Famous Quotes & Sayings

If we get rain, things could really perk up and look good.

If we do the right things from a policy perspective, the results will speak for themselves.

If we repaired every I/I in our system, 40 percent of the water would still be getting in there.

Monica Keena

I got off not bad, actually. because I went to LaGuardia HS of Performing Arts, which is really well-known. and there were often talent scouts there.

Greg Lynn

A very big percentage of small-scale construction is plastic. But it's some horrible beige plastic made to look like wood.

We're trying to keep everything in perspective. We're just going to try to be prepared for everything and try to outwork them. The thing about the playoffs, though, is that you never know what teams are going to do.

John Henry Newman

Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.

Marianne Williamson

I didn't realize that running as an independent would be perceived as a threat to the Democrats.

Bob Greene

The meat-and-potatoes work of world journalism is performed by the wire service reporters.

I'm from the Bronx, so I am looking forward to performing before my homies. I'll keep it live in the house.

Antibiotics are so pervasive that they are often prescribed preemptively, as soon as patients report symptoms, before a diagnosis is made.

Billy Collins

My persona is less miserable than a lot of contemporary poetry speakers are.

For some artists the live performance is the chicken before the egg of writing or recording of repertoire. For other artists the writing or recording of repertoire is the chicken before the egg of live performance.

Claude M. Bristol

Do not trust to the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged.

Hulk Hogan

I've never been in a Sweat Lodge. I, myself, personally don't even like sitting in a sauna, so I've never been to a spiritual retreat so I don't understand the whole process.

Francois Hougaard

I think rugby is 80 per cent mental.

Meryl Streep

How you first meet the public is how the industry sees you. You can't argue with them. That's their perception.

Meryl Streep

All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying.

Dogen

When both body and mind are at peace, all things appear as they are: perfect, complete, lacking nothing.

The quickest way to provide permanent protection is through the development of state-specific rules, not by resuscitating the 2001 rule,

Bayard Taylor

My duty is that of a chronicler; and if I perform that conscientiously, the lessons which my observations suggest will need no pointing out.

Andrea Hirata

It turns out that popularity is scary. I don't feel comfortable receiving so much attention from people; perhaps that's because I'm just a kampong boy.

William Blake

If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.

There is plenty of water on the planet, but every year its per capita availability diminishes.

Aaliyah

I'm a total performer.

Adriane Lenox

I have been a performer for as long as I can remember. I performed in Sunday school and church plays.

Action Bronson

I'm a piece of work, man. I will do what I want, at all times, always. Nobody's going to persuade me one way or another. I can't be persuaded. I take criticism, I listen, I analyze, but at the end of the day, I make the decisions. Because that's the way I started, and that's the way I'm going to finish.

We sell 60 percent off the rack and 40 percent special orders.

Robert Allenby

We see them. I'd say 70 percent of the things we sign end up in someone's back pocket, but if you don't sign they'll have a go at you.

We're targeting up to 50 percent for the rest of the year.

Antony Beevor

I'm often reassured in a bizarre - perhaps perverse - way when I find in the archive stuff that contradicts what my assumptions have been. That's interesting and exciting.

Adam Jones

I personally don't like to use as many effects because when you play live, something always goes wrong.

Al Roker

I just started running as part of a nutrition program, to just get a little cardio in, but I was not a runner per se before that. I started about March 1 of 2010.