Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Worsfold

We have refined the structure because we believe Chris and Andrew have advanced in their leadership capacities over the last 12 months. Both players have been identified as potential captains.

Ken Lowe

The eye-catching, sleek LCD monitors that Sharp continues to showcase provide the perfect packaging for consumer convenience and appeal. Sigma is committed to providing leaders like Sharp with advanced features and technological expertise to stay ahead of the market.

Doug Henning

When I did my first few television specials, my illusions were so advanced that it took a couple of years before the other illusionists could even figure out what I was doing, let alone try to imitate me.

Anthony Pratt

Ultimately, innovation depends on the people with advanced skills who have the ideas, and on the business risk-takers willing to back them.

Ernesto Teodoro Moneta

The Italian Revolution was fought first of all to obtain the liberty and unity of the nation, and then, with that achieved, to join the freest and most advanced nations in inaugurating a new era of peace, justice, and joint cooperation in the work of civilization.

Richard Schwartz

We are honored to be recognized by these industry-leading publications for the innovation and capabilities that we offer. Our focus is to provide the best and most advanced products and services to the television broadcast industry, and these awards reinforce Axcera's position as the broadcast technology leader.

Lucy Powell

Globalisation means that for a high-wage, developed economy like Britain's to compete we need to focus our efforts on the highly skilled, added-value sectors such as advanced manufacturing, creative industries, engineering and even financial services.

Krish Krishnan

We are pleased with our performance in 2005. The year was highlighted by the filing of the new drug application on NRP104, our lead compound under development, for the treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in pediatric populations. We believe that this advancement together with the progress on our other pipeline products positions us well for future growth. Looking forward, we anticipate receiving approval from the FDA on NRP104 in the second half of 2006 and making IND filings on NRP409 and NRP388, the two most advanced candidates in our preclinical pipeline, by the end of the second quarter of 2006. In addition, we plan to continue to develop NRP290, our second most advanced compound, and other drug products in our research pipeline.

Herbert A. Simon

By a combination of formal training and self study, the latter continuing systematically well into the 1940s, I was able to gain a broad base of knowledge in economics and political science, together with reasonable skills in advanced mathematics, symbolic logic, and mathematical statistics.

John Stone

We've seized a computer. We're going to be looking at that to try to trace back as many affiliates as we can,

Chris Clarke

While we are well known for our volunteers working tirelessly to build homes and provide a 'hand up' for low income families, that work is only possible as a result of the dedicated efforts of our Habitat affiliates in nearly 1800 communities in the United States.

Peter Kosann

We welcome Roby with open arms, knowing that she is a proven winner and will be a huge asset to this Company. Our mission is to have the best talent in the world working at Westwood One. Hiring someone of Roby's character, skills and integrity sends a signal to our employees, affiliates and programming partners that Westwood One is indeed playing to win.

Richard Smith

This national alliance with Spot Runner is another example of our strategy to equip our real estate brand affiliates and our company-owned brokerage operations with the latest in technology and marketing tools that help set them apart from the competition.

James Goss

Tribune is a logical candidate to tie in. It has affiliates with New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, so it already has a major presence in the biggest markets.

Cathy Tamraz

We are extremely excited to be welcomed into the Berkshire Hathaway family. We are confident that the acquisition will provide myriad positive benefits for our employees, our clients and our affiliates and business partners worldwide. This is a win-win for all involved.

Chris Lang

Participating members may save up to 40 percent through national networks of participating health care providers. Since the program is not an insurance plan or policy, any person at any age can enroll and may include their entire family for one low monthly price. This is the first step employers can take to provide an affordable health benefit for their staff. We're pleased to offer Magnuson Hotel affiliates reduced monthly pricing to make this investment even more affordable.

Tom Lynch

The Arts Council and its affiliates bring a lot of money to this city. To not vote to give them money is just plain crazy.

Steve Kaplan

Our affiliate program is more of a partnership, or a team effort. We provide real help and support to make our affiliates successful. We fully understand that if we can help our affiliates to make more sales we both win.

Carol Leifer

Oh my God, Kennedy Airport - what a mess - all over you with those dopey security questions. 'Did you receive any gifts from any unknown persons?' Buddy, the last thing I got from an unknown person was in the 80's.

