Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nicholas Mosley

The mark of a living thing is to be involved in opposites (impossibilities): the living cell that has to be continually adapting itself to stay alive, with its identity.

Kevin McHale

Adaptability is crucial to working on Glee because every day is adapting to something. Because we're doing a different genre of music, doing a different type of scene with a different scene partner, recording and dance rehearsals... no day is like another.

Thomas Friedman

Entrepreneurs don't write a 100-page business plan and execute it one time; they're always experimenting and adapting based on what they learn.

Steven Milunovich

Many corporations upgraded their PCs in preparation for Y2K, which boosted demand last year, ... If you figure on a three-year upgrade cycle, companies will not feel a need to upgrade in 2001. Corporate IT budgets are focused more on adapting to the Internet, which includes networking hardware, storage, and e-commerce software.

Dean Hachamovitch

Security is a critical issue for all browsers. Microsoft incorporates security concerns into the design phase on all of its products, and with Internet Explorer 7, we paid particular attention to addressing not only known threats but also creating a foundation that is capable of adapting to protect users from new attacks in the future. Make no mistake, Internet Explorer 7 is a more secure browser from the foundation on up.

E. B. White

We're adapting a lot of material, but we're also doing a lot of very specific material to the various cultures we're targeting.

Colby Armstrong

I feel like I'm adapting well. It's not something I expected or thought would happen, but it's something I'm willing to work at, something I want to do. I just have to work my butt off every day in practice and in games, keep playing at the top of my game.

S. Walker

Kellie is getting reps in the infield as well as the outfield during practice and is certainly learning a lot. She is constantly adapting to the Pac-10 level of play.

Nick Saban

Jason has had a great camp and has done a great job in every regard. He's probably one of the guys who has had a lot more to learn because he's never really played that position as a professional player. He's playing a combination of two positions right now, but he's done a tremendous job of adapting and making plays.

Charlie Chaplin

In the work of the greatest geniuses, humble beginnings will reveal themselves somewhere, but one cannot trace the slightest sign of them in Shakespeare ... I am not concerned with who wrote the works of Shakespeare ... but I can hardly think it was the Stratford boy. Whoever wrote them had an aristocratic attitude.

Charlie Chaplin

In the creation of comedy, it is paradoxical that tragedy stimulates the spirit of ridicule; because ridicule, I suppose is an attitude of defiance: we must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature - or go insane

Charlie Chaplin

As I began to love myself I freed myself of anything that is no good for my health - food, people, things, situations, and everything that drew me down and away from myself. At first I called this attitude a healthy egoism. Today I know it is Love of Oneself.

Charles W. Chesnutt

Impossibilities are merely things of which we have not learned, or which we do not wish to happen.

Charles de Lint

You walk around with a negative attitude and you're just naturally going to bring trouble and hard times down on yourself.

Charles de Lint

I think a good writer is a mix of confidence (sure that what they're writing is going to appeal to their readers) and uncertainty (what if all these words are crap?). If you're too confident, you get an attitude that seeps through into your writing, affecting the characters and the story. If you're too uncertain, you'll never finish anything.

Charles Dickens

There is something good in all weathers. If it doesn't happen to be good for my work today, it's good for some other man's today... and will come around for me tomorrow.

Charles Dickens

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a little patronage more so.

Charles Stanley

God wants you to understand the Word of God. The Bible is not a mystery book. It's not a book of philosophy. It's a book of truth that explains the attitude and heart of almighty God.

Brian Lara

We are looking forward to the World Cup also. We hope the big event would do a lot of good for the cricket at grass roots level.

Greg Chappell

We won't have a long duration camp. We had lot of cricket over the last few months. So, we will probably get together only the day before we leave for Pakistan.

Michael Vaughan

We haven't been to the sub-continent and won yet. If we play good cricket over there, I'm sure the rankings will change.

Andrew Flintoff

Simply because he encourages you to enjoy cricket without fear of failure.

Ted Dexter

The only way to give satisfaction in all these quarters is by inspiring his men to win more cricket matches than they lose.

John Read

It is an evolving situation and we will do whatever the ECB (England and Wales Cricket Board) tells us.

Ian Bradshaw

It is great to be selected in a West Indies Test squad. I've really enjoyed my time representing the West Indies at the one-day level, but Test cricket is the real test.

Ryan Hinds

I thought that we played really good cricket. It's just unfortunate that we lost a few wickets. That is what put us back.

Brad Haddin

We're pretty confident, we've played good cricket in Adelaide in the past and had a good win there this year, I think it suits our style of team.

Bill Ayers

I voted for Obama and I was delighted that he's been elected.

Michael Colucci

We were delighted with the performance. It was fast and we were able to put a total of about 2,800 miles on it. Everything looks really good.

Jay Fulcher

We were delighted with the outcome for us.

Jerry Munro

We were delighted that they could accept. And it's going to be a tight squeeze for them, too.

Kapil Dev

We are all proud and delighted for what he has achieved. He has improved much more than what we thought he would. Nobody had earlier thought he would take 500 wickets, but he has proved all of us wrong.

Andreas Katsulas

So I think the fans will be totally interested in the new developments and delighted that the old developments are still there and that they can still see some of the old characters maybe reappear.

Ed Dunlop

She's run very well and, in a sense, we are delighted because there were little question marks after Dubai. I liked the way she accelerated. The story rolls on.

David Howell

I was looking good for the matchplay until I had my injury, so I'm delighted I've made it.

Mick McCarthy

Kelvin has been great and I'm delighted he's proving what a good keeper he is.

John Steinbeck

Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Michelle Davis

She's very contemplative and thinks through situations thoroughly, but can think ... very quickly as well.

Rashida Jones

I thought they were trying to put it out. I couldn't tell you how quickly it happened. I was so traumatized that this whole thing had happened.

Mike Shanahan

We try to get everything done as quickly as possible. We have to be ready for March.

Katie Brown

He cantered quickly and was just very quick.

Roy Orbison

Look how quickly he was outstripped by other white rockers,

John Lyboldt

You can go to all the manufacturers very quickly and save yourself a lot of time.

Dick DeGuerin

It is important to us to get this over with as quickly as possible.

Andrew Maynard

But the research into the risks isn't being done as efficiently or quickly as it should.