Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gerard Houllier

Lyon's biggest rival is Lyon itself. We need to stay vigilant. Our ambition is to win the treble.

Ellis Peters

Men drunk with ambition and power do not ground their weapons, nor stop to recognise the fellow-humanity of those they are about to slay. Not here - not now.

Peter Mandelson

My fear is that in lowering expectations for Hong Kong, we will cause the overall ambition for the round to fall.

David Dein

None of these games are easy. All the other teams are hard and want to win. Nothing is easy in this draw, but it is our ambition to prove we are one of the best clubs in Europe - and we have yet to get past the quarter-finals, so we have something to prove.

Greg Evans

My ambition is the immediate page of the book I am currently working on. The next word to follow the last. A fresh new idea.

Brian White

My ambition has always been to give them good opportunities and if coming into the family business suited them, then great.

Adam Rickitt

My greatest ambition may sound rather like something from a greeting card, but it is a genuine desire to serve a local community and be a local MP.

Marilyn Monroe

My great ambition is to have people comment on my fine dramatic performances.

Stevie Jackson

When you're 14, 15, and you get together and start making a noise, it is the world opening up. You have that indestructible feeling when you're young. But your ambitions when you are 13 are different when you're 25. By that time, your ambition isn't to be a star anymore; it's to make a living doing music.

William Dunkelberg

Main Street optimism has backed down from the mountain top and is resting on a high plateau. The general view is that things have been going well for so long, they're bound to ease back a bit. Small-business owners aren't painting a doom-and-gloom scenario here. They just sense that the red-hot economy will cool by a degree or two.

Bill Sullivan

Let's think back to what happened in Internet stocks. That was a bubble where there was a complete evisceration of wealth. That will never happen in the Treasury market, because it is backed by the full faith and credit of the United States.

Bill Sullivan

Let's think back to what happened in Internet stocks, ... That was a bubble where there was a complete evisceration of wealth. That will never happen in the Treasury market, because it is backed by the full faith and credit of the United States.

Elizabeth Morse

Mother Nature has backed off. We are looking at slightly better conditions in the forecast.

Jon Favreau

Movies like 'Chef' are not really box-office monsters in the summertime and don't really fit into Hollywood's business model any longer. Even if 'Chef' is successful, it will be successful in the context of what it is. There's a limited upside to a film that's so small, but there's also limited exposure for the people who backed me.

Deborah Johnson

When I backed up, I saw smoke and fire. So I called dispatch to report it.

Trot Nixon

I didn't have any fan interference at all. They backed away. I commend those fans there. I gave them a little tip of the cap.

Jay Vidovich

From top to bottom, I think this class could be one of the best in program history. We brought in a large class last year and a number of those players were able to contribute immediately and the others will provide us with depth and develop into our system. This year, we backed up that class with possibly even a stronger group. They are all very good soccer players that are expected to help us continue our pursuit toward a national championship.

Eric Bolesh

If a company doesn't use their time, money and manpower to tackle major commercial obstacles then the product will flop regardless of how much time, money and manpower is used. The successful brands are backed by teams that are knowledgeable about the industry and what potential problems may arise. These teams use what resources they have to make a favorable climate for their drug.

Richard Rogers

A greater focus on design in all new homes would make the best use of land, create homes and public spaces, and reinforce the structures of urban life.

Rick Perlstein

When you're a writer, you never know which of your pieces are going to gain a toehold and which will not, and it's best not to care too much.

Richard P. Feynman

I think equation guessing might be the best method to proceed to obtain the laws for the part of physics which is presently unknown. Yet, when I was much younger, I tried this equation guessing, and I have seen many students try this, but it is very easy to go off in wildly incorrect and impossible directions.

Robert Palmer

Anything by Gonzalez Rubalcaba is unbelievable. I've been listening to the best of Django Reinhardt.

Robert Wilson

I think by drawing, so I'll draw or diagram everything from a piece of furniture to a stage gesture. I understand things best when they're in graphics, not words.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

In the best days of our republic Americans were fiercely proud of the fact that rich and poor met on such equal terms in so many ways, and without the slightest trace of hostility.

