Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wendelin Van Draanen

What sort of person you grow into should not be achieved by default, and often that's exactly what happens to kids. I see literature as a method of guidance, information, and contemplation, and consider it the greatest compliment possible when a reader tells me that a book of mine really made him/her think.

Bill Gates

I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful!

David Beckham

I've played under some of the biggest and best managers and achieved almost everything in football. Of course it hurts when people question it, but I've come to the end of my career and can look back and say I've achieved everything with every club that I've played for.

M. Wolfe

The outstanding result achieved by MANN-FILTER for services and product quality reaffirms our strategy of offering top-quality products and providing outstanding service to our original equipment manufacturer and aftermarket customers. Our customers can be assured that they can continue to expect world-class products and services in the future.

Nawal El Saadawi

Women in most countries have not achieved much, because they can't be liberated under the patriarchal, capitalist, imperialist and military system that determines the way we live now, and which is governed by power, not justice, by false democracy, not real freedom.

Mike Chambers

The 2006 Olympic Winter Games have been a great success for Canada. We set an aggressive goal of a top-three finish at these Games and we will leave Turin having achieved that goal.

William Allan

The acceleration in sales growth achieved in the third quarter gives us further confidence that the company will deliver enhanced revenue growth throughout the second half of the year,

Bill Coleman

We couldn't be more pleased with the business and financial results we achieved this quarter and in fiscal 2001.

Rick Kobe

We have the same goals every year. We've never achieved them, but we want to go undefeated, we want to win a conference championship and we want to have at least a 3.0 GPA. We've got two of the three a bunch, but the undefeated one is tough to do when you have some of the schools on your schedule that we do.

Yolanda Adams

All of my lyrics are based on the one thing that's never failed me, and that's the Word of God.

Yanni

My music is based on melody and when I play the piano, it's as if I'm singing with them. When you try to transform that into a vocal, there was very little adjustment.

Irving Stone

My books are based 98 percent on documentary evidence.

Vivienne Westwood

We based the look on rock 'n roll right from the beginning.

Chuck Palahniuk

'Romance' is based on my entire creative process. I fall in love with an idea, obsess over it, isolate myself with it, and when I eventually introduce it to my friends, they all tell me that it's stupid.

will.i.am

You know, I do music. If you look under the hood of the industry I'm in, it's all based on technology. From radio to phonographs to CDs, it's all technology. Microphones, reel-to-reels, cameras, editing, chips, it's all technology.

Constance Wu

It's my privilege to be able to play somebody not myself. I'm an actor who creates characters based in voice, movement, emotional quality, speech.

Elizabeth Warren

I never sought nor gained personal benefit in school or job applications based on my heritage.

Brian O'Neill

The overall performance of the Grand Caravan was similar in all three tests, except for the fuel tank, ... Based on these tests, the 2001 models manufactured before the redesigned fuel systems are rated poor for crashworthiness because of the leak.

Yahoo Serious

We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.

Thorstein Veblen

It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community.

Todd Rundgren

Sometimes being a musician has little to do with viability and everything to do with survivability. Many musicians start out great, and they wind up out of the business in 10 years.

Thomas J. Watson

To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart.

Imelda May

One thing that did get me into a lot of different types of music was when I was very young, the local record store went out of business and they were selling off all the vinyl. I remember going in - I was probably 16 or 17 and I'd just gotten a record player as a present. It was like hitting the jackpot: all these records for $3 apiece.

Ian Watson

People with a lot of money aren't in the business of throwing it away, and those paying footballers' wages, organising parking spaces for dead sharks, and even, dare I say it, buying iPads, are doing it because, for them, it's worth the money.

Gladys Knight

I know how hard it is to send two kids to college when you ain't got nothing. I know people may not think of me in that way, but this business gives you ups and downs.

Donald Trump

I had tremendous success in show business - star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 'The Apprentice' was one of the most successful shows.

Zac Goldsmith

You know I don't really have faith in politicians - this is quite a sleazy business. But there is no law which says that all politicians will turn out to be scumbags.

William R. Keating

I look forward to continuing to represent the people I'm currently serving, as well as the new communities that will be a part of this district in the future.

