Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brett Clark

Whenever you can contribute this time of year, especially with the points we need right now, it's always a big boost.

Ken Stewart

When forests are professionally managed, they contribute greatly to our quality of life, which this property will do for decades.

Jan Mills

We know we have to contribute about $400,000 of property taxes in 2007 and 2008 into pensions and $475,000 into the pension this year. Pension obligation is first; it's not an option.

Brian Rolston

We are taking too many penalties. Everyone has to contribute to make us successful. And even though we did not play well tonight, we were right there. At this point, every game is huge.

Doug Brooks

This program is the perfect vehicle for the restaurant industry to contribute in a meaningful way to the massive relief efforts undertaken by the American Red Cross. We urge everyone to make eating at a participating restaurant for lunch or dinner on Oct. 5 part of their schedule.

Richard Maulsby

When we find or are informed of such personal information in our files that could contribute to identity theft, we remove it and so inform the applicant or petitioner.

Howard Rosen

Since that trade can contribute to job losses, we have an obligation to help these people.

Roberto Sanchez

Site specific targeting identifies industries with high injury and illness rates. From that listing, establishments are randomly selected for inspection. The goal of the program is to identify and correct hazards that contribute to worker injuries, illnesses and deaths.

John Crosby

Many indicators have been winnowed down over the years to those that contribute the most. These are the ones that are tried and proven.

E. P. Thompson

For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours.

Jill Soloway

Watching 'Girls,' it was really angering for me at first, because I really had spent decades hiding unlikable, unattractive Jewish girls in likable, attractive, non-Jewish actors and characters.

Peggy Jones

We're extremely honored to have Sonia Sanchez at this year's festival. For decades now, she has been an original, serious voice who movingly describes the African-American experience.

Robert Reich

The generosity of the super-rich is sometimes proffered as evidence they're contributing as much to the nation's well-being as they did decades ago when they paid a much larger share of their earnings in taxes.

Mahmoud Abbas

It is high time that the Palestinian people restore their freedom and independence. It is high time that the decades, the long decades of suffering and pain would stop.

Douglas Coupland

My house. It's kind of eccentric. It's two decades worth of accumulated personal projects. Yeah, it is pretty dense in my house.

Jim Whitehurst

My goal at Delta is to return our service levels to industry leading, which they were for decades until the mid-'90s. If we do that and keep the hearts and minds of our people as we do that, it will ultimately lead to financial success.

Juan Felipe Herrera

My grandmother and my mom and my aunt Aurelia, my grandmother Juanita, my mom Lucia - we lived on the outskirts of a barrio in Mexico City called Tepito, and Tepito for many, many decades was the largest barrio in Mexico and perhaps even Latin America.

Kevin Browne

Four generations of our family have lived and worked here at Shafer Shores. Through the years we have thrived on repeat guests, many of whom measure their time here in decades rather than years.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

Shopping in the right kind of stores and looking for healthier foods can be a wonderful adventure to health.

Joel Fuhrman

Simply restricting portions of the same disease-causing foods does not resolve the symptoms of toxic hunger.

David Chang

Yes, natural is good and healthy, and whole foods are important. However, experimentation is important, too.

Joel Fuhrman

Three of the most beneficial, longevity promoting anti-cancer foods are green vegetables, beans, and onions.

Parker Young

In theory, I stick to how I could eat if I lived a thousand years ago. I take processed foods off the menu, and stick to things I could hunt or gather, with more fruits, vegetables, and nuts - and less meat.

Eric Schlosser

There is a growing market today for local, organic foods produced by small farmers. And farmers' markets have played a large role in making that happen.

Kim Allen

There are no foods which are completely forbidden. It's a matter of how much and how often.

Sara Schmitz

We substitute foods that are on the menu with a doctor's excuse. With 20,000 kids, it's impossible to be short-order cooks.

John Mackey

Whole Foods has a good health care plan.

Blaise Pascal

The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing

Monica Cruz

Motherhood runs its own way and is measured with another watch that, unfortunately, we can't control.

Xu Shiquan

Personally I think the mainland's reaction this time has been very measured and moderate.

Liu Jianchao

I do not think that progress of the talks needs to be measured by the signing of a document.

Jeffrey Benjamin

You are measured by whether you take personal accountability, or not.

Donald Rumsfeld

We're not leaping into this, we're moving into it in a measured way,

Robert Green Ingersoll

No writer must be measured by a word or paragraph. He is to be measured by his work - by the tendency, not of one line, but by the tendency of all.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Many feel discouraged because they have not measured up to their potential.

Armondo Cima

I think we are getting more used to each other. From that point of view we are making measured progress in that area.

Thomas Mars

I'm a lazy guy. I can't focus for too long. I'd rather hear a record that has no filler.

Richard Berthelsen

We're insisting that it be sooner rather than later.

Kate Bush

I don't know about hiding away, but I really only like to present myself when I'm working on something - it's more my work I like to present to the world rather than myself.

Patrik Elias

Would we rather play a team with Jagr or without Jagr? Yeah. We'd rather play without Jagr.

Keeley Hawes

I am not into action and adventure on holiday; that doesn't really do it for me. I would much rather go and lie down.

Abigail Perkins

Mohamed stated he would rather kill only Americans.

Suzanne Farrell

So I think it is rather strange that I got into ballet, something that I hadn't seen.

Michael Messner

She was rather abrasive and difficult, but it must've taken that kind of personality to survive and to do what she did in the 1960s.

Jim Calhoun

Like Hubie, and sometimes like Jim, I can be rather lengthy.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Finally, two days ago, I succeeded - not on account of my hard efforts, but by the grace of the Lord. Like a sudden flash of lightning, the riddle was solved. I am unable to say what was the conducting thread that connected what I previously knew with what made my success possible.

Agnes Smedley

More and more do I see that only a successful revolution in India can break England's back forever and free Europe itself. It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.

Agnes Varda

I had flops, I had success.

Aaron Siskind

Almost inevitably there are tensions in the picture, tensions between the outside world and the inside world. For me, a successful picture resolves these tensions without eliminating them.

Alan Thicke

If a director can find the exact combination between the written word as a guideline and improvisational input from his actors, I think that's where you'll find the most successful work being done.

Alan Kay

In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.

Charlie Chaplin

I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.

Charles Dunstone

If you look after the customers and look after the people who look after the customers, you should be successful.

Charles E. Wilson

There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Carol Vorderman

I cannot do the piece-of-talking-meat thing, the 'Here's your money, wear a pretty dress and take the cheque.' I'm not made that way. I have to be as good as I can be at whatever I do.

Carlos Mencia

When I go onstage, I don't know what I'm going to say. I don't know what's going to come out of my mouth. It's one of those questions where any and everything is possible. I literally could be talking about somebody I was hanging out with two seconds ago or something from the news. Literally, there's really no rhyme or reason for it. I want to be free flowing like that.

Carlos Ghosn

Talking about stepping down in five years is frankly not a topic of particular actuality now.

C. S. Lewis

People who know a lot of the same things can hardly help talking about them.

C. S. Lewis

Here. All of you. And you, doorkeeper. No one is to be let out of the house today. And anyone I catch talking about this young lady will be first beaten to death and then burned alive and after that be kept on bread and water for six weeks. There.

Agnes Repplier

People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.

Aaron Stanford

Of course, I'm not allowed to talk about the script, but I can say it is a really good story.

Alan K. Simpson

Every time one of us starts talking about more effective immigration controls, somebody else throws up the Statue of Liberty, how we're a nation of immigrants and all of that. The debate takes on tinges of racism, emotion.

Charlotte Bronte

Nervous alarms should always be communicated, that they may be dissipated.