Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a little patronage more so.

Charles Stanley

God wants you to understand the Word of God. The Bible is not a mystery book. It's not a book of philosophy. It's a book of truth that explains the attitude and heart of almighty God.

Charles Stanley

Attitude and the spirit in which we communicate are as important as the words we say.

Charles Stanley

Renewing the mind is a little like refinishing furniture. It is a two-stage process. It involves taking off the old and replacing it with the new. The old is the lies you have learned to tell or were taught by those around you; it is the attitudes and ideas that have become a part of your thinking but do not reflect reality. The new is the truth. To renew your mind is to involve yourself in the process of allowing God to bring to the surface the lies you have mistakenly accepted and replace them with truth. To the degree that you do this, your behavior will be transformed.

Alan Watts

What are we saying when we say now, something is holy? That means you should take a different attitude to what you are doing than if you were, for example, doing it for kicks.

Alan Watts

Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social enviornment.

Alan Watts

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

Alan Watts

We are at the moment looking at space as something to be entered by the tremendous thrust of a rocket because that is the attitude of attacking the unknown. And that causes us not to realize that we are already on the most magnificently equipped spaceship, which could hardly be improved upon. It has got a source of temperature and energy just at the right distance from it. It's beautifully equipped with oxygen, with food supplies, with all kinds of delightful things to do while on the journey.... and it's traveling through space at a colossal speed... and it's called the planet Earth.

Alan Perlis

You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.

Bryan Greenberg

I would never attach myself to a brand that doesn't represent me.

Dan Murphy

The other way is to stay on TV to be work more toward the product placement strategy. In other words, insert your brand into a particular show.

Isadore Sharp

The power of a global brand name is more important and valuable today than ever before.

Mayor Newman

The people who spoke before, we do have a record of that, it's sworn testimony. Unless they have something brand new to say, we really need to limit (the public comment time). We don't need any philosophical comments. It has to be pertinent to what's being requested.

Alfred Kahn

We are proud to promote Carlin West to this new position. She has had a hand in the success of many of our most popular properties. Since joining 4Kids more than 12 years ago, Carlin has demonstrated a valuable, diverse skill set including identifying exciting new kids' properties, brand positioning and much more. We look forward to expanding her responsibilities in this new role.

John Fry

We are proud to forge this partnership with the PGA TOUR and Las Vegas Founders Club to support a great, entertaining tournament that has a long history of supporting worthwhile charities in the Las Vegas area. The PGA TOUR is one of the great brands in sports. We are particularly excited to be in a position to help the tournament support its traditional charities, as well as one of our favorite non-profit organizations, the American Institute of Mathematics.

Bruton Smith

We are pleased to report strong earnings growth during a period of rising interest rates and a competitive industry environment. Our results reflect the combined effect of our improved brand mix and the successful execution of our key operating initiatives.

Maria Cantwell

We're talking about a 20-cent difference in the same brand of gasoline in two different locations,

Ludwig Tieck

He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy.

Bryan Greenberg

I would never attach myself to a brand that doesn't represent me.

John Fry

We are proud to forge this partnership with the PGA TOUR and Las Vegas Founders Club to support a great, entertaining tournament that has a long history of supporting worthwhile charities in the Las Vegas area. The PGA TOUR is one of the great brands in sports. We are particularly excited to be in a position to help the tournament support its traditional charities, as well as one of our favorite non-profit organizations, the American Institute of Mathematics.

Mandy Ohman

We have name brands but we don't mark them up outrageously high.

Natalie Massenet

Net-a-porter is an environment where a woman can really indulge, browsing through more than 160 brands in our fashion playground.

Randy Pitchford

When we founded Gearbox we actually had the intent of doing two things. On one level, we wanted to build brands and build games that are our invention. On the other level, we wanted to work with other things that other people created that we think are really, really cool. And do things with it that we think would be worth doing.

Randy Falco

Univision's close-to-50-year relationship with Hispanics makes us one of the leading media brands in this country and the gateway to connect with this consumer.

