Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

I should never have made my success in life if I had not bestowed upon the least thing I have ever undertaken the same attention and care that I have bestowed upon the greatest.

Charles Stross

I have a CS degree and a history that includes working as a software developer and being a computer magazine columnist back during the 1990s. I guess I simply paid attention to the social effects of the IT revolution as I lived through it.

Charles Stanley

You always have God's undivided attention.

Alan Watts

A paradox is only a truth standing on its head to attract attention.

Alan Perlis

A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.

Bill Brown

Very cheap for a house this size. If we hadn't paid attention to conserving energy, our bill could easily be $350 a month.

J. M. Roberts

Ultimately, it doesn't matter to the world whether you paint or dance or write. The world will probably get by without the product of your efforts. But that is not the point. The point is what the inner process of following your creative impulses will do to you. It is clearly about process. Love the work, love the process. Our fascination will pull our attention forward. That, also, will fascinate the viewer.

Don Cheadle

When I'm the person in front of the microphone, and I'm the person in the light, I want to reflect and refract the light onto places where they need the attention, where I don't need it.

Laurie Sabourin

The postures are unfamiliar, we have to pay attention and focus. It?s not like being on a treadmill at the gym. We all know how to walk. Yoga is so foreign that you need to concentrate. The postures kind of sneak meditation in through the back door.

Jack Greenberg

We want the line -- which for McDonald's includes our divisional and regional staffs, owner/operators and restaurant personnel -- to make decisions on behalf of customers based on field operating needs. The line ultimately has responsibility and accountability for our business success,

Mitt Romney

Ultimately, legislation may need to be filed to provide an exemption based on religious principles.

Amanda Tobin

The possible pressurization issues that we've had recently do represent an above-average number for this time period, based on historical averages.

Ginny Goblirsch

We are always so happy to see them. It is such a reminder of what the US Coast Guard brings to our community. It's also a reminder of what it took to get the helicopter based here and how critical it is that it remains here.

Bob Cornick

We value this honor more than designations based on research that simply tries to count shipments and measure market share. Our customers trust Zebra to help them extract the business benefits from RFID technology, and we are pleased that ABI has recognized our commitment.

Adam Ereli

We believe that these convictions are based on evidence that isn't credible and a trial that isn't fair,

Mike Clarke

We still plan to have the appraisal done and try to keep discussions open with them and at the appropriate time, based on the appraisal, try to initiate, once again, negotiations.

Frank Newport

We're in a period of time that there is a conventional wisdom that Bush is on the ropes. I think, based on my experience, that the media tend to move in lockstep as conventional wisdom on a story develops.

Bernie Schaeffer

We're in a frenetic short-covering based rally. The jury is still out about how long this is going to last.

David Victor

We have no credible emission policy at the federal level.

John Newman

We're making a credible posture and a presence. There's no shortage of volunteers -- it's amazing, the volunteer spirit of our people.

Eric Holdeman

We've seen what happens when the federal government hasn't done much of anything in advance. If you want to be prepared for the maximum credible catastrophic event, you should be thinking seven days, not just the minimum of three days.

Phil Reeker

Should we receive information about a specific and credible threat, that information would be shared with all potentially affected.

Charlie King

She has not yet been able to establish that she can mount any kind of credible candidacy for any public office.

John Harris

She retires sound and could have had a very credible season this year at the track, but she really didn't have much left to prove.

John Howard

If anything, it's helped in implementing this solution. We've had no incidents of that kind. I think that the huge majority of users come in here for credible reasons wanting to learn or do some type of research. This is targeted solely on people who want to come and do something other than research.

Rich Hersh

I think the truth is always a credible threat to illegitimate and unjust power.

Brandon Claussen

Jerry is a very credible guy. He lives what he talks. I completely respect that. Sometimes, he may say something to you that you don't want to hear. But it's the truth. Sometimes that will prune you back a little bit. But when you get pruned, you always grow more fruit.

Alan Rickman

The directors you trust the most are the ones, when you ask them a question, they've got the guts to say, 'I don't know.'

Alan Alda

Really top-notch directors, I've often worked with them just to see how they work.

Bob Stein

We know he has done a very retail-oriented campaign, going right to individual voters and surgically finding those who will vote and vote for him. His message is directed at reminding voters what he has done for them.

Marco Muller

Venice can become the place for confirming the importance of seven new directors that are now becoming, for everybody, the most important contemporary directors.

Van Baker

Ultimately, for them to sustain their growth and be successful in the long term, they're going to have to move in new directions and tackle some new product lines that they don't have and haven't historically done. That's going to take significant investment.

Don Bluth

How can you have a director that doesn't go to work with the crew every day and talk to them?

David Graeber

Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free.

Catherine Deneuve

Directors have to push me. I have to be pushed up. Not all the time, but often.

Ludivine Sagnier

To me, the director is the most important, rather than the story.

Dmitri Mendeleev

The elements which are the most widely diffused have small atomic weights.

Dmitri Mendeleev

Certain characteristic properties of elements can be foretold from their atomic weights.

