Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dan Stevens

People look at me, they know I've appeared in costume dramas and they automatically assume I must be a Tory, I must be a certain type of person. Not a lot of people would think that I spent most of my early years totally rebelling against anything I could, getting suspended from school, going on demonstrations. I was a pretty difficult teenager.

John Seabrook

Spotify appeared nine years after Napster, the pioneering file-sharing service, which unleashed piracy on the record business and began the cataclysm that caused worldwide revenues to decline from a peak of twenty-seven billion dollars in 1999 to fifteen billion in 2013.

Mitsushige Akino

Some investors focused on domestic demand-led sectors, while high-tech firms appeared to be weaker due to lingering worries over the firmer yen.

John Lindsay

Roger wanted to meet him privately, so he and Rod and Tony had a little meeting beforehand. Roger appeared a bit overawed by it.

Toshihiko Matsuno

Retail investors here as well as some European investors appeared to buy banks actively.

Jim Matheson

Pipe bands greeted the Queen and the Queen mother when they visited us and a few people turned out. But everybody appeared to see this woman Madonna. She had them all in the palm of her hand.

Hong Liang

January trade numbers appeared stronger than expected, in line with global growth momentum.

Casey Kotchman

Jeff appeared to me that he had it. If I thought I could have caught it, I would have. I though he had a better chance of catching it than I did.

Chad Kroeger

I wrote all these heavy, tuned-down guitar riffs and I asked him if he wanted to play the guitar solo on it, and he was pumped to do it, ... That was the first time I appeared on a record with Dime, and now this. I just wish this wasn't the way it had to happen.

Linda Lingle

Regardless of the legal basis of the decision this is not a just decision,

David Obey

Recent news reports suggesting that the CPB increasingly is making personnel and funding decisions on the basis of political ideology are extremely troubling.

Tim Purpura

Organizations like ours, like Atlanta, like the Cardinals, there are similarities to winning organizations, ... You have that focus that it's about winning, only winning. You have to have higher expectations than other people. And sometimes, you have to flush guys out of your system that might not buy into it, that might put their stats first, rather than winning. In those types of organizations, guys like that don't last, and they kind of self-select themselves out, and you end up being able to win on a consistent basis because you keep the guys who buy into that.

Leigh Ross

Our offense knows it has struggled lately, but we're still of the opinion that seeing good pitching on a consistent basis by playing such a tough non-conference schedule will continue to make us better for our MAC run.

Jamie Jackson

People make too much out of whether we're inverted or not. It's as if when we're positive by a couple of basis points, everything is OK, but if we're negative by a basis point, somehow the laws of nature have been violated. The reality of it is the curve is just flat.

William Frey

People make moves largely on the basis of they've got jobs somewhere, housing costs. But lifestyle, people generally don't take that into account. If you have an opportunity, stay there for a couple of weeks. Sit down and talk to people who have just made that move. Find out what issues they have.

Ned Riley

Some of the governors are going to challenge another 50 basis point (half a percentage point) reduction that many people would like. I think they'll be guarded in their commentary and that may be one of the catalysts for the market to correct.

David Velasquez

Our program is about improvement on a weekly basis and today we had a dozen kids (in the girls meet) that really improved.

Neal Hunter

Our product provides comfort, convenience, safety, and savings, while contributing to the reduction in global energy consumption. We believe we must deploy our technology on a rapid global basis to help relieve the pressures on our energy infrastructure.

Tim Gardner

Reggie can score. He wants to score and likes scoring. It's his defense that he needs to work on.

Drew Bledsoe

Really what they played was a similar style of defense to what they played last year when they went on the run. They gave up some yards here and there, but they tightened up when we got into scoring territory.

Jessica Davenport

Our outside game was really clicking, so they had to stretch the defense out and respect our 3-point shooting, and it opened it up in the middle for me.

Mark Gibson

Our quarterback will not play defense as long as I'm alive. ... Unless he's about 6-6 and 250. And our quarterback is not 6-6 and 250.

Tim Goers

Paris was playing us a tough game. And we made two many unforced turnovers. We talked about halftime about playing good, sound defense and eliminating our mistakes on offense.

Brian Morris

Our offense played a great game. But our defense really put on a show. The whole team played great defense tonight.

Leo Veleas

Our offense picked up our defense and pitching today.

Maurice Cheeks

Our offense is fine. Our defense is where's it's at. You have to put guys out there and show them how to play defense. We have to keep trying.

