Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Garcia

We want to show the company that we are reasonable and are willing to work. But we also expect them to return the favor.

Ken Leonard

We know him in terms of his relationship directly with the company.

Dave Chappelle

You got to be careful of the company you keep.

Christopher Opalinski

The power company shut off the electricity to the mine because the company was in arrears in paying its power bill.

Marjorie Scardino

The potential of this new company is tremendous.

Erich Klemm

We appreciate, in general, if red tape is being addressed and hierarchies are put to test. But this should not lead to centralization ... as it paralyzes the company rather than making it faster and more flexible.

Lauren Fine

We are primarily focused on revenues as this is critical to the well being of the company and the shares.

Steve Sanger

We are pleased with this settlement as a partial recovery of the costs we incurred. It's welcome news to the General Mills people who worked so hard in 1994 to help the company rebound from this event.

Stephen Bollenbach

We are pleased with the court's decision giving shareholders their rightful opportunity to control the fate of their company,

Charles Spurgeon

No sin is necessarily connected with sorrow of heart, for Jesus Christ our Lord once said, "My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death." There was no sin in Him, and consequently none in His deep depression.

Charles Spurgeon

I note that some whom I greatly love and esteem, who are, in my judgment, among the very choicest of God's people, nevertheless, travel most of the way to heaven by night.

Charles Spurgeon

Poor human nature cannot bear such strains as heavenly triumphs bring to it; there must come a reaction. Excess of joy or excitement must be paid for by subsequent depressions. While the trial lasts, the strength is equal to the emergency; but when it is over, natural weakness claims the right to show itself.

Charles Spurgeon

I know, perhaps as well as anyone, what depression means, and what it is to feel myself sinking lower and lower. Yet at the worst, when I reach the lowest depths, I have an inward peace which no pain or depression can in the least disturb. Trusting in Jesus Christ my Savior, there is still a blessed quietness in the deep caverns of my soul, though upon the surface, a rough tempest may be raging, and there may be little apparent calm.

Charles Spurgeon

I find myself frequently depressed - perhaps more so than any other person here. And I find no better cure for that depression than to trust in the Lord with all my heart, and seek to realize afresh the power of the peace-speaking blood of Jesus, and His infinite love in dying upon the cross to put away all my transgressions.

Charles Spurgeon

The iron bolt...mysteriously fastens the door of hope and holds our spirits in a gloomy prison.

Alan Bennett

Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, 'I am Mrs de Winter now!

Al Alvarez

Each sporadic burst of work, each minor success and disappointment, each moment of calm and relaxation, seemed merely a temporary halt on my steady descent through layer after layer of depression, like an elevator stopping for a moment on the way down to the basement.

Akira Kurosawa

In a mad world, only the mad are sane.

Trent Yawney

We want them to experience what it's like to be in that situation. This has been a hard year for everyone -- not just the kids, but everybody off the ice who are trying so hard to make this thing work.

David Burns

We want to treat everybody the same, ... provide the same level of service whether it's three in the morning or three in the afternoon.

Alan Henderson

We want to thank everybody who helped us,

Jamie Varley

We want to sound like everybody and nobody at the same time.

Alexis Karel

We want to show everybody we belong. Our record doesn't matter. All those losses prepared us for this.

Larry Glass

We want to see something that's going to be a win-win for everybody and not just for one segment of the population.

Bengt Gustafsson

We know what we have to do. We know this is going to be a tough test, but we're here to win the gold medal. That's what we want ... that's what everybody wants. We just have to get the job done.

Levi Levine

We know we've got what it takes. It's not even a question. It's just a question of how much we want it. We've got to come out and play as hard as we can, and everybody has to be on the same page.

Shean Donovan

We know we need to play better. Everybody in here knows that.

Sharda Persaud

We are going to see more small falls for two to three months and then some summer optimism.

Billy Donovan

We felt like Darrel Mitchell was the key to their team, so we tried to run at him and trap him as much as we could. When he gets his 18 or 19 points, everything else falls into place.

H. Hunt

We feel that Niagara Falls will be on the upswing and we want to be a part of it.

Ken Leung

I have an awareness of a spiritual realm, and I see signs that I feel speak to me - I don't know if that falls into superstition.

Mark White

When it (the price) falls to between one or up to two times the price of steel then it (aluminum) will grow into the mass volume market -- not before.

Bob Semling

We had a very solid performance, especially as good as River Falls has been playing lately. A 14-point win on the road is nice to see.

Thomas Fuller

He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.

Tommy Fabian

She tends to throw good pitches when she falls behind.

