Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kia Wright

We take that as motivation. We've been criticized all year, but we've proven them all wrong.

Anatoly Chubais

I'm criticized by the guys who tried to understand privatization as the economic process. They were wrong from the very beginning.

Rick Santorum

I'm probably known most by the work I do in Washington on the big issues of the day and I'm criticized sometimes for taking on the big issues of the day like Social Security,

John Catsimatidis

I'm not ashamed of being successful. You know, they criticized Romney for being ashamed of it. I think we've got to inspire our kids that we shouldn't be ashamed to be successful.

Marilyn Davis

Any time your work can be criticized by the public you get a little nervous.

Andy Reid

They were criticized a little bit, rightly so. They stepped their game up and that's what good players do when they're put in that position.

John Sheridan

It is unfortunate that this most important project has been criticized and delayed for wholly invalid reasons.

Bob Bennett

We spent more than the president requested, and we were criticized for pork-barrel spending,

Barbara Sher

Whenever we dream out loud, were criticized for being foolish by people who really have no idea how special we are. As a result, we crush our dreams without giving them half a chance.

Beverley Mitchell

I think the hardest part about being a teenager is dealing with other teenagers - the criticism and the ridicule, the gossip and rumors.

Cyril Cusack

It is plain to me now that the Irish Producers, quite as strongly as the Critics, have neither sympathy nor understanding of my mode of playwriting.

Winston Churchill

He is a modest little man who has a good deal to be modest about.

George Bernard Shaw

If more than ten percent of the population likes a painting it should be burned, for it must be bad.

Bob Stoops

It's easy to jump on one guy when something goes wrong. Hey, that's fine. We deserve the criticism, but track records over time also stand for something.

Winston Churchill

I shall always be glad to have seen it-for the same reason Papa gave for being glad to have seen Lisbon-namely, "that it will be unnecessary ever to see it again.

Mark Twain

The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades

Tennessee Williams

Maybe they weren't punks at all, but New York drama critics.

Otto Rehhagel

Today there will only be joy, no criticism. We have already won everything. Now for us every opponent is a good opponent. We have nothing more to lose. There is no pressure. We will enjoy the success and look forward to the quarterfinals.

Sidney Blumenthal

Ken Starr's prosecutors demanded to know what I had told reporters and what reporters had told me about Ken Starr's prosecutors. If they think they have intimidated me they have failed. And if any journalist here or elsewhere wants to talk to me, I'll be glad to talk to you.

Kasan Mulyono

Residents only demanded a larger quota of local workers, and we have met that.

Amber Moon

In that district, she is particularly vulnerable given her record. Voters have demanded an investment in education coupled with property tax relief. (Lawmakers) are going to have to face that in November ...

Jusuf Kalla

I have several times demanded that the recruitment of legislators should be transparent and accountable.

Matt Rosoff

They are licensing a specific subset related to the protocols the EU demanded more documentation on.

Jim Whitaker

It's long overdue, ... Mark Myers and Commissioner Irwin are very, very brave. For them to have read the law, understood the law and then demanded that the law be upheld is very admirable, and every Alaskan should take their hat off to them.

Robertson Davies

For I was a collaborator with Destiny, not one who put a pistol to its head and demanded particular treasures

Moshe Dayan

The supreme efforts will be demanded of you, the troops, fighting in the air, on the land, and on the sea. Our security rests with you.

Ramez Naam

I've read science fiction my whole life. I never really dreamed that I'd be a published science fiction writer myself, but a short story I started years ago sort of demanded to be turned into a novel.

Bill Parcells

I was kind of thinking back to Seattle last year, ... We kind of talked about that. We're just fortunate, really.

Joe Edgens

Kelley is going to be right up to the last minute before it's done.

Dave Kaplan

(Jocelyn) bounced back from a rough outing last time. Very nicely done. She's going to get another start, and we're going to keep working with her.

Will Grace

JLo-so karen hows married life?Karen-well it only lasted 20 minutesJLo-Oh is that short?

Bobbie Davis

I think I said to the players last year that they had one day to celebrate. And then they had to start concentrating and thinking about this year.

Jack Parker

He couldn't make a pass or shoot a puck. If this wasn't his senior year, if he was a junior, we probably wouldn't have played him this weekend. I didn't want to miss what could have been, at any moment, his last game.

Jim Knight

There are so many things that we try before we ever go to court. It's the last step, and we don't like to do it, but there needs to be consequences.

Jayson Swain

I think the problem last year was people were taking the pressure the wrong way. We were pressing to make the big plays.

Jim Grobe

I thought a win last week was pretty important and we didn't get it. Any win for us right now is important. Every team we play here down the stretch, if we're going to have any kind of season at all, is important. Our players understand that.

