Famous Quotes & Sayings

Floyd Reese

Kevin has been extremely durable just year after year. Kevin is one of those guys who understands what winning is and knows how to win and can help everybody along that way.

Lesley Garrett

Just walking along Shaftesbury Avenue gave me such a buzz - it still does - and communicating with an audience through music is still the biggest thrill in the world.

Rick Rubin

He is one of the few people who can get on a stage in an arena in front of any audience anywhere in the world and and play original songs for hours (that) everyone would be familiar with and sing along to. The list of people whose music has this power could be counted on one hand, tops.

Hasim Rahman

He knows when he fights me, along with the whipping comes a little trash-talking. I know one thing he won't be faking it November 12th.

Jason Dean

He jumped right in and helped us. Of course, we were doing everything; traffic patrol and trying to keep a high presence in the area when the power was out, he, along with all the men and women of the department did a real good job and I'm pleased with everybody. Being the new guy I thought he handled himself very well during the hurricane because there was a lot of hours worked and not a lot of sleep.

Bruce Bochy

Greenie's coming along faster than we thought. He's feeling pretty good with it, and he's got the OK to do just about everything.

Thorsten Fischer

Half of the refining industry's capacity is located alongside the Gulf of Mexico.

Tatiana Maslany

It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies, character-driven stuff. I would love to do more theater on a larger scale. I'm just excited for the next thing that comes along that I'm salivating over. I think a little more guerrilla would be really exciting to me.

Shiloh Walker

I still tend to read more urban fantasy and romance than science-fiction, but every once in a while, a couple of books will come along and knock my socks off.

David Hamm

We looked at seven or eight different job descriptions and this is a summation of those. This is intended to give us a starting point on what might be the attributes and the duties and responsibilities of the chief.

Dusty Rhodes

I just think that Mark has got the attributes it would really take to lead the city - fresh leadership and a new viewpoint, ... puts him in good stead with the suburban folks.

Bartolo Colon

The first three innings it felt like I had a groove going. Then I started elevating and I can't attribute it to anything. But when I started missing high, they were hitting it.

Johannes P. Muller

The essential attribute of a new sense is, not the perception of external objects or influences which ordinarily do not act upon the senses, but that external causes should excite in it a new and peculiar kind of sensation different from all the sensations of our five senses.

Kelly Redmond

You can't attribute it to any one cause. It constitutes part of the pattern.

James Matthews

You've forgotten the grandest moral attribute of a Scotsman, Maggie, that he'll do nothing which might damage his career

Danny Bonaduce

After The Partridge Family I worked as a stable boy for Kenny Rogers for a while. But during the show my Mom and I had a couple of horses named Beauty and Patience. Neither attribute was possessed by these horses.

Addie Ince

It shows just how competitive it is. You can also attribute it to the popularity of girls athletics. Girls are becoming more involved and they have more opportunities to play golf tournaments in the summer.

Karen Ignagni

It's been a little too easy to attribute it to managed care. There are a number of factors here that could explain overcrowding and increases in the numbers of people in certain periods going to the emergency room.

Gennaro Angiulo

I wouldn't be in a legitimate business for all the money in the world.

Tim Wilson

He knew everything about his furniture business or his development business from the ground up.

Steve Black

He jumps into the decision-making process. If you just want to run your business on your own and report results, you won't like working for Jamie.

Richard Boucher

has eroded Russia's reputation as a place to do business and eroded confidence in Russia's legal and judicial institutions.

Mark Richt

Guys like D. J. make this business worthwhile.

Ross Perot, Jr.

Half of this business is politics. As real estate developers, it's our job to go in there and get beat up.

Amanda Lindhout

Hamdi Ulukaya and Chobani have made the decision to feed 250,000 victims of the Somali famine. Their compassion speaks for itself, and is a shining example of how the business community can have an enormous positive impact on the world.

Lyssa Jenkens

Growth will continue in education and health, which have been the only steady gainers in this century. But it is now moving into business and professional services, which holds many of the highest-skilled jobs in the economy.

Greg Brenneman

There's nothing magic about working with franchisees. What you have to do is help them improve their business.

Hanya Yanagihara

I was interested about how relationships change as you get older. You are great friends in your 20s. In your 30s, you get married. Your 40s are all about your kids. In your 50s, you get divorced, and your friendships become primary again.

Barry Collier

Kansas didn't just cut our hair. They shaved our head. They scored 196 or 96 or one or the other on us. It'll take a tremendous effort to slow them down and change that.

Mike Lowell

Josh was crying to me for five years with the Marlins that he always wanted No. 19 so I told him I'd be willing to give it up. I think change is good sometimes. So I figured why not? I'm on a new team, new number and everything is new. I'm kind of starting from scratch. I feel good about that.

