Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Allen

We have no reason to believe there is any other usage among fire personnel,

Saleem Altaf

We have no problems if Australia or New Zealand or both combined want to bid for the tournament. We are confident about our bid given the huge commercial market for the sport in this region and the overwhelming interest it evokes among the people.

Michael Dell

We have some big plans for our growth here. In the last three years, our business outside the U.S. has grown from $12 billion to $22 billion with countries like India being among the fastest-growing markets for us.

Sheldon Lee Glashow

What the string theorists do is arguably physics. It deals with the physical world. They're attempting to make a consistent theory that explains the interactions we see among particles and gravity as well. That's certainly physics, but it's a kind of physics that is not yet testable.

Dan Peters

We want landowners to know they have choice when they are approached to lease their mineral rights. There is a difference among the independents and we want the communities where we operate to know that we have their best interests at heart. We always try to do the right thing for landowners and their property, drill safely and efficiently, and clean up the well site area once we've completed.

Mo Mowlam

We have had 30 years of murders and I think that what we need to do in the next 24 hours is show a determination among all parties to make sure we see no more.

Tim Murtaugh

The fact is, under his influence, Richmond had among the highest crime rates in the commonwealth, the schools were consistently ranked near the bottom statewide, and people paid more in taxes.

Fran Miller

There is a lot of depression and anxiety among children. This is a generation that is growing up without the emotional support, love and care of the family.

Janet Harris

There is a little bit of shell shock that's going on among donors. The tsunami got a huge response. . . . Katrina got a huge response, and I think that people are a little caught off guard by this one.

Michelle Malkin

Low point of the address: Maybe it's just me, but isn't there something tacky about having the leader of the free world reading a phone number from the teleprompter? Also, it's been three weeks and they're only now publicizing a number for Katrina families looking for missing relatives? Nowpublic.com and countless other sites like it were up and running by 9am on Aug. 30. Just saying...

Jason Silva

We live in a world where, for whatever reason, the conversations that tend to stick are the ones where 'if it bleeds, it leads.' But we've always been afraid of new technologies in spite of the fact that they've helped improve our lives in countless ways.

Kyrie Irving

I've worked countless hours in the gym, so I feel like I'm already prepared for the game. So when I'm listening to music pregame, it's really just about personal enjoyment.

Jim Hendry

Nobody is here at the park longer than Larry. And the pitchers recognize that. He spends countless hours trying to make them better mechanically and mentally.

James Snyder

I'm an actor, and I think some of us who are drawn to this work know what it is to desperately want to be loved and validated: to be good at something and not be able to do it; to come in second on countless projects; or told that you were the first choice, but the part went to that guy who had that TV show in the '90s.

Wilson Mizner

I have known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, but never had a thought.

Jami Attenberg

I didn't go to graduate school, where all the important writers seemed to be getting their start. I didn't pursue getting published in literary magazines. I didn't even send out countless pitch letters and manuscripts to agents.

Bjornstjerne Bjornson

The writers who reject tendentiousness and purpose in their work are the very ones who display it in every word they write. I could draw countless examples from the history of literature to show that the more a writer clamours for spiritual freedom, the more tendentious his work is liable to be.

David Harewood

There are countless fantastic actors out there who are being denied the opportunity to play Broadway because they're not a name, and I think that's kind of wrong.

Ahmad Chalabi

We have no evidence they have been killed in that attack. We know at least that Qusay, his son, has survived and he is occupying some houses in the Diyala area,

Neil Johnson

We have no evidence that he is deceased right now. We are hoping for a rescue.

Robert Francis

We have no evidence at this point that this was not an accident,

Richard Butler

What there is now is evidence that Saddam has reinvigorated his nuclear weapons program.

Mike Rasnak

We have provided excellent photographic evidence to the police from our surveillance equipment.

Berhane Asfaw

We have proved that one (species) is transforming into the other, so this evidence is important to show that there is human evolution... that human evolution is a fact and not a hypothesis.

John Roberts

We have had a bearish week in U.S. markets and people who had thought the range in rates would hold are now re-evaluating that view as the evidence points to a stronger U.S. economy.

Robert Hill

There is considerable evidence that the weapons of mass destruction program (in Iraq) ... is progressing,

Gitte Lindgaard

We know from the judgment and decision-making literature that once we have formed an opinion, that opinion is likely to stick and we're going to look selectively for evidence supporting our hypothesis.

Nancy Mathis

We've seen an explosion of this scam this year.

Reid Hoffman

Jeremy Stoppelman started Yelp. Max Levchin started Slide. I started LinkedIn. It was a mininova explosion of folks jumping out to doing other entrepreneurial activities.

Mohammad Ali

I had just opened my shop when there was a big bang. I fell on the ground and the roof fell on me. Then I heard another explosion and I was struck in the head.

