Famous Quotes & Sayings

Katrina Bee

Keep the end in mind and focus on that. Say 'I am at my ideal weight of...,' not 'I want to be...'. Focus on what it would feel like to you to have achieved that goal; Get in touch with that winning feeling.

David Champion

Just one in ten of the vehicles we tested achieved fuel economies as good as or better than EPA estimates.

Amy Gutmann

Jodie Foster is an eminent Ivy League graduate who has achieved tremendous success and influence in the powerful entertainment industry.

Ron Gatewood

Juan not only achieved his flight instructor rating but also had an advanced instrument instructor rating. After six months as a charter pilot, Juan became an airline transport pilot. He accomplished all of this while working at odd jobs to pay his living and flying expenses. Without a doubt, Juan is one of the hardest workers I've ever seen.

Madelyn Fernstrom

It also is important to note that blood pressure reductions occurred in patients even though they remained obese with (a body mass index) in the 35 range, which is still not ideal, further suggesting that weight loss itself -- in this study, achieved through gastric bypass surgery -- can improve health outcomes.

Sol Campbell

He was a great guy, he knew what he wanted and achieved it in his own way.

Carl Icahn

I think you would now agree that this would have achieved a far superior result for stockholders,

Dave Loos

I think the big thing about Chuck is he has done this all behind the scenes with very little fanfare. Yet all of these athletes could not have achieved any of their goals without him and the people that work for him.

Jeffrey Benjamin

Lasting influence is achieved through persuasion not coercion.

Deng Xiaoping

Keep a cool head and maintain a low profile, ... Never take the lead - but aim to do something big.

Joy Bacon

There is enough business for everybody and we aim at training and producing some 25,000 new animators over a four-year period through 2010.

Andy Miller

It has been a very constructive test given how little time we had to prepare for it following the team's entry into the A1 Grand Prix series, and we leave Paul Ricard with a pretty good idea of how the car works and reacts to set-up changes. Ralph drove well and with strong consistency, which is essential at this, level, and it's clear we are in the mix towards the front of the field, which is where we aim to be. Michael Devaney did a very solid job given that this was his first outing in the car and he had very limited running. The series is going to be very competitive and when you look at the quality of the driving talent you can see that in terms of competition to win races this is going to be quite a battle.

Michelle Gagnon

I don't have many hours in a day, as I'm essentially a single parent. But fortunately, I'm a really fast writer. My goal is usually 10 pages a day. Sometimes more, sometimes less, but by the end of the week, I aim for at least 10,000 words.

Tiger Woods

I did not play well at all, ... I had a two-way miss this week. You can't aim a two-way miss even if those fairways are 300 yards wide. If you get it hitting both ways, it's tough to play.

Ric Sperling

He did what great players do. He put the team on his back, and carried us. We've been aiming for this all season long. We thought we'd have a good chance to win if we were able to score a couple of runs.

Shmuel Shapira

He has significant, massive cerebral bleeding. . . the aim of the operation is to drain it. We have the largest team that Israeli medicine can offer, the most senior people.

Waylon Jennings

I didn't aim at anything except good music.

Walter Reisch

The ultimate aim of all science is to penetrate the unknown.

Keith Terry

It brought up a lot of mixed feelings, ... At a certain point I realized I just had to let go and let it wash over me. And it was such a remarkable collection of people playing amazing music. Just the vibe in the room, I'd never felt so appreciated. I'm an only child and it's easy for me to feel alone in the world, and it counteracted a lot of the thoughts that I have running in my head. It was such a clear outpouring of love and generosity from people. That's a remarkable feeling, one that I don't normally let myself enjoy.

Darren Benitez

He left the car alone and when he came back to the car it was gone.

Lori Miller

It is a hard thing to want to come back and play after something like that. Everyone was just really concerned for her. It was so emotional. It was just tough to finish that game, let alone come back and play another.

Rick Metcalf

I thought Brett dominated the game from what I saw. It's just his mere presence alone out on the floor (defensively).

Joss Stone

I think winning three is a huge achievement. I think winning eight is a ridiculous thing. I can't imagine winning half a Grammy let alone three. She went through a lot, and everybody knew it. She's come back on top.

