Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yahoo Serious

We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.

Thorstein Veblen

It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community.

Todd Rundgren

Sometimes being a musician has little to do with viability and everything to do with survivability. Many musicians start out great, and they wind up out of the business in 10 years.

Thomas J. Watson

To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart.

Imelda May

One thing that did get me into a lot of different types of music was when I was very young, the local record store went out of business and they were selling off all the vinyl. I remember going in - I was probably 16 or 17 and I'd just gotten a record player as a present. It was like hitting the jackpot: all these records for $3 apiece.

Ian Watson

People with a lot of money aren't in the business of throwing it away, and those paying footballers' wages, organising parking spaces for dead sharks, and even, dare I say it, buying iPads, are doing it because, for them, it's worth the money.

Gladys Knight

I know how hard it is to send two kids to college when you ain't got nothing. I know people may not think of me in that way, but this business gives you ups and downs.

Geoff Hoon

We're investing record sums on buses and trains. We have a huge programme to encourage people to walk and cycle, and everyone up to and including the PM has been looking closely at how we can promote electric vehicles, hybrids, and other technologies.

Donald Trump

I had tremendous success in show business - star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 'The Apprentice' was one of the most successful shows.

Joe Hodas

The pilot at that point decided to get it checked out.

Richard Jefferies

The impression left after watching the motions of birds is that of extreme mobility - a life of perpetual impulse checked only by fear.

Bill Kelly

We wanted to make sure the right guy ended up with it. What he's really creative at is when he's getting checked out front he'll kind of draw you into him. And Dan's great because he looks really skinny and he doesn't take big blows. I think the officials like that.

Klaus Steinbach

We have checked with the court and were told that the earliest slot is Friday.

Laura Eimiller

We have checked this information out and feel confident that the two individuals in question are not these two terrorists.

Roger Bubb

It discourages plagiarism, because if the kids know it's going to be checked they're more likely to work a little harder instead of take the easy way out and actually try and do things properly.

Bob Kuehl

We had checked with the ESD (Educational Service District) last week, and they told us about 50 percent of the schools in the ESD were open today.

S. Hughes

I was told just before I took a timeout late in the game that I had two left, but it turns out I had only one. It was my mistake. I should have checked with a scorekeeper and not relied on someone on the bench.

Bob Watters

We realized it was light when we picked up the container. Customs checked the manifest (a cargo list) and found no detailed information in it.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Every day without fail one should consider himself as dead. There is a saying of the elders that goes, 'Step from under the eaves and you're a dead man. Leave the gate and the enemy is waiting.' This is not a matter of being careful. It is to consider oneself as dead beforehand.

Gloria Gaither

Everything is a part of what God's up to in your life, so I think our job is to embrace it. Everything. Embrace it all and consider it God's will for this moment.

Gillian Armstrong

Frankly, I get sick of being considered a 'young woman filmmaker' rather than an individual artist, as a man would be.

Zoe Kravitz

I'm a big fan of, like, wearing old, vintage slips and stuff as outdoor wear. I got, like, a pair of these little silk bloomers. I think they were even, like, considered underwear in the '40s. I wore them as shorts the other day.

Zayn Malik

I consider myself very lucky, essentially - I was put into a pop group even though my musical taste was very niche before.

Yoko Ono

I feel that my work is not in vain, that it does have a place in society, even though it may not be considered that it has a place in society - it doesn't matter.

Vikram Seth

Of course, I have to consider that I've written a lot of prose, but I do in my heart think of myself as being originally, and still primarily, a poet.

Brad Berenson

The overall lesson of the two nominations taken together is that there is considerable safety in drawing from the very small pool of people who are universally considered qualified for appointment.

Brian Bell

When I was thinking of people for the Space Twins, I wanted people who were sort of space cadets in the first place. I consider myself to be one.

Jamie Shea

We know that some transporters have been heading from southern Serbia to northern Kosovo -- that's the primary equipment you would send if you were planning to withdraw.

Asif Kapadia

We were studying at Newport Film School, and I found that the only way for me to make films - because you need people and you need equipment - was that I had to be a student.

Tim Campbell

We were so lucky it wasn't snowing. Thanks to everyone who chipped in to get the equipment up there safely, we couldn't have done it without you.

Dale Williams

Typically if the rating goes down, then your response times go down, the equipment is better and the overall level of the suppression of fires is better.

Paul Stromberg

With the equipment we have we can start this week. But for big numbers we need larger planes, which we are trying to get now.

Paul Wright

Most of the instruction will be hands-on. We'll demonstrate how to use the equipment and they'll be able to follow.

Ed Zimmer

Most often those (air-quality improvements on the long-term list) are scheduled, anticipated replacement of equipment that is working fine now.

Tom Mitchell

Winter weather can vary greatly from year to year, and our staff and equipment have been on standby since last week.

Lance Wilson

Managed services vendors are primarily the major wireless infrastructure equipment vendors.

Nicholas Garganas

The overall picture is that the recovery is broadening and deepening. My feeling is that euro-area growth will pick up at a faster pace than generally expected.

