Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Soule

I had always thought that I would do something that was connected to music as a career, or possibly Chinese, which was my major.

Charles Spurgeon

The Providence of God is the great protector of our life and usefulness, and under the divine care we are perfectly safe from danger.

Alan Rickman

Those of you who are not aware of my brilliant career as a stand up comic, I'm not aware of it either so we might well wonder what we're doing here.

Alan Moore

In many ways, my entire graphic novel career was a long diversion. Originally, all I wanted to do was to be an underground cartoonist and maybe bring out a groovy underground mag.

Alan Bradley

During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people's creations.

Al Pacino

Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you're going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.

Al Jarreau

Al and Tommy and I sharing the biggest laugh because it was predicted by everything we did in the first three or four records in my career. It was predicted in the grooves that we would be here sometime later on down the road.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Whatever may befall us, God knows and cares as no one else can.

Linda Gray

We want them to have exposure to females who have a career and a family. We want to let them know that you don't have to choose one or the other.

Richard Boucher

We're not going to provide any quid pro quos for North Korea to live up to its existing obligations.

David Bondy

We found perhaps many of our existing policyholders would shift their work focus away from what they had been doing to trades and operations that were more in demand.

Stephen Chick

We've seen some existing home sales figures starting to look weak or negative. That's usually followed by a slowdown in sales at Home Depot or Lowe's after a six- to nine-month lag.

Bob Chase

The fact is a lot of our local associations have been willing to look at alternative pay schedules on top of existing plans.

Mayor Ralph

What we did was expand existing areas. We didn't go out and include a new one. When you say smart growth, that doesn't mean no growth.

Michael Hooper

We have a path replacement and extension program going on here. There's an existing path there that runs in the greenway that needs replaced, which we will be doing, and possibly extending it a little further. This extension will stay on the park grounds.

Tom Schoewe

We have just under 1,000 projects in the pipeline for the U.S. alone, or three years worth of future growth planned. We'll do it through new stores, through acquisitions and by growing sales in our existing stores.

Joe Laszlo

Should service providers use existing wiring in the home, or should they use wireless? This is still an issue that is still very much open for debate.

Michael Krepon

Significantly improved ties are being forged without having to relax existing rules to prevent proliferation. So why has the administration proposed to weaken these rules?

Alan Watts

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

Alan Rickman

Acting is mostly about listening. If you just focus in on what the other person is saying, acting takes care of itself to quite a large extent.

Al Oerter

As long as I can concentrate and remain somewhat calm, I can normally do very well.

Al Ries

Good things happen when you narrow your focus

Akon

Any album that you pick up of mine, you know it's an Akon album. The guests are very limited, and you get to really feel the experience. You get the Akon experience when you get the albums. I always want to make sure that stays the way it is. I don't want to flood the album to where you lose focus on why you bought it.

Chris Christie

The message [of Donald Trump] is that that type of thing happening. Let's focus on what happened.What happened was the murder, the murder of this person pushing a stroller, it's unacceptable in an American city to continue to have this level of violence and the level of violence in Chicago is unacceptable.

Chris Albrecht

The expensive ones are for Starz. No. We decided, as part of our Encore strategy, to broaden and strengthen and help focus the Encore plexus by adding original programming.

Matt Strophy

We lacked focus and intensity. We can't do that with the next four teams on the schedule or we're going to go 0-4.

Steve Mullins

We know what we're playing for. We know what we're going to Milwaukee for. It's just a matter of us keeping everyone focused. I think we were really focused last weekend, which was why we were able to be so successful.

Elizabeth Hardwick

the great is seldom a deterrent to the mediocre

Alfred Jarry

La mort n'est que pour les me diocres. Death is only for the mediocre.

Cyril Connolly

A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent.

Carolyn Kwan

The overall tone of the report is pretty mediocre at this point.

Nitsan Hargil

They have nothing to celebrate. Revenues were just 'blah' all around. Very mediocre in all segments.

David Frost

Prospects for services are mediocre and the sector will struggle to regain dynamism.

Michael Arndt

My God, there are so many mediocre screenplays out there.

Oscar Wilde

To be popular I must be mediocre.

Ivan Turgenev

It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.

Bill Richardson

I'm not a big believer in doing things unilaterally. I'm a big believer in opening up a dialogue and figuring out how we can make something work for all people.

Ed Helms

When you try hard at everything you do, even when it feels foolish to do so, you’re opening up doors and possibilities you might not be seeing in the moment.

Alan Horowitz

We're going to party opening night. And we want everyone to come out and party with us.

Robert Niro

(United) 93,' if it was not opening the festival, it would seem strange.

Bill Vickroy

We're just selling tickets for the opening sessions for all these games.

Dave Wannstedt

With us, everything is sort of new, from a personnel standpoint. Simonitis is really the only one that was in the lineup on Opening Day a year ago.

Al Gore

...it is appropriate to have an over representation of factual presentations on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the solutions are, and how hopeful it is that we are going to solve this crisis.

Eckhart Tolle

Pay more attention to the silence than to the sounds. Paying attention to outer silence creates inner silence: the mind becomes still. A portal is opening up.

Mike Gonzalez

I feel like I'm right where I need to be. I feel like I'm really sharp right now and ready to pitch in a regular-season game. I wish opening day was tomorrow.

