Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tina Brown

Movie stars today are as greedy for additional kids as bankers are for bonuses. It's the new badge of authenticity.

William Kent Krueger

Readers anticipate that a significant element of every story will be additional exposure to the ways of the Ojibwe. The truth is that I enjoy this aspect of the work. Although I have no Indian blood running through my veins, in college I prepared to be a cultural anthropologist, so exploring other cultures is exciting to me.

Yehuda Berg

With every little bit of change we make in our lives, we can maximize that small change simply by asking ourselves: 'What's next? What can I do now? What additional responsibility can I take on?'

Ernest Walton

The discovery that light elements could be disintegrated by artificially accelerated particles gave an additional impetus to development work on the various methods of producing them.

Maelle Gavet

The pickup points are a natural additional network for delivery. For me, the surprise is that Amazon didn't come up with that idea.

Brad Nisbet

The overriding upside to the acquisition for Sun is that they now have additional 'feet on the street' who are extremely well-equipped to sell enterprise storage solutions. Yes, they have focused on tape in the enterprise, but we have no reason to expect that these additional salespeople cannot leverage their expertise on the disk systems side, taking advantage of Sun's broad disk storage systems portfolio.

Joseph Tiberi

The pay cut that the company is imposing on our members is significant and will inflict hardship on our members. But we welcome the additional time it provides us to secure a long-term contract with Northwest.

Barack Obama

But if you - if what - the reports are true, what they're saying is, is that as a consequence of us getting 30 million additional people health care, at the margins that's going to increase our costs, we knew that.

David Clarke

The acquisition of True Temper broadens our lawn and garden product line with outstanding, highly respected brands, ... The purchase also expands USI Hardware and Tool's customer base and provides additional capacity for future growth.

Virginia Postrel

We've gone from a world in which Starbucks set a cutting-edge standard for mass-market design to a world in which Starbucks establishes the bare minimum. If your establishment can't come up with an original look, customers expect at least some sleek wood fixtures, nicely upholstered chairs, and faux-Murano glass pendant lights.

Chris Bohjalian

I live here in Vermont, in a village of barely a thousand people halfway up the state's third highest mountain.

Evangeline Lilly

When I hear the words 'Women should be barefoot and pregnant and in the kitchen,' I think, 'What. A. Dream.' There are no negative connotations to it.

Benicio Del Toro

I trained as a theater actor and you had a bare stage and you had to pretend, one prop and you are in the middle of 8th Ave. and traffic is just going by.

Brad Goreski

As an Old Navy style attendant, I'm all about upgrading your bare basics and presenting them to your customer as basics you need to have in your wardrobe.

Barack Obama

As I said last week in the wake of the grand jury decision, I think Ferguson laid bare a problem that is not unique to St. Louis or that area, and is not unique to our time, and that is a simmering distrust that exists between too many police departments and too many communities of color.

Neil Strauss

Many people we consider legends, such as Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry, remain so scarred by scandals, injustices and regrets from decades earlier that they're barely able to appreciate their accomplishments.

Nikolai Gogol

Russia! Russia... Everything in you is open, desolate and level; your squat towns barely protrude in the midst of the plains like dots, like counters; there is nothing to tempt or enchant the onlooker's gaze. But what is this inscrutable, mysterious force that draws me to you?

Patrick Modiano

At the beginning, I experienced writing as a sort of constraint. Starting so young as a writer is pitiable: it's beyond your powers; you have to lay bare things that are very heavy, and you don't have the means for that.

D. James

The overall solution is aimed at fast-moving products. We will tune the system for others later, but the initial benefits case had been made on inventory savings, and savings in the distribution centers on products that we order often.

Conor Oberst

I'll never understand how destroying families through deportation benefits our society. How we treat the undocumented says a great deal about us as a people and whether or not we'll continue to fulfill the fundamental American promise of equality and opportunity for all.

Bill Bryson

Everything seems to be designed for the benefit of the automobile and not the benefit of the human being.

Ashton Kutcher

I've learned the hard way how valuable privacy is. And I've learned that there are a lot of things in your life that really benefit from being private. And relationships are one of them.

Jonathan Zittrain

The ability to make new work from old work - especially if that new work is different enough that it doesn't dent the market for the old work - is something that benefits all creators, since so few can claim not to have a giant or 10 supporting them underneath.

