Famous Quotes & Sayings

Orrin Hatch

I've never seen anyone do a better job. You have made a very, very strong presentation here.

Mike Richter

I've never met anyone who's a bigger fan of other people's success than him. I think that's a unique thing to his personality and that's an empowering thing, particularly to the young guys in the organization. He is interested in how people are doing and not just as a team, but personally and what contributions they are making and what he can do to make them better. It sounds unimportant, but it's a really subtle and special thing that comes from him.

Micky Mallette

I've never met anyone as special as Maggie Dixon, and I'm positive I'll never meet another person who can even come close to matching her love for life or her love for people. Even though we only knew her for a short period of time, we'll always carry her in our hearts.

Ben Street

I've probably been out there when it's been 15 below to 20 below. I don't think anyone will beat Mac on that one.

James Browning

I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

James Wolfensohn

It would surprise me if one could win by getting all the kids out of school or starving the Palestinians. And I don't think anyone in the Quartet believes that to be the policy.

John Thomson

The sheriff went on TV and said anyone who came to Sulphur and looted would be arrested or shot. That's the way it is there.

John Cameron

The sharing of ideas has probably benefited me more than anyone else. I'm the one who has the different education.

Greg Butts

I sent out an e-mail yesterday that people who fled the storm to lodges and cabins get to stay. People like you and me who still have a place to stay but who had a reservation at the park will get a gift certificate, or a room at another state park. I don't think that will be a problem with anyone who has an ounce of humanity in his bones.

Bill Gates

We need to move beyond voice to voice and data, ... Microsoft can do this by bringing all the pieces together. And once we do, we are really going to surprise people.

Kathy Johnson

Build up their self esteem to let them know they have options, they have opportunities beyond what they experience.

Ted Saskin

Frankly I think the ongoing participation in the Olympics, that decision will have a lot to do with what we do with World Cup or not. But again, it's early to say. We're committed to Vancouver in 2010 and if we're not committed beyond that (to the Olympics) I could easily see a World Cup.

Burke Magnus

From a general sense, there's certainly more than enough product out there for more than one network to be in this space. I hesitate to call it a niche, because it's way beyond a niche.

Stephen Girsky

GM can't hold out much longer beyond this week.

Dave Miller

So many times in basketball, you fight so hard to get back into the game and you get right there and you just can't get over the edge. You spent so much to get there and then it's a mental thing, 'hey, we're there,' and then you can't make that extra step to go beyond that and get a lead.

Bob Hartweg

State Farm's results are proof positive that they're running the company quite well despite catastrophe losses that were beyond anyone's expectations ... But they have to be prepared for more of the same if not worse in the future.

Joe Quesada

Stephen King is a true literary master. We are thrilled beyond words to have him join Marvel on this exciting project. The millions of Dark Tower fans are in for a real treat, and I'm sure many more will soon be hooked on this epic series through this historic comic project.

Pat Mellors

Some of the younger kids struggled a bit earlier this year. We knew we would need them to do really well and they just stepped beyond belief.

Stephen King

There are things of such darkness and horror—just, I suppose, as there are things of such great beauty—that they will not fit through the puny human doors of perception.

Burn Gorman

I'm afraid the 'Doctor Who' door is probably closed because of me being in 'Torchwood.'

Ellen DeGeneres

I have the picture of Barack [Obama] and me dancing right outside of my dressing room door, I see it every single day, and it makes me very happy.

Lara Pulver

I'm not shutting doors on myself, in any way, within theater, musical theater, TV and film.

Hayley Mills

If ever I feel I might be able to tackle it, I'd love to try holding a spear or something in the theater, or opening a door, or anything, just to try it, you know, because it must be some marvelous magic thing.

Hilaire Belloc

Torture will give a dozen pence or more To keep a drab from bawling at his door. The public taste is quite a different thing Torture is positively paid to sing.

John le Carre

To possess another language, Charlemagne tells us, is to possess another soul. German is such a language. Once you have it in your head, you can go there anytime, you can close the door, you have a refuge.

Charles Dickens

Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it. And Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.

Mark Cuban

Doesn't matter if the glass is half-empty or half-full. All that matters is that you are the one pouring the water.

Oscar Wilde

An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be.

Demi Lovato

I'm very passionate about charity... Performing is my passion. But it's not gonna change the world. That's why I give back.

Aristotle

Irrational passions would seem to be as much a part of human nature as is reason.

Angie Martinez

The projects I'm working on are all diverse, but each represents a different passion for me. I'm constantly looking to stretch myself.

John Ruskin

We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of intermediate being was spread between him and its darkness, in which were joined in a subdued measure, the stability and insensibility of the earth, and the passion and perishing of mankind.

John Ruskin

All other passions do occasional good; but when pride puts in its word everything goes wrong.

John Ruskin

Superstition, in all times and among all nations, is the fear of a spirit whose passions are those of a man, whose acts are the acts of a man; who is present in some places, not in others; who makes no places holy and not others; who is kind to one person, unkind to another; who is pleased or angry according to the degree of attention you pay him, or praise you refuse to him; who is hostile generally to human pleasure, but may be bribed by sacrifice of a part of that pleasure into permitting the rest. This, whatever form of faith it colors, is the essence of superstition.

John Ruskin

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

Masiela Lusha

If I cannot offer some relief to our world, if I cannot inspire our generation to join me, then I feel I am a complete waste of space. This constant fear of feeling irrelevant in our society has been the catalyst behind all my efforts and passions for as long as I can remember.

Mason Cooley

My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet.

Shelby Lynne

Well, I had a record deal since I was 18, and it got me where I am.