Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Goodstein

The X Prize is about changing paradigms. The current paradigm is that it's perfectly acceptable to drive a car that only gets 20 or 30 miles per gallon. This prize is about leveraging cash and opportunity to effect positive change in the environment, economy and geopolitics.

Adam Nelson

Five fouls is not acceptable at this level,

Rafael Marquez

We've had a bit of luck. It's a very acceptable group in which we can do many things.

Carla Johnson

We're dialing 911. We cannot pay you to protect our water and have you use it to destroy our water ... We simply don't find it acceptable to have the solution to our 911 call be PR campaigns and pitting us against each other.

Jenny Robinson

There?s no acceptable circumstance to put a child unprotected in your car, and it?s a terrible shame someone this famous, who could have set an example, did not do so.

Christine Karbowiak

The tone is constructive. We remain hopeful that the progress will lead us to reach agreements acceptable to all parties.

Ruth Collins

We've put together the medically acceptable waiting times, the maximum time patients should be waiting. So we've done the work for them,

Monica Lewinsky

took to the Senate floor to denounce the president's conduct as immoral and harmful because 'it sends a message of what is acceptable behavior to the larger American family.'

Bob Crow

The private sector is making millions each week out of its contracts on the Tube. Yet it is not only failing to deliver promised improvements but has also demonstrably failed to maintain a crucial safety system to acceptable standards.

Dallas Baker

The team still comes before me. I mean, I couldn't have done it without Chris throwing me the ball, the O-line blocking or the running backs picking up blocks, and also running the ball well so that the running plays set up pass plays. So, the team still comes before me.

Bobby Bowden

We've got 119 I-A schools. Out of 119 of us, I'll bet you 100 are fighting an attrition battle. You've probably got 19 lucky teams. Boy, they're lucky. They've kept their offensive line healthy all year, they've kept their running backs healthy, and they're probably playing for Southern Cal and Texas.

David Bradford

Those are people who are cooking in the backs of vans, SUVs and vehicles,

John Hendricks

We're just going to play our defense. The defense is designed to keep (an opponent) from passing. No matter who you are, we are always going to play our defense. We always have five defensive backs in the game.

Robert Redford

Well first of all it's a business and it's a tough business, and you have to have the strength to survive all the set backs all the failures that make this a mean business, that's getting meaner and meaner every year in my opinion.

Saru Jayaraman

Nobody thought we could pull it off on our own as immigrants, as people of color ? even the consultants we hired. This is not about money. It's about creating an economic model of a restaurant that does well ? but not just for the owners, on the backs of the workers.

David Harris

People who you call friends turn their backs on you. They leave while we have killings, lootings and rapes, and when people need to be rescued,

David Harris

People who you call friends turn their backs on you,

John Hansen

Peyton Manning is a great passer, but he has to rely on receivers to catch it to be productive. Running backs are guys whose role is to churn out yardage and touchdowns. That's exactly what you're looking for.

Elizabeth Thompson

As a Panhellenic whole, we do not support one candidate or the other, ... Part of exercising the right to vote is exercising the right to choose. We always hope for a good turnout at the elections, and we expect to see a large number of women participate this year.

Leo Bosner

As long as FEMA is under DHS, problems are likely to continue. I'm told that at least three state emergency officials have turned down the job of FEMA Director because it is under the Department of Homeland Security. Everyone says FEMA needs a top-quality director, but how do we get one when the top candidates won't take the job?

Paul Maryniak

Perhaps at no time in the recent past has the need for quality city leadership been more critical to Mesa than it is now. We want Mesa residents to know as much as possible about the people who are running for a chance to provide that leadership, and The Republic's forum gives citizens an excellent chance to eyeball the candidates and give them the kind of job interview necessary for an educated vote.

Oscar Aguilar

They are all going to be making the same promises: more education, better economy. But if one candidate is more marketable, or comes out with a killer line, that could mean a lot.

Thomas Insel

The way I see it, there are three types of studies in science: one that moves a theory along, one that closes it and another that opens a new door altogether. This one opens a new chapter, introducing an entirely new molecular candidate for the study of anxiety, and we're going to be hearing a lot about it in the next 10 years.

George Fetherling

The heart was always seen as the noblest of the internal organs as well as the most vital. The hearts of martyrs or future candidates for sainthood would be preserved, but never their livers, say, or the entrails - at least not on their own; it was either the heart by itself or the whole lot together.