Dwayne Hickman

I was always very shy but my older brother, Darryl, was working and my mother couldn't leave me home alone so I was dragged along to the studio.

Michael Koryta

What I like about writing a stand alone novel is you're starting with a fresh world and fresh characters. Part of what I love about writing is that journey of discovery where it's all new to me as well.

Randel Johnson

We support the concept of this new travel card, but it must be affordable, easy for travelers to obtain and should not delay passage through our ports of entry. More than 400 million inspections occur at our nation's borders each year, with more than $500 billion in surface trade alone between the United States, Mexico and Canada.

Uwe Boll

Today, I looked out at the word of mouth on Alone in the Dark and there seems to be a lot of medium, okay and good reviews coming out.

John Furlong

It comes down to what kind of appetite the community has for the Games.

Robert Thompson

I think the American culture right now is in a state where we have an unlimited appetite for irony. The great thing about a weird pageant is, if you don't win, is that really a bad thing?

David Greene

If you look at Macao, you'd say that no one has ever put to the test the appetite for the Chinese for anything other than gambling.

Lauren Zalaznick

Clearly, there's an appetite from Bravo television viewers for increased flow of content that a linear TV channel can't provide. This on-demand push makes great Bravo content that there isn't room for on TV available 24/7.

Franz Pumaren

I'm glad that we have a big appetite. They don't easily get satisfied. Hopefully we can defend it.

Mitsushige Akino

The biggest incentive for investors to buy stocks right now is optimism for sustained economic growth. The kind of appetite we're seeing from investors right now won't end easily.

Anthony Chan

The auction also showed that foreign appetite for our securities remain voracious, which in itself is another positive sign.

James Zoltak

There was an appetite and sometimes you don't want to miss out on that when there is that appetite, if you're in a rebound kind of year. Universal was left a little flat-footed because they did their big Revenge of the Mummy rollout the year before.

James McCormick

A continued decline in U.S. equity purchases will be a telling sign of foreign appetite for U.S. securities, and the future path of the dollar.

Danielle Tierney

The tactic of attaching riders to the budget is brilliant.

Mary Thomason

It was an exciting match with a lot of attaching and net play. Benton had good serving and attacked, but our defense was great.

Margaret Stanley

Attaching patients to a particular provider is difficult.

Granth Sahib

Countless sinners are sanctified, attaching their minds to the Feet of the Lord.

Alexander Vershbow

The United States is ready to return to the table without attaching any new conditions, and we expect North Korea to do the same.

Arlen Specter

Terrorism remains the No. 1 problem in the United States today. It is not a matter of attaching blame, it is a matter of correcting any errors so that we don't have a repetition of 9/11. If there is intelligence available, it ought to be shared.

Jeff Beyer

With people away from their homes -- at parties, shopping or just at work -- the holidays can be an open invitation for burglars. Homeowners can help stop these crimes by installing and using a home security system or by attaching motion sensors to their outdoor lighting.

Jose Andres Puerta

If you have some potatoes, green beans and cauliflower, you have a heck of a dish that can feed an entire family.

Larry Conley

I left some green beans and mashed potatoes on that track the first week, I want to tell you. It was hard. Really hard.

Randy Katz

It's possible that Johnson & Johnson and Guidant have buried themselves in a room. The fact that nobody has spilled the beans yet doesn't mean that there aren't any beans to spill.

Martin Allen

That is going to take me two-and-a-half hours - so instead of a nice meal I'm going to be stuck with beans on toast.

Jake Peavy

It was just sitting perfect, I pushed into it and it was like a razor blade. The green beans weren't worth it last night. Thank the good Lord it was the left hand.

Kathy Jordan

They've got different beans from all over the world. Different beans for different blends.

Maria Sharapova

It's the first time for me to throw beans at the media. It's kind of revenge.

Betty Smith

We've used a lot of stuff since the Can-Care-A-Van. We go through pork and beans and green beans and things like that so fast. I've had to replenish those twice already.

Stephen Sondheim

If the end is right, it justifies the beans!

Tracy Lefteroff

What you are seeing is a shift away from e-commerce and back to the plumbing of the Internet. The telecom sector and software are doing quite well as are DSL, broadband and fiber optics. Most of them are retooling to enter the fiber optic age.

