Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Camille Paglia

The capitalist distribution network, a complex chain of factory, transport, warehouse and retail outlet, is one of the greatest male accomplishments in the history of culture.

Laura Conigliaro

The postponement of Dell's analysts' meeting from April to September, while bound to create more uncertainty about the timing and scope of Dell's changing model, is probably a reality check on how much Dell needs to accomplish before it can feel confident about execution and results.

Al Martin

We've always been able to get consistent work habits out of our kids. Not just during the year, but during the off-season. To accomplish something like this, you have to be very consistent game in, game out. And we've developed that by working hard each and every week and respecting who we play.

Kyle Herring

We've already booked five to seven days for those activities if we decide they are necessary. We can accomplish any additional work and still meet the schedule we've laid out for July 1.

Carl Edwards

We've accomplished every goal we wanted to accomplish already, so I don't see any reason to put extra pressure on ourselves. If we just go out, have a good time, give it 100 percent effort, try to win these races, never look back, that's all we can do.

Bob Barr

We've accomplished, as a team, more than many other members -- probably most other members of the Congress and Senate -- accomplish in an entire lifetime, and I appreciate that very much,

Charles Lindbergh

Decades spent in contact with science and its vehicles have directed my mind and senses to areas beyond their reach. I now see scientific accomplishments as a path, not an end; a path leading to and disappearing in mystery.

Al Kaline

One reason outfielders don't have stronger arms might be they don't practice as much as we did. Most teams today don't take outfield practice. Another reason is baseball has to compete with other sports now - basketball, football, soccer - for the better athletes that might have more skills and stronger arms.

Al McGuire

Live in the moment that you are in.

Al McGuire

When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.

Al McGuire

If you're straight with your players, they'll be straight with you.

Al McGuire

Can't win without talent, you know.

Al McGuire

Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.

Al McGuire

You better have great practices.

Al McGuire

The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.

Al McGuire

I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.

Gerhard Schroeder

We want to send a clear signal that the region can very much rely on the fact that we are not just talking about providing assistance, but that we really want to help, and will help,

Chogyam Trungpa

Things get very clear when you're cornered.

Lorraine Toussaint

I love to see how a character unfolds off the page in a project. I don't always know how the character is going to turn out, even with the script being there. It's not always clear where that character is going to take me. Or where I will take them.

Douglas Altabef

The potential is that there could have been a surprise that could have influenced the Fed next Tuesday, and clearly that hasn't happened. But employment is a lagging indicator. So the report is not a reflection of where the economy is going, but where it's been.

Peter Varney

The position remains as we have clearly stated it on many occasions.

Erik Friedly

The people who were involved in this, it's still pretty clear in their minds. Jim Sullivan is one of the big ones.

Barbara Ryan

The only company which is a clear growth vehicle in our view is Schering-Plough.

Grover Cleveland

Unswerving loyalty to duty, constant devotion to truth, and a clear consciencewill overcome every discouragement and surely lead the way to usefulness andhigh achievement.

Sean Tipton

We are pretty clear that egg freezing is a pretty experimental technology and should only be offered to patients in that context. We think there might be a rush to offer this service before it's completely reliable.

Kevin Campbell

The only reason we would go forward with this concept is for the historical preservation of the property.

Paul Turner

The Powergen Cup is a great new concept for us and one everyone at the region is looking forward to,

Madison Jobe

Where the Mike's concept started was in smaller towns and has continued to develop in smaller towns, and we have done well with that.

Max Weber

The so-called 'materialistic conception of history,' with the crude elements of genius of the early form which appeared, for instance, in the 'Communist Manifesto,' still prevails only in the minds of laymen and dilettantes.

Nick Woodman

A really important thing when you come up with a concept is that you solve a pervasive problem for people, and you don't try to create a new way to do something that isn't necessarily broken.

Niger Innis

Long before gun control was touted as 'common sense' measures, the concept was promoted as a means to keep ethnic populations in an unequal position while assuaging the fears of whites.

Hans Tietmeyer

We want to reach an overall concept in the foreseeable future,

Ollanta Humala

We want more investors to come, to rescue the concept of corporate social responsibility. We will be a government that respects foreign investments, that has a profound respect for private property and freedom of expression.

Nell Newman

Extinction was a difficult concept for a 10-year-old.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The purpose of God isn't to save us from Hell. The purpose of God is to make us like Christ.

Chinua Achebe

It is as though the ancestors who made language and knew from what bestiality its use rescued them are saying to us: Beware of interfering with its purpose! For when language is seriously interfered with, when it is disjoined from truth, be it from mere incompetence or worse, from malice, horrors can descend again on mankind.

David Kim

We were created for a purpose and when our underlying assumptions don't reflect this deeper purpose, we begin to whither as human beings.

David Kim

On the flip side, when we connect our work with a greater sense of purpose and calling beyond the paycheck, we begin to see the kind of flourishing that we were called to create.

David Graeber

Aristotle [would] probably conclude most Americans, for all intents and purposes, are slaves.

Dave Barry

Infiniti ads are part of an exciting new trend called "Advertising Whose Sole Purpose Is to Irritate You."

Mark Cuban

But we have to ask ourselves, what's the purpose of the stock market? It's supposed to be a source of capital for growing business. It's lost that purpose.

Charles L. Allen

Miserable are the persons who do not have something beyond themselves to search for.

Bo Burnham

Comedy is very strange to me and I don't fully understand it's purpose or function.

Al Leiter

I like starting. It's pretty cool.

Bryan Ferry

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

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.

August Wilson

I ain't never found no place for me to fit. Seem like all I do is start over. It ain't nothing to find no starting place in the world. You just start from where you find yourself.

Eden Sher

I really can't watch myself. I just get too in my head about it and start overthinking everything.

Cedric Benson

It never really was difficult for me not starting because I understood the circumstances.

Charisma Carpenter

When I was first starting out, and I was less established, I was really concerned about being typecast.

Rob Jordan

We're starting to get a little more notice.

Charles Dickens

Try to do unto others as you would have them do to you, and do not be discouraged if they fail sometimes. It is much better that they should fail than you should.

Charles Spurgeon

Dear friends, whenever you want to understand a text of Scripture, try to read the original

Charles Spurgeon

The great reason why we have so little good preaching is that we have so little piety. To be eloquent one must be in earnest; he must not only act as if he were in earnest, or try to be in earnest, but be in earnest.

Alan Watts

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

Alan Watts

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

Alan Watts

Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.

Alan Parsons

That Beatle euphoria has always been there, and it's hard to be in a room with a Beatle and try to be totally natural. You never shake that off.

Alan Moore

I try to do things in comics that cannot be repeated by television, by movies, by interactive entertainment.

Alan Arkin

Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then introducing another theme, incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.