Famous Quotes & Sayings

There are people who might complain about the so-called old boys network. My advice is to become part of the network. Volunteer to help, get involved. Hockey people tend to take care of hockey people.

There are people less willing to adopt African-American babies, some people rather wait and get a Caucasian baby.

We made an adjustment at halftime and we were able to put more pressure on their outside shooters. That?s a credit to the adjustment the kids made.

We made a lot of unforced errors. But I'm really happy about how the girls pushed through it all and won the match. But the key was the fact that we were able to take advantage of their errors and take control of the momentum. When they make an error, we wanted to take advantage of it and we did.

George Robinson

We made a little adjustment on our press, and that gave them some fits. We got a lot of turnovers and a lot of buckets. It's a thing of momentum.

We made a few mistakes at the end and they took advantage of them. Meghan Reed and Keri were unbelievable off the boards. We played a great game.

Lin Shaye

I think the first thing is don't give up. If you love the craft. If you love being a detective and discovering who a character is and the detail of how they walk and what kind of shoes they wear and what did they do yesterday and what's important to them. I definitely advise actors to learn about the craft.

Karen Hesse

I have earned wages as a waitress, a nanny, a librarian, a personnel officer, an agricultural laborer, an advertising secretary, a typesetter, a proofreader, a mental-health-care provider, a substitute teacher, and a book reviewer. In and around the edges of all those jobs I have written poems, stories, and books, books, books.

Kate Klise

Many adult book authors supplement their income by teaching at the college level. Full-time professors fare well, but pay for adjunct professors is notoriously shabby. Children's book authors have a sweeter deal. We're invited by schools, libraries, law firms, and Fortune 500 companies to share our best writing tips and strategies.

Kylie Bax

My first child, I think I was completely shell shocked. I was ecstatic but in shock that I was now responsible completely for another life and it was my co-creation and how did I manage that?! I was in awe that I had actually done what millions of other women had done, given birth and now an added responsibility of 'mommy' in my life ahead!

Kylie Bax

I don't admire one particular style, but for evening events, I always look to Grace Kelly for inspiration.

K. Eric Drexler

The other advantage is that in conventional manufacturing processes, it takes a long time for a factory to produce an amount of product equal to its own weight. With molecular machines, the time required would be something more like a minute.

Kurt Loder

And that's very important, too, 'cause a lot of people just assume everyone's a Democrat, or everyone's a Republican or whatever, and they're not. And that's a really important thing to adhere to.

Kurt Eichenwald

As late as 2007, Facebook was still trying to figure out what it wanted to be when it grew up. An advertising space seemed to be the obvious answer, but how that would tap into the massive value of the personal data uploaded to the company every day remained a puzzle.

Jules Verne

What is there unreasonable in admitting the intervention of a supernatural power in the most ordinary circumstances of life?

J. Paul Getty

What I learned at Oxford has been used to great advantage throughout my business career.

Justin Rosenstein

Asana and complementary services are bringing the evolved team brain to the entire world. In great companies like Twitter, Uber, Airbnb, Foursquare, and LinkedIn, people already add information to and extract insight from these systems much the same way our hands and brain exchange signals.

John Wanamaker

I know half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, but I can never find out which half.

John Wanamaker

Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don't know which half.

John Wycliffe

We all are originally sinners as Adam and in Adam, his leprosy cleaving faster to us than Naaman's did to Gahazai, so that even the infant, before it has seen the light of the world, has this blemish inherent in its unborn members.

John Naisbitt

I was sure we would never see the adoption of the Euro. Countries giving up their currencies for a common tender was, it seemed to me, completely out of tune with currency being a carrier of people's cultural identity, celebrating national heroes and events, as it had been for hundreds of years.

John Ridley

To this day, the only argument against Obama that critics can seem to come up with involves admitting he's better than them - though they certainly season it with some racism. You know, he's that lucky black man who actually appeals to the populace. He's that elitist who got himself off food stamps and into Harvard.

Jaron Lanier

I've always felt that the human-centered approach to computer science leads to more interesting, more exotic, more wild, and more heroic adventures than the machine-supremacy approach, where information is the highest goal.

It became inevitable that television would address life's mundane problems because television itself is so mundane, part of the ordinary flow of time the way those problems are.

Lee Child

We would all love to walk up to someone and shoot them in the head, there's no doubt about that. We're too civilised to admit it, but we're happy to read about it.

Kevin McCloud

Self-builders are the adrenalin junkies of the DIY world; it's the equivalent of base-jumping off the top of the Gherkin to land in a paddling pool.

Kevin Mitnick

I use Spam Arrest because of the amount of junk mail I get. Any legitimate person who wants to send me a message has to jump through hoops before they can be added to my opt-in list.

Alexandra Ripley

I have but one life to give to adventure.

Alexandra Ripley

We're not home-and-hearth people. We're the adventurers, the buccaneers, the blockade runners. Without challenge, we're only alive.

Dave Tippett

We're going against a team where the whole game plan going in was to take advantage of our turnovers and soft mental play. We were pushing to take that mental play out of the equation, but there were too many times it came into it.

We're glad to see the agencies address this issue because the switch to higher risk mortgage lending has been quite dramatic. A mortgage is not just about consumers being able to buy a home but being able to actually stay in the home that they purchased.

We're glad to have someone of Tom's abilities rejoin our team. He brings a wealth of knowledge on the advertising needs of our customers and a deep understanding of the role of community newspapers.

We're giving talented people the opportunity to work closely with the real innovators in the in-game advertising industry. New recruits would be able to develop campaigns for leading global brands such as Ben Sherman, Red Bull and Orange, work with top publishers, and most importantly have a hand in shaping the hottest advertising sector.