Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Kazinsky

I'm a massive Trekkie. I've got original artwork from the '70s. I've got outfits. Yeah, I have actual 'Star Trek' outfits that I wear. I'm a massive, massive 'Star Trek' fan.

Steve Wynn

Let a real sun shine inside and burn away our sins! Fear not the actual time of day!

Jason Alexander

Many people don't know our famous 'soup kitchen' episode on Seinfeld was inspired by an actual soup restaurant off 8th Avenue in New York.

Rik Paul

Many people feel if regular is good than premium must be better, ... and that's not the case. Due to advertising, a lot of people think premium fuel is better fuel, when in actuality it simply has a higher octane rating.

Rod Nielsen

So far the literature has focused on verifiable external stressors with less emphasis on how they are experienced by the individual, ... The same external stressor may result in different levels of stress in different people. A measure of self-reported stress therefore provides a better measure of the actual level of stress experienced by the individual.

Stephen Graham Jones

Most zombie stories, the problems they solve are not the actual zombies. The problems they solve are the human interactions.

David Thwaites

My feeling is that the actual numbers will be OK, but that there'll still be a lack of confidence about where we go from here over the next six to 12 months. Generally, we're still likely to continue grinding sideways to lower, although at the moment it's looking like its more lower than sideways.

Tom Shipka

My feeling is that, if the actual settlement is the same or approximately the same as the one described to me yesterday, all parties can live with it, no one will be fully satisfied with it, and it is an important step in the right direction for this institution.

Carlos Garcia

One of the best things is that a job at Copper will do different things for people. An actual resort management experience might be something they can use as a gateway into this setting.

Robert Mueller

Secondly, not only have we put additional agents on counterterrorism, but we've also built up our analytical structure so that we're better positioned to analyze the information we have.

Kevin Walsh

We're not convinced that all the victims have been found, ... We're still reaching out for additional victims to see if there are any out there.

Henry Schacht

Lucent will continue to review its internal processes throughout fiscal year 2001, which may result in additional cost structure improvements and associated business restructuring charges as it moves from a multi-divisional company to one with a single focus on the service provider market,

John Erwin

Many of the patients from these communities are poor, have multiple medical problems requiring additional support, and depend on government assistance for survival. Teaching hospitals consistently step up to the plate to care for these patients as part of their missions, and frequently lose significant money in the process.

Jim Jeffries

Many of them will get additional amounts because community supporters will make a donation to the students to support them.

Gary Chapman

Many kids don't fit that mold of the high school setting and they need a lot of additional support or just a different way of learning.

Doug Ross

Several of the players have sought out additional help in the off-season and have demonstrated a desire to do very well.

James Wicklund

Seasonal factors, combined with additional production expected by OPEC, should bring oil prices back down to the mid-20 range by mid-summer.

David Risinger

Seniors appear to be filling incremental prescriptions, given additional drug coverage.

Oscar Wilde

LORD ILLINGWORTH: The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. / MRS. ALLONBY: It ends with Revelations.

Thomas Buxton

Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains. The more one has to do, the more he is able to accomplish.

Thomas Buxton

Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains

Richard Rhodes

Many novice writers, students in particular, think that writing is little more than copying down their self-talk, the palaver of the voices they hear in their heads. Of course, self-talk is thinking, and writing begins with thinking.

George Gurdjieff

Self-observation brings man to the realization of the necessity of self-change. And in observing himself a man notices that self-observation itself brings about certain changes in his inner processes. He begins to understand that self-observation is an instrument of self-change, a means of awakening.

Tom Foreman

So many decisions of the Supreme Court have been made in the vacuum as to when life begins ... and it belies the scientific facts, the medical facts, that are out there today,

John Walsh

Men are simple minded. The fact that women can't understand them, begins to show just how complex they are...

Ronald Reagan

My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.

Della Reese

One of the things I learned from Mahalia Jackson was how to communicate with people through song, ... The communication begins inside of you, then it is brought out to the people.

Alexandra Paul

I really believe in non-violence, but I also believe in a short of resistance that has to be respectful.