Terry Hall

Every single candidate for Texas governor is talking about this issue. This is a major issue in many political campaigns, because this is a major issue for the citizens of Texas. Even Kinky (Friedman) is talking about it.

Jim Terry

You get 16 candidates on the stage, it turns into ... there's not a lot of meaningful information that's going to be exchanged.

Jim Matheson

We've been talking about this for a while, ... We had all the candidates in to talk to us. We talked about doing a vote long before this week.

Paul Foster

Another two weeks of oil like this and I think they'll have to file (for bankruptcy).

David Duncan

search personal files and search extraneous items that wouldn't be part of final work papers and get rid of them.

Sue Hales

One of the big reasons I think this money is just sitting out there is because people think they don't meet the filing requirements for their income. A lot of people don't need to file, and they don't have to file, but they really should file because a lot of people who have income under the income requirements actually had taxes withheld and they should get that money back. We want them to get their money back.

Mary Gorman

Start a file for billing, a file for UC information.

Deval Patrick

I file jointly with my wife, so making our tax returns public means making a non-candidate's tax returns public. I'm not going to do that.

John Messina

Henry and Pam were under the impression that if you spent less than $250, you didn't need to file a waiver,

John Hamm

He mentioned the file to me and I said minister on this file I can't tell you what to do. Do what you think is right.

Cary Sherman

The idea would be that you would have encoded in the header of the file the information that rights holders would need to track the royalty payments for those uses. You just need to have a standardized way of doing that.

Thomas Jones

It will probably give us a little more time to file for extensions.

H. Hunt

If we're financing our program ourselves, then we know our money's going to our program.

Luis Carriles

Listen well to that, ... I didn't say they were financing me. I said they were financing those operations, that's it.

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Kurt Thomas

As long as I set a good pick and roll, get to the open spot, it's about me knocking down the shot. He knows when to find you.

Jared Bernstein

Our expectations have been pretty diminished. A good month used to be 300,000 more jobs and now it is 200,000.

Tim Parmeter

Offensively, if we don't turn it over, we're going to score, and we did a good job of that in the first half. We can shoot, so when we get a shot at the basket, good things are usually going to happen for us.

Don Kloth

Normally, we're a very good free-throw shooting team. But tonight, we weren't.

Dean Wagenaar

Normally we're a good 3-point shooting team but we weren't hitting anything today, so they just plugged up the middle and took Chad's shots away. We panicked a little in the third quarter but the kids held together. Bruce's kids are so disciplined, and they really know how to protect their floor.

Levi Leipheimer

After the first two mountain stages people realized Lance was as good as ever.

Chris Riddell

Do you have hands? Excellent. That's a good start. Can you hold a pencil? Great. If you have a sketchbook, open it and start by making a line, a mark, wherever. Doodle.

Fran Dunphy

Defensively, we were just about as good as we could be. Offensively, when the separation occurred, it was because we did some things out of character.

Babe Ruth

The most important thing that a young athlete must do it pick the right sport. Not one that they like just a little bit, but one that they love. Because,if they don't really love their sport, they won't work as hard as they should. Me? I loved to hit.

Cesar Chavez

There are many reasons for why a man does what de does. To be himself he must be able to give it all. If a leader cannot give it all he cannot expect his people to give anything.

Charles R. Swindoll

This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody. There was an important job to do and Everybody was asked to do it. Everybody was sure Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry because it was Everybody’s job. Everybody thought Anybody would do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn’t do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done.

Desiderius Erasmus

God has administered to us of the present age, a bitter draught and a harsh physician, on account of our abounding infirmities.

Daniel H. Pink

What's important now are the characteristics of the brain's right hemisphere: artistry, empathy, inventiveness, big-picture thinking. These skills have become first among equals in a whole range of business fields.

Daniel H. Pink

I happen to be extremely left-brained; my instinct is to draw a chart rather than a picture. I'm trying to get my right-brain muscles into shape. I actually think this shift toward right-brain abilities has the potential to make us both better off and better in a deeper sense.

Daniel H. Pink

If you understand the independent worker, the self-employed professional, the freelancer, the e-lancer, the temp, you understand how work and business in the U.S. operate today.

Daniel H. Pink

A lot of times when you have very short-term goals with a high payoff, nasty things can happen. In particular, a lot of people will take the low road there. They'll become myopic. They'll crowd out the longer-term interests of the organization or even of themselves.

Daniel H. Pink

We have this myth that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero.

