Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlo Panunzi

Anyhow, it is not a very important business and mainly active in Europe.

Anthony Marra

A novel can grant humanity even to those who act inhumanely, and by making men and women of monsters, it can offer not only a ground-level view of a particular conflict, but a descent into the substratum of human nature capable of the incomprehensible.

Jonathan Galaviz

Asia is home to the fastest growing market in terms of consumers that are able to participate in casino gaming activity due to their increasing levels of disposable income.

Paul Aussaresses

As for torture, it was tolerated if not actively encouraged, ... He (the emissary) knew exactly what went on during the night.

Joyce Bickers

As always, there are things to work on, but I am seeing the players incorporating things we work on in practice into the matches, whereas before they would work on it in practice, but never attempt in an actual game. These players are growing with each play and getting stronger and stronger and more confident.

Joyce Banda

As a democratic society, Malawi has a moral obligation to ensure that each and every injustice, whether through acts of commission or omission, is met with deliberate and tangible action.

Jodhi May

As an actor, I think it's really important to be as anonymous as possible. It's your job to convince people that you are somebody else, and so any recognition I'd get away from the screen - well, it's not something I actively seek. To be honest with you, I'm surprised anybody does.

John Alexander

The big reason people are still buying the racks is that there are certain items that you just don't put through the electric dryer. Another is that in the winter the rack can act as a humidifier if you place wet clothes on the top and allow them to dry until the next day.

Sam Castree

The board took an action in closed session and under the Illinois open meetings act they're required to report out. So they were merely following the law.

Ken Baker

Approximately 26 percent of the surrounding property owners within 200 feet of the property have officially registered opposition to the request. Because of this, a super majority vote (six of seven council members) is needed to approve the requested zoning change.

Peter Takirambudde

The U.N. mission must be much larger, more mobile and better-equipped than the AMIS force. The Security Council should approve at least 20,000 troops to deter unlawful attacks, backed by a substantial international civilian police force and support personnel.

Jack King

We have approved giving them this money, but if they can't get the improvement district together the project won't go forward.

Kofi Annan

Blix until now has been guided by approved Security Council resolutions. If the council were to pass a new resolution giving him fresh guidelines, he will have to factor that in before he continues with his work, which will be up to the council ... to determine what the next stage will be.

Jane Walsh

Council approved a whole slough of information around green roofs, one of which is that there be an incentive program, on a pilot basis that would provide incentives up to $10 a foot for green roofs.

Gregory Kutz

We found weak or non-existent controls in the process that (the Federal Emergency Management Agency) used to approve assistance payments that leave the federal government vulnerable to fraud and abuse.

Chris McCloud

To my knowledge, the Legislature never did approve a funding source for it." ()

Gary Buehler

We are very aware that many, many people are waiting for more generics to be approved and that there is frustration about the backlog.

Craig McCracken

Anything you see on the screen was at one point approved by me.

Quentin Clark

The broadest audience we can reach right now is going to be on Windows XP. What we do longer term is a function of where the market is.

Rich Gordon

An individual person building an audience and a business through self-created content ? that's not been possible before.

Jennifer Lopez

I see this opportunity as a way to connect to the Spanish-speaking audience in a different and more profound way than I've been able to do in the past. I want to tell the stories of Latinos who grow up here and live the American Dream.

Eduard Hanslick

That the sweetly intoxicating three-four rhythm which took hold of hand & foot, necessarily eclipsed great & serious music & made the audience unfit for any intellectual effort goes without saying.

James Wan

I don't like talking about sequels or spinoffs or franchise until they actually happen, until they actually work with the audience.

Kate Smith

It is important that the audience should understand every syllable of every word, for only then can they grasp the meaning of the song.

Tom Bissell

All video games are games, obviously. They're designed. They're digital. They have rules; they give an audience some type of vicarious experience.

Tracy Chapman

I think of the audience the way I would think of another person: You meet someone, then you take it from there; you see what's interesting to both of you.

Barry Levinson

It's always hard to explain why an audience ultimately responds to a movie.

Derek Halpenny

The broader picture for the yen's decline is down to the continued deterioration in Japan's trade surplus.

Rakesh Shankar

Sturdy product inventories should help to temper market fears of energy shortages, and should help cajole broader energy prices lower in the next few weeks.

Rich Lowry

Bush's faith in the rightness of his strategy in the broader war is deep-seated. It is a product of faith.

