Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Barnes

Back in the beginning of the season when I was looking at the schedule I knew it was going to be a tough finish for us.

Joey Kalmus

People should not judge us on where we stand at the beginning of the season. If we start 3-7 in our first 10 games, it's OK if I see promise.

Brad Cashman

An unintended consequence of such liberalization has been the often-reported blending of the dark-colored home-team jerseys and the light-colored visiting-team jerseys, creating confusion on the part of players, officials and spectators. Beginning in 2010, that confusion should be eliminated.

Ned Colletti

This is one of the proudest days of my life, if not the proudest, ... From humble beginnings ... I find myself in one of the greatest places, Dodger Stadium, with one of the greatest franchises of all-time.

Marshal Cohen

This is the beginning of the disappearing tag. Smarter merchants are trying this, and if it's done right, the design inside romances the product even more.

Bill Gates

We hope to find a way to resolve this and put it behind us, ... From the very beginning, we've said we would like nothing better than to settle this case.

Thomas Hesse

Everything priced the same was a great thing to do in the beginning of the market. Now it's a good time to move into a tiered market. This whole landscape is evolving. We will be more seeing more of a price differentiation between more desirable stuff and less desirable stuff.

Albert Murray

Jazz music, as is also the case with the old down-home spirituals, gospel and jubilee songs, jumps, shouts and moans, is essentially an American vernacular or idiomatic modification of musical conventions imported from Europe, beginning back during the time of the early settlers of the original colonies.

Doug Borchers

Training is the key now. It wasn't in the beginning because nobody would come to the training.

Terence McElroy

I don't think passing on the suppression costs would be done just as a deterrent. The fact of the matter is many people have lost their property and homes and someone has to pay for that. Under the law, someone is liable for it.

Javier Bardem

There are so many movies and it's a waste of time and a waste of money. Basically, movies are made with what it costs the external debt of all Africa.

Marilyn Rush

It costs so much money, and we're poor people.

Ralph Solveen

This is really a very positive surprise but unfortunately it has nothing to do with the economy. It's only a statistical effect because many people who used to be registered as unemployed are no longer included in the numbers.

Chuck Palahniuk

Some mythological fat asswipe drives our national economy.

Mark Zandi

Our economy isn't going to recover until the housing market finds its footing.

Melinda Gates

Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.

Dave Edwards

People like to give to where they live, and after these episodic events they tend to give more. A lot of this has more to do with the economy than with the cause.

Brian Fabbri

All guns seemed to be firing at the same time for the economy in the third quarter.

Lou Jiwei

Everyone knows the U.S. economy shouldn't be so reliant on consumption. More investments should be made.

Alan Kral

Everyone is waiting to see if the Fed does anything, and if it doesn't, what it says about the economy over the rest of the year.

Chris Meyer

Everybody wants to go to India. It's got the largest middle-class in the world, and that means there's plenty of consumerism, the same elements that our (U.S.) economy has.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Labor humanizes, exalts.

Frederick Law Olmsted

This is just what I have thought when I have seen slaves at work - they seem to go through the motions of labor without putting strength into them. They keep their powers in reserve for their own use at night, perhaps.

Michael McCord

Saint Clair has kind of taken the lead on this." ()

Cesar Chavez

There are many reasons for why a man does what de does. To be himself he must be able to give it all. If a leader cannot give it all he cannot expect his people to give anything.

Daniel H. Pink

What's important now are the characteristics of the brain's right hemisphere: artistry, empathy, inventiveness, big-picture thinking. These skills have become first among equals in a whole range of business fields.

Daniel H. Pink

I happen to be extremely left-brained; my instinct is to draw a chart rather than a picture. I'm trying to get my right-brain muscles into shape. I actually think this shift toward right-brain abilities has the potential to make us both better off and better in a deeper sense.

Bobby Knight

I just love the game of basketball so much. The game! I don't need the 18,000 people screaming and all the peripheral things. To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation.

Ryan Gosling

There's a lot of pressure to be the lead of a film. I have done it. It's not my favorite way to work.

Bobby Howard

We were leading 7-2 in the game. We just didn't get it done.

