Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bruce Lee

Nothingness cannot be defined; the softest thing cannot be snapped.

Mark Stevenson

We have to stop being defined by what we own, and start being defined by what we create.

Sebastian Coe

Good running is the ability to have a very well defined on-board computer. The ability to judge distances when running in traffic.

Cindy Hockenberry

It all comes down to whether you're defined as a trader or an investor. There's so much misinformation out there on the distinction, because the IRS hasn't really issued definitive guidelines on it.

William Hazlitt

Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

Andy Garcia

You are defined by who you are, by your choices in life, in all regards, not just in doing movies.

Robert Morse

This stage can be defined as a place where Shakespeare murdered Hamlet, and a great many Hamlets have since murdered Shakespeare

Ha-Joon Chang

Economics should be defined in terms of what it is about. It should be about how people produce things, how people exchange them, how people earn income, how they pay taxes, how the government provides infrastructure with tax revenue, and how it conducts monetary policy. The subject has to be defined in terms of the object of inquiry.

Ha-Joon Chang

Overcoming the myth that there is such a thing as an objectively defined 'free market' is the first step towards understanding capitalism.

Jan Leroy

The mood is very positive. Earnings are supportive.

David Albright

And that's one of the things that has to give you pause, is that they have been thinking about this a long time, ... And so the question is, when did they start in earnest to learn how to make a nuclear explosive?

William Hummer

The third quarter earnings have been fairly well received and I think there will be anticipation that fourth-quarter earnings could be better than expected,

Jim Volk

Right now the perception is we are not going to get the earnings recovery we thought we were going to get.

Walter Winnitzki

These stocks are pretty much earnings driven. If the earnings come through, I think the stocks are going to move higher and, on balance, I think we are in a healthy environment, which bodes well for stocks in this whole group.

Donald Selkin

The stocks that are benefiting most from better earnings are the small and mid-cap ones.

Bill Coleman

The worst thing you can say is 'I want $X for this job,' leaving no opening for negotiation by the other side. Better language is 'I hope to earn between $X and $X.' That gives the other party more flexibility.

Chris White

The way it works, ... is I did not look at a roster. Everyone had to earn their way on to the team. We have a pretty good mix of classes. We have eight seniors on the team and have strong leadership from our three captains.

Tom Lehman

The way I look at it is I would love to earn my spot.

Jeffrey Katzenberg

This is real collaboration, when people get together in a room with a full exchange of ideas.

Wang Zhaoguo

We hope to provide an open platform so that trade union organizations from different social backgrounds and ideologies can freely exchange views and seek more opportunities for co-operation.

Zhang Ning

Even though I played three games, I don't feel tired, ... There were not a lot of exchanges on the points.

Chu Sik

Excluding the exchange rate variable, the financial results were on the whole reasonable.

Gary Weiss

I found that options traders - the Amex was mainly an options exchange - routinely conspired to keep as wide as possible the spreads between the prices investors paid and the prices floor traders paid for the same securities.

Masahiro Kawai

The individual exchange rates won't be supported officially...but if this index is relatively stable vis-a-vis external currencies then it's quite useful.

Mark Fitzpatrick

The dollar's a little weaker because Miyazawa retracted some of his comments, indicating there may be a need for foreign exchange intervention,

Mike Heimerdinger

It was pretty ugly. I don't think it was as ugly as last week, because we got the quarterback-center exchange this week.

Svein Riibe

It took just about a week to set up the system and move existing e-mail from staff PCs and the hosting service server to the new Exchange Server at our KL office.

Abdul Reeki

No Sunni has a right to become a president, prime minister or even a minister in the Iranian government.

Greg Potter

The telecoms and construction sectors are likely to be up because that's where the money is going after the government said it wants to up its investment in these sectors.

Bill Frist

Now my hand, my hand can be grasped, and the hand of government can be grasped, by you, by your families, by your communities, and that others can together with us in government seize what may well be an unprecedented, unprecedented opportunity,

Joe Lhota

The role of government is to steer us in the right direction, not do all the work for us.

Susan Goldstein

I've never really been a taker, always a giver, but in this case, I really had the sense that this is what the government is supposed to be there to do.

