Famous Quotes & Sayings

Liz Nichols

We are unable to set a target at this point. UK Sport's ultimate goal is to finish fourth in the 2012 Olympic medal table, finishing as top European nation, and retain our second place in the Paralympics, whilst aiming for the top spot.

Daniel Hernandez

We're veering away from being a denim and shirt company. We're aiming to be a bit more couture.

David Bloom

Victoria's Secret is aiming at both men and women, ... and they've already been successful because a lot of people are talking about the fact that they're going to be on.

Ellen MacArthur

The transatlantic record is there and that's something I'll be aiming for.

Tom Harkin

What's happening is you have a few right wing ideologues in the House aiming at Castro and hitting our farmers.

Allen Green

We haven't really changed anything with the Riesling since we started making it in 1980 -- always aiming for an off-dry style with about 1.5 percent residual sugar, which is tart enough to give you that pleasing sweet-and-sour tang that goes so well with spicy foods, yet rich enough to stand alone as a sipping wine.

Stephen Hawking

As scientists, we step on the shoulders of science, building on the work that has come before us - aiming to inspire a new generation of young scientists to continue once we are gone.

Larry Dickerson

Those countries buying U.S.-built fighters usually arm them with U.S.-built weapons, although there are exceptions, MBDA is aiming to have its air-to-air missiles integrated with the new F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), which is being developed by the United States, to lessen this advantage.

Tony Jones

We are depending on the local market, and expect students to be part of that as well. If we were aiming towards tourists, we would be in Waikiki.

John Day

Any security compromise is serious. This attack alone may not be a big deal but it may turn out that in combination with others it has greater impact.

John Messara

As for the Triple Crown, I won't speculate. I never imagined she'd be running two weeks in a row let alone three in a row.

Javier Sambrano

As always we recommend, kids don't walk alone and be more aware of the areas.

Molly Antopol

As a fiction writer, all I need is a laptop, and when I'm not teaching, I travel as much as I can, applying for every research grant and overseas gig I hear of, then trying to extend those trips as far as the stipends will go. I love to travel alone.

Christopher Moore

As an author, you spend a lot of time by yourself in a room making clicky noises. It gets pretty insulated. You realize pretty early on in your career that even if this goes well, you could spend all your life in a room alone. Unless you pick projects that are going to get you out doing things, you're not going to actually live your life.

Luc Robitaille

As a hockey player, you play for the team and for your teammates. You never play for yourself or think about yourself. This is not tennis, where you're alone on the court. Hockey is a team game, so this is very hard for me to handle. It certainly is overwhelming.

Dick Vermeil

The big thing, ... is what these kids are all made out of. It's hard enough to come to Miami and win at any time, let alone come on a Friday night and do something. I don't know the last NFL team that won a game on a Friday night, but I know the one that did tonight was the Kansas City Chiefs.

Frank Close

Autonomous robots alone will be unable to realize those scientific goals in the foreseeable future,

Jonathan Swift

A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone

Lance Ness

As duck hunters out in the field, we see that something's changed rather rapidly in the past 10 to 20 years. And so our concerns are what happening to the duck population.

Jim Calhoun

As far as we're concerned, we're incredibly happy to be a No. 1 seed. Obviously, I don't think anything we did changed us from being the overall No. 1. I think it's what Duke did.

Condoleezza Rice

As further contracts are let, as further funds are released over the next several months, then we can review in some detail the circumstances, the changed circumstances for different countries.

Rafael Benitez

At Valencia we changed the players virtually every match, maybe we will not be able to do that just as much but all must realize they are important to the team, and it is the team that is important.

C. C. H. Pounder

'Bagdad Cafe' was a film that changed many, many people's lives... how they saw themselves and how they looked at their life situation. I thought I made a little movie. All the mail that I get is about how it changed lives, and that's wonderful.

Clarence Fountain

That play was a hit from jump street, ... That changed our world forever.

David Castillo

That play right there could have totally changed the outcome of the game. It was definitely a momentum play. ... You've got to credit Drew for really taking charge out there.

Steve Fleming

That play changed the course of the game. If Gerald doesn't get to that ball, who knows how the second half would have went.

Scott Downs

That was a big play because they'd had a couple of hits and the game could have changed dramatically.

George H. W. Bush

as a president it goes with the territory.

Bobby Cox

This ranks right up there. This goes back 14 years.

Shaun Alexander

We have an unbelievable team, an unbelievable group of fans. Prayer works. I get knocked out and guys step up. One guy goes down and another guy steps up.

Sonam Kapoor

No relationship works without making an effort. That goes without saying. But you should never overcompensate.

Andy Nash

As it goes down the mountain, it's accelerated. It results in stronger gusts of winds that you normally wouldn't have if the mountains weren't there.

