Famous Quotes & Sayings

Duane Ackerman

Reducing workforce is the toughest business decision a company has to make. We have worked hard to avoid it, but many companies our size and particularly our competitors operate with lower overhead and fewer management layers.

Jewel

Records have never really been my strong suit. I've always been a much better live act. I didn't understand the language of the studio. You sing differently in a studio. The language, the craft - it's just a whole different deal. I avoided the problem on my first record by doing a live album.

Carol Bellamy

recognizes that economic sanctions are an instrument intended by the international community to promote peace and security ... but our concern is that whenever sanctions are imposed, they should be designed and implemented in such a way as to avoid a negative impact on children.

Mark Stahlman

Previous management understood what needed to be changed, but they were unable to make it happen, ... To actually make these changes is a massive challenge. It can't be done quickly. There will be people who will resist. There's no avoiding a good deal of internal conflict.

Robert Wood

Our research shows that for some children, however, lifelong avoidance of these nuts, found in countless food products, may not be necessary.

Doug Smith

Parking was totally disorganized on Monday. We left extra early (Tuesday) to avoid another rush.

Shinya Yamanaka

Patients' lives are more important than embryos. I do want to avoid the use of embryos if possible.

Nancy McBride

Our message is that children should recognize and avoid certain situations, rather than certain people.

Juan Lubroth

People need to be informed about the importance of basic hygiene notably washing hands after touching poultry and disinfecting boots or shoes before entering or leaving a poultry farm. They should also be aware of suitable farming practices such as ensuring that poultry are roofed-in to avoid any contact with wild birds and not mixing chickens with other species, such as ducks.

Maya Angelou

kudos to the educators, athletes, dancers, judges, janitors, politicians, artists, actors, writers, singers, poets, and social activist, to all who dare to look at like with humor, determination and respect

Chuck Amato

I tell it like it is. Nobody can make that decision except the man himself. He's the one that's got to make it, and don't look back. Don't you dare look back.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Ellison Chu

I don't dare say that I favor gold in the long run. After gold's rise to these levels, I think there will be a correction.

Tom McMillan

I dare say, he did more (publicity) in the preseason than any hockey player ever has,

Robert Wallace

I dared to lose and I won, ... It was a lot of hard work, and physical training and studying.

Logan P. Smith

There are such astonishing things to be told about men and women, and hardly a man or woman to whom one dares to tell them

Karen Joy Fowler

I can't say that winning the Pen/Faulkner was a dream come true because I would never have dared to dream it.

Abraham Lincoln

Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Sam Keller

Pat Tillman is a legend -- he'll never go away. He was a Sun Devil and so are we. That makes it special.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I'd fallen in love with the devil.

C. S. Lewis

Above all else , the devil can not stand to be mocked.

Gordon Haff

It is a question of the devil you know.

Bill Vaughan

The devil, my friends, is a woman just now. 'Tis a woman that reigns in Hell.

Bertrand Russell

You could take up the line that some of the gnostics took up - a line which I often thought was a very plausible one - that as a matter of fact this world that we know was made by the devil at a moment when God was not looking. There is a good deal to be said for that, and I am not concerned to refute it.

Mitch Hedberg

I think pickles are cucumbers that sold out. They sold their soul to the devil - and the devil was dill.

Todd Jones

I thought I was finished then. I was thinking if I can't make the Devil Rays, can I pitch anymore? Is this it, is this how I go out? It was embarrassing not to be able to make that team.

Rowland Hill

He did not see any reason why the devil should have all the good tunes.

John Potter

Regardless of where they are, we'll move their mail to them, ... My message to everybody is, if they are relocated, please inform us.

Nile Easton

Our plows get stuck in traffic just like everybody else because we're just idling with the rest of traffic.

Rich Rodriguez

Pat's got a different gear and I think everybody saw that.

Alfee Reft

Passing a float-serve is not easy, and he has a good one. We know he has a good serve. Everybody knows he has a good serve. But you can't come into a game letting that be your whole mentality. You have to focus on all aspects.

Mark Peterson

Paul Warner's a great guy. Everybody likes Paul Warner. But he votes wrong every time it comes to family issues. He says it has to do with limited government and that ideology. His ideology gets in the way of families in our neighborhoods.

John Grahame

Our main goal down the stretch here is to have that consistency. Everybody played well and intense.

