Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Cantalupo

The fact of the matter is, most of our orders are not supersized. Less than five per cent are supersized - that's never mentioned. The whole issue has been supersized itself.

Townsend Harris

We do not wish to open your ports to foreign trade all at once.

Townsend Harris

The President is of opinion that if Japan makes a treaty with the United States, all other foreign countries will make the same kind of a treaty, and Japan will be safe thereafter.

Townsend Harris

It will be quite satisfactory if you open them gradually, as the circumstances may require; but the President assures you that this will not be the case if you make a treaty with England first.

Townsend Harris

As the treaty made with the United States was the first treaty entered into by your country with other countries, therefore the President regards Japan with peculiar friendliness.

Trip Hawkins

We want to make as big a market as we can with our current product.

Ted Turner

If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Ted Turner

If I had any humility I would be perfect.

Joan Blades

What we do is not going to be successful unless our members care about it.

Virginia Postrel

I think glamour has a genuine appeal, has a genuine value. I'm not against glamour. But there's a kind of wonder in the stuff that gets edited away in the cords of life.

Charles Givens

We got to looking around and there were extension cords running all over the business. The main electrical panel was open, didn't have a cover on it in the back room. Water was running down the wall into that electrical box. It was illegal wiring and very unsafe.

Abraham Lincoln

The mystic cords of memory stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone throughout the land

Ryan Simmons

Because I do so many shows a week my vocal cords are suffering greatly. But I totally prefer being single cast. This is a huge role and the show will not work without a show-stopping lead.

Aleksandar Hemon

When we're upset, our vocal cords tighten and we can't speak. And when I lie - well, I can't lie, because the same thing happens - everyone who knows me knows that when I start squeaking, I've started lying.

Douglas Coupland

I've got all my old laptops going back to my first, which was so fancy at the time, in '93 or '94, but now it's just like a doorstop. One day I said, 'I'll go in and get all my old documents in there.' The cords and the wires are all gone, the discettes you need are gone. Meanwhile the little electrons are starting to wither away.

J. D. Souther

I had no idea what those cords were in the bridge of 'Prisoner In Disguise' when I wrote them. I had to go over to Don Gorman, the piano player, and ask what in the world I was playing.

Mark White

When it (the price) falls to between one or up to two times the price of steel then it (aluminum) will grow into the mass volume market -- not before.

Eric Whitacre

When you look back on music history, it falls into these neat periods, but of course, the period you yourself are living through seems totally scattered and chaotic.

Sharda Persaud

We are going to see more small falls for two to three months and then some summer optimism.

R. Inge

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due.

John Faso

We're starting to get a skyline now and we're starting to sprout up. People have a focal point. This is Niagara Falls and things are starting to grow. I think it's a positive.

Bob Semling

We had a very solid performance, especially as good as River Falls has been playing lately. A 14-point win on the road is nice to see.

Thomas Fuller

He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.

Charles Gargano

Since Meredith took the reins two years ago, Niagara Falls has seen a series of successes.

Judith Regan

She is also a young woman who falls in love, has her heart broken, worries about her looks, doesn't always listen to her mother, and hasn't spoken to her father in years.

Dee Boersma

Whenever you do science it's important to know individuals. And that means you have to distinguish one from another, just like we give names to people we have to be able to give names to penguins. And we often do that with bands.

Shaw Wu

When everyone else is slowing and you're not, it means share gains.

Maria Sharapova

When I do that, it means I'm not going to miss the ball.

Tracey Emin

My work rarely comes up in secondary market, so it means that my prices stay low.

Tim Finchem

To be a former PGA Tour player typically means you're about 75 years old. They just don't stop.

Daniel Barber

I'm not afraid of special effects, but I see them very much as a means to an end.

James J. Gibson

The perception of what a thing is and the perception of what it means are not separate, either.

Joseph Capriotti

We are police officers. We don't sit back and watch. We have to get out and do something. Being able to do something means a lot.

Tom Reilly

We're not going to propose a trail ... through the rifle range next year as a means to the end.

Kabir Bedi

We should realise that Hollywood is not obliged to write roles for Asian actors.

Patrick Chappatte

I don't think any media has to feel obliged to show the cover of 'Charlie Hebdo.'

Florence Aubenas

I had no stratagems, no tricks. You are simply obliged to put up with it, you have no choice.

Toni Morrison

You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.

David DeFazio

Many of the statements (appeared) to have been provided to her.

Paul O'Grady

I can eat beef, provided it's minced in disguise. I couldn't eat a gammon steak. Forget it.

David Livingstone

I am prepared to go anywhere, provided it be forward.

Michael Burgess

When Medicare was first enacted in 1965, it provided coverage for hospitalization, doctor visits and surgeries, but there was no coverage for prescription medications.

Al Jourgensen

I'm an all-or-nothing guy. When I'm working, I work, work, work, work, work, and when I'm not, I'm the laziest sloth this planet has ever provided us.

Tom Kenny

There has been a lot of testing done on the racking strength provided by different types of spray foams, ... And the strength provided by closed-cell foams can be substantial.

McGregor Scott

Trends in communications and convergence provided a one-two punch.

Rachel Johnson

Our parents provided us with the essentials, then got on with their own lives. Which makes me realise that my parents were brilliant, not for what they did, but more for what they didn't do.

Joseph Kabila

Whatever happens, if there are summits we will be there, provided it takes place after the funeral,

Tomas Transtromer

The language marches in step with the executioners. Therefore we must get a new language.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

This is God's work. Therefore it must be triumphant. There is no place for misgiving or despondency.

William Shakespeare

She's beautiful, and therefore to be woo'd She is a woman, therefore to be won

Bill Joy

The fundamental problem with vi is that it doesn't have a mouse and therefore you've got all these commands.

Adam Weishaupt

The first task of the association must therefore be to form the young members.

P. J. O'Rourke

I usually agree with Rush Limbaugh; therefore I usually don't listen to him.

P. J. Harvey

It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore I keep reaching for instruments I don't particularly know how to play, and then I become excited.

Jaime Herrera Beutler

I've enjoyed programming on NPR, but 'we're broke' and therefore all spending must be reduced.

Estelle

A lot of scarves are made to stand out and therefore not appropriate on your head, say, at work.