Malcolm McDowell

You've always got to work with the best if you can, and of course, the best are the best because they're different. They expect certain standards, and they're usually very difficult people to work with.

Mike Schneider

We're not diminishing his role at quarterback at all; we're just trying to enhance his role within the offense because he's one of our best athletes.

Daryl Manning

We're not best of friends. We're neighbors that talk to each other, that feel comfortable around each other. We both went away with the same thing - lets take a look at this and see how this can work out.

Italo Calvino

Bringing a child into the world makes sense only if this child is wanted consciously and freely by its two parents. If it is not, then it is simply animal and criminal behavior.

William Lennon

We're not bring these charges to be popular, we're bringing these charges in order to stand up and take on public corruption head-on.

Sumner Redstone

Li is clearly a pioneer in bringing innovative partnerships to the Chinese people.

Guy Hohenhaus

Lifting the last remaining hold order at Pimlico is a positive that things are coming to a close there. We will continue working with all parties involved to monitor the situation and bring it to a conclusion. We thank the owners, trainers, and staff for their diligence in practicing prudent bio-security measures and their patience as we work through this science-based process that will make sure the remaining horses test negative before they will be released from the detention barn.

Sathya Baba

Life would be stale if there were no trials and difficulties. It is these difficulties which bring out the human values in man.

Steve Mitchell

Let this be a starting point for us in renaming B Street a starting point for us to come together as a community all nationalities, bring it down to the human level.

Jim Johnson

Luckily, we had some engineers along. They just love that kind of scenario -- troubleshooting on the fly. That's what brings us joy in our work is fixing something and carrying on, instead of just being shut down.

John Strand

Luna Energy is a neighbor that brings tax revenues and new jobs to our city and county.

Buck Martinez

Luis Gonzalez has the respect of everybody in baseball, and his opinion is very valued. He's always been a character guy that we respect a lot. We felt that he brings everything we want on this team.

Rick Perlstein

There is no freedom without groceries. There are no groceries without freedom. What people call 'capitalism' and 'socialism' are actually one and inseparable. It's a virtuous circle.

Rick Perlstein

The argument that John F. Kennedy was a closet peacenik, ready to give up on what the Vietnamese call the 'American War' upon re-election, received its most farcical treatment in Oliver Stone's 'JFK.'

Richard P. Feynman

When I was a young man, Dirac was my hero. He made a breakthrough, a new method of doing physics. He had the courage to simply guess at the form of an equation, the equation we now call the Dirac equation, and to try to interpret it afterwards.

Robert Wilson

There are schools teaching 'stage decoration' as a subject, and they actually call it that. I say: 'Burn those schools!'

Ron Wood

I heard this massive thud. I spun around, and there Keith was, on the ground. He'd cut his gums up on impact, he was very bloody, and clutching his head. I think it was a kind of wake-up call for him.

Bruce Pearl

We're not communicating. We're capable of defending better. I call it having a sense of urgency. You need it this part of the season.

Tammy Smith

We're not calling this a sequel. We're calling it the next installment.

Sgt. Maynard

We're not calling this a drowning. The investigation will continue and we're awaiting autopsy results to determine how the child died.

Ramon Sanchez

We're not calling the people out as long as we see that Elian's case remains in the courts and the government is not moving to suddenly take Elian back to Cuba.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Love is the greatest virtue of the heart.Sincerity is the greatest virtue of the mind.Determination is the greatest virtue of the will.Courage is the greatest virtue of the spirit.

Terry Adams

Last year was the first one where I really struggled. I'm determined to make it back.

Ronaldo Ronaldo

Let's display our determination that was lacking in Buenos Aires.

George Henderson

My grandparents instilled in me that hard work and determination are keys to your success. I think the students need to learn that in the school system.

Chris Evert

I realized that with hard work, the world was your oyster. You could do anything you wanted to do.

Charles Spurgeon

I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination - the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The trouble is that not enough people have come together with the firm determination to live the things which they say they believe.

