Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tina Fey

My parents have been very brave about my being here, and I remember after the 11th thinking for sure they were going to say, 'Come home, come home.' Instead, my father gave me a speech about how important it was for me to be brave and stay in New York and keep working. That inspired me quite a bit.

Nasdaq would gain a great brand name. To get those marquee global companies on their exchange, Nasdaq realizes it can slug it out one-by-one with the New York Stock Exchange, but if it had London, it would be that much easier.

Napa has had a consistent message, earning the brand equity that comes with the Napa Valley name.

Jana Kramer

My mom wanted to be a country singer, too, so country was always being played. And my girlfriends and I used to go to concerts, like Brad Paisley, in middle school and high school.

Lobbying is like the fourth branch of government. It's a very powerful part of our government and our democracy.

Brian Ching

Look at what's happened this whole season. Brad Davis went down. I went down. Last week, we didn't have Danny Califf, ... One of the great things about this team is that everyone knows their role.

Looking back, we've done so much. We've accomplished a lot of our goals as a team and a relay. We have a lot to brag about.

Long whiskers cannot take the place of brains

Looking ahead, we've never felt more positive about our prospects for growth, which rest on our distinctive proposition, strong brand equities, and expanding market share.

Candice Olson

Look for inspiration in books, magazines, and even other people's homes - then be brave and take a chance with a room in your home.

Vincent Canby

Marlon Brando has finally connected with a character and a film that need not embarrass America's most complex, most idiosyncratic film actor.

Mark has a proven track record in driving creativity, innovation and growth. He's an experienced, talented executive and has played an instrumental role in building our business and making the Nike brand as strong as it is today.

Mark got his Christmas present because we had a plan. It's a last-lap deal where you just use the brakes real quick, let him shoot out, and then we come charging like a freight train.

March Madness ranks number one for us. It is, by far, the busiest event we have online throughout the year. We see thousands of users coming to the site to make their bracket picks per minute.

(Mason) did a good job setting that bracket up. But we played well.

Brad Grey

Marvel has emerged as one of the strongest, most successful entertainment brands around the globe, with an enviable track record in feature films. We are excited to be working with Marvel on this new business.

Alice Cooper

I just want your body, Sheeba, I don't want your brains.

Clare Balding

I've always been fascinated by intelligence and how our brains work, and how they can be improved.

Clarence Darrow

The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.

Ovid

Fortune and love favour the brave. [Lat., Audentum Forsque Venusque juvant.]

David Thewlis

Well, The Island of Dr Moreau wasn't very good, was it? I remember the day Brando turned round to me and said this was the craziest thing he'd ever been involved in.

We'll still be looking to grow our international operations and to complement our brand portfolio with selective acquisitions, while there are still some great opportunities in North America.

Cindy Sheehan

What is the 'noble cause' that brave Americans are dying for?

Lindsey Graham

Thank God for some Republican control of one branch of the government.

What we're suggesting, and this remains to be tested by further work, that in men it isn't the size of the overall brain that is correlated with how well they do on all these mazes and three-dimensional perception tests, but it might be the structure, it might be the size or the anatomical microscopic structure of the region in the brain that is important for that kind of thinking.

E. O. Wilson

Overall, the human brain is the most complex object known in the universe - known, that is, to itself.

E. O. Wilson

The brain and its satellite glands have now been probed to the point where no particular site remains that can reasonably be supposed to harbor a nonphysical mind.

E. O. Wilson

Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it's a map with constant immediate sensory input.

Douglas Rushkoff

Like most early enthusiasts, I always thought the way the Internet encouraged multitasking made users less vulnerable to manipulation, while simultaneously exploiting even more of our brain's capacity than before. Apparently not.

Douglas Rushkoff

Brains are tricky and adaptable organs. For all the 'neuroplasticity' allowing our brains to reconfigure themselves to the biases of our computers, we are just as neuroplastic in our ability to eventually recover and adapt.

Don DeLillo

I have only a bare working knowledge of the human brain but it's enough to make me proud to be an American.

Douglas Adams

To Trin Tragula's horror, the shock completely annihilated her brain; but to his satisfaction he realized that he had proved conclusively that if life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion.

Dorothea Benton Frank

I don't always want to read serious fiction. But when I read fiction that's not serious, I don't want to read brain candy. Entertain me, for God's sake.