Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Allen

We have no reason to believe there is any other usage among fire personnel,

Saleem Altaf

We have no problems if Australia or New Zealand or both combined want to bid for the tournament. We are confident about our bid given the huge commercial market for the sport in this region and the overwhelming interest it evokes among the people.

Michael Dell

We have some big plans for our growth here. In the last three years, our business outside the U.S. has grown from $12 billion to $22 billion with countries like India being among the fastest-growing markets for us.

Sheldon Lee Glashow

What the string theorists do is arguably physics. It deals with the physical world. They're attempting to make a consistent theory that explains the interactions we see among particles and gravity as well. That's certainly physics, but it's a kind of physics that is not yet testable.

Dan Peters

We want landowners to know they have choice when they are approached to lease their mineral rights. There is a difference among the independents and we want the communities where we operate to know that we have their best interests at heart. We always try to do the right thing for landowners and their property, drill safely and efficiently, and clean up the well site area once we've completed.

Mo Mowlam

We have had 30 years of murders and I think that what we need to do in the next 24 hours is show a determination among all parties to make sure we see no more.

Tim Murtaugh

The fact is, under his influence, Richmond had among the highest crime rates in the commonwealth, the schools were consistently ranked near the bottom statewide, and people paid more in taxes.

Fran Miller

There is a lot of depression and anxiety among children. This is a generation that is growing up without the emotional support, love and care of the family.

Janet Harris

There is a little bit of shell shock that's going on among donors. The tsunami got a huge response. . . . Katrina got a huge response, and I think that people are a little caught off guard by this one.

Alan Sugar

If you enjoy what you do, don't be afraid of expressing your enthusiasm. Enjoyment is infectious.

Bill Bradley

There is a lot of enthusiasm out there for the candidacy,

Kent Wong

There is a lot of enthusiasm and these unions are excited about their new direction. Whether this group of unions will be able to stop the hemorrhaging of jobs is very much up in the air.

Dontrelle Willis

When I walked into the locker room, everybody said I had to stop sliding headfirst. Before I even got in there, they were telling me, 'Would you please stop?' Even American League guys were saying that. Vernon Wells said, 'Please stop sliding headfirst.' They all love the enthusiasm and intensity I show.

Elaine Elliott

We're just trying to play hard with a real enthusiasm for the game.

Brian Eno

Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm.

Carlos Santana

There is nothing more contagious on this planet than enthusiasm.

Chris Barrett

We did come out with more enthusiasm and effort, ... But we hurt ourselves, and that sucked the wind right out of us.

Alan Autry

It cannot take decades to resurrect, we must act immediately with purpose and enthusiasm to rebuild.

Steve Jocz

We were trying to joke around as much as possible. Well, as much as you could in that . . . eventually it got really not funny.

Darren Dopp

We've seen this in other industries we've investigated. There's a moment where everyone is frozen with self-examination, and then things improve. These reforms will eventually expand opportunities for artists.

Trinny Woodall

When I was 18, my mum gave me all the clothes she'd had made at the famous haute couture fashion label, House of Worth, in Paris. Of course, I eventually trashed them all.

Wayne Hundertmark

Walker killed her. I can eventually tell you what Walker did with the body.

Karen Joy Fowler

The process of writing a book is so removed in my mind from the process of publishing it that I often forget for great stretches that I eventually hope to do the latter.

Mary Kuehn

We did fine over there (previous location), but eventually we got too much stuff. With everything more spread out, people will be able see what we've got.

Muhsin Muhammad

We have a pretty good defense, and eventually we're going to come around as an offense and help them out.

Sam Shepard

Writing for the theatre is so different to writing for anything else. Because what you write is eventually going to be spoken. That's why I think so many really powerful novelists can't write a play - because they don't understand that it's spoken - that it hits the air. They don't get that.

Mark Wilson

We're looking for improvement every meet from them. If they can do that - keep improving - eventually we'll get our points there.

Edwin Soeryadjaya

The mandate that I got from my investors is to invest. So far, we are on the right track, and it is the right formula to invest in Indonesia.

Kevin Rose

I want to be known as one of the most accurate investors that ever lived.

Craig Callahan

Most people want stocks to go up all the time. We're back to normal and people don't like it, ... Investors that don't have the patience to ride through trading ranges won't be able to participate in the surge.

Hugh Johnson

Momentum investors are looking for something that works. What works is technology.

Dirk Becker

Many investors are speculating on a takeover offer.

Hideo Mizutani

Share prices were weaker as many investors are keenly awaiting the machinery orders (figures).

Chris Shilakes

With the stock trading at premium multiples and momentum investors exiting the stock, it may take some time ... to re-establish an upward trend.

Mo Ibrahim

Celtel established a mobile phone network in Africa at a time when investors told me that there was no market for mobile phones there.

Ivan Glasenberg

It's nice to do an IPO where your investors get value straightaway and the share price pops up; it proves you left something on the table for them.

David Morgan

We have satisfied ourselves that appropriate safety and security measures will be in place.

Blaise Pascal

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

Kevin Shelley

I'm insisting, quite unapologetically, on the need to have these appropriate security measures in place to protect the voters, which is my principal charge.

Greg Zenerovitz

We had been preparing to open up with them so we could measure where we were at.

William Shakespeare

The sense of death is most in apprehension.

Moshe Sharett

I am against preventive war because it means measures by the UN against us.

Monica Cruz

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Dick Costolo

Once in a rare while, somebody comes along who doesn't just raise the bar, they create an entirely new standard of measurement.

John Santoro

There is more risk in owning longer-dated securities in a period of rising inflation.

