Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Cox

The proceeds go into a scholarship fund that is administered by the Goldsmith family. A large portion of the money is distributed to local charities on an annual basis through an application process.

Hamish Bowles

When I was 14, I entered British Vogue's annual talent contest and got a special mention. I went up to London to meet the editors and wrote about it in my high school magazine.

Greg Murtha

We'd get snow and rain, and then a lot of rain. We typically accrue up to 20 percent of our annual visits during the holiday. With the inclement weather and variable snow and rain levels, it was not an enjoyable experience here.

Dave Lindimore

We want to stress that the order of these projects isn't set in stone. The list is an estimate, and after annual inventory of streets, priorities will change.

Gary Thayer

The personal consumption expenditure (PCE) price deflator was revised from 0.7 percent annual rate to 1.0. That's still very low, but it was revised upward instead of downward. There is possibly some building inflationary pressure, but it's still very benign.

James Matthews

We are seeing annual bonuses, which used to be reserved for the professional-level employee, being used more broadly in lower levels in the organizations, represented in our study by the manufacturing employee.

Charles Wilson

This principle of annual improvement in real wages based on technology we also hold to be neither inflationary nor deflationary.

Robert Walzel

We've tried to combine ongoing things, such as the annual Scholarship Concert, into the Mozart concerts.

Timothy Noah

Why does Medicare have such difficulty accommodating a cut - no, wait, a trim to its annual spending increase - of two measly percentage points? Two words: baby boom.

Jack Rosen

What we do know is that the Muslim press heard and reported him saying that he looks forward to normalized relations, that Jews and Muslims need to bridge the gap between them, and that Jews suffered from the Holocaust. That to me is a key victory for us.

Brent Weeks

Remember that time you tried to hump the bridge?

Djuna Barnes

I couldn't ever boil potatoes over the heat of your affection. Your love would never bridge a gap; it wouldn't even fill up the hole that the mice came through ...

David McCullough

People are so helpful. People will stop what they're doing to show you something, to walk with you through a section of the town, or explain how a suspension bridge really works.

David Guetta

I've created a bridge between European electronic culture and urban American culture, and I've worked with established brands.

Bruce Vento

We need to bridge the gap between the medical libraries and the hospital rooms; take the information out there already, add to it, focus it, harness it - and bring it to the patient who was just diagnosed today.

Catherine Helen Spence

I had learned what wealth was, and a great deal about production and exchange for myself in the early history of South Australia - of the value of machinery, of roads and bridges, and of ports for transport and export.

Meg Scheu

We determined that the safest thing to do was to stop all freight and passenger train traffic over the bridge until it could be repaired.

Jane Bryant Quinn

Auto insurance is a toll bridge, over which every honest driver has to pass.

Todd Croteau

We have recognized that small businesses are people businesses. The types of people we have to have employed here have to want to be a trusted advisor. They have to have a strong value culture around doing the right thing.

Dambisa Moyo

The fact of the matter is that instead of going around the world and haranguing countries for engaging with China, the West should be encouraging its own businesses to trade and invest in these regions.

Don Madden

There is a long history there, when new businesses look to relocate to Zanesville, (they) go through the chamber first, ... It just makes a lot of sense to have someone in the chamber be a part of the Port Authority.

Tom Poorman

We use this less-conservative format to celebrate the successes and to thank businesses for their investment in the economic development of our community.

Tom Rath

Having fewer unhealthy days and, in turn, more days when you have the energy to get things done is probably the global constant through which businesses and individuals can think about the quantifiable upside of increasing wellbeing.

James Zimmerman

This was a solid third quarter for Federated, propelled by strong sales and earnings in our department store segment and a level of performance in our direct-to-customer catalog and e-commerce businesses that was in line with what we had anticipated, ... We are entering the fourth quarter with our inventories in good shape, and we remain optimistic that it will be a good retail Christmas season.

Karen Mills

If you want to have prosperity here, we really have to see our small businesses able to grow and compete around the world.

Karen Mills

We have to keep the momentum going in the economy. And we have to make sure that we give small businesses as much cash and liquidity as possible so they have the confidence to hire that next worker.

Karen Mills

We see entrepreneurship and small businesses and supply chains as a critical part of the economic growth and competitiveness agenda.

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!

Charlie Chaplin

I will not join any club who will take me as a member.

Judah Friedlander

When I'm not filming anything or on the road doing stand-up, I'm usually doing stand-up shows every night - usually a few shows a night at different clubs in the city.

