Famous Quotes & Sayings

Giovanni Agnelli

In the immediate postwar years, the whole of Europe was in a recession. So first of all, it helped us step out of a recession; it gave a certain amount of speed to the economy. But that was the first step.

B. R. Hayden

The overall trend is downward. There are fewer toxic chemicals going into the environment, but we want to see that amount go down even more.

Wole Soyinka

If African film makers had one-tenth the amount commanded by film makers the world over - even the amount used by so-called shoestring film makers - I think we would see quite an explosion of African films on the world scene.

Nathaniel Branden

To love a person is to know and love the person. But we can pick up an enormous amount about another human being just by exchanging a couple of sentences. It's not yet knowledge; it's an intuition that motivates you to want to find out more.

Samuel Bodman

The amount of refined product versus crude that they will offer has not been determined, ... Their intentions are to provide the maximum amount of refined product within their requirements.

Edward Leigh

The astronomical scale of the amount of benefit money being lost through fraud and error is vividly brought home to taxpayers by the astonishing fact that the figures are rounded to the nearest half-a-billion pounds.

John Berthoud

The American people deserve a 'rebate' for the wasteful costs imposed on them by our broken tax system. The dollar amount exceeds the combined revenue of Sears, Walt Disney, Microsoft, Rite Aid, and McDonald's, while the yearly paperwork volume is staggering: over 1.3 billion information items and 8 billion pages of forms and instructions. The hours expended annually in this ritual is equivalent to the labor of over 2.5 million people. Don't we all have more productive things to do with our time?

Nick Bell

That was when the contractors got their fingers burned. They thought the proximity to the UK market would still have a positive effect, but there just wasn't the out-and-about mentality of '96. They were holding out for an enormous amount of money and they pretty much bombed.

Alan Murray

That was the first time in recent memory that their estimation tools have not captured what is the current amount of risk in these businesses.

David Cross

I'm of the mindset that most people who have kids are, which is, 'Hey, I want another me. I like me. I'm pretty cool, and I've got really great ideas, and the way I think is the right way to think. Let's put another one of me out there.' So I'll have kids one day.

Rickie Fowler

It's pretty cool to see yourself on a video game.

Matthew Perry

I would love to have kids one day. In fact, I'm pretty good with them. I grew up with five half-siblings, the youngest of whom is 11 years younger than me, so I think I learned some pretty cool parenting skills quite early on in life.

Jennifer A. Nielsen

I would love to be in public one day and see someone reading my book. I think that would be so ridiculously cool.

Kathy Valentine

You don't do it for some end result, hoping you get signed or get this cool gig or get a big following. It's got to matter to you.

Michael Lamb

You'll cut 20 percent or more off your heating or cooling bills.

Yaron Danon

You just heat the crystal from room temperature to about 130 degrees. Then you can use it while it's heating or while it's cooling. We're doing it while it's cooling. We're letting it cool back to room temperature, and while it's doing that it's accelerating ions, so it's like a particle accelerator that's very simple.

Dexter Holland

Who decides what is and what isn't punk? I want to write songs that people hear and feel, and I want to be successful and reach a big audience. I'm not trying to be the coolest guy in the world; I'm trying to write songs that mean something to people. As you get successful, sometimes you lose one set of fans and gain another.

R. Robinson

It'd be cool to come back here. But we have to see what happens.

Mackey Sasser

I think it's going to come down to who makes the fewest mistakes. Whoever does the little things right will win.

Tom Lehrer

I thought about majoring in Math, Chemistry and English, but Math had the fewest requirements, so I went with it. I knew I wanted to teach, and Math was my field, so I studied Math.

Mike LaPlante

It's not always the team that makes the great plays that's gonna win. It's the team that makes the fewest mistakes.

Brian Hill

That's the fewest minutes he's going to see all season.

Jack Touhey

The team that makes the fewest mistakes is going to win nine times out of 10. We played a great first half, but unfortunately there are two halves.

John Schwartz

We have a fifteen year lead in this market and we will retain our leadership.

Mike Price

Most of the (blocks) are legal. (But) it doesn't matter if they're legal or not. Fifteen yards isn't going to help Zach West's knee.

