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.

Doug MacIntyre

Just like we were citing supply and demand as the reasons why prices went up, it's the same reason they're going down. It's pretty much followed with what we would be expecting.

Carter G. Woodson

One can cite cases of Negroes who opposed emancipation and denounced the abolitionists.

Clive Woodward

I saw the same tapes that the citing commission would have seen and to me there was plenty of evidence,

Rachel Sklar

It is a pet peeve of mine when people throw around arguments citing 'Fair Use' and yet fail to actually explain what a fair use argument actually is.

Rene Saguisag

I do not know why they are citing the economy and patrimony provision of the Constitution. I don't understand the connection between this provision and the EDSA celebration.

Jack Vance

I must cite an intrinsic condition of the universe. We set forth in any direction which seems convenient; each leads to the same place: the end of the universe.

John Delaney

Equipment vendors are citing 'willingness to pay' surveys to show that people will pay up to 10 per month for mobile TV, but we generally view such surveys skeptically. It's one thing to say that you're willing to pay; it's quite another thing to actually pay.

Clay Lowery

In this case, the concerns that you're citing were addressed and resolved. There were no national security concerns that were not addressed.

Genrikh Padva

The judge of the Moscow City Court refused to review proceedings when we appealed, without citing a single reason.

Ibrahima Fall

The political process in the Congo is due to end with the swearing in of a president on 30 June. The conference will be held after this.

Tiffany Jackson

The past two games have been a huge confidence boost. After we lost two games on the road, we had a sense of urgency because we knew the conference is going to get tougher and tougher as we go.

Tony Pullen

That was huge, a sophomore on the mound. You go on the road for the first conference game, and he comes up big for us.

Dave Vestal

That was a very impressive win for Blackhawk last week. They've gotten better and better each game. Blackhawk is so well coached, there's no way there would be a letdown. In the conference we play in you have to be ready each week.

Terri Sullivan

That win was very critical for us. We obviously want to be in it till the end in the conference race. You have to get some wins. That's not easy, especially in this conference, but that's why it's an honor to play in the Big Ten.

Mark Kellogg

That will be a good test or us a big conference game at home.

Darren Alexander

That was a huge conference game for us. We needed that bad.

Damon Coupe

We have a much tougher schedule this year than in years past. I have focused on playing as many ranked teams as possible. Our conference schools have become much more competitive this year. We do not have any walkover matches.

Ashley Langen

We have two games left, but we want to keep on winning. We don't want to go into the conference and region tournaments on a downfall.

Ian Watson

That iPad you just bought. Do you care that it cost a few pence to manufacture? No. It's cost you several hundred pounds because somebody else was willing to pay that much for it. If they weren't... it wouldn't.

Gwen Moore

Healthcare costs are rising, and not just Medicare and Medicaid, but healthcare in general.

Val Kilmer

With legitimate journalists I've always had a great time - I've never gone out of my way to court the press. That's probably cost me some money, but I've always had the respect of my peers.

Colin Morgan

It's weird to be recognised anywhere. The cost of living your dream, acting, is being recognised.

Ernest Walton

A linear accelerator has the advantage that no magnet is required and that its cost should not rise much more steeply than with the energy of the particles required.

Graham Colditz

The overweight have a significantly higher risk of diabetes, gallstones, hypertension, and heart disease, ... All have costs and an impact on the quality of life that get ignored if we focus only on mortality.

Reg Empey

The people are fed up with politicians and the cost of keeping this place (the assembly) open.

Andrew Alberts

The outstanding issue is who will pay for the cost overruns. You don't know what you will hit when you start to tunnel. There are a lot of unknowns.

Gary Hanson

The out-of-pocket cost is usually about $50 to $55 a day (per inmate) that we pay to another county to rent the space, ... But we also have to pay for our officers' time to transport them and the cost of transport, like fuel costs.

Mark Campbell

I think Kelly has played well. I think he deserves to be credited with that, and I think he deserves to get his fair shot at it.

Michael Reed

The quality of our teachers can be credited for the outstanding performances of our students.

George Campbell

He's credited with quite a spectacular job of revitalizing the (arts) school,

Lu Houyuan

Other theories suggest noodles were first made in the Middle East and introduced to Italy by the Arabs. Italians are widely credited for popularizing the food in Europe and spreading it around the world.