Elbert Hubbard

The line between failure and success is so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it. How many a person has thrown up his or her hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience, would have achieved success. A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

Gene Sarazen

From where we were last year to now, this is a huge win for our program. This is a big stepping stone for us and it just shows the determination of these girls. When they have things going, they can really play this game.

Carlos Santana

Life, at least with us, doesn't need to fall like a military drill. The way we do things, we don't need windows and doors and ceilings. Things just happen when they happen.

Frank Tyger

Learn to listen. Opportunity could be knocking at your door very softly.

Tim Wise

Many times people will come through the door with good intentions but may not be willing to put in the work. They just want to see some results right away.

Stacey Quandt

Security is especially relevant for government vendors. Governments are saying they'd rather use open-source technology because there aren't any unseen open doors into the system. But it's not only that. Linux offers better performance, more stability, and a lower cost. It's a threat to Microsoft, and there's no turning back.

Lao Tzu

One may know the world without going out of doors

William Hall

One thing you notice is that you want to walk in the door in the morning. So it's a nice job.

Joe Solis

My door is open for that. It'd be great to have an eight- or nine-team district. If Lopez and Memorial do go up, I hope we get those schools in here with us.

Jim Allen

Montgomery is only about a 45-minute drive to the front door of our home, ... If I took the job, it meant I could go home every night.

Tim Willis

My guys went out of their way to respect Mr. McArthur's rights. That's the least restrictive thing they could have done and performed their jobs, ... They could have kicked the door down. They didn't do that.

Robert Osborne

I did see 'Gravity,' but I don't have the enthusiasm to go see a movie as often as I used to go.

Donald Wintersgill

Many students marched off in enthusiasm for the front. It was a national hysteria.

Edgar Allan Poe

Indeed, there is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.

Elbert Hubbard

Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.

Eleanor Roosevelt

It is so much easier to be enthusiastic than to reason!

Joe Blair

I don't think about that during the season. I will take stock at the end of the year and see what the situation is with the program and see if I still have the enthusiasm for it.

Bob Blackman

I'm always excited to see people respond with such enthusiasm. They love to be part of this.

Rob Kurz

So I don't think we had the same enthusiasm as this year.

Thomas Smith

We played with a lot more enthusiasm today, and we got after it.

Robert Toombs

The principles and policy of these Presidents were marked by the most enlarged and comprehensive statesmanship, promoting the highest interests of the Republic.

Bob Mulholland

Look who has the highest percentage. Neither of them.

Dasha Zhukova

My involvement in fashion is not at the highest artistic level.

Brian Sutherby

Obviously, you want to play in the highest league possible, which is the NHL.

Winston Churchill

My grandfather had the highest regard for your grandfather as a wartime leader,

Annika Sorenstam

I can't seem to make a putt, and it's just very, very tough to be level par. I think that's probably the highest score I could have for the way I'm playing.

Pete Williams

NBA teams, which take between 25 and 30 road trips, incur the highest cost, about $2 million a team.

Lauren Bacall

Imagination is the highest kite that one can fly.

Jim Johnson

To be a part of that night was the highest point of my life.

Mark Cooper

Losing competitors in this highly-concentrated industry is disastrous.

Gustav Humbert

Last year was a record year for the whole industry and for Airbus in particular.

Michael Callahan

No one industry can tackle this (dictates of a country's government) on its own.

Paul Ballew

I can't say I'd be surprised if industry ran 17 million units in April. Would I be surprised if it ran at 18? Yes I would.

Shaw Wu

From an industry perspective, consolidation is good. For Maxtor and Seagate, I'm not so sure.

Peter Bell

I don't think we're ever going to have no-one in the whole industry ever involved in it.

Juthamas Siriwan

When there was the tsunami last year, I thought that was the end of the tourism industry but we recovered very fast, in only six months.

Kathleen Walters

One of the nice things about tissue is we are not losing market share. We are No. 1 in our industry and we intend to stay there.

Ken Johnson

I work for an industry that's kind of misunderstood.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Before we can make friends with anyone else, we must first make friends with ourselves.