Nicki Harrington

We want to protect the asset we have here and most importantly, it is rebuilding the (heating and air conditioning) systems. The aesthetics are important, but have to be done conservatively.

Jamie Shea

We have no indication at all that our aircraft were involved in that incident.

Walt Dabney

We have no air force, we have no anti-aircraft guns and we have no authority.

Janice Nolen

We have mounting scientific proof that cleaning up the source of air pollution results in cleaner air and less illness and death. A study recently released showed that when particle air pollution declines in a city, the death rates also drop in that city.

John Wright

When four of ten CEOs (40 per cent) believe that there could be a major economic downturn in the next two years, might be the proverbial canary in the mine. The strength of the Canadian dollar and its impact on manufacturing and exports plus the ascendancy of China and India as major global economic players may be putting a degree of caution into the air in what has been to date a robust outlook. Time will tell.

Catherine Jones

When flying into Cardiff to visit her home in Swansea, she has often complained that she cannot easily get from the airport on to the motorway. She has, in fact, been using the

Richard Boucher

We want our airplane back, and we're going to make that point, and we would expect to get a response.

Aaron Spelling

You can't predict a show, that is the damndest thing, you can't predict if a show is going to work or not until it's on the air.

Carre Otis

Part of treatment for drugs and alcohol is you abstain from these, but with eating disorders you can't abstain from food so the treatment is longer than drugs and alcohol.

Carl Andre

That's wonderful, but my mind has been destroyed by alcohol.

Carl Andre

The world is imperfect, and young people are always trying to perfect it and they always fail - which is a good thing. Who'd want to live in a perfect world?

Joachim Loew

We want to put them under pressure. Although they (United States) have developed greatly in recent years, we think they make mistakes under pressure.

Don Stark

We have seen an incredible outpouring of energy, support and passion towards the goal of keeping (the temple) alive and vital. When an obstacle presents itself, how do you respond to it- as a tragedy or an opportunity?

Brian Wallace

We have seen a continuation of the hotel recovery in almost all areas of the world helped both by higher occupancies and higher rates,

Joschka Fischer

We have to go back to normal business with our most important ally, the United States, and with France -- the most important outside of Europe and the most important ally inside,

John Quinn

We have to get out of this rut of letting teams hang around and get back in the game. It's almost like we're playing from behind when we have the lead. We just have to finish out games better.

Maurice Cheeks

We have to get other guys involved. We're not just trying to win games with Allen and Chris doing all the scoring.

Jeff Montgomery

We have to go out to see what others are doing in order to bring new things back here. We try to give back to our communities.

Thomas Donohue

We have to get over the paranoia and start bringing people to the US.

Ian Collins

We have a special player in Andy. He always brings his best.

Brian Nelson

We have no intention of duplicating those efforts. We get incredible content from our partners, but in this case, we are covering largely under-reported stories and bringing them to our audience.

Tommy Amaker

We have no choice and it's going to be a tough game. It's going to be a competitive game and I'll be very disappointed if we don't bring the fight and spirit that we had here tonight.

Scott Hodkinson

Whenever we play Lee you know they are going to bring some intensity with them. I was pleased with our effort.

Bree Larson

Whenever something good happens in the game before, we'll bring it into the next game and carry it through.

Barry Ritholtz

When you see a 250-point spurt like that in less than two months, that's not sustainable. What this pullback is doing, and I think will continue to do, is bring us back to a more sustainable level.

Toba Beta

When you saw a wounded who cry out for help, you may be the one sent by God to bring a favor.

Stuart Witt

The FAA is now finding that the statutes as crafted don't fit. So now they have to be very liberal in their interpretations of the law in order to accommodate the emerging technologies.

Sarah Koenig

I've been a radio reporter for ten years, and if I learned anything from my time at 'This American Life,' it's how to craft a narrative so that even if the ending is ambiguous, it is somehow satisfying.

Luke Bracey

I see similarities in the sports I played growing up in the sense of how I tackle a role when I get a job. A lot of effort goes in on an individual basis. There is a lot of time spent by yourself working on your craft and what you have to do. But, at the end of the day, you're there to serve the movie just like you would the rugby team.

