Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sander Levin

I was essentially trained by World War II vets who combined a progressive view of life with a deep distrust of anything authoritarian.

Paul Harris

We were struck that the courtroom is such a great theater for ideas -- and that we couldn't think of a film that had combined the horror and courtroom genres, ... We thought we could really develop something provocative out of that: structure the movie with multiple points of view like Rashomon and weave the narrative in and out of it.

Bill Gates

Microsoft and MTV Networks have combined their strengths to dramatically redefine how Windows users discover and enjoy music.

Jon Strebe

We couldn't guard their big kid. Our inexperience in the post really hurt us, and that combined with our inability to make shots ... before you know it, we're down 20.

Vedran Pavlek

We followed the race up on the hill, we saw the course, what is necessary for the combined downhill.

Nariman Behravesh

The problem is the combined effects of the disruptions from Katrina and Rita, plus the ripple effects in the economy from higher energy prices,

Sean Cotter

I think if you combined all the home runs we hit in the last seven years, I don't think it would be as many as we've hit this year.

Felix Gottwald

We're all separate -- cross-country, biathlon, Nordic combined and ski jumping.

Charli Turner

We really wanted to make them work hard and I think they got tired. They were losing the game, and with the fatigue combined it's easy to not have positive responses sometimes.

Gloria Trevi

Nowadays, performers worry too much about how they look. They're not concerned about what they're really saying to their audience.

Gladys Knight

I'm comfortable singing jazz. The only thing I was concerned about is that everybody, even in jazz, has their own style. To me, the queen of doodling was Ella Fitzgerald, and scatting is something I never thought I could do.

William Henry Bragg

The chemist, whose science is immediately concerned with the combinations of atoms, has rarely found it necessary to discuss their shapes, and gives them no particular forms in his diagrams. That does not mean that the shapes are unimportant, but rather that the older methods could not define them.

Vikram Seth

The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as simple as that. Of course, it's important to make a living and all that, but the main impulse as far as I'm concerned - and I'm sure as other writers are concerned - is to tell a story that I feel impelled by.

Billy Graham

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn't concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man's soul.

Billy Graham

Seemingly, man has learned to live without God, preoccupied and indifferent toward Him and concerned only about material security and pleasure.

Evel Knievel

I've always been concerned about kids - not just my own three, but all kids - what kind of an image I'm providing for them, what kind of inspiration. I don't know now. Maybe I'm leading them down the path to self-destruction.

David A. Bednar

We can begin to become more diligent and concerned at home by telling the people we love that we love them. Such expressions do not need to be flowery or lengthy. We simply should sincerely and frequently express love.

David Friedman

I have been writing since I was about 20, and at first I wrote in secret and never showed anybody. I was very concerned about making a living, so I conducted.

William Kirby

The greater concerns in China and Taiwan are on the political side, not on the economic side.

David Selby

The movie, if I recall, didn't have to do with the television show because there were concerns from everyone that they didn't want it to be like the TV show.

Chris Clarke

We have tremendous respect for the president's concerns and opinions. They have been and always will be very important to us,

Mike McCormack

We had one fatality there and a lot of concerns about near misses." ()

Jane Johnson

We have the opportunity now to have some input, to listen to what's happening, offer up some of our concerns and have them addressed before the rules are put in place. This is important information.

Bennie Thompson

to look into this contract and see if there is a legitimacy to my concerns that we may be paying twice the price for this product.

Dave Kvamme

With the great societal concerns about impacts on fisheries and other wildlife, its not likely we are going to see many new hydroelectric projects developed. We're not planning any.

John Steiner

We have had more concerns come in since the fatality Tuesday night, but as far as the process of doing the work, we're still on the same schedule of this spring, this summer, for possibly getting out there getting the work done.

Lindsay Shearer

We have had concerns about the safety and effectiveness of pill splitting but are re-evaluating our position right now.

Young Jeezy

I created my lane. No one can ever run my lane because it's mine. I'm the Michael Jackson of my lane. And you know, nobody was as great as Michael. I love Prince, but he's not Michael.

Thomas Dekker

Surely man was not created to be an idle fellow; he was not set in this universal orchard to stand still as a tree.

Todd Rundgren

In a way, I created Utopia as a platform for me to become more of a guitar player and less of the kind of balladeer that people were taking me for.

William Daniels

He's computerized, but I won't let him come on cold. I created KITT. I understand the personality of the car.

Evel Knievel

My failures had a lot to do with my fame. I created Evel Knievel, and then he sort of got away from me.

Ellen Key

Tenderness has created the first 'social order' - that of the mother with her offspring. Through motherliness, woman later makes her great contributions to civilization.

Ellen Key

It is not a dream that someday, nations will be able to settle their difficulties without war, just as individuals now settle their personal feuds without resorting to arguments of physical strength or sharp steel. For, then, humanity will have created international jurisdiction and a power to enforce its laws.

Yoram Peri

The political picture created now is far different than it was in 1992 when Yitzhak Rabin was elected.

Barry Took

It was a joy to be a part of the team that created Round The Horne. I was involved with the show at a time of my life when I was very happy., and that happiness overflowed into the scripts.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

I realise I have inadvertently become a source of inspiration and hope for people in India simply by the fact that I grew up there, went to my local university, but could go on to do well internationally.

Billy Graham

Politics has always been ugly to me, and yet I accept that as a fact of life.

Zubin Mehta

I respect the Indian government for the fact that there are no settlements in Kashmir.

Celso Senise

The political factor is what's most influencing the market. It's just a few participants who are pushing the market around.

Jeremy Solomon

The policy is very clear. We still don't have all the facts of what took place.

Willie Randolph

The overriding factor for me is if he can help our club.

