Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Yang Lan

I think nowadays, women are breaking the borders or the boundaries and also trying to give a new interpretation in terms of impact you can have to the society.

Giraldus Cambrensis

Evil borders upon good, and vices are confounded with virtues; as the report of good qualities is delightful to a well-disposed mind, so the relation of the contrary should not be offensive.

Steve Hahn

The outrage is the fact that Americans have to cross borders to get cheap drugs.

Bill Hader

My first real job, I sold Christmas trees when I was twelve for extra money. I did that until I was fifteen. Then I bagged groceries, and I worked at the first Borders ever in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Jack Kingston

The 9/11 Commission recommended, wisely, that the Federal government take care of these border security problems to ensure the safety of our country.

Seanan McGuire

I found 'Bordertown' when I was standing on the border between childhood and my teens, and it carried me past that transition. In the process, it helped to create the next step of its own evolution: the modern urban fantasy owes a lot more to 'Bordertown' than many people will ever know.

Derek Jeter

We hadn't seen him before, but he mixed it up pretty well. He was teasing the strike zone. He'd throw some borderline pitches up and then change it on us. We really couldn't get anything going.

Doris Meissner

Today this border is harder to cross than any time in history,

Mahmud Abbas

We have closed all the holes and gaps. The situation on the border is now stable. The mess that we have had in the last few days is over.

Isabella Bird

Baghdad is altogether built of chrome-yellow kiln-dried bricks.

Evangeline Lilly

I am five foot six, I am built of muscle and bone, and that is not very good for fashion, but it's who I am. Women who look good in fashion are six foot tall, don't have an ounce of muscle, and their legs are the size of my arm.

Doc Hastings

Our region's economy was built upon their entrepreneurial spirit, and our economy still depends on the continued success of the enterprises they have worked so hard to create.

Ken Bacon

The pay is now going up about 3.5, 3.7 percent a year, more than the rate of inflation, and that's built into the five-year plan. So pay is improving.

Anne Wilson Schaef

We can influence who we will be tomorrow, for tomorrow can only be built on today.

Brunello Cucinelli

I like the idea of an enlightened principality. In the early eighteen-hundreds, in Germany, there were princes who built schools, streets, homes. I like that.

Christopher McDougall

We're designed for persistence hunting, which is a mix of running and walking. What's built into that kind of running is a sense of pleasure. You are designed and built and perfect for this activity, and it should be enjoyable and fun.

Denis Villeneuve

In Canada, for boys, your identity is built on hockey. It's your social position; it's everything. And I was the worst hockey player of Canada.

Nina Easton

Government pensions, built into law and mostly protected from stock market vagaries, are the envy of the private sector.

Isambard K. Brunel

I am going to design... a Station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Lebanese mezze, Cantonese dim sum and Basque pinchos have all evolved over years and are designed to make sense together.

William McDonough

I think the job of an original designer is to inspire.

Donatella Versace

Women are all the same; we want to be smaller in the waist, longer legs, slimmer. I design for women and their defects, to make them better.

David Carson

The dreaded phrase in design circles is 'show and tell.'

David H. Murdock

Success isn't something you achieve by accident, but rather by design.

Donald Norman

Also note that invariably when we design something that can be used by those with disabilities, we often make it better for everyone.

Donald Norman

I prefer design by experts - by people who know what they are doing.

Darell Hammond

Just as playgrounds didn't even make the priority list of most of those responding to Katrina, they all too often slip off the radar of those building our schools, designing our neighborhoods, and drafting government budgets.

William E. Conway, Jr.

More effective than giving away half my fortune before I die is finding a way to help people have a good-paying job.

Denis Napthine

We want to protect freedom of speech, but it is not unlimited freedom of speech. There has always been rules around defamation, slander and libel, and in Victoria, we have effective rules on racial and religious vilification.

Nash Grier

As humans, we're going to make mistakes. It's what makes us human, and most of the time, the most effective way of learning is from a mistake.

Ann Falsey

We've known for more than 100 years that hand washing prevents infection, but we still can't get people to wash their hands. Hand washing is the simplest, most effective way to keep from getting sick and making others sick.

Robert Zoellick

An empowered public is the foundation for a stronger society, more effective government, and a more successful state.

Jan Egeland

I think it would be a massive undertaking to actually have a full-fledged tsunami warning system that would really be effective in many of these places,

Ralph Norris

We haven't been as effective as we could have been in handling our IT operations.

Ethan Moreau

It feels the same way as the last game. I thought I was effective in that last game.

Cindy Sheehan

I think I'm more effective on the outside than on the inside.

Carl DeFebo

We've gotten very, very positive feedback on this facility.

Rich Smith

We've gotten such nice feedback about the festival - some of it from professional playwrights, talking about how well respected it is.

Connor Franta

Making YouTube videos while I was in school, I was fortunate enough not to really have any negative repercussions from it. I had a lot of positive feedback from my friends, who thought they were great and thought they were funny and that what I was doing was really cool.

Tom White

We get so much positive feedback from the regulars that come here, who just say,

Dave Riggins

We really would like to get some feedback from consumers.

Bill Hilf

One of the most interesting things about open source is the feedback loop.

Kenny Walker

For me personally, he always was very supportive and gave very positive feedback about my playing. He called me to play. I've always appreciated that.

Aaron Hill

He's helped me through everything, really. Having Johnny Mac to really show me everything and giving you positive feedback -- how I'm doing, how I'm looking. It's always good to have someone there.

Mark Stevenson

We took a lot of feedback from people who were in the event. ... They wanted the route to be more difficult.

Mark Davis

Typically, we do not have fences on our property. Usually, responsibility for maintenance of these fences is that of the property owner.

Philip Dunne

There is no fence nor hedge round time that is gone. You can go back and have what you like of it if you can remember.

Roman Phifer

I was right on the fence (between playing and retirement).

Brian Giles

I had it in the palm of my glove, ... but my wrist hit the top of the fence and knocked it out.

Roger Spring

Kelsey has hit the fence three times this year. We were kidding her that it was time she put one over.

Jim Cummings

I take the work seriously. Which is why I always swing for the fences whenever I voice a character. But that said, I don't take myself all that seriously.

Ron Williams

We've gone from 280-foot fences at Island Grove to 320-foot fences on the new fields. That's going to take a pretty good jack to get one out of there.

Jack Martin

He didn't keep any souvenirs of the bomb. He was given little pieces of metal from the fence after the time and took it home and put it on his mantelpiece.

Alan Young

Harper wants to mend fences with Bush. I think it's a mistake for the country, and I regret that it's happening after so much work has been done.

Ann Jennings

We sent in, let's just say, a lot of patrol officers,

Jon Carlisle

What we tell our maintenance crews who patrol the roads is that if it's reasonable and is not a distraction, they should let it stand.

Michael Barrett

He's not able to return as a patrol officer, because he still has weakness. He wouldn't be able to run after and apprehend a suspect.