Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Coste

Do they want an extra infielder/backup catcher who has never played in the big leagues? For them to choose me, it's a bold decision. So for me to win a job, I've got to do more than open eyes. It's got to be a no-doubter.

Shelby Seyrafi

She was very bold when she said that she would hit that 12 to 15 percent revenue growth number, and she is hitting it in the first quarter after she said it.

George Borrow

Sherry . . . a sickly compound, the use of which will transform a nation, however bold and warlike by nature, into a race of sketchers, scribblers and punsters, in fact into what Englishmen are at the present day.

Kathleen Blanco

We must give careful consideration to bold ideas while pressing forward with proven strategies,

Robert Latham

I don't know that I have a good solution to the problem. Now we have another challenge in public education: It's not about wind speed, it's about storm surge. I have some bold ideas but I'm not going to come and say this is what we're going to do. There's a certain percentage of the population that aren't going to leave, I don't care what.

Voltaire

Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Riordan Roett

It's difficult to say. He has not done very much yet. We wait for a bold initiative.

William Peden

It is way too early to make such bold assertions when so many questions remain unanswered and many thousands more may die in decades to come.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

There was no corn -- in the wide market-place all loathliest things, even human flesh, was sold; They weighed it in small scales -- and many a face was fixed in eager horror then; his gold the miser brought; the tender maid, grown bold through hunger, bared her scorned charms in vain.

Leslie Alperstein

Dean probably scares the market the most because he, for now at least, is calling for rolling back all of the tax cuts.

Jim Young

And there is no such thing as a no-sale call. A sale is made on every call you make. Either you sell the client some stock or he sells you a reason he can't. Either way a sale is made, the only question is who is gonna close? You or him? Now be relentless. That's it, I'm done.

Ryan Evanochko

I wanted to go; I didn't want to call a timeout. But that's our system. That's how we practice. We trusted the system, and it just didn't work out that time.

Charles Grassley

Now is the time for each of us to stand up and demand change. Call your senators at once,

Jack Bicknell

Thank goodness his mom was OK. He couldn't just call down there, and he couldn't go down there (for several days).

Daryl Hannah

Rudolph Diesel was dead long before they named that by-product of petroleum they call diesel fuel. It had nothing to do with him.

Chris Simms

Put him up there as the greatest player in Texas history right now. He might have been there, but to have that performance and that game - what do they call it, an instant classic? That was it.

Howard Rubin

The rush to Indian call centers was driven by cost,

Rob Smith

I've told Greg that we probably won't be needing him between now and the end of the season and we left it that we'd call him if that changed.

Jim Olson

Once we developed their confidence, their trust (and) their respect, they were more willing to talk to us.

Krist Novoselic

The only way you do anything is to become really active. And the most effective way to get your message to your elected representatives is to make campaign contributions and develop relationships with them.

Bob Blake

Brooke, she just has a nose for the basket. She goes hard. If we can develop her defensively, she's gonna become a big-time scorer.

Alfred North Whitehead

Faith in the possibility of science, generated antecedently to the development of modern scientific theory, is an unconscious derivative from medieval theology.

Steve Ballmer

Developers, developers, developers, developers.

Michael Reed

New developers really have to do something special to get people to see what they're doing. It doesn't surprise me at all.

Jim Jeske

She's been a surprise early. We knew she would develop as the year went on, but she's done it sooner than we thought and that's probably why we've had the success we've had early on.

John Lasseter

Short films really helped me develop as a story teller, animator, and as a director.

H. Hart

I feel like he is developing a different technique and I wish I had a little more time with him. He has great potential this year and he is developing quickly. I am working with him on a new style of diving and his technique when he goes off the diving board.

Wendy Cheung

There are a lot of events happening this month and we hope lots of people will come to them.

Kevin Mawae

What Pop Warner does for kids on and off the field is great. It's nice to take part in events like this. It is all about youth football and it is the future of our sport.

Greg Valliere

You have to say that it could be a hollow victory, a pyrrhic victory, for the eventual winner if you will. We had a situation back in 1876, I'm told, where Rutherford B. Hayes won, but he was called Ruther 'fraud' B. Hayes for his whole term, and I think there's going to be a lot of sniping at the eventual winner as someone perhaps who won a tainted election,

Bob Renard

Is there a chance? Yes. Would I say that every day? No. Would I say that in any other storm event so far this year? No.

Holly Swoape

We just had a meeting about that and most of the people who come here know that we will eventually have a cost.

Tom Williams

We will try to exploit our depth. We would like to send two kids (to state) in five to six events that can score. That's one factor we can control.

Jim Fuller

We won more than half of the events. That was one of the goals I put on them. To win more events than the other teams.

Rich Sadvar

We'll eventually have to use a relief pitcher more often. But right now, our starters are doing what they need.

Bruce Meyers

We'll eventually get down to your county. Over a six-year period, we'll hit every school district.

Jack Ma

When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.

William Shakespeare

And simple truth miscalled simplicity

Rita Mae Brown

Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

Seymour Papert

A programming language is like a natural, human language in that it favors certain methaphors, images, and ways of thinking.

Seymour Papert

You can't teach people everything they need to know. The best you can do is position them where they can find what they need to know when they need to know it.

Linus Pauling

[Instead of collecting stamps, he collected dictionaries and encyclopaedias:] Because you can learn more from them.

Linda Ellerbee

How is it that so often . . . I get the feeling I've worked hard to learn something I already know, or knew, once.

Peter Senge

Perhaps for the first time in history, human-kind has the capacity to create far more information than anyone can absorb; to foster far greater interdependency than anyone can manage, and to accelerate change far faster than anyone's ability to keep pace.

Chuck Pavlos

You're going to have a million people in this corridor.

Russell Perreault

There are more than 300 million people in the US, so we still have a lot of potential sales out there.

Albert Brooks

If we had 3 million exhibitionists and only one voyeur, nobody could make any money.

Mike Burkett

So many millions of people don't feel like their vote has any meaning. There is no reason why younger people can't be a unified force.

Ian Livingstone

We have spent tens of millions of pounds on it and we will spend more tens of millions of pounds.

Bobby Cox

He's getting paid $12 million because he can hit.

Jim Patrick

I never though this team would go out like that. Not in a million years.

Councilman Zine

I'm not prepared to pay $18 million to settle that case.

Robert Kelly

You can't go and round up 11 million people and ship them out of the country. It just isn't practical.

Brad Feld

While I'm a venture capitalist who invests in early-stage tech companies, I often feel like a professional emailer and conference call maker. I try to spend most of my time doing whatever the companies we are investors in need me to do.

Janet Jackson

I've never been into what am I going to do next, trying to reinvent myself.

Miley Cyrus

I've never just been able to be alone, and I'm obsessed with being alone and hearing my thoughts. I'm trying to take this alone time — the five minutes I do have a day — to learn as much as I can.

Miley Cyrus

Maybe it's your time to lift off and fly You won't know if you never try.

Colin Mochrie

As I get older, I'm trying to accept improvisation into my day-to-day living.

Jayne Anne Phillips

Divinity. That's what I'm trying to get at, in everything I write.

Maria Mitchell

I am just through with a summer, and a summer is to me always a trying ordeal.

Matthew Weiner

This sounds really craven on some level, but on some level, a lot of what I'm doing is trying to not do a typical TV show.

Jano Cabrera

We're strong. But we're trying to keep pace.

Mignon McLaughlin

It upsets women to be, or not to be, stared at hungrily.

Kenny Rogers

Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is.

Magnus Carlsen

I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly.

Chetan Bhagat

Nothing soothes an upset Punjabi like dairy products.