Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Bernanke

At some point in the future, the committee may decide to take no action at one or more meetings in the interest of allowing more time to receive information relevant to the outlook.

Will Holman

Progress has been made in some areas, but there is still a lot of work to do in a short amount of time. Our goal is to reach an agreement, but that will depend on management's actions at the negotiating table.

Robert DiClemente

People feel generally that we will see some equivalent forward-looking language that guides market expectations to expect action at least into the early part of next year.

Bob Stallman

Action taken by Japan today to halt U.S. beef imports is an unfortunate temporary setback to U.S. cattle producers, particularly in light of recent success to re-open the market. The vertebral column found in the shipments does not pose a health risk since the animal was less than 30 months of age.

Tom Daschle

Actions are not just physical. Actions are sometimes verbal.

Jai Courtney

Action roles - or any role - should go to the best guy for the job. People obsess about nationality. Hollywood and America might be the hub for pop culture and cinema for the Western world, but that shouldn't suggest that all the roles should go to young American men.

John Snow

Action on any of the punitive legislative proposals before Congress now would be counterproductive to our efforts at this time,

Charles Murigande

Action, not words, would be the measure of our success or failure,

Jill Krutick

Action movies are typically the most high-budget features being made, so if you can come up with a great comedy like, There's Something About Mary,

Ben Bradshaw

Anyone who is responsible for an animal will have to do all that is reasonable to meet the needs of their animal.

Becky Wilson

People are well-intentioned. They hate to see an animal starve.

Chris Jackson

The naming and shaming will probably prove to be the greatest punishment. He's drawn attention to himself with some of the more extreme elements of the animal rights movement.

Eric Nestler

The social-defeat process induced production of BDNF in the reward circuit. Without BDNF in the circuit, an animal can't learn that a social stimulus is threatening and respond accordingly.

Alex Honnold

The simple facts of Chadian life - what it takes to survive in that kind of climate with nothing but a hut and some animals - stunned me. And this made me realize, perhaps for the first time, how easy my life was compared to those of people in less privileged societies.

James Jowa

The signal the market is getting from the governor is that yes, inflation will remain an enemy but attempts to bring it down have failed and that corruption is now a bigger animal that needs to be vigorously dealt with.

Patrick Riley

The show was really cool. I didn't expect it to be like that. I didn't expect to see animals there-birds and turtles and fish.

Rex Ryan

The sound of animals howling for their owners and the sight of drowning pets will haunt me the rest of my life.

Michael Burgess

The term pandemic applies when there is a big, big animal reservoir of the virus and no underlying immunity, and those conditions exist today.

Dennis Quaid

I used to eat a lot of fish, but I've been shying away from it because of the mercury thing. I eat more beef and chicken now.

Hope Solo

I have no personal beef with Brandi Chastain. There's nothing personal.

Jay Haugland

If he put on 25 pounds, he would be a force as a defender. That's his plan - to beef up this summer so he can play at the next level.

Kelli O'Hara

Corned beef and cabbage - that's our favorite holiday meal when all the O' Haras gather around the table.

Wally Szczerbiak

I don't have a beef with him at all. I've never had a problem with him. I just set a screen, and I didn't even try to put anything into it. I just tried to brace myself. He's a strong guy.

Sasha Grey

I'm not 18 anymore, so I'm not into starting unnecessary beefs. It's tacky.

David Sax

A Jewish deli should specialize in, first and foremost, Yiddish foods, the foods of the Eastern European Ashkenazi Jews. So, if it's a place that specializes in pizza or chicken wings or diner food and then does a corned beef sandwich on the side, it's not a Jewish delicatessen.

John Tyson

This is a unique opportunity for Tyson foods, the number one company in the chicken category, and the folks at IBP, who are the number one in the beef and pork industry, ... Seldom do you get the chance to put the leaders together in an industry and then move forward.

Davy Zinke

They're going to beef him up. They're going to tune up his skills and as far as focus, they won't have a problem.

