Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Smithwick

We want to push the ball every time we get it. We also play a tough man-to-man defense. It affects a lot of these teams.

John Carey

We have to get these interest rate increases behind us and the Fed did hold off this last time, but I think there's still a possibility of another rate increase later in the year. And that's weighing on investor's minds. Earnings have slowed down a little bit. The interest rate increases to date have had an effect and we're seeing some earnings disappointments at some companies and that has investors concerned. But on the other hand, we have the mergers and acquisitions that tend to buoy up the prices in whatever sectors affected from one day to the next and that will keep investors interested in stocks certainly.

Jochen Clausnitzer

We have no indication that the cartoon row has had a negative effect on trade and business there. The top executives in the region are highly educated and have close relations with their German counterparts. They are not affected by the conflict.

George Parker

Whenever teachers don't receive materials they need in a timely manner, it affects how successfully they will be able to implement the new standards,

John Audubon

When, for the first time... I left my father, and all the dear friends of my youth, to cross the great ocean... my heart sunk within me... The lingering hours were spent in deep sorrow... My affections were with those I had left behind, and the world seemed to me a great wilderness.

Madeleine M. Kunin

When facing the public, politicians constantly filter their ideas through a political sieve. 'How will this affect the environmentalists, labor, management?' Sometimes the sieve gets so clogged by political taboos that no new ideas pass through.

Jon Kitna

When you get to the playoffs, you know you're the only game going on and you know everybody is watching and you know the ramifications. You have to maintain an even keel. You can be down 10 or up 10, you can't let that affect you.

Ian Smith

We've spent a lot of time talking about the new hospital, but every day we're continuing to provide care in this hospital to huge numbers of patients, ... No matter how much we try to protect our patients, as long as we're struggling with those volumes it is going to affect patient care.

John Mitchell

We've seen the energy shock before, but the difference today is there isn't a lot of excess capacity anymore. The unknowns in countries like Nigeria, Iran and Venezuela have an immediate affect on oil prices. Without excess capacity, anything that takes production off line can spike prices.

C. S. Lewis

Always winter but never Christmas.

Bruce Johnson

We want everyone to understand that this effort didn't end at Christmas. Our troops need to know someone's thinking about them.

Alan K. Simpson

People tend to stay at home and eat a home-cooked meal. There are three days that are really slow for restaurants - Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter.

Charles Dudley Warner

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value

Charles Dickens

Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused - in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened - by the recurrence of Christmas.

Charles Dickens

For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.

Charles Dickens

And it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One!

Charles Dickens

Christmas was close at hand, in all his bluff and hearty honesty; it was the season of hospitality, merriment, and open-heartedness; the old year was preparing, like an ancient philosopher, to call his friends around him, and amidst the sound of feasting and revelry to pass gently and calmly away.

Charles Dickens

A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to the world!

Vitaly Mutko

We want to return our team to the glory days of the Soviet Union.

Debbie Martinez

We have seen a lot of heavy traffic in the last week or two. The warmer days in early November were slower than usual, but it has picked up and doubled up since the weather has cooled off.

Todd Kapala

We have seen a good three or four days of trading so (investors) are taking profits at this point.

Chris Saunders

We have no excuses. They just didn't play good today. I don't think playing two days in a row makes any difference.

Ricky Craven

The fact is that some days are not your days and some days you get lucky. Over the long haul, that probably evens out.

Tim Tebow

I train about six days a week. I'm training at the same intensity as I did when I was playing football. I've done it for my entire life, and I love it.

Thomas Massie

I can focus on what seems to be the most boring things for days at a time.

George Nichols

We are going to look back at 2000 as the glory days that crashed.

Elon Musk

In the early days of aviation, there was a great deal of experimentation and a high death rate.

Erik Brynjolfsson

Technology has always been destroying jobs, and it has always been creating jobs.

Elizabeth Pena

I figured, if I failed, I'd tried something that I hadn't tried before and if one movie was going to destroy my career than I didn't have much of a career to start with. I just went for it. God willing I wasn't over the top and didn't embarrass myself.

Carl Ragasa

We destroyed everyone in the first tournament up there. We won everything by submission.

Atharva Veda

The Perfect Lord is All-pervading everywhere; He destroys the poison of Maya. I am rid of the three-phased Maya, dwelling in the Pure Lord.

David Beckham

We're in form. When we make the most of our potential, we can destroy any team we come up against.

Louis Malle

I didn't feel like going any further in this scene with the boy. He was not a professional actor, and if I had pushed the scene any further it would have destroyed the tone of the movie.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Pride and vanity, the opposites of humility, can destroy our spiritual health as surely as a debilitating disease can destroy our physical health.

Drew Goddard

We've always idealized youth and then destroyed youth. That has happened since the beginning of time, and I'm fascinated by why we do that.

Tom Thomson

We're going to drive the people off the land who have been living on it and working it for generations. It's going to destroy our No. 1 industry: tourism.

Mikko Hypponen

But at least you know someone on your premises has an infected phone.

Vera Wang

My mother is the reason I'm in fashion. She worshiped it. Unfortunately, she infected me.

Kary Mullis

PCR made it easier to see that certain people are infected with HIV.

