Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vitruvius

When it passes towards the east, the sun begins to have less effect upon it, and a thin line on the edge of its bright side emits its splendour towards the earth.

Robert Hayes

The overwhelming bewilderment begins with the scores of competing plans that are being offered,

David Carson

I'm a big believer in the emotion of design, and the message that's sent before somebody begins to read, before they get the rest of the information; what is the emotional response they get to the product, to the story, to the painting - whatever it is.

David Eddings

I can read Middle English stories, Geoffrey Chaucer or Sir Thomas Malory, but once I start moving in the direction of contemporary fantasy, my mind begins to take over.

V. S. Naipaul

If a man begins writing at thirty, by the time he is fifty or sixty, the bulk of his work has been done. By the time he is eighty, he's got nothing more, you know?

Patti Davis

Christopher Reeve understood that... everything begins with hope. His vision of walking again, his belief that he would be able to in his lifetime, towered over his broken body.

Robin S. Sharma

My best investment, as cliched as this sounds, is the money I've spent developing myself, via books, workshops and coaching. Leadership begins within, and to have a better career, start by building a better you.

Paramahansa Yogananda

The sense of being a separate, egoic self begins with the astral, not with the physical, body. The soul is individualized spirit.

Tom Bunnell

Today, the campaign begins speaking directly to voters about Conrad Burns' record of delivering for Montana. Montana is a better place to live, work and raise a family because of Conrad Burns.

Virginia Postrel

Just as producers often give consumers things they want but didn't think to ask for, consumers sometimes come up with surprising uses for new inventions. When a new product appears, it can uncover dissatisfactions and desires no one knew were there.

Heather Dougherty

The 2005 holiday season was a gadget year for consumers of all ages, and consumers continued to show their love for free shipping.

Paul Taylor

The affordability issue from rising interest rates takes some consumers out of the market. These are big-ticket items for consumers. They are going to be sensitive to interest rates.

M. Wolfe

We can throw variable pricing in and we can raise prices of a hit song, but it doesn't mean consumers will buy. They have an alternative - get songs for free.

Brian Fabbri

Typically, consumers are waiting for all kinds of deals before they go out and purchase an automobile. They didn't get them in July, so perhaps they're going to wait until maybe August.

Michael Copps

Tollbooths and gatekeepers are the exact opposite of what the Internet is all about. Down that route, consumers can count on paying more and getting less - less content, fewer services and reduced innovation.

Carl Neill

You are getting back toward levels where industrial consumers can make money. So I do think you're seeing some more industrial demand come back in.

Lisa Carlson

We have been willing victims. Funeral costs in the United States are 2 to 3 times that of other countries Consumers make the mistake of not shopping around and the industry counts on this.

Kevin Corbett

With the explosion of digital entertainment choices, consumers will need simple, easy ways to locate the content they want and easily play it when they want.

Nikki Rocco

(Theater owners) want it, and they want it in as many play dates as they can get it.

Kelli Calloway

We wanted to narrow it down and take it one step further. Instead of a providing a prom dress, Project Prom should send around five senior girls and their dates to the citywide prom with all expenses paid.

Marc Jacobs

Whoever moved those show dates up in New York should be executed.

Morshed Khan

We had earlier given tentative dates in February and March for the Prime Minister's visit to the two countries.

Scott Hand

Those are the two dates we are looking at right now and, depending upon what the response is from them, we would then decide what the timing would be for the offer.

Craig Cole

While dates are not yet finalized, we are looking at late February store openings.

Chet Gladchuk

We'll look at possible dates and talk finances, ... Debbie and I were responsible for scheduling the game once. It's not out of the realm that we could do it again.

Daily Express

I would give pool tournaments in the USA priority over those smaller events if there was a dates clash,

Arthur Penn

I don't storyboard. I guess it dates back to my days in live television, where there was no possibility of storyboarding and everything was shot right on the spot - on the air, as we say - at the moment we were transmitting. I prefer to be open to what the actors do, how they interact to the given situation.

Beeban Kidron

We think that there is this terrible idea that the kids are digital natives... and they know what they're doing, but all the evidence says that they're hanging around going, 'Where are you, I'm here, can I post my picture?' They're not actually writing wikis; they're not actually listening to great poets live.

