Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neelie Kroes

The payment cards industry in Europe remains national and some local players are preventing competition from developing.

Gerry Gerlach

That was her old system ? she didn't need a computer. We used to use thousands of those cards for ordering. She always had that dedication to the business.

Mary Smith

That was a leap year, and he didn't run away. We're enjoying being with each other in our retirement. We never get bored. We play cards together, do crosswords and he likes to cook.

Rachel Bolton

Valentine's Day is the second largest holiday for giving greeting cards after Christmas.

Charles Burton

I stood in line ... to vote, and as they were handing out the plastic cards that you insert, some lady said to me, 'Judge, you sure this isn't preprogrammed.' So people still have their doubts.

Steve Noyce

We have a few good cards to play and we haven't been called to play any of them, so we'll see what happens.

Paul Fitzhenry

Those deficiencies are noted, but at the same time, there is no mention about the Medicare discount cards that were introduced last year. These cards provide discounts between 30 and 40 percent or even more for uninsured patients.

John Carroll

I worked for Knight Ridder for 18 years and I know the Detroit Free Press was part of the company's pride back in the old days. Now it seems, viewed from the outside, that these papers are like cards in a deck: you shuffle them, you deal them, you fold them, and the meaning of them as an institution in the community seems to have been lost.

Rickey Henderson

I think playing cards gave me the opportunity to relax in the game.

Elizabeth Warren

There are lots of families who - who make irresponsible purchases. There are also a lot of families who have debt on credit cards because they use those credit cards to pay for medical bills.

John C. Calhoun

What is it but a cunningly devised scheme to take from one State and to give to another - to replenish the treasury of some of the States from the pockets of the people of the others; in reality, to make them support the governments and pay the debts of other States as well as their own?

John C. Calhoun

He is blind indeed who does not see, in the signs of the times, a strong tendency to plunge the Union as deep in debt as are many of the States, and to subjugate the whole to the paper system.

Bill Vaughan

In the midst of life we are in debt.

Stanley Ho

We have always said that for the projects we look for 65%-35% debt-to-equity. From an equity point of view, we are already fully funded,

Robert Reich

Tea Partiers hate government more than they hate the national debt. They refuse to reduce that debt with tax increases, even with tax increases on the wealthy, because a tax increase doesn't reduce the size of government.

Paskah Suzetta

We'll reschedule the debt to the IMF later, especially that the money has not been spent.

Ron Reitzel

We wanted to have no debt when we got married except for a house payment, so we paid for the wedding as we went.

Keith Sherin

We feel great about where we are with our debt strategy,

Yotam Ottolenghi

What makes maftoul worth celebrating is that it's so easy and forgiving to cook.

Walter Savage Landor

There is no easy path leading out of life, and few easy ones that lie within it.

Carrie Fisher

Everything is negotiable. Whether or not the negotiation is easy is another thing.

Bethenny Frankel

If happiness were easy, everybody would feel it all the time, and it wouldn't seem like such an elusive prize.

Caroline Haberfeld

The airfares are less expensive, and it's very easy to get there. It's very convenient. It's English-speaking and the value is good.

Saddam Hussein

The American government made several errors ... one of which is how easy it would be to get rid of Saddam and how hard it would be to unite the country,

Austin Kearns

That was the worst wind I've ever seen here. It wasn't easy out there by any means.

Steve Goff

That will be the toughest match of the day (for us). We're planning to serve them tough and keep them from getting an easy pass.

Andriy Shevchenko

The 1-1 from the first leg is a good result, but we must think we are starting from zero. We must not think that Bayern can be an easy opponent.

Ian Mckellen

You see people in Hollywood trying to make blockbuster after blockbuster, but it's not possible. There's some god up there saying, 'You will fail now.' But I suppose that's true of us all.

Yann Martel

If I didn't have children, I think my life would be a failure.

Victoria Osteen

God's not thinking about your mistakes, failures or shortcomings. No, His thoughts toward you are good.

Rick Pitino

Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Ashton Kutcher

What I've become good at is bringing things that aren't necessarily mainstream to the mainstream. What I did see on Twitter was a potential for mass publication; it's a mainstream consumer broadcasting device. It transforms customers and companies. You have to be transparent or you fail.

Bill Vaughan

Failed the bright promise of your early day?

Gerhard Schroeder

The American president called me and made the proposal, and I told him that it would not fail because of Germany,

Pete Harpolis

That was in 2002, and to date, we haven't had any failures since we proof tested this cable.

Ron Rivera

That was a tough thing, too. They went after the young guy. It was a tough play and he failed as well.

Yani Tseng

So it must be my mental, because sometimes when I start on the tee, I still worry about whether my ball is going to hit right or left.

Barbara Kerr

The ($3 billion) should be paid back, and then we talk about programs. Hit and miss is not the way it should be done.

Gwen Stefani

That was it. Suddenly you hit puberty, and it's like, you know, thrift stores! I just started deconstructing everything from thrift stores.