Gordon Smith

History shows that pay-TV subscribers flee in droves to alternative providers when there is even a rare service disruption - demonstrating a quantifiable value for 'must-have' broadcast programming.

Simon Cowell

I thought the song was boring. It is 'American Idol' and you've got to be as broad as possible.

Greg Sullivan

I think we're starting to get it. We're living in a different world than five or 10 years ago. And there's incredible value in the feedback we get from the broad developer community.

Terry Palmer

I think this needs to be broadcast a lot more in the coastal communities and the fishing communities.

Jonathan Adelstein

I think universal service has to evolve into broadband sooner rather than later,

Michael King

I was a little surprised they didn't get more money for retroactive royalties, ... but I think it's a reasonable settlement given Gilead's part of it, Roche's part of it and the broader public health implications ... neither wanted to come out of this looking greedy.

Jim Higgins

We may end this round of talks without any deals getting done. The next round of talks may be more in the nature of niche acquisitions than broad combinations.

Gary Rodkin

We look forward to sharing details of the impact of these decisions in our investors' meeting in March. These are only part of our broader plans to drive sustainable top- and bottom-line growth.

Ron Jones

I actually, as a child, always wanted to own my own steak house. I started out that way and like I said, I'll always have a steak around. I usually will have chicken or a steak on the grill because I love grilling.

George Flint

He met with everybody down (here) and he had his heart set on the Chicken Ranch.

Sarah Rees Brennan

Technically speaking, you drive like a rabid chicken who has hijacked a tractor.

Tim Bennett

Remember eating chicken meat and eggs cooked properly is safe and is good for you.

John Tyson

Recent declines in international demand for chicken coupled with greater than expected domestic supply will dramatically impact the projected performance of our chicken segment.

Shigeru Omi

In my view this is connected by the differences in the farming practices. In the West farming practices are well controlled -- ducks, chickens and humans do not mingle together.

Bruce Yost

In the space world, to be able to fly the next new mission, you have to have flight heritage from the previous mission. But if you don't fly the previous missionit's kind of a chicken and egg thing.

Ian McCafferty

Christmas, in retailing terms, is coming later and later each year as consumers play chicken with the high street and delay their spending in the expectation of late price cuts as the big day draws nearer.

Angela Lindvall

I'm focusing on cultivating my land. I have vegetables and fruit trees; I want to get some chickens and solar and really get off the grid and focus on just, really, being a mother.

Jason Statham

I was like, 'Well, we'd think he'd be useless around kids,' ... But I think he finds himself more comfortable around children than he realizes.

Kerry Nelson

Kids at the children's shelter are coming out there and getting a lot of one-on-one because there are so few children out there. The reading program out there is really helping these kids a lot.

Britt Ekland

I would teach U.K. parents how to stop their children throwing litter. London is a beautiful city but its streets are disgusting.

John Romano

Keeping an elderly couple in their home for another 10 to 15 years makes good financial sense. If they stay in their home, their cost to the town is minimal compared to the family with four children that would replace them.

Julian Fellowes

He wants to hear their opinions. As an actor, it was what I always craved. You really want as an actor to be treated as one of the grown-ups. Half the time, you are treated as a demented child who has wandered onto the set.

Ciara

Having a child with someone, you're always going to be respectful of that. But the song 'I Bet' was honestly inspired by my life experiences - I can't just say it's from one experience.

Tony Buzan

All children are much more intelligent than they are told they are or the school thinks they are; they just have different intelligences.

Sugata Mitra

It would be better, in a way, if any adults present were completely uneducated. There is nothing children like more than passing on information they have just discovered to people who may not already have it - an elderly grandmother, for instance.

Sugata Mitra

In most schools, we measure children on what they know. By and large, they have to memorize the content of whatever test is coming up. Because measuring the results of rote learning is easy, rote prevails. What kids know is just not important in comparison with whether they can think.

Shakira

I know that youngsters want to find something in common with each other and feel closer to each other ideologically through bridges such as the Internet.

Chad Anderson

This was a good confidence-builder for us. It gets us one step closer to the playoffs.