Carol Cox

The American people who have it in their power to elect presidents have decided they don't want to hear anything about any cuts, any restrictions on growth, any changes in benefits in popular programs. And if you tell them those things, they're not going to hire you as president,

David Souter

The applicability of the Establishment Clause to public funding of benefits to religious schools was settled in Everson v. Board of Ed. of Ewing, which inaugurated the modern era of establishment doctrine.

Chris Rodgers

The announcement by HMRC shows that filing of financial reports in XBRL is moving from promise to reality in the UK. This will bring benefits of efficiency and cost savings in due course to investors, companies and regulators alike. We congratulate the Revenue on the hard work they have done to establish their XBRL service for Corporation Tax.

Joe Brennan

We have a major, major philosophical problem with state government coming into a private business and telling them what kind of benefits they must pay their employees.

Garry Hynes

I still get called 'a stick of dynamite' or 'pint-sized dynamo,' stuff like that. Actually, I was too busy to notice there was anything unusual about being a woman director until the early 1980s, when I looked around the professional theater and realized there weren't many of us. You have to make more of a case for yourself than any man.

William Wirt

He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.

Wendell Mayes

We all know the Navy is never wrong, but in this case it was a little weak on being right.

Virginia Postrel

By giving unusual people an easy way to find one another, the Internet has also enabled them to pool rare talents, resources, and voices, then push their case into public consciousness. The response, in many cases, is a kind of hysteria.

Michael McLachlan

The policy language is specific and clear, and the jury verdict says that. I feel sorry for these people, I really do. This is a case we should have settled a long time ago.

Anthony Lewis

The Pentagon Papers case stands today as a barrier to silence by official edict.

Norman Ornstein

The pending complaint on DeLay was on the Texas case (over political fund raising),

John Danforth

The path is clear for us to get this case to a jury.

Dan Ravicher

The patent office's decision has no preclusive effect on a court, and there are indeed cases where the patent office made a decision in a re-examination supporting a patent and a court later looked at the same exact issue, disagreed with the PTO, and found the patent invalid.

David LeNeveu

You keep that in the back of your mind, but at the same time it's something you can't worry about as long as you prepare yourself properly every day, and the team does a great job of doing that. We're doing everything we can. It's just a casualty of hockey.

Louis Michel

We... are fearful that the casualty figures may mount,

Louis Michel

We are all hoping that the news does not get steadily worse as the day progresses but we are fearful that the casualty figures may mount and that international support may be needed.

Ned Riley

The profits numbers will be mostly dismissed in the first quarter as a casualty of war. Now we'll see how much momentum we can pick up from the reverse of war negativity.

John Dixon

the only casualty was a helmet that got run over by the S.U.V.

Rick Allen

But unfortunately, in my unrelenting drive to get back on that drum stool, the major casualty in all of it was that I really forgot about me.

Andrew Burns

Road safety is of paramount importance and to have casualty numbers drop by 75 per cent shows overwhelmingly that the road closure has been the right move.

Michael Ward

It's ironic that of all the shows in the West End, this should be the first casualty of the bombings on July 7 and 21.

Jan Egeland

Then we could have not only a tsunami-style casualty rate as we have seen late last year, but we could see one hundred times that in a worst case.

Olli Rehn

The accession process is a tool for enhancing security and stability in that region which has suffered so many wars and ethnic conflicts in the last decade,

Michael Arrington

Sometimes I have so many financial conflicts of interest that I can't even keep them straight.

Robert Zoellick

Helping to end violence, ease suffering and forge a lasting political solution for Sudan's conflicts remain high priorities for the United States, ... The situation remains tenuous.

Charles Kennedy

When human rights are systematically abused, it raises the question whether it may be legitimate in some circumstances for the international community to intervene within individual states as well as in conflicts between states.

Jill Soloway

I always love the soapy conflicts between somebody's family of origin and their new family - 'Do I have Thanksgiving at my husband's parents' house, or at my parents' house?'

Mark Aitken

He'll have to declare conflicts on county business. But he doesn't have to resign his post on council.

George William Russell

By intensity of hatred, nations create in themselves the character that they imagine in their enemies. Hence it comes that all passionate conflicts result in an interchange of characteristics. We might say with truth, those who hate open a door by which their enemies enter and make their own the secret places of the heart.

Jonathan Proctor

We hope to save wolves by preventing conflicts in the first place. Who could disagree with that?

Pete Hegseth

With the winding down of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States now has an opportunity to implement real defense reforms without having a serious impact on immediate battlefield needs.

