Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlos Castaneda

... the daily world exists because we know how to hold its images; consequently, if one drops the attention needed to maintain those images, the world collapses

Rowan Woods

Whenever you go to these things, everyone's modest and say they don't want to be nominated but it's great publicity and attention for the film.

Wallace Wattles

Whenever you find yourself hurrying, stop. Fix your attention on the mental image of the thing you want and begin to give thanks that you are getting it.

Alan Brewer

Whenever there's a lot of media focus on Country Music, music supervisors start looking for Country material. Increased media attention creates a greater awareness of Country Music as a genre in Hollywood.

Michael Phelps

We wanted to try something new to get more attention from the average Joe. Hopefully, everyone likes it and it will attract new fans to the sport.

Charles Dickens

I should never have made my success in life if I had not bestowed upon the least thing I have ever undertaken the same attention and care that I have bestowed upon the greatest.

Charles Stross

I have a CS degree and a history that includes working as a software developer and being a computer magazine columnist back during the 1990s. I guess I simply paid attention to the social effects of the IT revolution as I lived through it.

Charles Stanley

You always have God's undivided attention.

Stephen Flynn

The fact of the matter is criminals have been operating in seaports a long, long time. The bad guys know how open the system is. The good guys don't seem to have a real command on it here because we haven't paid as much attention to this problem as we need to.

Chuck Bell

We want to recognize their effort, and we want to see a better immigration bill in Congress. As a local resident, I support their cause. They're working hard and trying to get a piece of the American dream.

Gary Beard

We want to present valuable information about the disease and the potential consequences if it occurs in the United States, and more specifically, the effect it could have on Alabama's $8 billion poultry industry. Our speakers will present everything you need to know about bird flu and some things you may not want to know.

Manuel Chiriboga

We want to point out that the bill is one thing and the free trade negotiations are something else.

Chris Gent

We have no plans to sell Japan Telecom's fixed business for three billion or any other number.

Jeff Sessions

When figures start flowing up to $200 billion, I have concerns, ... $1 billion is a lot of money.

Charlie Dent

When you show up at a rally supporting a bill, you are supporting the bill.

Charlie Dent

You have to take positions on bills. There is no button for maybe or possibly.

Brian Murphy

We've seen our electric bills skyrocket. The city is trying to help. Our goal is to lower and stabilize what you pay for electricity supply.

Elizabeth Warren

We've seen filibusters of bills and nominations that ultimately passed with 90 or more votes. Why filibuster something that has that kind of support? Just to slow down the process and keep the Senate from working.

Carol Kane

My face is my career.

Carol Vorderman

Ruby Wax has basically ruined my career. You'll see when you watch the programme. I get more intimate with Ruby than I've ever been with another woman.

Junior Seau

Whenever you get in that situation in the course of a game, you hope to get one tackle. To make three tackles is a career in the National Football League.

Rich Carnevale

We were at a point in our careers where it was time to come up with a succession plan.

Alan Keyes

The money we spend on education should follow the choice of the parents, not the choice of educrats, bureaucrats, politicians, who, unfortunately, have been manipulating this process in their own career interests, not in the interests of our young people.

Charlie Cox

I left Britain in the mid-1990s when TV was going down the cundy - another good Dundee word - because I wanted a film career. But as I get older, I find myself being drawn back to my roots, and I'm loving it.

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.

Thomas Dooley

I could stay in Germany and start my coaching career there. I did not want to.

Thomas Perez

Apprenticeships are a particularly effective way to create career pathways with upward mobility and strong earning potential. Because apprentices receive a paycheck, it's a great option for those with families to support, including many veterans.

Attorney Garnati

We have scraped together the $9,500 to keep the doors open until March 31. We need a miracle to save our domestic violence program, and in turn, save women and children.

Therese Fowler

My husband and I have, in some ways, a non-traditional relationship - especially when it comes to domestic duties. He does most of the cooking, dishes, and laundry, while I do most of the yard work. I love to mow the lawn! And I take great satisfaction in planting and pruning.

Harvinder Kalirai

We did expect a sharp deterioration of the trade balance. The real story on the trade numbers is that the import surge reflects very solid domestic demand.

Maajid Nawaz

The truth is that just as the 'West' is not a homogenous entity with one view on foreign and domestic policy, nor are Muslims.

Adi Godrej

We started the 10/10 objective in 2011, and that time, our turnover was about Rs. 15,000 crore. We would like to have a turnover of Rs. 1,50,000 crore by 2021. This will be through high growth in domestic and international operations as well as through acquisitions.

Wasim Bari

We have included Iqbal because of his prolific form in domestic matches.

Kate Winslet

It makes me sound like a domestic freak, but I care very much about my kids' nutrition.