Dan Jones

United remain one of the foremost brands in the industry and are still clearly the most profitable club in terms of day-to-day operations.

Ed Colligan

U.S. sales are strong but there are more challenges in Europe, ... There are a number of existing brands there that are very strong. Our products have not taken off at the level we'd like them to so far.

Stefan Sagmeister

There are brands out there in the world that have an incredible influence on the culture. Numerous ones are badly done.

Leonard Hamilton

We have to get out of the mode of playing good caliber teams good, but coming out a little short.

Andy Leggio

We're going to take a shot at it. I think she deserves it. She hasn't run with that caliber of horse. We're going to give her a chance to prove herself. She's won every distance I've run her.

Steve Alford

We're going to enjoy this for 48 hours. I'm glad we don't play till Friday because playing three games of this caliber in three straight days, it gives us an extra day to get some rest.

Gayle Cuneo

What a gift it's been to have students of that caliber of talent helping us out.

Jim Parker

Working with those caliber of clients forced us to go the extra step.

Bob Capener

We're proud to have that caliber of player using the same field. Hopefully, it rubs off on some of our players.

Chuck Fehr

We're facing state-playoff caliber teams. So, it gives our kids a chance to see the kinds of teams you can expect to see in the state tournament.

Billy Chadwick

To play a match of this caliber this early in the season is very beneficial.

David Noel

We know what we lost, and we know what we have. I knew the caliber of players we had left on this team.

Mark Klein

We are pretty confident everybody will be back tomorrow.

Chris Jones

We acknowledge they're a good team. But we know we have a good team, too. I feel confident about our chances.

Rob Dickson

We always have a Plan B, and we're working on a C and D. We are confident we're going to find someone. All the ingredients are here. It's just a matter of what lucky group will open the store.

Todd Wuerger

We want to qualify as many guys for state as we can. If we can do that, I'm confident that we can hold our taper for another week.

Dan Petrocelli

We have a story to tell, and we're looking forward to telling it and we're very confident how it's going to come out.

Kristen Kinley

We have a solution that fixes the problem, and we're confident that this is going to be the right remedy.

Nikki Green

We have a solid defense and a solid keeper. She made some great saves. I'm really confident in my keeper.

James Clarke

We have no evidence of feathers in this species. But there is evidence of feathers in another primitive tyrannosaur. We are fairly confident that it did have feathers.

Daniel Gaul

We want people to leave here after a session knowing they got a good workout, feeling confident and able to defend themselves.

Austen Arnaud

We were trying to do too much at times. Fort Dodge wants to play an up-tempo game and push it, and we kind of got sucked into that. We were forcing things. We need to do a better job of sticking to our stuff and doing what we want to do.

Arthur Eddington

Schrodinger's wave-mechanics is not a physical theory but a dodge-and a very good dodge too.

Jim Hall

When the name is a punch line in a Saturday Night Live skit, you got problems, ... I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Cheech Marin

I guess what really made me a Dodgers fan from the beginning was that the team had Jackie Robinson, the first 'Negro' in the major leagues.

Steven Landry

We are looking for a co-star that has a real passion for Dodge, Dodge trucks and HEMI engines.

Gary Swenson

Newton and Fort Dodge will be good. I think everyone will be OK.

Brody Jenner

If I'm in Malibu driving up and down Pacific Coast Highway, my '68 Dodge Charger usually is what I like to drive.

Vin Scully

I would think that right now the mound at Dodger Stadium is the lonliest place in the world.

George Murphy

Just like those innovations, the 2007 Dodge Nitro will reinvigorate its segment, the mid-size sport-utility market.

Charles Caleb Colton

There is one passage in the Scriptures to which all the potentates of Europe seem to have given their unanimous assent and approbation...."There went out a decree in the days of Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed."

Chris Christie

This administration, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton through their foreign policy, have betrayed the American people, because the weakness they've displayed has led to Putin's incursions in the Middle East and in eastern Europe, and has led - has led to significant problems in the Middle East as well, and the death and murder of lots of folks.

