Famous Quotes & Sayings

Italo Calvino

Although I am small, ugly and dirty, I am highly ambitious, and at the slightest flattery, I immediately start to strut like a turkey.

Laura DiDio

Mainstream Linux deployments are on a steep upward trajectory. Although they will not replace Windows, co-existence will be the order of the day.

Suzanne Fields

Mahmud Abbas is not Thomas Jefferson. The spirit of Patrick Henry has not emerged in Lebanon. Although more than a 140 Syrian intellectuals have protested Syrian troops there and signed a public statement opposing the occupation, these intellectuals are not in the league of our own Founding Fathers.

Robbie McEwen

Leon Van Bon led me out perfectly, but I started the sprint too early, couldn't finish it. Although I was going for a stage win, the intermediate bonus sprint and the green jersey gives me a lot of self confidence.

Samuel Butler

Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.

Jon Heacock

Louis made a couple of good catches out there, although he did drop the first one we threw to him.

Tim Condon

Looks like a people plan as opposed to a business plan. The emphasis seems to be improving peoples lives by improving social infrastructure. I don't know if there are enough goodies to have an impact on financial markets although if the whole country feels better it would be good for markets.

Tod Tamberg

Many of the victims direct all their anger at Cardinal Mahony. It's unfair and somewhat misdirected, although understandable.

John Woods

Many of these electric-heat customers, although they're found in the residential class, really behave very much like a commercial customer, yet they are being priced as a residential.

Bob Groves

One year from now, in December of '06, unless there's a funding solution for more dedicated funds for transit statewide, we will literally run out of money. That's the situation we're in.

Brian Halla

Now that we have the months of December and January finished, we felt it necessary to factor those results into our earlier projections and issue this update.

Heather Ridout

New orders jumped sharply in the month. Manufacturing experienced moderate growth in December to end the year in positive territory.

Daniel Alfredsson

Obviously, it's going to get tougher, I think, in the second half because of the schedule and the Olympics. So, I think, right now, we're making the most of a good schedule for our team. I think we have only four road games in this month, and then December is tougher for us. But definitely after the Olympic break, we have a tougher schedule. But the way we're going now, I don't think we should slow down and we just have to keep pushing ourselves every night and keep trying to improve to be better.

Al Groh

we might be going till December without him, and I don't think about it. . . . The only time I have a discussion about it is when I'm talking with you guys.

Michael Linenberg

Given that the first half of December is a relatively quiet time for travel, Delta has been able to re-accommodate most of the passengers on other Delta flights.

Jason Chaffetz

From December 2007 through June 2009, average federal employee salaries increased by 6.6 percent, while average private-sector salaries increased by 3.9 percent.

O. Henry

From December 2002 until the end of 2004 it was pretty much laughed out of the room,

Kurt Eichenwald

A war on Al-Qaeda could have been won with a decisive military strike in Tora Bora during December 2001, but American fighters at Tora Bora were refused requests for more forces when they trapped Al-Qaeda there; the Pentagon was busy husbanding resources for the Iraqi invasion.

Pam Dixon

Making money on identity theft is a growth industry and it's just not pretty.

David Hilal

Licensing is the story. All that other growth from services and maintenance comes from having new software business.

Glenn Tilton

much stronger position to seize growth opportunities as we move forward.

Jeff Schuster

Moving forward, most growth in the SUV segment will come from car-based vehicles.

Heather Dougherty

Online sales are poised to well outperform the growth in retail overall as more shoppers turn to the Web for convenience and values.

Elbert Hubbard

Growth is often a painful process.

John Silvia

Growth looks solid. The problem is prices paid were up again, suggesting inflation pressures remain a concern.

John Goulter

Growth like that shows we're heading in the right direction.

Gary Thayer

Growth is still at a healthy level. There is no major slowdown.

Joe Kantarik

Make sure that you tell everyone that right now we are leading in points.

Tony Stewart

Obviously we wanted to win the race after leading that many laps.

Mark Ruffalo

I don't have to be a leading man. I can be a character actor. That's really what interests me anyway.

Conrad Hilton

My new hotels will play a leading role in promoting world peace.

David Chang

The process and organization leading up to cooking the egg can tell you a lot about the cook.

Abraham Lincoln

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.

