Famous Quotes & Sayings

E. O. Wilson

We know from Census Bureau surveys that something beyond a hundred thousand uses of guns for self-defense occur every year. We know from smaller surveys of a commercial nature that the number may be as high as two-and-a-half or three million. We don't know what the right number is, but whatever the right number is, it's not a trivial number.

Billy Beane

The perfect guy either might not be out there or beyond our (financial) means.

Herb Vincent

The people who met today aren't the people who work out the nitty-gritty details to make things happen. LSU will obviously be reimbursed for expenses and would not suffer financial losses from this arrangement. Beyond that, not a lot of details have been settled. They will emerge in the days to come.

Paul Kemp

There are some disasters beyond comprehension, and I think this is one of them.

Mark Kiesel

We still think inflation will be contained. The reality is the economy is going to slow sharply over the next three to six months, and that should keep the Fed from hiking beyond May.

Josh Bolten

We're in a transitional period, and I want to make sure I have a team in place that is with us for, at a minimum, the remainder of this year and to some extent beyond that.

Matt Lawton

We started out by looking at profitability, but we found by talking with partners, they viewed their business performance in a number of dimensions that goes beyond simple net profits.

Nico Melendez

Why someone would leave $4,000 in their checked luggage is beyond me. Why don't they just take the $4,000 and leave it on the seat at Aloha Stadium during a football game and let somebody pick it up? Because that's essentially what they did.

Tom Rath

When you tell people at a convention that you're from New Hampshire, they tend to hold on to your hand a little longer and look into your eyes a little deeper, ... But beyond that, there was no overt, 'Are you with me if I go?'

Jedd Gould

We want to try to bring services to our community that would not otherwise be here.

Don Reynolds

We want to take the concept as big as we can. To really ramp the company up and roll it out the way we want to, we really wanted to take some time and bring somebody in of this caliber.

Ellie Radke

We knew they were bringing down some fan buses. But we didn't think there would be that many.

Steve Fisk

We knew they'd bring a lot of pressure, and we had to come and handle it.

E. O. Wilson

We know where we stand and where we are. Why bring it up? It's the past. That happened last year.

Tony Pulis

We know where the frailties within the squad are. It's all about being given the opportunity to try and improve the squad. Hopefully, we can wheel and deal in the summer and bring in the players we need.

Jeff Jillson

We know we have to play better at home, but overall we need to play better. We're going on a long road trip next week, and these two games at home are very important. We have to defend our home ice and bring a lot of energy to these two games.

Leroy Hill

We know we have to bring everything. Put our big-boy pads on and bring him down.

Steve Carroll

We know every team's out to get us. We have a target on our chest. Every team is trying to get revenge on us. We know that, now that we're in league, everybody's bringing their A game.

A. Hodge

There are some businesses that have weeds and grass growing in front of the lots, cars with flat tires and cars parked on the sidewalks. We want to encourage the owners of the property to take care of that and clean up in front of their places.

M. Hardman

We started back then and then worked on getting the support of the city council. The most important fact was that the businesses in downtown supported us. Out of the 24 businesses in downtown, 22 supported us.

Nick Woodman

I grew up with stories of people who start their own businesses and do really well. So I thought, 'OK, that's what you do.' I can thank my dad for that.

Brent Hayes

We've got hopefully a couple of new businesses that will be in the mall by early spring.

Tom Eid

There is no one-size-fits-all approach, because all businesses are not set up to run the same way.

Mike Strecker

When we got our students back, the population of New Orleans increased by 10 to 20 percent. A lot of businesses pegged their openings to the return of our students. We expect the students to be a big part of rebuilding.

Ken Stein

We'll be counting on the continued generosity of businesses and individuals to hit our fundraising goals, but we can sure promise them a priceless entertainment experience and opportunity to help the community in this time of need.

Michael Alter

We'll see small businesses growing around all of this.

Sung Sohn

What's lacking is confidence, so businesses aren't spending the money they have, ... That's why I don't necessarily think it takes a huge fiscal stimulus package to get the economy moving.

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.

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.

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.

Chris Carmack

I really do love the theater and as you get deeper into your career, it gets harder to carve out the time to do theater.

Chord Overstreet

I always knew I wanted to have a good career, so I made it happen.

Charlie Daniels

Just take them rascals [rapists, killers, child abusers] out in the swamp / Put 'em on their knees and tie 'em to a stump / Let the rattlers and the bugs and the alligators do the rest,

Charlie Chaplin

Hair is vitally personal to children. They weep vigorously when it is cut for the first time; no matter how it grows, bushy, straight or curly, they feel they are being shorn of a part of their personality.

