Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elton Brand

We have a winning record and that is a big thing for us. It feels good, but we still have a lot more to accomplish. It is a milestone we want to check off. I am just glad the organization has put the pieces around us so that we can learn and compete at the highest level.

Charles Collins

We have removed 44 lenders for that. We find out about it from consumers, other lenders or our own software that checks whether their rates are within a reasonable guideline of profitability.

Melissa Baker

The eye doctor that I was going to since I was 7, for eight years never checked the pressure in my eye. If he had, my eye would have been saved.

Assemblyman Merkt

The reality is that this has become a game. It's done because pollsters say it's highly effective to send out a check with your name on it just before the election.

David Nelson

The outlook for the farmer owners is tremendously bright. They will receive nice checks in the mail in the next few months, and we will then look forward to communicating with our members about new opportunities.

Ted Ligety

I'm very involved in Shred, constantly checking in on something. It takes a lot of time. But it has let me leverage who I am as an athlete into a product.

Edward Ruscha

When I drive, I check out everything I see, and just taking in all those observations helps me think. So I draw and write a lot as I drive, and I know that's dangerous, but I manage to do it off to the side, with my notes on the seat.

Lupita Nyong'o

I give myself homework when I have an audition. I give myself goals, and that's how I check how I'm doing. It can be something simple like 'listen,' or 'find your feet.' And then afterward it's an assessment, so in a way it's not about booking the job or not. It's about what I learned as an actor about that character.

Kourtney Kardashian

I wouldn't say I'm strict. I love to communicate with my kids, and I constantly check in and try to talk things through instead.

R. Robinson

We want it for ourselves, the club and especially the fans. We know how much it means to everyone.

Tim Anderson

We wanted to try to get all the way to the clubhouse and settle it on the last hole and we got there.

Ron Gardenhire

We were trying to get him to come back into the clubhouse where he was the greatest leader I've ever seen. He wanted to do it.

Charlie Chaplin

I will not join any club who will take me as a member.

Simon Hawkins

We have respect for Matt and his coaching. These things happen. Six years at an NRL club is a long time.

Judah Friedlander

When I'm not filming anything or on the road doing stand-up, I'm usually doing stand-up shows every night - usually a few shows a night at different clubs in the city.

Laura Hunter

We set up a hazardous waste collection site down by the football field. It's a good way to get the club out there.

Tom Scholz

I can tell you that I can always recognize a Boston song, even if it's in a noisy place. I can hear that it's Boston even before I know what song it is. If a Boston song comes on in a club or somewhere, I notice that it's Boston, and the second thing I notice is what song it is.

Thomas Dooley

A lot of kids do not know my club exists yet. I did not do any big advertising, and that's what I might do in the next two or three weeks, put something in the paper.

Charlotte Simonsen

We have never marketed ourselves as a Danish product, we see ourselves as an international brand.

Agnes de Mille

To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.

Agnes de Mille

Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.

Agnes de Mille

Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.

Agnes de Mille

The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.

Agnes de Mille

If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs - don't pay any attention to its politicians.

Agnes de Mille

Dance constitutes a true recapturing of... freedom and childish play.

Agnes de Mille

The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one's feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously.

Agnes de Mille

When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience. I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.

Carlos Fuentes

Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me.

Sam Morris

We want to remove organic material from the municipal solid waste stream and divert it to a higher and better use.

Charlie Gonzalez

Diversity for the sake of diversity is not an accomplishment or a step forward. It's what you bring to the table.

Charlie Chaplin

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.

Jeff Burton

The fact is, our sport is not as diverse as it needs to be.

Vanessa Duenas

When I dive into the pool, I go for it. I'm in there at most, five minutes a whole meet, so I give it all I've got.

Tracy Morgan

I have a pretty diverse audience, and that makes me happy - laughter is universal, and I don't differentiate between people at all. Why should I? People are people. There's no reason why one person can't relate to any other person on this planet in some way or another.

Jason Alderman

Until divers go down and actually examine the rigs and engineers can make estimates on the repair times, we just won't know.

David Puttnam

What is certain is that plurality and diversity are not, and never can be, a natural 'byproduct' of unregulated market forces.

Charles Edison

He [Thomas Edison] considered [money] as a raw material, like metal, to be used rather than amassed, and so he kept plowing his funds into new projects. Several times he was all but bankrupt. But he refused to let dollar signs govern his actions.

Michael Schultz

The expression 'livin' large' is taken from the rap vernacular, inspired by Donald Trump, who made the big dollars and flaunted them.

Tom Tryon

The reality is, we can't sustain ourselves with property tax dollars because the state is taking so much money away from counties,

David Kyambadde

We shall make an initial injection of 50,000 U.S. dollars into the project.

Shia LaBeouf

Once you make a studio 700 million dollars or so, or whatever the insane number is, then they finally seem to trust you, no matter how off-the-wall your project is.

Brian Wilson

I'd earned over a million dollars by the time I was old enough to vote.

