Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edwin Eisendrath

This just echoes what I've heard all over the state. State employees just don't trust the governor. They don't trust him with their pensions, they don't trust him to hire competent managers, they don't trust him with the state budget.

P. J. Harvey

They have some very competent guards and they love to run screen and rolls. So we will have to be ready for that. This will be a very tough game.

William Wordsworth

And the most difficult of tasks to keepHeights which the soul is competent to gain.

Jay Ellison

A fairly good percentage of young people have only a wireless device. But as the older generation of homeowners move into their golden years, they will be more comfortable with just a wireless phone around the house. They've grown up with improved technology, and they're more competent with it.

Peter Watkins

It was written by a very competent and very sophisticated computer scientist or group of computer scientists who really know what they're doing.

Brian Tracy

The future belongs to the competent

Sally Burkholder

Ann and I have turned over the major responsibilities to other people. It has grown up; the administration has moved on. We've been replaced by some very competent people.

Albert Murray

The improvisational nature of jazz musicianship is such that a truly competent performer must be prepared to function as an on-the-spot composer who is expected to contribute to the orchestration in progress, not simply to execute the score as it is written and rehearsed.

Felix Rohatyn

Throughout U.S. history, competent public investments have been an essential complement to private investments - from the Louisiana Purchase, to land-grant colleges, to the Interstate Highway System, to the Internet.

Marc Ribot

It's not surprising that a composer learns in detail an instrument. That's not surprising. That should be the first thing a composer does.

Sivamani

I know I have experience, having worked with the likes of legendary composers like Ilaiyaraaja. And, I've been long enough with my dear friend A. R. Rahman, and we've collaborated on several musical works. All this gives me confidence.

David Del Tredici

I've always been a composer dependent on texts.

Patrick Doyle

Sometimes Ive listened to film scores and felt, 'Did the composer phone that in?'

James Tenney

I've come up with another formulation about style: that it's essentially a manifestation of a certain habitual set of limitations. It's what a composer does NOT do that defines a style.

John Eaton

I think the composer and production staff of an opera have a real responsibility to use visual elements of all kinds to make clear to the American audience, at any rate, exactly what is going on.

John Eaton

I think a lot of composers get into trouble just making up a plot and expecting an audience to follow that.

Daniel Handler

Wherever there’s a conductor, you’re sure to find a dead composer!

Arthur Honegger

There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead

Brett Clark

Whenever you can contribute this time of year, especially with the points we need right now, it's always a big boost.

Ken Stewart

When forests are professionally managed, they contribute greatly to our quality of life, which this property will do for decades.

Richard Maulsby

When we find or are informed of such personal information in our files that could contribute to identity theft, we remove it and so inform the applicant or petitioner.

Paul Gaustad

With the lines we have, we really just want to contribute as much as we can. I think it's the strength of our team, and it shows our character.

Alonzo Mourning

All of us needed to contribute in order for us to get that win. Some nights are going to be like that.

Mark Ward

A lot of people say they wish they could do something to help, and in some regards, there's not a lot an individual can do because of William's particular condition. But this is one thing they can actually do. They can show up and be a part of it and help contribute to the MDA.

Michael Fisher

A lot of people out here are Republican. They contribute significantly to the Republican Party. Since Mitch Daniels and the Republican Party are going to be out here today, it's a good way to communicate our message.

Kyle Herrman

A married couple filing jointly can deduct up to $6000 if they contribute that much and that is per student, per year.

Mike Pearson

They get to help contribute back to the Lions Club, and we save money by getting these guys to drive for us.

Michel Therrien

We started playing in the second period. We started to execute our plan in the second period. When we're doing what we're supposed to do, we're a tough team to play against.

J. Horton

We have to go in there and be tough. Playing an IU team you have to be mentally tough. Those guys play really hard and they take pride in playing at home. We have to go in there and be tough, execute and value the ball.

Joe Grippo

We were a long shot to get to Central. We just didn't play well in the two tournament games. We didn't execute the way we did all season long. I don't know if we ran out of gas. But I'm not going to make excuses.

Ben Roethlisberger

We're going to put together our first game plan and, hopefully, come out and execute it, ... The big thing is, we want to work on the little things. If we can put the little things together, the big picture will come together and, hopefully, it will be pretty nice.

Tony Dungy

When we do what we're supposed to do and execute the play, we've been pretty good on third-and-1 or 2.