Chris Crutcher

As much as we'd like to think life is sacred, there's not a lot of evidence for that. The universe is maddeningly casual, giving and taking it.

Scott Coffey

That was the strongest evidence in the case.

Russell Smith

I went to Queen's - a fine university with the proudly stupidest frosh week in the country. This was, when I was there, supposed to be somehow evidence of a higher social class.

Bob Stott

We had only circumstantial evidence tying him to the bombs. And our circumstantial evidence wasn't that good.

Tom Davies

We have to move ahead, ... There is evidence that dries up after a while.

Jay Greene

Virtually all evidence produces controversy. If it matters, it produces controversy.

Bill Schultz

Why would she have done such a thing if she knew what she was doing. She never did anything else wrong. There's no evidence she had anything to gain.

Seth Shostak

We haven't yet found a speck of evidence for biology on another world, so we have no objective way to judge whether life is a onetime fluke or a near-inevitable phenomenon.

Alan Dunham

Winter's not over yet. I'm sorry. We're just at the end of February here.

Luis Derbez

We think that it will be around January or February maybe

Frank Arnesen

He is 31 in February and it is the ideal situation for him and us -- and he will stay here for 18 months.

Buck Showalter

I can tell you what we're looking at right now on February 20-whatever, but that will change. There's a long way to go.

Gernot Nerb

We still think a trough should be reached in the first quarter but to be sure we get a recovery, we should see expectations improving in January or February at the latest.

Dave Cassels

We're looking to start in mid to late February and run through March and all of April.

Mike Hansen

We really don't know until we get through February and March.

Bruce Johnson

We're a better team than we were last year. We were a good team last year but not a great team. Right now, we're a really good team but it remains to be seen if we'll be a great team. We'll find out February 20.

David Litchfield

This specific flaw was reported to Oracle on the 19th of February 2006.

Yani Tseng

So it must be my mental, because sometimes when I start on the tee, I still worry about whether my ball is going to hit right or left.

Barbara Kerr

The ($3 billion) should be paid back, and then we talk about programs. Hit and miss is not the way it should be done.

Gwen Stefani

That was it. Suddenly you hit puberty, and it's like, you know, thrift stores! I just started deconstructing everything from thrift stores.

Louis Whorton

That was the story of the game. They were hitting two shots to our one. We didn't rebound worth a flip, and they doubled us on rebounding.

Joe Girardi

That was the kind of player I had to be. I had to do the little things to win, and they have to do a lot of them. They have to hit and run, they have to steal, they have to squeeze some,

Carolyn Brown

That would hit the majority of our members. Most would be in the 25 (employees-and-under) range.

John Krawczyk

That would be a big hit to the budget.

Julio Franco

That won't be the last one I hit. I want to hit one in my 50s.

Julio Franco

That won't be the last home run I hit, and I hope I hit one when I'm 50.

Bill Cosby

If I didn't like poor people, why would I come and tell them how to make their lives better?

Manoj Bhargava

If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.

Richard Eyre

A place makes a deep impression on you when you're young. It lives with you. It's like your childhood. It fertilises the imagination.

Toba Beta

Man will never be stronger nor independent if he lives under perpetual motivation of others.

Mark Udall

We are, in sum, much safer than we were, and I say that as someone who lives just three miles from the site.

Kathryn Harrison

Lives that are so conspicuous have a claustrophobic feeling. Once you're in charge of running a country, you're under scrutiny all the time. That's a trap.

Anita Gallentine

I think residents ought to wake up and be concerned. People need to realize their lives won't be the same.

Tom Duffy

We're celebrating right now. It really is historic. It's going to save thousands of lives over the years.

Sidney Taurel

We're going to be saving hundreds of thousands of lives with this product,

Yahya Jammeh

Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.

Yossi Vardi

In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

Yancy Butler

Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.

Ian Mckellen

I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

Ian Mckellen

People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

Irwin Thomas

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.

Irwin Rose

I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

Usually, when you're working or you're on set, everything is very guarded. At parties, people have a tendency to relax.

