Famous Quotes & Sayings

Graeme Smith

This is massive for him. Life's all about opportunities and he's had a really tough year being up and down but through performances he's worked his way back into the squad.

Brad Faxon

This is like winning a major off the course,

Juan Fernandez

This is like moving two elephants. No matter how well you move it, there's still tons of weight.

This has been so very massive and different from any other we've had.

This has come as no surprise, as management has been warning institutional shareholders for some time.

This is a jab, it's not a haymaker, ... What we see here in March is probably the end of it.

Bobby Jones

All I know is, if we win out and UCLA loses, we all end up tied for first. No matter what, we've still got to win our two games.

All he had to do in 2002 was say 'We're going to do something,' and everyone was going to cheer. It really didn't matter much what it was.

All I am saying is that the availability of fissile material has been curtailed.

A kind word warms a man throughout three winters.

Elle Macpherson

I'm almost 50, so I obviously don't have the same body that I had when I was 20. But I also don't have the same mindset either, when I was wracked with self-consciousness and insecurity. Now I really appreciate my maturity as a woman, my depth of spirit and soul and my understanding of who I am and what's important to me.

Eric Hoffer

There is a radicalism in all getting, and a conservatism in all keeping. Lovemaking is radical, while marriage is conservative.

Eric Hoffer

Passionate intensity may serve as a substitute for confidence.

Paulo Freire

One of the methods of manipulation is to inoculate individuals with the bourgeois appetite for personal success.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Being unemployed is not good for an actor. No, it isn't, no matter how unsuccessful you are. Because you always remember getting fired from all the restaurants. You remember that stuff very, very strongly.

Philip Sidney

Anger, the Stoics said, was a short madness.

Philip Sidney

The many-headed multitude, whom inconstancy only doth by accident guide to well-doing! Who can set confidence there, where company takes away shame, and each may lay the fault upon his fellow?

Philip Sidney

Happiness is a sunbeam, which may pass though a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray.

Philip Roth

I am marked like a road map from head to toe with my repressions. You can travel the length and breadth of my body over superhighways of shame and inhibition and fear.

Philip Roth

Nothing bad can happen to a writer. Everything is material.

Philip Guston

Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.

Petter Stordalen

It doesn't matter how rich you are - you know when you're being ripped off.

Peter De Vries

... it is a fact universally acknowledged that a husband is the most ridiculous thing on earth, except for a bachelor.

Peter De Vries

I suppose I shall marry eventually One does that, one drifts into stability

Peter De Vries

Human nature is pretty shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection.

Peter Drucker

Organizationally what is required - and evolving - is systems management.

Peter Drucker

A success that has outlived its usefulness may, in the end, be more damaging than failure.

Peter Drucker

Without institution there is no management. But without management there is no institution.

Peter Drucker

You can't manage what you don't measure.

Peter Drucker

What's measured improves

Peter Drucker

Objectives can be compared to a compass bearing by which a ship navigates. A compass bearing is firm, but in actual navigation, a ship may veer off its course for many miles. Without a compass bearing, a ship would neither find its port nor be able to estimate the time required to get there.

Peter Drucker

Management is not being brilliant. Management is being conscientious.

Peter Drucker

The aim of marketing is to make selling superfluous.