Famous Quotes & Sayings

Will Davis

The old channel numbers just don't mean what they did 10, 20 or 50 years ago. Welcome to the digital world.

Jiao Yang

Some scrap metal dealers have become a channel for fencing stolen material.

Richard Wright

Blues, spirituals, and folk tales recounted from mouth to mouth . . . all these formed the channels through which the racial wisdom flowed.

Rick Carlisle

Every point counts right now. I know David regrets what happened. We have to channel our emotional energy into emotional strength. That's got to be one our goals as we head down the stretch.

Julie Regan

There's nothing that bans commercial service in our plan. We're not putting a line in the sand, but the channeling of the river has changed. We need to work together. We want to be part of the solution.

Susan Gunnell

We teach our girls it's OK to be afraid, but it's not OK to panic. Channel that fear to your energy or your strength.

Chris Partridge

What's happened over the past day will focus minds and possibly just channel their interests that much more toward getting this entity together as one. But political issues, political interference, always hold these things back. It is not going to be something that will be solved in six months.

David Schatsky

The fact that the Internet will influence nearly half of total retail sales in 2010 is staggering statistic for a shopping channel that will have been around for little more than 15 years by 2010.

Karen Parker

What we understand happened is that the operator, Mr. Miller, did not see the channel marker and hit it on the right side in about the middle of the vessel. The passenger, Mr. Ogle, was ejected. He hit the channel marker and landed back in the boat.

James Steel

Any hint of recovery in industrial recovery there is a good sign, ... it was a supporting factor to the rally.

Rey Mysterio

Reading helps me be more creative, it helps my imagination and I like the fact that it gives me some quiet time,

John Challenger

People who have been out for a while say, 'I've got to get back to work,' so they take downgraded jobs, ... Maybe they can't get a job as the plant manager, so they try to get a job as a manager on the factory line and work their way back up.

James Mcewan

People hate the fact that they kidnapped people, including a little child.

Preston Clark

The spectator traffic wasn't even a factor today. With this weather, they all headed for the hills.

Peter Lehman

The technology needs to get out of the lab and into the factory to reduce costs,

George Shinn

Some people have asked, particularly from New Orleans, do I think that the fact that it's going to be a sellout is reason enough to go back there? My feeling is that these three games couldn't be like a referendum. Supporting one, two or three games is not akin to the whole season.

Janet Baker

Speech technology is not perfect, not by a long shot. The fact is, speech recognizers are not as good as humans, and they'll never be.

Johnathan Frakes

So, the premise of the show, that there were in fact aliens from Roswell who had infiltrated the public, I thought was very intriguing and very sellable.

Irish Proverb

A questioning man is halfway to being wise.

Robert McCullum

The start of the second half is probably the worst we've opened the second half all year." ()

Henk Bekedam

Roughly half of the new infections are sexually transmitted. The other 48 percent comes from intravenous drug users, and the remaining 2 percent are vertical transmissions from mother to child.

Jay Frye

The score right before the half was a huge key. We got a turnover late and were able to take it in for a score just before the half. That was a turning point, no doubt.

Mike Herakovic

It was ugly the first half of the game. It was ugly, but it was a win.

Jane Austen

Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly any body to love." (of Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth, Persuasion)

Miley Cyrus

I love my music so much, and I love what I'm doing so much that that has become my other half-rather than another person.

Boris Kodjoe

We shoot 12 to 14 hours a day. To do all that physical stuff yourself, you have to be on a nutritional plan. I have six or seven meals a day. I eat every hour and a half, and make sure it's all clean. I have absolutely no sugar at all.

John Grisham

Wrongful convictions happen every week in every state in this country. And they happen for all the same reasons. Sloppy police work. Eyewitness identification is the most - is the worst type almost. Because it's wrong about half the time. Think about that.

John Vessey

You have to set your "shove-it" tolerance someplace. But you also have to recognize that you, too, may be wrong, and that in two weeks' time you'll be "old what's-his-name" and won't be able to influence the situation at all.

Andrew Stanton

I almost feel like it’s an obligation to not further the status quo if you become somebody with influence and exposure.

Curtis Hanson

Rob Lowe, who I thought was really good in the movie [ Bad Influence], had his performance overshadowed by this sort of tabloid approach to him and the movie.

Ambrose Bierce

DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set.

Robert Harris

Orwell has always been a huge influence on me.