Harvey Pekar

People writing about me have said that I've influenced a lot of people, and there are some artists who have credited me with influencing them.

Discovery Institute

While we get credited with being the evil geniuses (behind intelligent design) . . . it's not like we're at the grass roots,

Michael Sutton

In 2005, we were credited with reporting 3 'critical' vulnerabilities to Microsoft, and we want to encourage our contributors to keep looking in that direction.

Igor Luksic

We are determined to improve the economic environment by getting foreign investors in and by cutting red tape.

Abraham Lincoln

In so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so that every poor man may have a home.

Carrie Vaughn

It’s only a scratch, don’t cut my arm off!

Carl Safina

Try to cut down drastically on plastic. Recycle. Use less energy and more renewable energy. We can all live better by doing better for ourselves and the sea!

Antoine Fuqua

The violence you witness is Denzel doing it and we're taking some visual effects and doing some things and you see something happen it's happening in front of you as opposed to cutting away and doing a bunch of tricks. It's in front of you. So it's hard not to make it a hard "R" if you see a guy get punched and teeth wind up in someone's knuckles.

Bill Vaughan

The suburb is a place where someone cuts down all the trees to build houses, and then names the streets after the trees.

Bill Burr

When you say, "there's no reason [to hit a woman]" that kills any examination as to how two people ended up at that place. When you say, "there's no reason," you cut out the build-up and you're just left with the act. How you gonna solve it if you don't figure it out?

Dennis Melcher

We're working on cutting down on our turnovers. We're getting better but we had a lull there in the second.

Robert Pozen

We're really reducing the potential inflow, not cutting it off,

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.

Tom Byrne

We need to know what happened, ... We haven?t ruled out anything, from vehicle malfunction to the driver being at fault.

Mark Zuckerberg

We have these services that people love and that are drivers of data usage... and we want to work this out, so that way, it's a profitable model for our partners.

Penny Marshall

I do talk like a truck driver sometimes, or I curse. What can I say?

Dietrich Mateschitz

We have more drivers than cockpits and we had only two possibilities,

Tim Collins

We're using every piece of equipment and every driver we have available.

Tim Cindric

You like to see someone like Sam do well. He's been in this series for quite a while, either as a driver or an owner. He's done a lot to get it off the ground and to see him get in the show is good for everybody.

Richie Gilmore

Junior wants to be the oldest driver at DEI. That's kind of one of the things he wants. I think the main thing we're looking for is a good teammate for Junior and Martin.

Joe Spraggins

I'm hearing reports that a lot of tanker truck drivers won't come into southern Mississippi because they don't have hotel rooms. I'm just pleading to help us if you can.

Barack Obama

Immigrants aren't the reason wages haven't gone up enough; those decisions are made in the boardrooms that too often put quarterly earnings over long-term returns.

Patrick McGurn

The '90s was the slippery slope from managing expectations to managing earnings to outright fraud.

Bill Winters

We could hit that ROE in 2006, but we don't expect to, We can generate earnings at that run rate through 2007.

Edward Keon

We've gotten more optimistic on earnings on U.S. stocks recently.

Stephan Droxner

VW had very strong earnings in the fourth quarter, but it was not only the numbers that were good -- overall, the tone is more optimistic now than after the third quarter.

Brendan Barnicle

Most of the news in terms of earnings is out there. If they were to lower guidance dramatically or take a much more negative tone, that would be different, but I think in light of all they've got going on with PeopleSoft they're unlikely to do that.

Brendan Barnicle

Most of the news in terms of earnings is out there, ... If they were to lower guidance dramatically or take a much more negative tone, that would be different, but I think in light of all they've got going on with PeopleSoft they're unlikely to do that.

Tim Anderson

Merck tells an interesting story, yet the five-year revenue and earnings growth guidance seems far-fetched.

Robert Long

Microsoft tomorrow is the most significant earnings report this week. Everyone knows management's usually fairly cautious, so if they say something really good, that could help things a lot.

Kyle Lohse

That was terrible execution at that time. Things weren't going my way, and that capped it off right there.

Greg Robinson

We have to worry about getting better. That's the name of the game for us right now. The execution is better. I think (fans are) going to see a more experienced football team than they've seen at this time last year.

