Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bebe Neuwirth

I loved Jay Thomas as Eddie LeBec. But there was a point where they [thought] maybe we would live together, and I didn't like the idea of Carla being with somebody because that would make you feel like [you're] not part of the people in the bar.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Are you keeping anything else from me?” “I’m keeping a lot of things from you.” “Like?” “Like the way I feel about being locked up in here with you. You have no idea what you do to me.

Barry McCaffrey

We say in a democracy that good ideas will drive out bad ones, so if the good ones aren't there, we're left with the bad ones

B. H. Liddell Hart

For the spread and endurance of an idea the originator is dependent on the self-development of the receivers and transmitters.

Larry Martin

We need plans and ideas from outside this committee.

Billy Corgan

People always seemed to pay attention to us. I have no idea why -- there was just a presence between the four people or something.

Bill Shankly

My idea was to build Liverpool into a bastion of invincibility. Had Napoleon had that idea he would have conquered the bloody world. I wanted Liverpool to be untouchable. My idea was to build Liverpool up and up until eventually everyone would have to submit and give in.

Bill Crawford

When we engage people positively, we create a receptive platform for the ideas and information we wish to communicate.

Bhagat Singh

It is easy to kill individuals but you cannot kill the ideas.

Donald Sutherland

One measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Damon Galgut

Poetry was syllable and rhythm. Poetry was the measurement of breath. Poetry was time make audible. Poetry evoked the present moment; poetry was the antidote to history. Poetry was language free from habit.

Dick Costolo

Once in a rare while, somebody comes along who doesn't just raise the bar, they create an entirely new standard of measurement.

Grace Hopper

One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

James Harrington

Measurement is the first step that leads to control and eventually to improvement. If you can’t measure something, you can’t understand it. If you can’t understand it, you can’t control it. If you can’t control it, you can’t improve it.

Niels Bohr

The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.

Peter Drucker

If you can't measure it, you can't change it.

Penelope Wilton

I don't tell everyone my life history because if everyone knows your inside-leg measurement, how can you surprise them?

Lord Kelvin

If you can not measure it, you can not improve it.

Cynthia Ozick

Every writer aspires to recognition , and it comes entirely privately, without public fanfare, each time a piece of work is judged worthy of publication.

Douglas Smith

PR is performance recognition

Donna Tartt

I suppose the shock of recognition is one of the nastiest shocks of all.

Harry Browne

Security ... it's simply the recognition that changes will take place and the knowledge that you're willing to deal with whatever happens.

Herbert Spencer

Religion is the recognition that all things are manifestations of a Power which transcends our knowledge.

Martin Luther

The recognition of sin is the beginning of salvation

Helen Gurley Brown

You can have your titular recognition. I'll take the money and the power.

John Ruskin

Hope- the recognition, by true foresight, of better things to be reached here after.

Lisa Kleypas

Both of us were quiet with the recognition that something was ending, and something was beginning.