Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Howland

He didn't want to go. Sounds just like Coach. He's going to be fine, based on all the information we have. I was hoping we would play really well so he and his family could enjoy that in the hospital room that he was in.

Larry Scott

Historically this is a very significant development. We've had some very high-profile matches where momentum has turned based on calls. Now the players know the calls will be right.

Russel Honore

I think it's going to be a lower number, much lower than the 10,000. That 10,000 was based at a time when we didn't know what we didn't know.

Ken Hitchcock

It certainly wasn't based on anybody's poor play and that's what made it such a difficult decision.

Peter Franck

It comes from a time of optimism based on technology. It is a fake; it's clearly not an artifact.

Harvey Bennett

It is a lot of money, but law enforcement with their experience and expertise is used to making informed decisions based on their experience.

Chris Watson

I think the jury came to the right decision based on all the facts in the case. I think they came back with the only verdict they could based on all the facts.

David Halberstam

I think you always go out and do books based on what you're curious about.

Billy Mayfair

I think the golf course is based on tradition. By changing the golf course, I think you lose a little bit of that tradition. We'll see how it plays out this year. Maybe it's time for a new tradition to be written too. Who knows?

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.

Britt Beemer

It's interesting they flipped the jobs. They want the future CEO to have experience on the domestic and international side equally. It may be that Wal-Mart looks at the international side as equal to the U.S.

Sara Rue

I wasn't one-hundred percent sure that Jenny Craig was going to be the right program for me, but I wanted to do something. So I sat down with the CEO of Jenny Craig, Patti Larchet.

Casey Silver

As chairman and CEO for the past three years, I am very proud of the films released during that time and I'm especially pleased with the films scheduled for the next 24 months. I look forward to working with the company in an independent capacity.

Anne Mulcahy

As CEO of Xerox, I am ready and privileged to lead a team of dedicated employees who are as sharply focused and committed as I am in the successful turnaround of our company.

Ben Obomanu

I've always thought about being a CEO of a Fortune 500 company. I want to put myself in a position where I can use the resources I gained by playing football.

John Challenger

Some expect CEOs to be chained to the desk. Most put in 12 or more hours a day, often working seven days a week. But we should want leaders in high-pressure situations to have time to decompress.

James Lowry

Some people would rather be the 100 percent owner of a $100 million company than the partner of a $200 million company. They feel comfortable being the CEO and the sole decision-maker.

Ken Goldstein

The September data indicate a general weakening in the job picture nationwide -- a trend we were seeing before the recent hurricanes, ... That data is consistent with the latest CEO Confidence Survey, which is also down.

William Crowell

There won't be a lot of resolutions passed here today, but the key is to get the dialogue open and to get CEOs interested in providing their customers with protection.

Tom Renney

Just something we have to deal with internally as a team when it comes to penalties.

Joe Torre

He deals with the stress and pressure very well,

Steve Atkins

He deals with it well, and it makes things run that much more smoothly. He's also very forthright. He knows how he feels and tells you how he feels and that makes the process of governance that much easier.

Seth Shostak

Here's a news flash: scientists can be wrong. That's no big deal (unless the scientist is you), since research is self-correcting. Consequently, most errors by scientists become historical curiosities, with little long-term importance.

Maria Rodriguez

What we want is the deal they promised us -- if we paid them, we were covered.

John Jay

Having them being released is a good thing. People make a big deal about it because it's an unknown.

Deborah Silverman

had a great deal of success with this program. We've set a number of sales records in the past few months, and we thought it was important to extend for the month of September.

Rebecca Loos

He's a stranger to me now. He looks very different to how I knew him. And the way he dealt with the whole thing. He's just a very different man.

Albert Smith

It is a good deal better to be seventy-nine years young than it is to be fifty years old

Andy Xie

Growth rates could decelerate by another 1 percentage point due to further rises in oil prices.

Patty Clausen

I think it's due to the economy. People are hanging onto their money, because they don't know what's going to happen.

