Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ron Marks

Anybody who says there's such a thing as 'actionable intelligence' has never seen intelligence. Almost never in my 23 years have I ever seen anything that said to me that at such and such a time and such and such a place such a thing was going to happen. It just doesn't happen that way.

Kathy Dais

The sophomores have matured very well and I'm counting on them a lot to really step up and almost take the lead and get some things done this year. Katie has great potential to win tournaments and Denise practiced a lot over the summer and she came back really good. I think she's ready to break out.

David Deutsch

The theory of computation has traditionally been studied almost entirely in the abstract, as a topic in pure mathematics. This is to miss the point of it. Computers are physical objects, and computations are physical processes. What computers can or cannot compute is determined by the laws of physics alone, and not by pure mathematics.

J. Moore

I've never been scared to go up. I like taking contact because I think I almost finish better with contact.

John Kasay

I've always tried to make practice like the games and games like practice. NFL games are often very emotional the energy, the momentum. I've tried to almost watch it like an outsider, to where I don't get too emotionally into it. Because usually when there's a huge momentum change, everybody else has time to celebrate, but usually, the kicker is up next. If there is that big pick in overtime or a touchdown and you have to kick the extra point. You take the opposite tack and ramp all that back down.

Adam Hughes

I've always loved pinup art, and I've always enjoyed drawing women. I think it was a conscious decision that has resulted in me getting almost exclusive work on comics where the main character is female.

Joe Grant

Actually, no, but I am close to the people who are working on Chicken Little, and I'm very close to the people over at Pixar. I mean, as far as stories are concerned, almost everything we have could be told that way.

Tim Ruskell

Stuff still gets out. (The media) are able to predict, almost to the T, the first 15 picks (of the first round). But you try your best to keep it in-house.

Neil Gaiman

Strategy number one is that I always, or almost always, have at least two or three different things that I'm writing at any one time.

Scott Handy

When we started off with Linux six years ago, we promised to invest $1 billion, and now we are getting that investment back on a quarterly basis going forward.

Ted Sarandos

More and more what we're licensing, we're licensing on a global basis - even though the studios aren't orchestrated to sell that way yet, my bet is that they will.

Jeff Justice

If that's the only evidence you've got, it's a sad day in the justice system to prosecute people for murder on the basis of that.

Lauren Corrao

I loved sort of feeling like the fly on the wall, in terms of being a part of something that you know is going on in the comedy community on a regular basis and has such history.

Bill Riley

The Columbia Basin is not an island; we're part of a much larger economy, and our economy is in trouble on a national basis and a state basis. That's the largest trade deficit in history, and 30 percent of that is from Chinese goods coming into the United States.

Charles Payne

The damage is already done. Investors are willing to go in and buy on the weakness. There is enough conviction that 25 basis points (one-quarter percentage point) is already built in.

Wang Lei

We are investment driven, not market driven. We do our research on a global basis and only invest in Chinese companies under the global context. We only pay a reasonable price in that market for value, growth or dividend income.

Don Olsen

We are cooperating fully. We don't know the basis of the investigation nor do we know why.

Malvinder Mohan Singh

We are confident that shared values of Wockhardt Hospitals and Fortis Healthcare will form the basis for our continued success in the future.

Winston Churchill

It is a gaping wound, whenever one touches it and removes the bandages and plasters of daily life.

Mike Hanson

It is something that they think about, not only when they go on similar calls, where their incident may have happened, but also something that they think about on a daily or weekly basis.

Karl Lagerfeld

In the streets of Paris, you see more long dresses in the summer than you see in the winter, because all the winter long used to be heavy, heavy material, but now they are different. They are open. They are pleated ... They can move in it. They are not something uncomfortable and impossible for daily life.

William Shakespeare

Day doth daily draw my sorrows longer, And night doth nightly make grief's length seem stronger

Amy Fischer

Daily messenger service for telegrams stopped in the early 1970s and was replaced by next day express delivery by courier.

James Flecker

A ship, an isle, a sickle moon - / With few but with how splendid stars / The mirrors of the sea are strewn / Between their silver bars.

