Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kevin Burke

We are pleased to welcome Fred to our board and look forward to benefiting from his knowledge and experience. Fred's global view as well as his background in finance will prove invaluable to the company.

Lesli Linka Glatter

My background is in modern dance. I was a dancer and a choreographer before I was a director, and in dance, you can't cheat. Your leg goes up in the air, or it doesn't. So when I direct, I'm a big preparer.

Noel Wells

I feel like I grew up being babysat by a television, and all I ever wanted to do was be in movies, direct movies, make movies, but it took me a really long time to be honest with myself about it because my background is that my family was very poor.

Bill Clayton

We want somebody who is experienced in national and international fundraising. We have to continue the growth of the museum or else it is going to dissolve, ... As we work to build a new funding base, having an executive director with a different background will help us to make that possible.

Wayne Rosso

We were always in the background trying to get licenses and in those days we would get one of two responses -- either, 'We're not going to reward pirates,' or 'Shut down and we'll talk about it.

Rachel Tucker

When I was in the running for the role of Elphaba, I knew it was important to research and study as much background information as I could, so I got my head stuck into 'Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West' by Gregory Maguire, and I believe I lost many days, weeks, and months reading it - I was captivated!

Tom Smith

What we're looking for behind the scenes are background checks for known felons and other things that are publicly available, to make sure these don't get in the hands of a criminal.

Mark Pasdon

When we did our first international shipment, we had no idea what we were doing. I don't have a background in logistics. I had no idea how it works. I knew FedEx could get it international. As a small business, trying to get through different governmental bodies that regulate that, I didn't have a chance.

Annette Griffin

We're going to have fully certified teachers that have had a background check and it's going to be done faster ... than school districts can do it.

Jack Greenberg

We want the line -- which for McDonald's includes our divisional and regional staffs, owner/operators and restaurant personnel -- to make decisions on behalf of customers based on field operating needs. The line ultimately has responsibility and accountability for our business success,

Elizabeth Gregory

We actually choose the schools that we work with in each location, so basically we evaluate them based on curriculum, facilities, reputation and cost.

Amanda Tobin

The possible pressurization issues that we've had recently do represent an above-average number for this time period, based on historical averages.

Ginny Goblirsch

We are always so happy to see them. It is such a reminder of what the US Coast Guard brings to our community. It's also a reminder of what it took to get the helicopter based here and how critical it is that it remains here.

Adam Ereli

We believe that these convictions are based on evidence that isn't credible and a trial that isn't fair,

Mike Clarke

We still plan to have the appraisal done and try to keep discussions open with them and at the appropriate time, based on the appraisal, try to initiate, once again, negotiations.

Frank Newport

We're in a period of time that there is a conventional wisdom that Bush is on the ropes. I think, based on my experience, that the media tend to move in lockstep as conventional wisdom on a story develops.

Bernie Schaeffer

We're in a frenetic short-covering based rally. The jury is still out about how long this is going to last.

Brent Trout

Where the crux of the issue lies is that (certain) departments are so heavily based on labor force. There is more to it at the library, there's a little more flexibility about other softer items where you are just able to cut.

Alan Bean

I find color schemes that I just like and that just feel right.

Edward Hoagland

True solitude is a din of birdsong, seething leaves, whirling colors, or a clamor of tracks in the snow.

Edward James Olmos

Because people of color will definitely, definitely become the power base in the Western Hemisphere.

Beatrice Wood

And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.

Bebe Moore Campbell

People of color, particularly African Americans, feel the stigma more keenly. In a race-conscious society, some don't want to be perceived as having yet another deficit.

Audre Lorde

When we create out of our experiences, as feminists of color, women of color, we have to develop those structures that will present and circulate our culture.

Arthur Rubinstein

I'm passionately involved in life: I love its change, its color, its movement. To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it's all a miracle.

Denzel Washington

As an actor, you're a color of paint on someone else's palette. But as a director, it's your canvas and you make the painting you want to make.

