Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tina Brown

The comptroller of New York City ought to have all the characteristics of a major corporation's CFO - quiet rigor, obsessive care for detail, incorruptible judgment, an ability to work assiduously behind the scenes with the key stakeholders.

Thomas Friedman

America still has the right stuff to thrive. We still have the most creative, diverse, innovative culture and open society - in a world where the ability to imagine and generate new ideas with speed and to implement them through global collaboration is the most important competitive advantage.

Wendy Kopp

We look for people who demonstrate perseverance in the face of challenges, the ability to influence and motivate others - people who want to work relentlessly to ensure that kids who are facing the challenges of poverty have an excellent education.

Wendy Kopp

We are looking for a set of personal characteristics that predict success, the first and foremost of which is perseverance in the face of challenges. We also look for the ability to influence and motivate others who share your values, strong problem-solving ability, and leadership.

Virginia Postrel

What makes a loft authentic isn't its layout or its history but its ability to give people a true home - a dwelling that reflects their personalities and aspirations, including their dreams of urbanity.

Colin Morgan

For me, one of my favorites, director-wise, is Tim Burton. I also really admire the work of actors like Sean Penn. He is probably my favorite actor because of his dedication and commitment to roles, and the ability to morph and change himself when he needs to. It's about dedication and commitment and a passion.

Ben Carson

You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going to happen in your life. Do everything you can - prepare, pray and achieve - to make it happen.

George Burley

The Polish guy was a lad I really wanted to bring to the club because he has smashing ability but unfortunately we've been unable to prise him away. He is a top-class player. One of the best in Poland.

Bruce Norris

The picture for California has been great, but I think it has started changing. There's certainly going to be upcoming weakness in California because we've just about gotten to the point where we've priced our typical buyer out of his ability to make the monthly payment.

Garry Hynes

The English playwrights of the '50s and '60s didn't really keep writing or getting produced, while the Irish did. There's encouragement for the younger ones also in the fact that Ireland is exceptional in its ability to make theater part of the national dialogue, and it reaches to all four corners of the country.

Glenn Tipton

Then I decided I couldn't just crawl in the corner and die, so I started putting pen to paper and wrote some songs. I had no idea what for or who I was going to work with. I tried to find my way and direction.

Kevin Durkin

The pedestrian gate on the southwest corner of the intersection had been manipulated, so that it was in the up position.

Bruce Coville

I grew up around the corner from my grandparents' dairy farm, which was three miles outside of a small town called Phoenix.

Christopher Fry

I want to look at life - at the commonplaces of existence - as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time

Christopher Fry

In my plays I want to look at life - at the commonplace of existence-as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.

Barack Obama

Over the last 15 months, we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.

Brian Hill

That was a huge play. He ends up dribbling to the deep corner and knocking down the shot. We had some opportunities to shoot threes at the end but instead we shot twos.

Tim Dougherty

That was a great punt by Conner. He put it right there in the corner and that was a key play. It was big-time.

Chuck Palahniuk

My parents used to fight a lot, and I think they fought a lot at night, and they would turn the television up to hide the sound of their fighting.

David Friedman

I fought for years and spent a fortune fighting and never got anywhere.

Brodie Croyle

That was a tough Texas Tech team. They fought and fought and fought.

Donald Rumsfeld

that will redefine how war is fought and won, and how the peace is kept.

Steve Koehler

That was a hurtful loss. We started with zero energy, very lethargic. But the girls fought back in the second half.

Manson Hill

We could have given in there and quit. For a long time, we couldn't find our rhythm, but we stayed patient and fought back.

Matt Blair

We could have folded, but I'm really proud of how our kids fought back.

Craig Manning

We played OK. The girls fought hard and had a good attitude, and it was enough for today. But we still have things we can work on.

Sam Taylor-Wood

I feel lucky to be getting older. The fact that I made it to 30 and then 40 was big enough. So I can't get too down on getting older; otherwise, it kind of undoes everything I've fought for.

D.J. Strawberry

Justin Gray is just a phenomenal player. We've watched so much film on him, but it's nothing like watching him in person. He hits unbelievable shots. He wouldn't go away tonight, and kept his team in it until the end.

Gianni Versace

For me, the summer will be pure gray -- mother-of-pearl gray, very pale gray. To me, this is the big statement for summer. Then we have light blue, light turquoise, lots of pink.