Chris Williams

Ultimately Health Canada's position on this is compassion clubs are illegal.

David R. Brower

A great deal of pressure was then built up to remove me from the club and my resignation was, finally, a forced one.

Buddy Guy

The jazz and blues clubs are like the jazz and blues musicians - they're disappearing.

Luis Suarez

At clubs like Liverpool, great players come and go.

Terry Ryan

When you take clubs like Minnesota, Oakland, many of these small-market teams, you're going to have some changeover,

Tim Purpura

We have a personal services contract with him. If he wanted to do that, that's something we'd have to run by the commissioner's office. Other clubs could have an issue with it.

Brad Pitt

You have to consider the possibility that God does not like you.

Mitch Kapor

If advertisers want to decorate their ads to increase their conversions by showing what users think, that's a good thing.

Kim Kipping

People are learning that they can decorate their homes well using items from a thrift store or consignment shop. They can find a lot of things. Used furniture doesn't have the negative connotation it once did.

Jamie Cullum

Some musicians like to decorate their walls with discs saying: '1 million records sold in America.' I prefer to put up discs marking sales in lesser-known countries.

Geoff Coulson

We've seen worse, but I'm sure there are people in parts of Toronto who were not happy to see any rain after the events of Aug. 19.

Roland Swenson

We've seen big events go down very fast.

Wendy Cheung

There are a lot of events happening this month and we hope lots of people will come to them.

Umberto Eco

Today, political events are nullified unless they're on TV.

David Sedaris

I've never made up events, but I've always been a big exaggerator. It's written on my humorist license that I'm allowed to do that.

Robin Tobias

We did not do as well as I thought we would in relay events. We have some work to do in the relays. There is a lot of time before sectionals, so hopefully we can find some answers.

Jane Addams

National events determine our ideals, as much as our ideals determine national events.

Cheryl James

Change is not an event, its a process.

Marilyn Fitzgerald

We still need to strengthen ourselves in the sprints. We're pushing hard in those events this week in practice.

Eden Riegel

One of the first major storylines that 'All My Children' featured was Erica Kane, a rebellious daughter, and her mother, sort of a matriarchal type, who was trying to guide her daughter to a safer place.

Micky Adams

Kevin has been nursing a groin strain so that is why he has not featured in the last two games, but he is ready to come back into the squad for Preston.

George Dagnino

He has an outstanding work ethic. He was a second-team all-league last year and was our leading tackler. He is also going to be one of our featured backs.

Marian Bromell

People have heard about them or seen them practice. All of Franklin is waiting to see them. They've been featured on the morning broadcasts.

Miriam Toews

'Irma Voth' is my sixth book, but it's only the third time I've featured Mennonite settings and characters.

Michael McGrath

Listeners are treated to more than just Rowland on the hook of the song. She is featured on the bridge, as well.

Stuart Miller

We were able much like a newspaper would to respond immediately. We were one of the featured memorials on Yahoo.

Lee Warren

That was Mr. Holbrook's suggestion. With the lack of hotels in the area, you have to have a place where a featured performer, or artist-in-residence, can stay.

Andrae Crouch

I started singing by default, I think. Because there was a guy in the group that thought the group wasn't going to ever be anything. And I was getting ready to record, and I'd never recorded my voice. It was always other people that I featured because I thought they did a much better job.

Allyce Najimy

Whenever there's money involved, they pick groups of people to test. The stakes are higher.

John Fernandez

We have so many (hate) groups throughout the country, ... One only needs to surf the Internet to learn about most of them.

Geoffrey Kors

Ultimately, it wouldn't surprise me if this is a way for two different groups to raise as much money as possible and then join forces. We are suspicious of their motivation because we know they are motivated by wanting to take away the rights of our families.

David Shields

In my own little way, I feel like I'm part of a group of writers who care deeply about pushing the essay forward.

Janette Turner Hospital

There are all kinds of under-represented groups in the literary establishment.

Jane Smiley

I'm a natural novelist. I'm interested in the person and the group, and how they mesh. And one of the ways I don't want them to mesh is for the person to be subsumed into the group.

Jane Smiley

Every novel deals with social problems. It can't help it because the protagonist must come in conflict with his group. So the author has to offer an analysis of how the group and the protagonist fit. Otherwise, the reader will just say, "This makes no sense," and will put it away.

