Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neil Meron

What the Toronto festival premiere did was to reinforce why we wanted to do this. People approached us and said they had no idea how talented Liza was. In the past few years, her skills have been too obscured by the tabloid headlines. It is fantastic to see her being celebrated for what she should be celebrated for.

Jim Les

We usually have a 24-hour rule to celebrate or pout after a game. We moved the clock up a little bit. They were jubilant on the floor, but by the time we got back to the locker room, they were looking at me like what do we need to do next.

Adoniram Judson

We shall no more see our kind friends around us, or enjoy the conveniences of civilized life, or go to the house of God with those that keep holy day; but swarthy countenances will everywhere meet our eye, the jargon of an unknown tongue will assail our ears, and we shall witness the assembling of the heathen to celebrate the worship of idol gods.

David Hanson

The people of Northern Ireland and people throughout the United Kingdom want to celebrate George's life in a positive way. He has been one of the greatest footballers that ever lived.

Troian Bellisario

I grew up in Hollywood. My father always told me that this is a job. These events are filled with people you work with; it's not like glam-schmooze time. That's why I only like events that celebrate people I have a connection to; otherwise, it's someone else's night, and I don't need to show up in a dress to try and steal their attention.

Tracy McMillan

Rather than diminishing the idea of 'truly needing' a relationship - and trying to deny it, shame it, or talk ourselves out of it - why not just celebrate it? It's exactly what the world needs.

Bryan Callen

I celebrate masculinity when I'm onstage.

Elliott Abrams

If you are trying to raise a child to be a Jew, then you have to create a sense of Jewish identity. You really weaken that sense of identity if you celebrate two religions.

Sheryl Swoopes

We want to celebrate this, ... But I told them in the locker room, we can't forget about the Sparks. We owe them something.

Carol Roth

Eighty to 90 percent of success in a company has nothing to do with business at all - it's all personal.

Robert Watson

We want to reinforce the fact that we're a global company.

Mark Hurd

We have to grow our company, invest and deal with competitive forces at the same time we need to be efficient on the cost side,

David Brown

We have no plans to make any significant changes. ... The mill won't close. We understand the importance of the company to the Longview community. We would expect a significant portion of management would stay in place.

Ben Hatfield

We have no interest in getting into finger-pointing of what went on a year ago. This is a mine that operated for some significant time before my company was involved with it.

Vijay Mallya

We have registered a company in the name of Kingfisher International in the US. We will be flying to India and other international destinations, provided we get all necessary approvals at the right time.

James Falvey

The Exxon-Mobil deal has definitely raised the bar. It's going to be hard to compete with a company that size.

Michael Armstrong

We set out to transform this company from a point-to-point long-distance company. The results today are strong. They need to be better, and they will be. But it's now time to recognize the value creation phase of our strategy.

Thayer David

Dan Curtis, our producer, has the idea that people like to see a stock company of actors.

Bruce Bochy

We have some decisions to make, and we need to get the staff together and talk.

Dawn Ostroff

We have some big decisions walking into our scheduling meetings with as few holes as we have.

Henry Leger

We have some big decisions on our plate.

Jeff Beeman

When you're up by four in overtime, you should win. But in that last minute, we made some very poor decisions with the ball.

Spencer Abraham

We want fewer 'Washington knows best' solutions and more people at the local level making education decisions for America's children,

Christina Sims

We use to discuss decisions. While he was over there I tried to keep him from worrying about what was going on here so he could concentrate on getting home safe.

Yasin Malik

The people of Kashmir should be involved in a process where their destiny is decided. So far, all decisions about our destiny have been made by others and later communicated to us.

Talib Kweli

When I'm in the studio, I'm strictly thinking about the beats, the rhymes and the song. The decision I make once the songs are created, and there's a barcode put on the package, and I'm out there in the street selling it, those decisions as a businessman are different than the creative decisions you make.

Jack Greenberg

We want staff functions to support line decisions and maximize their impact.

Carlos Mencia

It is never okay to use the toilet with the door open... I never want to know what comes out of there because sometimes I eat at that restaurant.

Charlie Daniels

As in the case of California, the wolf is at the door of America and the present administration acts as if it's a pussycat. America cannot maintain the present entitlement programs and support a government this size and keep on living on a credit card.

Charles Dickens

Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it. And Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.

Charles Studd

For five years we never went outside our doors without a volley of curses from our neighbours.

Charles Stanley

(Discouragement) Can be temporary-or it can destroy our life. The choice is ours. If we refuse to deal with discouragement head-on, we are opening the door for it to completely dominate our life.

Ann Davis

We use many skylights, which provide a bright, well-lit home. Most of the homes also have at least one side to the house which is visible and has windows and doors for a more conventional look,

Brian Eno

If you had a sign above every studio door saying ‘This Studio is a Musical Instrument’ it would make such a different approach to recording.

