Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joan Rivers

I was not a pretty child. I developed humor to be accepted.

The 1920s and 1930s were a period of sensational productivity growth: new products were springing up all over the place, and most of those new products and new methods were developed by people who started their own companies.

I was a young man, just like Jerry. We were very patriotic and developed a bond, a brotherhood, that is strong and never goes away.

Noam Chomsky

Historical grammar is a study of how, say, modern English developed from Middle English, and how that developed from Early and Old English, and how that developed from Germanic, and that developed from what's called Proto-Indo-European, a source system that nobody speaks, so you have to try to reconstruct it.

Unfortunately, the infrastructure of Russia's securities market has developed in a speculative way.

Tom Allen

We feel he really developed in the offseason. He worked very, very hard.

We are very happy Hong Kong Disneyland is meeting with the various travel trade groups and seeking our counsel. We support the six-month flexible ticket option because it was developed in response to feedback from wholesalers, retailers and guests. And we know Hong Kong Disneyland is looking at options to be better able to meet high guest demand.

Nandan Nilekani

We have developed systems for hiring, training and retaining employees like an elaborate science.

We have developed a 100-day integration plan that is being launched today. We are targeting a tighter timeframe on the key and essential items.

Brian Eno

I like the idea of a kind of eternal music, but I didn't want it to be eternally repetitive, either. I wanted it to be eternally changing. So I developed two ideas in that way. 'Discreet Music' was like that, and 'Music for Airports.' What you hear on the recordings is a little part of one of those processes working itself out.

John Knowles

An abscess on his leg developed and he was in so much pain.

Serena has developed inflammation and swelling of her left knee joint over the past two days.

He spends 23 hours out of 24 in solitary confinement. Before he had 18 months, 24 hours every day, in solitary, and that's where he developed eye problems and got depressed.

Fernando Alonso

And then from 2003 to now I developed myself, my driving style, and I grew up with the team to be in this position.

And the fourth model we've developed is one which you would work to incorporate several of the existing networks which already meet the speed requirements.

Edmund Husserl

A new fundamental science, pure phenomenology, has developed within philosophy: This is a science of a thoroughly new type and endless scope.

Osteoporosis, with its resultant complications, will soon represent a major public health problem for the developing, as well as the developed world.

Robert Crumb

People still make me nervous, but gradually over the years I've developed kind of like a public personality, so I can talk. I have my spiel, I have my stories.

A disproportionate number of innovations are developed by entrepreneurs, as opposed to big firms.

Sometimes all I have to do is get them started and I can sit back and watch. Some have really developed into very good dancers, so I like to think I am doing something right.

Roses are my favorite flower. I developed a passion for them. And in my own garden, I didn't want to be fussing with just roses. I enjoyed other plants as well,

Tarence Kinsey

Right now we've developed some kind of toughness that we don't want to lose.

Compounds are a lot more specialized than they were before. Now, they?re more fully robust and more developed for specific applications. There?s less emphasis on generic grades.

David Gower

The way the tour has developed has been as good an example of that as you would like to see.

This has always been zoned for high rise development and could be developed as either residential or office space under the zoning.

They have developed a real expertise for synchronous Internet applications linked to TV content.

Paul Holmgren

This is his third season with us and we feel that he has developed real nicely. We think that he is a big part of the future of our hockey team.

They far exceeded our expectations. They developed much greater than we expected.

Generally, markets are mildly up. But this hides the growing nervousness or uncertainties that really have developed in the second quarter.

Brent developed into that role as the season progressed. He did a super job finding the open man out there. Overall I thought we progressed as a team and played to our strengths and that's probably why we finished third in the conference.

Bill Taylor

Brittany has excellent control. She works year-round with her pitching and has developed a lot of different pitches: fastball, curve, change, drop and rise.

Joel Kinnaman

Sometimes if you start a relationship when you're young, you're not as fully developed as a person. You need a relationship that lets you develop in different ways. You need to bounce off different people.

Once we developed their confidence, their trust (and) their respect, they were more willing to talk to us.