Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin Jacques

If anything, Brown is more oriented towards the other side of the Atlantic than Blair. Most of his reforming ideas and intellectual influences seem to come from the United States, and in a recent speech he went to great lengths to emphasise the historical affinity and shared characteristics of the U.K. and the U.S.

Kenneth Frampton

You could draw certain parallels between the structure of the Pompidou and the structure of the rocket-launching facilities at Cape Canaveral. They might not have been thinking about it, but I think there is some kind of unconscious affinity there.

Sue Monk Kidd

I have an affinity for writing in the first person. I love the intimacy of being dropped inside the character.

Doug E. Fresh

When I graduated, I was going to go to school for law, but had such an affinity for hip-hop. It was like walking into a casino and I decided to bet everything on hip-hop, and I hit! My hit wasn't just a hit for me, it was a hit for everyone in this culture.

Gregory Jones

We have HR staffers who are HOLA members, and they put the word out about opportunities. We also look to HOLA to help fill some of our vacancies. We're making a deliberate effort here to have our affinity groups play a role in finding qualified minority and female candidates.

Rupert Evans

When I was 15, I went on a cricket tour of Zimbabwe with my school. My defining memory of it was stroking a semi-tame lioness at a game reserve. I grew up on a farm, so I felt I had an affinity with animals, and when it put a paw out, I thought I'd connected with it. But its claws came out and nicked my leg. Then I did the most stupid thing: I ran.

Peter Davies

We use their affinity for ice as a tool to purify the protein.

Kevin Patterson

I've worked in the Inuit hamlets of the west coast of Hudson Bay since 1994. Over that time I've been very moved by both the pace of social change there - the loss of traditional ways of seeing the world, the affinity for and comfort with the land - and by the social disarray that change of this pace produces.

Greg Boyle

I work with gang members, and I feel a kind of affinity and gift, even. But who would've thunk it, you know? I mean, I didn't anticipate it.

Bryan Greenberg

I would never attach myself to a brand that doesn't represent me.

John Fry

We are proud to forge this partnership with the PGA TOUR and Las Vegas Founders Club to support a great, entertaining tournament that has a long history of supporting worthwhile charities in the Las Vegas area. The PGA TOUR is one of the great brands in sports. We are particularly excited to be in a position to help the tournament support its traditional charities, as well as one of our favorite non-profit organizations, the American Institute of Mathematics.

Mandy Ohman

We have name brands but we don't mark them up outrageously high.

Natalie Massenet

Net-a-porter is an environment where a woman can really indulge, browsing through more than 160 brands in our fashion playground.

Randy Pitchford

When we founded Gearbox we actually had the intent of doing two things. On one level, we wanted to build brands and build games that are our invention. On the other level, we wanted to work with other things that other people created that we think are really, really cool. And do things with it that we think would be worth doing.

Randy Falco

Univision's close-to-50-year relationship with Hispanics makes us one of the leading media brands in this country and the gateway to connect with this consumer.

Dan Jones

United remain one of the foremost brands in the industry and are still clearly the most profitable club in terms of day-to-day operations.

Ed Colligan

U.S. sales are strong but there are more challenges in Europe, ... There are a number of existing brands there that are very strong. Our products have not taken off at the level we'd like them to so far.

Stefan Sagmeister

There are brands out there in the world that have an incredible influence on the culture. Numerous ones are badly done.

Jim Gaylor

When we weren't scoring early in the game, Drew kept us in it. We made a few a plays there for him. He mixed his pitches well. He's a competitor. He's not an overpowering guy, but he's got good stuff.

John Madden

We need the quarterbacks. It's a passing league and a quarterback-driven league. We need the Peyton Mannings in football uniforms out there playing - the Tom Bradys, the Drew Breeses, the Philip Riverses - we need those guys instead of them standing on the sideline.

Hadi Jawad

We're grateful because it was time, in our opinion, that someone drew a hard line the way she has.

Chris Vance

The process has worked extremely well and Republicans support it. When the Legislature drew the lines, there was nothing but lawsuits, acrimony and delay.

George Herbert

Love bade me welcome; yet my soul drew back / Guilty of dust and sin.

Nolan Bushnell

When I was running Atari, violence against humanoid figures was not allowed. We'd let you shoot at a tank... but we drew the line at shooting at people, with blood splattering everywhere.

George Lois

From the time I was three or four years old, I drew all the time. Drew all the time, every second.

Deryn Brace

When they drew at our ground early in the season, I was impressed with them. It was one of the few games we didn't look like winning.

Bob Feller

Those games drew a lot of people; the fans loved every minute of it.

John Connaughton

The people who pay the highest income tax are also the most mobile. They simply leave North Carolina.

Eddie McGuire

We still remain the highest live television talk show. (Andrew) Denton and Rove (McManus) and all the rest of it get the Logies and we get the ratings,

Ted Sim

We have never had a Midget tournament here. The highest we've had is Bantam. And it's the first national-bound hockey tournament we've had here.

Marty Turco

When it comes down to it, the opportunity to win here is at its highest level. That's what I was looking for.

Richard Nugent

We're going to start doing this more regularly, ... I could be mistaken, but that's got to be one of the all-time highs. I'm pretty sure it's the highest we've ever had.

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.