Hiram Rhodes Revels

The colored race saved to the noble women of New England and the middle States men on whom they lean today for security and safety. Many of my race, the representatives of these men on the field of battle, sleep in the countless graves of the South.

Charles Caleb Colton

We should have all our communications with men, as in the presence of God; and with God, as in the presence of men.

Charles Dickens

"I fear your kind and open communication, which has rendered me more painfully conscious of my own defects, has not improved me," sighed Kate.

Alan Watts

When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique. He is universal by virtue of the inseparability of his organism from the cosmos. He is unique in that he is just this organism and not any stereotype of role, class, or identity assumed for the convenience of social communication.

Alan J. Pakula

I am oblique; I think that has to do with my own nature. I like trying to do things which work on many levels, because I think it is terribly important to give an audience a lot of things they might not get as well as those they will, so that finally the film does take on a texture and is not just simplistic communication.

Alan Alda

Our lives depend on good communication. Good communication helps personal relationships, it helps bosses and employees get along better. We rely on it.

Chloe Grace Moretz

I come from the mind-set that, if you want it to work, it will work, whether it's a friendship or a relationship. If you're both in the same mind-set and you want to be together and you want to make it work, you can make it work. It just takes dedication and knowing that there might be some miscommunication and lack of communication sometimes.

Chip Conley

Whether we're conscious of it or not, our work and personal lives are made up of daily rituals, including when we eat our meals, how we shower or groom, or how we approach our daily descent into the digital world of email communication.

Edith Wharton

She said she knew we were safe with you, and always would be, because once, when she asked you to, you'd given up the thing you most wanted." Archer received this strange communication in silence. His eyes remained unseeingly fixed on the thronged sunlit square below the window. At length he said in a low voice: "She never asked me.

Earl Warren

The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual.

Gary Moody

With those three we have a little more depth at those inside spots,

Chris Bowers

We're rotating every other series, and Corvelli had a good day. I feel like there will be good depth at the position. You will always have a fresh guy out there.

Mark Hackett

We've got a pretty good feel for this team. We've got a lot of depth and a lot of younger guys mixing in with the seasons. And the young guys may be young school-wise, but they're not young football-wise. They can play.

Pat Mitchell

We're going to have to have some depth come in and spend the week really working on those back-up guys and get them ready to go,

Chris Parsons

With numbers comes quality. You just don't know who it might be by the end of the year. The problem is we don't have the depth we've had.

Larry Eustachy

We're just not good enough right now from a depth experience. You need to make plays late in the game. We didn't.

Mary Young

Amanda's been our floor leader and huge for us on the outside. To take her out, we need to learn to get some strength in other places, ... Even though we lost that game, it was good for us to develop some more depth and play through some of those mistakes and errors.

Jim Calhoun

A lot of teams play us in a grind, not in a wide-open game. That played to our depth and our experience.

Joe Quinlan

It's not just depth in our conference; it's the quality of the depth. That helps with seeding.

Laura Ziskin

I describe myself as someone who was always putting on a show, even when I was a little girl. I wanted to be an actress but I liked organizing everybody and putting on plays. I was a producer.

Norman Wisdom

Well if I was going to describe my audience, it's going to take longer than you'd ever expect, hundreds of years in fact, because there's many of them, all over the world.

Dick Lampman

We've always had a more pragmatic view of our business. You can describe our mission in two words: technology transfer.

John M. Smith

When we were making that run at the end, you could feel it. You can't really describe it, but you know there's so many people who want your season to keep going. It's an inspiration. You want to play for yourself, but you want to play for them, too.

Chris Winter

Words don't describe it. I didn't see a single property that wasn't totaled. Just incredible.

Robert Brooks

Words couldn't describe some of the great experiences I had at Enterprise High School. I always tried to stay within the team concept. I am just glad in the process I was able to make a name for myself.

Kevin J. Anderson

Words can't describe what we felt with the success we had with her, and now with this tragedy.

Steve James

Words can't describe how I feel right now. This is one of the greatest feelings in the world.

Ed Stephenson

Words can't describe a group that has been with us for four years and started the program.