Oliver Plana

The peace and order situation is the primary factor that is weighing on the market right now.

Bikram Choudhury

Natural hydration is a key factor in any type of sports performance.

Clint Eastwood

I loved the fact that Obama is multi-racial. I thought that was terrific, as my wife is the same racial make-up.

Derek Hall

UVSC is now the third largest institution in the state, and this survey shows that our support and perceptions have increased over the past two years,

Roy Barnes

As the population of Georgia increased dramatically, so did development.

Tony Gerlicz

We have a very arts-rich curriculum. I could get rid of all that. But if I increased my test scores, does that mean a student is better educated? No.

Robert Murray

Joy is increased by spreading it to others

Al Groh

I think it's been a positive spring for Chris, mostly because he's had an increased opportunity to demonstrate his skills now that he's taking the majority of the turns.

Kathleen Stoll

Had it not been for these (government) programs, the number of uninsured would have increased even more in each of the past several years.

Greg Simon

The period right after people start taking antidepressant medication is not a period of increased risk. In fact, risk after starting medication is lower than before.

Bryan Hopkins

We have increased results by more than 400 percent in the last two years because we have the right tools, people and process in place.

Chuck Brown

We recognize that tuition over time has increased pretty significantly.

Edmund Stoiber

The political situation has changed. The SPD is no longer so predictable,

Brittany Snow

I'm very lazy; if it takes me longer than 15 or 20 minutes to get ready, then I don't want to do it. So I wear a lot of jeans and T-shirts and very normal kind of tomboyish sort of things.

Bruno Seraphim

The Argentine question has in part been resolved, at least in the very short term, so shares no longer need to price in that question.

Chuck Palahniuk

Most novels, I find, are three times longer than they need to be. Very little happens, and I don't want to waste my time with them.

Jessa Gamble

Why would you have a work day that does not respond to shorter or longer day length? There's something that we lose, taking our schedules away from that locally relevant rhythm.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

You can have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in you power.

Nicholas Haysom

The problem we have is that the longer the delay, the more problems there will be distributing nationwide,

Jeff Horner

I wore it longer than I should have.

Richard Branson

I was very nervous because it took a lot longer to get down the runway than we predicted.

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.

Robin S. Sharma

Let planning be the springboard, so that spirituality can be our splash.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Nora: What are you planning? Patch: I wouldn't call this planning. I'd call this throwing a Hail Mary with seconds left on the clock.

Peter Schoomaker

We are now into '07-'09 in our planning,

Danny Jordan

We really want ... to use this as a starting point for doing some long-term planning.

Edward Zander

We are planning some more wild products in 2006.

Patrick Leahy

We are planning on having Thanksgiving in Washington,

Craig Curry

We are planning a high-end residential development on this property.

Johan Bruyneel

He's planning on being here. Just sitting with me in the car, he helps.

Sue Wilson

I did some planning over the summer, ... and I managed to do some relaxing.

Petrarch

Reality is always the foe of famous names.

James A. Baldwin

Color is not a human or a personal reality it is a political reality.

Dick Armey

Virtually all bad ideas come from universities, bad ideas that only survive when insulated from reality.

Diane Setterfield

I don't pretend reality is the same for everyone.

David Brooks

People want reality that tells them how right they are all the time.

David Brooks

If you just rely on one model, you tend to amputate reality to make it fit your model.

David Shields

To me, the moment you're talking about nonfiction you're talking about reality.

David Morrell

A thriller becomes great when it carries a feeling of reality and truth.

David Mitchell

Reality is the page. Life is the word.

Barry Ritholtz

Returnless risk is not how you prepare for a decent retirement.

William Shakespeare

Tis our fast intent To shake all cares and business from our age, Conferring them on younger strengths, while we Unburdened crawl toward death.

Scott Harrison

He doesn't seem very confident, talking about what he is doing after his retirement,

Diane Watson

Social Security makes up a much larger share of total retirement income for unmarried women and minorities than it does for married couples, unmarried men and whites.

David Krumholtz

I hope I'm not sitting on a bench in a retirement home talking about what was: "Oh, I worked with this guy and that guy." I hope I'm still doing it for a really long time.

Dave Barry

You must prepare yourselves, young people, because Uncle Dave's generation is getting old. We are almost ready to go to the retirement home to spend the rest of our days tapping our bedpans rhythmically in time to "easy listening" rock 'n' roll. We must pass the torch on to you, and you must grasp it, ideally by the end that is not on fire.

Charles Caleb Colton

That theatrical kind of virtue, which requires publicity for its stage, and an applauding world for its audience, could not be depended on, in the secrecy of solitude, or the retirement of a desert.

Charles Caleb Colton

Pleasure is to a woman what the sun is to the flower: if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates, and destroys. But the duties of domestic life, exercised as they must be in retirement, and calling forth all the sensibilities of the female, are perhaps as necessary to the full development of her charms, as the shade and the shower are to the rose, confirming its beauty, and increasing its fragrance.

Alan Jackson

As long as I'm still able to have a hit on the radio and sell a few albums and some tickets, I don't see that it would be worth retiring.

Nina Garcia

If my closet were burning, it'd be my collection of jackets I would save - they always make me feel pulled-together.

James Rayner

The $25,000 is about what we save the first year.

Connie King

I was the one who saved the town.

Joseph Roth

You do a little, we do a little, we all save a lot.

Lauri Kemper

What we have is better than nothing, but it may not be sufficient to save the lake.

Jannie Coverdale

He's just trying to save his own skin.

Bruce Bochy

He saved us with that effort, ... especially the way we've been struggling to score runs.

Hines Ward

He saved the year for us with that tackle.

Sheri Mowles

He saved our lives. He woke up because he couldn't breathe.