Famous Quotes & Sayings

Meg Garlinghouse

The potential consequences of climate change are so sobering that it's difficult to imagine how individual actions can make any impact. We are hopeful that Yahoo!'s Earth Day campaign will illustrate that if we act as a global community, together we can make a difference. We encourage citizens everywhere to embrace our collective responsibility to protect the earth for future generations.

Vladimir Litvin

The people will not benefit from this. The people's homes will not get warmer. It is nakedly clear that actions by those who are responsible for this sector are neither professional nor competent. Those people have triggered the gas crisis in relations with Russia.

William Dempkowski

The pledge says 'I won't smoke in the high school and I won't smoke on school grounds. The last part says I will try by my actions to be a positive influence and help my friends so they don't smoke.

Raul Gonzalez

We are prepared to defend the EO. We have anticipated these actions by various sectors,

Michael Capellas

We are aggressively taking the appropriate actions to restore the company's growth and financial performance. The realignment of the company is fully underway, our management team is basically in place and we already offer the powerful solutions and range of products customers need to maximize Internet benefits.

Dan Stein

We believe that the actions and rhetoric of the Mexican government constitute an attempt to infringe on the sovereignty of the United States, and we urge an immediate and strong response from the Bush administration.

Alan Lacy

We believe that Sears Canada shareholders should consider the actions of the senior management and the largest independent shareholder when making a decision with respect to whether to tender their Sears Canada common shares.

Chuck D.

We appreciate the length of service and time that Carla had provided to the Art Center, and we also support the actions that were taken (to fire Kelly).

Stefan Pryor

We want people to observe how we protect the old as we build the new. It's critical that people have the opportunity to observe the smaller actions that make a big difference.

Charles Caleb Colton

In cases of doubtful morality, it is usual to say is there any harm in doing this? This question may sometimes be best answered by asking ourselves another; is there any harm in letting it alone?

Alan Alda

I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.

Yoshinori Ono

We want to stay friendly with China. We would like to ask China to be a little more transparent.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

If you don't understand, ask questions. If you're uncomfortable about asking questions, say you are uncomfortable about asking questions and then ask anyway. It's easy to tell when a question is coming from a good place. Then listen some more. Sometimes people just want to feel heard. Here's to possibilities of friendship and connection and understanding.

Catherine Booth

What the Lord wants is that you shall go about the business to which He sets you, not asking for an easy post, nor grumbling at a hard one.

Caitlin Moran

Nowadays, to be frank, every week is a good week for freakshow television. we might start asking, Why are there so many freaks? And why do they all want to be on television?

Mads Mikkelsen

We can ask ourselves why we invent God, and then, ten minutes later, we invent Satan - why? Because we need him; there's something fascinating about the other side of the coin.

Darin Schreck

The only reason why I know is because I get asked all the time.

Richard Head

The other thing is to ask the person on the phone to identify themselves and who they are working for, ... At any time they should be able to provide something in writing. We recommend that people dont respond over the phone but have information mailed to them. That gives them time to check it out and, if it is a scam, (the false organization) wont have written material.

Misty Haven

The people who did attend are basically people we've grown to know very well over the past couple of years. Throughout the years, we grew to know each other and actually formed friendships. I also grew to respect those guys basically for respecting me and treating me like one of the guys. A bond was definitely formed.

James Turner

We are pleased to confirm our attendance of the next two American Le Mans Series races. At the moment, we are working extremely hard to secure the sponsorship to enable us to compete in the full series and we have some very exciting partnerships under discussion. As always, we are delighted to be back in the US where the fans give us a warm reception and the racing is well-promoted.

Paula Carney

We started three years ago with 150 people attending the event. This year we had more than 400.

Luis Walter Alvarez

Because Ernest Lawrence's award came in the war years, I had the unusual opportunity of attending his Nobel Prize presentation ceremony.