Harry Wu

That will prop up the corrupted regime. We are rewarding and we are encouraging the government for what they did over the past 20 years.

Ahmed Qorei

Who is corrupt and who isn't corrupt? These are the questions that are being raised, but this is not how corruption is solved.

John Alexander

I think the state of this country worsens every day, ... It's full of garbage, there's a lot of crime and a lot of corruption in the government and police. It's all upside down ? everything.

Maina Kiai

The problem we have in Kenya - which is not a new problem - is that of impunity. People are rarely held accountable for their actions, enabling grand corruption to persist.

Ernesto Herrera

The problems of rampant corruption, smuggling and crime, for example, are essentially due to weak and inadequate law enforcement. And deficient law enforcement is a manifestation of poor governance.

W. S. Gilbert

I think once it's corrupted, it's corrupted and you need to throw it out.

Jim Oberweis

We'll end this culture of corruption that has been so prevalent in this state.

Rev Musyimi

Those who are found to be corrupt must face the full force of the law.

Robert Pickett

I have been a victim of a corrupt government, ... You are guilty of murder.

Brian Frosh

We know the administration had a policy of telling employees that, if they resigned, they would get a neutral referral,

Richard Smith

We have a history of longevity. We had one employee who just left who had 29 years with us. That says a lot.

Paul Lambert

We're very proud of the employees who have hung in there with us.

Brian Green

Virtually all of the employees will be staying (with the board).

Ed Epping

Most of the ideas come from the employees themselves because they are the ones doing the job, so they know it best. On the other hand, they want to get the job done the fastest way possible, so we have to work together to make sure no one is skirting around the problem and not being safe.

John Graves

Most of the employees treat us with respect, but I give respect. That's why I get respect.

Ed Dumas

It is commonplace for employees to volunteer their personal time to organize such events for public officials.

Scott Sharp

Most senior management do not even know if their employees actually understand what they should be doing,

David Hill

We are not prepared to negotiate now with a minority union and give a minority of employees more benefits.

Siti Supari

We don't distinguish between the three, ... But how they got infected is still unknown.

Babatunde Osotimehin

We reckon that about 50,000 infected people are now receiving anti-retroviral (ARV) treatment nationwide.

Mikko Hypponen

But at least you know someone on your premises has an infected phone.

Vera Wang

My mother is the reason I'm in fashion. She worshiped it. Unfortunately, she infected me.

Kary Mullis

PCR made it easier to see that certain people are infected with HIV.

Daniel Blumenthal

Treatment for those infected is not very good. Many people have died,

Maria Cheng

We know that mammals can be infected by H5N1, but we don't know what this means for humans.

Ben Holmes

Willis is a big insurance brokerage and very profitable,

Robert Carter

Title insurance is not required by law, but it's prudent to get it, to make sure you own a property. The state, however, sets the rates for title insurance.

James Carter

He said I don't know what I'm going to do because I don't have any insurance and I said you're going to start rebuilding now, because I'm volunteering my services right now.

Kathleen Sebelius

I've spent my career fighting the worst practices of insurance companies.

Verna Rutherford

People are ramping up and spending insurance money on repairs being done, and they're doing it as much as they can at home.

Rick Whatley

Our road service insurance is what we are so well known for.

J. Horton

Some of the larger-ticket items needed to be looked at by the insurance company.

John Morrison

Regular Montanans are the ones who need help, not big insurance companies. We need to be passing laws with the consumers' interest in mind, not the special interests.

David Anderson

Our offense waited until the sixth inning to come alive, but at least it did and put some insurance runs on the board.

Zadie Smith

I'm never interested in writing a kind of neutral, universal novel that could be set anywhere. To me, the novel is a local thing.

Zac Goldsmith

I think sometimes if you are too interested in day-to-day politics, you lose sight of the long term.

Yoko Ono

I think it's nice to let people know that there is an invisible part of the world. I think there are many people now who are interested in the invisible world.

William E. Conway, Jr.

Generally, I have a strong interest in trying to help people who are maybe not as lucky as I am. I've been well rewarded in this world. I'm more worried about the next one.

Christina Baker Kline

As a novelist, I have always been interested in how people come to terms with difficult, life-altering events.

Clint Eastwood

There has to be something in every role that interests you.

John C. Calhoun

Remember, it is a deep principle of our nature not to regard the safety of those who do not regard their own. If you are indifferent to your own safety, you must not be surprised if those less interested should become more so.

