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.

Isabella Bird

Above Hilo, broad lands sweeping up cloudwards, with their sugar cane, kalo, melons, pine-apples, and banana groves suggest the boundless liberality of Nature.

Yotam Ottolenghi

When I was a kid, there was always food to be had on the street in Jerusalem, but anything above a falafel stand was mediocre or worse.

William Cavendish

Use gentle means before you come to extremity, and whatever lesson you work him, and never take above half his strength, nor ride him till he is weary, but a little at a time and often.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

The Royal Society view is completely apolitical: it will judge anything based on the evidence. One of the big strengths of the Society is that is it widely perceived as impartial and above the fray. We'd like to make sure it stays that way.

Ezra Taft Benson

Disobedience is essentially a prideful power struggle against someone in authority over us. It can be a parent, a priesthood leader, a teacher, or ultimately God. A proud person hates the fact that someone is above him. He thinks this lowers his position.

Barack Obama

And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it's going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we've made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That's why we did it.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

What you need, above all else, is a love for your subject, whatever it is. You've got to be so deeply in love with your subject that when curve balls are thrown, when hurdles are put in place, you've got the energy to overcome them.

F. Sionil Jose

Japan is very cosmopolitan - it values its origins, but a world view hovers above this narrow perspective. The interest of the Japanese in their folk culture is transcendental.

Antoine Halff

We have an economy that has shown signs of slowing. With energy prices at extremely high levels -- and now moving above those levels -- this is kind of a double whammy,

Giancarlo Esposito

Yoga is a big part of my life now. There's not a day that goes by where I don't do an Asana and mediation practice.

Colin Morgan

Nowadays, kids know how a programme like Merlin is made and how it works. But the show just seems to grow in popularity the more it goes on.

Dan Hendricks

The overall plan has always been to get there. Luckily, we've been improving and he's doing well. Once we get through Saturday and everything goes well, we'll start planning on from there.

David Friedman

As time goes by, I realize that I do trust the wind. And I often write my songs for myself.

Victoria Osteen

We know what we are supposed to do and we don't want to do it, so we do the exact opposite anyway. And, it never goes well for us when we do that.

Nayvadius Cash

Rihanna takes risks, and I love a woman who takes risks. It just goes to show you have your own mind and your own way of thinking.

Ray Charles

Any artist, when he goes in to record, should have the feeling that any song he records can be a hit. This may sound egotistical, but it makes sense.

Elton Brand

That would mean a lot. All the hoopla about who's better goes out the window. It's right there on the court.

Rosamund Pike

One goes on with the blithe belief that who you really are is transparent to everybody. Then you realise, with some horror, that in fact it's not. So all you can do is keep muddying the waters a bit.

Clint Eastwood

Prime time for men is, say, 35 to 45. Then they level off and fall off.

Benoit Mandelbrot

I went to the computer and tried to experiment. I introduced a very high level of experiment in very pure mathematics.

John Pickett

The 8,200 level has become a point of support for the Dow,

Gary McCord

That would kind of level the playing field." ()

Dean Laidley

We have come from well back, when you talk about a level playing field. Some people in the media have very short memories.

George Voinovich

We have to level with the American people.

Yusli Yusoff

We've done an independent survey together with SGX to try to ascertain the level of interest. The survey results have been quite positive.

Tom Gorman

We've dismantled this organization and in doing that, you have to dismantle multi levels. We've done it at a local level and a state level.

Paul Singer

Opacity on extreme levels is not addressed anywhere, including Dodd-Frank.

Frank Gillett

The pay-for-use model is an innovation, but there is a very unflinching standardization.

Arnold Schoenberg

My music is not modern, it is merely badly played

Martin Bouygues

My successor may need to be more modern than I am. It's a question of generations.

Source Unknown

Vulgarity is the rich man's modest contribution to democracy.

Paul Marciano

When models started getting skinnier in the nineties and were becoming sick-looking, I didn't get it! I think that's sending a totally wrong message.

Peter T. King

I have been to Guantanamo. It's a model prison. Is it ideal? No. But we live in a very un-ideal world.

Jim Marquis

We have our suspicions on what it could possibly be and it's not attributable to any model year or at least to that 1991 model year.

Jenna Jameson

you can actually become a role model for women.

B. R. Ambedkar

The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.

Bill Bryson

I'm quite certain that if the rest of the world vanished overnight and the development of cricket were left in Australian hands, within a generation, the players would be wearing shorts and using the bats to hit each other, and the thing is, it'd be a much better game for it.

Arsene Wenger

Unfortunately apparently I am to blame because I don't produce enough English players.

Arsene Wenger

Sometimes I see it [a foul by an Arsenal player], but I say that I didn’t see it to protect the players and because I could not find any rational explanation for what they did.