Dennis Laycraft

Because feeder cattle flow to where the feed is the cheapest, a lot will depend on what happens this summer with the weather.

Eleanor Groden

They will tend aphids like little cattle that they farm.

Winston Churchill

The Times is speechless, and it takes three columns to express its speechlessness

Ben Schwartz

I don't think they thought I was a threat to Steve Pederson. They thought someone would read my column and be inspired to hurt his kids.

John Davidson

When you're on the wrong side of the ledger column like that, it's just fate. It's unexplainable.

Philip Glass

And then I went back to New York and found other people doing it. A handful of people.

Jimmy Chamberlin

After I left the Pumpkins, I went home and just sat around. I have a studio in my basement, and I found myself writing all these songs, just taking advantage of the relaxed situation. I wrote about 30 songs in about 30 days.

Stephen Murphy

So we found out what else they were interested in, ... sound tracks for people's lifestyles.

Mahmud Abbas

President Mahmud Abbas on Friday November 11, 2005 laid the foundation stone of the mausoleum of the late president Yasser Arafat,

Jim Lampe

I sell things that are not usually found in grocery stores.

Suzanne Somers

I sell my problems. I'm a woman with problems. I've had problems since the day I was born. And I have found a way to turn my problems into assets.

Dorothy Hallas

I slept with him once in 1998, in October or November. I found out I was pregnant with my son a month after.

Cyrus Kar

I understand our soldiers need to take all precautions in a war zone, but once a person is found innocent,

Clint Hurdle

Things we have talked about for three months, he has been able to put into play. He has had a challenging season. We've found out about his toughness. We've seen his competitiveness. He has become more coachable.

Swami Vivekananda

They aimless halt, who halt for others.

Janice Hahn

They're going to temporarily put a halt to removing those trees so we can have an opportunity to look at it and see if we can save the trees and the hawks,

James Stephens

Any fool can wash himself, but every wise man knows that it is an unnecessary labour, for nature will quickly reduce him to a natural and healthy dirtiness again.

Nick Rimando

Another week to two weeks, hopefully less than that. I want to make sure I'm 100 percent healthy before I go out there again.

Bill Maris

People talk about the redistribution of wealth a lot, which is a very valid topic. But what about the redistribution of health? That's even more concentrated at the top.

David Bernstein

Once we established that it was safe and did what we hoped it would do in normal healthy adults, then we move to our most vulnerable population, older adults and children.

Alan Marks

a real loss to people and to the overall health of the community.

Siti Supari

The suspected person is now in a healthy condition.

Ted Saskin

A financially healthy league is a positive for everyone, including the players, in the long run. We've always wanted teams to do well.

Lorrin Lee

Study healthy people to learn how to be healthy.

Derrick Rose

I live a great life. I can't complain. I'm healthy, my family's good and there's nothing I can really complain about.

Atsuko Abe

You reign, I rule. That is the Japanese way.

Jane Goodall

It's not Africa that is destroying the African rainforest, it's selling concessions to timber companies that are not African, they are from the developed world - Japan, America, Germany, Britain.

Barry Sheene

They were ridiculous times. After I won my World Championship in 1976, I went to Japan.

Amy Waldman

History is the history of human behavior, and human behavior is the raw material of fiction. Most people recognize that novelists do research to get the facts right - how a glove factory works, for example, or how courtesans in imperial Japan dressed.

Alex Cox

Yeah, I'd be happy to go back to Mexico or Japan to make another film.

Anthony Bourdain

I often look ridiculous in Japan. There's really no way to eat in Japan, particularly kaiseki in a traditional ryokan, without offending the Japanese horribly. Every gesture, every movement is just so atrociously wrong, and the more I try, the more hilarious it is.

Tony Abbott

It is very important for our long-term economic future that the relationship with Japan, Korea and China, who are our three biggest trading partners, be ever stronger.

