Famous Quotes & Sayings

Waylon Jennings

Mainly what I learned from Buddy, ... was an attitude. He loved music, and he taught me that it shouldn't have any barriers to it.

Todd Tiahrt

Many countries are preparing for the future economy, and this country seems to be trying to erect new barriers to making us more competitive.

Shona Robison

Many barriers have been broken down in female employment but it seems that for whatever reason, when it comes to computing, girls are deciding to stand back.

Frederick Warren

Second, by reducing the demand for general-purpose PC operating systems and the barriers to entry in the PC OS market, cross-platform technologies can be expected to reduce the price that end users pay for operating systems.

Lauro Baja

Much will depend on how we remove the attitudinal barriers from both sides while building an environment that nurtures trust and confidence,

Ed Zander

Motorola designs and delivers innovations that transform the way people think about - and experience - the world around them. We're leading the way with new and compelling devices that work together to erase the barriers between places and services and empower people to connect with personalized entertainment and information.

Don Evans

measures ... sanctions, or other kind of barriers to our markets.

Frank Marsala

My feeling is they will get by it. It's hard for me to think that we're going to put up regulatory barriers to keep foreign companies from investing or buying our companies.

James Wolfensohn

One need only look at the cement barriers surrounding these buildings to understand the big difference of the past year.

Italo Calvino

I am more and more convinced that literature is made up of works, genres, schools, discussions, problems, collective work in order to solve certain problems.

Italo Calvino

For the critic, the author does not exist; only a certain number of writings exist.

Isabella Rossellini

I live my everyday life as a person, and I react to my photos from a certain distance. When I look at a photo, I detach myself and look at it as a product - not as me, Isabella.

Rick Perlstein

In the rest of the industrialized world, your boss can't fire you unless he or she can give a good reason. In America, with certain exceptions, your boss can fire you for any reason at all or for no reason at all.

Robert Kazinsky

Being a 'hunk' is going to do great things for my love life, and I'll get a lot more offers. But I'll certainly never see myself as one.

Robert Mankoff

There's public humor, and there's private humor, and they're all appropriate in their own way, and you shouldn't - just as you wouldn't have a megaphone and say certain things that you would say around your friends - things that are perfectly all right within your close social group with whom you share a certain context.

Roger von Oech

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.

Kevin Mitnick

I don't know the capabilities of our enemies. But I found it quite easy to circumvent security at certain phone companies throughout the United States. So if an inquisitive kid can do it, why can't a cyberterrorist do it?

Mallory Ortberg

It certainly was unusual growing up with two fairly well-known pastors as my parents.

Deborah Smith

And to improve access to the UK publishing industry - I'm hoping to set up an internship or work experience for someone from a low-income background, as soon as we have the funds. While we don't have the funds, we won't have an intern.

Elbert Hubbard

To have a full stomach and fixed income are no small things .

John Hollyer

From one period to the next, investors could see some income swings.

Ed Pastor

To say that I'm enjoying a millionaire's lifestyle-well, I can tell you, I guess a millionaire's income doesn't go very far these days.

David DeLong

Older workers are not as motivated by income but by meaning.

Larry Bloom

I don't know that they want me to get into specific numbers, but he has a yearly income that's substantial.

Tom Golisano

I've been paying a lot of money in state income taxes, and I've been happy to do it, but when this last thing happened, this 50 percent increase in the tax rate, it was just too much.

Robert Pozen

We need to treat lower income workers a little better in Social Security.

Ludwig von Mises

In capitalist enterprise there is no secure income and no security of wealth.

Mikael Silvestre

Maybe we are relaxing too much in defense. At international level you get punished.

Bob Gansler

No one else has this specific kind of (artificial) turf. You have to up your level of concentration, because you are not going to get used to it in 90 minutes. We concentrated and strung some passes together and did well with it.

Larry Fitzgerald

My energy levels are off the charts. I can run all day, I breathe well, and I sweat a lot, so the toxins and impurities come out of my body.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

What concerns me, is the general social tendency to enforce a level, above which nothing rises and stands out.

Annika Sorenstam

I can't seem to make a putt and it's just very, very tough to be level par. I'm playing the way that I normally play here. Just nothing is happening.

Deepak Chopra

The solution is never at the level of the problem. The solution is always love, which is beyond problems.

Jason Kello

We need to meet the same level of funding.

Robert Kargon

We want to make sure that the level of student is high, and I would say we're selective, but not as selective as the undergraduate program (at Hopkins). Not yet, anyway.

M. Wolfe

On one level it is humorous, ridiculous and absurd. On another level it is scary.

Charles Spurgeon

It is far easier to fight against sin in public than to pray against it in private.

Charles R. Swindoll

Excellence-moral, ethical, personal excellence-is worth whatever it costs.

Diane Lane

Blessings come in disguise. And challenges can be a blessing.

Dennis Rodman

I can score 20 points if I want to, but that's not my desire.

Dennis Rodman

The one thing I do that nobody else does is jump three and four times for one rebound.

Dennis Rodman

This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can't see how deep it is.

Dennis Rodman

I'm hungrier than those other guys out there. Every rebound is a personal challenge.

Democritus

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

Denis Diderot

The enjoyment of freedom which could be exercised without any motivation would be the real hallmark of a maniac.

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.

Sue Christiansen

So far, they seem to be working well and doing what they're supposed to.

Mike Birbiglia

My last name has the word 'big' in it. It seems like a logical progression that if you shed away the Bir and the lia, I'll just be Big.

Debbie Johnson

No one seems to know who he is.

Brian Joubert

Now you can win without a quad, and that doesn't seem right.

Todd Rundgren

It seems like there are two worlds out there - one that has revolved around 'Breaking Bad,' and then the one that I've been in, which just kind of observes it from afar.

Russ Ortiz

I can't. I wish I could. Nothing seemed to be where I wanted it.

Kate Grenville

I do feel as if... Look, I think I'm a very kind of ordinary person, and it seems to me that things that are of interest to me will probably be of interest to other people. I'm not exceptional; I don't have exceptional thoughts.

Jay Grimes

She seems like she'll come through. It's going to be a while.

Frank Sinatra

Sinatra has had a long and wide association with hoodlums and racketeers, which seems to be continuing.