Imelda Staunton

I am a character actress. Well, let's say, I am a leading character actress who does interesting, odd parts.

Ellen Key

War can be prevented only by broad-minded statesmanship - a statesmanship that understands how to enlist people's interests in a leading cause.

Brian Cox

I didn't have this feeling that I should be a leading actor in the cinema. And I wouldn't want the responsibility of the opening weekend.

Roger Andrew Taylor

Seven and the Ragged Tiger took six months to record and finish.

Granger Whitelaw

Now that we're headquartered here, you may see some announcements in the months to come.

Dave Smith

I feel more optimistic at this time than I did 12 months ago, but we've still got a lot of work to do.

Mariella Frostrup

If I was going to write something, I'd need to stop for three months and just see if I had any thoughts in there.

Dave Parker

September is pantyhose month. No nonsense.

Martin Havlat

If we don't play, then my month is over. That'd be just great.

H. Hart

because of war and other considerations, that may slip another month or so to April.

Nelva Ancona

I feel the sadness of this family. She is two months pregnant and she has two kids.

Patrick Biancone

She has been treated and will spend a month at Ashford Stud.

O. J. Simpson

So far, we've had a pretty positive reception.

Byron Scott

One positive of having a young team is they don't quit,

Jermaine Dye

No one ever said this was going to be easy. We've got to stay positive and just find a way to get some momentum.

Stephen Adly Guirgis

One way to make a positive out of a negative is that you can put it into your work.

Allan Houston

Now we are trying to do something positive for them.

Tyra Banks

I don't want to use the term 'plus-size,' because, to me, what the hell is that? It just doesn't have a positive connotation to it. I tend to not use it.

Charles Spurgeon

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Diane Sawyer

Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.

Elbert Hubbard

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

Dean Stanley

Christ pitied because He loved, because He saw through all the wretchedness, and darkness, and bondage of evil; that there was in every human soul a possibility of repentance, of restoration; a germ of good, which, however stifled and overlaid, yet was capable of recovery, of health, of freedom, of perfection.

Charles Spurgeon

We are all damaged goods in recovery.

Alan Mulally

We've incentivized people in the past to maybe turn their vehicles over, you know sooner rather than later. And in the United States with the squeeze on discretionary income and credit that even as the economy comes back there's probably more of a chance than not that it'll be a slower recovery on auto sales.

Camille Paglia

It's time for a recovery and reassessment of North American thinkers. Marshall McLuhan, Leslie Fiedler and Norman O. Brown are the linked triad I would substitute for Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, whose work belongs to ravaged postwar Europe and whose ideas transfer poorly into the Anglo-American tradition.

Bebe Moore Campbell

Forgiveness is the key to the recovery of the soul.

Bebe Moore Campbell

Once my loved one accepted the diagnosis, healing began for the entire family, but it took too long. It took years. Can't we, as a nation, begin to speed up that process? We need a national campaign to destigmatize mental illness, especially one targeted toward African Americans. The message must go on billboards and in radio and TV public service announcements. It must be preached from pulpits and discussed in community forums. It's not shameful to have a mental illness. Get treatment. Recovery is possible.

Arthur Scargill

We will pave the way for a transformation and roll back the years of Thatcherism...We will turn economic ruin into economic recovery, and above all pave the way for a General Election to elect a Labour Government.

Arthur Rimbaud

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

Arne Duncan

We've seen more reform in the last year than we've seen in decades, and we haven't spent a dime yet. It's staggering how the Recovery Act is driving change.

Jeff Evans

She's cooperating, she's upset. Somewhat relieved, she said.

Dudley North

Trade is nothing else but a Commutation of Superfluities; for instance: I give mine, what I can spare, for somewhat of yours, which I want, and you can spare.

Dave McCoy

We're pretty much just waiting. It's somewhat frustrating." ()

Nick Saban

Right tackle has been somewhat of a problem,

Gary Goddard

I think we probably get somewhat better prices,

Frank Dunham

somewhat of a surprise, but not a total surprise.

David Pittman

That's why I think this study is somewhat surprising.

Charles Bona

The swings are going to be very rapid, and they could be somewhat sizeable.

Bridget Derrick

Our terrain here is pretty wooded and it's somewhat rolling.