Carrie Brownstein

For film and television, it's interesting how fans feel that their particular ways of manifesting their affections are the correct ones. It's not just about being a fan, it's about how you perform your fandom. That's always been interesting to me.

Carl Sagan

UFOs: The reliable cases are uninteresting and in the interesting cases are unreliable.

Esther Rolle

I ruffle a lot of feathers. And I'm also selective - that makes you a troublemaker. But so be it. I laid a cornerstone for black actors, and that makes me happy.

Warren Rudman

The problem the administration has is that the predicates it laid down for the war have not played out. That could spell political trouble for the president, there's no question.

Jason Gehoski

I was very proud of how we (overcame) situations where, last year, we would've laid down. This time, we didn't let that happen.

Chiang Kai-shek

I have always told my subordinates that when they commit any mistakes, the blame must be laid on the superior officers.

Peter Eichler

Give them credit, they really picked up their play in the third game. But also I think we laid back a little too much, and that let them come back.

Jason Chimera

It bounced off Kipper and kind of laid there in the crease. It was nice to see the puck just laying there for you.

David Jones

He laid down the gauntlet and his credibility is on the line,

Bunnie Gleason

He laid around all day and wouldn't open any presents without help. He couldn't really sit up. I just thought he had a virus.

James Jackson

He is just laid back and ordinary. He is just easy-going.

Mario Zawadzki

The political situation here doesn't help, but worldwide markets are falling.

Rob Enderle

The overseas market isn't saturated like the U.S..

Chris Walker

The overall market is down a tad anyway,

Michael Carty

The path of least resistance for this market is up right now.

Sheryl Kingstone

The $500,000 offer is a very tactical marketing move.

Peter Fontaine

We have to wait and see how this storm develops, ... We don't have a sense of panic in the market yet.

Peter Fontaine

We have to wait and see how this storm develops, going into Texas. We don't have a sense of panic in the market yet.

Joseph Cohen

Today the markets are already priced for imperfection,

Ned Riley

Today the market anticipated possible problems over the weekend. If nothing happens, we might have a better Monday than we've been having.

Steve Long

We wanted to have a place where our practices were together.

Philip Morris

merchandising practices at the wholesale and retail levels.

John Hawkins

Like all citizens, Ms. McNeill has the right to be free from unlawful employment practices such as sex discrimination and retaliation.

Mike Price

Those were spectacular catches. I want to see him out at 15 practices this spring, every one of them, all the way through. Then I'll tell you (where he stands). He showed what he can do. But he can't do that if he's sitting on the sidelines.

Kelly Herndon

We're just taking it step by step right now. I've got to see how I feel in practices and then how I feel for the game.

Mike Goforth

It's one of the two or three worst spring practices (for injuries) I can remember.

Gary Gray

It's sort of a research update. We give growers an update of what practices seem to be most beneficial.

Gary Barnett

This team is getting better. I'm pretty pleased. . . . We've got 10-11 practices left, but I'm satisfied with where we are.

David Thomas

Every year we've come to California, it's been raining. But we get all our practices in, and it's been fun.

Tom Shea

We have been very thoughtful about presenting a multipronged agenda.

Michael Watkins

I think the superintendent makes the recommendation, presents it and we vote on it.

Source Unknown

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

Steve Mansfield

We try to present users with what other users have found.

Joe Sims

If they can come up with something that is satisfactory, we'll present it to the DOJ. If they don't, well see them in court.

Chief Bender

I do not want my name to be presented to the public as an Indian, but as a pitcher.

Keith Warren

We are primarily here to present an alternative message. We support the troops and the mission.

Alexa Von Tobel

When you're at work, it's about being present and getting as much done as humanly possible.

Ewen Bremner

As parents, I think we're always novices, and every day presents a new challenge.

Mike Allen

Most homeowners, if not all homeowners, should have experienced some reduction in their property taxes.

Laura Wood

little disappointed, but satisfied (the prosecution) proved he was on the property for an unlawful purpose.

Charles Abrams

We don't think for a second the property won't be developed. We aren't naive. We just want something that's reasonable and well thought out and well financed.

James Wray

If this can be done to us, no one's property is safe.

Charles Yates

I'd like to sell them some oceanfront property in Dickenson County.

Catherynne M. Valente

Family is a transitive property.

Cheng Chin

We are controlling the fundamental property of material.