Brandon Boyd

Music has always been my back door to life. It is important for people to find something that excites them. I like the concept that if you do what excites you, you will be rewarded generously, whatever form reward takes, which is not necessarily money.

Dianne Feinstein

Women have begun to see that if I go through that doorway, I take everybody through it.

Hoshyar Zebari

We have presented our visions and our priorities to you. Now it's your turn to look at those elements and those priorities to see where you can help,

Todrick Hall

I was introduced to theater by a teacher that found me when I was in elementary school. She tested me for the Gifted and Talented program, started taking me to see the 'Nutcracker Ballet.' I got involved.

Dmitri Mendeleev

The elements which are the most widely diffused have small atomic weights.

Dmitri Mendeleev

Certain characteristic properties of elements can be foretold from their atomic weights.

Dmitri Mendeleev

The elements, if arranged according to their atomic weights, exhibit an apparent periodicity of properties.

Dianne Wiest

I'm more aware of time. The element of time.

Octavia E. Butler

Science fiction, extrasensory perception, and black people are judged by the worst elements they produce.

Tiffani Thiessen

It's funny - in elementary school, I went by Amber. I never liked Tiffani.

Charles Eastman

In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees.

Jeff Moore

We have safely evacuated 1,303 employees and contractors,

Terry McAteer

The fact of the matter is, that was a school day because we called our employees to work. Therefore, they were paid for that day of service. So it can't be a snow day at the point because you have your employees at the work place.

Karen Friedman

There are a lot of employees who are going to be fighting back this year. That's another story -- the employee pension revolution!

Kim Petersen

The people working in these port operations, regardless of who owns them, will be exclusively American ... the same employees working for P&O.

Cathy Mann

Where they're getting those details, we don't know. We did have three employees killed ... not four that they're reporting.

Bill Daly

We rescheduled this game because so many fans and Panthers employees have left the area, and because we want to ensure safe travels into and out of Florida for the teams and the officials. We thank the Senators and Panthers for their cooperation.

Mario Hernandez

We've got a massive operation of vendors. We want to grow this facility to 10,000 employees with Toyota and vendors.

Dustin Moskovitz

Once a few Facebook employees put together a promising idea and start a company, that's very exciting to people. I happen to think being a Facebook employee is really correlated with good ideas.

Bob Phillips

We respect the right of our employees to organize,

Tracee Ellis Ross

I'm always touched by people's different stories of who they are and why they made the choices that they made. I feel so empowered by the story behind the person.

Dita Von Teese

I feel empowered the fact that I can look the way that I do on stage and in photos - I can look that way any time I want. And I feel like it's important message to other women that they can do it, too.

John Updike

When you sit at your desk, if you're lucky, there's a moment when you feel empowered to be someone or something else, to leap into another skin.

Patricia McGinnis

I can't imagine this can't be re-engineered to do a better job. We are talking about a group of people who are probably for the most part not English-speaking, who probably don't feel empowered in the same way as other people.

Franklin Graham

God empowered him; and my father, when he stood to preach, he wasn't preaching his message, he was preaching God's message.

Blair Taylor

We have to remember that this panel is empowered to make a decision, but we the people have the power to do something about these injustices.

Heather Brooke

People are used to getting a lot of information quickly, and they're used to being quite empowered as consumers, and they go to governments expecting a similar treatment; they want to find data and they want to influence events quickly, and yet they come into this brick wall.

Sylvie Brûlé

An empowered hero teaches kids the value of goodness and hope in the world.

Roy Barnes

empowered folks that had never been empowered before.

Sarah Snook

We have a lot of American TV in Australia. I grew up watching 'Seinfeld,' 'The Simpsons' and those prime time TV shows over the years that feature grown-ups and high school kids. We had a saturation of American voices.

Stefan Sagmeister

People who actually tell stories, meaning people who write novels and make feature films, don't see themselves as storytellers.

Paul Pennicook

The production of the television feature by the renowned travel journalist was a solid endorsement of Jamaica's tourist industry and an affirmation of the island as a premier destination,

Gary Shteyngart

I like the map feature on the iPhone that tells me where I am, because I travel a lot.

Elizabeth Mitchell

I am very benign-looking. I'm somewhat like a golden retriever: It's not hard to look at me. I'm perfectly fine. It's not like things jut out and make you nervous. But the lovely thing about being so pale and having such pasty features is that I can look like pretty much anything, which is nice.

Ross Levinsohn

We're looking for technologies or feature sets that give users tools to participate in the media rather than just sit back.

Nicholas Jarecki

Feature filmmaking is a different kind of complication as documentary comes in the editing room.

Michael Almereyda

Whether it would be a feature film or not I didn't know.

Rod Oden

When we began, we had him at receiver and I didn't have a guy who could tote the mail. When we moved him to tailback, I told him I was going to feature him.