Kyle Wright

When we didn't execute this season, it didn't work. At times, inconsistency hurt us. That was a big thing for us.

Gary Waters

We were in a position, and it turned on us in the last minutes. We didn't execute well in the last minutes.

Kobe Bryant

We botched the play up and didn't execute it right. The spacing was messed up. We had a nice screen and roll situation. ... We just didn't execute if properly.

Smush Parker

Usually, I have big quarters. Tonight, my points were spread out. ... We're finally starting to come together and play team D. We're starting to execute on offense a little more.

Jeff Mittie

The positive was our team play was further ahead. I thought our guards played the way they should have. They played like I expected since they're the veterans.

Donnie Edwards

All of us expected to win last week,

Marc Berman

the most disappointing. Nobody expected 'Invasion' to hold the 'Lost' lead-in. But it's losing a good 30 (percent) to 40 percent of the lead-in. That's a lot.

Tarvaris Jackson

It's exciting. You know, it's all new and different for me. I'm working my way through it and trying to do what's expected of me. Like I said, you never really know where you're going or when you're going until you hear your name called. I just want to work hard and show what I can do and just see how it comes out.

Kent Brown

It's a situation we want to be in. We're not expected to win so if we don't, it's no big deal. And if we do, it's all good.

David Myers

A lot of those are still in service a lot longer than we expected they would be.

Heather Stewart

They played their butts off today. Nobody expected us to play this team that tight. I couldn't be more proud.

Jason Richardson

The young guys got a lot of talent. Right now, they're playing with their talent, and they're playing better than what we expected of them.

Frank DeSalvo

They never thought they'd get a fair shake from this department. The guys fully expected what happened to happen.

Bob Young

Whenever something like that happens, it's always a function of poor organization less than poor talented people.

Bill Gates

Customer service will become the primary value added function of every business.

Chris Young

A lot of personal information actually functions like a password and, as such, needs to be robustly protected,

Bob Kessler

This function has always been treated like a stepchild.

Rob Smith

It's a function of the number of students that come in, and we need to plan for the housing of those students.

Mark Keenan

It's a function of the lack of investment in infrastructure.

Lauren Gelman

It's a functional test: Is what you are doing journalism?

Ralph Nader

I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

Kevin Landis

We play the Internet through Internet infrastructure companies. Their function is moving data.

Charles Dickens

The clouds were drifting over the moon at their giddiest speed, at one time wholly obscuring her, at another, suffering her to burst forth in full splendor and shed her light on all the objects around; anon, driving over her again, with increased velocity, and shrouding everything in darkness.

Charles Dickens

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own.

Charles Caleb Colton

We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves.

Charles Dickens

When the moon shines very brilliantly, a solitude and stillness seem to proceed from her that influence even crowded places full of life.

Charles Dickens

The earth covered with a sable pall as for the burial of yesterday; the clumps of dark trees, its giant plumes of funeral feathers, waving sadly to and fro: all hushed, all noiseless, and in deep repose, save the swift clouds that skim across the moon, and the cautious wind, as, creeping after them upon the ground, it stops to listen, and goes rustling on, and stops again, and follows, like a savage on the trail.

Charles Dickens

A moment, and its glory was no more. The sun went down beneath the long dark lines of hill and cloud which piled up in the west an airy city, wall heaped on wall, and battlement on battlement; the light was all withdrawn; the shining church turned cold and dark; the stream forgot to smile; the birds were silent; and the gloom of winter dwelt on everything.

Charles Dickens

It was a cold hard easterly morning when he latched the garden gate and turned away. The light snowfall which had feathered his schoolroom windows on the Thursday, still lingered in the air, and was falling white, while the wind blew black.

Charles Dickens

The bright, frosty day declined as they walked and spoke together. The sun dipped in the river far behind them, and the old city lay red before them, as their walk drew to a close. The moaning water cast its seaweed duskily at their feet, when they turned to leave its margin; and the rooks hovered above them with hoarse cries, darker splashes in the darkening air.

Charles Dickens

The day was made for laziness, and lying on one's back in green places, and staring at the sky till its brightness forced one to shut one's eyes and go to sleep...

Damien Chazelle

At the upper echelon of musicians in general, I guess performers in general, you have to have this kind of live-or-die, cutthroat mentality.

