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.

Philip Dunne

Like any conurbation, you have the run-down areas where you wouldn't put the dog in,

Bruce Campbell

Make no mistake: given the dearth of black suppliers in key areas such as panel beating, tow-truck operators and the like, the charter targets will not be easily reached.

David Thompson

Make good choices and keep God at the center of your life. He's got to be the main focus. I grew up in a Christian household, but when I got away from that I made some bad choices and it caused me a lot of problems in all areas of my life.

David Frum

Liberals did well, and not only in the 'Michael Moore' precincts, but also in a lot of areas where their scandals should have hurt them more.

Mark Hendrickson

Last year was a struggle, as far as the first half and the second half. There's some areas I just wasn't too happy with it. I wouldn't call it, necessarily, a good year all around.

Steve Head

Last year's conference focused on the relationships and impact between the local, regional, state and national economies. Speakers focused on how south Montgomery County and The Woodlands areas are impacted by events beyond the immediate region. Attendees learned how changing demographics in the state and region should be a critical piece of future planning and vision.

Mike Matz

Let's celebrate the progress we're making in preserving a good piece of our 'original earth' -? the wilderness areas on public lands that belongs to all of us, no matter where we live.

Craig Kennedy

Leaders on both sides of the Atlantic need to build upon areas where Americans and Europeans do agree, like democracy promotion, to pave the way forward for transatlantic relations.

Todd Graham

Many of these grants exemplify our new direction to empower organizations with start-up funding. This quarter our board recognized several non-profit applicants who were beginning innovative projects in our priority areas of community development, economic development, education and social needs.

Chris Clarke

Major League Baseball helped kicked this off during the World Series when this was fresh on everybody's mind. Unless you are living in the Gulf Coast, you are probably thinking about other things other than families down there and what they have to go through. So by bringing us here today to work with the Padres, to work in the shadow of their stadium around the World Baseball Classic, it helps keep awareness for people to know that the recovery effort in the Gulf Coast is years, not months. We have to be there today, tomorrow and beyond and Major League Baseball has been a big part of that.

Richard Katz

Let's not kid ourselves. The entrance into the Big East Conference was primarily the result of positive visibility and awareness of the nationally ranked basketball teams under Bob Huggins . . .

James Thurber

Let us not look back to the past with anger, nor towards the future with fear, but look around with awareness

David Archer

Lots of promises were made last year. And in terms of public awareness, we've already won. Now we have to shift the focus to the money, and how the money is used.

Kofi Annan

security awareness ... did not match the hostile environment.

Cindy Cook

Mobile gaming continues to grow exponentially as broadband cellular networks roll out, consumer awareness increases, and handsets become more robust graphically. We are therefore particularly pleased to enter this segment led by world-class management and development teams, with proven success in development and porting, a string of top-selling, premium-branded titles already in the catalog, and a very strong pipeline of innovative product in development.

David Novak

Millions of people watch 'the most exciting two minutes of sports,' so this is a highly targeted and cost efficient way for us to create awareness and interest in Yum around the globe.

Joseph Kosinski

Movies don't sit in the theaters for an entire summer like they did in 1982. Now you've got a two- or three-week shelf life so you need to have that awareness right off the bat. And in order to make a lot of people know about your movie, you need to be out there banging the drum and showing your stuff.

Doug Conley

One part (of the Earth Day celebration) is raising awareness of The Gardens and another part is informing the public on how they can enhance their own local environments.

Isabella Rossellini

I think I was always interested in animals. If a man likes a woman, you know, he might discuss business, but there's a part of his brain that is looking at the girl coming in and checking the girls. I do the same with animals.

Isabella Rossellini

It's a new business for me to be a filmmaker.

Rick Perlstein

Social conservatism, business conservatism: the one side constitutes the other, like some infernal Mobius strip.

Robert Osborne

In a business like the movie business, you're going to have a lot of people competing. Somebody is always coming behind them who wants their job. Being an actor is like being in quicksand: whatever you do, it disappears very quickly. You have to keep reminding people.

Robert Osborne

I grew up in a small town where I went to the movies a lot and fell in love with all these people. I also fell in love with the movie business. So all I saw were actors on the screen so I thought, well, that's what I have to be if I want to be a part of the movie business.

Ronald Kessler

Hiking taxes on the so-called wealthy would help send us into a recession because so many small businesses report their income on individual tax returns. If taxes are raised, they will be less likely to be able to hire new workers and make new capital investments.

