Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joyce Meskis

Reading a book is a very human experience, and Betty engaged in the humanity of putting children and books together.

Mark Kelley

Prior to BET, especially in its 24-hour version, I think standard commercial television did not do a good job of representing people of color. BET created a place where all those people could be seen in all the different vestiges they come in.

Hidenori Karaki

The Nasdaq ended mostly unchanged last Friday, and some investors bet it was a good chance to hunt for bargains.

Glenn Heyes

Oh you bet I will. I'll stand there until he rots. If he lasts, if he can take it, prison is a tough place, I hear.

Kateri Callahan

The momentum usually gets to a fever pitch when the prices get high. You can bet that the members of Congress are hearing from their constituents.

Evan Osnos

Deng Xiaoping made a calculation. He bet on demographics. What he knew was that China had this enormous population of young, underemployed people, people who he could move from the farms to the coast and put them to work in factories, and that would be the lifeblood of China's economy.

Celso Senise

The situation is not good and the worst thing is that there is a feeling that it could get worse. The market is ready to improve, but it depends on what happens abroad...You can't bet on anything.

Jeff Raikes

The software business was dominated by hardware companies, and everybody thought they would just come in and wipe us out. People forget that Microsoft took a huge bet to think that an independent operating system and programming language would be successful.

Anthony Curtis

The sports books come up with many ingenious ways to get you to put your money down, ... You have to pick who you think is going to win given the point spreads, but people still tend to bet with their hearts.

Ron Perry

Authorities are worried. Our fire conditions, as far as the grasses and the brush, in all of Texas except for the coast are in extreme fire danger.

Joe Bastardi

The Texas coast is in for a long period of tropical activity.

Jase Robertson

I've always said the key to killing a lot of mallards if you live on the East Coast is to move west. The No. 1 rule in duck hunting is to go where the ducks are.

Brad Davis

Some people may feel that we are stating the obvious and some people may not. We want to encourage people to move away from the coast rather than towards it.

Richard Curtin

Prospects for the economy have improved substantially from the lows recorded following the Gulf Coast hurricanes and the surge in gas prices. Firms still expect a slower overall pace of economic growth during 2006 than in 2005. The expected growth slowdown is mainly due to anticipated increases in interest rates. Firms are much more optimistic about their own prospects in 2006, as they expected strong growth in revenues and profits.

Steve Pennington

I've noticed tournaments up and down the coast are all down because people are doing other things on weekends, like fixing their houses.

Craig Fugate

It would be like a weed whacker going up the coast

Ken Goldstein

The storms and flooding, and now the rebuilding and dislocations in the Gulf Coast area, are taking place in a weakening national labor market.

Michael Brown

I understand that there are pockets where people have not gotten the basics, and we're working with the Coast Guard to get those,

Robyn Archer

Quite often, if people don't want to listen to the message they will say 'Oh, but it's so musically inferior', but when you have songs that are musically sophisticated, with enormous heart and expertise and a message, that's when its hard to resist. It's great to see people of exceptional musical talent, like Paul and the musicians he works with, contributing to songs like these.

Keith Brown

It was an enormous loss, that is the one that eventually killed us.

Michael Garcia

This is an organization that used violence and threats to protect enormous profits.

Octavia E. Butler

I don't write about good and evil with this enormous dichotomy. I write about people. I write about people doing the kinds of things that people do.

Donald Kennedy

There are enormous pressures to be extremely productive and at the top of the heap.

Mark Cullen

As stylized as he is, Doug has a sort of filter, where he can't shoot something that's not true and something that he doesn't feel is right with the character. He just does it with enormous flair and that's what we took with us in the show.

Susan Sontag

God, living is enormous!

Michael Morse

made an enormous mistake in my life: I took steroids while in the minor leagues.

Norman Ornstein

Let's face it. When you're the governor of New York and even mentioned as a presidential candidate, you're going to be under an enormous microscope.

Mike Gempler

There are about a half-dozen farms that are very scared. We need lots of people. It really is different this year.