Jim Lowell

Owning the parts tends to be a lot safer and a lot more rewarding,

Chuck Palahniuk

Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet.

Michael Sandler

Of course, we didn't look smart in 1999 owning Philip Morris.

Michael Nutter

If you have a deep-seated need to be loved and admired every day, you shouldn't be in politics. You should go work at a pet store.

Peter Gabriel

It's like owning a big playpen and someone else is going to pay for it,

Mara Brock Akil

I'm not afraid of stereotypes. There are some truths to it - but the problem is that people keep sort of owning that one thing to be the truth.

Will Cuppy

Armadillos make affectionate pets, if you need affection that much.

Karl Eikenberry

When you're trying to put the pieces back together again, you need a lot of time and a lot of patience,

Alan Shepard

I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all.

Thomas Middleditch

Speaking as someone who's played a lot of video games, and at the end of the video game all you have is a memory, after woodworking you get this piece of furniture.

Cary Elwes

Im something of a history buff. Its deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.

Charlotte Moore

We started off with a lot of different things, pieces here and there,

Barbara Kruger

The so-called language of Barbara Kruger is vernacular language. Obviously, I pick through bits and pieces of it and figure out to some degree how to objectify my experience of the world, using pictures and words that construct and contain me.

Barbara Kruger

We are obliged to steal pieces of language, both visual and textual.

Calista Flockhart

I don't watch the show - only bits and pieces of all of them. The only one I sat through was the pilot.

S. Walker

We're starting to get some of the puzzle pieces together.

Menachem Begin

He who threatens us will find us deaf to his threats. We are willing to listen only to rational arguments.

Harsha Bhogle

Cricket is not a rational sport in India, and we go overboard.

David Novak

Most Jews, like most rational persons, know that their personal identity and their ethnic identity are not one and the same.

Brigitte Boisselier

I realize they say we are 'wacko' and 'out there, but we are the most rational of all.

James Rubin

By any rational calculation, Milosevic comes out of this much, much weaker.

Steve Forbes

I like his rational for why I'm not in the White House. I'll take it. It's better than some I've gotten.

Van Jones

Businesses will have to lead the charge - demanding uniform, national, predictable rules to govern this transition, so that there is a level and rational playing field on which they can compete to make the next fortunes.

Carlos Fuentes

There are people whose external reality is generous because it is transparent, because you can read everything, accept everything, understand everything about them: people who carry their own sun with them.

Carlos Castaneda

I had been experiencing brief flashes of disassociation, or shallow states of non-ordinary reality.

Carlos Castaneda

The things shamans deal with are extremely practical. They break down parameters of normal historical reality. Magical passes are just one aspect of that.

Carlos Castaneda

The sorcerer's description of the world is perceivable. But our insistence on holding on to our standard version of reality renders us almost deaf and blind to it.

Carlos Castaneda

Nothing in this world is a gift. Whatever must be learned must be learned the hard way.

Carlos Castaneda

For a sorcerer, reality, or the world as we all know it, is only a description.

Carl Bernstein

Increasingly, the picture of our society as rendered in our media is illusionary and delusionary: disfigured, unreal, out of touch with reality, disconnected from the true context of our life. It is disfigured by celebrity, by celebrity worship, by gossip, by sensationalism, by denial of our societies

C. S. Lewis

Ye cannot know eternal reality by a definition. Time itself, and all the acts and events that fill time are the definition, and it must be lived.

C. S. Lewis

The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive.

Harry Markowitz

I would never be 100 percent in stocks or 100 percent in bonds or cash.

Barry Ritholtz

If tech stocks keep going up with no pause, they will get insanely frothy.

Rick Drake

I think these stocks will have a pretty good-size correction.

Steven Patch

I see a lot of stocks on there.

Michael Holland

Merrill Lynch could go down some more, but I like stocks like that. I like Merck, but they got pounded on Friday,

Steve DeLuca

These stocks come in and out of favor.

Barry Ritholtz

Tech stocks are probably a little pricey. But they're not stupid pricey.

Kate Warne

Everybody's worried that the stocks that have done so well have really overshot,

Hans Kunnen

The big-picture fundamentals for commodities stocks is still in place. Nothing has actually changed. The sell-off in some sectors was not warranted.

Daniel Hannan

Most British people are keen to remain in a European free trade zone; and most EU states are keen to keep us there, because we buy from them more than we sell to them to the tune of £40 million per day.

Benjamin Franklin

No nation has ever been ruined by trade.

Brenda Fassie

I am a shocker. I like to create controversy. It's my trademark.

William Shakespeare

Music, moody food Of us that trade in love.

Stan Eby

My sense is there will not be a rehearing and trade will continue. But we have to be watching all the time.

Gray Davis

I don't care. My trademark is I say what I think, for better or for worse.

Barbara Castle

I remember a big meeting with the hosiery trade in Harold's ministerial room.

Marissa Mayer

We think this will be a very useful tool, but you will have to give up some of your privacy. For many of us, that trade off will make a lot of sense.

Dave Checketts

When we traded him, I would say that was probably a lose-lose. It didn't work out well for anyone.

Denis Waitley

You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest.

Joseph Kahn

potentially interesting, if true, but not something really worthy of a story in itself.

Melissa Etheridge

No, I didn't worry. But it was worth it.

Benjamin Franklin

One Mend-fault is worth two Findfaults, but one Findfault is better than two Makefaults

Andrew Young

You have to start living for something that's worth dying for.

J. Taylor

There and back is $10 worth of gasoline.

Angelo Sorce

We're really working to make this a show worthy of the audience's time.

Bob Carr

We are ecstatic. It was worth the trip.

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When the well's dry, they know the worth of water.