Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Andre

I was never good at painting. The great turning point came when I had a block of wood and I carved a shape into the wood and put a small piece of timber into that space - like a negative - and so it made an endless column, only inward.

Carl Andre

Why carve? It's a better sculpture that way. I'll never improve the block. So I just started using uncarved blocks.

Carl Andre

What do little kids do? They crawl on the floor and they build with blocks. I just continued to do that for the rest of my life.

Andy Bitto

We have to get better technically in all phases. Sustaining our blocks (running game), pass blocking, being more efficient passing, getting a better pass rush, tackling ...

Norman Black

We have no problem with picketers. We do have a problem when they decide to block vehicles going in and out of our plants.

Anthony Marra

When you're writing in big block paragraphs, you can afford to have a redundant sentence now and then, but the Twitter format requires concision.

Walter Jones

We were blocking the right guys and Shaun was making the correct cuts,

Charles Sturt

Mount Harris is of basaltic formation, but I could not observe any columnar regularity in it, although large blocks are exposed above the ground. The rock is extremely hard and sonorous.

Elizabeth Warren

We've seen filibusters to block judicial nominations, jobs bills, political transparency, ending Big Oil subsidies - you name it, there's been a filibuster.

Carlos Castaneda

Sorcerers are convinced that all of us are a bunch of nincompoops. We can never relinquish our crummy control voluntarily, thus we have to be tricked

Howie Dickenman

We have no stars on this team, just a bunch of workers.

Bud Grant

We have no leadership. They rule by a herd. Nobody is in charge. ... It reminds me of a bunch of cows.

Dennis Lyxzen

We want people to leave the show thinking, 'Man, those socialists are a sexy bunch and they can dance, too'.

Roy Williams

We were a pretty confident bunch beforehand. I think I'm confident. I hope it's not over the edge of cockiness, but I told them I felt like we were the only team in this country that could come in here and win this game.

James Mercer

The real challenge of writing songs isn't just writing a bunch of parts - like a verse, chorus, verse - but making something that flows together, that brings you back.

Terry Zwigoff

A lot of things I have turned down ended up being a big embarrassment. Like that script, 'The Beaver.' I thought that was one of the worst scripts I had ever read. But everyone said, 'Ooh it's on the Black List.' Yeah, well, good for it. They're a bunch of idiots. I saw the final film, and there were no surprises.

Scarlett Johansson

Uh, Disneyland Drive right on the entrance to the 5 Freeway . . . actually we pulled off to the side but, unfortunately, we have a bunch of paparazzi cars also following us.

Elle King

I'm really not good at anything else, so if I don't make it as a musician, I'll probably just end up living in the woods with a bunch of dogs.

Gretchen Rubin

Putting myself into categories is fun, and I think it also gives me insight into my own nature. When I see myself more clearly, I can more easily see ways that I might do things differently, to make myself happier. Categories can be unhelpful, however, when they become too all-defining, or when they become an excuse.

Jeff Bezos

With this launch, our goal is to give customers the Amazon.com experience -- everything from one-click shopping and helpful information to the high level of customer service we traditionally provide -- in the two important categories of toys and electronics.

Heather Dougherty

We remain enthusiastic about the start of this holiday season, as several categories saw substantial revenue increases. The growth in 2004 holiday revenue suggests that consumers are shifting more dollars to the Internet this season.

Paul Williams

Many of the mortgages with high fees fall into categories of semi-commercial such as buy-to-let, or are sub-prime, for people with previous credit problems. Those mainstream products with high fees usually have a great headline interest rate to entice the clients in.

Joe Jimenez

Selling the HP ethnic foods business, which is sold primarily through the ethnic distribution channel, is in line with our strategy of focusing on three core categories where Heinz is a sector leader: ketchup, condiments & sauces; meals & snacks; and infant nutrition.

