Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tina Brown

The comptroller of New York City ought to have all the characteristics of a major corporation's CFO - quiet rigor, obsessive care for detail, incorruptible judgment, an ability to work assiduously behind the scenes with the key stakeholders.

Thomas Friedman

America still has the right stuff to thrive. We still have the most creative, diverse, innovative culture and open society - in a world where the ability to imagine and generate new ideas with speed and to implement them through global collaboration is the most important competitive advantage.

Wendy Kopp

We look for people who demonstrate perseverance in the face of challenges, the ability to influence and motivate others - people who want to work relentlessly to ensure that kids who are facing the challenges of poverty have an excellent education.

Wendy Kopp

We are looking for a set of personal characteristics that predict success, the first and foremost of which is perseverance in the face of challenges. We also look for the ability to influence and motivate others who share your values, strong problem-solving ability, and leadership.

Virginia Postrel

What makes a loft authentic isn't its layout or its history but its ability to give people a true home - a dwelling that reflects their personalities and aspirations, including their dreams of urbanity.

Colin Morgan

For me, one of my favorites, director-wise, is Tim Burton. I also really admire the work of actors like Sean Penn. He is probably my favorite actor because of his dedication and commitment to roles, and the ability to morph and change himself when he needs to. It's about dedication and commitment and a passion.

Ben Carson

You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going to happen in your life. Do everything you can - prepare, pray and achieve - to make it happen.

George Burley

The Polish guy was a lad I really wanted to bring to the club because he has smashing ability but unfortunately we've been unable to prise him away. He is a top-class player. One of the best in Poland.

Bruce Norris

The picture for California has been great, but I think it has started changing. There's certainly going to be upcoming weakness in California because we've just about gotten to the point where we've priced our typical buyer out of his ability to make the monthly payment.

Tyra Banks

I wish I was harder; I wish I didn't care so much about being the nice girl all the time because a lot of the time people can take kindness for weakness, so I wish I had a little bit more 'oomph' in me.

Yann Tiersen

In France the music schools are a bit old fashioned. I was more excited about doing my own stuff or to play with my friend in my band, than studying the piano.

Imelda May

I'm not saying that women shouldn't pursue careers, but if it is going to be equal in the workplace, it should certainly pan out to be a little bit more equal in the home, too.

Imelda May

Music rules a lot of my life - I was bitten by the bug young.

Iggy Azalea

I've been a little bit Las Vegas and casino-obsessed. So, I love some trashy glamour... and I think nothing's trashier or more glamorous than a bit of a sheer number!

Ice T

I think that men need to have a little bit of manism. You have feminism. I don't have a problem with that.

Ian Mckellen

Gandalf the Grey was always the guy I prefer. Gandalf the White was driven to do a particular job, whereas Gandalf the Grey is a bit more humane.

Ian Mckellen

Doing some of the 'Lord Of The Rings' press junkets got a bit claustrophobic.

Ian Mckellen

It's an interesting but useless bit of information that every single character in 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' wears a wig, and many of them wears a prosthetic - false ears, feet, hands. In my case, nose.

Cynthia McKinney

The 9/11 Omission: Did the Commission Get it Wrong?

John Poindexter

The 9/11 Commission is identifying the exact problems that we were trying to get technology to solve. So I keep pushing the idea.

Candy Olson

We can't just keep hoping the county commission will do right by these kids.

Laura Martin

We have the Racial and Cultural Diversity Commission which translates and publishes our press releases into Latino magazines.

Michael Copps

Today the Federal Communications Commission empowers America's new media elite with unacceptable levels of influence over the ideas and information upon which our society and our democracy depend,

Jack Evans

We will respond quickly and comprehensively to any requests for information from the Commission on this complaint, but no such requests have been received so far.

Stephen Williams

We have been working for some time on this commission and the purchaser is a long standing customer of ours. Even though we regularly work on commissions to source rare wines this one has been particularly gratifying.

Thomas Vinje

Microsoft has been playing games with the Commission from the beginning, but now it realizes its time is up.

J. Taylor

Microsoft continues to be open to working with partners and competitors, alike, to jointly commission research that helps all our customers engage in an informed and respectful debate on the facts.

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 Kirby

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

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.

Arnold Rothstein

There's only so much you can teach a person until you reach the limits of his capabilities.

Bill Bowerman

Now to explore the limits of the one competitor above everyone else you've always loved to face: Steve Prefontaine.

Michael Phelps

Nobody is going to put a limit on what I'm doing.

Bob Thomason

He's a role player on our team, but I think sometimes he limits his role more than he should.

Jim Silver

His return is a big positive for the industry. It will spur everyone on, especially in terms of pushing the limits of technology,

David D. Burns

Learn to accept your limits and you'll become a happier person.

Charles Stanley

We must never limit God's ability to turn even the worst, most vile experience in our lives into something productive, beneficial and positive.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

I still find it hard to push my own limits. I know where my limits are and that I always have to push myself.

David Ricardo

Whenever the current of money is forcibly stopped, and when money is prevented from settling at its just level, there are no limits to the possible variations of the exchange.

Ben Chaplin

I care about all the characters I play, and I get quite defensive about them.

Ben Barnes

I went to a very academically competitive high school. So I was always quite studious and quiet, just to keep up with the other geniuses who were in my school.

Nick Jonas

I've always been quite driven. I take after my father.

Kevin Spacey

'The 24 Hour Plays' is a quite brilliant, exhilarating event for everyone concerned.

Mary Kelly

The (anti-virus) system worked, which was quite a relief.

Carl Jacobs

That was quite a ride. We'd be thrilled to repeat it.

Tom Miller

That was quite an accomplishment for us. This is a very tough tournament.

Sam Johnson

We were friends for 40 years. He was quite a character.

Patrick Chidley

We have been warning that (Placer) would get taken over for quite a long time.

Bobb'e J. Thompson

I was the class clown type of guy.

Taye Diggs

You just don't see the same type of all-purpose entertainers nowadays.

Morris Gleitzman

Melbourne is my type of city, much more so than Sydney.

Beck

I didn't even have a computer until like 10 years ago. I was still using a typewriter until 2002.

Barry Lopez

When I sit at that typewriter, I have to be frightened of what I'm trying to do. I'm frightened by my own belief that I can actually get a story down on paper.

B. J. Novak

Good comics gravitate to each other; you know who's your type of person by watching them onstage, hopefully.

Mark McNulty

Those are the type of tap-ins you like to have.

Ryan Robertson

We're not used to that type of athleticism in our league. They get in your mind.

David Morse

I was stuck as a Boomer type in a lot of people's minds.