Famous Quotes & Sayings

Xun Zi

Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order.

Thomas J. Watson

If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

Wendelin Van Draanen

What sort of person you grow into should not be achieved by default, and often that's exactly what happens to kids. I see literature as a method of guidance, information, and contemplation, and consider it the greatest compliment possible when a reader tells me that a book of mine really made him/her think.

Virginia Postrel

People without children do have the freedom to do things that caring parents with dependent kids can't - to work long hours, to travel frequently, to relocate, and to do all these things on short notice if necessary. In return, they can achieve positions that devoted parents can't.

Bill Gates

I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful!

Yehuda Berg

The whole point of all of this - why we are here, why the world is here, and why we have the political system and leaders that we do - is to achieve change. This is the purpose of life.

Chris Bohjalian

My personal opinion is that, if you're a professional writer, that you do have quotas. So every day I do try to write 800-1,200 words. I don't always achieve it, and the reality is that a lot of the words I write will end up on the cutting-room floor.

David Beckham

I've played under some of the biggest and best managers and achieved almost everything in football. Of course it hurts when people question it, but I've come to the end of my career and can look back and say I've achieved everything with every club that I've played for.

Robert Rubin

The overarching point of the president's economic strategy going forward in the 1999 budget is clear: under no circumstances should we take any steps that will undo the fiscal discipline that we have worked so hard to achieve and has been so central to our strong economy of the last five years.

Isabella Bird

The cocoa-nut palm grows best near salt water, no matter how loose and sandy the soil is, and in these congenial circumstances needs neither manure nor care of any kind. It bends lovingly toward the sea and drops its ripe fruit into it.

William S. Hart

My ranch William S. Hart Park is for the benefit of the American Public of every race and creed.

Ellen G. White

Parents should have perfect control over their own spirits, and with mildness and yet firmness bend the will of the child until it shall expect nothing else but to yield to their wishes.

Don Miguel Ruiz

Whatever you perceive, you always make a story with yourself as the main character, and that dictates your life. Then when you read 'The Four Agreements', you hear another voice beneath the story, the voice that comes from your integrity, your spirit.

Clint Stretch

The political problem is that a lot of the people who will benefit from the AMT being repealed don't know they have the problem yet.

Li Rongrong

The overseas markets are more regulated and Chinese companies can benefit and learn to fine-tune corporate structure and governance. So listing overseas first and then coming back to list will also benefit the domestic stock market.

D. James

The overall solution is aimed at fast-moving products. We will tune the system for others later, but the initial benefits case had been made on inventory savings, and savings in the distribution centers on products that we order often.

Dr. Bhatt

The overall findings were negative, but a benefit was seen in patients with established cardiovascular disease.

Mike Honda

The Patriot Act addresses various subjects. Some sections are beneficial and enhance our national security.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

The increased consumption of alcoholic beverages in Canada since the outbreak of war is one evidence of this.

Jack Bicknell

That was a great catch, ... He's going to be a good player and is another freshman who we have to try and get on the field. We have some true freshmen like Wheeler, Harrison, Jackson, Brown, and maybe even Chad Beverage and Brian White who can help us this year. We have more true freshman ready to go than I ever remember, and that's a sign of good recruiting.

James Lane

I don't know of any other beverage or herb or anything like that that would help people perk up in the morning.

Larry Twombly

We feel that this is a great deal for both Hat Trick Beverage and Central Park North Records, as both companies are growing, and as Hat Trick Beverage is investing more resources in the Urban and Hispanic markets.

Gordon Absher

Top chefs will indeed be a part of our food and beverage program. We are in the process of consulting with chefs we may invite to be part of our IR (integrated resort).

William Lyon Mackenzie King

No one will deny that the excessive use of alcohol and alcoholic beverages would do more than any other single factor to make impossible a total war effort.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

The greatly increased consumption of alcoholic beverages is very largely a direct result of the increased purchasing power created by wartime expenditures.

John Sicher

Wal-Mart's growth and power is changing how consumers buy products and how beverage companies sell products. The lawsuit is about Coke and its bottlers trying to come to terms with that.

Paul Rogers

Our fund has focused on consumer staples, like food and beverages and tobacco, where we think despite the economic environment of the region those companies will continue to see strong cash flow.

Gabriel Mann

Whenever somebody hates you too much it usually means they have deeper feelings for you because nobody bothers to hate you unless they actually feel something.

Don Rickles

My father was an insurance man and a small-time gambler. He was a good man, but he had an eye for the racehorses, and I saw how it used to bother my mother. I've never gambled a dime. Never, in all those years in Vegas.

