Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Quinn

The business must be based on the success of our football team,

William Frey

Back 30 or 40 years ago when people thought about where they'd move it was based on jobs. Now housing is as much of a factor.

Jason Mraz

A rescue mission doesn't involve going in and just taking a child and leaving. You can't just choose any child at random. Every kid has a case that is based on that child's original family. So, we made it over to a village, found the child; we were interacting with the child.

Carolyn Johnson

The students are selected based on recommendations that come from their instructors and who have demonstrated a record of high achievement.

Chris Rock

The show is loosely based on my life,

Ted Sarandos

The television business is based on managed dissatisfaction. You're watching a great television show you're really wrapped up in? You might get 50 minutes of watching a week and then 18,000 minutes of waiting until the next episode comes along.

John Hargreaves

The Teddy Bears Child Care Centre has been offered a 24-month lease based on the fact that we gave them an undertaking that we wouldn't throw them out on the street and their solution, to build a new centre, could not be feasibly done in 12 months,

Bobby Schindler

The success or failure of the euthanasia movement is based on the classification of feeding tubes as a medical treatment,

Nigel Lythgoe

The success of William Hung was based on his honesty. He really thought he was good and could get better. We try to weed out the people who are just trying to be bad.

Butch Kinerney

This gives them another 60 days to breathe and see if there are other options available.

Garry Shandling

I once saw an elaborate landscape in a gallery, drawn in pencil, that took my breath away. Then I realized the artist probably didn't have enough confidence to use a pen.

Lajos Egri

Everything has a purpose or premise. Every second of our life has its own premise, whether or not we are conscious of it at the time. That premise may be as simple as breathing or as complex as a vital emotional decision, but it is always there.

Liam Payne

I was ill. I was told I was stressed, so I had to get everything checked out. I didn't think I was, but someone told me I was. As a result, I went to get a blood test. I'd never had one before, so I held my breath when I was getting it done. That caused me to go into a fit.

Boy George

Madonna is a living, breathing cash register.

Mary Lambert

To be honest, I used to hate shopping. I rarely left a store without crying, cursing my body, and swearing under my breath at the fashion industry.

Knut Johnson

You have to take a breath and relax, and understand that -- particularly someone in Duke Cunningham's position -- they're not going into a prison with a lot of violent and dangerous prisoners.

Dallas Richter

You get down like that and they keep coming at you. You can't get a breath of air. You never feel comfortable.

William Orbit

There's no crusade here, but I am trying to slip classical music in through the back door, ... I think people can talk about classical composers in the same breath as contemporary music. All music is good music.

Colin Shaha

Ralph Waldo Emerson had this philosophy about be silly, be honest and be kind. I really try to talk to a lot of people about that on the team, and Joy is certainly all those qualities.

Phil Klay

People should be able to tell stories that are important to them to try and understand what they mean. I don't think you figure anything out on your own. Certainly not war stories.

G. H. Hardy

Anything we can do to help impart knowledge of our Constitution is important. If we spent a day recognizing, say, presidents or particular people, this certainly is the one thing we share in common - our Constitution. It's the thread that holds us all together.

Bill Wadley

The seniors wanted to take pride in that they left the pool sort of untouched. The seniors walked out with an undefeated record in the new pool. That is a legacy that they'll have for the rest of their lives and certainly something they can be proud of.

Sammy Mejia

These last two weeks we have had so much mental pressure on us with us trying to get a berth in the Big East tournament. It was certainly more mental than physical.

Ken Goldstein

The small but consistent decreases in the past three-month period certainly point to a second-half economic performance less robust than in the first half of 2000. With employment and income still rising, there will be growth, but not at the pace set earlier in the year.

Jason Napodano

The study certainly isn't ideal for Pfizer. There were some positives for Pfizer, and they will have to go out and do some education (on them).

Annette Singletary

The students certainly used good judgment and thought quickly to handle the situation properly.

Robert Clark

The signs have new meaning. I'm not sure where they lead, but I certainly take note of them now.

Jeremy Teela

Other courses there's a lot of rest, you can work hard and rest, work hard and rest. And if you don't have as good a physiology, you can get away with the techniques of speed and power. But this kind of course, the guys who are genetically gifted ...

