Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isabella Bird

An American store is generally a very extensive apartment, handsomely decorated, the roof frequently supported on marble pillars. The owner or clerk is seen seated by his goods, absorbed in the morning paper - probably balancing himself on one leg of his chair, with a spittoon by his side.

Philip Treacy

The success of a hat definitely lies with balancing the personality of the wearer with the type of occasion. Don't listen to those rules about face shape.

Nancy Taylor

I'm impressed they've accomplished so much. It's really heartening to know. They're balancing families and still feel responsible for the community and are able to be good role models for others.

Kevin Sharer

We are balancing the need for continued investment to ensure the success of these new products while at the same time delivering continued earnings growth.

Dick Gephardt

While Dean counts the Vermont prescription drug program as an accomplishment, the truth is he put it on the chopping block four separate times. When the chips were down and Dean had to choose between balancing the budget and cutting prescription drugs for seniors, Governor Dean chose budget gamesmanship. That is not the type of president I would be.

Yelena Baturina

As an entrepreneur and mother, I support the need to put women at the center, recognizing their crucial impact on social development and their important role of balancing family and professional responsibilities.

Julie Martineau

One of the challenges we'll have is balancing response and recovery. I've always seen us as a recovery group, but we're getting pushed to response.

Cervantes Saavedra

God bless the inventor of sleep, the cloak that covers all men's thoughts, the food that cures all hunger . . . the balancing weight that levels the shepherd with the king and the simple with the wise.

David Newman

I think it's best not to rely on an individual physician. Individual doctors have their specialties, their biases, their preferences for certain kinds of treatment and getting multiple opinions is the only way you can create a sense of trust in that particular course of action. It's a ways of checking and balancing the subjectivity or the prejudices of an individual physician.

Yoshihiko Noda

Our goal is not simply to reconstruct the Japan that existed before March 11, 2011, but to build a new Japan. We are determined to overcome this historic challenge.

Ivar Giaever

If you want to help Africa, you should help them out of poverty, not try to build solar cells and windmills.

Ian Watson

Warwick Davies is a cracking actor. The opening scene in the last 'Harry Potter' film, where he plays a captured Griphook, is mesmerising. His pacing is sublime, and the menace and regret he builds into the scene is fantastic.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

I love movies. And I dig a great love story: the kind that wrecks me, then builds me back up and leaves me inspired. I write what I want to see.

William Kamkwamba

I want to build a machine that can drill wells for water. With this problem of water in many places in Africa, we need to find a solution for how you can dig wells so you can be pumping water from deeper places.

Vivek Wadhwa

The fastest way to get kicked out of a venture capitalist's office is to say that you want to build a business that grows steadily, focuses on employees, and creates wealth over the long term. Entrepreneurs with such ambitions are considered pariahs.

Elizabeth Warren

And that's how we build the economy of the future. An economy with more jobs and less debt, we root it in fairness. We grow it with opportunity. And we build it together.

Elizabeth Warren

How do you think we build a future? I think we build it by investing in our kids and investing in education.

Don Rickles

When I walk down the street in New York, I swear to God, the building constructor, the guy pounding cement and what not, will yell, 'Hey, you hockey puck!'

Dennis Crowley

The misconception about Foursquare is that it's just hipsters in New York and San Francisco checking in at bars. It's happening all over the world. I've seen huge growth in Europe, Japan, South America.

Kevin Krone

With the growing popularity of Web-enabled mobile devices, we wanted to offer our customers the convenience of checking in for their flight wherever they may be.

Petra Haden

That's what I love about those old movies - the music is like a constant companion. Even in scenes that aren't particularly dramatic, like a woman checking her watch, you hear the music as a comment on that action.

Folarin Campbell

I was the one checking him, and they had made shots in my face the whole game. On that last shot, I wasn't sure if he was going to try to go to the hole or pull it back for the 3. When he pulled up for that jumper, I put a hand in his face and was just hoping and praying it was going off.

