Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Strickland

If something is bothering you, keep it to yourself.

Louise Leakey

With the discovery of Zinjanthropus at Olduvai Gorge in 1959, my grandmother Mary Leakey pioneered the research in East Africa with my grandfather Louis. Many more spectacular fossil finds have since been made, both in Africa and elsewhere, by many researchers driven to understand our past.

Lisa Cholodenko

Wendy and I both wanted kids, but since we were pushing 40, the clock was ticking.

Maajid Nawaz

I care not to debate which came first, Islamism or anti-Muslim bigotry; suffice to say that both feed into each other symbiotically.

Mackenzie Astin

There is a healthy fraternal rivalry, but nothing serious and we both have been looking for a project to do together. I guess he may direct me in a project some day.

Richard Cohen

The other side said (there are) 799 federal and state laws mandating the use of English. ... We would say those kinds of laws are not at issue here. I think that English is the official language of this country in a practical sense already. And I think that most people who come here both learn English and want to learn English.

Ben Folds

The other reason Rufus and I are great together is that we're both really lazy. The rehearsing, the sound checks -- he's actually worse than I am, and that's something. To get us to do anything other than sit in our dressing rooms is a challenge. Who knows what will happen?

Duncan Chase

The potential is unbelievable with both those girls.

Tarun Das

The potential is huge for them both in sales and production.

Samuel Bodman

With the Reserve fully operational, we will be able to start delivering this oil as soon as tomorrow,

Dan Netto

When (the reservoir) is full, it is better for everyone ? better for recreation, fishing, water storage, generating power, delivering water to farmers.

Alan Mak

Some new actors are focused on whether they do a good job delivering their lines when they're acting, but scenes without dialogue are harder because you have no lines to portray that you're doing something. Jay Chou didn't have this problem. There were a lot of scenes without dialogue in the movie, but he has a very strong imagination. He would try to figure out what's the situation now.

Gayle Lynds

If you are writing a thriller with violence in it, the ending must be violent. You are delivering a promise to your reader.

Stephanie Hall

We have really heavily invested our staff in delivering Flumist in the school system and we were going to be stretched kind of thin to be delivering inactivated vaccine at exactly the same time,

Jim Kelly

We have refocused the organization on delivering more to the membership. Today we are less about being an engine for revenue for events and more about increased value for our members through services that respond to our members' needs.

Richard Moore

Today's announcement is all about delivering new platform capabilities with unprecedented integration between the server infrastructure and development tools,

Chance Patterson

XM is unique because we have hundreds of programmers delivering millions of songs plus live news, live sports and talk directly to subscribers.

Jim Padilla

One thing I am looking forward to is laying this out and getting all of our people focused on delivering this piece of what we have to do. This speculation does not help us with our unions and our people in the development centers,

David Cole

What they're really doing is taking their divisions and shrinking their number in a de facto way.

Mel Karmazin

We're pleased to see improvements in all segments, ... The company's stations group had record operating results with each of the divisions - radio, outdoor and television - contributing to the results.

Rick Perlstein

My big subject as a historian is how Americans divide themselves. What are the divisions that structure our political lives. Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan were perfect foils for that story.

Miguel Cotto

To be the first Puerto Rican to win a world title in four divisions would be an achievement. Gomez, Benitez, there have been a lot of good fighters from Puerto Rico before me. When I started boxing, Tito Trinidad was our big star.

Yotam Ottolenghi

You can be vegetarian and eat fish. It's your choice, just say: 'I am what I am.' There are no hardcore divisions anymore.

Sepp Blatter

Obviously, you'll still need a few stars elsewhere in the world, but not the hundreds and thousands who play in the second or third divisions in other countries.

Robin Oakley

I don't think we'll see huge divisions here in Greece.

John Toshack

It has been hard for some of them, stepping up from the lower divisions where they are playing a lot more games, is tough.

Robert Williams

We will have three different divisions playing. We should have great participation and it should be as competitive as it has always been.

Charles Dickens

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Charles Dickens

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

Charles Caleb Colton

Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine.

