch run that we're coming up on and we need all of our guns, really, for that. And Cedric is a big part of what we're trying to do running the football. Other guys will have to pick up the slack until he gets back.

Marci Skeen

We have a solid team coming back. I was really impressed with our freshmen. They turned in some big scores at the OCC and at the district meet. Being a freshman at the district meet didn't seem to phase.

David Starkey

We have musicians coming from Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans to play in the band.

Jeremy Gunn

We have so many people coming back, and with the new additions, we're in a good position. We have lots of people vying for time, and there's definitely competition for places, which is nice. It's a nice problem to have.

Scott Ford

Whenever you exert that much energy coming back, it's so hard getting over the hump. Defensively, we picked it up a little more in the second half.

Kathy Gibson

When everybody left the locker room, there was a lot of talk that we're going to come back next year already. Every player that walked out said we're coming back here next year.

Thomas Perez

When we lift the wage floor, it not only betters the lives of those whose wages are directly affected, it also lifts the economy as a whole.

Charles E. Wilson

The prices of raw materials do not fluctuate directly with the labour cost of producing them.

Milan Mandaric

We're still expecting a response from Sheffield United to give us a green light to talk directly to Warnock.

John Spencer

We're sticking to what we can infer from our instrument, and we are not directly seeing temperatures warm enough for liquid water.

Jerry Wainwright

Shooting percentages can be misleading. Their steals led directly to baskets. I think they've done that all year. They're terrific open-court players.

Jim Carroll

She called me directly and is doing fine. We were glad to see her on TV this morning. She is in good health and we are pleased about that.

Barbara Perry

She completely represents this ideal. Janie has worked tirelessly to make Salisbury a cleaner, greener and better place to live. In fact, much of our community's recent success can be attributed directly to Janie.

Krista Clark

Sheltered Paws has found homes for 12 dogs in the past two months. I directly helped with two. That's kind of how I look at it: If everyone does a little bit, collectively, we can make a big difference.

Rivers Cuomo

Most of the songs I write are just very directly from my life. I don't have a big imagination. Whenever I tried to write from fantasy, it comes out sounding really fake.

Bob Young

Whenever something like that happens, it's always a function of poor organization less than poor talented people.

Thomas P.M. Barnett

Transnational terrorism, in the form of the Salafi Jihadist movement, is fundamentally a function of globalization.

Brian Wilson

If there's not love present, it's much, much harder to function. When there's love present, it's easier to deal with life.

David Denby

Entertaining the reader is a good function.

Brian Kernighan

90% of the functionality delivered now is better than 100% delivered never.

Kate Bush

I want to be in a position where I can function as a human being.

Bill Gates

Customer service will become the primary value added function of every business.

Gary Weiss

Short-sellers perform a useful function in the market as conduits of negative information, and shorts often complain that they are discriminated against by regulators.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

Los Angeles is just a more open place. The way L.A. functions is that people give you a forum. They say, Show us what you can do.

C. Northcote Parkinson

The smaller the function, the greater the management.

Ed Moyle

Worry in a CIO reflects uncertainty in the management process.

Charles M. Schwab

I will not be in the position of having management dictated to by labor.

Ben Horowitz

Your employees know each other better than they know you.

Eliot Spitzer

Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit.

Nobuyuki Idei

So far, Sony management has no reason to make any revision in sales targets for the PlayStation,

Edward Kennedy

Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management.

Benjamin Franklin

Anger and folly walk cheek by sole.

Guy Dolle

Unfortunately, my son is not on the management team.

Carol P. Christ

Watching birds has become part of my daily meditation affirming my connection to the earth body.

Brandi Carlile

Singing is a form of meditation... apparently the only one that I have command over.

Alan Watts

Meditation is the way in which we come to feel our basic inseparability from the whole universe, and what that requires is that we shut up.

Alan Watts

You can make any human activity into meditation simply by being completely with it and doing it just to do it.

Chogyam Trungpa

You are actually doing something. You are getting into this process without making sure that what you're doing is okay. Things are actually taking place, almost of their own accord, very simply and directly. That is meditation.

Chogyam Trungpa

Meditation practice is regarded as a good and in fact excellent way to overcome warfare in the world; our own warfare as well as greater warfare.

Chogyam Trungpa

That is the basic pattern of this kind of meditation, which is based on three fundamental factors: first, not centralizing inward; second, not having any longing to become higher; and third, becoming completely identified with here and now.

Chogyam Trungpa

In the practice of sitting meditation you relate to your daily life all the time. Meditation practice brings our neuroses to the surface rather than hiding them at the bottom of our minds. It enables us to relate to our lives as something workable.

