Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yolanda Adams

All of my lyrics are based on the one thing that's never failed me, and that's the Word of God.

Yanni

My music is based on melody and when I play the piano, it's as if I'm singing with them. When you try to transform that into a vocal, there was very little adjustment.

Irving Stone

My books are based 98 percent on documentary evidence.

Vivienne Westwood

We based the look on rock 'n roll right from the beginning.

Chuck Palahniuk

'Romance' is based on my entire creative process. I fall in love with an idea, obsess over it, isolate myself with it, and when I eventually introduce it to my friends, they all tell me that it's stupid.

will.i.am

You know, I do music. If you look under the hood of the industry I'm in, it's all based on technology. From radio to phonographs to CDs, it's all technology. Microphones, reel-to-reels, cameras, editing, chips, it's all technology.

Constance Wu

It's my privilege to be able to play somebody not myself. I'm an actor who creates characters based in voice, movement, emotional quality, speech.

Elizabeth Warren

I never sought nor gained personal benefit in school or job applications based on my heritage.

Brian O'Neill

The overall performance of the Grand Caravan was similar in all three tests, except for the fuel tank, ... Based on these tests, the 2001 models manufactured before the redesigned fuel systems are rated poor for crashworthiness because of the leak.

Ian Mckellen

We're very lucky, men, that there are these fabulous parts. Women - once you've done all the parts in Shakespeare, they start running out. So you can pick and choose and find something to energise you.

Gail Kelly

You can choose not to sit on the fence. You can choose not to criticise. You must stand as guard at the door of your own mind and choose to be positive.

Chelsea Clinton

My dad had always been a big decaf coffee drinker. But my mom had always been more of a tea drinker. So I grew up around a lot of tea. And I also really love tea. But I'm not one of those people who has ever felt the need to choose between coffee and tea. I think that is a completely false dichotomy.

Bruce Afran

The people are the ones who are entitled to choose who occupies elected office, not the party.

Natasha Trethewey

It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where we are headed. The problem is, a good portion of what we choose to remember is about willed forgetting. Which we all do, I believe, to protect ourselves from what is too difficult.

Rick Perlstein

It is a quirk of American culture that each generation of nonconservatives sees the right-wingers of its own generation as the scary ones, then chooses to remember the right-wingers of the last generation as sort of cuddly.

Nick Carter

There was a ton of fighting between my mother and father. The kids would be thrown into the middle, to choose sides.

John Brady

We can't just use the weekly points to choose the team because if a team has one or two dominant players others in that side won't get any votes.

Linda Massey

We have two fine men to choose from.

Barry O'Farrell

I don't favour ethics classes being an alternative to special religious education classes.

Noreena Hertz

It's actually very surprising how little we think about the quality of our decision-making and how we could improve it. How absent decision-making classes are from educational curricula. How little we think about how it is we think.

Naomi Watts

Mum put me in drama classes when I was about 14. I'd been going on about it for some time, so maybe it was a way to shut me up.

Robert Long

We'll probably have a couple classes every month until the end of the year.

Bob Demesy

We've got snowmobile races and go-kart classes for all the kids. We have a class for just about everyone who comes out, from those just starting out to those more experienced racers.

Kyle Anderson

My classes are really challenging. I didn't think senior year would be so tough.

Tyler Smith

Most members are obsessed with everything Japanese. While only two members speak fluent Japanese, many are taking classes or simply interested in the culture.

Jiang Zemin

Members of the new social classes have made a contribution to socialist production forces through honest work and legal operations,

Shirley Eaton

My mother sent me to dance and drama classes when I was young, and then I got a stage role in 'Set To Partners' when I was 12, followed by Benjamin Britten's 'Let's Make An Opera.'

William Shockley

The objective of producing useful devices has strongly influenced the choice of the research projects with which I have been associated.

Brian Kernighan

No matter how non-technical your life and work, you're going to have to interact with technology and technical people. If you know something about how devices and systems operate, it's a big advantage.

Daniel Kahneman

We're beautiful devices. The devices work well; we're all experts in what we do. But when the mechanism fails, those failures can tell you a lot about how the mind works.

Charles Golvin

Microsoft in the long term wants the kind of strong position in mobile devices that it has in PCs,

Robert Kiyosaki

Today, medical devices such as catheters and stethoscopes use silver, and every hospital in the western world uses silver sulfadiazine to prevent infections.

