Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Hardy

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

Gelett Burgess

If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.

William H. Seward

It is true, indeed, that the national domain is ours. It is true it was acquired by the valor and with the wealth of the whole nation. But we hold, nevertheless, no arbitrary power over it.

Ezra Taft Benson

Truly a man does not live by bread alone. A good name is still to be preferred over great riches. Especially is it to be preferred to the appearance of riches, acquired with nothing down and nothing to pay for two months.

Ed Yourdon

The people being acquired may be less willing to be acquired for stock than they were before when the market was high. The depressed stock prices cuts both ways. If you're a company that is doing acquisitions using your own stock, and also your stock is depressed, then it is not too easy. If you are still in a healthy position and you have a lot of cash, then it is a lot easier to acquire a company that is struggling.

Jim Scarborough

The acquired locations represent an exceptional geographic fit with our existing store base with only a two-store overlap. Additionally, the locations meet our size and market demographics criteria, since the typical B.C. Moore store is located in a market area of less than 50,000 people, is strip shopping center based, and has an average of approximately 14,300 selling square feet. We expect to realize operating synergies as these stores are converted to Peebles stores, incorporated into our existing distribution system and managed from our South Hill, Virginia administrative offices.

Yang Yuanqing

The acquired business has now been profitable for three consecutive quarters, in line with the board's expectations, although regional performance has varied.

John Schuerholz

We could not have acquired a more perfect player for us than Edgar Renteria.

Rivers Cuomo

I think I've been skeptical of violent passion for a long time. I think 'Pinkerton' is about that a lot - seeing how, every time I've felt really passionate for someone, as soon as I 'acquire' them or feel like I've acquired them, the passion goes away.

Zoe Kravitz

I've found all of my apartments on Craigslist. I've got good Craigslist luck. I just sit on my couch and really focus on it, and I've gotten really lucky that way.

Martin Cohen

The apartment market is poised to do well.

Cole Porter

The 1860s-era house, which has about 21 rooms, had fallen into disrepair over the years. It had been split into several apartments, and police found a methamphetamine lab in one of the apartments two years ago. The museum plans to sell fudge made with recipes from the now-closed Arnold's Candies of Peru. At his shows, Porter gave away boxes of the candy as presents.

Pete Piringer

We believe the fire burned for a while, even before we were called. But, nonetheless when we arrived on the scene, we were made aware that people were still in the building. Firefighters were able to rescue one person from a third-floor apartment and assisted several others.

Rick Smolan

A tiny apartment might hold three generations of an immigrant family.

Matthew Quick

When I was in high school, I used to have breakfast with my grandpa every morning. He instilled a lot of values in me: hard work, loyalty. He grew up during the Great Depression in Philly in poverty - he didn't have enough to eat as a kid. Sometimes his family would get kicked out of their apartment because they couldn't pay the rent.

Rebecca Johnson

We had one lady, ... who relied on an electric scooter when she was outside of her apartment and by the end of the 50 week program she was able to walk to the neighborhood grocery store and back.

Mike Osborne

We have a lot of off-campus apartments where there's five video streams going in. The extra bandwidth will really help there.

David Paulison

We have caseworkers down there, and most people have already received rental assistance. I just gave approval to purchase 10,000 more travel trailers. We're working also with some of the apartment owners to rehab some of the apartments down there. We are going to make sure that people are taken care of. But the judge recognized that, and recognized that the right thing to do is to get them out of hotels and into some decent housing.

Vera Farmiga

I've never felt the breath of God - you can take that statement literally or metaphorically - more than when I was yearning for a personal, intimate connection to something bigger than me.

Etel Adnan

Places are part of nature, of the bigger picture. We are interrelated. When we contemplate them in their own right, they can sometimes change our lives; they can become spiritual experiences.

Rob Sheehan

The point to be made is that there's something bigger than money. That can really help in keeping employees from feeling as though they have some mundane, day in and day out job.

Tim Johnson

The people around Lucedale knew the bigger picture was out there,

Roger Sherman

The people are what always makes the film for me. My films are little portraits for me that make a much bigger portrait. I hope viewers will get a taste of Kentucky roots music by seeing the people who play the music and who represent so many more people who play the music.

