Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gerry Beckley

It's not a bad problem to have because a lot of classic acts are known for one or two songs and in their show they basically hold those songs off until the end and you sit through an hour or so of lesser known material but in our case most of the songs are well known.

Gerry Beckley

The first year with the success that we had and let me point out that the time frame changes depending on which decade you look at it. In the seventies acts were kind of expected to do an album a year. If you look at the Beatles they were doing three a year.

Theodore Steinberg

The point that has to be made is that national disasters are, in the aggregate, predictable, and we can budget for them, ... Acts of God: The Unnatural History of Natural Disasters in America.

Laura Garrison

The overall thing is we wanted to bring acts that appeal to a college crowd. Dave Attell just got off the 'Insomniac' comedy tour and had a TV special last Sunday, so it's very timely. He's just really funny and a lot of college kids like him.

John C. Calhoun

It is but too common, of late, to condemn the acts of our predecessors and to pronounce them unjust, unwise, or unpatriotic from not adverting to the circumstances under which they acted. Thus, to judge is to do great injustice to the wise and patriotic men who preceded us.

John C. Calhoun

A difference must be made between a decision against the constitutionality of a law of Congress and of a State. The former acts as a restriction on the powers of this government, but the latter as an enlargement.

Nick Jonas

My real musical discovery started when I was 10 with Stevie Wonder and the Jackson 5, and acts that I connected with because they were young when they were doing it, like me. Then I kind of came into my own a couple of years later; I found new artists that shaped my musical landscape. For instance, Kings of Leon played a big part in that.

Lynn Martenstein

The acts that we have been charged with are totally unacceptable, and in violation of company policy.

Charles Hynes

the appropriate punishment for ... these vicious acts ... will be available in the federal system.

Imelda May

I was brought up with old-fashioned values. I wasn't allowed to have a boyfriend until I finished school. I wasn't allowed to wear make-up: the nuns would scrub your face if they saw it.

Iain Duncan Smith

When the news is good, the BBC view is: 'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say anything about it.' When the news is bad: 'Let's all dump on the government.'

Irwin Thomas

I'm not even allowed to sing in the shower at home. Too loud.

Gallagher

I was the first one to allow a projectile to come off of the stage and into the audience. And I kind of take responsibility for the mosh pit.

Zaha Hadid

It's very important that historic cities are allowed to reinvent their future.

William Shockley

I was not allowed to take spherical trigonometry because I'd sprained my ankle. Because I'd sprained my ankle, I had an incomplete in gym, phys ed. And the rule was that if you had an incomplete in anything, you were not allowed to take an overload.

William Henry Bragg

Whenever we warm our hands by the fire, we allow the energy radiated by the fire to quicken up the movements of the atoms of which the hands are composed. When we cool any substance, we check those movements.

Chuck Palahniuk

I've got two dogs; they're Boston terriers, and they're allowed everywhere.

Evangeline Lilly

I was brought up in a household where I was not allowed to take the Lord's name in vain.

Yani Tseng

When you play good, everything is good, but when you don't play so good, everything is bad. Even when you think there are good things, they still say bad things.

Tina Fey

Sometimes people expect that I'm going to be tough. It's not a bad situation. People treat you better. People are on time.

Thomas Friedman

Lord knows there's a lot of bad news in the world today to get you down, but there is one big thing happening that leaves me incredibly hopeful about the future, and that is the budding revolution in global online higher education.

Isabella Bird

The Malays have many queer notions about tigers and usually only speak of them in whispers, because they think that certain souls of human beings who have departed this life have taken up their abode in these beasts, and in some places, for this reason, they will not kill a tiger unless he commits some specially bad aggression.

Ian Watson

It's bad enough being conned into singing an anti-war message by John Lennon when you think you're just wishing everyone a merry Christmas.

Gabriel Mann

The only description for Nolan in the script was that he's a very bad dresser. I put on a red windbreaker and every other ugly, ill-fitting thing I could dig out. He was potentially written as a clean-cut nerd, but I wanted a darker spin.

Glenn Tipton

You can have a bad day, but as soon as you set foot on that stage it's joyous.

