Famous Quotes & Sayings

Akio Morita

While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.

David Selby

When you succeed at creating your own world, whether it's in any realm - like Tolkien was able to do - and people are able to enter that world, it's a special thing.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

Digital imaging allows both groups to rise above the limitations of mess and clutter and mechanics, and apply our talents to creating images limited only by our imaginations.

Camille Paglia

The Gothic tradition was begun by Ann Radcliffe, a rare example of a woman creating an artistic style.

Zeev Boim

We are making another turn by creating these zones, hoping the message will be learnt and that the launching squads will be stopped, but if there will be no alternative will have to turn it again.

Mitch Lasky

We are at a point in the video game industry that the industry is hollowed out. It is out of touch with the zeitgeist, creating sequels and formulaic games over and over again. The energy comes from the indies.

Marvin Avery

We started out slow with our defensive pressure, but we were creating a lot of turnovers, and we shut them down.

Heinrich Rohrer

Scientific fraud, plagiarism, and ghost writing are increasingly being reported in the news media, creating the impression that misconduct has become a widespread and omnipresent evil in scientific research.

Charles Koch

We try to evaluate how much value an employee is creating here and reward them accordingly.

Ben Wallace

We are a veteran team that knows what it takes to go out there and execute. We know that sometimes it goes, and sometimes it does not. There is no need to get excited about any one situation. We know we have to go out and play the game.

Willy Child

There are some good teams. Pine View is ranked in the top five, Mountain View played well in its win over Payson, so it will be tough. Normally, we would have played three games by now. Our kids are really excited to play. They've been working hard. They're all frustrated and ready to get started. We're hoping to get good weather down there.

Fred Mumford

We're interested and excited about the preservation of this property because of its historical value.

Lauren Miller

Girls will go see anything. They're open and excited to go to the movies and laugh.

Edward Gibbon

[Personal] industry must be faint and languid, which is not excited by the sense of personal interest.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I'm excited to see where the Illuminati and whatever else might happen, how that works, and where it ends up.

Nancy Clouse

We always get excited for them because we know they are quality teams.

Mike McCready

We also take time to be away from each other to live our separate lives, which allows us to be excited when we come back together to play music." ()

Marc Kudisch

When we were looking for a weekend place, ... Shannon was working at Jacob's Pillow in the Berkshires, and I was tooling around. I called her all excited about getting a home up there. But she said: 'Yeah, but it's a three-hour drive. When do we have the time for a three-hour drive? With our one day off, we'll come up and we'll have to go home right away.'

Gene Coppola

We want to take the next step forward as any good organization would.

M. Russell Ballard

We have taken a giant step forward in correcting some of the misconceptions people have about the church. I think that we've made a lot of friends.

Ted Mayer

We are pleased with these trial settings and the prospect of things going forward on a rapid basis. By the last part of the second quarter of 2006, we'll know a lot more about the parameters of this litigation.

Bob Foster

We've all been slowly working our way back. I still didn't make any money in 2004, but we're taking good steps forward this summer.

Paula Pearson

We've all been looking forward to this match all season as we do every year.

Kevin Jackson

We started practicing in the spring, planning and looking forward to playing in this game and winning it.

Ross Randall

We struggled this week with the weather. We are looking forward to getting back and practicing to get ready for our next tournament.

Hani Durzy

We are looking forward to Wednesday and having our day in front of the Supreme Court.

Bruce Allen

We are looking forward to using the new CBA parameters to improve our team.

Rob Hughes

We are a true globally distributed work force.

Achmad Faisal

We want our prices to better reflect the fluctuations taking place in the global market.

Jerry Costello

Maintaining clean, safe water remains one of our greatest national and global challenges and responsibilities.

Kate Bush

As we become this one global culture, in some ways it's things like the weather and nature that still hold our culture as unique to where we are.

Kathleen Sebelius

In many ways, human health is the great global connector.

Thomas Friedman

Al Qaeda is nothing more than a mutant supply chain. They're playing off the same platform as Wal-Mart and Dell. They're just not restrained by it. What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain. That's what we're up against in Iraq. We're up against a suicide supply chain.

Michael Ignatieff

When we say, even in a global village, that all politics is local, we mean that national sovereignties are the only reliable source of political authority.

Donald Fagen

September 11, on a global scale, and my mother dying, on a personal level, were the two major things that got me thinking about all of this.

Ryan Donovan

She will have a heavy global travel schedule as well.

Charles Caleb Colton

The victims of ennui paralyze all the grosser feelings by excess, and torpify all the finer by disuse and inactivity. Disgusted with this world, and indifferent about another, they at last lay violent hands upon themselves, and assume no small credit for the sang froid with which they meet death. But, alas! such beings can scarcely be said to die, for they have never truly lived.

Charles Caleb Colton

Literature has her quacks no less than medicine, and they are divided into two classes; those who have erudition without genius, and those who have volubility without depth; we shall get second-hand sense from the one, and original nonsense from the other.

Charles Dickens

If I dropped a tear upon your hand, may it wither it up! If I spoke a gentle word in your hearing, may it deafen you! If I touched you with my lips, may the touch be poison to you! A curse upon this roof that gave me shelter! Sorrow and shame upon your head! Ruin upon all belonging to you!

Charles Dickens

Skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.

