Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Schweitzer

To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

Scott Skiles

Luther's been great. I liked watching him in college. I think he's a great all-around player. My feeling is, wherever his career is going, he's probably going to continue to get minutes. He looks like a good pro guard to me.

Bill Conti

Making a living is not a career. It might be for an accountant, but it's not for someone who says "I want one thing." The guy who feels that his career hasn't happened yet. The guy who has that kind of hunger, who wants money and fame.

Derrick Brooks

Let's not be naive to the system. For the countless examples of people who have changed teams, there are countless of examples of people who haven't changed teams. Darrell Green finished his career with the Redskins and he always was one of the highest-paid cornerbacks in the league. Jackie Slater was always one of the highest-paid tackles in the league and he played his whole career with the Rams. Brett Favre got a $100-million contract a few years ago and they found a way to keep him, so it can be done. Is it important to me? Yes. Is it in my hands? No.

Ian Millward

Liam can reflect on his career with great satisfaction,

James Roday

Leonardo Dicaprio didn't change his name, Emilio Estevez didn't change his name. But every case is different. I only have one reference of what my career was and I was very, very blessed and very, very lucky, and it got started very quickly after college. And I only know that by going with Roday.

Richard Bolles

Many people take career tests with the hope that someone can definitely tell them who they are and what they should do. No test can do that. I recommend that people use the results of their career interest tests to stimulate their own ideas about possible occupations.

Mabel Illidge

Many students see the importance of the minor, and even a major in Spanish for personal pleasure, for interest in new careers and for enhancement of their own careers.

Royce Chadwick

Senior Day is unique. It's always tough for a lot of reasons. It's hard for them to know that it's their last to play at home. The reality of the season starts to sink in. There are no more games left. But some of them come out and have career performances. I just hope we're ready.

Kevin Mitnick

A lot of companies are clueless, because they spend most or all of their security budget on high-tech security like fire walls and biometric authentication - which are important and needed - but then they don't train their people.

Laura Bullock

Let's put it bluntly. If rail would be profitable, private companies would be doing it already.

Michael Atmore

Let's wait and see how the two companies mesh. They can learn from each other, if they're smart.

R. Halloran

Libya has been a fairly easy place for these companies to deal with, and I think they welcome the opportunity to get back and be able to operate there again.

Richard Bernstein

Lower quality companies are dramatically overstating their growth rates by using pro forma earnings.

Mark Greenberg

Lots of companies talk about having a long-term focus. At Liberty, they really do.

Promod Haque

Lot of technology companies in India are hoping for better relationship with the US.

Alan Ackerman

Lots of money has moved to the sidelines, ... People are not comfortable with the uncertainty ahead, made up of the fact that many of the tech companies keep lowering their guidance.

Eric Chaney

Laying-off permanent workers is so difficult and costly that companies have a strong preference for temp jobs, even if it is at the expense of productivity. When labor protection has become excessive and unaffordable, as it is in France, labor market institutions must be reformed.

Pete Orr

Last year, you're a rookie and everything you do is a better-than-everybody-expected kind of deal. Now going into the season, there's a lot expected of you. I think that's a little different and the pressure is going to be a little different.

Lindsay Whalen

Last year we were 18-16, and the playoffs start, and the next thing you know, we're in the finals. Pretty cool. This year, we expected to win.

Alan Greenspan

modest, but it can be expected to be not negligible.

Shayne Graham

My job's no different. I'm held to the same standard, and I'm expected to do well. If I don't do well, they're going to look for somebody who can.

Jerome Bettis

Nobody expected us to win, nobody was picking us to win. That's fine ... as long as we believed.

Dane Bradshaw

Nobody expected us to get this far. It hurts now because we think we should've made the Sweet 16, but we accomplished a lot.

Rui Farias

Nobody expected us to be good this year. We had some serious talent on last year's team, and some of those seniors never left the field.