Gin Wigmore

Writing music is such a freeing exercise, and it's really nice to play in that world of being confident, vengeful - getting back at all the bad boyfriends.

Will Rothhaar

I would love to do a good gritty drama, a romantic role. I tend to play bad guys for some reason.

Xun Zi

Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.

Ellen Key

When the sense of solidarity has been developed to such a point that each one feels the cause of all others as his own, we shall be drawing near to international and to social peace.

Ruth Luban

The pink slip is precipitously delivered. It's not as if the worker caused the job loss, nor is it that they even wanted to shift gears or that they were tired,

Chris Oynes

The overall damage caused by hurricanes Katrina and Rita has shown them to be the greatest natural disasters to oil and gas development in this history of the Gulf of Mexico.

Sung Sohn

The pause in economic growth and the drop in confidence will probably cause the Fed to tighten later rather than sooner. The earliest I can see them tightening is the end of June, and they could quite possibly wait until August.

Conrad Lautenbacher

The pathogens that cause disease have conditions in which they live, just like we do. We have to combine the physical data with what we know in the medical world.

Dave Grohl

Cause when you're sequencing a record, you want the listener to stick with it from beginning to end, and in order to do that, you really have to map out the journey from the first song to the last.

John C. Calhoun

With such irresistible evidence before us of the great and rapid progress of abolitionism without the slightest indication of abatement, he is blind who does not see, if the state of things which has caused it should be permitted to continue, that it will speedily be too late, if not to save ourselves, to save the Union.

John C. Calhoun

Every increase of protective duties is necessarily followed, in the present condition of our country, by an expansion of the currency, which must continue to increase till the increased price of production, caused by the expansion, shall be equal to the duty imposed, when a new tariff will be required.

Richard Branson

We have always felt that a company with music at its core rather than technology could do so much better for music fans. It is so user friendly that even I could use it.

Paul Zane Pilzer

Your employer is the last person you should want to provide for your healthcare, from a privacy, financial, and value standpoint. Employees with families should get the family, meaning spouses and children, off the company plan. In most cases, that will save them money.

Jake Brace

We'll open trading on an exchange and that will determine what the value of the company will be. That's when you'll be able to determine what the true recovery will be.

Barbara Williams

We have the luxury of just watching a little bit. Every company must make a decision about where they want to be on the curve. There's always the risk that if you lead, you bleed.

Robert Hartwig

Typically, they want to know how many people are residents in your household. That creates a different liability situation, and you need to inform your insurance company about that.

Brent Bracelin

Typically a company will look at acquisition strategies when their growth starts to slow but there's no slowing down at Dell.

Robert Kirby

Today, things look much rosier for American Home. The degree of uncertainty at the company is much less today than it was four or five months ago.

Kozo Hiramatsu

We will rebuild our company and keep it going for the future. But this time we promise we'll grow our company with integrity, enhanced corporate governance, and compliance.

A. Bush

We've got some people working here because of the ingenuity of the plant managers, ... . . . This company has provided housing for the folks who work here.

Walt Mossberg

There's no other major item most of us own that is as confusing, unpredictable and unreliable as our personal computers.

Vivek Wadhwa

Whenever I write about immigration, I hear heart-wrenching stories of computer workers who are unemployed and facing severe hardship.

Bill Calder

The Pentium name is the quintessential name of the gigahertz era. The gigahertz era is over.

Brian Kernighan

Programming language is very specific to instructing a computer to do a particular structure of a sequence. It's the very way you tell the machine what you want it to do.

Brian Kernighan

It's important to be informed about issues like usability, reliability, security, privacy, and some of the inherent limitations of computers.

Neil Kurshan

Family life is not a computer program that runs on its own; it needs continual input from everyone.

Rick Perlstein

Computers have cut-and-paste functions. So does right-wing historical memory.

Nina Easton

Jobless workers, especially those out of work for months and years, don't have the skills to multitask in a fast-paced economy where medical workers need to know electronic record-keeping, machinists need computer skills, and marketing managers can no longer delegate software duties.

Nick Jonas

I'm actually pretty good with computers. I use computers when I'm working on making and producing music, so I do know a thing or two!