Italo Calvino

I don't believe chance can play a role in my literature.

Italo Calvino

I change my method and field of reference from book to book because I can never believe in the same thing two times running.

Italo Calvino

Personally, I believe in fiction because the stories I like are those with a beginning and an end.

Peter Jennings

Whatever you may think of Mrs. Clinton as a character, I think she believes quite strongly in public service.

Richard Rogers

I don't believe in the ownership of work.

Rick Perlstein

What does it mean to truly believe in America? To wave a flag? Or to struggle toward a more searching alternative to the shallowness of the flag-wavers - to criticize, to interrogate, to analyze, to dissent?

Robert Fisk

We are constantly trying to cope with what our fathers or our grandfathers did. I wrote the book 'Great War of Civilization,' and my father was a solider in the First World War which produced the current Middle East - not that he had much to do with that - but he fought in what he believed was the Great War for Civilization.

Robert Palmer

I believe that my music is just about feelings, and the style is just a side effect.

Leon Panetta

My conclusion is that at this late date, it's just not realistic to expect that I could put together an effective campaign,

Hossein Entezami

Negotiations to reach a final conclusion are going to be continued on Feb. 16 in Moscow.

Joseph Cohen

The principal conclusion is that we expect profit growth to continue through our new forecast horizon,

Kary Mullis

I hate this kind of crap. I'd like to write about something that's easy to write about, where you don't have to come up with a conclusion in the end.

Nicholas Garganas

If inflation risks increase and if the council reaches the conclusion interest rates have to rise, then they will increase.

Roger White

She was worried for a long time about getting home runs and triples. Finally she's come to the conclusion that singles and doubles aren't bad.

Larry Silverstein

I have come to the conclusion that the most important thing at this juncture is to resolve things so that all the finger-pointing can stop and the rebuilding can proceed.

Edmund Stoiber

I have come to the conclusion that as leader I can represent my party's interests better in Munich.

John Kostecki

I don't know exactly the situation, but for sure my conclusion on the whole thing is everybody's competitive and wants to do well. Everyone has high expectations, and it hasn't really been happening. For sure, there's some frustration. That's about all I know.

Isabella Rossellini

I'd like this to become my principal activity: to make films about animals. Of course it's always interesting to model, but it depends who you are working with. I will continue to make acting, too, but I'm old - I'm getting tired of it.

Kurt Andersen

Anything remotely resembling news media is going to continue to migrate online until very little or none of it is produced on dead trees.

Marcy Kaptur

That level of trade deficit throttles real growth in our country and continues the unfortunate path of selling out America. We are not winning the global trade war, we are losing it badly.

Gary Griffin

We're not being as effective as she wants us to be, ... Why would I continue to dedicate my resources to something she wants the sheriff to do?

Bill Cowher

Like anything else, it will grow with time and as we continue to go through ups and downs. I'm always there for him, and he'll always know how I feel. We have a very trusting relationship.

Austin Brooks

Like I said from day one, I'm just going to stay humble. I know that hard work pays off. It's just one of those things where I feel like hard work did pay off, but I'm still going to continue to work hard. I'm just going to continue to do the things I do, on the court and off the court.

Rosevelt Colvin

Lucky we're in the bye week, ... because if we continue to play like that, we'd be 3-4 next week. It's ridiculous to go out there and play like that.

Angela Clark

Mac's Place was packed after the concert. That was awesome. People just wanted to continue to listen to great music.

Lionel Anderson

Madison's height took us out early in the game but we never quit. We continued to play our game. It is what we do. We play basketball.

Alafair Burke

Letterman, despite whatever idiotic (or worse?) things he may have done with women on his staff, was wise enough to realize that silence isn't permanent and peace of mind can't be bought.

Amy Ziff

Last year was a massive year for holiday travel. The summer kept going in that direction, and we have the same expectation for this year despite fuel costs. If you wait until November, I think you run the risk of not getting what you want or paying a whole lot more to get what you want.

Rowen Tupuivao

Mentally hanging in there despite all the mistakes, that was the key for us. We could have folded, but we didn't go to sleep. We tried to make something happen.