Steve Jocz

We were trying to joke around as much as possible. Well, as much as you could in that . . . eventually it got really not funny.

Jim Kelley

We're making progress, but we'd still like to see the population get lower. The problem we've been fighting is that they've had two straight years of good reproduction. So it's kind of like taking two steps forward and one back. But we think if we stay with the program we have in place, we'll eventually get there.

Sherry Cooper

We remain of the view that next week's rate hike will not be the Fed's last work this cycle. Indeed, they will likely eventually unwind all of last fall's crisis-induced easing.

Jack Crumbliss

We're going to get better. We're eventually going to get over the hump.

Linda Stephenson

What a lot of people don't realize is these tests are given in preparation for the 10th-grade GQE. That's the one with the highest stakes for individual students. They have to eventually pass that to graduate.

Mark Wilson

We're looking for improvement every meet from them. If they can do that - keep improving - eventually we'll get our points there.

Jim Carlin

With the legs that extend on it, he has an 18-foot reach, and it also can go six-feet down, so we started skimming the water, skimming the ground, then eventually we're down to four to five feet.

Keke Palmer

There's not always going to be something out there for you, especially not a positive role, so once you get up there and start being well known, you can't just think projects will come to you. You have to start doing your own projects because if you don't, you'll miss out, and eventually your fame will be over.

Donald Rumsfeld

Throughout human history there have been those who seek power through fear and mass murder, ... But eventually all of them - every one - has fallen.

Tito Mboweni

We want to see a competitive and stable exchange rate, nothing more, nothing less.

Moshe Sharett

As for the long-term future: I am prepared to see in this a vision, not a mystical way but in a realistic way, of a population exchange on a much more important scale and including larger territories.

Li Deshui

The reform of the exchange rate has been proved a successful one.

Bob Risch

They needed to get out of the property because the exchange didn't go through.

Brandy King

They were documenting them as exchanges instead of purchases.

Paul Podolsky

This is about trust, this system. So the question is how you price that, and it's given the foreign exchange market pause.

Ron Wirahadiraksa

Foreign exchange in the first quarter had a slightly negative impact on our income statement.

Tony Alexander

There is no way of forecasting when exchange rates are going to move.

Larry Lucchino

There needs to be some give and take, or some exchange of preferences and places. So, obviously we have to work together, and we told him we would be willing to explore that. He needs to give us some guidance.

Charles Dickens

We all have some experience of a feeling, that comes over us occasionally, of what we are saying and doing having been said and done before, in a remote time - of our having been surrounded, dim ages ago, by the same faces, objects, and circumstances.

Alain Robert

It's a great feeling to know that 100 cops want to stop you doing something and they can't.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Christ dazzles me and stirs within me such feelings of amazement that I can never get over Him.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I like to disappear into a role. I equate the success of it with a feeling of being chemically changed. That's the only way I can express it.

Eartha Kitt

I'm still with that feeling that I am afraid of doing the wrong thing, because somebody is going to punish me.

David Hume

.. that which renders morality an active principle and constitutes virtue our happiness, and vice our misery: it is probable, I say, that this final sentence depends on some internal sense or feeling, which nature has made universal in the whole species.

David Burnett

The greatest photographs are motivated by human feeling.

David Brooks

When your institution is under assault, you're feeling like the weight is on it and the history might be flowing away, don't turn inward, go outward.

Benicio Del Toro

It really is a pleasure to work with someone who you admire. Whatever you do in front of the camera, and I don't know what it is, but actors have this thing that you recognize someone that makes you better. When you do that, it's a great feeling.

Charles Stanley

People don't like the idea of consequences. They want to be able to live their life freely and do what they want to do without any consequences. And we know that's just not the way life is.

Alan Perlis

Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.

Alan Moore

It's only those exceptional and rare individuals who have brilliant ideas delivered to them by the muse, complete and gift wrapped. The rest of us have to work at it.

Alan Moore

A lot of people have found the idea of living your life over and over again absolutely terrifying; there's some people that find it very comforting. There are others that are appalled by it.

