Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matt Mackowiak

As a former county commissioner, the senator understands, probably better than anyone, how this proposal could affect county government. He hears them loud and clear.

Lorenzo Codogno

As always, protectionism doesn't work. The past resistance to change has resulted in the Italian banking system being still affected by fragmentation, with plenty of small-scale players.

Paul Haggis

As a filmmaker, it's a great thing to feel you've really affected them, one way or another. I'd much rather have that than have someone say, 'Nice film, man.' That's a stake through your heart.

Kelly Preston

As a mom, I am going through a very painful experience and my child is going through a very traumatic and painful experience. So I didn't want to say anything that could affect him later in life.

David Orton

Profitability for the quarter was affected by the lower revenue and a reduction in average selling prices for the company's board products.

Duncan Hunter

Prior to September 11, 2001, illegal immigration was considered a regional issue without national implications. We quickly learned on that day, however, that this is a national issue, affecting each and every American, not just those living in border communities like San Diego County,

Richard Hatch

Programmers and marketing people know how to get into your subconscious-they spend millions of dollars researching colors, shapes, designs, symbols, that affect your preferences, and they can make you feel warm, trusting, like buying. They can manipulate you.

Richard Hatch

Programmers and marketing people know how to get into your subconscious - they spend millions of dollars researching colors, shapes, designs, symbols, that affect your preferences, and they can make you feel warm, trusting, like buying. They can manipulate you.

Mark Hansen

Probably the most important thing in developing an emergency plan for the agricultural operation is to include the family and employees in the process. By helping to develop the plan, the other family members and employees take more ownership in making the plan work and in helping think of ways to protect the business. After all, everyone is affected if an emergency or disaster causes a disruption in operations, even if it's only for a week or two.

Ed Colligan

People underestimate the difference between a great product and just a product.

Joel Edgerton

People talk about the difference between working on stage and working on film. I think you could say that there are as many differences between working on low budget films and working on big budget films. You really are doing the same thing, but at the same time you're doing something vastly different as well.

Lori Anderson

People are willing to look for difference and pay more when they find it. Jazz it up and offer something different and people will pay for it.

Tim Ross

Defensively, they're a hard team to keep in front of you. We gave up penetration and we gave up second chances. And I think that proved to be the difference in the game.

Kelly Clarkson

And that's true for most of the people from the show. You don't hear a lot about them afterwards. But I think the difference is that I'd already done stuff. . . . I really know what I want, I know what I want to do and I'm working with great people.

Bill Cowher

The second year makes a dramatic difference to any player. He's more comfortable with the offense, and it makes him a better quarterback.

Richard Johnson

The tangible difference is that we can tell our story without a filter.

Buddy Trask

The third quarter was the difference in the game. Because of foul trouble we weren't able to use our man-to-man press, but did in the third quarter which got us off and running. Raymond had a great game with nine assists and seven steals to go with his 18 points.

Stephen Rand

After all the brinkmanship this is good news. It's good news because it will make a real difference to some of the world's poorest people.

Adan Canto

I've always been fascinated by people, their psychology, what drives them and trying to understand them.

Twyla Tharp

The ultimate point of a piece for me is that it drives the next one. Does it open new doors? That's the success of a piece.

Jack Myers

Broadcasting is still the engine that drives the train. It's still where marketers want their exposure.

Michael Goodman

What really drives the sales of these things is a breakaway game,

Kyle Orton

Those drives are just demoralizing for a defense,

Bill Valentine

We are in some ways part of that demographic group that drives oversized cars.

Jim Hueber

I think he is really driven. I think it is really important to him to do what he feels like he has to do to be as good as he can be. He wants to do everything right, I think that is what drives him. He doesn't want to make a mistake.

Jeff Jennewein

Whittaker drives so well to the bucket, and then he can pull up and hit that jump shot. He finds a way to slash and slide in there and takes it up strong.