Brittany Howard

Contacts would bother me. I'm just not that used to them. I think glasses are a great accessory.

Craig Conroy

That was the difference tonight. We had some opportunities, some chances to score, but it just didn't go in for us. The bottom line is we're going to score goals. We just have to work hard and keep moving forward and not let this bother us.

Eleanor Norton

We have trivialized this park, residents make too little use of it, and tourists don't know where it is, ... Neither the city or the federal government has bothered to make maximum use of it. The problem is that it had no plan and it's in a state of great deterioration.

Joseph Garcia

We came out lethargic in the first half. Audra (Major's) back was bothering her like it did before Christmas, and the guards really had to step it up.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

I always find the first thing that really bothers me when I start a screenplay is, I have to find a different form. You can't follow the form of the novel. It's a different thing completely. It's impossible. You just somehow have to find a structure for the whole thing. You have to crack that.

David Eckstein

We had our chances. I think his hamstring was bothering him. There was a play when he didn't run to cover first base. There may be something there.

Bruce Bowen

We had opportunities, ... We just made a couple mental mistakes down the stretch? That?s what bothers us the most.

Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

I hate plastic bottles. Just think about it before you buy one. We pay more for a gallon of water than we do for a gallon of gas. I think people will realize that water quality standards in most municipalities are as good or better for the stuff coming out of the tap than bottled water companies. You'll save money and save the environment, too.

John Sicher

I think certainly there's a certain set of American consumers interested in healthy beverages. Water is certainly a healthy beverage. There has been a great deal of bottled water, a huge proliferation in the last four or five years since it was bottled in convenience packaging.

Don Ryan

We can put out the call for bottled water and have it sent to them the most direct route possible. There will be no red tape, no waiting, no delays.

Chris Zwettler

We ended up getting bottled up pretty good because we had an extra player who wasn't supposed to be there. It was a mistake.

Ben Thatcher

I have never bottled anything in my life and I'm not going to start now,

Deborah Conrad

If all the chemicals in secondhand smoke were bottled up and sprayed in somebody's face, I'm sure that it would be an assault.

Stephen Kay

For those consumers who want fluoride in their drinking water and want to choose bottled water, those brands are out there.

Lisa Jennings

God puts the right people together. We want clothes in decent shape and suitcases and backpacks to carry stuff around in, canned goods, bottled water. Our goal is to leave Sunday for Jackson, Mississippi...We chose that because no emergency workers have showed up, but we're hoping for three vans full.

Garrett Gomez

He's got phenomenal speed. If he can keep that bottled up and enjoy himself, he's ten times better.

Dennis King

We have a lady who drives down from Gladwin for a cherry Coke.

John Gavin

will go a long way toward restoring investor confidence in Wall Street. He knows his way around the investment community. He is also a chartered financial analyst. Those people, since I'm one of them also, tend to be more rigorous on ethics issues. That to me is the cherry on the sundae.

Hale Irwin

I think maybe he's starting to come to the realization he can't drive that first green at Cherry Hills like he did in 1960,

Ed Thompson

Had we known when we were designing Cherry what we know now, we probably would have designed it to have two trails.

Jerry Jones

We've also done planting on Adams' Farm and in Cherry Creek, so this is only part of it.

Rhea Perlman

When I was a kid, I loved having a book in my hand. I still do. I wasn't a fast reader, but I was a steady reader. I read all of The Bobbsey Twins, Nancy Drew, and Cherry Ames books.

Ciara

I've had purpose because I've always wanted to be successful, but having my son is the cherry on top. He makes me go harder in achieving all that I've dreamed of.

Joyce Meskis

We'd love to be able to have a presence in Cherry Creek. We'll have to see how the story evolves.

Robert M. Parker, Jr.

Trevisan is one of the few Paso Robles producers to recognize the potential of the region's old-vine Zinfandel, which he blends with Syrah and Mourvedre and labels with fanciful names such as Problem Child, the Outsider and Cherry Red.

Yakov Smirnoff

I was this non-threatening funny guy who contrasted the image of the Brezhnevs and the Reagans of the world.

Imelda May

I'm not filthy rich! I'm not as rich as people think. It's funny, isn't it?

Idina Menzel

I would love to play 'Funny Girl' or 'Evita,' but I idolize the women who have played those parts. I don't know if there needs to be another version of those shows.

Ian Frazier

Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.

Gaines Adams

It's funny, as a little kid, you look up to those guys who you play as in 'Madden,' and now to see myself in the game, it's an honor.

Whoopi Goldberg

I don't have to be bam, bam, bam, funny when I'm working. I can tell stories, and there's some funny in them.

