Famous Quotes & Sayings

Italo Calvino

Although I am small, ugly and dirty, I am highly ambitious, and at the slightest flattery, I immediately start to strut like a turkey.

Laura DiDio

Mainstream Linux deployments are on a steep upward trajectory. Although they will not replace Windows, co-existence will be the order of the day.

Suzanne Fields

Mahmud Abbas is not Thomas Jefferson. The spirit of Patrick Henry has not emerged in Lebanon. Although more than a 140 Syrian intellectuals have protested Syrian troops there and signed a public statement opposing the occupation, these intellectuals are not in the league of our own Founding Fathers.

Robbie McEwen

Leon Van Bon led me out perfectly, but I started the sprint too early, couldn't finish it. Although I was going for a stage win, the intermediate bonus sprint and the green jersey gives me a lot of self confidence.

Samuel Butler

Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.

Jon Heacock

Louis made a couple of good catches out there, although he did drop the first one we threw to him.

Tim Condon

Looks like a people plan as opposed to a business plan. The emphasis seems to be improving peoples lives by improving social infrastructure. I don't know if there are enough goodies to have an impact on financial markets although if the whole country feels better it would be good for markets.

Tod Tamberg

Many of the victims direct all their anger at Cardinal Mahony. It's unfair and somewhat misdirected, although understandable.

John Woods

Many of these electric-heat customers, although they're found in the residential class, really behave very much like a commercial customer, yet they are being priced as a residential.

Rick Perlstein

Why was Barack Obama attractive to people in 2008? If you think about Barack Obama, there's all this anxiety about society, just kind of wracked by centripetal forces - the idea that the center's not holding, no one can talk to each other, the idea of a political system that's broken.

Edward Jones

Many of the leading technology companies have shown solid sales and earnings growth since the economy began to improve in late 2001. While technology earnings have continued to grow and the stocks have remained flat or even dropped, we believe the prices of many of these companies are more attractive than we have seen in a long time.

Sigi Schmid

Sebastian is a very attractive player. He has a huge pedigree in soccer and he has a strong desire to play in the States. He has the potential to be an impact player in this league.

Abraham Lincoln

Military glory --the attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood.

Abraham Lincoln

Military glory - that attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood

John Wong

Medical insurance should become very attractive to middle-class families in China because they really don't want to undertake that risk themselves.

Alan Boss

M dwarf stars dominate the stellar population in the solar neighborhood, and so are attractive targets for searching for habitable planets. The models show that gas-giant planets are indeed likely to form?at distances sufficiently large enough to permit the later formation of habitable, terrestrial planets.

Bobby Jindal

One of the things that made him so attractive to voters when he ran for mayor was ... he was an outsider.

David Ferris

One attractive consumer solution is to offer a backup service.

Alexandra Paul

I really believe in non-violence, but I also believe in a short of resistance that has to be respectful.

Italo Calvino

I don't believe chance can play a role in my literature.

Italo Calvino

I change my method and field of reference from book to book because I can never believe in the same thing two times running.

Italo Calvino

Personally, I believe in fiction because the stories I like are those with a beginning and an end.

Peter Jennings

Whatever you may think of Mrs. Clinton as a character, I think she believes quite strongly in public service.

Richard Rogers

I don't believe in the ownership of work.

Rick Perlstein

What does it mean to truly believe in America? To wave a flag? Or to struggle toward a more searching alternative to the shallowness of the flag-wavers - to criticize, to interrogate, to analyze, to dissent?

Robert Fisk

We are constantly trying to cope with what our fathers or our grandfathers did. I wrote the book 'Great War of Civilization,' and my father was a solider in the First World War which produced the current Middle East - not that he had much to do with that - but he fought in what he believed was the Great War for Civilization.

Robert Palmer

I believe that my music is just about feelings, and the style is just a side effect.

Robert Scoble

Let's be honest - you work at a big company because it's comfortable. You don't have to work 80 hours per week, and you get paid, have nice benefits, and the family is all happy.

