Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Temple

Holland is a country, where the earth is better than the air, and profit more in request than honor; where there is more sense than wit; more good nature than good humor; and more wealth than pleasure; where a man would choose rather to travel than t

Pat Jr

We've got to look at what Georgia did and what led to a successful decision there. The one thing about our leadership in Texas Gov. Perry and some others they don't necessarily put the most money on the table, because we pride ourselves here in this state on having other competitive factors that make a company choose Texas.

Veronica Roth

I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me.

Vikram Seth

I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.

Brian Townsend

Our real goal is to really make our city where people choose to live, regardless of their demographic or social makeup,

Kelli Johnson

Passengers have to choose another route or another airport. We've seen a dramatic loss in seats.

Jill Pendley

Our lives a series of defining moments,strung together by passing time.Surrender fully to this moment,because it is not the moment itself that defines us,but how we choose to live in it.

John Lubbock

In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking

Mark Ambrose

In your free time, you will choose who to hang out with. If you were to show me your friends, I could tell you your future.

Marcus Giles

Just looks like he's wearing the wrong color blue.

Serena Kim

Italians at the end of the day are Europeans. This Cuban guy is a person of color and a political refugee.

Andy Klatt

He is the only quarterback I have ever seen that actually looks for the other color helmet, and then tries to hit it. He hunts for tacklers, and wants to punish them for trying to tackle him.

David Bryant

Here we are in 2005, and a lot of the stuff is still going on today. People are still judging each other on how much money they have or their race, ... It's not about the color of skin but about people respecting one another for just being people.

Holger Schmieding

Whatever the color of Germany's new government will ultimately be, the pace of structural reforms is likely to be slow.

Antoni Gaudi

Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.

Kelsea Ballerini

For a long time, because I'm pretty tall, I was scared to wear heels, but now I wear them all the time. I feel like I'm still discovering my stage style, but I love - well, I'm not a huge color person onstage, but I am in real life. I like short stuff, big heels, fringe, lots of fringe, sometimes sparkle, yeah!

Marty Turco

I actually like the red. I don't mind the colors at all.

Duane Davis

I didn't like (the helmets), ... My primary reason being the school colors are green and gold.

Fred Eckhard

The information on the diamond trading, we have nothing further on but what we have seen in the press, ... the problems within the leadership of the mission have been well known to the secretary-general for some time.

Prince Philip

How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?

William Alger

Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind

Kyle Hain

Each diamond is unique, but first and foremost you want a diamond to pop and sparkle.

Thitinan Pongsudhirak

Everyone wants to come to the June diamond jubilee celebration with grace and dignity. We don't want to have protests in the streets.

Susan Morgan

We want to get Diamond Lake over the hump and get people up there enjoying the lake again,

Pat Collins

Signing Neil Diamond was a watershed moment for us, ... We invested to make this happen. And it's been a strategy that's worked for us.

Cat Power

I'm not a professional entertainer. I'm not Neil Diamond.

Willie Anderson

Marvin is Chad's watchdog. He's got his own leash, his own dog food. He's got a diamond collar. He's got a doghouse to put him in.

Peter Greenaway

I don't want to become an ivory tower filmmaker. That sounds peculiar, but I want to be a mainstream filmmaker. I want the largest possible audience that I can find - but, of course, on my terms.

C. S. Lewis

Your people eat dry and tasteless flesh but it is off plates as smooth as ivory and as round as the sun.

Chuck Jones

I'm not a believer in putting designers off in an ivory tower. They need to have a voice at the table so they can identify where and why design can make a difference. We also need to understand the business issues. If we don't make our numbers this quarter, we don't earn the right to do something cool the next time.

William Feather

Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.

Charles B. Rangel

In the battle of Kunu-ri, more than 5,000 American soldiers were killed, wounded or taken as prisoners of war. Ninety percent of my unit was killed.

Kevin Bacon

Ninety-five percent of celebrity is good.

Henry A. Kissinger

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Lincoln Steffens

In science, probably ninety-nine percent of the knowable has to be discovered. We know only a few streaks about astronomy. We are only beginning to imagine the force and composition of the atom. Physics has not yet found any indivisible matter, or psychology a sensible soul.

Julian Fellowes

Ninety-eight per cent of actors who actually make a living do so in front of a camera.

Antony Garrett Lisi

Ninety-five per cent of my time is virtually wasted.

Albert Einstein

Ninety nine failed solutions equals a gain of 99 pieces of information.

Robert McKee

Ninety percent of what we create is not our best work.

Paul Reiser

He's 50 percent Peter Falk, 50 percent my own father,

Michael Andretti

He's all but signed. It's not 100 percent done, but we're down to the piddly stuff.

Sarah Parcak

I think archaeologists are stuck, and we are losing our past at a very rapid rate. Tens of thousands of sites will be lost, and we've only unveiled a tiny percent of the past.

Ronaldo Ronaldo

I'm only going to play if I'm 100 percent fit,

Dave Thomas

In my class, there were about 50 percent students there.

Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

I'm not looking at money, percentage points or grosses. This is my life, you know? To me, every day matters.

Sadaharu Oh

I'm 100 percent sure. I spoke to him recently and told him we really want him to be a part of our team.

John Tortorella

I'm getting tired of the 25 percent rule. It's deflating.

Gennady Onishchenko

And 92 percent of them are drug addicts.

Z. Sheppard

I'm getting better. It takes a little time, but I'm getting better.

Eric Duncan

It still takes some getting used to. You walk around here and you see some pretty big names.

Karel Amaranth

It really takes a village. We're all responsible for all children.

Craig Colten

The whole thing takes a long, long time.

Phil Klay

War is complicated and intense, and it takes time and thoughts to understand what it was.

Jane Smith

You have to know where to look, it just takes a little practice.

Graham Colton

I still can't tell you what it takes to be on the radio,

Phil Garner

We'll get that straightened out. Sometimes it takes us a while to get them on track, but we'll get them on track.

Gary Shutt

We'll let them do their work and see where that takes us.