Louis Whorton

That was the story of the game. They were hitting two shots to our one. We didn't rebound worth a flip, and they doubled us on rebounding.

Joe Girardi

That was the kind of player I had to be. I had to do the little things to win, and they have to do a lot of them. They have to hit and run, they have to steal, they have to squeeze some,

Carolyn Brown

That would hit the majority of our members. Most would be in the 25 (employees-and-under) range.

John Krawczyk

That would be a big hit to the budget.

Julio Franco

That won't be the last one I hit. I want to hit one in my 50s.

Julio Franco

That won't be the last home run I hit, and I hope I hit one when I'm 50.

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.

Gillian Armstrong

I have major credibility as a hip, out-there documentary filmmaker, and I'm not going to say, 'I'm only a drama filmmaker' anymore.

Buck Leonard

I was not bitter by not being allowed to play in the major leagues. I just said, 'The time has not come.'

Bryan Cogman

I hate when the major event of a show I watch is spoiled for me. And I'm wracked with guilt when/if I spoil something for someone else.

Bridget Kelly

For me, the majority of my music is really dark and to the point.

Frank Pierson

There's no question that the '70s themselves were really wide open. There was just so much being done at that time. Every year, the major studios were commissioning things that they would never touch today or even thought of touching in the 1950s.

Tony Benn

The anti-war movement now represents a majority in the country.

Steve Forbes

The American administration is making a major mistake, trying to pressure the Chinese. I wish we'd back off.

Sue Enquist

The ASA Major Championship is the pinnacle of women's major softball during the summer. I'm really proud of all the players that contributed to that team.

Arlen Specter

We have a major, major problem on our hands, ... It is a matter of very, very substantial urgency.

Carrie Brownstein

Just invest in apps. Just download apps and then pay yourself the dividend.

Bethenny Frankel

All I ever wanted to do was be able to pay my rent.

Bette Davis

I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries.

Mark Steber

The AMT is not just a tax that rich people pay anymore.

Sabrina Harris

The 125 years don't have anything to do with my daughter. He killed my daughter, so I want him to pay for it.

Ben Hinson

We can't have people at the partnership wondering if they can pay the bills.

Braylon Edwards

We wanted to pay tribute to him for revolutionizing the position. He was the front-runner.

Peter Schuyler

What is the first thing we did when we took control of Iraq? Protect the oil fields. Remember the administration quote about how the oil would pay for the war.

Matthew Stewart

Whoever pays the consultant gets pretty much what they want to hear.

Yoshihiko Noda

There's a tendency for the yen to strengthen because it's rated highly, but I don't think that accurately reflects Japan's economic performance.

Elizabeth Warren

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

Juergen Michels

That will probably keep the ECB waiting until September, rather than going for a rate rise, as a done deal, every quarter.

Glenn Thomas

We'll probably have to look at some rate increases.

Day One

We get rated down by homeowners associations because we have no slums.

Jill Dougherty

I think one of the misconceptions is that it is fatal. If it's detected early, the five-year survival rate is 95%.

Judy Garland

Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else

Astro Teller

Going from an error rate of 25 meters in GPS to 2.5 meters is huge. Going to 25 centimeters is going to matter just as much.

Alan Watts

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

Kris Janowski

Virtually all of the 28 have received verbal threats and begged to be evacuated.

Sen. Nass

I think it will receive an even more overwhelming reception in the Senate.

Robert Lawson

I was unaware of water in garages in The Vineyards until I received these letters. That's disturbing.

James Rubin

We received assurances at a variety of levels.

Chris Beard

We received a lot of user requests for this.

Eric Dubin

When you received Rosie, did you say, 'It's now you and me, kid?'

Horton Foote

I've lived long enough to know things go in and out of fashion, and things not well received now can be totally reversed years later.

Harold Williams

I was going through various hypothetical situations: What if we receive a stolen object? What if it turns out one of our dealers say someone like Symes turns out to be a fence?

Hariadi Wibisono

I have just received confirmation from Hong Kong.

Gene Ween

You know, it's absolutely connected to The Mollusk in that, it's what we're writing after The Mollusk. A lot of this stuff reminds me of things on The Mollusk.

Roy Moore

They don't want to be reminded that there is an authority higher than the authority of the state.

Hugh Johnson

Merck reminds us that this is about earnings.

Jennifer Morrison

For us it's a visible reminder of the season.

Anthony Biondo

For three state titles. It was kind of a reminder for me.

Larry Brown

He reminds me so much of Isiah (Thomas).

Bobby Locke

He reminds me of Tracy McGrady without the flash.

Funkmaster Flex

He reminds me a lot of myself when I was young,

Mark Lawrenson

Cucumber reminds me of my mother making me eat sprouts.

George Allen

I have no intention of running for office again.

C. S. Lewis

Total war is the most humane in the long run.