Tony Woodley

Make no mistake, we will be looking, as a matter of the utmost urgency, to explore with the company as well as with ministers ways to have this devastating decision reversed.

Robert Reid

Make no mistake, INTL has been missing estimates recently as the company has missed the last four quarters,

Michael Cohen

Lucent will never be the company it once was.

Henry Schacht

Lucent got off track because we tried to grow our company faster than, in hindsight, we were able to,

Terry Williamson

Major Moves. I support it as long as this private company lets us in on the work.

Bill Ford

Lots of stuff that made this company great started off as something that wasn't in the budget.

Konrad Becker

Last year they had a big contribution from selling company stakes. Next year they won't have that.

J. Hoover

Learn what's important to your boss, understand what your company is looking for and help the fool meet those expectations.

Lionel Anderson

Madison's height took us out early in the game but we never quit. We continued to play our game. It is what we do. We play basketball.

Dan Popowics

Lowe's has had a lot of momentum as it expands into the Northeast and other areas. Americans continued to spend on their homes, with the kicker here being the warmer January that drove more traffic into stores.

Nancy Connelly

Losing those players really hurt us. In the second half, we continued to play on, but couldn't score. It was a good team effort, and a very disappointing loss. I felt as if we could have come out on top if not for the injuries.

Ralph Connor

Last year she ran 16:59 here. She ran faster here than last year and last week. It's a good time on this course and she continued to show that she is one of the better runners in southwestern Indiana.

Ralph Connor

Last year she ran 16:59 here, ... She ran faster here than last year and last week. It's a good time on this course and she continued to show that she is one of the better runners in southwestern Indiana.

Naomi Wolf

Let's dare to release our immature fantasies of a magically faultless U.S. system and a magically protected election process. We have been lucky as a nation, but sometimes continued luck depends on action.

Castor Pang

Many investors and funds continued selling... as the market lacks fresh good news. Interest-rate worries continued to dampen sentiment.

Masayoshi Yano

Share prices gained as New York stocks continued to rise overnight.

Stanley Chou

Mobile phone stocks primarily contributed to the main board's rise given hopes continued strong demand will help Taiwanese handset makers report solid revenue growth in the next few months.

Eva Longoria

I find it a turnoff whenever men arent into some kind of sport. And, no, video games dont count. I dated a guy who was into video games, and I wanted to shoot myself.

Jennifer Long

I don't know why he felt the need to do something this crazy. We dated for about four months. He didn't have a temper. He never hit me or nothing.

Hannah Simone

I dated someone in the '90s who was really into Metallica, and I remember thinking at the time, 'That just sounds so heavy and hard.' But they have great ballads! Great ballads.

Jay London

I dated a partially nude model, and she did a half-assed job.

Isaac Brock

I don't think I ever write songs involving politics, because they get dated way too quick. Any view you have can usually be made into something more general, and that can stand throughout time.

Brad Barkley

I drove an orange Camaro and dated a cheerleader. Life was good.

Zach Galligan

I think one of the reasons 'Gremlins' lasts and some other films don't is because I don't think the movie has a whole lot of dated things - sure, the cars, my hair, and few things here and there that date the movie - but it takes place in a sort of everytown, in a sorta non-specific time, and that gives the movie a timeless quality.

Zach Galligan

I knew a ton of actors and was friends with them, but I never dated actresses. I tried to date 'normal' people because the Hollywood dating rule is 'one star per couple' because it's quite a challenge to match the egos of two actors.

Landon Liboiron

I was never a person who dated in high school, because at 17, everything just felt like it had to be so rushed. Relationships just bounced around like crazy in high school! And now, I never want to rush anything. I just want to enjoy all of the steps.

Robert Klein

My 1974 album 'Mind Over Matter' was a detailed thing about Watergate. I always had some righteous indignation.

Charlie Crist

One detail could be the link that puts all the pieces together,

Jacques Perrin

Nature is full of drama. I know nothing about biology, about birds, about insects, about the details of politics. I just make movies about human interest stories.

