Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neelie Kroes

The payment cards industry in Europe remains national and some local players are preventing competition from developing.

Gerry Gerlach

That was her old system ? she didn't need a computer. We used to use thousands of those cards for ordering. She always had that dedication to the business.

Mary Smith

That was a leap year, and he didn't run away. We're enjoying being with each other in our retirement. We never get bored. We play cards together, do crosswords and he likes to cook.

Rachel Bolton

Valentine's Day is the second largest holiday for giving greeting cards after Christmas.

Charles Burton

I stood in line ... to vote, and as they were handing out the plastic cards that you insert, some lady said to me, 'Judge, you sure this isn't preprogrammed.' So people still have their doubts.

Steve Noyce

We have a few good cards to play and we haven't been called to play any of them, so we'll see what happens.

Paul Fitzhenry

Those deficiencies are noted, but at the same time, there is no mention about the Medicare discount cards that were introduced last year. These cards provide discounts between 30 and 40 percent or even more for uninsured patients.

John Carroll

I worked for Knight Ridder for 18 years and I know the Detroit Free Press was part of the company's pride back in the old days. Now it seems, viewed from the outside, that these papers are like cards in a deck: you shuffle them, you deal them, you fold them, and the meaning of them as an institution in the community seems to have been lost.

Rickey Henderson

I think playing cards gave me the opportunity to relax in the game.

Keith Cieplicki

The only frustrating thing is that we haven't had all the pieces in place. The group that's healthy has gotten a lot better. They have great team chemistry, so really, and it's even hard for me to believe, that I've really enjoyed coaching this team. None of us like losing, but it's a pretty mature group. I hope for their sake we get a few more wins.

Denis Fitzgerald

The announcement has been made now to end the ongoing speculation in regard to the coaching position next year.

Kreg Klaver

That was a highlight of my coaching career. It was an enjoyable experience. He was always a gym rat growing up as a coach's kid, and he put in a lot of hard work. I really enjoyed coaching him.

Marvin Lewis

We have to win football games. I don't think Carson has to do anything different. The rest of us have to keep playing and coaching better. He's so, so talented. As I keep saying from the day he walked in here, the guy, no matter what he touches, he can turn it to gold.

Tatum Bell

We just didn't match their intensity, four quarters, you know. Sometimes we played decent, scoring, making plays, but then we wouldn't execute like we should. There was a lot of frustration, you could feel it. The offense, the coaching staff. We just weren't executing.

Greg Gibson

We played pretty good. I have great parent and coaching staff support. Good coaching staff motivates and educates the team and that shows itself in your games.

Antawn Jamison

We were so disappointed in ourselves. To come out in the first game like that. National TV. The spotlight. And we pretty much laid an egg. We embarrassed the coaching staff, we embarrassed ourselves. We showed that in practice (Sunday). It wasn't one of those practices where we just showed up, took a few shots and went home. Coach was on us and we went at it. That's what you saw in this game.

Mike Rose

We have a good core from last year and we'll see how the new guys push the returning players, ... I'm very excited about our coaching staff. Our team will play with a lot of passion. I expect us to be very competitive.

Brady Quinn

With the guys we have coming back and obviously our coaching staff and kind of the foundation we've laid last year for ourselves, our goal is to do it big, win every one.

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.

Nelly

I love speed. I love racing cars, whether it's on the streets or wherever. Don't tell the St. Louis police, though.

Bob Jones

We were still getting some oysters from waters in Louisiana and Texas and those may stop as soon as Rita makes landfall.

Jennifer Marusak

Voting is a right, but it's also a responsibility. The state of Louisiana spent over $2.5 million trying to find everyone and let everyone know what their voting rights are.

Andy Kopplin

We are providing ways to keep homeowners as homeowners. You can successfully rebuild South Louisiana with the package we have proposed.

Pat Riley

I have a Louisville Slugger in my locker. It's like 42 ounces. We corked it also, with cement.

Mickey Loomis

If we can uplift anyone, obviously that's worthwhile to us. We're representatives of the people of Louisiana and the people of New Orleans.

Wes Brown

Love the show 'Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives.' Being from Louisiana and a big outdoorsman, I'm a big fan of 'Duck Dynasty' as well.

John Davidson

People I know purchased the St. Louis Blues. It's a purchase in principle. They don't own the team yet. The sale has to be ratified by the league. For me to speculate what I might do with the St. Louis Blues, well, they don't even own the team yet. I don't have anything to tell anybody.

Blake Ahearn

Just from watching Louisville on TV, they seem like a physical team. We have to be tough and strong with the ball. Going on the road, that's a big emphasis.

Imelda May

When I was a teenager, I had a record company after me. They wanted me to be a pop act. They said they wanted me to be the next Sonia. I was 16 at the time. I said, 'No thank you.'

Walter Alston

I do worry about tomorrow's game, but never about next year's job.

Constance Wu

I'm always hungry for the next thing. I'm never resting on my laurels.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.

Cecelia Ahern

You shouldn't try to stop everything from happening. Sometimes you're supposed to feel awkward. Sometimes you're supposed to be vulnerable in front of people. Sometimes it's necessary because it's all part of you getting to the next part of yourself, the next day.

Carlton Reed

That was a small situation that was made into a big deal. The problem was solved the next morning.

Nick Umholtz

That was sweet. I've never been in a playoff before. Now I'm going to have to back it up for next year.

Jon Copper

That we have a teammate who may not be with us next year. I'm still not sure what's going on or how it's going to end up.

Steve Novak

We need to keep getting better. There is no next year.

Gaines Adams

I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son.

George Allen

It's time for an American comeback... where leaders in Washington listen to 'we the people.'

Zadie Smith

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are.

Zadie Smith

Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.

Vivienne Westwood

I am in my own head most of the time.

Zubin Mehta

New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.

Zubin Mehta

I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.

Yakov Smirnoff

When you like something, you find time to do it.

Evangeline Lilly

I'm a bit delusional, but every time I do a job, I think I'm retired.

Prince Royce

I think when you translate songs, you lose the real essence and the meaning.

Antonio Munoz Molina

Many of the books I read, I had to read them in French, English, or Italian, because they hadn't been translated into Spanish.

Timothy Simons

If you're going to go to an audition, you don't want to go in trying to force yourself into some archetype that has been thought up by a director and translated by a casting director.

John Roos

In running Wilson Sonsini, it's all people-to-people skills. Those people-to-people skills translate into diplomatic skills.

David Pogue

I'm the know-nothing. I'm curious, I try to be entertaining, I try to translate the techno jargon, but in the end I'm the audience's representative.

Norman Lear

Ratings translate into corporations, corporations that need a profit statement this quarter that's larger than the last.

Robert Fitzgerald

There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know.