Famous Quotes & Sayings

Noah Baumbach

With 'Greenberg,' I wanted to make a movie about Los Angeles... my great love for it and also the way that I felt not at home and alienated there.

Paul Provenza

When I was a young comic just starting out, I was very cautious, as I didn't want to alienate people. George Carlin's bravery became a benchmark. I became perfectly fine with alienating some people in the audience. That just comes with the territory.

Neal Pollack

Typically, the protagonist of a noir work is an alienated loner. A Packer fan in Chicago -- who could be more alienated than that?

Selwyn Pieters

It does more harm than good to the crime-fighting efforts of the police as the same people who should be enlisted to assist are those who are being alienated by feeling like they are under the gun.

Dennis Martin

We?re a family store. A lot of motorcycle dealerships are male-oriented. Most tend to exclude or alienate women, which may be as simple as racy posters or talking down to female customers. But here we have consciously created an environment that beginners -- regardless of their sex -- would be comfortable coming in to talk to our experts.

Phillip Noyce

You know, you go to Hollywood and work internationally, and just the little jokes no longer make you laugh. I was alienated from my own culture.

John Logan

Personally speaking, growing up as a gay man before it was as socially acceptable as it is now, I knew what it was to feel different, to feel alienated and to feel not like everyone else. But the very same thing that made me monstrous to some people also empowered me and made me who I was.

Marco Rubio

One of the reasons people feel so alienated from the American political process is in the fights we get in here in Washington, no one's ever talking about them and the challenges they're going through.

Brian Molko

I was a very frustrated, lonely and anti-social young man. I felt very alienated and very bored as well.

Yoshihiko Noda

Our goal is not simply to reconstruct the Japan that existed before March 11, 2011, but to build a new Japan. We are determined to overcome this historic challenge.

Ivar Giaever

If you want to help Africa, you should help them out of poverty, not try to build solar cells and windmills.

Ian Watson

Warwick Davies is a cracking actor. The opening scene in the last 'Harry Potter' film, where he plays a captured Griphook, is mesmerising. His pacing is sublime, and the menace and regret he builds into the scene is fantastic.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

I love movies. And I dig a great love story: the kind that wrecks me, then builds me back up and leaves me inspired. I write what I want to see.

William Kamkwamba

I want to build a machine that can drill wells for water. With this problem of water in many places in Africa, we need to find a solution for how you can dig wells so you can be pumping water from deeper places.

Vivek Wadhwa

The fastest way to get kicked out of a venture capitalist's office is to say that you want to build a business that grows steadily, focuses on employees, and creates wealth over the long term. Entrepreneurs with such ambitions are considered pariahs.

Elizabeth Warren

And that's how we build the economy of the future. An economy with more jobs and less debt, we root it in fairness. We grow it with opportunity. And we build it together.

Elizabeth Warren

How do you think we build a future? I think we build it by investing in our kids and investing in education.

Don Rickles

When I walk down the street in New York, I swear to God, the building constructor, the guy pounding cement and what not, will yell, 'Hey, you hockey puck!'

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.

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.

Zac Goldsmith

You know I don't really have faith in politicians - this is quite a sleazy business. But there is no law which says that all politicians will turn out to be scumbags.

Christina Baker Kline

Having the book-club army embrace you is a gift that keeps giving for years.

Rick Pitino

I try not to get too low. I fight adversity as hard as I can fight it, not to get too low. When good things happen, I don't really embrace it. I just say it's a lucky day.

Daunte Culpepper

We have to welcome him and embrace him and hope that he understands the importance of him being successful and doing the right thing.

Saint Bernard

I myself, however wretched I may be, have been occasionally privileged to sit at the feet of the Lord Jesus, and to the extent that his merciful love allowed, have embraced with all my heart, now one, now the other, of these feet.

Olly Murs

It has been hard for me in a sense because from an industry point of view - I don't care if I'm from the 'X Factor;' I embrace the fact that I'm from the 'X Factor,' but other people don't embrace that.

John McEnroe

Most guys would like to play the guy they have the winning record against. That's what you love about Roger he embraces the challenge.

Carl Hayes

Willingness to embrace scrutiny from outsiders is a hallmark of well-managed companies. You don't invite Lincoln Almond into your house if you have something to hide.

Jeff Blauser

I still look at him as a player, so it was nice to see what he's been able to come in here and do. My hope is that our regulars here will watch, embrace and learn everything they can from him while he's here.

Greg Harrison

I think raves are being embraced because ... it's a very interactive experience,

Bill Vaughan

SAP is becoming the standard for business software. Oracle is in a state of chaos.

Larry Ellison

There is no more important platform for Oracle than HP and Itanium.

Socrates

The Delphic oracle said I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because I alone, of all the Greeks, know that I know nothing.

Marc Hebert

It is like being at Oracle in the 1990s Silicon Valley.

Barry Hyman

It's not the Fed; It's all Oracle and it's taken the sector with it.

Hugh Johnson

What Oracle did is it demoralized the rest of the technology sector.

Dan Roberts

Right now, we're just in kind of high-level discussions with Oracle about the relationship that we can build.

Marc Benioff

I never thought that's what Oracle would be doing today.

Libba Bray

I'm a librarian, not an oracle.

Eric Hoffer

We can see through others only when we see through ourselves

Manoj Bhargava

Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.

Mickey Loomis

You kind of feel like a derelict after a while, wearing the same shirt every other day. Through all this, no one is complaining. Everyone sees the plight of others . . . and we know we're fortunate. We have incomes.

Mary Lambert

Treat others as you wish to be treated. Don't just be nice, but be kind to other people. That can be so rewarding.

Maurizio Margaglio

We are in front, and the others must do better.

Dolores Smitley

I was the one who was always telling the others how to do things because I had more experience.

Richard Gentles

We received a tremendous response, so many good-hearted people reaching out. We have hundreds of others that still need homes.

George Curry

We have to plead our own cause. Too long others have spoken for us.

John Cornyn

I have made a proposal, and others have made proposals, and we will work out the differences,

Brian Greene

Supersymmetry is a theory which stipulates that for every known particle there should be a partner particle. For instance, the electron should be paired with a supersymmetric 'selectron,' quarks ought to have 'squark' partners, and so on.

Arianna Huffington

You can do not just twice as much but 200 times as much when you have a good partner.

Arthur Henderson

The nations must be organized internationally and induced to enter into partnership, subordinating in some measure national sovereignty to worldwide institutions and obligations.

Tony Fadell

You need to set near-term milestones. Put the assumptions down on paper, and make it to your vision or ultimate product. Your team has to understand where they're going. Your partners need to understand where they're going.

John Burke

We've been working with our partners for years to provide them insight. Have we solved this problem? No, but we're getting closer.

Michael Griffin

Our Russian partners have steadfastly sustained the station while the shuttle has been down.

Susan Howarth

Our partners are thrilled because we're providing them with something they can't do on their own.

Bill Gates

Partners need to come in and be the ones who pull together the solution,

Christina Richmond

Partners are getting more and more savvy in services because they have to.