Jeff Nelson

The 2-2 pitch was pretty close, ... The 3-2 fastball wasn't.

Jason Maynard

The acquisition has effectively expanded Red Hat's market opportunity in one of the fastest growing sectors of software.

Shigenori Okazaki

That was a very big mistake. He should have kept everyone guessing. Now he seems to be losing influence much faster than we would have thought.

Ian Harrington

That was a terrible pitch. I left a fastball up and he made me pay for it.

Russell Sciandra

That would work a lot faster than the lawsuit.

Quincy Allen

That was two minutes faster than Tuesday and four minutes faster than Monday.

Sean Whalen

That was the first time she's swam it this year and it's the fastest on your team this year.

Sam Dresser

That way, we take out that player, put in a faster runner, and maybe score a run.

Inga Cadranel

When we were growing up, we had all these crazy, in-your-face guys around the house. For us, it was like, 'Ugh! Actors again.'

Val Kilmer

I've been very fortunate and met the guys that have become, basically, philosophers and have a kind of sensibility about life that's very precious.

Chuck Palahniuk

When I first used to tour, guys would come up and say, 'Where's the fight club in my area?' and I would say, 'There isn't one.' And they'd say, 'No, no, you can tell me, you can tell me.'

will.i.am

When you think about the guys who started Twitter, and the Google guys, and the Facebook guys and the Napster guys, and the Microsoft guys, and the Dell guys and the Instagram guys, it's all guys. The girls, they're being left behind.

Alberto Martinez

The overriding theme of these numbers is that these guys are pretty much tied, and will likely stay that way for a long time.

Brian Bell

The guys in the Twins understand that the better Weezer does, the more people will probably care about us.

Wade Henderson

We have a lot of young guys who haven't jelled yet. It's tough when you lose (last year's seniors), but you have to learn to play without them.

Mark Marquess

We have a lot of young guys and we'll see where we stand.

Lindsey Hunter

We need to have our showers, there's some guys in here who should be showering more often than they are.

Howard Fineman

I think in the end, we were fair. He was riding a wave that overtook him. I don't think that was our fault.

Doug Anderson

We can have more than one session at a time here. There are two riding pens. There's a new spectator area, too.

Bernard Hinault

I may, however, begin riding again when I am 60.

Bob Dylan

Well the Lone Ranger and Tonto, they are riding down the line fixing everybody's troubles, everybody except mine.

Brene Brown

When perfectionism is driving us, shame is riding shotgun and fear is that annoying backseat driver!

Craig Kelly

Oakley and Burton have been my main sponsors since '87. I've been riding for both of them.

Craig Kelly

I've always been into powder, that's what I like riding, and now you've got to go farther to get it.

Azhar Usman

To me this is not just about standing on stage telling jokes. There's a lot riding on this.

Steve Shaw

My wife and I like to go riding on our own about three times a week.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

As an audience member, if I go to a film, and I am watching two actors, and they're kissing, and it looks like they don't even want to be kissing, it just takes me out of the film.

Evan G. Galbraith

There's something about the Foreign Service that takes the guts out of people.

Randy Pausch

Smelling a crayon takes you right back to childhood. When I need to go back in time, I put it under my nose and take another hit.

Orlando Bloom

It takes obstacles to learn, grow, be better.

Willis McGahee

My body's good, I keep getting up so I can't complain, ... If that's what it takes to win, that's what we're going to do.

Andrew Coburn

You can go 20 years without a hurricane. All it takes is one.

P. Herbert

It drains you; it takes a toll on you.

James Woods

Without a doubt, if I had it to do all over again, I would do whatever it takes to be a one-person studio. You need to learn how to write so you can control the material. If you own the material, you can do it all.

Paul Gray

We have to re-evaluate it. It takes time, but they need to look at it again.

Gaines Adams

I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son.

George Allen

It's time for an American comeback... where leaders in Washington listen to 'we the people.'

Zadie Smith

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are.

Zadie Smith

Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.

Vivienne Westwood

I am in my own head most of the time.

Zubin Mehta

New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.

Zubin Mehta

I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.

Yakov Smirnoff

When you like something, you find time to do it.

Evangeline Lilly

I'm a bit delusional, but every time I do a job, I think I'm retired.

Cliff Hite

I always tell the quarterback, we don't want you to make a big tackle, just get in his way, trip him, do whatever you have to do to get in his way.

John Bryan

I don't know many trips you can do for a whole week for $150.

Vic Tayback

Too many actors get on an ego trip and won't do commercials, so they sit around for 20 years between jobs.

Lauren German

I'm very klutzy. I've fallen off horses, I've tripped with my high-heeled boots over a stunt guy.

Caron Butler

Yeah, it was ugly, but we won. We'll take it, especially after the trip we just had.

Tim Adams

Our findings on this trip will be an important input,

Paddy Ashdown

It is my worst experience, my worst trip to the Balkans,

Ron Vanover

Every trip is unique; every trip has a story.

Colleen Nave

That's the first triple play I've ever seen. It was very exciting.