Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robin Cook

We want to stop the breaches in the cease-fire and we want to avoid the potential of future atrocities,

Fabio Capello

We lacked focus when giving away the second goal and we could have really avoided conceding the third.

Robert Clarke

Walk around the office, avoid taking the lift or drop something on the floor and stretch to pick it up. The body loves movement, we are born to move and when you're static you feel terrible. Movement and flexibility are key.

Cesare Pavese

We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.

James Baker

The only reason why I negotiated with these guys was simply because they didn't try to avoid the issue, they got hold of us right way, ... They clearly didn't understand when they went out of bounds the risk that was involved to other people. I think in looking backward, they understand they put other people at risk with their behavior and this was a way to settle this thing.

Susan Reeves

The potential changes to the (net-profits) bill must be considered carefully to avoid upsetting the balance contained within the bill.

J. Giertz

The performance of the index suggests that Illinois avoided the slowdown of the national economy that occurred in the last quarter of 2005.

John Whiting

Unmarried couples should get married - that's an excellent tax avoidance measure, if a bit drastic.

Roy Jackson

We've always been able to avoid publicity. We don't even have our name on the front of our building.

Ed Bolen

The person who decides is dictating why the costs are what they are.

John Felmy

When you take all those costs out you're not finding unreasonable profits for everything we have to do to get (gasoline) to consumers. These requests are just unfortunate.

Toshizo Tanaka

We also worked hard on costs and managed to limit rises in sales, general and administrative costs to the growth pace of sales, which helped pump up top-line (operating) profit.

Doug Jackson

We want people to understand that we have to look at maintenance costs and staffing in decisions on design elements for the pool.

Andy Burnham

We want people to come forward with different ideas. We are learning from procurements past that if you go out with a wholly prescriptive vision of what you want, very often you end with a product that isn't as good and costs more. You have to be open to innovation.

Rex Norman

Until such time as the Forest Service selects a remedy or remedies for the site and costs are more definite, it is premature for the parties to enter into mediation.

Mark Dooley

Yeah, it costs more money to get to a show, but this is a seriously good show for the wholesale market.

Shannon LaRocque

We're going to see higher construction costs anywhere.

Tim Ehrgott

We're going to find a different system that works for us, even if that costs us some money to do that. You want to make sure you know what you have in the classroom.

Charles Caleb Colton

Secrecy is the soul of all great designs.

Charles Caleb Colton

Secrecy is the soul of all great designs. Perhaps more has been effected by concealing our own intentions than by discovering those of our enemy.

Alan Cooper

Just how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is 'on paper.'

Alan Cooper

Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.

Alan Cooper

Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.

Alan Cooper

If we want users to like our software we should design it to behave like a likeable person: respectful, generous and helpful.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Everything God does has purpose and intention behind that design. It is a master design, and every little thing has its proper place and function.

Chris Campbell

When is the last time you saw a Lamborghini sale?

Chip Kidd

Design is, literally, purposeful planning. Graphic Design, then, is the form those plans will take.

Mike Law

We still need to work on offense. Until we get solid up front we're going to make mistakes and those mistakes are going to slow us down.

Jeff Francoeur

When you've got guys like Andruw (Jones), Chipper (Jones), Julio (Franco) and Marcus (Giles) in front of you, you have some RBI chances. A pitcher doesn't want to pitch to those guys. He'd rather pitch to a rookie any day.

Debbie Carter

We're not going to move him up to the front of the line.

Harry Price

We acknowledge the problem and we're very up front about it,

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.

John Russell

We're in a much more stable construction market now, no longer impacted by those market pressures.

Brandon Boyd

I've been painting and drawing and taking pictures as long as I've been writing music - and I've actually been drawing longer than I've been writing music.

Kevin Tynan

Whether longer term that actually makes a difference, I have questions about that.

Eric Schmitt

We're going to see a longer PC lifespan,

Rhoda Katz

We live in a place where there are a lot of people who started out with us that are no longer here. But this is so different, to lose all of these wonderful, vibrant people at once. There is just a pall over this place.

Bill Rodgers

So, I would recommend one longer run daily, with your longest run when you can get the time.

Clay Richards

There are people who no longer feel he'd be different.

Susan McDermott

Since she's no longer competing, we won't be using that ad. It doesn't make sense.

Ron Gardenhire

Sit him out any longer and you're going to have to send him out on a rehab. We need to get him in the lineup and let him play.