Bill Cheney

With today's report, the odds of a negative quarter of GDP (gross domestic product) growth have increased substantially.

Tsuyoshi Segawa

With the year-end and new-year retail sales showing good results, the market mirrors optimism about the outlook of domestic consumption.

Carlos Fuentes

I started my own magazine with drawings, commentary, news, film reviews and drawings.

Matt Jackson

We have to get back to the drawing board. I hate being at 0-2, but we'll come back.

Alan Lee

When I draw something, I try to build some kind of history into it. Drawing an object that has a certain amount of wear and tear or rust; or a tree that is damaged. I love trying to render not just the object, but what it has been through.

Alan Lee

To draw a tree, to pay such close attention to every aspect of a tree, is an act of reverence not only toward the tree, and toward the earth itself, but also our human connection to it. This is one of the magical things about drawing -- it gives us almost visionary moments of connectedness.

Rebecca Jones

We've seen bookshelves, drawers and open shelving in the islands.

John Krasinski

The real drawback when you write with a partner is that where you want it to go and where they want it to go is similar, but not exactly lined up, and that's where it's going to lead you into trouble.

Richard Durbin

There is a line to be drawn here. We should all draw it together in terms of personal intrusion of our loved ones.

Lawrence Gasman

There is a level of mistrust. The lack of a consolidated effort by HB-LED manufacturers with OEMs has been a hallmark and a drawback for the HB-LED industry.

John Ball

When I'm in good shape, I have more resources to draw from. It's nice to have that strength.

Bruno Latour

You who are on the inside, don't condemn my lack of faith too quickly; you who are on the outside, don't be too quick to mock my overcredulity; you who are indifferent, don't be too quick to wax ironic about my perpetual hesitations.

Demetri Martin

One of the most difficult and ironic murder weapons is the life jacket.

Orson Scott Card

The univers is statistically more likely to be ironic than not,

Paul Wolfowitz

He's always been excruciatingly careful, which is ironic in his situation.

Graeme Dott

I got some luck in the last frame, which I thought was ironic because I thought I might win then.

Alexandra Adornetto

It was ironic how love could awaken them to the wonders of the universe, while at the same time confine their attention to one another.

Douglas Coupland

Knee-Jerk Irony: The tendency to make flippant ironic comments as a reflexive matter of course in everyday conversation.

Ron Scott

It's an ironic time to be having a party in Detroit.

Janet Fitch

I love Derrick Brown for the surprise of one word waking up next to another. One moment tender, funny or romantic, the next, visceral, ironic and relevatory-here is the full chaos of life. An amazing talent.

Tom Tancredo

The Democratic Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of voters.

Stewart Baker

The point is, you can't be sure if you're legal in a lot of areas.

Amber Frey

I feel like there was justice. It was served through the legal system you know. Everything that I endured. It was all worth it.

Tom Jackson

What he said to me was that it's the right thing to do. It might be legally gray, but it's the right thing to do.

John Roberts

Well, senator, as a legal matter, it is abstract,

George H. W. Bush

legal but taxed and regulated like other goods.

Robert Casey

Legal abortion will never rest easy on this nation's conscience.

Alexei Navalny

I'm concerned with protecting the legal system.

Nicholas Carbone

Right now it's not a legal town committee.

Larry Gregory

will be on the minds of every legislator when they come in for the next session.

Jonathan Brown

I'm surprised how much time each legislator puts into this job.

Lesley Nicol

When you look back, I think things are as they are meant to be. Timing is very important.

Maajid Nawaz

Satire is, by definition, offensive. It is meant to make us feel uncomfortable. It is meant to make us scratch our heads, think, do a double-take, and then think again.

Martin Jacques

We all know what is meant by the term 'international community,' don't we? It's the West, of course, nothing more, nothing less. Using the term 'international community' is a way of dignifying the West, of globalising it, of making it sound more respectable, more neutral and high-faluting.

Dee Romine

She has meant so much to our program. She is the ultimate team player and didn't shy away from taking the big shots.

Pat Summitt

She reached out at a time that meant a lot to me.

Jennifer Rizzotti

She willed us not just to win, but to play like this. Erika has meant everything to this team all weekend and all season long.

Jude Law

What's it all about, Alfie? /Is it just for the moment we live? /What's it all about when you sort it out, Alfie? /Are we meant to take more than we give or are we meant to be kind?

Sara Hunter

On paper, I'm sure everyone thinks this year has been terrible. But our seniors meant so much to this team. It's so sad to see them go. We just need to keep building.

Steve Almond

I was saddled with this strange name, which meant that I was constantly, constantly, being serenaded with the Sometimes you feel like a nut Almond Joy/Mounds jingle.

Charley Casserly

We're going to get offers for this pick. We've already had discussions with teams. I think there's value in our pick.