Amanda Miller

We always have a great response from vendors wanting to attend Spring Fling. We hope this year will be bigger and better than ever.

Jomo Gbomo

We have no intention of executing them ever and will only keep them for as long as our demands are not attended to.

Karen Minkel

We want everyone to attend at least one event during those 10 days. But we also recognize people have busy schedules or they may not want to come to a public event but could get online.

Nathaniel Smith

We fear our passage will be attended with difficulties by reason of the great number of passingers which are one hundred and eighty and upwards in number.

E. O. Wilson

We've become a lot more efficient in documenting enrollment and attendance over the years. We think it's working well now.

Mark Bishop

We want to tell stories and produce integrated brands in which the content created is delivered to audiences in new and exciting ways. Wireless is an emerging platform which we feel is a core component of our business moving forward.

Lisa Gansky

The Mesh is about creating and managing what's perishable. It provides businesses with the ability to reach an audience of one, at a precise time.

Paul Dergarabedian

The Potter franchise is just irresistible to moviegoers. The combination of the Potter books and the love audiences have for the movies conspired a big opening weekend.

Brian Peccia

The potential for this play is to sweep the audience into this world that they're not familiar with. Our general consensus about that hillbilly lifestyle is that they're inbred and ignorant, but they're not that type of people. They believe what they believe, and they believe it very strongly.

John Pavlik

We are looking forward to going back to where the whole thing started. In a sense, it will be an exciting return to yesteryear, but it also brings the awards to a theater that has been specifically designed to make the show exciting for the audience in the theater as well as a brilliant television program.

Dixie Carter

We're in a very, very fortunate situation where every week we have a full 'Impact' Zone out of Universal Studios-Orlando, and probably 90 percent of that audience is from all over the country and from different parts of the world. We're lucky that those people get to come to us.

Alan Vega

We started out in England with a couple of shows, and then in Berlin and then France. It was really amazing. The audiences have been wonderful.

Martin Henderson

Where typically the cops are generally the good guys, 'The Red Road' blurs the lines intelligently and shows corruption from all sides of the law. It provides unpredictable drama where the audience is kept guessing about how these characters will each choose to act.

Richie Sambora

When you walk out in front of an audience of over 70,000 people, you've got to be on your game. They deserve it.

Jason Couch

We want folks to leave our concerts feeling better than when they arrived.

Oscar Goodman

We're going to have our parades, we're going to have our symphonies, our concerts and everyone's going to have good time,

Jack Liebau

With the last few years of consecutive declines in attendance, the trends for live concerts overall aren't particularly encouraging.

Kim Kardashian

As kids, we were at concerts like Michael Jackson every weekend. My first concert was Earth, Wind and Fire.

Bill Golden

We thought we could get the same type of experience without extending ourselves to promote concerts and those type of things.

Julian Bond

She was trained to be an opera singer. She gave concerts to raise money for him, and when he died she continued to try to keep his legacy alive.

Neil Tennant

When we did concerts, we wanted them to be theatrical events - collaborations with designers, choreographers, and directors - because we thought traditional rock concerts were boring.

Lucy Griffiths

I mostly did musicals and concerts when I was younger, and then I realized I don't quite have the voice for it, so I went into acting, which I enjoy more.

Zubin Mehta

Even in music concerts in Mumbai and different parts of the world, seats are reserved for sponsors.

John Lilly

When you talk about effects of (winning that game), in any one year it doesn't have that great of an effect,

Paul Brennan

We found protective effects with at least weekly consumption of cruciferous vegetables,

Roman Romanenko

Throughout the history of spaceflight and the study of effects of exploring to human, space environment to human body, we have accumulated enough knowledge to be able to move over to the next step: getting ready for interplanetary missions, for interplanetary exploration.

Richard P. Feynman

The extreme weakness of quantum gravitational effects now poses some philosophical problems; maybe nature is trying to tell us something new here: maybe we should not try to quantize gravity.