Charles Curtis

A plane is not just a big toy but a useful thing. You can use it for travel, research and of course fun, like sightseeing.

John McCarthy

Proposals to forbid golf courses have about the same motivations as proposals to forbid skate boarding, although the rationalizations are different.

Andrew Magee

This is one of the top-five golf courses on the PGA Tour already after just one practice round,

Terry Jones

The funny thing about history is that we imagine that people didn't laugh in the old days, but of course they did, at stupid things.

Mike McCready

At this point, because we have stayed the same course for so many years, I feel like we are freer to make choices that are motivated by what feels right creatively at a given point in time.

Gene Contino

We had three-hour waits on the White Course some days.

Keith Cole

We were particularly impressed by how these two, having never run the course before, were not intimidated by the course or by the competition. They ran a tough race and showed that they are going to be tough competitors for the rest of the season.

Robert Reischauer

What the Democrats have is a good point that we probably decided on this tax cut in a hasty fashion. We should have waited to see how the economy was going to unfold over the course of this year and what other demands were going to be placed on the budget.

Shannon Schonrock

As long as we're winning, it doesn't matter. It's great to see different people step up on any given night. And it makes us hard to prepare for because you don't know who to focus on. A lot of our numbers are down, minutes-wise, but it makes us that much tougher knowing that we have so many people that can contribute.

Lori Bennett

Our serve and service return was very weak in the first two games. But we had a lot of things that worked well. So for the third game, we focused on serving more aggressively.

Michael Barrett

The one thing I like about this team is as great as it was, as fun as it was, there's no real celebrating what happened today. It means we're focused and moving on.

Tim McCutchen

It was the same press. We used the same press-breaker, but we didn't execute. We just were not as focused and ready to play as we were the first time." ()

Jane Garvey

The whole issue of wiring is something that people have been focused on for a while,

John Shin

This is stronger than expected, the highest since spring of last year. But it's less important since it doesn't show anything about the impact of Katrina and everyone's focused on Katrina right now.

Adrian Jones

You're not really focused on the star, but the co-stars to see what they're doing to help the whole scene.

Mike Scioscia

This win was a good win for the team and gave us a big lift. We have to focus on winning from here on out.

Asa Butterfield

I like to keep my options very open and try not to focus on trying to get something. That's just how I'm playing it and it's worked so far.

John Sebastian

You're seeing it go down to more moderate homes.

Barton Gellman

As militias go, the Ohio Defense Force is on the moderate side.

David Adamson

There are unquestionably some patients getting too many embryos.

Billy Carter

We did over 200 adjustments, ... My patients really responded.

Carl Griffith

We had patients throwing up. It was very ugly.

Ian Young

All the most vulnerable patients are those that are going to be deprived,

J. J. Johnson

We've always been told that there's nothing we can do. We're told that the patients are the ones who need to complain.

Mike Edwards

We've dodged a bullet. It's not as severe as it has been in the past.

John Mushtare

As I understand it, we're going to need a lot of help. We need to win out and get some help.

Lori Chappell

You really have to see the grounds to understand how populated they are.

Brad Meltzer

there's nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else.

Brad Pitt

There's peace in understanding that I have only one life, here and now, and I'm responsible.

Cameron Diaz

Intimacy starts with a relationship with yourself, an understanding of who you are.

Charles Jencks

In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.

Damon Lindelof

When I saw 'Blade Runner,' my understanding was that 'Blade Runner' and 'Alien' were sequels to each other - or they were related. They were set in the same world.

Bodhidharma

When your mind doesn't stir inside, the world doesn't arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.

Albert Einstein

Relations between pure and applied mathematicians are based on trust and understanding. Namely, pure mathematicians do not trust applied mathematicians, and applied mathematicians do not understand pure mathematicians.

Kate Looby

Within about two weeks, we'll have made those decisions.

Neale Donald Walsch

There is no truth except the truth that exists within you. Everything else is what someone is telling you.

Kerry Bailey

Typically within two weeks, we're done with the analysis.