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

It's for scientists to lay out the data and lay out what they think, and then it's for the public to make up its own mind. We don't live in a priesthood where some small group imposes its views on other people - that's not the way that science works, and it's not the way a democratic society should work.

Tony Crescenzi

The pending home sales data feed right into the hands of those who expect the Fed to end its interest-rate hikes.

Carl Sagan

[N]o scientist likes to be criticized. ... But you don't reply to critics: "Wait a minute, wait a minute; this is a really good idea. I'm very fond of it. It's done you no harm. Please don't attack it." That's not the way it goes. The hard but just rule is that if the ideas don't work, you must throw them away. Don't waste any neurons on what doesn't work. Devote those neurons to new ideas that better explain the data. Valid criticism is doing you a favor.

Carl Sagan

With insufficient data it is easy to go wrong.

Antoine Lavoisier

Perhaps... some day the precision of the data will be brought so far that the mathematician will be able to calculate at his desk the outcome of any chemical combination, in the same way, so to speak, as he calculates the motions of celestial bodies.

James Niosi

We've got some pretty heavy data this week and I know people are holding off a little bit.

Bob McMurray

We've made it hard for ourselves because we didn't perform as well as we should have. Our engineers are digesting data now and will be discussing options well into the night I would think.

Mark Rosenker

We have to look at the event data recorder in more detail.

David Rosenberg

With the exception of the backward-looking Q4 GDP report, the data released today surprised to the downside.

Jennifer Glass

The allegations are entirely without merit and will be defended vigorously.

Eric Davis

Mike got his turn (on Thursday). He hadn't played much lately but he went out there and defended the heck out of people.

Andy Palmer

(Williams) was a handful because of the way we defended him. We just tried to switch everything on Terrill and make sure we had a hand in his face.

Jimmie Johnson

I thought if I could get to the outside of Matt, I had a shot. But as soon as I got outside him going into the first turn, the tires started chattering and I knew I could have a problem. Once I knew I couldn't get past him to the outside, I defended second.

Larry Brown

I was thrilled. The young kids have been working hard and it shows. They played together well and they defended well, made some big plays and that's a reward in itself.

Dave Hollenbeck

I was happy with the way the guys played tonight, they played hard, and I thought we defended well at times.

James Davis

We dropped passes and there were times I thought he should have thrown the ball. I don't know if they defended him or if he defended himself.

Jimmy Dowell

We played much better as a team this weekend. We defended and finished much better. Now it's time for district. These are the matches that count.

Eddie Jordan

We played a very good team tonight. They were at .500 and they're very competitive so our guys played well. We have to play smarter at times, but for the most part we defended very well and we shared the basketball.

Brian Frosh

We know the administration had a policy of telling employees that, if they resigned, they would get a neutral referral,

Paul Lambert

We're very proud of the employees who have hung in there with us.

Brian Green

Virtually all of the employees will be staying (with the board).

Ed Epping

Most of the ideas come from the employees themselves because they are the ones doing the job, so they know it best. On the other hand, they want to get the job done the fastest way possible, so we have to work together to make sure no one is skirting around the problem and not being safe.

John Graves

Most of the employees treat us with respect, but I give respect. That's why I get respect.

Ed Dumas

It is commonplace for employees to volunteer their personal time to organize such events for public officials.

Scott Sharp

Most senior management do not even know if their employees actually understand what they should be doing,

David Hill

We are not prepared to negotiate now with a minority union and give a minority of employees more benefits.

Nancy Norris

We have a no-solicitation policy, so that employees don't feel pressured.

Tim Pawlenty

Keeping a lid on taxes is not just good for the taxpayer. It's a powerful way to force government to be more accountable, set priorities and spend smarter. Let me repeat that: more accountable, set priorities and spend smarter - that's what we need to be about.

Ian Anderson

When I was in my teenage years, I went to sign up as a cadet entrant to the police force but was at the very last moment rejected, just as I was about to sign my name on the dotted line. I won't get into why that happened, but it was a moment where it could've been predetermined then that I was off to become a policeman.

Vikram Seth

After 'A Suitable Boy,' I didn't write anything, not even a short story. I thought to myself: 'I ought to start writing.' But I can never force myself to write.