Eula Biss

The risk of getting Hep B from a blood transfusion is a tiny number, but it's a bigger number than the risk of side effects from the vaccine.

Jim Egan

We really don't know what population effects have in terms of water quality trends.

Iris Chenault

She's tired today because she didn't get enough sleep without the machine. That's one of the side effects you don't get a good night's sleep.

Michael Douglas

We did the first one as good as you can. You can't make the special effects any better. There was no reason to do it. They offered it to me years ago, and I just saw no reason to do it.

Bogan Durr

We are going to throw it into a big pile on the ground and everyone has to walk through it and really see the effects of what they are doing.

Charles Caleb Colton

No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

Charles Caleb Colton

The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.

Charles Dickens

Walk and be Happy, Walk and be Healthy...

Charles Dickens

I am at the moment deaf in the ears, hoarse in the throat, red in the nose, green in the gills, damp in the eyes, twitchy in the joints and fractious in temper from a most intolerable and oppressive cold.

Charles Simmons

Sickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation of her laws.

Chris Christie

They said it was impossible to touch the third rail of politics, to take on public-sector unions and to reform a pension and health benefits system that was headed to bankruptcy. But with bipartisan leadership, we saved taxpayers $132 billion dollars over 30 years and saved retirees their pensions. We did it.

David Suzuki

We must pay greater attention to keeping our bodies and minds healthy and able to heal. Yet we are making it difficult for our defences to work. We allow things to be sold that should not be called food. Many have no nutritive value and lead to obesity, salt imbalance, and allergies.

Byron Katie

Mind changes, and as a result, the world changes. A clear mind heals everything that needs to be healed.

Camilla Belle

The great thing about life - I'd rather not know and just hope I'm happy and healthy and I feel as good about my life as I do now.

Chad Harbach

Another older writer that had a huge influence on me is Chekhov. More contemporarily, it's hard to say.

Lykke Li

Where I've been hasn't influenced my music. It's more what I listen to. You can find music everywhere, so moving hasn't really influenced my music, more me as a person.

Bill Johnson

Faith doesn't deny a problems existence. It denies it a place of influence.

John Malone

We have no extraordinary insight or influence in AOL, nor do we seek any,

Bela Kun

My personal influence in the Revolutionary Governing Council is such that the dictatorship of the proletariat is firmly established, since the masses are backing me.

Nobu Matsuhisa

I used to watch my mother cooking when I was a child; she influenced me a lot.

Brian Tracy

Your ability to negotiate, communicate, influence, and persuade others to do things is absolutely indispensable to everything you accomplish in life.

Boz Scaggs

My earliest influences were things I heard in my household.

Arthur Henderson

Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history.

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.

Chris Bohjalian

He defined himself almost wholly in the negative: It was not who he was, it was who he was not.

David Cross

I've had plenty of negative reviews. I have my entire life.

Catherine Tate

I'm an incredibly negative person, so any form of success is only ever going to be a relief to me and set my default position back to neutral.

Casey Kasem

I accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative. That is the timeless thing,

Doug Arthur

We're in a very negative phase with the stocks right now.

Bertrand Russell

Official morality has always been oppressive and negative: it has said "thou shalt not," and has not troubled to investigate the effect of activities not forbidden by the code.

Charlie Munger

For society, the Internet is wonderful, but for capitalists, it will be a net negative. It will increase efficiency, but lots of things increase efficiency without increasing profits. It is way more likely to make American businesses less profitable than more profitable. This is perfectly obvious, but very little understood.

Doug Flynn

We had back-to-back negative years in the market, and this mimics the market. It's very discouraging for people.

Barbara Corcoran

Good salesmanship is nothing more than maximizing the positive and minimizing the negative.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

A multitude of people and yet solitude.

Charles Dickens

My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.

Charles Dickens

Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.

Charles Dickens

Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Soule

Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows?

Don MacDonald

When you, the consumer, look for a brand, you want it to simplify your purchase and come from someone you trust.