Alan Moore

Yes, of course, the whole idea is utterly inane, but to let its predictable inanities blind you to its truly fabulous and breathtaking aspects is to do both oneself and the genre a disservice.

Alan Moore

There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof.

Alan Moore

Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof.

Al Neuharth

Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Akon

My ideas come when I least expect it, so I've always got to have a studio nearby or close by somewhere.

Alanis Morissette

I just feel compelled to continue to be transparent. It just really levels the playing field and eradicates the shame that I have, or that one might have, about being human. So I'm going to just keep going.

James Allen

We want to see what's out there and is it worthwhile to take anything to the next level of funding.

Chris Copeland

Keep being aggressive, that's what my teammates and my coaches ask me to do. If I see things are going well, I know there's more of a comfort level for me to continue to do that.

Chogyam Trungpa

Spirituality doesn’t exist on another level different from ordinary life.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Politically there were failures. And also on the personal level, there were tremendous failures.

Ben Whishaw

When I finished my A-levels, I assumed I'd be able to get work as an actor. But I couldn't. I didn't get an audition. Nothing. So I thought I'd better train and then the parts would come.

August Strindberg

By attempting the impossible one can attain the highest level of the possible.

Michael Moriarty

When I saw Paul Scofield do 'Love's Labor's Lost at Stratford,' that's when I saw the potential of the level of truth that could go on up there on a stage. I said, 'This is what I want to do.'

Jim Boeheim

We struggled at times, but most of it was because of our schedule. It was more the product of our schedule than how we were playing. We really didn't play at the level we could until New York.

Chuck D.

It's no longer 'run to the park' on your own. Parents want to feel secure where they are and what they'll be doing.

John Jordan

It's no longer in our faces. The lynching is still being done, it's just being done covertly.

David Cardwell

It's no longer being done to be better than the other guy, but to keep up with the other guy.

Tom Stehn

It's now in its second year; it's no longer a juvenile. But this one particular whooping crane doesn't know where Aransas is. Its parents never showed it.

Diane Arbus

They are the proof of something was there and no longer is.Like a stain. And the stillness of them is boggling. You can turn away but when you come back they'll still be there looking at you.

Tom Stehn

You don't find them, but they're no longer with their parents.

Jim Barnett

This man is proven to be an ineffective extremist. We're no longer talking about one out of 435. We're talking about a very powerful position, as one of 100 in the United States Senate.

Stephanie Ferlita

I tried to tell them they accomplished a lot. Their season went on longer than a lot of other teams. And they made it through some tough times that a lot of other teams didn't have to face.

Allen Staggers

It's a little tougher because you're spanning such a distance. It takes a little longer to do.

Satya Pradhuman

The point is, we're not out of the woods yet,

Craig Martin

The point is to get it right, not necessarily to get it done early.

Livan Hernandez

The point is, it's now or never. You try to make the playoffs.

Jim Clarke

We are at the point where we have succeeded in accomplishing what we wanted to do.

Tom Renney

We have to get to the point where he thinks he could play, and I don't think we're at that point.

Michael Ondaatje

You're getting everyone's point of view at the same time, which, for me, is the perfect state for a novel: a cubist state, the cubist novel.

Ian Rosenberger

Watch for someone else to screw up, and then quietly point it out to everyone else,

Ben Nelson

We're going to run like we're 10 points down,

Dave Garza

We're going to put some big points on the board.

Herbie Hancock

When you struggle to reach for something you don't know, that's where the most interesting stuff is.

Kypros Chrysostomides

It seems that today we reached a satisfactory conclusion.

Christine Hudacko

They have all the time in the world to reach that point.

Tom Duxbury

There's at least one more we could reach for another flyby.

Rush Limbaugh

Do you think if there was any real evidence, we would have reached a settlement?

Rick Wagoner

These negotiations were done in a positive, cooperative, problem-solving spirit, ... While it may have taken some time to reach this cooperative solution, I think it was time well-spent.

Nizar Hamdoon

The only way to try to reach out ... is if the American administration sits down and talks with the Iraqis.

