Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ronald Reagan

If politics were a musical, it would be "Promises, Promises".

Saint Augustine

Keep on adding, keep on walking, keep on progressing: do not delay on the road, do not go back, do not deviate.

Xaviera Hollander

When the stocks go up, the cocks go up!

Xaviera Hollander

You can call me mercenary, or call me madam, but, as I always tell my customers - just call me anytime!

Winston Churchill

[The Balkans] produce more history than they can consume.

Will Self

Drug use and procrastination often go hand in tourniquet.

Will Self

Whenever I produce my best work, it's always because I've spent time being idle. Something always emerges after nothing.

Will Rogers

Politics pretty quiet over the week-end. Democrats are attacking and the Republicans are defending. All the Democrats have to do is promise "what they would do if they got in." But the Republicans have to promise "what they would do" and then explain why they haven't already "done it".

Zong Qinghou

The U.S. and European markets have become mature, profit margins are lower, and equipment isnt so new. Because profits are relatively low, it limits the willingness of companies to invest in newer equipment.

Zosia Mamet

For me, it's owning the fact that I have a sensitive disposition along with a rampant imagination that makes up stories and convinces me they're true. I feel things intensely, and that sometimes brings me on wave of profound sorrow.

Zachary Quinto

I want to be working with directors who are at the top of their game. I want to be raising the bar for myself, and to me, the best way to do that is to prove to them that I'm the best for this job.

Yvon Chouinard

Profit is what happens when you do everything else right.

Zach Braff

I procrastinate so much and I get distracted by anything.

Ze Frank

A good procrastination should feel like you're inserting lots and lots of commas into the sentence of your life.

Yoweri Museveni

Africa is wealthy in natural resources; the problem is they are not optimally utilized.

Zig Ziglar

If you wait until all the lights are 'green' before you leave home, you'll never get started on your trip to the top.

Zhuangzi

Sound intelligence promises victory in every battle.

William H. Seward

The whole hope of human progress is suspended on the ever-growing influence of the Bible.

William Hague

Gordon Brown promised to abolish boom and bust. He has kept half his promise.

Wendell Phillips

Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.

Walter Mosley

Many writers-in-waiting spend a lot of time avoiding the work at hand. The most common way to avoid writing is by procrastination. This is the writer's greatest enemy. There is little to say about it except that once you decide to write every day, you must make yourself sit at the desk or table for the required period whether or not you are putting down words. Make yourself take the time even if the hours seem fruitless. Ideally, after a few days or weeks of being chained to the desk, you will submit to the story that must be told.

Yoko Ono

Japanese are very proud and workaholics. Proud workaholics.

Yancy Butler

Whether it goes to series or stands by itself, I'm proud of what we did with it, not only from the standpoint of what it could have been, but for itself.

Wyclef Jean

I'm cheap, and I'm proud of it!

Wynton Marsalis

Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress.

William Peter Blatty

Procrastination is what we often call 'resistance.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.

Zig Ziglar

Never make a promise without a plan.

Zig Ziglar

The problem is not getting rid of fear, but using it properly.

Zig Ziglar

When you make a promise, keep it.