Walter Lippmann

At the core of every moral code there is a picture of human nature, a map of the universe, and a version of history. To human nature (of the sort conceived), in a universe (of the kind imagined), after a history (so understood), the rules of the code apply.

Ken Jennings

I would stare at maps of Delaware for hours.

Ken Jennings

There’s just something hypnotic about maps.

Larry Wall

Younger hackers are hard to classify. They're probably just as diverse as the old hackers are. We're all over the map.

Philip Pullman

The Lord of the Rings' is fundamentally an infantile work. Tolkien is not interested in the way grownup, adult human beings interact with each other. He's interested in maps and plans and languages and codes.

Hanan Ashrawi

Sharon has subverted the whole process by turning it into something sequential and conditional and, of course, by making himself the interpreter of the road map,

Philip Roth

I am marked like a road map from head to toe with my repressions. You can travel the length and breadth of my body over superhighways of shame and inhibition and fear.

Mike Horner

Since the first day we had our meeting, the very first question and observation has been that the maps we have now are not right.

Jewel

It's just an inch from me to you depending on what map you use.

Chuck D.

It could have something to do with the coarse quality of their paper.

Fernando Couto

I think we have the quality and the right spirit to get a win.

Dwane Casey

I'd like to see if he can get up 20 shots. You can't just walk through that and get that many shots up, quality shots. To get 20 quality shots, it takes work.

Jimmy Johnson

I didn't come back and feel like I solved the world's problems. But I spent a lot of quality time with my wife and didn't think about racing.

David Carr

He is a quality guy. If he hasn't taken a step forward, it's because he hasn't been shown the way.

Rob Zombie

I wanted it to be like a high quality, drive-in movie.

Richard Bach

You don't tell the quality of a master by the size of his crowds.

Trisha Goddard

There is a learning quality in all of our shows.

Richard Davidson

The best way I can mentor and lead those around me is to embody these qualities myself.

Randy Weber

I'm so Republican, my first name starts with 'R.' I'm so right-wing - well, Randy Weber. You do the math.

Austin Dobson

And I wove the thing to a random rhyme, For the Rose is Beauty, the Gardener, Time.

Rick DiPietro

It's random testing, right, ... They see me and every time it's, 'OK Rick, you're up.'

David Harsanyi

When I was younger, I was drawn to Ayn Rand books and other works of fiction celebrating individualism.

Ben Casnocha

Expose yourself to as much randomness as possible.

Joe Torre

Randy was great, we just didn't give him anything to work with.

Norv Turner

Randy made some big plays. He competed awfully well.

Ian Forrester

The most important thing for South Africans is that whatever its value, the rand remain stable rather than fluctuating wildly.

Thomas Massie

I agree with Sen. Rand Paul on issues more than I do Mitch McConnell.

William James

The aim of science is always to reduce complexity to simplicity.

Rob Bell

We need to return to the simplicity that God is love.

Wayne Dyer

You're here for a reason and it's not to hoard a lot of physical stuff.

William Strunk, Jr.

The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

If we only look around us, there are a thousand reasons for us not to be happy, and it is simplicity itself to blame our unhappiness on the things we lack in life. It doesn’t take any talent at all to find them. The problem is, the more we focus on the things we don’t have, the more unhappy and more resentful we become.

Nelson Goodman

For if as scientists we seek simplicity, then obviously we try the simplest surviving theory first, and retreat from it only when it proves false. Not this course, but any other, requires explanation. If you want to go somewhere quickly, and several alternate routes are equally likely to be open, no one asks why you take the shortest. The simplest theory is to be chosen not because it is the most likely to be true but because it is scientifically the most rewarding among equally likely alternatives. We aim at simplicity and hope for truth.

Linus Torvalds

Avoiding complexity reduces bugs.

Linda McCartney

I don't need a lot of money. Simplicity is the answer for me.

Leo Tolstoy

There is no genius where there is not simplicity.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

He used to sit on my lap. I was sort of ambivalent about that. He was surviving any way he could.

Jennifer Hinson

It is a little frustrating. It's sort of put us into a year-by-year situation.

Jason Robinson

If you have got a problem, then go to the person and sort it out.

Jason Anderson

I know it's got a lot of sports fields. We're going to set all sorts of records.

Sam Heughan

I never once dreamed of sort of being able to be in an American TV series, you know? It was all about theater and touring and sort of being an actor around Scottish theater.

Stockard Channing

I never really thought of that. I just thought she was funny. Really, I just thought this was funny, sort of sweet, touching and human.

Grimes

I'm not, like, a natural performer. It's sort of a thing that I've had to learn to do.

Michelle Monaghan

I'm not so Hollywood; I live in New York, so it's very normal. I don't have many friends in the industry. My friends come from all sorts of different backgrounds and careers.

Tim McEachern

The idea started as sort of a joke,