Jerry Mathers

I was the center square on Hollywood Squares for about fifteen weeks.

Brian Kenny

I don't go to church, and I don't know one person who does. Fifteen years ago, I didn't know one person who didn't.

Albert Einstein

I never failed in mathematics. Before I was fifteen I had mastered differential and integral calculus.

Kenneth Scott Latourette

We must, however, note that what are usually called the high religions made their appearance within about twenty-five hundred years - most of them within fifteen hundred years.

Larry Hagman

Marijuana you can give up, Iv given it up for fifteen years now and it never occurs to me to smoke it anymore.

Kate Voegele

The first record I spent five years writing and it was an amalgamation of all the things that happened in my life from the time I was fifteen to the time I was twenty.

Sibel Edmonds

I understand the Saudis have been named because fifteen of the nineteen hijackers were from Saudi Arabia.

Eric Swensen

(The outlook) is fantastic. After this, we know that placing at states is a goal that's within reach.

Cecil Taylor

If you take the creation of music and the creation of your own life values as your overall goal, then living becomes a musical process.

Carl Sagan

Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable. If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal.

Bette Davis

Success only breeds a new goal

Ashton Kutcher

The goal is not to get into a relationship; the goal is to be in a relationship.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A goal without a pan is just a wish.

Scott Jones

That was huge. We had 23 shots (on goal) tonight, some on target and some not, but hopefully (the goals) will just keep on coming.

Martina Hingis

That would be the goal at the moment, to be able to participate at that level.

Bob Emery

That was a huge goal for us. Their goalie made a nice save, but there was so much on the shot that it left a rebound.

Yani Tseng

I'm still number one, so don't forget about that. So I still can have a happy ending.

Tom Schrader

The payrolls number is probably going to be in line, and we'll see another session of listless trading. But if it is something dramatic, we could see a violent reaction, one way or the other.

Cecelia Ahern

Age is just a number, not a state of mind or a reason for any type of particular behaviour.

Cecelia Ahern

Sometimes wrong numbers are the right numbers

Carl Sagan

The secrets of evolution are death and time-the deaths of enormous numbers of lifeforms that were imperfectly adapted to the environment; and time for a long succession of small mutations.

Carl Sagan

The simplest thought, like the concept of the number one, has an elaborate logical underpinning.

Bill Bryson

The number of people on whose cooperative efforts your eventual existence depends has risen to approximately 1,000,000,000,000,000,000, which is several thousand times the total number of people who have ever lived.

Bernard Arnault

China is clearly going to be the number one economic power and it is already full of potential.. with lots of population and the buying power increasing by the day. .

Ashton Kutcher

The number of lines in your forehead tells how many lives you've lived.

Kevin McCarthy

That was thrown on us, so we'll look at it and see which way we go about doing it.

Mike Conroy

We've had lefties thrown at us all year. We're used to it now.

Rand Paul

William Lloyd Garrison was up there with Frederick Douglass being thrown off trains and going through what happened in the 1960s in 1840 in Boston.

Philippe Petit

I didn't go to school much. I was thrown out of different schools, and my university is the street.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Even the best of us are thrown off some- times.

Alan Trammel

If someone is going to get thrown out, it should be the manager.

Kate Michelman

Now, the gauntlet has been, I think, thrown down.

Gwynne Shotwell

What would air travel look like if airplanes were thrown out after each flight? No one would be flying in airplanes.

Heath Lane

We really didn't have a play at first, and we shouldn't have thrown the ball.

Donald Berwick

I am worried about the potential effect of casinos on communities.

Bill Burr

Well probably the coolest show of that whole tour was in Germany. I had a chunk of material on [Adolf] Hitler, and I was worried about how they'd react, but they loved it.

Mohamed El-Erian

Because in the New Normal you are more worried about the return of your capital, not return on your capital.

Pat Riley

One thing I'm not worried about is our rebounding.

Ron Gardenhire

But as I told you before, we're a little worried about this.

James Blake

I feel like I am getting better every week. I'm not worried about my ranking, I'm just worried about getting better.

Carl Krauser

I don't think we have anything to be too worried about.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

Today is the tomorrow I worried about yesterday.

Hootie Johnson

We're not worried about Tiger. We're worried about these 17-year-olds.