Famous Quotes & Sayings

Justin Hawkins

There's no way that a fan of The Darkness, based on what we did on the last record, is not going to love this record even more than the first one.

Walt Jocketty

We signed him with that purpose in mind, based on his past career. It provides more depth to our rotation, more depth to our pitching staff, and that has been the priority of our off-season plan.

Shek Borkowski

Well, that is pretty subjective. It's not like they have seen us play or anything. The ranking is based on last year's championships in the Women's Premier Soccer League (WPSL) and the Women's Open Cup.

Alix Smith

What I find most satisfying about photography is the way in which it allows me to document 'reality' while at the same time creating my own version thereof; in other words, the reality I present is a reality based upon what I choose to include in the frame and what I choose to leave out.

Michael Woods

What I felt from George is a sense of confidence - he will know the numbers well, talk to people in laymen's terms about those numbers and win people over based on those numbers,

William Daley

What we're trying to do is encourage the industry to take some steps soon, to do some self-regulation, based upon a tough report that was very clear as to the abuses and steps that have been taken by the entertainment industry that most Americans will feel are wrong,

Rick Renteria

We haven't had the best of fortune with those guys. Left and center, we've been rotating guys based on circumstances.

Paul Woods

We need time to review it, but obviously an expansion there is necessary based on the regional factors and the growing city. It will be looked at by the commissioners in that light.

Mitt Romney

I don't know any nation on Earth that succeeded in creating a strong middle class with rising wages based on building a stronger and bigger government.

Chad Brown

That's when the harshness of the business in this sport comes into play,

Steven Rogers

Environmentalists don't understand how to make an agricultural business run. It comes down to familiarity. We call it agriculture -- it is a culture.

Michael Metz

Even though the summer is traditionally slow, we are likely to see a pickup overseas this year. That's really where the incremental business will come from.

Andy Wirth

Even if we had gold medals from every U.S. skier, I think the snow would have eclipsed it. It's clearly been driving our business for the past two months.

Laura DiDio

Even if you've got a homogenous Linux or Unix server environment, at some point you are going to have a business partner, a customer or a supplier that is using Windows and is going to touch your network. And if you haven't secured those environments, then that could be a backdoor for a worm or a virus to infect your Windows network.

Jim Bradbury

Even though it's difficult, we like doing business there.

Ian Hunter

Elan this morning reported a strong set of results for the ongoing business ... driven by a combination of stronger revenue coupled with better-than-forecast cost control.

Trevor Manuel

Elaborate business structures, even forms of compliance with modern risk management and corporate governance principles, can have the effect of masking or distorting the underlying moral judgements.

Gabrielle Kivitz

Either way, we view this as a positive, as this business will either be turned around or disposed of.

Raymond Gilmartin

When you're the retired CEO, you get out of the way, in effect. Dick is the new CEO and I think it's important that he have a clear field.

Dick Costolo

One of the things that I think I do well as a CEO is that I'm present. When I'm with my employees, I'm there in the moment.

Seth Greenberg

Let him get through tomorrow, and we'll figure it out from there. I wanted to give him some freedom to figure out how much he can deal with and give him some time to grieve without having to put him on a schedule.

Darren Howard

I like the situation. I like the team. It's a matter of getting a deal done.

If life deals you lemons, why not go kill someone with the lemons (maybe by shoving them down his throat).

Dan Veru

A lot of their publications deal with the Internet, targeting professionals who write software for the Internet. So, in that way you're getting to play the growth in the Internet; the growth of programmers, so on and so forth, without necessarily being right in the fray of it all.

Phil Noblitt

This is a big deal for the parkway. The essence is that we're trying to meet modern traffic safety engineering standards without compromising the historic design of the parkway. It's going to be tough.

Marwan Muasher

This madness has reached us, and we have to deal with it,

John Pelphrey

It's an issue. We've got to find a way to deal with it.

Richard Clarke

It was a very large explosion, and did very extensive damage, and shows a great deal of sophistication with explosives, ... There are some similarities that we see with East Africa.

Dave Minshall

We want them to get an offer to the table that they can live with. We want a deal that is more than just a nickel and a dime an hour. We want a deal that recognizes that they went without a wage increase for three years.

Mark Shields

Due to the vast quantity of material, it will take some time to review them all, but so far we have observed no celebrities, no politicians, no senior police officers, members of the clergy, or sporting figures on any of the images.

Angie Martinez

The fact that they're taking this service away is disheartening.

Thomas Hobbes

The Register of Knowledge of Fact is called History .

