Famous Quotes & Sayings

Olympia Snowe

As a Greek-American, I am especially pleased that Ambassador Negroponte has earned the honor of being nominated to this most prominent position of responsibility in the intelligence community. He is a role model to all Greek-Americans, making the entire Hellenic community proud.

Richard Holbrooke

The British Ambassador is coming this morning with us to Pristina for talks, representing his own government and, by extension, the whole Contact Group.

James Costos

Prince Felipe is the best ambassador for Spain: I have already told Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo, minister of foreign affairs, that the prince should travel to the U.S. more often.

Jim Parks

Of course, we'll give him a couple breaks. Mike is a great ambassador for us. He has been at the event the last three years but we were in a gated area. Now we're offering him up to the public.

James Rubin

During that conversation the prime minister requested that ambassador Dennis Ross return to Israel as soon as possible to discuss how to bridge the remaining gaps needed to start accelerated final status talks in Washington.

Gigi Hadid

I've always said that I feel lucky to live in the era of social media and be a working model in this time. Back in the day, models were just another face. But social media has given people a voice and not just another face. Not only can you show the world your personality and stuff like that, but you can be a brand ambassador easily.

Roger Smith

After his meeting today . . . Harper continues to work on the transition. He's in meetings every day now, figuring out who's going to be in his cabinet, planning policy initiatives, writing legislation to be introduced, and now thinking about who he will name as ambassador to Washington now that Frank McKenna -- a prospective Liberal leadership candidate -- has resigned.

Rob Bois

Salesforce.com is an ambassador for this space because it reached critical mass first. So when Salesforce.com has a problem, people start questioning the whole delivery model.

Larry Sabato

Rarely do you have a governor who's already been U.N. ambassador and energy secretary as well as congressman. I mean he really does have a very rich resume. This just underlines it for Democratic primary and caucus voters,

Richard Grasso

A separate entity would remove the cop on the beat, ... is not viewed as a profit drag, but ? as an investment in our brand and in building public confidence.

Greg Stuart

As consumers continue to embrace the Internet as an integral part of their everyday lives, marketers continue to acknowledge that interactive is a crucial medium to engage their customers and create deeper brand experiences.

Paul Gatza

As a brand extension, Zima Gold failed miserably.

Leslie Moonves

As a leading content creator, we are committed to deepening our consumer's relationship with CBS brands and programming. This move underscores our strategy of offering best-in-class content on as many platforms as possible while seeking out new revenue streams.

Vaidyanath Purohith

The brand does make a difference, but if you look at the career growth in comparison to being in a top-end five-star hotel, the difference could be huge.

Bill Douglas

Augusta is the perfect market for us to deliver our decentralized brand of banking,

Randy Bennett

As media proliferates, people have a variety of media choices, and competition for traditional media is pretty intense. Newspapers are seeing a slow, gradual decline in their readership. The question is, can a free newspaper without much of a brand enter the market? I think there are a lot of challenges for that sort of business model going forward.

Sam Yagan

Our entire brand is about transparency. We want that data out there because you know what? If you are only getting one in three messages replied to, you're normal. You're right there in the middle of everything with everyone else.

Steve Tihanyi

People have a perception about our brands and our products. They're living in a world 20 years ago, when the products were very different. That's why we're building this different type of facility, so they can understand that.

Monique Roffey

'The White Woman on the Green Bicycle' is a love story mapped onto an unfolding political tragedy: that of the failure of the Independence era in Trinidad.

Steve Winwood

My goal has always been to make classic records, classic albums. Sometimes the recording process and the era it was recorded in means the production leans in a particular way, but to me they are all part of the same process.

Brian Eno

Nothing so dates an era as its conception of the future.

Josh Pais

Even though reality TV is very manipulated, it's all manipulated so that something real happens. And so, our job in this era is to make that real thing happen, because nobody wants to see any more manipulated, pre-planned performances. That era is over.

Atul Gawande

We now live in the era of the super-specialist - of clinicians who have taken the time to practice at one narrow thing until they can do it better than anyone who hasn't.

Lou Pierce

Dick comes from an era when TV was a lot more personal. Dick was not just someone on TV for people who lived in northern Indiana and southwest Michigan. He was part of their family.

Larry Zimmer

There's no question, those were the glory years of CU football, ... I don't know of another era that was any better for any team.

Ron Nelson

We lost all our pitching from last year, but we got a team ERA of like 1.1 right now and I just never imagined that.

Sathya Baba

When women are true,brave, kind and compassionate the World can have an era of peace and joy!

Abby Cohen

Opportunities are likely to present themselves, especially given a 6- to 12-month time horizon.

Leo Tolstoy

The more is given the less people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase

Lillian Koller

The money is so flexible, so broad. But it's a limited amount. While it seems a lot, given all our needs and services, it goes fast.

