Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marco Brambilla

Being able to make work - if it's on your terms, and it's a good fit with the people who are supporting it - can be a very interesting exercise. When it doesn't work is when an artist just connects with a brand, and they try to take advantage of each other.

Sam Veda

Man has been exploiting the energy of fire to his advantage since time immemorial. Had it not been for this natural source of energy, all the progress mankind has witnessed would never have been possible. Not a single factory could run without it.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

MACHINATION, n. The method employed by one's opponents in baffling one's open and honorable efforts to do the right thing.So plain the advantages of machination It constitutes a moral obligation, And honest wolves who think upon't with loathing Feel bound to don the sheep's deceptive clothing. So prospers still the diplomatic art, And Satan bows, with hand upon his heart. --R.S.K.

Adrian Raine

Lying is cognitively complex. It is not easy to lie. It is certainly more difficult than telling the truth. Some people have a biological advantage in lying. It gives them a slight edge.

Adrian Raine

Lying is cognitively complex, ... It is not easy to lie. It is certainly more difficult than telling the truth. Some people have a biological advantage in lying. It gives them a slight edge.

Checky Herrington

Making public the conditions of special contracts that utilities are allowed to enter into when recruiting industry would give other states and their utilities an unfair advantage and jeopardize Mississippi's economic future.

Janet Disbennett

Madison and Natalie played (Pickerington Central's girls twice during the regular season in singles. They won both, so we had a mental advantage over them. UA was the bigger match. I wasn't even worried about the finals. The UA match is the one we wanted because anytime you can beat UA, it's big.

D.J. Owens

Lots of teams in the Big East have been giving us wide open 3s and taking away the backdoor. They did the opposite, and we really took advantage of our cutters.

St. Teresa

Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it. As soon you apply yourself to orison, you will at once feel your senses gather themselves together: they seem like bees which return to the hive and there shut themselves up to work at the making of honey. At the first call of the will, they come back more and more quickly. At last, after countless exercises, of this kind, God disposes them to a state of utter rest and of perfect contemplation.

Richard Rogers

A greater focus on design in all new homes would make the best use of land, create homes and public spaces, and reinforce the structures of urban life.

Rick Perlstein

When you're a writer, you never know which of your pieces are going to gain a toehold and which will not, and it's best not to care too much.

Richard P. Feynman

I think equation guessing might be the best method to proceed to obtain the laws for the part of physics which is presently unknown. Yet, when I was much younger, I tried this equation guessing, and I have seen many students try this, but it is very easy to go off in wildly incorrect and impossible directions.

Robert Palmer

Anything by Gonzalez Rubalcaba is unbelievable. I've been listening to the best of Django Reinhardt.

Robert Wilson

I think by drawing, so I'll draw or diagram everything from a piece of furniture to a stage gesture. I understand things best when they're in graphics, not words.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

In the best days of our republic Americans were fiercely proud of the fact that rich and poor met on such equal terms in so many ways, and without the slightest trace of hostility.

Malcolm McDowell

You've always got to work with the best if you can, and of course, the best are the best because they're different. They expect certain standards, and they're usually very difficult people to work with.

Mike Schneider

We're not diminishing his role at quarterback at all; we're just trying to enhance his role within the offense because he's one of our best athletes.

Daryl Manning

We're not best of friends. We're neighbors that talk to each other, that feel comfortable around each other. We both went away with the same thing - lets take a look at this and see how this can work out.

Paul Cichon

Let me do my job and I think we'll be fine. I don't see him coming down and trying to rule the boxing program.

Barbara Turner

Me and Ann just came in and said the obvious things. We have to take more pride in boxing out. We have to take more pride in knowing who we are guarding and rotating on defense. We have to know what we are doing out there, and in that first half we didn't look like it at all.

Dominic Purcell

My fighting style, if you will, is a combination of mimicking, cowboy films and boxing that I have done throughout my life.

Bruce Beresford

My feeling is that while we are constructing a show you need not be a boxing fan to enjoy, it will reintroduce millions of people to boxing,

Ed Zbikowski

Of course if he loses that first fight, there's a good chance there's not going to be a second. That's how boxing is.

Tony Lopez

My dad was a big part of our boxing careers. A lot of great memories. We're all really going to miss him.

Robert Horry

More days off helps me out more now than in the past. Then I wanted to practice so I could keep everything working, mechanically and skills-wise. Now I really like the days off. But we needed to work on some things, especially our rebounding and boxing out. So it was good to get back to work.

Elizabeth Mooney

When I'm boxing I'm strictly in the mentality of a boxer. When I'm a nurse I'm strictly in the mentality of a nurse. When I'm around the boys I'm a mom. That is truly my number one job.

J. J. Johnson

When the kids see what great shape he's in, and that there's a certain gleam in his eye, they are able to see you can succeed when your boxing career comes to an end.

Italo Calvino

Bringing a child into the world makes sense only if this child is wanted consciously and freely by its two parents. If it is not, then it is simply animal and criminal behavior.

William Lennon

We're not bring these charges to be popular, we're bringing these charges in order to stand up and take on public corruption head-on.