Stephen Brobeck

Net wealth hardly grew despite a substantial rise in house values.

Mike Walsh

Mo seems to have fared well despite his ordeal and is expected to fully recover,

David Sidwell

Morgan Stanley had a great quarter. This was accomplished despite everything the firm has been through.

Peter Cardillo

Obviously it negates the theory about Dow 1,000. What (the new milestone) tells us is people have a lot of confidence. Money is still flowing into the United States despite some question marks about inflation. Nothing has changed.

Kathy Giusti

Despite the fact that one in every two men and one in every three women will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime, no one ever expects it to happen to them. I surely didn't. I was an otherwise healthy 37-year-old when I was diagnosed in 1996 with multiple myeloma, the same rare cancer Tom Brokaw has.

Christie Hefner

Newsstand sales for our flagship magazine rose in the first half of the year despite a very difficult market that resulted in many of our competitors reporting year-over-year declines.

Craig Whelihan

Like every football team, NFL or arena, you want to start out with a win. It puts everyone in a good frame of mind. It kind of shows you where you're at early in the season. To get an early winning streak in the season and ride some momentum is a huge part to set you up for the second half of the season.

Mike Bauer

Luke Harman did a great job of finding Davin and Sam early and that really opened things up inside for Maurice and Casey.

Joe Horvath

Losing those early matches all in a row just tore our morale in two. I'm surprised that we were able to fight back as much as we did at the end of the meet.

W. S. Gilbert

Last year was pretty much another freshman year for me, and early on I was fine. But then once we got into conference, in those pressure situations, sometimes I guess I got too nervous.

Joey Galloway

Last year, with the early injuries, we started shuffling some guys around and that's tough. It's tough to be successful that way.

Ron Noedel

Last year what happened is we jumped on them early and got her frustrated. Today was a whole different story. We couldn't get to her today and she just got really strong.

Ronald Vincent

(Leggett) was throwing three pitches for strikes, and getting his changeup and curveball over early in the year is difficult. We have to make adjustments and see it a lot of times.

Steve Wammer

Leah had a great year. She had some injuries early and we had to kind of watch her a little bit. But by the end of the year, she was on top of her game.

Mark Hamilton

Sean threw fantastic. It was good to get him some early runs. We've started stringing together those timely hits, and it helps the pitching staff.

Paul Brewbaker

Lucky for everybody because it says something about our underlying economy.

Gene Sperling

Let's keep our economy strong, let's keep our interest rates low. That's the smart thing to do. And, if things work out better in the future, then we'll have more money for a tax cut, ... Late Edition.

Fadel Gheit

Losing the Saudi oil would immediately shock the U.S. economy to the worst level in decades,

Loesje

Let's give the individual the space to grow, instead of the economy

Tim Ryan

Many of the businesses, large and small, that were operating in New Orleans on Aug. 28 are not going to be here anymore, ... If we were to measure the New Orleans economy now, it would make everybody sick.

Marcy Kaptur

Mr. Speaker, there are plenty of signs that the United States economy is not working well. One of the signs is our national debt.

Masaki Iso

Much of the optimism about the economy has already been discounted into the shares and they're not cheap.

Phil Gramm

Mr. Chairman, please don't try to fix an economy that isn't broken, ... Don't become so frightened by success that you throw wet blankets on a fire that isn't burning.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Men do not realize how great a revenue economy is

Robert Kazinsky

I'm married to my job. I'm obsessed with my work, and I run myself into the ground every single day. Unfortunately, a lot of other pursuits have to take a back seat.

Al Hanna

Scott was very well-qualified for this position. We feel like he will just hit the ground running.

Edward Fitzgerald

Now the New Year reviving old Desires,/ The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires,/ Where the White Hand of Moses on the Bough/ Puts out, and Jesus from the Ground suspires.

John Conway

Ground zero is Charlotte. With all the garages, all the drivers, it's, like, natural.

Ray Nagin

Get people to higher ground and have the feds and the state airlift supplies to them -- that was the plan, man,

Al Way

From what we were told from up top, Kirk's knee had hit the ground before the fumble. But we had so many breakdowns, that we're going to have to go back and watch it on tape.

