Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Stross

For a sampler, you could try my short story collection "Wireless". Which contains one novella that scooped a Locus award, and one that won a Hugo, and covers a range of different styles.

Alan Bennett

I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.

Michael Strahan

By the time I left college, I had won every award you could win - I was Mr. Man! Then I got drafted by the Giants, and you step in that locker room, and you feel inferior in every way. You just have to stick around long enough to give yourself the opportunity to build your confidence.

Kathleen Hogan

We are proud of the commitment partners like Puget Sound Energy have made to helping Americans save energy. The Partner of the Year award recognizes partners whose efforts to promote energy-efficient products are exceptional. They have been instrumental in putting more than 2 billion ENERGY STAR qualified products into American households over the last decade.

Trevor Immelman

There are certain criteria set by the Official World Golf Rankings Board to award world ranking points in a tournament,

Bernie Mac

All you do as a performer is keep doing it. If you keep doing it, then it depends on why you're doing it. If you're doing something for superficial, monumental reasons and if you're doing it for female attention, or if you're doing it for money, it's like being upset. Only way you can get upset is when you expecting something. If you don't get this award or don't get that award, that because you expect something.

Barbra Streisand

Most awards, you know, they don't give you unless you go and get them - did you know that? Terribly discouraging.

Barry Sanders

The Heisman is the biggest award I've ever won.

Azealia Banks

The Grammys are supposed to be awards for artistic excellence… Iggy Azalea’s not excellent,

Jack Greenberg

We want the line -- which for McDonald's includes our divisional and regional staffs, owner/operators and restaurant personnel -- to make decisions on behalf of customers based on field operating needs. The line ultimately has responsibility and accountability for our business success,

Mitt Romney

Ultimately, legislation may need to be filed to provide an exemption based on religious principles.

Amanda Tobin

The possible pressurization issues that we've had recently do represent an above-average number for this time period, based on historical averages.

Ginny Goblirsch

We are always so happy to see them. It is such a reminder of what the US Coast Guard brings to our community. It's also a reminder of what it took to get the helicopter based here and how critical it is that it remains here.

Bob Cornick

We value this honor more than designations based on research that simply tries to count shipments and measure market share. Our customers trust Zebra to help them extract the business benefits from RFID technology, and we are pleased that ABI has recognized our commitment.

Adam Ereli

We believe that these convictions are based on evidence that isn't credible and a trial that isn't fair,

Mike Clarke

We still plan to have the appraisal done and try to keep discussions open with them and at the appropriate time, based on the appraisal, try to initiate, once again, negotiations.

Frank Newport

We're in a period of time that there is a conventional wisdom that Bush is on the ropes. I think, based on my experience, that the media tend to move in lockstep as conventional wisdom on a story develops.

Bernie Schaeffer

We're in a frenetic short-covering based rally. The jury is still out about how long this is going to last.

Charles de Gaulle

For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.

Charles Dickens

Some philosophers tell us that selfishness is at the root of our best loves and affections. Mr. Dombey's young child was, from the beginning, so distinctly important to him as a part of his own greatness, or (which is the same thing) of the greatness of Dombey and Son, that there is no doubt his parental affection might have been easily traced, like many a goodly superstructure of fair fame, to a very low foundation.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God's gifts are many; His best gift is one. It is the gift of Himself.

Bob Thomas

We want them to swim fast, and this is the best way to do it, in short races.

Farley Flex

We want them to be as comfortable as possible. So they can give us their best performance.

Steve Davies

We want to take care of our district games and then, game seven, eight, nine, 10 make sure we're playing our best football.

Jeff Matteson

We want to surround our families with as much support as possible. There are some great people working with kids in this town. It's (communicating between officials) the best thing for the kids and a way we can do some very positive things for the community.

Nick Saban

We want to support every player, and I think every player knows he has a responsibility for what to do and what not to do. As a coach, I also feel a responsibility to put a player in the best situation possible so he can have success.

Venancio Figueroa

We want to stay competitive and make sure we're providing customers the best value.

Djuna Barnes

And must I, perchance, like careful writers, guard myself against the conclusions of my readers?

Arthur C. Clarke

My objection to organized religion is the premature conclusion to ultimate truth that it represents...

Jeremy Jackson

We've ultimately come to the conclusion with the help of Ennis Knupp, is that the factors that they used were incomplete and that the numbers were somewhat inflated,

Cyrus Vance

U.S. Policy toward the establishment of Israeli settlements in the occupied territories is unequivocal and has long been a matter of public record. We consider it to be contrary to international law and an impediment to the successful conclusion of the Middle East peace process.

Timothy Noah

I've come to the conclusion that the government needs to impose price controls on tuition increases - and so, I think, has President Obama.

Roger White

She was worried for a long time about getting home runs and triples. Finally she's come to the conclusion that singles and doubles aren't bad.

Joseph Cohen

The principal conclusion is that we expect profit growth to continue through our new forecast horizon,

Ray Kelly

We're going forward with all deliberate speed and hopefully we'll be able to come to a successful conclusion soon.

Henry Thomas

The only conclusion one can draw while money was a factor, it wasn't the deciding factor for him. It didn't come down to the team that could pay him the most money.

Don Howe

The others had contracts that were up during the course of the year.

Dave Lewis

We are pleased to have Henrik and Daniel under contract for another year,

Joy Bacon

We were arrogant, we thought we were safe because we had our production contracts with the big studios. Now we have to look at new ways to grow.

Patsy Smith

Until we get a quote (on contract service) we can't choose. Basically, we will do whatever makes sense.