Webb Simpson

But more than anything I kind of pride myself in continuing the process that we're trying to accomplish, and that's just to get better and work on my fundamentals. So that's been kind of in the theme now for a couple years and we stuck with it and that's kind of what I want to keep doing.

Paul Swangard

The American population is continuing to diversify, and Hispanics have become a very important part of the sports economy,

Scott Tucker

We have an eye on it and we're continuing to follow our plan, which is hopefully to keep people away.

John Matthews

We have already received inquiries from other states, and the interest in a number of our existing and soon-to-be launched online courses is extremely high. Our goal is to pursue expansion into new markets, particularly where licensing, training and continuing education requirements overlap with the programs we have already developed for the Texas market.

Nicki Zongrone

We have the longstanding relationship with our partners and we are continuing to innovate.

Sammy Willis

We've made it to the next level. We're continuing to make history.

Mike Besl

We have more kids in the program than we can comfortably facilitate. We get an overlap sometimes because some kids like to play two sports and we have a lot of continuing members.

Steve Davies

We're very pleased with the decision and we're looking forward to continuing the process.

Nicholas Garganas

The overall picture is that the recovery is broadening and deepening. My feeling is that euro-area growth will pick up at a faster pace than generally expected.

Jeff Nelson

The 2-2 pitch was pretty close, ... The 3-2 fastball wasn't.

Jason Maynard

The acquisition has effectively expanded Red Hat's market opportunity in one of the fastest growing sectors of software.

Shigenori Okazaki

That was a very big mistake. He should have kept everyone guessing. Now he seems to be losing influence much faster than we would have thought.

Ian Harrington

That was a terrible pitch. I left a fastball up and he made me pay for it.

Russell Sciandra

That would work a lot faster than the lawsuit.

Quincy Allen

That was two minutes faster than Tuesday and four minutes faster than Monday.

Sean Whalen

That was the first time she's swam it this year and it's the fastest on your team this year.

Sam Dresser

That way, we take out that player, put in a faster runner, and maybe score a run.

Gordon B. Hinckley

A nation will rise no higher than the strength of its homes.

Frank Quattrone

When we took Netscape public, if people wanted to invest in the web, that was the only stock that they could do it by investing in. So Netscape's market value was higher than it probably otherwise would have been if there were lots of other ways to play that theme.

Kurt Barnard

The 5.7 percent projection is not too much out of line, but it is at the higher end of projections,

Richard Doherty

That was higher than we thought they might have gone.

Chris Grisanti

That will surprise the Street and lead to a higher stock price.

Tisha Hill

We need to knock down some shots. We need to take smarter and higher percentage shots.

Eric Graaf

Today's surprise is not enough to warrant a substantially higher valuation.

Bill Carter

You'll look like you have lead weights strapped to your feet, ... The higher the heel, the more shape you're going to get to your calf.

Saddam Hussein

Will the performance of one who has sat an examination and passed it be higher and better, or lower and lesser?

Colin O'Donoghue

When I was younger, I was hopefully going to do animation and special effects.

Frank Lampard

I have made lots of mistakes on and off the pitch, and you can only learn from them. If I can get that across, then hopefully I am doing something right.

Arsene Wenger

I am still hopeful we can go through the season unbeaten - a frightening thought.

Steve Jaksa

That would be nice. Obviously that would be tough to do but hopefully someone can step up like J.T. did this weekend.

Mark Zuckerberg

I think Facebook is an online directory for colleges... If I want to get information about you, I just go to TheFacebook, type in your name, and it hopefully pulls up all the information I'd care to know about you.

Ray Winstone

On every job you do, you've got to raise your game. My ambition is to just get better and better every job you do - you should never stop trying to get better. You have to teach yourself new things - I don't think you necessarily learn them from other people because you have your own style of doing things, but hopefully you get better.

Greg Zipadelli

We'll race the way that got us here, and hopefully we can lead some laps, win some races and not make mistakes,

Allan Bristow

Well probably get it up to 18 players. We've got some young players (already on the roster), and hopefully they'll shine and show their potential that they belong.

Brian Barwick

We have the opportunity, if we want, to get the person in place hopefully before the finals.

Donald Trump

I want to lower taxes for the middle class.

