Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Watts

We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision. But if a decision itself were voluntary every decision would have to be preceded by a decision to decide - An infinite regression which fortunately does not occur. Oddly enough, if we had to decide to decide, we would not be free to decide

Alan Greenspan

It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations, enhances a person's ability to handle the more ambiguous and qualitative relationships that dominate our day-to-day financial decision-making

Al Pacino

Our life is looking forward or looking back, that's it. Where is the moment?

John Bolton

We want to thank the secretary-general for his personal and very prompt decision to waive privileges and immunities, ... This is now a serious law enforcement matter and we will have no further comment.

Javier Solana

We want to take a decision that is part of a solution, not part of a problem, and therefore it has to be well explained and understood by everybody.

Mark Shapiro

We want to set the roster as early as we can. This year, the decisions are so few.

Chris Cleave

Life is savagely unfair. It ignores our deep-seated convictions and places a disproportionate emphasis on the decisions we make in split seconds.

Chris Colfer

Once the world has made a decision, there is little anyone can do to change its mind.

Amber Magner

We lack experience. We don't have the leadership to make the right decisions at the right times.

Rod Brind'Amour

We know what we're supposed to be doing and you don't magically come up with a new plan. It's execution. At the end of the day, either your goalie stands on his head or you had better execution, and I think we had better execution.

Laith Kubba

We know well that either way, if it is a 'yes' or a 'no,' it is going to be a tough outcome that we need to handle.

Joseph Bologna

When I was a kid, there was no distinction between a movie about old people or young people. It was either funny or not. It was either entertaining or not. It was either exciting or not. It was either thrilling or not.

Tim Roberts

There are some good individuals there. You can either help yourself or hurt yourself for seeds (in the Individual District) Saturday.

Chuck McMeekin

We're in a quandary on what we can and can't do. Either you let the garbage sit outside or people are going to put it in their neighbor's yard.

Stephen Harper

What the prime minister doesn't seem to face is the election is either going to occur now or it's going to occur in January, ... We're not going to wait another four months.

Ivan Radenovic

Whenever we played them, we played well in either the first half or the second half. This time we've got to put it together for 40 minutes if we want to win.

Philippe Val

When extremists extract concessions from democracies on points of principle, either by blackmail or terror, democracies do not have long left.

Tim Parmeter

When he gets the opportunity to be in the open court, he's so good with the ball. He makes good plays by either scoring or kicking it out to other people.

Ben Bradlee

There will always be leaks; in Washington, everywhere.

Tina Brown

Now everyone leaking and tweeting and posting on everyone else is the acknowledged way to get ahead in the 21st century.

Richard Land

I would say that Pat Robertson is way out on his own, in a leaking life raft, on this one.

Tom Rosenstiel

Journalists are trying to make the distinction between leaks that are political and leaks that are whistle-blowing.

Rob Stevens

I wish it would get a move on. It's frustrating. We've come a long way and now we are sitting here in a hot, damp, leaking building.

Trent Reznor

Today, if you do put out a record on a label, traditionally, most people are going to hear it via a leak that happens two weeks - if not two months - before it comes out. There's no real way around that.

J. Horton

We have a lot more leaks than in the past.

Jerry Buchanan

We're waiting on a mechanic to come over and get the leak fixed.

Orson Card

When magic comes back into the world, ... here's where it comes from, leaking from this drainpipe.

Dave Barry

Never board a commercial aircraft if the pilot is wearing a tank top.

Bo Jackson

I always wanted to be a pilot.

Alan Shepard

You know, being a test pilot isn't always the healthiest business in the world.

Craig Ferguson

My pilot's license. I'm proud of that.

Chesley Sullenberger

Each generation of pilots hopes that they will leave their profession better off than they found it.

Brandon Jay McLaren

You read a lot of pilots during pilot season, and not all of them really grab you.

Adolf Galland

And most of these pilots were lost during the first five flights.

Anna Torv

Every first episode of a season has been crafted like another pilot.

Donal Logue

I did pilots here and there but mostly I was doing little bits in movies.

Paul Davies

We've still got it. We've just got to get that spark plug going into March. We've done it before.

Greg Ryan

We ship it in 240-gallon totes that can plug right into their processing lines,

Tim Fletcher

F--- the effects, plug in and feel something.

Willie McGinest

Having him back helps. I don't know if he can plug all the holes, but it'll help.

George Foster

We should do OK. We need to stick to what we know, keep plugging and see what happens.