Karin Brower

We had the 8-4 lead with 13:42 left in the game. We were trying to take time off the clock.

Drew Gilpin Faust

A leader has to keep saying the same things over and over again.

Bob Murray

People stop and say 'Why are you painting on a building?'

Heath Bell

Throw some paint on that. You won't see a thing.

Tony Bennett

I knew very early that somehow I would sing and draw and paint my whole life.

Roy Lichtenstein

Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.

Max Cannon

I hope to actually get back to painting someday... soon. I sort of transitioned into cartooning from painting.

Philip Guston

I'm not interested in painting; I'm not interested in making a picture. Then what the hell am I interested in? I must be interested in this process.

Mac Miller

I could take a photo, but I'd rather paint a picture.

Ernest Hemingway

There are so many good ones to paint and if you paint as well as you really can and keep out of all other things and do that, it is the true thing.

Irving Stone

Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]

Larry Jensen

Even if the reports are good, I'm still not going in unless I have to.

Shaharyar Khan

We have seen these reports and we are trying to find out whether he has said these things.

Benjamin Banneker

I have no influence with the rising generation. All my arguments have failed to induce them to set bounds to their wants.

H. P. Lovecraft

Slowly but inexorably crawling upon my consciousness and rising above every other impression, came a dizzying fear of the unknown; a fear all the greater because I could not analyse it, and seeming to concern a stealthily approaching menace; not death, but some nameless, unheard-of thing inexpressibly more ghastly and abhorrent.

Paul Krugman

Rising inequality isn’t about who has the knowledge; it’s about who has the power.

Olivier Gasnier

There are really no encouraging signs in this survey.

C. S. Lewis

They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out.

Dean Young

but nothing can be taken back, not the leaves by the trees, the rain by the clouds. You want to take back the ugly thing you said, but some shrapnel remains in the wound, some mud.

Antonya Nelson

Readers will share in the environs of the author and her characters, be taken into the hardship of a pitiless place and emerge on the other side — wiser, warier and weathered like the landscape.

David Bowie

There have been times when I've written something and it goes out and it comes back in a letter from some kid as to what they think about it and I've taken their analysis to heart so much that I have taken up his thing. Writing what my audience is telling me to write.

Andy Roddick

I cook a little - I've never taken classes or anything - but enough to get by.

Anne Hathaway

It takes a minute for me to let my guard down, but once I do and I get to know someone, I'm very open, very trusting. Some might say too trusting, because considering the amount of money that can be made from selling gossip, I could be very easily taken advantage of.

Thomas Sowell

Many bad policies are simply good policies taken too far.

Margaret Mead

If I were to be taken hostage, I would not plead for release nor would I want my government to be blackmailed. I think certain government officials, industrialists and celebrated persons should make it clear they are prepared to be sacrificed if taken hostage. If that were done, what gain would there be for terrorists in taking hostages?

Michael O'Leary

The unions need to be taken on. British Airways is massively over-staffed and has got to get its costs down. . . . The problem for [chief executive] Willie Walsh is that the board of BA has no spine, no balls and no vision.

Ann Beattie

Also minimalism is a term that all of us who share so little in common and who are lumped together as minimalists are not terribly happy with.

Stanley Tucci

What's great is when you're working with somebody with whom you have a connection, it's exciting because there's a shorthand and you trust each other and you have a good time together on the set and so you can go a little farther than you might normally because you're with somebody that you trust.

Michael Caine

Sometimes, in a part, everything comes together.

Mel Torme

See, I never wrote arrangements for the band for Judy Garland; I did strictly special material, special lyrics, put together all of her medleys.

Michel Gondry

The problem when you edit a film together, when you shoot a film, you are drawn into the moment. You want each moment to be special and full of life.

Michael Jackson

I just want to bring the world together. Togetherness is what I want for this planet.

Melissa Joan Hart

I didn't get married. I do have a boyfriend. We live together.

Mehmet Oz

Not enough families eat together. We eat in front of the TV while we're absorbed in a program.

Michael Rooker

Actors are actors. They're all buddies. I've done so many movies and TV that you get to be friends with everyone. And the ones you don't get to be friends with, you simply don't work together with them again.