Rob Spence

I think it's closer to what we expect the offense at Clemson to be. I think there was much more mixture, different types of plays.

Richard Butler

I think we're getting hot, ... I think we were getting closer and closer.

Barry Trotz

It is hard, even as a coach, to say who's going to win it. There's so many teams that are a lot closer than you think. The point totals, disregard them. It's what teams are playing well, what teams aren't.

Peter Cardillo

I think we're going to see a very choppy market for the next few weeks, as we get closer to the election, unless oil prices move sharply one way or the other.

David Reeves

Like most mountains when you get closer to the top it gets a little steeper and a little tougher.

Bobby Cox

He's doing really well taking over the closer role right now.

Frances Beinecke

The Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument may be distant from our shores, but it will help us understand how healthy marine ecosystems work and how we can revive troubled seas closer to home.

He was a cowboy, mister, and he loved the land. He loved it so much he made a woman out of dirt and married her. But when he kissed her, she disintegrated. Later, at the funeral, when the preacher said, ""Dust to dust,"" some people laughed, and the cowboy shot them. At his hanging, he told the others, ""I'll be waiting for you in heaven--with a gun.

Lori Brumbach

This was our first design and, with the cowboy theme, it is ideal for boys.

Bill Fulkerson

It is a better lifestyle for the cows and the farmers.

Denny Green

I think we'd probably be the natural team. It would be us or the Dallas Cowboys , and I don't think there's any way Dallas would have given up a home game. They sell out their games and we do not sell out our games. It was easier for us to make that sacrifice, and we made it.

Richelle Mead

You can't fool me, comrade. You want to put on a cowboy hat and keep lawless bank robbers in line.'' "No time. I have enough trouble keeping you in line.

Trevor McDonald

I am actually a terrible coward. Fear is a constant fact of my life.

Robin Williams

When my friends and I played cowboys and Indians, I was always the Chinese railroad worker.

Sarah Vowell

No cowboys for Canada. Canada got Mounties instead - Dudley Do-Right, not John Wayne. It's a mind-set of "Here I come to save the day" versus "Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker.

Warren Buffett

Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.

Chelsea Clinton

I was always deeply aware that I was living in history.

John Barton

Jake has done a nice job, but all three of our receivers have, but people worry about Jake on the deep ball.

Alan Light

He just digs himself deeper into a hole no matter when he does it.

William Sutton

(There are) so many variables -- the weather, the wave height, how fast the anchoring process goes (and) how quickly we can get rigged and get the Deep Drone in the water.

Van Cliburn

has truly recognized and received my deep love and lifetime devotion.

Carmelo Anthony

Having three, four power forwards out there on our team, being so deep at that position, at this point, it really doesn't matter.

Mark Schmidt

He's a scoring point guard. He can really shoot the ball. He has deep range with his shot. He can play an up-tempo style.

Ernie Accorsi

I think it's a very solid and deep draft. I really think the top of it is very interesting.

Gerard Kemkers

I think it's as deep as you've ever seen. To win, it has to be a perfect race from start to finish.

John Dixon

Michael's had a very strong off-season. He's trained hard and he's really looking forward to playing this weekend. We've been eagerly awaiting his debut.

Kenny Williams

Kids who come through and have eaten seem to be really satisfied.

Marco Balich

Italians live very passionately: their cars, how they eat and dress. Italians love speed, too, so we wanted to represent this also.

Torii Hunter

I think about what his kids are going through more than anything. It's killing me right now. It's eating me up.

Henry Hunter

I wear after-shave lotion. I'm sure most women wear perfumes. Just because we wear after-shave lotion or perfume, does that mean we should be eaten by a dog?

Tucker Carlson

I will, in fact, eat my shoes, because I'm a man of my word.

Doc Rivers

He's doing much better. He looks great. He's feeling better. He's talking more. We've got to get him to eat and all that stuff, but at 88, it would probably be tough to get me to eat, too.

Henry Fielding

We must eat to live and live to eat

Kelly Carlson

I take really good care of myself. I work out a lot and I eat very well.

Herbie Hancock

I don't go back to anything, I just add. Just like when you eat a meal, it you eat one thing all the time it gets kind of boring.

