Famous Quotes & Sayings

M. Wolfe

What he did for Chanel made fashion history and changed the direction of status brands. And his H&M deal was an extraordinary thing to do. He's the bravest of them all - he takes chances and they all seem to pay off.

Hebrew Proverb

Who is the bravest hero? He who turns his enemy into a friend

Michael R. Bloomberg

Our bravest and finest carried out what was the most successful urban evacuation in modern history,

Safra A. Catz

My greatest inspiration is my mother, the bravest person I ever knew. She overcame incredible odds, worked while raising two kids, and made it all look incredibly simple. Even in her final days succumbing to cancer, she fought like a champion.

Rick Brown

I must be the stupidest or the bravest guy you've seen today.

Mike Shanahan

The one thing we have in our division is everybody tries to get better. We've got ownership throughout the division where teams are looking to improve. . . . If you're not improving in our division, chances are you're not going to win.

Martyn Thomas

The performance in Paris was unacceptable. We will do what is necessary to enhance our chances of doing well in the World Cup. If that means making changes, so be it, but we are not going into panic mode.

Jose Gonzalez

We are probably in better shape than we were last year, ... Our chances to go all the way are very good. Right now, I don't think there isn't a way we can't make it to the playoffs and hopefully the finals.

Nikolai Spassky

There are chances of a peaceful solution to the Iranian problem.

Allyson Doyle

We stopped talking, stopped moving and that really hurt us in games three, four and five. We had chances but we didn't take advantage. I think we got too comfortable (after game two) and kind of let up a little bit.

Ken Hitchcock

We're in a tough state right now. We have some real adversity. Every mistake is in our net. We can't score on the chances we get. We can't kill penalties.

Jim Host

Where I thought my chances before were 10 percent or less, I would say they're less than one-half to one percent.

Dan Hill

When you think of bike couriers, you think of hyper speed. They get paid by how fast they can drop stuff off. The faster you go, the more chances you take. And the more chances you take, the greater the war between cyclists and cars.

Brett Basanez

We always have to score more points than they do. We get just as many chances as they do so we have to make good on our chances and take our shots. If it (the score) comes down to 99-98, that's what it needs to be and we have to have 99. If it comes down to 3-2, we've got to have the three.

Dylan Penn

Getting to wear Chanel is my version of a fairy tale. Not that I would wear it every day - my style is more jeans and T-shirts - but it's kind of fun.

Rinko Kikuchi

On the red carpet, I need to be protected. When I wear a Chanel dress, I feel like I've earned the right to be there. And Karl Lagerfeld is so poetic, such an intelligent man. I like the way he has the power to draw attention.

Carine Roitfeld

The first Chanel jacket that I saw - that I knew was Chanel - was on TV. It was on Mrs. Kennedy - the pink one.

Blake Lively

All I need is my Chanel dress, my Louboutins, and some red lipstick.

Rita Ora

I always remember smelling Chanel No. 5 at home - my mum used to literally pour it, and she rocked it.

Penelope Cruz

There's a lot of work that goes into it - if you think about how many collections a year that Karl Lagerfeld has to do, with Chanel and all the other things he does - you can't do that unless you are working 18 hours a day. It's really a lot of hard, hard work.

Raf Simons

You can instantly spot a Chanel woman, so I want to develop the Dior woman.

Phoebe Tonkin

Chanel No. 5 is my perfume when I'm feeling like a lady. It's old-school and warm - and it reminds me of my mom.

Raf Simons

The Chanel woman? I don't even need to see; I smell her from round the corner.

Catherine Fisher

Nothing has changed, or will change. So we must change it.

Cary Sherman

There will be no breakout. When we changed for the single, we never specified what the breakout for sales to streams were.

Ludovico Ariosto

Such fire was not by water to be drowned, nor he his nature changed by changing ground.

Eddie Irvine

The people who don't know me only see me through sound bites, and everything's changed around. Things I've said are changed to suit the magazine or newspaper concerned. The people who know me have a very different view, I would say.

Tammy Cox

We stopped at the edge of town, changed our clothes, and took the decorations off the car.

Theresa Adams

We started out in a 2-3, which wasn't a very good defense ... because they can shoot the 3, and two of them can drive to the goal. So we changed it to a 3-2 and it worked much better.

Faye White

We started off well in the second leg and got a goal, which is what we needed. We can't complain about the first part of the game but it all changed when they got a penalty,

Leos Carax

I changed my name when I was 13. I don't know why but it made sense at the time. I wanted another identity. I wanted to reinvent myself.

Lauren Worsham

My brother sings. My brother is a singer-songwriter. His name is Parker Ainsworth. He changed his last name to his middle name.

Robert Randall

We want the pedophiles to give it a thought, that they might be dealing with the police, ... And if we can stop them ... then we are serving our purpose.

Dave Minshall

We want them to get an offer to the table that they can live with. We want a deal that is more than just a nickel and a dime an hour. We want a deal that recognizes that they went without a wage increase for three years.

Jim Smith

We want them to be ready for whatever they might have to deal with on that first flight; to understand what to do if some of the systems don't do what they're supposed to.

Michael Defensor

We want to set this up properly because we are dealing with a military hierarchy and I might set it up wrongly.

Jeremy Mayfield

We know how to get into the Chase. It's a whole different deal after you've gotten in to win the championship in the last 10 races than it is in the first 26. We've got some work to do, and we realize that.

Janet Reno

very difficult to deal with . . . She was not as objective as she could be in presenting her positions. If she'd been more objective, she'd have been more effective.

Deb Hauser

Verona wanted to stay and the league wanted Verona to stay. That should put to rest any talk about it moving into the Big Eight Conference. But I don't want to have to deal with this for at least another five years.

