Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Marshall

Paris presents one incessant round of amusement & dissipation but very little, I believe - even for its inhabitants of that society - which interests the heart. Every day, you may see something new, magnificent & beautiful; every night, you may see a spectacle which astonishes & enchants the imagination.

Matthew Pearl

Surprisingly, it was not an American but a British company that opened an amusement park in 2007 called Dickens World, located in the English county of Kent, complete with an Ebenezer Scrooge Haunted House, a Great Expectations Boat Ride and the as-advertised 'costumed Dickensian characters.'

Terry Teachout

I don't know anybody in the opera business who isn't worried sick about how best to reach out to underpaid millennials who were suckled on the new on-demand pop culture, which supplies them with cheap, unchallenging amusement around the clock.

Misty May

Just the history, the boardwalk, the food, the amusement park.

Blaise Pascal

Amusement allures and deceives us and leads us down imperceptibly in thoughtlessness to the grave

Blaise Pascal

The Stoics say, "Retire within yourselves; it is there you will find your rest." And that is not true. Others say, "Go out of yourselves; seek happiness in amusement." And this is not true. Illness comes. Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

Blaise Pascal

To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.

Blaise Pascal

Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us.

Kris Reyes

This proposal, as a locally owned amusement park, would make it very difficult to compete with corporate-owned amusement parks in Northern California because the playing field wouldn't be level.

Duane Ackerman

Reducing workforce is the toughest business decision a company has to make. We have worked hard to avoid it, but many companies our size and particularly our competitors operate with lower overhead and fewer management layers.

Jewel

Records have never really been my strong suit. I've always been a much better live act. I didn't understand the language of the studio. You sing differently in a studio. The language, the craft - it's just a whole different deal. I avoided the problem on my first record by doing a live album.

Carol Bellamy

recognizes that economic sanctions are an instrument intended by the international community to promote peace and security ... but our concern is that whenever sanctions are imposed, they should be designed and implemented in such a way as to avoid a negative impact on children.

Mark Stahlman

Previous management understood what needed to be changed, but they were unable to make it happen, ... To actually make these changes is a massive challenge. It can't be done quickly. There will be people who will resist. There's no avoiding a good deal of internal conflict.

Robert Wood

Our research shows that for some children, however, lifelong avoidance of these nuts, found in countless food products, may not be necessary.

Doug Smith

Parking was totally disorganized on Monday. We left extra early (Tuesday) to avoid another rush.

Shinya Yamanaka

Patients' lives are more important than embryos. I do want to avoid the use of embryos if possible.

Nancy McBride

Our message is that children should recognize and avoid certain situations, rather than certain people.

Juan Lubroth

People need to be informed about the importance of basic hygiene notably washing hands after touching poultry and disinfecting boots or shoes before entering or leaving a poultry farm. They should also be aware of suitable farming practices such as ensuring that poultry are roofed-in to avoid any contact with wild birds and not mixing chickens with other species, such as ducks.

Mark Kalwinski

Our quality of life is taking a beating. We're going to lose people and lose businesses if we don't work on improving the area.

Miles White

Our market-leading products and businesses strong results, led by double-digit growth in medical products.

Paul Anderson

Our major businesses contributed to the improved results in 2005. I expect the company to continue on a positive trajectory with an equally strong performance in 2006.

Kevin McMahon

Our main goals are to protect people and the environment, so we're focusing our efforts on safely recovering the oil and minimizing impact to the environment and other businesses in the area. We're responding as aggressively as the weather conditions safely permit.

Charles Gallagher

Succession, use of outside boards, managing communication -- all of those are related to family businesses as well as private businesses.

George O'Connor

Steve has a good reputation for turning businesses around and creating value for shareholders. His short tenure is surprising and cannot bode well for the share price in the short term.

John Mackey

Some of the greatest businesses operating from a deeper purpose have a real commitment to service, like Four Seasons, Joie de Vivre hotels, Southwest Airlines, and JetBlue.

Ray White

Our target is businesses in Hampton Roads that are growing and expanding that are looking to enter a new market through satellite locations. Our campaign up there is geared to helping to identify those companies that would be interested in increasing market share.

Earl Allen

Our target donor pool is individuals, families, businesses and organizations in Woodford County. 4-H really touches more people than just the current members.

Koji Kobayashi

Our goal is to strengthen our global risk management through this captive insurance company.

Linda Eder

It gave new meaning to the word captive audience.

