Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clara Shih

I wrote 'The Facebook Era' because I felt like it needed to be written, and I was one of the people who might be qualified to do so. Specifically, my background is that I developed the first business application on Facebook.

Buck Showalter

Joaquin was outstanding. His background is that he struggles from the fourth through the sixth. It's been a challenge, but today he was outstanding,

Grant McCasland

He comes from a really tough background as far as growing up in Brooklyn and he's helped really helped our team by being someone who can go and get a tough basket or a rebound. We're going to need him to be successful at the regional tournament.

Nick Saban

He is respected throughout the league and has a strong background in player personnel,

Mikhail Baryshnikov

No matter what I try to do or explore, my Kirov training, my expertise, and my background call me to return to dancing after all, because that's my real vocation, and I have to serve it.

Arnold Fielkow

I think it's important to let the presentation be made. Because I think you have to give some background to it.

Kantathi Suphamongkhon

He has management skills, and he has international experience. He is dedicated to the work of the international community. So he has the strength, background and experience, ... We feel that he is appropriate for that position.

Russell Baker

Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life.

John Grady

Patient care volunteers work with the team, of doctors, nurses, social workers, chaplains and other disciplines. There are 24 hours of training required and medical and background checks because they go into the homes to provide practical and emotional support for the patients and families.

Chris Paul

I was in the process of having a house built in English Turn,

Carl Anthony

Jacqueline Kennedy rented and then built homes in the horse country of Virginia where she would take these Thursday to Tuesday weekends and just come back to the White House two or three days during the week.

Mike Griffin

is very optimistic that the replacement for the shuttle will be built at Kennedy Space Center.

Lawrence Cohn

has built a good junk-bond business, but they have no equity capacity whatsoever -- and they've got to get it. They know they have to get it, the question is, 'When and how?'

Graham Hawkes

If you go back to the early days of aviation, the guys designing it built it, and then they got in it and flew it. I mean, who does that anymore?

Max Cobb

Historically, there was a difference in the percent back between the men and women, so we were trying to equalize that. That was the concept. ... But today, it doesn't look the same. Rachel built her case and we supported that, but the Olympic committee didn't feel like they could make a change.

Richard White

I think it's high time for younger people to get in. When you're 78, why that's getting up there pretty good. But I've enjoyed my stay on the board. I think we've done a good job. We've built lots of new schools and we've got a good administration.

Brad Roeber

I think the hallmark of the organization is built around the membership. The members recognize that AAA has stood not only for running a business, but it's an organization that has advocated for traffic safety.

Gary Johnson

It is changing the view and it is not completely built out so it is hard for me to determine right now how many more houses will be visible once it is built out.

Thomas Mann

I would say Joe Lieberman (would be perceived as being the most pro-business), ... is the least likely of the major candidates to win the nomination.

Ron Walters

There are so many candidates in the race. Whoever can get a critical mass of voters will win the race.

Peter Hakim

What we do not know is how he will govern. There is a big difference between a candidate and a president.

Summer Luciano

Having the music and the candidates out here forms a sense of community. We want people to be excited and feel empowered to go out in force and vote.

Glen Hanlon

He's a candidate but our standing doesn't help his cause. I can say this though. I haven't seen many guys more enthusiastic for the game.

David Cobb

I think that the Green Party should run a woman for president in 2008. Under the right circumstances, I'd be happy to be the Vice Presidential candidate of the right Green woman because the Greens take gender equality seriously.

Newt Gingrich

Today I have reached a difficult personal decision. I will not be a candidate for Speaker of the 106th Congress,

Jennifer Duffy

I think it's one of these issues that every candidate is going to have a position paper on it and it's going to be a question in every debate.

Debra Ness

It is more important than ever to come up with a consensus candidate everyone can respect.

Karl Rove

He increased his popular vote total by 11.6 million votes since 2000. That's four-and-a-half times the increase that President Clinton got between '92 and '96.

Sara Rue

In my mind I'm pretending that Geena Davis is actually running the country because it makes me feel a lot more secure. We all thought of Hillary Clinton when we heard they were making this show. I hope it takes off!