Harold Johnson

The police had to use less-than-lethal force to take him down.

Mohammed Ali

The police force is full of corruption, and the law process has collapsed,

Ben Carson

The P.C. police are out in force at all times... We've reached a point where people are actually afraid to talk about what they want to say.

Jeff Newman

The pay-per-view people were very organized and they forced him to think about things he never would have thought of. He knew he needed professionals to do that.

Brian Kernighan

Technology is mostly a force for good, but it has its downsides, too. I want my students - and my readers - to be intelligently skeptical about technology and be informed about the good and the not-so-good parts.

Gore Vidal

If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.

Gabriel Mann

But TV has changed completely. It's not until you come into people's homes that everyone says, 'You're a success now.'

Zaha Hadid

Society has not been set up in a way that allows women to go back to work after taking time off. Many women now have to work as well as do everything at home and no one can do everything. Society needs to find a way of relieving women.

Zach Braff

That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.

Zac Efron

I left home at 17 and I've been on the road ever since.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Polenta is one of those ingredients that in many homes spends its days at the back of the kitchen cupboard, on the 'no one knows quite what to do with it' shelf.

Yotam Ottolenghi

I just don't tend to cook eggplant at home.

William E. Conway, Jr.

Until a person has a home, they are always going to be dependent upon the system.

William Stone

If you don't come home with data, you've done nothing.

Zubin Mehta

I'm a pucca Indian. Bombay is my home.

Pat Camden

That was treated as an isolated incident ? that's the way it should have been treated. On the other hand, at Sox Park you get that reputation because it's on the South Side.

Patrick Modiano

I think I became a writer because I didn't know of anything else to do. Maybe some incident from my childhood influenced me.

Mike Young

We investigated one incident and it turned out to have been shooting on the ground, not at the helicopter.

Cathy Schroeder

We don't feel like the incident warranted an investigation.

Dave Thomas

We can't walk away from here and wait for the next incident to occur,

Mardy Collins

Those little incidents don't measure up to the things he's done here at Temple.

Matt Bryden

Because of the reduced U.N. presence on the border, any incident could be interpreted as a provocation.

Larry Wachtel

If it's just one,' that's the whole premise. That this is not the first in a series, this one isolated incident and then we're on to better things. This is a miscalculation.

Bernard Parks

Having known Mr. Patton for a number of years personally, it was a shock to me to find this incident had occurred,

C. S. Lewis

Thus, and not otherwise, the world was made. Either something or nothing must depend on individual choices.

C. S. Lewis

Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality.

Michael Greco

The ABA position is that some of these provisions are so invasive of individual liberties that there has to be a sunset provision. They're offensive, I think, to democracy,

Skip Holtz

Today was a teaching day. We were able to spend the majority of our time on individual work with a corrective mindset. We had the opportunity to throw it around a little more and key on execution.

Robert Waterston

We're really looking at an individual evolutionary event, and this is spectacular.

Pierre Omidyar

In terms of my belief that one individual can make a difference - that belief comes from my parents.

Larry Jackson

Most of them have an individual drive, knowing they have to come in at a state level.

Tom Taulli

I think this will be a volatile stock. Individual investors should be wary.

Bede Griffiths

Stillness within one individual can affect society beyond measure.

Sendhil Mullainathan

You can get pictures into what people are sort of thinking about others. Just go onto Google and type 'Why are Indians' and then look for the autocomplete.

John Doherty

If I pushed the poor person out onto the street and his wife or passerby called 911, there would be no charge, ... This is a punishment fine, not for services rendered.

Stacy Adams

He is the ironman. He's been a player for us since he stepped onto our campus.

Charles Sanders Peirce

Mathematics is purely hypothetical: it produces nothing but conditional propositions.

Terri Blackstock

I want readers to rehearse that day when everything shatters and think through what they'll hang onto when that happens.

Alfred North Whitehead

To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought.

Mamie Gummer

L.A. is... I always feel sort of abducted when I'm there, like I've stepped onto another planet where everyone looks the same.

Dave Hill

Damien will be watching on TV but it's not the same. That's why I've been out to watch Slavia. But if there is a problem he sees that we don't see, I'm sure he'll get onto us.

