Famous Quotes & Sayings

The first six years of a child's life, it is like a tape recorder is on. Everything it sees, smells, touches, experiences in any way, whatever it hears, is being downloaded into the brain before the consciousness of the child is even made apparent.

Billie Joe Armstrong

Formats are constantly changing, and there are really no rules for the way you put your records out anymore.

Annette Bening

There are so many different kinds of relationships, so it's sort of difficult to define what is considered normal.

Anne Sweeney

I think we all realize the consumer has taken control, and they're not giving it back. So as every new technology comes forward, we have to figure out how to integrate it.

Anne Sweeney

'Dancing with the Stars' is a great format for us. It's a format we license from the BBC, so that can't travel for us, but we consider it a great success. 'Desperate Housewives,' on the other hand, a huge success for us internationally. 'Missing' has actually sold to 80 territories before it's even gone on the air.

Robert Southey

There are three things that ought to be considered before some things are spoken: the manner, the place, and the time

There is indeed a legend of a yeti, or abominable snowman, that is considered the protector of the Himalayas.

There is a very strong consensus that gold will continue its trend higher this year and that, in itself, is a warning sign.

Eric McCormack

There is a tremendous consistency to our show," ()

Milos Zeman

There is a term called political correctness, and I consider it to be a euphemism for political cowardice.

Wal-Mart is a litmus test for the economy with respect to consumer spending. One thing I'll be interested in hearing about is the sales outlook, and especially whether or not deflation is a concern.

Kabir Bedi

I'm constantly complimented for my voice, even by random people at the airport!

There are many types of economic data, but the type considered by Rob Engle and myself is know as time series.

Werner Herzog

Life on our planet has been a constant series of cataclysmic events, and we are more suitable for extinction than a trilobite or a reptile. So we will vanish. There's no doubt in my heart.

Walther Bothe

During this time I had the singular good fortune of being able to discuss the problem constantly with Einstein. Some experiments done at Einstein's suggestion yielded no decisively new result.

Dennis C. Blair

The use of large-scale military force in volatile regions of underdeveloped countries is difficult to do right, has major unintended consequences and rarely turns out to be quick, effective, controlled and short lived.

Poets, for example, are generally considered starry-eyed and sensitive, but only by those who have never encountered one.

Bill O'Reilly

I consider myself a law-abiding person. But I'm exhausted. I don't know where to put the bottles, newspapers, cans, and other stuff for garbage pickup outside my house. The rules are so thick you need someone from M.I.T. to explain them.

Barbara Boxer

We know no document is perfect, but when we amend the Constitution, it would be to expand rights, not to take away rights from decent, loyal Americans. This great Constitution of ours should never be used to make a group of Americans permanent second-class citizens.

Lloyd Banks

Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

Louie Gohmert

There are consequences if you stand up for what you believe. Heck, you might - you might lose your sponsors if you're a talk show host; or if you're running for office, you know, people not give to you or people might not vote for you.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

We do not evaluate the result but the starting point of the creative process. Precisely, this shows whether the form was discovered by starting from life, or for its own sake. That is why I consider the creative process so essential. Life for us is the decisive factor.

Guy Gavriel Kay

Significant consequences can begin very inconsequentially. That's one thing that fascinates me. The other thing that fascinates me is how accident can undermine something that's unfolding, something that might have played out differently otherwise.

Guy Gavriel Kay

I say 'as it were' or 'so to speak' too often because puns and double entendres keep insinuating themselves into my consciousness as I'm talking.

Barbara Walters

If the interview was done in the studio, Frank McGee would automatically do it. But if I went out and got it, then the interview was mine. So I was considered a pushy cookie, because I would get the interview.

The question is not whether the consumer is slowing. From the Fed's perspective, it's whether the consumer is slowing down fast enough to keep inflation in check,

David Byrne

The proposals are essential for the enhancement of consumer confidence,

Those were three lousy numbers from an economic perspective. There is the intimation of a slowdown led by the housing market and if the consumer rolls over, then we have a problem.

Those options for consumers are superior to what we have.

Tim was very solid all night. The neat thing about it was he was very consistent all game. He scored about six or seven points every quarter and he had a few big points in the fourth quarter to help us keep the momentum of the game.

This stronger consumer sentiment may yet translate into solid core consumer spending for the holiday season.

Kamala Harris

To be smart on crime, we should not be in a position of constantly reacting to crime after it happens. We should be looking at preventing crime before it happens.

Mike Yaconelli

I'm unfinished. I'm unfixed. And the reality is that's where God meets me is in the mess of my life, in the unfixedness, in the brokenness. I thought he did the opposite, he got rid of all that stuff. But if you read the Bible, if you look at it at all, constantly he was showing up in people's lives at the worst possible time of their life.