Akshay Kumar

I have never believed in being part of any one group or camp.

Madeline Albright

We are seeing a shift from well-organized, local groups supported by state sponsors to more far-flung and loosely structured webs of terror,

Aasif Mandvi

I'm Muslim the way many of my Jewish friends are Jewish: I avoid pork, and I take the big holidays off.

Alan Sillitoe

For it was Saturday night, the best and bingiest glad-time of the week, one of the fifty-two holidays in the slow-turning Big Wheel of the year, a violent preamble to a prostrate Sabbath. Piled up passions were exploded on Saturday night, and the effect of a week's monotonous graft in the factory was swilled out of your system in a burst of goodwill. You followed the motto of 'be drunk and be happy,' kept your crafty arms around female waists, and felt the beer going beneficially down into the elastic capacity of your guts.

Alan Titchmarsh

My wife and I always have a winter holiday that I call the "fly and flop". In January and February, you don't want culture, you just want to get your bones warm and eat, drink, sleep. We usually go to the Caribbean.

Alan King

A summary of every Jewish holiday: They tried to kill us, we won, let's eat!

Brian Clough

Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.

Caroline Kennedy

Sharing the holiday with other people, and feeling that you're giving of yourself, gets you past all the commercialism.

Jason Clarke

I do want to have holidays and see my family and friends.

Alan Moore

I've never really cared much about money. I've got enough to live on. And it's not like I live in a fancy house, it's not like I own a car, and it's not like I ever go on holiday.

Alan Bradley

Although it is pleasant to think about poison at any season, there is something special about Christmas, and I found myself grinning.

Tempestt Bledsoe

I love helping people put their homes in order.

Lauren Herring

When I was little, I used to feel a lot of pressure. Before matches, I'd want to throw up. But now, I've adapted. I do get homesick sometimes, but I have to remember why I am there and what I have to do to go pro.

Beatrix Potter

Thank goodness my education was neglected.

Michael Chertoff

making provisions for people in nursing homes or hospitals to get them out so they are out of harm's way and don't need to be rescued.

Jack Campbell

There are the ones who have a lot of land and want to be annexed because they want the sewer to make the land more valuable and the lots smaller. Then there are the people with homes with working septic tanks that don't see why they should pay to hook into a sewer system they don't intend to use.

Michael Burgess

Nursing homes should be a last resort, and that's what a lot of this is moving toward.

Tom Morris

Getting people in homes is real important towards improving the quality of life in the parish.

John Ortberg

Ghettos and barrios and abusive homes and trauma wards may produce scarred souls; they can cripple more human spirits than they strengthen.

Hilaire Belloc

From quiet homes and first beginning,Out to the undiscovered ends,There's nothing worth the wear of winning,But laughter and the love of friends.

Bret Easton Ellis

I want to take you away from this," I say, motioning around the kitchen, spastic. "From sushi and elves and... STUFF.

Dave Barry

normal person's weekly chore list: 1. clean kitchen. 2. clean bathroom. 3. clean entire rest of domicile. cleaning impaired person's weekly chore list: 1. don't get peanut butter on sheets.

Jamie Oliver

The kitchen oven is reliable, but it's made us lazy.

Jasmine Guy

The kitchen may not get cleaned, and I have to accept that. I do the important things.

Alan Rickman

That's it then. Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans, no more merciful beheadings, and call off Christmas.

Charles Buck

Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god.

Brian Tracy

Everything in life is a checklist, whether it's building a birdhouse or building a kitchen. If you don't have a checklist, you're much more likely to forget something.

Jamie Bell

I sympathize with every kitchen porter.

C. J. Cherryh

Poisoning rarely happens in a well-managed kitchen.

Ridley Scott

When I meet an actor that I think is going to be possible is from the second he walks through the door, because it's a visual medium.

Paul Hewitt

The product and service we require meets with our customers' and our expectations.

E. L. Konigsburg

Readers let me know that they like books that have more to them than meets the eye. Had they not let me know that, I never would have written 'The View From Saturday.'

Mia Masten

We did look at the site. It doesn't meet our criteria.

John Key

Moral persuasion over a period of time makes a difference, but we shouldn't be naive to think that just because we raise it in a meeting it will make all those problems go away. It won't and it doesn't.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

It is scarcely possible in most places to get anyone to attend a meeting where the only attraction is God

Randy Nixon

We want to see people come to this meeting who want to work, who want to see it happen.

