Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tina Turner

My legacy is that I stayed on course... from the beginning to the end, because I believed in something inside of me.

Gail Kelly

I'm a big believer you should design work around a vast majority of people who want to do the right thing rather than around the tiny minority who might take advantage.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

'Beyond the Lights' took incredible fight to get made. Four years of writing and two years of overcoming 'no.' Every studio balked. Twice. But I kept fighting. What gave me the courage was 'Love & Basketball.' Every studio turned down that film, too. But I never gave up because I believed in it with my whole heart and soul.

Gareth Bale

I always believed in my ability, but I think in any sport you need that little bit of luck.

Zadie Smith

Oh yes, my generation liked to be in some pain when they read. The harder it was, the more good we believed it was doing us.

Yotam Ottolenghi

I'm a firm believer that the world should be your oyster when you're cooking. People should open themselves to other cuisines - there are a lot of hidden secrets all over the world.

Wesley Schultz

When I was a kid, award shows were super-interesting for me. But when I started making music, it was kind of hard to watch because I believed in what I was doing and yet knew I didn't really have a shot.

Wesley Morris

'The Tree of Life' is a collection of conversations that lost souls and true believers have with themselves while keeping their heads to the sky. But the movie is church via the planetarium.

Billy Graham

I believe that the greatest form of prayer is praise to God.

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.

Virginia Postrel

Just as producers often give consumers things they want but didn't think to ask for, consumers sometimes come up with surprising uses for new inventions. When a new product appears, it can uncover dissatisfactions and desires no one knew were there.

Michael Workman

The pick up in house price inflation since mid-2005 has the potential to provide further positive impetus to consumer spending in the months ahead.

Heather Dougherty

The 2005 holiday season was a gadget year for consumers of all ages, and consumers continued to show their love for free shipping.

Paul Taylor

The affordability issue from rising interest rates takes some consumers out of the market. These are big-ticket items for consumers. They are going to be sensitive to interest rates.

Ken Perkins

The American consumer has been particularly resilient over the last year plus, ... They're finding ways to spend.

David Rosenberg

That will just reinforce the slowdown in consumer spending.

Howard Silverblatt

We have already started to see some consumer resistance on high oil prices and this is obviously going to increase, and it will hurt consumer spending.

M. Wolfe

We can throw variable pricing in and we can raise prices of a hit song, but it doesn't mean consumers will buy. They have an alternative - get songs for free.

Meg Whitman

We have tremendous momentum in our flagship business. Our customers now transact well over $200 million in gross merchandise sales per month, making this the most vibrant consumer e-commerce site on the entire Internet.

Jessica Nevarez

The pilot has been delivered to the network. We're excited and have high expectations.

Bee Wilson

The main influence on a child's palate may no longer be a parent but a series of food manufacturers whose products - despite their illusion of infinite choice - deliver a monotonous flavour hit, quite unlike the more varied flavours of traditional cuisine.

Noah Feldman

The world is littered with constitutions that have written guarantees of rights but that don't actually deliver rights. What differentiates the ones where rights are real from where rights are fake is that it's in the initial interests of the majority to actually deliver these rights.

Joel Rassman

The 400 to 700 home reduction in our projected fiscal year 2006 delivery guidance should reduce our earnings growth projections for fiscal 2006.

Nathan Anderith

The actors memorize the sonnets and deliver them usually in an ostentatious manner. As big and proud as possible. There's lots of prancing around.

Rebecca Garang

The 50 years did not deliver anything to us, so we are starting now on January 9 ... I think that is the start of the independence of Sudan.

Jonny Lee Miller

Theater is just so much more satisfying than film or television just because you deliver the whole thing from start to finish in one evening, and you can tell if people have enjoyed it or not. That's great to do every night to go in front of a full room of people and tell the story. There's nothing like that really.

Leonard Ryan

We can then deliver them to all platforms, TV, internet and mobile.

David Bear

We can't guarantee delivery at that price anymore.

William Clay Ford, Jr.

There is a great demand everywhere in the world for individual mobility. People like the fact they are not on somebody else's schedule. They can come and go as they please.

Zubin Mehta

American musicians are very giving - they have the highest standard in the world - but they are also very demanding in their conditions.