Ciaran Hinds

Stuntwork... once, I've really only done one thing, which is take a punch and transport myself into the air onto a mat.

Gabriel Lowy

H-P is probably quite worried, not just about PCs and servers but what Dell will do in printers, particularly in cartridges.

Phil Schiller

I think there are a lot of PCs that should be recycled.

Diane Siri

PCS has been a unique school from the very beginning.

Paul Otellini

We see that value PCs are a real part of the business, not just an aberration,

Brian Krzanich

I used to build my own PCs... and actually had one of the first water-cooled, overclocked PCs around. I ran it at over 4Ghz, and this was back in 2001... but alas, I do not have the time for that fun anymore.

Brian Krzanich

Computing is a big segment. It's more than just mobile devices or PCs and laptops.

John Joyce

At that time, we also recognized that we'd feel price pressure in PCs and hard-disk drives. And our expectations here were right on track as well.

Stewart Davis

The police can't do anything unless they (catch them in the act).

John Blair

The police are trying to make or rewrite the law.

Rene Lavigne

That was a thankful sight, when we saw the police helicopter.

Ann Robertson

That was where we could be safe. Police could see us and we could see them.

John Hamm

That was the way it was presented to me and to my (police) chief,

Paul Michael Glaser

Secondly, I thought it was ridiculous to have two undercover policemen driving around in a striped tomato.

Nancy Bray

We got tired of watching him, and we called police.

Kathy Valentine

I think if they don't have enough police, they need to get some from other places. They need some radical cops.

Bob Harris

We rely on police to keep their prisoners secure.

Jennifer Morrison

For us it's a visible reminder of the season.

Anthony Biondo

For three state titles. It was kind of a reminder for me.

Deb Caletti

Because that’s how it works after something terrible has happened. You know this is true if something terrible has ever happened to you. A thousand objects take on new meaning. Everything is a reminder of something else.

Alessia Cara

Every time I sing, it it's a reminder to myself that I have to be confident.

Todd Harris

It's a huge, scary in-your-face reminder of how out of touch the Legislature is,

quran quran

And most surely it is a reminder for you and your people, and you shall soon be questioned.

Paul Theroux

I always found myself in the company of Australians, who were like a reminder that I'd touched bottom.

Victor Davis Hanson

Multiculturalism is a good reminder that when standards are relative, there are no standards at all.

Rick Riordan

The Olympians were a reminder that there was always someone better than you, so you shouldn't get a big head.

Brian Higgins

The only risk we run, ... is by doing nothing.

Carrie Mae Weems

It's very important for me to really use this body as a barometer of a certain kind of knowledge--to take the personal risk of exposing my own body in a certain kind of way. I can't ask anybody else to do something that I don't do first myself.

Carl Sagan

All inquiries carry with them some element of risk.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You risk tears if you let yourself be tamed.

Bill Vaughan

Improving efficiency on the farm is not only a risk-reduction strategy, it's a profitability strategy.

York Chow

We need to have some time to investigate to be sure that this is a new virus and has the risk of human-to-human transmission.

Benny Gray

We were going to get the people. We take risks all the time firefighting, but we didn't want to get shot.

Joe Girardi

I wouldn't do that. You don't want to risk him getting hurt. The only way I would do that is if it's something like the 19th inning and we're out of people.

Jason Giambi

I would give it a try, but they said don't even try. It's not worth risking it. I'm walking a little better. It's not so tight.

George Allen

I have no intention of running for office again.

C. S. Lewis

Total war is the most humane in the long run.

C. S. Lewis

We're free Narnians, Hwin and I, and I suppose, if you're running away to Narnia you want to be one too. In that case Hwin isn't your horse any longer. One might just as well say you're her human.

C. S. Lewis

Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other.

C. S. Lewis

In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a strain, or a friction, in the running of that machine. That is why these rules at first seem to be constantly interfering with our natural inclinations.

C. S. Lewis

Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

C. S. Lewis

Aslan: You doubt your value. Don't run from who you are.

Catullus

What a woman says to an eager lover, write it on running water, write it on air.