Deepak Chopra

A few moments of inner peace and quiet allows the brain to reset itself. You become more centered as this happens, since the brain is clearing out distractions and too much "cross talk."

Ellsworth Kelly

I have a sort of inner sense for scale.

Tom Stoppard

I don't draw on my inner life in my work.

Mariah Carey

You really have to look inside yourself and find your own inner strength, and say, 'I'm proud of what I am and who I am, and I'm just going to be myself.'

Suze Orman

You must trust yourself more than you trust others. Pay attention to your inner voice - it will tell you if how and in what you are investing is right for you.

Pauline Trigere

Fashion is what people tell you to wear. Style is what comes from your own inner thing.

Steven Page

Those of us that have the opportunity to have a mouthpiece, then let's keep talking about it. Right now if you look in the newspaper, there's a lot of meaningless stuff. A lot of stuff about the inner workings of Parliament and nothing about what we can do to make the world a better place.

Gretchen Rubin

One of my most important 'Secrets of Adulthood': Outer order contributes to inner calm.

David Maroney

Months may go by when we don't have much contact, and it seems we aren't as intensely involved with the district. Just because it's quiet doesn't mean we're not doing anything.

Vicky Groat

We had a very intense match on Monday (in the Hanover-Horton Invitational) so it was kind of nice not to have that tonight.

Renee Miller

(Future Cities) is a very intense project. It involves teachers, parents and the community.

John McDonald

one of the most intense individuals I've ever met in my life.

Elyse Stoller

She's really intense, but she pushes us to do our best. Our practices are really intense but fun.

Wendy Ward

She and her caddy take it to a very intense level. It's in her character. As much as I'd like to play the way she's playing right now, that's just not the way I'm wired.

Edward Kennedy

The only surprise is that the administration is surprised by the intense reaction of the American people.

Leo Buscaglia

I have been a teacher myself all my life. I have an intense passion to share with people. Our only salvation is in knowledge, in learning.

Ezra Miller

When I found film, it was like, 'Of course!' It was this very intense realization that this is perhaps the most powerful, honed context that I've found.

Spanish Proverb

Like a parakeet, that says what he knows but doesn't know what he says

Sam Wyche

Lucky enough that Mike Mularkey was in a position to make a pity hire, and I think everyone knows that's what it is, and he put me back in here.

Blaise Pascal

Love has its reasons that Reason knows not

Howard Davidowitz

Sears is a shaken-up company, and who knows when it will recover, ... are wonderful.

Saeb Erekat

Mr. Gilad knows very well that the whole thing was unilateral. We had to pick up the pieces after they left without them even telling us when they were going to leave.

Saeb Erekat

Mr. Gilad knows very well that the whole thing was unilateral, ... We had to pick up the pieces after they left without them even telling us when they were going to leave.

Darren Dopp

Mr. Weld knows less about solving strikes than he does about running trade schools.

Gerhard Kocher

Medicine knows no limits, expecially not its own.

Tim Carroll

One of the things I realized about doing this show with Keith is he knows as much about music as I do.

Bernardo Alvarez

Mr. Robertson is no ordinary citizen, ... has been one of the president's staunchest allies.

Pud Galvin

From the time I went into baseball, I have always been handicapped by my hands, which are too small. I never saw the day yet when I was able to span an ordinary baseball.

Alan Moore

There's a notion I'd like to see buried: the ordinary person. Ridiculous. There is no ordinary person.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Live a life less ordinary.

Beatrice Webb

The interruptions of the telephone seem to us to waste half the life of the ordinary American engaged in public or private business; he has seldom half an hour consecutively at his own disposal - a telephone is a veritable time scatterer.

Dee Snider

My family is out of the ordinary in our physical lifestyle and the day-to-day things that we deal with, but my approach to them is pretty rational and sound. And I'm the quiet one! It's very different from my performing life.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

The divine love of God turns ordinary acts into extraordinary service.

Charles Lyell

In attempting to explain geological phenomena, the bias has always been on the wrong side; there has always been a disposition to reason á priori on the extraordinary violence and suddenness of changes, both in the inorganic crust of the earth, and in organic types, instead of attempting strenuously to frame theories in accordance with the ordinary operations of nature.

