Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Charlton

I've been asked about that goal every day for the last 40 years. We didn't have the technology back then to show whether it was a goal or not, which led to the controversy. I'd like to think one day we'll have the technology to show whether or not it was a goal.

Michael Jackson

What we call single-factor authentication is a basic password and ID. Now we're asking banks to use another form of identification.

Ellen DeGeneres

When I asked her what she missed the most right now she said, 'My friends. I don't know where my friends are,' ... Tonight, let's show people on the Gulf Coast that they have friends all over the world . . . to give them shelter from the storm.

E. Hicks

When I moved out here during the late '70s, I had a neighbor who was a farmer who asked me 'What do you produce? ... I said, well, I don't produce, I publish, but he meant, you know, 'Do you grow tomatoes?'

Joyce Banda

You ask how I feel to be the first female president in southern Africa? It's heavy for me. Heavy in the sense that I feel that I'm carrying this heavy load on behalf of all women.

Nastia Liukin

You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.

O. J. Simpson

You ask about their temperament, demeanor you don't get into the issues.

Elaine Brown

You cannot look at the success of black people by seeing who is on the front of Ebony magazine or by looking at Oprah. When you consider that only 1 percent of all business revenue comes from black-owned businesses, you have to ask yourself if this class disparity is the kind of society we want.

Laura Campbell

You cannot ask for a better eye witness. It's inscrutable. You can't mess with that. It either is or it's not.

Curtis Preston

Security is a frustrating business. And the hardest thing to do is stop an internal black hat. The risk can't ever totally be eliminated -- it can only be minimized.

E. O. Wilson

For us, to have her here for Black History Month, is just a real coup.

Sarah Price

My whole life I've been trying to show people I'm a decent woman, not just a black woman.

August Wilson

My plays are talky; I say shut up and listen. They are about black men talking, and in American society you don't too often have that because the feeling is: 'What do black men have to say?'

Stacey Hill

My mother always told me to never limit my dreams to our economic situation. Therefore, I have always lived my life without limitations, knowing that I could do whatever the next person was doing, whether they were black or white, rich or poor.

Kelis

My mom was concerned that us four little black girls have a really well-balanced life. She wanted us to be around people like us, but we also went to private school and traveled all the time. Now I fit in most places because I've been most places.

John Roberts

Judges wear black robes because it doesn't matter who they are as individuals. That's not going to shape their decision. It's their understanding of the law that will shape their decision.

Larry McReynolds

Maybe that didn't work so well me doing that with Senior. I remember once we had a 20-minute penalty in practice, and NASCAR wouldn't start the penalty until the driver was on pit road. And Senior was just raising cane, sitting in that hot black car. He said he was getting out and coming back to the garage. So I told him 'Well, I wouldn't sit in that hot car either ... you've only made a gazillion dollars sitting in it. I wouldn't sit in it another 20 minutes either.'

Joe Ramos

Manny has nothing but high regards for The Black Eyed Peas.

Bobby Schilling

I come from the restaurant business; you're talking to a guy used to working 12, 14 hours a day.

Ken Worthington

As the Nasdaq goes higher, market-making business goes higher, implying that the fundamentals of Nasdaq companies are doing better.

George Foster

As their business increases, ours naturally grows as well.

Henry Tang

At the business conference, we will highlight to US companies the unique business opportunities that Hong Kong and Guangdong together will present to them,

Jim Barry

At the moment 80 per cent of our business is in Ireland. In three years' time, we would hope that 80 per cent will be overseas.

Pat Harris

cost of doing business on a difficult project.

Stephen Mulloney

Conflict of interest is in the eyes of the beholder. It's part of the way we do business in the United States.

Phil Condit

We are strategically realigning our operations in response to global business realities, ... We are reducing costs.

Mark Loughridge

We had really good momentum in short-term signings, and we think that will continue in the second quarter. Long-term signings as we exited 2005 were up 19 percent, and now long-term signings are up 20 percent. All of that bodes well for that business as we go forward.

