Famous Quotes & Sayings

Life, to me, is like a quiet forest pool, one that needs a direct hit from a big rock half-buried in the ground. You pull and you pull, but you can't get the rock out of the ground. So you give it a good kick, but you lose your balance and go skidding down the hill toward the pool. Then out comes a big Hawaiian man who was screwing his wife beside the pool because they thought it was real pretty. He tells you to get out of there, but you start faking it, like you're talking Hawaiian, and then he gets mad and chases you...

Trudi Canavan

The Magicians Apprentice was about someone from the low end of society manifesting magical power and how that completely messes up the balance of the whole system.

Richard Rohr

It is so important to balance orthodoxy with orthopraxy.

Valerie Cruz

I eat tons of green veggies to keep my PH balance in check.

Roger Ailes

Every other network has given all their shows to liberals. We are the balance.

Virginia Satir

Taste everything, but swallow only what fits.

Sarah Dessen

It’s never something huge that changes the everything, but instead the tiniest of details, irrevocably tweaking the balance of the universe while you’re busy focusing on the big picture.

Sandra Cisneros

I've come to some balance now and calmness. If anything happened to me and I got hit by a bus - I hope this doesn't happen, but if something happened - my body of work is something I could rest on. I don't feel, "Oh God, I have to hurry up . . ."

Rohinton Mistry

You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair.

Garth Whyte

This isn't just a matter of changing the settings on a cash register - that can be done fairly quickly.

Tim Evans

They can continue to pump away and ring the cash register, ignoring the looming Q2 supply/demand surplus just like everyone else.

Dianne Wiest

The studios are very much business. Maybe it was always that way. It is really commercial now. Judgments are made and directions are given to make the cash register ring.

Michael Hendricks

We're not trying to look into (Titan's) cash drawer. But they want us to say that all's well, and we can't say that until we've seen the full picture.

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

The value that some analysts put on revenue vs. what they put on profit is out of whack. If you can grow real cash earnings, that's 80% of what you ought to do, and the revenue component is 20%.

Jon Burnham

The question about Dell is whether this is a commodity business. But this is a company with little debt, tremendous cash flows and a great reputation.

Dan Packer

We have an immediate need for cash because our goal is to continue the restoration effort.

Paul Allaire

Xerox's performance in the first quarter is evidence of significant cash and operational improvements as well as the effectiveness of our turnaround strategy,

Red Herring

Today?s (venture capital) money chases older, more-established companies with real cash flows, rather than pie in the sky projections. Silicon Valley has evolved.

Sam Cassell

We're just the same old Clippers. That's all we are. We're just the same old Clippers. We want teams to continue to take us lightly.

Karolyn Grimes

Life continues to be difficult. It always will be because that's just life. But I am so glad I have put some happiness into the world.

Roger McDowell

Obviously the success Leo had here was pretty much second to none. Hopefully we will continue that success.

Tim Knight

Right now I'm pretty happy. I'm looking forward to this semester. Hopefully I can just continue on how I finished last semester, play strong in these last three tournaments, and go from there.

Jason Hall

I always work hard on my game. I want to continue to improve each and every season.

James Rubin

But we have made clear, while we recognize the territorial integrity of Iraq, that we think it's important and appropriate for us to meet with ... Kurdish officials in northern Iraq, and we will continue to do so as we see fit.

Yasser Elguindi

But they don't want to send the wrong signal to the market. They want to continue a loose supply policy, meaning that if there's a crude problem, which there isn't now, they can supply it.

Pat Burns

But it's going to remain an open facility for any hospice program in the region. The hospice team from St. Luke's can continue to follow a patient and provide care.

David Gallop

But the survey shows they must continue to work on this issue.

Shelby Seyrafi

They grew at 14 percent. That's very impressive. I expected them to grow at 12 percent.

Bobby Burton

We'll generate between 35 to 40 million individual page use.

Joanne Pratt

The Web is a great place to shop and spend money, but it's pretty great for making money too.

