Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Strickland

If something is bothering you, keep it to yourself.

Louise Leakey

With the discovery of Zinjanthropus at Olduvai Gorge in 1959, my grandmother Mary Leakey pioneered the research in East Africa with my grandfather Louis. Many more spectacular fossil finds have since been made, both in Africa and elsewhere, by many researchers driven to understand our past.

Lisa Cholodenko

Wendy and I both wanted kids, but since we were pushing 40, the clock was ticking.

Maajid Nawaz

I care not to debate which came first, Islamism or anti-Muslim bigotry; suffice to say that both feed into each other symbiotically.

Mackenzie Astin

There is a healthy fraternal rivalry, but nothing serious and we both have been looking for a project to do together. I guess he may direct me in a project some day.

Richard Cohen

The other side said (there are) 799 federal and state laws mandating the use of English. ... We would say those kinds of laws are not at issue here. I think that English is the official language of this country in a practical sense already. And I think that most people who come here both learn English and want to learn English.

Ben Folds

The other reason Rufus and I are great together is that we're both really lazy. The rehearsing, the sound checks -- he's actually worse than I am, and that's something. To get us to do anything other than sit in our dressing rooms is a challenge. Who knows what will happen?

Duncan Chase

The potential is unbelievable with both those girls.

Tarun Das

The potential is huge for them both in sales and production.

Shafiq Rasul

We want to show the world what is happening there. We want the place to be closed down.

Rob Morosi

The other two ramps which will be closed are from the southbound Lodge to north and southbound Telegraph.

Jeff Lyons

We started out a little flat, then kind of closed the gap, but they just kept coming at us with relentless pressure. We cut it back and they just roared right back They're just a very good team.

Herbie Hancock

When you try to define a purity as being something that's closed and limited, you're not talking about the music that I play called jazz.

Nate Parker

We all serve a purpose. My purpose isn't to be rejected. My purpose isn't to think small or to be introverted. This door closed is literally pushing me to the next door.

P. J. Harvey

When we closed there was a general feeling of shock and dismay. But people will be pleased with what has happened. I'm looking forward to watching this sleeping giant wake up.

David Robertson

We're going to have it closed for at least this week and into the weekend.

Rick Maddalena

With the help of users, we've closed a lot of the redundant roads in the area.

Sam Keller

We're just so close. Look at the games we lost - we were right there. We should have closed out the LSU game, we had SC neutralized, and Oregon we just got outplayed, and we played flat. We shouldn't have lost all three of them - that's the thing that stands out. There's such a very fine line between being 6-0 and 3-3.

Lisa Cholodenko

I think for any artist, your voice is always evolving. For me, the constant is finding a tension or balance between drama and comedy.

Michael Shannon

Everybody's constantly being destroyed and rebuilding themselves, some more drastically than others.

Daniel Payne

The perception of what we as professors provide has changed. Constant and demanding e-mails are just another manifestation of what our society has become.

Susan Clark

The point is professional enrichment, education, professional development. We are constantly learning.

Mark Reardon

We are looking to be in a mode of constant improvement, and it isn't going to be one person; it's going to be a cultural change.

Joey Santiago

Where I live, there's a lot of canyons. We're climbing constantly - we're like mountain goats. I'm just trying to get better at that.

Lexi Thompson

I have always looked up to my brothers. They are a huge influence on me. We constantly text and Facebook each other to give each other support. And we all hang out at home when we are in town together.

Mark Kennedy

Remaining vigilant toward this ever-present threat means constantly learning how better to protect ourselves. But primarily it reminds us that we must fight and win the war on terror, so that we do not have to fight it here in America.

Gretchen Rubin

I'm constantly on the hunt for insights about happiness or ideas about how to be happier - which probably makes me a somewhat tiresome companion at times.

Lisa Jakub

What was really wonderful about the 'Doubtfire' shoot is that we had this really long rehearsal period in the beginning. That was a great time to get to know each other. We got to know each other and to create the family vibe. So we really didn't have to force it.