Mick Durham

Defensively he's also making great strides. No question he's given us a lift offensively.

Jim Beaver

'Deadwood' proved that viewers are smarter in terms of grasping intricate dialogue than they had been given credit for.

Anthony Crescenzi

Any money given to seniors probably would get spent and therefore help the economy.

Carlos Delgado

The situation with the Marlins, getting rid of some of their players, has given me a great opportunity in New York,

Nicolas Massu

These matches in the Latin American Tour have always given me luck. But I still need to take one more step.

Larry Rothschild

The second round is important for us to get him ready and that he keeps progressing. I have nothing to say about it, but I would like him to get a start. Some consideration has to be given to that. If not, then we have to reconsider what's going on. After the first round I need to find out what's going on with him.

Rodney Selph

Actually, I thought I was going to throw up. We got lucky, but sometimes it's better to be lucky than good.

Taylor Snell

Now I know how all those people felt, being out of their homes. We were lucky to have somewhere to go.

Steve McClain

Sometimes you have to get a little lucky, and we can't seem to get a little lucky right now.

Julie White

Ten years ago a superintendent search would have 40 applicants. Now you are lucky to get five.

Richard Thompson

It was upsetting at first, but then you realize there's not much you can do about it. We were very lucky no one was hurt. You can always replace buildings, but not someone's life.

Brad Dourif

I was lucky. I had a lot of really good influences.

Diane Keaton

Relationships are hard. You're lucky if you find someone.

Anton Yelchin

I feel lucky to be in whatever I'm in. I feel lucky to be working.

John McBride

Everything?s fine. We were lucky, and we were lucky to have that place (the senior center) to go to.

Paul Kemp

That's what modeling does, it makes something real before it happens.

Robert Mintz

He was a model of contrition on the stand.

James Allan

It is a reasonable model which could be used in other ways.

Gigi Hadid

In California, I'm more of a beach chick, and I kind of take on a model city girl when I'm in New York.

Wade Lange

It's really a model for how to do these things.

John Mozeliak

It may seem like it, but it's not a strategy. Is there a risk to running that model year after year? Sure.

Shannon Elizabeth

When I was modeling, I worked out every day or other day.

Toshizo Tanaka

The IXY model sold well without steep discounts,

Nils-Axel Morner

Geologists don't do that! We go out in the field and observe, and then we can try to make a model with computerization; but it's not the first thing.

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.

Denise Monteiro

The social worker told her there was hope.

Connie Smith

This is not about me. It's just that social workers are needed. ... It really does a lot of good.

Cesar Chavez

Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed.

John Schneider

You can tell if someone is about social intercourse or just about browbeating somebody with their opinion. It's no fun arguing with a closed-minded person.

Dorothy L. Sayers

The keeping of an idle woman is a badge of superior social status.

Chuck Hagel

Well, let's go back to the original intent of Social Security. It is an insurance contract.

Anita Roddick

a social conscience is not incompatible with profit.

Rob Portman

If you can't even acknowledge that you have to fix Social Security, that's not a very good starting point.

Rob Lowe

As far as my work for causes or social issues, that's something I'm doing as a private citizen.

Brett Ratner

I look for stuff that I'm passionate about.

Anthony Weiner

You've gotta stop making stuff up.

Art Spiegelman

There's a therapeutic aspect to all making, but the nature of working is to compress, condense, and shape stuff, not to just expunge it. It's not just an exorcism.

Benjamin Booker

Blind Willie Johnson is a pretty big vocal influence. He can be very harsh, like gargly, gruff vocals, but also just slip into some very delicate, vulnerable soft stuff. I like that combination.

Burton Rascoe

I am so constituted that I had rather read bad stuff than nothing.

Al Yankovic

As it turns out, there is a thing called the Internet, and stuff does go out there whether the suits like it or not.

Alain de Botton

We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.

Jamie Luner

I love playing the vamp, and I get sent out for a lot of that stuff, maybe because I do it well.

Conor McGregor

I don't know why anyone would want to do that politics stuff.

Jim Veltman

After you win, you think to yourself, 'Is it time to get out?' But I don't feel like I want to.

Charlie Skelton

The story is timeless and can be done in any era.

Goldie Hawn

The movie actually has a little more back story, more consequence, and I think it's more real actually for this time period.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Rob Allison

Now it's time to really find out what we're going to do and how we're going to do it.

Curtis Sliwa

Now I'm going to have to do a lot of rope-a-dope, never go the same way at the same time to the same places,

Chris Mills

I've never had a better time doing anything -- not just music, but anything,

Bill Cowher

This is not the time to relax. They've had their off time. You can't do that. It's around the corner.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.