Brian Beckwith

When you can pass, the rest falls into place.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

My most famous show is the 'Kitchen Show.' More famous than any gallery show or museum show I curated.

Holly Lisle

I always wrote, you know, but it was just this thing I did; what I intended was to become a terribly famous artist, perhaps with a stopover as a singer.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints,-I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life!-and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Neither love me for Thine own dear pity's wiping my cheeks dry, A creature might forget to weep, who bore Thy comfort long, and lose thy love, thereby! But love me for love's sake, that evermore Thou mayst love on, through love's eternity.

Bertrand Russell

It's easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.

Martin Freeman

Whenever someone says to my mum: 'How's your son doing?' she says: 'Which one?' If you're a parent, you're not going to go: 'Oh I'll concentrate on the famous one.'

William Shakespeare

A merry heart goes all the way, - A sad one tires inan hour.

Neil Peart

Even as a kid, I never wanted to be famous; I wanted to be good.

Norman Wisdom

When you're as famous as I am, stories take on a life of their own.

Charlie Chaplin

The heart and the mind ... what an enigma.

Charlie Chaplin

As I began to love myself I recognized that my mind can disturb me and it can make me sick. But as I connected it to my heart, my mind became a valuable ally. Today I call this connection "WISDOM OF THE HEART"...

Charles W. Chesnutt

The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe.

Charles W. Chesnutt

The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image.

Charles Sumner

The thought of going abroad makes my heart leap.

Charles de Lint

Every time we fix something that broken, whether it's a car engine or a broken heart, that an act of magic. And what makes it magic is that we choose to create or help, just as we can choose to harm.

Charles de Lint

I suppose the other thing too many forget is that we were all stories once, each and every one of us. And we remain stories. But too often we allow those stories to grow banal, or cruel or unconnected to each other.We allow the stories to continue, but they no longer have a heart. They no longer sustain us.

Charles de Lint

Write from the heart, what has meaning to you personally; have the patience and discipline to sit down and do it every day whether you're feeling inspired or not; never be afraid to take chances, in fact, make sure you take chances. As soon as you become complacent, you become boring ... . Read as much as possible, not simply in the genre, or what you think you're interested in, but other things as well.

Charles de Lint

There are people who take the heart out of you, and there are people who put it back.

Charles Stanley

Yieldedness is vital in listening to what He has to say.

Charles Spurgeon

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

Alan Rickman

All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.

Alan Alda

When I started out as an actor, I thought, Here's what I have to say; how shall I say it? I began to understand that what I do in the scene is not as important as what happens between me and the other person. And listening is what lets it happen. It's almost always the other person who causes you to say what you say next. You don't have to figure out how you'll say it. You have to listen so simply, so innocently, that the other person brings about a change in you that makes you say it and informs the way you say it.

David Amram

When you are accompanying someone, you are listening to them the way you listen to a Bach Chorale, where four parts are going on at the same time, all of which are gorgeous melodies, all being played simultaneously.

David Sedaris

I went from having 50 listeners to 50 million listeners.

Buddy Guy

I can't learn nothing from listening to me. That's something I already know.

Ben Mitchell

Why should you listen to any of us?

Denis Waitley

Listening without bias or distraction is the greatest value you can pay another person.

Alan Alda

I've never tried to manipulate my image.

Brian Trehearne

The poetry was the man, the man was the poetry.

Benjamin Netanyahu

I'm not naturally manipulative.

David Hume

What would become of history, had we not a dependence on the veracity of the historian, according to the experience, what we have had of mankind?

Arne Glimcher

I've been told I'm a good midcareer manager.

Edward Everett

Ever the characteristic manners of cowardice.

Ed Koch

Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!

Edward Kennedy

Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management.

Benjamin Franklin

Mankind naturally and generally love to be flatter'd.

David Sanborn

I just kinda like playing. I don't necessarily go on tour to promote my albums. I'm on the road all the time. The fact that I have a new record is out is a coincidence.

Bryan Ferry

Get down with your old Allman Bros. records!

Noel Redding

It was rehearsing in the studio, at which point they were setting up the sound, and once we'd got the thing together they'd actually record it, without us knowing sometimes!

Bo Bice

I didn't have a lot to do with the first record.

Blake Shelton

I've always had just enough success to buy me some more tour dates and another record.

Bill Parcells

You are what your record says you are.

Beyonce Knowles

I wanted to sell a million records, and I sold a million records. I wanted to go platinum; I went platinum. I've been working nonstop since I was 15. I don't even know how to chill out.