Linda Fisher

I don't mean finding 15 different ways to swing from a chandelier. But novelty in life drives up peoples sense of well being.

Lauren Fine

Rather than meeting the chef, we heard more from the CFO and even had a review of the financials.

Rick Jones

Oh, he'll hear us. When there's voters out, he'll find out about it.

Nancy Cartwright

No one wants to hear from my armpits

O. J. Simpson

No one wants to hear about my sciatica

Shirley Piel

Agate can't hear squeaky toys, so movement is her main attraction.

Andrew Motion

Actors may (or may not) read poems well, but poets have unique rights to their work, and unique insights and interests to offer as we hear their idiom, pacing, tone and emphases,

Makhosini Nkosi

Any judge can hear this matter. We just want justice for the victim.

S. Hughes

An important part of this is the immediacy and completeness of the information that's provided. If people see or hear something, they can immediately pick up the phone or e-mail their congressman.

Sathya Baba

A pure thought from a pure heart is better than a mantra.

Tom Ridge

a very unfortunate characterization of the work that people are doing.

Jake Bugg

At school, people would say I should go on 'Britain's Got Talent,' but I would never have done that because it doesn't seem genuine; it doesn't feel natural.

Renae Dreier

A year from now, people will look back and say that was nerve-racking, but it was worth it.

Randy Falco

Back in 1975, we were making all the decisions about what people were going to watch.

Karla Reese

As people stop driving, we haven't been able to replace them as readily as we used to.

Michael Vick

As long as I can go out and make plays, people can say what they want to say,

Jake Barton

As long as your storytelling and emotional depth are intact, that's what people will focus on.

Ferdie Pacheco

As influential as I have been, do you think one of these people has ever called me? ... No.

Astro Teller

Really, having people who have different mental perspectives is what's important.

Sergei Gonchar

Special teams were the key. We scored on the power play and Washington didn't. That was the difference.

Heinrich Himmler

Once we have the power we will never give it up!

John Benson

so power is one thing that's stable at this stage - we're not contemplating any change.

Emily Besler

Ten votes. That says it all. Each person matters. Don't underestimate the power of your voice. Students can do a lot on this campus.

Dan Webster

Power focuses on self-preservation; principle focuses on making ideas successful.

Martin Buber

Power abdicates only under the stress of counter-power.

Al Pacino

Scarface - first you get the money, then you power and then you get the women

Charles Clark

Proscription is an important power and not one to be used lightly,

James Haynes

Quarterback is a lot of footwork. It's mechanics, how you step back, what you do on a trap or power or play action,

Arthur Balfour

Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles.

Albert Einstein

Is it not a terrible thing to be forced by society to do things which all of us as individuals regard as abominable crimes?

Thomas Jefferson

A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.

Robert Burns

Morality, thou deadly bane,Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain!

Richard Mitchell

You can shoot the tiger, or stay out of his way, but you cannot pronounce him a vegetarian.

Kin Hubbard

Very often the quiet fellow has said all he knows

Michel de Montaigne

We are nothing but ceremony; ceremony carries us away, and we leave the substance of things; we hang on to the branches and abandon the trunk and body.

George Bernard Shaw

Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.

Roger Smith

By the turn of this century, we will live in a paperless society.

Jason Katims

Any show I'm working on, I want the stories to always be about something, and to have the potential to be emotional. That's the kind of story that I like.

Brett Ratner

I'm not tied to budgets. I'm tied to the story that I want to tell, and how much it's going to cost is up to whatever the economic situation of the studio is.

Brad Meltzer

Stories aren't the beauty of what did happen. They're the beauty of what could happen.

Jane Campion

When I read Andrew Motion's biography, I wept. It's something about the purity of the story and how fresh it was because of the love letters Keats wrote.

C. S. Lewis

The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the earth-- the very thing the whole story has been about.

Burt Reynolds

All you really have in the end are your stories.

Alan Dean Foster

How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.

Charles Colson

The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it.

Bela Lugosi

I'll take any story if it's good.