Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elliot Perlman

I know that at literary festivals I'm speaking mostly to middle-class women, who frequently vote in a way that is contrary to how I'd like them to vote.

John Key

It's possible to spend every waking hour here on the ninth floor and not get out of the office. And this isn't the real world in here. And contrary to public opinion, I'm not incredibly poll-driven. They are an ongoing indicator of how we are going, but I take the feedback I get on the street as being the most important.

Natalie Massenet

Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.

P. J. O'Rourke

Libertarianism is a way of measuring how the government and other kinds of systems respect the individual. At the core of libertarianism is the idea that the individual is sacrosanct and that anything that's done contrary to the well-being of the individual needs some pretty serious justification.

Leo Nikolaevich

There are people who when they meet a rival, no matter in what, at once shut their eyes to everything good in him and see only the bad. There are others who on the contrary try to discern in a lucky rival the qualities that have enabled him to succe

George Bernard Shaw

No American newspaper will print anything contrary to its own interests

Matt Blunt

I am extremely disappointed in the Supreme Court's decision. The decision is highly offensive to traditional Missouri values and is contrary to state law, which prohibits taxpayer dollars from being spent to facilitate abortions,

John Stuart Mill

If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.

Enrico Fermi

There's two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.

Melissa Schrader

We have received very nice feedback about the Web site.

Todd White

We're starting to get enough good feedback that we feel we'll have all this money pulled together in the next six months.

Susan Johnson

We're looking for feedback on how we're doing - good or bad.

Bob Parker

When we got feedback from other airports about how well their lots were working, there seemed to be a correlation between success and proximity to the terminal. Those airports which reported a lack of success had lots further from the terminal.

Shanen Boettcher

We're getting more frequent and better feedback than we have ever gotten before in any previous release of Windows, and it is making the product much better.

Michelle Kwan

Right now I know I have a lot of things to work on, a lot of elements, spins, footwork and it was nice to get feedback on all of them from the judges. Thinking gold is good. I'm staying positive and feeling good, injury- free. Right now it's just going for it.

Bill Hilf

One of the most interesting things about open source is the feedback loop.

Tim Pernetti

More importantly, Pete is a great person, and terrific to work with. A true team player in every sense, who's always looking for feedback and striving to get better.

David Steiner

We launched it on Sunday and got over 1000 downloads. ... The feedback from viewers has been overwhelmingly positive. Not surprisingly, people are telling us that they like to watch TV.

Lazarus Sims

We have to guard them like they have to guard us. They have to prove it. They have to step on the floor the same night we have to step on the floor.

Bryan Singer

We've seen better success using firewalls to separate the shop floor from the front office than using anything else.

Pat Riley

We know he's a big-time tumbler. He goes hard to the basket. He hits the floor a lot. If he could play he'd be out there.

Michelle Perkins

This will provide better access. People won't have to go the second and third floor any more.

Jason Cook

We want to show people what search-and-recovery teams go through. The windows are the floors, and the floors are the walls. Their world is literally turned upside down.

Thomas Hardy

Where once we danced, where once we sang, Gentlemen, / The floors are shrunken, cobwebs hang.

Jim Schaffer

Wood floors are a good value and you usually recoup what you put into it.

John Hammond

Watching those guys on our own floor every day, working with our guys, that's as good as it gets. There is something to be said for accountability, for actually seeing guys every day.

Allan Ray

When I was on that floor and couldn't see anything, that was one of the first things I was thinking about, I'd probably be blind. I thought I was. I couldn't see anything. Everything was burning. Pretty much, my life just flashed in front of me.

Sgt. Delaney

We have to go through them. There's hours of work left to do.

Dr. Whyte

We have to get them that medicine within three hours of the onset of symptoms, which is the challenge.

Aaron Tveit

Once I came to acting, it was almost a thing where there weren't enough hours in the day to work on stuff because I was so passionate about it.

Steve Letarte

We've spent the last three months getting ready for this race. If one more hour makes that much of a difference, then shame on us.

Jan Egeland

The problem with tsunamis is that it takes hours -- or minutes -- for this wall of water to come, and there's just very, very little time.

Thomas Perez

Nobody who works 40 hours a week should have to live in poverty.

Thierry Mugler

I survived on sandwiches, and I was on stage every night for six years of my life. I was working 16 hours a day between class, rehearsal, being on stage.

David Kim

One of the fundamental premises of this Bible is that the gospel changes everything. If this is true, how does the gospel change the very thing we spend most of our waking hours doing - work.

David Cummings

Imagine working 20% smarter instead of 20% longer...Work-life balance and startup success at any stage aren't mutually exclusive. There are enough hours in the day to be effective and present.

Timm Sharp

Integrity is incredibly important to me. As long as you're authentic, you can do no wrong.

Khloe Kardashian

I had parents who were incredibly loving and nurturing and always made me feel beautiful, so I never really questioned that.

Mike Bair

There is no other way I would love to travel than by air. It is just incredibly safe.

Susan Wojcicki

Mobile is an incredibly fast-growing market and will continue to be.

Marco Muller

So far, the results have been incredibly positive.

Kim Adams

So I am incredibly worried tonight about him and his safety.

Keith Flood

She's an outside shooter who can penetrate. She's incredibly athletic.

John Gatins

She's incredibly professional when she's working, and when she's not, she's a 10-year-old girl.

Jonathan Ive

Designing and developing anything of consequence is incredibly challenging.

Jim Calhoun

I don't have a number, but I have a strong indicator that it will be settled before we play next weekend.

John Cornyn

The Pew report is another indicator that the immigration system is broken.

David Weinberger

How your social network - the people that you know, or in your community - understand or value a work can be... a tremendously relevant indicator of how important or meaningful it's going to be to you.