Charles Kuralt

I did stories about unexpected encounters, back roads, small towns and ordinary folk, sometimes doing something a little extraordinary.

Brian Greene

We know that if supersymmetric particles exist, they must be very heavy; otherwise we would have spotted them by now.

Stephen Hawking

I think the discovery of supersymmetric partners for the known particles would revolutionize our understanding of the universe.

Luis Walter Alvarez

When I received my B. S. degree in 1932, only two of the fundamental particles of physics were known.

Alan Arkin

I wrote my epitaph: He started out a particle and ended up a wave.

Chris Hall

The fluorocarbon particles are pretty small, and you don't want those sitting in your lungs.

Dennis McBride

But the most persistent situation is the mold,

Ken Thompson

We have persistent objects, they're called files.

Doug Brien

Not too good. I've had this before, and it's persistent for quite a while. Now it's just kind of wait and see.

Jackie Jackson

One thing of the many things that I know about Jesse Jackson, he is persistent.

Reid Hoffman

You gotta be both flexible and persistent.

Larry Harris

I feel we reached out and stole a Clipper.

Evelyn Glennie

I want to be able to say on my deathbed that I reached a few people. That would be very nice, just to be able to say that.

Drew Kesse

He immediately reached out to us. We're very grateful.

Billy Graham

When I reached 80, my world turned upside down physically. I've had a lot of physical problems.

Larry Baer

We've reached out to her and she referred us to her son. We're working with the son to see what if anything to do.

Rush Limbaugh

Do you think if there was any real evidence, we would have reached a settlement?

Kypros Chrysostomides

It seems that today we reached a satisfactory conclusion.

Mary Jordan

They wanted to see them. And when you say no, we can't let you in, we've reached capacity, that's heartbreaking and that's what it was.

Heraclitus

If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.

Anita Allen

I can't release that information. We can't give out anything about salaries or bonuses.

David Wright

I had released all that was worst in me. It was a shame I had to kill them.

Lindsey Rice

She was just being released into a world of paranoia, and it wasn't good.

Rob Schneider

We're not getting released in Japan; I know that for a fact,

Alan Moore

Who imprisoned me here? Who keeps me here? Who can release me? Who's controlling and constraining my life except...me?

Bill Hayden

Cosmoe is nearing the stage where I would feel comfortable doing a preliminary release aimed at developers.

Bruce Springsteen

The release date is just one day, but the record is forever.

Leslie Sloane

Yes, she has been released and she is doing better.

Jim Calhoun

I thought at first when he released it, it was going to be good, but it wasn't.

Angelo Scola

more simply and efficiently respond to pastoral needs.

Mike Kramer

We had a very preliminary discussion. All we have done is respond to an inquiry.

Woody Allen

I don't respond well to mellow, you know what I mean, I-I have a tendency to... if I get too mellow, I-I ripen and then rot.

Brandon Roy

I don't think he was sure how we were going to respond to him. He was a little down. He was pretty upset he made that mistake.

Jorge Ortiz

Bartlett just seemed to get stronger and stronger. We just couldn't respond to their speed that they had.

Horacio Gutierrez

This would be the same as taking away the right to a hearing, or the right to respond to a statement of objections.

Chris Drury

Those were some tough losses. Responding to them was a pretty big step for our team confidence-wise.

Idina Menzel

I'm more comfortable revealing myself than hiding behind metaphors. I respond to artists who reveal something of themselves.

Frank DeRosa

We won't respond to the suit until we see it.

Russ Feingold

should disqualify you from being on the Supreme Court.

Rand Paul

Just because a majority of the Supreme Court declares something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.

Henry Bonilla

We may not be able to control the Supreme Court... but we can control the money.

Bill Cowher

For us to come in here and do what we did, it took a supreme effort.

Christine Pelosi

With Citizens United, the Supreme Court's declaration that corporations are people, the whims of one can silence the voices of millions.

