Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tim O'Reilly

We want to show how technology can be applied to fix our problems. We need to celebrate not just success but to celebrate people who make a difference. It starts with people who do things for love, with no expectation of return. Some of that turns into enormous financial success, and then some of it goes back into doing it for love.

John Hall

We applied in response to a request put out by FEMA for two-man teams to help on the Gulf Coast. At this point we don't know where we will be assigned, but we know it's going to be in the Gulf Coast region somewhere,

H. Hunt

We applied for food stamps and we've gotten it. We have no money.

Chris Horner

We applied for a patent ... for some specific reproductive processes in swine. Any pigs that would be produced using this reproductive technique would be covered by these patents.

Luc Montagnier

We believe that these treatments are not sufficient and are also too expensive to be applied to many people in the developing world.

James Buchanan

We spent some time at practice finishing. We tried some new things and setups and the boys went out and applied it. We're still not quite there, but we're getting the opportunities now.

Irish Sayings

When fire is applied to a stone it cracks.

Kent Beck

I lived near Santa Cruz for ten years, and the whole time, it bothered me what an exclusionary definition of 'inclusion' was in force. Social censure was applied to those who expressed unpopular or uncomfortable ideas.

Deborah Dowdell

Three's a lot of economic impact that would be unfairly applied to other eating and drinking establishments beyond casinos if indeed it goes into effect on April 15. In anticipation of the jolt the industry would experience, we want to make sure nobody goes through any particular hardship from April 15 on. That's really the motivation.

Byron Katie

It's our nature to be free, and until we're stuck in a stressful belief system, we're pretty happy.

Madhur Bhandarkar

My beliefs encompass all religions. But I never show my religious inclination in my films. My characters have dark sides; they aren't the god-fearing characters. It wasn't a conscious decision. I'm a very lazy and emotional person who connects with the common man.

Ryan Tuck

The point of any cartoon in any newspaper is to challenge belief systems. We knew it would offend, but that doesn't make it the explicit goal of the cartoon.

Curtis Allen

There are some groups that are resistant to vaccination because of the belief that influenza shot causes the flu. It doesn't.

Kurt Vonnegut

Belief is nearly the whole of the universe whether based on truth or not.

August Wilson

Have a belief in yourself that is bigger than anyone's disbelief.

Andrew Ference

We also share in the belief we do have what it takes in this locker-room and there's no great piece of the puzzle out there we're missing.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Even the smallest act of discipleship or the tiniest ember of belief can become a blazing bonfire of a consecrated life.

Deepak Chopra

Even the most time-honoured truths do not have to be accepted until they are your truths.

Nellie McKay

I'd love to give my music to someone who really likes to wow the crowd. I feel like half the time I just want to hide in the dressing room!

Ricky Gervais

I feel that a lot of British comedy is often too bombastic, too obvious, dressing up and shouting and pulling funny faces.

Boy George

The fabulous side of Taboo was dressing up and dancing like no one was watching you. There were no rules. You had Jeffrey Hinton playing every kind of music. It was like going back to when I used to deejay at Planet in '79, where you'd mix in nutty things like hip-hop or reggae or The Sound of Music [1965] or other film soundtracks - whatever.

Blake Lively

Dressing up is all about reflecting how I feel.

Elizabeth Hurley

I love glamorous women. Hugh adores glamour, as well. Im completely behind women dressing up and looking as good as they can.

Ne-Yo

When you're dressing on a budget, simplicity is key.

Tony Parker

I'm impressed with how the NBA, as a whole, is dressing so well. Guys are being very creative and having fun with it.

Johnny Griffin

Wardrobe is gone. Set dressing is gone. The sets have all been struck and torn down and hauled away. Nothing has been put into storage. Everything has been disposed of. And if the show comes back, they'll regroup for another year.

Zach Braff

I'd always fantasized about writing a new play. Even when I had all this success in television, what I was daydreaming about in my dressing room is that one day I would do it.

Jenn Davis

We want to take this as far as we can. We hope to play three more games. Right now, our goal is to win (Saturday) and get to the state tournament.

Louise Jameson

I only have three scenes and each is a turn and she gets progressively drunker. It's all terribly funny and its main challenge is that it's so far away from what I usually do.

Russell Crowe

The people who don't have a good relationship with me from a good performance point of view are very few and far between.

Dave Rose

We are a far better team when we get out and score in transition.

Flip Saunders

We are at the tip of the iceberg as far as where we are and where we could be.

