Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ayelet Waldman

How many straight men maintain inappropriately intimate relationships with their mothers? How many shop with them? I want a gay son. People laugh, but they assume I'm kidding. I'm not.

A lot of people are surprised economists are assisting with kidney exchanges. Exchanges are what economists are good at.

Andy Grove

I was running an assembly line designed to build memory chips. I saw the microprocessor as a bloody nuisance.

Anna Akana

I attribute the black tones in my films to Stephen King, Tim Burton, Joe Hill and Richard Matheson. However, most of my writing is influenced by mental health. I'm incredibly passionate about shedding light on the stigmas associated with mental illnesses.

Alan Greenspan

The rates of return on investment in the same new technologies are correspondingly less in Europe and Japan because businesses there face higher costs of displacing workers than we do, ... Moreover, because our costs of dismissing workers are lower, the potential costs of hiring and the risks associated with expanding employment are less.

The rapid growth in loans and prices of assets such as real estate and stocks is a concern. The central bank may raise interest rates. It's better to err on the side of caution.

There are assets here that do exist, and we remain hopeful.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

There is, in world affairs, a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly

There is a very wrong assumption held by some that the West can do anything it wants through the Security Council.

There is a throat sting associated with it.

Wal-Mart is an innovator and the creation of this special Panel will improve and expand upon the opportunities for Wal-Mart associates around the country. I am delighted to have the chance to work with the company on this important effort.

Elmer Bernstein

It was a great way to work. In those days, you had to be there. It was your world. It was your club. Your friends were there, your associates were there, your security was there.

Elementary considerations led me to the conclusion that a medium, composed of layers of different dielectric constants, must behave as a uniaxial crystal if it is assumed that the layer thicknesses are only a fraction of a wave-length.

I grew up assuming that I would be in public service. I never planned to be in business.

Charlie Munger

Everyone has the idea of owning good companies. The problem is that they have high prices in relations to assets and earnings, and that takes all of the fun out of the game.

Stephane Hessel

For me, true and authentic democracy occurs when the privileged groups assist the unprivileged groups to become more privileged.

Successful enterprises are built from the ground up. You can't assemble them with a bunch of acquisitions.

Kenneth Scott Latourette

Religiously the Empire was pluralistic and marked by a search for a faith which would be satisfying intellectually and ethically and would give assurance of immortality.

Kenneth Branagh

In 'Henry V,' the story of the assumption of true and responsible leadership by Henry I think is hard-won. He has to lose friends; he has to risk his life.

bell hooks

An often-repeated assertion in the body of film criticism I have written is the assertion that movies do not just mirror the culture of any given time; they also create it.

This would be a terrible asset to give up as far as open space.

Geoff Hoon

This work sets out how military arrangements for liaising with the civil authorities could be enhanced and how best to coordinate military assistance to them if requested.

The question is, if you have money to invest, do you want to put it into the bond market, which has inflation issues, or keep it in stocks. Stocks will probably continue to hold up in the quarter because other asset classes are less attractive.

The question, I believe, is from where did they come? I have no reasonable assurance that they came from St. John's Church.

The question becomes, should we not use that technology because you might get caught speeding, and give up the chance to see somebody who pulls under a bridge and starts unloading something that looks suspicious, with wires and fuses on it? ... Should the majority of people who are going to be driving over that bridge take the chance that they're going to be injured, to assure that you don't get caught?

The proposed legislation has been around for a year and we think the Assembly has had ample time to review the issues.

The promiscuity of men in both these cultures is generally more acceptable. The thinking is that's OK for men to have side dishes. And that puts women at risk because many of these men don't use condoms. The two cultures are similar because there is a need for female empowerment so women can be assertive in their negotiating skills to get men to use condoms and be tested.

Bill Butler

The project needs some support because of its extraordinary design, and the costs associated with that design,

Bill Walsh

The ongoing construction of the stadium has continued at a rapid pace, and we're extremely pleased with the progress. It's projected to be done on time. But, in moving the San Jose State game to Spartan Stadium, we feel it gives us that extra week to assure ourselves that the stadium will be 100 percent ready.

Those were two different teams last year. It's a new season, a new team. Yeah, we have a history with these guys, (but) they can't sit here and say, 'Well, we did it last year, so we'll be able to do it this year.' And we can't sit here and assume that we'll be able to get it done.

Tim Skipper is the epitome of a Bulldog football player and is the type of individual we are proud to have produced. He was obviously a very good football player to start for four seasons. As a student, he was excellent. He was a leader on the field and in the locker room. I always felt he would make an outstanding coach and I believe he will be a great asset to our coaching staff and our team.

To try and make this a fight between the governor and the General Assembly is to confuse night and day. This is really simple. It's about spending.

Tracy had been a great support player in the midfield. Many of our goals are made from her contributions in assisting or setting plays.