F. Schumacher

Nobody expected this and now that it's there we will work very hard to fight back again. It's not a big surprise and that's the way it goes. It is honestly a surprise it did take that long before it happened.

Tony Bina

Nobody expected much from us. People didn't think we'd make state or do well here.

Tony Ciriello

Majority rules -- and this is the vast majority. It's not fair to people who are standing in a line 10 tables back.

Bob Gammage

Let's put the wealth of the state as a whole on the table. Let's put every conceivable source of revenue on the table and forge a plan where every person in Texas pays their fair share.

Norma Martinez

Many of us own our trailers, but they aren't movable. We are low-income families, and this is not fair to us.

Bob DuPuy

MLB is a special, but fairly priced, family fare.

Pat Harris

Mr. Hale thinks it was a fair deal.

Harry Kemp

Ms. Jackson and the staff at Fair worked so hard to reach Level 4, we just knew they would make it even before the test results, ... I don't think she (Jackson) has stopped smiling since I told her they reached Level 4.

Rhianna Pratchett

My journalist sensibilities have guided me toward the types of projects I've gone for, even though the projects have been fairly diverse. It always has to have that interesting to attract me, I think.

Daniel Stern

My life is fairly normal. I didn't wake up one morning and find out that I'm suddenly a star, with people clamoring at me. I feel like I'm moving up the ladder just a little, which is fine.

James Vincent McMorrow

More often than not, changes had to be made in order for a song to make sense, and by the end of it, it would just be something different. Lyrically, I am usually fairly confused until something is finished, and then it makes perfect sense to me.

Alexandra Adornetto

Some say we can't choose who we fall in love with; love chooses us. Sometimes people fall for the complete antithesis of everything they believe they're looking for.

Claude Pepper

Life is like riding a bicycle: you don't fall of unless you stop pedaling.

Brad Folta

Life is like Parachuting, as we fall through the air, we pray to god the chute opens.

Aimee McPherson

Lift up your heads, ye people, lift up your faces, too, open your mouths to sing His praise, and the rain will fall on you.

Sathya Baba

Life is a mirage; It comes from no visible rain; It falls into no recognizable sea.

Colleen Laukka

Love is pure like the fresh fallen snow unencumbered by yesterday's debris.

Gary Brown

soft on high-ranking government officials. Can you imagine the fallout if they didn't look into it?

Brian Lowery

Mental toughness was the key. We were doing a good job of getting out and being where we wanted to be at the mile mark of races but would fall back in the middle part of the race. We did a good job by not falling back today (Thursday).

Sam Baker

My knee brace is falling everywhere. My shorts, everything is falling around. It's not fun.

Alice Lowe

For years, I didn't give interviews because I was scared of people judging me or thinking I was arrogant.

Karen Nelson

She said, 'After going through Rodeo Queen, job interviews are a breeze,'

Suzanne Freeman

Oh yes, I already went on an interview already.

Toby Keith

It's like pulling teeth to get me to do photo shoots. And I don't mind doing interviews if they're by phone, but I hate to go sit down and have to meet somebody somewhere, you know what I mean.

Tony Kaye

As a documentary filmmaker, I'm very respectful, and my interview style is not intrusive. I don't really have an agenda. I just go in there, I mumble something or other, I wait for them to speak, and I wait for them to stop.

Vivek Wadhwa

You will find that every successful entrepreneur has suffered many setbacks. These entrepreneurs just forget to mention these when they are doing interviews with the 'Wall Street Journal' or Bloomberg TV.

Larry King

I never use the word 'I' when I interview someone. I think it's irrelevant.

Jonathan Faull

The president does not regret one word of his interview with Le Monde, which is very clear.

Mika Brzezinski

I remember an interview so terrible with CNN's Jon Klein, I nearly blurted out, 'Forget it, I am a loser!' But I didn't need to say it. My face and posture did.

Jake Hutton

Last year was like a different language. This year we all knew what we were doing.

