Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bat for Lashes

I want to add something worthwhile rather than just chucking loads of stuff into the world. I don't want to feel responsible for adding to the soup of mediocrity.

Alexey Miller

For Gazprom, 2015 is turning out auspiciously. We already see the possibility for additional investments in our investment program.

Adam Braun

Global poverty is a complex web of interlinked problems. There is no one 'silver bullet' that will solve global inequality. Multiple contributing factors must be tackled in parallel. Yes, education alone is unlikely to lead to employment without economic reform to address the demand side in much of the developing world.

Bill O'Reilly

The gap between rich and poor under President Obama is getting bigger because fewer well-paying jobs are available. Corporations are being taxed to the hilt and are loathe to add more workers. Thus, salaries fall because there are more than enough applicants to fill any job vacancy.

Brad Goreski

A slick ponytail is a great way to add a modern, minimal look to your outfit.

Brett Hoebel

Salt is one of the flavors that makes food taste good - salt, sugar and fat. So it's a natural thing for all chefs and cooks to add salt, because it enhances the flavor of the food. If you go out to eat, I guarantee you're going to be eating a lot of salted foods that you are going to have no idea.

Carol Bellamy

And most importantly perhaps, children can learn about their rights, share their knowledge with the children of other nations, identify problems with them and establish how they might work together to address them.

Bryan Batt

I grew up in a very celebratory town. We celebrate everything, from life to death and everything in between. So a lot of dramatics come into my aesthetic. And I'm an actor, so that adds more to the dramatic - I don't mean over-the-top. The main thing is never to be boring.

Everybody makes money for a living, but most of us actually do something that has a point, in addition to just making money. We examine and treat patients, we teach students, we draw up contracts and wills, we write for newspapers, magazines, and web sites, we clean floors, or we serve meals.

Anthony Minghella

You know you lose a lot of social skills if you're a writer. You spend too long alone. And its forced me to address that.

Anthony Horowitz

I feel very privileged to have reached so many kids because a life without stories, without the power of books, would be a very grey world, it's good to add colour.

Ada Yonath

I was born in Jerusalem in 1939 to a poor family that shared a rented four-room apartment with two additional families and their children.

We have to be very careful what we do with the Derby. It's like a classic painting. Someone already put the colors on the Derby. That part, we understand. Our job is not to add colors. Our job is to frame it, to make sure that frame is contemporary.

(We have) seven strong returning players with much experience and four new additional players to complement them. We must simply do our job and get it done.

Rob Andrew

We have seen Grant play against us first hand in Europe last season, and we believe he will be a solid addition to our front row.

This sham compromise agreement fails to address the primary substantive concern raised by millions of Americans, as well as civil liberties, privacy and business organizations and lawmakers from both sides of the aisle and in both chambers.

This settlement demonstrates the continuing resolve of the government as a whole to address the problem of yield burning and to ensure the integrity of financial markets, ... The government is pleased that it was able to reach this settlement without causing issuers or holders of municipal bonds to suffer adverse tax consequences.

This sends a clear signal to persistent beggars that we will maintain a tough line against drug and alcohol addiction that is often funded through town centre begging.

This will give our delegates lengthy one?on?one time with our federal lawmakers. To have that additional time is wonderful.

This will give a larger subscriber base a chance to try XM content without going through the hassle of getting the necessary equipment. If they find the programming valuable, it would be a lot easier to sign them up. The added distribution that XM will get from this relationship will be very beneficial.

This will definitely add to pressure, especially from lawmakers in the U.S. for further appreciation of the yuan.

This will bring some opportunities to some of the other drive vendors. However, it may be a challenge for those players to pick up additional business because the industry is fully utilized in terms of capacity.

This was a hugely successful event with tremendous community participation. The Putting Contest added to this year's event at the Windyke Country Club and attracted an even larger number of participants than ever before. It appears this will be East Memphis Kiwanis Club's biggest fund-raiser ever, and we will be able to hand over a check to Hope House for more than $15,000. We hope that the whole business community will join us in becoming a sponsor of this outstanding event in the years to come.

There is only one world record-holder. And we have him. Paul's addition to our field gives us the best men's race we've had in more than a decade.

There is no reason why we shouldn't work on some of those little things. They can add up and give you an advantage over the course of a game, or a weekend series or even a season.

The opening ceremonies are a tiring enough process. If you add all the demands of being flag-bearer and with a relatively heavy racing schedule, taking on that extra task is, as they've correctly evaluated, too great a load.

Wendell Berry

The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it.

O. Henry

The past few years you could see something just wasn't adding up,

The parents and teachers need to know their reading scores in the next two weeks so that they can get some additional help or remedial intervention for those who didn't pass.

The parents and I added it up about 15 times.

Brian Billick

the parameters are set: Take number 21, take number 23, add them together and cut it in half. Anything beyond that is just hard to understand.

The only thing they have in addition is the most incredible witness that could ever walk into a courtroom, if he walks into the courtroom.

Allan Bloom

There are great industries of psychotherapy that address our difficulties in 'relationships' -- that pallid, pseudoscientific word the very timidity of which makes substantial attachments impossible. One has to have a tin ear to describe one's great love as a relationship.