Sumner Redstone

Li is clearly a pioneer in bringing innovative partnerships to the Chinese people.

Guy Hohenhaus

Lifting the last remaining hold order at Pimlico is a positive that things are coming to a close there. We will continue working with all parties involved to monitor the situation and bring it to a conclusion. We thank the owners, trainers, and staff for their diligence in practicing prudent bio-security measures and their patience as we work through this science-based process that will make sure the remaining horses test negative before they will be released from the detention barn.

Sathya Baba

Life would be stale if there were no trials and difficulties. It is these difficulties which bring out the human values in man.

Steve Mitchell

Let this be a starting point for us in renaming B Street a starting point for us to come together as a community all nationalities, bring it down to the human level.

Jim Johnson

Luckily, we had some engineers along. They just love that kind of scenario -- troubleshooting on the fly. That's what brings us joy in our work is fixing something and carrying on, instead of just being shut down.

John Strand

Luna Energy is a neighbor that brings tax revenues and new jobs to our city and county.

Buck Martinez

Luis Gonzalez has the respect of everybody in baseball, and his opinion is very valued. He's always been a character guy that we respect a lot. We felt that he brings everything we want on this team.

Italo Calvino

In 'Cosmicomics,' I came close to science fiction - I was inspired by cosmological subjects and the workings of the universe and invented a character who was a sort of witness to everything that was happening inside the solar system.

Isabella Rossellini

I grew up in Italy, and our country is a country of great agriculture and food produce. It wasn't like I was urban and only knew about high-heeled shoes and purses and never knew where my eggs came from.

Richard P. Feynman

Quarks came in a number of varieties - in fact, at first, only three were needed to explain all the hundreds of particles and the different kinds of quarks - they are called u-type, d-type, s-type.

Robert Mueller

If you look at the 19 hijackers who came to the United States in Sept. 11 to commit those acts, if you'd looked at them before they got onto a plane, you could probably say the same thing. There were various levels of expertise, various levels of competence.

Mamie Van Doren

I came to Hollywood determined to follow in Jean Harlow's footsteps, but I was determined not to die young. My hope was to endure. And endure I have.

Mamata Banerjee

We are from the very middle class family. We have not come from the English medium school. We came from our regional languages school.

R. Robinson

Man, I came back (Thursday) and must've spent an hour and a half looking for it. But no luck.

Roger Friedman

Like all these great legends of R&B, when disco came in, it really impacted their careers.

Kibwe Trim

Life is progressive and I knew my career was about to end. I came to the United States when I was 17 and didn't know much about basketball. Sacred Heart helped me to grow up and now that my career is over I just have to take it in stride and keep going.

Robert Rainy

For the standard of Christian life was to be strained to a higher pitch; more fasting was required, and more careful separation from the manners and enjoyments of the world; celibacy and martyrdom had great value set upon them, and second marriages were prohibited.

Koko Taylor

I was so glad to get out of the cotton patch and stop pickin' cotton, I wouldn't of cared who come by and said, 'I'll take you to Chicago.'

Albert Schweitzer

To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

Steven Brill

We're not dealing with kidnappers here. When you see the way they continued to raise him and take care of him, you're dealing with parents that love their kid and would do anything they could to keep him.

George H. W. Bush

Mandatory evacuations have been ordered for New Orleans and Galveston. I urge the citizens to listen carefully to the instructions provided by state and the local authorities. And follow them,

Joan Lingard

Like children, adolescents need a framework. Otherwise they can't cope. When someone has unlimited freedom, it means there's nobody who cares what they're doing.

Brenda Valdes

Life is ... you work, you support yourself, take care of yourself, but you also have to take care of your community.

Jason Varitek

Like I always say, we handle things in here. In no way, shape or form are we going to play a media game with our teammates. I think that people look to pick on things on Manny because he's Manny Ramirez. We'll take care of things and we take care of things in here.

Lou Lamoriello

Let's be careful how far we go with that.

Thomas Adams

So long as casual labor broods in squalid lairs, in sunless streets, and ugly dwellings are its only habitation, we shall continue to turn out nervous manikins instead of enduring men.

Erin Healy

Mr. Rove remembers they had met at a political event in the 1990s. Since then, he would describe him as a casual acquaintance.

Samuel Berger

Mounting a ground invasion here with hundreds of thousands, with tens of thousands of soldiers fighting from village to village, week by week, with untold numbers of casualties is not something we think is in our national interest,

Shaukat Sultan

Now we find out that the casualties might have exceeded 100.

Douglas Haig

Obviously, the greater the length of a war the higher is likely to be the number of casualties in it on either side.

James Thurber

From one casual of mine he picked this sentence. ''After dinner, the men moved into the living room.'' I explained to the professor that this was Rose' way of giving the men time to push back their chairs and stand up. There must, as we know, be a comma after every move, made by men, on this earth.

Ron Wilson

We were casual and they made us pay for it.

Howard Davidowitz

New York has gotten more casual, Chicago has gotten more casual but Houston is still kind of formal when it comes to socializing.