Jan Egeland

We have received zero pledges for this appeal,

Nyoman Kandun

We have just received the results (from the WHO) and they are positive.

Heber J. Grant

Let every Latter-day Saint give value received for everything he gets, whether it be in work, or whatever he does.

Dimieari Kemedi

Most of these militants received their first weapon from the ruling party.

Kelly Downard

I think the recommendation will probably be received favorably. We don't have one.

Richard McGinn

I think we're doing a lot of things well, and I think it's been received well on the street, ... Street Sweep.

Christian Winthrop

He has received a lot of support from Yonkers and Westchester. A lot of them were contributions that were under $200 that were not itemized.

Robert Lawson

I was unaware of water in garages in The Vineyards until I received these letters. That's disturbing.

Giselle Davies

Nothing is back yet. The IOC has not received the results.

Rupam Das

Software is a type of seduction, it's addictive, it's better when it's free.

Bill Gates

Software empowerment can be used here as well.

Dave Evans

If they think Napster's bad, I can tell you there's a lot worse coming. ...The software that is untraceable is just around the corner.

Augusten Burroughs

I never could have written the screenplay because I would have been forced to learn new software and I can't learn one more thing.

Vint Cerf

Writing software is a very intense, very personal thing. You have to have time to work your way through it, to understand it. Then debug it.

Christopher Klaus

Anti-virus software does nothing to stop a worm,

Philip Schiller

This is to do a whole different set of things. There's been no software that does what Aperture does.

Richard Williams

These software stocks are all overvalued on the fundamentals that we see today.

Jeff Pulver

is the triggering of a transformation where telecom merges with software applications.

Alan Watts

What would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life?

Al Sharpton

I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending.

Jonathan Moreland

Why spend time trying to read this guy's tea leaves?

Esperanza Spalding

I don't watch TV, I don't spend time on the Internet, and I don't party much. I don't text very much, either.

Neville Marriner

But the most important test is to take them on tour and see if you can bear to spend time with them.

Theaster Gates

I want to spend my time between the creation of ideas and the creation of things.

Tyra Banks

Working women, moms, students, they don't have a lot of time to spend on their faces.

Elizabeth Hurley

Spending time outdoors makes you feel great.

Brian Tracy

You cannot save time, but you can spend time differently.

Al Leiter

I like starting. It's pretty cool.

Brian Gionta

We know we need to start scoring. We just have to stick with it. We know we're doing the right things.

Bryan Ferry

It must be really hard to be starting out in music now.

German Proverb

When you sweep the stairs, you start at the top

David Seiders

When you start to see cancellations, you really get worried.

George White

When you start to know what you're doing and why you're doing it, it makes it better.

Grady Fuson

When you start talking about prospects, it's a very subjective term. The way I look at it is as long as you've got a uniform on, you've got a chance.

Kurt Vonnegut

We'd all do well to start over again, preferably with kindergarten.

Billy Dee Williams

Originally I planned on starting a teapot collection. I really like them.

Glen Smith

We know what it takes to get them satisfied. They didn't just walk up and give us a jackpot. It's not like that.

and City

When you vote yes or no, ... it takes you out of the negotiations, and I don't ever want to be out of the game.

Wayne Stroupe

We're going to go where the truth takes us.

Kelly Sears

We're going to do the things that it takes to manufacture those runs.

Charlie Smith

We're just not doing the things it takes to win.

Mark de Mori

Sexy boxing is something that takes away from the brutality of boxing.

Patrick Foley

It can get complicated. It takes time, and there are a lot of legal-document translations.

David Baker

I will do what it takes to get through this year,

James Johnson

I think they've done as much as they've been able to do. It takes a break, some remark.

Charles W. Chesnutt

There's time enough, but none to spare.

Charles de Lint

In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.

Charles Dickens

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Charles Caleb Colton

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.

John Rowan

But we were upfront about it, ... post-Vietnam syndrome.

Charlie Chaplin

You are only as good as the woman you are standing beside.

Charles de Gaulle

Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.

Charles de Lint

Wisdom never comes to those who believe they have nothing left to learn.

Charles Dickens

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

Charles Dickens

Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.

Charles Caleb Colton

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Mystery is not profoundness.

Charles Caleb Colton

The next thing to having wisdom ourselves, is to profit by that of others.

Charles Caleb Colton

Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error.