Nina Simmons

We have security stationed in front of the student areas, and we're telling them, Look, guys, here's the plan. We've got to get the visiting team out of here. We know you're going to rush the floor, but here's the path that we want to take to go onto the floor. We're going to open it up to you and just funnel you down this way.

Reggie Bush

What (the offensive line has) been able to do up front has been amazing.

Delroy Lindo

When you're working in front of the camera, there are always things that occur to you after the director has said 'Cut.' I could probably, if I sat down and thought about it, come up with instances where I wished I had made this particular choice or that particular choice.

Jeff Boogaart

When he gets the rebound, it's going the other way quick. Nobody stepped in front so he got all the way down to the goal.

Ryan Jones

We want players who don't give up. We want players who sacrifice everything for the name on the front of the jersey.

Courtney Cassard

We wanted to use the front part on weekends and holidays for recruitment where it would be kind of a lobby where people could go get information about Nicholls.

Troy Glaus

The expectations are great. That means everyone in the front office did their job. Expectations should be relished and enjoyed.

Joe Speed

The reality is that the guys starting in front of him are All-Stars. This is an opportunity for Bucky to go to spring training, play as hard as he can, and try to work his way back to the big leagues.

Dale Earnhardt

There ain't no way you can do that. They'll find a way around it. (Crew chiefs) will find a way around it. We'll find something else to run into each other with if it isn't the front bumper.

Megan Challender

We want people to understand our message is one of peace and not one of hate.

Marlene Rosenberg

We want everyone to be welcome to Beth Zion. That is a big message of Messiah.

Thomas E. Mann

Incumbents are safe, but party majorities are not. This fosters symbolic votes, message politics and little serious legislating in Congress.

Brian Eno

Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.

Mark Phelan

Ultimately, the responsibility rests with the drivers, and they seemed to respond to the message we were putting out.

David Koresh

I am more willing to come out when I get my message from my commander.

Bill Taylor

We want to send the message that New Orleans is up and running and it's OK to come back.

Mark Regev

We want to send a very strong and sharp message to the Palestinians, and the temporary suspension of talks is that message.

Elizabeth Kenny

I have a message to give to the world, and I shall not be thwarted.

Nick Barnett

We've still got a lot of work to do. We're nowhere near where we need to be.

Kate Micucci

Near the end of high school, I was always super shy, backward.

Bob Stull

We are pleased with our progress, but we are nowhere near where we want to be yet.

Rick Pitino

We've accomplished what we've wanted to accomplish, record-wise. But we're nowhere near where we should be or where we ought to be.

Eddie Jordan

We started as if we were on a qualifying lap, got a puncture near the end but we got it home,

George Hecht

We have a number of people we just dispatched all day long to go to the nearest place where the water is problematic.

Todd Rundgren

I write in a very strange way. Things are very fragmentary for a very long time, and then they come together very quickly near the end of the process.

Nick Harkaway

I think the reason I wrote screenplays for nearly a decade was because it was my territory. I could stake that out.

Laura Perkovic

We'll be contacting each other by telephone in the near future.

Tom Hamilton

We have no on-site parking for visitors, family, etc. This is a seniors building. Many of our visitors are seniors and have trouble walking 100 yards.

Jennifer Granholm

Most of these people were rescued from rooftops and parking lots, ... Most of them spent part of the day (Monday) in a rescue helicopter.

P. J. Harvey

My understanding is it is more aesthetically pleasing as a parking lot.

Gifford Miller

New Yorkers are getting killed with parking ticket after parking ticket.

Bob Quinn

Now the rails have become a parking lot. That's one step better than having it taken out. But only one step.

Tim Smith

I?d like to get this person ID?d. I want to find out what they were doing in a parking garage.

Chris Schneiter

We don't have any parking meters that reset.

Evelyn Smith

Our street has become a parking lot. That's what it is.

Gary Johnson

I think it's a reasonable plan. But some people just don't want parking lots.

Ann Wilson

We're one of two stores that will be selling pizza by the pound.

Alessio Vinci

Pizza with pineapple, that's a cake...Pizza with cucumber, it's an insult.

Nick Jonas

I love pizza; you cant really go wrong with pizza.

Miranda July

Did you ever really love her? Not really no. But me? Yes. Even though I have no pizzazz?

R. Robinson

It's about like pizza dough, like licorice-flavored pizza dough.

Abhisit Vejjajiva

We have no problem with the prime minister's offer.

Ehud Olmert

Every prime minister ... has the responsibility to provide security for his people.

Stephen Glover

Where is our prime minister? All that can be said is that he is out there somewhere.

Benjamin Franklin

I am in the prime of senility.

Brian Mulroney

If your only objective is to be popular, you're going to be popular but you will be known as the Prime Minister who achieved nothing.