Rick Meckler

I think that the idea of never-ending, short-term-rate increases no longer seems as likely to people. But I would not be surprised if the Fed still increases, but signals to the market that they are prepared to stop increasing if the economy slows due to the hurricane.

Danny Smith

Robinson is due for a major revival. We have to provide a reliable source for people.

David Sloane

I had extensive telephone conversations today with representatives of the Mets, Orioles and Rangers and a face-to-face meeting with the Marlins due to the proximity.

Lincoln Anderson

I'm more interested in whether the losses we'll see on Friday are a permanent feature on the landscape or just the result of people pushed out of work due to Katrina and Rita. I think the market will look at it and shrug it off and look at what's going to happen in October.

Rob Simmons

Indictments of any kind are serious. That being said, let's not forget that an indictment is not a conviction. We still have due process in this country.

Rob Simmons

Indictments of any kind are serious, ... That being said, let's not forget that an indictment is not a conviction. We still have due process in this country.

Kirk Ferentz

I mean this with all due respect, but it's not really on my laundry list right now. I've got other things that have moved in front of it.

Alice Lowe

I was in something called 'Garth Marenghi's Darkplace' which was a real cult comedy; it's sort of a spoof horror sort of thing, and it only ever had one series, but I liked the fact that it only had one series because it's kind of got this little gemlike quality to it that there were only ever six episodes.

Smush Parker

Kobe is always a factor in the game. I don't think Golden State stopped him from scoring the ball. He just got other guys involved in the offense. It was a game Kobe didn't have to force the game until late.

Jeremy Jacobs

Jacques agonized over it. Not so much in a financial way, but it increased our recognition factor - it's become a hook for us.

Robert Sarver

I would say it did surprise me. When I heard Toronto was interested in talking to him, that didn't surprise me. The fact that he wanted to pursue it surprised me.

Rejean Beauchemin

Just the fact that we?re playing this well right now with what we have, it?s really exciting. Hopefully we keep getting better and keep riding it into the playoffs.

Jane Harman

Just the fact that the Iranian government is making a lot of noise doesn't prove their capabilities.

Shiloh Walker

I still have a lot of the stories I wrote in high school. Hand wrote... a number of them are in purple ink, rendering them illegible, a fact we should probably be forever thankful for.

Bruce Thomas

There are tests done for range of motion or strength, there are provocative tests to see if he might have a tear of a rotator cuff or labrum. He passed all that with flying colors, in fact had no symptoms. Actually we do feel he hurt himself in his first bullpen.

Laura Bush

I mean, the part you don't like, I mean, that's the only part. That's the part no one likes, and that is the criticisms, and the unfair criticisms, I might add, of my husband. But that's also just a fact of life in politics.

Matt Hasselbeck

What you find is that the better you are at listening, the better friend you are, the better person you are, the better player you become.

Rich Falasca

He's always positive, never negative. He's just a friendly guy that we can relate to.

Linda Kent

Last Look' is a devastating look at humanity. A friend who saw me in it said, 'My God, you look like you're on nerve gas.' It's people relating to each other badly, people trying to tear each other's skin off.

Juli Lax

I was a paralegal who worked in the office quite a bit. I think she just realized I was a friendly person and responsible. She thought it would be a good jump for me.

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.

Richelle Mead

Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies.

Trey Parker

Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything. It's the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Friends should be weighed, not told; who boasts to have won a multitude of friends has never had one.

Katherine Paterson

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

Darius Miles

Kevin had a great game. We have some smaller guards out there so he was able to do a lot more things. He had it going and was on fire.

Alden Ehrenreich

I would say that it's mainly about the director. It's a hard quality to find, but I always know whether I want to do something or not. The character is important to me, as is getting to work with people that I feel like I can learn from and make a great movie with.

Chuck D.

Joey wrestled a great tournament, and we don't want him to get lost in the shuffle. He was solid all weekend.