Gennifer Flowers

I don't have any interest whatsoever in getting back out there and bashing Hillary Clinton,

Jon Corzine

This has been on the schedule for a long time. You don't get President Clinton on a 24-hour notice.

Patrick McHenry

It's what a partisan hack would do, and that's what we have in Hillary Clinton and John Kerry. And this is what you're putting forward.

Larry Sabato

The use of the word 'plantation' is terribly unwise. It will just reinforce the view most Americans have of Hillary Clinton as being very liberal.

Nancy Gibbs

Hillary Clinton wants to leave behind No Child Left Behind.

Nina Easton

If you want to know how Hillary Clinton could try to distance herself from President Obama's much-criticized foreign policy, listen closely to the words of her former top strategist, Anne-Marie Slaughter.

Newt Gingrich

With Bill Clinton, there were things I had to have and things I couldn't have. Clinton had things he had to have and things he couldn't have. And there was space in the middle where you could have a deal.

Heath Cowan

I think the legs are a lot fresher compared to this time last year.

Ricky Giles

I thought everybody we played (in the tournament) was pretty deep with talent compared to where we were at, and they were a lot deeper. We knew when we went there that we had to play if we were going to survive in that tournament.

Jeremy Harris

I didn't much like school. I've been on motorcycles, but nothing compares to the feeling of being on a bull.

Clyde Hughes

In 22 years of being in the business, there is nothing else that I can compare it to.

Robert H. Connelly

If you compare it to Katrina the term I would use is the damage is minor. But if it's your house and your home town, it's significant.

Kimo Oelhoffen

His acceleration and speed is unmatched in the history of the NFL. You can't compare him to anyone.

Jon Seda

I know it's inevitable that there will be those who compare 'The Pacific' to 'Band of Brothers.' For years, the Pacific theater of war was not talked about as much as the European theater, yet it was part of the same war.

Patrick Biancone

I haven't had a 2-year-old like this so I can't compare him. So far, he's much faster than any of the horses he's raced against. But we have to take it furlong by furlong because you never know with young horses.

Elie Wiesel

I have to wonder about people who compare Israelis to Nazis.

Ian Gow

Having somebody as credible as him ... probably meant that we established that we could be trusted quicker.

Kathy Miller

This language of persecution would be more credible if the very people using it weren't sitting at the seat of power in government today.

Camille Paglia

As a registered Democrat, I am praying for a credible presidential candidate to emerge from the younger tier of politicians in their late 40s. A governor with executive experience would be ideal.

Joe Jamail

Any good trial lawyer knows that if you've got one credible expert or scientific study, then you can let the jury decide.

John Harris

She retires sound and could have had a very credible season this year at the track, but she really didn't have much left to prove.

Patrick Ryan

no credible evidence to suggest that others were involved.

Rich Hersh

I think the truth is always a credible threat to illegitimate and unjust power.

Jim Sullivan

Some of the pickup reflects mix shifts, with payroll growth in above-average-wage sectors accelerating relative to growth in below-average-wage sectors. That said, some legitimate pickup in wage gains is probably credible given the low unemployment rate and the energy-led rise in inflation expectations recently.

Christopher Hill

The appropriate time will only come when the DPRK has promptly eliminated all nuclear weapons and all nuclear programs, and this has been verified to the satisfaction of all parties by credible international means.

James Chu

Jon is a very strong kid. I really feel that he's the one that's been victimized. But for the sake of Jonathan, I'm going to forget about what Mr. Wooden has told me.

Juan Rincon

He's a really nice guy. I'm never going to forget (the home run), but I don't take it personal.

Alessandro Nesta

I think a thing like this you won't forget for a lifetime. Thirty seconds from the end and it all goes up in the air.

Niklas Lidstrom

I think sometimes at home we forget to pass. On the road we are more relaxed than at home and we give ourselves a chance. We are more patient on the road.

Mark Melancon

I will probably not forget this game for the rest of my life. That game is my fault. I take that on my shoulders.