Omar Epps

We're in Hollywood. I meet people like that every day.

Pat Schaumann

We staff about 4,000 meetings a year for the pharmaceutical industry.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

It is scarcely possible in most places to get anyone to attend a meeting where the only attraction is God

Pat Schaumann

We staff about 4,000 meetings a year for the pharmaceutical industry.

Roy Wilson

If this continues, we set up meetings and they don't show, it is going to take a long, long time.

Ken Hitchcock

There are times during the season when you have to review. It was very, very productive. We don't have those type of meetings very often, but when we feel like our team isn't playing well, we do.

Buck Showalter

You know how there's talk every year about the winter meetings and then people come away disappointed because not much happened? I think this is going to be the year to make all of those people happy.

Larry Gregory

Having these meetings was more important than taking part on that panel,

Jim Daley

He will miss no meetings here. As I told him Day 1: if I have a problem, it'll be a short-lived experiment.

James Franklin

He handles the meetings well, stays on top of everything and has the time to do the job.

Diane Swonk

If they move between meetings it's usually a move to shore up confidence.

Sandra Cisneros

For a writer, for the solitude to write, you don't need a room of your own, you need a house.

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.

Jane Austen

We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.

Jimmy Dean

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

Eckhart Tolle

Look around the room a few times a day as if you had just been born into that room.

Edward Said

What we must eliminate are systems of representation that carry with them the authority which has become repressive because it doesn't permit or make room for interventions on the part of those represented.

Brad Gilbert

At 21, there's lots more room there, plenty of things to improve on as you get older.

Karen Traviss

I'm a visual person - when I write, my input is always visual. I worked in television for several years.

Nikki Cox

I'm a McDonald's girl - several times a week. Usually the two-cheeseburger combo meal.

Scott Kim

What I always want is to have several little 'aha' moments where your brain is very happy.

Bill Hall

Several students have called and said, 'I have a video, do you want it?'

Rachel Carpenter

Right now I'm wearing several hats, and she's wearing several hats, and we will share.

Bruce Raynor

On several occasions, we intervened with the mayor. We had several conversations with Roger.

David Hastings

I have had several say, 'I don't want to go,' and I said, 'I'm sorry, you're going.'

Reinhard Selten

I did several types of work about several investigations of application of game theory to international relations.

Dennis Ritchie

Over the past several years, I've been more in a managerial role.

Jason Cirone

When it was 1-1, I thought something special was going on here . . . for about a minute.

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.

George Williams

This was a special season. We accomplished a lot... . It's special even though we didn't win the state title.

Janet Jackson

It is my belief that we all have the need to feel special. It is this need that can bring out the best in us, yet the worst in us.

Mark Cuban

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

Ava Gardner

If I had my life to live over again, I'd live it the same way. Maybe a few changes here or there, but nothing special. The truth is, honey, I've enjoyed my life. I've had a hell of a good time.

Tom Herrion

We've still got a lot of work to do. The bye is nice, but we've got to go play come tournament time.

Chris Blackwell

I was touring a lot... I loved the touring because you could really feel the audience. You were much closer to everything.

Louis C. K.

You're a tourist in sexual perversion. I'm a prisoner there.

Peter Wright

Lennart is getting better. This tournament is part of his recovery.

Bobby Jones

I never learned a thing from a tournament I won.

Bruce Dickinson

I'm not going to do any more solo touring.

Corey Brewer

We're in the tournament to win it all.

Mike Conners

Were in the tournament now, and in the tournament anything can happen.

Gary Bettman

If accommodations have to be made, they'll have to be made in how the tournament is scheduled.

Alan Rickman

Los Angeles is not a town full of airheads. There's a great deal of wonderful energy there.

Barbara Kingsolver

It's tough to break yourself as news to a town that already knows you.

Bette Midler

Melbourne is the kind of town that really makes you consider the question 'Is there life after death?

Charles Kuralt

You know, most reporters can't go back to the towns they wrote stories about. I never wrote that kind of story.

Edward Abbey

When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.

Ben Bernanke

I come from Main Street, from a small town that's really depressed.

Amanda Walker

With no students, the town is pretty quiet.

Hannah Baldwin

We're just a little town that did things that were unheard of at the time.

Beau Bridges

As an actor, I travel around a lot and live in a lot of hotels, and many times I've been in a town where the only entertainment to be had is what you find in the hotel bar or lobby.