Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Weller

I think, with age, you learn that it comes in bursts and you've got no control over it. I'm not one of those people who says, 'I've got to write a song every day.' I just store up ideas, and really I have to wait until it finds me; I know when I'm ready to write. It used to frustrate me, but it doesn't any more. It's just how it is.

Dr. Stefanski

Every year we have between 40 and 80 cases, with about three of these clusters. No one really knows why, nor does anyone really know why this virus attacked this age group (of young people in their late teens or early 20s). We do know it is spread through close contact by oral secretions. About five percent of the population has the virus all the time and never gets sick, but is always contagious. We don't know why.

Dax Shepard

There was a best-selling book in the late '60s and '70s called 'The Adventurers' by Harold Robbins. The lead character's name was Dax. Anyone that's roughly my age that's named Dax is named from that book.

Jeffrey Logsdon

There's a glut of sports programming out there. It's all going after male viewers age 18 to 49. To reach other demographics, you have to spread your buys around.

Tilda Swinton

There's something radical about a coming-of-age story that's about everyone trying to come of age at the same time, ... It's not so much about growing up as growing on. There's something compassionate about parents not knowing what they're doing.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

There's no excuse in a technological age where we've got drones - you know, overhead, and we can monitor anything, all sorts of minutia - that we can't track living flesh-and-blood children.

JoAnn Manson

There's mounting evidence that age and time since menopause may make a difference. These are important pieces of the puzzle.

Kevin Thomas

The track didn't suit him real well in Canada. He actually trotted a pretty good mile. We got him back to Lexington and everything is good. He's another year mature; it seemed all last summer he was still growing. I think we've got that part behind us now. That age (4) it's just harder to compete, you can't quite explain it.

Ian Robertson

The training on average took about a decade off the cognitive age of these volunteers,

Adonal Foyle

I wanted to give Mike an opportunity to create but I realized the clock was running down so I heaved the ball up.

Jordan Zuppe

I wanted to get the ball and make the foul shots. I knew I had the confidence to make them, and, luckily, I made them.

Jeff Malone

I wanted to get more athletic. We need to get back to defending, and I really want to get the ball down the court. We really need to do that more.

Greg Allen

A few years ago at (The Raven) we hit the ball in places I didn't even know existed.

Kathy Bocock

The one thing I told them was to not let the ball come to the middle because that's where they want to get it.

Lin Stadler

The one thing I thought we could do is run the ball on them and we just couldn't run it.

Chris Enge

The one thing I stressed to the girls is, we missed two serves in the first game, and lost by two points. We missed three serves in the third game, and lost by two points. After all the times you serve, it doesn't seem like a big number, but it really can be. We just couldn't put the ball down, and they have very good team. Both teams had tremendous heart, and gave tremendous effort. But that's always when these two teams meet.

Alexander Paris

The ones that are successful with it think it's good, ... These people are shooting at very frequent golfers; if there is a new club or ball out there they will try it.

Mike McCarthy

The one glaring statistic we need to improve on is third-down production. The most important statistic running the ball is how many attempts. We need to be up in the 25s and 30, moving the sticks and getting rid of the three-and-outs.

Khalil Dulaimi

We have not been duly informed about any certain date for a trial.

Chris Lowther

If the clock got to a certain point, we were going to foul, but we wanted to give ourselves a shot to get the steal.

Joakim Noah

I always give respect to and pay homage to New York, because I don't feel like I would be the player that I am today if it wasn't for New York City. It gives you a certain edge, a certain toughness just growing up in the city.

James Logan

He was very thorough, very energetic and very passionate, ... To him, every human being has a certain dignity.

Carol Wright

He was very resolute, ... I think he felt good. I think he was very certain of his decision and pleased that it was finally happening.

Carl Persis

One of the great things we do is recognize people. Those things are greatly appreciated by family and friends and colleagues. It's so hard to define every certain instance. We have to use our own good judgment.

Jon Voight

I was raised Catholic... I fell in love with certain ideals.

Kevin Steele

I would say in places I've been like Tennessee and Nebraska, without studying it, it's about what it is. It's a contact sport, so there are going to be a certain number that won't finish because of injury. ... For some there are playing-time issues. Obviously, you get some that are away for the first time and decide this isn't what they want. Then you have some (dismissed).

Jake Gyllenhaal

I would really love to direct one day. I think there are certain actors who love the character and the performance and that's all they want to be a part of.

Ludwig von Mises

Capitalism and socialism are two distinct patterns of social organization. Private control of the means of production and public control are contradictory notions and not merely contrary notions. There is no such thing as a mixed economy, a system that would stand midway between capitalism and socialism.

Viktor E. Frankl

Being tolerant does not mean that I share another ones belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another ones right to believe, and obey, his own conscience.

E. O. Wilson

All my life I have placed great store in civility and good manners, practices I find scarce among the often hard-edged, badly socialized scientists with whom I associate. Tone of voice means a great deal to me in the course of debate. I despise the arrogance and doting self-regard so frequently found among the very bright.

E. M. Forster

It is impossible to foretell the future with any degree of accuracy, that it is impossible to rehearse life. A fault in the scenery, a face in the audience, an interruption of the audience on to the stage, and all our carefully planned gesture mean nothing, or mean too much.

Drake Bell

Hopefully I'll fit the television in there. Maybe it'll be like music and television and movies. I mean, who knows? But hopefully I can be successful at everything I do.

Drew Barrymore

When [my friend] had her kid, she was like, "9:30?! I'm not living in Barcelona. I need dinner at 6." I never got that until now. Four years ago, when I met her, I thought that was extreme. I was like, "I love Barcelona!" Now, I'm so mad when someone suggests an 8 pm reservation because that means we won't eat until 8:30 or 9 pm. Forget it!

Douglas Merrill

Managing your time really means managing yourself. If your time is out of control, it means you are out of control.

Douglas Rushkoff

The cloud is still really just a bunch of servers, owned by someone or something, whose decisions and competence must be trusted. This applies to everything from Google Docs to Gmail: Putting our data out there really means putting it 'out there.'

Douglas Rushkoff

The easiest way to figure out who the customer is in an online space is to figure out who is paying for the thing. Usually, the people paying are the customers. So on Facebook, the people paying are marketers. That makes them the customers. And it means we are the product being delivered to those customers.

Robert A. Heinlein

To assess the intelligence of a committee, divide the IQ of its stupidest member by the number of members.

Vernon Jordan

A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Why do photographers start giving numbers to their prints? It’s absurd. What do you do when the 20th print has been done? Do you swallow the negative? Do you shoot yourself? It’s the gimmick of money.

Alexei Mordashov

My wealth is reflected in the price of Severstal, and the number of shares I have in my possession doesn't have any impact on the company.

Irv DeGraw

I would like to think they can get in the 20 percent range, but with that number of shares it could be difficult.

Bill Gates

I have to admit that business-type thoughts do sneak into my head: I hope our customers pay us, I hope this stuff is decent, I hope we get it done on time. The little additions and subtractions that one has to do. Take sales, take costs and try to get that big positive number at the bottom.

Morris Gleitzman

Don't sit back and wait for God to do it all. Ask for His advice, but be prepared to do the hard yards yourself.

George Orwell

I have tipped waiters, and I have been tipped by waiters.