Famous Quotes & Sayings

Overall, the difference in our offense this year is that our kids really grasp the concept of the offense. ... We've got some good senior leadership right now.

Outside of that, the concept of the show has been to explore our aliens' background.

Japanese consumers are in the process of embracing the concept of value.

I think everyone recognizes that there is very little money to be made but they very intelligently approached it from the pool concept to offset costs.

People have got to demand that their legislators support the concept of home rule. The legislature must take a more responsible, big-picture viewpoint.

Sam Worthington

Starting out, they told me: 'You're a good-looking guy. We'll put you in this role, and you can be a conduit for the audience into this side of the story.' But I've grown up, and that's not what I want anymore. My concept of the job I do has evolved. And it is a job, nothing more.

Nobu Matsuhisa

Some hotels have a lot of mirrors, chairs, you can't find the plugs, the music is complicated. But the Nobu concept is beautiful, simple.

Toru Takemitsu

My music has no significant rhythmic construction, but when I write music, I am always very concerned about the concept of time.

Rose McIver

My motivation is to get a deeper understanding and exploration of something that I want to know about the human condition. So, that's what I look for in the material I read: if it's asking a genuine question about a concept of the world that interests me. And also, it helps if it's a context that I find interesting.

Tom Coughlin

I was upset because in the true concept of team it is not about pointing the finger. It is not about that. We are all in this together. We have tried to engender this thought process since we have been here. Occasionally out of frustration, something happens where someone says something that they haven't thought out well.

It feels great to win a first-round game. It was just a real team concept today. We knew we would have to play hard and it worked out for us.

I think most guys, when they see a problem, they want to fix it. Sometimes less is more, and that's a hard concept for all of us to understand at times.

Julian is the songwriter of the band. He may want to go in different directions, but still sounding like The Strokes. I don't think you're going to hear a concept album.

I'm speaking towards the conceptual plan (that Quinlan is proposing), but I definitely think this project is something that town should pursue. There's not enough information yet, and I don't know if he can engineer proper septic systems and if it will be environmentally safe, but I think the town is doing the right thing by exploring the possibilities.

Gavin Rossdale

I think that in order to survive, there's this concept of having bulletproof skin,

People have developed very inappropriate concepts of what happens. I think, in part, it is because of Hollywood. Hollywood's depiction is someone swinging a pendulum of some sort and gaining control of you. Nothing could be further from the truth.

The reform concept was today deepened and accelerated,

Jiang Zemin

World peace and security will be safeguarded if the new security concept with the principles of mutual trust, mutual benefit, equality and cooperation as its core is followed.

To make a long story short, the concept in Cup racing now, of course, is multiple teams,

Justin Rose

When I first turned pro, I didn't really have any conception of how long it would take me,

Helen Vendler

I think that a lot of things are hard to read if you're not in the vocabulary flow of that particular discourse. I sometimes forget that even though the words I'm using are fairly ordinary words, the concepts around which they cluster, which are the long concepts of literary tradition, may not be familiar to an audience.

We need to have tax relief for those who really need tax relief. The concept of tax cuts is fine, but we want it targeted.

Mark Zuckerberg

We talk about this concept of openness and transparency as the high-level ideal that we're moving towards at Facebook. The way that we get there is by empowering people to share and connect. The combination of those two things leads the world to become more open.

Patricia Marx

Males have probably always enjoyed watching the defeat of other males, but without the invention of numerals and the subsequent invention of the concept of keeping score, we could never have had a million sports channels.

Spike Jonze

As creatives, it's a hard thing to push, to make something you're truly excited about, especially if you've written 100 different concepts and they keep getting shot down.

We're not at the drafting stage. I think we're moving toward the conceptual stage of what we need to do,

Usually when you're doing concepts for a character, you just try a couple different things to see what sticks.

Roy Moore

The First Amendment to the Constitution reflects that concept recognized in the Ten Commandments, that the duties we owe to God and the manner of discharging those duties are outside the purview of government.

I've been one of the image-makers who created this concept of perfection. I've done a thousand magazine covers where I'm celebrating Hollywood, glamorous people. Which is all good. It's all entertainment.

Phil Jackson

We couldn't overcome a tough shooting game for Kobe. They threw an extra man at him, and we didn't make good adjustments. Offensively, I don't think we grasped the concepts of what we are trying to do here.

Clayton Christensen

Most marketers think there's a concept called a product life cycle. Once you realize that the world is organized by jobs that need to be done, you understand that product life cycles don't exist.

James Geary

Metaphor creates a kind of conceptual synesthesia, in which we understand one concept in the context of another.

That would undermine the whole concept of fiscal discipline.