Sonia Gandhi

I don't disown our responsibility and my responsibility as Prime Minister,

Doris Williams

Women can do a lot of things when they have to, and she was a prime example.

Chang-Rae Lee

I often think that the prime directive for me as a teacher of writing is akin to that for a physician, which is this: do no harm.

Tsutomu Takebe

It is a private visit and I would like to respect the Prime Minister's visit to the shrine,

Ted Nelson

The only ones those certifications are recognized by are the associations who give them.

Bonnie McKee

I was always super, super musical. So my parents recognized that and put me in choirs, piano lessons, and all that.

Mike Zafirovski

This revenue is real - it was recognized in the wrong periods.

Rick Comley

We wanted to get back to being a nationally recognized program. I think we're there.

David Boreanaz

I seem to get recognized more in London and Europe than over here in the States.

Loretta Lynch

Everyone wants to be seen. Everyone wants to be heard. Everyone wants to be recognized as the person that they are and not a stereotype or an image.

A.J. Pierzynski

Yeah, I got recognized more at home. That's for sure.

Allison Tolman

I haven't been recognized out in public or anything. The strangeness of celebrity has been relegated to Twitter, which is kind of manageable.

Brad Lancaster

We're 20 to 40 students away from being a Recognized district. It was close, but we're not taking any chances.

Charlie Daniels

Little Jimmy Dickens has long been a musical hero of mine and one of the finest entertainers to ever step on any stage. I was deeply honored to call him a friend and will always remember the time I got to spend with him. The music world has lost one of our greatest treasures. Rest in peace, my little friend. You were loved by so many of us!

Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Fox said that restorations were the most bloody of all revolutions; and he might have added that reformations are the best mode of preventing the necessity of either.

Charles Stanley

When we learn from experience, the scars of sin can lead us to restoration and a renewed intimacy with God.

Dave Baseggio

We're just trying a different approach. He wasn't going to play. We'll give him a little more rest and see if that makes the symptoms better.

Erin McKean

We've been using 'rejuvenate,' meaning to restore youth, to make young again, as a verb for at least 200 years.

Charlize Theron

My thoughts and love go out to the Mandela family. Rest in peace Madiba. You will be missed, but your impact on this world will live forever.

Boris Diaw

We still want to win and see which team we've got to play (in the post-season). We got a little tired because we didn't play with Steve and Raja, and they usually play a lot. Sometimes we get to rest up because Steve is doing all the work.

Doug Flynn

We're in inning 2 of the new ballgame. So get in and let it go the rest of the innings.

Jim Tracy

We're not going to say we're not going to see him for the rest of the year, ... We're going to take it day-by-day.

Jerry Gonzalez

We're making sure that we're sending the right message.

Junichiro Kawaguchi

Sending Minerva to the surface did not work.

Sunita Narain

Sending in the commandos sounds very hip, but it isn't the whole solution.

Ron Gardenhire

Sending him back out there, that's a little silly to try to do something stupid with a man's career. We haven't done that to him all year, and we weren't going to start today.

Danny Mills

On reflection, I think the sending off was justified.

Dan Carter

I was sending her all the way. There was no stopping her.

John Lelangue

But we'll be sending a competitive team to the Giro.

Mike Browning

We're talking about sending him down so he can get some game-time experience.

Henry Spencer

Is manned space exploration important? Yes - not least because it simply works much better than sending robots.

Brian Eno

I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.

Archibald MacLeish

History, like a badly constructed concert hall, has occasional dead spots where the music can't be heard.

April Bowlby

I wanted to be a ballerina so badly. You can be seen and take over the spotlight without speaking. I had a fear of speaking in public back then.

Chase Utley

I don't really like the spotlight.

Brad Thor

There are writers who go their whole lives and never hit that No. 1 spot.

Ben Gibbard

I've always had a soft spot for Phil Collins. He's a great vocalist.

Chuck Underwood

Fifty-plus is the new sweet spot in the American marketplace.

Donald Norman

To me, error analysis is the sweet spot for improvement.

Bruce Beresford

There's a bright spot in every dark cloud.

Carl Erskine

I've had pretty good success with Stan (Musial) by throwing him my best pitch and backing up third.

Corin Tucker

When in doubt, I always go vintage! Get a ruffled dress and throw a t-shirt over it.

Andre Johnson

We know we're not out there trying to throw games. If we were really trying to lose, how did we win this one?

Al Oerter

I don't compete with other discus throwers. I compete with my own history.

Brian Bannister

When you throw strikes, they are going to get hits.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Even the best of us are thrown off some- times.

Keegan Bradley

When I throw a softball, there's no time to think about the motion of my arm. I just look at the first baseman's glove and react.

Russian Proverb

What the young one begs for, the grown-up throws away

Tara Garrett

She (Ronk) is doing the job. She's throwing hard.

Cathy Freeman

I like being in the workforce; it keeps me grounded.