Ben Nighthorse Campbell

You have to talk to the stone, and it has to talk to you.

Geoffrey Chaucer

The life so short, the crafts so long to learn.

Demetri Martin

Glitter is the herpes of craft supplies.

T'Keyah Crystal Keymah

I'm inspired every time I see a role I'd like to play, an actor turn in a well crafted performance, a story I'd like to tell, direct or produce.

David Hockney

Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft.

Brooke Shields

I took my work seriously, but not as a craft. More as a life.

Justin McNaull

The real downside of this hysteria is that people hear rumors about outages in other towns and rush out to gas up, thereby increasing the likelihood of gas lines and outages in their own town.

Jerry Frament

The only downside that I see is possibly a low appraisal.

Brian Moody

The only downside is that they're not as big as SUVs and can't go off road as much.

Mike McGrath

The only downside is that your yard will smell like an Italian restaurant for a few hours. If that's a downside.

Kerry Collins

We started out like gangbusters. We were really clicking, but as what happens in every game, there are ups and downs and ebbs and flows.

Kerry Collins

We started out like gangbusters, ... We were really clicking, but as what happens in every game, there are ups and downs and ebbs and flows.

Penn Jillette

Well, see, there's a downside to that, too,

Annika Sorenstam

She didn't hit greens, but her short game helped her. She had a lot of up and downs to keep the score going. And she missed a lot of putts early on, kind of like I did, but in the end she was pretty solid.

Theresa Walker

She had her ups and downs during those days.

Carlos Mencia

I am a product... I'm a comedian. I'm not curing cancer. In the end, I tell jokes. I make people laugh. I make sense out of ridiculous situations, but in the end, it's all about laughter. It's all about your cheek hurting, your stomach hurting.

C. S. Lewis

Will you come with me to the mountains? It will hurt at first, until your feet are hardened. Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come?

Agnes Repplier

Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.

Aaron Tveit

Singing for stage, if you don't hear yourself, that's when you push, and that's when you can hurt your voice sometimes. So if I can hear myself in my ear, it really helps me to find that balance of how loud I needed to be singing.

Charlotte Bronte

I smiled: I thought to myself Mr. Rochester is peculiar — he seems to forget that he pays me £30 per annum for receiving his orders. "The smile is very well," said he, catching instantly the passing expression; "but speak too." "I was thinking, sir, that very few masters would trouble themselves to inquire whether or not their paid subordinates were piqued and hurt by their orders.

Charles de Lint

But what the evil people do, that's their responsibility. The burden they have to carry. Sure, when we see 'em starting on causing some hurt, we've got to try and stop 'em, but mostly what the rest of us should be concerning ourselves with is doing right by others. Every time you do a good turn, you shine the light a little further into the dark. And the thing is, even when we're gone, that light's going to keep shining on, pushing the shadows back.

Charles de Lint

Everything has a spirit and it's all connected. If you think about that, if you live your life by it, then you're less likely to cause any hurt. It's like how our bodies go back into the ground when we die, so that connects us to the earth. If you dump trash, you're dumping it on your and my ancestors. Or to bring it down to its simplest level: treat everything and everybody the way you want to be treated, because when you hurt someone, you're only hurting yourself.

Charles Dickens

I am what you designed me to be.I am your blade. You cannot now complain if you also feel the hurt

Charles Caleb Colton

We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree. The reason perhaps is this: when we find others that agree with us, we seldom trouble ourselves to confirm that agreement; but when we chance on those who differ from us, we are zealous both to convince and to convert them. Our pride is hurt by the failure, and disappointed pride engenders hatred.

Rosemary Mahoney

In 'A Likely Story,' I wanted to recreate the events, the mood, and the imagery of my life as a teenager. I was thirty-seven when I wrote it.

Danial Shapiro

The imagery is very much released from reality. It's not nailed down to specifics of the words. They're painting a picture, not telling linear stories.

Stephen Malkmus

I like visual imagery in my head.

Steven Bochco

Imagery is like music.

Charles Simmons

It is only the constant exertion and working of our sensitive, intellectual, moral, and physical machinery that keeps us from rusting, and so becoming useless.

John McCarthy

Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information.

William Shakespeare

I will keep where there is wit stirring, and leave the faction of fools.