Rick Carlisle

We've had great execution in the last two games; we won one and lost another. These types of one-possession games come in waves. The way our team is set up, we have players that can make plays.

David Patrick

I think it will come down to half-court execution. I don't look for a high-scoring affair.

Bill Winters

We have not invested in our franchises ... as aggressively as others or as aggressively as we should have. And we've had some execution misses.

Terry Ennis

I was very pleased with the execution of the offense. They were very crisp tonight.

Rodney Barker

I was very happy at that time because I had had a few minutes after the execution to really see what I felt inside. And I felt like the 14 years that she's been down here has done me no justice.

Tom Izzo

I was very disappointed in our execution and some of our guard play. Maybe we were a little fatigued. We were short on a lot of shots.

Doc Rivers

I was happy. I was proud of our young guys. They just kept fighting. I was using it to teach execution to young guys.

Becky G

I did a lot of little girl groups here and there just to get more comfortable on stage. When you're in girl groups, it's a lot different because if you mess up, there's someone on stage to back you up, and finally I got to a point where I knew I could do it on my own.

David Hyde Pierce

Last year, I finally got my own grand piano, and that was a big thing for me because it's always been and always will be a very important part of my life.

Nile Rodgers

I've found great solace in finally taking care of myself and others.

Chris Richard

That was the plan for the whole game, but we just didn't do it. We tried, but they played good defense. Once we got it worked out, we kept going at it and going at it, so it finally worked.

Tracy Roller

That whole last minute was just surreal. We finally did everything that we needed to do. It just took us until the last two possessions to get to that point.

George Clark

That was a good win for us, ... We finally put together a full game. The players should be proud because they did it as a team

Dave Huber

We just didn't react (early). It took a little while, but finally we started reacting and started doing some good things.

Fred Griffin

We were having trouble with their press and getting into our offense, but we finally got into a groove. The other night it was 16 teams left, then eight. Now it's four. We just want to finish the mission.

Bobby Carpenter

We've done about 30 or so of these. Now, it's finally winding down.

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.

Armando Iannucci

Joe Biden is that special combination of someone who is very talented and influential, but when he starts speaking, there's inevitably going to be headlines written about something he said.

Gordon Strachan

If I say anything at all there will be headlines all over the place.

Bill Walsh

Writing headlines is a specialty-there are outstanding writers who will tell you they couldn't write a headline to save their lives.

Ayn Rand

A good quotation must be a complete entity. It must be like a headline - sharp, clear, whole.

Wade Boggs

My God, ... What are the headlines going to be like on Monday if the Yankees don't make the playoffs?

Joe Cangemi

Headlines have been keeping the markets emotionally tapped.

Carl Hiaasen

I wait for the headlines to inspire me.

Jason Calacanis

These days, headlines are trying to get you to click.

Leon Panetta

These days, it takes only seconds - seconds - for a picture, a photo, to suddenly become an international headline.

Nancy Pelosi

Just because he says things are improving there, doesn't make it so.

Jean Turner

We all need good, vital, improving schools; we're all in this together.

Aubrey Taylor

I have been improving every meet. I want to keep improving.

Ron Hutchins

He kept his cool. He played percentage tennis and that's what we've been working on. I think he's going to be a leader for us one of these days. He's improving daily.

Catherine Booth

There is no improving the future without disturbing the present.

Tom Hall

The people who don't know about him will know by year's end. He's the total package. He's big, he's strong, he's quick, he's aggressive. Nothing but upside to him. He's a kid who I think will be big-time if he keeps working and improving every week.

James Barnes

With this investment, we are improving the quality and safety of the rail and preventing rail defects.

Houston Nutt

We're going to have to be ready. Not only running the football, we need to keep improving our passing game. Our receivers are going to have to be ready. I just think everybody, tight ends, backs, you can't be one dimensional in this league.

David Marsh

This was a strong day for us, so we should have scored a lot of points. We did, and I am very pleased with that. We will have to keep improving from here.

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.

Gin Wigmore

I'd say the key thing is to remain true to what originally got you into music. When I wrote 'Hallelujah,' it ignited me to do music because of the love and joy that I got from writing that song. Down the road, you get all of these opinions from people; just remember what got you started in the first place.