Tim Ehresman

Joe was great tonight. He did things tonight he's been practicing all year. Come heck or high water, he was going to make it (to the regional tournament) again.

Ike Turner

Joe Louis is a great artist. He kind of helped me somewhat getting back to the blues.

Fay Vincent

John is the hero. He did a great job. Now Rose admits John was correct.

Mitchel McLaughlin

John Hume has, I think, demonstrated great sensitivity and judgment throughout this peace process. And I think it's hard to imagine a more inappropriate moment to make that suggestion.

Donnie Henderson

I think it's a great opportunity. You always want to hear your name, and now a team has actually called. It's exciting.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Dar'st thou amid the varied multitude To live alone, an isolated thing?

Peter Sorensen

After 16 years, we're there. We've isolated it, and we can synthesize it.

Debbie Anthony

But it was beautiful, isolated and near enough to anything you could want.

Peter Yang

He had the leadership to make that happen.

Woodrow Wilson

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.

Woodrow Wilson

The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.

William McKinley

Half-heartedness never won a battle.

William James

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

Samuel Smiles

The great leader attracts to himself men of kindred character, drawing them towards him as the loadstone draws iron.

Tupac Shakur

I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.

Vance Packard

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done

Robert Reich

A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term.

Walt Whitman

And I will show of male and female that either is but the equal of the other.

Warren Farrell

In 1969, nationwide, female professors who had never been married and never published earned 145% of their counterpart male colleagues.

Trisha Yearwood

I absolutely refused to make out with the gorgeous male model.

Nicole Richie

Anytime I am around a male body part it is kind of exiting.

Joshua Smith

The male singers are spending a lot more time singing with the females.

Jane Arraf

They're in convoys, taking the same risks as the male solders and Marines,

Nick Flynn

There's this sort of male energy that we have that can seem very destructive. But it doesn't have to be. It actually can be a very positive force.

Edward Abbey

Roosters: The cry of the male chicken is the most barbaric yawp in all of nature.

Douglas Adams

Mr L Prosser was, as they say, only human. In other words he was a carbon-based life form descended from an ape. More specifically he was forty, fat and shabby and worked for the local council. Curiously enough, though he didn't know it, he was also a direct male-line descendant of Genghis Khan, though intervening generations and racial mixing had so juggled his genes that he had no discernible Mongoloid characteristics, and the only vestiges left in Mr L Prosser of his mighty ancestry were a pronounced stoutness about the tum and a predilection for little fur hats.

Charles M. Schwab

For my own part I am more interested in my work than its mere money value.

Benjamin Franklin

A poet is the mere wastepaper of mankind.

Jane Greer

My mouth was too large, my eyes turned out, and my legs mere toothpicks.

Charles Hodge

Our first remark on this subject is that the ministry is an office, and not merely a work.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

Agrarian reform should not merely subdivide misery, it must raise living standards. Ownership raises the farmer from his, but productivity will keep him on his feet.

Theodore Bikel

No doubt, unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed by mere declarations.

Alma Gluck

One does not study for a goal. One sings because one can't help it! The 'goal' nine times out of ten is a mere accident.

Frank Sinatra

To think that spring had depended/On merely this, a look, a kiss/To think that something so splendid/Could slip away in one little daybreak . . . .

Dada Vaswani

What humanity needs today is not merely philosophy or theology, but a message or reassurance.

Kay Henderson

They're role models in their communities, ... These kids, I would take 'em anywhere. They've got so much to share.

Vernor Vinge

It is a point where our old models must be discarded and a new reality rules.

Sophie Monk

You know all those models who say, 'I was so tall and lanky and everyone picked on me at school' - I was not that girl. I hear that and I'm like, 'Oh, you poor thing!'

Paul Marciano

When models started getting skinnier in the nineties and were becoming sick-looking, I didn't get it! I think that's sending a totally wrong message.

Kathy Martin

We put things in there that this is the right thing to teach. We as role models need to send that message.

Dan Bartlett

He doesn't have a personal relationship with him.

