Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alafair Burke

Letterman, despite whatever idiotic (or worse?) things he may have done with women on his staff, was wise enough to realize that silence isn't permanent and peace of mind can't be bought.

Amy Ziff

Last year was a massive year for holiday travel. The summer kept going in that direction, and we have the same expectation for this year despite fuel costs. If you wait until November, I think you run the risk of not getting what you want or paying a whole lot more to get what you want.

Rowen Tupuivao

Mentally hanging in there despite all the mistakes, that was the key for us. We could have folded, but we didn't go to sleep. We tried to make something happen.

Stephen Brobeck

Net wealth hardly grew despite a substantial rise in house values.

Mike Walsh

Mo seems to have fared well despite his ordeal and is expected to fully recover,

David Sidwell

Morgan Stanley had a great quarter. This was accomplished despite everything the firm has been through.

Peter Cardillo

Obviously it negates the theory about Dow 1,000. What (the new milestone) tells us is people have a lot of confidence. Money is still flowing into the United States despite some question marks about inflation. Nothing has changed.

Kathy Giusti

Despite the fact that one in every two men and one in every three women will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime, no one ever expects it to happen to them. I surely didn't. I was an otherwise healthy 37-year-old when I was diagnosed in 1996 with multiple myeloma, the same rare cancer Tom Brokaw has.

Christie Hefner

Newsstand sales for our flagship magazine rose in the first half of the year despite a very difficult market that resulted in many of our competitors reporting year-over-year declines.

Italo Calvino

Of course, I'm of the generation that grew up with Hemingway and Faulkner as strong influences.

Mallory Ortberg

I grew up in a home where reading was a big deal.

Lord Byron

My hair is grey, but not with years, / Nor grew it white / In a single night, / As men's have grown from sudden fears.

William T. Vollmann

My father grew up in an era when to be an American - a white American, at least - was to be yourself. In some respects, his generation was more ignorant, complacent, self-centered and parochial than mine.

Ellen DeGeneres

New Orleans holds a special place in my heart, because it is where I grew up,

Michael Gillman

Obviously, this is not what we wanted. But the result is not what's most important. We learned a lot this year and grew as a team.

George Romero

When I grew up, there was no such thing as videotape, TV was B&W.

Tyra Banks

I grew up wearing a uniform to school, and now I have my stylist come to my apartment and create outfits for me to wear. Otherwise, I'd never get dressed.

Daryl Sabara

I feel really lucky that I grew up pretending to be a spy for my whole childhood.

Michael Jackson

Many organizations were initially scared of the Internet and email. Now there's hardly a workplace on the planet that doesn't have an Internet connection.

Sophie Okonedo

My life is not nuts. I hardly ever watch television, I don't go out very much, so I don't really know what's going on.

Randy Hiltner

One thing you find out when you net a lake this size is there's a lot of variability. One net will be loaded with fish, and another will have hardly any. You try to reduce the variability with a larger sample size.

Seth Meyers

I'm a terrible grocery shopper. I hardly ever do it. And if I do, there's never more than three things in the bag.

Arthur Conan

I hardly looked at his face. His knees were what I wished to see.

George Soros

I hardly knew the man's name, ... He really invented me. He needed me for his political purposes, so I'm a figment of his imagination.

Martha Stewart

I hardly ever go there anymore. I don't miss it.

Stephen Hawking

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was able to reason

Byron Katie

I haven't had a single thought for 26 years. I have only understanding. It's somewhat complicated to understand that. I've hardly ever spoken about it. You're in a state of total peace of mind. A kind of nirvana.

Samuel Coleridge

Life is but thought; so think I will, That youth and I are house mates still

Kathy Griffin

Look, you guys, I know I'm not Courteney Cox. But I'm telling you, the house is better than me. They were like, 'I don't think so.'

John Ford

So many houses - you feel like there's a lot of unusable space. We don't have that.

Eddie Murphy

My life is nothing like the "Daddy Day Care" life. Me around the house is nothing like the "Daddy Day Care" dad.

Waris Ahluwalia

My first workshop was in Rome, and that was the start of House of Waris. In a little magical atelier, a goldsmith, his apprentice, his stone setter - and that was where it began.

Derek Ambrose

My dad's house got washed away in the flood. He has nothing to go back to.

Jamie Wyeth

My aunt Caroline was really a character. She lived and worked in my grandfather's old house and even wore some of his clothes.

Judy McDermott

More than 350 million households all over the world watch this tournament.

John Tesh

My house was really like 'It's a Wonderful Life.' I sang in the choir and was very involved in the church.

Joe Barton

Let's wait and see how this all turns out. I don't think we are quite ready to say what Net neutrality is.

Mark E. Smith

Seventy-five percent of our networks are storage related.

Mick Jagger

Network television. They're always worried about how many times you're going to say f--- on the air.

Gail Evans

Networking is not about you -- it's about putting people together.

David Strom

Netscape has been very unsuccessful at interacting with the trades, ... They don't understand how to do PR.

Ivan Misner

Online networking is a phenomenon that really has just started to reach its stride.

Todd Rethemeier

I would have thought somewhere between $10.50 and $11 a share would have been a better price before I saw the 4,000 net (customer) adds.

Sailesh Jha

On a net basis, it is still quite positive.

Chris Gratton

Olli is doing everything for us. He's a big, physical guy, and he's getting to the net for us. He's playing with a lot of confidence.

Linda Cohen

Let's see which one rises to the top.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Faith never goes contrary to reason -- faith simply ignores reason and rises above it.

Bruce Springsteen

You've got to learn to live with what you can't rise above.

Ariel Sharon

He who rises up to kill us, we will pre-empt it and kill him first.

Adolf Hitler

If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution.

Adolf Hitler

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

Koichi Seki

I think today's rise is no more than a technical bounce.

Ralph Nader

Stadiums rise with tax dollars; schools and clinics crumble, in the same city. Grotesque!

Hugh Johnson

We'll have some bewildering rises and some bewildering, if not shocking, declines.

Ludwig von Mises

The masses, in their capacity as consumers, ultimately determine everybody's revenues and wealth.

Dave Ramsey

More wealth doesn't fix your life. More wealth makes you more of what you already are.

Walter Benjamin

I found that people had all kinds of levels of consciousness, all kinds of levels of education, but that Cubans in general were very educated politically. I could go sit in a bus and get into a conversation with someone and that person had a wealth of knowledge. And energy!

H. Hart

We were just experiencing a wealth of drive-offs.

David Korten

Money is not wealth. Money is a claim on wealth.

Carl Lewis

I always wanted to be wealthy. I did.

Denis Waitley

Wealth is only a source of happiness when it is used to do good for others

Chanakya

He who has wealth has friends.

Charles M. Schwab

Spending creates more wealth for everybody.