Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matt Silverman

There are some that don't have a positive reaction to the word devil. There are some who don't have a positive reaction to a devil ray. What is a devil ray? If we make a change, it will be something that will be more accessible and appeal to everyone . . . or at least not drive people away.

Troy Aikman

One of the big things I believe about why the sport is so (big) is how accessible the drivers are. Right up until the race, they're signing autographs. You would never get that close to an athlete in any other sport.

John Branch

I found during my time covering the NHL that the enforcers were some of the most accessible guys and the most low-key guys. I think that's somewhat of a natural thing. I don't know if that's because it's the big guy that everybody fears, and then you're sort of surprised and taken by the fact that he's actually a nice guy.

Matthew Robinson

Most people think it is just really easy to get on these shows and at this point almost everyone knows someone who knows someone who has been on reality TV. (But) It is much less accessible than people think, ... How to Get on Reality TV.

Elisa Zied

One reason that many people don't eat enough fruits and vegetables is that these foods often aren't as visible or accessible as chips or cookies. It helps to keep cut-up vegetables in your refrigerator, and a clear bowl filled with fruit on your kitchen counter to entice you to eat more of these wholesome foods.

Anna Johnson

One step up from perfume, the handbag is also the most accessible item an ordinary working woman can afford from a very exclusive house. Status bags are a cheap thrill, comparatively speaking, for those who want business class but are living coach.

Charles Rossotti

I think the significance of today is an increased commitment to being more accessible to taxpayers and moving from a focus on doing our job internally to helping taxpayers meet their obligations under the tax code,

Julie Foudy

I think the most important thing is to be accessible to the fans and be yourself,

Ian Blair

It is a package that delivers safer neighbourhoods to everyone in London, that takes people out of their offices and puts them on the streets, that asks officers to walk as much as possible by themselves so they are accessible to the public, and it is part of the overall modernisation of the Metropolitan Police.

Jim Young

A's Baseball remains one of the most affordable entertainment values in all of sports. The average ticket price in 2006 will be $25.48, which still ranks in the lower third in all of baseball. And the average ticket-price increase from 2005 to 2006 will be 7.24 percent, which is the second-lowest increase over the last six seasons and lower than the last two seasons.

Craig Barrett

The bottom line is that we want images on PCs to become as easy to use and as ubiquitous as text is today. If digital imaging is easy, affordable and fun for consumers, we believe it will spur PC demand and contribute to the ultimate goal of creating new users and new uses for the PC platform.

Lisa Carlson

People assume they've got to go the traditional route. But we are beginning to see a lot more affordable low-cost options.

Judy Wheeler

The MY RiDE! Program is back helping young people afford new Chrysler, Jeep and Dodge vehicles. It will assist in building brand loyalty early based upon a satisfying ownership experience.

Travis Jensen

A four-game slide can really hurt us because now every game left is that much more important. We are going to really have to focus now because we can't afford to give any more games away.

M. Wolfe

A few years ago, you could heat a home for $500. Now it takes $1,500. Energy has become a lot less affordable for low-income families.

Michael Mayo

The one issue, the one question that comes to mind, is we need to quantify where the (buyers) are coming from. Some of these units are $1 million and up. Can our work force afford these? We have a crisis of affordable housing in that area already.

Edith Rogers

The one bill that was always defeated. The Bill? One to get lights on horse-drawn vehicles. The objection? Farmers couldn't afford twenty-five cents for a red disk.

Jason Sant

After a period of financial difficulty, people often find themselves with income, savings for a down payment, but poor credit because of their past. When they apply for a mortgage loan they are turned down. We are able to help people in that situation get a home they can afford and move in almost immediately.

Jim Haslett

Bah humbug! I've been visited by the ghosts of Saints past, present, and future, and they don't wear white sheets like most ghosts. Instead, they wear brown paper bags over their heads. Anyway, they all said it was time for a change.

Kip Hawley

Sorting through thousands of bags a day to pull out small tools doesn't help security, it hurts it.

Jan Chipchase

I spend a lot of my time looking into people's bags and handbags - with their permission, of course.

Davy Hite

That's when you've got your best chance to catch those 28- or 30-pound bags (five-fish limits). That's when you can get on one bank and win a tournament in 15 minutes.

