Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mary Mitchell

I was looking at the images and role models of women and girls in the media and it's distressing. It seems like our culture is crying out for change. We wanted to offer lots of hands-on activities today because it's such a great way to bond with people.

Ron Hershberger

Joe had a distinguished record of service and commitment to U.S. Figure Skating. He was a major contributor to the growth of figure skating in the Chicago area. Beyond those activities he was truly a gentleman, and he always placed the best interest of the skaters as his first priority.

Lee Kreindler

He was a fairly high-ranking officer in the Libyan Intelligence Agency and his activities appeared to have, and can be reasoned to have, government involvement.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

All developmental activities for the common man such as education, healthcare, shelter and food distribution should be handled by reputed private sector institutions. It should be a competitive market in order to prevent the formation of monopolies.

William Brown

have a right to participate in those activities without an onerous burden placed on them because of their disability.

Sean Dowd

Having a space where people can get together is really important. We wanted to create an area where students can come together and enjoy activities that are non-alcoholic.

Michael Brown

He's a very busy person and that has always concerned me, that his schedule and his activities were very heavy.

William Taylor

He seemed to have orchestrated a lot of the activities going on, or at least was a main player,

Kelly Cooper

I think it's important to let students to be involved because if you have big activities all the time people feel obliged to go but with smaller activities more people can enjoy them.

Joseph Hayes

Kirk's father was pretty good at it, and now Kirk -- they're the best, ... They give you good advice, and if you bring something back, they don't argue with you. They turn out to be your friends instead of just somebody in a store.

Christian Scott

I wouldn't argue that anyone living can play the trumpet better than Wynton Marsalis.

Kent Willis

Jails may make an argument that canteen funds should be treated separately from government funds. We would argue that they aren't. Once they enter the canteen it's the government's money and needs to be treated like any other money that belongs to the government.

Merle Black

He can't argue his way to better numbers. He needs favorable results in Iraq. And that's out of his hands.

Thomas R. Insel

Unlike the heart or kidney, which have a small, defined set of cell types, we still do not have a taxonomy of neurons, and neuroscientists still argue whether specific types of neurons are unique to humans. But there is no disputing that neurons are only about 10 percent of the cells in the human brain.

Thomas Piketty

What I argue for is a progressive tax, a global tax, based on the taxation of private property.

Najib Razak

I would argue that Asean has been instrumental in driving both economic growth and political development, and that there can be no clearer example than its relations with Myanmar.

Neal Pilson

Golf ratings are up with or without Tiger. Nobody's going to argue the point that he impacts ratings. At the same time, golf is a highly profitable, highly successful sport. This isn't a doomsday scenario for golf.

Lonnie Bunch

Going past the '70s and '80s there was a great reliance on the celebrity, the movie star and the person who sold a million records. People would argue that Ebony didn't become the journal to discuss substantive and thorny issues.

Sean Casey

Just watching my teammates on TV, how close they're coming and not getting results ... it hurts a lot. I'm there on the couch, the game is close and they need a big hit, and I'm, like, 'Jeez, let me get out there.' I want so badly to be part of it again.

Barry Alvarez

He wants to be on the field so badly and earned the starting spot and just doesn't want to give it up. (He) plays the game the way it's supposed to be played.

Mark Shapiro

He wants to be here and wants to be a part of it. He wants so badly to be a big part of our future, as well as our present. If he can do what he did in the second half over the course of a whole year, he'll be more than enough.

Tom Renney

He wants badly to win. He wants everyone to enjoy something very special with his help. Not thanks to him, but certainly with his help. I think that really motivates him. He takes this very seriously.

Teju Cole

The most common thing I find is very brilliant, acute, young people who want to become writers but they are not writing. You know, they really badly want to write a book but they are not writing it. The only advice I can give them is to just write it, get to the end of it. And, you know, if it's not good enough, write another one.

Joe Clark

There are so many parts of online captioning that either don't work or work badly that just getting it to work at all is an achievement.

Chuck D.

There are so many holes in the harbor. There's not a site that's not badly injured.

Robert Barnett

Here in Mobile, it's bad, very bad. Thousands without power, people fighting for petrol, literally. We did not fare as badly as Gulfport, Biloxi or New Orleans, but there are towns totally obliterated, gone.

Steve Shannon

Golf gives us a great opportunity to give back and be a part of the communities in our tournament markets. We are very pleased to be able to continue this tradition of giving to the many worthy organizations who provide badly needed programs and services for so many people.

Russell Smith

Kindle Worlds is a clever way to monetize a formerly underground trend, and to enable its participants to be remunerated. But it will be of no interest to writers with any literary ambition, as its constraints are designed to stymie even the most rudimentary impulses - even the first flickering of a dangerous originality.

Jeff White

Knowing what we know now, we would have designed it differently.

Gary Bardini

I think it's a known fact these stages are designed to get up this high and this is the way the flood system operates.

Lois Huff

He didn't follow someone's design. He designed what he wanted. That's an extreme reversal of where trends and styles come from.

Townes Van Zandt

I don't envision a very long life for myself. I think my life will run out before my work does. I've designed it that way.

Larry Ellison

Oracle's latest database, version 12c, was specifically designed for the cloud. Oracle 12c makes all your Oracle applications multitenant applications without you having to make any changes whatsoever to your applications.

Alan Siegel

We try to make things user-friendly. We try to use information designed to facilitate quick understanding.