Ellen Key

Those who profess the faith of Life regard the ideals of mankind as an expression of man's higher needs. Ideals which were once incentives to development thus become a drag upon it whenever life's needs demand new forms that are not recognised by the prevailing idealism.

Jeff Katz

The overall trend is that prices have flat-lined in the last three to four months because the (housing) inventory has increased. Supply is up, and demand has been relatively constant.

Tim Albrecht

The overall global economy is robust, and there's quite good demand from many end-markets.

Steve Wynn

The pent-up demand for the good life in China is extraordinary.

Brewster Kahle

Libraries have had a long history of dealing with authoritarian organizations demanding reader records - who's read what - and this has led to people being rounded up and killed.

Bikram Choudhury

Indians do not like Indian teachers; they prefer foreigners, but there is a huge demand for Indian teachers around the world.

William Gibson

Whenever I read a contemporary literary novel that describes the world we're living in, I wait for the science fiction tools to come out. Because they have to - the material demands it.

Ian MacKaye

Ultimately, I'm not the most prolific person, but I've been doing this for a long time, and I keep on putting out music. The only thing that drives music is the people who are making it.

Gilles Villeneuve

I will drive flat out all the time. I love racing.

William Kent Krueger

When you're a writer, you're always looking for conflict. It's conflict that drives great stories.

Benjamin Spock

Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is in the world for something important, and it gives him drive and confidence.

Steven Milunovich

The PC is not the driver of technology anymore, ... We are big believers, however, in handheld devices, such as those made by Palm and Research in Motion. A lot of applications are going to migrate to handhelds.

Brandon Flowers

At home, I'm not a rock star. I wear dad-appropriate attire. I drive a truck. And we go out to the mountains to light fires and have barbecues. Even then, The Killers are usually in the back of my mind.

Beeban Kidron

When politicians say, 'Oh, parents should supervise their kids' Internet use,' it drives me crazy.

Dennis Christopher

In my drive to be the perfect artist, I've left a lot of living to the side.

Brock Evans

The American people love this law. By majorities of 75 or 80 percent, they want to protect species and don't want to consciously drive them to extinction.

Francois Arnaud

Today, the Pope is only a religious figure. At the time of 'The Borgias,' he was also a political leader, a financial leader, and the head of an army. I think popes are much less relevant today than they were then.

Ted Waitt

We have the liquidity and financial resources necessary to forgo short-term profits to regain long-term growth and sustainable profitability,

Jim Adams

We have the financial resources to move quickly.

Robert Kiyosaki

The reason so many financial advisors are called brokers is because they are often broker than you.

Robert Kiyosaki

Everyone has the ability to build a financial ark to survive and flourish in the future. But you must invest time in your financial education to build an ark with a solid foundation.

John Sargent

Members may find themselves in a worse position if they focus only on quick solutions to their financial problems. We?re pleased to offer positive alternatives to our members that can help relieve their immediate problems and help position them for long-term success.

Lamar Alexander

will they do well enough here on Saturday that they can go back to financial supporters and say, it's a worthwhile investment.

Bob Rossiter

While we regret having to suspend the dividend program, management is focused on preserving the company's financial flexibility in a very challenging industry environment.

Bill Turner

I think this is a solid group with a solid developer. I think they have strong financial backing.

Mario Monti

First of all, I don't like to speak about austerity. I'd prefer to speak of fiscal discipline. Fiscal discipline, in the end, amounts to austerity if it is not accompanied by other policies.

Judd Gregg

Were we able to fully meet every need? No, given fiscal constraints, we focused our limited resources on eliminating the most serious and detrimental vulnerabilities of our homeland security,

Jim Flaherty

I'm still a fiscal conservative, and I'm inclined to pay down debt.

Tomohiko Taniguchi

We have not exchanged notes for fiscal 2005, but this does not mean that the money flow itself will be stopped.

Alan Greenspan

I find it utterly inconceivable, frankly, that we can have the type of potential fiscal outlook, which now confronts us over the next 15 to 20 years which, unless addressed, will not have a significant impact on long-term interest rates,

Chris MacMillan

I don't think it's fiscally possible to do.

Tom Jennings

There is no fiscal problem at the school.