Chita Rivera

I have to make this love affair believable enough. It's very European.

Chinua Achebe

Africa is to Europe as the picture is to Dorian Gray-a carrier onto whom the master unloads his physical & moral deformities

Dave Barry

To enter Europe, you must have a valid passport with a photograph of yourself in which you look like you are being booked on charges of soliciting sheep.

C. L. R. James

In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism.

Carl Honore

Out of the Slow Food movement has grown something called the Slow Cities movement, which has started in Italy but has spread right across Europe and beyond. And in this, towns begin to rethink how they organize the urban landscape so that people are encouraged to slow down and smell the roses and connect with one another.

Michell Howard

We started getting inquiries from Europe as soon as the film won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.

Madeleine Albright

I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I continue to have that love affair.

Li Shufu

Particularly in China, I think a lot of people start to realise, OK, what are the things that they truly should value? That's something that fits perfectly well with what Volvo is offering.

John Meyers

Web services fits into the original vision of the ASP model in that there are these functions out on the Internet and you can just go out there and rent them.

Steve Smith

Using wolves really fits the mission of a national park.

Matt Centrowitz

She not only fits in very well, but is a leader on this team.

Anthony D'Angelo

Smile, it is the key that fits the lock of everybody's heart.

Vincent Pastore

'The Sopranos' wardrobe people would sometimes go over there and just grab stuff off the racks, because B&G has that style that never ages. It's like a '50s or '60s style. It fits me well.

Natalie Maines

The short hair fits my personality more. I think maybe, with long hair, it was a role - I was playing dress-up a bit.

Nick Earls

You can have your own language. You can have your own dialect; you can have your own way of saying things, but if you don't actually understand the way the language fits together, it's chaos.

Laurence D. Fink

I personally have said many times I'd be a hundred percent in equities. That fits my risk profile and my views of the world, though obviously it's not appropriate for everyone. Most investors need a more diversified portfolio.

Charles Dickens

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Charles Dickens

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

Charles Caleb Colton

Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine.

Charles Dickens

A good thing can't be cruel.

Charles Simmons

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

Alan Moore

If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that.

Alan Alda

The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.

Akira Kurosawa

A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.

Brian Nicola

We want them all to go on, and realistically they all have a shot. They all want to be state-placers and they're all looking to be pretty tough. I just want them all to have a good time.

Linda Duessel

The performance of dividend-paying stocks has more to do with the fundamentals in their industries.

Martin Broughton

The pleasing performance has been accompanied by the usual perplexing developments on the regulatory front,

Raymond Hack

We are proud of the performance of our team in the first leg.

Anthony Chukumba

When you strip everything out, the performance is pretty much as expected.

David Hockney

I've realized that I can do performances.

Brian Tracy

How much we like ourselves governs our performance.

Brandon Sanderson

The best performances, are those that can be performed once.

Katsuhiko Kodama

Softbank's poor performance is especially weighing on sentiment.

H. Hunt

She stays cool. She pulls out the big performance on the big day.

Earl Butz

I understood public relations and always maintained a high profile.

Deng Xiaoping

Keep a cool head and maintain a low profile. Never take the lead - but aim to do something big.

Donald Trump

Like the whole concept of profiling, you know, I mentioned the other day profiling, everyone goes, profile and profiling. Well, profiling is you know, in Israel they're doing it and they're doing it well.

Cui Yugui

If they insist, we will keep their profile confidential.

Clint Zandt

A profile is an investigative tool. It is not science, it is not DNA, it is not latent fingerprints. ... It is just one more tool investigators have. But a profile does not tell you who did the crime.

Howie Carr

The higher someone's profile, the easier it is for a defendant to trade him up to the feds. Mr. Big is always a better catch than Mr. Small.

Jim Turner

It raises our profile all around the state.

Margot Robbie

I make my friends pull up their profiles and I'm like, "Show me everything."