Marshall Curry

I think to many people the term 'activist film' implies a film with a single point of view - something designed to provoke outrage and urge action on a particular issue - sort of the film equivalent of a rally. 'If a Tree Falls' is not that kind of film.

Jo Natale

It is nothing like a traditional supermarket. Our stores are designed to resemble a European open-air market.

William Feather

Getting along with others is the essence of getting ahead, success being linked with cooperation.

Russell Baker

The old notion that brevity is the essence of wit has succumbed to the modern idea that tedium is the essence of quality.

Rebecca Miller

I'm fascinated by what makes up a self, how one becomes a self, how much is it an answer to others and how much is it an essence of self.

Sandra Bernhard

I'm studying Kabbalah, which is really the essence of Jewish spirituality.

Samuel Johnson

The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights.

Will Smith

Gettin' jiggy wit it is, like, the next level of cool. It's cool to the eighth power. Some people are fly, some people are kind of hot. But when you are the jiggiest, when you exude jiggy-essence, it's the acme of cool.

Walter Bagehot

The essence of Toryism is enjoyment?but as far as communicating and establishing your creed are concernedtrya little pleasure. The way to keep up old customs is, to enjoy old customs; the way to be satisfied with the present state of things is, to enjoy that state of things.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Farce is nearer tragedy in its essence than comedy is.

Wayne Dyer

We manifest from Spirit. When Spirit begins to rule in our lives, we can literally manifest or attract to us everything that we perceive to be missing. That's really the essence of it.

Alice Lowe

I was in something called 'Garth Marenghi's Darkplace' which was a real cult comedy; it's sort of a spoof horror sort of thing, and it only ever had one series, but I liked the fact that it only had one series because it's kind of got this little gemlike quality to it that there were only ever six episodes.

Howard Simon

Kids now are smarter than we were. They want the facts. They want to know what's happening. That's why being open and honest with them is so important.

Smush Parker

Kobe is always a factor in the game. I don't think Golden State stopped him from scoring the ball. He just got other guys involved in the offense. It was a game Kobe didn't have to force the game until late.

Jeremy Jacobs

Jacques agonized over it. Not so much in a financial way, but it increased our recognition factor - it's become a hook for us.

Joe Tiller

I would say it's the single most important factor of (a team), ... You hate to put it all on one position, but if you told me, 'OK Tiller, you're going to graduate 21 of your 22 starters. Which one don't you want graduating?' It'd be the quarterback.

Robert Sarver

I would say it did surprise me. When I heard Toronto was interested in talking to him, that didn't surprise me. The fact that he wanted to pursue it surprised me.

Albert Gray

Katrina just went through, and it takes a little time for water to move. That's probably a contributing factor to these high bacterial samples.

Albert Gray

Katrina just went through, and it takes a little time for water to move, ... That's probably a contributing factor to these high bacterial samples.

Chris Byrne

KB hasn't articulated a strategy about what they're doing yet, but need to stock a lot of the hot toys. It isn't really a destination store but the fact that they're mall-based helps because parents are in the mall anyway.

Plaxico Burress

Just let Eli be Eli and he's going to be OK, ... Stop putting so much pressure on him and just let E be E. I've got a lot of faith in him. He's the quarterback of this team.

Mikhail Bakunin

Such a faith would be fatal to my reason, to my liberty, and even to the success of my undertakings; it would immediately transform me into a stupid slave, an instrument of the will and interests of others.

Atharva Veda

Have faith in Him; He will never give you up; He will guard and guide you until victory is won.

Sathya Baba

Have faith in God and in the correctness of moral living. Then, you can have peace and joy, whatever may be the fare that fortune offers you.

Sathya Baba

Have faith and patience. Then I will be always with you wherever you are.

Sathya Baba

Having trust and faith in your own country, you won't try to put down any other country.

Debra Roberts

God's got your back when you give Him your heart

Rick Bowers

He's just got ultimate faith in his shot. When he needs it, he can get it.

Eric Bass

It is a leap of faith for all of us,

Kazi Shams

Judge people not by what they did but by what they can do.

Ira Sorkin

Judge Harmon can then give Duncan whatever she likes.

A.J. Chilson

Judge a poem like you would judge a person, for it was the person who wrote the poem.

Dick DeGuerin

He should not be the judge to preside over the trial proceedings relating to a person to whom he is opposed politically.

Tim Ward

I think the jury was in a position to judge the credibility of the testimony.

Frank Cappiello

I think the judge has been very negative toward the company,

Tom Corbett

What may be unconscionable to one judge may not be unconscionable to another judge,

Steve Kaplan

I thought the judge was very fair. I'm very grateful.

Gary Bettman

I think we will ultimately be judged on our response and the message that it sends. This is not a part of our game, it has no place in our game, and it will not be tolerated in our game.

Dominik Hrbaty

I was already tired after the second five-setter, it was already quite enough.

Mike Schmitt

He didn't quite make it back to the house.

Trevor Noah

Comedy is really getting quite popular in South Africa.

James Williams

I was completely speechless. I really had no idea at all, and it was quite a wonderful surprise.

Helen Clark

I think this is going to take quite some time to work through simply because the writs (final results) won't be until two Fridays' time,

Kimberley Nixon

I'm a tomboy and quite clumsy, so I'm more like the anti-sexy icon.

Ernie Els

I did see the changes, obviously, and they are quite major.

Jim Sturgess

I'd always been quite wary of doing a romantic comedy. They all seem the same to me.

Adam Estrada

He had quite a day. He was the star who shone for us Saturday.