Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clara Shih

I wrote 'The Facebook Era' because I felt like it needed to be written, and I was one of the people who might be qualified to do so. Specifically, my background is that I developed the first business application on Facebook.

Kantathi Suphamongkhon

He has management skills, and he has international experience. He is dedicated to the work of the international community. So he has the strength, background and experience, ... We feel that he is appropriate for that position.

Maajid Nawaz

I had a mind inquiring enough to question world events, as well as the passion fostered by my background to care, but I lacked the emotional maturity to process these things. That made me ripe for Islamist recruitment. Into this ferment came my recruiter, himself straight out of a London medical college.

Eric Johnson

I hear background noise, but I haven't heard any specific legislation or author.

Mike Rizzo

You've got a guy with outstanding physical attributes. You couple that with a great baseball acumen, a very grounded family background and a blue-collar workmanship-like makeup, it's an extraordinary toolbox to be working from.

Christophe Gans

The game is constantly interesting because your imagination is constantly working. You're given clues about the background of the town of Silent Hill and you understand half of them and the other half you imagine.

Doug Armstrong

These guys are going to have the opportunity to compete up until the last second. We have historical background of who we think will be there, but every training camp there is always one player who exceeds expectations and a couple players won't live up to expectations.

Joe DiMura

These practices should include a thorough background check of all new hires. The employer makes a discretionary decision on whether to hire a prospective employee with a criminal history. The (Health) Department would promptly investigate any complaint where there was evidence a resident was a victim of abuse.

Ailyn Perez

My family background is Mexican, and I was born in Chicago. It's pretty much family tradition every time we get together for Christmas and major holidays to sing. Our family time is centered around the food and a little bit of performing for one another.

Chad Reitz

I was looking forward to the 2005 season when things fell apart. I ended up in a dispute with my sister (Chanda) and father (Les) about our race team, and we parted ways. It was a bitter ending and there are still a lot of hard feelings.

Kaley Cuoco

I wouldn't say I was bullied, but I was definitely a bit of an outcast. It was more the kids thinking I thought I was cool. I started homeschooling in fifth grade, and I was much happier.

Rick Adelman

Kenny came up huge in the end. He was the guy they were leaving open and he hit that one shot with a little bit of luck, then the second one was dead center and he hit the free throws.

Bobby Cox

John is not 100 percent, ... But if he's 95 percent that's good enough. He is feeling good. . . . It's just a matter of at one time locating his fastball and feeling a little bit better.

Mike Gray

Jobs and employers are not increasing their salaries by 21 percent or 16 percent why don't you do us a favor why don't you forgo your salaries so you can feel the bite as much as we do.

John Timoney

I think it's a bit premature to go into any kind of speculation now,

David Begleiter

I think it's a bit of a negotiating stance.

Scholanda Hoston

I think it's a bit of an advantage, just in having some experience. That plays into being able to help our younger players along.

Alison Goldfrapp

I think it's a bit of a myth that if you can read music you can write music. It doesn't work like that.

Derek Parra

He just floats on his skates. It's like God lifted him up when he was born and said, 'You're going to be a skater.

Sufjan Stevens

I was sort of born into a Subud cult that has ties to Islam and Indonesia and Middle Eastern spiritualism. My parents were kind of trial-and-error when it came to religion.

Emily Dickinson

Had I not seen the Sun, I could have borne the shade, But Light a newer Wilderness, My Wilderness has made

Daniel Gibson

I think what happened opened his eyes. Something you love can be taken at any time. He's borne that out through the season. He came out motivated.

William Congreve

I came upstairs into the world; for I was born in a cellar.

Monica Raymund

I am Dominican American. My father was born and raised in the U.S. and his heritage is German and Eastern European, and my mother hails from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Ronald Curry

He has such a great personality a lighthearted personality that kind of draws people to him. Some people are born leaders, and he's a born leader.

Richelle Mead

morois are born..but strigois are made..!

Rebecca Davis

Reform is born of need, not pity. No vital movement of the people has worked down, for good or evil; fermented, instead, carried up the heaving, cloggy mass.

Chellie Pingree

I love to come home and work on one of my other jobs. Just to remember that the floors gotta be mopped, and that everything isn't centered around what you fought about in Washington last week.

Richie Sambora

I always felt there was some kind of nobility centered in my desire and passion for what I do.

Will Ferrell

The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear!

Saint Augustine

He was created of a mother whom He created. He was carried by hands that He formed. He cried in the manger in wordless infancy. He, the Word, without whom all human eloquence is mute.

W. C. Fields

Christmas at my house is always at least six or seven times more pleasant than anywhere else. We start drinking early. And while everyone else is seeing only one Santa Claus, we'll be seeing six or seven.

William Arthur Ward

Christmas is more than a time of music, merriment and mirth; it is a season of meditation, mangers and miracles. Christmas is more than a time of carols, cards and candy; it is a season of dedication and decision.

Kevin Madden

I just may use that photographer for my family Christmas photo.

Edward Murrow

I'll split it with Fred. He just won't have Christmas presents.

Peter Doust

I know Maurice comes here every Christmas so I don't think there is anything particular about his visit.

Adam Simpson

I hope everyone has a wonderful time this Christmas, and comes back refreshed and excited about the coming season.