David Davies

Whether that leads to a contract is another matter entirely.

Tamara Faulkner

We're going to prevent what is still going to happen, contract procurement irregularities.

Bernie Bickerstaff

When we come to a decision, we make that move regardless of when it is. Some team could pick Kareem up at a nominal cost and still have the right (to pick up the option on his contract for next season).

Leigh Steinberg

The Redskins have done an excellent job of restructuring a number of contracts in anticipation of a deal (on the agreement) not being consummated.

Willis Reed

Yes, because the contract that they forced us into, the previous contract three years ago, in my opinion, I already gave them their raises. That's why I had a wage freeze in the first three years (of the new contract proposal).

Alan Watts

We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision. But if a decision itself were voluntary every decision would have to be preceded by a decision to decide - An infinite regression which fortunately does not occur. Oddly enough, if we had to decide to decide, we would not be free to decide

Alan Greenspan

It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations, enhances a person's ability to handle the more ambiguous and qualitative relationships that dominate our day-to-day financial decision-making

Al Pacino

Our life is looking forward or looking back, that's it. Where is the moment?

John Bolton

We want to thank the secretary-general for his personal and very prompt decision to waive privileges and immunities, ... This is now a serious law enforcement matter and we will have no further comment.

Javier Solana

We want to take a decision that is part of a solution, not part of a problem, and therefore it has to be well explained and understood by everybody.

Mark Shapiro

We want to set the roster as early as we can. This year, the decisions are so few.

Chris Cleave

Life is savagely unfair. It ignores our deep-seated convictions and places a disproportionate emphasis on the decisions we make in split seconds.

Chris Colfer

Once the world has made a decision, there is little anyone can do to change its mind.

Amber Magner

We lack experience. We don't have the leadership to make the right decisions at the right times.

Andy Wachowski

After Bound, we were offered a lot of lesbian thrillers.

Brett Gardner

We have had a lot of requests about our Y2K status, but no one has offered in any way to give us a hand.

Kelli O'Hara

When I've done TV and film, when it's offered to me, I loved doing it, and I would do it again, but the ins and outs of auditioning is - that's time away from my kids.

Dennis Lillee

Just the other day he told me Dougie Walters had phoned. I thought, 'that's good' and he said, 'yeah, he offered me his liver. I said no thanks, I'll take my chances.

Pao Xiong

He offered me a lot of cash. I just called my supervisor, and he ran off.

William Brownfield

For more than 20 years, the United States has offered replacement parts for the F-16 planes,

Wayne Wilson

He was offered scholarships by Colgate and Niagara, but he wants to be an engineer, so he picked us.

Jeff Bridges

My m.o. as far as choosing projects is I really try not to work. I try to not do the scripts that are offered me.

Wade Wimmer

We have offered a 30 percent over plant for the 2006 crop. For every share that a grower owns, they can plant 30 percent.

Douglas Alexander

Politicians often reveal most about themselves in unguarded moments.

Elizabeth Blackburn

Biology sometimes reveals its fundamental principles through what may seem at first to be arcane and bizarre.

William Shatner

I didn't realize that, in doing a documentary, there is this process of discovery. It's not like a film or a play with a set script. It sort of reveals itself.

Ben Bass

One of the ways that you reveal character is by getting a character into a situation and seeing what they do.

Sebastian Horsley

Dandyism is a lie which reveals the truth, and the truth is that we are what we pretend to be.

Zahi Hawass

I will reveal the secrets behind these doors.

Lily Chatterjee

One strange thing about the rain? It reveals all of the leaks.

Gunter Blobel

The structure of many cellular macromolecules has been revealed at the atomic level using x-ray crystallography.

Jacques Chirac

We can't reveal the secrets of the confessional.

Bergen Evans

There is wisdom in the selection of wisdom....

Peter Agre

Natural selection is not an inflammatory phrase; evolution is.

Dion Harris

We said from Selection Sunday, from that day on, whatever happens, we're going to come out to play to win.

David Blunkett

Read my lips. No selection by examination or interview.

Don Morrow

Variety selection is most important of all factors.

Elaine Post

Until you know where the source is, how do you know you're treating the right one?

Hayan Saad

What? He is the source of our troubles.

Ayn Rand

The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the verdict you pronounce upon your life.

Bill Hybels

You cannot do leadership without a source of regenerative strength. What is your source?

Thomas Friedman

Being one of my sources is exhausting. It's not one interview and you're done. I keep going back until I feel like I understand everything.

Arthur Baer

A plumber is an adventurer who traces leaky pipes to their source.

Pat Harris

Some (hospital) units can't take any more. They have to set a limit. They don't want this to be a source of turnover for their staff.

Calvin Trillin

There's always a source for humor.

Mitch Kapor

The accomplishment of open source is that it is the back end of the web, the invisible part, the part that you don't see as a user.

Wendell Perkins

We know how to value companies. And we go where the value is.

Demi Lovato

When you treat your body like a Bentley, you value yourself and you start to look at your body differently.

Brian Tracy

Nobody values your time but YOU.

Robert Gerhardt

We thought we could get it out before May 1, but because the values for some of the neighborhoods were out of whack, we had to go back and fine-tune those.

Julius Baer

(It is) an acquisition which we would value as 'not really expensive.

Jamelah Leddy

I think there's a lot of value there.

Craig Stapleton

have the same values and the same interests.

Sean Bersell

It has always been about value and convenience.

Kathryn Reith

That was only some coolers, so the value was pretty minimal. That has to be done over again.