Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Wilkinson

I won't say I wouldn't be grateful and happy and delighted and thrilled to bits to receive a nomination. But I wouldn't be suicidal if it didn't happen.

Ellen Klages

My process is messy and non-linear, full of false starts, fidgets, and errands that I suddenly need to run now; it is a battle to get something - anything - down on paper. I doodle in sketchbooks: bits of ideas, fragments of sentences, character names, single lines of dialogue with no context.

Emmett Shear

Given the growing popularity of pop culture conventions, many of them are selling out, leaving a lot of fans out in the dark and having to trawl the Internet for bits and pieces of news that relate to these events.

Janice Dickinson

I borrow bits from everyone.

Robbie Guertin

We've all got lots of different influences. We never sit down to write a song and say, 'This is going to be a Brian Eno type of song,' or 'This is a Bob Dylan song.' It's totally little bits of lots of different stuff that come together and hopefully it's something coming out of us that we're creating.

Chris Lilley

There are bits of me in all my characters.

Helen Petrauskas

There are some groups who say that Firestone's tire recall should be expanded. They offer small bits of information but lack the complete picture. These kinds of suggestions will make the situation worse.

Greg Austin

When you tear out insulation from the wall or something like that and it comes out in bits and pieces all you do is tear it all out.

Keeley Hawes

Life is simply too short to think about everything you put in your mouth, and it's not good for children to see you picking over bits of salad.

Todd Chanko

The real issue here is whether or not there's going to be a paradigm shift or real channel shift (to video players).

Travis Bradberry

Grit is that 'extra something' that separates the most successful people from the rest. It's the passion, perseverance, and stamina that we must channel in order to stick with our dreams until they become a reality.

Scott Meyers

We are pleased to welcome Marjorie, an accomplished medical journalist and online specialist to About.com. This is our latest move to dramatically expand and further differentiate our high quality Health offering. Marjorie will leverage her extensive experience in health media to help us grow our health channel well past its current 4.9 million monthly visitors.

Mark Larson

Where most manufacturers are coming down on this is they want to work with traditional retailers in online channels as they do in the stores,

Lauren Worsham

I was one of those kids who liked a lot of attention. I was always the kid in class who'd be telling jokes and getting in trouble. Theater was a natural way for me to channel that and also become a productive member of society.

Tony Cox

We're looking forward to getting our eighth year of coverage on SPEED Channel underway. We had great season in 2005, but we're ready for 2006.

Jenna Blum

When I lived in Minneapolis in my twenties, and my mom lived there, too, I used to take her 'storm chasing' - by which I mean I'd see a pulsing blob of radar on The Weather Channel and make her drive us toward the storm.

Jaswant Singh

When the need arises, the two militaries can engage in dialogue through existing established channels so that the de-escalation process is properly handled,

Sanford Bernstein

Since Sirius has a slight disadvantage to XM in the OEM channel, retail channel must be the greater driver for share gains for Sirius,

Bob Bennett

We have to have a new level of communication and trust between all of the users of the Internet, which means government and industry have got to start talking to each other in ways they never have before,

Mathieu Schneider

We have no communication with other players right now. Because we haven't been able to talk to one another, we don't know if it's 50 guys, 100 guys, 150 or 200 guys who feel this way.

Kelly Herndon

We've still got to work on our communication and work on our tackling. But as far as us getting together and flying to the ball, that showed (Monday).

Aaron Sorkin

It's populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling.

Alan Kay

Humans are communications junkies. We just can't get enough.

Alan Kay

Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general's warning.

Charles Dickens

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

Charles Caleb Colton

We should have all our communications with men, as in the presence of God; and with God, as in the presence of men.

Charles Dickens

"I fear your kind and open communication, which has rendered me more painfully conscious of my own defects, has not improved me," sighed Kate.

Barbara Kingsolver

When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another person for the duration.

Charles Scott Sherrington

If we denote excitation as an end-effect by the sign plus (+), and inhibition as end-effect by the sign minus (-), such a reflex as the scratch-reflex can be termed a reflex of double-sign, for it develops excitatory end-effect and then inhibitory end-effect even during the duration of the exciting stimulus.

Aristotle

Fine friendship requires duration rather than fitful intensity.

Elinor Glyn

The duration of love in a being always depends upon the loved one. I create an emotion in you, as you create one in me. You do not create it in yourself.

Jessica Simpson

Through a huge duration of my life, someone has always picked up after me. And when you're on your own and you're trying to be independent, it's definitely different.

Mike Sullivan

When you get a 5-on-3 in the last minute of the game and a 4-on-3 for that duration in the overtime (3:11), your expectation is to win the hockey game. We didn't do that tonight and that's disappointing.

Jeff Bingaman

There are no minimum royalty rates, there are no enforcement provisions, there are no required inspections, there are no limits on the size or duration of leases, no requirement that operation plans be approved,

Baltasar Gracian

Fortune pays sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration

Pam Borton

We have to have more help in that area. I'm not making excuses, but we need to make things a little easier for us for the duration of the game, not just the beginning.

Peter Feinstein

We have no other intention right now for the property other than to operate it not only as the world's largest gentlemen's club, but as the world's most expensive gentlemen's club.

Christopher Russell

This was not a cost-effective decision. It was a very expensive decision.

Gavid Hood

The first prize for any production is, if you can find a location that means you don't have to build sets, that will serve, and is not excessively expensive to hire, then it can save you a lot of money.

Michael Muller

Most people don't know that humans kill 100 million sharks every year, mostly for a really expensive soup in Asia.

Geoff Cooper

much more traditional, longer, expensive and thorough development route.

Paul Morris

The principal problem that universities face is money, ... This is expensive technology to deploy.

Hebrew Proverb

Make not a fence more expensive or more important than the thing that is fenced

Emily Dickinson

Luck is not chance, it is toil. Fortune is expensive smile is earned.

Frank Moro

Making it more expensive on the west side just exacerbates the problem.

Frank Turner

We were at an impasse and had been talking for an extended period of time.

Eula Biss

My own thinking is often clarified and extended by talking with students.

Scott Atkinson

We're still refocusing on this area, the neighborhood, family, extended family, friends, people who would have a reason to be in the house, to be in this neighborhood -- the same thing we were doing yesterday,

Scott Henderson

We might have a facility here in Bastrop to handle some of the people who won't be able to go home for extended period,

Sam Smith

Last year we extended it, and it worked so well. We have a lot of retired people in the area, so many people can work during the week and many of them do.

Jeffrey Sconce

Many shows this season ... had gruesome shots of women being brutalized and terrorized in very graphic and extended ways,

John Cox

We extended these plea offers, and we're very comfortable with what we offered and what was accepted.

Jack Foster

We extended out lead in the league, but we still have a lot of work to do.

Mike Taylor

We extended our press too much in the third quarter. They made some great passes and went to the middle on us very effectively.

Carol Leifer

I'm wearing a new perfume that I should recommend to the women in the audience; it's called 'Tester.

Carol Shields

The silence is perfect, and yet a torment ...

Carlos Castaneda

The body must be perfection before the will is a functioning unit

Nicki Grossman

We have never, ever been 100 percent full. There are always rooms.

Agnes Repplier

The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.

Alan Sugar

I like to be a very fair person.

Alan Sugar

Effective leadership is about earning respect, and it's also about personality and charisma

Alan Kulwicki

The pursuit of perfection is frustrating and a waste of time, because nothing is ever perfect. The pursuit of excellence is commendable and worthwhile. Therefore strive for excellence not perfection.

Charlotte Bronte

The human and fallible should not arrogate a power with which the divine and perfect alone can be safely intrusted.