Imani Hakim

When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.

Peter O'Toole

A rubber neck is a necessary part of equipment.

Kirk Hammett

The only problem I've had with my Vox wah is its tendency to move around on the floor. So now it sits on a rubber mat that says in big letters, 'Kirk's Wah-Wah Rug.'

Bill Engvall

A condom is a rubber thing shaped like a wiener that hums.

Florentijn Hofman

I've always said the rubber duck is a yellow catalyst.

Henry David Thoreau

Trade and commerce, if they were not made of Indian rubber, would never manage to bounce over the obstacles which legislators are continually putting in their way.

Fred Brown

If I had a rubber band, I would have yanked it back.

Mike Anderson

Don't overestimate your power. This is not a rubber stamp deal.

Michael Palin

You can't get a suit of armour and a rubber chicken just like that. You have to plan ahead.

Tom Cole

The Ocaina and many of the other indigenous peoples of the Amazon were nearly wiped out during the rubber boom in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Outsiders came into the jungle, enslaved the tribes to harvest the rubber and killed those that resisted.

Philip Rivers

When it's all over -- Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, mid-January -- then I can just play out every scenario in my head.

Ulysses Yannas

I suspect the scenario is they'll get themselves an extension.

Dan Scott

Worst-case scenario would be a strike starting Monday.

Christian Prudhomme

It's important to have a new freshness. To have scenarios that no one is anticipating and no one can control.

Jamie Kritzer

It was just a scenario of where the winds changed. We would not have proceeded if we thought the wind was going to change.

Lucrecia Tam

This is a worse scenario than we had anticipated.

James Blake

Every different scenario was going through my head,

Rich Glas

We didn't make enough plays. That's been the scenario of our season.

Constance Wu

Authentic programming that shows the outside world garners authentic interest.

Brea Grant

Sometimes shows get into their 5th and 6th season and you're like, where can you go? But 'Dexter' is still so strong, it's really refreshing.

Bonnie Tyler

It's really fantastic because families can come to my shows and they all like it. It's really weird.

Barry McCaffrey

The 1998 study shows that we have turned the tide of youth drug use.

Ross Mathews

My guilty pleasure is elastic-waisted pants. And reruns of shows I've already seen 400 times on TV.

Joss Whedon

I was very proud of my father, and I admired him, but I always thought he was more interesting than the shows he was working on.

Philip Treacy

You always see a better side of where you're visiting when a local shows you around.

Brian Hill

If anything, this shows we're not throwing in the towel on the season.

Pete Carroll

If anything, it shows that we can finish.

Anna Nicole Smith

I'm going to fight until the end. My husband is worth it. He wanted me to have it. He was worth a lot. He was a very, very wealthy man.

Rita Ora

The album is never finished until it's on the shelves!

Daniel Walker

that will go on until your grandchildren are dead.

Mike Lewis

We have to wait until the water temperature is about 60 degrees.

Ray Liotta

I didn't start acting until I was in college, which was in the 70's.

Matthew Bourne

Sometimes you don't know what you've got until you put it in front of an audience - and the enthusiasm for the show from the audience has been just incredible.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Until we know how many women own businesses, we may under-invest in them as entrepreneurs and economic drivers.

Bruce Allen

We've made some decisions. But it wouldn't appropriate to say anything until we have to.

Rena Inoue

You just keep working on it until you get it.

Barry O'Farrell

Bigotry should never be sanctioned, whether intentionally or unintentionally.

Pontius Pilate

Whether will the twain will ye that I release unto you?

Dick Hill

You can always find Curtis, whether it's the Jeep or the Big Bird.

Kevin Lowe

Whether I can get it done is another question.

Bill Smith

Whether he didn't see him or doesn't want to say, I don't know.

Martha Stewart

Whether you're a programmer or a seamstress, it's all about new techniques, simplifying old techniques, and consolidating steps. Making things go faster - but not worse.

Cary Finberg

Whether you win by one-point or 20, it doesn't matter. You still get the title.

Jim Lehrer

Whether you're 9 or 90, you can play this game.

Hugh Shelton

I'm not going to say whether I'm a Republican or a Democrat.