Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andrea Wong

We are proud to bring the Scripps National Spelling Bee to ABC for the first time in its storied, 79-year history. It's exciting for us as a network to bring this competition of some of America's brightest young minds to a broader audience.

Mark Palmer

We have no knowledge about the documents in possession of ABC News, nor the significance of those documents, but we do know what we have repeatedly told our employees since October 25 -- and that is in no uncertain terms that they are to preserve all documents and materials,

David Brickman

There is no procedure what so ever in the ABC law for a suspension of a license prior to a hearing.

Robert Iger

We believe that, barring the unforeseen -- a significant downturn in the market -- the ABC network will likely be profitable in '05,

Chris Bailey

To most people, when they drive by, it will be the ABC Columbia building. You get extra recognition. It draws a little more attention to what you're doing.

John Rash

As with last season, it will be a highly competitive year. CBS and ABC are the two probable combatants for the top spot for the first half of the season. But January will bring a new ratings wrinkle with 'American Idol' re-ascending for Fox.

Al Franken

A brief digression on whether that suspicious-looking mole is actually cancer. ... Take this simple test called the ABC test. 'A' is for age. What is your age? Is it over thirteen? If so, it's cancer. That's how the ABC test works.

I. Stone

ABC would not allow that, nor would it give permission for us to edit out the graphic language,

Jimmy Breslin

ABC Television Network: Your services, such as they are, will no longer be required as of 12/20/86.

Akio Morita

Advertising and promotion alone will not sustain a bad product or a product that is not right for the times.

John Kimball

We want to surprise the advertising industry with the facts and truth about newspapers.

Julie Ask

The potential for local search and local advertising comes into play.

John Kisch

The posters are nothing more than advertising, and advertising relies on the popular culture. In this case, it was guns, women, wild clothing, crazy fashion, crazy hair.

Derek Brown

The online advertising market still seems to be struggling. It's difficult to look at that and see substantial near-term growth.

Henry Blodget

The online advertising market appears to be stabilizing, but we believe it will continue to remain challenging for the foreseeable future.

Joanne Bradford

The online advertising market is growing at such a rapid pace and we want to participate in some of that. This isn't a winner-take-all proposition.

Wang Yan

We are proud of another record revenue quarter in our advertising business and are pleased with our overall 2005 results in light of the continued challenging environment surrounding the mobile value-added service sector in China.

Mike Shaw

We're interested in coming up with emerging opportunities and keen on finding the advertising opportunity if we can.

Robert Brown

The person had to be really familiar with the main sites in Buffalo.

Noah Emmerich

I'm actually pretty scientifically interested. I have a lot of friends who are doctors, so the idea of the virus and the synapses in the brain and how the nervous system works was actually all pretty familiar to me.

Nathan Parsons

I had auditioned for 'The Vampire Diaries' years ago before 'The Originals' happened, so I was familiar with that mythology.

Tony Shalhoub

To my fellow nominees, whoever they are--I'm not that familiar with their work--I just want to say, there's always next year--except, you know, for Ray Romano ,

Tony Shalhoub

To my fellow nominees, whoever they are - I'm not that familiar with their work - I just want to say, there's always next year - except, you know, for Ray Romano .

Chen Xiaodi

What they really want (by forming joint ventures) is to get familiar with the local market, but not for money-making at present.

Paul Provenza

We're familiar with the notion of musicians reinterpreting the same song over and over, but we don't ever hear that with comedians,

Dwyane Wade

It's just getting familiar with what we're trying to do. I'm sure you'll see better spacing each time in the pre-season.

Ben Quinby

It seems like we have been looking at different combinations of kids. We're still not settled. The kids are not real familiar yet with each other.

Alanis Morissette

The whole idea of emotions being something we can't escape as humans, but that deep suffering that comes from resisting them, we can move out of that just by not resisting anymore. But it takes a really brave warrior soul to sit there in these emotions that admittedly don't feel good in the body.

Alan Moore

I've come to think that the universe is a four-dimensional site in which nothing is changing and nothing is moving. The only thing that is moving along the time axis is our consciousness. The past is still there, the future has always been here. Every moment that has existed or will ever exist is all part of this giant hyper-moment of space-time.

Alan Greenspan

If all currencies are moving up or down together, the question is: relative to what? Gold is the canary in the coal mine. It signals problems with respect to currency markets. Central banks should pay attention to it.

Alan Arkin

I used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that people did moved me, and certain things didn't move me, and I tried to analyze, even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did

Alan Arkin

I know that if I can't move people, then I have no business being an actor.

Al Sharpton

I have the right to express myself. Once we get through expressing, do we really move forward in society.

Al Kaline

This time you've dug yourself an anchor too heavy to move ahead with.

Al Hirschfeld

Try to distill the character of your subject. Understand how he moves, thinks, acts. It's difficult to put into words. Consider each drawing as a problem that did not exist before, and then try to solve that problem to the best of your ability. That i what caricature is all about

Al McGuire

It's so ridiculous to see a golfer with a one foot putt and everybody is saying "Shhh" and not moving a muscle. Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.

Alan Jay Lerner

I could have danced all night!