Charles Grassley

If (Boeing) knew these things presumably 10 years ago or even before that, perhaps the TWA 800 explosion would never have taken place and there would not have been 230 lives lost,

Ray Kurzweil

Exponential growth looks like nothing is happening, and then suddenly you get this explosion at the end,

P. J. O'Rourke

Explosion of positive rights started in 1932 with the election of Roosevelt.

Pierre Schaeffer

With every technology, once you get past the first chapter, you have an explosion of consumption.

Jim Hall

the origin of the explosion is not yet known.

Nick Sloane

When people hear the word explosion they sell on a reflex.

Don Flanagan

We want people to come support us, and I think they're going to see a great game. They are an extremely quick team that plays hard. It should be fun to watch.

Ashwin Sanghi

I remember how a man once got in touch with me to tell me that he was so engrossed in my book that he had to take a day off from work just so that he could finish reading it. Such kind of responses from my readers is extremely endearing, and it keeps me going.

Alan Yates

The product has been extremely successful because it's more usable.

Daniel Roling

The outlook for steel is still extremely difficult.

Hugh Johnson

ultimately extremely good news for the health of the market.

Sharon Versyp

We are going to make this ride extremely special and we're going to have a lot of fun. This is a top-10 program, and we're going to win the big one.

Kaki King

There are a lot of places that I know extremely well. Like, if I were to visit Sydney, Australia, I'd feel very comfortable there. I'm very comfortable in many, many cities.

Denny Plyler

We did extremely well. If this had been a team thing we would have won easily.

Kevin Quinn

We started the program nine years ago with kids that were just learning to play hockey, so this is a fulfilling day for me and a lot of original parents who helped for the organization. We're extremely proud of these kids, particularly, and for all the people who laid the groundwork.

Eric Benhamou

This quarter's significant increase in revenue and improved results over last quarter reflect that we have gained traction in the marketplace and restored operational rigor.

Linda Howard

She grew three inches (to 5foot-7) and gained 30 pounds.

Kristin Cast

I've gained fans, fame, fortune, but I don't feel different. Am I supposed to?

Sarah Robinson

I have gained back much more than what I lost in Katrina.

Kim Il-sung

I don't know what can be gained from it.

Action Bronson

I'm a born athlete. Weight-lifting is in my blood. I used to do the powerlifting thing. I gained a little weight, but I still got it; I'm mad built.

Ed Orgeron

When you play football, those things are going to happen. But we have some guys who have gained some experience, so we'll be fine.

Bokeem Woodbine

I typically don't get into predicting the success of my projects. I've been involved with a lot of projects that I thought should have really gained notoriety and furthered my career, only to be met with the cold grasp of disappointment. So I typically stay away from predicting how a film will do.

Akitaka Saiki

We have gained a foothold where we can seriously pursue a resolution of the abduction issue.

Kara Swisher

Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.

Mark E. Smith

Seventy-five percent of our networks are storage related.

Leo Hindery

The platform has now been established. The networks will need to come in and morph,

Doug Gay

It hasn't really surfaced in official networks but that is something we have heard,

E. Hicks

It does make people more vulnerable. The wires aren't there to be seen. ... Wireless networks are much less secure.

Matthew Felling

That was really a retelling of an old tale at that point, and that's not what most people turn to news networks for.

Ralph Nader

should be stripped of their non-profit status, and television networks who work with them should realize they are working with a political organization, not an educational organization.

Robert Scoble

People thought I was an idiot, but I saw social networks were going to be more important, and it turned out to be true.

Andrew Heyward

Each of the networks is in a period of transition. It is extraordinary.

Karl Eikenberry

When you're trying to put the pieces back together again, you need a lot of time and a lot of patience,

Alan Shepard

I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all.

Cary Elwes

Im something of a history buff. Its deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.

Charlotte Moore

We started off with a lot of different things, pieces here and there,

Barbara Kruger

The so-called language of Barbara Kruger is vernacular language. Obviously, I pick through bits and pieces of it and figure out to some degree how to objectify my experience of the world, using pictures and words that construct and contain me.

Barbara Kruger

We are obliged to steal pieces of language, both visual and textual.

Calista Flockhart

I don't watch the show - only bits and pieces of all of them. The only one I sat through was the pilot.

S. Walker

We're starting to get some of the puzzle pieces together.

Charlie Munger

What's fascinating . . .is that you could now have a business that might have been selling for $10 billion where the business itself could probably not have borrowed even $100 million. But the owners of that business, because its public, could borrow many billions of dollars on their little pieces of paper- because they had these market valuations. But as a private business, the company itself couldn't borrow even 1/20th of what the individuals could borrow.

Jiro Yamaguchi

What we're seeing is a result of Koizumi's diminishing popularity -- the 'Koizumi effect' is wearing off.

Baltasar Gracian

There must be something good in a thing that pleases so many; even if it cannot be explained, it is certainly enjoyed.

David Brin

What point was there in pursuing an ever-elusive popularity?

Mia Wasikowska

Popularity is very inconsistent. Sometimes it's there, sometimes it's not. It usually just comes in waves.