Darin Strauss

Memoirs are - memory is - rarely 100 percent accurate. Any autobiography is a construct, ballpark, even unnatural. Private diaries, too, can be unreliable - a detail that matters only if the diary is read.

Barry Ritholtz

Need I detail how silly this is? Home prices are up dramatically, and recently we see that mortgage rates have ticked up significantly.

Mirwaiz Umar

We had a very detailed discussion, a very heart-to-heart discussion.

Raina Telgemeier

I did keep detailed journals from about fifth grade on, and every so often as I was growing up, I would re-read them and reflect on the previous years of my life.

Pat Roberts

I can't really tell you some of the more specific details that would make your eyebrows even raise higher,

Robert McCarthy

I don't remember the details (of the presentation), ... but I know I was impressed.

Craig Whelihan

Like every football team, NFL or arena, you want to start out with a win. It puts everyone in a good frame of mind. It kind of shows you where you're at early in the season. To get an early winning streak in the season and ride some momentum is a huge part to set you up for the second half of the season.

Mike Bauer

Luke Harman did a great job of finding Davin and Sam early and that really opened things up inside for Maurice and Casey.

Joe Horvath

Losing those early matches all in a row just tore our morale in two. I'm surprised that we were able to fight back as much as we did at the end of the meet.

W. S. Gilbert

Last year was pretty much another freshman year for me, and early on I was fine. But then once we got into conference, in those pressure situations, sometimes I guess I got too nervous.

Joey Galloway

Last year, with the early injuries, we started shuffling some guys around and that's tough. It's tough to be successful that way.

Ron Noedel

Last year what happened is we jumped on them early and got her frustrated. Today was a whole different story. We couldn't get to her today and she just got really strong.

Ronald Vincent

(Leggett) was throwing three pitches for strikes, and getting his changeup and curveball over early in the year is difficult. We have to make adjustments and see it a lot of times.

Steve Wammer

Leah had a great year. She had some injuries early and we had to kind of watch her a little bit. But by the end of the year, she was on top of her game.

Mark Hamilton

Sean threw fantastic. It was good to get him some early runs. We've started stringing together those timely hits, and it helps the pitching staff.

William M. Thackeray

When we say of a gentleman that he lives elegantly on nothing a year, we use the word "nothing" to signify something unknown; meaning, simply, that we don't know how the gentleman in question defrays the expenses of his establishment.

Marguerite Cotto

We have worked very hard to reduce expenses through all the units.

Frederic Bastiat

It's always tempting to do good at someone else's expense

Alan Kopit

Three to six months' worth of savings for living expenses is the minimum every household should have, no matter its income. Any less can leave people vulnerable to serious financial woes if they hit unexpected difficulties, like a job loss or medical problem. It's a good habit for all working people to put away a reasonable portion of their take-home pay into some form of liquid savings.

Nick Clements

We did get our last paychecks, and I did receive part of the travel expenses that are owed to me. I am waiting to see if they are going to reimburse me for the rest of my travel expenses.

Steve Carter

I wouldn't recommend they try to make more money with a second job, since living paycheck-to-paycheck is already stressful, and they have a young child. Instead, they'll need to reduce their expenses as much as they can.

Mitch Roob

This was not intended to pay him more money - it's intended to pay him the expenses he has with us.

Lori Lucas

Retiree medical expenses are the big wild card. Most people will probably spend a lot more on medical expenses when they retire.

Ken Joyce

Our goal is for 2006 SG&A expenses to be $25 to $30 million lower than in 2005.

Ben Jackson

Last year we were focused on going to states and this year we're more taking it one game at a time,

Barry Alvarez

Many times it's the teams that stay the most focused that win the games. There's a lot of potential to be distracted.

J. Lewis

Scott is a great leader and teammate. He is focused and hard-working, but also genuinely nice and fun to be around.

Ronnie Peacock

Several schools are calling. They're just now getting around it. They're still focused on next week. After that, they'll jump on the juniors.

Lee Williams

My job is to grow this business. We've got programs with great opportunities and that's what I want workers to keep focused on.

