Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kofi Annan

We know from experience that if the international community does not support these control measures now, the potential cost to the world will be much higher in the long term. Past outbreaks have already cost more than $10 billion in economic losses.

Jiang Zemin

The people will always remember him, ... We have 1.2 billion people, but the life of every Chinese person is precious.

Sean Wargo

We are projecting an increase in sales of MP3 players to $4.5 billion in 2006, with 30 percent of all MP3 players sold having video playback capability.

Saparmurat Niyazov

We are prepared to supply 30-40 billion cu m of gas to China.

Shripad Tuljapurkar

We studied different countries around the world that are representative of different situations and took a look at where they'd end up. One thing that happens right away, which nobody seems to have thought of, is that the total global population increases dramatically. From an original projection of 8 billion we end up topping out at 10 to 11 billion. In many countries, this would have an enormous, and not necessarily positive, impact. For example, the idea that China would go from 1.5 to 1.8 billion, just because of this, is a bit frightening.

Bob Gammage

There are businesses in our state that make billions and pay no taxes at all.

Peter Feinstein

We're interested in watching the next phase of high-rise condos going up, and we're interested in seeing how the Stardust comes together with their new $4 billion product. We have cash flow we can sit on while we're watching the market.

Jeff Kinney

We're incredibly excited to welcome the 500 millionth Poptropican into our virtual world. When we started in 2007, we never could have imagined that we'd see a day when half a billion avatars inhabited Poptropica.

Sy Montgomery

We split from our common ancestor with the octopus half a billion years ago. And yet, you can make friends with an octopus.

Jason Silva

We live in a world where, for whatever reason, the conversations that tend to stick are the ones where 'if it bleeds, it leads.' But we've always been afraid of new technologies in spite of the fact that they've helped improve our lives in countless ways.

Michelle Malkin

Low point of the address: Maybe it's just me, but isn't there something tacky about having the leader of the free world reading a phone number from the teleprompter? Also, it's been three weeks and they're only now publicizing a number for Katrina families looking for missing relatives? Nowpublic.com and countless other sites like it were up and running by 9am on Aug. 30. Just saying...

Kyrie Irving

I've worked countless hours in the gym, so I feel like I'm already prepared for the game. So when I'm listening to music pregame, it's really just about personal enjoyment.

Dule Hill

I go back five generations in Jamaica. My dad grew up in Port Royal, and my mom grew up in Kingston. My family is from the country like West Moreland and also in Manchester. I've been there countless times. As far as cuisine, there's not really much that comes out of Jamaica that's on a plate that I don't like.

Nicolle Wallace

He loves his rug. I've heard him describe it countless times.

Prince Charles

My sentiments today are those of a proud and loving son, who hopes that you will join with me in wishing the queen the happiest of happy birthdays, together with the fervent prayer that there will be countless memorable returns of the day.

Dan Goldin

We have only 44 launches to go and about a thousand hours of spacewalks and countless problems and countless issues.

Jim Hendry

Nobody is here at the park longer than Larry. And the pitchers recognize that. He spends countless hours trying to make them better mechanically and mentally.

James Snyder

I'm an actor, and I think some of us who are drawn to this work know what it is to desperately want to be loved and validated: to be good at something and not be able to do it; to come in second on countless projects; or told that you were the first choice, but the part went to that guy who had that TV show in the '90s.

Ben Casnocha

I'm just the smallest dot in a big map of human history.

Jeffrey Gruen

There are a lot of dots to connect. This is a first report.

Shelley Hearne

The reality is that if a pandemic hits, it's not just a health emergency. It's the big one. It requires big thinking to make sure all those dots are connected. Katrina was a wake-up call.

Tom Wolfe

I used to enjoy using dots where they would be least expected, not at the end of a sentence but in the middle, creating the effect... of a skipped beat. It seemed to me the mind reacted - first!... in dots, dashes, and exclamation points, then rationalized, drew up a brief, with periods.

Damon Lindelof

Connecting dots is not that rewarding of an experience.

Sigmar Polke

I love all dots. I am married to many of them. I want all dots to be happy. Dots are my brothers. I am a dot myself.

David Byrne

Everything's intentional. It's just filling in the dots.

Jim Nall

Everyone is really trying a whole host of a lot of things to try to do this. It's a problem that a lot of DOTs are working on.

Lennox Yearwood

They didn't have Internet. They didn't have e-mail blasts. Martin didn't have a BlackBerry. But they still got thousands of people out to a place. The dots have to be connected.

Alan Paton

Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.

Al Pacino

The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.

Andrew Coates

Venus provides an extreme test for the atmospheric physics models that we have for Earth.

Kevin Baines

Venus has a lot of lessons to teach the Earth about how things could go awry.

Allan Paull

Ultimately we hope to be able to use it to launch satellites into low-Earth orbit.

David Mitchell

Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman.

David Sze

Every social network on Earth pitches me, and I say no to nearly every single one of them.

David Suzuki

It's not unexpected that shooting massive amounts of water, sand, and chemicals at high pressure into the earth to shatter shale and release natural gas might shake things up. But earthquakes aren't the worst problem with fracking.

