Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Prowse

I'm also involved in the rights of the disabled and do some fundraising for that and I thought it would have been a big boost for the campaign but it couldn't be worked out.

Bill Maher

Rick Santorum beat Mitt Romney in three states on Tuesday. Got a huge amount of fundraising. That's the good news for Rick Santorum. The bad news: people are now Googling 'Santorum.'

Brad Feld

The only thing that we know about financial predictions of start-ups is that 100 percent of them are wrong

Jason Calacanis

I get a lot of emails from entrepreneurs. The best ones are short, to the point and include some question and/or the product

Dan Pallotta

Everyone wants charities to spend as little as possible on overhead. That's backwards. Overhead is what drives growth. If charities can't grow, they can't solve problems. So overhead is a good thing. And I'm overhead.

Fred Wilson

The fact is that the amount of money startups raise in their seed and Series A rounds is inversely correlated with success

John McCain

I don't know a politician who enjoys fundraising. The system is such that the American people have lost faith.

Mark Steyn

Can't spell, can't spot fake Shakespeare, can't tell one wacky foreigner from another: it's increasingly obvious that Barbra is some deep sleeper planted by the Republicans to discredit the very concept of activist celebrities. Poor old Democrats, in thrall to her fundraising: people who need Barbra are the unluckiest people in the world.

Millard Fuller

I have tried raising money by asking for it, and by not asking for it. I always got more by asking for it.

Cobi Jones

I don't like the same old thing all the time.

Domhnall Gleeson

There is this old thing that a lot of people say - that the worst experiences make the best films. I don't subscribe to it. But I've seen it happen.

Allen Ginsberg

Unholy battered old thing you were, my sunflower O my soul, I loved you then!

Charles Kettering

Obsolescence is a factor which says that the new thing I bring you is worth more than the unused value of the old thing.

Anne Fadiman

It is a truism of epistolary psychology that, for example, a Christmas thank-you note written on December 26 can say any old thing, but if you wait until February, you are convinced that nothing less than Middlemarch will do.

Anthony Holden

I don't accept at all the quite popular argument that the press is responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. The monarchy's responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. To blame the press is the old thing of blaming the messenger for the message.

Donald Miller

The thing about new things is you feel new when you buy them, you feel as though you are somebody different because you own something different. We are our possessions, you know. There are people who get addicted to buying new stuff. Things. Piles and piles of things. But the new things become old things so quickly. We need new things to replace the old things.

Andy Warhol

New things are always better than old things.

C. S. Lewis

Surely arrested development consists not in refusing to lose old things but in failing to add new things.

Bill Moyers

In fact, so much of life, as you know, is serendipitous. That's why you better be prepared at any time for anything, because it may happen to you.

Ben Brantley

Be prepared to have the breath knocked out of you.

Bob Dylan

You always got to be prepared but you never know for what.

Paulo Coelho

We have to be prepared for change.

John Bytheway

Be prepared. *smacks chest*

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Happiness is a condition that must be prepared for, cultivated , and defended privately by each person.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

One must always be prepared to learn something totally new.

William Shatner

What is down will go up. At the same time, you have to be prepared for what is up to go down.

Robyn Davidson

When there is no one to remind you what society's rules are, and there is nothing to keep you linked to that society, you had better be prepared for some startling changes.