Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Norton

The incentive for business is not, and cannot, be anything other than the root incentive for all business: they must profit.

Edward Abbey

Money confers the power to command the labor of others. Love of money is love of power. And love of power is the root of evil.

Donald Knuth

We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.

Andrew Weil

Following an anti-inflammato ry diet can help counteract the chronic inflammation that is a root cause of many serious diseases, including those that become more frequent as people age. It is a way of selecting and preparing foods based on science that can help people achieve and maintain optimum health over their lifetime.

Anne Sexton

But even in a telephone booth evil can seep out of the receiver and we must cover it with a mattress, and then tear it from its roots and bury it, bury it.

Anne Rice

It draws it's strength, this big secret, from the same root from which I draw my strength, both the good and the bad, because in the end, they cannot be separated.

Andrew Schneider

Marriage. It's a hard term to define. Especially for me--I've ducked it like root canal. Still there's no denying the fact that marriage ranks right up there with birth and death as one of the three biggies in the human safari. It's the only one though that we'll celebrate with a conscious awareness. Very few of you remember your arrival and even fewer of you will attend your own funeral.

Ang Lee

My cultural roots are something illusive.

Anais Nin

Nothing endures unless it has first been transposed into a myth, and the great advantage of myths is that they are ladies with portable roots.

Barbara Mikulski

I always said that though I was the first, I wanted to be the first of many.

Ayrton Senna

Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose.

Ayn Rand

Do it first and feel about it afterwards.' - Dagny Taggart

Brian Tracy

You are always free to choose what you do first, what you do second, and what you do not do at all

C. S. Lewis

Put first things first and second things are thrown in. Put second things first and you lose both first and second things.

Bobby Darin

When I come out and sing the first few bars of Bill Bailey, it's very exciting

Claire Forlani

After I saw the first thing I ever did, I got a migraine.

Billy Campbell

The only thing better than going to Pitcairn in the first place, is going again.

Billy Collins

A motto I've adopted is, if at first you don't succeed, hide all evidence that you ever tried.

Eddie Fierek

The bye is the advantage. Playing a L.C. team that's better than their record, that's not easy.

Troy Graefe

Coach Thompson comes to just about every game and those guys who played for him and Coach Baggot talk about how they used to just terrorize teams with their defense. Coach Hicks is here a lot and we talk a lot, and his teams obviously were great defensively. ... That tradition is an advantage we have.

Travis Parker

Coach always said we had a highlight coming. This was our highlight, but we didn't take advantage of it.

Robert Wilson

Comparative advantage in the production of many of these requirements therefore lies outside China, with suppliers such as Rio Tinto.

Josh Freeman

Coming out, I was a little nervous, a little shaky. But afterwards, in the second half, I calmed down and tried to take advantage of the opportunity.

Jim Norton

Denver Water has an impressive history of providing customers with high quality water and excellent service. Taking advantage of the benefits an enterprise personalization solution like Dialogue offers is just one more way of extending that high level of service to its customers.

John Carmack

anywhere close to taking full advantage of all of this extra capability. But, maybe by the time the next generation of consoles roll around the developers will be a little more comfortable with all this and be able to get more benefit out of it. It's not a problem I actually think will have a solution. I think it's going to stay hard.

Odalis Perez

Any pitcher would love to have our offense. Last time, I couldn't hold a five-run lead. So I said to myself, 'This time, that's not going to happen,' or I would be embarrassed to not take advantage of those runs.

Sir Jones

Anyone with a foreign language under their belt, whether at GCSE, A-level or as a graduate, will have an immediate advantage in the job market because they can deliver their company an edge in the world market.