Folarin Campbell

I was the one checking him, and they had hit shots in my face the whole game. When he pulled up for the jumper, I put a hand in his face. I was hoping and praying it wouldn't go in.

Hal Stratton

It doesn't hurt for a parent to show up on Open House, the first day of school, like I will be doing this year and checking those kinds of things out,

David May

We're checking now to see where the greatest need is.

Phil Reeker

We're checking in with the people we left in France.

Maurice Evans

I'm always ready to play, and I'm always expecting to play. Whether or not I do is another thing. When he called my name, I was kind of double checking to make sure it was me, because I didn't want to get up and then it not be me.

Clint Eastwood

As long as somebody finances you, can make a film and get it seen any place and in any language; then, hopefully, it's a success.

Gregory Smith

We need to wait a month or two until our finances are clear.

Mayor Bingham

I will be giving a harsh look at all the finances in the city.

Jan Hatzius

There is a more plausible explanation for the spending slowdown, namely the withdrawal of fiscal and monetary stimulus from a household sector whose finances remain stretched,

Jody Brown

She practically ran all the finances for my volleyball camps. She's so meticulous. ... She can't come into my office without straightening things up.

Mitchell Daniels

The government's finances are in extraordinarily strong shape.

Bob Hatcher

Finances and scholarships will all take a different form.

Dick Cavett

Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the people who handle it know what they are doing.

Kathy Anderson

This is the time of year finances are on people's mind. And this is the time to think about that and make small changes.

Diablo Cody

Juno MacGuff: You can never have too many of your favorite one calorie breath mints.

Margaret Atwood

It's clear, it's fresh, like a mint candy.

Neena Moorjani

There's no profit whatsoever from making pennies, though the U.S. Mint will probably disagree.

Lisbeth Echeandia

It's a strong mint obviously. It's one of the strong mint categories.

Michael Thompson

They're making a beeline for the park and all the prairie wildflowers and ornamentals that have been planted there, ... I walk through and see thousands and thousands on the plants. They're especially going to the mint family.

Bruce Tulgan

Today, the most mobile part of the workforce is the most marketable.

Mike Rucker

He's kind of like a younger version of Brett Favre. You don't see him as a mobile quarterback. He made some plays today.

Vicki Warker

The potential is huge, considering that 55% of the U.S. population subscribes to a mobile phone.

Jeff Jordan

With the overwhelming popularity of mobile phones, the time has never been better for the merging of e-commerce and wireless devices.

Gene Miller

The project starts as soon as school is out. We will move them (the mobile units) in when school is out.

Scott Kerstetter

We had a lot of turnovers, but Hannah Tobin was the MVP of this game. She was really mobile in this game.

Edward Zander

Mobile phones today are more like television when I was a kid,

Mark Taylor

Mobile and fixed-line services are also converging as rapidly as the worlds of voice and data.

Richard Windsor

Once again, the stellar performance of mobile phones has been marred by difficulties at Nokia networks.

Charles Stross

My books are published by Hachette. My books have been blacklisted and blocked on Amazon on multiple occasions.

Lamar Alexander

We don't have a president who is our agenda-setter, so we have multiple voices on every issue.

Yoshihisa Okamoto

Watching big-name high-techs revise down multiple times is very discouraging,

Dean Fabrizio

We're going to play a lot of man-to-man coverage. We're also going to play some zone as well. We just want to give him multiple looks.

Jonathan Lee

When we first started, we went through multiple ideas. We thought we had a vision of what we wanted to do.

Michiel Huisman

To play different characters on a TV show where you're working every day, playing multiple characters every day, it's so ridiculously intense.

Carlton Cuse

I think everyone in Hollywood works on multiple things because you never know what's going to happen with your projects.

Demetri Martin

When I am given a multiple choice test I choose not to take it.

Warren Littlefield

I fought to make a multiple series commitment with John Wells.

Yahya Jammeh

Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.

Yossi Vardi

In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

Yancy Butler

Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.

Ian Mckellen

I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

Ian Mckellen

People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

Irwin Thomas

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.

