Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lisa Gansky

Walmart and other big-boxers could become the center of gravity for the conservation of goods, employ people with actual know-how, and develop deeper, longer term, more profitable relationships with their customers.

Roberto Bertollini

Until 10 years ago, we were mostly dealing with predictions and scenarios. Now, unfortunately, in the last few years, we are able to see and measure actual effects.

Eivind Reiten

We are primarily buying an exploration company - with huge exploration area compared to the actual production,

Mark Fields

We started introducing clear pricing two years ago. The success of Mustang and Fusion proves that it works. We will bring sticker prices more in line with actual transaction prices and cap 'cash on the hood' rebates as we introduce new cars and trucks into the marketplace. It will protect our margins and consumers, too, through higher resale values.

Steve Outing

Where it makes me a little bit uncomfortable is taking the editorial content and turning one of those words into a commercial thing. I just feel like the actual editorial content within a news story should be sacred.

Nicolas Roeg

Any cuts that are done to any film, they're usually things that have some personal resonance for whoever has got permission to cut it and feels they should. But it has very little to do with the actual weight, the truth, of the piece.

Noel Wells

I think the process of 'SNL' is still pretty formal. You make an audition tape, your agent sends it in, they watch people's tapes, and then they invite people to perform at a comedy club in Los Angeles or New York. But I don't know how much actual scouting they do online.

Herbert A. Simon

The choices we make lead up to actual experiences. It is one thing to decide to climb a mountain. It is quite another to be on top of it.

Helen George

I'm not sure filming a birth is as hard as actual labour, but it's a really long, arduous day!

Marty Holah

Very disappointing, we certainly had the opportunities to put the game away in the first half. We made a lot of line breaks and didn't convert them into five pointers.

Jamie Munro

Ultimately, we didn't end up getting some breaks we needed to get an upset. Virginia has a great team and we tried to take it to them. ? We played hard. They played hard.

Sen. Prentice

We're in a very different world now. We demand accountability for spending. ... We should look and demand accountability for every one of these tax breaks of which there are many in this budget.

Lawrence Jackson

The proper care and rearing of a child is integral to their development. It breaks my heart to know that some children's futures are being destroyed within their own homes.

Stan Heath

We have to get ready to play on Saturday and fight for a win. We have to create our own breaks and get to the point where we're greedy with a lead.

Derek Jeter

We have no excuses. We got all the breaks to get to this point. We had our chance.

Kurt Eichenwald

Whenever someone says zygotes are babies, I reply: 'Imagine a thousand zygotes in test tubes in one room, and three toddlers in another. A fire breaks out, and you only have time to get to one room. Which would you save from burning - the zygotes or the children?'

Clay Harris

Until tonight we have been in every game. I think we just need some breaks to go our way. When we find ourselves we're going to be a good team.

Alexa Von Tobel

For many, graduation marks the end of formal student life - the end of long spring breaks and of thinking that a 10 A.M. class is far too early.

Corey Ostman

Until Nasdaq starts moving forward, no one expects anything.

Tee Newman

Lower Richland expects to win. We're in the hoping-to-win stage. That makes a difference.

Clint Myers

She's going to be a great hitter for the next four years. She expects it and we like it so it's working out a lot for everybody.

Ralph Klein

Shirley expects to have something finalized in a month or so and we expect to have cheques in the mail by the end of this year,

Phil Garner

We're a team and an organization that expects to win. That's the mantra from our owner and, I think, from our front office, too.

Mark Madsen

I think the win-loss record has been a frustration for everyone. Every single one of us expects more in terms of the individual play and in terms of winning games. I think everyone wants to win very badly, and I think everyone is very frustrated that we haven't been better.

Tom Taylor

I think the radio industry expects this will end sooner than later.

Dan Haren

I think everyone's expectations are really high. I know most of us are young and haven't been there before, but everyone expects us to be on top at the end.

O.J. Mayo

For me, this second trip to state was about pride, so it was a little harder. Everyone expects us to be there.

Alan Eads

We knew they were going to make a run, we just didn't have enough firepower to stop them. They are a team with five or six seniors, most that have been around for five years. We are a team that usually has two or three freshman on the floor. And, we didn't have our point guard.

Tom Johnson

We know what time it was sold, we know that it was five tickets, five plays on one ticket, they were all quick-picks, that much we know.

Steve Alford

We know we're down to five games (in the regular season). We have to do our part ? we have to play well.

Jamal Crawford

We know how good we can be. We have to go out and do it. It can't just be like this every five or six games.

David Holden

We are a five member board...we had no discussion,

Ron Gardenhire

We're in a pennant race here, ... We're doing everything we can to win. And five runs in two innings, we can't do that.

