Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kelis

The business of music. You know, it's an oxymoron in a sense. It's like the two things. Although we both need each other, they really don't go together.

Eli Segal

The business community needs to continue to take the lead to move those still on welfare into jobs. Although the welfare rolls have fallen around the country, we know that they are falling slower in the cities than in the suburbs.

Iyanla Vanzant

a very powerful, although delicate, chemistry between the way Dr. Katz, Miss Britten and I work. I'm committed to this process. I'm committed to 'Starting Over.'

Jim Webb

A typical day in the Senate requires several trips to the Senate floor and back, although the journey is usually underground so that on some days, once I arrive at work, I never see the sun.

Fred Willard

Babe Ruth's orphanage, St. Mary's, still stands outside of Baltimore, and although it's under another name, you can walk on the spot where the Babe first played and stand where he was photographed wearing that catchers mitt on the wrong hand.

Rob Parish

A time gap of 50 seconds for your one through seven runners is unheard of. It's a tribute to how well they work as a team. Although it's an individual sport, they really buy into the team aspect.

Philip Treacy

At home, I had seven brothers, one sister. I sewed clothes for my sister's dolls although she was grown and gone away. I was a weirdo but didn't think I was a weirdo.

Richard Cooper

Rain, sun or snow, it makes no difference. I take what comes. You can't be a quitter - although I prefer the sun.

Michael Irvin

Randy gives me the deep ball like no other receiver, ... He gives me the jump ball like no one else. Although T.O. is not as great as Randy going deep, he can still go deep in a great way. And with T.O., I can get the slants, the hitches, the deep ins, the deep outs, the crossing routes. And I've never seen T.O. quit on a route. He always goes as hard as he can go. I need that.

Arkady Volozh

Any good business is a hobby. We have an integrated company culture, and I can honestly say that many people who come here to work make Yandex a central part of their lives.

Michael Eisner

As far as the essential part of our business we're doing great,

David Cheng

A second license in a matter of two weeks further illustrates the potential of our product in Europe, ... The fact that a government-run lottery has chosen to do business with Pegasus Gaming further validates us as a player on the world stage.

Geoff Dupaix

As each city grows and develops, it's important to coordinate signals so that traffic can move as efficiently as possible. It's going to happen in incremental steps. This is just the next step, but it's a very important step because there is a lot of traffic that goes through and around Provo, which is a major business center.

Bruce Kasman

As destructive as past storms have been, they didn't leave an imprint on the U.S. business cycle,

Abbe Lowell

As happens probably dozens of times a week in businesses in New York, the partners have a variety of disputes. And these disputes will work their way out. At the end of the day, Dr. Straus will be found to be a highly skilled, highly competent, highly professional, highly ethical doctor.

Joe Lieberman

A short-term economic stimulus to help lift us out of this economic slowdown has to be followed by business tax credits and smart investments to sustain longer-term growth,

Mike Cooke

As far as notifications, we think there are certain instances where businesses might want to notify consumers and certain instances where they might not to inform them.

Roman Cizdyn

As expected, it's redoing its portfolio to focus on the profitable business and that's why there's a continued collapse in individual pensions. It has to focus on profitability; that's clearly what it's about now.

Earl Wilson

I've been around, and I see what other cities are doing, and I think, 'Why not us, we're a proud people,'

Ed Dumas

This is not a radical group of hard-line, right-wing people making unrealistic demands. It's a reasonable group of officials that are seeking some rational solutions to immigration problems that our cities and our communities face.

Aravind Adiga

I grew up, as many Indians do, in an archipelago of tongues. My maternal grandfather, who was a surgeon in the city of Madras, was fluent in at least four languages and used each of them daily.

Ben Nicholson

I feel most strongly about Jerusalem, because architects ultimately have to address that city.

Jane Jacobs

The point of cities is multiplicity of choice.

James Weldon Johnson

Americans are immensely popular in Paris; and this is not due solely to the fact that they spend lots of money there, for they spend just as much or more in London, and in the latter city they are merely tolerated because they do spend.

