Famous Quotes & Sayings

We've seen $4.1 billion in online advertising through June 30. Last year at this point, we saw $1.7 billion. When you're looking at a U.S. advertising market in the high $200 billion to $300 billion range, Internet advertising is a small part of the overall market, but it's continuing to grow.

We've said from the start that this is about securing affordable health care benefits for these workers. The changes the company made in the recent proposal still do not address our members' greatest concern -- health care. The $1,000 increase in the signing bonus was not the only addition in the company's proposal; there were several items that would severely hurt the members of this union. We have made a counter proposal and are awaiting a response from the company.

Burt Reynolds

Friends come in herds and they leave in herds. Hollywood loves an adventure, but you have to hit bottom. Then they love to save you and be a part of it. Or think they're a part of it.

Carnie Wilson

I did have reconstructive plastic surgery and a tummy tuck. And from hip to hip, there's a very big scar. It looks better than it did... So I say, if you don't like that skin, have it removed. This is my advice: if you're gonna do it - just go for it.

Carol Burnett

I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's when I've really learned.

Alan Cranston

The idea of being a foreign correspondent and wandering the world and witnessing great events, having adventures and covering the activities of world leaders, appealed to me greatly. It was a very glamorous life in those days.

Al Franken

When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.

Al Gore

The Bush-Cheney administration had betrayed some basic American values. So there was hunger for change.

Aimee Mullins

Our responsibility is not simply shielding those we care for from adversity but preparing them to meet it well.

Aimee Mullins

Adversity isn't an obstacle that we need to get around in order to resume living our life. It's part of our life.

Charles Kettering

Failures, repeated failures, are sign-posts on the road to achievement. The only time you don't want to fail is the last time you try something (and it works).

Charles Bass

Since 1998, the Administration has begun to upgrade counterintelligence and security at U.S. weapons labs.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

I think back when I was kind of a crappy writer, I really did know my time was better spent working and having adventures and seeing the world.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

I always felt a weird obligation to be adventurous.

Bonnie Raitt

We can choose, you know, we ain't no amoeba.

Bonnie Raitt

When they were putting oil rigs up and down the California coast, the whole issue of safe energy and the addiction to fossil fuels really came into focus.

Aristotle Onassis

Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as if you have just come back from somewhere expensive.

Aristophanes

One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.

Antonio Porchia

Human suffering, while it is asleep, is shapeless. If it is wakened it takes the form of the waker.

Antonio Porchia

Yes, one must suffer, even in vain, so as not to have lived in vain.

Antonio Porchia

Suffering is above, not below. And everyone thinks that suffering is below. And everyone wants to rise.

Bruce Lee

With every adversity comes a blessing because a shock acts as a reminder to oneself that we must not get stale in routine.

Bruce Lee

Prosperity is apt to prevent us from examining our conduct; but adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is beneficial to us.

Edmund Burke

Public calamity is a mighty leveller.

Edmund Burke

Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves.

Edmund Burke

He who calls in the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; and he who profits by a superior understanding raises his powers to a level with the height of the superior standing he unites with.

Eckhart Tolle

Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.

Elie Wiesel

I remember, May 1944: I was 15-and-a-half, and I was thrown into a haunted universe where the story of the human adventure seemed to swing irrevocably between horror and malediction.

Charles Schumer

We live in a new world. It is a post-September 11 world. We have to adjust to those realities. I believe we can do both: have security and liberty, the great concern of our Founding Fathers.

We have asked that Ford repudiate its relationship with this extremist group, reinstate its advertising of Jaguar and Land Rover and continue investing in organizations working for equality.

Patricia Cornwell

We have a really serious problem on our hands, and TV has made it so much worse. CSI is fun to watch and entertaining. But, more and more, jury members believe that police and scientists work every case with this huge bag of tricks, and if they don't, the victim and jurors feel the case has not been adequately investigated.

We have a problem with this stuff getting into our bodies and we need to address it by, among other things, getting the state to move towards cleaner sources of energy in order to keep women and children mercury-free.

We have a pretty good idea (that growth will slow) for the first half and maybe through the summer. Beyond that, we ought to be honest and admit that it gets fuzzy.