Famous Quotes & Sayings

Theodore Isaac Rubin

Children are extremely perceptive and absorb what goes on around them long before they can talk or even comprehend language. They are like finely tuned receivers that pick up much more than is merely said. They are receptive and attuned to every mood, feeling, and change that goes on in people around them.

Idina Menzel

It's hard to absorb and to allow all that attention and accolades for 'Rent' because the rest of the country doesn't know who we are. Once I walk out of the door of 'Rent,' and I'm on the subway, it doesn't matter. It's an exaggerated sense of fame.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Polenta is to northern Italy what bread is to Tuscany, what pasta is to Emilia-Romagna and what rice is to the Veneto: easy to make, hungry to absorb other flavours, and hugely versatile.

Randy Blach

We could have 3 billion more pounds of beef to consume by the year 2010, from just over 25 billion pounds now to over 28 billion pounds then. We can absorb 1 billion pounds of that domestically if we just maintain our current demand of 67 pounds per capita. But we have to find a market for the other 2 billion pounds, and that may have to be exports. It's critical we get Japan, South Korea, Russia, and other markets opened. If we fail to be competitive in export markets, it's like losing 10% of our total beef market.

Haruka Nishimatsu

We will absorb workers' voices to narrow the distance between labor and management.

Manoj Bhargava

Most of the people don't know that one of the great qualities of caffeine is it allows you to absorb nutrients, and it does it quickly, and so when it does it quickly, you focus, and when you focus, you think you have energy.

Tom Murphy

While we're grateful that the nonprofits are willing to do something ... the city cannot expect to continue to absorb the revenue loss the nonprofits cause to happen,

Rajiv Malik

It definitely will have an impact on public finances, but it's not clear how much is really an amalgamation of existing schemes, so to that extent the pressure would be lower. At the same time, given India's high growth profile and revenue buoyancy, it could help them absorb the cost.

Steve Smith

It does, but it doesn't. A lot of guys who were here two years ago, that was their first time dealing with it. Everybody has to handle it differently. Absorb it, enjoy it, but at the same time don't let it take too much of a hold on you.

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.

Ian Mckellen

I'm only an actor. I'm not a writer. I'm not going to leave any legacy. All I've ever done is learn the lines and say them.

Cecelia Ahern

Any tightrope walker can walk in a straight line and hold a cane at the same time. It's the balancing on the rope at those dizzying heights that they have to practise

Carrie Vaughn

I punched to line. "Yes? What?" "Norville. It's Cormac. If you don't change the subject right now, I'm going to have to go over there and have a word with you.

Carrie Fisher

Life is a cruel, horrible joke and I am the punch line.

Carrie Fisher

My favorite films are ones that have my lines in it, and I like those lines. And I like to hear them.

Sidney Crosby

That would be unbelievable, but I'm not going to have any expectations going in. I'm not sure how the lines are going to shape up but, if I had the opportunity, it would be a dream.

Ken Barse

We have three lines that are working hard. They know we can't put all the weight on the shoulders of our top line.

Ted Waitt

We're really just formalizing, internally and externally, these lines of business,

Andrew Friedman

I thought it went well. I thought it was important to keep the lines of communications open.

Gaines Adams

I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son.

George Allen

It's time for an American comeback... where leaders in Washington listen to 'we the people.'

Zadie Smith

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are.

Zadie Smith

Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.

Vivienne Westwood

I am in my own head most of the time.

Zubin Mehta

New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.

Zubin Mehta

I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.

Yakov Smirnoff

When you like something, you find time to do it.

Evangeline Lilly

I'm a bit delusional, but every time I do a job, I think I'm retired.