Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kevin Hawkins

No one should be fooled into believing that the slight improvement relative to July indicates a change in trend. Any growth came from heavy discounting, which is not sustainable - especially as retailers' margins are already being squeezed by rising labour, property and energy costs. The underlying position is still weak and unlikely to improve unless and until there are further cuts in interest rates.

Stuart Higgins

We were conned by cunning fraudsters into believing that two people frolicking together on a poor quality film were the Princess of Wales and her former lover James Hewitt.

Leila Janah

I grew up believing in meritocracy and the American dream. My parents came here from India. They had no connections. My brother and I went to public schools, and both of us succeeded.

Marc Falcone

I have a hard time believing they would turn away if the project were to come in at, say $1.3 billion.

Kathleen Sullivan

I have a hard time believing they didn't discuss this.

Joe Kraus

I have a hard time believing that they can buy a company with 2,000 people and make it work. The notion of buying a gigantic company with a lot of cash is a very risky proposition.

Gilles Bisson

I have a hard time believing (police) just did it on their own.

Carlos Fuentes

She's just a dynamic performer. She was unsure if she could still do gymnastics like she used to. This year, I think she's started believing that she can.

Tiffany Tootle

She hasn't had a surgery; we haven't changed the size of the ball; we haven't decreased the distance from the plate to the rubber. It's just been about faith and believing in what she could do.

Tammy Bruce

Manipulating pop culture is the Left Elite's sure-fire way of forcing society to bend to their depraved view of themselves and this country.

Lee Terry

Like a quarterback for a football team, CEOs get to take all of the credit when things go well and have to take all of the blame when things go badly. Yet legally, they are not held accountable. When a quarterback fumbles, throws a few interceptions, maybe even throws the game, the coach has a responsibility to bench him, so that no more follies will occur.

Mona Williams

Like any company, we want to make sure our associates, customers and local communities feel good about us. This research provided a benchmark to help us understand what we are doing well and where we need to improve.

Fra Giocondo

Life is so generous a giver, but we, judging its gifts by the covering, cast them away as ugly or heavy or hard. Remove the covering and you will find beneath it a living splendor, woven of love, by wisdom, with power.

Brady Quinn

Like he?s been saying all week, we?re here for a business trip. We want to win this game, so the biggest thing is we need to put emphasis on the fact that we?re prepared and rested and taking on things the way we would be if we were playing in South Bend right now.

Mike Janko

Life insurance is an important method of estate transfer to at least consider because death benefits can pass to your heirs essentially free of taxes.

James Soong

Maintaining the status quo would most benefit the people of Taiwan. The PFP would by no means support independence for Taiwan.

Robert Mueller

Maintaining a code of silence will not benefit you or your company in the long run. Our safely lies not only in protecting our own interest, but our critical infrastructure as a whole.

Skip Musgraves

Make sure your employees understand what a wonderful, rich benefit it is.

Elliott Wilson

Nelly knows that if he's going to make a record about grills, he has to get Paul Wall on it, because he's the go-to guy for other rappers. But Nelly was smart enough to realize that nobody had made a song dedicated to this growing phenomenon. They effectively captured it.

Edward Hirsch

One of the things that distinguishes poetry from ordinary speech is that in a very few number of words, poetry captures some kind of deep feeling, and rhythm is the way to get there. Rhythm is the way the poetry carries itself.

Hermann Hesse

One can be happy when he finds his dream, but every dream has to be followed by a new one and you can't capture any of them forever.

Jesse Jackson

My experience has been whenever captured soldiers are released, it at least creates a window for dialogue.

Jeffrey Logsdon

Monday Night Football is a television institution, if not a cultural institution, ... It's not unlike '60 Minutes' trying to go to '60 Minutes II.' It never really captured the audience.

Max von Essen

My favorite app is, without a doubt, Instagram. It's such a fun way to share photos and life's captured moments with friends, family and fans.

R. Robinson

I can't have an unidentified car disappearing up the road any more, because it'll be captured on CCTV. After all, it was CCTV that helped police capture the London bombers.

Stu Rodman

One of the keys is whether (the staff) have captured the right alternatives.

Bill Gerber

I was searching for a project that really captured the American spirit,

Richard Walker

Let's face it, Southern poverty is overwhelming, and usually that gets kind of papered over for the rest of us because of the charm of places like New Orleans. But it's pretty grim, really, and now we're being reminded of that.

William Wordsworth

Soft is the music that would charm for ever;The flower of sweetest smell is shy and lowly.

William Wordsworth

Soft is the music that would charm for ever; The flower of sweetest smell is shy and lowly.

Josh Billings

Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.

Max Heindel

Music would lose its charm were not dissonance interspersed at frequent intervals. The closer a composer can come to discord without actually entering it in the score, the more pleasing will be his composition when given life through musical instruments.

Jeff Stuart

Maybe the fourth time will be the charm.