Shari Brannock

We've been very fiscally responsible in the past. Our taxpayers can look forward to that.

David Walker

We're on an imprudent, unsustainable fiscal path, ... The status quo is not an option and we're not going to grow our way out of this problem and the sooner we get started the better.

Ben Macklin

Fueled by a poker craze, the growth of broadband, and television coverage, online gambling is quickly moving to the mainstream.

O. Henry

We're prepared. We've got three sanders (dump trucks that spread sand to provide traction on icy roads), our trucks are loaded down, ready to go, fueled up.

Jim Press

We're looking at maybe 4, 5 percent growth, fueled by some of our new products. Next year should be another good year for everybody.

Travie McCoy

The first record we put out on Fueled by Ramon, 'The Papercut Chronicles,' we had no idea what the term 'producer' meant. It was just us writing songs, and we are trying to go back to that - singing in a room and vibing off each other.

Chua Sock Koong

The mobile Internet is growing, fueled by increasing smartphone penetration and better networks.

Jim Press

We think our growth will be fueled by these new products.

Mike Rhodin

I know there's a lot of speculation, mostly fueled by our competitors, that there's a major migration in the future for our Notes/Domino customers. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Andrew Busch

(South Korea's announcement) comes on the heels of Russia saying the same thing. This has fueled speculation that Japan may do the same,

John McLaughlin

They're much harder to detect. They can be moved more readily, and are more portable of course, and they can be launched with much less notice and less time than a liquid fueled rocket,

Wyclef Jean

I don't have to be president to do great things for my country, but at the same time, to get legislation and policy passed, you have to be in some kind of office. So I don't know what the future will lead to.

Ezra Taft Benson

One of the standards on which your happiness is based, now and in your future, is moral purity.

Ellie Goulding

I feel like I write songs for the future or something. Not in an arrogant way, but I feel like maybe my songs were, like, before their time or something.

Brooke Adams

I had wanted to be a movie star and had thought I would be a movie star since I was very little. It was just something I saw in my future. But somehow when it happened, I wasn't ready for it.

Brian K. Vaughan

I wanted to write a story about a future where everyone has a secret identity, in part because the Internet no longer exists.

Daniel Kahneman

We think of our future as anticipated memories.

Dean Geyer

I am a songwriter at heart, and I feel like I would, in the future, write songs for other people. I don't think I want to pursue it for myself, for a solo career.

Barack Obama

After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.

Nayvadius Cash

I just want to be an inspiration. I'm a rock star, I'm Future Hendrix.

Sharon Doering

The patents that are expiring make up a significant portion of their results. They're not going to be one of the top growth stories -- probably only single-digit (percentage-wise) in 2000 and 2001.

Tiffany Shlain

The past year has been one of outrageous growth for the Internet, and it's not only become bigger, but better... more substantial and more mature.

C. S. Lewis

Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.

Carl Rogers

The degree to which I can create relationships, which facilitate the growth of others as separate persons, is a measure of the growth I have achieved in myself.

Carl Rogers

What you are to be, you are now becoming.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

There is no growth except in the fulfillment of obligations.

Matt Kelmon

The 30 percent revenue growth days, I think we might have just have seen them top out. Now they have to take what they've got and see how they can leverage it.

Ronald Dollens

The acquisition of CTS, its innovative products and strong pipeline, will provide a platform for Guidant's growth in cardiac surgery.

Mike Edwards

We have also experienced steady growth in intellectual property and patent activities.

Gail Kelly

I have certainly been very front footed about increasing our gender representation at Westpac.

Nawal El Saadawi

When you have increasing power of religious groups, oppression of women increases. Women are oppressed in all religions.

Mahatma Gandhi

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Brian Hill

He needs to work on increasing his strength and stamina. He needs to do more (lifting weights) to become more of a presence in the low post.

Robert Williams

We started increasing power at 8:30 yesterday (Saturday) morning.

Neale Donald Walsch

I think in metaphysical terms, I would call that increasing the speed of the vibration of life.

Robert Adams

What's really increasing more than anything is that we're getting more kids to take the SAT. That in and of itself means more kids are considering post-secondary education, which is tremendous. That's what they need to do.

Wilferd Peterson

Remind me each day that the race is not always to the swift; that there is more to life than increasing its speed.