Nate Jackson

It is very frustrating, but I keep plugging along, ... I take it day by day. . . . It shouldn't be that long of an injury, I just had a little setback in the game. It just pushed me back a little bit. Every day is a little better.

Lesley Stahl

They pulled the plug on you, what you wanted to say.

Jeff Segall

A third tower would plug right in. We would already have connections for utilities and everything.

Jim Gray

Did they pull the plug on us in a way that I just think is despicable? Absolutely.

Ben Affleck

You get old, you slow down.

Michael Richards

We have more work to do. We're taking small and slow steps. Other towns do it. We can do it.

Moses

I am slow of speech and slow of tongue.

Christine Baldauf

We're getting there. It's been a long two weeks off where we didn't play crossovers, so we had two weeks without games. We're slowly getting back into it.

Monte Kohler

We're going to go slow and make sure he's ready.

Sylvia Hatchell

To play slow would not be the thing to do with her.

Dan Johnson

We're approaching this slowly and methodically. There's a lot of work to be done.

Ricky Henderson

I think it was just a slow start. It was pretty disappointing. We've got a lot of things to work on, but I think we'll do better. We'll be all right.

Stacy Stewart

The only thing that could slow this down is itself.

Ed Belbin

We know, at this time of the year, special teams is everything.

Don Adams

It was a special show that became a cult classic of sorts, and I made a lot of money for it.

David McCullough

If everyone is special, then no one is. If everyone gets a trophy, trophies become meaningless.

David Rudisha

It's something special to break the world record at the Olympics.

Mark Cuban

Everyone tells you how they are going to be "special", but few do the work to get there. Do the work.

Eddie Marsan

I'm not one of these actors who can make a bad script good. Some actors, a script can be terrible, and they can bring something to it and make it really special. I can't.

Frederic Bastiat

There is not a tool, an implement, or a machine that has not resulted in a decrease in the contribution of human labor. Labor is not made permanently idle [though]; when replaced in one special category... it turns its attack against other obstacles on the main road to progress.

Edward Furlong

Jim Cameron used to call me 'Special Ed.'

Edmund Wilson

They [the English] have a special word, "civil," for what is elsewhere merely ordinary politeness.

Chogyam Trungpa

Warriorship is so tender, without skin, without tissue, naked and raw. It is soft and gentle. You have renounced putting on a new suit of armor. You have renounced growing a thick, hard skin. You are willing to expose naked flesh, bone and marrow to the world.

William Shakespeare

All is well ended, if the suit be won.

Arthur Golden

Waiting patiently doesn't suit you. I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape and flows around things, and finds the secret paths no one else has thought about. [Mameha]

Arundhati Roy

The strange thing about Roman soldiers in the comics was the amount of trouble they took over their armor and their helmets, and then, after all that, they left their legs bare. It didn't make any sense at all. Weatherwise or otherwise.

Bill Nighy

If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.

Alan Shepard

I woke up an hour before I was supposed to, and started going over the mental checklist: where do I go from here, what do I do? I don't remember eating anything at all, just going through the physical, getting into the suit. We practiced that so much, it was all rote.

Alan King

I won't eat in a place that has suits of armor.

Anne Sullivan

The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.

Charlaine Harris

You might have been paid back enough to suit you" I said, "but I don't know if you've been paid back enough to suit me.

Alan Parsons

I started in a research lab for TV cameras, then I worked at a tape duplication facility. That was the first introduction for me to recorded music and hi-fi.

Ben Bradlee

Those [Watergate] tapes are going to take me to my grave with a huge smile on my face..

Bellamy Young

I used to be so hard on myself. So hard on myself. Just my own worst critic to the nth degree. Absolutely undermining my confidence in every moment. Bad tape in my head all the time.

Demetri Martin

There is probably more invisible tape out there than we realize.

Josh Childress

Watch the tape throughout, and you'll see him doing things like that.

Derrick Brooks

Watching those tapes told me I've still got a lot of work to do,

Alfonso Soriano

When I look at myself on tape I can see that, but I just didn't make the adjustments at the time.

Eddie Van Halen

Imagine if Beethoven had a tape recorder. Then you'd know exactly what he meant. Maybe he meant 'Da da da da' instead of 'Boom boom boom boom!' Who knows?

David Nicholls

Letters, like compilation tapes, were really vehicles for unexpressed emotions and she was clearly putting far too much time and energy into them.