Alan Clark

The only solution is to kill 600 people in one night. Let the UN and Bill Clinton and everyone else make a scene - and it is over for 20 years.

Al Jourgensen

I'd still prefer to do five nights at a club than one night at Allstate Arena.

Al Hirschfeld

The opening-night audience is mostly friends of the cast and backers of the show, and they cometo applaud their money.

Chris Abani

Elvis, stop dat! You know it is taboo to whistle at night. You will attract a spirit.

Chick Corea

I got a chance to listen to and watch Thelonious Monk and his quartet play two shows a night, for six weeks. It was a great education. There was my university, man.

Edward Hoagland

Black bears, though, are not fearsome. I encountered one on the road to my house in Vermont, alone at night. I picked up two stones just in case, but I wasn't afraid of him. I felt a hunter's exhilaration and a brotherly feeling.

Edith Stein

And when night comes, and you look back over the day and see how fragmentary everything has been, and how much you planned that has gone undone, and all the reasons you have to be embarrassed and ashamed: just take everything exactly as it is, put it in God's hands and leave it with Him.

Eddie Huang

Soup dumplings, sitcoms, one-night stands--good ones leave you wanting more.

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.

Andy Reid

We feel that we have the quality to get the three points and we want to win the group.

Al Groh

They take a lot of points with them.

Ike Taylor

They put up a lot of points and they put up a lot of yards, ... We know they're going to be on the attack.

Sven Eriksson

It's more important now to win and get the three points in Poland.

Andre Miller

It's tough to get into a rhythm when you give up 30 points in the first quarter.

Kyle McLaren

It's two big points we just let slip.

Bryan Robson

It's not over though, there are still a lot of points to play for.

David Brin

What point was there in pursuing an ever-elusive popularity?

Al Gore

The presidency is more than a popularity contest.

Jeffrey Archer

The popularity of an individual in life often only manifests itself in death.

Johnny Depp

That would really send my popularity to the depths.

Kathleen Hanna

Popularity is totally overrated.

Mark Twain

The best of us would rather be popular than right.

Margaret Thatcher

I will not change just to court popularity.

Tim Calkins

Slogans shouldn't just be popularity contests. You don't want them popular. You want them to really say something about your state and your brand.

Van Orden

He never put on airs. He never tried to outdo anybody. Because of that, his popularity simply grew,

Ed Sullivan

I wouldn't have Elvis Presley on my show at any time.

Terry Wogan

All reality TV shows are a triumph of voyeurism. They choose contestants who are ill-suited and slightly freakish.

Steve Forbert

It's not like making records is terrible. Still, I do find the writing of the songs and the live shows to be the things that give you the most clear picture of what it's all about.

Norman Wisdom

I've done seven shows at the Palladium - long running shows I'm talking about.

Paul Pierce

I majored in criminal justice. I like 'CSI,' all that, '24.' I watch those shows on A&E, if I watch TV. I don't really watch TV shows.

Drew Bledsoe

A win like this shows what we can be when we get out of our own way,

Irwin Shaw

The theater went from just weekend shows to Wednesday and Thursday also,

Judy Gold

I've never been on one of these shows where you have to make alliances and be a team player.

Carine Roitfeld

The most important thing is posture: when you get old, it's the way you walk, the way you stand, that shows it.

Bruce Russell

They need to find new sources of revenue.

David B. Coe

The closer you can get to your setting and to primary sources, the more authentic your history is going to be...

Rumi

The source of now is here.

Sergio Aragones

My best sources are my travels and my collection of National Geographic.

Richard Stallman

The GNU GPL was not designed to be "open source".

Pat Harris

Some (hospital) units can't take any more. They have to set a limit. They don't want this to be a source of turnover for their staff.

Honore de Balzac

We are scarcely apt to berate the source of enjoyment.

Kim Edwards

The way we behave, our views and outlooks really have their sources some place. They come from somewhere. Sometimes we don't even know what they are, and yet they're very powerful in our lives.

Noam Chomsky

Control is the source of strategic power.

Steve Hall

We're still on a trend that is taking us downward.

Ron Everhart

We're just waiting to see what happens. He's taking his time.

Ladrika Gross

They're taking this pretty easy. They're taking it better than I thought they would.

David Carr

They're taking their time with him, and that's good,

Carol Olson

It's not like we're taking from other facilities. Everybody's experiencing an increase.

Laura McElroy

For him, repairing something is like taking a walk. He fixes everything.

Lee Gierczynski

This is very atypical. It's taking a very, very long time.

Kurt Tsue

Right now, the tides are taking it out. Should the wind change, it could come right back into shore.

David Carr

I see us taking more of a businesslike approach,

Audrey Hepburn

Thursday? Oh no, it can't be! It's too gruesome.

Brad Adgate

Thursday is going to be a very, very competitive night,

Richard Midgley

If we didn't win this game, Thursday would have been pretty insignificant.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I wasn't sure what day it was because life is meaningless. Turns out it's Thursday. The thing about life still applies.

George Herbert

Thursday come, and the week's gone.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Charles Caleb Colton

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.