Famous Quotes & Sayings

Norby Williamson

When he expressed to us that he was considering retirement, we repeatedly tried to convince him otherwise, but completely respect his decision.

Steve May

We have a year to convince John McCain and the rest of Arizonans about how harmful this measure really is.

Dean Stanley

There are a lot of good things here, and we've got to convince other people of that,

Michael Buckley

We usually are able to convince the person it makes more sense for them to cooperate,

Vladimir Putin

I am convinced that the norm in Russia should become a family with three children.

Pierre Ellis

This will probably be of great satisfaction to the Fed and will convince them that economic growth is on track without worrying them that interest rates are seriously too low.

Gary Wolf

The problem of forgetting might not torment us so much if we could only convince ourselves that remembering isn't important. Perhaps the things we learn - words, dates, formulas, historical and biographical details - don't really matter. Facts can be looked up. That's what the Internet is for.

E. P. Thompson

I am convinced that we are in a terminal process.

Erich Bergen

As an actor, when you are called upon to do a job, you are oftentimes convinced you can't do it. You say to yourself 'I don't have the talent for this; they are going to figure out I'm a fraud.' And then you watch how the others do it, and fake your confidence.

Marcus Giles

We want to prove that we're going to be someone to deal with in this division.

Richard Costigan

We have no idea until the federal regulations are promulgated how, in fact, they will deal with California.

Charles Sumner

We have never dealt with the dollars we are dealing with today,

John Howard

What the show deals with is how difficult it can be. It involves people from every walk of life and they all take an enormous risk.

Art Hogan

When you see a deal of this size, obviously (Washington Mutual) is still acquirable,

Rich Cleveland

When you score five points in a quarter, even when they score only 10, it's hard to deal with. The guys lost some confidence.

Billy Duffy

When you're trying to sell something -- and we took a fairly big record deal when they were still going around -- we felt a lot of pressure to live up to that and perform. I think that at this point, we're a lot happier just playing live music. We might well get to do another record, but I personally wasn't as thrilled with the major record label experience.

Mark Hamilton

We want seminars that will really engage these delegates in discussions about the issues that must have been dealt with at the Constitutional Conference,

Eddie Jordan

We wanted to win this game in the worst way. Its a tough, tough loss, but we have to deal with it and get ready for Miami tomorrow night.

Charles Sumner

We have never dealt with the dollars we are dealing with today,

Don McClure

We've still had some issues with people trying to drive around the barricades. VDOT and the sheriff's office have been helpful in dealing with those issues.

Abby Ottenhoff

We've seen great success at Sheridan in dealing with drug offenders and hope that we will be able to replicate that success.

Mary Meeker

The reality here is we're dealing with a market environment that was overheated.

Susanna Kearsley

When I'm dealing with the 18th century, as I do in 'The Firebird,' the difficulty isn't only finding what a woman did, it's finding her at all. Most of the sources I'm dealing with - letters and memoirs and written reports of the day - have been written by men.

Theodore Schultz

Farmers the world over, in dealing with costs, returns and risks, are calculating economic agents. Within their small, individual, allocative domain, they are fine-tuning entrepreneurs, tuning so subtly that many experts fail to recognize how efficient they are.

Ellen McLaughlin

I go to the theater because I need help dealing with my life; I want to see the greatest questions addressed. I need to see actors grappling with things that matter.

Tom Fontana

We did not go in and pitch a show about accounting. And so the nature of the show is, we're dealing with sexuality.

Robert Randall

We want the pedophiles to give it a thought, that they might be dealing with the police, ... And if we can stop them ... then we are serving our purpose.

Ken Ham

The real purpose is to say the Bibles true, and its history. Genesis is true.

Francesca Annis

I like having a good time. It's probably my mother's Brazilian genes in me - party, party.

Dr. Haselton

Women can't see a man's genetic make up. So, they come to prefer good genes on the outside.

John Treanor

There is not a smoking gun. What we're seeing is that all the individual genes contribute, but there is no single gene in there that is sufficient to make that virus a killer.