Irwin Redlener

We started from zero five weeks ago to all this hot, hot spotlight on pandemic flu, but we're not going to be ready.

David Grant

We started five minutes after (Kline) lost. It's something you reel in right then. You start helping him refocus. You don't talk too much about the match he just lost but about what we're going to do in the future. You have to be there to help him.

Felipe Alou

We spent five months losing series. That's what has us five games back - not the loss tonight.

Charles Dickens

Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you an't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in which case it gets too exciting to be pleasant.

Charles Dickens

To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.

Charles Stross

I'm not planning a kickstarter game. And I'm not really a game designer.

Alan Watts

The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever.

Alan Watts

Substances like LSD, which give away a secret about the nature of the social game - the human game and what underlies it - are potentially dangerous, of course, like any good thing is. Electricity is dangerous, fire is dangerous, cars are dangerous, planes are dangerous, but not so dangerous as driving on the freeway. The only way to handle danger is to face it. If you start getting frightened of it, then you make it worse. Because you project onto it all kinds of bogeys and threats which don't exist in it at all.

Alan Moore

They say that life's a game, & then they take the board away.

Alan Green

You don't score 64 goals in 86 games at the highest level without being able to score goals.

Al Alvarez

The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.

Al Alvarez

Hold'em is a game of calculated aggression. If your cards are good enough for you to call a bet, they are good enough to raise with.

Charles de Lint

The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can.

Charles Dickens

Money and goods are certainly the best of references.

Charles Dickens

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Charles Dickens

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

Charles Caleb Colton

Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine.

Charles Dickens

A good thing can't be cruel.

Charles Simmons

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

Alan Moore

If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that.

Alan Alda

The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.

Charles Dickens

Satisfy yourself beyond all doubt that you are qualified for the course to which you now aspire.....and try to achieve something in your own land before you venture on a strange one.

Charles Stross

The Magician's Land is a triumphant climax to the best fantasy trilogy of the decade.

Charles Spurgeon

He that buildeth his nest upon a Divine promise shall find it abide and remain until he shall fly away to the land where promises are lost in fulfillments.

Alan Bennett

I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.

Akhenaton

When you are risen on the eastern horizon You have filled every land with your beauty... Though you are far away, your rays are on Earth.

Akhenaton

Everyone has his food, and his time of life is reckoned.Their tongues are separate in speech,And their natures as well;Their skins are distinguished,As thou distinguishest the foreign peoples.Thou makest a Nile in the underworld,Thou bringest forth as thou desirestTo maintain the peopleAccording as thou madest them for thyself,The lord of all of them, wearying with them,The lord of every land, rising for them,The Aton of the day, great of majesty.

Dave Freudenthal

Our lifestyle, our wildlife, our land and our water remain critical to our definition of Wyoming and to our economic future.

Darren Shan

Better to die for my people in my own land than rule in another and suffer a lifetime of cowardly guilt.

Dave Barry

Land!” shouted Thomas. “Is there food?” asked Tubby Ted.

Charles Dickens

Remember, to the last, that while there is life there is hope.

Charles Simmons

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

Alan Rickman

I have just returned from the dubbing studio where I spoke into a microphone as Severus Snape for absolutely the last time.

Eric DiBiase

We've won nine of the last 11, so I like our chances.

Andrew Palmer

We want to show that we're no joke. People thought last year was a fluke. We can make improvements from last year. We're ready to see what's out there.

Craig Smith

We know what to do and what not to do because of last year. That's why we're in this position right now.

Bruce McMiller

We know we made a lot of progress last year, but there is still a lot out there.

Tony Russa

We know him and technically a position player can get here the last two or three weeks and that's plenty of camp. I'm sure he's been working.

Diane von Furstenberg

Don't talk about your diet. It's just boring, and the last thing you need when dieting is to be considered boring.

Alanis Morissette

I just feel compelled to continue to be transparent. It just really levels the playing field and eradicates the shame that I have, or that one might have, about being human. So I'm going to just keep going.

Alan Watts

So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.

James Allen

We want to see what's out there and is it worthwhile to take anything to the next level of funding.

Chris Copeland

Keep being aggressive, that's what my teammates and my coaches ask me to do. If I see things are going well, I know there's more of a comfort level for me to continue to do that.

Chogyam Trungpa

Spirituality doesn’t exist on another level different from ordinary life.

Garry South

We know how much we're going to have to spend. This is a (spending) level we think we can sustain.

DJ Jazzy Jeff

As a DJ I am never 100 percent in charge of the sound. The sound levels are controlled by someone at the sound board of the venue.