Kevin Mitnick

What happens with smaller businesses is that they give in to the misconception that their site is secure because the system administrator deployed standard security products - firewalls, intrusion detection systems, or stronger authentication devices such as time-based tokens or biometric smart cards. But those things can be exploited.

Marc Morial

The mayor has got to work closely with a wide variety of people, his city council, state legislature, governor, business community, labor community, president and the congress in order to be able to do this.

Daniel Callahan

Like business and journalism, these are unregulated professions in an uncredentialed field,

Mark Doren

Memory holds together past and present, gives continuity and dignity to human life... the companion... the tutor, the poet, the library, with which you travel.

Jeff Fela

We won the game - and we can improve on it. Continuity is so important on the offensive line. These guys are going to keep getting better.

Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange

I want to be a traditional king first and foremost, building on the tradition of my predecessors standing for continuity and stability in this country, but also a 21st-century king who can unite, represent and encourage society.

Jim Whitaker

We still had a long way to go and it was imperative to retain continuity in our efforts,

Ben Bernanke

to maintain continuity with the policy and policy strategies under the Greenspan era.

Ryan Clark

We haven't gotten any continuity back there with guys being comfortable playing together. It's tough. That can make you a step slower.

Andrew Friedman

With these young players and the different paces of their maturation processes and with the success we enjoyed in the second half last season, anything can happen. I think there will be improvement over last year and that this will be a very exciting team to watch; the core of that team we expect to have significant continuity for seasons to come.

Dave Edmunds

It was all recorded and mixed and there's more continuity in it more direction.

Jeff Cain

We're looking to get healthy and get all of our kids back. We want to get our continuity going and to do that we need to get everybody back.

Richard Holbrooke

one of the worst of the people in the region -- a racist, a separatist, a war criminal ...

Lucille Baur

Now that we have Mr. Short in custody, we'll investigate to determine whether or not he is linked to any other recent criminal activity.

Stan Lowe

From our perspective, what I think is important is the prosecution team, in conjunction with specialists from the criminal justice branch, are reviewing the decision and the proceedings. After that review, they will determine what action, if any, should be taken.

Charles Kelly

If (a criminal suspect) makes a million in drug money and plows it into a legitimate business, you can trace the proceeds through there; and once illegal proceeds are commingled with legal proceeds, it contaminates everything.

Dave Nabity

What I'd like to be able to do is find out who the criminals are and ship them out.

Rand Paul

We need to notice and be aware of the injustices embedded in our criminal system.

John Deane

The plan is to deny criminals the use of the road.

Sergei Ivanov

Six of the criminals were eliminated, ... From the reports on the ground, all of the hostages were released.

M. Wolfe

I don't know what's gong to happen. I don't know if the city's going to push the forfeiture action. I don't know if the city's going to file criminal charges.

Kofi Annan

Liberia today is poised between hope and disaster,

Tom Ditt

Less than a week after a major disaster and we're already putting people in housing. We think that's pretty remarkable.

Mark Rosenker

Learning to drive and being distracted is a recipe for disaster.

Irwin Redlener

Many people will be stressed and will require support over a long period of time and will be vulnerable to psychological problems. We know this from other disaster experiences.

Walter Maestri

Sewage can lead to another disaster, which is disease.

Robin Gurwitch

Mental health that's disaster-related is very different from traditional mental-health services.

Warren Rudman

One of the things we stress is, you've got to get interoperability and communications, or else you're going to have disaster no matter what goes on.

Mantill Williams

One little natural disaster, a refinery fire, any type of instability in various parts of the world could push us over that edge.

Rajeev Dhawan

New Orleans is an economic disaster. This tragedy is so unprecedented people could be out of work for three, six, nine months or longer.

Rick Perlstein

There's no question that Kennedy was an utter failure as a passer of laws during his proverbial thousand days.

Jeffrey Mount

Levee failure is not an 'if', it's a 'when'. There seems to be a willingness to tolerate the human suffering and property loss that might come with these events.

Jim Sturgess

Love is such a powerful subject matter because it comes in so many different shapes and sizes. It's about timing, fate, failure, redemption.

Lou Marcoccio

Many organizations have failures sitting in their systems, but they won't show up until they run the transactions.

Eli Khamarov

One failure is worth seven and a half successes

Jay Hood

None of these five incidents was a result of a failure to follow standard operating procedures in place at the time the incident occurred,

Randy Thompson

Obviously, they have the most to gain (and) the most to lose in terms of the market's success or failure.