Dmitri Mendeleev

The elements, if arranged according to their atomic weights, exhibit an apparent periodicity of properties.

Dianne Wiest

I'm more aware of time. The element of time.

Christopher Bailey

There are some elements over there that I feel once there is light and activity...they will go away.

Anton Corbijn

There are some elements of digital photography that I don't really like, such as the fact that you see the results immediately.

Lydia Leonard

Television's so quick, and there's so many other fun elements to it, but you don't get such good scripts and the time to really make much more three dimensional characters.

Billy Gibbons

Having a visual element to your band is a good thing.

Denise Levertov

The poem has a social effect of some kind whether or not the poet wills it to have. It has a kenetic force, it sets in motion...elements in the reader that would otherwise remain stagnant.

Mikhail Kamynin

Milosevic's advisers handed the Russian Embassy in the Netherlands a letter to the Russian Foreign Ministry on March 11, which we received yesterday afternoon.

Faye Belnis

We have received a suspicious package and we have informed the police. We have evacuated the embassy and then we are still waiting for further information from the police.

Hoshyar Zebari

Really there hasn't been any differences of opinion between the Iraqi government and U.S. Embassy at all,

Larry Johnson

The fact of the matter is when you look at the loss of life in Tanzania and the loss of life in Kenya, it was a simple function of where the U.S. embassy was located -- in the middle of the city.

Joseph Estrada

What I got were reports of the US Embassy about events that had happened here. There was nothing written there that we did not already know.

Bonaya Godana

We could not get into the embassy to remove the man ...

Somsak Kosaisuk

We will return to the embassy on March 9 to hear the response to our appeal.

James Sasser

We are essentially hostages of the embassy at the present time now. We've been here 48 hours without being able to leave,

David Gillette

They should not have an embassy here in the United States.

Charles Edison

Economics, politics, and personalities are often inseparable.

Charles de Lint

It's not the work or the personality of the founder of a religion that's important, but what its followers do with what they learn.

Chris Colfer

I don't necessarily consider myself a virgin, probably because I have such a penetrating personality

Chris Christie

As we all grow and we get older, there are always little changes about our personality that happen.

David D. Burns

Forgiving yourself, not guilt, increases personal accountability.

David Sanborn

I look at the artistic process as like experiencing the world, channeling it through your personality and sending it back out there. That's the process.

Carolina Herrera

In anything you do, it's important to have your own personality there.

Carolina Herrera

A wedding dress is both an intimate and personal for a woman - it must reflect the personality and style of the bride.

Bill Johnson

Religion idolizes concepts and avoids personal experience.

Alan Mollohan

I have never, not once, violated my public trust.

S. Hughes

Where there is muck to be raked, it must be raked,and the public must know of it, that it may mete out justice....

David Duchovny

If my work was good enough, I would never have to do publicity.

Carl Andre

Americans understand better than the Europeans and the English that any publicity is good.

Bill Goldberg

Aside from doing publicity for this film [The Longest Yard], I have Auto Maniac coming on the History Channel and since I got married recently, we are going to get to that Honeymoon we had to put off.

Bill Gates

It's hard to improve public education - that's clear.

Bob Schieffer

Good policy always trumps bad public relations. And the best PR can't trump bad policy.

Benjamin Disraeli

What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.

Cameron Mackintosh

I've never had a very great public life.

Al Goldman

What has been going on is a very sharp reaction to a slowing economy.

Colin Lee

Jody is very, very disappointed with his reaction

Kate Warne

I think in Toronto we're seeing reaction to the Lucent pre-announcement with Nortel, which is down,

Rob Blake

He's been great. He's a reaction goalie and he's been on since Day 1 through the whole season. He's a reason their team is up so high.

Martin Wright

He was just standing there -- there was no reaction from him,

Patton Oswalt

I remember, when 9/11 went down, my reaction was, 'Well, I've had it with humanity.' But I was wrong.

Andrew Smith

Our reaction is there is nothing unexpected here.

Craig Counsell

My reaction was, what's next? How are we going to make it better?

Lance Briggs

My reaction was I was just relieved. I don't have to think about it anymore.

Dick Armey

Hillary Clinton bothers me a lot. I realized the other day that her thoughts sound a lot like Karl Marx. She hangs around a lot of Marxists. All her friends are Marxists.

Dexter Gordon

Music is a reservoir... of sounds.

Bob Mould

I have music in my head constantly. I have to have a soundtrack in my head.

Elizabeth Olsen

I'm terrified of improv. Improv in a show or in front of an audience sounds terrifying.

Benjamin Franklin

Your argument is sound, nothing but sound.

Avril Lavigne

I would describe my music and my sound as… Avril Lavigne!

Desiderius Erasmus

Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known. This was the sound conclusion of the Academic sceptics, who were the least surly of philosophers.

Chad Smith

Drums all have their own particulars - each drum has a place where they sound the best - where they ring out and resonate the best, and the head surface isn't too loose or too tight, mainly so you get a good rebound off of the head.

Nelson Peltz

The name 'Mondelez' I hate. It sounds like a disease.