Bob Hill

When you're playing playoff teams, it is more of an indicator of where we are and how we're playing.

Tom Schrader

I think the unemployment report is the main indicator people are waiting for this week.

David Littman

Our leading indicator - the one that's never lied to us like the politicians - suggests only 23 percent probability of recession over the next 12 months, that's very low.

Susan Blake

I think that the more information we have on a student, the better indicator we have of their prospective success.

Neville Isdell

It's not an indicator one way or another.

Chuck D.

If you're looking for an indicator of how a teenager will drive, look at the parents.

Derek Jeter

I've been playing baseball since I was 5 or 6 years old. I've been on a schedule, pretty much, since I was in eighth, ninth grade. I look forward to not doing that.

Ed Nottle

We've got to get it going before the ninth inning.

Hunter S. Thompson

We are young, ... We start a lot of juniors, sophomores and ninth graders. We have 10 seniors on the team.

Larry Goldfarb

We are completely self-funded. This is our ninth year of concerts.

Dave Roberts

You don't always want to wait until the ninth inning to win games, but we haven't had that. That propels us, to know we can win at any time. You don't want to go into the postseason scuffling.

Spike Lee

People could not believe, especially the residents of the Ninth Ward, that there wasn't hanky-panky in the flooding.

Derek Jeter

The worst thing is, we were in a position to win. We were right in the position we wanted to be, in the ninth inning with Mo.

Pat Flannery

That?s pretty impressive, nationally, that they think of us as a ninth seed. I think it?s recognition of who we played and who we beat.

Priest Holmes

This is my ninth year, and I feel real good.

Jim Graham

Security is a cat-and-mouse game, it's an ongoing process.

Coleen Rowley

This was a lied-into war that is a quagmire now, ... It could be worse than Vietnam. The truth is we can't win, and there's still an ongoing deception.

Rick Fox

This will be an ongoing process and will take up to a year to close.

Craig Johnson

We perceive this to be an ongoing threat that will be there for many years to come.

Virginia Kice

We have an open and ongoing investigation so we're not talking a lot about it.

Russell Ahr

There is an ongoing investigation. This isn't over.

Joschka Fischer

There is an ongoing debate about the reform of the U.N. system.

Saxby Chambliss

has been ongoing throughout most of the year.

Efraim Levy

If they don't get their sales up, it's not going to be enough. There is going to be ongoing restructuring.

John Corcoran

We did everything possible to save his life.

Beth Moore

Being yielded to God's authority keeps us pliable and open-minded to a possible change of plans.

Twiggy

My one big rule for the over-40s is don't try to dress like an 18-year-old. It's possible to be 'on-trend' when you're older - you just have to look for the right stuff. You don't have to spend a fortune, either.

Amanda Seyfried

I don't think it's really possible to share someone in most cases.

Sean McCormack

She raised (the case) in the strongest possible terms." ()

Elizabeth Arden

I only want people around me who can do the impossible.

Jerry Angelo

We're going to look at every possible situation at that position. Always have, always will. We've got to get it right. We know that.

Robert Henderson

We're going to be very transparent and let them know any possible thing that happened.

George H. W. Bush

make it possible -- more possible -- to do our job.

Carl Andre

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

Sharon Stone

My personal style and public style are very different. When I go out, I play dress up.

Jason Clarke

In terms of publicity and interviews, well, it's really hard in this modern world to keep a sense of mystery.

Janice Hahn

I was born into public service.

Jane Russell

Publicity can be terrible. But only if you don't have any.

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....

Tom Bailey

We have a responsibility to the public to do the right thing, ... We've got 14-year-olds that read the newspaper.

Barbara Hershey

I know actors come around and they always talk like that, but I don't do publicity if I don't like the film.

Theaster Gates

I want to spend my time between the creation of ideas and the creation of things.

Kourtney Kardashian

Sometimes I think, 'Why should I work out when I can spend time with my kids?' I feel guilty doing something for me.

Jason Chaffetz

Federal spending is atrocious.

Alan Watts

What would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life?

Al Sharpton

I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending.

Jonathan Moreland

Why spend time trying to read this guy's tea leaves?

Brian Tracy

You cannot save time, but you can spend time differently.

Elizabeth Hurley

Spending time outdoors makes you feel great.

Tyra Banks

Working women, moms, students, they don't have a lot of time to spend on their faces.

Al Jarreau

I sang do-wop on the street corner before it was called do-wop.

Bob Marley

You can't find the right roads when the streets are paved.

Frank Roder

We've been complaining about 12th street for many, many years.

Darrell Sanders

We're taking it off the street one gram at a time.

Billy Joel

Why should I worry? Why should I care?There's just this street population, and I've got 'street savoir-faire'.

Elaine Stritch

New Yorkers stop me on the street all the time to say, 'You're terrific! You're the nuts!'

Nas

The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling.

Dan Jenkins

I get 'USA Today,' the 'New York Times,' 'Wall Street Journal' and the 'Star-Telegram' at my doorstep. I can't do without them.

Angelo Vaughn

He was a street cop. He was someone you want to emulate.

Cesare Pavese

A corpse is what's left after waking too often.

Avril Lavigne

I'm waking up to say I tried, instead of waking up to another TV guide.

Stewart Rahr

I can't seem to shake waking up early.

Terry Pratchett

There are things around, and I know where they can be got quite easily, but I quite like waking up to the sunshine.

Dr. Miglietta

It can be anything from him waking up to having a seizure, or it could be involuntary.

Desmond Tutu

There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep.

Annie Dillard

I woke at intervals until . . . the intervals of waking tipped the scales, and I was more often awake than not.

Alvin Toffler

I work virtually every waking hour.

Paul Stanley

The best part of waking up, is Folgers in your cup!