George Shiffler

PC vendors have succeeded in increasing the unit share of higher-margin mobile PCs. But this has resulted in a significant sacrifice of desk-based revenue as vendors struggle to maintain the value proposition of desktops at the low end of the market.

Imelda May

When I was a teenager, I had a record company after me. They wanted me to be a pop act. They said they wanted me to be the next Sonia. I was 16 at the time. I said, 'No thank you.'

Walter Alston

I do worry about tomorrow's game, but never about next year's job.

Constance Wu

I'm always hungry for the next thing. I'm never resting on my laurels.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.

Cecelia Ahern

You shouldn't try to stop everything from happening. Sometimes you're supposed to feel awkward. Sometimes you're supposed to be vulnerable in front of people. Sometimes it's necessary because it's all part of you getting to the next part of yourself, the next day.

Carlton Reed

That was a small situation that was made into a big deal. The problem was solved the next morning.

Nick Umholtz

That was sweet. I've never been in a playoff before. Now I'm going to have to back it up for next year.

Jon Copper

That we have a teammate who may not be with us next year. I'm still not sure what's going on or how it's going to end up.

Steve Novak

We need to keep getting better. There is no next year.

Kent Houser

We played it for three quarters at the pace we wanted.

Jacques Rogge

We are pleased by the pace of progress now,

Pete Carroll

For the second week in a row we just were on a torrid pace to self-destruct in the first quarter.

Chuck D.

We're on a record-setting pace for second-quarter warnings.

J. C. Watts

He had an 80-yard run called back. He was probably on pace to run for 400 yards in that game.

Sean Smith

We started picking up the pace and that's the type of team we are.

Bil Keane

Time goes by at such a pace,it's funny how it's easy to forget her face

Christopher Hill

We are going to have to pick up the pace if we are going to get there,

James Young

I don't quite have the energy for extra curricular activities. I have to pace myself a little bit more.

Mark Gibson

We couldn't be any more pleased with the timing of our announcement.

Mike Cavic

We could have done a lot of things better, but overall, I'm pleased with how we did.

Bob Bales

We're very, very pleased with the support from the community.

Charles Sanders

We're very pleased with what we have produced so far.

Gary Smith

We're very pleased with what's happening, and we're proud of our people.

Steve Hogan

We're very pleased with the progress we're making, but we've still got a ways to go.

Kim Butler

We're very pleased with the participation and response. I think 2006 will see First Wednesday even more widespread throughout the city.

Jeff Moorad

We're very pleased with our relationship in Tucson,

Nicole Leverich

We're really pleased with the response so far.

Craig Thompson

The state of your psyche is reflected in your body.

John Griffin

You won't see that reflected right away at the pump.

Gene Upshaw

I won't do it, though, without revenue sharing.

Huey Long

Basically, all of our revenue sources are gone, ... I can't think of one that wasn't wiped out.

Martin Pyykkonen

It confirms what I've been thinking about revenue deceleration.

Lawrence Lessig

What you want to do is to get a kind of revenue that right now you don't get at all,

Phil Harrison

Our revenue streams are going to become more complex. We can also see a much more vital revenue stream from in-game advertising.

Clint Stretch

But that's not where the revenue comes from,

Vicki Taylor

If it's a revenue generator, we should look at it.

Dan Rooney

Revenue sharing is a tough thing but it's great.

Robert Klein

I still think the Legislature has to do the right thing (about the disputed revenue sources).

C. S. Lewis

[M]an has been accustomed, ever since he was a boy, to having a dozen incompatible philosophies dancing about together inside his head. He doesn't think of doctrines as primarily "true" or "false," but as "academic" or "practical," "outworn" or "contemporary," "conventional" or "ruthless." Jargon, not argument, is your best ally in keeping him from the Church. Don't waste time trying to make him think that materialism is true! Make him think it is strong or stark or courageous—that it is the philosophy of the future. That's the sort of thing he cares about.

C. S. Lewis

I have come," said a deep voice behind them. They turned and saw the Lion himself, so bright and real and strong that everything else began at once to look pale and shadowy compared with him.

Catie Curtis

Love can't make you strong 'till love has made you weak.

