Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wale

A lot of my female fans discovered me through the passion I have for bettering myself. Not to say the dudes don't, but my female fan-base is based off women who want to do better.

Derrick Jensen

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that any way of living that's based on the use of non-renewable resources won't last.

As a teenager, I developed a great interest in not only horse breeding but also horse racing and used to bet based on red-hot tips. I realized that becoming a bookmaker would be very lucrative, but Dad put his foot down, saying it was an inappropriate career.

For my books of nonfiction I write about subjects I find fascinating. I've been a Yankees and a Lou Gehrig fan for decades, so I wrote 'Lou Gehrig: The Luckiest Man.' It's more the story of his great courage than of his baseball playing. Children face all sorts of challenges, and it's my hope that some will be inspired by the courage of Lou Gehrig.

Lionel Blue

The real evidence is not practically speaking in scholarship but in how Jesus and the Christianity based on him manifest themselves in the lives of practising Christians. Their lives are the proofs of their beliefs.

Luanne Rice

While novels are fiction, mine are usually very close to my heart. Like my other books, 'The Lemon Orchard' is inspired by something I care about. I care so deeply. The stories are my dreams, and I want to do a lot of research. Roberto is based on a real live friend of mine named Armando who worked in my garden.

Today we have not yet reached the peak of this epidemic. Even based on conservative estimates, the toll of this epidemic will be extremely high.

Ivan Pavlov

Thus, the purposeful relationship of phenomena is based on the specificity of the stimuli, that correspond to similarly specific reactions.

Chris Claremont

Thus far, though, based on the art, this book rocks. Great-looking cast, diabolical villains, evocative sense of time and place, and the odd, occasional giggle.

We didn't check the other districts. But based on these 18 cases, Yan is not a common consumer turning to the court for help when a store cheated him.

We didn't bring the same intensity as they did. Good thing about baseball is you get a second chance two days later.

We didn't represent the game of baseball the way it should be played. It was pretty ugly to say the least.

We didn't really play good baseball all day.

We don?t have the industrial base we used to have. What do we want to be in the future? I think the community has a lot of potential, and this location of the visitors bureau will just be the front door.

We don't have that worked out yet. It may not be equal, but it will be whatever the bases can handle appropriately, and then they'll get the manpower they need to fulfill their mission.

Broadband gives small businesses the opportunity to broaden their customer base and reduce their overheads through e-commerce platforms.

It was not long before I was struck with the idea that base ball was just the game for a national sport for Americans.

Base Ball, to be played thoroughly, requires the possession of muscular strength, great agility, quickness of eye, readiness of hand, and many other faculties of mind and body that mark the man of nerve.

Harry Lloyd

The interesting thing is, when you play a real-life character or someone based in a book, you always come up against people's preconceptions of what they have in their heads.

Harry Lloyd

I love my little flat in Spitalfields. Lots of actors live out of a suitcase, so it's nice to have a base to come back to.

Henry Selick

Morals always sound like cliches, but usually cliches are based on things that are ultimate truths. Be grateful for what you have; appreciate what's right there in front of you.

Henning Mankell

My father thought, and now I think too, that the system of democracy is entirely based upon the system of justice. If we do not have a system of justice that people believe in, the system of democracy will fail.

Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani

Based on 30 years of experience with the Iranians, they will give you 100 words. Trust only one of the 100.

Andrew Johnson

We are always looking for ways to expand the natural part of our business. But our core business is going to be based on the core cable business.

We are about where we expected. We feel we should get at least nine or 10 of those guys through the semifinals based on their past performances.

Carl Everett

We're not supposed to win, so it puts pressure on everybody else. We've played good baseball like we've done all year, and we're just being ourselves. People are going to continue to count us out, but at the same time, just be the White Sox that we were from the first game of the season.

We're not running a campaign based on particular policies, ... Watson is more focused on what the residents tell him they need.

We're losing so much revenue from General Cable, ... Water and franchise fees are going way down and next year it's going to be worse. The only thing you can do is hope that somebody else moves in here or that the tax base goes up enough. I don't have a solution. I just know it's a tough deal. There's nothing else to cut except employees.

We are really giving the students a lot of choice they can use the college phone, a cell phone or computer based phone services.

We are raising our recommendation on Pinnacle West based on the company's core competencies as a regional energy provider.

We are playing good baseball right now, we are not committing turnovers like we were earlier in the year.

We are part of a national program that is based in Florida. I had originally worked for another couple who owned the business, but I just recently purchased the business from them.

Howard Shore

The music for 'The Departed' could have been played by an orchestra, but you make a decision about orchestration based on the context of the film. You want the music to broaden the scope of a film, not just repeat what you're seeing.