Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Jenkins

We want to take the components and plug them into best-of-breed solutions, such as ratings engines. And whatever we choose has to be scalable, because, like other companies, we look at acquisitions as a viable way to grow.

Joseph Carroll

The perfect home is your home ... whatever it is and however you choose to make it so. You are surrounded by the things you like ... things that make you comfortable. It's as simple as that.

McKayla Maroney

For our team leotards, we get about ten to choose from to actually compete in at the Olympics.

Gretchen Rubin

I embrace treats, but I'm also very wary of treats. Treats help us feel energized, appreciated, and enthusiastic - but very often, the things we choose as 'treats' aren't good for us. The pleasure lasts a minute, but then feelings of guilt, loss of control, and other negative consequences just deepen the lousiness of the day.

Dan Mclaughlin

What the Senate did today is choose partisan politics over the people and the senior citizens.

Nitin Gupta

We want people to kind of help us choose what to listen to. This device kind of fills that role.

Mbhazima Shilowa

We want our townships to be places in which people take pride, where people live, not because they have no alternative, but because they choose to live there.

Jamie Pollard

We want kids that want to be here. If they choose that they want to be at another place, then that's better for them, and that's better for us. We made the decision a long time ago that we're running a marathon, we're not running a sprint.

Liu Bolin

Each one chooses his or her path to come in contact with the external world. I chose to merge with the environment.

Carolina Herrera

Lots of suits, lots of trousers, which I'm in heaven (about) because I love them. (They're) all made in men's materials like glen plaids and gray flannel and all in houndstooth. All those men's materials translated for a very feminine, wonderful woman.

Alessia Cara

Flannel shirts, denim, Converse, a guitar, messy hair? That's literally me.

Charles Dickens

Subscribe to our noble society for providing the infant negroes in the West Indies with flannel waistcoats and moral pocket handkerchiefs.

Ryan Murphy

You know, I'm very particular about my sheets. They have to be one hundred percent cotton, with a high thread count. Only cotton. No flannel.

Chester W. Nimitz

Hindsight is notably cleverer than foresight.

Ben Gibbard

We all pine for a time in life when things were simpler. Even when they weren't necessarily simpler, hindsight makes them look a lot simpler. The reality of it was that it wasn't.

Clive James

The inevitable effect of a biographer's hindsight is to belittle the subject's foresight.

Andrew Lincoln

I would find myself getting deeply distressed if I lived in hindsight all the time.

George Peteros

With 20/20 hindsight I think we just treated it too lightly.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Mr. [Richard M.] Nixon never has anything but hindsight.

Glen Taylor

In hindsight I would have done a lot of things differently.

Mariella Ruocco

In hindsight I didn't even stop to think what I was doing.

Mark Latham

In hindsight I could say, well it was a mistake to seek the leadership of the Labor Party when I had a young family,

Bernard Williams

We are potentially looking at tens of thousands of pounds. The Hirst and the McCartney are star lots.

Cheryl Brown

We've already started looking at what we could do different and better for next year's show.

Peter Marshall

We are looking to jumpstart the program, ... This is not a short-term fix.

Monique Currie

We are looking to get into the No. 1 spot because that would mean we won the game.

Craig Barrett

We are looking to be the preeminent building-block supplier to the World Wide Web economy,

Bill Ryan

We are looking to be competitive with the middle of the league.

Mike Williams

We are looking into this matter, we have made no decision.

Mary Osako

We are looking into the report. We would not know the nature of an investigation.

Charles Ramsey

We are looking into the possibility that it is gang-related, but we are not certain,

Nancy Heaton

We would stress to all of them that these are preliminary notices only.

Andrea Walker

When they (the committee) started, I noticed they didn?t have any students on the committee,

Robert Wilson

If you slow things down, you notice things you hadn't seen before.

Chris Widger

Oh, yeah, it's been noticeable for a while now,

Randy Pausch

If you are hopeful, if you are optimistic, other people want to help you. And if you are down in the dumps, other people may still help you, but I've noticed that they're walking, not running, over to you.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.

Lennart Meri

I was too busy looking into Yeltsin's eyes to notice what was under the table.