Charles Dickens

A good thing can't be cruel.

Charles Simmons

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

Alan Moore

If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that.

Alan Alda

The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.

Akira Kurosawa

A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.

Brian Nicola

We want them all to go on, and realistically they all have a shot. They all want to be state-placers and they're all looking to be pretty tough. I just want them all to have a good time.

Akshay Kumar

I have never believed in being part of any one group or camp.

David Shields

In my own little way, I feel like I'm part of a group of writers who care deeply about pushing the essay forward.

Tom Bradley

The personality of this group is it's a hardworking, blue-collar defense. It's as hard a working group that I've been around.

Madeline Albright

We are seeing a shift from well-organized, local groups supported by state sponsors to more far-flung and loosely structured webs of terror,

Karen Bradley

We are a group of medical professionals, but this is not medicine. Just because it is a procedure we do does not mean it is right.

Alan Hoffman

There are some groups of stocks that always key off of one another. The solid names are the solid areas.

Mike McCarthy

We stopped the picket line because I was having a hard time getting a regular group of guys there,

Darl Keller

We still miss Todd, especially. He had something the kids really listened to. This year's group (of seniors), they're working hard at that but they're just not quite there yet, not with as many young kids as we have now. Aaron's really helping in that regard.

Don Helling

We started off a little up and down. But then things started to come together. This group is really team oriented and they knew what they needed to do.

Charles Dickens

There might be some credit in being jolly.

Alan Greenspan

All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It's only a question of degree.

John Parker

We want to see more positive growth in North America.

David Rusenko

Word-of-mouth marketing is a crucial component of organic growth for startups and one of the primary ways that Weebly has grown to over 15 million customers.

Philip Shaw

The PMI is a big upside surprise ... and is at least hinting that services growth stepped up at the end of last year.

Mel Karmazin

We are pleased with the ongoing growth of radio and outdoor (advertising), the television stations and the network.

Charles Lee

Growth is ignited anytime you put in expressways and interchanges. It's a synergistic effect.

Arthur Rubinstein

Don't tell me how talented you are. Tell me how hard you work.

Derek Bok

Ever since economists revealed how much universities contribute to economic growth, politicians have paid close attention to higher education.

Alanis Morissette

I started making music because I could.

Alanis Morissette

I am what I am Are you what you are or What?

Alanis Morissette

Writing a song doesn't heal things. Even if the song comes up with a solution, it's still only a theory. Going out and living my lyrics is a whole other deal. That takes courage.

Alanis Morissette

Music helps you find the truths you must bring into the rest of your life.

Al Jarreau

You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.

Al Jarreau

Once you discover that you can, then you must.

Chris Colfer

I grew up doing musical theater.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I'm constantly discovering things. Like Bobby Bland. Right now I suppose I'm into the Eighties, which turned out to be a great musical period.

Chico Hamilton

Musicians have to suffer to a certain degree in order to obtain their outlet.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still.

Alan Perlis

Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

Im not satisfied with the progress of the work, but I am happy that the talks are going on. It might have a negative effect if the United States joins.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Whenever God begins something, we have the assurance that He will finish it. Nothing will stand in the way of Him accomplishing His purpose in this world and in our lives. What God starts, He finishes, and nobody can hinder Him. Sure, delays will happen. Just remember, God is in charge of the delays as well as the progress.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

We also have the option of scanning in an image from outside the computer... a photo, or a sketch done with traditional tools; and we can then paint, manipulate, process, change, and further develop the image within the computer, watching our progress on the monitor.

Bruno Rossi

In any case, whenever technical progress opened a new window into the surrounding world, I felt the urge to look through this window, hoping to see something unexpected.

Charles William Eliot

In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress.

Ai Weiwei

There is no media freedom in China. As a result, the society is corrupt and lacks productivity. It is unable to adjust itself for progress. This will lead to the country's eventual downfall.

Bill Phillips

Focus on progress not perfection.