Tift Merritt

My point of view as a writer has to be a lot more ego-less than just like being some performer on stage with a hairdo.

Andy Goldsworthy

I'm not a performer, in that I don't like the public, but I work in that respect.

Peter Chapman

We have not had so many top performers before.

Tim Finn

I'm a live performer and I love playing live.

Carrie Preston

Alan Cumming is such an amazing performer and person.

Marc Walters

We have struggled to put performers on the first team because that's not how our team is built.

Juan Felipe Herrera

If I can only be known as one thing, then, well, I guess it would be poet and performer and teacher.

Larry Peruzzi

It's more of a shock factor. It's been a stellar performer and a leader. This is kind of new territory for them being this cautious.

Samir Inamdar

We are prepared to play Zimbabwe in March.

James Hogan

We are prepared to go all-Boeing or all-Airbus,

Brian Bogosian

We are prepared financially to see this thing through to the very end.

Bob Castle

We're going to take our time and be careful. We are prepared for problems.

Alexander Downer

They have indicated they are prepared to resume talks and before too long, within a reasonable time frame,

PJ Crowley

They talked about where they were and what they should be prepared to consider.

Amanda Brown

They ran the play well. Props for them making it, but we should have been more prepared for that.

Regg Simon

There was one team prepared to play tonight and one team that wasn't. The team that was up 2-0 was prepared.

Charles Clarke

I told him (Blair) I was prepared to resign if he thought it was right, and he said he didn't think it was right.

Erin Sullivan

We want to score early. And score often.

Bill Watterson

The score is still Q to 12!

Alain Vigneault

Three wins by 1-0 scores -- obviously, our goaltending has been solid.

Nick Hartigan

It's encouraging because we don't have to do any scoreboard watching at all. It's all in our hands.

Nicklas Lidstrom

They were going for it, too. They were trying to score a goal. They were all going forward, and I stepped up at the right time.

Christian Vieri

It's not like I have to score more than him, we have to play together,

Kelly Whitney

They're a scrappy team that doesn't score a lot of points.

Tracy Konopacky

As a team, I thought we really did well. We stuck our landings in the vault, and had two 9-point scores on the floor.

Sue Olds

Our API scores give us the idea that we're on the right path.

Chris Duerksen

This is simply something you don't have right now.

Ken McNeely

We simply don't think Californians should have to wait that long.

Albert Einstein

If you can't explain something simply, you don't know enough about it.

Robert Henri

The more simply you see, the more simply you will render. People see too much, scatteringly.

Rhys Ifans

Acting is not an intellectual process for me. It comes from my heart. It's this strange netherworld of osmosis where I simply become.

Jim Wilkinson

I can tell you that simply did not happen.

Robert Rubin

I think there is more work to do, and we simply have to all work together and do everything we can to get it done,

Jack Whittaker

I'm simply a businessman who has seen his share of failures and successes.

Patrick Vieira

He is simply exceptional. He is always there at exceptional moments.

Marianne Williamson

When we are truly aware of our spiritual glory, a varicose vein or two is not that big a deal.

Harriet Ziefert

It's nothing huge, nothing truly terrible. They're more like little aggravations,

Jillian Messenger

I truly have a lot of all-stars on this team, I really do.

Al Thornton

I truly feel like we have done enough to get in the tournament.

Todd Miller

This is truly a localized show down to the jokes.

Julie Foudy

It wasn't just that we were together; we were truly a family. There was always laughter.

Dianna Agron

Without love we are not truly living.

William Butler

Really and truly -- I've nothing to wear.

Robin Wagner

And that's no way to do this. When you compete, you truly should be automatic.

Lisa Cholodenko

I've done episodic television and some other things that have been written by other people.

Jeremy Osborne

It's very ambiguous. It was specifically written to be ambiguous.

Terrence McNally

This play was written for these 11 actors just as 'Master Class' was written for Zoe Caldwell, or 'Frankie and Johnny' was written for Kathy Bates,

Sevyn Streeter

You should find the dopest producer in your area, and that producer is always going to want songs written to his beat.

Eric Schmidt

The average American doesn't realize how much of the laws are written by lobbyists.

Bram Cohen

Up to now, we'd get a written notification ... Now it will be expedited.

Paul Theroux

I have written stories, essays, even whole books on trains, scribble-scribble.

Felipe Alou

What a script. Wow. It was like it was written to be that way.

Allen Tate

What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.