Famous Quotes & Sayings

Twyla Tharp

My father always said, 'I don't care if you're a ditch digger, as long as you're the best ditch digger in the world.'

Twyla Tharp

Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Custard is controversial: what makes it a custard, how best to cook it and, crucially, is it to be eaten or put in a pie and thrown?

Yani Tseng

It's very easy when you have someone in front of you that you can chase. You want to be No. 1 but now I feel like I have to play well because everybody looks at you as a best golfer. So that's why I put more pressure on myself.

Thucydides

We should remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.

Timothy Noah

There's a growing consensus that the best way to defeat communism in Cuba is to get its citizens hooked on American goods.

Thomas Friedman

I can see a day soon where you'll create your own college degree by taking the best online courses from the best professors from around the world - some computing from Stanford, some entrepreneurship from Wharton, some ethics from Brandeis, some literature from Edinburgh - paying only the nominal fee for the certificates of completion.

Idina Menzel

I used to take 40 minutes to warm up before going on stage. If you want to spend time with your child as well as having a career, you have to get up there even if your head's a mess. It's made me more relaxed, and I'm having some of my best shows.

Idina Menzel

I'd been a wedding singer through college, but after a few years of doing my best renditions of jazz standards to clinking glasses and the sound of forks on salad, I thought, 'Oh God, if this is all I do, I'll never be able to live with myself.'

Donald Trump

Saudi Arabia makes a billion dollars a day, okay? They make a billion dollars a day.

Phil Gramm

The point that we're making is, if we're trying to raise the price of cigarettes to discourage smoking cigarettes that's one thing, but if we're raising taxes for tens of billions of dollars for spending, then why not give part of it back?

Barack Obama

Unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies write this country's energy plan, or endanger our coastlines, or collect another $4 billion in corporate welfare from our taxpayers.

Jim Vogel

The $3 billion size should keep it comfortably within an already crowded 5-year sector. Speculation that Fannie would choose a 3-year may have been thwarted by the glut of 3-year sovereigns this week.

Alan Rosling

The $3-billion investment in four projects will employ thousands of people and generate billions of dollars of foreign exchange for Bangladesh.

Peter Lowy

The acquisition creates new opportunities to further reinvest in and improve our portfolio, enabling over US$2 billion of new redevelopments to be initiated in the next four years.

Dennis McAlpine

The $8 billion (rental) business isn't going to disappear. This isn't buggy whip time. Everybody's got a DVD player.

Dmitry Medvedev

The $60-$80 billion target by 2010 is, therefore, quite attainable, I think.

Chad Clanton

The American people already have serious concerns about the Bush-Cheney administration giving Halliburton $7 billion in no-bid Iraq contracts,

David H. Murdock

If someone paid me a million dollars to drink a glass of milk, I wouldn't do it; maybe that's because I don't need the money.

Chuck Schumer

The vast majority of the people employed by Wall Street are the secretary who goes in to work on the Long Island Rail Road, who makes fifty, sixty, seventy thousand dollars a year.

Regina Brett

If no one shopped on Thanksgiving Day, the stores wouldn't open. End of story. I say we all take the pledge and stay home. Thanksgiving is a day to give thanks for what you have, not to save a few dollars to get more.

Carl Sagan

You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.

Jeff Smith

We were sold this idea because it would save money. Now we're spending a million dollars just so no one's feelings get hurt.

Peggy Venable

Using tax dollars to lobby for more tax dollars constitutes a vicious cycle, and it is fiscally, morally and ethically wrong.

Steve Thomas

With the drop in state aid, the dollars have not been there.

Chakib Khelil

Most of our trading is done with Europe. We get revenues in dollars and spend in euros.

Ronald Reagan

Who says, Here's the key, there's the Treasury, just take as many of those hard-earned tax dollars as you want

Frank Quattrone

Respect public investors and treat them as partners and important constituents.

Justin Pascoe

Most investors will view the Link REIT as largely a yield play, with some potential upside through rental increases.

Mark Sue

I think investors are relieved about these results because there were thoughts they would have to ratchet down for this quarter.

Chris Shilakes

With the stock trading at premium multiples and momentum investors exiting the stock, it may take some time ... to re-establish an upward trend.

Edwin Soeryadjaya

The mandate that I got from my investors is to invest. So far, we are on the right track, and it is the right formula to invest in Indonesia.

Kevin Rose

I want to be known as one of the most accurate investors that ever lived.

Mark Mahaney

Yahoo! and Microsoft have reminded investors that search is not a monopoly,

Aaron Patzer

I pitch Mint to everyone from investors to engineers, young and old, and I do it pretty much the same way: Here's the problem in the market place, here's how we solve it, and here's how we make money.

Joe Osha

We'd love to tell investors that we anticipated Intel's problems, but we did not.

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.

Ben Chaplin

I care about all the characters I play, and I get quite defensive about them.

Ben Barnes

I went to a very academically competitive high school. So I was always quite studious and quiet, just to keep up with the other geniuses who were in my school.

Nick Jonas

I've always been quite driven. I take after my father.

Kevin Spacey

'The 24 Hour Plays' is a quite brilliant, exhilarating event for everyone concerned.

Mary Kelly

The (anti-virus) system worked, which was quite a relief.

Carl Jacobs

That was quite a ride. We'd be thrilled to repeat it.

Tom Miller

That was quite an accomplishment for us. This is a very tough tournament.

Sam Johnson

We were friends for 40 years. He was quite a character.

Patrick Chidley

We have been warning that (Placer) would get taken over for quite a long time.

Robert Grosseteste

And if strangers come to supper they shall be served with more according as they have need.

Phil Klay

I'm not anti-war. I served in a war, and I served proudly. But just or not, necessary or not, war is the industrial-scale slaughter of other humans.

Gore Vidal

For the record, I'm a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.

Andy Roddick

Had I rolled through that one 6-3, served it out, who knows?

Kim Cattrall

If I didn't work in television or film, if I didn't have the right look, I never took it personally. Because there was always the theatre. I'm not a nihilist, I'm an optimist. And that has served me well in this profession.

Jed Connelly

I think it's well served to be cautious.

Gwynne Shotwell

Consolidating to the point of monopoly has never served the consumer - ever.

Thomas Morgan

I don't think we are well served by hammering away at the same issues. We try to look at a variety of issues.

Lindsay Davenport

It was a tough match. I served well and didn't get a break, that was the important thing.