Flip Saunders

We still only had 10 turnovers for the game. They were magnified as far as when they happened a little bit. When you're playing well, they try to throw everything at you. From that standpoint, as I say, the more things that are thrown at you, the better prepared you are come playoff time.

Jimmy Garris

We're in favor of (the recommendation); it just doesn't go far enough.

Lodrick Stewart

We're in (a tie for seventh) place, but that's not that far out of a really good spot this year.

Dave Haywood

We start a lot with melodies and instrumentation and trying to figure out good melodies for verses and choruses. We get to lyrics sometimes second, so we'll start humming a melody, finding something, and see where the music takes you as far as lyrics are and what you want to say and go from there.

Catherine Deneuve

But I never gave up personal things to work, never.

Lisa Goodman

The person who gave the most money to my campaign, I voted against.

Richard Rosen

The poem is the point at which our strength gave out.

Mark Woodworth

We struggled in the first game. We gave up those three in the sixth and that hurt, but we were already behind.

Erik Kimrey

We stress not giving up big plays on defense, so that was a little disappointing. But I was glad to see the way we responded as a team after that score gave us a little reality check.

Bonnie MacPherson

When you take into consideration that we started with a 23 percent increase in season passes, so I think that gave us a good hedge on the roller-coaster ride that the season was.

Deidre Hall

There was never a point in my life where I gave up. My marriage, as you know, fell apart.

Ivan Radenovic

We were trailing most of the time, but we had them. We were good enough to win, and it showed in the way we played. We gave them a terrific game.

Nic Pizzolatto

'The Atlantic' really gave me my writing career - even just the conviction to be a writer.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.

Charles Caleb Colton

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

Charles Caleb Colton

Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.

Charles Dickens

The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.

Charles Dickens

So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!...

Charles Dickens

But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Charles Dickens

Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Charles Simmons

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

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.

Isla Fisher

Women one hundred percent support each other in the movie industry.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

And for well over a hundred years our politicians, statesmen, and people remembered that this was a republic, not a democracy, and knew what they meant when they made that distinction.

Michael Kors

In the '80s, it got to the point where we'd have shows with a hundred looks. You'd want to order a pizza before it was over!

Stephen Colbert

I heard that after you throw away a 'New York Times,' it takes over a hundred years for the lies to biodegrade.

Warren Ellis

I was originally going to train as a journalist, passing a series of exams that winnowed ten thousand applicants down to one hundred places on a National Union of Journalists course.

John Shedd

When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes.

Terry Porter

The big hurdle is going out and raising the revenue. There's no doubt about that; it's an uphill battle.

Pam Gregory

She is typically a long program skater. I think she got over a big hurdle mentally in the short program, and she's going to be very ready.

Jack Michael

We had a nice day. It was pretty much a team effort. We were disqualified in the shuttle hurdles relay but scored pretty much in every other event.

Charlie Ward

Of course, there's one more hurdle to jump,

Bob Ingalls

Getting 20 percent penetration we think is achievable, and that would be the first hurdle we are looking to achieve.

Deb Hauser

We should know by noon (on Friday). This was a big hurdle to get over this, to not get any appeals.

Fatih Terim

We managed to pass the first hurdle by reaching the playoffs.

Nykesha Sales

I think Asjha was the X-factor in getting us over the hurdle tonight.

Scott Nicklas

He may have pulled his (right) quad. We'll have to wait and see. (But) he pulled out of the hurdles and triple jump because he hurt it in the long jump.

Alan Moore

Romantic poetry had its heyday when people like Lord Byron were kicking it large. But you try and make a living as a poet today, and you'll find it's very different!

Chloe Grace Moretz

I'm not allowed to see R-rated movies, but I did see 'Kick-Ass' because I'm in it. I'm not going to skip out on my own premiere!

Mark Cuban

I like being involved in businesses where you are kicking ass.

David Brooks

I'm not a kicker and a screamer.

Chrissey Cruz

When we were little we used to say we are going to kick some butt.

Amber Brkich

What they won't know is that I can be mean, and I can be conniving, the kind of person that's going to kick you off.

Jonny Gomes

Yes, he's kicked back. He has a lot of positive thoughts, positive things to say.

Scott White

When the second season rolls around, you throw the records out. If you have too many preconceived notions about your opponent, you can get your butt kicked real quick.

Jerome Harrison

We really kicked their butts all the way 'til the end.

Donte Whitner

We stopped him from getting outside the pocket, and we were making him uncomfortable. Once he spiked the ball, I knew we'd got to him.