David Archuleta

I really like the European carols, and I like that captivating sound that they have that isn't usually in Christmas songs.

Patricia Johnson

It ain't about the money, it's about the people. I see them more than some of their family do.

Jeff Fisher

Lastly, the holiday season is a season for family, so I guess it makes sense that we will kickoff the holidays with the Manning family visiting Nashville in consecutive weeks.

Allan Evridge

The people that molded me were my parents. They've always been there for me and provided good leadership. My family made me the type of person I am today.

Ron Rash

I think a lot of times when you grow up in the South, if you're white at least, you think your family fought Confederate.

David Fay

I think it's wonderful. He's in the family that way.

Marie-Chantal Claire

I think it's very important to have the stewardship of a company by a family member.

Richard Scrushy

I think this is the most ridiculous think I've ever been through in my life. We haven't done anything wrong. It think this is wrong that they are putting me and my family through this.

Kim Edwards

I think that it would be hard to find a family that didn't have a secret in it somewhere, and sometimes we know about them, sometimes we don't. Sometimes we have an inkling that there's something hidden, but I think that it touches everybody's life.

Lea Salonga

I watch a lot of TV - 'Perfect Strangers,' 'Family Matters,' 'Who's the Boss?' - then I go over my notes in the script, lock it into my head and go to bed.

Allen Johnson

We've been told they have to be 'completely self-sufficient,' ... so they have to take their own food, water and clothing. There is no local support.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it to your guests is a sign of fatigue.

Roald Amundsen

A rich and varied menu is for people who have no work to do.

Samuel Hoffenstein

My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet.

Sally Schneider

Confit is the ultimate comfort food, and trendy or not, it is dazzling stuff.

Robin Leach

In Italy, they add work and life on to food and wine.

W. C. Fields

I feel like a midget with muddy feet had been walking over my tongue all night.

W. C. Fields

I don't drink water. Have you seen the way it rusts pipes?

Voltaire

Ice-cream is exquisite - what a pity it isn't illegal.

Daniel Breaker

I think that the major message in 'Shrek: The Musical' is be who you want to be. I think that it is about being your true self in this world.

Phil Goff

It is not within the power of the president to remove the prime minister other than on the vote of a majority of the house,

Alan Greenspan

Roger was the major policy maker during 9/11.

Jennifer Adams

It's been a major pain. Several patients are having to go without medication.

Waverly Person

It's a major earthquake, but it's quite a ways away from population,

Roberto Torres

The TRUTH sometimes scares people. In order to skirt the truth they start to major on the minors as opposed to majoring on the truth that is before them.

Harvey Pekar

I've just been writing stuff down as it comes to me. I haven't thought, 'Let me write some major opus here.'

Johnathan Frakes

No, I was a psychology major in college.

Tom Hudson

It's like putting someone out in space for the first time, ... It's not yet to the moon or to another planet, but it is a major milestone.

Van Morrison

When I started out in this business, I was a performer before I was a songwriter, I was a performer before I was recording. Performing is the roots. That's where it all came from. You didn't start out doing it because you wanted to make an album.

Al Pacino

I was never very happy with performing; it didn't turn me on much.

Rashida Jones

I'm terrified of performing live.

Liz Phair

I am comfortable performing now. I love it!

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.

Carrie Fisher

I like performing. I like partnering with an audience.

Michael Davis

TI is performing well but it is being unfairly tainted,

Dwyane Wade

I was in the right place at the right time to get the bucket.

Ronny Jenkins

I take my vacation this time of year every year.

Graham Elliot

Any time you can involve fake mustaches, things are just better.

Mona Singh

It is about time that TV actors were paid as well as film stars.

John Shimkus

It is a bittersweet time for many of us to be here,

Jack Smith

It is a long season, we have a long time to get at them.

Scottish Proverb

What may be done at any time will be done at no time

Lorena Ochoa

There is going to be a time when they come my way.

Daina Parent

We've been working all year toward this. This is the time we're going to go out and show them what we're made of.

Tre Cool

Life is like breakfast: you just mix all ingredients 'cause in your stomach it will all come together.

Kelley Armstrong

If you say ‘we’re in this together,’ I’m going to hurl.

Julia Leigh

Although filmmaking is collaborative and involves trust, ultimately it is the director who holds the whole picture together in their head.

Klaus Schulze

Sometimes I like to make music together with a singer or with singers.

Milo Ventimiglia

Certain things work for me, certain things don't. [Going out for drinks is] about connecting, hanging out, and having a reason to spend time together. But you don't really need any kind of reason, other than you want to spend time with somebody.

Natalie Clifford Barney

To be married is to be neither alone nor together.

Kelly Stables

I am a musical-theater nut. When the lyrics, orchestration, and performance all come together just right, I come alive and can feel every cell in my body.

Kate Bush

I don’t know you, And you don’t know me. It is this that brings us together.

Kate DiCamillo

When we read together, we connect. Together, we see the world. Together, we see one another.

Rocco Buttiglione

We desecrated the traditional values, but new values didn't come along.

Tom Chapin

Mine is not a traditional music, but it comes from a tradition.

George Saunders

All traditions are also full of meanness for the sake of meanness.

Bjork

I always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family.