Cindy Mydland

We know for a fact that there's a lot of medical expense dollars leaving Brookings County. A lot of them were already Sioux Valley patients, quite honestly, and they were driving to Sioux Falls.

David Mixner

Pharmaceutical companies have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in new HIV/AIDS treatments not out of altruism but because they can make up those research costs in sales.

Cher

I never cared about money. I'm not destined to be a rich woman. I'm destined to be a woman who makes a lot of money and never has any. I've made millions and millions and millions of dollars and I just spend it.

Carlos Beltran

When he finally learns to exhale, and let the game come to him.

Khaled Suleiman

There are a lot of difficulties, but finally we will succeed.

Mark Adamo

When I finally found that notion of Jo, I found the structure of the opera,

Scott Skiles

We know we're not a title-contending team right now, but in the history of teams winning titles they tend to take their lumps for a little while before they finally get there.

Johnny Weir

Now the fact that people are saying, 'Oh my God, he's finally come out' - I was never in.

Louise Slaughter

Through persistent dedication, Susan B. Anthony, and other remarkable leaders, women were finally granted the right to vote in 1920.

H. Hart

We are pleased to finally restore a more competitive schedule into and out of Yuma.

Darin Erstad

We're happy that spring training is finally over. It's always fun to get the season under way and to keep score for real.

Julie Futch

We're gonna go all the way. We're finally in sync. We're finally rolling. It's our time.

Brian Schweitzer

When he goes out to meet people, he doesn't come off real,

Charles de Lint

We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on.

Jessica Biel

When I'm working and I eat healthily all week, then I give myself one day - usually Sunday - when I eat just what I want. You have to; otherwise, your mind goes a little nutso.

Uzo Aduba

I grew up in a very small town in Massachusetts, and it goes without saying that there weren't many Nigerian families in that town, and a lot of people couldn't say Uzoamaka.

Jimmy Swaggart

I don't appreciate a preacher who commits adultery and then goes out and blames me.

Bill Brewer

We want that little patch that goes on our (letter) jackets.

John Fredriksen

When the market goes to hell, it's more of an opportunity than a problem.

Janice Dickinson

I was Versace's muse, I was Valentino's muse, I was Alaia's muse, Lancetti's muse, Calvin Klein's, Halston's. I could go on and on.

Alan Paton

It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.

John Irving

I wasn't afraid of anything until I had a kid. Then I was terrified because immediately I could imagine a hundred ways in which I could not protect him.

William Faulkner

Why that's a hundred miles away. That's a long way to go just to eat.

David Ricardo

Whether a bank lent one million, ten million, or a hundred millions, they would not permanently alter the market rate of interest; they would alter only the value of the money they issued.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

YEAR, n. A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.

Isla Fisher

Women one hundred percent support each other in the movie industry.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

And for well over a hundred years our politicians, statesmen, and people remembered that this was a republic, not a democracy, and knew what they meant when they made that distinction.

Mark Jensen

We've registered several hundred players in just a month and a half. We're quite pleased with the results of the soft launch.

Shirley Franklin

Nobody's ever been in this situation, at least not in a hundred years. So I think he's performed incredibly,

Kimberly Nelson

One hundred percent will still be reported under the change. All we lose is some of the details.

Dan Miller

People will come anyway, the reason to get involved is to keep impacts positive.

Jim Wooldridge

I don't know where Blalock is going to end up in the voting, but I really like him. (Curtis) Stinson made his name a little quicker, but (Blalock) impacts their team more than anybody.

Judd Gregg

We all have genes. This is a universal issue. It is something that impacts everyone.

Simon Flannery

The quarter is likely to see a mix of positive and negative surprises, reflecting the impacts of mergers and competitive pressures respectively.

Thom McDaniels

I won't be shocked if he impacts the outcome.

Todd Barker

I think people are seeing that we recognize the impacts of those routes.

Angela Bassett

We don't take it lightly. It impacts us.

Trey Gowdy

When people in positions of trust mislead us - either recklessly, negligently or intentionally - that impacts the republic.

Peter Greene

The stock market is a discounting mechanism. Many people recently have seen their mortgages raised -- and many people have adjustable rate mortgages -- unfortunately they have been raised. Oil prices are at near highs. It impacts people's discretionary income. And I think we're seeing it in those stocks that would have a relationship to that discretionary income.

Aaron Sorkin

And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe.

John Harper

We want to try to get a better understanding of the lakes and their relation to the groundwater.

Charlaine Harris

I could just envision Sam imagining that I wanted him to go out to the lake with me, only to be confronted by Jannalynn and whatever she thought of as a romantic dinner -- live rabbits they could chase together, maybe.

John Ellinger

The positives are, there is a team in Salt Lake City. And the fans; we've been received.

Cory Jacobs

We are proud of what we've done because nobody has done what we've done at Lake Fenton for a long time.

Rudy Cruz

We're seeing moderate snowfall up in the Lake Tahoe area.