Paul Raspolich

Our offense helped out our defense today. We need to play more consistently in the field.

Jim Clarke

Our policy says if a student is expelled from another district, we do not enroll them, ... The student was eligible to enroll here.

Izzat Ibrahim

Our leader President Saddam Hussein, may God preserve him and look after him, has won 100 percent of the votes of eligible voters.

Rick Boucher

Such a large portion of our population is eligible for the program because of income levels throughout the district,

Carlton Fisk

I don't know what's going to happen with these guys down the road when they become eligible for the Hall of Fame, ... But I know a lot of Hall of Famers don't think what they did was right, and I'm one of them.

Douglas Fairbanks

There is one thing in this good old world that is positively sure - happiness is for all who strive to be happy - and those who laugh are happy. Everybody is eligible - you - me - the other fellow. Happiness is fundamentally a state of mind - not a state of body.

Tom Angell

Murderers and rapists are still eligible to receive aid.

Yuvraj Singh

I will only think of settling down after Salman Khan, the other most eligible bachelor, plans to settle down. We are eligible bachelors, but he's the rock star, so let him get married first; then I'll think about myself.

Courtney Cassard

We're trying to target students who are eligible here with the new admissions requirements.

Barry Larkin

I think every player wants to be acknowledged for what they have done. I think every player eligible for the Hall Of Fame feels that the ultimate validation is enshrinement.

Joe Archuleta

Part of the reason they had errors is because we're hitting it hard. We hit some on the nose.

Todd Fairbourne

Some of these errors were just the routine kind of plays. And then we get run-ruled because of it. We're not talented enough to overcome those mistakes.

B. H. Liddell Hart

The most dangerous error is failure to recognize our own tendency to error.

C. S. Lewis

[Something] does not rise to the dignity of error.

C. S. Lewis

After an error you need not only to remove the causes but also to correct the error itself: after a sin you must not only, if possible, remove the temptation, you must also go back and repent the sin itself. In each case an 'undoing' is required.

Carl Sagan

Absolute certainty will always elude us. We will always be mired in error. The most each generation can hope for is to reduce the error. . . .

Carl Sagan

The fossil record implies trial and error, the inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with a Great Designer (though not a Designer of a more remote and indirect temperament.)

Carl Sagan

They (i. e., the Pythagoreans ) did not advocate the free confrontation of conflicting points of view. Instead, like all orthodox religions, they practised a rigidity that prevented them from correcting their errors.

Carl Sagan

We are prodding, challenging, seeking contradictions or small, persistent residual errors, proposing alternative explanations, encouraging heresy. We give our highest rewards to those who convincingly disprove established beliefs.

Steve Matlock

Our reorganized sales management team is 100 percent focused on providing dealers with the support they need to be successful in their businesses.

Elliot Hovey

Our race on Saturday was the most focused and well-executed race this year. Every race we've been getting better and better.

Edouard Michelin

Our operating income is showing progress. Yet, it does not reflect the group's growth potential. That is why in 2006, we will strengthen our focused growth strategy and strengthen our cost-reduction efforts.

John Mesenbrink

Our kids were very focused and very tenacious today. Our guys had 12 pins for the day. I thought our seniors really did well. All three of those guys did great jobs for us.

Dick Armey

stay focused on the singular question: Is taxing marriage appropriate?

Rodney Taylor

Our pitcher wasn't focused -- we had too many walks, and hitting-wise, we weren't there. It's one of those games where you get away as quick as you can.

Paul Rozak

Our girls really played well, especially the four minutes in the fourth quarter. They (Assumption) have a really nice team, very similar to us because of their versatility inside and out. We needed our rebounding tonight and that was what we focused on for this game.

Kevin Boyd

Our game has to be focused on us. Most of what we're trying to do is to get better every game.

Ron Averill

I'm hoping they can stay focused and relax at the same time. The sad thing would be to go down there and have all kinds of success and not have any fun with it. I want this to be something the kids can remember and tell their grandkids about.

Richard Shelby

I think it is working, but I don't think you could say it is working well -- not after such a glaring mistake.

Bob Gainey

I thought we made some critical, glaring mistakes.

Jim Stafford

To me that is a pretty glaring problem,

Larry Kupczyk

After the game, I thought we played all right. But after watching the tape, we didn't play well at all. We made a lot of glaring mistakes that shouldn't be made at this time of the year. And it wasn't just our younger guys. Hopefully we can put it all together for one game.

Jerry Bernstein

It was a glaring omission. It speaks volumes about what they think about their case.