Chogyam Trungpa

Meditation should not be regarded as a learning process. It should be regarded as an experiencing process. You should not try to learn from meditation but try to feel it. Meditation is an act of nonduality. The technique you are using should not be separate from you; it is you, you are the technique. Meditator and meditation are one. There is no relationship involved.

Charles Spurgeon

Let me ask you, how many atheists are now in this house? Perhaps not a single one of you would accept the title, and yet, if you live from Monday morning to Saturday night in the same way as you would live if there were no God, you are practical atheists.

Darrell Waltrip

We usually couldn't do it on Sunday. We had to wait until Monday because were about ready to kill each other.

Ricky Gervais

Mondays are fine. It's your life that sucks

David Thewlis

And it was only released in London last week, so when I go back to England Monday or whatever, I am expecting heaps of adulation. I'm hoping there is. If that doesn't happen I will be disappointed.

John Sheldon

We'd get the scouting report on Monday and I would say, 'Wow, Les, look who you've got this week,'

Jamie Oliver

My general rule is that if everyone knew how to cook fresh produce from their local area, and Monday to Thursday within 20 minutes, you know, there's millions of recipes out there to be had.

Alan Jay Lerner

A schedule so tight that it would only work if I didn't sleep on Monday nights.

Alan Cohen

Everything will change when your desire to move on exceeds your desire to hold on.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

If you're not worshiping God on Monday the way you [did] the day before, perhaps you're not worshiping Him at all.

Carlos Castaneda

If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos.

Carlos Castaneda

The world is such-and-such or so-and-so only because we tell ourselves that that is the way it is.

Carlos Castaneda

If a warrior is to succeed at anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.

Stephanie Uecker

Whenever we would get stressed out, we would talk.

Agnes Repplier

In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin

Dianna Agron

Stress is the worst thing. That's the ultimate demise of any good thing.

Diane von Furstenberg

Go to a place where you're not going to be stressed, because a honeymoon itself can be a stressful thing.

Diane von Furstenberg

Do less but do better. Get back to yoga. Remember that stress is not progress.

Diane von Furstenberg

The important thing is to take your time and not get stressed.

Carlos Castaneda

If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos.

Stephanie Uecker

Whenever we would get stressed out, we would talk.

Diane von Furstenberg

Go to a place where you're not going to be stressed, because a honeymoon itself can be a stressful thing.

Diane von Furstenberg

The important thing is to take your time and not get stressed.

David Nail

I'm a worrywart, so I'm always a bit more stressed out than I should be or wish I was.

Jamie Redknapp

The importance of a warm up and cool down can't be stressed enough.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

...popular fundamentalist theology has emphasized the utility of the cross rather than the beauty of the One who died on it... The "work" of Christ has been stressed until it has eclipsed the person of Christ.

Eckhart Tolle

You can be very much aware that when you are stressed, it always is a sign you have lost the present moment. So, you can choose to re-enter the present moment.

Eckhart Tolle

The whole world accepts that being stressed is the normal way to live.

Charles Dickens

things cannot be expected to turn up of themselves. We must in a measure assist to turn them up

Tiffany Thornton

No one is perfect in this world, and we all have our battles, but it's the way we get back on our feet and turn it around that really counts.

Tim Tebow

I'm not somebody that opens a playbook and just turns and reads and reads. That doesn't do it for me.

James Tate

We did make a turn for the better at some point.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

How completely satisfying to turn from [our] limitations to a God who has none.

Luc Ferrari

You turned on the radio and heard all kinds of things.

Brad Garlinghouse

Most turnarounds don’t turn.

Caity Lotz

Wittiness turns me on more than anything else.

Dave Orlandini

We've turned the corner. We still have a long way to go, but at least we can see the road. Before we couldn't even see the road.

Cynthia Morgan

Workers making more than $100,000 in yearly salary,

Paul Lopez

Every workers should be honored, every worker should be respected.

A. Scott Berg

I am a compulsive worker. But I'm also a compulsive relaxer.

Daryl Hall

I never felt entitled to anything. I'm the hardest worker I know.

Kevin Nealon

Workers insist that they are not disgruntled. They are very gruntled.

Ted Strickland

Barack Obama is betting on the American worker.

Dean Fryer

In effect, it shuts them down. They're not permitting workers to be employed.

Gregory Benford

They will do anything for the worker, except become one.

Monique Lhuillier

It's hard to keep family life and workplace separated.

Fritz Todt

Factories are the workplaces of our National Socialist racial comrades.

Gianni Agnelli

The factories were heavily bombed, but practically the construction work had been redone very quickly.