Mike Cohen

The property is zoned agricultural-residential. This is not agricultural or residential.

Peggy Moriarty

The property is rare. It reminds you of Camelot. It's just perfect.

Antoine Rivarol

Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the interests hatreds.

Rainbow Rowell

I enjoy stories about thin women - I read them frequently. I enjoy them; I root for those characters, but I always feel like there are enough of them out there and there are enough of them in the spotlight.

Dan Dougherty

Who do I root for? I have to keep it straight and narrow.

Shani Davis

I'm still rooting for him. He is an American.

William Shakespeare

Strikes deeper, grows with more pernicious root.

Alan Trammel

Whether I'm there or not, I'll always be a Tiger, and I'll always root for the Tigers.

Dale Tallon

I'd like to see more of that. There's no accountability in some of these guys, but all of them are accountable. Everybody's trying to get to the root of this.

Gary Beach

If I was a shareholder I'd be rooting for a breakup.

David Graeber

It affects every aspect of our lives, is often said to be the root of all evil, and the analysis of the world that it makes possible - what we call 'the economy' - is so important to us that economists have become the high priests of our society. Yet, oddly, there is absolutely no consensus among economists about what money really is.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

As an actor, secrets and obstacles fuel the character.

Carrie Underwood

Brad Paisley has always been really great to me, and that's no secret.

Carl Sagan

Science ... looks skeptically at all claims to knowledge, old and new. It teaches not blind obedience to those in authority but to vigorous debate, and in many respects that's the secret of its success.

Patricia Marx

I'm a goody-goody. I'm the person who sits in the back row, makes fun of the teacher, and secretly does the extra-credit work.

Theodore White

To know everything there is to know about one subject is the secret of happiness.

Paul Downs Colaizzo

A lot of us are secretly scared, for whatever reason, and so we get in our own way. But if you really want something, you have to ask for it.

Bill Richardson

will not tolerate the theft of our secrets.

Brandon Roy

I don't think it's a big secret that he'll be leaving.

Mark Wilkinson

I think it's a better-kept secret than the Special Forces.

William Shakespeare

Be not too tame neither, but let your own Discretion be your tutor; suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

Alan Shepard

I woke up an hour before I was supposed to, and started going over the mental checklist: where do I go from here, what do I do? I don't remember eating anything at all, just going through the physical, getting into the suit. We practiced that so much, it was all rote.

Alan King

I won't eat in a place that has suits of armor.

Chogyam Trungpa

Warriorship is so tender, without skin, without tissue, naked and raw. It is soft and gentle. You have renounced putting on a new suit of armor. You have renounced growing a thick, hard skin. You are willing to expose naked flesh, bone and marrow to the world.

Charlaine Harris

You might have been paid back enough to suit you" I said, "but I don't know if you've been paid back enough to suit me.

William Shakespeare

All is well ended, if the suit be won.

Anne Sullivan

The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.

Bill Nighy

If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.

Bob Uecker

I hit a grand slam off Ron Herbel and when his manager Herman Franks came out to get him, he was bringing Herbel's suitcase.

C. S. Lewis

Wherever any precept of traditional morality is simply challenged to produce its credentials, as though the burden of proof lay on it, we have taken the wrong position.

Cecelia Ahern

She had been given a wonderful gift: life. Sometimes it was cruelly taken away too soon, but it's what you did with it that counted, not how long it lasted.

Cecelia Ahern

Truth is, something that I thought was perfect was taken away from me, and I never wanted perfect again. I wanted middle of the road, stuff I didn’t care about so that I couldn’t lose anything I really loved ever again.

Carrie Brownstein

I think one of the reasons I haven't been doing music is because I think that some of my performance, like, needs are being taken care of in other mediums.

Carl Sagan

We are the first species to have taken our evolution into our own hands.

Carl Sagan

We are at a crossroads in human history. Never before has there been a moment so simultaneously perilous and promising. We are the first species to have taken evolution into our own hands.

Benjamin Rush

It would seem from this fact, that man is naturally a wild animal, and that when taken from the woods, he is never happy in his natural state, 'till he returns to them again.

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

I've spent more time than many will believe [making microscopic observations], but I've done them with joy, and I've taken no notice those who have said why take so much trouble and what good is it?

Antoni Tapies

At lucky moments this emanation could overwhelm the spectator in such a way, that because of all sorts of associations in his thinking, he could finally be taken to those areas which also had moved me so deeply and made me think I should draw the attention of others to it.