Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sebastian Faulks

As far as 'Birdsong' is concerned, I think the television program made a very honorable attempt at it, but the truth of the matter is that adaptations of long, ambitious books very seldom transfer well to the screen, and why would they?

Eric Yu

As one of the world's most ambitious IPv6 projects, all of China's major service providers and communications networks are participating in the CNGI project.

Meg Casper

People think it's a little ambitious but we feel we need to be prepared for the maximum and not get caught unprepared. We have committed to do this.

Aaron Greenberg

Our ambitious goal here is to build Xbox Live into an online entertainment network. The announcement of our deal with Epic Records is a big step in that direction.

Heather Hedrick

Commuter rail is a very ambitious endeavor. That is all the more reason we would want the Legislature to be involved in the process.

Gary Loveman

The three partners in this ambitious venture share a determination to see that international guests are pleasantly overwhelmed by their experience at Baha Mar.

John Hurt

I've never been pushy. People have said I should have been, more, but I'm not sure. I've watched hugely ambitious people: the minute they've got a success, they know where it's going, they know how to deal with it, and it all happens for them. Great. But that's not the way I - well, I don't like to use the word 'operate'.

Mike Birbiglia

I've become good friends with Lena Dunham, and the thing I had in common with Lena when I was 24 is I was as ambitious as she was. What we don't have in common is that I was not as talented. My voice was not as clearly defined.

Princeton Review

Some tell us that Hawaii is half and half, half 'study nonstop' and half 'don't know what studying means.' Others, however, feel that 'while there's a handful of students who have ambitious career objectives are focused on studying, the typical student is focused mainly on the beach or going to the clubs.'

Michael Specter

Any group that intends to sell laboratory meat will need to build bioreactors - factories that can grow cells under pristine conditions. Bioreactors aren't new; beer and yeast are made using similar methods.

Jess Blackburn

As far as their marketing goes, that's marketing. We continue to have a very solid relationship with Intel and nothing has changed in that respect. We probably are their largest customer; we shipped 10 million systems in the fourth quarter. I don't think any supplier is going to ignore a customer that is building that many systems and using that many of their parts in them.

Jim Norris

As early as next spring we will be building two fields. One will be a championship stadium field. It will be lit and seat 2,000.

Scott Adams

As a rule, anything in a binder has very little value, except as building material.

Todd Heap

As a whole offense, we saw what we're capable of. Now, we just need to go and build off that.

Rob Kurz

As a big guy, that's your goal every game, to try to get a double-double. Hopefully, I can build on that.

Howard Moore

As a freshman, he should be proud of that and build on that.

Tim Evans

The bulls are trying to put up a fight here, trying to make a case that the build in stocks and the drop in price over the past month haven't really hurt all that bad.

Naohiro Niimura

The build is quite huge, and that's having an impact on the market today. OPEC has no reason to cut production as long as prices remain near $60.

Nick Park

Any Hollywood studio, if they're doing a deal with somebody else, wants to own characters, but we have managed to keep hold of them.

Jennifer Hinson

As far as I know, nobody knows this deal fell through.

Thomas Murphy

As far as we were concerned, it was a legitimate deal with a realistic price,

Antonia Maioni

As a minority government, they are by definition in a pre- electoral mode. Accountability is going to be a big thing. The deal they are going to do with the provinces is another.

Mark Morales

a very private guy and doesn't want to make a big deal of it.

John W. Snow

a very important idea ... which would help deal with the whole issue of long-term sustainability of the Social Security system.

Miroslav Klose

A very great deal is possible with the players we have in the squad.

Andrew Shue

At some point in their lives, people deal with tragedy. It's just a question of when.

Jay Jacobs

A true gentleman. He was a very compassionate and giving person who meant a great deal to this university.

Kim Fields

There has been a tremendous growth in the entertainment industry throughout Atlanta. There are many opportunities in film, television and theatre.

Ma Huateng

On all open platforms, regardless of whether it's Facebook or the Apple App Store, the largest segment is entertainment and games. It's the largest revenue segment. And it's the same for Tencent.

Britney Spears

My prerogative right now is to just chill and let all the other overexposed blondes on the cover of Us Weekly (magazine) be your entertainment.

Robin Wright

Entertainment and escapism - those are the bigger money-making films today.

Antony Beevor

Entertainment history is now the main source of supposedly historical knowledge for more and more people, but 'histo-tainment' is superficial and lacks all context.

Adam McKay

I think everyone knows the news has become ridiculous. It's entertainment driven.

Alison Lewis

You can never predict ratings. It's more about the association with these marquee entertainment events.

Mike Goodman

A statute like this is much more likely to come out of Europe, where the entertainment industry is not as powerful of a force.

Rita Mae Brown

Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

Al Gore

Humanity is sitting on a time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet's climate system into a tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced - a catastrophe of our own making.

Seamus Heaney

Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The methods and tools of science perennially breach barriers, granting me confidence that our epic march of insight into the operations of nature will continue without end.

