Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ze Frank

YouTube has become more mature, both as a platform and as a community. So much content has been added in almost every conceivable category that there are no more free passes on just getting there first. I think there are greater expectations for audience participation, the kind of participation that makes a real impact in a show's community.

Marci Hamilton

The poll numbers are bad. Katrina is added to other failures. The moderate choices look better politically,

Lawrence Summers

The overarching global imperative to work to combat poverty ... must gain added urgency today when HIV-AIDS, conflict and other catastrophes are helping to reverse years of development gains in the poorest countries,

Sharon Treat

The overall trend for many years now is that drug prices go up substantially more than the rate of inflation, and that continues to be the case. Even though it's up less than in the previous quarter, it is still a substantial increase, and this is added on to increases from previous quarters.

David S. Goyer

Superman has evolved continually in the comic books over the course of 75 years. He couldn't even fly for years in the original comic books. Kryptonite wasn't added until the '60s. All sorts of things like this. If a character is going to remain vital, he does have to change with the times.

Victoria Strauss

Maybe self-publishing is going to be an extra step added to publishing. Maybe what's going to happen is you self-publish a book, someone notices it - an agent? - and it goes from there into the traditional sphere.

Natasha Trethewey

My mother was murdered by my step-father, my brother's father, who was also named Joel, twenty-five years ago. Whatever sadness or burden I've been living with since then, my brother's also been living with, but he's lived with the added burden of having the exact same name as our mother's murderer.

Mike Coleman

The aim is to implement new technologies for added efficiency, not just for their own sake, or because they are the greatest wonder since sliced bread.

Robert Daggett

The acquisition of Lauri added confusion to what we do. We'd been making similar stuff for years and everybody knew how to make those products. We basically doubled the size of our product line in one fell swoop and the old way of relying on memory no longer worked.

Ice T

I think the most successful are the most paranoid. The first thing people do when they buy a mansion is they build the biggest wall you could possibly build around it. What happens is, now you become a target. If I go into the hood, I'm at a disadvantage. They could carry guns. I can't. They can hit me in the face. I can't.

Ice Cube

I never get tired of 'It Was A Good Day' references or jokes or anything like that. It's just, you know, keeping my biggest hit alive. Nothing wrong with that.

Isaac Brock

I like Modest Mouse. I'm our biggest fan. And enemy. I won't waste people's time by putting out a Modest Mouse record just because. That's fair, right?

Ian Watson

My father-in-law just happens to be a global procurement guru. Now retired, he was the global head of procurement for some of the biggest companies in the world as well as our very own treasury.

Giovanni Agnelli

The Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy, and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside the Soviet Union.

Gianni Agnelli

Well, the Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside Soviet Union, there's no doubt about that.

Gareth Bale

My dad's the one who's always been there; he's my hero, you could say. Even when he was working, he'd do anything for me. He's been the biggest influence in my life.

Vonda Shepard

The biggest similarity between me and my character is that we've both played clubs for 20 years. In real life, the clubs aren't quite as controlled - and my hair isn't quite as in place as it is on 'Ally McBeal.'

Christian Bale

The biggest rebellion I could've ever had with my father would be to work in a bank. He would have disowned me. As long as I was doing something where I didn't have to wear a tie, I was good.

Chris Carter

In Canada, I climbed some mountains with the Alpine Club of Canada, which taught me a lot about stamina.

Natalie du Toit

Qualifying for the Olympic Games was one of those moments where you just cry because it was like you've climbed Mount Everest.

Brock Roweton

What else can you say? The kids are fantastic. We just need to find away to get over the edge. We have climbed up there, now we just need to jump over it.

Hank Azaria

I always hoped for a show that was realistic and provocative and moving and funny. And to me, it's exceeded those expectations ... not to mention the people who have climbed aboard to join in it. As a creative endeavor, it's been the greatest experience of my life.

Dave Otto

The fact that home sales were up, while mortgage rates also climbed bodes well for the real estate community.

Kate Christensen

I never liked dolls or played house. I read and wrote, climbed trees, collected rocks, rode my bike, and befriended boys, platonically.

Shaukat Hussain

When the tsunami came, they had climbed on to a hill. They kept walking, they got lost, and were wandering in the forest, resting, then walking again, ... They traveled from the western side of the island to the eastern side until we saved them.

Roger Clemens

As soon as I climbed on the mound, I was lost a little bit, ... I knew I had to gather it up pretty quick and get through that.

Richard Batty

The wall of worry has continually been climbed by investors.

Sgt. Skelton

Police had to do a hard entry to the residence because they didn't get a response when they knocked.

Ron Watson

I felt our strength was going to our inside game. In the second half, they were sagging on our guards to prevent the entry pass.

Paul Rosenzweig

Having a smaller set of documentswould ultimately streamline entry process and facilitate traffic.