Robert Brusca

We're getting some very good spending going into the first quarter. It's interesting that while there is spending optimism, consumers are still clearly divided into two main categories -- those with lots of money and those that are hurting. That's why these monthly results have shown so much irregularity.

Charlotte Whitton

There are two categories of women. Those who are women and those who are mens wives.

Placido Domingo

There are two big categories of people that do not go to the opera. Some who will never have the financial or cultural means of doing it.

Paul Johnson

One of the categories of people I don't like much are intellectuals. People say, 'Oh, you're an intellectual,' and I say, 'No!' What is an intellectual? An intellectual is somebody who thinks ideas are more important than people.

Tracy Nelson

We did much better this time around than we did last year, thats for sure, ... I think we scored five points - in the two matches combined - last year.

Keith Bowman

The positive share price reaction is a result of investor perception that the sum of the parts is worth more than the current combined businesses.

David Yen

We're in a new cycle of innovation for SPARC that delivers incredible performance gains, ... Scalable high performance processing, combined with the same power consumption, footprint and price as previous generations, make the new Sun Fire servers the ideal platform for server consolidation.

Ted Rogers

When you're able to offer the customer a whole wide range of communications products, it's more attractive, ... The world is moving toward bundles and combined packaging, and not single products.

Jim Graham

When I heard that the mayor had come forward with a new parking bill, I thought 'Ah-ha, now we get to experience creativity,'? You know this is the last year of the Williams administration, and this will be the combined ... eight years of experience. But I've got to say what's lacking here is something that's dynamic and creative and out of the box.

Tanith Belbin

We're so glad to be a part of this generation of ice dancing. It's a combined score.

Peter Bauer

She had an on-the-ground understanding of the park after walking every trail, hiking every mountain and canoeing its lakes and rivers. She combined that with an incredible grasp of the park's history, its policy and law.

Jason Murgel

She combined for twenty-some points this weekend and has been shooting very well from the field.

Brian Hill

Sixty-two points combined out of their backcourt -- that's who they are.

Long Nguyen

When foreign investors enter Vietnam, they must follow the country's labor rules. If they don't, the Vietnamese government has the responsibility to enforce the law or expel the company. The government has to protect the worker. The unions that represent workers in factories of foreign and joint-stock companies are weak. They don't have the strength to stand up to the management.

Bill Brady

We've seen these long-term outlooks a lot more of late, and for the life of me I can't figure out why these companies are doing it.

Karsten Keunecke

We've seen hazelnut prices peak at $11-12 a kilo (9-10 euros), from $2-3 a kilo. That's not an evolution, that's a revolution, and for companies producing products with high hazelnut content, that's a real disaster.

Nancy Alderman

We've seen companies reduce their pollution because of this.

Allen Bailey

We have had a lot of offers from record companies to go into the studio, but they wanted us to cross over. We turned them down. Instead, we are taking the cross with us.

Abheek Barua

The fact that price pressures are muted suggests that earnings growth of Indian companies will continue to be driven by volume growth, not by pricing power.

Tyson Slocum

The fact that oil companies are enjoying record profits when consumers are paying record high prices does not sit well with people.

Ed Jensen

... The fact that middle managers think their companies are mismanaged is particularly alarming.

Steve Levy

The creation of these sites is akin to the government aiding and abetting an illegal underground economy that puts legitimate companies out of business.

Carol Roth

Eighty to 90 percent of success in a company has nothing to do with business at all - it's all personal.

Robert Watson

We want to reinforce the fact that we're a global company.

Mark Hurd

We have to grow our company, invest and deal with competitive forces at the same time we need to be efficient on the cost side,

David Brown

We have no plans to make any significant changes. ... The mill won't close. We understand the importance of the company to the Longview community. We would expect a significant portion of management would stay in place.

Ben Hatfield

We have no interest in getting into finger-pointing of what went on a year ago. This is a mine that operated for some significant time before my company was involved with it.

Vijay Mallya

We have registered a company in the name of Kingfisher International in the US. We will be flying to India and other international destinations, provided we get all necessary approvals at the right time.