Robert Esche

My first thought? You can't write it. I'm focused on seven games. I'm focused on leaving this one behind.

Peter Rohde

Obviously we're focused on not getting players rubbed out, but at the same time we don't want to make them too gun-shy.

Don Blandin

More Americans are focused on saving for retirement, but are they putting away enough? It's not grounded in a plan and they're saving blindly. They really don't know if they're saving enough.

Amy Ellis

My girls are only focused on (today's) game.

Rob Enderle

Now that the settlement is done, RIM can work on improving their relationship with their customers.

Aubrey Taylor

I have been improving every meet. I want to keep improving.

Andrew Dorais

She has been improving all season long and really peaked at just the right time.

Drake Johnstone

If they demonstrate improving revenue growth, they could get $20 a share.

James Kelley

We still have plenty of improving to do, especially in the secondary , but I think we made an important transition tonight. As long as we keep moving in the right direction, I'll be satisfied.

Daniel Grabauskas

We need to tighten up our procedures because there are a number of people out there scamming the system. But the first priority is improving performance. We'd love to be in a situation where we don't have to pay any refunds.

Chris Hill

We want to keep improving and feel the trend is going up. We'll keep striving to get better.

Jean Turner

We all need good, vital, improving schools; we're all in this together.

Catherine Booth

There is no improving the future without disturbing the present.

Eliot Spitzer

Like everyone else, I am wary about the way spending is being increased at some levels.

Bill Halter

Minimum wage was last increased in 1997. It?s wrong that people that work full-time can?t support their families.

Alan McCoy

(The price of zinc) has increased dramatically, especially in the past year." ()

Roy Barnes

As the population of Georgia increased dramatically, so did development.

Temple Grandin

One big question that's come up is: Has autism increased on the mild side of things? I don't think so - they've always been here. Some of this is increased detection.

Bryan Hopkins

We have increased results by more than 400 percent in the last two years because we have the right tools, people and process in place.

Cate Blanchett

There is a societal cost of increased pollution, and that's what I'm passionate about as a mother.

Greg Simon

The period right after people start taking antidepressant medication is not a period of increased risk. In fact, risk after starting medication is lower than before.

Robert Murray

Joy is increased by spreading it to others

Efren Barajas

Let's push for 20,000 people marching that day.

Chris Vos

Now we are getting ready for the March 6 strike.

Tony Bryant

I don't know anything about it. I'm just working out to get ready for the season. ... When I get back to New Orleans on March 20, I'll find out what's going on.

Jim Steiner

We still have some very serious negotiating to do between now and March 3.

Jason Lee

When I first turned pro, it was March of '89-a month before my 19th birthday.

Al Sharpton

We blacks had problems in the '60s and we solved them by marching. We've still got problems - let's march.

David Brooks

Fundamentalism is still on the march.

Rudy Cruz

We're making up for winter now. March is December.

Barbara Boxer

I would love to see a march on Washington that says 'Save our Social Security'

Tom McCall

Extraordinary measures were required and I realize that not all of these steps were popular.

David Morgan

We have satisfied ourselves that appropriate safety and security measures will be in place.

Kevin Shelley

I'm insisting, quite unapologetically, on the need to have these appropriate security measures in place to protect the voters, which is my principal charge.

John Proctor

There are similar security measures to those of online banking.

Raila Odinga

Kenyans should rise and stop this draconian measures by a dictatorship government.

Hosni Mubarak

We will take much tougher measures in the area,

Lance Berkman

There's not another starting rotation that measures up to ours. And then you get to the back part of the game, with (Brad) Lidge. That's who we are. We don't outslug teams; we outpitch them.

Michael Clarke

We used sophisticated security procedures and measures to make sure only people who are supposed to be on the network can get onto the network.

Moshe Sharett

I am against preventive war because it means measures by the UN against us.

Roger Andrew Taylor

Seven and the Ragged Tiger took six months to record and finish.

Granger Whitelaw

Now that we're headquartered here, you may see some announcements in the months to come.