Kojo Annan

I feel the whole issue has been a witchhunt from day one as part of a broader Republican political agenda.

Roger Pielke

I think each member of the committee is an outstanding scientist, and each is sincere ... but they're missing the broader view we need to have of climate change,

Julie Smith

If Germany's politicians are concentrating on trying to build coalitions, and then on trying to keep those coalitions together, the broader cause of economic reform within the EU will not exactly be at the top of their agenda.

Gary Rodkin

We look forward to sharing details of the impact of these decisions in our investors' meeting in March. These are only part of our broader plans to drive sustainable top- and bottom-line growth.

David Vitter

I'm very excited to be at least some small part in the effort, ... This is a great, state-of-the-art facility that can be used for many events, especially the equestrian and 4-H activities. It also is a broader resource for education and economic development.

Hiroichi Nishi

The impact on the broader market will be short-lived.

Geena Davis

As an Independent, she has no party backing, ... Her being the first Independent president trumps the fact that she's a woman. It causes even more upheaval in Washington than her being female.

Michael Gibson

As a direct result of his lack of leadership in this regard, fine revenues were down approximately 20 percent this last fiscal year, which causes a financial hardship on the city and our citizens, not to mention a safety hazard for his failure to properly enforce our traffic laws,

Christine Albertus

Realize what causes hearing loss and use common sense. If you're exposed to loud sounds, use ear protection.

Kary Mullis

People say to me, How many people have you seen die of this disease? They say, You don't know what causes it because you've never watched them die.

Justin Baldoni

People grow; people grow apart, and cancer... I've had a very in-depth and personal experience with cancer, and it really causes a perspective shift.

Nelson Mandela

No stone will be left unturned to establish fully what the causes were and where responsibility lies,

Steve Simmons

Any kind of glitch causes problems that send tremors through the whole industry.

Allen Wallace

A player makes a name for himself and then causes younger players to look and see what can be accomplished. The younger players start focusing on being like one of the older guys.

Glenn Kroll

The situation was what it was. It didn't cause me to stop being friends with him.

Jorma Ollila

The way the third quarter shaped up really is really proof that the growth we had in the first half of this year is continuing well into the second half,

Clay Matthews III

You obviously want to start the season out with a big game and to follow it up by continuing to get better.

Adam Ereli

We have a shared interest in continuing this cooperation.

John Bruno

We hope to make Start even better next year, continuing with a two-day run,

Chris Beard

We've had a pretty successful year following the launch of Firefox 1.0 and we're continuing to see very strong demand,

Carol Campbell

Continuing to expand parking is not an urban solution. It would just increase the congestion.

David Mills

Continuing the operations and having someone there to prevent vandalism top my worries.

Mark Frost

'Twin Peaks' is a continuing story; that comes from David Lynch and myself.

Justin Dombrowski

This weather pattern has been continuing for weeks, and there's no real relief in sight.

Eugenie Scott

The most toxic thing about this whole discussion is the impression that most of the public has, that there's a line in the sand, and you have to be on one side or the other.

Tara Fisher

These events are a way to open discussion that might not otherwise be talked about.

Arlen Specter

I should stay away from a discussion of specific cases,

Niels From

The whole discussion about rising protectionism, especially in the United States, is a dollar negative. It's an ongoing story.

Jami Attenberg

Young adult novels don't shy away from the discussion of weight issues, and 'Blubber,' the tale of an overweight, not-so-sympathetic fifth-grader bullied by her peers, is a refreshing take.

S. Walker

an explicit discussion of what coastal Louisiana should look like.

Christopher Cox

to stimulate discussion and promote further efforts at the development of market instruments to value employee stock options.

William Moffitt

At the end of the day, when you think about wiretaps, think about what's not there, ... There's not one discussion of planning violent activity.

Brian Arbogast

We think that there's at least an interesting discussion to have in the industry as to whether or not there is a need to have this higher operating authority.

Ben McGrath

People doubted us all year. Now they're getting on the bandwagon.

Jason Giambi

Actually, Joe was the one who congratulated me, ... And I said: 'For what? I know ain't gotten a hit in a while.' But it's exciting, no doubt about it.

Fran Allen

It was very, very challenging. There was never a doubt that it was important.

Graeme Smith

I seriously doubt we will go in with two spinners.

