Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sara Blakely

My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail.

Warren Beatty

My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.

W. H. Auden

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Rodney Dangerfield

People seldom live up to their baby pictures.

Robert Orben

The best birthdays of all are those that haven't arrived yet.

Roger Moore

I nearly died of double bronchial pneumonia at the age of five.

Roger Moore

The wonderful thing about age is that your knees don't work as well, you can't run down steps quite as easily and obviously you can't lift heavy weights. But your mind doesn't feel any different.

Rod Stewart

At my age you don't go into fatherhood lightly.

Willard Scott

I get all fired up about aging in America.

Nicola Formichetti

Actually, I never liked the idea of bags. I would say, 'Why do so many of my friends spend so much money on these bloody bags?' But once I started designing them, I was completely hooked. There are all of these blogs about bags. It's a whole other industry, and I'm really excited to be a part of it.

Nayef Al-Rodhan

Governments must ensure that the power of blogs is cultivated and implemented in collaborative ways, with a view to preserve peace and human dignity.

Coco Austin

I used to go on all these blogs and all these websites which I really don't like to go and read about at all, and I couldn't care less anymore.

Mike Davidson

Blogs are a great way to monitor and even participate in the chatter about your new site.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Right after September 11, 2001, there weren't really any blogs in China, but there were a lot of Chinese chatrooms - and there were a lot of conversations in which Chinese netizens were saying things like, 'served them right.' That was definitely not the official Chinese government policy - which condemned the terrorists.

Jessica Szohr

I don't read blogs, I don't have MySpace, I don't have Facebook or Twitter - none of that.

Fred Wilson

I cannot promote an empty parking lot as if it is something of value. I've watched over the past weeks as content rich blogs have disappeared from Technorati results and spam blogs seem invulnerably present. I've also documented certain TAGS that previously had valid results and now show ZERO results.

Joichi Ito

However, as I read criticisms in the comments and on other blogs about what I write, I have become increasingly sensitive about what I say here.

Carine Roitfeld

Blogs are quite a new development - now, everyone wants to know you, everyone wants to know everything about you. And you can build a following that way. In a way, it's a good thing if you want to create a buzz around yourself.

Glenn Greenwald

'Terrorism' itself is not an objective term or legitimate object of study, but was conceived of as a highly politicized instrument and has been used that way ever since.

John Adams

My country has, in its wisdom, contrived for me the most insignificant office (the Vice-Presidency) that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived

Samantha Harvey

I conceived 'All Is Song' as a modernised, loosely interpreted version of Socrates's life.

Leon Theremin

I conceived of an instrument that would create sound without using any mechanical energy, like the conductor of an orchestra. The orchestra plays mechanically, using mechanical energy; the conductor just moves his hands, and his movements have an effect on the music artistry.

Michael Haneke

'Funny Games' was conceived as a provocation. My other films are different. If people feel my other films are, or respond to them as provocation, then that's quite different. 'Funny Games' is the only one of mine where my intention was to provoke the audience.

Warren Spector

I conceived the original 'Deus Ex' and was the project director on the game.

Robert Moog

The mini-Moog was conceived originally as a session musician's axe, something a guy could carry to the studio, do a gig and walk out.

Virgil Thomson

Falsely conceived and rather clumsily executed crooked folklore and halfway opera.

Georg Simmel

For this reason, strangers are not really conceived as individuals, but as strangers of a particular type: the element of distance is no less general in regard to them than the element of nearness.

Mark Greene

In cross-border deals, to me etiquette is not an 'edge' thing. It is a prerequisite to being effective.

Sophie Winkleman

I tried to go to the gym a while ago and hurt my foot. I thought, 'Well, exercise and I just aren't meant to be.'

Elizabeth McGovern

Hollywood never suited me, I didn't ever feel comfortable with it, it took me a couple of years but I found where I was always meant to be... Chiswick!

Bill Walton

It is a big deal, because it is money and it's money we always meant to be able to pay (the state), but the money was never there to pay them.

Lorraine Kelly

I think we were meant to be painting outside originally,

Joe Wilcox

It is meant to be an idea factory.

Josh Harding

I went outside and talked to Manny a bit. He said that every goalie has to go through it. It meant a lot for me that he was there.

Peter MacKay

This was not meant to be a slight to anyone.

Audrey Rosenstein

Everyone has a niche in life. This is what I was meant to do.

Robert Allenby

It's your national title, it's like a U.S. Open, that's the way it's meant to play,

Walter Kohn

Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.

Christopher Hill

Once they are back in the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, with IAEA safeguards, at an appropriate time we will have discussions about the subject of the provision of a light-water nuclear reactor.

Joe Lieberman

The danger of terrorists and rogue states is compounded by the proliferation of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear weapons.

Jane Jacobs

While politicians, clergy, creators of advertisements, and other worthies assert stoutly that the family is the foundation of society, the nuclear family, as an institution, is currently in grave trouble.

Ban Ki-moon

Nuclear disarmament is the only sane path to a safer world.

Donald Rumsfeld

After he saw what happened to Saddam Hussein, he ( Gaddafi ) did not want to be Saddam Hussein. He gave up his nuclear program.

Andrei Sakharov

In 1947 I defended my thesis on nuclear physics, and in 1948 I was included in a group of research scientists whose task was to develop nuclear weapons.

Susan Rice

We are safer if there are not nuclear arsenals around the planet that can be utilized, stolen, sold to terrorists and others who would do harm.

Tom Harkin

There is no such thing as a pro-nuclear environmentalist.

Emile Sheng

I think it shows the differences between the parties are pretty big.

Lorna Luft

It was at one of the parties at our house that The Rat Pack got started.

Lee Dean

We're working to try to get the parties together and get the situation resolved.

Channing Tatum

I've always negotiated the world very physically, from football to tussling at the playground to taking my clothes off.

Sam Hunt

I realized that I could try to sound like Waylon Jennings, or I could try to be like Waylon Jennings... but it's impossible to do both.

Joe Gibbs

I think we realized what was at stake,

David Baker

I think we all realized that we had really been replicating things that had already been happening. I don't know if we were smart enough to realize that we were in a cul-de-sac, but we were curious.

Alexander Milinkevich

It is important that the Russian authorities realize that we are sincerely willing to respect Russia's interests. But we are not going to sacrifice our interests, either.

Chris Paul

It just seemed like we were scoring and they were scoring, we were scoring and they were scoring. And it can't be like that. We realize that we can score at times at will, but at the same time they were scoring every time.

Steve Jobs

Oh, I never realized that those spaces were for the emotionally handicapped!

Audrey Rust

It makes you realize how important it is to do this well.

Nancy Roman

I had left teaching, which I enjoyed, because I realized I couldn't get tenure at a research university.

Julie Christie

It takes me time to realize things; I'm a speedy person but a slow thinker.