Tite Kubo

In Japan there is a lot of manga, but around manga there are video games, manga on cellphones, manga in card games... so people not only enjoy manga but also the products around it.

Ronald Reagan

The United States trades more with the province of Ontario alone than with Japan.

Navneet Sikera

The situation has more or less returned to normal.

Leslie Fiedler

The ''text'' is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more or less important than the sociological, psychological, historical, anthropological or generic.

Sarah Clarke

There are more than 786,000 uninsured people in the state of Maryland, and less than one-half of 1 percent works for Wal-Mart.

Bob Dole

If there is one clear lesson of our century, it is this: where aggression is tolerated, it multiplies.

Amber Tamblyn

Being a performer myself I can understand that, but I think that poetry, for me, might be less about the performance and more about the words.

Mark Pope

Every year, when I'm with a new team, that's one less team that doesn't know that I can't play.

Richard Rose

The results are less important than what's going on in Rajasthan.

George Rupp

The result is that we are less prepared than we would like to be for what could be a very serious humanitarian emergency.

David Wright

There's going to be a lot less pressure on Carlos this time around. That's why it doesn't matter where I hit. This team is going to score runs, period.

Dr. Trucco

This is the first time that we can see the light at the end of the tunnel.

Barbara Steele

Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted.

Auguste Rodin

As paradoxical as it may seem a great sculptor is as much a colourist as the best painter, or rather the best engraver. He plays so skillfully with all the resources of relief, he blends so well the boldness of light with the modesty of shadow, that his sculptures please one, as much as the most charming etchings.

Jan Morris

To me gender is not physical at all, but is altogether insubstantial. It is soul, perhaps, it is talent, it is taste, it is environment, it is how one feels, it is light and shade, it is inner music.

Cam Newton

I see the light at the end of the tunnel, so I'm going hard.

Alan Davies

The principle that light can be in two places at the same time is absolutely extraordinary.

bell hooks

There is light in darkness, you just have to find it.

Craig Kilborn

It's not a big part, ... I wheel in an ultrasound machine and say to Taylor's gynecologist, 'If you have a problem with it, just give it a light tap on the side.' Then they hand me a urine sample, and I put it up to the light and say 'Hmm, looks pretty healthy, but I'll check.'

Richard G. Scott

Knowledge carefully recorded is knowledge available in time of need. Spiritually sensitive information should be kept in a sacred place that communicates to the Lord how you treasure it. This practice enhances the likelihood of receiving further light.

Mark Hoppus

The naked thing was short-lived. It was only around for about six months because we thought it was shocking. Once people expected us to do it we kind of never did it again.

Wayne Pivac

I've been in touch with Nicky and will be doing the same over the months to come.

Jane Austen

If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.

Dan Ariely

Why would you take money out of your paycheck at the beginning of the month when you don't know how much money you'll need?

Scott Speedman

Well, when I did Underworld 2, I was in Vancouver for five months and I was reminiscent to be back up there.

Charles III

For those two months of off-season in November and December, it's nice to be able to practice whenever you choose, not when the weather chooses.

Rob Glaser

six months to a year from now is realistic.

Laura Davis

Six months ago, I would have said we have the strongest team,

Nelva Ancona

I feel the sadness of this family. She is two months pregnant and she has two kids.

Brandon Flowers

That's my instrument, ... It's been underutilized over recent years.

John Browne

The recent hurricanes in the US have impacted our results.

Janis Ian

A radio show recently did a beautiful eulogy of me.

Maggie Mermin

The risk is not zero. But it's low.

William Schmitt

This is probably one (company) where that risk is the greatest.

Brian Tracy

The future belongs to the risk-takers, not the comfort-seekers .

Lou Jiwei

There is a lot of risk in the tech sector.

Dana Delany

Television is more of a business. You can't take as many risks, because there's so many channels now, and the advertising's dropping.

Brenda Blethyn

At the risk of sounding naff, it is having hope fulfilled

Edward Norton

Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.

Edward Snowden

You will never be completely free from risk, if you're free. The only time you can be free from risk is when you're in prison.