William Blake

A petty sneaking thief I knew - / O! Mr Cr-, how do you do?

Jarkko Nieminen

The second set was huge. I knew at the end of the second set that I could win.

Jake Moreland

The way Lawson was playing, I knew a two-goal lead was going to be very tough to overcome. So you do everything in your power to keep it close.

Shea Hembrey

The way I grew up, everyone knew how to cook, sew... carpentry.

Bob Brenly

The veteran players wanted to make sure I knew what I was doing, that I was on top of things, that I didn't get flabbergasted.

Cameron Crowe

This is a personal movie that I knew I had to come here to make,

Paul Ballew

This is not where we want to be, but we knew it would be a very challenging start to the year. We need to pickup our sales pace going forward.

Paul Manning

The way we have all been riding we knew that a 1-2-3 was on the cards.

William Hoffman

That's when I knew we had our guy, ... Then Grady O'Malley steps into the picture, and it was about getting the indictment.

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.

Jeff Brehaut

This is an important week to move back up.

Steve Martarano

This is going to pretty much do it for us. We're not going to move forward. We're very disappointed,

Elizabeth Vargas

This is not something you just sort of go, oh, got carjacked and shot, all right, move on--you don't just move on.

Patrick Chorpenning

This isn't the end all. We need to look around the state and see where we need to move forward. I think there is probably a need for one in Yuma.

Tom Ridge

a very unfortunate characterization of the work that people are doing.

Jake Bugg

At school, people would say I should go on 'Britain's Got Talent,' but I would never have done that because it doesn't seem genuine; it doesn't feel natural.

Renae Dreier

A year from now, people will look back and say that was nerve-racking, but it was worth it.

Randy Falco

Back in 1975, we were making all the decisions about what people were going to watch.

Karla Reese

As people stop driving, we haven't been able to replace them as readily as we used to.

Michael Vick

As long as I can go out and make plays, people can say what they want to say,

Jake Barton

As long as your storytelling and emotional depth are intact, that's what people will focus on.

Ferdie Pacheco

As influential as I have been, do you think one of these people has ever called me? ... No.

Astro Teller

Really, having people who have different mental perspectives is what's important.

Kelly Wood

The population is healthy, but it's not like we've got a lot of them.

Allen Ginsberg

It's time we did something to assert ourselves. After all, we do comprise 10% of the population.

Clayton Christensen

It's like in biological evolution: The population will evolve, even though individuals can't. The same thing happens in the corporate world: The population of business units within corporations evolves, even though individual business units can't. That's because the capabilities of business units reside in their processes and their values, and by their very nature, processes and values are inflexible and meant not to change.

Ang Lee

I wanted to shoot straight, mainstream, somehow off-beat. Not only realistic West, which is quite unfamiliar to the world's population - even to a lot of Americans.

Ron Perlman

1% of the population has all the money and the other 99% have nothing.

Stewart Udall

In a region with a growing population, if you're doing nothing, you're losing ground.

Maurice Strong

Either we reduce the world's population voluntarily or nature will do this for us, but brutally

Terence Lewis

After working for TV, you realise that the majority of the population still wonders where their next meal is coming from.

Michel Foucault

Are the prisons overpopulated, or is the population over-imprisoned ?

Kristin Baker

I've matured. I think I work better with the team.

James Marsh

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

Amanda Hale

I've come to realise I work so much better when I'm going by instinct.

Luis Castillo

This is terrible. Very disappointing. I've got to get back out there. There's so many things I have to work on.

Bryson Sumlin

That's not in the playbook, ... That's just excitement. Everything worked as clockwork.

Boris Yeltsin

I understand that it's hard for everyone, but one cannot give in to emotions... we'll have to draw lessons from the current crisis and now we'll have to work on overcoming it.

Auguste Rodin

Where shall we begin? There is no beginning. Start where you arrive. Stop before what entices you. And work! You will enter little by little into the entirety. Method will be born in proportion to your interest.

Jane Fonda

The harder you work out, the more you should stretch.

Kent McCord

Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work.