Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mamie Van Doren

Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield and I were so different from each other. I was doing very young movies, and Marilyn, who was ahead of me, was doing a lot of homogenized movies that weren't quite as wild as the ones I was doing. Jayne was more of a character of herself.

Keith Lawrence

We're not doing anything special to market them. We're trying to go ahead with business as usual in pretty unusual circumstances.

D. B. Weiss

Man, 'Hill Street Blues' was on when I was 12, and I remember feeling I'd never seen anything like it. It was that far ahead of its time, with dark characters you loved.

Mike Chapman

Manhattan Associates was ahead of the curve in being able to show us how its RFID solutions would meet our needs. With the help of Manhattan Associates' project team, the implementation was smooth and came in under budget. Shire is poised and ready to meet upcoming retail requirements.

Frank Brothers

Like everyone else, I knew there was a possibility Jerry might not ride the whole winter, but I told him before the meet began that as long as he was still riding and the horse was doing well he'd have the mount. At the moment, Edgar has the call for the Hutcheson and we've committed to nothing else beyond that point. In this game you never want to get too far ahead of yourself.

Roger Martin

Luigi's chose to go ahead and do this on its own. I think it's incumbent upon those of us who don't smoke to support businesses that have gone smoke-free, whether they think they have to or they volunteered.

Steve Elkington

Major-championship golf, you're just really concentrating on more or less the shot you're trying to hit, ... If you get too far ahead of that, you don't seem to do too well.

Kirk Salvo

Mack spent the whole ride taping his ankles and his headgear and visualizing. He's a step ahead of other high school wrestlers, but you would never know it from talking to him or watching him on the mat. He's so humble and a real class act.

Kevin Correia

Making the rotation is my goal. Today I was able to get ahead of most of the hitters and that makes for short innings. That's been a problem for me the past few years.

Lewis Carroll

Make a remark,' said the Red Queen; 'it's ridiculous to leave all the conversation to the pudding!

Phil Klay

Less than 1 percent of American have served in 12 years of war, and serious public conversation about military policy is sorely lacking.

Stephen Marley

Music is like a conversation. One person says one thing that speaks with a harmonica, with a bass, with a drum. They're all conversating, and we're just trying to find a way to make conversation rather than blah, blah, blah. But it's not really so hard a thing to do if you know the way to approach it.

Eleanor Roosevelt

No, I don't. Well, I mean, she's here, she's a presence, but we haven't been able to have a conversation.

Tom Renney

We had a very professional conversation. It was not any kind of confrontation, it was just sharing thoughts.

Andy Cole

When I have a conversation with anybody, I do look deep into them,

Daniel Portman

I'm a point of conversation for my friends.

John Hopkins

Get the lead and help the customer move forward in their purchase decision. Convert the customer shopping online into a referral, the referral into a telephone conversation, the conversation into an appointment and the appointment into a sale.

Skip Bertman

Fresno State is one of the top teams we're looking at. I think our last conversation with them was pretty positive, but I wouldn't say it's done until ESPN finishes talking with them. We need ESPN to cooperate and pay them some money.

Dave Adams

If one thing's not working, you can go to another thing. The defense has to honor the motion. We kind of wait to see what they do with our motion, and if they jumping over on that side, we can come back the other way with a counter play.

Frank Gaffney

One of the most important post-9/11 efforts made to counter terrorism and the spread of weapons of mass destruction is President Bush's Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI).

Maajid Nawaz

I have founded Khudi, in Pakistan, a youth movement which tries to counter extremist ideology through healthy discussion and debate.

Mike Tkach

Traditionally, they're strong. They're going to trap and counter us to death.

Greg Boyle

Gangs are bastions of conditional love, and one of the ways to counteract it is to offer community, which will always trump gang, and that's what happens at Homeboy Industries.

Wolfman Jack

I don't want people mistreating me. I found out when you're vulnerable and your heart's open, then people step on you. You're really stupid for letting that happen. And the only way to counteract that is to be like Wolfman Jack. Because if you do nice, kind things for people, then how are they going to mess you over?

Theo Jansen

In a way, Strandbeests have turned into migration animals, and the step counter gives them an idea of where they are. While counting their steps, they know more or less where they are between Kijkduin and Scheveningen.

Nicholas Johnson

Taxing poor families runs counter to decades of effort to help people lift themselves out of poverty through work.

Joe Johnson

We've been having letdowns in the fourth quarter. They made a little run, but we managed to come back and counteract it with our own run. I thought we played big in the fourth quarter.

Ed DeChellis

Last year, they knew exactly what they were doing. This year, this guy's starting, that guy's starting, probably because that's just the way it is. They're trying to find the right mixture.

David Cobb

Many people still don't know exactly what Goodwill does for the community. We are trying to pair local faces with our mission.

Ray Allen

Mike would spend the night at the house. We'd stay up late and then get up in the morning and go to practice. Everything he did just emulated exactly what I was doing out there on the floor and you see what he can do now.

