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.

Leila Janah

The amount of work that a for-profit has to do to get real money is minimal compared to the amount of work it takes a non-profit to get even a very small grant.

Dave Zagorac

The amount of water leaving the pump house can cause a blowout.

Evan Bayh

The amount of U.S. debt held by countries such as China and Japan is at a historic high, with foreign investors holding half of America's publicly held debt. This dependence raises the specter that other nations will be able to influence our policies in ways antithetical to American interests.

Marvin Rose

The amount of units taken off the rental market is not as much as it would seem.

Andy Athanas

The amount of turnovers was unbelievable, especially at the beginning. It seemed like we never got a shot off for such a long period of time.

Thorstein Veblen

The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before.

Gloria Gaither

I grew up in a literary home and majored in French, English, and sociology. They all have served me well over the years.

Chino Moreno

I grew up in the eighties; that's probably why I like some of the earlier electronic from Kraftwerk to all throughout new wave and things like that.

Chino Moreno

I grew up listening to so much different pop and stuff other than just aggressive music.

Eve Ensler

I was born in Manhattan and grew up in Scarsdale. Scarsdale didn't work for me as a place at all.

Chelsea Clinton

I'm really grateful I grew up in a house in which media literacy was a survival skill.

Bill Hader

I grew up with my two sisters and my mom, so it's my lot in life to be surrounded by women.

Bill Bryson

I'm definitely an American, because I grew up here. But I've lived very happily in Britain.

Troy Clarke

(The Asia/Pacific) market grew at about 6.5% year over year, and our sales grew about 20%.

Henry Rollins

I have always maintained that Iggy Pop is the Heavyweight Champion of Rock & Roll.

Nikki Sixx

I remember Iggy and the Stooges' song 'Search and Destroy' reaching out from my speakers to me like my own personal anthem.

Brendon Urie

My favorite electric guitar would have to be my Duesenberg. I've named her 'Dolores,' and she sings like an operatic menace.

Colin Cooper

You'll have to wait and see. The team will be named on Friday.

Sue Monk Kidd

I have an old dog named Lily, and she's a black lab.

Cheryl Hayashi

To borrow from the writings of a spider named Charlotte: 'Silk is terrific!'

Wendy Squires

We are named one of the Top 10 tourist trains in the country.

Ron Gardenhire

That was kind of ugly. That's a little disappointing. Like I told you, that's why we haven't named our staff yet, because you never know what's going to happen.

Stanley Hauerwas

I was named Stanley because the week before I was born, my mother and father saw a movie - 'Stanley and Livingstone.'

Andy Williams

I was named after my grandfather, and he was always called Andy. I don't like it.

Jack Beven

Should we get another out-of-season storm, we will use the 2006 named list.

Johnny Depp

That would really send my popularity to the depths.

Mia Wasikowska

Popularity is very inconsistent. Sometimes it's there, sometimes it's not. It usually just comes in waves.

Ricki-Lee Coulter

I'd been listening to some old '70s disco, soul stuff, and I thought, 'Let's go into the studio and do something different. Let's do something that's super unashamedly pop and fun and danceable.' 'Trouble' is what we did. It's something that wrote itself.

Seth Shostak

Typically, only about 2 percent of the American populace tunes in to PBS's 'Nova' series - the most successful science show on the tube. 'Survivor' and 'X Factor' get twice the ratings.

Michael Budman

White is very popular in Italy, and the U.S. wore it in '56.

James Shuler

I thought I was going to pop it. No one was going to take that away from me.

David Dreier

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

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

PLEBISCITE, n. A popular vote to ascertain the will of the sovereign.

Baruch Spinoza

Popular religion may be summed up as a respect for Ecclesiastes

Elaine Stritch

New Yorkers stop me on the street all the time to say, 'You're terrific! You're the nuts!'

Al Jarreau

I sang do-wop on the street corner before it was called do-wop.

Bob Marley

You can't find the right roads when the streets are paved.

Nas

The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling.

Beeban Kidron

I often go out on the street with my camera and ask questions.

Stephanie Nelson

I think they'll have to do something. I don't think streets can support it.

Doug E. Fresh

I could still walk the street. I don't have to have no massive security.

Anne Rice

Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history; so she seemed in this age of Napoleon III with her towering buildings, her massive cathedrals, her grand boulevards and ancient winding medieval streets - as vast and indestructible as nature itself.

Dan Jenkins

I get 'USA Today,' the 'New York Times,' 'Wall Street Journal' and the 'Star-Telegram' at my doorstep. I can't do without them.