Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yahoo Serious

We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.

Thorstein Veblen

It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community.

Todd Rundgren

Sometimes being a musician has little to do with viability and everything to do with survivability. Many musicians start out great, and they wind up out of the business in 10 years.

Thomas J. Watson

To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart.

Imelda May

One thing that did get me into a lot of different types of music was when I was very young, the local record store went out of business and they were selling off all the vinyl. I remember going in - I was probably 16 or 17 and I'd just gotten a record player as a present. It was like hitting the jackpot: all these records for $3 apiece.

Ian Watson

People with a lot of money aren't in the business of throwing it away, and those paying footballers' wages, organising parking spaces for dead sharks, and even, dare I say it, buying iPads, are doing it because, for them, it's worth the money.

Gladys Knight

I know how hard it is to send two kids to college when you ain't got nothing. I know people may not think of me in that way, but this business gives you ups and downs.

Donald Trump

I had tremendous success in show business - star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 'The Apprentice' was one of the most successful shows.

Zac Goldsmith

You know I don't really have faith in politicians - this is quite a sleazy business. But there is no law which says that all politicians will turn out to be scumbags.

Bruce Feiler

It turns out there's only 10 minutes of productive conversation in any family dinner. The rest is taken up with 'take your elbows off the table' and 'pass the ketchup.' And what researchers have found is you can take that 10 minutes and put it in any time of the day and get the benefit. So, if you can't have family dinner, have family breakfast!

Ray Charles

I don't know about other writers, but for myself, to write I must be relatively quiet - it's very difficult to write with the telephone and the doorbell ringing and conversation going on; I'm not that good a writer to write through all that!

Ashton Kutcher

You know, photo conversations are replacing verbal conversations. I don't know if that's a bad thing. A photo is worth a thousand words.

Rainbow Rowell

Having a conversation on a landline is more intimate than talking to someone in person. Your voices are so clear and close - you're in each other's heads.

Richard Lugar

Very rarely does food enhance the conversation. If the food is really good, there'll be much less conversation because you'd be concentrating too much on the food.

Matthew Quick

The mental health conversation is very important to me. I have friends that struggle with various mental illnesses. I've struggled with depression and anxiety. I'm very interested in how we deal with that.

Mark Hanson

We're really inviting people into this as a conversation,

Mario Andretti

It makes great conversation to discuss what's wrong with open-wheel racing today.

Poe Ballantine

All my life, I never realized you could have a conversation with a ghost.

Julio Ziegelmann

The outlook improved when the debate in the Senate was moved up.

Tim Johnson

The American people in general won this debate.

Scott Horowitz

We know that there's hydrogen there?but there is a huge debate as to what that hydrogen is locked up with. If there is water there, that's a big deal?a huge impact on how we do exploration.

Paul Bloom

Most of us know nothing about constitutional law, so it's hardly surprising that we take sides in the Obamacare debate the way we root for the Red Sox or the Yankees. Loyalty to the team is what matters.

Mustafa Akyol

There is a heated debate in Turkey these days over whether the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is furthering democracy or rolling it back.

Gloria Arroyo

We're waiting for emotions to subside, and we hope that the opposition will go back to their seats so we can proceed with the debate and hopefully with the voting,

Don Grant

Most of the debate is framed in terms of us and them. You have some folks on the left saying how they help us. And then you have people on the right saying how they pose a threat to us.

Pamela Jones

Microsoft is in there, stirring up debate. The whole thing is more of a mess than it has to be.

Barack Obama

When students participate in debate, they learn to study issues in depth and from perspectives, a skill I use everyday in the Senate.

Sufjan Stevens

I still feel like I have a lot to learn in the realm of sound experimentation, and I think I would like things to get noisier and weirder and more distressed and more aggressive, but I don't know if that's something that would be suitable for public consumption.

Peter Gardner

I would be a little distressed should it be only one. I think...the world's operators are going to probably persuade Boeing that more than one is better. Whether three is required, I'm not sure.

Mark Latham

Greg had a marriage break-up and some troubles, an incident that was made public and was in a very distressed state, suffering depression,

Wilbur Ross

We are looking at many of these distressed (auto parts companies) that have some kind of proprietary technology and some scale of size.

Sharon Stone

You know, sometimes I feel well and vital in the world, and sometimes I just feel so distressed I want to pull my hair out by the roots.

Lekan Oguntoyinbo

We are naturally distressed that the numbers turned out the way they did, but we are not discouraged.

Kurt Vonnegut

When I'm being funny, I try not to offend. I don't think much of what I've done has been in really ghastly taste. I don't think I have embarrassed many people or distressed them.

Jane Moscowitz

She's very distressed to see her reputation taken away.

Mark Zandi

It is time to move on. House prices won't rise and the economy won't fully engage until more distressed properties are resolved and put back into ordinary use.

Ben Bernanke

the policies and policy strategies established during the Greenspan years.

