Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Phillips

Makeup ignites a psychological transformation of both the wearer and the observer. My paintings sought to locate the subject of art within the manipulation of that altered predisposition.

Charlie Worsham

My favorite thing about guitar, and the thing that always drew me to it when I was first learning to play it, was those moments when you think you know what it might sound like, but you don't, and then you hit it, and it's a total surprise. You hear it with really fresh ears. Alternate tunings, for me, they give that back.

Martin Klebba

My fiancee's average size, and my son's average size, so I don't want to alter my whole house, because the resale won't be very good unless we sell it to another little person.

Konrad Lorenz

One meteorologist remarked that if the theory were correct, one flap of a seagull's wings would be enough to alter the course of the weather forever

Rhea Perlman

My first and most loved real novel was 'Little Women.' I identified with the Jo character even though we were opposites. Jo was very strong-minded and brave, and I was shy and kind of a wuss, everyplace but in my own home. I wanted to be Jo. She was my alter ego. I think reading that book gave me courage.

Leonard Orr

My goal really was to build what I called one-year seminars, which were spiritual communities that lasted for at least a year. It was really an alternate spiritual family, because the one-year seminars produced lasting friendships that were more intimate than blood ties. The one-year seminar idea is really the most powerful thing that I created.

Patrick Hall

My gut feeling is that there has been sufficient movement to merit supporting it in principle - at second reading - but I want to leave open that there may be things that need to be clarified or altered or amended at committee stage.

Helena Carter

Maybe from now on puppets can do the parts, ... They can fight it out between them. Lady T and Corpse Bride will maybe do alternate parts, and I'll just do the voices.

Alan Greenspan

new innovations have begun to alter the manner in which we do business and create value, often in ways not readily foreseeable even five years ago.

Marcy Kaptur

That level of trade deficit throttles real growth in our country and continues the unfortunate path of selling out America. We are not winning the global trade war, we are losing it badly.

Howard Dean

Sending delegates to the convention only continues to energize our party. Fight on in the caucuses; we are on the ballots,

Melissa Wagoner

Senator Kennedy has real environmental and economic concerns, and the federal government continues to lack a national policy and process to guide offshore alternative energy development.

W. Hull

Security continues to be a top priority for America's public transportation systems and transit systems will remain vigilant.

Ed Bryant

Miss Lewinsky continues to be, in her own way, an impressive witness.

David Quammen

One of the things that's particularly nefarious about Ebola is that it continues to live in a dead person for some period of time after death. A person who's been dead for a day or two may still be seething with Ebola virus.

Brian Reynolds

My gut tells me that spreads and yields are still too high to see a flood of deals. But if the market continues to improve, we will be at a point where a pickup in deals would be feasible.

Like I

My hope is that he continues to be a mystery and not become predictable.

Kathleen Taylor

Now with 68 luxury hotels and resorts in 31 countries and more than 20 properties in development, Four Seasons continues to strengthen its position for the present and future. Our strategy continues to focus on obtaining long-term management contracts with owners and investors who share our vision, and who are ready to invest in our future.

Joe Carson

Low growth in GDP and a decline in productivity -- hours worked rose more than GDP -- implies margin compression and a sequential decline in operating profits.

Eiji Dohke

Many investors did not expect that yields would decline from the start of the year. They rather not to have a 1.4 percent coupon the new debt.

Stephen Kinzer

Many troubled Midwestern towns are grasping for ways to fend off decline and, in some cases, extinction.

Mark Fields

So far this year, our U.S. share decline has been half of what it was a year ago. That means we're making progress on slowing the rate of decline, which is the first step toward stabilizing it over time.

Michael Lewis

One reason we've seen a decline in the past few years is that going to the movies isn't as special as it used to be. People have big screens and good sound at home. Why would they leave if you don't offer more than that?

Janet Jacobs

One reason we're talking about it now is that we've seen a decline in foot traffic downtown.

Andy Whitaker

One month of information really isn't helpful but, yes, there was a decline in February.

Holger Schmieding

French unemployment is stabilizing. We see further declines in the jobless rate.

Samuel Bodman

I would expect there to be some decline in price but that is a function of the marketplace,

Flavio Briatore

Let's put it this way: I am not even sure at the moment we will be in Formula One in 2008.