Charles W. Pickering

In addition to fines, violators of decency standards could be required to air public service announcements serving educational and informational needs of children.

Charles de Lint

How hard would it be to ask children what they see in their heads? How big should the house be in comparison to the family standing in front of it? What is it about the anatomy of the people that doesn't look right? Then let them try it again. Teach them to learn how to see and ask questions.

Charles de Lint

Most children are given far too much praise for their early drawings, so much so that they rarely learn the ability to refine their first crude efforts the way their early attempts at language are corrected.

Charles de Lint

The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.

Charles de Lint

It is so easy for your people to forget that everything has a spirit, that all are equal. That magic and mystery are a part of your lives, not something to store away in a child's bedroom, or to use as an escape from your lives.

Charles Dickens

And what an example of the power of dress young Oliver Twist was! Wrapped in the blanket which had hitherto formed his only covering, he might have been the child of a nobleman or a beggar;—it would have been hard for the haughtiest stranger to have fixed his station in society. But now he was enveloped in the old calico robes, that had grown yellow in the same service; he was badged and ticketed, and fell into his place at once—a parish child—the orphan of a workhouse—the humble, half-starved drudge—to be cuffed and buffeted through the world, despised by all, and pitied by none.

Charles Dickens

For not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent's love.

Cynthia Price

We know women influence up to 85 percent of all (auto) purchases. We decided to create an event that's a more relevant experience for women.

Lawrence Awe

We know we've got to create time out of no time.

Deirdre O'Kane

Waiting to be hired, as an actor, especially, is soul-destroying... There is always something you can do... Create something, a play reading... Anything. But don't rely on other people to come to you. Put yourself out there.

Don McCoy

Venus is extremely inhospitable for life, whereas Earth is a great place to live. If these planets were created about the same time, why would Earth take on such a different character?

Thomas Kristensen

Vendors can take months to create patches, and sometimes users grumble about that, ... But the alternative is to have patches that can be circumvented or aren't appropriate for the vulnerability. It's a difficult balance.

Lisa Jakub

What was really wonderful about the 'Doubtfire' shoot is that we had this really long rehearsal period in the beginning. That was a great time to get to know each other. We got to know each other and to create the family vibe. So we really didn't have to force it.

Michael Steele

The federal government has never created one job that is sustainable long term. It creates government project work but not creating real work where people are.

Ghazi Hamad

The position of the (Interior Ministry) general inspector was not created by the government, it had been there before the new government was formed.

John Brown

the people who create it want the most to protect it.

Akio Morita

While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.

David Selby

When you succeed at creating your own world, whether it's in any realm - like Tolkien was able to do - and people are able to enter that world, it's a special thing.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

Digital imaging allows both groups to rise above the limitations of mess and clutter and mechanics, and apply our talents to creating images limited only by our imaginations.

Zeev Boim

We are making another turn by creating these zones, hoping the message will be learnt and that the launching squads will be stopped, but if there will be no alternative will have to turn it again.

Mitch Lasky

We are at a point in the video game industry that the industry is hollowed out. It is out of touch with the zeitgeist, creating sequels and formulaic games over and over again. The energy comes from the indies.

Marvin Avery

We started out slow with our defensive pressure, but we were creating a lot of turnovers, and we shut them down.

Heinrich Rohrer

Scientific fraud, plagiarism, and ghost writing are increasingly being reported in the news media, creating the impression that misconduct has become a widespread and omnipresent evil in scientific research.

Eddie Izzard

I am someone who's very positive about business, as a social Democrat. I do like the safety net of the welfare system and people setting things and creating business, and that's what I try to do with my own work: export it around the world from the U.K.

Beau Willimon

When you're creating new roles out of scratch in my opinion working with the actors is a great asset. You can learn a lot from that.

Alan Greenspan

Whatever you tax you get less of.

Alan Autry

While it is true that we must seek value added industries like food processing plants and call center operations, we must do what is necessary to expand and develop our economic profile.

Adnan Badran

We want to strengthen the commercial, economic relationship,

David Suzuki

The current economic system is fundamentally flawed and inevitably destructive.

Stephen Leeb

We are probably on the verge of an economic recovery.