James Weldon Johnson

Amsterdam was a great surprise to me. I had always thought of Venice as the city of canals; it had never entered my mind that I should find similar conditions in a Dutch town.

Benjamin Disraeli

Certainly Manchester is the most wonderful city of modem times.

Alan Garner

I loathe crowds. I especially dont like cities. A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.

John Huisman

Any progressive community needs to provide recreation for its citizens.

Hun Sen

Any pressure on the government from the international community will be worthless, because on the contrary it will only make the jailed man stay in jail longer,

Rich Ballinger

As far as the rate structure, our goal is to give an excellent value to the different segments of our community and to make sure that SHSU students can play the golf course for a very minimal fee.

Carrie Underwood

As a proud Oklahoman, I'm honored to receive this recognition from my home state and hometown community,

Tony Mason

As a community we have always pulled together to support events and we know this could have happened to any event occurring at this time. We know we have not only been impacted here in Indianapolis.

Jeff Jones

As a faith community, we want to respond, whether that is individually or as an organization.

Chet Culver

As a lifelong Iowan who has been a farmer, a registered nurse, a small businesswoman, a state senator and secretary of agriculture, Patty has spent her life devoted to her community and her state.

Al Brown

The big thing for us now is to go back to our roots. That is membership. We aren't supported by tax dollars. We are supported by the community saying we want it.

Hilary Rosen

a victory for the creative community and the legitimate marketplace.

Ryan Hall

Any project under construction will continue to stay on track.

Dr. Tucker

As far as total expectations, we know that we have work to do and we want to continue to improve. Magnet schools are just a vehicle that we are using to improve education in Texarkana. So, until education improves, then our expectations are not met.

Marsha Blackburn

As far as the political landscape in our state, I think that what we continue to see is that Tennessean voters are more independent and more conservative, and they are watching issues very closely; they are watching votes very closely.

Clive Smith

As far as their reasons for hunger striking, it seems to be a myriad of different reasons that they all have, the largest one seems to be like they want to protest their continued (detention).

Hootie Johnson

As far as the golf course is concerned, we'll have to continue to evaluate that.

Stephen Mandel

As Edmonton continues to position itself as a major film location, it is important that the industry feels welcome and views Edmonton as a film-friendly, professional destination,

Sheridan Murphy

As Florida continues to develop rapidly, this issue will continue to come up.

Don Brash

As expected in November, growth in the economies of our trading partners has continued to be sluggish.

Kym McKay

As a team, our defense continued to shine and was even more exciting than it was last fall. Our new serve-receive system went very well and we are looking for it to continue to improve. We had a handful of moments that we looked extremely impressive and were firing on all cylinders. It was very exciting.

Mario Hernandez

It was all on fire and the roof had fallen in.

Sarah Roemer

I had friends who were actors. I had some close friends who are actors before I had fallen into it. And but I never approached anybody about doing it. But once I had been approached, I said, 'Sure and I'll give it a go.'

Ian Shepherdson

The trend in sales is probably not as weak as this seems to suggest, but there is no question that the condo/co-op market is slowing much more dramatically than the market for single-family homes. Even in the latter case, however, sales have fallen more than 10% from their summer peak.

Michael Strahan

I didn't know where I was. If I knew where I was, I would have fallen down. That would have been the smart thing to do.

Tony Anderson

I would like to get a hold of their families and maybe this will give them a little closure, ... to know that their fallen sons' sacrifices weren't totally in vain and that at least somebody recognized what they did for us.

Alphonse Lamartine

Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens

John Davis

I think it's really fallen off people's radar. We don't hear much about it at all.

Chris Dodd

I?m very proud of my state, my constituents, my governor, ... I?m proud of the people in the legislature and others who are all taking steps to make a contribution to alleviate the hardships that have fallen on our fellow citizens. It?s a great, great day.

Phil Flynn

The question is where do we go from here? We've fallen so quickly in recent sessions, will there still be momentum to go down to the low $50s?

Courtney McInnis

That play was big. We were thinking of just getting to the half and making adjustments. I thought they would run it out, but Waters made a great play. He picked it up and ran with it instead of falling on it.

