Famous Quotes & Sayings

The plunge yesterday was driven by panic selling, the rebound today is a strong signal for buying.

Michael Leunig

The hypocrisy of some is that we like to think of ourselves as sophisticated and evolved, but we're still also driven by primal urges like greed and power.

We know we'll have to be patient as the younger players get comfortable with this level of hockey, but this is also a pretty driven group, ... This group can do a lot of good things.

There are two meanings to the word dodo. The first one is a stupid person. The other is a species that was driven to extinction.

Laura Innes

We try to be driven by what's a good story, what's truthful, and the drama of what happens next.

Kate Klise

I'm still driven by the feeling I had when I wrote my first book or read a Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle adventure.

J. C. Watts

I'm not driven to get back into politics. It's not on my top five things to do before I die, but saying that, I may be in politics in the next year or the next ten years. I've been on the front line for 12 years, four in state government, eight on the national level.

Eric McCormack

But I was ready for it and I knew I could do it. I've just turned 40, I have a son and I feel more settled and driven than ever. I think my 40s will be my most prolific time. It's a very rare life you get to lead as a sitcom guy.

We're a driven team. We know what we want and what we need to get it.

Senior retail management is increasingly hard to find right now, ... A lot of the top executives have been around for a long time and they're still working on the premise that sales are driven by value for price and assortment.

Mel Martinez

Senator Martinez is not driven by polls; he is driven by the needs of the state of Florida and its 17 million constituents.

It's nice to be able to look at one protein, but life is driven by the interactions between proteins, so it's really essential to be able to see multiple proteins at a time to understand these interactions.

Fiscal decentralisation does not lead to higher economic growth because economic growth is much more driven by factors other than taxes and spending, e.g. increases in technological progress and improved human capital.

Tallulah Bankhead

My heart is as pure as the driven slush

Nadine Velazquez

I've never been driven to just be a celebrity or just get me on TV. Never ever. What's always driven me is being successful and being good at what I do.

Dwayne Johnson

With action films, it's great if it's not just driven by action, but by a good story and interesting characters, as well. Though, there's nothin' like kicking butt!

Craig Venter

One of the fundamental discoveries I made about myself - early enough to make use of it - was that I am driven to seize life and to understand it. The motor that pushes me is propelled by more than scientific curiosity.

Sarah Parish

I hope I'm very similar to my mum because she is a fantastic mother. She was driven as well as being incredibly protective and caring, and I think that is important.

Tim Curry

I think artists are driven by the engine of their own talent, but it's a question of what use they put it to.

Retail sales growth is mainly driven by higher volumes, and the pricing power of retailers remains quite limited because of competition.

One of the problems with modern journalism is that it is not driven by news so much as it is by story elements.

Newness drives sales. Today there is more newness in the market than in the last five years. There is a faster turn in trends driven by the industry.

Obviously as time goes on you need to expand the search area, in terms of information. Somebody could have driven through this area, not knowing Jennifer was missing a week ago. They could be in Kissimmee. They could be in Tampa. So, we're going to reach out as far as we can go.

Obviously, a Pontiac Firebird is generally going to be driven in a much different way than a Honda minivan,

Fuel prices are up, and to a large extent we're being driven by fuel prices.

Cynthia Ozick

If an essay has a 'motive,' it is linked more to happenstance and opportunity than to the driven will. A genuine essay is not a doctrinaire tract or a propaganda effort or a broadside.

Abraham Lincoln

I have been driven to my knees many times because there was no place else to go.

John Malkovich

I have driven school buses, sold egg rolls and painted houses, and I have often wondered what my life would have been like if I hadn't gone into acting. Mind you, it's a great life, going around pretending you're other people and getting paid ridiculous sums of money for it.

I am driven to move quickly because I think there could be a lot of interest in Jim Leyland.

I am driven by a fear of mediocrity and a sense of purpose.

For decades, my research was driven by outstanding problems in macroeconomics: mainly growth theory and employment theory.

Conor Oberst

I try to make all my songs good. I don't ever write one to finish one. A lot of protest songs end up that way, driven by some kind of emotional response.

Conor Oberst

So much of listening to lyrically driven music is projecting your own feelings and experiences into the music.