Niaz Siddiqui

I seriously doubt the authenticity of the claim. Investigators will look into the statement but serious doubts are there over its authenticity.

John Monroe

I seriously doubt Samsung will have the technology they are forecasting in cost-effective volumes in the time period they are indicating.

Troy Aikman

I seriously doubt I would be standing here today.

Stan Heath

It would have been really hard to be 0-3 at this particular time, no doubt about it. They were tense. They wanted those last two wins and we didn't get them. But this team now, I think, will feel better about itself.

Gavin Coles

It would be huge, no doubt about it. Everybody wants to play this tour. That's what we're all out here to do.

Gene Luen Yang

Any superhero, regardless of how different they are from Superman, recalls Superman in some way. They're either pushing against Superman or reflecting Superman; there's something about them that comes from Superman.

Tony Fadell

I used to work about 100 hours a week; now it's about 70. But 40 hours? Forget about it. Either you're all in, or your not.

William Ames

The worship which directs itself toward God as our good regards him either as he is ours at present, in faith, or as he is to be ours, in hope.

Gary Schare

There are two primary ways that drive-by downloads are done, either through a vulnerability in IE itself or an add-on, or because the user has the security setting set too low.

Ewen Bremner

Basically, movies come down to economics, and they're always too expensive. From a producer's point of view, an actor is either going to make him money or save him money.

Robert Hill

We've said in principle that we would be interested in providing a provisional reconstruction team either on our own or in conjunction with other parties,

Kid Rock

I tend to vote Republican, but I don't like the hardcore views on either side, and I'm not in bed with anybody.

Thomas Mars

It's hard to talk about love without sounding either cheesy, or revealing too much personal stuff.

Tamar Braxton

I've tried singing like somebody else, and it never worked for me. The only thing that has ever worked for me was me being me, so either you love it or not.

Jim Tocco

I've seen him in tons of parks and he does the same thing every time, but never fails to make me laugh. He's a versatile funny man.

Steve Fossett

There is a risk in the takeoff. There is a risk during the flight of running out of fuel or other mechanical failure in an experimental aircraft.

Gary Stibel

There are more failures than there are successes.

Susan B. Anthony

There have been others also just as true and devoted to the cause--I wish I could name every one--but with such women consecratingtheir lives, failure is impossible!

Susan B. Anthony

Failure is impossible.

Tom Hooper

My films seem to be about men's struggle with failure.

Keyshawn Johnson

So many times in my life, people have tried to make me a failure.

Jim Adams

We've never had this type of situation on Lake Conroe, ... The whitecaps ran the full length of the lake. We had a failure of the rip-rap, right down to the soil.

Ira Winkler

To a large extent, this could be a failure with open source.

Robert Menendez

The response by our government has been late, it has been inadequate, and it has been a failure for far too many,

Toby Keith

Probably 75 percent of the people in this town think I'll fail, and the other 25 percent hope I fail,

Peja Stojakovic

Probably I won't be available. My knee is still hurting. Hopefully we can get it better.

Jim Bolla

Officially, all we're saying is she's suspended right now. It's day-to-day, and hopefully when we get to Reno, we can get some things resolved one way or the other.

Christian Prudhomme

After seven years of implacable domination, there will be a different race which I hope will be open.

Dave Roberts

The more interesting we make this, the more I'll have to try to push the envelope. But hopefully it doesn't come to that.

David Nabarro

The more I find out about an influenza pandemic and the lack of readiness, the more I am concerned. But I am more hopeful about the scope for international cooperation.

Andrea Gaston

The team has been doing everything right mentally and physically, so now we just have to hope that we peak at the right time.

Kirk Pedersen

Right now we are struggling a little big with our relay teams. We are going to work on those and hopefully get them to run a little better.

Mike Slive

Right now, there is peace in the valley. We hope to keep it that way for a little while.

Roxane Gay

Definitely, there is a sense in my writing that people now know me in a personal way. And to an extent, that's true because I write about very personal things, and I use the personal often to contextualize some of these sociopolitical issues that we're dealing with. And to an extent, they're right. They know something about me.

Geoffrey Moore

And the number of ISVs is meaningless. The issue is what the power players are doing. Cisco and Microsoft have the strongest positions, so a solution that doesn't have their endorsement isn't likely to get very far.

Fred Harran

Anything that a pedophile can utilize to find the location of the child. These people are smart, just because they have issues doesn't mean they're stupid.