Michael Steele

The federal government has never created one job that is sustainable long term. It creates government project work but not creating real work where people are.

Ghazi Hamad

The position of the (Interior Ministry) general inspector was not created by the government, it had been there before the new government was formed.

John Brown

the people who create it want the most to protect it.

Aaron Guillen

We've actually tucked the elementary school back with the industrial to create a little more buffer.

Jerome Antone

We started out on a full-court press, but we had to switch to a man all over the floor when the press was not working. We created a lot of turnovers and our defense made opportunities for our offense. That is the greatest defense we have played all year.

Eric Keller

We spread the offense to spread the opposing defenses and that really creates running room.

Omar Vizquel

Wherever he goes, he's probably going to create a lot of controversy. That's why he's one of the greatest.

Art Shell

When you walk out there, when you into that stadium, you walk out there with a presence. Mr. Davis called it a swagger. I just want to get back to the point where when we walk into a stadium, they know the Raiders are in town. And when we walk into the Coliseum, the Raiders are here. ... We've got to create that attitude, and that's what I expect to do.

David Berkowitz

We want them to focus on customers and business, but they have to go to London.

Sanjay Gupta

We want to take a much more proactive step and give our customers further peace of mind.

Joseph Roth

We've already received such a warm reception from customers in Michigan. Just as we have customers who are excited about Ikea, we have lots of potential employees who are excited as well.

Cindy Adams

We're in full operation. We have not missed any service to our customers and our employees have not lost any time,

Carly Fiorina

Where there's a tough call, we do what our customers would want us to do.

Alex Jones

When you talk to customers, you can tell that a lot of them are a lot more local.

Quincy Allen

We want our customers to be able to tell the difference.

Joko Widodo

When we have a corporation, we must know what the customer wants, what the customers needs. Also, the politician must know what the people want, what the people need.

Greg Brown

We are getting out and visiting customers more, and we are getting new customers calling,

Charles Caleb Colton

It is far better to borrow experience than to buy it.

Chogyam Trungpa

One has to taste an experience for oneself and find out if the thing is genuine or helpful. Then, before discarding something, one has to go further, so that one gets firsthand experience.

Lukas Haas

It was a wonderful experience to work with Sylvia. She pushed me to be more powerful with my acting, and she told me scores of the most incredible stories I've ever heard. She is amazing.

Lorraine Toussaint

I hope that whenever my daughter has a negative experience, I'm there to talk about it and remind her how we feel when it's done to her so that she doesn't do it to others.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The person who has lived the most is not the one who has lived the longest, but the one with the richest experiences

Mike Cisco

We've all had experience to this point, which has been good.

Diana DeGarmo

West Side Story. It's a totally new experience for me. I've always loved theater.

African Proverb

We start as fools and become wise through experience

Dan Brooks

When you've got talent from top to bottom, everybody's playing to count. It's a tremendous experience to play without that mental cushion.

Akshay Kumar

I have never believed in being part of any one group or camp.

David Shields

In my own little way, I feel like I'm part of a group of writers who care deeply about pushing the essay forward.

Madeline Albright

We are seeing a shift from well-organized, local groups supported by state sponsors to more far-flung and loosely structured webs of terror,

Alan Hoffman

There are some groups of stocks that always key off of one another. The solid names are the solid areas.

L. Neil Smith

Of all the groups that sometimes claim to own your life, family is the hardest to defend your individual sovereignty from.

Allyce Najimy

Whenever there's money involved, they pick groups of people to test. The stakes are higher.

Geoffrey Kors

Ultimately, it wouldn't surprise me if this is a way for two different groups to raise as much money as possible and then join forces. We are suspicious of their motivation because we know they are motivated by wanting to take away the rights of our families.

Rob Varley

We're going after the incentives market, and we're going to be going after the smaller, upscale groups business.