John Silvia

I suspect that there's a little optimism that the Fed will signal that they are just about done, that they'll change their language from saying 'further policy firming may be' to saying it 'might be' needed.

Craig Hansen

I think it really changed the way some scouts look at Northeast kids and how they play ball.

Jim Zandri

I think it is a combination of things. A lot has changed in New Year's over the past few years.

Ben Ross

I think it is a very positive indication that change is in the wind.

Jim Duquette

It all started in his mind right after his wife went into the hospital. He started thinking about whether he really had the desire to keep going. We let him take a couple extra days just to make sure that was his final decision. He's not going to change his mind at this point.

Mack Brown

It¹s a compliment, because it¹s a place we haven¹t been in a long time and it sets our standard even higher. We also understand that the percentage points and the rankings can change weekly. What we have to do is concentrate on winning. That's the only thing we have control over. It¹s only October, and what we want to do is to be one of the top two teams in December.

John Cooper

Having this service to Salt Lake City will open a new world of visitor and meeting markets for us, not only in Utah but for all the connecting cities Delta serves. In the past we focused largely north and south for visitors. Now we can look to the east.

Deval Patrick

Gun violence is on the rise in many of our cities today, and illegal gun trafficking from neighboring states is a big part of the problem. We need a coordinated effort to ensure partnership and cooperation with prosecution, community programs and crime prevention. We need leadership from the federal, state and local levels, as well as help from our neighboring states.

Maureen Forrester

It is so important that we have an opportunity to rebuild the cities with small businesses, with those transitional jobs for people who can come out of a corrections facility and get a job.

Vanessa Carlton

Toting around a full orchestra on tour is very ambitious. I would consider doing a show now and then, like do a show at Radio City or Carnegie Hall with a full orchestra

Robert Moses

[It is] the most hideous waterfront structure ever inflicted on a city by a combination of architectural conceit and official bad taste. the Cathedral of Asphalt.

Robert Scheer

He [Reagan] likes to tell jokes and that's why he told the ethnic joke that got him into some trouble. Perhaps if reporters didn't overreact to a politician's telling the very same joke they routinely hear and tell in the city room, we'd get more humor.

Sarah Vowell

In the U.S.A., we want to sing along with the chorus and ignore the verses, ignore the blues. . . No one is going to hold up a cigarette lighter in a stadium to the tune of "mourn together, suffer together." City on a hill, though -- that has a backbeat we can dance to. And that's why the citizens of the United States not only elected and reelected Ronald Reagan; that's why we ARE Ronald Reagan.

Sara Paretsky

People have less privacy and are crammed together in cities, but in the wide open spaces they secretly keep tabs on each other a lot more

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In Koln, a town of monks and bones, And pavement fang'd with murderous stones, And rags and hags, and hideous wenches, I counted two-and-seventy stenches, All well defined, and several stinks! Ye nymphs that reign o'er sewers and sinks, The River Rhine, it is well known, Doth wash your city of Cologne; But tell me, nymphs! what power divine Shall henceforth whash the river Rhine.

Ken Buck

I think it's wrong to compromise your values to fit in with the social climate in Washington, D.C. When it comes to spending, I'm not compromising. I don't care who, what, when or where, I'm not compromising.

Stavros Dimas

The EU is committed to international efforts to combat climate change, which requires that we meet all our reporting obligations.

Brian Dunbar

It's important, with climate change, landfills, hazardous waste, the health of humans and other species, future generations and the health of the planet.

Vivian Campbell

Slang' was a really stripped-down, live-sounding record. But this time, we wanted to return to our sort of sound, because the climate in the industry was warming up to it, ... We put on 'Hysteria' and 'Pyromania' and took our sonic cues from those albums.

William Strampel

The labor levels, Medicare climate, malpractice insurance, general weather climate ? there's no simple reason why these people are leaving Michigan.

Peter Lilley

I am a global lukewarmist.

Prince Charles

One of the main reasons for the conflict in Syria, and the terrorism that it's spawned, is climate change and drought.

Lois Capps

That makes climate change a bigger public health problem than AIDS, than malaria, than pandemic flu.

James Lovelock

All the modelling we do shows that the climate is poised on the jump up to a new hot state. It is accelerating so fast that you could say that we are already in it.

John Burnside

It is common knowledge now that we depend on insects for our continued existence; that, without key pollinators, the human population would collapse in less than a decade.

James Wolfensohn

Unless a solution is found, we may be facing the financial collapse of the PA within two weeks.