John Egan

I would have preferred the ground to be riding very fast, but I don't think it will be too much of an inconvenience if there is any more rain. I go there hopeful he can get into the places.

Sam Perlozzo

I was pointing to the ground and I knocked his mask out. That was unintentional and he knows it.

Chad Miller

If we get elected, we can hit the ground running.

Albert Schweitzer

The most difficult thing I have ever had to do is follow the guidance I prayed for.

Safa Rashtchy

For some reason, people had their hopes much higher than this, especially for the guidance. Everything seems to be in line.

Kim Clijsters

I would have loved to have played another year under his guidance,

Chris Lozier

I'm a little surprised they didn't raise guidance after this kind of a quarter, but I think that's probably just conservatism right now.

Laura Paro

I have a very experienced defense. I'll be looking for strong senior leadership and guidance back there.

Rick Dempsey

When I returned to the Orioles as a coach, I turned to Elrod for help and guidance. No one knew more about the organization.

Dennis Hastert

I also think there has to be real guidance, ... So they can rule and tell people and give them guidance before they take a trip about what's right and what's acceptable.

Eric Ross

Guidance was disappointing. Inventories and chipset shortages are still issues.

Robert Litan

He will be one influential judge--no question about it. I think the justices will look to him for guidance because he had that job.

Albert Schweitzer

Don't blame, forgive, All healing is self-healing

Albert Schweitzer

Therapy is the boat across the river, but most don't want to get off. Don't blame, forgive, All healing is self-healing

Albert Schweitzer

Example is leadership.

Albert Schweitzer

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

Demarcus Ware

Like for most rookies, this is a learning experience. A 13-0 lead is not enough. There is never enough. Even if we are up all the way to the end, we need to play the whole game.

Tom Arlis

(Mahan) has really stepped up and become a real leader on the team out there.

Ariel Sharon

make us desperate, to make us lose hope, to make us lose the national vision that leads us.

Joe Kantarik

Make sure that you tell everyone that right now we are leading in points.

Mark Fischer

Let's plan for it. Don't wait. We have to step up as leaders.

Charles Spurgeon

If you simply take the name of Christ upon you and call yourself His servant, yet do not obey Him, but follow your own whim, or your own hereditary prejudice, or the custom of some erroneous church-you are no servant of Christ. If you really are a servant of Christ, your first duty is to obey Him.

Dennis Prager

More people have done good in the name of God than any other way

Denis Johnson

I knew every raindrop by its name.

Debra Messing

I am a fan of all of the same shows that David just listed. And then I also have a weird obsession with Court TV, which is now truTV - I don't know if you know that. Yeah they changed names. I don't know why they did that but they did. It was a little disconcerting to me at first. But I've gotten over it.

Dieter Rams

I am troubled by the devaluing of the word 'design’. I find myself now being somewhat embarrassed to be called a designer. In fact I prefer the German term, Gestalt-Ingenieur. Apple and Vitsoe are relatively lone voices treating the discipline of design seriously in all corners of their businesses. They understand that design is not simply an adjective to place in front of a product’s name to somehow artificially enhance its value. Ever fewer people appear to understand that design is a serious profession; and for our future welfare we need more companies to take that profession seriously.

Eduard Buchner

If fruit juices or sugar solutions are left to stand in the open air, they show after a few days the processes which are covered by the name of fermentation phenomena.

Ben Jonson

Indeed there's a woundy luck in names.

Basil Bunting

Name and date split in soft slate a few months obliterate. 166

Eddie Van Halen

The name Van Halen, the family legacy, is going to go on long after I'm gone.

Charles Petzold

To a programmer, an operating system is defined by its API.

Jay Kim

From an operating point of view, the result was slightly better than what we expected.

Steve Donner

From that point of view, the taxpayers are well protected, and there is a risk and a reward for us operating the stadium.

Mark Klein

We're just operating at a slow rate of production. We'll just resume regular work tomorrow.

