Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Tallulah Bankhead

My heart is as pure as the driven slush

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.

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.

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!

I think we're going from a market that's driven by momentum and driven by a flow of funds to a stock picker's market. That's going to provide very good opportunities for those that are focused on given areas.

When you don't have the laws or the facts you try to try credibility and that's what I think has driven them to this strategy,

David Souter

Legislatures not driven to desperation by the problems of public education may be able to see the threat in vouchers negotiable in sectarian schools.

We are driven by images, ... and the Tiananmen images are the most powerful images we've had for years.

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.

There are guys that have been at it for 30 or 40 years, driven more than 4 million miles and never had an accident. You think about how far that is and it's astounding.

David Johnston

This result, driven by volume and price, hit the money in terms of forecasts for a first profit figure around A$1 billion.

We come today to honor a man who honored us with his service and his sacrifice, ... He was driven by an unbridled passion to help others.

Fred Couples

We got in the first fairway -- he'd driven it down the middle, I was in the right side in the rough, just past him -- and it started to rain, then it started to pour,

Harry Reid

The president, I guess, is still being driven by Karl Rove,

We outperformed everyone's wildest imagination on the revenue side, ... We've gone from $60 million in revenue in the last year at Candlestick (the old park) to about $160 million a year in three sold-out years here. The new park has really driven the revenue.

We like the program but think gross margin driven upside will be hard to sustain.

Andrea Mitchell

You know, he's not going to have a car. He hasn't driven for 18 years.

Most of the heavy truck industry realizes when the roads should not be driven on. But this is an unusual thaw this early in the year.

Christopher Masterson

Mostly I've been inspired by my mother. She is extremely driven and always makes every endeavour sound exciting. I think most of the things I've accomplished are a result of knowing her.

We have people driving today like they've never driven before. We've got to stress enforcement, and the only way to stress enforcement is to fund it.

Barry Eisler

Action fiction is driven more by what than by who. Put that ticking nuclear suitcase under Manhattan, and it's relatively easy to create suspense. Literary fiction is driven more by who than by what.