Michael Hussey

I Am Really Gifted To Play Under The Leadership Of MS Dhoni.

Laini Taylor

So here we are, talking about Roman unicycles and alien sandwiches and my sister’s Italian misfortunes, while hanging in between us is: MY EPIC FAILURE TO CARPE. What’s wrong with me?

Philip Roth

The terror of the unforeseen is what the science of history hides, turning a disaster into an epic.

Philip Roth

Turned the wrong way around, the relentless unforeseen was what we schoolchildren studied in "History", harmless history, where everything unexpected in its own time is chronicled on the page as inevitable. The terror of the unforeseen is what the science of history hides, turning a disaster into an epic.

Richelle Mead

I wouldn't know how to write a weak female character. I read so much epic fantasy growing up, where you have these sword-wielding, in-your-face warrior maidens.

Jerry Saltz

Koons's work has always stood apart for its one-at-a-time perfection, epic theatricality, a corrupted, almost sick drive for purification, and an obsession with traditional artistic values.

Mats Sundin

As a team we are scoring some goals, but there's still a lot of work to do,

Julius James

As a youth growing up, everyone's goal is to play on the senior team because that is the highest you can reach.

Jose Theodore

As a goalie, you don't look at the number of goals, you just make sure there are no weak ones,

Luis Suarez

As a minimum we have to get to the second round. After that, a ton of other goals will open up. This is what we want the people to understand.

Greg Johnson

The bounces that had been going our way aren't right now. When that happens, you usually just have to simplify things and go to the net. A lot of times you'll get out of a rut with an ugly goal or one that bounces in off someone else.

Alain Vigneault

That was a big momentum shift. To give up that goal really, really hurt.

John Danby

That was a big goal for us. I can't remember the last time we got the first goal of the game.

Linda Stone

Rachael was on her game. (All of the goals) were not completely her fault. There were marking issues.

Dale Carnegie

Really important goals are accomplished by people who will keep trying even when there seems to be no hope.

Timothy Simons

We live in a world in which whatever you do has a parody account online in moments.

Rebecca Ryan

many times, online is the first way a young professional sees the area.

Jeff Bezos

One of the things it was obvious you could do with an online store is have a much more complete selection.

Nathan Fillion

I don't spend a lot of time online.

Paul Petty

They should be inspected on Thursday and online shortly after that.

Donna Mutzenard

It's one thing to just go there, but it's another thing to talk to other people about what they're trying in their schools. You don't get that through online research or watching a DVD.

Cameron Diaz

If you really want to torture me, sit me in a room strapped to a chair and put Mariah Carey's records on.

Carson Daly

I'm developing a record company. I'm learning how to supervise music on a film.

Janet Jackson

I wanted to talk about my life. There is so much. I was 18 when I made the record, and I had a lot to say.

Eddy Cue

Just six days after its release on iTunes, a record-breaking 33 million people have already listened to the album.

Ben Harper

I've never made a record that didn't sound better than what was in my head - that's sort of my rule.

Shelia Smith

At this point, the records are gone. They're a quick, scrappy team. Weston is not big, but rely a lot on quickness. We're all after the same thing: winning a state title.

Cory Monteith

I have a solo deal with Columbia Records. So it's about, do I want to release an album, when can we do it, what kind of album should it be, how should it be released and marketed and what's the right timing? Do I have time to do it? It's all about questions.

Adele

I don't rely on my figure to sell records.

Adam Rich

So you have to just be really careful and make sure that when a deal comes along, that it's like the right deal for you... not necessarily the most money, because you have to pay the record label that back in like record sales and stuff.

Scott Downs

As a whole staff, we're just trying to step it up while Doc and Teddy are out,

Deion Sanders

The thrill is gone. It's time for me to step away.

Mahmoud Abbas

The most important step after the withdrawal will be how we protect, rebuild.

Mickael Pietrus

It was tough for us tonight and we're really going to try to step up on Wednesday and try to get a W before the break. It's very important to get a win on Wednesday.

Bill Worsham

This is a really significant and unexpected step in our development.

Mark Russinovich

This is a step they should have taken immediately.

Janet Napolitano

This is a step in the right direction, but we really need more resources.

Richard Hasen

This could be an important first step toward undermining (the 2003 ruling) without overruling it.

Tom Blake

That's where your upperclassmen and tri-captains step up. That's what they're supposed to do.

Claudio Reyna

I have seen games on Xbox 360 and HD TV and I'm amazed at how realistic the players look.

Liz Phair

I don't know; it just seemed like the cooler guys are playing Xbox. At least the ones I know.

Bill Gates

In the old generation, if one kid bought a PlayStation 2 and the other kid bought an Xbox, at his house you played PlayStation, at your house you played Xbox. Now that it's online, all those early buyers who... you want to play with, they've got their reputation online of who they are and how good they are at these games.

Bill Gates

You can always think of something like the Xbox 360 as a super set-top box that can do everything the set-top box does, but then have the graphics to do the games as well.