Famous Quotes & Sayings

Warren Spector

I was amazed at how the life of a freelancer differed from running a remote studio for another company. I thought I knew what I was doing in 2004 when I left Eidos because I had run Ion Storm Austin, which was my own independent studio. I had run a business unit inside Origin, but being part of a startup is crazy.

Steve Lindsey

What I'm amazed at today is all the versatility and things we can do with the shuttle.

Jay Wright

It has amazed me how confident he has become in his intellect. The first day on the basketball court here, he was not intimidated. But that summer going to class, he was. It was very obvious. He was scared.

Tamsin Greig

I was a cleaner while at university. The job wasn't bad, but I was amazed by how badly cleaners are treated - how disrespected they are by the people they work for.

Gurinder Chadha

I went to my local pub to watch the games and was amazed to see grown men crying when England were out of the cup. I'd only ever seen the country like this when Lady Diana died. I had got the football bug and thought wouldn't it be great to take all this energy, and put two girls in the middle of it all?

Jodie Meeks

I am committing to play at the University of Kentucky. It's a beautiful place to play. They have great fans. It's a great atmosphere. I came up for my visit this past weekend, and I was really amazed how the fans really appreciate basketball.

Steve Johnson

I am extremely excited to join the Champ Car team as President. I have been amazed at the progress the series has made over the last twelve months and look forward to continuing the momentum and successes long into the future. Champ Car has a great vision as well as committed teams, owners, sponsors and promoters. Open wheel racing has work to do and Champ Car is getting it done.

Kirk Rawles

I am just amazed at the talent we have between the two clubs.

S. Walker

I am amazed to live in such a beautiful country. It is beyond my wildest imagination that it happened so quickly.

Alex Guerrero

I was like, 'I can't believed I missed that.' It was a one-in-a-million that I'd miss that. That goal could have taken us to OT. I wanted to win this one. I'm so bummed out right now. This one was tougher than our last lost to them. We had our chances, and that's what kills me. We had more chances.

Marcia Angell

Just look at herbal remedies. It's essentially a throwback. It's saying you go to a plant and you mush it up and you stick it in the jar and you sell it and you eat it and it's going to cure what ails you. And that's the kind of stuff that people believed in the early 19th century.

Tony Bennett

I always believed that we were going to be here. I never gave up.

Zahir Raheem

I always believed in myself when nobody else would, ... I worked hard. It wasn't a gift. I earned it.

Harry Aleman

When he said that, I believed him, that he didn't send me here.

Bobby Gonzalez

I think a lot of people believed we couldn't do it. These kids just believed in themselves. (The double-bye) is very important for this specific team because of the lack of depth.

Dan Monson

I think it was a real credit to our guys that they believed in the game plan and how they had to play to win.

Mack Whittle

It happened by getting up every morning and doing what we believed in and what we had passion about.

Joseph Canizaro

I think we all believed there would be more happening than is happening right now. One of the key problems is jobs. You look at the housing situation, and the schools situation, and you wonder where businesses are going to find the people they desperately need to get things going.

Stephen Jones

Kid books can get cute and a-d-o-r-a-b-l-e. Garfield says cute rots the intellect. Don't forget the name of the cat! You pick up cats the wrong way and they stop being adorable...they become Scratch.

James Patterson

Kids say the No. 1 reason they don't read more is that they can't find books they like. Freedom of choice is a key to getting them motivated and excited.

Spike Jonze

Kids are so fiercely opinionated, that if they love the Harry Potter books and they go see the movie, they'll be the first to say, 'That was wrong! They didn't get that right!' They're storytellers themselves. They're critics. They're going to have the critical opinion.

Jan Nash

Just look at the shelves of any bookstore in any airport, and you see how much people love crime and mysteries, how much they love solving puzzles.

Mark Patton

It is a great thing for him to have read so many books. You just don't usually hear that about a first-grader.

Ray Manchuk

We're optimistic that the new Harry Potter will bring more foot traffic to stores and perhaps become a catalyst to drive sales of other books as well.

Hilaire Belloc

When I am dead, I hope it is said, 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read'.

Chip Kidd

What you must remember about hardcover books is that they are like tattoos. Once you get one, it's never really going to go away.

O. J. Simpson

It is so important for parents to read in front of their child, so the child knows how much reading can teach them, ... I make sure I am reading books around my children to set good examples for reading throughout life.

Mark Patton

It is a great thing for him to have read so many books. You just don't usually hear that about a first-grader.

Dan Bloom

All the wins are great, but I'd rather be on the right side of that book. Pete Tilman won a New England championship, and I don't consider myself the greatest wrestler in Sharon history because I don't have a New England title to back that up.

Mary Randolph

Sometimes it was September or October before we would get the books.

Al Hubbard

There are very good laws on the books. What's important is that those laws are enforced aggressively.

Thomas Carlyle

What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.

Alan Milstein

Besides, there are privacy laws on the books, both state and federal, so there's no way they'd win. It makes you wonder what they're really worried about.

Jack Harris

You have to go by the handbook. We have all the guidelines in that book. ... Coming out at a meeting and saying you can do this or that, we can't do that in a meeting.

Edward Thomas

There is not any book/ Or face of dearest look/ That I would not turn from now/ To go into the unknown/ I must enter, and leave, alone,/ I know not how.

Richard Davies

The days where (the campus bookstore) had a mini-monopoly are coming to an end.

George Jennings

It is a little unsettling to be the first wave. It's going to be a rough deal. Nobody wants to go on a strike on Christmas.

Rena McCullough

We're pretty much the redheaded stepchild around here. Nobody respects us." ()

Ron Fussell

When he's on, there's nobody who can touch him.

John Salmon

When he's in a groove, he's in a groove. Can't nobody stop him, can't nobody stop him.

Mick Koczersut

I thought one run would win it - especially at that time, because nobody had done a whole lot of anything.

Bob Harrington

Later, I don't know when, they pushed in the walls and made it a pond. Nobody has a record of why.

Kelly Price

There was no person, whether they thought I was too fat, too black, too country, too ghetto, too New York, too thug or too whatever! Nobody ultimately had the say over whether or not I was going to make it.

George Jones

I don't know why nobody thought of it earlier.

Michael Hearst

We can keep them from stinging people. But because nobody else is doing it around us, eradication is probably not likely.

Johnny Rivers

He was signing everyone else up, ... He just didn't think I could sell any records.

Shane Smith

If not doing VICE, I probably would be selling Cokes on the beach in Vietnam. I like the sea.

Valentino Castellani

The interesting thing is that since Giorgio Rocca started winning his competitions, there is a correlation with the victories of Giorgio and the selling of tickets.

Kay Granger

I started selling insurance in 1979 and continued doing that until 1985 when I opened my own insurance firm.

George Foreman

Learn to sell and you'll never starve

Mark Cuban

Get me selling and I can figure out the industry. Once I can figure out the industry I can start a business in that industry.

Tucker Carlson

It's his hand, and if he wants a pharmacy that doesn't sell condoms or the pill, it?s not your business. It's not my business.

Marc Ostrofsky

Over many generations, fortunes in the business world were made through buying and selling products in physical stores. Internet fortunes have been made buying and selling products online.

Manuel Puig

I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.