Joan Chen

There are only so many roles as empresses... but I've had a lot of offers to play vampires.

Laura Puchowicz

We already have offers on some of the units.

Paul Blake

We will get the offers (to the players) out and see what we can do.

Ram Dass

The gift you offer another person is just your being.

Wesley Ruggles

A figure with curves always offers a lot of interesting angles.

David Church

The quality of people prepared to come here and enthuse about the opportunities the place offers is fantastic.

Rob Portman

I would say unless we see offers from other countries, particularly the EU, on ... reducing tariffs, we will not be able to see a successful round,

Rebel Wilson

I wrote my own play, 'The Westie Monologues,' about where I'm from in Australia, and it was very successful. From that, I started getting offers from television.

William Stewart

We want to teach you how to prevent them,

Ashley Judd

You have so much power to bring awareness, prevention and change.

Bill Gates

Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.

Alexei Navalny

The questioning is a stupid formality aimed exclusively at preventing us from speaking at the demonstration.

Marco Rubio

The primary goal of the War on Terror is to prevent an attack from happening.

Gore Vidal

To prevent the theft of 'Ben-Hur's sets, guards were prowling the back lot long after production had been shut down.

Dr. Paulos

No brace is perfect. No brace can prevent every injury, but they do help.

Ada Yonath

My neighborhood didn't really encourage women, though it didn't prevent women from progressing, either.

Marianne Williamson

It's a fraction of the cost to prevent a war than prosecute a war.

Tracy McMillan

The thing is, relationships never work out... until they do. You learn a lot from relationships that don't work out.

Jimmy Cliff

My most important relationships were with my father and grandmother.

S. E. Hinton

Naturally, everything boils down to relationships in my books.

Mary Elizabeth Ellis

Make her laugh, make her laugh, make her laugh. After all, the strongest relationships are the ones in which you can laugh with your partner through anything.

Jason Kilar

The one thing that's important to know is Hulu's not looking for traffic to be sent to hulu.com from its relationships with Yahoo and Fancast and MSN.

Jay-Z

I think relationships are broken up because of the media.

Jane Birkin

I can't be the only person in the world to have three different husbands, and yet those relationships are never talked about.

Bill Maris

When you build relationships with entrepreneurs, they're not trying to optimize on price.

Andie MacDowell

I feel like I've had so many successes on so many levels, even if it is just my relationships with my friends.

Charlie Kaufman

I really don't have any solutions and I don't like movies that do.

Sal Viveros

Most U.S. users updated their anti-virus solutions because of Melissa, so they are safe.

Neil Jackson

I'd like to be an inventor, as they look at the world in a different way and find solutions for making it better.

Gregory Nunn

A writer is a person who has solutions for which there are no riddles.

Jaroslaw Kaczynski

Angela Merkel is the best solution for Poland.

Margaret Atwood

We are very short on organs, and the pig solution is probably a lot better than the human clone solution - though maybe not for the pigs.

Dave Tippett

You think about a lot of situations. That's just part of coaching. You're trying to find solutions every day. We haven't had enough of them in the playoffs.

Jeffrey Pfeffer

Point at solutions instead of at each other.

Emmanuel Jal

Education is the only solution for peace.

Ahmed Hussein

Khartoum supports the Chadian rebels, financially, politically and militarily.

Danielle Brooks

My mother is a pastor. I think she has her moments where she's like, 'Dani, what are you getting into,' but at the end of the day, she really supports me as an actor.

Meredith Whitney

You have to know what you own. You have to really do your homework in terms of knowing what supports your bonds.

Cindy Sheehan

supports the troops, our country, and our President.

Kweisi Mfume

supports a person's right to do whatever they feel they must do. If that is boycotting or informational picketing, we support that.

Marty Dickens

There is nothing we can find that supports what they're doing. It's very puzzling.

Jaime Pressly

Your core supports your spine and your torso. Everything you do depends on it.

Stephanie McGilvrey

We want her to go back to Mexico. That was all she worked for.

Scott Aukerman

I look back on our productivity in the 'Mr. Show' days, and think, 'We probably could have worked harder.'

Topher Grace

I worked at Suncoast Video for two years during the summer in high school.

Obie Trice

Let's say I was a plumber, or I worked at a factory, I would download music, you feel what I'm saying?

Earl Butz

The difference was you worked for Nixon, and with Ford.

Hayden Schlossberg

If you think that something worked and your directing partner doesn't think so, then maybe you have to re-think what you were doing.

Claudia Stuart

She had worked the streets, but she was well respected, and she has impacted a lot of lives.

Andrew Hooper

McKay really sparked us. He was very big tonight. He really worked his butt off.

Kyrsten Sinema

I think there's this pressure to get rid of the fun that makes us human. It hasn't worked on me.