Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leila Janah

The perception in Silicon Valley is that if you dress well, you couldn't possibly be smart, or you're in P.R. but couldn't possibly run a company. I remember briefly attempting the Adidas and jeans and sweatshirt over T-shirt look, but I realized I was trying to dress like a young tech geek, and that just wasn't me.

We are attempting to offer the program statewide.

We are attempting to give the public around the world the opportunity to be involved in very real space missions.

We are attempting not only to show the great movies of the past, but we are also reproducing the very experience that people saw it in when these films were first released.

We have no group that's claimed responsibility. It could be any number of groups attempting to operate inside Iraq.

Richard Thompson

We were attempting to restore the culture of Britain for the British, ... But the English, in particular, aren't comfortable with their own culture. To be taken seriously, it has to come from somewhere else. So we remained a cult band.

We believe that gold is attempting to find a range with the recent extremes of $535 and $555 likely to confine the metal for a while.

We're extremely troubled by the prospect that the legislature is attempting to hold our proposed merger hostage, and to that end we will be considering all options, including the legal route.

Ashwin Sanghi

At thirty-five, having spent over twenty years running varied businesses for my family, I decided to sit down and write my first novel. I had never written anything longer than a couple of pages till then and was foolishly attempting to write a hundred-thousand words.

Tariq Ramadan

The young people who join extremist groups are clearly suffering from massive deficiencies in religious knowledge and are often politically gullible (when they are not attempting to salve pangs of conscience by cutting themselves off from a life of delinquency).

Kent Haruf

I'm attempting to broaden my novels' scope through landscape and weather, leaves falling off trees, overnight storms, timeless elements which, irrespective of human endeavour, have always been there and, as long as there is life and snow, will always be there.

When the new director came in, he was attempting to grow the program faster than it could really handle financially,

Many within the military have reached breaking point, either leaving en masse or attempting to protect themselves via this organization.

So isn't it ironic that Newt Gingrich is attempting to put his ethic problems behind him with a plan that requires a whole new investigation by the ethics committee?

Bryan Singer

On an external level, the movie's about how an idealistic superhero functions in the modern world. But it ultimately becomes a story about what happens when an old boyfriend comes back into your life, and about Superman trying to find a place in Lois Lane's world. I'm attempting to make a very emotional film. This is certainly the most romantic, and the funniest, movie I've made, and toward the end it gets a bit intense.

Kathryn Lasky

I did not find that writing a diary with a lead male character differed in any essential way from writing one with a female character. They all had the same challenges in terms of attempting to establish an identity, coping with loneliness, friendships, relationships.

For some time now, the (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) has been reaching out to the international community, and attempting to increase the number of countries with which it has foreign relations,

I think it's a cheap stock, but it's cheap for a reason. The company's core market has changed and it's attempting to change with it in order to keep up. But it's a real uphill battle.

Bob Stoops

Just because what we've done in the past has worked and worked well doesn't mean that it will continue to. We have really got to be smart in what we're attempting to do. We need to make some adjustments and make sure we can execute certain parts of our passing game more consistently.

Java Studio Creator 2 is an update to Sun's Java Studio product, which is a new generation tool attempting to simplify Java development. Java Studio Creator 2 is trying to make the Java platform more attractive to developers coming from a Microsoft Windows or 4GL tool environment.

Landscape projects are expensiveespecially if you'd like to do a nice landscape like they are attempting to do all over campus.

Henry A. Kissinger

I think the only way to go is to do what they think is the right thing and explain it as well as they can to the American people, as the president is attempting to do with these speeches. The public will not forgive you for losing even if it seems to reflect what they thought they wanted.

It is clear that the father was trying to get them out, ... Everyone was attempting to escape.

It is pretty clear they were attempting to move this oil into a crude oil market where there was already a surplus.

We are extremely disappointed that a few individuals are attempting to hijack those discussions.

Muriel Spark

Godfrey's wife, Charmian, sat with her eyes closed, attempting to put her thoughts into alphabetical order, which Godfrey had told her was better than no order at all since she now had grasp of neither logic nor chronology

If the state is attempting to bring in talented people, having this kind of thing -- not just in law but in the state constitution -- sends a very strong statement about what kind of state it is.

If that is true, that is attempting to have someone commit perjury.

I think what Congress is attempting is outrageous.

Tom O'Brien

I think that comes about from never attempting to fail. There's times he'd go out in practice, and I'd say, If you don't throw five interceptions today, you didn't have a good practice.' You have to learn as a quarterback what you can and can't throw.

He felt like the true story hadn't been told because it had been told in a one-sided way. And that's what we're attempting to do, is tell the full story from a dual perspective.

Rick Monday

Whatever their protest was about, what they were attempting to do to the flag - which represents a lot of rights and freedoms that we all have - was wrong for a lot of reasons. Not only does it desecrate the flag, but it also desecrates the effort and the lives that have been laid down to protect those rights and freedoms for all of us.

Sally Schneider

So many people think they need to have serious equipment. In the magazines and the media, they see all this stylish stuff, especially on TV, and they think, That's what I need to make it work. You don't. I'm attempting a little bit of liberation here.