Paul Allen

I'm a very private person that prefers a low profile.

Chief Joseph

Cursed be he that scalps the reputation of the dead.

William Shakespeare

You have lost no reputation at all, unless you repute yourself such a loser.

Elizabeth Arden

Repetition makes reputation.

Charles Dudley Warner

The tenure of a literary reputation is the most uncertain and fluctuating of all.

Baltasar Gracian

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

Ariel Pink

I get to live down my reputation for being cantankerous if I slowly evolve towards being a really good live show.

Desiderius Erasmus

Concealed talent brings no reputation.

Blaise Pascal

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

Sydney Smith

Avoid shame, but do not seek glory; nothing so expensive as glory.

Gray Davis

I don't care. My trademark is I say what I think, for better or for worse.

Brenda Fassie

I am a shocker. I like to create controversy. It's my trademark.

Zayn Malik

My trademark saying is probably “VAS HAPPENIN?!”

Marianne Williamson

When we are truly aware of our spiritual glory, a varicose vein or two is not that big a deal.

Dianna Agron

Without love we are not truly living.

Albert Schweitzer

Every person I have known who has been truly happy has learned how to serve others.

Carrie Fisher

I am truly a product of Hollywood in-breeding. When two celebrities mate, someone like me is the result.

Craig Bruce

In order for a man to be truly evil, he must be a woman.

Chris Hemsworth

I can remember watching 'Lord of the Rings' and being truly regretful that I wasn't a being in that world.

August Wilson

I think it is an extraordinary honor, and it is truly a capstone of my career. I am overwhelmed.

Mike Leinbach

I'm here to tell you that it really is truly better.

Herbie Hancock

I was trying to make something truly collaborative,

Alan Greenspan

The recent evidence increasingly suggests that an economic expansion is already well under way, although an array of influences unique to this business cycle seems likely to moderate its speed

Akhil Sharma

Certainly the details of our life are unique. Spending time thinking of how I am different from someone else, however, does not tend to be very productive.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Do not allow the enemy of your soul to rob you of that unique quality God has breathed into you.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We cannot grasp the true meaning of the divine holiness by thinking of someone or something very pure and then raising the concept to the highest degree we are capable of. God's holiness is not simply the best we know infinitely bettered. We know nothing like the divine holiness. It stands apart, unique, unapproachable, incomprehensible and unattainable. The natural man is blind to it. He may fear God's power and admire His wisdom, but His holiness he cannot even imagine.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We know nothing like the divine holiness. It stands apart, unique, unapproachable, incomprehensibl e and unattainable... Holy is the way God is. To be holy He does not conform to a standard. He is that standard.

Chris Asplen

What we've begun to do is discuss the issue, the constitutional issues around that idea, again the privacy issue, which may not be unconstitutional but may pertain to our unique sense of privacy in the United States.

David Knopfler

If you feel driven and compelled to make your work and to be fiercely original and have something unique to say, in a compelling way, then chances are the helpers will be there for you the doors will open some, the ice will crack.

David Grisman

Utilizing a unique acoustic blend never heard previously, the Aaron O’Rourke Trio has made a fine debut recording that is sure to please old and new grass fans alike.

David Quammen

Islands are havens and breeding grounds for the unique and anomalous. They are natural laboratories of extravagant evolutionary experimentation.

Alan Watts

Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work.

Alan Clark

Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology.

Alan Bennett

If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.

Alan Ayckbourn

A gentleman ... sleeps at his work. That's what work's for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the library? So as not to disturb me in my little nook behind the biography shelves.

Al Kaline

You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.

Akio Morita

Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.

Chloe Sevigny

I do a dance-based cardio workout infused with circuit training, and emphasizing strength and alignment.

Dave Chappelle

If I put forth a legitimate effort, then I feel like, if that doesn't work out, that's all I can do.

Dave Chappelle

I always take a relationship to the next level. If that works out, I take it to the next level after that, until I finally reach that level when it becomes absolutely necessary for me to leave.