Tina Barnard

There is no entry fee. If people just want to come out and learn more about asthma, we'd be thrilled.

John Sanders

He was not particularly reactionary; he didn't stand in the schoolhouse doors, forbid entry or anything. But if the world had run by his standards, there would not have been integration.

Ron McKay

He was refused entry on grounds of national security, presumably by the secret police.

Sal Basilone

He was masked on his entry but not on his exit.

R. Robinson

We have a situation where there is a nice point of entry on a stock that has the leading technology in stationary fuel cells.

Dawn Seiler

There are things that you don't see on the stat sheet. Christina did a good job on defense. She's long and got long arms. She does a good job of stopping that entry pass. She needs to be a force for us to be successful on defense.

Art Russell

The PC stocks should do well in the second half of this year.

Anirvan Banerji

The outlook for the second half is shakier -- but we do not see any sign of recession here.

David Remnick

You know what writers say about their long books: If I had another year, the book would be half as long.

Bill Budge

I know when something is kind of half-baked.

Danielle Chaisson

The 3s at the start of the second half put us in a big hole. We made some sloppy passes and they capitalized.

Matt Gibson

That was the key to the whole game. We had a six-point lead in the first half and a four-point lead in the second half. (The Knights) got their leads because they rebound.

Mark Cuban

That was the worst half of officiating I've ever seen. That was terrible, and I want it on the record I said that at halftime, no matter what the outcome.

Chip Taylor

That was the thing we talked about early, was taking that away. In the second half I thought we did a better job, but it was too late.

Mark Belenski

That woke us up. We did not play well in the first half of the Hoban game.

David Horsey

I've always called myself a journalist who happens to draw. If I wasn't drawing cartoons, I'd be writing stories.

Frank Zappa

Most rock journalism is people who can not write interviewing people who can not talk

Claire Coffee

I actually went to study journalism at Northwestern, thinking that would be my Plan B for a career. But then I realized, if I'm going to struggle and make no money, I might as well do what I really want to do.

Jim Taylor

I don't know whether it will sell; God's truth, I don't care. I want it in libraries, I want it in journalism schools. I want it out there.

Jim Kelly

I don't know why a journalist in that position would not talk.

Dave Barry

As the saying goes: "If you're not part of the solution, you're a newspaper columnist."

David Remnick

Speaking to the subject is the most overrated thing in journalism,

Bernard Goldberg

Don't pretend to be a journalist if you're not a journalist.

Cecily Strong

I solemnly swear not to talk about Hillary's appearance, because that is not journalism.

Bernadette Peters

It was like being high when you reach those high notes.

B. B. King

Notes are expensive... spend them wisely

AJ Punjabi

We're offering a reminder service. If you sign up for our e-mail subscription list, the notes are going to automatically be in your e-mail box.

David Bernstein

He used no notes and yet his speech was passionate and moving. It was very impressive.

David Stern

The only record we have are your notes and your recollection.

Sunny Murray

When you take two notes on the piano, an octave apart, and play them in rapid alternation, you get a third tone.

William Shakespeare

There's not a note of mine that's worth the noting.

Augusten Burroughs

There's never a false note in a Berg novel.

Mark Dindal

I said to everyone, you can send any notes you want, but notes that speak to this, what the movie's really about, those are the ones which are going to be helpful.

Indiana Evans

You have to remember I've been working with adults since I was 12 - they were my peers, and it has an effect, for sure.

William McNamara

I knew I would be an actor since I was seven or eight.

Bikram Choudhury

Most researchers sit at a table and read books. My research, since three years old, has been to use my own body.

Alice Walker

Since the time of the witch burnings, the grandmothers and the healers and the midwives have been systematically targeted. And burned at the stake for hundreds of years, decimating whole communities.

Alice Walker

I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it.

Nicolaus Copernicus

The earth also is spherical, since it presses upon its center from every direction.

Reid Scott

I've been a diehard fan of 'The Simpsons' since I was a kid.

Robert Zoellick

Since I came to the World Bank in 2007, I have argued that we must 'modernize multilateralism.'

Pat Nixon

I have made my own decisions ever since my father died.

Will Sergeant

You go through these little phases and fads, and it never turns out the way you think it's going to turn out.

Dustin Lynch

My brain never turns off of songwriting. Every conversation, everything I see, I'm just kind of like a sponge and I soak it up.

Author unknown

I thought I wanted a career, turns out I just wanted paychecks.

Charles Dickens

things cannot be expected to turn up of themselves. We must in a measure assist to turn them up

Aiden Wilson Tozer

How completely satisfying to turn from [our] limitations to a God who has none.

Denise Levertov

Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.

Derek Walcott

How can I turn from Africa and live?

Andy Warhol

When you do something exactly wrong, you always turn up something.

Alfred Hitchcock

Never turn your back on a friend.