Famous Quotes & Sayings

The reason they went with Buckley was that now that they're a lean mean machine, it's time to start growing that top line and generating some returns.

George Brett

Every time I sit with our general manager at a baseball game, and there's number-cruncher and statistician guy - I'm sitting around - they start talking about stuff, and I say, 'What's that? I've never heard of that one before.'

Alex Lifeson

I don't know how many times I heard older people, and not just parents but just older people, say, 'Oh, my God. Your generation is just totally nuts. You have no sense of what it was really like, when it was great.' And every generation has that same feeling, you know?

Alex Lifeson

Hendrix was a natural genius who played many beautiful styles. Talent as great as his doesn't come through life very frequently. Hendrix was one in a billion.

Alex Lifeson

It's a wonderful thing to be able to see your music going from generation to generation.

Aristotle

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

Anthony Horowitz

As a children's author, reviewers are generally very nice to you. I only ever wrote one adult book and received such a kicking for it that I was in trauma for the next six months.

Ariel Pink

I never thought of myself as capable of stirring up - generating - the actual drumroll for a record, you know, all the press.

When you have a generic policy that says 'all,' it's the same as having no policy at all. We should be moved to action, but also disciplined so that what we do is good, not just feel-good.

Gloria Estefan

My job as an entertainer is to take you some place else. I love exploring different genres of music to please my fans.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

The world is moving so fast these days that the one who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Carrie Preston

I tend to play every color in the Southern rainbow, and the challenge is to make each character different so I'm not doing any generic 'Southern acting.'

With every generation of collections stuff gets slimmer and slimmer and slimmer.

Robert Lanza

We need to be honest with ourselves that a human embryo is a human embryo whether or not Cdx2 or any other gene is knocked out.

When the general market gets a cold, the IPO market gets pneumonia. It's that kind of relationship.

When the general manager comes in, you know what's next. Something's going on. When he walks in and you don't see the head coach, you know something's wrong.

Richard Lloyd

We welcome the growing range of certified coffees offered by the big roasters but we want to see a general contribution to long-term sustainability, not a token nod.

Kara Swisher

While some debate its helpfulness at generating monetizable traffic, when Digg points to a story, huge audience spikes quickly follow.

With 1.3 million associates, we are no different than the trends we see in the general population.

William Williams

Who shall say I am notthe happy genius of my household?

William Williams

Who shall say I am not the happy genius of my household?

We are working with leading genetic scientists day by day. People may try and use that method but we will be ready for them with a test.

We can take these genes and sequence them,

We have goals for (opposing team) rebounds and they doubled it and some on what our goal is. We slacked off that, but Geneva did a good job of getting in there for those rebounds.

We wanted to put together something that would be used by the general public, but would be used by IDOT personnel or other transportation personnel, as well.

Patrick McHenry

We've had a large undermining of our traditional values in this country. And I think that was a repercussion of the hippies in the '60s and their 'anything goes' attitude. Our generation has a realistic approach. We're not sort of pie-in-the-sky people.

Celso Amorim

We all have a general idea of the numbers, but when we reach this point, it is important to have a precise idea of the numbers.

Women can't see a man's genetic make up. So, they come to prefer good genes on the outside.

Wolf populations can generally take a 30 percent mortality rate and stay stable. If this is one year, there's nothing to worry about. If it comes to successive years, we could have a problem.

We're taking a lot of the people out of the market permanently. We're losing a whole generation of investors.

To see things in the seed is genius.

Up to now we've had the luxury of being able to stow away a lots of resources in terms of money for use in the general election. Now we'll start ramping up.

The rabbi is often the regular preacher in the synagogue, the man whose sermons offer his community more general theological and moral guidance.