Dee Dee Warwick

They told me I should be making my own records. So I figured, 'why not?

Dee Dee Ramone

All of my favorite records have vocals high in the mix, even if it's music that wasn't necessarily mainstream.

Joshua Bell

I'm not a businessman, so I don't know how to solve the problems of the recording industry.

Thurston Moore

Recording tends to restrict too much experimentation, 'cause when you're making a record it's a part of you, for that time it's your whole fabric.

Arthur Vint

Now we have more recordings of us playing, which is great.

Stephen Jones

You OK? You OK? A recording is made of a frightening telephone call.

Leonard Sharenow

This is the first time I have seen the allegation that they have recordings or summaries of Erin Finn.

Asha Bhosle

Earlier, I know of instances where singers like Kishore Kumar and Lata Mangeshkar even stopped recording till they got their preparation right

Linda Ronstadt

The whole thing with recording is you have to know when to turn off the tape machine and just stop recording because you want to keep fixing, fixing, fixing, you know?

James Wolpert

I want to learn - there's so much I have to learn about what it takes to be a recording artist, about what it takes to go on tour.

Al Yankovic

By the time I'm in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.

Todd Rundgren

I don't know what the inspiration for most of songs really mean until I finish them. For the most part, I'm going for a visceral impression, and I write the words last.

AJ Case

I got a team of songwriters I used to work with, and we wrote songs day and night.

Vince Neil

If the songs aren't there and you throw a TV set out of the window, who cares?

Nick Cave

I would hate to think my songs were giving advice to people.

Dan Hill

Songs sometimes are so connected to the sociology of the time.

Sophie B. Hawkins

My songs are always four years ahead of me. They're like my teachers.

Etta James

Most of the songs I sing, they have that blue feeling to it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don't know what I'm sorry about.

Kate Micucci

My first songs were about animals and shoes. I wrote one song about PF Flyers, and one to my fish.

Lucinda Williams

My approach to recording and all that is pretty organic. It just has to do with all the songs I wrote; go in and record them.

Harry Treadaway

I was used to getting changed in pub toilets before going on set. Then suddenly I had studios in L.A. advising me on my hair.

Derek Bailey

Nowadays, I really like playing in studios.

Bill Forsyth

The studio system reminds me of the stock market.

Ciaran Hinds

Most of the work that I have done for the American Hollywood things have not been in Hollywood. The studios are going out in Europe or around the place working.

Cesar Romero

You knew everybody at all the studios and you saw them often.

Drew Goddard

You can always trust that an audience is smarter than a studio thinks it is.

Amy Wright

Wherever we go, build-out of a new studio will be necessary.

James Gray

I was going to Studio 54 when I was 12 years old. It's true. It's crazy.

Carol Ierulli

I did not play sports, I was the studious one and I was always in the library.

Sam Reed

We were supposed to get it the first of December.

Mike Radke

We wrestled very well. We weren't outstanding. We just wrestled like we're supposed to wrestle.

Jennifer Shoaf

We've surprised a lot of people. We've even surprised us. We weren't supposed to be here.

E. Hicks

She was able to make some shots. That's what she is supposed to do.

Mike Landry

She's a player. You watch her play and you say, 'That's how the game's supposed to be played.

Chris Harris

I feel like I'm supposed to be here.

James Gandolfini

I was just supposed to say what I was supposed to say and get out.

Nathan Forrest

I thought we executed well offensively. When Renee and Christina do what they're supposed to do they're very tough to guard.

Tom Burchill

We talk about having fun. This is a race, this is a sport and it's supposed to be fun. We work so hard, this better be fun.

Charles Caleb Colton

In death itself there can be nothing terrible, for the act of death annihilates sensation; but there are many roads to death, and some of them justly formidable, even to the bravest.

Alan Ball

Death is a companion for all of us, whether we acknowledge it or not, whether we're aware of it or not, and it's not necessarily a terrible thing.

Elizabeth Kostova

It touched me to be trusted with something terrible.

Elizabeth McGovern

I have a terrible sense of direction.

Bobby Valentine

Unique, ... That wasn't that terrible of a team, I guess.

Edward Said

The just response to this terrible event should be to go immediately to the world community, the United Nations. The rule of international law should be marshaled, but it's probably too late because the United States has never done that; it's always gone it alone.

Auberon Waugh

Better to go than sit around being a terrible old bore.

Ashley Madekwe

I'm terrible at posting regularly; I don't deserve the blog success!

Tom Mueller

From the very beginning, we said we wanted to know the truth about this terrible incident, ... Now we do