Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Light

The person at the top matters most. You can shuffle the deck, but the president is the ace of spades, and he's not going to change.

Brian Fuller

We are proud to announce National Instruments as a 'Company of the Year -- Small/Medium' finalist for the ACE Awards. The EE Times judging panel chose NI as a top five contender in a very competitive category of over 35 submissions.

Desmond Dekker

The Four Aces asked me if I'd like to sing with them as they didn't really have a lead singer.

Charles Churchill

On the four aces doom'd to roll.

Kenny Rogers

Kenny Rogers is the staff ace but he'll be hard pressed to match his 13 wins from last year while serving as the Twins' fifth starter.

Jim Beattie

I think the market is probably going to be pretty fair. I don't know if there's an ace pitcher out there that's going to be available. But there are plenty of position players, and some No. 3 starters.

Todd Pratt

He's doing what an ace should do. He's our ace, that's the bottom line.

Scott Petersen

The range is what has made Hill so valuable. It is our ace in the hole.

Christopher Meyer

We may have been the junior partner in the enterprise, but the ace up our sleeve was that America did not want to go it alone.

Nick Flynn

I'm not sure why working at a homeless shelter made sense to me, except that I needed to immerse myself in some sort of larger real-life situation to get me out of the cage of my mind, in some ways.

Erich Fromm

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives to his life by the unfolding of his powers.

Erich Fromm

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by unfolding of his powers.

William Dickens

There is no mandate for corporations except for the minimum wage, which is set at $5.15 an hour. After that, the issue's up to the ethicists.

William Dickens

There is no mandate for corporations except for the minimum wage, (which is set at $5.15 an hour). After that, the issue's up to the ethicists.

Jaime Winstone

When I was a child, I wanted to be... a fairy. I still do, really, except that now I've now graduated to wanting to be a pixie.

Paul Rodio

We're getting there. I thought our players did everything they had to do (Saturday) except win.

Chris Taylor

We were in every game, except for Grand Rapids, and I really think we played well enough that we should have gotten a lot more points. We need to be better finishing the game. It's disappointing that we keep letting points slip by us.

Charles Krauthammer

In science, modesty and genius do not coexist well together. (In Washington, modesty and cleverness don't.) Einstein is perhaps the most famous exception to the rule.

Alan Watts

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

Alan Rickman

Acting is mostly about listening. If you just focus in on what the other person is saying, acting takes care of itself to quite a large extent.

Al Oerter

As long as I can concentrate and remain somewhat calm, I can normally do very well.

Al Ries

Good things happen when you narrow your focus

Akon

Any album that you pick up of mine, you know it's an Akon album. The guests are very limited, and you get to really feel the experience. You get the Akon experience when you get the albums. I always want to make sure that stays the way it is. I don't want to flood the album to where you lose focus on why you bought it.

Chris Christie

The message [of Donald Trump] is that that type of thing happening. Let's focus on what happened.What happened was the murder, the murder of this person pushing a stroller, it's unacceptable in an American city to continue to have this level of violence and the level of violence in Chicago is unacceptable.

Chris Albrecht

The expensive ones are for Starz. No. We decided, as part of our Encore strategy, to broaden and strengthen and help focus the Encore plexus by adding original programming.

Matt Strophy

We lacked focus and intensity. We can't do that with the next four teams on the schedule or we're going to go 0-4.

Steve Mullins

We know what we're playing for. We know what we're going to Milwaukee for. It's just a matter of us keeping everyone focused. I think we were really focused last weekend, which was why we were able to be so successful.

Spencer Roecker

We knew they were very athletic, but they weren't hitting their jump shots in the first half.

Cameron Bennerman

We started hitting (the 3s) for one thing. If they go in, they count. They add.

Shawn Russell

We started hitting our outside shots. That opened things up on the inside.

Eddie Mathews

It's only a hitch when you're in a slump. When you're hitting the ball its called rhythm.

Neneh Cherry

When me and my brother Eagle-Eye were kids, life was about hitting the road, getting on the bus. We loved it.

Lora Staveness

When we did get looks we weren't knocking them down, and they were hitting their shots and locating their shooters.

Nick Reid

Unless it's hitting somebody when they're not looking.

Ryan Doumit

Unfortunately, it's taken us until the ninth inning to get back into every game. Timely hitting has to come sooner than the ninth.

Alan Trammel

We're just not hitting right now. It isn't that we aren't trying.

Jim Johnson

We're infiltrating runoff back into the water table, keeping pollutants out of the urban streams and holding the runoff back.

Joe Torre

We're in a situation where we can't be thinking about holding our own. We have to make an impact. The only way we can do that is by winning the first game.

Simon Phipps

We'll see some waves of improvement in 2003, but I'm not holding out hope for a huge rise.

Jim Angstman

We are all in a holding pattern waiting to see what happens.