Rory Bremner

So to recap: we may or may not be going to war with Iraq because Saddam may or may not have weapons of mass destruction, which he may or may not use, or pass to other terrorists groups with whom he may or may not have links.

J. Paul Getty

I am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever taken any vows of chastity.

Said Nursi

Time has shown that Paradise is not cheap, and neither is Hell unnecessary.

Ernie Kovacs

Television: A medium. So called because it's neither rare nor well done.

Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.

My father was not comfortable working with very articulate people. He and Willie Wyler got along because neither of them was very articulate.

Lara Trifiletti

Tipping the Scales. Neither is a suitable option.

Robert Anthony

We neither get better or worse as we get older, but more like ourselves.

Bennie Thompson

I've never really read any books about Washington, neither the politics nor the city.

Livy

We can endure neither our vices nor the remedies for them.

Emma Watson

I didn't come from a background of films. I didn't even really ever watch films. The fact is, my parents weren't into that stuff, and neither was I.

Charles Dickens

Then idiots talk....of Energy. If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy. It is such a conventional superstition, such parrot gabble! What the deuce!....But show me a good opportunity, show me something really worth being energetic about, and I'll show you energy.

Charles Caleb Colton

Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.

Charles Caleb Colton

Fortune, like other females, prefers a lover to a master, and submits with impatience to control; but he that wooes her with opportunity and importunity will seldom court her in vain.

Charles Caleb Colton

The road to glory would cease to be arduous if it were trite and trodden; and great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities but to make them.

Charles Spurgeon

Our extremities are God's opportunities.

Charles Spurgeon

When facing the apparent denial of my request, God gave me the opportunity to honor him by trusting His Word.

Alan Moore

I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for the opportunities the library gave me.

Alan Moore

It does not do to rely too much on silent majorities, Evey, for silence is a fragile thing, one loud noise, and its gone. But the people are so cowed and disorganised. A few might take the opportunity to protest, but it'll just be a voice crying in the wilderness. Noise is relative to the silence preceding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap. Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations, Evey and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.

Alan Green

I want to be able to open up the really good treasures of the Church and Christianity to people, and that's not going to be achieved by shouting at them to convert or they'll go to hell. It's about giving them an opportunity to reimagine Christianity.

Joshua Hoyt

The political parties have to understand that this is something that is not going to disappear.

Emma Roberts

I like to go to parties if I know who's going to be there, and if it's people I want to be with. I don't just go to go. And I always drive myself, because I hate being stuck places - there's nothing worse that going out and then being stuck!

Lorna Luft

It was at one of the parties at our house that The Rat Pack got started.

Ahmed Hussein

Because we are not the only parties in this meeting, we can't predict the outcome.

Christopher Hill

get parties together to push the process forward.

David Gibb

I don't think it's productive for the parties to snipe back and forth.

Karen Finney

We should not be throwing parties at a time when we've got serious problems.

Alessia Cara

I don't really dance. I don't drink or smoke. Being at parties is very awkward.

Emile Sheng

I think it shows the differences between the parties are pretty big.

Allen Weinstein

NARA must provide security at our facilities to protect our public patrons, our staff, and our holdings.

John Roberts

I was a staff lawyer, ... I didn't have a position.

Jay Carson

Forty-one just wanted to come by and say hello. He was really great, and our staff really appreciated it.

Ed Fulton

We've got a better infield that we had a year ago. With the staff that we have that should work pretty good.

Mike Gonzalez

We're struggling in the bullpen, too. The whole staff is struggling.

Cynthia Johnson

Our staff don't take to rhetoric, they need proof.

Ralph Brennan

Staff is our most significant challenge. We already know that many of them will not return.

Paul Tagliabue

I think that I see (finding a replacement) as one of opportunity. I told the staff that we have a lot of things in place, a lot of initiatives under way.

Cherry Loney

We are already strained in terms of our staff and space.

Baltasar Gracian

Superiority is always detested.