Famous Quotes & Sayings

Janis Karpinski

Look how they've tormented me, what they've taken away from me,

Jennifer Ehle

I wish I'd not taken off all my clothes in my first television series, 'The Camomile Lawn.'

Bob Etheridge

It is disappointing it has taken this long,

Mike Knuble

I'm speechless. I don't know, it's weird right now. I think we were all taken aback.

George Best

It has been a long week but things have taken a turn for the best. I am very optimistic.

Bjorn Lomborg

I think Al Gore has done a great service in making global warming cool. He's basically taken it from a nerdy, almost ignored issue to making it what it is - namely, a problem.

Bill Goldberg

The cutthroat part of it is that professional wrestling has no union. There are a number of people that are taken advantage of on a daily basis.

Bill Gates

I'm certainly well taken care of in terms of food and clothes ... Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point. Its utility is entirely in building an organization and getting the resources out to the poorest in the world.

Betty Friedan

The media and even, to some degree, leaders of women's organizations don't understand that the women's movement is an absolute part of society now. It is in the consciousness, it is taken for granted. It is part of the way women look at themselves, and women are looked at.

Bill Gates

If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today.

Bill Gates

Security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit; your machine can be taken over totally.

Bill Gates

I'm certainly well taken care of in terms of food and clothes.

Bill Gates

Sometimes we do get taken by surprise. For example, when the Internet came along, we had it as a fifth or sixth priority. It wasn't like somebody told me about it and I said, "I don't know how to spell that." I said, "Yeah, I've got that on my list, so I'm okay." But there came a point when we realized it was happening faster and was a much deeper phenomenon than had been recognized in our strategy.

Bo Ryan

Four turnovers. Two assists. I told him he'd have the game ball if he had taken care of the ball a little bit better.

Chelsea Handler

I wanted to be a comedian, I wanted people to laugh at what I was saying, not to be staring at my boobs or wearing a skirt and show off my ... I just didn't think that that was the best way to get taken seriously in that world.

Chelsea Handler

Boy George has been charged with falsely imprisoning a man who'd gone to his apartment to pose for photographs. Going to Boy George's house to get your picture taken is like going to David Copperfield's island for a radio opportunity.

Charlie Simpson

I've taken my destiny into my own hands and I'm in a happy place.

Charlie Watts

Rock and roll has probably given more than it's taken.

Carl Jung

I saw that everything, all paths I had been following, all steps I had taken, were leading back to a single point - namely, to the mid-point. It became increasingly plain to me that the mandala is the center. It is the exponent of all paths. It is the path to the center, to individuation. I knew that in finding the mandala as an expression of the self I had attained what was for me the ultimate.

Carl Jung

Science is not ... a perfect instrument, but it is a superb and invaluable tool that works harm only when taken as an end in itself.

Carl Jung

For, in order to turn the individual into a function of the State, his dependence on anything beside the State must be taken from him.

Carl Jung

My evenings are taken up very largely with astrology. I make horoscopic calculations in order to find a clue to the core of psychological truth.

Carl Jung

In fact, the whole of mythology could be taken as a sort of projection of the collective unconscious

Bo Jackson

I've taken up golf in the past five or six years, and most of the time there aren't too many people out there that can drive a ball further than I can.

Billy Sunday

I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names.

Ludwig von Mises

To the masses, the catchwords of Socialism sound so enticing... so they will continue to work for Socialism, helping thereby to bring about the inevitable decline of the civilization which the nations of the West have taken thousands of years to build up.

Ludwig von Mises

The luxury of today is the necessity of tomorrow. Every advance first comes into being as the luxury of a few rich people, only to become, after a time, an indispensable necessity taken for granted by everyone. Luxury consumption provides industry with the stimulus to discover and introduce new, things. It is one of the dynamic factors in our economy. To it we owe the progressive innovations by which the standard of living of all strata of the population has been gradually raised.

Petrarch

I have taken pride in others, never in myself.

David Palmer

We're well versed in what collaboration takes. It has not been part of this process. Collaboration is what it would have taken to make this work.

Ralph Waite

I was never taken to a play or concert or church. Yet I was a show-off, a dreamer, a storyteller.

Soledad O'Brien

I've never taken fashion too seriously. I try to enjoy it.

Jimmy Carter

My paintings have gotten to be pretty popular and I've taken a little bit more interest in painting the last few years. In fact, my novel that I wrote not too long ago, 'The Hornet's Nest,' I painted the cover picture for it and I do a good bit of painting now.

John C. Maxwell

Creative leaders inherently know when rules need to be challenged, and they can see when a more flexible approach should be taken.