Daniel Blumenthal

Treatment for those infected is not very good. Many people have died,

Siti Supari

We don't distinguish between the three, ... But how they got infected is still unknown.

Babatunde Osotimehin

We reckon that about 50,000 infected people are now receiving anti-retroviral (ARV) treatment nationwide.

Maria Cheng

We know that mammals can be infected by H5N1, but we don't know what this means for humans.

Helmut Jahn

We want our buildings to work like a machine that will create a pleasurable environment.

Alan Turing

Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.

David Sedaris

I won't put in a load of laundry, because the machine is too loud and would drown out other, more significant noises - namely, the shuffling footsteps of the living dead.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

I am a full-time Research Fellow at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, a small 501(c)(3) public charity supported primarily by individual donations.

Camille Paglia

The female body is a chthonian machine, indifferent to the spirit who inhabits it.

Cathy Guisewite

I've found it's better to talk to the machine and hang up if I get the person.

Bertrand Russell

Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.

Charles Babbage

Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity.

Charles Babbage

As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will necessarily guide the future course of the science. Whenever any result is sought by its aid, the question will then arise — by what course of calculation can these results be arrived at by the machine in the shortest time?

Pam Rew

We did notice that ticket sales were up for that Sunday.

Nancy Heaton

We would stress to all of them that these are preliminary notices only.

Andrea Walker

When they (the committee) started, I noticed they didn?t have any students on the committee,

Robert Wilson

If you slow things down, you notice things you hadn't seen before.

Kix Brooks

New York actually took notice of us and it wasn't in a hokey, hay-bale kind of way.

Abu Mohammed

I am too preoccupied with my work, and numerous problems and worries to notice it.

Nick Barth

More people are starting to notice that we're here.

Adam Nelson

I didn't notice the rain. I thought it was sunny all day long.

Gus Frerotte

I didn't notice Keith Traylor that much in Denver.

Lisa Stevens

Then other mornings, he sleeps in. So it's very variable.

Carl Crawford

I'm going to try to not put a lot of pressure on myself.

Lee Daniels

When you're traveling, you can take it with you. You can use it for walking and I've done that many times actually trying to find restaurants.

Aaron Sorkin

Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.

Andre Walker

We were trying to play an up-tempo game, but then we started to play their style. That is how they usually play and they were more comfortable than we were.

Brian Schmidt

We were trying to get the word out, but they were stranded.

Alan Titchmarsh

Once I was on a plane and a woman said to me, 'Now, what's the matter with my tomatoes?' And I said, 'Well, it's a bit difficult to see from here.' She took offence and said, 'I was only trying to be friendly.'

Charlotte Bronte

Jane! will you hear reason?' (he stooped and approached his lips to my ear) 'because, if you won't, I'll try violence.

Charlotte Bronte

Better to try all things and find all empty, than to try nothing and leave your life a blank.

Charlie Haden

The whole underlying theme for the new music... is to communicate honest, human values, and in doing that to try to improve the quality of life.

Tracey Emin

I didn't have an exhibition anywhere until I was 30. My first exhibition was at 30, and then for my first show in America, I'm 50. It's kind of all right: I'm just a slow burner.

Tom Sharpe

We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

Ruth Miller

Wait until you see what we have planned.

Elle King

I started with the guitar around 12 years old but didn't learn the banjo until I was about 18 or 19.

June Carter Cash

We always had Packards, until the war, when they stopped making them; then we had a Cadillac.

John McCarthy

Never abandon a theory that explains something until you have a theory that explains more.

Jonah Lomu

Until 1998, I worked in marketing at ASB bank. I loved it.

Hector Tobar

Divorce was illegal in Chile up until 2005 or so.

Ellen Roberts

Until we investigate and find out what happened, I don't want him to go back to Mexico.

Rick Riordan

Percy!” he bellowed. He dropped his broom and ran at me. If you’ve never been charged by an enthusiastic Cyclops wearing a flowered apron and rubber cleaning gloves, I’m telling you, it’ll wake you up quick.

Ryan Reynolds

Any kind of crisis can be good. It wakes you up.

Carre Otis

I'm proud that today, at 43 years old, I've come to value the aging process and focus on inner rather than outer beauty.

Carol P. Christ

Beliefs and values that have held sway for thousands of years will be questioned as never before.

Carol Shields

Here's to another year and let's hope it's above ground.

C. S. Lewis

You've no idea how good an old joke sounds when you take it out again after a rest of five or six hundred years.

C. S. Lewis

Aslan" said Lucy "you're bigger". "That is because you are older, little one" answered he. "Not because you are?" "I am not. But every year you grow, you will find me bigger".

C. S. Lewis

I am only trying to call attention to a fact; the fact that this year, of this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practice ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.

C. S. Lewis

Shall I ever be able to read that story again; the one I couldn't remember? Will you tell it to me, Aslan? Oh do,do,do." "Indeed,yes, I will tell it to you for years and years. But now, come. We must meet the master of this house.

Agnes Varda

I waited for each film to become important for me. If I had no ideas for a film, I didn't do a film. So I made not that many films for fifty-four years of working.

Agnes Varda

I go back to many films that I really love. Some Bresson, some Godard of the early times, the Cassavetes of those years I love. And the early Wim Wenders. But my own films I don't watch, unless I need them.