Rob Zombie

The studio experience fluctuates depending on who you work with, it's not like it's all one experience. Every studio is different, every producer's personality is different. You never know what you're going to do.

Tullian Tchividjian

An identity based in the one-way love of God does not take into account public opinion or, thankfully, even personal opinion.

Vivienne Westwood

If you dress up, it helps your personality to emerge - if you choose well.

Ryan Stiles

I'm Jim Phillips, I have multiple personalities. I'm also a skindiver, a puppeteer, and I was the tenth president of the United States.

Wilhelm Steinitz

I am fully and entirely concentrated on the board. I never even consider my opponent's personality. So far as I am concerned, my opponent might as well be an abstraction or an automaton.

Robert Green Ingersoll

An infinite personality is an infinite impossibility.

Michael Chertoff

interprets the law, straight without injecting your personal preferences.

Jacques Maritain

In each of us there dwells a mystery, and that mystery is the human personality.

Sonny Rollins

What I can say is that for may years jazz musicians had to go to Europe, for instance, to be respected and to be sort of treated not in a discriminatory way. I don't think there is anything controversial about me saying that. This is just a fact.

Tupac Shakur

America wants its respect.

William Blake

The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and obedient to noblemen's opinions in art and science. If he is, he is a good man. If not, he must be starved.

Waylon Jennings

I love Johnny Cash, and I respect Johnny Cash. He's the biggest. He's like an Elvis in this business, but no, he's never been the rebel.

Winston Churchill

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

Samuel Johnson

Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.

Samuel Johnson

A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and commerce are united, they make a respectable man.

Sachin Tendulkar

From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.

William Hazlitt

Violence ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A gentle word, a kind look, a god-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles. There is a secret pride in every human heart than revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.

Shane Victorino

Whatever my role is, I'm going to do my best. It's all I ever wanted.

Philip Ruddock

I don't know that there is a role to look at departmental matters.

Richard Schiff

I've been very lucky not to have turned down too many roles that I've later regretted.

Robert Mueller

In planning an attack, persons have various roles.

Ryan Reynolds

'Green Lantern' I screen-tested for twice. I fought for the role. And I'm glad I did, because I felt like I earned it.

Sandra Bullock

I was always longing to do, emotionally and physically, what my male counterparts always got to do. I just felt envious, every time I saw a movie that I was in awe of, and it was usually a male lead. And those kinds of roles weren't available. They just weren't being written.

Mike Ferguson

Their role on the world stage is huge.

John Tortorella

They care. Let me make sure you understand that. If we're going to get points, they have to be on that (score) sheet. They know what their role should be. They're just not getting it done right now.

Matt Bomer

As actors you're always going to take certain roles that are in your comfort zone and take ones that aren't.

Jeff Gordon

I'll take part of the blame. I think Tony should take part of it as well.

Ethan Suplee

I think anything Tony Kaye would've done would've been interesting, definitely. And worth seeing.

Ian Mckellen

Tony Blair is not a villain, but he's played the part very well.

Neale Donald Walsch

There is no truth except the truth that exists within you. Everything else is what someone is telling you.

Kate Looby

Within about two weeks, we'll have made those decisions.

Kerry Bailey

Typically within two weeks, we're done with the analysis.

Jeffrey Smith

We work within the system. I don't want to say we're rebellious.

Bob Greenly

Justus is very much a work in progress, ... but he's getting better all the time.

Mads Mikkelsen

I take my work enormously seriously. When I do something, it has to feel right. Everything has to be right.

Dan Kane

It can happen. We just all have to work together.

Glenn Storch

I think it's going to work out fine.

Ben Kuehne

It had nothing to do with her work as a lobbyist.

Irwin Cohen

I think this works for New York City.

Sienna Guillory

I think that, with homoeopathy, if you get the right mix, it works 20 times quicker than conventional medicine.

Rod Argent

I was wondering, 'Is this going to work?'

Sophocles

A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.