John Kelly

Mr. Simpson, isn't this exactly what happened on June 12, 1994?

Emily Oster

Much of what I do in my job is think about whether relationships we see in data are causal, as opposed to just reflecting correlations. It's exactly these issues which come up in evaluating studies in public health.

Gwen Stefani

(My inspiration) was so strong with 'Love. Angel. Music. Baby.. I knew exactly what I wanted to do, and it was just like I had such a fire of inspiration.

Doug Trantham

One of the things I actually learned to some extent from Doc Watson most of us hate amplification anyway, and I think a lot of people tend not to spend a lot of time working with that. He won't start until the sound is right, and that's exactly what he needs to do.

Richard Greene

No one can say what exactly is going to happen.

Joan Collins

My father is Jewish, and I look exactly like him... My mother is British, but she's of French extraction.

William M. Thackeray

When we say of a gentleman that he lives elegantly on nothing a year, we use the word "nothing" to signify something unknown; meaning, simply, that we don't know how the gentleman in question defrays the expenses of his establishment.

Marguerite Cotto

We have worked very hard to reduce expenses through all the units.

Frederic Bastiat

It's always tempting to do good at someone else's expense

Alan Kopit

Three to six months' worth of savings for living expenses is the minimum every household should have, no matter its income. Any less can leave people vulnerable to serious financial woes if they hit unexpected difficulties, like a job loss or medical problem. It's a good habit for all working people to put away a reasonable portion of their take-home pay into some form of liquid savings.

Nick Clements

We did get our last paychecks, and I did receive part of the travel expenses that are owed to me. I am waiting to see if they are going to reimburse me for the rest of my travel expenses.

Steve Carter

I wouldn't recommend they try to make more money with a second job, since living paycheck-to-paycheck is already stressful, and they have a young child. Instead, they'll need to reduce their expenses as much as they can.

Mitch Roob

This was not intended to pay him more money - it's intended to pay him the expenses he has with us.

Lori Lucas

Retiree medical expenses are the big wild card. Most people will probably spend a lot more on medical expenses when they retire.

Ken Joyce

Our goal is for 2006 SG&A expenses to be $25 to $30 million lower than in 2005.

Atal Vajpayee

many proposals for verification, of which joint patrolling is one.

Jamie Rodriguez

I feel good. It was a joint effort.

Igor Luksic

Though many people said there is no joint border between Turkey and Montenegro, it feels like we are next to each other. We are in the same neighborhood.

Alexander Lebed

The peace process is in motion. The joint patrols are working; local commanders have started to withdraw troops.

Elizabeth Janeway

Mistrust must be acted on, and effective action by the ruled is not solitary and singular, but joint and repeated.

Cilla Black

I did smoke a joint once but I did not enjoy it.

Aquilino Pimentel

There are at least two more witnesses ready to testify before the joint committees,

Kong Quan

We will push for new progress at these talks. The key is to come up with constructive measures to put the joint statement into action.

Darren Hayes

I used to wash up the dishes as C3PO. And it's very hard to put cups away when this joint doesn't bend! Mum was very tolerant...

Olusegun Obasanjo

We need to negotiate with other groups, unless our objective is to prevent any decision.

John Findlay

If they don't give us the information, we can't negotiate properly with them,

Mark Shapiro

If we can't get something done by the end of spring training, we'll stop. We will not negotiate during the season.

Madeline Albright

We are not going to negotiate with him,

Keith Rothfus

I'm a transactional lawyer; I negotiate all types of things, but with a particular focus in software licenses.

Al Lenza

We'd like to get to a point where the kiosks could actually negotiate the compensation a passenger will get and rebook the flight.

Mark Russell

We were able to negotiate terms outside the quoted rate.

Robert Kiyosaki

It's tough to negotiate from a position of weakness.

Mike Boyd

Unions don't give in easily. It's going to be ugly, and Parker can't do much about it but negotiate with the winner.

Neel Mukherjee

Innocence is a pretty dangerous thing, you know. Revisit Dostoevsky's 'The Idiot' or, for that matter, Greene's 'The Quiet American' to find out how destructive it can be.

Robert Osborne

I think there's something about traveling in airplanes all the time that's not the healthiest thing in the world for you.

Albert Schweitzer

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.

Jerry Costello

Make no mistake, our troops will be in Afghanistan and Iraq for a long time.

Jack Rio

So it was a valuable time for us.

Scott Ellis

My first time ever on the Tony Awards was in 1984, the year of 'The Rink.'

Anwar Robinson

One Moment in Time because I think it describes me as a person and how I felt about being on the show.

Rick DiPietro

Obviously, you're going to have jitters the first time you play in this event, but at the end of the day, it's still the same game.

Phil Lesh

Of course, in the band, we all interpreted in our own way simultaneously, so this time I'm just going to do it all by myself and see what comes out.

Denise Bottcher

No one got confirmation that she was napping. There was no time for napping.