Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nick Woodman

As long as you can bootstrap, not at the sacrifice of competitive advantage, bootstrapping is a really powerful thing because it allows you to be totally devoted to your vision.

Susan Mitchell

We've been able to devote more resources to him because of that, but he has not had a particularly privileged upbringing. I was a single parent for most of his life. It's not like he had tutors and parents who could sit around and help him.

Julia Roberts

I was fortunate to work a lot, and I worked hard, and I was very devoted to that, and then I earned this jewel box of a life that I felt completely entitled to.

Richard Leakey

Let us devote our minds - the one thing we have more of than other apes - and let's secure their future.

King Gyanendra

Let us all pledge today to devote time for establishing permanent peace. It is the need of today to establish permanent peace.

Scott Smith

make sure we have people devoted to the most valuable activity.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Priesthood lessons are regularly devoted to topics of family leadership, and quorum leaders everywhere are feeling more and more their responsibility to teach and train their quorum members to be better husbands and fathers.

E. F. Benson

Romance is a bird that will not sing in every bush, and love-affairs, however devoted the sentiments that inspire them, are often so business-like in the prudence with which they are conducted, that romance is reduced to a mere croaking or a disgusted silence.

Bill Fleckenstein

Shorting is very time intensive and it's very hard to do at home. That's not because you have to be smart, but because you have to have a lot of time devoted to it.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Taste, which enables us to distinguish all that has a flavor from that which is insipid.

Tim Ryan

Luis does all the things that enables your team to be successful.

David Selby

That's the reason support for the National Endowment of the Arts is so important. It enables those ventures that aren't viable commercially to be done.

Eric Ripert

Having sharp, great knives will enable you to cook very precisely. Knife skills are essential in cooking.

Leon Max

I use the computer as a paintbrush. It enables me to do in hours what would have taken months.

Wendy Kopp

Where educational deprivation exists, it breeds conflict and enables repression.

Alan Moore

Money's fine if it enables you to enjoy your life and to be useful to other people. But as something that is a means to an end, no, it's useless.

Anita Borg

The Internet enables us to share the ideas we have without having to create another hierarchy.

Harriet Lamb

Only as we expand the market can we enable more and more producers to come in.

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,

Edward Everett

Ever the characteristic manners of cowardice.

Graham Boyd

Whether the police or a school want to search or seize a person, it has to be done in a manner that's reasonable. There was no reason to suspect any single person in that hallway, yet every single person in there was forced, with no choice, and seized by police in a completely unreasonable manner.

William Gilbert

He combines the manners of a Marquis with the morals of a Methodist.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

There is no nobility with bad manners.

Curtis Mayfield

As a kid, sometimes you have nobody to turn to. I could always go back to some of the sermons and talk to myself in a righteous manner and put that in a song.

Albert Chee

We are continually working to get the refinery back up in as quick and as safe a manner as we can.

Alan McCoy

We are operating in a manner that we unfortunately must do, under the circumstances." ()

Alfred Lord Tennyson

The greater person is one of courtesy.

Sidney Altman

We are very fortunate to be recognized here in such an extraordinary manner for work that we enjoy.

Ian Botham

There are times when you feel you simply can't go on.

Rhys Ifans

Acting is not an intellectual process for me. It comes from my heart. It's this strange netherworld of osmosis where I simply become.

Ellen Wilkinson

But my eyes were riveted on a small slim woman her hair simply coiled into her neck, Katherine Glasier.

Slade Gorton

She will come after us with $10 million. She simply writes another check,

Felix Rohatyn

At its core, banking is not simply about profit, but about personal relationships.

Sammy Cahn

The one I tell everyone, the one I'm very, very proud of is 'Call Me Irresponsible.' Simply because I want to say and it's not as facetious as it sounds. It has five syllable words in it.

Stephen Leacock

A sportsman is a man who every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something

Dick Cheney

We are not going to simply stand by.

Phillips Brooks

Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end.

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.

Alan Watts

Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work.

Alan Clark

Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology.

Alan Bennett

If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.

Alan Ayckbourn

A gentleman ... sleeps at his work. That's what work's for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the library? So as not to disturb me in my little nook behind the biography shelves.

Al Kaline

You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.

Akio Morita

Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.

Chloe Sevigny

I do a dance-based cardio workout infused with circuit training, and emphasizing strength and alignment.

Dave Chappelle

If I put forth a legitimate effort, then I feel like, if that doesn't work out, that's all I can do.

Dave Chappelle

I always take a relationship to the next level. If that works out, I take it to the next level after that, until I finally reach that level when it becomes absolutely necessary for me to leave.

Arthur Bryant

Say what you have to say in the fewest possible words.

Robert Klein

In some articles written about me, writers have said I'm a link between the old and the new, and I think, in a certain sense, that's legitimate.

Brian K. Vaughan

There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.

Alan Moore

I could never be the kind of writer who went to the set of the movie and fussed and fretted about, 'Oh, that dialogue's wrong,' or 'That character doesn't look like that.' That would be insufferable.

Charlaine Harris

Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness.

Sara Sheridan

Scottish writers are particularly successful in the crime genre.

Aminatta Forna

Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained.

Claire Tomalin

Most writers can tell stories of how their books failed to be made into films.

John Dos Passos

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.