Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Weller

When I was a kid in Woking, every week you went to the football dance, and every week the top kids would be wearing something different. You were constantly trying to catch up with them - which you could never do because, by the time you'd saved up enough to buy the item, they'd moved on to something else. That's the whole Mod thing, I suppose.

Jose Bove

Firstly consumers refused to buy these frozen chickens and producers reacted by producing more local chicken.

Ross Perot, Jr.

Every time there's a dip in the market, we buy. If you don't buy the land right, it ain't going to work.

Liu Jingmin

Except for those reserved for the Olympic family, most of the tickets will be sold on the market. Foreign spectators in 202 countries and regions worldwide can buy the tickets via their own Olympic committees.

Hilary Cook

There's renewed confidence - companies are feeling happy, they are feeling pretty good about life. They are saying we don't need this money for a rainy day: we can buy extra growth.

Franco Harris

There's probably going to be about $100 million spent to buy the property ... for all the roads and everything that goes into that. Guess who has to pay for that? It's going to be us, the taxpayers. We're going to pay that money.

Robert Hayes

The response has been tremendous. People hear it once, and they get up off the couch to buy the album.

Nestor Aguila

There's still time to buy before the long holiday.

Hiroaki Kuramochi

There's so much gloom out there it's hard to find any reason to buy right now.

Larry Freed

During this critical stage in the holiday shopping season, online retailers face huge challenges to maintaining high satisfaction. Those who aren't able to meet customer expectations online during the last week or two of the holiday shopping season risk the long-term impact of lessened customer loyalty during the weeks and quarters to come.

Peter Yesawich

This speaks volumes about the challenges contemporary families have simply coordinating schedules . . . and the premium they place on the increasingly limited leisure time they spend together.

Marilyn Miller

Protesting in the face of a grieving family is unacceptable.

Heather Casey

I can't put into words what I felt when I saw the look on her face as she realized something she did with her hands got her something she wanted.

Frank Martin

I'm at peace with understanding that I'm at a crossroads. I'm at peace understanding that it comes with the profession. ... But whenever you face the possibility of change, there's always a nervousness to it. We all want stability.

Mario Williams

I really have to face the fact that I'm leaving a great family here. I'm going to be in the real world now.

Giovanni Carrara

I'm ready... as much as I can be. I just missed too many days. You need to face batters, and I didn't for over two weeks. I'm behind, but I can make it up.

Paul Gleason

I'm looking forward to not having to prepare to face Jesse Lumsden,

Brian Keith

I'm just so proud of our team. To come in and face such a great team as Kountze, right now it's just so unbelievable.

Jamie Masada

The kid is not doing well. His kidney is not doing good. Half of his face is swollen,

Per Lindberg

The key question for investors now is whether they think Nokia's mobile margins are sustainable or not, ... I don't think they are, because this is a commodity-like market in the long term, and Nokia will face much stiffer competition.

Bobby Valentine

Koga put him in the No. 1 spot last year, and he got hot after that. I thought I'd follow suit.

Charles Kettering

In many ways ideas are more important than people - they are much more permanent.

Andrew Mellon

A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues.

Dwayne Johnson

I like the idea of working in different genres and transcending genres and hopefully finding success, and ultimately make movies people like.

Dwayne Johnson

The whole idea is just to continue to make movies that I enjoy playing and that audiences are going to enjoy me in, just to put out quality on a lot of different levels.

Colin Wilson

I'm basically a writer of ideas, and the English aren't interested in ideas. The English, I'm afraid, are totally brainless.

Colin Wilson

The Americans have always been more open to my ideas. In fact, I could earn a living in America just by lecturing. One of my brightest audiences, incidentally, were the prisoners in a Philadelphia gaol - brighter than my students at university.

Claude Bernard

We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.

Claude Bernard

Il ne fallait jamais faire des expériences pour confirmer ses idées, mais simplement pour les contrôler. We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.

Claude Bernard

A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.

Chris Larsen

Some people would say we're being overly-conservative. But I say we're being realistic for our first year planning.

Source Unknown

Some people would rather be wrong than quiet for a minute.

Harry Wang

Some people will not be tolerant about this.

Jill Lepore

Some people will always think they know how to make other people's marriages better, and, after a while, they'll get to cudgeling you or selling you something; the really entrepreneurial types will sell you the cudgel.

John Cassidy

Some people were frightened, ran to their basement, or ran out of doors.

Michelle Lombardo

Some people watched the show just because of the wardrobe, ... That's exciting.

Tracey Emin

Some people use just one condom, right? But we use tons.

Lori Mottu

Some people told us not to put the restaurant in Ceresco because of the size and location. But that's really why we're doing this. There's nothing here.

Andy Johnson

Some people think that because it's a threatened species, that every one we save is good. But not if they never get to live in the wild.