Cameron Diaz

I sincerely apologize to anyone I may have inadvertently offended...The bag was a purchase I made as a tourist in China.

Tove Jansson

Sometimes it's better to look at things than own them... owning means anxiety and lots of bags to carry around.

Dominic Monaghan

I enjoy the preparatory elements of travel - packing my bags and choosing my outfits - but my favourite part is getting there.

Jose Andres Puerta

Don't skimp on the ice. Bags from the grocery store melt so fast and water down your drinks. I prefer beautiful, big squares for my cocktails.

Ron Johnson

Customers were sending my tea back because of the taste of it. On a day at lunch, we'll sell 100 bags of tea. Today, it was six.

Craig Benson

The Business Profits Tax, which is imposed on in-state businesses, we need to impose the same thing on out-of-state businesses, because the way the Business Profits Tax is calculated, it is highly dependent on how much sales and profits are generated in-state.

William Williams

The business of love iscruelty which,by our wills,we transformto live together.

David Healy

The business does not deserve a huge premium. It's a cyclical business, earnings are erratic.

Steve Bennett

As our customers run their businesses or manage their personal finances, dealing with tax requirements creates a lot of opportunities for Intuit.

Glen Davis

Raven has been a good kid since he got here. I could tell he was a little home sick the first week or two he was here, but I think he is over all that. We have been on him about taking care of business in the classroom. He has done everything we have asked.

Roland Martin

Radio has always been a niche business. Cable television has always been a niche business. Magazines have always been a niche business.

Stephan Thomas

Pricing power has diminished; we have increased energy and raw material costs and that will depress margins. It makes sense to strengthen the automotive related business in North America.

John Mackey

Profits are one of the most important goals of any successful business, and investors are one of the most important constituencies of public businesses.

Jim Allchin

Product quality and a great out-of-box experience have been two of our key drivers for Windows Vista, and we are on track to deliver on both. But the industry requires greater lead time to deliver Windows Vista on new PCs during holiday. We must optimize for the industry, so we've decided to separate business and consumer availability.

Jim Gillette

Some suppliers have tried to tell GM that not everybody needs to be global, not all the parts need to be global. But they just figure that's the way they're going to get the cheaper price.

Andrew Chesley

Some say it's a lot cheaper than freeways, they are but not a lot less.

Sathya Baba

The same person has come to Me seeking success at the examination, then a job, then a father-in-law, then a child, then a rise in the salary, a transfer in a cheaper place and a seat in the Medical College for his son - a never ending series of wants, until at last he comes seeking My Grace for an end to worldly pursuits and for initiation into the path of spirituality.

Brian Postol

It would be cheaper for them to get into the European community now.

Ben Katchor

The publishing industry has always wanted to make books as cheaply and as ephemerally as they could; it's nothing new.

Will Rogers

There is not a man in the country that can't make a living for himself and his family. But he can't make a living for them AND the government, too, the way his government is living. What the government has got to do is live as cheap as the people.

Patrick O'Brien

Farm work is hard work, and a lot of folks just don't want to do it at any wage. This is not about cheap labor.

Harvey Pekar

I don't mind if I show myself being cheap or unreasonable sometimes.

Mary Montagu

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor is any pleasure so lasting.

Richard Madden

Oh, I am not naturally gifted in dancing in any way! Stupidly, I didn't go to those classes in drama school. I was like, 'I don't need that; I'll never be dancing in anything.'

Wayne McCants

Right now they are classified as an exotic.

Don Bohanan

These classes demonstrate to college admissions and scholarship staff that students who successfully complete them can do college-level work.

Ruth Johnson

The writing contest is a way for teachers to get kids writing. It gives them a purpose, a real-world experience. They get feedback from others and not just from me as their classroom teacher. They have a wider audience.

S. Walker

This is great news for The Johnnie Walker Classic and is a true reflection of its standing as one of the most competitive, international and high profile tournaments in the world.

Gary Blair

This is the deepest recruiting class that the Big 12 has ever had, top to bottom. These freshmen can play.

Elizabeth Searle

This is the classic envy story. And it was just so strange, and got stranger by the day.