Adolfo Garcia

We can take these genes and sequence them,

Cynthia Kenyon

Perhaps genes did regulate the aging process. Perhaps different organisms had different life spans because a universal regulatory 'clock' was set to run at different speeds in different species.

Craig Venter

In the past, geneticists have looked at so-called disease genes, but a lot of people have changes in their genes and don't get these diseases. There have to be other parts of physiology and genetics that compensate.

Craig Mello

RNA interference has proven to be a quite reliable mechanism for turning genes off in a whole variety of different plants and animals.

Cris Judd

I'm really influenced by Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly.

Richard Lobb

So far, we've not seen any impact, but we're reviewing our options to see what we need to do to keep it that way.

Frans Houten

There are various M&A options we will explore.

Kim Moore

I feel like there's still some options open.

Erica Archambault

There are a lot of options with stripes.

Scott Parkin

There are many more options than most people know about. Most people are pretty uninformed about long-term care.

David J. C. MacKay

Most of physics is about energy, and physicists understand inefficiencies. I wanted to write a book about our energy options in a neutral, human-accessible form.

James Park

With options expiration today, there was not as much volatility as we had expected. We were in range-bound trading.

Robert Ritchie

The options there go all the way to a fly-in subdivision.

Dave Dickson

The options are out there for consumers. They have voiced their preferences through their purchases.

Sandra Cisneros

For a writer, for the solitude to write, you don't need a room of your own, you need a house.

David H. Murdock

When I open my mouth, the room rings.

Caio Fonseca

My 20s were spent in a room, alone, mixing paints and figuring it all out.

Bryan Ferry

Other bands wanted to wreck hotel rooms; Roxy Music wanted to redecorate them.

Jane Austen

We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.

Jimmy Dean

We are going to shut it off at 33 or 34 teams. We still have room for individuals and for some teams.

Eckhart Tolle

Look around the room a few times a day as if you had just been born into that room.

Edward Said

What we must eliminate are systems of representation that carry with them the authority which has become repressive because it doesn't permit or make room for interventions on the part of those represented.

Brad Gilbert

At 21, there's lots more room there, plenty of things to improve on as you get older.

Karen Traviss

I'm a visual person - when I write, my input is always visual. I worked in television for several years.

Nikki Cox

I'm a McDonald's girl - several times a week. Usually the two-cheeseburger combo meal.

Scott Kim

What I always want is to have several little 'aha' moments where your brain is very happy.

Bill Hall

Several students have called and said, 'I have a video, do you want it?'

Rachel Carpenter

Right now I'm wearing several hats, and she's wearing several hats, and we will share.

Bruce Raynor

On several occasions, we intervened with the mayor. We had several conversations with Roger.

David Hastings

I have had several say, 'I don't want to go,' and I said, 'I'm sorry, you're going.'

Reinhard Selten

I did several types of work about several investigations of application of game theory to international relations.

Dennis Ritchie

Over the past several years, I've been more in a managerial role.

Walter Kirn

We're on Twitter with one side of our personality, and Facebook with another, and LinkedIn with another side of our personality, and we're toggling between them. That's just a version of what an impostor does: shifting from one side of their personality to another with lightning speed.

Matthew Rhys

I'm 33 now and I seem to have hit a fitness plane. Shifting the wobbly bits isn't as easy as it used to be.

Ken Wilber

The truth is an arbitrary, shifting, culturally relative, and historically molded phenomenon.

John Krasinski

I'm a sucker where I love shifting tides.

Saul Berman

Value is shifting from those that produce the content, to those that deliver the experience of consuming it.

Veronica Roth

That is death - shifting from "is" to "was.

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.

Nancy Wilson

We've done so many versions of this song.

Daniel Tosh

Yes, I am aware that I am the gayer version of Jeff Lewis.

Patrick Marber

Everything is a version of something else.

Phil McGraw

The truth doesn't have versions, it just is.

Wallace Stevens

It is never the thing but the version of the thing.