Estelle

Kanye West is my older brother, an inspiring guy and someone who keeps pushing my level up further and further.

Craig Patrick

John is a big, strong winger who is a proven and consistently productive goal-scorer. His presence further strengthens the group of forwards we're assembling here in Pittsburgh.

Don Garber

In the immediate and long-term future, today's news will prove to be a historical turning point for the sport. These recent developments further solidify soccer's standing and value as a major television property in the United States with even greater future potential.

Ian Shepherdson

(The GDP and inflation data) won't prevent modest further easing,

Roger Peak

The further out the less stressed, but everyone was affected.

Daren Brown

The further it went out there, the slower it went.

Craig Cook

The further away from the ski hill you stay, the better the price and the accommodations.

Lisa McDonald

Students near the teacher can hear well. But those further away struggle because they receive that reduced signal.

Hubert Humphrey

The negotiators did a good job, but we have a lot further to go,

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's too good a guy to have something like this (stroke) happen.

Kevin Towers

Khalil is an exciting, popular player. We think he's going to have a real good year, offensively and defensively.

Herb Cytyrn

Jake is a very good skier and I wouldn't be surprised if he made it to sectionals.

Bill Walsh

I would say that we made a lot of good trades, but that may have been the best.

Mark Bailey

I would've preferred if ours was the last shot. But we had a good look, and we had the guy shooting that we wanted to.

Billy Beane

Ken did a great job for us. We've always said that. He was a good enough manager for us to want him back before, and he's still a good enough manager to come back.

Tim Crowder

Keeping them at their average, no, I don't think that's going to be good enough to win.

Alan Greenspan

Keeping out competitively priced goods would materially lower our standard of living.

David Parker

Keeping everything as lean as possible is a good thing in the long run.

L. Lionel Kendrick

The temple is a place of worship. Reverence is a supernal form of worship. It is the form of worship found in the celestial kingdom.

Paulo Coelho

Leave your comfortable life and go in search of your kingdom.

George MacDonald

The doing of things from duty is but a stage on the road to the kingdom of truth and love.

Elizabeth George

Each day is precious when we consider what we can do to serve God and His Kingdom.

John Bunyan

Beware of resting in the word of the kingdom, without the spirit and power of the kingdom of that gospel, for the gospel coming in word only saves nobody, for the kingdom of God or the gospel, where it comes to salvation, is not in word but in power.

Judith McNaught

If I had a hundred kingdoms, I would trade them all for you, my dearest love. I was nothing until you.

Hassanal Bolkiah

Brunei Darussalam is one of the oldest kingdoms in South East Asia.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The kingdom of God is not in words. Words are only incidental and can never be fundamental. When evangelicalism ceased to emphasize fundamental meanings and began emphasizing fundamental words, and shifted from meaning to words and from power to words, they began to go down hill.

Randy Savage

Expect the unexpected in the kingdom of madness!

E. Howard Hunt

I would say this in terms of my career, that my career provided me with everything that I wanted, and I think a man is fortunate if he can say that at the end of his life.

David Pickering

He is the right man at the right time to take Wales forward.

Bill Ross

He is tight with his mom. He has such an old-fashioned sense of responsibility. He is the man of the house.

Rosemary Dillard

He should be murdered, killed. I mean, this man has no remorse.

Friedrich Muller

Whatever place a faithful, virtuous, celebrated, and wealthy man chooses, there he is respected.

Donald McDonald

We've been trying to get applications out, but everything has been rejected because of his record. I would go with him to talk with some of these managers to just be a support for him.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.

John Roberts

I will be my own man on the Supreme Court, period,

Dave Scott

He was popular and a well-liked young man here.

Ranjana Kumari

What do you do in a situation where you know if you stay back in the house, you may be abused sexually? There may be a possibility of you not even surviving, not even getting a meal to eat.

Donna White

I went out for a meal but I couldn't throw a big party. I just couldn't.

Eric Schlosser

Yes, a cheeseburger and fries is probably my favourite meal. But I don't eat ground beef anymore.

Joe Sakic

Any free meal is a good meal, you know?