Al Groh

What we really need from an overall personnel standpoint is we need our veteran players to play better and we need our younger players to step up,

Carlos Asilis

Yes, it's an unambiguous positive. But in terms of its overall importance, it's only marginal.

John Collins

I think in some ways those conversations, as well as our overall conversations of the organization and how to make it better, may have spun some rumors out that essentially were tagged to the GM.

Richard Jerram

I think the overall picture is quite positive,

Chere' Moore

We swam some very smart races Thursday and overall I'm pleased with the whole team effort.

Scott Skiles

I thought overall it was one of Kirk's better games.

Tommy Hickox

Overall we've been playing a lot better, especially over the spring break. I really think we're starting to play well.

Tim Moe

Overall we really took it to them and the only time they could get it out of their end was when we were on the penalty kill.

David Cohen

Manufacturing is picking up in the second half. Pharmaceuticals can be enormously volatile, but overall they are on an uptrend.

Cary Elwes

Im something of a history buff. Its deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.

Charlotte Moore

We started off with a lot of different things, pieces here and there,

Bernie Mac

Hugs aren't like pieces of pie. Plenty of hugs to go around.

Eartha Kitt

I have been nominated three times. I have the little pieces of paper to prove it.

David Hume

Nothing is pure and entire of a piece. All advantages are attended with disadvantages. A universal compensation prevails in all conditions of being and existence.

David Brin

Where subtlety fails us we must simply make do with cream pies.

Beatrice Wood

I don't like to sell my finest pieces.

Audre Lorde

to that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.

Derek Bailey

Charlie Appleyard can be anybody; but Ive used him sometimes in chat pieces, and these are all chat pieces about the history of Charlie Appleyard.

Scott Nelson

Retailers haven't told us they wanted to be down there.

S. Walker

We're not going to do that. I think the retailers would go nuts.

John Longworth

As retailers had feared, the spending surge was short-lived.

Todd Jones

The teen retailers and some of the specialty retailers were the clear-cut winners.

Michael Beyard

The retailers want to be on the street now.

David Cook

It's time for big-box retailers to start to do the right things by their employees.

Shahrukh Khan

I work like a retailer. I sell my services, take my money and keep it in the bank.

Peter Reynolds

When we have a special event, our sales triple,

Brian Tracy

Resolve to be among the top 20% of salespeople who make 80% of the sales.

Linda Thomas

Our sales are expanding. We've had to turn down stores for milk.

Keith Pearson

Overall, sales have been good. Things have been going smooth.

Chuck Morris

Ticket sales are very solid, to say the least.

Richard Foreman

We really won't see the story until we get into the spring and see the spring sales activity.

Jon Hanson

Token sales have spiked, ... Token use has spiked.

Rob Spear

It's unbelievable. Our ticket sales are going like hotcakes.

Shawn Roop

At first, all I wanted the Web site to do was $50 in sales a day, then $100 -- now I look for $350 a day.

Michael Watson

the securities that were deposited ... were essentially of no value.

Brian Johnson

Any way you slice it, it doesn't look good.

Bruce Bagley

They are just out for their own slice of the pie.

Anton Chekhov

It's immoral to steal, but you can take things.

Aaron Sorkin

Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.

Jean Harlow

Women like me because I don't look like a girl who would steal a husband. At least not for long.

Barbara Corcoran

You steal the limelight, you steal the market share

Janice Dickinson

Everyone steals from something or someone.

Maurice Anderson

I would steal anything I could so we could survive.

Robin Williams

What is a stealth bomber? It's a bomber that doesn't show up on radar, and you can't see it. Then we don't need one.

Brad Meltzer

All writers steal from their own lives.

Creed Bratton

Honestly, I love stealing things.

Elie Tahari

Financially Im comfortable. But life has a lot more in store for me.

Jane Krakowski

I am someone who puts their takeout or leftovers into the Tupperware and stores it in the refrigerator overnight.

Karen Burk

We don't have a listing of stores impacted that we can provide. It's going to vary store by store.

Neil Hamilton

Usually we don't have any vacant stores, ... I think the town is a thriving community. The stores can survive.

Oscar Wilde

Don't be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning.

David Pearson

Those stores will be in transition over a four-week period. It takes a lot to get these things done.

Eugene Fram

The stores have become a hangout for teen girls.

J. Hoover

It will be tough but we have two other stores that are non-smoking and things are going well there.

Chrisette Michele

I like Bloomingdales, and I like a store called Scoop.

Charlie Chaplin

I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.

Charles Dunstone

If you look after the customers and look after the people who look after the customers, you should be successful.

Charles Caleb Colton

Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no watches so effectively deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.

Charles Sturt

The increasing importance of Sydney must in some measure be attributed to the flourishing condition of the colony itself, to the industry of its farmers, to the successful enterprise of its merchants, and to particular local causes.

Charles Spurgeon

Complicity with error will take from the best of men the power to enter any successful protest against it.

Alan Moore

Why do we argue? Life's so fragile, a successful virus clinging to a speck of mud, suspended in endless nothing.

Alan Greenspan

The probability of ten consecutive heads is 0.1 percent; thus, when you have millions of coin tossers, or investors, in the end there will be thousands of very successful practitioners of coin tossing, or stock picking.

Alan Greenspan

Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere. It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum. No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.

Alan Bennett

The thing I think about is that once you've done it, you then start to think about what you're going to do next. It's much easier to follow something that's not been as successful as this.