Michael Gartenberg

The problem was that the devices weren't very good, the screens were terrible, the prices were too high and there was a terrible selection of content.

Mark Murray

It doesn't do us any good to hide our head in the sand with regard to what is hazardous. The manufacturers of these devices need to take responsibility for phasing out the use of toxic materials and for taking back their devices.

Ken Dulaney

Those input devices haven't been perfected like the mouse has. They're not as easy to move the cursor with.

Ha-Joon Chang

Markets are, in the end, man-made devices for utilitarian purposes, not a force of nature that we should not try to resist. If they end up serving the interests of only a tiny minority, as is increasingly the case, we have the right - and indeed the duty - to regulate them in the interest of greater social good.

Rodney Pratt

Will has been a solid piece for us. I was pleased with his performance. He's a very efficient rower for his weight.

Bill Rice

We just want to make sure it is efficient and is not duplicative of existing systems.

Ellen Miller

You can either make a generic product and be so efficient that you offer a low price, or, if you make something totally unique, you can win, because you don't have the pressure of competition,

David Black

We get sales leads from many different directions, and we needed a system that could manage those automatically in order to effectively pursue our leads. Before that, our follow-up was not as efficient as we wanted, so this was essential.

Margot Wallstrom

We have not been efficient enough in communicating the EU. We have not invested enough in listening,

Jason Nelson

I was very impressed to see how well it is planned out, that they are concentrating on more efficient means of transportation for the community.

Dee Bell

We can play if we're efficient and we're able to defend.

Tom Brady

You always want to be perfect out there. But it's about really improving all parts of the game and trying to be more efficient on offense.

Charlie Richardson

We'll make sure that its operating safely, venting properly and as efficient as it can possibly be.

Feist

You're an enormous sponge and everything goes in there and you squeeze it out in songs, I guess. And if you're a painter, you squeeze them out on to a canvas.

C. S. Lewis

This must be a simply enormous wardrobe!

Michael Chertoff

That would be hugely, hugely difficult, and require an enormous expenditure of resources.

Peter O'Toole

No one can take Jesus away from me. There's no doubt there was a historical figure of tremendous importance, with enormous notions. Such as peace.

Ruth Ozeki

The American society around me looked at me and saw Japanese. Then, when I was 19, I went to Japan for the first time. And suddenly - what a shock - I realized I wasn't Japanese; they saw me as American. It was an enormous relief. Now I just appreciate being exactly in the middle.

Stella Young

Many of us, particularly those of us with disabilities who have faced persistent discrimination throughout our lives, not least when trying to find employment in the first place, take enormous pride in our hard-fought jobs and careers.

Arthur Stein

We have the largest non-teaching hospital in the state, ... Whether you like or not, it is an enormous asset, and we often treat it like a stepchild.

Preston Sturges

It was actually the enormous risks I took with my pictures, skating right up to the edge of non-acceptance, that paid off so handsomely.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Whoever you are: some evening take a step out of your house, which you know so well. Enormous space is near.

Scotty George

We're really testing the patience of investors who have lost substantial sums of money. We're also testing technical levels, with stocks expanding or retracting as we get near key lows.

Seline Skoug

We're really hoping that in the next year or so, we can expand even more.

Dakota Pawlicki

We really want to expand as an RSO and help the community.

Ted Roof

Well expand what were doing a little bit.

Stan Pohmer

To be complete, to be a destination for food rather than just a place to pick up a few staples, Target really has to expand its grocery.

Andrew Sukawaty

Basically, it is going to expand our services and extend the life of our service to the end of the next decade,

Sal Galatioto

I expected the hockey fans to want hockey. The question is will they be able to expand the business. The stronger teams are going to be in good shape. We'll see what happens to more marginalized franchise.

Rahm Emanuel

Here in Illinois it's known as Kid Care, and I talked about expanding it to family care. So if you work full- time, you get health care.

Richard Preston

Here's what's terrifying about Ebola. Ebola is invisible. It's a monster without a face. With the science that we have now, we can perceive Ebola as being not one thing but as a swarm, and the swarm is moving through the human population and expanding its numbers. It has the qualities of a monster.

Rick Sherlund

Microsoft needs to show all the 'eye candy' features that reside in Vista.