Bertrand Russell

Of course not. After all, I may be wrong.

Bill Gates

There's no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, 'The government's corrupt,' and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done.

Billy Higgins

Let's just say that more intelligence is needed. You can't just run up and do this, you have to think about it.

Edgar Degas

There is no such thing as Intelligence; one has intelligence of this or that. One must have intelligence only for what one is doing.

Bertrand Russell

Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.

Irene Peter

Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.

Sheherazade Goldsmith

When I'm in London, I get a veggie-box sent up every week, with the latest pickings.

Elizabeth Thornton

There are times when we are just not very kind to ourselves. The problem with our negative thoughts is that the latest science has revealed that thoughts are very powerful, even impacting us physically.

Venus Williams

No, I don't really watch the news. In some ways, I'm very unaware of the latest happenings in the world. I kind of leave it like that because sometimes it's better not to know.

David A. R. White

We partner with movies that stand for more than the latest bestseller.

Chris Beard

We're strongly recommending all users upgrade to the latest version.

Cheryl Ward

You know how some people just need the latest cell-phone technology? If you could say, I just got this from Punt, you were at the top of the heap.

Tony Blair

Though there may be pockets of resistance, the idea that this is some kind of tactical retreat is just the latest Taliban lie. They are in total collapse,

Douglas Kirkland

Respect and mutual respect are important. I, for instance, often show my latest work so that people can see how I work.

Chuck D.

We never received the latest version of the principles. I think they were waiting to see if we were still going to participate, which they now know.

Author unknown

When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car.

Dana Keeton

We're interviewing passengers and are not saying anything more until we're sure what happened.

Larry Black

When we arrived, the two passengers were walking around,

Derek Fisher

I am not a passenger in anything I do.

Anthony Foxx

Passengers want options, and when they have options, like passenger rail, they choose them.

Dave Adams

We only react when there is a threat to the aircraft, passengers or crew.

Doug Ellis

He shot an unarmed 15-year-old in a passenger seat. You don't shoot somebody for trying to steal your car.

William Saroyan

He wanted to be a passenger on anything that was going anywhere, but most of all on a ship.

Roger Levering

I was pretty strong then so I'd just pick her up and put her in the passenger seat.

C. S. Lewis

The world is so much larger than I thought. I thought we went along paths--but it seems there are no paths. The going itself is the path.

Aaron Spelling

A show that no one thought had a chance has just finished its fifth year: Charmed. I think it's tougher for the younger networks, so I think they have a little more patience for the sake of the show. But who knows?

Charlotte Bronte

It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all connected with you.

Charles Stanley

The Scriptures contain many stories of people who waited years or even decades before the Lord's promises came to pass. What modern believers can learn from the patience of biblical saints like Abraham, Joseph, David, and Paul is that waiting upon the Lord has eternal rewards.

Charles Spurgeon

Never was the victory of patience more complete than in the early church. The anvil broke the hammer by bearing all the blows that the hammer could place upon it. The patience of the saints was stronger than the cruelty of tyrants.

Richard Cook

There are a lot of different paths that you can be on. We just have to wait to see which one.

Bram Stoker

He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.

James Montier

Venezuela has historically a pattern of stabilization plans that then fail,

Rick Colby

Ultimately, I think the patients need to step up on this issue.

Dutch Ruppersberger

P of what al Qaeda tries to do, and terrorists, is disrupt. Americans should live their lives just as they have every day, but just be aware.

Barton Gellman

Al Qaeda is closely aligned with the Chechens.

Lindsey Graham

Al Qaeda is alive and well in Libya, Iraq, Syria and the wars are not receding.

Carol Leifer

I cried when I turned 34 for no other reason than 34 sounded old to me at the time.

Carlos Drummond de Andrade

Be happy for no reason is the most authentic form of happiness

Leonardo Alcivar

We have no reason to suspect this was anything other than, well, a burglary.

Jack Rio

We were at a disadvantage in the first half. I'm not going to stand here and say that was a reason we didn't play well.

Charles Caleb Colton

The press is the foe of rhetoric, but the friend of reason.

Charles Spurgeon

Faith is led confidently to expect what reason would never suggest.