Gary Pinkel

There's some glaring numbers. He's done things no one else has done.

David Seiders

It's healthy. We do need to have that happen -- gracefully, though. Affordability problems are glaring in the hottest areas. We've reached the point where something's really got to give.

Ned Yost

I don't see where it's going to get any more glaring than it's been from the minute he signed. How much more hype does a player have than him? So it's not going to get any tougher, it's only going to get easier. The toughest thing to do is to get to the big leagues and produce.

Josh Homme

Records don't have to be perfect. Everyone doesn't have to move left when everyone else moves left. I love hearing the mistakes.

Frank Gore

Patience, patience, patience. I was telling my mom, I'm tired of hearing that, ... But I understand it.

Brandon Gray

I'm hearing that 'Shark Tale' is unoriginal and uninspired,

Pat Robertson

I'm hearing from the Lord that it's going to be like a blow-out election.

Steve Forbes

I think the White House knows once those hearings start, he's doomed.

Bill Bruford

If I was hearing something I couldn't do, I would figure out how to do it.

Rick Moore

That's very, very disappointing. My frustration is we can't get a hearing and can't get the subject matter on the floor.

Harry Reid

I think it's very unlikely that we'll be able to do hearings by the end of December. We're not going to be rushed into anything,

Cindy Shaw

I was hearing of some of these problems, but I hoped things were more under control.

Ann Beattie

That's what I mean; if your writing doesn't transcend the era, then it would really seem to be only of very limited sociological importance.

Niels Christensen

It is more a squaring of positions than suddenly people seeing anything positive about the dollar. Intervention has a limited and short-lived impact. It has not started an uptrend in dollar/yen.

Robert Hurwitz

It allows for Tony winners and other people with limited availability to take part,

Ivan Lathouders

But because of the limited information, we do not really know why that is the case.

Patrick Walsh

His mind will be perfect. He will not have any problems there. He is limited from doing a lot of physical things until he's a little stronger.

Joe Harsel

Historically, this sort of retirement living has been limited to the wealthiest in a community. The way that we do it makes it within the reach of that retired schoolteacher.

Larry Davis

He did very well. It was a limited workout, but there was no soreness and pain.

Tim Palmer

We can make better use of very limited resources to prevent outbreaks of these epidemics.

Jeff Smith

We're on a limited budget. And I think we've spent every nickel of it.

Tom Streicher

SWAT negotiators talked to him about an hour,

Haim Saban

Me? I don't know what you're talking about.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Dante said, “I tried talking Nora into a ride, but she keeps blowing me off.” “That’s because she has a hard-A boyfriend. He must have been homeschooled, because he missed all those valuable lessons we learned in kindergarten, like sharing. He finds out you took Nora for a ride, he’ll wrap this shiny new Porsche around the nearest tree.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I can't imagine why you're so interested." He shook his head. "Interested? We're talking about you. I'm fascinated.

Becca Fitzpatrick

You're going to have to drive off the road and park behind thoses bushes," I instructed Vee. Vee leaned forward, peering into the darkness. "Is that a ditch between me and the bushes ?" "It's not very deep. Trust me, we'll clear it." "Looks deep to me. This is a Neon we're talking about, not a Hummer.

Otis Smith

We've talked with them, but we've talked to a lot of teams. I still like the team that we've assembled, but we just haven't been able to see it together because of injuries. So we're having to look at some different things. You can't just be stagnant. Like they say, if you're not getting better, you're getting worse.

Charley Casserly

We've talked to teams about the pick, and we're willing to move.

Dennis Riley

We've talked to (Pat), and he's going to get back to us.

Robert Philips

We've talked to him about opportunities within our cluster. It's really in Steve's court.

C. S. Lewis

Power to translate is the test of having really understood one's own meaning.

Antoine Lavoisier

We must trust to nothing but facts: These are presented to us by Nature, and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance, to submit our reasoning to the test of experiment, and never to search for truth but by the natural road of experiment and observation.

Arne Ljungqvist

The athletes, to my knowledge, have been tested before they left.

Dan Fellman

I think this is going to be a test for the studios,

Pat Descher

Because of the hurricane, McDonald's said we could be a test market.

Steve Segadelli

If anything has tested us this year, it's been a big team.

Anton LaVey

The true test of anyone's worth as a living creature is how much he can utilize what he has.

Alex Rodriguez

I got tested a little bit. I'm still a little sore.

Luca Colajanni

He has not tested because of the rain.