Anne Angelelli

I could see what God was doing. I had a captive audience.

Amy Kudwa

We have to be conscious of the fact that it's a captive audience. There are going to be children. There are going to be customers with sensitivities to violence and strong material.

Chandra Bhushan

Since all limestone mines are captive mines of cement plants and mining regulations are poor, cement industry is not investing in mine management.

Sen Hanna

We have a serious, serious problem with obesity in our children, and when they're at school they're a captive audience. The issue at hand is about providing our children a healthier choice of snacks.

Mark Caine

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.

Adam Johnson

What good's a captive without her captor?

Orhan Pamuk

I wrote 'My Name is Red' just to remember painting, where the hand does it before the intellect. When I'm captive to it, I'm a happier person. Kierkegaard tells us that a happy person is someone who lives in the present; the unhappy person, someone who lives either in the past or the future.

Dirk Nowitzki

We never make excuses with injures. We would love to have Josh out there. Same with Devin. (But) we should have won the game with the guys that we had.

Ray Allen

I was just off. I'm not going to make any excuses. I just didn't make shots.

Bob Marquardt

I was kind of nervous, especially when they had all that momentum in the fourth. It was kind of shaky there. Rebounding is something where we did not do a good job. There is no excuse for that.

Shay Doron

I was kind of hoping she would get back in there because I didn't want any excuses later.

Elizabeth Ryan

I think it's outrageous. I think they're making excuses so they can keep raising it.

Scott Proctor

It had nothing to do with it. If you execute, you'll get guys out. I felt fine to go today. There's no excuse for not getting it done.

Bill Snyder

I think that's probably the case. But that's an excuse, and I don't mean it to be.

Joe Horn

I think that lingered. I think every week, different guys had different excuses why we were losing. And it happened over and over again.

Roger White

I think Purdue played really well. There weren't any holes in their lineup. It was indoors, it was fast and it was on their home court. All excuses aside, we just couldn't finish the matches.

Richard Gephardt

Real security means keeping Medicare and Social Security strong and getting a Medicare prescription drug program. So those are some of the things that I'm going to talk about.

B. F. Skinner

Supply is not keeping up right now with demand.

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Surely We purified them by a pure quality, the keeping m mind of the (final) abode.

Scott Thumma

Overall, nationally, no religion is keeping up with the population growth.

Carl Sagan

There is a lurking fear that some things are not meant to be known.

D.J. Trahan

I was mad when we were losing in he first half. One of my friends was keeping me posted on the score.

Jane Wyman

I won this award for keeping my mouth shut, so I think I'll do it again now.

Eugene Parker

I think he's keeping his options open, maybe for the right situation.

Stephnie Weir

There are so many examples of people who have flourished by keeping their nose to the grindstone and doing their thing. Be persistent and don't give up.

Andrew Spano

It is one of the safest parks in the world.

Joseph Lowery

I was here when Rosa Parks started and I just wanted to be here when she departed,

Aziz Ansari

Sometimes you gotta work a little, so you can ball a lot.

Brian McKnight

When it's your chance to step up to the plate, just hit it out of the park, and everybody will forget about everything that came before.

Adam Ant

Prison's a walk in the park compared with being sectioned, mate, it really is.

Birdman

We got skate parks in different states, but me skating? Nah, I'm too gangster; I can't rock with it. But I watch it.

Maxine Shane

We would be cooperative if state parks wants it.

Nelson Mandela

which made us realize that this is an international phenomenon that we celebrate. Rosa Parks is worldwide.

Donella Meadows

Glaciers are almost gone from Glacier National Park

Audrey Singer

Paying for it now is going to pay off later.

Ryan Holmes

Payfirma has revolutionized the payment process, consolidating mobile, e-commerce and in-store payments under a single solution, much like HootSuite did for social media.

Michael Griffin

pay as you go and what you can afford.

Juergen Peters

Pay talks have now become a pay-related workers' movement.

Reuben Brewer

People need to be careful. See what you're paying for the perk.

Phil Angelides

People making under $100,000 are going to be paying more,

Bob Cummins

Our products are not cheap. But people are willing to pay for our products because they know they're getting quality.

Danny Dotson

Overall, I thought the report was positive. I did think there were some misconceptions. Hispanics do pay taxes. If they are paying rent, they are paying property taxes indirectly.

Rafael Benitez

We never wanted to pay more for a player than his value,

Holly Hatton

Our performance was not good. We weren't in it from the beginning.