Cecelia Ahern

I want a character to wake up one day and feel like, I can face it. That, to me, is happy. I want the characters to rescue themselves, though you use the relationships you have, to make you strong enough to be able to do that.

Cecelia Ahern

There’s something completely unnerving about seeing your parents upset. I suppose it’s because they’re supposed to be the strong ones, but that’s not just it. Ever since people are kids they use their parents as some sort of measurement for how bad a situation is. When you fall on the ground really hard and you can’t figure out whether it hurts or not you look to your parents. If they look worried and rush toward you, you cry. If they laugh and smack the ground saying “Bold ground,” then you pick yourself up and get on with it.

Carrie Underwood

I know that music is my life. It is my strong point. That's my love.

Carrie Underwood

I wouldn't go so far as to say I am a feminist, that can come off as a negative connotation. But I am a strong female.

Carrie Underwood

And all the things that break you are all the things that make you strong. You can't change the past 'Cause it's gone, and you just gotta move on.

Carl Rogers

The way of being with another person which is termed empathic...means temporarily living in their life, moving abut in it delicately without making judgment... to be with another in this way means that for the time being you lay aside the views and values you hold for yourself in order to enter the other's world without prejudice...a complex, demanding, strong yet subtle and gentle way of being.

Bethenny Frankel

I'm stronger than anything in my way. Holla!

Sena Drawer

I think they're each getting stronger and more used to one another on the court.

Chris Sierzant

I have 14-year-olds that are stronger than some adults.

Rusty Agte

Her voice is much stronger than it was, and getting better each day.

Michael Culver

I wrote: Vicki and Michael, stronger than fire.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

A concept is stronger than a fact.

Eartha Kitt

I have used all the manure that has been thrown on me as fertilizer to make me stronger.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

There was an implicit conviction that the UN would be stronger than the sum of its constituent member-states.

Adam Pine

We've always had it in us. The men's team will keep getting stronger and stronger.

Joe Potter

We've kind of snuck in there. But we keep improving, and we have throughout the season. As the year got longer, we got better.

Phil Harrison

It doesn't put us at a competitive disadvantage at all. Throughout our history, we have never been the first to market.

Mystikal

I guess I reinvented myself about 18 times throughout my career.

Kelly Price

My weight has been one of the most challenging things that I've had to deal with throughout my career.

Karen Minton

We'll see showers off and on throughout Saturday.

Tom Ross

Throughout the first week of grand-opening festivities, well over 100,000 visitors are expected,

Guru Nanak

Throughout the ages, know Him as the One.

Tara Strong

We really have a lot of fun at these sessions, we all get along and kid around with each other throughout the job.

Bob Mayer

I think the philosophy that we don't know as much as we think we know resonates throughout my work.

CC Sabathia

It's not as bad as it was last year. It feels good today.

Cecelia Ahern

Aim for what u want and the year will all make a sense.

Cecelia Ahern

I had a million plans. I knew what I was going to do. I had the next few years of my life all figured out. But what I didn’t know was that within a few hours all those plans would change. Ms. Know-it-all didn’t quite know it all so much then.

Carrie P. Meek

Just about every year, Congress passes another crime bill - spending billions of dollars to build more prisons, to place more band-aids on society's scars.

Carrie Fisher

Having waited my entire life to get an award for something, anything...I now get awards all the time for being mentally ill. It’s better than being bad at being insane, right? How tragic would it be to be runner-up for Bipolar Woman of the Year?

Carrie Underwood

At first, it was hard to sit down and read the things that people were saying. A lot of people would've worked their way up to this position and would've gotten a thick skin over a few years' time. For me, though, all this happened in a few months.

Carrie Underwood

I stopped eating beef at 13 and stopped eating all meat a few years ago. I would feel guilty that what was on my plate was walking around yesterday. Either I could live with that or stop eating meat. I choose the latter, and I'm happier for it.

Carrie Underwood

I feel like I am a celebrity for no reason, like people are resentful I didn't have to play bars for 10 years to get a record deal.

Carl Rogers

Over the years, however, the research evidence keeps piling up, and it points strongly to the conclusion that a high degree of empathy in a relationship is possibly the most potent and certainly one of the most potent factors in bringing about change and learning.