Ron Klein

This is an issue that people are talking about. They want it fixed.

Patrick Kelly

This isn't an issue that's relevant to our research.

Asif Ali Zardari

Political disagreements have the colour and fragrance that normally is seen and felt in a political bouquet, while remaining united on one issue that democracy is the future of Pakistan.

Burton Richter

Since stepping down as laboratory director in 1999, I have devoted an increasing fraction of my time to international issues. I am involved with energy, environment, and sustainability issues, particularly as they involve new energy sources free of greenhouse gases.

Aimee Mullins

I'm not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.

Charles Bass

There are things I want to get done, and If I can reconnect where I was before, working on the issues I'm interested in, that's exciting to me.

Author unknown

I should've known it wasn't going to work out between my ex-wife and me. After all, I'm a Libra and she's a bitch.

Robert McCloskey

That neighborhood has never been known for racial tensions." ()

Jermaine Jackson

Had we known that the price that we would have to pay for this success, we never would have wanted it.

Chris Crutcher

Once a thing is known,it can't be UNknown.

Essence Carson

We like to play like what we're known for.

John Jeremiah Sullivan

As the planet warms, evolution speeds. We've known this for a long time.

Herman Edwards

Warrick was with us in Tampa so I've known him since he was a rookie,

Rita Ora

To me, I have my friends who I've known my whole life, and I can count them on one hand. They're people I went to school with, my mum's friends' daughters. You know?

Tom Badger

This was in a slope we've known to be a problem.

John Taylor

A smart entrepreneur will go back and present it again.

Jane Jacobs

The best part of a Reg Hartt presentation is what he has to say.

Robin Oakley

were very much trying to present themselves as reluctant warriors. They were very much reacting to demonstrations of public opinion.

Ryan Evanochko

That was just the shot that presented itself. I tried to take my time and find an opening.

Toshihiro Nikai

I don't think (China) will present a response tomorrow that will settle everything at the talks.

Doug Anderson

I think we need to put it in a referendum and present it to the people,

Jeff Bzdelik

I haven't even thought about it. This is my first time here, so I'm worried about the present.

Larry Spell

I really like what you're presenting to us here tonight.

Gary Hanson

At the present time, I still don't think I will be a candidate, but I am not willing to rule it out,

Dave Bowman

As of now, no response from the public or business.

Dan Stessel

Some (drivers) have opted to switch to public transportation, and we're working to welcome them to the system.

Jim Bailey

public safety reasons and for your own safety.

Tom Bailey

We have a responsibility to the public to do the right thing, ... We've got 14-year-olds that read the newspaper.

Sharon Stone

My personal style and public style are very different. When I go out, I play dress up.

Ben Schott

The radio's pretty much always on, and I also listen to some American podcasts, such as for 'National Public Radio' and 'Newsweek'.

Darryl Strawberry

didn't want to make a public thing out of it.

Bob Elliott

We want a more comprehensive look at public safety.

Alicia Munnell

With public employees, the day of reckoning is more in the distance.

Phil Keoghan

I like to have fun with them. I like to toy with them a little bit. we're making television, after all. Right?

Santana Moss

I could have at least got that quote on a T-shirt.

James Boswell

He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.

John Atkinson

If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.

Josefa Iloilo

I will, from this day strive to forge togetherness out of our differences.

Brian Koslow

One way to evaluate your own reputation is to think about what would be said of you at your eulogy.

Samuel Smiles

The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.

Paul Celan

Reality is not simply there, it must be searched and won.

Robert Frank

I always say that I don't want to be sentimental, that the photographs shouldn't be sentimental, and yet, I am conscious of my sentimentality.

Robert Richardson

Any organization of reasonable size is going to be attacked.

Frank Lautenberg

This is a reasonable standard we know will save lives.

I. Stone

You want a reasonable standard so you can receive and send help.

Benjamin Disraeli

There are so many plans, so many schemes, and so many reasons why there should be neither plans nor schemes.

Charles Darwin

We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.

Diana Wynne Jones

Nobody gets praised for the right reasons.

Brendon Burchard

Optimists are happier in life for a reason.

Aristotle

If something's bound to happen, it will happen.. Right time, right person, and for the best reason.

Lisa Abron

We were down, and for some reason, they just tried to shoot our way back in it. That's not what we wanted to do. That's what they wanted us to do.