Arsene Wenger

You build a player like you build a house. You start with the foundations. The fundamentals.

Arsene Wenger

Who is the Best Player in the World? Leo Messi. Who is the Best Player Ever? Leo Messi!

Arsene Wenger

I think generally the Japanese players have more intensity in practice but generally I do the same things.

Arsene Wenger

As a coach you can influence the diet of your players. You can point out what is wrong.

Arsene Wenger

English players are as easy to coach. The problem is that the Premier League has the best players in the world, and statistically not all of them can be born in England. But we don't have enough English players: we are working very hard on it.

Bill Bruford

One of the great things about having good players in your band is that you just ask them questions. You can pick up some good information that way.

Ned Yost

We were getting short out there. You can't keep pushing it.

Rudy Murillo

We're really pushing this year to get the youth involved.

Bob Lachky

We're really pushing this hard, and we're starting to see some momentum.

G. H. Hardy

I think this is as much symbolic as anything. But it's still important, and I understand why Sen. Byrd would push for this.

John Danforth

We are not suggesting the resignation or pushing for the resignation of the secretary-general,

Malik Rose

We pushed it and got up the floor. Now we just have to get into something.

Charles Lee

We have to try to get stops and push it on our terms. That's what we talk about, on our terms.

Jon Runyan

Just pushing and shoving. That's the way I always play.

Ryan Baker

I think it's from each other and pushing each other and having fun. If somebody does well, then we'll give him some support.

Luke Hudson

I didn't want to get better any more just because I was out of the rotation. I wanted to get better regardless of where I was.

Ichiro Ozawa

I will do my best, regardless of whether I would be running at the top or at the bottom.

Donald Johanson

Regardless of what we look like on the outside, genetically, on the inside, everyone is an African.

Jeffrey Fieler

Regardless of the (earnings) metric, they're on the right path.

Debbie Smith

No one should be doing this to another person, regardless of whether they're students.

Alex Newell

Singing is my passion, regardless of anything else that I've ever done. That's the one thing that no one can ever take away from me is my voice, and that is what I really want to do.

Tim Tebow

Regardless of whatever I do, I know what my purpose is: to make a difference in people's lives.

Edward Witten

Regardless of any deviations, it was clear I was supposed to end up in math and physics.

Lex Turner

(The nuns) were probably harder. Everything was more strict then, regardless of what you're talking about.

Carl Sagan

If we do not speak for Earth, who will? If we are not committed to our own survival, who will be?

B. F. Skinner

We do not choose survival as a value, it chooses us.

David Suzuki

Environmentali sm is really about seeing our place in world in a way that humans have always known up until very recently - that we are part of nature-utterly dependent on the natural world for our well being and survival.

Bryan Stevenson

All of our survival is tied to the survival of everyone,

Catherine Fisher

Freedom is a small price to pay for survival.

Alan Cooper

Computers no longer interface with humans--they interact, and the interaction will become steadily deeper, more subtle, and more crucial to our collective sanity and ultimate survival.

Al Purdy

A collected poems' is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival.

Bear Grylls

I grew up on survival shows and they were always just so...anoraky.

Bear Grylls

The rules of survival never change, whether you're in a desert or in an arena.

Megan Fox

I think I could survive a week without eating.

Gary Graham

I thought, 'He's done.' If he survives at all he will probably be in a vegetative state.

Paul Bailey

I thought, 'How long can they survive in there?'

Roy Williams

Survive and advance. That's what we're trying to do.

Mike Brey

My theme is survival, and that's even before we are where we are. You're trying to survive and trying to claw your way to New York City.

Randy Smith

I thought she was dead. I didn't think she'd survive that.

Andy Lopez

If they don't get healthy, we've got to find a way to survive without those guys.

Steve Fitzgerald

We're trying to work out how to survive the 26th.

Martin Brodeur

We're trying to survive and get in the playoffs, so these wins are huge.

Dan Hendricks

I think this is a very deep, talented group.

Joel Thompson

We're not the most talented squad. We have to outwork our opponent.

Thomas Needham

From what they tell me he is a smart, hardworking and talented person.

Jeff Bzdelik

I don't know that it was anything (SDSU) did that really factored into that. But they are just so much more talented than they have been in the past.

Virat Kohli

Irrespective of whether you have talent or not, one has to work hard. Just being talented doesn't mean anything; you can end up wasting it before you realize.

Ricky Woods

I think they may be the most talented team we've ever played.

Joe Girardi

He's a talented young man. You know what, he's going to make some mistakes.

Tommy Bowden

He's as talented a tight end as we've had here in a while, but doesn't understand the tempo.

Carl Taylor

He's a very talented young man. He is really the only one that does that (voice call) especially at his age.