Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mignon McLaughlin

We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.

Johnny Marr

Now chart music is a genre all of its own and it's slipped away from what I understand pop music as. It's pretty difficult to take; it clogs up the airwaves.

The guy was a certifiable genius. Not quite. He was a genius.

The health system in general has largely ignored paying for weight-loss interventions up to this point. This is going to help them reconsider that.

The HFEA is genuinely interested to see public opinion and we don't know what the results of the consultation will be.

The greatest risk is if the situation at Delphi doesn't work itself out. An organized or wildcat strike would have a great impact on General Motors and make those potholes out there much wider and deeper.

Mark Pellegrino

The great thing I like about the sci-fi genre is there's a lot of different latitude for a lot of different kinds of behavior. You can be a very larger-than-life villain, or a very naturalistic villain, and all of it seems to fit.

Azim Premji

The dividend payouts will be more generous than in the past two years and will be broadly in line with what we told investors in the last quarter,

Robert Burns

Ah, gentle dames! It gars me greet / To think how mony counsels sweet, / How mony lengthen'd sage advices, / The husband frae the wife despises!

a great gentleman, a real Southern gentleman and throughout our dealings with him he was always gracious and kind, and I think in these later years he wanted to end on a high moral note and end by telling the truth ... so we miss him.

Ramon Magsaysay

a genuine model of solid honesty and integrity in government.

Fred Allen

A gentleman never strikes a lady with his hat on

A general meeting will be scheduled as soon as possible.

Mark Shapiro

A general manager is never happy, ... But I do feel that, from a big-picture view, we are on course.

You want to be using the off-season to generate momentum. And nothing has happened, from the stadium issue on down, to give much acceleration to that momentum. For every step forward, it seems like they've taken two steps backward.

Bill Clinton

And so I share an interest in public service. He likes sports. I like sports. He likes people. And I think he's a genuinely good man.

All those writers who write about their childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with me.

The key here is Ferrer is running for an office that no longer exists, ... Prince of the City: Giuliani, New York, and the Genius of American Life.

The ultimate beneficiary of the pig genome project is really not the pork producer, it's the consumer.

These guys are a lot more accessible, a lot more enjoyable. The players genuinely like each other, and that shows.

These genes are for risk, not for destiny,

Brian Cashman

This is my ninth year as general manager and, when you find players who can perform on the big stage in New York, it makes it that much more important to retain those players.

Hemant Mehta

This is money going on I, me, myself. A generation ago, there's no way that the Indian male would have been spending this sort of money on his looks.

This is a great opportunity to train the next generation of IT (information technology) professionals. They are the first line of defense.

This idea could potentially become a tax law for the years 2005 and 2006. It still has a long way to go but it is generating speed and encouragement,

Dale Jarrett

This has generally been a one-lane race track, and it remains to be seen what we're going to be able to do when we get back here, ... But we should have more racing room and better competition.

Cindy Sheehan

A kind gentleman from down the road offered us the use of his property.

Barack Obama

a judicial philosophy that ignores the possibilities of racial discrimination or gender discrimination, a political philosophy that typically errs on the side of the powerful.

Missy Elliot

I didn't want to be a genius! That ain't cool.

Philip Sidney

Some are unwisely liberal, and more delight to give presents than to pay debts.

Petra Kelly

We, the generation that faces the next century, can add the solemn injunction ''If we don't do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.

Pharrell Williams

Alber Elbaz is just a genius. He'll be in a dinner jacket and he doesn't care what time of day it is: I love that about him. He just marches to the beat of his own drum.

Peter Drucker

A business enterprise must continue beyond the lifetime of the individual or of the generation to be capable of producing its contributions to economy and to society.