Morgan Stanley

The peak...is the key determinant of the timing of the prospective turn in the dollar.

Carl Sagan

All of us cherish our beliefs. They are, to a degree, self-defining. When someone comes along who challenges our belief system as insufficiently well-based - or who, like Socrates, merely asks embarrassing questions that we haven't thought of, or demonstrates that we've swept key underlying assumptions under the rug - it becomes much more than a search for knowledge. It feels like a personal assault.

Carl Sagan

Cleverly designed experiments are the key.

Bill Bryson

I'm not a natural story-teller. Put a keyboard in front of me and I'm fine, but stand me up in front of an audience and I'm actually quite shy and reserved.

Tommy Amaker

That was a role reversal from last time. That was a key today.

Spencer Taylor

That was the key to the game. Somebody was going to start making some shots, so it was going to be us or them and fortunately for us, we got some together.

Sean Taylor

That was the key play of the game. That sort of put it away.

Paul Hatcher

That was a key stretch. When Greensville took that lead, I wondered how the kids would respond. We haven't trailed in many games, and especially on this stage. Everyone stepped up with Hosea on the bench.

Jan Caldwell

We have the same questions about that as well.

Julie Martineau

We will screen questions for relevancy for the position.

Craig Harris

Most of the questions were about the stage of development we are in.

Vanderlei Luxemburgo

We can't be talking about changes. There are questions to which I say 'next question' and this is one of them.

Mike McCurry

Those who are undecided are still seeking some of those fundamental questions answered. Who you are, what your values are, is something these voters really look to." ()

Colin Falls

I don't think it's mental, I just think that questions our toughness.

George Daley

I would say they also raise more questions than answers.

Sonny Jackson

He was in there long enough to raise questions.

Larry Sabato

He is very sharp. No one has any questions that he is well-qualified.

Don Cheadle

One truth that I know for sure, for me anyway, is that the more you know, the more you realize that you don't know.

David D. Burns

Accept yourself. But realize your behaviors can be bad.

Byron Katie

You can’t change what you haven’t realized yet. Once you realize what you were asleep to, the change happens on its own.

Cary Elwes

The things that you know intellectually when you're young become internalized as you get older. You realize all those clichés.

Alan Watts

The question is not what I should do in the future to get it, but rather, what am I presently doing that prevents me from realizing it right now?

Alan Watts

I too realize that the less I preach the more likely I am to be heard.

Edith Stein

Anyone who seeks truth seeks God, whether or not he realizes it.

Beatrice Wood

But you can't realize, you can't know what another person goes through.

Kurt Vonnegut

You realize, of course, that everything I say is horseshit.

Antoine Lavoisier

In performing experiments, it is necessary... that they be simplified as much as possible, and that every circumstance that could complicate the results should be completely removed.

Gordon Campbell

We can't look at the results we've had and say those are the results we want.

Gustav Humbert

We're very satisfied with the test results and are on target.

Brett Tomko

I thought I pitched pretty well, but I've had the same results all year,

Hariadi Wibisono

We got the results back from Atlanta, and they were positive.

Glen Taylor

I think Sam is a closer, which is what we could have used right now. Sam could do that. The results are Sam is probably having a better year than Marko is having.

Joe Escobedo

It doesn't take 18 months; it doesn't take 18 days. The results were immediate.

Tony Marshall

I feel rapt that we will now see the tangible results of the money.

Edward Gibbon

Rational confidence [is] the just result of knowledge and experience.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

No, I never - no one ever - I never learned anything when I was a kid. Honestly, my parents had nothing to tell me - like, no wisdom, nothing.

Confucius

To know that you know, and to know that you don't know - that is the real wisdom.

Maurice Maeterlinck

The true sage is not he who sees, but he who, seeing the furthest, has the deepest love for mankind.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Wisdom requires no form; her beauty must vary, as varies the beauty of flame. She is no motionless goddess, for ever couched on her throne.

Theodore Roosevelt

The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.

William Shakespeare

Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile; Filths savour but themselves.

William Shakespeare

To wilful men, the injuries that they themselves procure must be their schoolmasters.

Chanakya

Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.

Euripides

He is wise that is wise to himself.