Famous Quotes & Sayings

Terrence Royal

The sky's the limit for the young guys. I know there's nothing but greater things ahead for those guys.

Daniel Greenberg

I'll tell you what the real problem is: These people are working under the assumption that they know better about what is good for kids, what kids need to learn to get ahead in this world.

Fran Dunphy

I am excited about the opportunity to coach at Temple University and look forward to the challenges that lie ahead in keeping Owl basketball among the nation's elite programs.

Matt Nosack

He had three pitches going today and he was throwing them all for strikes. I was really pleased with the way he stayed ahead in the count.

Greg Davis

He is a special freshman. Football comes easy to him. The sky's the limit. He's way ahead of schedule for a freshman.

Kevin McKeon

If you have money to pay part of it, go ahead and send that in and include that on the form, and then you'll be directed - based on how much has been paid - what you need to pay on a monthly basis.

Vincent Farrell

If you decide to just keep plunging ahead in here, there's always some downside. And I don't know that we're really expecting any downside. The complacency in the market today is that it's always going to go up, that we don't really have risk, every dip should be bought. I don't think that's a healthy situation because there are ups and downs.

James Rubin

Clearly, there are grave dangers ahead if the peace process is not put back on track.

Brad Reback

Clearly, some of Microsoft's cautionary comments are weighing on the markets today. I think that investors had gotten a little ahead of themselves in the past couple of weeks in terms of bidding up tech and so now you're getting this pullback.

Jessica Bird

The writing comes first for me. Not Facebook, not Twitter, not the Internet or signings or merchandise, or 'the career.' Everything begins and ends with the writing for me, and I build my entire life around sitting my butt down 365 days a year.

Rob Enderle

IE has been frozen for a number of years largely at the request of large corporations that didn't want to upgrade and impact the stability of their systems. The result was that new browsers were able to spring up and begin taking market share.

Steve Maviglio

On any other expenditure done by the state, prevailing wage is the law. If you begin to chip away here, it would start undermining the wages that are paid to California workers.

Ken Goldstein

begin to make way for a better economy this fall.

Richard Hunter

I think the days of ups and downs are behind us. I think people are beginning to realize that the growth here is being sustained. Obviously our goal is to be a profitable company and return those benefits to shareholders. That's why I'm here.

Tom Daschle

I acknowledged that concern, and it is for that reason that the Intelligence Committee is going to begin this effort, trying to limit the scope and the overall review of what happened,

Kate Ford

I am disappointed that some folks who clearly are not strong citizens to begin with took this opportunity to make this statement, ... I was chagrined that there were obvious mothers and children in the crowd with them. Several intimated that they had guns.

Joe Torre

Pitchers scare me to begin with. I don't know how much work pitchers have done.

Elmore Leonard

I never know what I'm going to write next. If I'm still writing the book but I'm very near the end, and I begin to think of what I'd like to do next, then I'll know that what I'm writing is in hand. I'll think of an ending and it will be fine.

Thomas Carlyle

What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.

Rosecrans Baldwin

Bookstores don't exactly dot the American highway in the grand manner of Sbarros.

J. M. Roberts

I just thought it was so fitting, because my husband was an editor and loved books and because his father's weaponry collection is there as well.

Mark Morris

It has been up to parents to hit the Web and hit the books and find information on both sides about K-8.

M. Forster

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.

Angelina Jolie

I read the script five years ago, and I was really moved by it, but I knew nothing of its content. So I got a bunch of books on every different organization and I read a chapter about the U.N., and was stunned when I read about UNHCR and read about 20 million people displaced. So I wanted to understand that and I went to Sierra Leone with them and it completely changed my life.

Jeff Kinney

I read the 'Harry Potter' books as I was writing my own books, and I love them, but I don't think Harry was very much like I was as a kid. He's always brave, and he's perfect in a lot of ways.

Nick Harkaway

I read my father's books growing up. I thought then and I still think now that his writing is wonderful. It delights and infuriates me in equal measure that he's still that good.

David F. Houston

I read his books back in high school and through college. I just always thought he was a fascinating and brilliant man. The story of the bus was always very compelling. To find out it had been just left to go - I really wanted to restore the bus and tell its story to the world.

Debby Padgett

Our efforts are coordinated, and we are working toward a fabulous event in 2007. Not only for 2007, but beyond.

Robert H. Schuller

Tough times never last, but tough people do. You might add, "You're tougher than you give yourself credit for."

Denise Levertov

Affliction is more apt to suffocate the imagination than to stimulate it.

Ron Iwami

Try to encourage them to vote in our favor because they are protected by the law to do what they're doing.

Iqbal Quadir

We should encourage governments to be sustained by citizens' taxes - that is, democracies. Democracies will be enduring allies of America.

Gregg Sulkin

I know when I have kids, when I'm older, I'm going to encourage them to play sports because I think it teaches you a lot. It teaches you discipline, teamwork, and that there's really no 'I' in team.

Bindi Irwin

I want to encourage other young girls not to grow up too soon. Just enjoy the now.

Dan Davis

Our focus must always be on building people up.

Andrae Crouch

Every day, we hear that somebody got saved to our music from all over the world. The music reaches people. It can encourage them. I feel like I have to do it because there's somebody out there who needs to hear the gospel.

Demi Lovato

I'm very passionate about charity... Performing is my passion. But it's not gonna change the world. That's why I give back.

Aristotle

Irrational passions would seem to be as much a part of human nature as is reason.

Angie Martinez

The projects I'm working on are all diverse, but each represents a different passion for me. I'm constantly looking to stretch myself.

John Ruskin

We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of intermediate being was spread between him and its darkness, in which were joined in a subdued measure, the stability and insensibility of the earth, and the passion and perishing of mankind.

John Ruskin

All other passions do occasional good; but when pride puts in its word everything goes wrong.

John Ruskin

Superstition, in all times and among all nations, is the fear of a spirit whose passions are those of a man, whose acts are the acts of a man; who is present in some places, not in others; who makes no places holy and not others; who is kind to one person, unkind to another; who is pleased or angry according to the degree of attention you pay him, or praise you refuse to him; who is hostile generally to human pleasure, but may be bribed by sacrifice of a part of that pleasure into permitting the rest. This, whatever form of faith it colors, is the essence of superstition.

John Ruskin

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

Masiela Lusha

If I cannot offer some relief to our world, if I cannot inspire our generation to join me, then I feel I am a complete waste of space. This constant fear of feeling irrelevant in our society has been the catalyst behind all my efforts and passions for as long as I can remember.

Mason Cooley

My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet.

Andy Johnson

Some people think that because it's a threatened species, that every one we save is good. But not if they never get to live in the wild.

Andrew Niccol

Some people think 'Lord of War' is a political film,

Liam Hemsworth

Southern people remind me a lot of Australia.

Jim Anderson

So we're trying to let people know that we will automatically enroll them in Part D and there is no premium at all,

Mark Rylance

So there's a lot of people tied into believing that the traditional response to the authorship question. In terms of actors, some people get very angry about it.

Jesse Toprak

Now, for vehicles priced under $40,000, it is one of the first questions people ask.

Cesar Romero

Now I don't know half of the young people in the industry. It's too spread out, too diffuse.

Lois Lowry

Nowadays it seems as though people sit down to write what they know is going to be a trilogy.

Robin Cook

Tell the people of Serbia how much wealth you have sucked out during the same years they have been impoverished in Serbia,

Madhur Bhandarkar

For my film 'Fashion,' like an investigative journalist, I went about knowing the people, the models, the fashion designers. Similarly with the corporate world.