Benjamin Millepied

Swan Lake is the most difficult thing to portray for a female ballet dancer; it really requires such specific qualities of articulation, agility, strength, and the arm work is something that takes a lot of training.

Thomas Friedman

No matter where I go - London, Beirut, Jerusalem, Washington, Beijing, or Bangalore - I'm always looking to rediscover that land of ten thousand lakes where politics actually worked to make people's lives better, not pull them apart.

Paul Reid

We're going to find out a lot this week. Houghton Lake plays Clare, so we'll know more after Friday's games.

Nancy Talanian

We want the local police to do what they were meant to do -- protect their citizens.

David Dunn

Since Sept. 11, the local police, our role has changed, ... Before, we were worrying about burglaries, thefts.

Ryan Julison

She wants to support her local tournaments. We're disappointed, but we understand.

Jochen Zeitz

Unless the local community signs up, wildlife won't survive. And without wildlife, no one will visit.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

There are so many local nonprofits making a positive impact every day, and yet, oftentimes we don't hear enough about them or their needs.

Mary Mark

Make the most of your money. Use your local talent and try to have something for everyone's taste.

Martin Klein

People want to come to a local landmark, ... They want to be comfortable.

Adam Schiff

People want someone whose top priority is local concerns, not national, partisan, ideological crusades,

Larry Rogers

Ninety-five percent (of the workers) will be from the local area.

Agnes Smedley

I believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat. I would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.

Charlie Chaplin

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

Charles Dudley Warner

There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you.

Charles de Gaulle

I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money." (On Vietnam War)

Charles Caleb Colton

Riches may enable us to confer favors, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

Charles Caleb Colton

To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these the best; and how many evils there are that money will not remedy, and these the worst.

Charles Caleb Colton

Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.

Maribel Lopez

The reality is, this is where the money is at.

Conor McGregor

There is definitely an addiction to money that I have.

Ewen Bremner

As parents, I think we're always novices, and every day presents a new challenge.

Darin Lee

Murphysboro presents a whole different challenge. It's going to be a very, very tough sectional.

Alessandra Ambrosio

My little girl, Anja, is really excited. We had a baby shower yesterday and she took the presents from everyone for me and was telling them, 'No, it's my baby.'

Michael Watkins

I think the superintendent makes the recommendation, presents it and we vote on it.

Jim Crews

They switch some, they play a little zone, they play man. They look different all the time. That presents problems.

Mitch McConnell

We're not quietly killing it; we're proudly killing it. We're not apologizing for killing this unconstitutional bill." ()

Ryan Giggs

Records are not important to me at this stage and I don't consciously think about them, but they are something I will be able to look back on proudly when I have finished.

Joe Battista

We've spent the whole week working on defense. Everything we've been doing has been working on defense.

Roger Wilson

We've spent more time at the tent than at the games.

E. O. Wilson

We've spent a lot of time together. If it works out, it would be great.

George Chapman

We've spent $300,000 and it doesn't look much different.

Emma Thomas

We've spent almost ten years of our lives making 'Batman' films.

Libba Bray

I grew up doing theatre and spent a long time as a playwright. I still think very visually when I write.

Ernest Cline

I spent most of my childhood welded to my Atari 2600, until I got my first computer, a TRS-80.

Italo Calvino

I have spent more time with other people's books than with my own. I do not regret it.

Michael Heisley

I have spent my career making a difference with underperforming assets.

Abby Wambach

I'm not sure if I'm going to get into coaching. I'm sure I'll stay in soccer somehow.

Rick Adelman

We're just trying to make sure somebody's on him all the time.

Brooke Adams

With this one I just want to make sure it was OK.

Larry Bloom

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

Veronica Corpuz

We're going to try and work through this to make sure no more productions will be canceled or postponed.

I. Stone

What we're really trying to do is to make sure when they get to kindergarten, they are better prepared, because for many of them, there is nothing until they get to kindergarten.

Jamie Shea

When we are sure what happened, we will tell you what happened.

John Small

She didn't do the crime, but she sure can do the thyme!

Mike Holmgren

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

Agnes Varda

When I started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It's like when you start to jump and you put the pole very high - you have to jump very high. I thought, I have to use cinema as a language.

Adam Ferrara

When I walked in to read with Edie Falco, it was nice, because I auditioned in New York, and it was very quick. You walk in, there's Edie, the producers, the director, and a camera. I read three scenes, and it was done.

Byron Katie

I can find only three kinds of business in the Universe: mine, yours, and God's.

Jane Austen

But it is very foolish to ask questions about any young ladies — about any three sisters just grown up; for one knows, without being told, exactly what they are — all very accomplished and pleasing, and one very pretty. There is a beauty in every family. — It is a regular thing

Jamie Redknapp

Gareth Bale literally has three lungs

Alain Prost

In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place.

Chris Copeland

The three-ball is an easy shot if you're uncontested, but when they know you can shoot, it's a lot harder to get off.

Chiang Kai-shek

There are three essential factors in all human activity: spirit, materials, and action.

Bill Wright

The other three have really made strides. They're consistently getting better.