Benito Mussolini

Given that the nineteenth century was the century of Socialism, of Liberalism, and of Democracy, it does not necessarily follow that the twentieth century must also be a century of Socialism, Liberalism and Democracy: political doctrines pass, but humanity remains, and it may rather be expected that this will be a century of authority ... a century of Fascism. For if the nineteenth century was a century of individualism it may be expected that this will be the century of collectivism and hence the century of the State.

Elfriede Jelinek

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.

Benjamin Disraeli

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed by the joint influences of fruition and hope. It offers vengeance to the discontented, and distinction to the ambitious; and employs the energies of aspiring spirits, who otherwise may prove traitors in a division or assassins in a debate.

Calvin Coolidge

It is very difficult to reconcile the American ideal of a sovereign people capable of owning and managing their own government with an inability to own and manage their own business.

Richard Fisher

As a result, we are in a tightening phase of monetary policy,

Laurence Sterne

I should have no objection to this method, but that I think it must smell too strong of the lamp.

Stephen Chow

A creation needs not only subjectivity, but also objectivity.

Theodor Adorno

The need to let suffering speak is a condition of all truth. For suffering is objectivity that weighs upon the subject

Erwin W. Lutzer

Faith is only as good as the object in which it is placed.

George Soros

Economics seeks to be a science. Science is supposed to be objective and it is difficult to be scientific when the subject matter, the participant in the economic process, lacks objectivity.

James Hunter

Most people's objection was that I was in my 40s. There was nothing I could really do about that.

Carlos Mesa

It is a resignation that has one objective and that objective is to let the Bolivian people know that this is genuine,

Hans-Georg Gadamer

The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.

Jessica Mitford

Objectivity? I always have an objective.

Laura DiDio

You're paying a lot for these licenses, but you're getting a lot, too. These are real, tangible benefits.

Joey Skaggs

You go to school. You stay out of trouble. You get a job. You get married. You have a family. You pay taxes. You pray to the right god. You get old (if you're lucky). And you die.

Donald Trump

The best investments you ever make are investments in yourself - and your education. Those investments always pay big dividends.

Don Hewitt

I can tell you categorically that we at 60 Minutes did not pay Michael Jackson one cent.

Dick Gregory

You got to die of something because if you die of nothing, they won't pay your insurance.

Anne Lamott

Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.

Andy Warhol

What we're all looking for is someone who doesn't live there, just pays for it.

Amanda Seyfried

I just like to do covers, every once in a while. If someone pays me to go into the studio, I'll do it.

William Shakespeare

Britain is A world by itself, and we will nothing pay For wearing our own noses.

Michael White

People train for this all year like the Olympics.

Sarah Davis

People think, 'It's a winter hike, I don't have to take as much water,' but they do.

Richard M. Nixon

People see me and they think, "He's risen from the dead.

Jon Jansen

People say this stuff like they just thought of it, ... Everyone thinks they're so clever. I'm like, 'Heard that two weeks ago. Where ya been?'

Johnathon Schaech

People recognize me on the street for all kinds of different things that I've done. 'That Thing You Do' remains to be my favorite film in which I played my favorite character. That role is the one that I'm most recognized for.

Karlos Dansby

People really dont know or they really aint watching, ... Got to give them something to see.

Howard Dvorkin

People spend what's there. If it's not there, they're not going to spend it.

Kevin Spacey

People sometimes have to be reminded, I'm not Frank Underwood. I'm an actor named Kevin Spacey.

John Abraham

People talk about the money, but it had nothing to do with the money,

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.

Rick McCallum

Producers don't really publicize movies.

Robert M. Pirsig

It's the dualistic ways of looking at things that produces the evil.

Wyclef Jean

I always have a producer to the side of me, and I never want to do a record by myself.

John Dos Passos

Marxism has not only failed to promote human freedom, it has failed to produce food.

Michael Keaton

There are certainly producers I hang with and directors I hang with and actors I hang with.

Nell Newman

I always sought out organic produce because to me it always tasted better; the quality was better - if you got it fresh.

Jess Walter

I'm a writer, and the subject is less important than the act of writing itself.

Mahatma Gandhi

No nation keeps another in subjection without herself turning into a subject nation.

Nigel Barker

If I am to judge others, I should be subject to be judged. You make your bed, you must lie in it.

Hallie Ephron

Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.