Randy Jepson

Our performance as a whole was not that bad. We weren't outstanding, but we weren't poor either.

Lu Shanzhen

Overall, I am satisfied with the performance of our gymnasts.

William Peine

Robots don't perform the surgeries, but they are tools that give the surgeon more dexterity.

Jeffrey Benjamin

Platitudes and generalities can only be sustained when performance exceeds intellect.

Carrie Preston

Alan Cumming is such an amazing performer and person.

Carrie Fisher

I like performing. I like partnering with an audience.

Jerry Slocum

It is a tough one to sit on when you have that type of performance.

Kenny Jackett

That was as well as we've played this year - particularly the first 45 minutes. The performance was excellent.

Richard Matheson

I think there are other places where we need to spend money.

Chris Lee

It has a dream-like quality that takes you to places that don't exist,

David Fricke

It is not a stretch to say, from my experience, Rutgers is one of the most accommodating places in this country.

David Shove

I think he's saying to ING ... that we have other places that we can go -- not that they have seriously responded to other inquiries.

Mike Jackson

There are still archaeological places (on the island) that are significant to our tribe culturally.

Tom Foley

Journalists, by the way, are not just being targeted verbally or politically. They are also being targeted for real in places like Iraq.

Adrian Smith

I get to fish a lot of wild and wonderful places on tour.

Margaret Turnbull

If TPF is not canceled, these are the places where we will search.

Dean Atkins

If we put all this on the menu, it would look like all the other places where you have to squint to read it.

Lewis Platt

Our results this quarter were mixed. We're disappointed with our profit outcome.

Peter Greene

I think traders are quick to take profits right now, because what else is there that stocks can do for an encore in the short term? We're still in an uptrend, but the probability right now, from a technical standpoint, is that we're going to have a little more selling.

David Brady

It has revenues and profits and a very strong pipeline,

D. H. Lawrence

If only we could have two lives: the first in which to make one's mistakes, which seem as if they have to be made; and the second in which to profit by them.

Rick Hind

I think the industry's trap is they're in a quarter-to-quarter profit cycle.

Ludwig von Mises

Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.

Jim Cavanaugh

The profits there are going to be huge.

Susan George

What's immediately profitable is the only kind of logic that capitalism understands.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

I know transplanted human worth will bloom to profit otherwhere.

Stephen Blythe

Releasing it to the public would not be the right thing to do.

Dean Laidley

It is not for public consumption, but we have a lot of work to do this week.

Pat Gillick

He's a blue-collar guy. And he's somebody that the public will like.

Charles Ray

Her public service announcement for us went out all over the nation,

Larry Nixon

He's always done things no one's surprised at, whether it's for publicity or by accident.

Tom Davies

He's going to have to give an explanation somewhere for how it got into his system, ... His public explanation is that he doesn't know how it happened.

Amanda Martin

If anything, we are going to see more and more things shielded from public view rather than fewer; that's been the trend.

Yvonne Johnson

I go for public safety ... for public health.

Dick Bronson

If we're in trouble, this should tell us, and it should be done in a public way.

Debbie Smith

I think the winds are changing. We're all tired of supporting the scandals.

Robin Butler

I'm still undecided about who I'm supporting for governor, but I'm a person who supports the anti-Nussle campaign.

Teresa Johnson

He wants to win and we're just supporting him.

Marcel Dionne

The only thing is we didn't have the supporting cast.

Nell Newman

I know I could make a difference by supporting the right causes.

Waris Ahluwalia

Supporting causes with whatever we do can be effective.

Steve Gillis

They say they're supporting the troops, but they're not.

Robert Maillet

You need supporting actors to help to tell the story. For me, I'm lucky to be a part of the films. Being an actor, I'll take any role, whether it's supporting or leading.

Robert Lowe

The E.U. has a long tradition of supporting the Palestinians.

Richard Codey

Well, at least it was until Aug. 12, 2004.

I. Stone

I want to wait until I get the right heart.

Rita Ora

The album is never finished until it's on the shelves!

Daniel Walker

that will go on until your grandchildren are dead.

Lofa Tatupu

I won't even think about it until I get there.

Corey Brewer

I won't know what everyone is going to do until I guess, a week from now.

Ichiro Suzuki

I won't know until I wake up (today).

Enid Goldstein

I was up until 1 a.m. (Monday) cleaning.

Johnny Gimble

I didn't really get crazy about Bob Wills until 1940.