Dan Monson

Last year's team, you didn't know if we were going to win or lose, but you knew we were going to fight. We have some different ways to score now, but do we have the same type of personality?

Cameron Bennerman

Last year you kind of knew what was coming, from whom. But this year, you're not really sure who's going to do what.

Bob Cavanagh

Last year we knew we were going to be on par with the year before. This year we're going to have to make more adjustments and people are going to have to step up.

Howard Stern

Les said, 'I knew I could sue you later.

Kevin Osborn

Mom told me last night that every time you get the ball, when you let go of it, you've got to know it's in and you're making the next one. I didn't know when my night was going to come, but I knew I just had to come in with confidence.

Susan Bennett

Mrs. Rucker enrolled before she knew whether we would have the program.

Matt White

Obviously, you don't want to go back down, but I knew I was going back down, ... It isn't a shocker.

Chris Collins

No one nationally thought it'd be a year where BC would be No. 1. We knew we would be.

Carlos Gomez

Make me an offer I can't refuse, and you can have the taco stand,

Pete Domenici

Now you know as well as I know that many of them are not going to do anything, but if a senator wants to offer them as a sense, not as legislation, they may do that,

Rob James-Collier

Obviously, I play a villain in 'Downton Abbey'. As an actor, you want to get a variety of roles, so to be offered the part of Joe, it was perfect.

Dean Ornish

Whether you're six or sixty, if you go on a diet and lifestyle program and feel constrained, you're likely to go off it sooner or later. Offering a spectrum of choices is much more effective; then, you feel free and empowered.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The Church is her true self only when she exists for humanity. As a fresh start, she should give away all her endowments to the poor and needy. The clergy should live solely on the freewill offerings of their congregations, or possibly engage in some secular calling.

Sheldon Lee Glashow

From 1958 to 1966, I was in exile. I just wandered around teaching, waiting for an offer from Harvard.

Ed Miliband

We don't compete in the world by offering tax advantages to a few that we don't give to all our citizens and businesses

Mark Graham

The prices of tickets on offer are just ridiculous.

Dave Reichert

Gang violence in America is not a sudden problem. It has been a part of urban life for years, offering an aggressive definition and identity to those seeking a place to belong in the chaos of large metropolitan areas.

Maria Semple

Much of the time in the writer's room is spent working on story, and I was always challenging myself to make it more interesting, tighter and more surprising: to come at it sideways in a way that the audience wasn't expecting.

Ian Hamilton

One or two in the back room is all it takes,

John Galliano

There's room for the Gap, but the joy of dressing is an art.

Chris Klug

When you read the qualification criteria, it's very clear. There's really no room for error. (I) should be the winner.

Charles Spurgeon

The moment we glorify ourselves, since there is room for one glory only in the universe, we set ourselves up as rivals to the Most High.

Dennis Ritchie

Oh, I've seen copies [of Linux Journal] around the terminal room at The Labs.

Eileen Caddy

Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Suzanne Collins

I have a pretty big TV background, and I have clocked so many hours in so many writers' rooms over the years.

Ving Rhames

My brother and I slept on the couch. I didn't get my own room until I was in college. We didn't even have a telephone until I was in college.

Edsger Dijkstra

It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.

John Boyles

I have a vision for the way students can be represented.

Annie Dillard

When I teach, I preach. I thump the Bible. I exhort my students morally. I talk to them about the dedicated life.

Edward Hirsch

There's been no poet, no great poet in the history of poetry who hasn't also been a great reader of poetry. This is sometimes distressing to my students when I tell them this.

Paul Kohn

We're going to take a look at all the qualifications that all of the students bring.

Carol Kane

It's very hard to remain a student in life.

Steve Gray

Three years ago, I had 18 students, ... and this year I have 44.

Elizabeth Olsen

I've always loved being a student.

Peter Flynn

We want students to take these tests very seriously,