Famous Quotes & Sayings

Amy Madigan

The music business is rougher than the movie business. In film you get noticed in a small role, even in a movie that bombs. But in records you better have that hit or else it's 'See you later.'

I don't give interviews on Chanel because it is not useful for the Chanel business.

We're in the business of selling pleasure. We don't sell handbags or haute couture. We sell dreams.

I decided to combine my musical background, business education and creative abilities - and go into the record business.

Alessandra Ambrosio

I've been a fashion model for 15 years and designing is just an extension of my career. I still plan on modeling lingerie, but at the same time this is a business transition that I plan to have around for a long time.

Dusty Baker

We're not going to call up a lot of players. We'll try to call up guys who deserve it and guys who have had good years and merit being called up. We're not in the giveaway business -- we're in the earning business.

Jay Sidhu

We're not getting into new businesses that we don't understand.

We're not getting a lot of companies that are doing cartwheels about the second half in terms of IT demand. In terms of where we stand, getting out of the second-quarter earnings reporting season, moving on with business as usual, is probably going to be a healthy thing.

Ned Yost

The only sense of relief is that I don't have to talk about it. My focus here is totally on winning games and it always has been. I've always thought that if you take care of your business, then the rest of the business will take care of itself.

We still have to go out and win business for what we lost. We're certainly disappointed because Volkswagen had been a great partner of ours.

We still have four games to play. And we've still got a chance. I think we're going to need some help, probably. Hopefully, we'll get some. But you can't be the kind of team that keeps looking around at other teams and what they're doing. You've got to take care of your own business these last four games.

We still have a lot of negotiating to do with the club. He has done everything he can possibly do to warrant a new contract with Seattle. But that's the business of the NFL.

We are investing heavily in conventional oil and natural gas, which is the business we are in. We are not in those other businesses.

Kim Basinger

You have to be a little unreal to be in this business

Kim Basinger

I work in a strange business, and 'trust' is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Kim Basinger

My hand still shakes when I sign autographs. I still go and sit in the movies like everyone else and look up there and go 'God! Movie stars! Wow!' And I'm in this business. I walk out there just fascinated, and I always want to stay like that. I'm just a little kid going to these movies, and I don't ever want to change.

Guy Fieri

I'm a big fan of doing 'Triple D.' But I don't want to do it forever, don't get me wrong! Travel away from my family, are you crazy? But do you know what it does for these mom-and-pop restaurant joints? It changes their lives forever. I mean, their businesses will never be the same.

Gretchen Rubin

Work done by other people sounds easy. How hard can it be to take care of a newborn who sleeps 20 hours a day? How hard can it be to keep track of your billable hours? To travel for one night for business? To get a 4-year-old ready for school? To return a few phone calls? To load the dishwasher? To fill out some forms?

Barry White

I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I do-all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.

The question is would it actually cost less, given the state and federal regulations on bottling and sealing water. It's a very different business than running a water agency.

The question is how much of a future upside is in the stock and business for 2006.

The question is -- and this is why the market hasn't reacted too negatively to the durable goods report -- is whether businesses ... will continue to spend given the risks to consumer spending posed by high energy prices.

Christopher Flavin

The question for oil executives is whether you're in the oil business or the energy business.

David Lewis

The project sits within the top three priorities for the business for the year.

Dean Winters

Tina Fey is the most caring woman I've worked with in this business.

Time of politics in cricket is gone and we are out for serious business of improving standards of cricket in the country.

Tourism has been a very big business in Thailand. There are very few Third World countries where things are so affordable, but so organized to make it so effortless for you to do what you want to do.

Tough talk from leading economic policy makers has crushed business confidence,

Nicholas Kristof

Traditionally, what we in the news business do is cover what happened yesterday.

Kathy Ireland

This story is cruel, nonsensical and damaging to the tremendous work she does every day for people living with HIV/AIDS as well as her extraordinary leadership in all of her business ventures.

This step will enable us to concentrate on our core businesses in home and personal care.

You don't need to fear diversity in tagging vocabularies. They are inevitable, because businesses are so diverse, ... But if you're going to live with differences, you're going to need strong transformation technologies. That's why the key to XML is not representation, but rather transformation.

Jim Rogers

You don't necessarily have to own a marketing and trading business to get that value.