Greg Biffle

I can't say what happened because we didn't have a failure all year.

Warren Miller

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your thing.

Bob Collins

Looks like it's not going to have a big impact for our area,

Jay Sekulow

left open the possibility that we will see a marriage statute in Vermont that will impact this kind of arrangement or this kind of relationship.

Nastassja Kinski

Movies with Marilyn Monroe really had an impact on me.

Ron Lamberty

One of the things plants look for when they locate, they want to be somewhere where they won't impact the water supply. They usually try to locate at places where there is plentiful water.

Mark Kalwinski

More people means more revenues for the city, but it does impact on residents' quality of life.

Jim Delany

Money is important. People here (in Indianapolis) don't mince words when they talk about a $10 million impact (on the local economy). We're not going to go somewhere where we have to take less money.

Dennis Franz

I'll miss the comments from the people on the street who love the show and who have felt its impact on the culture. I won't miss the shooting schedule, though!

Dean Smith

Given the fact that we are in a capitalist society, we still do not want to overlook not only what a corporation produces and its profitability but also how it impacts the environment, touches human life and whether it protects or undermines the dignity of the human person.

Mark Shapiro

From a level of mental toughness and competitiveness, he has kind of reframed the standard for all of us in this organization. He made a big impact on our young starting pitchers.

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

Gordon Haff

Obviously, they have to sell lots of systems of this size to pay back what has to be a considerably larger R&D investment than they have even with Galaxy.

Jeffrey Benjamin

The only lasting investment is an investment in yourself.

Bill Jr

We made an investment that hasn't realized a return yet.

Mahbubur Rahman

Since independence, Japan has been Bangladesh's largest development partner, but private investment from Japan remained at low level in that sense.

Nathaniel Smith

I'd like see the the party give strong arguments for more investment in post-secondary education. What's a better place to do it than in Halifax, where there are so many students?

Assemblywoman Garcia

We need investment in transportation and investment in people.

David Dreman

Patience is a crucial but rare investment commodity.

Christopher Hayes

Women's skills and abilities are no different from men's but they put a tremendous pressure on themselves to make perfect investment decisions.

Daymond John

I consider each business investment based on concept and revenue.

Aisling MacRunnels

Secure multi-tenancy is the key to utility computing, and now we can scale more securely.

Gaelic Proverb

Monday is the key day of the week.

Ted Turner

Mr. Parsons, AOLTW CEO, views Ted as a key member of the management team.

Ed McComiskey

McNally's save was the key and probably the turning point of the game." ()

Tom Reilly

One of (the victims) was underneath his desk. He had been shot numerous times. Another was a young lady slumped over her keyboard of her computer. She had been shot through the back,

John Lovell

One key thing is to remove each engine.

Mike Manley

One thing that is very important to us is if our dealers are profitable, and a key to profitability is throughput.

Manny Fernandez

My defensemen, they made some key saves when I was out of position. It's a team game, and they seem to be there at the right time at the right moment.

Manny Fernandez

My defensemen, they made some key saves when I was out of position, ... It's a team game, and they seem to be there at the right time at the right moment.

Gideon Gono

One can never be prepared enough for anything. We always want to react late. We have become a nation of pointing fingers, a nation of perpetual moaners and a nation that lacks initiatives,

Sathya Baba

One without power does not mean lack of physical or mental strength.

Bruce Bochy

One thing we are lacking is power, ... It would be big if we could get him going.

Phil Roth

Next, we worry about the 'January effect,' or lack of it.

Democritus

There are many who know many things, yet are lacking in wisdom.

Michael Keaton

There are times when I consciously give the character something physical - a walk, the way he sits, how he talks, or his lack of physicality, which is like a physicality.

David Castro

I would feel that aggravates the situation, ... his lack of empathy, his lack of remorse.

Roger Jones

Because of the lack of water, we aren't doing too much fishing.

Taylor Dent

I lost this match for the same reason I lost 99 percent of my matches over the last year and a half; my serve let me down. He played awesome; he made me pay for my lack of serving.

Antonio de Mendoza

Liberty means responsibility. That's why most men dread it.

Christopher Lawrence

Mozart's symphonies are quite special. One of our landmarks is our recording of all of his symphonies, which means that we've recorded not 41, but 68 symphonies. Many people are unaware that there are many unnumbered symphonies.

Andre Agassi

means as much to me as doing it in the finals.

David Hopkins

More people means there is more of an opportunity for crime,

Jim Haslett

Obviously, that means a lot to me -- that's what friends are for.

