Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Kennedy

As a Scot, representing a Scottish constituency for almost the past 25 years, I do not harbour an overweening ambition to pronounce on each and every matter exclusively English.

Gilberto Gil

The builder has tried really hard to incorporate open space, ... The part of the project that faces the church is almost a park.

Jim Anderson

Bankruptcy didn't 'go easy' for us. Almost one-third of our membership has been furloughed.

Eda Shan

Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things --wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its earth to concrete... babies are almost the only remaining link with nature, with the natural world of living things from which we spring.

Chris Barnes

Babies are fun for punting. Even a lousy kicker can get one almost all the way over a football field.

Carol Bartz

Back when 'social' had a broad definition, you could almost say that Yahoo Finance chat was the first social product.

Peter Capaldi

A year after winning the Oscar, almost to the day, I was directing a dog food commercial.

Sam Bodman

As of right now, in Houston, Texas it's almost impossible to buy gasoline,

Tim Lindloff

As long as he stays out of foul trouble, he's been doing a very good job on the defensive end, just hanging around the basket and blocking shots. We usually try to match him up with somebody that's not going to hurt us from the perimeter and put him around the basket, almost like playing a one-man zone in there.

Paul Thayer

The old guys aren't going to go without a buyout.

Ricky Ponting

The older guys have been the ones who have performed the best, so how do you move them on?

Scott Skiles

After it got to seven points our guys just hung in there. Our guys were fatigued after last night's game, so I'm really proud of how they all battled.

Randy Walker

The most important thing a quarterback can do is walk in the huddle and make 10 guys better. He makes more than 10 guys better.

Ozzie Guillen

Strikes. He makes guys swing bats. He's not afraid.

Stan Cliburn

Stu has these guys prepared. We go over the other team's weakness.

Stan Cliburn

Some things were a little slow motion out there. I think the weather, with the day off (Friday), might have got our guys a bit.

John Powers

Something is being invented at Microsoft right now that competes with everything you guys are thinking of right now. You have to be able to work with that.

Tom Renney

Some people find themselves in harm's way, other people put themselves in harm's way. Usually the winner puts themselves in harm's way; Kaspar helps us identify with that. We need a physical presence. We need more guys playing like that anyway.

Dar Williams

And the only word for love is everybody's nameAnd that will always stayIt happens every day.

Henry Ellis

The sun and the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

Jim Tracy

A day like today -- that's something that happens even with an 'ace' of the staff.

Ryan Madson

Stuff started happening pretty quick, and I wasn't thinking out there like I should have been. I was just out there throwing.

Kim Edmonds

Something different happens every day around here and nothing is ever monotonous or mundane. You may be having a ho hum day and someone will walk through the day who just makes you smile from the inside out. That's what makes it all worthwhile.

Graeme Souness

So what happens when they come back with recommendations, do you think we're going to listen to them? I'm not going to say any more on the matter.

William Stafford

So, the world happens twice --once what we see it as;second it legends itselfdeep, the way it is.

William Stafford

So, the world happens twice -- once what we see it as; second it legends itself deep, the way it is.

George Curry

So the real test of success this time will be not how many people turn out, but what happens when they go home.

Chad Knaus

Drive it like you stole it, homie.

Bill Bullard

As a regular commissioner, it takes about 50 percent of my time, ... As chairman, it's about 90 percent of my time. It's significantly more work and more hours.

Frank Barnaby

A vast percentage of centrifuges have to be rejected in testing, up to 60% rejection.

Padraig Harrington

These fairways are at least 50 percent narrower that anything you would see in the States.

Greg Anderson

We have 50 percent of the units reserved and that's very exciting.

Craig Shniderman

Percentage of sales--the table contributions, which often represent about 50 percent of the table revenue--actually go up.

Chris Cooney

Only 10 percent say very unfavorable after 20 years of work.

Melissa Etheridge

I would say I'm 97 percent back now,

Thomas A. Edison

Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.

Lawrence Lindsey

I would not be surprised to see 5 percent unemployment by the end of the summer. I would be surprised to see 6 percent.

Mike Byers

That picture was taken at 8:27 a.m., May 18, 1980.

Willie Smith

Everything you can think of, he was there taking people's pictures and he was just an outstanding person.

John Shirreffs

I don't put a lot of pressure on a race. It's the big picture that counts.

Rob Johnson

I didn't understand it at all. It's not like Joe. I couldn't picture him being down there.

Anna Jones

The only thing I think about this is that it's big. I saw a picture (in the newspaper) and I wanted to see it.

Fred Dooley

He did the right thing. So, I thought it was the right thing to do to take the pictures down.

Hanna Salonen

I really want to go out there and take pictures of what I find interesting and not like, these set-ups of life.

Jessie Boylan

I know you from somewhere. I've got pictures of you.

Craig Barlow

I've got to look at the big picture here,

David Dreier

We know it may not be the single most popular thing, but it's the right thing to do.

Michael Moore

You know he's [George W. Bush] there illegally. You know he was not elected either by the popular vote or by the vote in Florida.

Janie Allen

Murals were very popular then and the idea was pretty well received.

Sam Martin

He was a very popular young man. The students are taking it hard.

Bob Beatty

She's ahead, she's popular -- she's not completely unbeatable.

Mike Smith

Some of the more popular schools could be filled.

Amanda Lenhart

Text messaging is popular for two reasons: It's mobile, and it's quiet,

Vance Havner

Popularity has slain more prophets of God than persecution ever did.

Kathleen Hanna

Popularity is totally overrated.

Ben Schott

For me, photography only stopped because I was selling books.

Lee Ann Womack

When you come close to selling out, reconsider.

David Peel

We couldn't give it away or sell it. We didn't have permits.

Jeremy Robinson

Getting 10,000 listeners for a free podcast novel is a lot easier than selling 10,000 hardcover novels at $25 a pop.

Shane Smith

If not doing VICE, I probably would be selling Cokes on the beach in Vietnam. I like the sea.

Kay Granger

I started selling insurance in 1979 and continued doing that until 1985 when I opened my own insurance firm.

George Foreman

Learn to sell and you'll never starve

Mark Cuban

Get me selling and I can figure out the industry. Once I can figure out the industry I can start a business in that industry.

Pat Santoro

We're not selling on our past, we're selling on our future.

Mel Kohn

This is something we need to do a lot more talking about.

Barbara Kingsolver

The talkers are rising above the thinkers.

Brian K. Vaughan

I'm the one who started spreading that particular factoid, about Bendis, Azz and me all being bald Brian's from Cleveland, just to get my name mentioned in the same sentence as two much-better writers, and it's worked like a goddamn charm. Next up, I'm going to grow a big, disgusting beard, just so people will start talking about Alan Moore and me in the same breath.

Brenda Ueland

We should all know this: that listening, not talking, is the gifted and great role, and the imaginative role.

Jamie Bell

When I see people talking about TV, they're way more animated, way more passionate than when they talk about films.

Calvin Coolidge

Theodore Roosevelt was always getting himself in hot water by talking before he had to commit himself upon issues not well-defined.

James Woods

No matter what it is, if you get 10 people in the business talking about something, you get 10 different opinions, but you know, they're amazingly well informed.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Peace, development, and justice are all connected to each other. We cannot talk about economic development without talking about peace. How can we expect economic development in a battlefield?

Dana Perino

Once you break someone of the habit of up-talking, they can start to see immediate improvement in their careers.