Hillary Clinton

I want a Supreme Court that will stick with Roe v. Wade and a woman's right to choose, and I want a Supreme Court that will stick with marriage equality.

Henry Ford

Experience is the thing of supreme value".

Elizabeth Gilbert

God is an experience of supreme love.

Eleanor Roosevelt

A guest is really good or bad because of the host or hostess who makes being a guest an easy or a difficult task.

Ed O'Brien

For a band like us tracklisting is a massive, massive task.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them.

Carl Jung

I could well imagine that I might have lived in former centuries and there encountered questions I was not yet able to answer; that I had been born again because I had not fulfilled the task given to me.

Arthur Schnitzler

The principal task of friendship is to foster one`s friends` illusions.

Arne Jacobsen

That is the artistic task: To choose the best from these solutions.

Arne Jacobsen

In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture.

Chinua Achebe

Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.

Edward Hirsch

As a reader you have a task to do, you have something to do. You bring your experience to it. It's not all inherit in the poem.

Democritus

No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.

Elizabeth Edwards

This diagnosis is a reminder that this is the life you've got. And you're not getting another one. Whatever has happened, you have to take this life and treasure and protect it.

Camille Paglia

Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.

William Shakespeare

He that is strucken blind can not forget the precious treasure of his eyesight lost.

Benjamin Franklin

Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith.

Bryant H. McGill

We are all wealth. We are all treasure. We are the abundance of all things. Spend yourself completely.

Bryant H. McGill

We are here to spend ourselves on others; for each person is a great treasure.

Brother Lawrence

How happy we would be if we could find the treasure of which the Gospel speaks; all else would be as nothing. As it is boundless, the more you search for it the greater the riches you will find; let us search unceasingly and let us not stop until we have found it.

Edmund Burke

He only deserves to be remembered by posterity who treasures up and preserves the history of his ancestors.

Stephen Moyer

One of the things that I've been trying to do with my characters, one of the things that does lead to me turning things down, is I don't really want to repeat myself.

Thomas Brodie-Sangster

I'm not a 'guitarist.' I'm trying to be a bassist.

Taron Egerton

I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety.

Dick Wolf

The most positive step is to try to expand the employment base by making it, if not economically friendly, at least not economically disastrous, for studios to take on deficits.

Dick Van Dyke

When I get some budding young comic who'll come up to me and say, 'What was it like to do it in those days?' I try to be as gracious to him as Stan Laurel was to me.

Diane Lane

I try not to be overly analytical.

Dennis Farina

I don't know if I have a technique. I'm just trying to remember the words.

Denis Johnson

What could be lonelier than trying to communicate?

Deborah Roberts

There is no sin in delegating. The sin is trying to do it all.

Carly Fiorina

Leadership is all about unlocking the potential in others

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

Winter blues are cured every time with a potato gratin paired with a roast chicken.

Bob Holthus

When you put up a million-dollar purse, naturally, you're going to try to win it.

Chris Frantz

You don't want to spend much time in Germany or even France in the winter unless you're in the Alps.

Chris Evert

When I was younger, I was a robot. Wind her up and she plays tennis.

Charles Spurgeon

I would sooner be holy than happy if the two things could be divorced. Were it possible for a man always to sorrow and yet to be pure, I would choose the sorrow if I might win the purity, for to be free from the power of sin, to be made to love holiness, is true happiness.

Charles Spurgeon

Without the Spirit of God, we can do nothing. We are as ships without wind. We are useless.

Charles Peguy

It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses.

Dick Van Dyke

I have also heard and read various accounts of why they [Sheldon Leonard and Carl Reiner] liked me. My favorites? I wasn't too good-looking, I walked a little funny, and I was basically kind of average and ordinary. I guess my lack of perfection turned out to be a winning hand. Let that be a lesson for future generations.

Diane Lane

I take comfort that aging happens to everybody. It's part of life. Aging offers great lessons in dignity, since the indignity wins in the end. Yes, it bothers me when I have lines or puffiness or droops. But it connects me with the human race. Like weather bringing people together, aging brings people together.