Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bing Crosby

Let's Face it, - Sinatra is a king. He's a very sharp operator, a keen record chief, and has a keen appreciation of what the public wants.

When you talk to an author - to any artist, really - you learn something about how they do what they do. I've never come away from that kind of experience feeling disillusioned, as if the magician had explained his tricks. I always find a greater appreciation for the form.

Kurt Vonnegut

The arts put man at the center of the universe, whether he belongs there or not. Military science, on the other hand, treats man as garbage - and his children, and his cities, too. Military science is probably right about the contemptibility of man in the vastness of the universe. Still - I deny that contemptibility, and I beg you to deny it, through the creation of appreciation of art.

William Shakespeare

Men prize the thing ungained more than it is.

Michael Leunig

Of all the seasons, winter is the most conducive to the great art of dormancy. This art requires an appreciation of semi-consciousness: the beautiful and necessary prelude to sleep - a special pleasure in itself that is all too often neglected, under-valued or looked down upon.

We believe that IBM is a second-half story and now we're there. We believe earnings growth should take the stock higher and we'd be even more optimistic if we had confidence in execution. We think the key to long-term appreciation is figuring out if IBM is a new technology or old technology stock. It's some of both now.

Benjamin Hoff

Through working in harmony with life's circumstances, Taoist understanding changes what others may percieve as negative into something positive.

Bill Gates

The human body is the most complex system ever created. The more we learn about it, the more appreciation we have about what a rich system it is.

Bob Taft

Many have left their families to defend our freedom. We salute their bravery; we express our appreciation and support to their families. And we pray for their safe return.

Charles Lindbergh

It was that quality that led me into aviation in the first place — it was a love of the air and sky and flying, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty. It lay beyond the descriptive words of man — where immortality is touched through danger, where life meets death on equal plane; where man is more than man, and existence both supreme and valueless at the same instant.

We express our appreciation to voters who participated in the recent election process. The county committee system can only work effectively with strong producer involvement.

We express our appreciation to the French Government and the four toll road companies for the grant.

We're hoping that people will get a sense of appreciation for the history of the town.

Jane Anderson

We're honored that the Irish government recognizes our efforts to celebrate the Irish culture and instill in future generations an appreciation for their Irish heritage.

We knew this would happen, and it's happening later than we thought. We thought appreciation was going to come down. We definitely thought the entry and middle markets would be less strong than they are today.

Bertolt Brecht

The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.

Carlos Castaneda

A warrior must cultivate the feeling that he has everything needed for the extravagant journey that is his life. What counts for a warrior is being alive. Life in itself is sufficient, self-explanatory and complete. Therefore, one may say without being presumptuous that the experience of experiences is being alive.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Complete knowledge of the nature of an analytic function must also include insight into its behavior for imaginary values of the arguments. Often the latter is indispensable even for a proper appreciation of the behavior of the function for real arguments. It is therefore essential that the original determination of the function concept be broadened to a domain of magnitudes which includes both the real and the imaginary quantities, on an equal footing, under the single designation complex numbers.

Neil Fallon

We want to say thank you the only way we know how that's by playing rock 'n' roll. Any entertainment to break up the work week is great. You can forget about life, relax and have a reminder that there is an appreciation there.

Bruce Bochy

We have so many military here. This is our way to show our appreciation to our forces. We like to consider ourselves as the military's teams with all the bases we have in San Diego. It's an honor. Every Sunday we have the troops out at the ballpark. This is something we do with honor.

We are providing Jared with some athletic scholarship monies as a small token of our appreciation and to reward him for all the work he has done.

We still think there is more appreciation to come and that's been our message to clients, it certainly was the case last year and it continues to be the case this year.

We're looking for stocks that are showing accelerating earnings growth. Stock appreciation will follow earnings growth.

John Bytheway

I have to say that it was working with my grandpa, who grew up on a farm in Mountain Home, Idaho, that had the most influence. Witnessing his work ethic and hearing his stories gave me an appreciation for the farm's best lessons.

To quote copiously and well requires taste, judgment and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a sense of the profound

That's a much better position to be in than a lot of the other markets right now that are at the end of a period of expansion. The places that have had the strongest appreciation over the last five years especially in California and Florida are very likely to give a bunch of it back.

The messages that separate us are so strong. When we don't have people honoring the messages of commonality and appreciation for each other, the messages of divisiveness and differences grow stronger and stronger.

Once things get through the day-to-day digestion period, broadly speaking the market is still pretty good, ... The trend to lower energy erases some of the fears of how long consumers can hold up. It gives the market enough to fear but sets us up for gradual appreciation going into year-end.

On average, we expect the ruble's appreciation to slow down by more than two times next year.

It's not clear how China will deliver further currency flexibility but certainly the pace of appreciation of the Chinese currency has picked up.

I'm definitely feeling, as the statistics say, that there is a larger inventory on the market right now. And that's really what's been driving our appreciation these last couple years, that very low inventory.

David Anderson

I hope they get a feel for the power of nature and what nature can do. Also, just to get a sense of appreciation for what we have, and giving back to others.

Kyle MacLachlan

I never felt that my life was not complete without a child. I don't know if that, as a younger man, I'd have had full appreciation for it.