Neil Callaway

The outs and curls have been open for David so far, but LSU will play more press coverage and give him a bigger challenge.

Chris Isaak

In the long run, there are people who've made more money or had bigger stardom at points. But, I think I'll have come out winning.

Jacki Weaver

This friend of mine said he was surprised to find that - I don't think it's quite a majority - a bigger percentage of actors are introverts than extroverts. It was a big surprise to him. Now, I know me, and I'll do anything if I'm playing a character. Or anything that's true to the character, anyway. But in real life I'm a little more withdrawn.

Nick Lachey

There's no bigger supporter in Jessica's life than me.

Laura Bush

The decorators are in there right now, ... Santa's elves are in, decorating the White House.

Jane Green

For me, decorating perfection means eclectic styles and collections of beautiful things like pottery, pillboxes and match strikers.

Mike Gutierrez

After we lost our son, we started decorating the house a lot more. We wanted him to see it from Heaven.

Pat Bowling

Tear out pages from magazines or print out pages from decorating Web sites to provide an idea of your taste and what's available.

Ron Phipps

You don't get those people who are just looking for decorating ideas.

Grace Slick

I was a floor model at I. Magnin. I'm 5 feet 7, but my legs weren't long enough to be a big-time model. From the knees up, everything is long, but from ankle to knee, if I was in proportion, I'd be 5 feet 9.

Jason Boyd

The 3s really opened it up for us. We were able to spread the floor and find better shots.

Allyson Fasnacht

That was a good heads-up play by her. The ball's rolling around the floor and we're all like, 'Pick it up! Pick it up!' She gets it and sees Jamie. It was a great pass. That was a huge play.

Calvin Saunders

We have to understand that when we hit the floor we have to be ready to go and tonight we weren't ready.

Mark Zuckerberg

We have a very open culture at the company, where we foster a lot of interaction between not just me and people but between everyone else. It's an open floor plan. People have these desks where no one really has an office. I mean, I have a room where I meet with people. But it has all glass, so everyone can see into it and see what's going on.

Richard Eyre

I have a worm's eye view and a bird's eye view simultaneously and it's immensely helpful to understand what is happening on the shop floor when you are harnessing many talents and telling an intimate story on a large scale.

Tom Doyle

We have the first one running around on our plant floor now.

Jody Conradt

We have too many injuries, and we didn't have any way of knowing this was going to happen to us. The team we have on the floor right now is not the team we projected having at this point in the season.

Terry Brennan

We're really limited by the space in our gallery. We can only take about 110 entries and get them up and have them look good, without being floor to ceiling.

Cher Lloyd

I like to experiment a lot, I just like to make myself look different to everyone else. Shopping at all different places from vintage to high-street, and then I just put it together myself.

Charlotte Ronson

Once I graduated from NYU, I started making custom vintage tees for my friends and it just took off from there.

Britt Ekland

I used to collect vintage clothing - exquisite lace dresses, embroidered shawls and ornate jewelry - but that's just not me any more.

Bridget Hall

I love to find a great vintage secondhand shop.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other. I may credit the seductive influence of an old vintage upon the narrator for the beginning of it, and my own skeptical incredulity during the days that followed for the balance of the strange tale.

ASAP Rocky

I don't like new cars; I'm into vintage cars - there's a Jaguar E-Type in the 'Goldie' video.

Alicia Keys

I have this vintage Harley-Davidson motorcycle jacket. When I put it on, it has this supercool feeling to it.

Alexandra Roach

I love vintage, but it's so expensive now.

Danny Trejo

I love old, vintage cars. I've got a 1936 Dodge Touring Sedan right now and there's only five of them registered in the world, and I absolutely love working on it. It's gorgeous.

Kim Shaw

I probably wore out my VHS copy of 'Office Space.'

Iris Apfel

I still have the dress I wore on the first date with my husband, which was more than 66 years ago. I still have it, and it still fits.

Pat Sullivan

I think we wore them down with our depth.

Bob Motzko

They wore us down. They just wore us down physically. Our defensemen were just pooped at the end.

Rudy Gay

We kind of wore them down with our defense.

Gabrielle Castro

Definitely. They wore us out. We don't go too deep.

Bob Hill

I don't think we could have done much more than we did. I thought they just wore us out with their depth.