Tyleen Tausaga

Our lineup is, like, mean. (Batters) 1 through 9 can hit. So if everybody hits on the same day, we should be unstoppable.

Frank Michalowski

Our No. 1 goal is to get as many as we can to state. Second, we want everybody to get a personal-best or season-best times.

Kerwin Forges

Our league is pretty deep. Everybody's got a good team. Everybody plays hard. It comes down to who plays the hardest.

Melissa Peterman

Stand-up is the scariest thing - whether it's TV, movies, improv - stand-up is the worst.

Colin Trevorrow

I'm in a kind of weird position where I want to prove that I can do smaller movies.

Leonard Maltin

It is as old as the movies themselves.

Malcolm Petal

I think it was important for us to show that you can make movies in north Louisiana,

Mike Marsh

I watched some of the old Peter Sellers movies to pick up some of his nuances and his style of comedy. He is so unique.

Heather Graham

I watched movies and thought, 'I want to be in movies,' and wanted to be an actor.

Ridley Scott

I tend to watch a lot of lower-budget movies to find out what's doing down there and find out who's coming up.

John Daly

I still say they made that movie after me,

Robert Sean Leonard

I think people respect my work, but I was never in one of those movies that made me a star.

Brandon Lee

Some of my friends are scared right now, because the war is going on right now.

Becca Fitzpatrick

You're scared of what you can't control

Bethenny Frankel

I'm scared of the unknown future.

Greg Hawkins

I won't go to a doctor. I'm scared he'll tell me I can't wrestle.

Teresa Davis

I was getting a little scared there for a minute.

Larry Petersen

I'd be scared to think of the number.

Sergei Liakhovich

He said I'm scared of him, but I am scared of nobody.

Dennys Reyes

I was so scared to see a doctor.

Mary Stewart

I was so scared I don't feel I have any entrails anymore.

Ashley Tisdale

I can't watch scary movies right now, because living on my own, it kind of freaks me out.

Ashton Kutcher

I've usually found that the greatest rewards in my life come from taking on things that are a little bit scary.

Bill Burr

Being a comedian is an incredible thing, but it can be scary sometimes.

Frank Tavani

He was scary a year ago and he was scary out there today.

Al Gore

I'm asking you in your sermons to do the work of the Lord here on earth. I ask for your help in getting that message out urgently tomorrow.

Alanis Morissette

Courage and willingness to just go for it, whether it is a conversation or a spontaneous trip or trying new things that are scary - it is a really attractive quality.

Bill Hicks

Do I have a message? Yes, I do. Here's my message: as scary as the world is - and it is - it is merely a ride...

Carrot Top

Me in drag is kind of scary, actually. It's frightening. I actually look pretty good.

Elena Satine

I just love scary stuff! I'm a huge horror buff.

Bob Enos

We've tried surgery, medications, and nothing has changed.

Tom Daschle

We've tried all the voluntary options, ... They have all failed. We know what we've got to do.

Joe Novak

We've tried A.J. at fullback and other types of things.

Sidney Crosby

I was too close, so I tried to back off and whack it. I didn't get it.

Jim Gallagher

I didn't get a sense of what the temperature is on that. I tried to allay the fears, and there are significant fears.

Nate Robinson

I am going to go at him (Iverson). I am going to make him play defense. That is what I tried to do tonight.

Jonas Jennings

Have you ever tried to write with one hand?

Vernell Brown

He's got some big ones. If I was a coach, no way I'd have tried that.

Grant Hill

I would probably say yes. I don't see getting another surgery. We tried it. It didn't work. I don't see doing another.

Willie Parker

Man, watching Jerome all day long, he just is what he is.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

I was kind of amused, and shocked. At first I was watching it with my children. Then I said 'Children, OUT!

Stacy Keibler

I think there were a lot of women out there watching and voting, and there were a lot of men out there watching, but not voting.

Sandra Bullock

I feel like I always have someone watching my back.

Alan Trammel

He's a keeper. We'll be watching him for years.

John Huber

We're just going to be watching and monitoring.

James Farrior

Yeah, he's watching his weight all right. Watching it expand.

Rhett Miller

We'd probably be watching 'Dora the Explorer' or something.

Hugh Johnson

We're all watching the same stuff. Like sheep.