Irwin Rose

I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

Usually, when you're working or you're on set, everything is very guarded. At parties, people have a tendency to relax.

Imani Hakim

When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.

Sean Taylor

Why was I not here? It was offseason, ... I could have returned his phone calls, but it was offseason.

Beck

I try not to do email; I try to talk to people on the phone.

Jodi Dias

On the phone we clicked. But when I saw him, I was like, 'Wow.' I got more interested.

Kevin Garnett

Good; I can talk some (trash) to him. That's probably the reason he's not returning my phone calls. It makes a lot of sense.

Charlayne Woodard

I talk to my girlfriends. And I have three sisters. I talk to them on the phone every day.

Bill Robertson

He was waiting. He was actually talking on the phone with the ex-girlfriend when the victim pulled up.

Chuck D.

He had businesses, he had locations, he had phone numbers.

John Madden

I didn't get a phone call. If you don't get a phone call, you know what that means.

John Ball

For sure, he would have wanted me to play. At least I got to talk to him on the phone (Saturday) morning.

Gary Sheffield

That would be devastating to me. I should be able to come back quicker than if it was a hamstring. I'm going to get the anti-inflammatories and see how I feel tomorrow.

Bobby Lewis

That way you get them in quicker and out quicker.

Rebecca Ferguson

For me, it's not about quick grabs and quick sales; it's about having a sound that will last and sustain.

Joseph Quinn

We have to make all the reports that are necessary, ... It's not a quick process.

John Lyboldt

You can go to all the manufacturers very quickly and save yourself a lot of time.

Dario Franchitti

I think performance-wise we had a strong season and we were very quick in most of the races.

Karen Ostrov

It does work, but it takes time. It's not a quick fix.

Mike Sander

We don't want to make a quick decision, but a comprehensive and thorough one.

Julio Lugo

I'm a quick healer, and it's taken more time than I thought it would take. Three times more time than I was expecting.

Jakob Nielsen

Users spend most of their time on other websites.

Michael Robinson

It is expensive, but as long as it's efficient, we'll spend the money.

Ron Vaughn

We really spend a lot of time recognizing athletes.

Dan Cooper

We'll look at the spending cap. We have to look at the legislation that was passed.

Keanu Reeves

On his new motorbike: I wanted to spend some time with it and get to know it.

Craig Benson

I don't think anyone's pushing for spending limits in the campaign.

Sheryl Garrett

What you can't see, you won't spend foolishly.

Wally Herger

Whatever is in Medicare, ... we're not going to spend it.

Kelli O'Hara

I don't ever think about the roads I didn't take because I spend too much time thinking what's ahead. I don't go backwards.

Gaines Adams

I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son.

George Allen

It's time for an American comeback... where leaders in Washington listen to 'we the people.'

Zadie Smith

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are.

Zadie Smith

Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.

Vivienne Westwood

I am in my own head most of the time.

Zubin Mehta

New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.

Zubin Mehta

I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.

Yakov Smirnoff

When you like something, you find time to do it.

Evangeline Lilly

I'm a bit delusional, but every time I do a job, I think I'm retired.

Mark Brown

We have been working for 10 years to get new tools for infrastructure development.

Steve Sobolewski

We have all the right tools on this team. No one can touch us.

William Bolar

He has all the tools to be great. He'll take them far.

Dominique Wilkins

I used slam dunking as a tool for intimidation.

Carlos Slim

All times are good time for those who know how to work and have the tools to do so.

Agnes Varda

Sometimes I want to work with a DP, sometimes I want to work myself. I go to 35mm, 16mm, it's all the same, but it depends on what you want to tell and what are the tools you need.

David Ricardo

Money is neither a material to work upon nor a tool to work with.

David Brenner

Digital brand integration is part of the evolution of product placement. It's simply another tool marketers use to get products integrated into shows. If you can put it in a package, we can put it in a show.

Madeleine Albright

Nobody's ever said that pins are a tool of diplomacy.