Zeng Peiyan

We are at the stage of economic development where we do not have the luxury to be wasteful,

Mary Farrell

We are at a moment here in economic time that things are really going remarkably well on virtually all fronts and that's why you see the market at all-time highs.

David Briggs

We're in a narrow range, moving around about 1 percent over the last three days, and it looks like the markets are waiting for some economic figures or waiting on oil because there's really no reason to push anything now.

Ed Asner

I will always have enough money to last the rest of my life...as long as I don't buy anything.

Caryl Chessman

I am not generally regarded as a pleasant or socially minded fellow.

Charles Spurgeon

We must all learn to hear what we do not like. The question is not, 'Is it pleasant?' but, 'Is it true?'

Charles Bukowski

There's nothing else as pleasant as being unpleasant when there's nothing else to do, and there's usually nothing else to do.

Tyler Walker

(Friday) has been a pleasant day all around.

Dan Hartleb

He is so successful because he's such a competitor. I can't say I'm surprised he's doing this, but it's pleasant to see.

Richard Lies

I was pleasantly surprised after about the first day or two. I could see that it was going to go just fine.

Dave Beeler

I was actually pleasantly surprised with how well we did (in cold, wet conditions).

David Graham

On paper,we should be fifth, sixth or seventh. The reality is, they have the potential to be a pleasant surprise.

Dr. Seuss

A Wasn’t just isn't. He just isn't present. But you… You ARE YOU! And, now isn't that pleasant!

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.

Byron Katie

Sleep just gives the ego a little time out. It has to stay strong in order to be something that it isn't.

Francois Bozize

We are a hospitable country, which is why Jean-Bertrand Aristide is here. And he will stay here for a while.

Blanka Vlasic

Sometimes your disappointments make you a stronger person for the future.

Dean Cain

I did this film for less money than it costs to stay in this hotel. We shot it in 20 days. We couldn't screw up takes for fun because we didn't have enough film.

Bobby Orr

Staying out of the penalty box will really help.

Avril Lavigne

Keep holding on, cause you know we'll make it through. We'll make it through. Just stay strong, cause you know I'm here for you. I'm here for you. There's nothing you could say. Nothing you could do. There's no other way when it comes to the truth, but keep holding on, cause you know we'll make it through.

Demi Lovato

Every single day is a battle to stay strong.

Demi Lovato

Use the voice that you were given. Shout what you believe in from the top of your lungs. Never let anyone quiet you.

Demi Lovato

Be who you are and don't allow anyone to affect the confidence you have in your individuality.

Alan Rickman

Los Angeles is not a town full of airheads. There's a great deal of wonderful energy there.

Beau Bridges

As an actor, I travel around a lot and live in a lot of hotels, and many times I've been in a town where the only entertainment to be had is what you find in the hotel bar or lobby.

Ben Bernanke

I come from Main Street, from a small town that's really depressed.

Bette Midler

Melbourne is the kind of town that really makes you consider the question 'Is there life after death?

Charles Kuralt

You know, most reporters can't go back to the towns they wrote stories about. I never wrote that kind of story.

Amanda Walker

With no students, the town is pretty quiet.

Hannah Baldwin

We're just a little town that did things that were unheard of at the time.

Edward Abbey

When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.

Charles Bukowski

I broke that town in half like a wooden match.

Charles Dickens

My heart is set, as firmly as ever heart of man was set on woman. I have no thought, no view, no hope, in life beyond her; and if you oppose me in this great stake, you take my peace and happiness in your hands, and cast them to the wind.

Charles Spurgeon

A high character might be produced, I suppose, by continued prosperity, but it has very seldom been the case. Adversity, however it may appear to be our foe, is our true friend; and, after a little acquaintance with it, we receive it as a precious thing - the prophecy of a coming joy. It should be no ambition of ours to traverse a path without a thorn or stone.

Alan Clark

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Diane von Furstenberg

The little black dress is the true friend...she travels with you...is patient and constant...you go to her when you don't know where else to go and she is ALWAYS reliable and timeless.

David Mitchell

True knowledge without xperience is food without sustenance

Byron Katie

The WORK 1.Is it true? 2.Can you absolutely know that it's true? 3.How do you react when you think that thought? 4.Who would you be without the thought?

Billy Joel

Well I never had a place that I could call my very own/That's all right, my love, 'cause you're my home.

Audrey Hepburn

True friends are families which you can select.

Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

In dread fear of sentimentality, another thing true is not said-that for its staff the paper is a source of pride and, I do believe, an object of affection and-yes, love.