John Miner

When it was put there in 1982, there were very specific reasons why,

Milan Hejduk

We used to play together two or three years ago, and it worked really well, ... There's no reason why it shouldn't work again.

Thomas J. Stanley

Anybody with a reasonable income can become financially independent in a lifetime.

Carlos Ghosn

We don't know where the markets are going....we have to observe what's going down, see the trends, look at every vibration on the market, prepare the technology and jump when consumers start to think one way or the other

Aaron Swartz

Being around some of the bright lights of the technology world and having them expect great things helps you sit down and do it seriously.

Alan Kay

Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.

Alan Kay

Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual - not how to use it but why, when and for what.

Alan Kay

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.

Alan Kay

Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.

Alan Kay

An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.

Alan Kay

People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.

Ted Chiang

We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.

Carl Crawford

I'm going to try to not put a lot of pressure on myself.

Lee Daniels

When you're traveling, you can take it with you. You can use it for walking and I've done that many times actually trying to find restaurants.

Aaron Sorkin

Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.

Andre Walker

We were trying to play an up-tempo game, but then we started to play their style. That is how they usually play and they were more comfortable than we were.

Brian Schmidt

We were trying to get the word out, but they were stranded.

Alan Titchmarsh

Once I was on a plane and a woman said to me, 'Now, what's the matter with my tomatoes?' And I said, 'Well, it's a bit difficult to see from here.' She took offence and said, 'I was only trying to be friendly.'

Charlotte Bronte

Jane! will you hear reason?' (he stooped and approached his lips to my ear) 'because, if you won't, I'll try violence.

Charlotte Bronte

Better to try all things and find all empty, than to try nothing and leave your life a blank.

Charlie Haden

The whole underlying theme for the new music... is to communicate honest, human values, and in doing that to try to improve the quality of life.

Edgar Mitchell

We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on that in the 1960s.

Abbie Cornish

To be honest, I enjoy all different types of films and experiences.

P. J. O'Rourke

We all know the types who listen to Pete Seeger songs; even Pete admits they aren't interesting.

Dan Ahrens

There's always going to be short-term fluctuations. But we think they're going to do well in all types of markets.

Chen Shui-bian

I've been charged with misappropriation of funds or misuse of two types of funds.

Kevin McCarthy

There are two different types of leader. A person can either be like a thermometer or a thermostat. A thermometer will tell you what the temperature is. A thermostat will not only tell you what the temperature is, but it'll move you to the temperature you need to get to.

Sara Gruen

I just don't think I've had the desire yet to write a vicious animal - like a dog-gone-bad or anything - where I do feel that I need a balance of all types of humans.

Alan Chambers

One of the many evils this world has to offer is the sin of homosexuality. Satan, the enemy is using people to further his agenda to destroy the Kingdom of God and as many souls as he can.

Bernard Meltzer

Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.

Jon Johansen

Basically, if I have no intention of using a service then I won't bother reverse-engineering it.

Alfred Hershey

That's the nice thing about doing research. Whatever you do is novel, so you always have this sense of novelty, even if you are only using a new gadget.

James Rayner

We're still using Windows 98 here. We just need some equipment.

Andrew Mason

I find myself using the word 'executives' now.

Aerin Lauder

I think every woman should be using a foundation, whether it's liquid or compact.

Ban Ki-moon

We are using resources as if we had two planets, not one. There can be no 'plan B' because there is no 'planet B.'

Lucy Liu

When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt.

Matt Mullenweg

Ultimately, Captchas are useless for spam because they're designed to tell you if someone is 'human' or not, but not whether something is spam or not.

Leos Carax

I like tragedies, whether they're sci-fi or something else, but I can't say I know much about any genre in particular.

Kate Bush

There's always ideas buzzing around, but it's whether they actually end up materialising into a song.

Gene Simmons

If someone likes you, they'll buy what you're selling, whether or not they need it.

Rick Rudesill

Whether they play (against Mitchell) is kind of up in the air. You have to wonder about their stamina.

Pierce Brosnan

Whether they made the right choice, who knows?

Karen Burk

Whether someone thought it was a joke, we take it very seriously. This is a food-tampering issue.

Shannon Cross

Whether or not they do it is still in question.

John Podhoretz

Whether my columns are worth reading isn't for me to say.