Dave Smith

I feel more optimistic at this time than I did 12 months ago, but we've still got a lot of work to do.

Mariella Frostrup

If I was going to write something, I'd need to stop for three months and just see if I had any thoughts in there.

Dave Parker

September is pantyhose month. No nonsense.

Martin Havlat

If we don't play, then my month is over. That'd be just great.

H. Hart

because of war and other considerations, that may slip another month or so to April.

Nelva Ancona

I feel the sadness of this family. She is two months pregnant and she has two kids.

Patrick Biancone

She has been treated and will spend a month at Ashford Stud.

Roger Andrew Taylor

Seven and the Ragged Tiger took six months to record and finish.

Granger Whitelaw

Now that we're headquartered here, you may see some announcements in the months to come.

Dave Smith

I feel more optimistic at this time than I did 12 months ago, but we've still got a lot of work to do.

Mariella Frostrup

If I was going to write something, I'd need to stop for three months and just see if I had any thoughts in there.

Dave Parker

September is pantyhose month. No nonsense.

Nelva Ancona

I feel the sadness of this family. She is two months pregnant and she has two kids.

Rob Glaser

six months to a year from now is realistic.

Laura Davis

Six months ago, I would have said we have the strongest team,

Anne Worcester

If this is where it (the women?s tournament field) wound up, we would be thrilled. But just think that this is just the beginning. We still have another 3 1/2 months (to sign players).

Mark McGwire

Like I said. I'm not going to talk about the past,

Robert Davies

Lycos has experienced phenomenal success during the past several months,

Alan Doss

Liberia has been the epicenter of progressive waves of instability that have swept through this region over the past 25 years,

Mike Nugent

One of the things I've been concentrating on is not worrying about the past, ... Even if it's not my past.

Chris Klein

Ocean's Twelve. Her and my relationship is a time in the past.

Bible Bible

One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.

Landon Donovan

We (had) been in a rut for the past 12-13 games. Now we don't have any excuses. Everyone's here. Everyone is available, ... We have all the training time. We have only two more road games. We've got to show that we belong.

Charles R. Swindoll

Sometimes people can't see past us to hear our message. We never have a second chance to leave a first impression.

Diane Ravitch

American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century.

Carlo Ancelotti

Lyon is a very strong team with solid organization. We put them under a lot of pressure but they responded well. I wouldn't say we have the advantage, I think it is still 50-50.

Kent Conrad

Mr. Tancredo can put out all the press releases he wants.

Clive Standen

My first press tour for 'Vikings' was pretty overwhelming. Between all the hotels, TV shows and talking a lot, I would get done and have to sit in silence for a while. It was exhausting, and you really have to focus.

Edward Bennett Williams

Money, power, and public relations. My wife is rich, and I wouldn't know what to do with power, but give me those press clippings!

Tim Duncan

Now we've got the pressure on them, down two games. Now we've got to go into Arco and really get this first one. That puts the ultimate pressure -- elimination -- on people.

Sidney Crosby

Obviously, this is a new level, but the pressure has always been there,

Darren Kimball

When I look at 2006, I see a lot of the same pressures I saw in 2005.

Dennis Prager

Chechnya is a pressure cooker of Islamist anger

Eleanor Roosevelt

The constant pressure to bring about conformity is a dangerous thing.

Ajay Kumar

Security of Salem will be our top priority when he comes to Delhi.

James Steen

On Jan. 15, we had thousands and thousands of applications from students who in prior years would have been admissible, but we had to wait-list them.

Eleanor Roosevelt

You do the things that need to be done according to priority.

Steve Squyres

For Spirit, the priority has been to reach a safe winter haven.

Ed Pastor

Funding and maintaining programs from Head Start to Pell Grants must be a high priority.

Dave Reichert

Ensuring Americans have access to adequate medical care should be a priority for all of us.

Augustin Matata Ponyo

I have been busy working in order to make agriculture a priority sector not on a small scale, but into an agro-based industry.

Claudia Stuart

She always had her priorities in the right place.