David Suzuki

For the first time since life appeared on earth, one species- us- is single-handedly altering the physical, chemical and biological nature of earth. We have become a force of nature

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.

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.

Dennis Flynn

We talked about this a hundred times ... how do you stop a V-bed?

Jonathan Joseph

We totally and one hundred percent sign off on 'the semiconductor sector is recovering' theory, ... There were a lot of analysts saying they were going to reduce the range. Midpoint is a victory.

Turkish Proverb

Listen a hundred times; ponder a thousand times; speak once.

Kyle Brown

That would have been meant a lot. Seven hundred and one yards, that's a lot. That's something special. Just think if we don't make some of the mistakes that we did.

Kevin Kwan

I go to Shenzhen, China, and am taken to a vast luxury spa with a hundred leather recliners and a hundred accompanying plasma screen televisions bolted to the ceiling.

Dana Martell

We want to show that even though someone may be different on the outside, they still understand how you feel. Maybe the same thing makes you smile or is your reason for waking up.

Mike Shula

We know we're in for a tough one, maybe the toughest one all year.

Mike Davis

We know D.J. is out indefinitely and maybe out for the season.

Andrew Wallace

We are going to see some recovery in the economy, but maybe not as much as some people expected.

Richard Money

We still need a point, maybe two, to be sure of being in the top four.

Ed Gillespie

We are seeing at the Republican National Committee a phenomenon that is worth noting this week; maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, we will have a million first time donors since the president took office.

Al Bagnoli

We were trying to replace some very talented kids. He was trying to replace the player of the year, which is never easy. Maybe our expectations were not what they should have been. I think he had a productive year, even though it was somewhat inconsistent to Mike Mitchell and Gavin Hoffman.

Tyler Cowen

Most of us are not pure self-starters; most people need role models, they need coaches, they need exemplars, they maybe need some discipline or some rewards. We need to be motivated.

Kendall Mills

We are getting better with each game. Maybe we are peaking at the right time.

Charles de Lint

You can't stand up to the night until you understand what's hiding in its shadows.

Charles Dickens

For the night-wind has a dismal trick of wandering round and round a building of that sort, and moaning as it goes; and of trying, with its unseen hand, the windows and the doors; and seeking out some crevices by which to enter.

Charles Caleb Colton

Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun is set.

Charles Dickens

People like us don't go out at night cause people like them see us for what we are

Charles Dickens

The doctor seemed especially troubled by the fact of the robbery having been unexpected, and attempted in the night-time; as if it were the established custom of gentlemen in the housebreaking way to transact business at noon, and to make an appointment, by the twopenny post, a day or two previous.

Charles Dickens

"I saw her, in the fire, but now. I hear her in music, in the wind, in the dead stillness of the night," returned the haunted man.

Charles Dickens

Night, like a giant, fills the church, from pavement to roof, and holds dominion through the silent hours. Pale dawn again comes peeping through the windows: and, giving place to day, sees night withdraw into the vaults, and follows it, and drives it out, and hides among the dead.

Charles Dickens

[I]t seemed as if the streets were absorbed by the sky, and the night were all in the air.

Charles Spurgeon

He who boasts of being perfect is perfect in folly. I never saw a perfect man. Every rose has its thorns, and every day its night. Even the sun shows spots, and the skies are darkened with clouds; and faults of some kind nestle in every bosom.

Diane von Furstenberg

I loved the seventies.

Dave Chappelle

Listen, here it is: Technically, I never quit. I'm seven years late for work.

Denis Leary

I love to smoke. I smoke seven thousand packs a day!

John Powell

I wanted to play music from the age of seven. I suddenly fell in love with it and that's what I was going to do, or to be involved with music. It was just speaking to me at a level that as a seven year old I suddenly realized the world was capable of supporting in my head a lot more than what I was understanding verbally and visually.

Eduard Shevardnadze

I was a member of the Politburo for seven years, a foreign minister.

Tom Taulli

Seven years ago Buy.com had sizzle. But this doesn't have a lot of sizzle to it.

Michelle Clark

Seven Springs has snow, and they're making snow.

O. Singh

Seven shots around here is not much at all,

W. Hull

Six of the seven have been contacted, and all are well.

Ed Belbin

We know, at this time of the year, special teams is everything.

Don Adams

It was a special show that became a cult classic of sorts, and I made a lot of money for it.

David McCullough

If everyone is special, then no one is. If everyone gets a trophy, trophies become meaningless.

David Rudisha

It's something special to break the world record at the Olympics.

Mark Cuban

Everyone tells you how they are going to be "special", but few do the work to get there. Do the work.

Eddie Marsan

I'm not one of these actors who can make a bad script good. Some actors, a script can be terrible, and they can bring something to it and make it really special. I can't.

Frederic Bastiat

There is not a tool, an implement, or a machine that has not resulted in a decrease in the contribution of human labor. Labor is not made permanently idle [though]; when replaced in one special category... it turns its attack against other obstacles on the main road to progress.

Edward Furlong

Jim Cameron used to call me 'Special Ed.'

Edmund Wilson

They [the English] have a special word, "civil," for what is elsewhere merely ordinary politeness.