Marcus Thames

That's what I work for every year. It'll be a great feeling.

Sean McMahon

Zach had a great race for us as he mixed in with some of the top runners in the state.

Tommy Lasorda

You wait till you see that Dominican team. You wait till you see Puerto Rico. You wait till you see Venezuela. . . . Matsui is a great player. The Japanese team needs him.

Thomas More

Your sheep, that were wont to be so meek and tame and so small eaters, now, as I hear say, be become so great devourers, and so wild, that they eat up and swallow down the very men themselves.

Ken Johnson

You really hope that he's OK. He's a great player and you never want to see a player get hurt like that.

Mike Dunne

You're a great neighbor and we all know what you're doing, and we know you're going to do this with care,

Tim Duncan

Beno has been playing great for us. With Nick out right now, Beno is getting a lot of minutes and he has really responded well.

Phil Colicchio

We wanted to take away their penetration. Our big guys did a great job of meeting their guards in the lane.

Dennis Prager

It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home.

Amy Weber

I have always brought home stray animals - everything from squirrels to wild rabbits to foxes and turtles.

Alex Pettyfer

I wish I had some interesting stories about living in L.A., but mostly I just do my work and then go home.

Alessandro Nivola

I live right under the Hollywood sign, so that every day when I drive home I'm reminded of why I'm here.

Aleksandar Hemon

I don't know the numbers, but roughly half of the people who came through Ellis Island returned home. They came here to make money, not to make history.

Aleksandar Hemon

I have two homes, like someone who leaves their hometown and/or parents and then establishes a life elsewhere. They might say that they're going home when they return to see old friends or parents, but then they go home as well when they go to where they live now. Sarajevo is home, Chicago is home.

Aleksandar Hemon

If you can't go home, there is nowhere to go, and nowhere is the biggest place in the world-indeed, nowhere is the world.

Aleksandar Hemon

Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there.

Alfred Molina

When I get home after being away for work, my wife always stuffs the fridge with loads of what she calls 'nibbles' - all the great things you can eat straight from the fridge, like chunks of cheese, slices of ham, bowls of hummus.

Jeanne Tripplehorn

I'd really been wanting to do a television series. I was looking for a comedy.

Jack Gould

There is something supremely reassuring about television; the worst is always yet to come.

Jesse Ventura

'The Young and the Restless' is my favorite television show.

Gordon B. Hinckley

I am suggesting that we spend a little less time in idleness, in the fruitless pursuit of watching inane and empty television programs. Time so utilized can be put to better advantage, and the consequences will be wonderful.

Fred Rogers

I got into television because I hated it so,

George H. W. Bush

I just sit ther and do what I vowed I would never do - talk back to the television.

Ellen DeGeneres

I've got a lot to say about television. There's a lot going on in television right now and I feel like a huge part of television.

Jerry Bruckheimer

Any time you can create something that gets to a large audience is fantastic. And television still gets you to a huge audience.

Kevin Beary

He's not watching television, 'cause we've done some things so he can't watch television.

Bobby Womack

I started with Sam Cooke when I was 6 or 7 years old.

Bobby Scott

Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads.

Bobby Sherman

In the last 5 years I've been working with the LAPD, training police officers in first aid and CPR.

Bobby Knight

At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven't called walking for 20 years, now you don't know what it is. When you call walking, you're about half right.

Bobby Cox

This year is different, ... We have 11 for about four.

Dustin Hoffman

I decided a long time ago but sometimes it takes you 40 years to get around to doing something - and that's the truthful answer.

Adolf Hitler

Every year a thousand kilometers of motor-roads will be opened until the greatest work in the history of mankind is completed.

Adolf Hitler

Thus one of Europe's most serious crises will be ended, and all of us, not only in Germany but those far beyond our frontiers, will then in this year for the first time really rejoice at the Christmas festival. It should for us all be a true Festival of Peace.

Adolf Hitler

In the course of carrying through our program for which we have calculated four years, two and one-quarter million out of six million unemployed have already received employment again within a period of eight short months.