Ash Rajan

One little pit stop in a Formula 500 race. It's just profit taking.

Ben Braun

I feel good about our chances. I also feel good that in our league, 17 wins has been a formula (for the NCAA tournament).

Todd Hollandsworth

I don't have a formula for it. You just prepare every day and try to be ready. We had lost three in a row, and I wanted to help out. I'm just glad the day went well for us.

Valerie Simpson

There is a formula that allows you to write a decent song. But a song like 'You're All I Need to Get By,' it just writes itself.

Gilles Villeneuve

If someone said to me that you can have three wishes, my first would have been to get into racing, my second to be in Formula 1, my third to drive for Ferrari.

Enya

There is no formula to it. Writing every song is a little journey. The first note has to lift you.

Stephen Fleming

What we have to try to do is find a way to replicate that. Whether that's through one player, two players or even three players, we have to try to find a formula for making up for a loss of a player who is a once in a lifetime player.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

There is no magical formula for winning a Nobel Prize.

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.

Todd Harris

Monday-morning quarterbacking that you see at a political convention.

Dennis Prager

In a lifetime of observing and participating in political debate, I have seen a lot of meanness.

Deng Xiaoping

To get rich is glorious.

Eldridge Cleaver

With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.

Eleanor Roosevelt

...without equality there can be no democracy.

Eleanor Roosevelt

If you have any interests you can gain a wider audience for those interests while the goldfish bowl is yours!

Elizabeth Emken

I don't care what the political establishment says, Republican, Democrat - I'm a problem solver.

Elizabeth Edwards

Everybody makes personal decisions that are right for them and if you're in political life, you're used to having those analyzed.

Eliot Spitzer

The Republican argument that raising the debt ceiling encourages additional future spending is logically irresponsible. The debt ceiling has to be raised to authorize spending already approved by Congress. Despite that fallacy, the GOP has been able to score political points with its argument.

Dick Van Dyke

I wanted to be a radio announcer.

Dominic Chianese

The radio was my big influence. Comedy came from the instinctual feel I had for language.

Nicole Polizzi

We can't have cellphones, TV, radio or the Internet. If the president died, we'd have no idea. There's no normalcy. It's just like prison, with cameras.

David Dunn

We can always use more radios and more frequencies.

A. N. Wilson

I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.

Al Lewis

I prefer that for my own satisfaction over radio, there's no audience. TV, there's no audience. I need the response of the audience, even if it's a silent response.

Bill Maher

Republicans look to find the future and they find radio.

Aisha Tyler

So much of a stand-up's life is doing live radio and having to be funny and quick on the spot with these strangers, and sort of surgical in terms of how funny I can be in three minutes.

Billy Gibbons

In 1950, the biggest amp you could get was no bigger than a tabletop radio.

Michael R. Bloomberg

making sure there are things going on that are unpredictable.

Mike Holmgren

Let's just wait on that and make sure what's written and what's said is correct.

Andrew Burke

Look. We will give you the servers. We will give you the DRM. We will give you the middleware within the box. And we'll make sure that all of those work effectively together.

Josh Beekman

Now they want to be sure when you come in that you're going to graduate.

Larry Bloom

When he has time off, he isn't really sure what to do with it. He's a little lost.

Kenneth Lay

I did everything I could humanly do during this time. Did I make mistakes? I'm sure I did.

Jeff Hanna

If anything, it was, 'Are you sure you want to do this?',

John Currie

We need to make sure they all understand that this is a different Northeastern than it was 20 years ago,

Joe Wineke

We need to make sure our vote is out there.

John Dingell

Let's look at the system. First, the characteristics they're talking about they say is a fingerprint. In fact, it's more like a tire print.

Tom Coughlin

Let's talk about winning. Let's talk about winning first before we talk about anything else,

Jack Ford

mediated. We still talk about her every day, but she's doing better.

Lindy Ruff

No, no. We haven't talked about that. Until you're in, you're not in.

Felipe Alou

No, no, no, I don't want to talk about Bonds. I'll see you later.

Richard Flanagan

My father, unusually for a PoW, talked about his experiences, but he talked about them in a very limited way.

Kenneth Rice

No, I didn't want to talk about that.

Eddie Perez

No, you don't talk enough to be boring.

Chris Cornell

I'm not usually in a talkative mode.