Mike Hamilton

Are we going to recognize our tradition or not? If we're going to recognize our tradition, then let's get on with it.

Joel Smith

Even the way somebody walks sometimes in a video may be the way to recognize that person.

Tanya Vanasse

If you know Stewart, you'd probably recognize it.

Gordon B. Hinckley

I've tried to recognize my wife's individuality, her personality, her desires, her background, her ambitions.

Loretta Lynch

Everyone wants to be seen. Everyone wants to be heard. Everyone wants to be recognized as the person that they are and not a stereotype or an image.

Marc Racicot

We recognize that this is a regional resource, and its development has regional implications.

Patti Smith

We did get a request from the publisher to remove the title and we've done so.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?

Jeffrey Gitomer

Trust is not a request, Trust is earned.

Roger Boyd

They have not made that request ... if they do I am sure we would.

Sonny Rollins

What I can say is that for may years jazz musicians had to go to Europe, for instance, to be respected and to be sort of treated not in a discriminatory way. I don't think there is anything controversial about me saying that. This is just a fact.

Walt Harris

Our special teams is the most respected part of our team.

Benigno Aquino III

I remove a lot of the pressure from myself by saying I'm not competing with my parents. They are the persons who taught me my ideology. They actively practiced what they preached. They're the exemplars and the role models. So how does one compete with a mentor?

Eric Walters

I wrote my first 30 books as a teacher. I would read to my classes, and they'd give me feedback. I was trying to role model.

Carroll Quigley

In fact, violence as a symbol of our growing irrationality has had an increasing role in activity for its own sake, when no possible justification could be made that the activity was seeking to resolve a problem.

Charles Barkley

I'm not paid to be a role model, parents should be role models.

Asa Butterfield

For every role you get, there are five roles that you don't.

Ben Foster

The roles I'm interested in or have been interested in, you know, it's going to get down to conflict. Drama is conflict - conflict of interests.

Donna Mills

You know, when they called me about the role, I thought Knots Landing was a show about a houseboat with Andy Griffith!

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

It's always the script first choosing roles. [Then] whoever else is attached. I never like to be the first person attached, because I don't really trust what's going on, unless there's a really good director.

Anthony Hopkins

I don't have any [favourite role]. I'm just a working actor.

Soren Kierkegaard

Irony is a qualification of subjectivity.

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.

Laura Miller

It's very, very troubling, and very subjective and very unfair,

Nigel Barker

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

Baruch Spinoza

Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.

Auguste Comte

After Montesquieu, the next great addition to Sociology (which is the term I may be allowed to invent to designate Social Physics) was made by Condorcet, proceeding on the views suggested by his illustrious friend Turgot.

Ayelet Waldman

I wish I could view the belly that oozes over the top of my pants as a badge of maternal honor. I do try. I make sure that the women whose looks I admire all have sufficient fat reserves to survive a famine, and I make a lot of snide comments about the skeletal likes of Lara Flynn Boyle and Paris Hilton.

Ayn Rand

Aquinas brought an Aristotelian view of reason back into European culture, and lighted the way toward the Renaissance.

Boyd Rice

People who consider themselves political, who follow political developments most rigorously, are often those who view the political process with the greatest lack of perspective.

Carter Burwell

Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.

Alain de Botton

We each appear to hold within ourselves a range of divergent views as to our native qualities.. And amid such uncertainty, we typically turn to the wider world to settle the question of our significance.. we seem beholden to affections of others to endure ourselves.

Arthur C. Clarke

What we need is a machine that will let us see the other guy's point of view.

Austin Mahone

I promoted myself on Twitter and Facebook as hard as possible, nonstop. People started realizing that if they commented on my videos, I'd reply to their comment, so I started getting a lot more views and comments.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner.

Auguste Comte

Woman is the most moral element in all humanity.

Juvenal

There's no effrontery like that of a woman caught in the act; her very guilt inspires her with wrath and insolence.

Cameron Diaz

What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.

Jane Austen

With women, the heart argues, not the mind.

Jane Wagner

A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?

Bella Abzug

Maybe we weren't at the Last Supper, but we're certainly going to be at the next one.

Barry Watson

It was tough trying to figure out how to put on all the women's clothes.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The weakness of their reasoning faculty also explains why women show more sympathy for the unfortunate than men;... and why, on the contrary, they are inferior to men as regards justice, and less honourable and conscientious.