Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matthew Wagner

Our current thinking is around our IT distribution channel and direct. However, that's not to say we're ruling out deep partnerships with operators, which are key to making these products work, and we may collaborate on innovative approaches that leverage our respective strengths.

Luke Visconti

Diversity is a phrase that's tossed around, but we actually approach this as a business subject and measure how effective diversity management is in Corporate America.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Wu Hailong

Continuation of the negotiation is the most appropriate and realistic approach to the resolution of the issue.

Julian Elliott

Contrary to claims of 'miracle cures', there is no sound, widely-accepted body of scientific work that has shown that there exists any particular teaching approach more appropriate for 'dyslexic' children than for other poor readers.

David Anderson

Consistent with our opportunistic approach to improving our balance sheet, the purpose of this exchange offer is to improve Charter's financial flexibility by extending debt maturities and reducing overall indebtedness.

Peter Cullen

Everybody's going to approach a character differently, depending upon what they bring to it on their own intellectual level or their feelings from their heart and soul.

Peter Weir

There was a point of frustration, where I thought I should just take a film, even though I didn't want to. I was impatient with being at home. But I hung on to the approach I've always had, which is to wait for a project that I could contribute something unique to.

Shahid Kapoor

People may have found it difficult to approach me, and I realised it and have worked on it. I used to be socially shy. Now I have become a social animal. I go out, meet and interact with people.

Jackie Collins

My biggest critics have never read me.

Kofi Annan

If I give the impression we are a world government, we'll get even more critics and our critics will be emboldened,

Quinton Foreman

I think the critics are a lot right. And I think they are a little wrong.

David Cross

I've never thought of myself as a hoity-toity cultural critic.

Francis Ford Coppola

My big goal in life was always to figure out how I can make a lot of money so I can go off and make films irrespective of the opinion of the three or four critics who seem to rule the roost.

Justin Vernon

The way I see it is that I grew up with a good set of values, but it was never too strict. I was always encouraged to be a free-thinking individual. I spent the first five years out of high school trying to make it work in Eau Claire, then I had to leave because there wasn't enough going on in town.

Dale Carnegie

Encouragement makes a fault easy to correct, and a challenge easy to take on.

Robert H. Schuller

Tough times never last, but tough people do. You might add, "You're tougher than you give yourself credit for."

Sri Chinmoy

Our goal is not to have A problem-free life. But to conquer all the problems As they appear Along our life-road.

John Owen

He works in us and with us, not against us or without us; so that his assistance is an encouragement to the facilitating of the work, and no occasion of neglect as to the work itself.

Maya Angelou

My encouragement to you is to go tomorrow to the library.

Adrian Leppard

I am very encouraged by the response from members of the public.

Greg Power

But we're willing to try this because we want to do everything we can to encourage fishing.

Joe Franco

I encourage any student who has ever complained or been dissatisfied with this school to come out and run for one of these positions. The Student Government Association is here to better the lives of the students to this University, and I would like to see as many people try to be in this organization as possible.

Dave Bloom

The 'Wizard of Oz' is her favorite movie, and this past December, she was a part of the lullaby league in a production of the 'Wizard of Oz' in Flatwoods.

Kristin Gore

'Jitterbug Perfume' is one of my favorite books.

Debbie Garvin

What are the things I want to do for my family, myself and my favorite charity.

Karla Comfort

My favorite part is the scene from heaven.

Steven Whitney

My favorite of all the sports is football. I wasn't the starter as quarterback, but I ran the other team's offense in practice and it was nice to have all that responsibility on my shoulders. I like being the main guy.

Of all the tall tales, I think my favorite is the one about Eli Whitney and the interchangeable parts.

Bob Holthus

I'm very happy with the draw. If Lawyer Ron could win this, he'd be one of the favorites for the Kentucky Derby. It's your lifelong dream.

Ashton Bishop

This is my favorite kind of weather. I love it.

Lars Tatom

This is my favorite kind of thing to do.

Greg Ryan

The technology had not been obvious to larger companies, so that's how we were able to get the patent,

Jim Hartman

We just could not stop Dennett. He played large tonight.

John Davidson

I still like Maverick Tube, which is the largest provider of tubular product to that industry,

John Thompson

It is a little larger than we've ever done, but as we prepare for the jail, it's just something we need to do.

Peter Mandelson

It sometimes seems to me they won't be satisfied until they have seen proposals implemented that would ... wipe out large sections of agriculture in Europe,

Gregory Kutz

They are really not weapons of mass destruction, they are weapons of mass disruption. They wouldn't necessarily have enough radiation to kill anyone, but they could require the shutdown of potentially large parts of the city.

Luis Diaz

There were so many of them and a large portion were already on the beach. We're just making sure no one drowns.

Sean M. Carroll

I'm a big believer that science is part of a larger cultural thing. Science is not all by itself.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Small aberrations in doctrinal teaching can lead to large and evil falsehoods.

Richard Branson

Remember the to-do list but don't forget the to-be list.

Terence Lewis

Food does not rank high on my list. I eat to live, and I'm very particular about my diet. It's strictly low fat diet for me.

Jill Scott

When I was 12, I wrote a list of things to do before I died. 'Own a Picasso' was one of those things.

Giuliana Rancic

To be a true fashionista, you have to be on the best-dressed list and worst-dressed list.

Mike Parry

Making predictions is like throwing a dartboard at the fixture list

John Hodgman

One can always come up with funny lists and jokes. You know what? I take it back. Not everyone can always come up with funny lists and some jokes. I'm very lucky to have a gift where I can do that pretty ably.

Bill Callahan

A number of us talked about what we would do if we had come on him when he was loose, and you wouldn't be having a trial right now if that had occurred.

Gray Davis

the most qualified person on question number two.

Alex Ferguson

Myths grow all the time. If I was to listen to the number of times I've thrown teacups then we've gone through some crockery in this place. It's completely exaggerated, but I don't like people arguing back with me.

Alexa Chung

I mix my own lipsticks, so I don't really keep track of the brand as it's usually a number of them I've smushed together.

Alice Walker

I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.

Richard Bach

Numbers are limits, and perfection doesn't have limits.

Robert A. Heinlein

To assess the intelligence of a committee, divide the IQ of its stupidest member by the number of members.

Ross Kemp

Some people figure that if they're part of a gang then they have less of a chance of being killed, because they are in larger numbers. But the problem with this is that it will lead to people doing stuff that they wouldn't usually do.

Vernon Jordan

A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.

Jason Mraz

I started with a website, Jasonmraz.com, pre-YouTube. You could e-mail me directly, and I would send you a CD.

Sun Microsystems

If the U.S. side is willing to send an envoy here, we are willing to have consultations,

Ayn Rand

He, too, stood looking at her for a moment--and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after an absence, but the look of someone who had thought of her every day of that year. She could not be certain, it was only an instant, so brief that just as she caught it, he was turning...

Brad Pitt

I've been in these tabloids for 14 years now, and at some point you just become a Zen master of it all

Jan Schakowsky

In Illinois, community, migrant, homeless and public housing health centers operate 268 primary care sites and serve close to 1 million patients every year.

Al Davis

If it weren't for a new rule that came into being, we'd have played three years in a row in the championship game.

Frank Gehry

We want that center, we yearn for it, we need it. It shouldn't look like New York or Paris, it should look like us.

Janice Dickinson

I started Botox the first year it came out. I was the first one in line, and I have had Botox every six months since then.

Bobby Womack

I started with Sam Cooke when I was 6 or 7 years old.

Bobby Scott

Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads.

Bobby Sherman

In the last 5 years I've been working with the LAPD, training police officers in first aid and CPR.