Paul Cunningham

The referring physician doesn't really have a stake in it because he is not providing the service. So the hospital is left... holding the bag.

Steve Bellino

With the inventories where they are, and prices were they are, they don't equate. It's geopolitical tension that's holding us up right now.

Kyle Visser

We're excited. We have hope now. We were holding on to very little hope. That's a big thing for us. We see we can play as well as we can.

Brooke Bingaman

We're in this holding pattern and it's not lifting.

Kurt Eichenwald

I've often thought that Obama should come out in favor of oxygen, just to see how many right-wingers keel over from holding their breath for too long.

Charles de Lint

There's never an easy route to the things that matter.

Charles Stuart Calverley

Meaning, however, is no great matter.

Charles Stross

Can I remember "I remember lots," I say. How much of what I remember is true is another matter.

Akshay Kumar

Work is work, but family is for life. That's what really matters to me.

Frank Stronach

We want to show the world that no matter where you're born, no matter how poor you are, that you can succeed in life.

Chris Colfer

There's no solution to life, there's going to be problems no matter what.

Chris Bosh

I wouldn't like to make anybody cry, I don't dislike anybody. It doesn't even matter - the opponent is always faceless.

Mike Power

We know what we have to do, now it's just a matter of doing it.

Henry Fawell

Ultimately, no matter how many projects you considered, you can't please everyone.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

The possibility is there because I feel it inside. I feel there are a lot of people in politics that are standing still and not doing enough. And there's a vacuum. Therefore, I can move in.

Phillip Needham

We've also moved into Manitoba and Saskatchewan this year.

Frank Newport

There are debates, there are ads, and all that stuff so you're going to have movements up and down.

Abdullah Abdullah

We stopped because we didn't want to move into Kabul,

Benedict Cumberbatch

[ Sherlock Holmes] has moved from being someone who was sociopathic, work-obsessed and slightly amoral, into being someone who has a certain degree of a private life, which is very, very private, with The Woman, or Irene Adler.

Arundhati Roy

I am a Maoist sympathiser. I'm not a Maoist ideologue, because the communist movements in history have been just as destructive as capitalism.

Cecily Brown

I love the trick of painting. You can have the movement within the still thing, but it is completely fixed. And that illusion is constantly exciting.

David Walker

We have to get some movement on it shortly,

Deborah Marshall

We have no plans to move at this time.

Arlen Kantarian

With the speed and power of Monday's game, and with 150 mph serves and 100 mph backhands, we need an officiating aid.

Joe Glenn

He was just a toothache, ... He's got one speed, pedal to the medal. He's 90 mph all the time.

Pat Fuelner

If there wouldn't have been a 40 mph wind at your back, that doesn't go in.

Ross Rasmussen

We were going 5 mph up a mountain.

Darrell Waltrip

There's no bigger surprise than to be tooling along at 200 MPH and suddenly get hit from the rear

Alex Fowler

This is a big deal. It can get 55 to 60 mph easily.

Antonio Sabato, Jr.

I've been driving race cars professionally for a while: 200 mph types of things.

Evel Knievel

When I hit that pavement at 70 or 80 mph those suits just ripped.

Felix Kramer

Many hybrid owners realize how sharply fuel efficiency goes down over 55 mph because they get instant mileage feedback.

Ryan Martin

I was just trying to keep my serves inbound. I wasn't really going for aces.

Gore Vidal

For the record, I'm a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.

Lea Barrett

There is a need to place some students on the Mullins campus... and my recommendation is for Dr. Dow-Harris to serve as principal.

Jed Connelly

I think it's well served to be cautious.

Tom Ridge

He is not one to parse. He has said he will serve out his term and that has not changed,

John Greene

He wanted to serve his country, ... If that's what he had to do, that's what he had to do.

Ai Sugiyama

My serve wouldn't go in. It was a very frustrating game,

Andy Roddick

Had I rolled through that one 6-3, served it out, who knows?

David Ferrer

His serve is lethal, ... When it's on, it's really tough to contest.

Gaston Gaudio

He was serving unbelievably and I couldn't do too much.

Bob Woods

We always want to work on our serving and serve-receiving.

Alan McCoy

This is not chest-thumping. This is not done to intimidate. It is about serving our customers." ()

Mary Thomason

This is a strong serving team and we have height. But not just height, there's talent there. We should be strong.

Stephen East

They're serving a need much more than a want than say a Toll or a higher-end builder.

Clarence Fountain

And when you are serving the Lord, you go where he takes you without fear.

Richard Feinberg

If you're not serving the customer, you better be serving someone who is serving the customer.

Oswald Chambers

God gets me into a relationship with Himself whereby I understand His call, then I do things out of sheer love for Him on my own account. To serve God is the deliberate love-gift of a nature that has heard the call of God.

Caroline Norton

They serve God well, who serve his creatures.