James Falvey

The Exxon-Mobil deal has definitely raised the bar. It's going to be hard to compete with a company that size.

Michael Armstrong

We set out to transform this company from a point-to-point long-distance company. The results today are strong. They need to be better, and they will be. But it's now time to recognize the value creation phase of our strategy.

Thayer David

Dan Curtis, our producer, has the idea that people like to see a stock company of actors.

Jia Qinglin

We shall stick to the policies of 'Hong Kong people governing Hong Kong,' 'Macau people governing Macau' and a high degree of autonomy.

Jia Qinglin

We shall stick to the policies of ' Hong Kong people governing Hong Kong,' ' Macao people governing Macao' and a high degree of autonomy.

Suzanne Collins

When I got out of undergrad, I had a degree in theater and telecommunications. My first job, I was a news reporter for the local stories for NPR. Then I was a country-western DJ. I did data entry for a yearbook company. In my mid-20s I went back to grad school at NYU, and I specialized in playwriting.

Sue Monk Kidd

I got my Bachelor's degree in nursing and worked nine years - even taught nursing in a college - before I stopped and said to myself, 'This is not who I am. I am not really a nurse inside. I'm a writer.'

David Alan Grier

I had done the sitcom thing to lesser and lesser degrees of success.

Eric Balfour

To whatever degree you have as a celebrity or notoriety, there are people who see you as an opinion leader.

Eric Kandel

Psychoanalysis has a degree of unreliability about it. You will never know whether you've found the truth. You may find a subjective truth, but you don't know.

Kathleen Rose Perkins

I graduated with a degree in musical theater and no skill in anything else to make money; I wish I had gotten a massage therapy kit or something where I could have made my own money.

Jane Austen

Yes, I found myself, by insensible degrees, sincerely fond of her; and the happiest hours of my life were what I spent with her.

Larry Ellison

We have no large acquisitions in mind right now.

William Reynolds

We have never seen this large number of people in such a short period of time.

Bob Bertini

We use larger size tomatoes in sandwiches and haven't been able to secure them with the quality and quantity that we would like.

Suzanne Fields

There are enough Poles in Chicago to make up one of the largest cities in Poland.

Anna Kendrick

When you have no money in New York, you're living in a shoebox, and it's freezing. When you have no money in L.A., you're living in a slightly larger shoebox, and you can go outside and feel okay about your life for a minute.

Kathy Deck

We know we have the largest properties in the sample and what we are missing is going to be very small.

Ann Davis

Ultimately this is a win-win for TSA in that we are going to be screening a subset of passengers at another location, thereby removing those individuals from a checkpoint line at a larger airport.

Julie Gerberding

The potential for infecting large numbers of people is great,

Nicolas Roeg

You can't hide in life. We are all being watched by some larger vision.

Larry Goldstein

The one thing the market doesn't have is time and the administration reacted expeditiously this time. This was good.

Joe Veltri

We know how important the truck market is.

Sue Schneider

Ultimately, it will be legal, here, but how long it takes is uncertain. This is where the market is.

Alan Moore

That pompous phrase (graphic novel) was thought up by some idiot in the marketing department of DC. I prefer to call them Big Expensive Comics.

Al Ries

Strategy and timing are the Himalayas of marketing. Everything else is the Catskills.

Al Ries

Marketing is what a company is in business to do. Marketing is a company's ultimate objective.

Al Ries

Marketing is not selling. Marketing is building a brand in the mind of the prospect.

Al Ries

A branding program should be designed to differentiate your cow from all the other cattle on the range. Even if all the cattle on the range look pretty much alike.

Akio Morita

All you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing.

Wendelin Wiedeking

Volkswagen sells only 2.8 percent of its products in the same segments as Porsche. An overlap first starts to become relevant for antitrust authorities when it is 25 to 33 percent.

Sarah Peters

We have an overlap of one month. I remember him, but he doesn't remember me. But we met.