Phil Boyer

The statistics don't support planes falling out of the sky.

Ben Macintyre

Libraries are not just for reading in, but for sociable thinking, exploring, exchanging ideas and falling in love. They were never silent. Technology will not change that, for even in the starchiest heyday of Victorian self-improvement, libraries were intended to be meeting places of the mind, recreational as well as educational.

Brad Paisley

If you fall in love with somebody, then you're not even worried about your bills. Love can take your mind off of anything.

Alain de Botton

If cynicism and love lie at opposite ends of a spectrum, do we not sometimes fall in love in order to escape the debilitating cynicism to which we are prone? Is there not in every coup de foudre a certain willful exaggeration of the qualities of the beloved, an exaggeration which distracts us from our habitual pessimism and focuses our energies on someone in whom we can believe in a way we have never believed in ourselves?

Janet Street-Porter

I've owned more sofas than I've had husbands. Both sag in the end, but I generally fall out of love with the furniture quicker than the men.

Brenda Jackson

Why would a man need both a wife and a mistress? A smart man would seek out and fall in love with a woman who can play both.

Bonnie McKee

I just want to give people something to dance to, and something to cry to, and laugh to and fall in love to.

Ben Kingsley

I just loved playing a man who was unafraid of making an idiot of himself in the process of falling in love. I found that admirable.

Bob Nicholson

Any time Brent wants to be with us, the same as Wayne Gretzky, I want to put him in a position to lead Team Canada.

John Fitzgerald

That play shouldn't have worked on paper. But it did. Their linemen were confused, and I was supposed to have a lead block, but I got in anyway.

Gil McGowan

Rather than trying to get a deal, one of their lead negotiators is running the union leader off the road.

Bret Meyer

Our seniors can lead us to the right spot.

Robert Jackson

People take liberties and one thing leads to another,

Volker Roth

Of course, we make mistakes like every player and coach. But that shouldn't lead to referees being sworn at or even threatened,

Sergei Samsonov

Once we have a lead we have to try and keep it. It's two frustrating losses.

Casey Williams

Once we got that lead we never relinquished it.

Lawton Chiles

The more lead time we give people, the more it helps,

Jose Canseco

Proof Positive, I'm a very positive person and I've moved on.

Douglas Alexander

The style of politics that Damian McBride represents has been discredited, and Labour has moved on.

Mats Sundin

I've told Tomas already if you see me coming, move over.

Darius Hargrove

It was tough. But we've got to move on.

Jamie Friedman

The stock moved up pretty quickly, so we changed.

Maurice Cheeks

I've been over there before. We have to move on. You can't always live in the past of what we did or what we were. The Blazers moved on and I moved on.

Stuart Bailey

Things are set up here to move really fast.

Frank Cook

Things often don't seem strange until after you move in.

Ronald Walters

This is a wise move on her part. This race was framed from the beginning.

Dick Lamm

This is not a self-correcting problem. PERA needs to be put on a long-term program toward solvency.

Larry Cox

This is not something that needs to go before the board,

Fred Felleman

The whale has always flirted with this kind of danger. It was like that old children's cartoon, 'Are you my mother?' Orcas are very social animals, and this was the only way to get his social needs met.

Carnie Wilson

We need to eat and enjoy it but control it. That's what I do now.

Jamie Zawinski

Your needs are big because the Internet is big.

Dan Barker

Only sinners need saviors.

Charles Spurgeon

Every generation needs regeneration

Dick Van Dyke

You need someone to love, and something to do that you enjoy, and something to hope for, and that's enough for me.

Debra Winger

I do not need a lot of money to be happy.

Rosie Jones

I'm going to go out slower than I anticipated.

Eric Turner

Summer is the slower part of the year, so we have (fewer) openings.

Adam Carolla

Welfare is monetary methadone.

Thomas Sowell

The way the [welfare] programs are organized, poor people are only paid to do things that are counter-productive - such as breaking up their families, such as not earning above a certain level of income.

Friedrich List

But the general welfare must restrict and regulate the exertions of the individuals, as the individuals must derive a supply of their strength from social power.