Mike Cooley

You know I have not seen people doing back flips about the fact that he's mountain biking. But I think we'll see a few more people getting into it. I know the governor has turned into quite a cyclist, and I think there are other people out there that will probably sample it now that the president has given it a go.

Keith Cooper

We couldn't get over the hump, but I liked the fact that after they got up 25, we battled back.

Mike Holt

He's never complained, and the fact he's never complained and said anything negative through this whole ordeal is inspiring.

Derek Smith

I don't like the fact that someone is in there playing dominoes with their friends while we're out there practicing. I didn't like the fact that they're in there sleeping on the rehab table while we're out there practicing, and then they just come out Friday because they think they're that good and they can come out and play.

John Bisio

I do not know for a fact that any plans have been made.

Michael Walsh

I do have some reason for optimism this year. The fact we've had a relatively mild spring bodes well for the season.

Gil Reyes

He was ready for the battle, but I think we'd be kidding ourselves if we totally ignored the fact that it's a 35-year-old body.

Albert Camus

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

I think the mistake a lot of us make is thinking the state-appointed shrink is our friend

Carrie Underwood

My cell phone is my best friend. It's my lifeline to the outside world.

Karen Russell

I think that different pleasures work for different readers - a friend of mine won't read anything that's not a cardiovascular sort of page-turner. I tend to care less about plot, but I'm a sucker for humor and strangeness.

Will Rogers

We can get mighty rich, but if we haven't got any friends, we will find we are poorer than anybody.

Plutarch

A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, "Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?" holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. "Yet," added he, "none of you can tell where it pinches me.''

Erskine Bowles

It's awfully tough -- it's painful -- when a friend gives you justifiable criticism, and that's what Joe did,

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.

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,

Tino Martinez

We all think it shouldn't be, because he's done such a great job here.

Eric Brock

Every guy here has great talent. Guys are just sitting around waiting for their chance. When the opportunity comes a lot of guys are ready to step in and prove themselves on a national level.

Jonathan Freeman

As theater artists, it's a great luxury to have time.

John Lasseter

At Pixar, we do sequels only when we come up with a great idea, and we always strive to be different than the original.

Jon Kyl

At 47 percent, the (estate) tax today is a great inhibitor to growth, ... and is also a business-ending event.

Seth

As I get older and I see all my friends starting to have children, I see them have different reactions to the material that was probably not of great interest to them when they were younger, because they're re-experiencing it through their kids.

Bobby Knight

I just love the game of basketball so much. The game! I don't need the 18,000 people screaming and all the peripheral things. To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation.

Dave Barry

When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often, that individual is crazy.

Charles Stanley

God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.

Alan Autry

Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.

Al Oerter

So what if I never win my fifth gold medal; It's only one end of the string. It's competing that matters. It's proving that there is a place for guys like me in sports. It's a persona challenge to extend myself.

Al McGuire

Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.

Al McGuire

I believe in a business boarding up early. If you make a mistake, you put the boards in the window of the store and say, "Hey, I made a mistake." Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing. I don't believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people. Most people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The ideal leader is one who hears the voice of God, and beckons on as the voice calls him and them.

Chris Christie

I would rather die than be in the United States Senate. I would be bored to death. Could you imagine me, banging around that chamber with 99 other people, asking for a motion on the amendment in the subcommittee? Forget it...You'd watch me just walk out and walk right into the Potomac River and drown. That would be it.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Runners are poor walkers.

Julie Chen

If you're trying to be something you're not, whether it's an age or a certain type of personality, you're just going to be in misery. You have to own who you are, and part of who you are is your age.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Americans are a very backward people, with all the real virtues of a backward people; the patriarchal simplicity and human dignity of a democracy, and a respect for labor uncorrupted by cynicism.

Charles Baudelaire

There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.

Anupam Kher

It's important for couples to be friends first and to respect each other as individuals.

Francis Maude

There has not been any of that so far, ... All the contenders have been treating each other with respect and courtesy.

Joaquin Andujar

Why is there no respect for Joaquin Andujar?

Ram Dass

Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.

Abraham Lincoln

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

S. I. Hayakawa

If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.

Morris Chestnut

I'm an R&B and Hip-Hop type guy. When I work out, which I do at least four or five times a week, I love to get the latest Hip-Hop because it really pumps me up and inspires me to get that workout on.

Mark Twain

I do not like work even when someone else is doing it.

Mason Cooley

Sensuality takes planning and work.

Robert Gottlieb

Nobody could call the work of Noche Flamenca & Soledad Barrio pallid.

Matthew Goode

I'm always pretty tense about everything when it comes to work.

Patti Smith

I have a lot of energy, and I like to work.

Evan Esar

Many a man works himself to death by burying himself in his work.