Tony Robbins

The person with the most certainty in a given situation will influence the other.

Thomas Harris

You cant reduce me to a set of influences.

Scott Weiland

Bowie's obviously my biggest influence.

Steven Morrissey

You are bound to pick up influences.

Carine Roitfeld

A lot of rumours on the Internet are wrong and horrible.

Al Gore

As many of you know, I was very instrumental in the founding of the Internet

Aristotle

We are what we reblog.

Ben Huh

The Internet's a big enough place for everybody to be happy.

David Clarke

We might just be at the point where the utility of the Internet stalls--and perhaps turns downward.

Chuck D.

The Internet is one area that I have used pretty effectively to break free of corporate control.

Tim Berners-Lee

Things can change so fast on the internet.

Mark Zuckerberg

Free basic internet access should be like dialing 911 in the US or 100 in India.

Rod Lache

I think it's a smart move because it's less deceptive. People who are going on the Internet can get the right news up front.

Chris Phillips

Sometimes our passing was without a purpose. When we did pass with a purpose, we were very good, but not nearly long enough.

Joe Adams

Steroids are not really needed, ... You can get nearly the same results through training.

John Joyce

Services now represent nearly 50 percent of IBM's revenue.

Geoffrey Zakarian

When I entertain, I want to have fun. But I'm also a control person. I don't go in for those everyone-in-the-kitchen cooking scenes. So if I want to be with my guests, I have to do everything - or nearly everything - in advance.

Jeff Barker

This is a competitive business, like any other retail business. It's very important to stay on point.

Peter Cardillo

The retail sales are a real blow-out number.

S. Walker

We're not going to do that. I think the retailers would go nuts.

Brian Tracy

Resolve to be among the top 20% of salespeople who make 80% of the sales.

Jon Hanson

Token sales have spiked, ... Token use has spiked.

Miley Cyrus

I love everything [Jessica Simpson] ever has on! Jessica can definitely come pick me up in her little Mercedes and take me shopping if she wants!

Suze Orman

Ignore the annual percentage rate when shopping for a mortgage.

Simone de Beauvoir

Buying is a profound pleasure.

Sophie Kinsella

I am not a label snob and have learned that the thrill of shopping can be just as great, if not more so, when you find a bargain.

Swoosie Kurtz

When [we]were first married, [Wade] begged me to be practical...thank God I lived by my credo: 'Veni, vidi, visa - I came, I saw, I charged it.

Margaret Mahy

For in some ways the world was like a shopping centre, and he himself was a doubtful customer, often ineffectual, being talked into buying things he didn't want, things indeed which nobody in their right mind would want to buy.

Jean Kerr

I was always the last woman on the last down elevator as the store was closing.

Florence King

God may have loved the common people, but a trip to any shopping mall suggests that He made far too many of them.

Fran Drescher

I choose the places I go to carefully and wisely. I'll rarely go to a shopping mall anymore.

Albert Einstein

If I can't picture it, I can't understand it.

Maurice Chevalier

Considering the alternative. . . it's not too bad at all.

John Ralston Saul

I have a theory of statistics: if you can double them or halve them and they still work, they are really good statistics.

Michael Crichton

Theories are just fantasies. And they change.

Hippocrates

And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.

Bertrand Russell

Zeno was concerned with three problems... These are the problem of the infinitesimal, the infinite, and continuity.

H. G. Wells

Satan delights equally in statistics and in quoting scripture....

Horace

We are just statistics, born to consume resources.

Hannah Arendt

Every thought is an afterthought.

Amy Jordan

I wanted to do something totally out of the ordinary,

Janet Johnson

When I got the assessment, I went into total meltdown.

Keith Olbermann

And the White House, totally off the script.

Marcia Gay Harden

They tell us in magazines and in ads, 'Oh, you should look like this, you should wear this, you should look like this movie star, or you're nothing.' And so we're all totally unsatisfied.

Iain McGilchrist

We have 26,000 genes. But a blind, millimetre-long roundworm with only 959 cells in total already has over 19,000.

John Howard

She was very distressed. She was very angry, she was very upset, and all of that is totally understandable.

Andray Blatche

Right now, I'm totally back, because I can do everything.

Ronnie Spector

From that first meeting, I totally loved working with Joey, it was a real collaboration.

Ahmed Plummer

I would like to start. That's what I've been doing here, but that's totally up to the coaches.