Hui Liangyu

We cannot let down our guard, we cannot underestimate the risks of the outbreaks,

James Oberstar

We cannot legislate good judgment into the minds and hearts and souls of pilots, but we can erect some strong barriers.

James Sensenbrenner

We cannot leave an investigation of this matter to a behind-closed-doors review by the intelligence community and intelligence committees.

Matthew Arnold

We cannot kindle when we will / The fire which in the heart resides, / The spirit bloweth and is still, / In mystery our soul abides.

James Garner

We cannot keep that department if it continues to run in the red,

Steve Holland

We cannot keep supporting a system that is wasteful. It is very rare that we might have to use a bus.

Michael Mak

We cannot just stick with this kind of topic.

Przemyslaw Gosiewski

We cannot interfere in this internal church issue. But I know that this radio gives hope to many lonely and lost people.

Jeff Deren

We cannot include a wind turbine to be firm capacity.

Kyle Schweigert

Signing day is an exciting time of the year, and once again, we think we have an exciting class coming to UMD. It's a little different than my first two classes. This year's class is not quite as large. We were a little more specific in the positions we were going to recruit early.

Irving Fisher

Our society will always remain an unstable and explosive compound as long as political power is vested in the masses and economic power in the classes. In the end one of these powers will rule. Either the plutocracy will buy up the democracy, or the democracy will vote away the plutocracy.

C. S. Lewis

Safety and happiness can only come from individuals, classes, and nations being honest and fair and kind to each other.

Arsene Wenger

You weren’t world-class when Arsenal signed you.

Bill Vaughan

There is a huge antipathy in England between the north and the south, the working class and the owning class.

Bertrand Russell

The Eugenic Society . . . is perpetually bewailing the fact that wage-earners breed faster than middle-class people.

Bertrand Russell

Modern technique has made it possible for leisure, within limits, to be not the prerogative of small privileged classes, but a right evenly distributed throughout the community. The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery.

Todd VanderLoop

That was a tough weight class year. I think this year he will be right there in the mix again.

George Pugh

That was the last recruiting class I was part of here,

Consider the daffodil. And while you're doing that, I'll be over here, looking through your stuff.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

She did not admire him any more than she had. It was merely that she considered him the Lesser of two evils.

Pat Murphy

They're always looking to throw it downfield. We've got to get them to punt and get some turnovers.

Don Lemon

Think about just how much we'd get accomplished if we collectively viewed the people with whom we came into contact as just an American and not an American with a prefix.

John Bauer

Things have to be coordinated, ... We just can't have people running around doing what they want.

Jamie Johnson

The worst thing you can do in a relationship, and what's really unattractive about it, is that people begin to limit each other.

O. Henry

The whole program has turned a corner. If people didn't know us before, they know us now.

Jennifer Granholm

The will of the American people is stronger than any hurricane's wind,

Michael Garcia

The word isn't getting out so much, and if more people knew, they would campaign.

Jason Hagadone

These are tougher. We're in (the games) and we know we should win them. We've got the people and opportunities to win them. We just need to come through.

Duncan Hunter

These are the people who tried to kill us,

Alex Knott

These are the people that really get things done. There is a premium on them and there is a reason.

Charles Caleb Colton

Those who have resources within themselves, who can dare to live alone, want friends the least, but, at the same time, best know how to prize them the most. But no company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

Mark Martin

I'm not always successful. But I try to treat the people the way I want to be treated. I really try to keep that in mind, but it doesn't always work.

Michael Grade

I sometimes say that success just happens. That's not true. You have to make it happen. When I make up my mind to do something, I make sure it happens. You can't wait for the phone to ring. You have to ring them.

Orison Swett Marden

The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.

Eric Schmidt

Even though Google may do very well, there will always be an alternative to what Google is doing, and people will always have the free choice... because there's no way for us to prevent them from exercising that choice. That is one of the key aspects of why the Internet has been so successful. No technologies can dominate.

Eli Manning

We don't mind working hard to be successful. We don't mind working to be at our best.

Charles Buxton

Sometimes success is due less to ability than to zeal.