Nick Earls

I wrote my first novel-length story when I was 14 but had no idea what to do with it. Brisbane was a long way from the publishing industry then. Nowhere's a long way from the publishing industry now.

Anna Chlumsky

First, I was a fact checker for Zagat and then I was an editorial assistant for HarperCollins publishing house.

Daniel Berrigan

I was publishing when I was 20, 21. And it really never stopped.

Chuck Palahniuk

All major publishing houses have these big fat biographies sitting there, waiting for people to die. All you have to do is slap on the end and put in on the market. It's that kind of commoditization and completion of your life before you die - and this kind of imposition of a public idea of self that replaces the actual living self - that I find so frightening.

John Mutter

They're worried about publishing and retailing like everyone else in the business, and this may be a way for them to stay on top of this.

Theodore Pappas

These are the sorts of fundamental publishing vices of the most serious kind.

J. Tillman

I've never taken the steps to be 'successful': I've never had a manager or signed to a publishing house.

Chris Roberson

I started a publishing company just so I could get the phone numbers of everyone that I'd ever admired.

Russell Perreault

I don't think there's any such thing as a coincidence in publishing anymore.

Brendon Urie

I recorded 'The End of All Things' right before I married my now wife. We had no vows publicly, so I wrote her this song and told her, 'This is how I see our relationship.'

Dennis Brown

Like Noel Brown and Scotty, they recorded as the Chosen Few, and I recorded as Dennis Brown then.

Alexander Ovechkin

For sure, Pavel Bure was my hero. I was very young, but I remember this moment. I recorded the game.

Christina Aguilera

I always wanted to have my own album recorded and released before I graduated high school.

Glenn Hughes

I think the greatest records we've ever heard, from Zeppelin to Purple to Sabbath to The Who, were all recorded in the studio live.

Jim Messina

We recorded several of Kenny's songs in the living room of my home.

Jim Ed Brown

When I started in '54, it was only one track on a quarter-inch machine. We didn't have recording studios much around the country; we went into the radio stations and recorded our records.

Alison Krauss

It sounded like a drag...so we recorded it.

Kate Smith

In 29 years, I had recorded over 2,200 songs. I was amazed.

Edward Gibbon

Rational confidence [is] the just result of knowledge and experience.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

If you don’t find the time, if you don’t do the work, you don’t get the results.

Jason Terry

We accomplished most of our goals, and now it's time to put it all together. The results will be sweet if we do.

Bob Riley

When money follows results - we will get more results for our money

Bill Walsh

Concentrate on what will produce results rather than on the results, the process rather than the prize.

Romeo Crennel

When we get the results on that, we'll let you know.

John Baumann

We're just getting our first results back. So far, so good.

Alexandra Adornetto

Find x if (x)=2sin3x,over the domain -2piX=Beth 'Stop goofing around!',I said. 'I'm not! I'm stating the truth.You're my solution to everything',Xavier replied. 'The end result is always you.X always equals Beth.

Timothy Noah

Presidential election results in 2008 and 2012 clarified that talk radio was not, in fact, running the country.

Charles Caleb Colton

Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no watches so effectively deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.

Charles Sturt

The increasing importance of Sydney must in some measure be attributed to the flourishing condition of the colony itself, to the industry of its farmers, to the successful enterprise of its merchants, and to particular local causes.

Charles Spurgeon

Complicity with error will take from the best of men the power to enter any successful protest against it.

Alan Moore

Why do we argue? Life's so fragile, a successful virus clinging to a speck of mud, suspended in endless nothing.

Alan Greenspan

The probability of ten consecutive heads is 0.1 percent; thus, when you have millions of coin tossers, or investors, in the end there will be thousands of very successful practitioners of coin tossing, or stock picking.

Alan Greenspan

Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere. It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum. No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.

Alan Bennett

The thing I think about is that once you've done it, you then start to think about what you're going to do next. It's much easier to follow something that's not been as successful as this.

Alan Ball

Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.

Alan Alda

We're highly social animals - I'm told by scientists that what makes us different from other animals is an acute social awareness, which is what has made us so successful.