Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rob Enderle

Whenever the largest online retailer makes a decision, it's going to be a big deal. They're the bellwether for their segment. What they do, others will likely do or consider doing.

Scott Boras

When he got Boston's first offer, he realized that he thought of himself differently than the Red Sox did. He knew then that there was a possibility he may leave, and I don't think that he ever considered leaving prior to that.

Kypros Chrysostomides

We want improvements in the text. The intervention of France introduced some new important elements, but the general framework of the counter-declaration is not considered entirely satisfactory to our side.

Steve Rucchin

There are a lot of good teams out there, and if we want to be considered one of them, we have to show up to play for a full 60 minutes. From what I've seen the last two games, teams are sitting back, but our team is not poised enough with the puck. We seem to be ramming it down our own throats and moving it where they have their guys positioned.

Steve Anderson

There is a level of stock in the system and one other thing to consider is that we're a net food exporter.

John Milton

When I consider how my light is spent / Ere half my days in this dark world and wide, / And that one talent which is death to hide, / Lodged with me useless.

Donna Abbott

We used to say that Memorial Day started the season. Now, Presidents' Day is considered the start of the season.

Tom Odell

I would consider myself a perfectionist, yeah. I don't think that is always that helpful, either. Sometimes it's good to be a little more open-minded; you can overthink things when things are actually fine, and it's that moment that you lose it. Looking back, sometimes I've made mistakes from being a perfectionist.

Tawni O'Dell

When I begin writing, I have no idea what my novels are ultimately going to be about. I don't have a plot. I never consider a theme. I don't make notes or outlines.

Jackie Robinson

We have a social responsibility and we are held to a higher standard than other institutions,

Dr. Fukino

We have never held out or said that we are doing everything perfectly, and we have accomplished everything. We have said that there's more work to be done, but that we are moving forward.

Kevin Bentley

What we did, we held what we were going to do until there were about seven seconds on the play clock. Because if he's going to check, which he is, don't leave him with enough time.

Edward Brooke

When I arrived in the Senate, the moderate so-called Rockefeller Republicans held the balance of power.

Eric Schneiderman

You wanna know people are held accountable if they engage in misconduct and that no one is above the law.

Jonathan Tasini

The people who supported the war must be held accountable.

John Walsh

We're held to the highest standards and when that is violated, you violate your own department's trust and you are held accountable for those actions.

Doug Harvey

I always tell my wife, 'If you're ever looking for something to put on my gravestone, put down, 'He was an honest man, and he never held a grudge.'

Kenneth Fisher

Fundamentally cheap stocks are often held in low regard by market participants. Something may be tainting their perception in investors' minds.

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.

Dirk Benedict

I loved sitting on my veranda sipping quality scotch, puffing a Cuban cigar and watching Cuba on the horizon, or the oceanic vista. Did this late in the evenings many times.

E. B. White

Don Marquis came down after a month on the wagon, ambled over to the bar, and announced, 'I've conquered that goddamn willpower of mine. Gimme a double Scotch.

Mickey Rooney

Had I been brighter, the ladies been gentler, the Scotch been weaker, had the gods been kinder, had the dice been hotter, this could have been a one-sentence story: Once upon a time I lived happily ever after.

Nathan Myhrvold

If you take a scotch whiskey and distill out the alcohol, what is left has an amazing taste to it and can be used as a flavoring for a dessert.

Mae West

Why don’t you come up and have a little ... scotch and sofa?

Horace Walpole

The whole [Scotch] nation hitherto has been void of wit and humour, and even incapable of relishing it.

Jim Leyland

I'm second in doubles - double vodkas, double scotches.

Lewis Black

I was a drinker, so I went through the scotches. Before single malts hit, there were really cheap scotches, because nobody was paying attention to them. Then by the time they started jacking those prices up, I moved on to vodka.

Tommy Cooper

I've been on the whisky diet - I've already lost three days!

Lloyd Cutler

And we made decisions on each of those matters which were ultimately upheld by the courts.

Casey Neistat

Then HBO was the pie in the sky. HBO is the absolute ultimate.

Nick Clooney

The kind of Iraq that emerges from all of this is ultimately out of our hands.

Eleanor Roosevelt

To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success.

Brad Chalk

Getting to Omaha, that's the ultimate goal. If I batted .100 and we made it there, then I would feel like I succeeded.

Bhagat Singh

A rebellion is not a revolution. It may ultimately lead to that end.

David Bowie

Now I realize that from '72 through to about '76, I was the ultimate rock star. I couldn't have been more rock star.

Bill Owens

Actions, not words, are the ultimate results of leadership.

Charles Kendall Adams

No one ever attains success by simply doing what is required of him.

Beatrix Potter

I am worn to a raveling.

Doris Payne

I am real pained by this, but I am worn out.

Roy H. Williams

Basically, Tyler's just worn out. I think he's completely spent.

Brady Quinn

I don't think he's worn all of them at the same time.

Lee J. Cobb

The HUAC did a deal with me. I was pretty much worn down. I had no money. I couldn't borrow.

Benjamin Franklin

Had I revenged wrong, I had not worn my skirts so long.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Where ruts have not yet been worn, it requires less effort to stay out of them.

Jeff Horner

We weren't worn down. We just didn't make plays.

Tyra Banks

I have worn fake hair since I was 17 years old.