Al Lewis

There's more to anybody. Just because you haven't noticed it, that's your problem, that's not mine.

Tim Henman

When you speak to tennis journalists, you notice how little they understand.

Jay Wright

We're going to do it nicely, so he'll do it with me and he'll be in the pictures with his classmates.

Jonathan Crisp

The pictures are indisputable, ... they don't show that she wasn't a regular kid.

Taissa Farmiga

If you don't have a Facebook, like, you're nobody. There's all of these sort of requirements now, and if you don't have all of these things - Facebook, Twitter, etc. - you're made fun of. And Twitter for celebrities... everything is just getting so personal. Pictures of yourself, of what you're eating for breakfast.

Edgar Degas

Monet's pictures are always too draughty for me.

Randy Price

I find pictures of driver's licenses, pictures of Social Security cards.

Fred Dooley

He did the right thing. So, I thought it was the right thing to do to take the pictures down.

Thomas Kinkade

Literature is the stringing together of pictures in words.

Jake Paltrow

'La Notte' is my favorite of the Antonioni pictures and my favorite work of the master cinematographer Gianni di Venanzo, who also shot '8 1/2' for Fellini.

Jaromir Jagr

I saw a lot of pictures but I don't understand it.

Andrea White

She said, 'Should I try to do the splits?' and I said 'Yeah!' and she ripped her pants!

Samantha Fox

Listen, it's very easy not to be ripped off, you know. Get yourself a lawyer.

Pete Domenici

My constituents, and actually most Americans, think that somebody rigs these prices. That in the process, somebody's getting ripped off, and they think it's them.

Mark Dindal

Just ripped the Band-Aid off. He's kind of like that.

Alice Temperley

I was always in trouble at school for what I was wearing; I was never made a prefect because of the way I used to dress - I ripped my tights, my skirts were too short, all sorts of things.

Terry Bradshaw

I ripped that. Is it the same spot?

Lloyd Smith

I just feel like I'm getting ripped off by Rockingham County.

Charles Dickens

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Charles Caleb Colton

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.

Charles Dickens

A word in earnest is as good as a speech.

Charles Dickens

Anything that makes a noise is satisfactory to a crowd.

Charles Dickens

Surprises, like misfortunes, seldom come alone.

Charles Dickens

Captain Cuttle, like all mankind, little knew how much hope had survived within him under discouragement, until he felt its death-shock.

Chris Cornell

The words you say never live up to the words in your head.

Louise Erdrich

It was enough just to sit there without words.

David Hume

The simplest and most obvious cause which can there be assigned for any phenomena, is probably the true one.

Edward Everett Hale

I will not refuse to do the something I can do.

Carlos Castaneda

Do you know at this very moment you are surrounded by eternity? And do you know that you can use that eternity if you so desire?

Charles Stross

Any replacement to the current copyright position (life plus 70 years) needs to have an answer lined up for this, and similar, messy edge cases.

Charles Spurgeon

If I knew I had 25 years left to live, I would spend 20 of them in preparation.

Alanis Morissette

I'm a bit of an alchemist sorceress. I've collected probably 1500 oils from around the planet over the last ten years. I'm kind of obsessed with the sensuality of it.

Alan Watts

...for thousands of years human history has been a magnificently futile conflict, a wonderfully staged panorama of triumphs and tragedies based on the resolute taboo against admitting that black goes with white.

Alan Mulally

Although the quality of the vehicles is tremendously improving year after year but the underlying reasons that people are buying cars have really gotten focused. It's for high quality vehicles, reliable, fuel-efficient, and safe of course.

Alan Moore

I've known a lot of people go mad over the years, and it is more distressing than people dying. People dying is quite natural, people going mad is the complete antithesis of that.

Alan Moore

It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses, and apologized to no one.

Alan Moore

It's funny, but certain faces seem to go in and out of style. You look at old photographs and everybody has a certain look to them, almost as if they're related. Look at pictures from ten years later and you can see that there's a new kind of face starting to predominate, and that the old faces are fading away and vanishing, never to be seen again.

Alan Hovhaness

I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to Arlington when I was five years old, and it was in Arlington that I spent most of my childhood.