Mark Turner

Ultimately, we'd like to see a deal done,

Jill Krutick

Ultimately the deal could get resurrected after the AOL-Time Warner deal is done.

Van Baker

Ultimately, for them to sustain their growth and be successful in the long term, they're going to have to move in new directions and tackle some new product lines that they don't have and haven't historically done. That's going to take significant investment.

Mark Stewart

We are pleased to see the industry moving in this direction. Just to give you a little history, we launched a similar program enhancement four years ago. Ford, Lincoln and Mercury CPO have been teamed with MSX International since February 2002.

Chris Culos

We've always been friends before we were even in a band. It's a good-natured feeling, playing together on stage every night. To us, hanging out is playing a show. We can read each other and know each other's moods, and we know the direction we're headed. But we also know nothing is set in stone.

Stuart Fraser

There are some encouraging signs. They're going in the right direction. Still, they've got quite a job in front of them.

Jon Tester

When you start pulling out infrastructure that's been there over 100 years, that's a negative direction to be heading.

Tim Hibbitts

We have a state where a growing number of voters are displeased with the direction of the state. If that's not a good set-up for a third-party candidate, I don't know what is.

Tim Clark

We've been able to point people in the right direction and get them hooked up with locations, crews, whatever they need.

Kelly Brown

We're just waiting for direction from the federal level.

Matt Haryasz

We're moving in the right direction. We're starting to get a lot of momentum.

Charles Dickens

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

Charles Dickens

Probably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in, fell a trifle short of the wearer's expectation.

Charles Caleb Colton

Fashions smile has given wit to dullness and grace to deformity, and has brought everything into vogue, by turns, but virtue.

Charles Caleb Colton

Fashion ... has brought every thing into vogue, by turns.

Charles Caleb Colton

Custom looks to things that are past, and fashion to things that are present, but both of them are somewhat purblind as to things that are to come.

Charles Caleb Colton

Fashion is the veriest goddess of semblance and of shade; to be happy is of far less consequence to her worshippers than to appear so; even pleasure itself they sacrifice to parade, and enjoyment to ostentation.

Charles Caleb Colton

A lady of fashion will sooner excuse a freedom flowing from admiration than a slight resulting from indifference.

Charles Caleb Colton

Custom is the law of one description of fools, and fashion of another; but the two parties often clash--for precedent is the legislator of the first, and novelty of the last. Custom, therefore, looks to things that are past, and fashion to things that are present.

Charles Caleb Colton

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.

Charles de Gaulle

Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.

David McCullough

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

David McCullough

No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.

C. Wright Mills

History is the shank of the social sciences.

Cesare Pavese

For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.

Cary Grant

Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.

E. Hicks

When you think about it, history is made to be broken. That's the way we look at it.

Kurt Vonnegut

History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.

Kurt Vonnegut

History! Read it and weep!

Alan Green

I've bought QPP shares but unfortunately both times I bought it they immediately dropped by over 10p. Do you pay much attention to the dealing notes?

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Faith is occupied with the Object upon which it rests and pays no attention to itself at all.

David McCullough

I would pay to do what I do if I had to.

David Graeber

As it turns out, we don't "all" have to pay our debts. Only some of us do.

David Dewhurst

I've never supported a wage tax and I've never supported a payroll tax.

David Dewhurst

Ive never supported a payroll tax.

Byron Katie

Pay close attention to the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness.

Buddy Guy

I said, I'm going to stand up and somebody is going to pay attention to me.

Les Brown

When you want something, you have to be willing to pay your dues.

Todd Blackadder

Ulster seemed to get their tries effortlessly whereas we had to work for ours.

Carolina Herrera

Work doesn't seem to interfere with my life. I have time for everything, even time to be alone.

John Sacchi

We're in a situation where we just can't stop the bleeding. We keep trying to put band-aids on the wound, but nothing seems to help.

Jim Rash

When you stop thinking about something, the idea comes to you. It seems to work.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Anything seems commonplace, once explained.

Nicole Piggott

We're going to do what we've been doing all year. It seems to be working fine.

Andrew Mitchell

There don't seem to be any surprises in here.

Larry Mikesell

We're getting better. We just can't seem to get over the hump.

Ken Bruen

We haven't had crime writers, and for a long time in the Republic, we didn't seem to have a crime problem as such.

Kent Kanoy

That's what he is, he's the status quo.

Jodi Whitaker

His status is as it was in (Wednesday's) briefing.

Clark Kerr

The status quo is the only solution that cannot be vetoed.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

The status quo is working.

Billy Donovan

The surgery went well. ... They don't think there's any type of concussion or anything like that, but where his status is for Sunday, I'm not really sure.

Billy Donovan

The surgery went well, but what his status is for Sunday, I'm not really sure right now.

Natalie Clifford Barney

In love there is no status quo.

Mary Browne

Status symbols are poor excuses for values.

Vladimir Yevseyev

In view of the time shortage, the status of the negotiations could also be raised.

Glen Smith

We know what it takes to get them satisfied. They didn't just walk up and give us a jackpot. It's not like that.

and City

When you vote yes or no, ... it takes you out of the negotiations, and I don't ever want to be out of the game.

Wayne Stroupe

We're going to go where the truth takes us.

Kelly Sears

We're going to do the things that it takes to manufacture those runs.

Charlie Smith

We're just not doing the things it takes to win.

Mark de Mori

Sexy boxing is something that takes away from the brutality of boxing.

Patrick Foley

It can get complicated. It takes time, and there are a lot of legal-document translations.

David Baker

I will do what it takes to get through this year,

James Johnson

I think they've done as much as they've been able to do. It takes a break, some remark.