Orel Hershiser

obviously keenly understands what it means to be a Dodger.

Taron Egerton

Of course, everyone would like to play a superhero, but this is by no means me saying I would like to go play Cyclops.

Timothy Noah

When a conservative praises a liberal as 'morally serious,' he means that person is less liberal than most.

Bob Hunter

I can tell you this thing is by no means is it going to throw up a lot of cash.

LeeAnn Palo

Let them do it next year. They've got a lot of time left.

Al Reynolds

Many if not most of the property owners out there have taken the next steps.

Jake Gyllenhaal

One role blends into the next role. I mean, there's strange idiosyncrasies from roles that I play that I picked up that will never go away.

Craig Bradshaw

One more chance. Next season, we have one more chance.

Ed Belfour

One minute, you're a slug. And the next minute, you're a hero.

Sal Mineo

One minute, it seemed I had more movie offers than I could handle; the next - no one wanted me.

Sidney Ponson

One at a time. The next one after one is two. It's not 10.

Laurence Barron

One in six planes sold this year will go to China. Next year that will be one in five.

Chad Knaus

Obviously, we're parked right next to each other in the garage,

Juergen Klinsmann

Sebastian played a big role in our planning for the World Cup.

Larry Jones

Me and my wife are planning a 10-day vacation soon.

Ray Richmond

My 17-year-old son is planning to see the 6:00 p.m. screening on Thursday in a suit and tie, ... He said he's planning to go to another screening immediately after...He wants to see the movie twice on the same night.

Dennis Conner

If you can visualize it, you can actualize it.

Abraham Lincoln

We must ask where we are and whither we are tending.

Dorothy Teeter

The planning is complicated. ... But we can't wait any longer.

Sue Wilson

I did some planning over the summer, ... and I managed to do some relaxing.

Edward Zander

We are planning some more wild products in 2006.

Patrick Leahy

We are planning on having Thanksgiving in Washington,

Dean Stanley

Christ pitied because He loved, because He saw through all the wretchedness, and darkness, and bondage of evil; that there was in every human soul a possibility of repentance, of restoration; a germ of good, which, however stifled and overlaid, yet was capable of recovery, of health, of freedom, of perfection.

Charles Spurgeon

We are all damaged goods in recovery.

Alan Mulally

We've incentivized people in the past to maybe turn their vehicles over, you know sooner rather than later. And in the United States with the squeeze on discretionary income and credit that even as the economy comes back there's probably more of a chance than not that it'll be a slower recovery on auto sales.

Camille Paglia

It's time for a recovery and reassessment of North American thinkers. Marshall McLuhan, Leslie Fiedler and Norman O. Brown are the linked triad I would substitute for Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, whose work belongs to ravaged postwar Europe and whose ideas transfer poorly into the Anglo-American tradition.

Bebe Moore Campbell

Forgiveness is the key to the recovery of the soul.

Bebe Moore Campbell

Once my loved one accepted the diagnosis, healing began for the entire family, but it took too long. It took years. Can't we, as a nation, begin to speed up that process? We need a national campaign to destigmatize mental illness, especially one targeted toward African Americans. The message must go on billboards and in radio and TV public service announcements. It must be preached from pulpits and discussed in community forums. It's not shameful to have a mental illness. Get treatment. Recovery is possible.

Arthur Scargill

We will pave the way for a transformation and roll back the years of Thatcherism...We will turn economic ruin into economic recovery, and above all pave the way for a General Election to elect a Labour Government.

Arthur Rimbaud

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

Arne Duncan

We've seen more reform in the last year than we've seen in decades, and we haven't spent a dime yet. It's staggering how the Recovery Act is driving change.

Kamala Harris

'Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.

Hugo Papstein

We did some engineering stuff a year ago, and we are doing a little formatting and engineering research now.

Mike Daly

We've done our research and we think that it's OK.

John Henderson

We do all those things (site research) but not on such a formalized basis. Even responding to this (contract bid) was a project.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I'm a high-functioning sociopath, do your research.

Derek Bailey

I don't research anything.

Chet Atkins

Copying one person is stealing. Copying ten is research.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

But I'm a historian. I wasn't interested in just being a producer, I was interested in doing research and presenting that research to a general public

David Horowitz

Never before in the history of the modern research university have entire departments and fields been devoted to purely ideological pursuits.

Carl Jung

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

Lily Chatterjee

One strange thing about the rain? It reveals all of the leaks.