Sidney Blumenthal

collapse eventually of their own insubstantiality. And in these conversations with me, the First Lady has always been supportive of the president.

John Challenger

Tech cuts have been trending downward year after year as firms continue to regain their strength after the devastating dot-com collapse in 2000 and 2001.

Gerry Adams

save the peace process from collapse and transform the situation.

Richard Baldwin

These WTO rounds always look like they're going to collapse just before they get done. That's just the nature of the game.

James Harrison

There wouldn't be a problem flying. There's been no lung collapse or anything like that.

Jen Warden

We tried to collapse on her and push out of the paint.

Sandy Brown

What I worry about is that someone's going to collapse on the way over there, or get hit.

Rick Curran

John has suggested there is continued interest in having Bryan. We're willing to be patient. He would prefer to stay in Toronto.

Ozzie Guillen

I talked to him as a friend, talked to him like his father, ... I said: 'You continue to do this, you're going to ruin your life. Whatever happened in the past is over. You are strong enough to turn this page on the past.'

Bob Davies

I think it's a home run as it relates to a new beginning. Lycos is on extremely firm ground with this transaction. We can continue to look at strong growth around a number of different fronts with some exceptionally strong partners.

Bob Davis

I think it's a home run as it relates to a new beginning, ... Lycos is on extremely firm ground with this transaction. We can continue to look at strong growth around a number of different fronts with some exceptionally strong partners.

James Steinberg

I think it is very important that we all remain involved, ... It is a high priority for the president and all the parties and we are going to continue to work very hard at it.

John Surma

I think it is in our interest to continue that process.

Gerald Steinberg

He wants to do things, he wants to continue with the disengagement process,

Fred Eckhard

He ... urged the leaders to do everything they can to reduce tensions, restore security and continue to work towards a peaceful settlement of the remaining issues that divide them.

Eric Metz

He decided he likes it where he is. He's obviously having a lot of success, and he wants to continue with the Steelers. He's an excellent coach, and this won't be his last opportunity.

Dennis Moore

Kids need to be equipped for that. They need to learn to use that technology to keep the new economy going.

Chris Fitz

I think it's a good idea to diversify the economy and keep more of the grapes here.

Zig Ziglar

There's not a lot you can do about the national economy but there is a lot you can do about your personal economy.

Vladimir Putin

We are currently gradually stabilizing our economy.

O. Singh

India's economy is growing at seven to eight percent over the last 15 years,

Peter Giles

I hung in there longer than I had planned. But it seemed the economy was getting better, and I figured now is the time when I can go on to some other dreams.

Adam Brown

The language will give you an insight into whether there has been a shift in their feelings on the economy and on rates, or whether they feel they are getting to a reasonable level and they want to give themselves more flexibility.

William Sullivan

The fear here is the economy is overheating. And this points to a Federal Reserve with a much tighter monetary policy.

Paul Donovan

The U.K economy is in a stronger position than many European economies, and perhaps now is the time to pause for a bit,

Mike Piazza

kind of fun, especially in New York. I've seen it on smaller levels in other cities, but it's fun to get into the rivalry thing and experience it.

James Kirkman

just very humbled, and appreciative, and amazed; it was a very happy experience.

Karen McCaffrey

Just this experience of getting to this point for next year will help us. The more situations we're in, the less we'll panic. With youth you'll get that. As soon as our skills improve, I think our panic will improve and we have a whole year to work on that now.

Rachel Dretzin

I think it fuels her. The fact that she can see the work she's done make an impactmost journalists don't experience that.

Mike McGlynn

I think it is good that we got some experience because all of it helps. I don't know if I'll ever take a snap in a game, but it is good to be ready and the more positions on the line you play, the better it helps you.

Brian Viloria

This was a great experience for me. Last year I only got in seven rounds total, so this is a fight that I can look at and really take away a lot of things from.

Jenny Pfeiffer

This was a great experience and we would have liked the season to keep going. Next year will be different.

Carol Brady

What we found was that many of the mothers that experience those poor outcomes are unhealthy and uninsured before they ever get pregnant.

Buck Showalter

Going in, that may be the thought. But we want to see, with the experience he had last year, how he's grown from that.

Ben Cherington

We may see some of the same faces back this season.

Will Durant

Often your face is your autobiography

Salma Hayek

I've never had anything done on my face. I've never had dermabrasion or peels or injections of any kind, nothing.

Ronnie Wood

Let's face it: I paint well. I know it, you know it. There's no arguing really, is there?

William Golding

If faces were different when lit from above or below -- what was a face? What was anything?

David McKay

I'm keen to see some new faces and think it's time for that to happen,

Khalil Gibran

Death changes nothing but the mask that covers our faces.

Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence to be worth anything has to work in the face of hostile forces.

Friedrich Schiller

Historians are prophets with their face turned backward.

Jerry Yang

Yahoo is in everything from pets to old people to finance to communications to e-commerce and more, and I really thrive on that.

John Challenger

These are the rock stars of the finance world. There have been some extraordinary deals, and mergers and acquisitions activity.

Dr. Katz

There are minimal differences between races. We make a mistake thinking we're all that different from each other. The differences in our health are more related to lifestyle, education, finances and poverty than they are to genetics.

Jack McCann

I was told they would need at least one officer at the shelter 24-7, ... I was told the state (Department) of Finance and Administration would send us packages and that our officers would be paid every two weeks.

Avigdor Lieberman

I think I can hold every portfolio - defense, finance and Foreign Ministry. I think personally I'd like the foreign office.

Gordon B. Hinckley

How grateful I am for the law of tithing. It is the Lord's law of finance.

Abel Ferrara

I direct, and I make movies I can't finance. I can't raise money. I can't sell anything. I make things.

James Altucher

The people who know personal finance hide the money very carefully.

Gregory Smith

We need to wait a month or two until our finances are clear.

Richard Hulbert

It's likely that we will find over 100 individual skeletons. No fossil site in the world has ever been like that.

Lee Iacocca

Here's what we should be doing. We've got to get off fossil fuels.

Sylvia Plath

I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I'm here.

Josh Fox

Natural gas is a dirty fossil fuel like the rest of them.

Larry McKibben

We have a real opportunity on renewable fuels to take this to a whole new level in Iowa.

Tara Lemmey

I think that privacy is sort of the nature of your identity, and how you transfer your identity is a very important global issue.

Bill Gates

It has been a great year for global health to get more visibility. The more people know about it, the more they want to act.

Igor Luksic

Regardless of our ambitions to become part of the E.U., we have to keep in mind that Turkey is also a very strong voice that can represent the needs of our region in wider terms in global platforms.

Joanne Woodward

I'm upset when I see that people don't seem to observe what's happening with the environment, what's happening in terms of global warming.

Kofi Annan

immediate and exceptional escalation of the global relief effort.

David Robinson

The impact is presumably larger than the Asians' on global interest rates.

Raymond Martin

A lot was achieved, including the finalization of a protocol setting out global standards for the provision and hygiene of public toilets.

Raymond Martin

A lot was achieved, including the finalisation of a protocol setting out global standards for the provision and hygiene of public toilets.

James Hansen

Global warming isn't a prediction. It is happening.

Kay Redfield Jamison

It is an odd thing, owing life to pills, one's own quirks and tenacities, and this unique, strange, and ultimately profound relationship called psychotherapy.

Mack Strong

Just things that I've never experienced in my life.

Tom Arnold

I swear on my life that is true.

Quentin Blake

You see, I don't draw from life at all, but I do look out of my window a lot.

William Ellery Channing

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.

Chris Stapleton

I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paintsville.

Cate Blanchett

It is so interesting when you meet an actor in real life and they look completely different.

John Hawkes

I think that no matter how dark a person is, the more you learn about them, the more you understand about their life, the more you can sympathize with them or even root for them.

Carine Roitfeld

I think when I became a grandmother my life changed a lot, and I think I changed personally.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

Gale Norton

I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving.

Gary Sheffield

I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always tell the truth. That should count for something, right?

Sam Rockwell

I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.

Sam Worthington

I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

We cannot walk alone.

Anita Diament

Wherever you walk, I go with you. Selah.

Suzanne Collins

Some walks you have to take alone.

Teresa Palmer

I can walk around relatively anonymously.

Michael Stipe

Anybody that walks can sing..

James Bryant Conant

He who enters a university walks on hallowed ground.

Geraldine Ferraro

You don't go through a bloodbath like this and then walk away from it.

Fred Wilpon

You can't get much more New York than this.

John Catsimatidis

New York never felt the recession. New York never felt a depression.

Abbey Lee Kershaw

New York is such a versatile city, and there's always something new to discover.

Cary Fukunaga

New York is perfect for Tanizaki because it's filled with so many dark spaces.

Ringo Starr

When they come here, the English make a choice: New York or L.A. L.A. suited me better, I just feel comfortable here.

Tamara Tunie

I'm Irish on St. Patrick's Day. I'm Italian on Columbus Day. I'm a New Yorker every day.

Rita Ora

A New Yorker is anyone who has the guts to really live in the city.

Santiago Cabrera

I've been to New York a lot. I grew up in London but I'm from Chile originally.

Eddy Curry

That's just how things happened. I think in the long run, New York is going to come out on top.