Paul Bettencourt

The whole class just shut up after that.

Bill White

The white working class in Michigan has been ignored.

Ravi Zacharias

Every religion at its core is exclusive.

Sepp Blatter

We now have this item in our files.

James Billington

We have 119 million items in 460 different languages,

Gary Meyer

I thought the purchasing manager was a part of that give and take deal. Now, we've got another thing we've got to give and take on to get a commissioner's vote. It's not just one item now; it's two or three that he wants.

Jamshyd Godrej

In a company, you buy thousands of things. Every item you buy has its own footprint.

Kelli Calloway

The dresses, shoes and purses can all be loaned and don't have to be donated. It doesn't have to be a permanent donation. Whoever wants to loan items can get everything back dry-cleaned.

Paul Parker

These items can become missiles and they can stop storm drainage,

Fred Reid

I've got a checklist with 3,200 items on it. At any time, 150 of them are burning.

Robert Atkinson

They are the No. 1 item in footwear. They wear them with jeans or skirts.

Michael Short

There are no new charges, no evidence, and multiple people living in that house.

Peter Russell

The principal artists' rooms are so big that in New York 12 people would be living in them,

Caroline Shaw

Living in New York City, you have to keep trying to do a lot of things.

Boyd Palmer

We have survived. There is plenty of living to do.

Deirdre O'Kane

I don't particularly want to work with my husband all the time, as in the living and the working thing.

David Franks

I will not work with them. I'll work with other breeders. We'll do our own thing, but right now it's a living we're making, a living here. And if there doing that we'll find out someday. The truth will come out.

Bruce Brown

I'm living in the middle of a nightmare.

James Ellis

It's no longer a museum piece. She's actually a living ship.

Luis Ramirez

It's been hard, we've been living day by day. We don't have any place to live, to work, nothing.

Brian Perkins

All truth is very ordinary.

Orson Scott Card

[T]he politically correct are above the rules of ordinary civility, once they have identified you as an unbeliever in their religion.

Thomas Merton

Let us come alive to the splendor that is all around us and see the beauty in ordinary things.

Tanith Lee

No one is ever ordinary.

Marilynne Robinson

Ordinary things have always seemed numinous to me

Nick Cave

Certainly being proficient in an instrument does have its problems. Because the better you get, the more you just start sounding like an ordinary guitarist. There are certainly guitarists that transcend that and do really find their sound and all that sort of stuff.

Buzz Aldrin

I realize that my life is not the common ordinary person.

Jane Pauley

I would not take for granted that my personal life - because I knew better than anybody - that it was just a life. It was surprisingly an ordinary life.

Horace

You will have written exceptionally well if, by skilful arrangement of your words, you have made an ordinary one seem original.

Scott Downs

As a whole staff, we're just trying to step it up while Doc and Teddy are out,

Deion Sanders

The thrill is gone. It's time for me to step away.

Bill Worsham

This is a really significant and unexpected step in our development.

Mark Russinovich

This is a step they should have taken immediately.

Al Horford

We're here to win it. This is just the first step to get there.

Ayn Rand

whose steps were a restless substitute for flight.

Burt Reynolds

I can tell a young person where the mines are, but he's probably going to step on them anyway.

Antonio Porchia

I have come one step away from everything. And here I stay, far from everything, one step away.

Hugh Johnson

(This) week is time for two steps forward,

Peter Stringfellow

You're only as old as the woman you feel.

Oriana Fallaci

The most humiliating thing a woman can be is a coquette.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner.

Auguste Comte

Woman is the most moral element in all humanity.

Juvenal

There's no effrontery like that of a woman caught in the act; her very guilt inspires her with wrath and insolence.

Cameron Diaz

What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.

Jane Austen

With women, the heart argues, not the mind.

Jane Wagner

A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?

Bella Abzug

Maybe we weren't at the Last Supper, but we're certainly going to be at the next one.

Barry Watson

It was tough trying to figure out how to put on all the women's clothes.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The weakness of their reasoning faculty also explains why women show more sympathy for the unfortunate than men;... and why, on the contrary, they are inferior to men as regards justice, and less honourable and conscientious.