Jordan Levin

On Sundays, CHARMED has stood as an island of success for over a year,

Loretta Young

I have a full, rich respect for fashion. I love its whimsy, its humor, its charm and its rewards. I love its vagaries and its demands. I love what it does for women. But I know, with all my heart, that no woman should follow it blindly.

Jason Smith

Let's go help these people. We're not doing forced evacuations. We're helping those who want help.

David Bell

My leg is healthy and ready to go but I just haven't forced it because these games don't count. I know it's healthy.

Ken Ford

One picture that he didn't like was 'The Loves of Carmen' with Rita Hayworth, which (Columbia boss) Harry Cohn forced him to make.

Vicente Fox

No one has ever been forced into a free trade deal,

Gail Goestenkors

Now you're forced to be ready to play every night.

Gina Suarez

When I lost the first set I just forced myself to have fun.

Charles Schumer

When the Klan has been forced to unmask, they have been broken.

Tyra Banks

Who would have thought that the girl who was forced to go to the hospital because she's so skinny would one day be called too fat?

Denver Johnson

We won't be better because Boomer's gone, but it has forced us to structure some things differently, and I think that will prove good for us.

James Altucher

Life is cold. People stay warm through the intimacy of a story.

Brian Grazer

I don't think he wants that level of intimacy or sees the value in it, ... He's just the worker. He's always been the worker. Now he's the worker and the CEO.

Beth Moore

Praise becomes compulsory when we experience true intimacy [with God].

Jane Austen

He was not handsome, and his manners required intimacy to make them pleasing.

Amy Bloom

All intimacy is rare-that's what makes it precious.

Amy Bloom

Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.

Andrea Phillips

Physical intimacy between two people of the same sex is not condoned in the Scripture.

Steve James

I think when people go into something for the right reasons, you're going to get a better film; you're going to get more intimacy and a stronger foundation of trust.

Alanis Morissette

I was so ready to become a mom. Actually, I was ready secondarily to become a mom. I was so ready to have the intimacy and commitment of marriage.

Craig Bellamy

We will prepare as if he isn't going to be there and if somehow he manages to get up, then that would be a massive bonus.

Santigold

I pick up inspiration from everywhere and it all manages to keep stored in my brain somewhere.

Tommy Bowden

I want to see some big plays (offensively) and how Will manages the team. This will be the first time we will get to see him do that.

Masayoshi Yano

Share prices here rebounded ... after the market succumbed to profit-taking for a second straight day (on Wednesday).

Michael Carty

Sentiment, generally, is the big problem now. Even as market fundamentals are starting to improve, people are reluctant to buy,

John Yap

Sentiment around IPO stock reflects market sentiment, especially on the first day.

Corey Ostman

Semiconductors are not what the market wants to see right now.

Jennifer Black

Much of the stores were actually marked down by a hefty 50%.

Loren Loverde

Maybe we can't keep up the pace, but the market is healthy.

Mark Newman

No one is better at what they do than Mark is. He's the best.

Mark Mahaney

Maybe the market wants to pay that, but I wouldn't want to do that,

Hideyuki Suzuki

Now, the market is in panic but we will see it settle down after a while.

Neil Ingle

I wish there was something we could do to stop it, but it is zoned GB (general business), and it is perfectly in their right to put it there.

Theophilus London

I want to wear something that's not perfectly matching; there has to be something unorthodox about it. I want to create this mystery.

David Schwimmer

To be perfectly honest, I feel I have a duty to use my celebrity status in a positive way.

Megan Fox

I think it's perfectly acceptable not to run with cliques.

Bill Johnson

Fear is a thief. It robbed Peter of a perfectly good walk on water, & kept the other eleven in the boat.

Katherine Schwarzenegger

I don't do my hair very perfectly because I think it looks sexier when you don't have everything perfectly structured out.

John Drinkwater

Poe's saying that a long poem is a sequence of short ones is perfectly just.

Chad Brown

He was an equal-opportunity dotter. No one has played perfectly this season, so he spread the, I won't say love, but he spread his laser pointer around.

Aldous Huxley

Fortunately, however, birds don't understand pep talks. Not even St. Francis'. Just imagine, he went on, preaching sermons to perfectly good thrushes and goldfinches and chiff-chaffs! What presumption! Why couldn't he have kept his mouth shut and let the birds preach to him?

Rease Watson

One thing that has struck me the most is the hundreds of (electricians) out here. They're working their tails off. They're from all over the place.

Ken Jury

It immediately struck me as being ambergris -- it couldn't be anything else.

David Hernandez

I think she struck me as being a little overwhelmed,

Charles V

Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.

Patti Smith

I knew William Burroughs really well, and I was always star struck being around him. I adored him.

Judy Garland

He struck me many times. He did a lot of drinking.

Antonia Bird

I've always been struck by the complexity of a world where drugs kill and cure. Where no one is immune.

Susan Collins

They struck me as not the typical request.

Christine Arron

They struck her working tools, her legs, her arms, her hands.

Edward Ruscha

When you're on a highway, viewing the western U.S. with the mountains and the flatness and the desert and all that, it's very much like my paintings.