Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Shapiro

We were at the tail-end of a championship run. Instead of letting that run naturally just play out and transpire, we abruptly traded good players and artificially created an upper-level in our farm system.

Jodi Benson

I was doing a Broadway musical called 'Smile' with Howard Ashman and Marvin Hamlisch in 1984/5 when it abruptly closed. Howard was in the middle of pre-production for 'The Little Mermaid,' so he kindly invited all the girls in our cast to audition for the film.

Ryan Rourke

It got abruptly cancelled. Nothing was prepared and nothing was ready to go. We decided not to do it.

Paul Epstein

I worry that effective corrective measures will not be instituted soon enough. Climate does not necessarily change gradually. The multiple factors that are now destabilizing the global climate system could cause it to jump abruptly out of its current state. At any time, the world could suddenly become much hotter or even much colder. Such a sudden, catastrophic change is the ultimate health risk-one that must be avoided at all costs.

Karisma Kapoor

Maids in India have egos. Big egos. They do not like being spoken to curtly, and they do not like to be abruptly instructed by a woman they do not know. They come with the feeling that they already know everything. So while training them to do things your way, speak gently, and when they do it right, appreciate it.

Isabel Gillies

I had been living in Ohio in my own house with my own life when my marriage abruptly came to an end. I had nowhere to go with my two sons, very little money, and not much to do in Ohio except be someone's ex-wife. My parents instantly and very generously invited my family to move back home to New York, where I could begin again.

Joel Kinnaman

When I first came to the States, I thought I had a perfect American accent, and then I was abruptly becoming aware that it wasn't. So I did have to work on it a little bit, but I was hesitant working on it because I thought it was good.

Donald Rumsfeld

We, needless to say, do not want to leave abruptly in a way that could inject an instability in this situation, which is why we're working with the interim government to see if we can be helpful in getting their army going and up to speed,

Howard Coble

When the government is handed over to the Iraqi Council on 30 June, many have declared, oh, the Americans must never leave because civil unrest may erupt. Well, I agree, we cannot abruptly depart, but Iraq needs to step up to the plate on 30 June.

Harry Belafonte

We've watched her be abused in the past, and she's overcome, stood strong. We're not going to be absent or indifferent to the fact that she may be abused again.

Keith Trauner

We expect very significantly higher prices, higher deductibles and tighter terms and conditions as a result of Katrina. For the next year or two, underwriting results, absent another large catastrophe, should be very, very strong.

Gerry Adams

The psychological mindset that is required for peacemaking is absent from Unionist thinking,

John Donne

Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls; for, thus friends absent speak

Ian Shepherdson

There is a specific reference in February to 'the pace of policy moves at upcoming meetings ... would depend on incoming data', suggesting a degree of potential flexibility that was absent from the December minutes,

Kent Conrad

I think it is unlikely, absent some new information, some bombshell that comes up in the process, that I would support a filibuster.

John Ryding

I think they'll hold unless we see some surprisingly weak economic data on the jobs front, which comes out on Friday. But absent that, I think the Fed is going to be tempted, having cut rates three times, to let things sit a while.

James Bailey

Here in the body pent, / Absent from Him I roam, / Yet nightly pitch my moving tent / A day's march nearer home.

Cheryl Hepfer

I think that most judges understand that children require physical one-on-one contact with the absent parent.

Jean Lapierre

We know Canadian airlines fly well on their own, ... But we can help them really soar by raising the ownership limit to 49 percent.

Bruce Raynor

The potential for exposure to bacteria on airline blankets and pillows is a very real issue for millions of Americans,

Kurt Ebenhoch

We are prepared to operate the airline with our new maintenance structure indefinitely.

David Novak

We've also cut five other witnesses ... that were going to testify from the various airlines so that there would be no issue about taint based upon Ms. Martin's contact with their attorneys.

Jake Brace

We are a vastly different airline than we were in 2002,

Terry Trippler

Where I think the controversy will be, is when the first airline announces you will be charged for checking bags.

Scott Phelps

We always are in conversations with Southwest Airlines to expand their operations at Sky Harbor. With Southwest having the largest single operation at Sky Harbor, we talk with them constantly.

Mark McClain

There is no point in saving Northwest Airlines if a significant number of our members lose their jobs.

Chris McGinnis

Until the airlines are able to guarantee the bags are going to be at baggage claim within a certain period of time, the tendency is going to be to carry on.

Sergei Kupriyanov

Ukraine is taking the gas from our European partners. We decided to compensate the stolen gas for our partners.

Jacques Diouf

We also would encourage that resources be allocated to compensate those poor farmers -- and most of them are poor farmers -- who are raising these poultry ... and who, if they are not given the right incentive, will tend to hide what is happening,

Javier Ramirez

I will do some crazy stuff if I have to. I'll move kids in different positions to compensate for other teams' strength. I can do that this year.

Mark Harrington

I think there's a strong probability that digital sales will start to compensate for the decline of physical sales for the global recorded music industry this year.

Franz Beckenbauer

There are technically better teams but we can compensate for that. We are not in the position to compete in Italy or other places but it is different at home.

