Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pat Schaumann

There are college graduates not trained in this; business courses don't always cover the basics of communicating.

John Morrison

We have to go back to some of the basics. Those basics are the parents have to get involved in the young people lives. The parents have to know what their kids are doing. The churches are going to have to get involved. We are going to have to start educating our kids.

John Chambers

What this industry is about is back to the basics in the new Internet economy; and the basics are profitability, cash flow, productivity and market-share gains,

Andrew Flintoff

With nobody over 30 in the last Test, it is a young side but a very talented one. A lot of great things came out of that match and we outplayed India for the bulk of it. But the one thing we can't do now is get complacent just because we competed. As long as that doesn't happen and we stick to the basics I think we'll be fine.

Bruce Jakosky

We're getting clues but we really don't understand the basics yet.

Tom Whalen

We've run into two pretty good defenses in a row, but we've still got a good offense. We just need to get back to basics and do what we do. I never questioned our effort. We had our guys giving it everything they had out there, we just need to play a complete game.

Melvin Watkins

The external motivation lasts maybe one or two plays ? I?m just directing things a little bit. We needed to shake things up a bit and just get back to the basics and fundamentals.

Jared Dudley

We're just trying to get back to basics and get back to the style of play that we want to play. Obviously if you're on the outside looking in, it's looking like it's pretty bad. But we know what we have to do.

Edwina Currie

Back to Basics was absolute humbug, wasn't it?

Chad Scaling

We squandered three great (scoring) chances early in the first half. Two times we were at point blank range and failed to capitalize.

Diablo Cody

I really just love to open a blank document and spew, whereas with a screenplay I have to be more judicious.

Chris Williams

There is no more coveted an opportunity for a programmer than to be responsible for a station launch. There is never more optimism, promise, or excitement than when you start fresh with a blank canvas,

Douglas Adams

Writing is easy. You only need to stare at a piece of blank paper until your forehead bleeds

Linda Chavez

We are all saying no blank check to China, ... We have to be very clear to (Congress) about how important their vote is going to be.

Lesley Gore

When I wake up in the morning, and I go to the piano, and there's a blank sheet of paper in front of me, by the end of the day, that could be a gold mine. You really do need to wake up and expect that the world is your oyster because it very well may be.

Amanda Tate

We've seen a lot of interest -- and a lot of questions -- from parents and students looking for either a laptop or desktop depending on their needs. And related accessories are doing well, like blank CDs and flash memory drives.

James Nesbitt

When I turned 40, subconsciously, life was a blank sheet. Before, it was disjointed, and I was very displaced and quite mad, but it was a brilliant time. Everyone thinks I must have been unhappy.

Bruce Lee

Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water.

John Wright

The people who enjoy classical music, opera, even classical ballet, would come to classical theatre if it were well-acted and imaginatively presented.

W. Hull

We still see the dominance of rap, R&B, alternative punk, and pop. But we are definitely seeing growth in jazz and classical music.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Excellent!" I cried. "Elementary," said he.

Todd Apo

What the public wasn't envisioning was a swim through, swim with the dolphins kind of thing. They were looking for a truer aquarium, so the plan has developed into a classic aquarium with of course interactive features.

Richard Hyung-ki Joo

We want people to know that classical music is for everyone. A parent or kid might be terrified of this music, but after they come to us, they'll never be scared of classical music again.

Charlotte Bronte

Reader, I married him.

Lesley Manville

I had this exceptional classical music voice. If I'd followed a true path for my talent, I would have ended up being an opera singer.

M. H. Abrams

Secular thinkers have no more been able to work free of the centuries-old Judeo-Christian culture than Christian theologians were able to work free of their inheritance of classical and pagan thought. The process... has not been the deletion and replacement of religious ideas but rather the assimilation and reinterpretation of religious ideas.

Lionel Richie

It was very interesting in my world, because I grew up as a fan and I did not know that there was a thing called R&B, pop, country, classical - I just knew that I loved music.

Charles Stanley

Yieldedness is vital in listening to what He has to say.

Charles Spurgeon

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

Alan Rickman

All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.

Alan Alda

When I started out as an actor, I thought, Here's what I have to say; how shall I say it? I began to understand that what I do in the scene is not as important as what happens between me and the other person. And listening is what lets it happen. It's almost always the other person who causes you to say what you say next. You don't have to figure out how you'll say it. You have to listen so simply, so innocently, that the other person brings about a change in you that makes you say it and informs the way you say it.

David Amram

When you are accompanying someone, you are listening to them the way you listen to a Bach Chorale, where four parts are going on at the same time, all of which are gorgeous melodies, all being played simultaneously.

David Sedaris

I went from having 50 listeners to 50 million listeners.

Buddy Guy

I can't learn nothing from listening to me. That's something I already know.

Ben Mitchell

Why should you listen to any of us?

Marianne Williamson

When you've written 10 books and have six on the New York Times best-seller list - and four have been No. 1 - I think you have a right to be a member of Congress.

Esther Hicks

If you look in 'The Science of Getting Rich,' you see no reference whatsoever to the 'law of attraction.'

Brooke Shields

Depression is so smart - it uses all your references and patterns.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

Let lying dogs sleep is something I always say in reference to the Smiths.

Mike Eaves

He's like a surrogate grandfather. He represents a reference you can always go back to.

Tom Matzzie

I'm only 30. I don't really understand the reference that much.

Lauren Graham

All my references are 50 years old-when somebody shot J.R., you know? Oh my god, I'm 100!

Peter Capaldi

You can't, as an actor, conduct yourself by making constant references to other people.

Byron Katie

Whatever it takes for you to find your freedom, that's what you've lived.

Jared Leto

We want to play whatever you want to hear. We're here for you, Toledo.

Anderson Hernandez

Yeah, I think I have a chance. I'll do whatever they want me to. I'll be ready.

Pat White

We're going to play to win, that's all I can tell you. Whatever it takes.

Stephen Graham Jones

With the Romero zombie, you usually did not have a reason for the infection, the plague, the virus, whatever it's called.

Jim Hunter

We'd do whatever we could, and I don't think we'd be boneheaded about it. I'm not intimating that they're boneheaded, because I don't know the circumstances.

Jim Hunter

We'd do whatever we could, and I don't think we'd be boneheaded about it, ... I'm not intimating that they're boneheaded, because I don't know the circumstances.

Keke Palmer

Whatever my situation is, I want to show that I'm not perfect, and perfect isn't real. The youth need to know that, especially.

Long Qiming

I was doing my job. I'm a Chinese, and I had to do whatever was needed.

Charles de Lint

You know how we'd get along better? If everybody'd just remember how we're all related. White, black, Asian, skin. No difference. All the bloodlines go back to that one old mama in Africa.

Charles Dickens

The meagre lighthouse all in white, haunting the seaboard, as if it were the ghost of an edifice that had once had colour and rotundity, dripped melancholy tears after its late buffeting by the waves.

Alan Watts

Black implies white self implies other

Alan Bennett

It's the one species I wouldn't mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth. I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.

Al Sharpton

There are white n*ggers. I've seen a lot of white n*ggers in my time.

Al Sharpton

Evangelicals catapulted George W. Bush back to the White House.

Al Sharpton

What’s wrong with denouncing white interlopers?

Don Cornelius

There was no match for Barry White. His music is just going to live forever. It's not limited to disco or soul or hip-hop or anything.

Don Cooper

Starting pitching will either lead you to the White House or the out house.