Lauren Miller

'Bridesmaids' proved there was an audience there that we knew was there. It proved that women go to the movies. They want to see story about themselves.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

It's quite an obscure notion for a kid, no? To want to be a curator. But even then, I knew that I would do this.

Natalie Massenet

When I started Net-a-Porter, I knew nothing. And I was pregnant. Starting a new venture and being pregnant for the first time are pretty similar in many ways. If you knew what was going to happen to you, you wouldn't venture down that road.

Nathaniel Smith

If the people in Britain knew the nature and disposition of the New England people as well as we do they would not find so many friends in England as I suppose they do.

Greg Nossaman

When we were down nine on Thursday night, we knew Brandon would be able to play Saturday, so we said, let's try to (win this) so he can play another game. That was motivational.

Chris Schwartz

When we were down early, I wasn't worried about it because I knew we were trying. It was just a matter of our shots going in. Then, when they started going in, (the Rough Riders) couldn't stop us.

Ray Allen

When I was open, I just knew it was time to make a shot.

Mike Rumph

When I was in sixth grade, honestly, I thought I knew everything. I still don't know nothing. I'm still learning stuff.

David Crystal

Swearing makes an excellent relief mechanism

Susan Manning

Since this play is about six women from Louisiana, we wanted to do something for the relief effort.

Ann Brashares

Sometimes it is a relief to be invisible

Phil Flynn

We are not completely out of the woods yet, but we saw a lot of relief yesterday (Tuesday) and that trend is continuing,

Larry Rice

We'd get some sort of relief rally, ... And then we'd have a sobering up.

David Copperfield

My show is constantly evolving... new tricks are added, old ones are dropped... so it stays fresh. But it's the randomly selected participants from the audience that make it fresh and provide some of the best comic relief.

Susanne Beauregard

I think it was a relief to her.

Jochen Behle

We are sorry that it had come to this. It's a relief for Evi now.

Cindy Shaw

Some of this is just a little relief rally,

David H. Murdock

When I open my mouth, the room rings.

Caio Fonseca

My 20s were spent in a room, alone, mixing paints and figuring it all out.

Bryan Ferry

Other bands wanted to wreck hotel rooms; Roxy Music wanted to redecorate them.

Jimmy Dean

We are going to shut it off at 33 or 34 teams. We still have room for individuals and for some teams.

Edith Wharton

whatever the uses of a room, they are seriously interfered with if it be not preserved as a world by itself.

David Trimble

In the future there cannot be room for ambiguity. They have to make their position absolutely clear before they can expect anyone to respond to it.

David Bromstad

Measuring and laying out the room in advance can save you a lot of headaches.

Deepika Padukone

I can walk into a room with all my contemporaries and I will be very comfortable.

Edouard Manet

If I'm lucky, when I paint, first my patrons leave the room, then my dealers, and if I'm really lucky I leave too.

Erin Sullivan

We want to score early. And score often.

Bill Watterson

The score is still Q to 12!

Alain Vigneault

Three wins by 1-0 scores -- obviously, our goaltending has been solid.

Lee Kuan Yew

I would not score very highly on religious value.

Ned Yost

We had battled back for him and got him in a situation where the score was tied,

Christopher Young

'Sinister' is the first score I've done in which there's no orchestra in it whatsoever. There are traditional instruments I sampled, then manipulated, so you don't even recognize the source anymore.

Brett Hull

You have to know how to score.

Kevin Pietersen

We set our target to score about 400 in the first innings. We're about 240 short after the first day.

Neil Marshall

The score I always have on heavy repeat is 'Raiders Of The Lost Ark!'

Charles Caleb Colton

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it.

Charles Dickens

When the time comes, let loose a tiger and a devil; but wait for the time with the tiger and the devil chained -not shown- yet always ready.

Charles Stanley

When we surrender to His timing, He does mighty things in and for us, according to His will and His timing. God acts on behalf of those who wait for Him.

Charles Stanley

Our willingness to wait reveals the value we place on the object we're waiting for.

Charles Spurgeon

Those who do not hope cannot wait; but if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.

Alan Alda

If you don't listen deeply, the connection won't take place.... [You have to be] willing to be changed by the person you're listening to, where you're not just waiting for a pause so you can say your thing, but you're actually letting them have an effect on you if they can.

Al Pacino

An actor basically likes to be asked to do something, no matter what position he's in. It feels more natural. Sitting and waiting is more gratifying.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We can afford to follow Him to failure. Faith dares to fail. The resurrection and the judgment will demonstrate before all worlds who won and who lost. We can wait.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

It is dangerous to be so busy that you have no time to wait on God.