Patty Griffin

There's an imbalance when if a woman goes out for a walk at 3 in the morning and something happens to her it was somehow her fault, and with a man that's not true.

Alice Sebold

When the dead are done with the living, the living can go on to other things," Franny said. "What about the dead?" I asked. "Where do we go?

Andy Rooney

If you get murdered because you go on a date with someone you met on the Internet, you probably deserved it.

Anne Frank

I want to go on living after my death!

Bill Bullard

As a regular commissioner, it takes about 50 percent of my time, ... As chairman, it's about 90 percent of my time. It's significantly more work and more hours.

Frank Barnaby

A vast percentage of centrifuges have to be rejected in testing, up to 60% rejection.

Padraig Harrington

These fairways are at least 50 percent narrower that anything you would see in the States.

Ethan McAfee

The stock is going to go up 5 to 10 percent the first day. It's not going to go up 50 percent or more.

Dominic James

I spend 85 percent of my day right here (McGuire Center). I don't get back to my room until 10:30 or 11.

David Fischer

That's where it all starts. I'm 100 percent positive that's where your excelling comes from.

Bob Bowman

You're ruining my life! I'm spending 90 percent of my time at the pool.

Ron Wilson

You wait for somebody like that to mature. He's still not there to my satisfaction defensively 100 percent all of the time, but he's getting closer.

Richard Valdez

You remember 20 percent of what you hear, 75 percent of what you see and 90 percent of what you do.

Ricky Nelson

You can't please everyone so you gotta please yourself.

Anton Chekhov

It is easier to ask of the poor than of the rich.

Austin Farrer

The notion of God is the notion of richness without accident

Denis Healey

Squeeze the rich until the pips squeak

Eckhart Tolle

Sense your presence, the naked, unveiled, unclothed beingness. It is untouched by young or old, rich or poor, good or bad, or any other attributes.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Doom very evenly! Do not doom one doom to the rich; another to the poor! Nor doom one doom to your friend; another to your foe!

Mike Lynch

We went to our Alderman, Rich Walker, to see if he thought we'd be able to do it.

Robert Kiyosaki

Rich don't work for money. They work for assets.

Adam Sandler

Like every other rich asshole, I have a cook and he's in my trailer making food all the time.

Adam Sandler

I'm filthy rich! It's good to be Adam Sandler!

David Hill

Of course, we really don't know what we're doing, since this is so new, ... But we think we've put something together that's pretty cool.

Gavin Grant

Definitely. I've been on a mini-tear since then.

Sarah Parcak

Archaeologists have used aerial photographs to map archaeological sites since the 1920s, while the use of infrared photography started in the 1960s, and satellite imagery was first used in the 1970s.

Martin Freeman

I've always liked clothes, since I was a kid.

Drew Tate

I wanted to go make the tackle since I had thrown (the interception). That's pretty much it.

Robert Long

I wanted to do this (cosmetology) since I was a very little girl,

Bill Walker

I wanted to be in pageants since I was a little girl,

Shawn Horcoff

Terrible. The worst I've ever been part of since I've been a professional.

Ali Hewson

Sadly, I haven't had a brain cell since I had children.

Joan Claybrook

These standards are written for Detroit, by Detroit.

James Johnson

This is exciting. By earthworm standards they're pretty cool.

Gord Ash

There are some things from a strategic standpoint that we don't want to share, at least not at this point.

and City

Don't you want to stand still with me?

Dr. Seuss

Whats the point of fitting in, when we were meant to stand out?

Joanne Wuensch

You know where you stand with him. Nothing is candy-coated.

Thomas S. Monson

I urge you to hold fast to your standards. I plead with you not to waver.

Stephen King

Friends come in and out of our lives, like busboys in a restaurant.

William Shakespeare

I grow, I prosper;Now, gods, stand up for bastards!

Eric Beder

the whole urban style has been co-opted by preppies.

Brian Henson

So while you're trying to improvise, you're also trying to puppeteer, you're doing everything that you need to do to perform a puppet in our style, for a camera.

Diana Vreeland

Money has nothing to do with style at all, but naturally it helps every situation.

Demi Lovato

My personal style is kind of sophisticated edgy, I guess. I wear a lot of black and it's what I feel comfortable in.

Bridgit Mendler

My personal style is really different from 'Lemonade Mouth.'

Artie Lange

Howard's unbelievably nutty, politically incorrect style is probably the single biggest influence on me.

Brooke Burke

I'm not a fan of chrome wheels. I sort of like brushed, brushed steel, more European style.

Eddie Van Halen

I was so used to doing old blues licks with the first three fingers. When I started using my pinky and finding more spread things, that's when I started getting my own style.

Sandra Ford

Let's face it, there are no plain women on television.