Dexter Scott King

Veganism has given me a higher level of awareness and spirituality, primary because the energy associated with eating has shifted to other areas. If you’re violent to yourself by putting [harmful] things into your body that violate its spirit, it will be difficult not to perpetuate that [violence] onto someone else.

David Allen

Without a gut-level sense that you are ultimately in control of what's happening to you, you won't even consider the option that you could manage it better.

Linda Duessel

The performance of dividend-paying stocks has more to do with the fundamentals in their industries.

Martin Broughton

The pleasing performance has been accompanied by the usual perplexing developments on the regulatory front,

Raymond Hack

We are proud of the performance of our team in the first leg.

Anthony Chukumba

When you strip everything out, the performance is pretty much as expected.

David Hockney

I've realized that I can do performances.

Bob Gunton

I actually acted onstage before I'd ever seen a live performance, and I loved it.

Al Yankovic

So I'm one of the few celebrities that got to do a repeat performance on 'The Simpsons,' which I'm very flattered by.

Katsuhiko Kodama

Softbank's poor performance is especially weighing on sentiment.

H. Hunt

She stays cool. She pulls out the big performance on the big day.

George Thompson

I thought volume trends were good. And the recall seems to be a thing of the past.

Mark Baldassare

He was able to do it two years ago in the recall election, and that's what he's trying to do again.

Gene Taylor

I was there ? and I didn't recall seeing you there,

Paul Cavalluzzo

I don't ever recall receiving any instructions with respect to caveats being down,

Don McLean

Do you recall what was revealed the day the music died?

Ambrose Bierce

recollect, v. To recall with additions something not previously known.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.

Anna Akhmatova

I know beginnings, I know endings too, and life-in-death, and something else I'd rather not recall just now.

Rudy Langford

The recall failed. Let's have another recall on (Election Day) May 2.

Edward Gibbon

Rational confidence [is] the just result of knowledge and experience.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

If you don’t find the time, if you don’t do the work, you don’t get the results.

Jason Terry

We accomplished most of our goals, and now it's time to put it all together. The results will be sweet if we do.

Romeo Crennel

When we get the results on that, we'll let you know.

Bill Walsh

Concentrate on what will produce results rather than on the results, the process rather than the prize.

Bill Gates

I am results-oriented.

Timothy Noah

Presidential election results in 2008 and 2012 clarified that talk radio was not, in fact, running the country.

John Baumann

We're just getting our first results back. So far, so good.

Bruce Sterling

Okay, are you really 'experimenting'? How do you know if you're really experimenting? You're working on it methodically and you're publishing the results! It's not an experiment if you don't publish the results in some verifiable and falsifiable form, okay?

Diane Setterfield

There was no single moment when I thought, Aha! What a great idea! Rather there was a slow and gradual accumulation of numerous small ideas.

Byron Katie

I discovered that when I believed my thoughts, I suffered, but that when I didn’t believe them, I didn’t suffer, and that this is true for every human being. Freedom is as simple as that. I found that suffering is optional. I found a joy within me that has never disappeared, not for a single moment.

Cesare Pavese

A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.

Bill Richardson

Raising a family is difficult enough. But it's even more difficult for single parents struggling to make ends meet. They don't need more obstacles. They need more opportunities.

Beyonce Knowles

That's why I called it Dangerously In Love. It's basically all of the steps in a relationship from when you first meet a guy to realizing you're interested to dancing with him the first night to thinking that you're in love to realizing that you're now a little open to making love to breaking up to having to love yourself after the breakup. All of that. A celebration of love.

Deepak Chopra

There is a restless kind of consumer shopping for partners, as if the "right one" can be found by totting up a potential mate's pluses and minuses until the number of pluses matches some mythical standards.

Edward Gibbon

The first of earthly blessings, independence.

Edward Gibbon

Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.

Ed Sheeran

I don't really do that whole 'single life' thing. I'm kind of heads down and get things done.

Bam Margera

Actually, I've always wanted to be a professional skateboarder ever since I was about six.

Anthony Trollope

There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.

Betty Shabazz

Have I gotten any threats? All I get is threats. I get at least six or seven a day.

Linda Price

We're going to be with them a lot for at least the first six months, then slowly wean them. We're not just going to throw them into an apartment.

Michael R. Bloomberg

We have six weeks to go, ... With your help, we can make it happen.

Bob Eastwood

Sixty is just a number. I don't feel 60.

Jessie Pettit

Six times now, huh. That's not too bad.

Janice Dickinson

Every six months I fly to Dallas to get botox and I also get collagen injections.

David Keith

From sixth grade on I was a real Pillsbury doughboy. Overweight, long hair, thick glasses.

Jimmy Swaggart

The minister of the Gospel is really the yardstick by which the nation measures it’s morals

Truman Capote

My yardstick is how somebody treats me.