Sukhjinder Singh

He (didn't) really even have one gray hair in his head. I look older than him.

Marcia Carroll

I don't know why he wanted it black. I thought the gray would not be depressing.

Andy Gray

You don't buy them; they don't come in package.

Ronald Turner

There are a lot of gray areas. It doesn't really say in the statutes just how you can do it.

Dave Grosshuesch

That is the highest number of great gray owls ever banded in a single season in the world.

Eric Davis

Talk about a Matt Gray coming-out party. A career-high and perfect from the field.

Jerry Garcia

Oh well a touch of gray kind of suits you anyway.

Ashley Jensen

When I hear the bagpipes, it makes the hairs on my neck stand on end. It always makes me weep.

Andrew Pyper

If the hairs on my neck stand up while I'm writing, I figure the reader will get the same kind of shock.

Scott Coffey

Now they're saying to test these hairs even if they're not his that doesn't prove anything. But at the time the hairs were everything to the DA's case.

Elizabeth Perkins

She's probably had that same hairstyle since she was 21, and that's very important to her.

Brad Goreski

I'm obsessed with the Clarisonic brush. It actually makes you feel like you've had a facial. It helps prevent ingrown hairs after shaving, too.

Otto Rehhagel

The players are motivated to the tips of their hairs and they will come out with a lot of passion because they know this opportunity does not come round very often.

Kanye West

I would like to thank Julius Caesar for originating my hairstyle

Zac Efron

Amanda Bynes and I have become close since filming 'Hairspray.' It's so weird because I grew up watching her.

Walter Lippmann

A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.

Dave Bristow

The 19-year-old turned himself in after we got in touch with him.

Patrick Modiano

Really, I prefer not to read my early books. Not that I don't like them, but I don't recognize myself anymore, like an old actor watching himself as a young leading man.

Graham Arnold

Michael Beauchamp I thought was outstanding tonight, and he's put himself right in calculations (for the World Cup).

Marge Simon

Melville locked himself away in his room for months while working on 'Moby Dick.' If I ever decide to write a novel, I hope someone will take pity on me and take me out to dinner instead.

Terri Smith

Who knows what he's going to do. It's two different programs. You go from Kent State to Michigan State, that's two different worlds. He owes it to himself to go there, take a look and see what they have to offer.

Dusty Baker

You let him be himself and try not to put any more pressure on him.

Bobby Cox

Jonathan has come a long way since he was a little teenager. He's made himself into a real nice player.

Chris Smith

John's been preparing himself for this role for the last three years. This is his time to shine. He's really impressed us with his work ethic. He's got to make the plays that we know he can.

Billy Hughes

When having my portrait painted I don't want justice, I want mercy.

Morgan Fairchild

I get really tired of getting painted up all the time. Basically, I'm a bum.

Richard C. Armitage

Monet was like a conductor. He painted with quite a straight arm and used bold strokes.

John Burnside

Many of the birds Audubon painted are now extinct, and still we go on killing them, more or less casually, with our pesticides and wires and machinery.

M. Wolfe

We painted him a shirt; it was still wet when he put it on.

Jamie Wyeth

I view anything on this farm as model. I actually painted Union Rags as a yearling.

Blake Anderson

I just bought a Jeep painted like an American flag. No one better question how patriotic I am.

Greg Peterson

As an old, jaded, painted whore of the theatre once told me: 'Just BE THERE, F**K!'

Michelle Sheridan

They painted signs that read 'No dumping' and 'Save the fish' so the river would be a lot cleaner.

Lyle Overbay

That was typical Bagwell. You're never safe, even if he hasn't seen live pitching for two years or two months.

Alex Rodriguez

We need to just take what the pitchers give us.

Joe Torre

with the way our pitching has been hurt, it hasn't been a lot of fun. Otherwise, I feel no different at all.

Dave Littlefield

We need to preserve our starting pitching depth.

Lisa Peifer

We haven't seen as skilled of a pitcher as her.

A.J. Burnett

Wherever they want me to throw 90 pitches I'm up for it.

Bobby Cox

I thought he would pitch better than this. I don't know what happened.

Adam Dunn

I'm standing at the plate thinking, Where are my hands? Where's this, where's that? Before I know it, the pitch is there and I'm completely out of rhythm.

Greg Bee

We have a way to go to become competitive at the plate. On the positive side, our pitching was good. Unfortunately, we wasted two quality starting performances.