Famous Quotes & Sayings

Zaha Hadid

I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.

Jerry Palm

The poll margin is enormous. Virginia Tech would have to be two spots ahead of Texas in the computers to get close. They need to hope those poll margins erode.

Peter Power

The political question that needs to be answered is: is it better to go ahead with the meeting if you are unsure of the result or postpone for a couple of weeks and have a greater chance of a result.

Scott Brockman

(The pilot) contacted the tower, did a fly-by in which (air traffic controllers) inspected the gear, found the other landing gear was intact and made the decision at that point to go ahead and land the aircraft.

Dan Ahrens

The overall industry is a boom industry. It has demographics and favorable growth prospects on its side, ... Valuations may get ahead of themselves sometimes but that's only a concern for the short term.

Tom Schrader

The payroll data Friday is going to be the big swing factor. Ahead of that, I would expect that we could drift a little higher, but nothing too substantial.

Paul Kujak

The approach to hitting is excellent with these guys. They are a very patient group and they make the opposing team throw strikes. That's a credit to them. Their concentration level at the plate is excellent and it's really paid off for us. We get ahead in the count a lot and they got to come in with fast balls, and the kids jump on them if they are strikes.

Jim McCrossin

The amount of time that Simon is going to be out will be to where he can tolerate being able to go ahead and skate and push off and get the strength back in that one leg. We're looking at no more than two weeks at that point." ()

Natasa Kandic

The arrests were timed to shore up Serbia's position ahead of the Kosovo talks, show they are dealing with the crimes.

Twyla Tharp

My father always said, 'I don't care if you're a ditch digger, as long as you're the best ditch digger in the world.'

Twyla Tharp

Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Custard is controversial: what makes it a custard, how best to cook it and, crucially, is it to be eaten or put in a pie and thrown?

Yani Tseng

It's very easy when you have someone in front of you that you can chase. You want to be No. 1 but now I feel like I have to play well because everybody looks at you as a best golfer. So that's why I put more pressure on myself.

Thucydides

We should remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.

Timothy Noah

There's a growing consensus that the best way to defeat communism in Cuba is to get its citizens hooked on American goods.

Thomas Friedman

I can see a day soon where you'll create your own college degree by taking the best online courses from the best professors from around the world - some computing from Stanford, some entrepreneurship from Wharton, some ethics from Brandeis, some literature from Edinburgh - paying only the nominal fee for the certificates of completion.

Idina Menzel

I used to take 40 minutes to warm up before going on stage. If you want to spend time with your child as well as having a career, you have to get up there even if your head's a mess. It's made me more relaxed, and I'm having some of my best shows.

Idina Menzel

I'd been a wedding singer through college, but after a few years of doing my best renditions of jazz standards to clinking glasses and the sound of forks on salad, I thought, 'Oh God, if this is all I do, I'll never be able to live with myself.'

Gloria Trevi

Nowadays, performers worry too much about how they look. They're not concerned about what they're really saying to their audience.

Gladys Knight

I'm comfortable singing jazz. The only thing I was concerned about is that everybody, even in jazz, has their own style. To me, the queen of doodling was Ella Fitzgerald, and scatting is something I never thought I could do.

William Henry Bragg

The chemist, whose science is immediately concerned with the combinations of atoms, has rarely found it necessary to discuss their shapes, and gives them no particular forms in his diagrams. That does not mean that the shapes are unimportant, but rather that the older methods could not define them.

Vikram Seth

The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as simple as that. Of course, it's important to make a living and all that, but the main impulse as far as I'm concerned - and I'm sure as other writers are concerned - is to tell a story that I feel impelled by.

Billy Graham

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn't concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man's soul.

Billy Graham

Seemingly, man has learned to live without God, preoccupied and indifferent toward Him and concerned only about material security and pleasure.

Evel Knievel

I've always been concerned about kids - not just my own three, but all kids - what kind of an image I'm providing for them, what kind of inspiration. I don't know now. Maybe I'm leading them down the path to self-destruction.

David A. Bednar

We can begin to become more diligent and concerned at home by telling the people we love that we love them. Such expressions do not need to be flowery or lengthy. We simply should sincerely and frequently express love.

David Friedman

I have been writing since I was about 20, and at first I wrote in secret and never showed anybody. I was very concerned about making a living, so I conducted.

Sharon Doering

The patents that are expiring make up a significant portion of their results. They're not going to be one of the top growth stories -- probably only single-digit (percentage-wise) in 2000 and 2001.

Tiffany Shlain

The past year has been one of outrageous growth for the Internet, and it's not only become bigger, but better... more substantial and more mature.

C. S. Lewis

Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.

Carl Rogers

The degree to which I can create relationships, which facilitate the growth of others as separate persons, is a measure of the growth I have achieved in myself.

Carl Rogers

What you are to be, you are now becoming.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

There is no growth except in the fulfillment of obligations.

Matt Kelmon

The 30 percent revenue growth days, I think we might have just have seen them top out. Now they have to take what they've got and see how they can leverage it.

Ronald Dollens

The acquisition of CTS, its innovative products and strong pipeline, will provide a platform for Guidant's growth in cardiac surgery.

Mike Edwards

We have also experienced steady growth in intellectual property and patent activities.

Gordon B. Hinckley

A nation will rise no higher than the strength of its homes.

Frank Quattrone

When we took Netscape public, if people wanted to invest in the web, that was the only stock that they could do it by investing in. So Netscape's market value was higher than it probably otherwise would have been if there were lots of other ways to play that theme.

Kurt Barnard

The 5.7 percent projection is not too much out of line, but it is at the higher end of projections,

Richard Doherty

That was higher than we thought they might have gone.

Chris Grisanti

That will surprise the Street and lead to a higher stock price.