Keri Hilson

Even at my biggest, I want to be writing for other artists. Even at my peak - the highest I can be as an artist - I always want to be keeping my creative juices flowing, keeping money in the bank, putting my intellectual property out there.

Bob Mulholland

Look who has the highest percentage. Neither of them.

Rand Paul

The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to be in prison; however, some of them do not.

Benedict Cumberbatch

There are things that are a given, that you've already established, and obviously, visually, certain iconic things that can't be completely removed, like a certain hat or a certain coat in my case.

Hendrik Poinar

I'm not sure the Russians would be happy that their iconic wooly mammoth has North American origins.

Shawn Amos

The Woodstock dove on the iconic poster is really a catbird. And it was originally perched on a flute.

Annalee Newitz

The myth that young people should leave the nest at 18, never to return, started with iconic American Benjamin Franklin.

Scott Greenstein

I've always thought 'Today' is an iconic staple of morning life.

Vicky Rideout

While many parents have used the ratings or the V-Chip, too many still don't know what the ratings mean or even that their TV includes a V-Chip.

Harry Reid

Like all compromises, it includes provisions that are not supported by everyone in this body,

Elliott Abrams

Palestine, as Icelanders see it, includes the Western Wall of the Second Temple, Judaism's holiest site.

Chris Taylor

The project includes signs of every possible type.

Debbie Ford

My goal is always transformation. I love to watch people transform their lives, which includes their inner world and their outer world.

Chuck Logsdon

We have been negotiating for a process that includes some parameters that should keep us on that timeline.

Chuck Hagel

Why in the world they're doing that, I don't know. You've got 90 senators out of 100 and that includes many Republicans opposed to it,

Skip Rutherford

The recipes are good, but the stories are also good, ... It includes all ranges of Clinton's life.

Barry McCaffrey

The medical, scientific process is open to any drug. That includes marijuana. But you have to get through a process and demonstrate scientific validity. And in this case, to be honest, I think it's nonsense. This is mostly a 'Cheech and Chong' show for the quasi-legalization of marijuana.

Charles Dickens

"There is no deception now, Mr. Weller. Tears," said Job, with a look of momentary slyness, "tears are not the only proofs of distress, nor the best ones."

Charles Dickens

"I know quite enough of myself," said Bella, with a charming air of being inclined to give herself up as a bad job, "and I don't improve upon acquaintance..."

Charles Stross

I wanted an agent who would actually sell stuff. After two British agents failed comprehensively, I was reading Locus (the SF field's trade journal) and noticed a press release about an experienced editor leaving her job to join an agent in setting up a new agency. And I went "aha!" - because what you need is an agent who knows the industry but who doesn't have a huge list of famous clients whose needs will inevitably be put ahead of you. So I emailed her, and ... well, 11 years later I am the client listed at the top of her masthead!

Charles Stross

What I read: while I'm writing, I tend to go off reading fiction for relaxation - especially the challenging stuff. It's too much like the day job.

Alan Watts

It's time to question a job or career move when it seems like most energy is devoted to making things appear other than what they really are.

Alan Parker

Film-making is a physically hard job.

Alan Patricof

I got my first job the old-fashioned way: I took an elevator to the top floor of many buildings and walked down floor by floor on the stairs going into every firm and asking the receptionist if she knew of any jobs available.

Alan Rickman

One thing I will say - my job gets harder and harder. The more you understand about what you are capable of, the less the instrument can do it physically. It's an inverse equation, if that's the right phrase. I just slammed those two words together. It sounded right.

Alan Rickman

I have a photograph at home of Fred Astaire from the knees down with his feet crossed. It's kind of inspiring because it reminds me his feet were bleeding at the end of rehearsals. Yet when you watch him, all you see is freedom. It's a reminder of what the job is about in general, not just being in musicals.

Dan Kaminsky

We are at the point where all the obvious things we tell Microsoft to do, they already do it.

Chris LeTocq

Where there's competition, Microsoft prices aggressively and competitively; where there isn't, Microsoft doesn't.

Bob Muglia

Microsoft unapologetically will make sure ActiveX works best on Windows

Steve Case

From a pure technical standpoint, it does look like Microsoft may win this one,

Greg Scott

From my perspective, what Microsoft is doing is right on target.

Craig Mundie

Let me be clear - Microsoft has no beef with open source.

Donald Clark

MSN became a quagmire, partly because of Microsoft's hubris.

Jeff Cohen

The only thing I think really needs to be addressed by Microsoft is biometrics.

Joe Wilcox

The real test for Microsoft is whether it can take search to the next level.

Charles Krauthammer

Where religion is trivialized, one is unlikely to find persecution.

Bruce Kovner

If you don't work very hard, it is extremely unlikely that you will be a good trader.

Ian Stewart

For those two reasons, his candidacy is, if not doomed, unlikely too succeed.

David Rose

The orbs have probably sold better through catalogs because they can be categorized unlike at most stores.

George H. W. Bush

Unlike that other convention, what you are witnessing is real.

Homer Simpson

Unlike most of you, I am not a nut.

Tina Brown

Unlike his predecessors, Obama is not big on 'Masterpiece Theatre' nostalgia.

Elaine Paige

I should think it is unlikely but you never know - never say never.

Andreas Rees

It is unlikely that reform-minded politicians will have a lot to say in the new government.