Scott Roesch

You'll see people doing short films and people doing features specifically for the Net, as opposed to people using it as a stepping-stone.

Zahi Hawass

Many parts of the granite statues were found, the most important of which had features close to Ramses II. The statue needs some restoration and weighs between four and five tons.

Robert Scoble

On mobile, make sure Facebook's app can know where you are. That not only makes features like Nearby Friends possible but also makes your feed have a few items from your location.

Matthew Stewart

One of the distinguishing features of anything that aspires to the name of science is the reproducibility of experimental results.

Romy Schneider

I wish to present myself in front of the camera, each time under the features of a different woman. I would like to live and apprehend the problems, the conflicts, the feelings and the impulses of women radically different from me.

Devon Bostick

I have been writing since 11th grade, and have a few features that have almost gotten off the ground. I really want one of my features to come to life.

Chris Stokes

I feel that I will be more of a feature director, and I will go away completely from videos. I want to do features and have written several of them. I'm looking to be more like a Steven Spielberg.

Elizabeth Mitchell

I am very benign-looking. I'm somewhat like a golden retriever: It's not hard to look at me. I'm perfectly fine. It's not like things jut out and make you nervous. But the lovely thing about being so pale and having such pasty features is that I can look like pretty much anything, which is nice.

Edmund Stoiber

The political situation has changed. The SPD is no longer so predictable,

Brittany Snow

I'm very lazy; if it takes me longer than 15 or 20 minutes to get ready, then I don't want to do it. So I wear a lot of jeans and T-shirts and very normal kind of tomboyish sort of things.

Bruno Seraphim

The Argentine question has in part been resolved, at least in the very short term, so shares no longer need to price in that question.

Chuck Palahniuk

Most novels, I find, are three times longer than they need to be. Very little happens, and I don't want to waste my time with them.

Jessa Gamble

Why would you have a work day that does not respond to shorter or longer day length? There's something that we lose, taking our schedules away from that locally relevant rhythm.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

You can have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in you power.

Nicholas Haysom

The problem we have is that the longer the delay, the more problems there will be distributing nationwide,

Jeff Horner

I wore it longer than I should have.

Richard Branson

I was very nervous because it took a lot longer to get down the runway than we predicted.

Tina Brown

When Obama heralds another 'teachable moment,' it means he has already made an egregious rookie mistake.

Will Chase

'Miss Saigon' taught me what it means to help carry a big show, and it had some of the most gorgeous songs wrote.

David Wenham

My representation overseas can't stand me doing theatre because it takes me out of action. But it's what I want to do. If it means passing up other possibilities, them's the breaks.

David Foster

With Celine Dion, we were selling 25 million records a pop. 'Pop' stands for 'popular.' It means we're plugging into the masses.

Dev Hynes

'Chamalkay' is an old Guyanese slang word. It means a 'young mischievous girl.' It's not derogatory, but it isn't over complimentary, either. It was probably a word I just Googled one day, and the song kind of played into the feel of that.

Mickey Rourke

The acclaim I'm getting for 'The Wrestler' means everything in the world to me. But it also means I can't take my foot off the gas pedal.

Charles Gargano

That was why we privatized the World Trade Center, by means of a 99-year net lease.

Marcus Samuelsson

For many sports fans, the onset of fall only means one thing: It's football season!

Mary Ellen Mark

What you look for in a picture is a metaphor, something that means something more, that makes you think about things you've seen or thought about.

Matthew Felling

That was really a retelling of an old tale at that point, and that's not what most people turn to news networks for.

Susan Kane

You have to find a network of 'Mom' friends,

Doug Gay

It hasn't really surfaced in official networks but that is something we have heard,

Charles Golvin

Manufacturers need to synchronize handset releases with network launches.

E. Hicks

It does make people more vulnerable. The wires aren't there to be seen. ... Wireless networks are much less secure.

Bob Egan

Unfortunately, users may not know a network does not support 911 services until they make those calls.

Ed Graczyk

We are providing the broadest offering with the most flexibility for our network operators. Each of these services represent something unique to the operator.

Karla Homolka

My support network and my friends are here. I like Quebec a lot.

Gene Pierce

He can't outspend us, he doesn't have a grass-roots network like ours, and he's got no credibility on the issues. So how does that make him a front-runner?

