Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jay Graham

We want to reclaim what we think is ours. Winning the (CHC) title is one of the things that we want to accomplish this year. ... We just want to continue to play our game and let everyone else try to catch up.

Madeline Albright

What the Serb people really want to do is to be able to hold up their heads again and be a part of the new Europe. And this (Milosevic's arrest) is a step that needs to be taken to accomplish that.

Thomas A. Edison

There ain't no rules around here, we're trying to accomplish something.

John B. Hood

There is a limit to what we can do. If people can show us other things we might do that would be equally or more effective, we'd love to hear about that, but changes in attitudes do take time to accomplish in a society. We will commit to doing everything we can, within the resources we have.

Aaron Cook

When I face a left-handed lineup, it narrows down what I have to accomplish in that game. It simplifies my game plan.

Stefan Sagmeister

I run a design studio in New York. Every seven years, I close it for one year to pursue some little experiments, things that are always difficult to accomplish during the regular working year. In that year, we are not available for any of our clients. We are totally closed. And as you can imagine, it is a lovely and very energetic time.

Erin Traudt

Ultimately, customers want their business problems solved and the on-demand model provides another option to help accomplish that important and necessary feat.

David Sedaris

but I have no mind for business and considered staying awake to be enough of an accomplishment.

Dave Barry

The main accomplishment of almost all organized protests is to annoy people who are not in them.

Jane Elliot

I love nothing better than to get all the nuts and bolts out of the way - show up on time, with lines learned, clear on what the director expects of me, with my buttons buttoned and my jewelry on correctly - and then I completely commit to play acting.

Brendan Taman

We're getting down to the nuts and bolts of it.

Bouwe Bekking

Chris Nicholson came up with a complicated but brilliant plan. Try to fix the ram with other bolts and hope that the seals inside are not too damaged.

Herodotus

Do you see how the god always hurls his bolts at the greatest houses and the tallest trees. For he is wont to thwart whatever is greater than the rest.

Bob Hiester

There has been a lot of talk during the last three years, but it was just this year that we have people making a real push and getting down to the nuts and bolts of it.

George Will

Some calamities - the 1929 stock market crash, Pearl Harbor, 9/11 - have come like summer lightning, as bolts from the blue. The looming crisis of America's Ponzi entitlement structure is different. Driven by the demographics of an aging population, its causes, timing and scope are known.

Josh Pinnick

These next two weeks will be the most important of FAU history. There has never been as much tension on this team as there is now. Every person on this squad needs to tighten the bolts down.

Dan Ahrens

This is not to say that nuts and bolts contractors are at a disadvantage, ... But if you look at long-term trends, there will need to be more refurbishing of a lot of equipment so I've been increasingly looking towards tech-slanted defense contractors.

John Baxley

There's not a weld in this tank. It's all put together with bolts and rivets.

Charles Stross

Christmas: the one time of year when you can’t avoid the nuts in your family muesli.

Bram Stoker

I'm a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.

David Alan Basche

Frasier and Friends and Seinfeld, they all pissed each other off, said the wrong thing, drove each other nuts, but in the end, it turns out they'd do anything for their friends. TV Land has really found that formula.

David Cunliffe

I want to get down to the nuts and bolts of what is actually going to change to lift New Zealands economic performance.

Dave Barry

The reason it's called "Grape Nuts" is that it contains "dextrose," which is also sometimes called "grape sugar," and also because "Grape Nuts" is catchier, in terms of marketing, than "A Cross Between Gerbil Food and Gravel," which is what it tastes like.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

Theres no guilt in eating fruits, vegetables, nuts and grains.

Akshay Kumar

It drives me nuts how I rely on my wife for everything. I can't imagine a day without her!

Jane Campion

I had this spooky psychological thing about 'The Piano' before it began, which was how everybody was going to go nuts on the set. Because a film tends to set up the way people are going to behave.

Bess Truman

Now about those ghosts. I'm sure they're here and I'm not half so alarmed at meeting up with any of them as I am at having to meet the live nuts I have to see every day.

Nicki Minaj

Like to me, I did the 'Harajuku' stuff. I did the crazy stuff. And now I kind of want to tone that back, and it's not toning my personality back, it's just showing like I don't only have to do that.

Brene Brown

There’s nothing more daring than showing up, putting ourselves out there and letting ourselves be seen.

Brene Brown

Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.

Eric Woods

We're showing the film to show the underbelly of the porn industry.

Elma Damon

We're showing growth. It's pretty slow, but it's more up than down.

Joss Whedon

For me, the act of telling the story and showing it to somebody is almost gravy.

Alia Shawkat

With independent film, as an actor, you have more involvement - it's very much more connected. It's not just like I'm showing up and there's another actor on the call sheet; you're very attached to it.

Alan Vega

I'm showing some of my sculptures in Holland in the spring, so we'll see.

Shaun White

This was it: Before the X-Games, before the Olympics, this was the event. I've been showing up here since I was 7 years old.