Constance Wu

I do think there are some actors that can get away with trying to be funny, and they're still funny because they're just likeable, and you want to see them. Me, though, when you see me trying to be funny, it's like the worst thing in the world. It's needy, it's cloying, it's manipulative - it's bad.

Chris Bohjalian

Why a ghost story? Well, I love them. They're fun to read - and, yes, fun to write.

Don Rickles

If something strikes me as funny, I'll put it in my performance.

Yotam Ottolenghi

You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.

Yanni

The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.

Yanis Varoufakis

I was told once by a leftwing scholar that as a Marxist, you have to do two things: always be optimistic and always have a view about everything. That advice still sounds good to me.

Thierry Henry

I've always loved New York; I've been visiting New York since 1996. People don't look at you like, 'What are you doing? What are you wearing?' There is also that thing that when people know that you have worked hard to get something, people have that respect for that here. You worked hard - good for you.

Iggy Azalea

I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.

Ice T

I'm in a very good place to make records. Needing to make money off music is very dangerous.

Idina Menzel

I used to be someone that needed nine hours of sleep; otherwise, I didn't think I was going to sound good when I sang, and I was very disciplined and anal about my preparation. When you become a parent, there just isn't that time, you know?

Idina Menzel

I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.

Ivar Giaever

Understanding truth is the primary objective of science, not doing good for the world.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'

Wendelin Van Draanen

Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I'm on the creative end of things, I'm discovering that they're even more fun to write!

Jose Diaz

The police are not very nice in Mexico. And you learn that growing up.

Sharon Doering

The patents that are expiring make up a significant portion of their results. They're not going to be one of the top growth stories -- probably only single-digit (percentage-wise) in 2000 and 2001.

Tiffany Shlain

The past year has been one of outrageous growth for the Internet, and it's not only become bigger, but better... more substantial and more mature.

Brooke Smith

I remember seeing 'A Moon for the Misbegotten' with Colleen Dewhurst, and that made a really big impression on me, and I remember wanting to be like her and I still want to be like Colleen Dewhurst! My mom took me to a lot of theatre growing up, and I also remember seeing Pippin and being like, 'Wow!

C. S. Lewis

If we will not learn to eat the only food that the universe grows...then we must starve eternally.

C. S. Lewis

When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going on. A man does not always say to himself, "hullo! i'm growing up." It is only when he looks back that he realises what has happened and recognises it as what people call "growing up.

C. S. Lewis

Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.

Charles Ramsey

We could light this town up if we had to, but we don't intend to do that,

Rick Warren

My ultimate goal... is for you to live the life you're intended to live.

William Cohen

We intend to take down that terror network.

Hilly Kristal

We intend to stay. This is not a eulogy. There's no reason why we shouldn't come to an understanding.

Bruce Hamilton

We intend to rebuild, if it's possible, but until everything comes together, we just have to wait. I think it will be possible.

Stephen Ferguson

We intend to put this to rest today.

Sergei Lavrov

We intend to proceed without any sudden moves.

Ken Leavitt

We intend to meet our obligations, one way or another.

Dave Anderson

We aren't going to be running this channel, the public is going to be running it. We intend to manage it.

Paula McLain

I get suggestions all the time. People feel quite free at events or even on the street to tell me what they think I should be writing. What I've learned, though, is that this thing, this connection, has to be in place for me to be able to kind of launch into a world imaginatively.

Craig David

We wanted to have a quiet launch to work out the kinks beforehand,

Jim Lewis

Most of the mass is simple stuff, just wires and beams, nuts and bolts. There's just no reason to launch this stuff from the space shuttle. (The expense) would kill a program dead.

Wayne Hale

We have not set an official launch date,

Liu Jingmin

We are preparing to launch the booking system of the tickets for the Games.

Kevin Kay

We want to launch one big reality show a quarter.

Bill Gerstenmaier

I think it's wrong to take the (May) launch period and speculate whether we will make it or not. That puts schedule pressure on the teams.

James Barnett

We are thrilled to launch construction of our new building.

Gail Davidson

One of the two main things we had going for us was that we had no money, so we couldn't just launch into making the mould because, if we had, we would have wasted a lot of time and money,

Gail Carriger

Most of the names in my books have secondary meaning. Sometimes they foreshadow; sometimes they tell you about the character's origin or back story.

Brendon Urie

My favorite electric guitar would have to be my Duesenberg. I've named her 'Dolores,' and she sings like an operatic menace.

CC Sabathia

It's a great feeling to have the stadium rocking and chanting my name.

Carrie Vaughn

What the hell kind of name is Kitty for a werewolf?