Tisha Hill

We need to knock down some shots. We need to take smarter and higher percentage shots.

Eric Graaf

Today's surprise is not enough to warrant a substantially higher valuation.

Bill Carter

You'll look like you have lead weights strapped to your feet, ... The higher the heel, the more shape you're going to get to your calf.

Saddam Hussein

Will the performance of one who has sat an examination and passed it be higher and better, or lower and lesser?

Stephanie Hill

I thought my back would be hurting forever, and I was nervous that I wouldn't be able to play at all (this year). And if I did play, I thought I would be in pain. I didn't think it would just go away, but it did.

Whitney Myers

I'm still stunned (that I won the race). I'm really proud of how I did. I was hurting in that last 100 yards but no guts, no glory. This is the first time I've ever swum the 400 (individual medley) in a major meet.

Kaylee Brown

It doesn't mean anything to lose. It hurts real bad. We need to get a win when they come to Lawrence, but we've go to do better if we want to win in Lawrence.

Mike Zeyen

We're a little disappointed. There's some hurting going on. It was a real tough regional.

Jeff Whitney

We played Laura way too much. But we are a better team with her in the lineup. It hurts not having her in the lineup.

Rodney Carney

I was reflecting on my whole career, reflecting on how we played so bad. It's hurtful not to be going home. I'll go home, but not the way I wanted to.

Calvin Coolidge

I have never been hurt by anything I didn't say

Martin O'Malley

If a bank's too big so that it can't fail without hurting our economy, well then, it's too big.

Terry Smith

I don't think it's hurting too much, and people aren't polluting the world so much.

Zadie Smith

I'm never interested in writing a kind of neutral, universal novel that could be set anywhere. To me, the novel is a local thing.

Zac Goldsmith

I think sometimes if you are too interested in day-to-day politics, you lose sight of the long term.

Yoko Ono

I think it's nice to let people know that there is an invisible part of the world. I think there are many people now who are interested in the invisible world.

William E. Conway, Jr.

Generally, I have a strong interest in trying to help people who are maybe not as lucky as I am. I've been well rewarded in this world. I'm more worried about the next one.

Christina Baker Kline

As a novelist, I have always been interested in how people come to terms with difficult, life-altering events.

Clint Eastwood

There has to be something in every role that interests you.

John C. Calhoun

Remember, it is a deep principle of our nature not to regard the safety of those who do not regard their own. If you are indifferent to your own safety, you must not be surprised if those less interested should become more so.

Carrie Brownstein

For film and television, it's interesting how fans feel that their particular ways of manifesting their affections are the correct ones. It's not just about being a fan, it's about how you perform your fandom. That's always been interesting to me.

Carl Sagan

UFOs: The reliable cases are uninteresting and in the interesting cases are unreliable.

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.

Francis G. Slay

Violence is not a constitutionally protected right. Damaging property is not a constitutionally protected right; inciting violence is not a constitutionally protected right.

Bill Richardson

to know my administration is doing everything it can to protect them.

Mimi Kennedy

From casting to counting, our votes must be better protected in all voting systems.

Jim Fassel

I thought Jesse did all right, considering some things. We had some routes that weren't where they were supposed to be and protection problems.

Haley Jowle

I think she was trying to protect me.

George Tenet

We protect the rights of Americans and their privacy, ... We do not violate them and we never will.

George Taylor

We do have standard protection on every desktop. But shoot, we're seeing viruses all the time that our software doesn't catch.

Herman Edwards

We have to protect the quarterback. We haven't done that and we need to do that.

Daniele Audetto

We are only trying to protect our investments.

Elizabeth Warren

Homeowners refinance their loans when interest rates go down. Businesses refinance their loans.

Mark Langan

This rates up there as one of the worse we have ever seen.

Chris Perry

We don't know the rates of (reef) growth.

Leon Black

Different industries have different risks and growth rates and volatility.

Charles Nelson

Overall, the story is that uninsured rates are relatively stable.

Russ Jones

Our rates only go up once a year, and that's in June.

Lawrence Yun

Obviously, many renters have become homeowners as rates have fallen.

John Kline

Let's get one thing straight: No one wants Stafford loan interest rates to increase.

Bill Gross

It's sort of like a teeter-totter; when interest rates go down, prices go up.

Michael Holland

Merrill Lynch could go down some more, but I like stocks like that. I like Merck, but they got pounded on Friday,

Harry Markowitz

I would never be 100 percent in stocks or 100 percent in bonds or cash.

Rick Drake

I think these stocks will have a pretty good-size correction.

Steven Patch

I see a lot of stocks on there.

Barry Ritholtz

If tech stocks keep going up with no pause, they will get insanely frothy.

Hans Kunnen

The big-picture fundamentals for commodities stocks is still in place. Nothing has actually changed. The sell-off in some sectors was not warranted.

Barry Ritholtz

Tech stocks are probably a little pricey. But they're not stupid pricey.

Steve DeLuca

These stocks come in and out of favor.

Kate Warne

Everybody's worried that the stocks that have done so well have really overshot,

Stephen Covey

Everyone must be proactive and do all they can to help themselves to stay employed.

Aaron Swartz

Most people, it seems, stretch the truth to make themselves seem more impressive. I, it seems, stretch the truth to make myself look worse.

Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.

Rob Babcock

But those things usually work themselves out during training camp.

Robert Redford

I never had a problem with my face on screen. I thought it is what it is, and I was turned off by actors and actresses that tried to keep themselves young.

Friedrich Schiller

With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.

David Clark

It's unfair to the students, because they don't know what they can do to get themselves expelled.

Aldous Huxley

They intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are

Buck Showalter

These things have a way of working themselves out over a 162-game season.