Sgt. Delaney

I wish that the numbers were lower for this neighborhood.

John Beasley

It doesn't take many nights of temperatures in the mid-to- lower 50s to shut the maturity process down.

E. Hicks

You all are going to have to lower that camera.

Warren Shouldice

Personally, it's devastating. The scores were a lot lower than I expected. It was mine for the taking up there. If I had stuck my second jump, I could be up there on the podium.

Christopher Mecray

My sense is that the stock is going to stabilize here. You get much lower than this and it starts to get to be real overreaction.

Source Unknown

Nobody raises his own reputation by lowering others

Laurie Berger

Basically, the Web presents travel vendors with an opportunity to sell their product at a lower cost. If they can sell it at a lower cost, they can also pass on those savings to the consumer.

Gypsy Lee

I have everything I had twenty years ago, only it's all a little lower

Frank Lee

The PC sector is weak in the first quarter but I am still optimistic for the whole year. That's because the trend for the TV sector is positive so profit margins should go up from the second and third quarters.

James Harrison

We made a statement. We won, that was the statement we wanted. Margin of victory, stuff like that, is nice. But winning and going to the playoffs is our goal. That's what we want.

Steven Wood

Because pricing power has disappeared, profit margins will remain under significant pressure.

Ai Miyazato

I'm a little surprised and very satisfied about (the margin of victory).

Mike Dunham

We have to find ways to win. There's not much margin for error. Just because it's not your night, you can't say it's not your night. We don't have enough time for that.

Billy Childish

I like being on the margins. You work better there.

David O'Brien

We want to be satisfied the plant's safety margin is not compromised,

Matthew Lewis

Overall this is a high-quality set of results... and their handset margin of 25 percent is phenomenal.

Steve Ward

Rendell's winning margin is black. Take that away, and he's even.

Dominic Cooper

I'm not going to pre-empt anything regarding how my career's going to go because I'm always prepared for the worst.

Wang Xuming

Regarding our textbooks, the (policy) has been consistent. There haven't been any changes.

Estee Lauder

I can understand the skepticism, particularly regarding Estee Lauder,

W. S. Gilbert

in any scenario regarding the one vote in question.

Nicolas Roeg

Film remains completely mystical and mysterious to me.

Katy Trotter

We need to remain cohesive as a team. Individually, everyone wants to improve. I want to be an All-American.

Ray Giacoletti

We haven't done anything. We need to remain hungry.

Li Hui

I don't think you can write the state sector off. They will remain a big contributor to GDP.

Tai Park

What will probably happen, is that she'll remain out on bail.

Stephane Deo

Here, we also have a very volatile indicator. The trend remains downward. I don't think that has changed.

Unknown

Here's to the new husband, And here's to the new wife, May they remain lovers, For all of life.

Tracy Morgan

Whatever I did on 'Saturday Night Live' is going to stay and remain on 'Saturday Night Live.'

Saudi Arabia

I didn't want to talk to them. I had a right to remain silent.

Richard Foreman

We really won't see the story until we get into the spring and see the spring sales activity.

Lu Donnelly

Barns are for sale on the Internet. The wood is sought after now.

Keith Alexander

His sale to Watford is another filip for the youth set-up.

Peter Reynolds

When we have a special event, our sales triple,

Paul Bishop

We feel that (the $30 came) from the sale of marijuana.

Brian Tracy

Resolve to be among the top 20% of salespeople who make 80% of the sales.

Ricky Gervais

Where did you get that? ... Is it on sale already?

Chuck Morris

Ticket sales are very solid, to say the least.

Linda Thomas

Our sales are expanding. We've had to turn down stores for milk.

Jason Simpson

With the US out today, volumes are pretty low.

Steve Struss

For me, personally, it was the volume of evidence.

Jerry Brown

Too often I find that the volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases.

Industry Idris

It (the volume of subsidized fertilizer) will not change.

Johnny Thunders

The only technical things I know are treble, volume and reverb, that's all.

Grazia Deledda

I have also written some poems which have not been collected in a volume.

William Ellery Channing

Every human being is a volume, worthy to be studied.

William Harvey

Nature is a volume of which God is the author.

William Penn

The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all.