Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeff Boone

We were touched by how many people came. Even her grade school classmates from St. Pius were there. We really appreciated it.

Alexandra Robbins

When I was in high school, I didn't feel like I had to pile on the APs in order to look good to colleges. High-achieving classmates didn't use private tutors.

Troy Mauldin

It's the last big party of the school year-the last time to see all your classmates at one time.

Laila Robins

Because I was from the Midwest and untrained, I was completely open and ready to try anything. Many of my classmates were cynical and jaded; some already had conservatory training, and they were there simply to get that Yale stamp of approval, which they saw as a career stepping-stone.

Ali Liebegott

I was the first in my family to go to college, and I waitressed all the way through, using my earnings to pay for a bachelor's degree first and then a master's. I resented classmates who didn't have to work real jobs, the ones who had the luxury of taking unpaid internships that would eventually position them for high-paying careers.

Calvin Baker

One mother said that at 8 p.m. in her kitchen, she watched her son have a spirited exchange (online) with his classmates over the content of their homework -- those things just can't happen with paper and pencil.

Gordon Higgins

He had already become very popular in the school with his classmates and made many friends.

Michael Caputo

We have classmates from all over the country who come back for our reunion.

Maxim Knight

In preschool, I would plan out my show-and-tell every week to be funny and exciting. Then in first grade I wrote a play, and my classmates and I performed it as a puppet show.

Alan Watts

Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.

Bill Nighy

The degree of notoriety I have is fine and easy. There's nothing hysterical about it.

Chetan Bhagat

Marble flooring is to a Punjabi what a foreign degree is to a Tamilian

Alex Tabarrok

The obsessive focus on a college degree has served neither taxpayers nor students well. Only 35 percent of students starting a four-year degree program will graduate within four years, and less than 60 percent will graduate within six years. Students who haven't graduated within six years probably never will.

Alan Greenspan

Whether those adjustments are wrenching will depend ... on the degree of economic flexibility that we and our trading partners maintain, and I hope enhance, in the years ahead,

Herb Guenther

We're going to seed the clouds. To what degree and how we do it and how we fund it is yet to be determined.

Elizabeth Moon

One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.

Tony Cristaldi

We'll be averaging about five degrees higher than normal.

Cesar Milstein

As we returned to Argentina, I started seriously to work towards a doctoral degree under the direction of Professor Stoppani, the Professor of Biochemistry at the Medical School.

Gordon Nixon

We are pleased with the strong earnings growth and ROE (return on equity) of 23.9% in the first quarter.

Jim Roche

We are pleased with the performance in the quarter, with the return of sequential revenue growth and with the solid earnings results,

Steve Previs

There are some disappointments in earnings and obviously Hewlett-Packard is a big one.

Chuck Hill

We still think we are on track to see earnings growth of 23 percent for the quarter.

Frank Gannon

Until we start seeing some better earnings news, I think the market's going to be in this bottoming phase.

Brad Pleimann

Until we see earnings impacted by oil, I don't think the market is going to be responsive.

Scotty George

What we're looking at generally is whether the market can get past these levels. We think there's enough strong sentiment and stimulus in the pipeline for that to happen and that the earnings will ultimately lead the market, but it's a process, and it's going to take time.

Russ Koesterich

We're just winding down the year, ending the year with these sort of small, middling gains, which to me makes sense because you've had opposing factors this year. On the one hand you've had good earnings and a robust economy, but on the other hand, you've been fighting the Fed. The two canceled each other out.

Peter Oppenheimer

Year-over-year revenue growth of 34 percent and earnings growth of 41 percent were the second highest in any given quarter in Apple's history.

Steve Jocz

We were trying to joke around as much as possible. Well, as much as you could in that . . . eventually it got really not funny.

Jim Kelley

We're making progress, but we'd still like to see the population get lower. The problem we've been fighting is that they've had two straight years of good reproduction. So it's kind of like taking two steps forward and one back. But we think if we stay with the program we have in place, we'll eventually get there.

Sherry Cooper

We remain of the view that next week's rate hike will not be the Fed's last work this cycle. Indeed, they will likely eventually unwind all of last fall's crisis-induced easing.

Jack Crumbliss

We're going to get better. We're eventually going to get over the hump.

Linda Stephenson

What a lot of people don't realize is these tests are given in preparation for the 10th-grade GQE. That's the one with the highest stakes for individual students. They have to eventually pass that to graduate.

Mark Wilson

We're looking for improvement every meet from them. If they can do that - keep improving - eventually we'll get our points there.

Jim Carlin

With the legs that extend on it, he has an 18-foot reach, and it also can go six-feet down, so we started skimming the water, skimming the ground, then eventually we're down to four to five feet.

Keke Palmer

There's not always going to be something out there for you, especially not a positive role, so once you get up there and start being well known, you can't just think projects will come to you. You have to start doing your own projects because if you don't, you'll miss out, and eventually your fame will be over.

Donald Rumsfeld

Throughout human history there have been those who seek power through fear and mass murder, ... But eventually all of them - every one - has fallen.

David Draiman

I would like to thank a world that never understood or accepted me, family and friends that never believed in me, and a God with one hell of a sense of humor. You have all made me what I am today. Let that weigh heavily on your consciences.

Antonio Tabucchi

I live quietly at home among my family and friends.

Luke Bracey

I've still got to go and see the world, but I will come back to Australia in the end, when I have my family, in many moons to come.

Sizwe Kupelo

The outbreak response team is also providing members of her family with prophylactic treatment.