Craig Thompson

I think there is some overlap in terms of artistic desires and Christian desires.

Gary Cooper

I'm not too sure UK would be willing to let us use their fields, even the practice field. We wouldn't be a problem. Our season doesn't overlap with (the men's).

Carre Otis

Eating disorders, body dysmorphia and a general dissatisfaction with one's life and body seems to ail too many young people.

Carol Roth

Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.

Carol Kane

I don't feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people.

Carol Kane

That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.

Carol Leifer

They're all sources of material. What I love about what I do, the more you talk about your life, there are so many people who have similar experiences.

Carol Shields

I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people.

Carol Moseley Braun

All I really want to be is boring. When people talk about me, I'd like them to say, Carol's basically a short Bill Bradley. Or, Carol's kind of like Al Gore in a skirt.

Carol Moseley Braun

My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.

Carlos Beltran

I don't want to be hiding from people. It would be difficult to be recognized everywhere, so that I couldn't do things ordinary people do.

Matt Flynn

The product is out there. It's not necessarily right, and it's not necessarily wrong. It's just the idea that was generated.

Grayson White

The production and recording is a big step up.

Dave Barry

I hope I don't sound like an old-fashioned stick-in-the-mud, but when I hear about people making vast fortunes without doing any productive work or contributing anything to society, my reaction is: “How can I get in on that?

Bob Turner

There are some big inventories out there. The new products that they have talked about aren't out for another quarter or so. So it's probably going to be more of the same for some time.

William Diehl

This product is all about taking a convertible mainstream. It's not about being the thinnest, super light, $2,000 convertible you've seen.

Steve Greene

We've got a pretty robust product road map.

Ayumi Hamasaki

It is necessary that I am viewed as a product. I am a product.

Daniel Goldstein

Psychology, unlike chemistry, unlike algebra, unlike literature, is an owner's manual for your own mind. It's a guide to life. What could be more important than grounding young people in the scientific information that they need to live happy, healthy, productive lives? To have good relationships?

Connie Sellecca

We got to this point by constantly perfecting our products.

Charles de Gaulle

The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.

Dhirubhai Ambani

You have to take the calculated risk,to earn something

Dhirubhai Ambani

True entrepreneurshi p comes only from risk-taking.

Dave Barry

There shall be a National Anthem containing incomprehensible words and a high note that normal humans cannot hit without risk of hernia.

David Sze

When you rest on your laurels is right when you have the risk. It exists for every company, no matter how big.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I was aware of the risks I was taking, but I did'nt care.

Erica Jong

The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

Lou Jiwei

There is a lot of risk in the tech sector.

Alan Watts

No worthwhile life can be lived without risks, despite current American superstitions to the contrary...

Joseph B. Wirthlin

We are commanded to seek out those who are lost. We are to be our brother's keeper.

Charles Miller

My understanding is we were seeking what keywords are put in and URLs. Nothing personal.

Mahatma Gandhi

I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth.

Abu Bakr

If anybody seeks your advice, offer right and sincere advice.

Robert Hamilton

We are seeking any new work we can get.

Cynthia Kenyon

I was a little truth seeker as a child. I wanted more than anything to understand myself and also other people.

Danys Baez

We didn't seek this out, but after an in-depth exploration, it made sense for us.

Julie Myers

I will seek to work with those who are knowledgeable in this area, who know more than I do.

Saudi Arabia

Tell me what you are seeking to hear--

Daryl Manning

We shared some stories, got to know each other.

Kristi Boese

We did it on our own. We didn't want to share anything.

Jane Austen

I must have my share in the conversation…

Alan Watts

...[W]ords can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

I don't feel I have to share everything.

Jaron Lanier

You have to be somebody before you can share yourself.

Jason Miller

We're not going to share our playbook with the other team.

Bertolt Brecht

Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.

Cecilia Bartoli

So I like to make music, and I like to share music. This is also a gift.