William Shatner

I didn't realize that, in doing a documentary, there is this process of discovery. It's not like a film or a play with a set script. It sort of reveals itself.

Sebastian Horsley

Dandyism is a lie which reveals the truth, and the truth is that we are what we pretend to be.

Elizabeth Blackburn

Biology sometimes reveals its fundamental principles through what may seem at first to be arcane and bizarre.

William Penn

Drunkenness spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans man. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous, and mad.

Madeleine M. Kunin

When a man interrupts a woman in mid-sentence, it reveals much about him. First, it shows he hasn't been listening to what she is saying, and secondly, it indicates that he doesn't want to listen to what she will say. Her views are not important.

L. Heroux

Make sure what you risk is yours to lose.

Shannon LaRocque

Scripps is important to the county, but at what risk to taxpayers?

Colleen Hartman

We had a very gut-wrenching decision. We thought at the time that there was too much risk to go forward.

Denis Diderot

You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.

Edward Abbey

To be alive is to take risks; to be always safe and secure is death.

Joe Girardi

I wouldn't do that. You don't want to risk him getting hurt. The only way I would do that is if it's something like the 19th inning and we're out of people.

Jason Giambi

I would give it a try, but they said don't even try. It's not worth risking it. I'm walking a little better. It's not so tight.

S.K.R. Amarasekara

I'm a little more worried now. The risk is higher.

Kevin Harvick

I'm all for taking chances. But you have to make sure you don't get caught. You have to know if the risk is worth the penalty.

Iris Krebber

Much too much time has already been lost. In mid-2004 we already saw the first signs of a serious drought.

Pat Cleland

Much better shooters than what we saw statistically and from what we saw on film.

Craig Schlanger

Of course, no one saw him do this, no one is saying they saw him do it.

Joshua Michael Stern

Of course, I saw 'The Social Network,' which is a beautiful film.

Talulah Riley

I have an obsession with mortality. I saw a friend die when I was 18, and I can't get over it.

Dennis Rodman

If I die young, everybody's going to say they saw it coming.

Donna Smith

I can't live over water. I can't swim. I wouldn't want to see no more water. I saw enough already.

Richard Foreman

From that time through the time I was a New Dramatist, when I was something like twenty-two, I saw absolutely everything in New York. Absolutely everything.

Doug Nelson

When we saw the site come up for sale, we said we've got to be part of this.

Ken Smith

The survey will be conducted from now through May, 2006.

Charles R. Jackson

We continue to experience a steep growth curve and positive response from customers that are aggressively transitioning their procurement processes to leverage our technologies' benefits.

Diane Sawyer

Every time somebody tries to go in and reinvent what we do, it always ends up being more about technology and sets, and flash and dash, forgetting the main thing, which is interesting people saying interesting, important things.

Dennis Ritchie

For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace.

Dennis Gabor

The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by technology of yesterday.

Denis Hayes

America has the technology and resources to meet all its energy needs while safeguarding the earth's climate. The urgent question now is, 'Do we have the will?' At least one city does, and I'm proud to live in it.

Denis Hayes

We presently have the technology ... fuel cells, solar cells, hydrogen ... the opportunities are amazing for clean energy.

Dean Wareham

It's a scary question for a musician or songwriter today - what does the future hold? It is a strange time in the music business too; it feels like we are all in some kind of transitional period, stuck between old technology and new.

Dean Kamen

[Chuck's wife] was standing behind me at the time and she said, 'Chuck hasn't fed himself in 19 years. So, you've got a choice: We keep the arm, or you keep Chuck.'

Dean Kamen

In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was supposed to be important.

Japanese Proverb

One kind word can warm three winter months.

Dominic Monaghan

I get involved with projects based on three parameters - the script, the actors involved and the director.

Dave Ramsey

You can't work three hours a week and make $100,000. Get rich quick doesn't work. Crock pot mentality always defeats microwave mentality!

Chris Stringer

Neanderthals are three times as different from us as we all are from each other,

Josh Sibley

I would have to say (our goal) is to make the top three in our league.

Robert Hickey

If we do those three things, then we will take our chances.

Kelly Holmes

I have another MRI scan in three weeks' time,

Oscar Goodman

If I'm up at three in the morning, there's no other place to go.

Wade Smith

She said they were very close. He was only three years younger than her.

Ofer Lefler

The transfer of semen will not be allowed.

Peter Takirambudde

Any transfer to the UN could take months.