Mark Allen

We are providing a good place for everybody. We are trying to keep family units together and give them some privacy. They've had enough shellshock as it is.

Kristinn Taylor

We are preparing for as many as 20,000 people, just to be on the safe side. People have been fired up over the past month, especially military family members, and they want to be heard.

Kim Adams

We are praying for them and their family.

Lisa Stanford

We are a very close-knit family. Sara was worried about her grandpa, not herself.

Joe Leveroni

We strongly oppose the pending project. Our family has lived on and ranched this property for 85 years. Our property is not for sale.

Audre Lorde

Poetry is not a luxury.

Audre Lorde

For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.

Agnetha Faltskog

When I'm living in the world of luxury and celebrity, which is where I found myself for a large part of my life, it's a walk-on part. Not a vital necessity, like it is for so many people. I enjoy it but I can see right through it!

Charles Lamb

Sassafras wood boiled down to a kind of tea, and tempered with an infusion of milk and sugar hath to some a delicacy beyond the China luxury.

Carolina Herrera

Luxury will be always around, no matter what happens in the world.

Calvin Trillin

Money not spent on a luxury one considered even briefly is the equivalent of windfall income and should be spent accordingly.

Billy Sherwood

I've had the luxury of owning my own studio, 24 analogue, 48 digital, endless effects, endless hardcore gear, that I don't have to rent, I don't get stuck with the bills, it's all mine.

Diego Della Valle

The boom for luxury goods is unending. There are people who never have to worry about whether they can afford something they like. In one part of the world or another there will always be someone with money to spend on luxury.

Dennis Lehane

Charm was the luxury of those who still believed in the essential rightness of things. In purity and picket fences.

Alan Green

I've bought QPP shares but unfortunately both times I bought it they immediately dropped by over 10p. Do you pay much attention to the dealing notes?

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Faith is occupied with the Object upon which it rests and pays no attention to itself at all.

Edith Piaf

Every damn fool thing you do in this life you pay for.

Arne Duncan

No one is mandating merit pay.

Les Brown

When you want something, you have to be willing to pay your dues.

Benjamin Graham

The value of any investment is, and always must be, a function of the price you pay for it.

Bertolt Brecht

It was never decreed that a god mustn't pay hotel bills.

Jose Antonio Vargas

When you're undocumented, you're supposed to keep your head down and be quiet and pay taxes, social security - even though people don't know that we do those things - and not say anything.

Cher Lloyd

Pay no attention to haters, attention is what they crave.

Dee Hock

If you're in such a position of power and your ego is such that this is not possible, then its essential to have a small cadre of very bright, committed people who are questioning, exploring and understanding these emerging concepts.

Mike Keenan

The position Olli is in had nothing to do with it,

Whitney Watson

We're doing everything we can to make sure that he is not put in a position to re-offend.

Larry Harris

At each position we're at least two deep,

Steve Thomas

A councillor's position is not judicial. It's emotional.

Todd Elmer

A lot of this comes on the back of year-end profit taking on what has been a successful position for the market.

Larry Brown

They were exhausted, that was one thing. And two, I didn't want to put them in that position yet.

Kim Priez

It's very controversial and we don't have a position on it.

Chad Johnson

It's the position now, the position to play.

Steve Hall

We're still on a trend that is taking us downward.

Ron Everhart

We're just waiting to see what happens. He's taking his time.

Ladrika Gross

They're taking this pretty easy. They're taking it better than I thought they would.

David Carr

They're taking their time with him, and that's good,

Carol Olson

It's not like we're taking from other facilities. Everybody's experiencing an increase.

Laura McElroy

For him, repairing something is like taking a walk. He fixes everything.

Lee Gierczynski

This is very atypical. It's taking a very, very long time.

Kurt Tsue

Right now, the tides are taking it out. Should the wind change, it could come right back into shore.

David Carr

I see us taking more of a businesslike approach,

Alan Chambers

One of the many evils this world has to offer is the sin of homosexuality. Satan, the enemy is using people to further his agenda to destroy the Kingdom of God and as many souls as he can.

Bernard Meltzer

Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.

Ban Ki-moon

We are using resources as if we had two planets, not one. There can be no 'plan B' because there is no 'planet B.'

Sam Curry

This is Old World crime, but it's using new tools.

Edward Looney

We're using the word 'gambling' more often now.

Stephen Chbosky

So what's the point of using words nobody else knows or can say comfortably? I just don't understand that.

Shaun White

There are plenty of skills I've learned from playing video games. It's more interactive than watching TV, because there are problems to solve as you're using your brain.

Theodore Sturgeon

I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply.

Maxwell Maltz

Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively.

Alan Watts

Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work.

Al Kaline

You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.

Dean Acheson

I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office.

David Riesman

Though top executives may work as hard as ever-in part perhaps because, being trained in an earlier day, they can hardly help doing so-their subordinates are somewhat less work-minded.

David Riesman

The closest thing we have to the traditional ideology of the leisure class is a group of artists and intellectuals who regard their work as play and their play as work.

David Duval

I've just been working hard, trying to get some good stuff to come out.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

When your vision is powerful enough, everything else falls into place: how you live your life, your workouts, what friends you choose to hang out with, how you eat, what you do for fun. Vision is purpose, and when your purpose is clear, so are your life choices. Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower. With faith, there is no anxiety, no doubt - just absolute confidence.

Ben Whishaw

I've gone on workout regimes, but I seem to have a system that is very resistant to changing.

Arnold Palmer

I never met a winner who had a work ethic. Not somebody who says I have so much talent that naturally I won.