Catullus

What women say to lovers, you'll agree, One writes on running water or on air.

John Hayes

We have always escorted our programs. We've always had security staff on our programs.

Simon Crisford

Wherever we travel around the world, we take security personnel, and this time will be no different.

Hamid-Reza Asefi

We are not worried by the Security Council, but it is the wrong method.

Jim Keller

It does give them a sense of security.

Lawrence Lindsey

I don't think we're going to be touching Social Security at all.

John Gadd

He didn't want welfare. He didn't want Social Security.

George Tenet

If one side does something, and the other side does something within the span of a security meeting, we can say we are into Tenet.

Byron Katie

There is no security for those who seek it outside of themselves.

Atifete Jahjaga

The security of the woman is the security of society.

Peter Thomson

A light, tender, sensitive touch is worth a ton of brawn

Torin Francis

He just has a good, sensitive game. And I think with time he's going to keep getting better and better.

Dianna Agron

Having a dance background, I became used to rejection at an early age. Dance is very competitive, especially for a sensitive person like me. But I realized it’s better not to take it so seriously. If you beat yourself up, it’s hard to keep going.

Bette Midler

I read neither good nor bad about me. I let it not even in my life, so it has no effect on me. I am very sensitive.

Bob Dylan

Either I'm too sensitive, or else I'm gettin' soft

Deborah Kerr

When you're young, you just go banging about, but you're more sensitive as you grow older.

Xosha Roquemore

I'm sassy, even though I hate that word! I'm sensitive and cry real easily.

Buck Showalter

That's a sensitive area. We have to be sensitive to what's going on in the world of baseball.

Dennis Farina

We keep monitoring ourselves, censoring ourselves, being too sensitive to this, too sensitive to that. We can't keep doing that.

Allen Perry

The place was vulnerable during construction, and most of the things stolen were smaller.

Nathan Fillion

I'm a plethora of stolen jokes and kitschy references.

Halldor Laxness

What you have stolen can never be yours.

Neil Finn

What was stolen must be returned

Guy deBord

None of the activity stolen by work can be regained by submitting to what work has produced. - The Society of The Spectacle

Bob Poole

We just couldn't get timely hitting, very frustrating.

Kathy Gibson

She does have extra-long arms. We know that about her. What timely shot-blocking!

Amanda Voorhis

She always has some timely makes from the perimeter.

Tina Brown

Reputation is a timely subject, now that nobody has one.

John Greene

If we had had the timely hit, we were right there. We just didn't get it.

Dan DeCarlo

I started working with Timely in 1946. Stan Lee hired me.

Joe Siciliano

We had our opportunities to score, but we just didn't get the timely hitting.

Frank Haas

Basically, we've become a victim of our own success.

Charles Fisher

I don't think I was a victim, I don't think I was a victim at all.

Piet Hein

Here lies, extinguished in his prime,/ a victim of modernity:/ but yesterday he hadn't time--/ and now he has eternity.

Bob Gainey

Jose was a victim of an unfortunate accident, and we all feel for him.

Ralph Sczygelski

He essentially has been victimized by Mr. Avery as well.

Byron Katie

Until we question our stressful thoughts, we remain victims of the images in our head.

Al Sharpton

I’ve never seen a prosecutor hold a press conference to discredit the victim,

Charisma Carpenter

I wasn't willing to be a victim. I only wanted to survive, and I only wanted to get through.

Billy Tauzin

Some 70 percent of Americans donated to Katrina victims.

Gary Thompson

We have very well-trained RAs and RDs within residence halls,

Kerry Bailey

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

Roberto Azevedo

We have to learn how to work within the limits that are possible, not what is desirable.

Nizam Idris

I would say it's more within my expectations.

Michael Mann

We're number-crunching to see what we can do within our mandate.

Ann Strother

It?s just an unbelievable experience. To come into it and have no idea where you?re going to go and find out within minutes, I think it?s really exciting. I can?t wait.

Jeremy Duxbury

We will have to work within the budget.

Bill Richardson

What I worry about is a new fiefdom within an already big fiefdom,

Jeffrey Smith

We work within the system. I don't want to say we're rebellious.