Nobu Matsuhisa

I have a restaurant in Milan, and Paper Moon is five minutes away from my hotel, so I always go there for lunch. It's a casual place that serves good salad, pizza and pasta; the space is tight with tables close together, and it feels buzzy. Food comes out fast, too.

Arun Sarin

The place where our margins are really being impacted is in Japan,

Steven Wood

Because pricing power has disappeared, profit margins will remain under significant pressure.

Ai Miyazato

I'm a little surprised and very satisfied about (the margin of victory).

Frank Lee

The PC sector is weak in the first quarter but I am still optimistic for the whole year. That's because the trend for the TV sector is positive so profit margins should go up from the second and third quarters.

Mike Dunham

We have to find ways to win. There's not much margin for error. Just because it's not your night, you can't say it's not your night. We don't have enough time for that.

Billy Childish

I like being on the margins. You work better there.

David O'Brien

We want to be satisfied the plant's safety margin is not compromised,

Matthew Lewis

Overall this is a high-quality set of results... and their handset margin of 25 percent is phenomenal.

Steve Ward

Rendell's winning margin is black. Take that away, and he's even.

David Harsanyi

Let's be honest: nothing spoils 'The Walking Dead' quite like watching 'The Walking Dead.'

Ruth Asawa

Sculpture is like farming. If you just keep at it, you can get quite a lot done.

James McAvoy

My grandmother would take me to the cinema quite a lot. She'd take me with her and sometimes she'd sneak my sister in, and then we'd sometimes just sit and watch the movie again.

Greg Myers

No one was quite sure where she landed,

Stephen Ryan

From a branding standpoint, they've done something quite important.

Bob Woods

We've never done anything quite like this before.

Jenna-Louise Coleman

If I'm with a group of people, I'm okay, but actually I'm quite a nervous person if I'm just one-to-one with somebody.

E. B. White

She stayed until her shift was over at 6. She's fine, but she was quite shook up.

Rudyard Kipling

She was as immutable as the hills. But not quite so green.

Jerramy Stevens

No one is going to give us anything. We haven't done anything in the past. But we've been out here taking it (respect) this year, that's for sure.

Slobodan Milosevic

More time has been wasted by taking away my right to self-defense.

David Jacobson

I feel like this is part of something big he is doing, ... Like taking over the world.

Joe Crawford

I feel like I'm getting better every game, more comfortable, just being aggressive, taking my opportunities.

Andrea Mitchell

I feel terribly guilty. I'm not used to taking off time at all.

Ed Collins

If we do use that for (the ballpark), we are taking away from ourselves, not the state.

Doug Follis

If we're there at the end of the year, that's when it will matter. Right now, we're taking it game-by-game.

Steve Smith

I have a one-track mind. I was not taking the hitch. I wanted to go for the goal.

Diane Tuller

She's only going to get better. I don't like taking her off the court.

Edvard Munch

My will exceeds my talents.

Thomas Needham

From what they tell me he is a smart, hardworking and talented person.

Ed McBain

McKinty is an exciting new talent.

Jeff Bzdelik

I don't know that it was anything (SDSU) did that really factored into that. But they are just so much more talented than they have been in the past.

Alex Gee

I don't know what happened. The talent was there. I just don't know.

Virat Kohli

Irrespective of whether you have talent or not, one has to work hard. Just being talented doesn't mean anything; you can end up wasting it before you realize.

Liz Campbell

We're really thrilled we have the talent here in the valley, now.

Michelle Beall

We have the chemistry, with all the talent we have we just have to put it all together.

Denzel Washington

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

Marissa Chovanec

Many of them play on the same travel teams and know each other well.

Eric Ferguson

SEC teams are going to make runs. That just happens. It's part of the game, man.

Steve Segadelli

Of all the teams I've coached, I don't think I've had a team that is this great.

Randy Schaedig

From that standpoint, this isn't really much of a change. We play all those teams already anyway.

Tyler Mitchell

When we started out as freshmen, we were ok, but there were other teams out there who were a lot better than us.

Paul Davies

When the three of us are on, we're really tough. There are not a lot of teams that can keep up with us when we play like that.

Henry Hall

I do not think many teams will win at Elgin so I will take the draw.

Yulia Tymoshenko

Today, we are two different teams. I think these two teams will go their own way.

Patrick Sparks

We play two top-10 teams (this) week. It's in our hands.

Jalal Farzaneh

Mohammad and I took a tour of the devastation.

Meghan Steiner

I did everything I could for it. I was working out the whole time. I took calcium pills.

David Anders

When we said go, they went. They took our words seriously.

Frank Haith

When they took the lead, we showed some toughness.

John Enos

I got right in my truck and took off to Dayton.

Gary Gambardella

She was a fortune-teller, and she took this woman for a fortune.

Dhani Jones

My parents took me around the world when I was young, so I caught the bug. Every person is different when he travels, and every travellers' story is uniquely his own.

Solange Knowles

I felt like when I took my weave out, I wasn't pretty, I wasn't noticeable.

Ian Mckellen

Actors don't, in fact, retire, do they? It took me a while to remember that.