Alan Cohen

Busyness is not a reason for not getting other things done. It is an excuse for not claiming your true priorities.

Jerry Yang

one of the better products we've launched in a long time.

Michael Howard

More and more of the products are going to become 'carrier Ethernet,' because manufacturers aren't going to be able to sell them to service providers unless they have all these features.

Karen Burk

We want to make sure we're only putting safe, quality products on our shelves for our customers.

Phil Schiller

Our approach at Apple has always been to make products we're proud to own and use ourselves.

Meg Graham

The quality and sterility of the products made there was never in question.

Ayumi Hamasaki

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

Connie Sellecca

We got to this point by constantly perfecting our products.

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.

Shane Robison

With managed services, we have a lot of products we can pull through.

Rex Wilmouth

If they are making that much profit, they should reduce rates.

Greg Knudsen

We're not saying let's make everything easier. There will be the need for a new test because of the new standards, but they have not been reduced in difficulty.

Leila Janah

Most of us working on poverty alleviation simply want to know, 'How much poverty can I reduce for every dollar I donate?'

Roy Blunt

I'd be a lot more excited about eliminating earmarks if we reduced all of the spending by whatever the earmarks used to be, but nobody's, apparently, going to talk about doing that.

Madonna Ciccone

When I went to Africa, I was reduced to floods of tears every day.

Siri Hustvedt

Although sometimes the morbid is also the transcendent, the transcendent cannot be reduced to the morbid.

Mitt Romney

I'd rather see the tax for innovation reduced rather than expanded.

David Mitchell

You'd have to reduce a whole lot of ammonia before you get any benefit.

Mike Adams

We've reduced it significantly ... but I don't think we've stopped it completely.

Anita Allen

I can't release that information. We can't give out anything about salaries or bonuses.

David Wright

I had released all that was worst in me. It was a shame I had to kill them.

Lindsey Rice

She was just being released into a world of paranoia, and it wasn't good.

Rob Schneider

We're not getting released in Japan; I know that for a fact,

Alan Moore

Who imprisoned me here? Who keeps me here? Who can release me? Who's controlling and constraining my life except...me?

Bill Hayden

Cosmoe is nearing the stage where I would feel comfortable doing a preliminary release aimed at developers.

Bruce Springsteen

The release date is just one day, but the record is forever.

Leslie Sloane

Yes, she has been released and she is doing better.

Jim Calhoun

I thought at first when he released it, it was going to be good, but it wasn't.

Laurence D. Fink

When you look at dividend returns on equities versus bond yields, to me it's a pretty easy decision to be heavily in equities.

Buck Showalter

You stay with it. But at some point, you have to get returns for the opportunities they are given.

Chuck Morris

Ticket sales are very solid, to say the least.

Peter Reynolds

When we have a special event, our sales triple,

Brian Tracy

Resolve to be among the top 20% of salespeople who make 80% of the sales.

Linda Thomas

Our sales are expanding. We've had to turn down stores for milk.

Keith Pearson

Overall, sales have been good. Things have been going smooth.

Jon Hanson

Token sales have spiked, ... Token use has spiked.

Tom McMillan

There has never been a three-week stretch of season ticket sales like this. Ever.

Richard Foreman

We really won't see the story until we get into the spring and see the spring sales activity.

Catherine Lee

It's not an appraisal, it's more of a sales tool.

Bill Hall

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

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.

Jim Sweeney

We didn't do anything spectacular on offense. But Tony Porto bailed us out several times.

Patrice Leconte

I've always done 20 things at once. It's my way of staying alive, not to keep one dish cooking, but several dishes going. And I'm pretty organized.

Toks Olagundoye

I've several times had jobs that I thought were going to be my big break, and it didn't pan out.

James Gill

We were able to talk to several witnesses at the playground.

Greg Strobel

We don't know when he's going to be back. He'll be out for several weeks. That's a big deal.

Craig Benson

I don't think anyone's pushing for spending limits in the campaign.

Jack Morgan

If they end up spending 4 or 5 weeks there, it won't surprise me.

William J. H. Boetcker

You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.