Marco Polo

At school, a few people know that I'm over here. I don't know about everybody, professors, curling people and a few kids in class.

Rick Woodard

The thing I'd like for us to work on is getting better quality shots. I'd rather us get fewer shots that go in than to take more shots that don't. I'd rather have quality than quantity.

Jan Popa

A few personal photos are OK, but it's pretty hard for people to walk by a wedding picture without looking at it.

Karen Evans

A few of the service providers did not do what they said they were going to do.

Meghan Coward

Sometimes Molly will fly out to L.A. for a few days, raid the gallery scene there, and come back with a list of names and try to lure them down here.

Ken Bussard

It would be nice to get a few surprises. The kids need to peak at the right time. Everyone of our wrestlers have an opportunity, it is just if they want to take it.

Richard Doherty

It would be foolish to say these will be the last (companies) we will hear from in the next few weeks.

Doug Horn

The state tournament was a big one and we managed to win it by a few points over Estes Park.

Tom Stern

It was tough for every wrestler to get through (to state). There are a lot of kids that aren't going who could be.

Bow Wow

My fans saw 'Roll Bounce,' but also that older crowd who might not have been familiar with me on the music tip saw 'Roll Bounce' and loved it. 'Roll Bounce' opened up that door for me to have older people love Bow Wow and opened up that door so all of the kids would love Bow Wow. My fan base is really diverse; it's all ages and all colors.

Jason Dominick

This win is a real tribute to our kids. We lost a lot from last season's team and these kids really put in the time during the summer in order to get back to this point.

Butch Cassidy

Kid, the next time I say let's go someplace like Bolivia. Let's go someplace like Bolivia.

Busy Philipps

I've always liked being funny and making people laugh. I was a cut-up when I was a kid, and was always doing bits for my friends and family.

Demi Lovato

As a kid I'd play with homemade recipes, like putting pineapple on my face to exfoliate my skin and doing facial steams with lavender or peppermint oils. I just loved doing stuff like that. It's what motivated me to launch my skin care line.

Bobby Fischer

Yeah, I used to dress badly until I was about sixteen. But people just didn't seem to have enough respect for me, you know And I didn't like that, so I decided I'd have to show them they weren't any better than me, you know? They were sort of priding themselves. They would say, 'He beat us at chess, but he's still just an uncouth kid.' So I decided to dress up.

Brian P. Cleary

Kids enjoy laughing and are seldom bored when they find something funny. They also ask questions, often to adults, because they understand that the more words they can comprehend about a funny story or a joke, the more they'll enjoy it.

Billie Joe Armstrong

Controversy What controversy This is reality. What I see is that no matter if you're a conservative or a liberal or whatever side you stand on, this is the reality of the situation - that people's families and their young kids are being affected.

Chuck Amato

I've talked to our trainers and managers. If we can't get (the running backs) in the game, we'll let them run the water out during timeouts. That way I can tell their parents they got on the field.

Margaret Atwood

They all disowned their parents long ago, the way you are supposed to

Jhumpa Lahiri

I don't know why, but the older I get the more interested I get in my parents' marriage. And it's interesting to be married yourself, too, because there is an inevitable comparison.

Wendy McGonigal

A lot of it has to do with parents who smoke. It was a part of their culture.

Hugh Johnson

We're all watching the same stuff. Like sheep.

Barack Obama

I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.

Dolly Parton

My favorite movies of all times is 'Doctor Zhivago,' and I love 'Gone With the Wind.' I'd love to play some Southern belle or something where I owned a plantation.

Chuck Close

There are things about signing on to a process over the long term that protect you from the buffeting winds of change.

Ami Ayalon

Once we agree on the future, the present will be much easier. A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there. We have first to decide where we want to go, where we want to sail.

William C. Bryant

And at my silent window-sill The jessamine peeps in.

P. G. Wodehouse

Bicky rocked, like a jelly in a high wind.

Milton Friedman

When you start paying people to be poor, you wind up with an awful lot of poor people.

Karin Slaughter

Even Gone With the Wind had a shocking, cold-blooded murder.

Nick Hornby

...I feel as though I made a face and the wind changed, and now I have to go through life grimacing in this horrible way.