Van Orden

He never put on airs. He never tried to outdo anybody. Because of that, his popularity simply grew,

Al Gore

The presidency is more than a popularity contest.

Johnny Depp

That would really send my popularity to the depths.

Donald Fagen

Popularity has everything to do with business and nothing to do with music.

Ravi Shankar

I think musicians and actors have all these problems, because of the popularity and the opportunity.

Melissa Dover

She's been proving them wrong in a lot of areas.

Marcelo Castillo

But we're the real deal. We keep proving them wrong.

Sunil Reddy

We look at Qualcomm as a wireless juggernaut, and it's proving it can execute,

Don Porter

We'll be working towards the things that need to be done to our sport overall. We're not sitting on our hands, we're still working at proving things that we need to do, we know that.

Alberto Martinez

That we have the organization to do it. That's what this tour is about: proving there is no front-runner in this race.

Joss Whedon

Something like 'Much Ado' happens, and even 'Avengers' happens because of the years of building connections and doing the work and proving yourself.

Randall Stephenson

You can work together. You don't have to own one. We're proving it today.

Marc Bulger

Whether it's in the playoffs or not, you have to keep proving yourself.

Carl Andre

Americans understand better than the Europeans and the English that any publicity is good.

Sharon Stone

My personal style and public style are very different. When I go out, I play dress up.

Jason Clarke

In terms of publicity and interviews, well, it's really hard in this modern world to keep a sense of mystery.

Janice Hahn

I was born into public service.

Jane Russell

Publicity can be terrible. But only if you don't have any.

Alan Mollohan

I have never, not once, violated my public trust.

S. Hughes

Where there is muck to be raked, it must be raked,and the public must know of it, that it may mete out justice....

Tom Bailey

We have a responsibility to the public to do the right thing, ... We've got 14-year-olds that read the newspaper.

Barbara Hershey

I know actors come around and they always talk like that, but I don't do publicity if I don't like the film.

Charles Dickens

There is no substitute for thoroughgoing, ardent, and sincere earnestness.

Thomas Steinbeck

Since I can't write the greatest American novel, I'm going to write the longest American novel.

Kris Kristofferson

I've been writing songs since I was a little boy. You know, I think I wrote my first song when I was 11.

John Hull

We started giving presentations at practitioner conferences in 1986, and since then all of our derivatives research has been stimulated by contact with practitioners.

Kristin Gore

I've seen some version of 'An Inconvenient Truth' since I was born.

Charles M. Schulz

How can we lose when we're so sincere?

Benny Hill

That's what show business is, sincere insincerity.

Neve McIntosh

I've been a 'Doctor Who' fan since I was a wee girl.

Lindsay Lohan

I've always been interested in singing, and I've always been singing and dancing since I was little.

Charlie Daniels

The United States of America took a giant step toward a totalitarian socialist government when the Supreme Court voted to uphold Obamacare, allowing the individual mandate for the government to force American citizens to buy health insurance whether they want to or not.

David Cross

That's what social media is, that's what Twitter is, that's what Facebook posts are. It's just really anti-intellectual.

Bruno Latour

Change the instruments and you will change the entire social theory that goes with them

Bryan Adams

I swear, I wanna be your underwear.

Jared Diamond

We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific.

Bruce Braley

Increasing the minimum wagewill put billions annually into the Social Security trust fund.

Ben Rattray

I was always interested in social change but never actually did anything about it.

Bill Nighy

If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I'm in crisis.

Benjamin Tucker

Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism

Lance Gross

If I had my way, the woman I marry, she wouldn't be a part of Twitter and she wouldn't be on Facebook.

Banks

I've never really been into social media - I don't have a Facebook; I don't do Twitter or Instagram or anything.

Tom Colicchio

I don't have a Facebook page and I don't think I will but Twitter for me is a way to take control of the message. Kind of wrestle it back. It's something I'm enjoying.

John Knapp

Twitter is the samizdat of the 21st Century.

Andrew Luck

I don't know how old my phone is, but it was only $10. It is a nice subconscious way of not having the Internet at your fingertips... e-mail, Twitter or Facebook.

Matt Mullenweg

Ultimately, Captchas are useless for spam because they're designed to tell you if someone is 'human' or not, but not whether something is spam or not.

Leos Carax

I like tragedies, whether they're sci-fi or something else, but I can't say I know much about any genre in particular.

Kate Bush

There's always ideas buzzing around, but it's whether they actually end up materialising into a song.

Gene Simmons

If someone likes you, they'll buy what you're selling, whether or not they need it.

Rick Rudesill

Whether they play (against Mitchell) is kind of up in the air. You have to wonder about their stamina.

Pierce Brosnan

Whether they made the right choice, who knows?

Karen Burk

Whether someone thought it was a joke, we take it very seriously. This is a food-tampering issue.

Shannon Cross

Whether or not they do it is still in question.

John Podhoretz

Whether my columns are worth reading isn't for me to say.