Charles Stross

I grew up on second hand bookshops and libraries.

Charles Spurgeon

I would rather lay my soul asoak in half a dozen verses [of the Bible] all day than rinse my hand in several chapters.

Charles Spurgeon

Faith has a saving connection with Christ. Christ is on the shore, so to speak, holding the rope, and as we lay hold of it with the hand of our confidence, He pulls us to shore; but all good works having no connection with Christ are drifted along down the gulf of fell despair.

Charles Spurgeon

There’s no shame about any honest calling; don’t be afraid of soiling your hands, there’s plenty of soap to be had.

Alan Watts

And it came to pass that in the hands of the ignorant, the words of the Bible were used to beat plowshares into swords

Bernard Williams

We are potentially looking at tens of thousands of pounds. The Hirst and the McCartney are star lots.

Cheryl Brown

We've already started looking at what we could do different and better for next year's show.

Peter Marshall

We are looking to jumpstart the program, ... This is not a short-term fix.

Monique Currie

We are looking to get into the No. 1 spot because that would mean we won the game.

Craig Barrett

We are looking to be the preeminent building-block supplier to the World Wide Web economy,

Bill Ryan

We are looking to be competitive with the middle of the league.

Mike Williams

We are looking into this matter, we have made no decision.

Mary Osako

We are looking into the report. We would not know the nature of an investigation.

Charles Ramsey

We are looking into the possibility that it is gang-related, but we are not certain,

Charles Caleb Colton

Reform is a good replete with paradox; it is a cathartic which our political quacks, like our medical, recommend to others, but will not take themselves; it is admired by all who cannot effect it, and abused by all who can; it is thought pregnant with danger, for all time that is present, but would have been extremely profitable for that which is past, and will be highly salutary for that which is to come.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise. There is one signal instance on record where this kind of prejudice was overcome by a miracle; but the age of miracles is past, while that of prejudice remains.

Charles Dickens

"People can't die, along the coast," said Mr. Peggotty, "except when the tide's pretty nigh out. They can't be born, unless it's pretty nigh in - not properly born, till flood. He's a going out with the tide. It's ebb at half-arter three, slack water half an hour. If he lives till it turns, he'll hold his own till past the flood, and go out with the next tide."

Charles Studd

Only one life, a few brief years, Each with its burdens, hopes, and fears; Each with its clays I must fulfill. living for self or in His will; Only one life, 'twill soon be past, Only what s done for Christ will last.

Charles Studd

Only one life, ’twill soon be past, Only what’s done for Christ will last.

Charles Stross

My favourite movie is: "Dr Strangelove". (I haven't seen any films released in the past 2-5 years, I'm afraid: I don't do TV/cinema).

Charles Spurgeon

It is foolish to try to live on past experience. It is very dangerous, if not a fatal habit, to judge ourselves to be safe because of something that we felt or did twenty years ago.

Alanis Morissette

Society, magazines, posters, music videos, investment bankers. A lot of times, in my past anyway, looking within wasn't overly encouraged. Pretty much everybody proclaimed that fame would give me power and fortune.

Alan Watts

We tend to regard ourselves as puppets of the Past, driven along by something that is always behind us.

Nikki Cox

I'm a McDonald's girl - several times a week. Usually the two-cheeseburger combo meal.

Scott Kim

What I always want is to have several little 'aha' moments where your brain is very happy.

Bill Hall

Several students have called and said, 'I have a video, do you want it?'

Jim Sweeney

We didn't do anything spectacular on offense. But Tony Porto bailed us out several times.

Toks Olagundoye

I've several times had jobs that I thought were going to be my big break, and it didn't pan out.

Hanoi Hannah

And we also read Newsweek, Time and several newspapers.

Ruth Winstrom

We're going to be there for several days.

James Gill

We were able to talk to several witnesses at the playground.

Greg Strobel

We don't know when he's going to be back. He'll be out for several weeks. That's a big deal.

Charles Caleb Colton

Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no watches so effectively deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.

Charles Caleb Colton

To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us.

Charles Caleb Colton

Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit.

Charles Caleb Colton

For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.

Charles Caleb Colton

To judge by the event is an error all commit: for in every instance courage, if crowned with success, is heroism; if clouded by defeat, temerity. When Nelson fought his battle in the Sound, it was the result alone that decided whether he was to kiss a hand at court or a rod at a court-martial.

Charles Caleb Colton

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Charles Caleb Colton

Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.

Charles Sturt

The increasing importance of Sydney must in some measure be attributed to the flourishing condition of the colony itself, to the industry of its farmers, to the successful enterprise of its merchants, and to particular local causes.

Charles Spurgeon

The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Chris Blackwell

I was touring a lot... I loved the touring because you could really feel the audience. You were much closer to everything.

Louis C. K.

You're a tourist in sexual perversion. I'm a prisoner there.

Bobby Jones

I never learned a thing from a tournament I won.

Corey Brewer

We're in the tournament to win it all.

Mike Conners

Were in the tournament now, and in the tournament anything can happen.

Bruce Dickinson

I'm not going to do any more solo touring.

Tom Herrion

We've still got a lot of work to do. The bye is nice, but we've got to go play come tournament time.

Peter Wright

Lennart is getting better. This tournament is part of his recovery.

Liam Gallagher

I'm not going around touring the U.S. when I've got nowhere to live.