John Sebastian

You're seeing it go down to more moderate homes.

Barton Gellman

As militias go, the Ohio Defense Force is on the moderate side.

Brett Favre

There was a time when all I cared about was the next game, the next party, the next tee time.

Argus Hamilton

President Obama hosted a state dinner for British Prime Minister David Cameron. The president and the British are getting along a lot better lately. They love to compare notes on ways the Tea Party's always trying to overthrow their rule in America.

Barbara Jordan

We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds.

Barbara Jordan

We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future.

Bashar al-Assad

The place where the interests of all parties come together is the international community, along with its resolutions.

Bashar al-Assad

If you are going to be a mediator or arbitrator you have to be in the middle between the two sides; you cannot take sides only with one party.

Benito Mussolini

State ownership! It leads only to absurd and monstrous conclusions; state ownership means state monopoly, concentrated in the hands of one party and its adherents, and that state brings only ruin and bankruptcy to all.

Jamie Foxx

You guys have so much energy. I threw a party in Toronto and there were, like, 4,000 people who couldn't get in.

Calvin Coolidge

We cannot weaken or destroy political parties in ther United States without weakening or destroying the rule of the people.... Those who support party organization and submit to party discipline are supporting the only course yet discovered for orderly government by the people.

Ogden Nash

The only way I can distinguish proper from improper fractions/ Is by their actions.

Jonah Lomu

Each haka has its own interpretation, but you have to make sure you are in unison with your team-mates; the haka should be a proper war cry.

Rep. Chalk

My whole view is that we can't legitimately look at property tax reform if we don't look at all these things.

Russell Tovey

I came out to myself when I was about 15 or 16, and to my parents when I was 18. When you come out to your parents, that's when it's properly official.

Rick Reed

He has made several airplanes essentially to scale and proper proportion.

David Chang

I really don't care for the proper chef coat.

C. S. Lewis

Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outside, and vice versa. For example, I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean I should wash my teeth in church.

Mark Gottlieb

The development rights of the ... property predate the ordinance.

Carlos Gutierrez

Theft of intellectual property is not tolerated and will not be tolerated.

Bill Castle

We've got a bulls-eye on us. I think we're ranked because of tradition and our past. Everyone comes after you.

Regina Rogers

We were pumped. They're ranked third in the state, so it was a big test for us.

Rodney Tention

Give them credit. They compete. That's why they're ranked No. 5 (now 4). They toughened up when they got down.

Sean Fleming

He is the type of wrestler who can be ranked in the state and do some big things in tournaments.

Don Shuler

Christiansburg's ranked nationally in the top 10. They don't have many weaknesses. They're strong from top to bottom. Fortunately, there's only one of them in each weight class.

John Underwood

It's going to make our relative rank weaker.

Jerome Bettis

It was a unique game. It ranks up there. It was crazy.

Donna Brazile

We were not republicans or democrats during Katrina. We truly were all Americans, and Trent Lott came through for me.

Stephanie Miller

I was actually abandoned by wolves and then raised by Republicans.

Megyn Kelly

Reagan Republicans do not criticize the other Republicans

Joe Lando

I'd be honored to be playing a Republican, although I'm not.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Republicans simply don't know how to manage the economy.

Chely Wright

I'm not a Democrat, I'm not a Republican-I'm an American, I'm a human.

Asa Butterfield

For every role you get, there are five roles that you don't.

Ben Foster

The roles I'm interested in or have been interested in, you know, it's going to get down to conflict. Drama is conflict - conflict of interests.

Donna Mills

You know, when they called me about the role, I thought Knots Landing was a show about a houseboat with Andy Griffith!

Anthony Hopkins

I don't have any [favourite role]. I'm just a working actor.

Andre Breton

It will in the end, be admitted that everything, in effect is an image and that the least object which has no symbolic role assigned to it is capable of standing for absolutely anything.

Renee Fleming

I learned so many roles so quickly as a young singer, I thought it was time to come back to them and make them better - deeper, more nuanced.

Robert Lanza

Until we recognize the essential role of biology, our attempts to truly unify the universe will remain a train to nowhere.

Tia Carrere

If there's a Disney animated feature based in Hawaii, I knew I had to be part of it. I'm very proud to be from Hawaii. There was no question the role was mine.

Victor Garber

Thank goodness I started getting movie roles and then television shows came along. So I was very fortunate to be able to do all three and I like all of them.