Susan Klein

Make sure when you purchase your ticket, you know what you're really getting.

Quintilian

A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.

Toshihiko Sakai

We see the trend of Treasury purchases continuing.

Rebecca Fuller

We purchased one lesson. And that's all he needed.

Janine Turner

The second purchase was my ranch, Mockingbird Hill. The third purchase was Longhorn cattle.

Brian Major

That's a big purchase for us. That's great.

John Andrews

I purchased it with the thought that what better place to have it than at the school.

Alan Bean

History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again.

Dave Gibbons

I really like it when you can step outside of what's come before and find a surprise for the reader and find a surprise for yourself.

Bryan Clay

You take yourself to a place where you've got absolutely nothing left and then you find out you have to push yourself one more step. That's a tough place to be in.

Bear Grylls

It is only when You really STEP OUT of Your comfort zone that You GROW.

Antonis Samaras

Illegal immigrants are already a very big problem for us. We are already taking big steps to disallow illegal immigrants from coming in.

Denzel Washington

One failed experiment is one step closer to Success

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Until we see what we are, we cannot take steps to become what we should be.

Bob Ross

It's hard to see things when you're too close. Take a step back and look.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

When a 'Life of Brian' comes out with Muhammad in the lead role, directed by an Arab equivalent of Theo van Gogh, it will be a huge step forward.

Endriartono Sutarto

We strongly suggest that he does not do that,

Michael Buckley

We're a strongly capitalised bank, after this loss, by international standards,

John Gandy

I feel very strongly that we are in the driver's seat.

Jim Doyle

I feel very strongly that that's not where we should be going with this,

Lloyd Church

I feel strongly he'll be able to play somewhere.

Brad Cashman

I don't feel as strongly as I did before on that. Basically, I shouldn't have made that comment.

Kate Bush

There is a figure that is adored, but I'd question very strongly that it's me.

John Gibbons

He should be strongly considered, 13 wins, 200-plus innings. I'd vote for him.

Rob Stutzman

I think we win three for sure. Everything is trending strongly our way.

Philip Morris

For them -- Big Tobacco -- this trial was about money. For us, it was about people's lives.... We still feel they're arrogant.

Bill McKibben

We've been given a warning by science, and a wake-up call by nature; it is up to us now to heed them.

Bobby Ray Inman

As best I can tell there was no advance warning of the attack on the World Trade Center in 1993, which was the first significant foreign terrorist activity in the U.S. No tip-offs that it was coming.

Bob Newhart

I have to warn you, I'm not just some sitcom guy. I'm now an author.

Jamie Zawinski

My one purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others.

David Baldacci

Most folks here got rules 'bout trespassing. Warning shot's fired right close to the head. Get they's attention. Next shot gets a lot more personal. Now I'm too old to waste time firing a warning shot.....

Gloria Moore

I wish he would've heeded the warning and left, but he didn't and we hurt,

Abu Hassan

We warn this is only a first step.

Peter Higgs

When my wife and I got married, she thought of me being an easygoing person, and I warned her I wasn't.

Chelsea Handler

There are no warning signs on the trampoline. The warning is the trampoline.

David Rakoff

Youth is not wasted on the young, it is perpetrated on the young.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

In [my] youth I was smacked around.

Dick Clark

The music of your youth stays with you throughout your life.

Elizabeth Arden

Hold fast to youth and beauty.

Agnes Repplier

the most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.

Charles Fourier

Certainly in each social period, youth must be made to venerate the dominant absurdities.

Anton Chekhov

It is always "Youth, youth," when there is nothing else to be said.

Chris Evans

For the youth, the indignation of most things will just surge as each birthday passes.

Dean Koontz

Some argued that the youth of today were poorly educated and insufficiently industrious, but one of them had sought to validate his generation by spending considerable time and effort chiseling an obscene word in the concrete picnic table, and he had spelled it correctly.