Brian Ferneyhough

If nothing is at risk, nothing is established.

Mickey Blake

I've worked here since I was a kid. I've always been part of the business.

Gloria Naylor

Lord keep her safe since you can't keep her sane.

Jeff Larson

This was very important to us. We've talked about this since we were little kids.

Corita Kent

Earnestness and sincerity are synonymous.

Maurice Denis

All that is necessary to paint well is to be sincere.

Isla Fisher

You know, I didn't get to go to university because I've been acting since I was a kid.

Michelle Post

She's been working it since October. She wanted to throw it a lot earlier.

Kathy Connolly

She's been here since 5 a.m. this morning.

Jill Lepore

Since childhood, I wrote a lot of fiction, a lot of stories, but I most loved writing essays.

Bob Freehan

This is not a new thing. It has been successful in other schools.

Brett Hull

I think the biggest thing for me is being able to adjust to the way the game has changed. It's basically a 180-degree turn from the style I like to play. That's what I think I'm most proud of, being able to fit into this style of game and still be fairly successful.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

It's even harder to stay at the top in sports than it is to get there.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

There are no shortcuts—everything is reps, reps, reps.

Bertrand Russell

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

Benjamin Disraeli

Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief.

Brian Tracy

Make a decision to be successful right now. Most people never decide to be wealthy and that is why they retire poor.

Brian Tracy

Successful people save in prosperous times so they have a financial cushion in times of recession.

Brian Tracy

If you could find out what the most successful people did in any area and then you did the same thing over and over, you'd eventually get the same result they do.

Brandon Sanderson

Once one becomes a man, he can and must make his own decisions. But I do offer warning. Even a good thing can become destructive if taken to excess.

Auguste Rodin

Recently I have taken to isolating limbs, the torso. Why am I blamed for it? Why is the head allowed and not portions of the body? Every part of the human figure is expressive.

Augusten Burroughs

I don't read memoirs. But if you write a memoir, I would think you'd want people to know, "O.K., look, I've taken some liberties here." It's just a matter of being open with your readers.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I embrace technology and I just think that in 1984 when James Cameron wrote about the technology, everyone thought he was totally way out there and it was science fiction. Now it's almost reality what he talked about. The machines have taken over, except they have not become self-aware, like in Terminator. So this is really one thing that we have to watch out for, but I think technology is good.

Ayn Rand

Altruism declares that any action taken for the benefit of others is good, and any action taken for one's own benefit is evil. Thus the beneficiary of an action is the only criterion of moral value - and so long as that beneficiary is anybody other than oneself, anything goes.

Audie Murphy

I'm glad that it didn't take as long to get Shepard off the ground as it's taken this series. I'd begun to think the Congo would be ahead of us in the space race before Whispering Smith ever got on the air.

Benjamin Cardozo

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. Substitute statute for decision, and you shift the center of authority, but add no quota of inspired wisdom.

Cameron Mackintosh

I've taken considerable gambles on shows, but they're very considered gambles.

C. S. Lewis

They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out.

Gus Van Sant

I've always been attracted to temporary families.

Napoleon Hill

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination.

Lou Reed

It's just a temporary thing.

Dave Bush

On the whole, not very good. I think today kind of typified it,

Rhonda Smith

It was very tough. And even today it's still tough.

Sharan Burrow

The work is there today and it will be there tomorrow for independent contractors.

Carine Roitfeld

Today there is too much retouching, and I don't like it, except on me.

Jared Diamond

Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural selection in driving it.

Diane Ackerman

The well of nature is full today. Time to go outside and take a drink.

Dennis Ritchie

It's true that compared with the scene when Unix started, today the ecological niches are fairly full, and fresh new OS ideas are harder to come by, or at least to propagate.

Eike Batista

I can tell you that today 99% of my investments are in Brazil and will remain here.

Deepak Chopra

Today, I behold all the abundance that surrounds me.