Jane Soepardi

This second round will take a week ... but on this second day we have already received reports (of) reaching around 70 percent. We are optimistic.

Brad Smith

We don't understand how they can reach these conclusions, because they haven't read or reviewed these documents.

Akio Morita

We treat employees as a member of the family. If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.

Cheryl Tiegs

I've had four amazing men in my life, very strong, powerful, wonderful men. I certainly will have a relationship with someone but I don't think I will get married again.

Chelsea Peretti

If you text 'I love you' and the person writes back an emoji - no matter what that emoji is, they don't love you back.

Chely Wright

I wish I had a great relationship with my mother.

Charlize Theron

I'm always open to a relationship, but I'm not putting those feelers out there now.

Charlize Theron

When they watch a movie and they know that you're in a relationship, you just kind of watch that constantly.

Charlaine Harris

It's probably a bad indicator of your lifestyle when you miss your ex-boyfriend because he's absolutely lethal.

Charles Handy

Why don't we teach our children in school what they are? We should say to them, 'You are unique... you have the capacity for anything. You are a marvel'.

Bill Maher

Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.

Malaika Arora Khan

As a rule, all relationships go through their ups and downs. It's really about how much you want it.

John Livengood

An independent (owner) who has established relationships with (his) clientele is a very important part of the industry.

Patricia Fripp

Technology does not run an enterprise, relationships do

Christine Martino

This is a real enhancement to the relationship.

Tracy McMillan

The thing is, relationships never work out... until they do. You learn a lot from relationships that don't work out.

Andie MacDowell

I feel like I've had so many successes on so many levels, even if it is just my relationships with my friends.

Henry Winkler

Assumptions are the termites of relationships. I wrote that.

Alan Mills

Ultimately you have to really stay on top of these relationships if you want to be strong yourself,

Shakti Gawain

We have to get good at being with ourselves before we can hope to be good at being in relationships with others.

Arlen Specter

Should (the information) have been shared if it could have prevented (the) 9/11 (attacks)?

Alice Stewart

They called the Hogs. They shared stories about their time there.

Jennette McCurdy

I never shared a room growing up because I was the only girl.

Charles Dickens

There is no substitute for thoroughgoing, ardent, and sincere earnestness.

Charles M. Schulz

How can we lose when we're so sincere?

Augusten Burroughs

but I am not here ironically; I am here sincerely.

Confucius

In a district of ten families, there must be someone as honorable and sincere as I, but none as fond of learning.

Alice Walker

Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.

Robert Herrick

Things are evermore sincere; / Candor here, and lustre there / Delighting.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

For in religion as in friendship, they who profess most are ever the least sincere.

Stephen Sondheim

I was raised to be charming, not sincere.

Meredith Ostrom

Im too sensitive and too sincere.

Alan Watts

And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment.

Edith Sitwell

... all ugliness passes, and beauty endures, excepting of the skin.

David Duke

What I learned about them, I liked. But it also seemed that the liberal line was not entirely correct, for it was obvious that racial differences went far beyond skin color. It would be difficult to categorize all the distinctions I noticed. In fact, I made no effort to catalogue them at the time, but their differences ranged all the way from physical characteristics to more subtle differences such as extreme aversion for work in cold weather. On cold days, when I felt invigorated, my black co-workers seemed lethargic.

Audrina Patridge

I have olive skin, so if I'm in the sun for even 15 minutes, I turn brown.

Derek Hough

My type, which I didnt realize until somebody pointed out to me, apparently is brunettes with darker skin tones, but that is about it as far as aesthetically.

Benjamin Watson

It's a sin problem, not a skin problem.

NeNe Leakes

'Teen Moms!' I started watching them like the first two seasons, and I stopped. I stopped because they are too young. I feel sorry for them. And I didn't watch that show 'Hoarders.' That thing would made my skin crawl.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

I rub a mixture of honey and salt all over my body to moisturise and exfoliate. You wash it off and your skin is gorgeous.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

I would like every Jew to be as comfortable in his skin as I am in mine.