Christopher Hill

We're operating from a piece of paper now, and we'll see what we can do.

Christopher Hill

What is the purpose of operating it at this point? ... The time to turn it off would be about now.

Atul Gawande

My vantage point on the world is the operating room where I see my patients.

Koichi Ogawa

The operating result was good, but the company's hedging policy didn't work out this time.

Paul Curlander

Currently, these operating results are not reflective of where we want to be.

Katsuhiko Kodama

Softbank's poor performance is especially weighing on sentiment.

Joe Shoemaker

Obviously, that's the very worst performance we've had shooting all year.

Ken Martin

I can't say we'll see this kind of performance every quarter.

Mo Johnston

From our standpoint, our performance was totally unacceptable.

Herman Edwards

If a performance of a player is not up to the standard that's acceptable, then there will be some changes, ... It could be during the game.

Aaron Nida

I was real pleased with his (Larson) performance.

Steve Adams

I was pleased with the team's performance this year and very proud, and wish the seniors well in their future.

John Kerr

I was pleased with the performance overall, particularly the second half.

Curt Schilling

I feel good, I feel healthy. I feel like I am better than I have ever been from a performance standpoint.

O. J. Simpson

So far, we've had a pretty positive reception.

Byron Scott

One positive of having a young team is they don't quit,

Jermaine Dye

No one ever said this was going to be easy. We've got to stay positive and just find a way to get some momentum.

Stephen Adly Guirgis

One way to make a positive out of a negative is that you can put it into your work.

Allan Houston

Now we are trying to do something positive for them.

Tyra Banks

I don't want to use the term 'plus-size,' because, to me, what the hell is that? It just doesn't have a positive connotation to it. I tend to not use it.

Charles Spurgeon

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Diane Sawyer

Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.

Elbert Hubbard

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

Edgar Allan Poe

The goodness of the true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability.

Earl Nightingale

Our rewards in life will always be in direct ratio to our service.

Donald Berwick

The decision is not whether or not we will ration care. The decision will be whether we ration care with our eyes open.

Menachem Begin

He who threatens us will find us deaf to his threats. We are willing to listen only to rational arguments.

Kenny Brown

We'll probably have to ration it all out to him.

Robert Friedman

You know what is going to happen. There won't be a shortage, we'll have our clinics, then we'll have a shortage. Then we'll start rationing the vaccine, and we'll end up wasting some of it at the end of the season.

Ben Bernanke

Among the largest banks, the capital ratios remain good and I don’t expect any serious problems . . . . among the large, internationally active banks that make up a very substantial part of our banking system.

Harsha Bhogle

Cricket is not a rational sport in India, and we go overboard.

Chris Long

We talked about a plus-three ratio in turnovers this week.

Richard Durbin

He has the right to say what he believes, ... but all of us should be denouncing these remarks as totally irresponsible.

Kevin Earley

Now there are no street signs and no landmarks. It was really tough trying to navigate.

Franz Kafka

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

Saul Williams

The MC has to be just that, a master in control. They can show no signs of weakness.

Tom Bentz

There are some signs that things are getting better.

Peter Scobie

There are tentative signs things are slowing. It's not a foregone conclusion.

Rosette Lerias

There are no signs of life, no rooftops, no nothing.

Richard Lobb

But we're not waiting for signs to show up.

M. Wolfe

I still think we could be better, though. We showed signs in the first inning of being very good. We let up after that.

Olivier Gasnier

There are really no encouraging signs in this survey.

Dan Foster

They've been successful in slowing down the process.

Amy Cutts

This is a slowing down to what I think of as good, sustainable levels.

Terry Wilson

The sense is that there has been some slowing of traffic from it.

David Stiff

Things have also been slowing down a little in Boston.

Erik Jenkins

It's a way of slowing down your truck without using your brakes. You're not stopping a 1,500-pound car, you're stopping an 80,000-pound vehicle.

Erik Jenkins

It's a way of slowing down your truck without using your brakes.

Mark Reinhardt

It's about how little he's going to show you. You're waiting for the big image, the payoff, and he's slowing you down to think about how we see.