Gary Christian

The pin placements were very hard, ... The greens were actually a little softer today, but the pins and the wind made them tougher. I knew there weren't going to be any 65s today.

Denis Napthine

The Greens simply don't understand that a strong economy is the key to a better Victoria for all Victorian families.

Brian Kelly

We need to keep our head down and keep digging. We'll just ride this wave out and take it to Green Bay.

Gary Nelson

We've got protections for Mono Lake now that make the Walker Lake people green with envy.

Mary Becker

Wadsworth, Copley, Revere and Green are all quality teams.

Jon Gruden

Just because I didn't work things out with Reidel Anthony and Jacquez Green and a lot of the young players that were here,

Barry McGuire

When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.

David Hogan

I still miss the South, the collard greens and the Bulldogs,

Floyd Abrams

Judy was very reluctant to seem to be putting pressure on a source to release her to speak. And at the time, it would not have solved the other issue.

Linda Eder

Judy is one of the reasons I'm a singer in the first place.

Bill Keller

Judy had been one of the reporters on the receiving end of the anti-Wilson whisper campaign.

Lisanne Altmann

I don't want people to think that this was for nothing. Judy recognizes that the leadership style needs to change.

Allison Tolman

As a newcomer, you know, you don't come out the gate as a singer and try to compare with Judy Garland.

Tony Shalhoub

She's like Judy Holliday with a real edge.

Rudyard Kipling

For the Colonel's Lady an' Judy O'Grady / Are sisters under their skins!

Robert Bennett

I don't want to represent a principle. I want to represent Judy Miller.

Jay Rosen

I just don't think there is any more Judy Miller credibility,

Jon Shurr

I thought I was getting into their heads. I started noticing that they were trying to find ways to get around me.

Agatha Christie

Any coincidencce is worth noticing. You can throw it away later if it is only a coincidence.

Mike Kundick

She is just an athlete. I am sure they are noticing her now.

Tim Hudson

It's something you'd have trouble noticing by yourself.

Gregory Maguire

Notice, notice; let noticing take the place of screaming.

Ron Wilson

We made a poor play on the power play and they took advantage. We could have quit, but we didn't.

Gary Parlin

(Barker) threw very poorly in practice on Tuesday.

Gerry Byrne

For the record, this is a poor decision.

Japanese Proverb

He is poor who does not feel content.

Andy Robinson

We were awful, we started poorly and never got in the game. At no stage did we put any pressure on the French.

Alan Kay

I hired finishers because I'm a good starter and a poor finisher.

August Wilson

Suffice it to say, I'm not poor.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What have they done to you, my poor child?

Carol Vorderman

If you're from a poor background, you have to work even harder. But that's what makes you who you are.

Mike Lorello

He tends to remind me about that a lot. You just have to roll with the punches around here.

Steve Yzerman

I don't know much about the techniques of fighting, but I know throwing a punch on skates is a lot different than throwing a punch from the ground.

Jamar Butler

We wanted to throw the first punch and come out like we did.

Frank Luntz

One of the things that you have trouble with politicians, particularly in Washington, is when you get mad at them and you can't touch them; you can't punch them; you can't yell at them.

Al Madrigal

I'm not much for setup... punch line. I talk about my kids. I talk about my wife.

Chuck Palahniuk

The joke is, we all have the same punchline.

Efraim Levy

Signs in the marketplace are showing it is not having the punch that it once had,

Brian Metcalf

We knew. We didn't want that knockout punch to come.

Troy Dayak

There was pushing and a lot of talking but I did not punch him,

Carrie Vaughn

You know, I'm sick and tired of people pointing rifles at me.

Carrie Brownstein

I got kind of tired of playing, I think. But I think it will be part of my life again, maybe.

Bill Hicks

I'm tired of this back-slappin' "isn't humanity neat" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes.

Robert Kiyosaki

Entrepreneurs don't finish when we are tired. We finish when we are done.

Kim Smith

It disrupts everything. Work, babysitters, (we're) just tired of it.

Jim Norton

We got tired of hauling it all over,

Bernie Bickerstaff

We got tired and we started to make mistakes. And we just didn't make shots.

Arab Proverb

On the day of victory no one is tired

Mariano Zabaleta

I was still tired from yesterday's match. But I am through and that counts.

Imelda May

I wash my face and put moisturiser on; I've never had a facial, and I don't get my hair or my nails done. I just do it all myself.

Armstrong Williams

In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations.

Randy Pausch

I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.

Linus Roache

I'd be willing to do anything. I'm not precious. I'd wash dishes.

Tim Anderson

I think that the stock's probably washed out for a while,

Mike Easley

We're considering everything right now, ... The most important thing is to see is what Washington does.

Seth Greenberg

Deron Washington is a wonderful kid. What he did was wrong and I can't condone it.

Jim White

It's very frightening. One day it's going to wash through and keep going.

Susan Brooks

Remarkably, there are leaders in Washington who don't understand why it's so important for us to have a budget.