C. S. Lewis

We're free Narnians, Hwin and I, and I suppose, if you're running away to Narnia you want to be one too. In that case Hwin isn't your horse any longer. One might just as well say you're her human.

C. S. Lewis

Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other.

C. S. Lewis

In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a strain, or a friction, in the running of that machine. That is why these rules at first seem to be constantly interfering with our natural inclinations.

C. S. Lewis

Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

C. S. Lewis

Aslan: You doubt your value. Don't run from who you are.

Catullus

What a woman says to an eager lover, write it on running water, write it on air.

Catullus

What women say to lovers, you'll agree, One writes on running water or on air.

Larry Foote

We just didn't want them to score today.

Ron Forman

We just come out and play ball. We never really try to come out and score this much, but sometimes it just all comes together.

Sergio Garcia

You just have to turn the scoreboard around. That?s the only thing.

Stephen Ames

I think I was watching it with Vijay. I was watching the scoreboard from the first hole, so I knew.

Christine Sinclair

I think the thing that has sort of always separated me, even from when I was younger, is my ability to score goals.

Rick Adelman

We made him work, he took 20 shots to score 15 points.

Derek Jeter

I was thinking triple all the way. It's good, too, because it usually takes a triple to score Jorge.

Chelsea Baker

We can play with anyone, we can win any way and if they score a lot we'll score more.

Nick Haynes

We can play pretty well, but we just can't seem to find somebody that can score for us,

Nick Jonas

I think a lot of what you do in acting, and for the most part singing and dancing and everything, is trial and error. It's all about just seeing what works, and if it does, to use it, and if not, to throw it away.

Johnny Damon

That was good, just seeing Keith out there, doing his thing. He's only going to get better.

David Levine

You are going to start seeing a lot of squirming and shaking now.

Cheryl Kirkland

Usually, we're kind of seeing what the other team has...but we were overheated in the beginning. It's just a different temperature down here.

Reggie Bush

I'm sick of seeing us on TV. We're on TV so much, it's ridiculous.

Reggie Bush

I'm sick of seeing it on TV. I'm sure they are.

Bob Cotton

We are not seeing cancellations, but we are not seeing new bookings either,

John Landis

We were just seeing how wacky you can be.

Von Roebuck

We are seeing some cases. It could be life-threatening.

Kelly Chesney

Voters need to read the petitions. Don't sign anything unless you know what it says.

Phil Garner

We just went over signs again. Just a refresher course.

Tim Hevly

We have not signed him and there's no announcement pending.

Johnny Rivers

One of the first groups we signed was the Fifth Dimension.

Olli Jokinen

If it was up to me I'd sign myself here. But it's out of my hands.

Keary McCarthy

I think it's a sign of desperation for them.

Penny Monahan

I think it's a very upbeat celebration, and it's also the sign of spring in town.

Frostee Rucker

When he stayed back this year it wasn't just to have fun. It was to put his signature on his work.

Bruce Bochy

He wanted me to sign it, ... He took it over to me.

Andrew Fastow

I think many of the statements in there are false.

Yuuki Sakurai

I'm speechless. What can you say when you can't trust a company's statements or the exchange's trading system.

Sergei Bubka

His statements are really crazy, we are really shocked.

John Esposito

Frankly, I find (such accusations) humorous. A lot of these statements are ideologically or politically motivated.

Eric Maskin

I don't want to make public statements about issues that I have not studied in detail.

Mary Parsons

There are a lot of conflicting statements from the proponent.

David F. Houston

We are investigating the circumstances under which the statements were made.

Christopher Seekins

They are totally different statements and are dishonest.

George Henry Lewes

Pliny... makes the statement, and for untrustworthiness of statement he cannot easily be surpassed.

Gaines Adams

I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son.

George Allen

It's time for an American comeback... where leaders in Washington listen to 'we the people.'

Zadie Smith

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are.

Zadie Smith

Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.

Vivienne Westwood

I am in my own head most of the time.

Zubin Mehta

New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.

Zubin Mehta

I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.

Yakov Smirnoff

When you like something, you find time to do it.

Evangeline Lilly

I'm a bit delusional, but every time I do a job, I think I'm retired.

Dennis Hastert

We're willing to look at offsets if there are viable offsets,

Felipe Calderon

He didn't come because he does not have viable proposals.

Dolly Parton

There's no such thing as free love. Have you seen the price of Viagra?

Ricardo Patton

If we don't go, I don't know that it will be because of this one loss. But I still think that we're a viable candidate.

David Letterman

This Hillary Clinton scandal has to do with emails. All I get are emails for Canadian Viagra.

Andrew Zimbalist

I don't think contraction is a viable option.

David Miles

There's not that much viable agriculture in this county.

Gaby Hoffmann

I don't watch a lot of T.V. I only watch things via Netflix, so I only watch the things that I'm choosing to watch.

Richard Notebaert

I like to think of this as a Viagra for competition.