Jim Caldwell

He's a very unusual person that has physical gifts and he also has great intellectual gifts. He has a memory that, without question, is sharp as one could have. He rarely forgets anything and he can recall things from eons back. But that helps him, I think, just in terms of being the detail-oriented person that he is. He's able to maximize his study and preparation for our opponents.

Robert Louis Stevenson

To forget oneself is to be happy.

Zhuangzi

The fish trap exists because of the fish: once you have gotten the meanings, you can forget the words.

Zhuangzi

The effect of life in society is to complicate and confuse our existence, making us forget who we really are by causing us to become obsessed with what we are not.

Brian Setzer

He was just thrilled, ... He said, 'Oh my gosh, you want to record that old song? I think I got it up in the attic!'

Robert Wyatt

This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome.

Warren Buffett

An irresistable footnote: in 1971, pension fund managers invested a record 122% of net funds available in equities - at full prices they couldn't buy enough of them. In 1974, after the bottom had fallen out, they committed a then record low of 21% to stocks.

Samuel Beckett

My notes have a curious tendency, as I realize at last, to annihilate all they purport to record.

Robert Pattinson

I definitely want to record an album, direct a film and start my own religion.

Waylon Jennings

Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.

Tony Visconti

The object is to make a great record and you have to do whatever it takes.

Tony Visconti

My profession is called record production.

Tony Visconti

Today a record producer is even more involved and is often the production's sole musician, one person playing all the instruments one-by-one.

Sergei Bubka

His statements are really crazy, we are really shocked.

E. O. Wilson

I was completely surprised at his statement (to resign).

Quinnetta Claytor

We can do it, we can win state championships.

Will Durant

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

Willy Brandt

Peace, like freedom, is no original state which existed from the start; we shall have to make it, in the truest sense of the word.

Steve Lyle

Other states have called us, and are taking a look at it.

Taro Aso

international responsibilities and the state of reconstruction work.

Anne Patterson

In our opinion, there is no international support for this idea. I don't think this idea is going to work in the future, and the United States will not support this.

Roger Gerlach

I just thought every year you were going to go to the state tournament, as if there weren't other teams out there that also want to go.

Steve Trimper

He's got a strong arm. It was a game-saving throw right there.

Larry Taddeo

He's got a strong arm. I think he'll get some looks.

Lance Armstrong

I think we have fielded our strongest team ever with this formation,

Anton LaVey

In this arid wilderness of steel and stone I raise up my voice that you may hear. To the East and to the West I beckon. To the North and to the South I show a sign proclaiming: Death to the weakling, wealth to the strong!

Sara Atuaia

He's become our go-to player. We need him to keep being strong up from.

Brian Urlacher

He doesn't look any different to me. He was as strong as ever.

Rob Thomas

There weren’t many people in this world who would let you be vulnerable and still believe you were strong.

Richard P. Feynman

Our freedom to doubt was born out of a struggle against authority in the early days of science. It was a very deep and strong struggle: permit us to question - to doubt - to not be sure. I think that it is important that we do not forget this struggle and thus perhaps lose what we have gained.

Richard John Neuhaus

My hope that the Church will emerge as a strong leader in society is just that a hope. What I described in The Catholic Moment is not a prophecy but the outline of a possibility. There are no guarantees that my hopes expressed in The Catholic Moment will ever be realised.

Fred Wilpon

You can't get much more New York than this.

John Catsimatidis

New York never felt the recession. New York never felt a depression.

Abbey Lee Kershaw

New York is such a versatile city, and there's always something new to discover.

Cary Fukunaga

New York is perfect for Tanizaki because it's filled with so many dark spaces.

Ringo Starr

When they come here, the English make a choice: New York or L.A. L.A. suited me better, I just feel comfortable here.

Kara Hayward

If I have to go to New York or something, I'll bring my books and read and do homework. It's not really a big deal.

Tamara Tunie

I'm Irish on St. Patrick's Day. I'm Italian on Columbus Day. I'm a New Yorker every day.

Rita Ora

A New Yorker is anyone who has the guts to really live in the city.

Santiago Cabrera

I've been to New York a lot. I grew up in London but I'm from Chile originally.