Carl Perkins

You can knock me down, step on my face, slander my name all over the place. Do anything that you want to do, but uh-oh, honey, lay off of my shoes.

Carl Reiner

If you can get a laugh out of a name, you're ahead of the game.

Bette Davis

Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.

Berenice Marlohe

I totally heard by chance that they were doing the casting for a James Bond movie, and that one of the auditions was taking place in Paris. So I tried myself to contact every name involved in the movie I could possibly find on the IMDb!

Ashton Kutcher

I feel like a fraud... My name is not even actually Ashton. Ashton is my middle name.

Mitchell Baker

People are more naturally protective of what they create than of what they consume.

Tony McCoy

I think I'm skilful enough, but I don't consider myself a naturally talented, gifted sports person.

Dave Schreiner

We do these things naturally and we don't talk about them.

John Key

I always had a long-term view of going into politics, so I suppose I was always careful. I mean, I got offered all these rinky dink tax deals, but I always paid my taxes. I am naturally quite conservative.

Leon Askin

We wanted to bring the political situation in Austria on stage. Naturally we could not do that without pointing to Austrian's northern neighbor Germany.

Edmund Hillary

I think my first thought on reaching the summit- of course, I was very, very pleased to be there, naturally - but my first thought was one of a little bit of surprise. I was a little bit surprised that here I was, Ed Hillary, on top of Mt. Everest. After all, this is the ambition of most mountaineers.

Chester Brown

It's not so much that I got that idea at some point, it came up naturally because of the improvisational nature of the story I was telling.

Starsmith

When I've worked with established artists, I've naturally been more restricted, but you still have to take risks and push yourself to do something different.

Jeff Barker

People are naturally curious, they want to see what's going on.

Zach Braff

I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn't written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me.

Wesley Ruggles

A figure with curves always offers a lot of interesting angles.

Bill Hader

I was offered a lot of supporting crazy parts in comedies because that's all I had done.

Nicole Holofcener

I have a stack of scripts that I've read - I'm in the lucky position where I get offered things - but I haven't wanted to direct many of them.

Harry Reid

The amendments were being offered by people who didn't want the bill.

Nigel Turner

We were stuck in the 1970s in terms of our offering to our customers.

Lou Styles

We've got some offers here in town, ... Our feelers are out.

Rick Wagoner

We have to offer products people want to buy, not have to buy,

Michelle Clark

We're very satisfied. We're very pleased to be able to offer this service.

Anton Corbijn

Grain is life, there's all this striving for perfection with digital stuff. Striving is fine, but getting there is not great. I want a sense of the human and that is what breathes life into a picture. For me, imperfection is perfection.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Perfection is attained, not when no more can be added, but when no more can be removed.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Perfection is reachednot when there's nothing to add, but when there's nothing to take away.

Baz Luhrmann

I am always worried when someone says, 'This is perfect.

Megan Fox

I think it's perfectly acceptable not to run with cliques.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.

Azzedine Alaia

Perfection is never achieved, so you need to go on working.

William Shakespeare

How many things by season seasoned are To their right praise and true perfection!

Phil Schiller

Our approach at Apple has always been to make products we're proud to own and use ourselves.

Meg Graham

The quality and sterility of the products made there was never in question.

Al Rauch

I think most of the biotech products are going to be safe for the rest of the decade.

Deanna Anderson

Basically, we do it to showcase our products to celebrities.

Shane Robison

With managed services, we have a lot of products we can pull through.

Richard Segal

We think cross-selling is important, but we're not obsessing about whether one of those products is sports betting.

Bob Turner

There are some big inventories out there. The new products that they have talked about aren't out for another quarter or so. So it's probably going to be more of the same for some time.

Ayumi Hamasaki

It is necessary that I am viewed as a product. I am a product.

Connie Sellecca

We got to this point by constantly perfecting our products.

Michelle Reinig

We could never have done it. Two of them were in the water when we got there and one was on top of the ice.

Angus MacMillan

I wouldn't want to put a top on it at the moment. It has still got a lot of wind in its sales.

Steve Swasey

From top to bottom, Blockbuster is deliberately and willfully infringing on our patented methods.

Gary Hudson

For us to come out on top again, we've got to play hard, smart, and unselfishly.

Gary Linden

Going from underdog to top dog is exciting, but it comes with problems.

Gary Wright

We're on top of each other. It's very crowded.

Ed Burnsed

He is one of the top sprinters in the state.

Kerri Brown

Guarding the opponent's top scorer is a lot of work, and we all know that.

Dennis Thompson

I don't know what I'm going to say, ... I'll just go off the top of my head.