Gin Wigmore

It's easy listening to a record, but a live performance is so personal and real.

Kenny Jackett

That was as well as we've played this year - particularly the first 45 minutes. The performance was excellent.

Fabio Capello

We could have used a performance like that on our side.

Mark Morris

A recording of a performance is a recording of a performance. It's not the performance.

Richard Lewis

My performance level has risen - and my anxiety-level has sky-rocketed.

Theresa Gattung

We're very pleased with the performance in the New Zealand business.

Lee McConnell

We're very pleased with our performance, but the Poles have protested,

Helen McCrory

You can be moved by a performance on set, but when you see it on screen, it does nothing. Yet there will be someone you simply didn't notice on set that on screen: bam!

Philippe Petit

Wire-walking in performance is one thing - I never fell, of course. If I had, I wouldn't be here talking about it.

Dinsha Patel

Today, there is a large scale corruption in Gujarat.

Cindy Moore

We are scaling it back. It's going to go off but not on the scale of $20,000.

David Suzuki

We have altered the physical, chemical and biological properties of the planet on a geological scale. We have left no part of the globe untouched.

Ginni Rometty

We're about to scale something now that couldn't have been scaled before.

Anne Hathaway

On the scale of someone who's really laid-back about stuff and someone who worries a lot, I fall more towards the latter.

Ann Voskamp

Scales always lie. They don't make a scale that ever told the truth about value, about worth, about significance.

Geoffrey West

Everything around us is scale dependent. It's woven into the fabric of the universe.

Julie Sanders

We had to scale back down to about 30 interns this year.

Reid Hoffman

Most often I am only interested in an idea if it's going to get hundreds of millions of users. That's the scale that I am always trying to play to.

Bob DuPuy

We haven't secured it in other stadium deals,

Matt Emmons

Basketball made me happy to be tall. And more secure about myself than I ever would have been without it.

William Shakespeare

The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure.

Kai Holm

If we take a look at security right now, this place is probably the most secure place in the world.

Rick Comer

Secure the ball, get it out and don't pivot with it because they're pressuring us.

Larry Wade

We always look at how secure the berth is and what it can withstand,

Michael Gray

It would secure ounces that they desperately need to secure.

Francis Chan

There's no sense in improving your marriage until you are secure with God.

George Herbert

Nothing secure unlesse suspected.

John Hayes

We have always escorted our programs. We've always had security staff on our programs.

Simon Crisford

Wherever we travel around the world, we take security personnel, and this time will be no different.

Hamid-Reza Asefi

We are not worried by the Security Council, but it is the wrong method.

Jim Keller

It does give them a sense of security.

Lawrence Lindsey

I don't think we're going to be touching Social Security at all.

John Gadd

He didn't want welfare. He didn't want Social Security.

George Tenet

If one side does something, and the other side does something within the span of a security meeting, we can say we are into Tenet.

Byron Katie

There is no security for those who seek it outside of themselves.

Atifete Jahjaga

The security of the woman is the security of society.

Timothy Noah

The financial services industry is a ward of the state.

Jerry Yang

China's Web has grown away from just duplicating services from the U.S.

Dan Bailey

We're going to try and make it a one-stop social services fair,

Alan Davidson

Some of the most valuable new services won't be competitive.

Bill Graham

We think Web services has a way to go yet.

Pranab Mukherjee

Now after arrest, within three months, the consular services will have to be made available.

Matt Rosoff

A lot of the Windows Live services are things that had already been in development by MSN,

Tim Chapman

This is going to be a social services disaster.

Connie Shade

This is where true coordination and sharing of services comes in.

Jason Simpson

With the US out today, volumes are pretty low.

Author unknown

Worrying works! 90% of the things I worry about never happen.

David Thomas

Worrying about anything but A&M right now is just foolish.

Armando Iannucci

There's something inherently comic about the fact that politicians make things worse by worrying too much about something.

Michelle Gomez

I bring so much of myself to each character that there's always a worrying point when I think: 'Oh no, I'm really that person.'

Aaron Brooks

So I don't have concerns, but we can't be worrying about that.

Carly Simon

Worrying too much about other people's ears and not my own, I lost my way.

Peter Kinder

You can't be worrying about everything all at once,

Paul Freeman

It's frustrating. It's exciting. It's nerve-wracking, ... It's worrying about those who are down there.