Mark Morris

I never eat standing up, I never eat in front of the refrigerator. I treat myself very formally with meals. I don't watch TV or read. It's a little bit of a ritual, and it's more enjoyable.

Junior Seau

The best meal at my restaurant is the whole right side of the menu.

Denis Leary

Marriage is like a dull meal with the dessert at the beginning.

Nell Newman

To grow a tomato or a pepper and prepare a meal from your labor and care is primordially satisfying.

Yotam Ottolenghi

These days, meals are more open to personal preferences. People like to serve themselves.

Frank Melton

It occurs to me that I'm not protecting a source. I am the source and I don't need protecting.

Michael Bamberger

That didn't occur to me. I was still in my reporter's mode. I wanted to talk to her first.

Richard Greenberg

I don't write a play from beginning to end. I don't write an outline. I write scenes and moments as they occur to me. And I still write on a typewriter. It's not all in ether. It's on pages. I sequence them in a way that tends to make sense. Then I write what's missing, and that's my first draft.

Rob Morosi

We have work going on practically everywhere. It is a worry. It?s a worry for the motorists. It?s a worry for the workers. It?s a worry for their families. Every day they step out the door, and you just don?t know what going to occur out here.

Spencer Grammer

When I went to college, it didn't even occur to me that I should be in a sorority at all. I went to school in New York City, where you don't need to be in a sorority to go to a party!

Abdel Khaddam

But, of course, at no time did it occur to me that Syria could assassinate Hariri.

Harrison Ford

I don't do nostalgia. It just doesn't occur to me. I'm living in the moment, and I don't have that gene.

Amy Bloom

I do have a sister. I have never written much about sisters before. I am very close to my sister, but, maybe, because we are very close, it never occurred to me to write about her.

and City

I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it.

Richard K. Morgan

Evolutionary theory informs our understanding of some frankly inexcusable social behavior and renders it perfectly normal.

Raymond Chandler

Television is really what we've been looking for all our lives.... [It's] perfect. You turn a few knobs and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primordial ooze.

William S. Burroughs

Too perfect to be sexually attractive.

William S. Burroughs

The idea was that we would decide the order when we looked at the proofs. I remember Brion Gysin saying "Well, why change it? It's perfect the way it is, the way it came from the printer." Made one major change, that is, the first chapter that came from the printers, which would be the beginning, we moved to the end. The first chapter became the last chapter. There's no actual cutups in Naked Lunch.

William Shenstone

Immoderate assurance is perfect licentiousness.

William Shatner

I'm looking for the perfect paintball movie.

William Shatner

We were basically one and the same, although Jim [Kirk] was just about perfect, and, of course, I am perfect.

William Gibson

His teeth sang in their individual sockets like tuning forks, each one pitch-perfect and clear as ethanol.

David Clark

It's unfair to the students, because they don't know what they can do to get themselves expelled.

Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.

Mahatma Gandhi

The consumption of vegetables involves himsa, but I cannot give them up.

Lesley Nicol

I can do basics, but I'm not a proper cook. I can do a roast. I can stick a chicken in the oven with vegetables.

Karen Collins

Vegetables can be a fabulous-tasting centerpiece of cuisine.

Dan Barber

Vegetables deplete soil. They're extractive. If soil has a bank account, vegetables make the largest withdrawals.

Andrew Marvell

My vegetable love should grow Vaster than empires, and more slow;

Dolores Huerta

Don't be a marshmallow. Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk. Stop being vegetables. Work for Justice. Viva the boycott!

Dean Karnazes

I eat nothing that's processed or refined - no high-fructose corn syrup, no sugar, no trans-fats. I eat a lot of fish and monounsaturated fats from olives, olive oil and nuts. A lot of organic, fresh fruits and vegetables. No bread. No gluten. No wheat. No rice.

Anita Pallenberg

I grow vegetables - I'm a vegetarian; I've got strawberries, artichokes, leeks, broad beans.

Clint Eastwood

I take vitamins daily, but just the bare essentials not what you'd call supplements. I try to stick to a vegan diet heavy on fruit, vegetables, tofu, and other soy products.

Cassandra Clare

You know how the bonds of family are, my lady... They cling as tightly as vines. And sometimes, like vines, they cling tightly enough to kill.