Guenther Gerstenberger

Markets can still rise. Stocks in Europe are fairly valued. They can compensate for a lot of interest rate rises.

Francis Bacon

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is

Francis Bacon

Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

Sarah Clark

More often than not, the error is in the customer's favor. We encourage our customers to point out any discrepancies, and when they do, we compensate them appropriately.

Charles Dickens

Discipline must be maintained.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Cultivating quietness is a missing discipline today...the quietness needed to nurture an inner life hid in Christ.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We should discipline ourselves to read the Word until it comes alive...until we can almost feel the breath of God.

Carolina Herrera

I was brought up with considerable discipline, and I was taught it wasn't proper to display certain very private emotions in public.

Bill Keller

One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.

Bill Keller

Liberation movements - operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially - thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.

Edward James Olmos

I learned to discipline myself to do things I didn't want to do

Edward James Olmos

Now I also discipline myself to do things I love to do when I don't want to do them

Edward Gibbon

The patient and active virtues of a soldier are insensibly nursed in the habits and discipline of a pastoral life.

William Shakespeare

Why so large a cost, having so short a lease, does thou upon your fading mansion spend?

William Shakespeare

He makes a swan-like end, fading in music.

Sophia Young

My shot wasn't falling. I was just fading away too much.

Landon Donovan

I looked up and (Glen) was kind of fading away. So I just tried to put it in a good spot and he finished it. I don't know if he meant to, but he finished it.

Donald Yacktman

Now that the worst lawsuits are fading it seems a golden opportunity to do that. Kraft is limping.

Anna Seward

Time's stern tide, with cold Oblivion's wave, Shall soon dissolve each fair, each fading charm.

Walter Savage Landor

Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!

Michael Hensley

Your lives are fading in the shadows of time, but your legacy lives on,

Bruce Fuller

The fading out isn't good news for the pro-universal preschool side.

Madeleine Albright

Don't make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I'm not.

Diana Wynne Jones

Only thin, weak thinkers despise fairy stories. Each one has a true, strange fact hidden in it, you know, which you can find if you look.

Charlotte Bronte

You mocking changeling- fairy-born and human-bred!

NeNe Leakes

My first marriage was very traditional, in the church, and then we left the church and went to the reception hall. So this time, I'd like to go fairy tale all the way.

George Gregan

We're focusing enough on doing what we have to do to get the right result and send him off with the fairytale end.

Sandra Cisneros

All of my work is influenced by fairy tales, and I hope my work shows Hans Christian Anderson's influence.

Charles Perrault

Charm is the true gift of the Fairies.

Kate Forsyth

Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.

Brian Selznick

Fairy tales only happen in movies." -George Melies from The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Charles Tennyson Turner

It was a perfect night for a train. The occasional whistle told Louis of all the farewells he had ever known.

William Shakespeare

And mind, with my heart in't; and now farewell Till half an hour hence.

Kurt Vonnegut

Farewell, hello, farewell, hello.

Benjamin Franklin

He's gone, and forgot nothing but to say farewell to his creditors

Arthur Bryant

And so while the great ones depart to their dinner, the secretary stays, growing thinner and thinner, racking his brain to record and report what he thinks that they think that they ought to have thought.

C. S. Lewis

When once a man is launched on such an adventure as this, he must bid farewell to hopes and fears, otherwise death or deliverance will both come too late to save his honor and his reason. Ho, my beauties!

Steve Howard

Whenever they focus on risk, the Houston region will fare well.

William Shakespeare

Cold indeed, and labor lost: Then farewell heat, and welcome frost!

William Shakespeare

Farewell! a long farewell to all my greatness!

Marc Pado

We're not going to feel the impact of these rate hikes for quite some time.

Terry Jones

No doubt, 13 straight hikes by the (Federal Reserve) and the prospect of at least two more have also hurt.

Tom Connor

There's a lot of optimism that the interest rate hikes have slowed the economy.

David Powell

These are the first hints that the end of the hikes may be coming.

Alan Skrainka

If you read the speech, he seems to imply that those hikes aren't enough.

Andre Bakhos

Investors are looking for a sign as to when rate hikes are going to stop.

Roberto Galvan

The markets are seeing that opposition to tax hikes is very strong. Practically all sectors of society are opposed to the budget.

Charles Caleb Colton

Is there anything more tedious than the often repeated tales of the old and forgetful?

David Knopfler

Trust the tale, not the teller.

Denzel Washington

Talent comes from God. If you have been given some, then value it, cultivate it, work and develop it.

Dick Cavett

Greatly talented performers don't know - often spectacularly - what's best for them, don't know what their talents really are, and don't know what's just plain wrong for them.

Edgar Degas

It's easy to have talent at 20 but what is difficult is to have talent at 50.

Ben Affleck

I just feel like sometimes I'm a force to be dealt with. My talents are sometimes overused and also sometimes underused. It's not easy being me.

Anton Chekhov

Brevity - the sister of talent.

Elyse Bogaert

We're getting better and have a ton of talent. We're trying to just get things down.

Steve Saviano

When you get to shootouts, it comes down to who has the most talent. Usually the team with the most talent wins. We have a lot of talent on this team and we're pretty talented up front.